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12,196,371 | The EU directive aims to protect users from any damaging side-effects that can arise from taking unsuitable medicines.
Only high quality, long-established and scientifically safe herbal medicines will be sold over the counter.
Some traders who sell products imported from outside the EU say their business will be hit.
Herbal medicines - with names such as Cascara Bark and Horny Goat Weed - have become popular.
But from the first of May an EU directive will be enforced, under which all such products must be licensed, following fears that some products could cause harm.
Producers and independent health store owners say the directive, passed in 2004, is draconian and skewed in favour of the largest European manufacturers.
Selwyn Soe runs The Herbal Factory, a contract manufacturer of herbal remedies in Croydon, south London. He believes smaller firms like his own will be squeezed out altogether.
"Unfortunately it looks as if we will have to close down because of this legislation," he said.
"The problem for us is that although we would have to pay many thousands of pounds for a licence to keep making each product, unlike a drug company we would not have a licence to make that product exclusively. It just will not be worth paying out the money."
The Maple Leaf Pharmacy in Twickenham, west London, specialises in alternative and holistic medicine alongside its conventional chemist business.
Owner Galen Rosenberg estimates that about 20% of the health products sold in his pharmacy will simply vanish off the shelves. In some health food shops a far larger percentage of existing lines are likely to be outlawed.
Mr Rosenberg said he welcomed improved labelling, indicating side-effects, but said the rest of the directive was over the top.
"For instance, we have something which we recommend for hot flushes during menopause. The results have been excellent, but from April I will not be able to order these products in, because the producing company is not large and will not be able to afford the hundreds of thousands of pounds needed to invest for the new regulations," he said.
"The new rules are very much in favour of large companies. It is the loss of freedom of choice which worries me. We also expect massive price increases because of the cost of compliance."
However, the regulator of all these pills and potions says the aim is to protect consumers, not to pick off small suppliers.
Richard Woodfield, of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, also rejects any suggestions that the legislation is draconian.
"What regulation does is to ensure products meet assured standards. Although the standards are challenging, they are achievable and manageable," he said.
"We already have 24 different companies regulating under the scheme and they are certainly not all large companies."
Yet a leading medicines specialist says he fears the consumer may not be much wiser come May this year.
Professor David Colquhoun, professor of pharmacology at University College London, said the changes were of limited value because the rules did not require makers to show any evidence of whether the newly licensed products were effective.
There are fears that people determined to keep taking their favourite herbs may go online and choose to buy them from merchants who may be careless about quality or potency.
The EU insists that in future, only high quality, long established and scientifically safe herbal medicines can be sold over the counter. But the label still will not be able to tell customers if they can be shown to work. | Hundreds of traditional and imported remedies on the shelves of health food shops and herbalists are set to be banned under new licensing rules. |
40,452,633 | But Formula 1 is a high pressure game, and drivers have blown their top before.
See if you can work out who did what to whom in our anger management quiz.
This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser | Sebastian Vettel's angry antics in Azerbaijan were jaw-dropping to say the least. |
23,866,614 | If you are Ben Gomes, Google's Tanzania-born, India-bred, US-educated vice-president of search, you are responsible for helping to answer all of them - in the shortest time possible, on all devices: desktops, tablets, phones. And now, in the spoken word too.
Search is Google's raison d'etre and cash cow, bringing in a bulk of its $50bn (£33bn) revenues last year. It is also, says Mr Gomes, "about having a continuous conversation with the user to find out what he wants".
For a change, we are having a conversation with Mr Gomes, the boy-like 45-year-old guru of search in Googleplex, the funky low-slung company headquarters set in the manicured greens of Mountain View, California.
Mr Gomes works out of an untidy cubicle with four other top engineers in Building 43, the Mecca of search. There are papers strewn around, a headphone lies idly on his table and numbers are scribbled on a whiteboard.
Wrapped around the thin walls near his standing workstation are posters of Russian abstract artist Wassily Kandinsky's work.
From his modest lair, Mr Gomes and his team work relentlessly on their fine-tooth comb search of the worldwide web to serve up the popular search engine, which is now a part of our everyday lives.
"When I joined Google in 1999, search was about basically finding the words that you search for in a document. Then we took this view that we were going to understand what you want and give you what you need," he says.
Today, crawling through more than 20 billion pages a day on the continuously expanding world wide web, Mr Gomes and his army of search - a substantial number of the company's 44,000 employees - use algorithms in an attempt to make search intuitive, multimedia and super smart.
The "maths that computers use to decide stuff" - as algorithm expert Kevin Slavin called it once - helps rank pages in order of their importance, identifies spelling errors, provides alternatives to words, predicting auto-complete queries, and does unified searches using images, audio and video and voice.
They also try to delve into the deeper meaning of words searched for - "less 'searchese' and more natural language", as one employee tells me - and recognises words with similar meanings.
And then, with a hint of understated pride, Mr Gomes talks animatedly about Knowledge Graph, a new function launched last year to make the site's algorithms "act more human" in an attempt to offer instant answers to search questions. Time magazine called it the "next frontier for search".
"It's a database of all things in the world. It pulls together different databases and unifies them into a single coherent one that has about 500 to 600 million people, places and things in them and about 18 billion attributes and connections between those things," he says.
But some sceptics like independent technology columnist Mala Bhargava believe there are some pitfalls.
"Google does a great job of evolving search continuously, slipping in new features all the time. But innovation always walks a tightrope between being useful, even prescient, and being so excessively personalised and targeted as to be meaningless," she says.
But folks at Google believe the fact that it handles a mind-boggling 100-billion plus searches every month, or over three billion a day is testimony to its popularity. A good 15% of the search questions it sees every day are new - queries it has never answered before.
Then there's the giddy speed of search.
When Mr Gomes joined Google in 1999 after a stint in Sun Microsystems working on Java programming language, some searches could take up to 20 seconds. When I keyed in Ben Gomes on Google recently it spat out 19,000,000 results in .28 seconds. (Most of the top ranked results were about the search guru himself.)
Chemical interest
What the search on Mr Gomes possibly will not tell you is that as a young boy growing up in Bangalore, he was more fascinated with chemistry than computers in the beginning.
So much so, he recounts, that one day he picked up some sulphuric acid from a city shop, and walked into his school, "swinging the bottle in my hand, so happy".
But then he went to a school with classmates like Krishna Bharat, a computer fiend who later become the man behind Google news, and which counted Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail, among its students.
So when his brother bought him a small microcomputer in 1983, young Ben joined a small bunch of people interested in machines in what then still was a technophobic country.
Mr Gomes, son of a car distributor father and a school teacher mother, moved to the US 25 years ago. He went to Berkeley, where he picked up a PhD in computer science.
And then the internet happened.
It was about that time his classmate Krishna Bharat told Mr Gomes about Google, and he joined this relatively unknown company "because it would make this content available to the world through a really good search".
The rest is search history.
Presidential search
What is the next frontier of search, I ask Mr Gomes, before heading for a meal at the Indian curry station at Googleplex.
"Now search is becoming mobile - on phones and tablets. The challenge is that it is on a small screen, so it's hard to type. The opportunity is that it's got a really good microphone and a touch screen.
"It can enable a new kind of interface. So we realised we want to build an interface that was much like the way you talk to some person and ask a question," he says.
• Suggest your Digital Indians
And then, with a gleam in his eyes, Mr Gomes picks up his HTC smartphone and barks a series of questions into the Google search app.
"Who is the president of India?" he asks.
"Pranab Mukherjee," promptly answers a woman's voice.
"How old is he?" Mr Gomes prods on.
"He is 77 years old," she answers, loud and clear.
"This is cool isn't it?" says Mr Gomes.
"And it's going to get better and more intelligent." | What do you do if you get more than three billion queries a day? |
36,738,564 | Canada has revoked his citizenship three times since 1995 but each time it has been overturned on appeal, the latest ruling being made on Thursday.
Helmut Oberlander says he was forced to act as a translator for the WWII squad.
He says he did not participate in atrocities and was conscripted.
The Supreme Court in Ottawa on Thursday ruled that the Canadian government must prove he was a willing participant in the eastern Europe death squad in order to deport him from the country.
It said that it was not prepared to hear the federal government's appeal against a lower court's ruling that the government should reconsider its decision to revoke Oberlander's citizenship.
Oberlander was born in Ukraine and became a member of a Nazi death squad, the Ek 10a, which operated behind the German army's front line in occupied eastern European territory between 1941 to 1943.
It was part of a force that killed more than two million people, many of them Jews, CTV News reported.
Oberlander insists that he was made to do translation work as a teenager and that he would have been executed if he refused to do so.
His responsibilities included finding food and cleaning boots before he later became an infantryman in the German army.
Oberlander emigrated to Canada in 1954, becoming a citizen in 1960 - but did not reveal his wartime record.
One of his lawyers said he was pleased by the Supreme Court's ruling.
"It's taken a great toll on his family. Over and over again the courts have exonerated him," Ronald Poulton told Reuters.
"It's been tiring and difficult and unnecessary and now the Supreme Court - the highest court - has told the government that's enough."
Mr Poulton argues that while Oberlander concealed his wartime service, this should not result in him losing his citizenship after living for 50 years in Canada, especially as he had neither carried out nor been complicit in war crimes.
But Jewish groups say Mr Oberlander "lied about his complicity in these atrocities and gained Canadian citizenship fraudulently".
They argue he should be "deported without further delay".
Last month a 94-year-old former guard at the Auschwitz death camp was sentenced to five years in jail in Germany. He was considered to be one of the last holocaust perpetrators to end up in the dock. | A 92-year-old man who has admitted being a former Nazi death squad member has won a court victory in Canada, fending off the latest of several efforts to revoke his citizenship. |
35,516,107 | New Zealand beat Australia 27-24 in the final, with 18-year-old Rieko Ioane scoring a dramatic last-gasp winner.
Scotland were beaten 35-12 by Canada in the semi-finals of the Bowl competition for teams finishing third and fourth in their groups.
Wales were also beaten by Canada, losing their quarter-final Bowl match 32-21.
Fiji lost 14-12 to the eventual winners in their semi-final meeting but beat South Africa in the third-place play-off and are top of the series rankings on points difference.
The Fijians, South Africa and New Zealand are all tied on 69 points after four rounds of the 10 rounds of the championship.
However, New Zealand are the subject of an investigation after claims they had eight players on the pitch at once towards the end of their pool match against the hosts and could be docked points.
Australia were not behind at any point in the final until Ioane's late try.
"They had us on the ropes in the first half," said New Zealand skipper Tim Mikkelson.
"We know from last week what kind of lift you get from your home crowd. We just needed the ball, we're a difficult team to beat when we have the ball."
England were also beaten 19-14 by Argentina in their Plate semi-final but had injury problems.
"It hurts, and the boys want to do better than this in tournaments, but they fought and fought against the odds so I can't ask for any more," said England coach Simon Amor. | England suffered a 17-12 extra-time quarter-final defeat against hosts Australia in the Sevens World Series. |
27,489,222 | Experts have linked the text on both the front and back to themes in the author's novel Mansfield Park.
The fragment was stuck to a letter discovered in a first edition of her memoirs, written by her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh.
The revealed text is part of a sermon apparently composed by her brother, the Reverend James Austen in 1814.
The book and letter, written by Jane Austen's nephew in 1870, had been held in a private collection but was recently bought for an undisclosed sum by the Jane Austen museum in Chawton, Hampshire.
Very few examples of Jane Austen's handwriting survive - there are no manuscripts of her famous books and many of her letters were destroyed after her death.
A team at West Dean College near Chichester, West Sussex, succeeded in unsticking the fragment, allowing the previously unseen writing on the back to be deciphered.
It reads: "...great propriety preserved - Wherever... wanted to be cleared of the Superstitious... of Popery... or whenever new ones were to be... composed in order to fill up & connect the Services... with a true spirit."
While the front of the fragment reads: "Men may get into a habit of repeating the words of our Prayers by rote, perhaps without thoroughly understanding - certainly without thoroughly feeling their full force and meaning."
Experts claim the text echoes a passage in Mansfield Park which was also published in 1814 - a few months before the sermon text was written.
They say it reflects a discussion in the novel on the "art of reading" and its importance to the modern clergyman.
Jane Austen's eldest brother, James, was rector at the church of St Nicholas in Steventon, and she would travel there to stay with him.
Historians believe she helped copy out his sermons for him.
Mary Guyatt, museum curator, said: "What we have to go on is the nephew's transcription.
"He's cut up the sermon in around 1817 and he's written underneath it 'this is the writing but not the words of the author Jane Austen, my aunt.'
"He's very clear that it was his father's composition."
But Prof Kathryn Sutherland, of St Anne's College, Oxford, said it showed earlier drafts of Mansfield Park at least influenced her brother.
"The scrap raises the possibility that the novel inspired James's sermon and even demonstrates the cross-fertilization between Jane Austen's creative writing and the wider life of her family."
Historians will now study the note for clues to whether the sermon may after all have been written by Jane Austen.
It will go on display at the museum later this year. | A handwritten note by Jane Austen "hidden" for 150 years on the back of a fragment of paper has been revealed. |
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Van Persie scored two goals along with Arjen Robben, while Stefan de Vrij also netted as Spain were humiliated at Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador.
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But Van Persie attributed the emphatic win to the tactics of Van Gaal, his new manager at Manchester United.
"This is definitely down to him," said the 30-year-old.
Spain, who are also the European champions, were humiliated as the Netherlands came from behind to thrash their opponents.
Van Persie cancelled out Xabi Alonso's penalty with a sublime header before goals by Bayern Munich's Robben and Feyenoord defender De Vrij made it 3-1.
Two goals in the space of eight minutes by Van Persie and Robben completed Spain's embarrassment.
"If you see how he prepared us, and how he predicted the game would go, and you see how it went - unbelievable," added Van Persie about Van Gaal.
"For the whole Netherlands, this is a dream come true.''
Van Gaal, who will take over at Old Trafford after the tournament, was delighted with his team's win.
"The Netherlands were sensational. It should have been seven or eight. Some of the performances - Arjen Robben, Robin van Persie and Daley Blind down that wing, they were absolutely brilliant. I have never seen that Spain back four pulled around as much as they were."
The 62-year-old returned Van Persie's compliment, praising the striker along with the rest of the side.
"With strikers like Van Persie, Robben and Wesley Sneijder behind them, things like this can happen,'' he said.
Van Gaal's side face Australia next on 18 June in Porto Alegre and the former Barcelona boss urged caution despite getting their campaign off to a flying start.
"We don't have anything yet," he added. "We've made a pretty start. If you beat Australia [on Wednesday], then you've made a good start.''
Spain's experienced goalkeeper Iker Casillas says he was responsible for the reigning champions' disastrous defeat.
"I wasn't at the level I needed to be. I have to accept all criticism.
"I didn't do things like I should have, especially to start a World Cup," said Casillas, who was dispossessed by Van Persie for the fourth goal. | Robin van Persie praised Netherlands boss Louis van Gaal for masterminding the team's crushing 5-1 win over reigning world champions Spain. |
36,980,829 | The sanction was imposed after the club had failed to pay disciplinary fees for making undisclosed payments to players.
The club appealed the IFA Disciplinary Committee decision and hearing is set for the week commencing 15 August.
Portadown's league opener at Coleraine on Saturday could have gone ahead but NIFL said the match remains off.
The Northern Ireland Football League's Premiership Committee added that the decision not to play the game was taken in the best interests of the league.
If the match was allowed to take place, and Portadown's suspension was subsequently reimposed, it could mean the result would be void.
The match will now only be played if Portadown's appeal is successful - if not Coleraine will be awarded the three points.
The fine has now been paid but the IFA Disciplinary Committee did not exercise their discretion to lift the ban at a meeting on Wednesday night.
"Having considered points made by Portadown FC, and taking into account Article 9.3 of the Irish FA's Disciplinary Code as well as being cognisant of Portadown's Premiership game against Coleraine scheduled for this Saturday, they were not persuaded to exercise discretion in this case," said the IFA following Wednesday's meeting.
"The decision means the suspension, which came into effect on Thursday 28th July, will remain in place until the Monday after any payment is made - in accordance with Article 9.3 of the Irish FA's Disciplinary Code."
A fine of £5,000 was handed down in April and it is understood that an initial cheque sent to the IFA 'bounced'.
The fine was imposed, along with a transfer embargo preventing the club from signing players on professional terms until June 2017, after irregularities were found in payments made to former striker Gary Twigg.
Portadown's appeal against a 12-point deduction, imposed after the Shamrock Park club were found to have paid Peter McMahon while he was registered as an amateur, was due to be heard by the IFA's Appeals Committee on Thursday night.
It is understood that the IFA now intend to hear both Portadown appeals at a single meeting. | Portadown's suspension from all football activity has been lifted after the Irish FA said on Thursday that the club has grounds for an appeal. |
35,976,249 | Archbishop of Wales Dr Barry Morgan spoke at a meeting of the governing body in Llandudno on Wednesday.
The church tweeted "Archbishop of Wales offers a pastoral letter on same-sex relationships apologising unreservedly for prejudice within the church."
Last year, Dr Morgan said it would be "foolish" to bring forward a bill for same-sex marriages in church.
A statement released by the church said although it was not ready to allow or bless same-sex marriages, "the debate is not over".
It went on to apologise for "the persecution and mistreatment [gay people] have endured at the hands of the Church".
Dr Morgan also authorised prayers which can be said with same-sex couples following a celebration, but they fall short of a church blessing for civil partnerships and marriages.
However, Welsh Anglican bishops ruled out a change in the law to allow same-sex couples to get married in church.
Dr Morgan told the meeting there was concern the issue might tear the church apart.
Last year, an informal consultation showed a small majority of bishops, clergy and lay members in favour of change, but it was nowhere near the two thirds of the governing body needed.
Bishops will send a copy of the pastoral letter to all clergy, explaining their position.
It includes the apology to gay people for the way they have been treated and promises a "safe space" for them within the church. | The head of the Church in Wales has apologised "unreservedly" to gay couples for prejudice in the church. |
36,204,892 | Ben Butler, 36, denies murdering his daughter Ellie by causing the "catastrophic" injuries.
She may have fallen and hit her head as she watched the popular children's cartoon, the Old Bailey heard.
The pathologist who carried out the post-mortem test said he had never seen someone die from similar injuries.
During his cross-examination of Prof Anthony Risdon, Mr Butler's defence counsel Icah Peart QC said Ellie had been a fan of the cartoon, and there were "Peppa Pig artefacts about her room".
He asked the pathologist if he knew a rhyme from the show, where Peppa jumps and falls from a bed.
"What I am talking about is someone jumping up and down on the bed and, as Peppa Pig does, jumps over backwards, falls down and hits her head on the concrete floor," he said.
Mr Peart QC then asked Prof Risdon if such momentum may have resulted in Ellie's injuries.
He replied: "I have seen a large number of head injuries in children.
"I have never come across a scenario like that and I have never come across a short distance fall that results in a similar injury."
He said Ellie died from a "considerable blunt impact to the head" and not from a short fall from a stool or chair.
There was a "strong possibility" that four marks on her jaw were caused by "gripping", he added.
Earlier, Prof Risdon told jurors he had not been influenced by a colleague who had suggested Ellie was killed by her parents.
Jurors have been told Mr Butler had previously been convicted of assaulting Ellie when she was a baby, but was cleared on appeal.
She was returned home 11 months before her death in October 2013.
The jury also heard from consultant neuroradiologist Neil Stoodley, who told Mr Butler's 2007 trial at Croydon Crown Court Ellie, then a baby, had suffered injuries as a result of being shaken.
He also reiterated his findings at the Court of Appeal in 2012, following which Ellie was returned to her parent's custody.
Challenging the doctor on his earlier evidence, Mr Peart asked whether Mr Stoodley thought his previous diagnosis was "incorrect".
The consultant replied: "No, not on the basis of the evidence as I understand it."
On Tuesday, jurors heard that Ellie had suffered four distinct periods of injuries.
Skeletal pathology expert Professor Anthony Freemont said a healed skull fracture could have dated back to the first allegation of assault by Mr Butler in 2007.
Three to five weeks before her death, Ellie suffered a broken shoulder bone.
Then she sustained "bruising" to the skull, two to three weeks before the fatal injury, the court heard.
Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Michael Uglow said Ellie would have been in "acute pain" which she would not have been able to hide for 10 days after her shoulder was broken.
Mr Butler, from Sutton, south-west London, also denies child cruelty.
Her mother Jennie Gray, 36, denies child cruelty but has admitted perverting the course of justice over allegations she destroyed evidence and lied to police to protect her partner.
The trial continues. | A six-year-old girl suffered fatal head injuries when she fell from a stool while mimicking Peppa Pig, a defence lawyer has suggested. |
36,642,157 | Bennett, 66, who replaced Steve McNamara in February, says it could help England's preparations ahead of the 2017 World Cup.
The move would need approval from Super League clubs and the Rugby Football League (RFL).
"The clubs were broadly supportive of his ideas subject to gaining more details," said an RFL spokesman.
The RFL scrapped the traditional mid-season Test against France following a series of one-sided scores with the last one played in 2010 when England won 60-6.
It was replaced by matches against an Exiles side drawn from overseas players in Super League, but the fixture has not been played since 2013.
Brisbane Broncos boss Bennett, who will take charge of England at the 2016 Four Nations in October and November, also wants clubs to release players for a two-week training camp before the start of next season.
Meanwhile, Bennett has ruled out using St George's Park as a training base in the run-up to the Four Nations.
The RFL used the Football Association venue in the build-up to the 2015 Test series with New Zealand after previously basing the England team at Loughborough University. | England's new rugby league head coach Wayne Bennett wants the return of a mid-season international. |
39,490,848 | Work has also ended on versions of its software that was designed to run on smartphones and laptops.
Ubuntu said it took the decision because the project had failed to win over users and industry partners.
Instead, it said, it would concentrate on code for cloud services and internet-of-things devices.
The Linux open source operating system exists in lots of different versions or "distributions" that share the same source code but often have a different interface laid on top. Unity aimed to be a graphical front-end suitable for lots of different devices.
Canonical, which makes the popular Ubuntu distribution of the Linux open source software, started the Unity project in 2011. The ultimate idea was to produce software that ran on large and small devices and could be used the same way on all of them.
The Unity project also aimed to let smartphones act as a desktop machine when combined with other devices such as docking stations.
However, said Canonical boss Mark Shuttleworth in a blog, although Unity tried to end some of the fragmentation in the open source world it actually ended up contributing to it.
In addition, he said, few people had bought phones or laptops that ran the Ubuntu/Unity combination and few laptop makers were offering the software as an option.
Mr Shuttleworth said that Ubuntu would switch back to the default user interface for Linux - known as Gnome - in April 2018.
He said the decision to end Unity had been "very difficult" because he believed strongly in ways to make it easier to use Linux anywhere and everywhere and because of the time he had spent with the developers working on it.
"We feel like a family, but this choice is shaped by commercial constraints and those two are hard to reconcile," he said. | Open source software platform Ubuntu has ended an ambitious six-year project called Unity that aimed to unify the way that people used its products. |
38,685,245 | Oman were bowled out for 133 with Khurrum Nawaz top scoring on 23 and Scotland's Safyaan Sharif taking 3-33.
The Scots reached their target with an over to spare, thanks to Matt Cross (47) and Calum MacLeod (35 not out).
Earlier, Kevin O'Brien's 40 helped Ireland beat United Arab Emirates by 24 runs to secure a last-four place.
Scotland had already been sure of their place in the semi-finals after beating Hong Kong and the Netherlands in Group B.
All three remaining games also take place in Dubai on Friday, with Group A winners Afghanistan and Oman contesting the first semi-final before Scotland and Ireland meet, and then the final. | Scotland beat Oman by seven wickets in Dubai to finish top of their Desert T20 Challenge group and will face Ireland in Friday's second semi-final. |
37,485,412 | The decision sent global financial markets into a spin and saw the pound plunge to its lowest level in more than 30 years, as investors bet that the UK economy would suffer.
The FTSE 100 share index of the UK's 100 biggest companies has since bounced back, but the pound is still down at levels last seen in the 1980s.
Now we have a deadline for when the formal Brexit talks will start - the end of March 2017 - the pound has fallen back to the lows it hit in the days after the 23 June vote.
The companies whose shares have fared best since referendum day are those which make most of their money in other currencies and are less exposed to the UK economy.
So who have the markets judged to be the biggest winners and losers so far?
In the days after the referendum result, many investors started looking at FTSE 100 companies with large businesses outside the UK.
British fashion designer Burberry, which generates about 85% of its sales abroad, was one.
Even though the company warned staff it would be stronger inside the EU, its share price has shot up 24% since 23 June, adding more than £2bn to its market value and making it one of the biggest winners on the index.
Burberry is in the "sweet spot" for UK companies, says Laith Khalaf, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
Because of the pound's fall, the money Burberry makes abroad in dollars, euros and yen is worth more back in the UK, and the costs in its UK head office are relatively lower, he says.
The iconic trench coat maker could also benefit from more Asian tourists bargain-hunting in the UK after the pound's fall.
"Chinese tourists are very savvy in their understanding of global foreign exchange rates," says an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, although he adds that more visitors to Burberry's UK shops could come at the expense of sales in other regions.
Like all companies on the FTSE 100, Burberry's shares have also been affected by non-Brexit issues, including a boost from last month's London Fashion Week and poaching a new chief executive from Céline.
Banking giant HSBC was also critical of the idea of leaving the EU, but since the referendum has seen its shares surge, by around 27%.
The bank - the UK's second biggest company - earns about three quarters of its profits in Asia, according to Mr Khalaf, which could explain why investors think, as with Burberry, the weaker pound will boost its prospects.
Shares in more UK-focused banks Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland have dropped 24% and 29% respectively.
The recent shift in UK interest rates will also have played a part. Lower rates make it harder for banks to make a profit but that's less of a problem for HSBC with its large overseas interests, than it is for the domestic banks.
Ian Gordon, a banking analyst at Investec, says most of HSBC's business is outside the UK, including the US, where interest rates are forecast to rise.
Royal Bank of Scotland, in comparison, is an "almost pure UK business and 'lower for longer' interest rates is a UK phenomenon," he says.
Also working in HSBC's favour, Mr Gordon adds, is that the bank is handing back $2.5bn (£1.9bn) to shareholders this year after it sold its Brazilian business.
The biggest winners, though? Mining companies. Something of a surprise for investors after the industry's volatility in the last 12 months.
Edward Sterck, a metals and mining analyst at BMO Capital Markets, says: "This time last year mining investors were feeling pretty negative, and in January many were feeling very negative indeed.
"Sitting here today they are pretty buoyant."
Mexican gold and silver miner Fresnillo's shares have risen 46%, putting it top of the post-Brexit leaderboard. Swiss mining trader Glencore is up 39% and British miner Anglo American has also gained 39%.
The companies' large foreign earnings, as well as rising metal prices, have helped turn around their fortunes.
Gold and silver have increased 6% and 12% respectively since the referendum. Seen as "safe haven" assets, they have been boosted by uncertainty in global financial markets and rock-bottom interest rates, two issues further intensified by the Brexit vote.
At the other end of the scale, the biggest loser on the blue chip index has been budget airline Easyjet.
Its shares are still down more than 34%, leaving the Luton-based firm in danger of being relegated from the FTSE 100.
Stephen Furlong, an analyst at Davy, says its shares haven't recovered since warning shortly after the Brexit vote that the weaker pound would put off some UK holidaymakers and would make fuel - which it pays for in dollars - more expensive.
"The share price has taken a hammering and there's still a lot of uncertainty," Mr Furlong says.
Analysts at Barclays estimate that factors outside the airline's control, such as terror attacks, strikes in France and congestion at Gatwick, will cost Easyjet at least £150m this year.
Also towards the bottom of the FTSE performance table is British Airways owner IAG, which has seen its shares fall 23% on similar fears about a drop-off in UK travel abroad.
Like airlines and UK banks, housebuilders are seen as the most at risk in the FTSE 100 if the UK economy slows down or enters recession.
Shares in construction companies are down significantly since the referendum, despite lower interest rates, an ongoing housing shortage and schemes like Help to Buy bolstering the property market.
Mr Khalaf says: "The big elephant in the room is what effect Brexit will have on the economy and will it take its toll on house prices?"
Taylor Wimpey, Barratt Developments and Persimmon, three of the UK's biggest homebuilders, have made back some share price losses, but are still down 20%, 14% and 13% respectively.
More than 100 days on, the market seems settled in its forecasts on construction firms and which other companies will gain and lose in the post-Brexit landscape, says Mr Khalaf.
"It may or may not end up being the right call but for now it looks pretty rational," he adds. | A hundred days ago the world woke up to the news that Britain had voted to leave the European Union. |
36,448,375 | Hutchinson set the fastest speed of the week in the Superstocks at 132.80mph, a time of 17 minutes and two seconds for the 37.73-mile Mountain Course.
Dunlop also broke John McGuinness's record of 132.70 when he lapped at 132.75 on his Hawk BMW Superbike.
The pair will start as favourites in Saturday's opening Superbike race.
The breathtaking speeds set in a week of perfect conditions for practice indicate that the first-ever sub 17-minute lap for the circuit could be on the cards.
Dunlop, also riding a BMW, was marginally behind Hutchinson in the Superstocks on 131.88 - that from a standing start.
Yorkshireman Dean Harrison became the fastest Supersport rider of the week when he lapped at 126.25 on his Kawasaki on Friday night.
That speed eclipsed Lee Johnston's previous best for the class of 124.84, set on Thursday evening.
Overall practice leaderboard
Superbikes - 1. Michael Dunlop 132.75mph; 2. Ian Hutchinson 131.66; 3. John McGuinness 131.12; 4. Dean Harrison 130.00; 5. Conor Cummins 129.99; 6. Michael Rutter 129.61
Superstocks - 1. Ian Hutchinson 132.80; 2. Michael Dunlop 131.88; 3. Michael Rutter 129.20; 4. Dean Harrison 128.95; 5. Lee Johnston 128.61; 6. James Hillier 128.13
Supersports - 1. Dean Harrison 126.25; 2. Lee Johnston 124.84; 3. Bruce Anstey 124.508; 4. Conor Cummins 124.35; 5. Ian Hutchinson 124.22; 6. Michael Dunlop 124.053 | Ian Hutchinson and Michael Dunlop both unofficially shattered the absolute lap record for the Isle of Man TT course in Friday night's final practice session. |
37,552,639 | Relegated Hampshire were reinstated ahead of Division Two runners-up Kent.
Kennedy is due to meet Colin Graves, the chairman of the England & Wales Cricket Board, to discuss the matter.
"If you lose confidence in the people you are dealing with, it is quite difficult to continue," Kennedy said.
"I feel completely let down by the ECB and I will put forward Kent's case [at the meeting] to see if anything can be done to reverse the situation or give us some comfort that we're not being singled out for all the wrong reasons.
"A lot depends on the answers we get over the next few days, but if I am completely and utterly shouted down I will have to think about if it is worthwhile continuing."
The issue arose after Durham were relegated on Monday, having accepted a £3.8m financial aid package from the ECB.
Kennedy also expressed displeasure in the manner in which he discovered the ECB's decision not to promote Kent, claiming he found out after being contacted by a journalist.
"The ECB decided to telephone Hampshire and tell them they were staying up and I found out by having a call from a journalist at a national newspaper who asked me what I thought," Kennedy told BBC Radio Kent.
"One team were told they were staying up and they ignored the team that lost the battle but I haven't given up by any means. I won't let Kent down, I will fight this for as long as it takes." | Kent chairman George Kennedy has said he is considering his position over the club's failure to be promoted following Durham's relegation from Division One because of financial issues. |
35,564,195 | Karla Cameron, from Ballymena, was seriously hurt when two cars collided on the Lisnevenagh Road, between Antrim and Ballymena, on Thursday morning.
The crash was reported to police at 09:50 GMT. Ms Cameron died on Thursday evening.
The police have appealed for witnesses to contact them. | A 25-year-old woman has died from her injuries after a car crash in County Antrim. |
40,471,466 | The convention allows Irish, Dutch, French, German and Belgian vessels to fish within six and 12 nautical miles of UK coastline.
Environment Secretary Michael Gove said the move would help take back control of fishing access to UK waters.
The European Commission said it "took note" but felt the convention had been superseded by EU law.
Ireland's minister for agriculture, food and the marine, Michael Creed, however, said it was "unwelcome and unhelpful".
"Brexit poses very serious challenges to the seafood sector and this announcement will form part of the negotiations," he said.
The Scottish government backed the idea, saying it had been pressing for it "for some time".
The London Fisheries Convention sits alongside the EU Common Fisheries Policy, which allows all European Union countries access between 12 and 200 nautical miles of the UK and sets quotas for how much fish nations can catch.
The relationship between the UK and Ireland is further governed by a separate arrangement.
Withdrawing from the convention, which was signed in 1964 before the UK joined what became the EU, means UK vessels will also lose the right to fish in waters six to 12 nautical miles offshore of the other countries.
What happens to the 12 to 200 mile area will be one of the issues at stake in Brexit negotiations.
Michael Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr the change was about "taking back control" of UK waters, 6-12 miles from the coast.
When the UK left the EU it would become an "independent coastal state", he said.
He said the EU's common fisheries policy had been an environmental disaster and the government wanted to change that, upon Brexit, to ensure sustainable fish stocks in future.
But the SNP's Richard Lochhead, who held the post of fisheries minister in Scotland until last year, has concerns around fishing being used as a "bargaining chip" by the government, which would "let down UK fishermen".
"Michael Gove is doing his best to get maximum publicity out of the easy bit," he told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend. "But the difficult, complex bit is still to come [with] the Common Fisheries Policy.
UKIP's fisheries spokesman Mike Hookem also said he feared another "wholesale betrayal" without assurances about the 200-mile zone.
"Fishing communities across Britain voted to leave the EU to get back the rights to earn a living, support their communities and to stop the EU plundering our seas of fish that the UK could exploit economically," he said.
He added that the announcement was "no victory for the fishing community" and was instead a "government attempt to use smoke and mirrors to placate British fishermen, while at the same time having the option of handing most our fishing rights to the EU".
Government figures say fishing contributed £604m to UK GDP in 2015 and employed around 12,000 fishers. In 2016, the fish processing industry supported around 18,000 jobs.
The industry's body, the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations, welcomed the decision.
Chief executive Barrie Deas said: "This is welcome news and an important part of establishing the UK as an independent coastal state with sovereignty over its own exclusive economic zone."
Its chairman Mike Cohen said a 12-mile exclusive zone for UK boats would be "a good thing" for the UK's inshore fishing fleet.
Will McCallum, Greenpeace UK head of oceans, said leaving the convention would not in itself deliver a better future for the UK fishing industry, and that for years governments had blamed the EU for their "failure" to support the small-scale, sustainable fishers.
He said, for example, that the UK had had the power since 2013 to decide how to allocate its EU fishing quota but that a report by Greenpeace in 2016 had found almost two thirds of that quota was concentrated in the hands of three companies.
He said the UK would also still be bound by the UN convention of the law of the seas - which requires cooperation with neighbours.
But Mr McCallum said he was "excited" that the government was making fishing a priority, after fearing fishing communities would end up "at the bottom of the heap" amidst complex Brexit negotiations.
Environmental law firm ClientEarth consultant Dr Tom West said the move appeared to be an aggressive negotiating tactic.
"As a country outside the EU we need to consider how we can best co-operate with our neighbours, rather than unilaterally withdrawing from all agreements in the hope that standing alone will make us better." | The government is to end an arrangement that allows other countries to fish in UK waters, it has been announced. |
37,939,620 | The new Rent Smart scheme requires anyone who rents out property in Wales to register or become licensed by 23 November.
But the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) said many were still unaware they need to do so.
Rent Smart Wales said landlords were given a year to register and it would not extend the deadline.
A Freedom of Information request by the RLA showed just 32,230 out of 130,000 landlords had registered by 18 October - those who do not comply can be fined.
The figures were released by Cardiff council, which is administering the scheme for the whole of Wales.
Douglas Haig, RLA director for Wales, said he was writing to Community Secretary Carl Sargeant to request a new deadline to allow time for landlords to be properly educated about what they need to do.
But Rent Smart Wales said there had been a large increase in numbers registering as the deadline approached and 46,300 out of 130,000 landlords had now registered and a further 11,400 had begun the registration process.
Mr Haig said communication had been "poor" with "very few" landlords aware of the scheme.
He said others were leaving it until the last minute because registration and licences run for five years from the date they are approved, not from 23 November.
The number of staff employed to carry out the scheme had also been "grossly underestimated", he added.
"I don't think it's asking a lot for the Welsh Government or Cardiff council to come forth with an education plan to get this information out there. That would be a sensible approach," he said.
A Rent Smart Wales spokesman said: "We have no intention of extending the deadline. However, we do recognise that, due the very high numbers of landlords visiting the website to register and apply for licenses, some are experiencing difficulties.
"The Rent Smart Wales team consists of 79 posts and the team are working hard to reduce waiting times for customers.
"Once the November 23 deadline for complying has passed, enforcement powers will be used in a sensible and proportionate manner."
RENT SMART FACTFILE: | Calls have been made for an extension to the registration deadline for all residential landlords in Wales. |
35,718,798 | The uprising quickly escalated into a civil war between the Syrian government and various rebel factions, killing at least 250,000 and displacing many more.
Similar movements in the region, later called the Arab Spring, led to the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia.
Five years on, people across the region have told the BBC how the uprising and the political divisions and economic turmoil that followed have affected their lives.
"I had to leave my pregnant wife behind. It was too dangerous for me to stay," says Majdy Al-Kassem, who fled Syria in early 2015 and now lives in the UK.
Majdy studied English literature in his hometown Idlib in north-western Syria when peaceful anti-government protests erupted in 2011. He and fellow students joined the demonstrations.
"In the first six months protesters were not armed, but the security forces started to shoot at people and come to their houses to arrest them," he says.
Some of the protests turned into armed insurgency and following violent clashes a brutal and complex civil war broke out across most of the country.
"One of my teachers was killed by a sniper and in the following years a lot of my friends died in prison. I was afraid that somebody who saw me at the demonstration would frame me," he says.
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A month after Majdy fled, a coalition of Islamist rebel forces, supported by Turkey and Saudi Arabia, seized Idlib from the Syrian government.
"It's a little bit safer now because there is no fighting in the city itself, but your house can always be hit by Russian or Syrian government air strikes. Many houses in our neighbourhood were destroyed.
"My family is in a very bad situation now. They often don't have the most basic things like water, electricity and petrol."
The rise of the so-called Islamic State and the increasing involvement of foreign powers have further complicated the conflict.
Like many others, Majdy made the dangerous journey across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece in a rubber dinghy. Walking northwards on the so-called Balkan route, he was imprisoned in Croatia for three months, but eventually made it to the UK last summer.
The authorities in the UK are now processing Majdy's asylum application and he says: "I hope they let me stay and bring my family."
The first protests of the Arab Spring started in Tunisia after Mohamed Bouazizi, a street vendor, set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid in December 2010.
Weeks of demonstrations followed before Tunisia's long-time president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile on 14 January 2011.
"When we went to demonstrate in front of the Ministry of the Interior in Tunis on 14 January, we didn't realise that Ben Ali would be running away by the end of the day," says Hisham Ben Khamsa.
"Ben Ali had relied on stifling any kind of expression and dissent. The regime was out of sync with the population. Corruption and unemployment pushed people overboard."
Tunisia has been called the Arab Spring's "success story" by some after a largely peaceful transition to democracy.
In recent years, the country has been hit by a wave of attacks on tourists sites and renewed protests over youth unemployment.
"Economically and in terms of instability, it has been five years of a rollercoaster. But in this chaos and mayhem, there is some stability building up," Hisham told the BBC.
Ines Ghaieb, a preparatory school teacher in Tunis, says her life changed for the better after the uprising.
"I lost my job at the school during Ben Ali's time and couldn't do anything about it. Now I have a permanent contract."
She says that Tunisians can now express their opinions in public and in the media.
"Tunisia was an exception from the beginning. Even if there are problems, I would say the revolution was successful."
Pictures of tens of thousands of protesters on Cairo's central Tahrir Square went around the world in January and February 2011.
"I'll never experience the same again, the spirit of the people was unbelievable, and we were all on the same page," says Mohammed Safi, an Egyptian radio DJ.
"We succeeded in bringing the government down after 18 days, but the biggest mistake was to leave the square because we thought we had won.
Mohamed Morsi, a leading member of the Muslim brotherhood, was elected as president in June 2012, but following mass protests his government was overthrown by the army a year later.
"I think almost the entire nation is suffering from post-traumatic stress," Mohammed says.
"I moved out of Cairo three years ago to protect my sanity. The vibe there has become unbearable.
"Five years down the line, many people are extremely sceptictal and frustrated. Almost everybody is suffering economically and the currency has lost a lot of value."
Human rights activists have reported a rise in the number of people going missing at the hand of the security services.
"The security apparatus is more intense than under Mubarak, but the message to future generations is that you can challenge authority," says Mohammed.
"In the early months of 2011, not a lot of Libyans thought the protests would spread from Tunisia to Libya because the former regime of Muammar Gaddafi had a tight grip on society," says Muhanned Kalash, an up-and-coming Libyan actor.
"When the protests started in Benghazi, we couldn't do much in Tripoli, but of course we followed the events very closely."
Fierce fighting broke out between rebels in the east of the country and government forces. In August 2011, rebel militia toppled Gaddafi and took over Tripoli, helped by international airstrikes.
Muhanned says that five years on, none of the revolution's goals have been achieved.
"It's close to impossible for me to save money, to marry, to travel to different cities or even to go out at night because there is a risk we might get carjacked."
Libya has had two rival governments since 2014.
The political and security vacuum in the country has helped the so-called Islamic State group to establish a foothold.
Muhanned says security is his biggest concern at the moment: "With Daesh [IS], it's like we see a storm approaching, but we're pretending we are not scared.
"It's shocking to see how OK Libyans have become with death." | It is five years since peaceful protests against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad started in Damascus. |
37,642,639 | Rohan Beyts, 62, said she had to "answer the call of nature" at sand dunes after walking on the beach near the Menie resort in April.
She was told staff had filmed her, and was reported to the procurator fiscal.
Mrs Beyts said she was "relieved" at the Crown Office news. Trump Golf Scotland expressed surprise.
Mrs Beyts said she was now pursuing a civil action for being filmed.
The retired social worker told the BBC Scotland news website she was "absolutely relieved" and said: "All the way along I have felt this has been a nonsense. I did not do anything wrong.
"I had no option when I needed to answer the call of nature.
"My friend turned round to give me a bit of privacy and we joked we hoped the were no CCTV cameras.
"When I discovered men had been filming me I felt really uncomfortable - mortified.
"It's ironic they said my act was disgusting but you hear about Donald Trump's claims about women. I know which I think are disgusting.
"If this had involved any other golf course no-one would have been interested.
"I feel totally vindicated."
A Crown Office spokesperson confirmed: "Following a review of all facts and circumstances the case, including new evidence which has come to light, the procurator fiscal instructed there be no proceedings."
Sarah Malone, of Trump Golf Scotland, said: "It's surprising that someone causing a nuisance and urinating in public is not prosecuted but this is a matter for the police and the procurator fiscal.
"She has absolutely no case against us and the claims made are baseless, untrue and quite frankly ridiculous.
"We will continue to rigorously defend our business from activists and troublemakers like this."
Mr Trump opened his Menie course in July 2012 after lengthy opposition from local residents and environmentalists.
The course, which is owned by Trump International Golf Club Scotland, lost just under £1.1m in 2015. | A woman accused of urinating on US presidential hopeful Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course will not face court action. |
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The cake is made from around 30,000 eggs, 2,500 bags of flour and a load of butter, and it took ten bakers three days to make!
It was assembled on the streets by the bakers who topped it with whipped cream and a milk fudge sauce.
It is all to celebrate 450 years since Portuguese sailors first landed in Brazil and founded the city of Rio, where next year's Olympic Games will take place.
The massive cake was shared amongst the people who live in Rio, and parties and celebrations took place across the city. | Bakers in Rio de Janeiro have served up a massive 450-metre-long cake to celebrate the city's 450th anniversary. |
37,393,476 | Victory was Reading's first in WSL 1, leaving the Belles nine points adrift at the bottom with five games to play.
Reading led through Emma Follis and Nia Jones before a fine Emily Simpkins hit gave the hosts hope after half-time.
But Follis curled in her second before Rachel Rowe made it 4-1 on 84 minutes.
The win meant Reading moved above Notts County and Sunderland - who both play on Sunday - into sixth place, with all three sides level on nine points.
The pace and skill of Follis carved open plenty of chances for the Royals, but she had to be withdrawn in the latter stages because of an injury.
Follis and Jones both tucked in from close range as the visitors enjoyed the better of the first half.
Simpkins had given the Belles belief straight at the start of the second half and she almost levelled soon afterwards in their best spell, but her free-tick was tipped over the bar by Mary Earps.
Reading forward Emma Follis told BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra: "We're all buzzing that we have finally got this win.
"It's been a long time coming - we probably deserved it slightly sooner. But to win 4-1 in that manner is just brilliant.
"I've just tweaked my ankle a little bit but it'll be fine, we've got five weeks off now until our next game so I have plenty of time to recover."
Reading manager Kelly Chambers told BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra: "I'm just glad to get the first win on the table - it's nice.
"It wasn't the best performance from us tonight but most important is getting three points on the board.
"We've done a lot of work over the past few weeks and that was the icing on the cake, scoring four.
"We've got a five-week gap now before our next league game, which is horrible, but it gives us five weeks of solid training to keep building on what we have already."
Doncaster Rovers Belles manager Emma Coates told BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra: "It's frustrating, there's no denying it. The girls are going to hurt.
"Game-by-game, we are improving - the scoreline doesn't reflect that, but we are.
"I'm happy with my decisions and how we went about the game. We seem to fix one problem and then, in the next game, something else slips.
"We have to dust ourselves down, get back up and fight for the last five games."
Match ends, Doncaster Rovers Belles 1, Reading Ladies 4.
Second Half ends, Doncaster Rovers Belles 1, Reading Ladies 4.
Attempt missed. Helen Ward (Reading Ladies) header from the left side of the six yard box misses to the right. Assisted by Amber Stobbs with a cross.
Attempt missed. Bethany O'Donnell (Doncaster Rovers Belles) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high following a set piece situation.
Hand ball by Kirsty McGee (Reading Ladies).
Attempt saved. Helen Ward (Reading Ladies) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Harriet Scott.
Foul by Emily Simpkins (Doncaster Rovers Belles).
Harriet Scott (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Carla Humphrey (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Remi Allen (Reading Ladies).
Attempt missed. Martha Bakowska-Mathews (Doncaster Rovers Belles) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Rebecca Raynor (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Kayleigh Hines (Reading Ladies).
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Bethany O'Donnell replaces Katrin Omarsdottir.
Goal! Doncaster Rovers Belles 1, Reading Ladies 4. Rachel Rowe (Reading Ladies) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Melissa Fletcher.
Substitution, Reading Ladies. Amber Stobbs replaces Nia Jones.
Attempt missed. Rachel Rowe (Reading Ladies) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Reading Ladies. Conceded by Emily Simpkins.
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Rebecca Raynor replaces Christie Murray.
Substitution, Reading Ladies. Helen Ward replaces Molly Bartrip.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Reading Ladies. Rachel Rowe replaces Emma Follis because of an injury.
Delay in match Emma Follis (Reading Ladies) because of an injury.
Emily Simpkins (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Remi Allen (Reading Ladies).
Substitution, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Carla Humphrey replaces Samantha Tierney.
Sophie Barker (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lauren Bruton (Reading Ladies).
Attempt blocked. Kayleigh Hines (Reading Ladies) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Leandra Little (Doncaster Rovers Belles).
Nia Jones (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Christie Murray (Doncaster Rovers Belles).
Emma Follis (Reading Ladies) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Doncaster Rovers Belles. Conceded by Mary Earps.
Emily Simpkins (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Remi Allen (Reading Ladies).
Attempt blocked. Christie Murray (Doncaster Rovers Belles) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kasia Lipka.
Rhiannon Roberts (Doncaster Rovers Belles) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Remi Allen (Reading Ladies).
Goal! Doncaster Rovers Belles 1, Reading Ladies 3. Emma Follis (Reading Ladies) right footed shot from outside the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Remi Allen. | Doncaster Rovers Belles' hopes of avoiding an immediate return to Women's Super League Two look bleak after a loss to rivals Reading saw their losing run extend to 11 WSL 1 games out of 11. |
34,790,038 | The charity Antibiotic Research UK, which compiled the data for the BBC, said the surge could not be explained by extra bacterial infections.
It said it was probably due to doctors handing out pills for colds and flu.
Experts said an acceptable prescribing level was still unclear.
There is a noticeable winter cold and flu season, when the viruses find it easier to spread.
Some bacterial infections are also more common in the winter - such as pneumonia, partly as a result of secondary infections in people whose lungs have been damaged by viral infections.
But others, such as urinary tract infections, are actually more common in summer.
Prof Colin Garner, of Antibiotic Research UK, told the BBC News website: "You would expect bacterial infections to possibly go up in winter.
"But they don't go up as dramatically as the heat map shows - 50% more in December compared to August.
"So the map reflects, in all probability, an over-prescribing of antibiotics at that time of year."
Prof Garner said 97% of patients who asked for an antibiotic were given one.
But he said doctors were often "caught between a rock and hard place" as it could be safer to give antibiotics if it was not clear whether the patient had a viral or bacterial infection.
The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence has argued that 10 million antibiotic prescriptions are inappropriate each year.
The concern is that high levels of antibiotic use are leading to bacteria developing resistance to the drugs and becoming untreatable.
Prof Mike Sharland, a Department of Health adviser on antibiotics, said the summer-winter difference was "recognised as a global problem".
However, he said it was impossible to say at the moment how many of those winter prescriptions were genuinely inappropriate.
He told the BBC: "Obviously this is important, interesting data, but what we now need to do is identify more clearly what is appropriate and what is less appropriate seasonal variation."
Meanwhile, Antibiotic Research UK in collaboration with the data analysis company Exasol has also published maps showing a stark regional variation in antibiotic prescribing so far this year.
It shows that 21% fewer antibiotics are prescribed in London than in the north of England.
Deprived coastal towns, such as Skegness in Lincolnshire, also have high levels of antibiotic prescription.
Prof Garner added: "It's a problem because if we don't tackle it then medicine as we currently practise it will not be practised as we're so reliant on antibiotics."
Cancer therapy, surgery and organ transplants are all reliant on antibiotics.
Meanwhile a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that few people understand antibiotic resistance despite its clear threat to global health.
It polled 10,000 people across 12 countries - Barbados, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, Serbia, South Africa, Sudan and Vietnam.
Most wrongly thought it was people rather than bacteria that develop resistance to antibiotics.
Nearly half of people surveyed thought resistance was only a problem for people taking antibiotics regularly while in fact anyone can contract an antibiotic-resistant infection.
Dr Keiji Fukuda, from the WHO, said: "The findings of this survey point to the urgent need to improve understanding around antibiotic resistance.
"One of the biggest health challenges of the 21st Century will require global behaviour change by individuals and societies."
Follow James on Twitter. | A huge and potentially inappropriate surge in antibiotic prescriptions in the winter has been identified through the first detailed maps of seasonal prescribing in England. |
30,580,974 | 22 December 2014 Last updated at 18:15 GMT
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As part of the BBC's African Dream series about entrepreneurs, the film-maker explains how she managed to excel in the entertainment industry in Nigeria and across sub-Saharan Africa. | Kemi Adetiba is an award-winning director, producer and cinematographer in the Nigerian city of Lagos and her production company - K-Alpha Innovations - specialises in making music videos. |
39,856,804 | The animals were pinched from Bruno's near Daventry late last month, police said.
Store manager Jackie Hunt told the Northampton Chronicle the thief removed the tortoises from a locked vivarium then put them in his pockets.
Police confirmed the thief "concealed" his booty "in his trousers" and appealed for witnesses.
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"We saw the CCTV later and it clearly showed the man bending down and breaking the lock, before taking out the tortoises," Mrs Hunt told the BBC.
"He was wearing jogging bottoms and he put one in each pocket."
The micro-chipped tortoises, worth about £150 each and about 7.5cm (3in) in length, are too young to survive without correct UVB lighting and heat.
Their micro-chips are registered on the tortoises' licences, which are still held by the pet shop, meaning they cannot legally be owned in this country.
The theft happened at the shop in Whilton Locks Garden Village at about 16:00 on 25 April. | Two tortoises were stolen from a Northamptonshire pet store by a man who stuffed the reptiles down his trousers. |
12,852,499 | Police said the arrested man had identified the location of two bodies.
Earlier detectives suggested two people had been found, but later confirmed searches are continuing.
Miss O'Callaghan, 22, was last seen leaving Suju nightclub in Swindon on Saturday.
Members of her family have been informed of the discovery of her body and are said to be "deeply distressed".
Det Supt Steve Fulcher said: "A 47-year-old man from Swindon is in custody, having been arrested for kidnap and two murders.
"The location of two bodies have been identified to me by this individual, one of whom has yet to be identified formally, but I am quite clear is Sian.
"I have informed Sian's family, who are obviously deeply distressed."
He added: "I want to recover these people and give them the dignity they deserve."
Later, a statement from Wiltshire Police said: "The location of two bodies has been identified to the senior investigating officer, only one body has currently been found and this is believed to be Sian O'Callaghan.
"The second body has yet to be recovered."
On Thursday morning police arrested a man at an Asda supermarket in north Swindon's Orbital Centre.
Later in the afternoon police vans arrived at a house in Ashbury Avenue, Swindon, and a white tent was put up in the front garden.
Officers are searching inside and outside the property and removing items to a nearby van.
Detectives are also searching a second location between Ashbury and Letcombe Regis, some seven miles east of Swindon and close to the Uffington White Horse, in Oxfordshire.
An area of the road and the verge has been sealed-off and is being guarded by a number of police officers.
Angus Tucker, the landlord at the Blowing Stone pub in Kingston Lisle, some five miles east of Ashbury, said customers had told him a section of the B4507 was cordoned off.
"I'm told there are quite a few police around," he added.
Detectives revealed earlier this week that phone records put office administrator Miss O'Callaghan's mobile somewhere in Savernake Forest, near Marlborough, 34 minutes after she left the nightclub - a journey they said could only have been made by car.
Miss O'Callaghan was caught on CCTV leaving Suju, in Swindon's Old Town area, after an evening out with female friends.
She lived in a flat half a mile away with her boyfriend Kevin Reape, 25.
Mr Reape, who had spent the day at Cheltenham races, raised the alarm on Saturday morning when she did not return to their flat. | Police searching for missing Sian O'Callaghan have found her body and are searching for another possible victim, as a man is questioned on suspicion of double murder. |
40,133,697 | Phyllis Roberts first held the title in Blaenavon, near Pontypool, 47 years ago - when Elvis Presley topped the charts and a loaf of bread cost 9p.
The former newsagent and magistrate received a British Empire Medal in 2015 for her services to her community.
"If you set your mind to it and you want to do something, you can do it," she said.
"I don't feel that old to be honest so I just want to get down to it because I don't like a fuss being made.
"One person told me that I was the oldest mayor in Britain but I didn't stand for the council with any thoughts of becoming mayor.
"I was nominated by members in the council and I didn't expect to get the support that I did.
"Age to me is just a number - it's all about whether you're up to the job or not." | A 93-year-old, believed to be Britain's oldest mayor, has returned to the role for the second time in Torfaen. |
12,090,825 | Desire has announced that despite drilling to a depth of 1,300m at its Jacinta well in the North Falkland basin, there were no hydrocarbons.
The company's shares fell 29% on the news, despite Desire saying that it would now drill to 1,670m.
On 6 December, Desire's shares tumbled 50% after another well was capped.
Desire's shares, which reached 170p in October, closed down 29.4% at 42.5p.
When exploration off the Falklands began earlier this year, the share prices of several companies rose in expectation of an oil and gas boom.
But analysts say drilling results have so far proved disappointing.
And in November there were reports that ExxonMobil, the world's largest oil company not owned by a government, had decided that the islands contained insufficient hydrocarbons to make exploration profitable. | Shares in Desire Petroleum have again fallen sharply after another disappointment over the firm's oil exploration off the Falkland Islands. |
34,788,912 | Claire Rafferty's third-minute own goal gave the German side the lead.
Babett Peter headed into her own net after the break to level the score, but substitute Caroline Graham Hansen's low finish gave the visitors victory.
Chelsea must now score at least twice in Germany on 18 November.
The new Women's Super League champions made a nervy start and conceded an early goal when they failed to clear a free-kick and Nilla Fischer's poked shot was deflected in by England left-back Rafferty.
Chelsea defender Gilly Flaherty then appeared to elbow Vanessa Bernauer on the half-hour mark, as Wolfsburg frustrated the hosts by pressing high up the pitch.
The Blues drew level after half-time through Peter's own goal and almost took the lead when Ji So-yun's shot was blocked and Fran Kirby fired narrowly wide.
However, Hansen's goal put Wolfsburg - who have reached the semi-finals in each of the past three seasons - in control.
Chelsea Ladies boss Emma Hayes said:
"Four weeks between games showed in the first 45 minutes so I hope our Football Association do more to prepare better scheduling because if an English team is going to win the Champions League, we have to be more game ready.
"It's geared to French, German and Swedish teams, and until we change that or listen to clubs like Chelsea we are always going to get knocked out in the early rounds.
"It took us a while to get started, and it was a poor goal to concede. Other than that there wasn't a lot between the two teams. The difference at this level is that we had two glorious chances to score and didn't and they counter us and go 2-1 up.
"For us to get a result at Wolfsburg is a tall order. We will create chances but we have been a bit vulnerable on the counter attack."
Chelsea: Lindahl, Bright (Coombs 80), Flaherty, Fahey, Davison, Aluko, Ji, C Rafferty, Kirby, Borges, Chapman (c).
Subs not used: Hourihan, Coombs, Brett, Ayane, Spence, L Rafferty, Farrow.
Wolfsburg: Frohms, Fischer, Peter, Blasse, Popp (Graham Hansen 58), Maritz, Bernauer, Bachmann, Dickenmann (Jakabfi 81), Goessling, Bussaglia (Pajor).
Subs not used: Burmeister, Jakabfi, Wullaert, Bunte, Wedemeyer.
Referee: Katalin Kulscar (HUN)
Attendance: 1,610 | Chelsea Ladies' hopes of reaching the Champions League quarter-finals suffered a big setback as they lost the home leg of their tie against two-time winners Wolfsburg. |
38,552,926 | The one-time IRA commander went from the riots of the Bogside in Londonderry during the 1970s, to the very heart of government.
He became one of Sinn Féin's two ministers in the first power-sharing deal that followed the Good Friday Agreement.
In the Stormont Assembly election of May 2007, he was elected deputy first minister, with the Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley as first minister.
Many people were surprised at how well the two leaders appeared to get on.
They were labelled the "Chuckle Brothers" as a result of being frequently photographed laughing and smiling together.
Martin McGuinness stood down temporarily as deputy first minister to contest the Irish presidential election in 2011, when his IRA past received much attention in the media.
He came third in the election in which he was the only candidate who, as a non-resident, was ineligible to vote.
In 2008, he went to Baghdad to share his knowledge of peace-making.
In recent years, Martin McGuinness insisted his job had become a political one.
"My war is over. My job as a political leader is to prevent that war and I feel very passionate about it," he said.
"I want to build a better future for all our people. It is a political project, not a military one."
In 2008, McGuinness and Ian Paisley's successor Peter Robinson were nominated as first and deputy first minister.
Their relationship was less amicable than the one between McGuinness and Paisley, who died in September 2014.
The following year, Robinson and McGuinness became embroiled in controversy over the £1.2bn sale by Nama of its Northern Ireland property loans portfolio to US firm Cerberus.
In January 2016, Arlene Foster took over from Robinson as first minister of Northern Ireland.
In an interview a month later, Foster spoke of the difficulties she experienced with the deputy first minister, because of his graveside oration at the funeral of the man who, she believes, tried to kill her father.
Despite this - and the fact that the pair were on opposing sides of the subsequent Brexit vote, Mr McGuinness and Mrs Foster managed to forge a positive working relationship since they began sharing the OFMDFM portfolio.
In December, Mrs Foster insisted she had "nothing to hide" over the RHI scandal and refused to step down, but pressure mounted on Sinn Féin to act.
Last week, Martin McGuinness said that Mrs Foster should step aside as first minister to "allow a time-framed, comprehensive, independent investigation" into the RHI scheme. She refused.
On Monday, Mr McGuinness announced he would resign in protest at the DUP's handling of the crisis. | Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is stepping down after ten years in the post over the Renewable Heat Incentive scandal. |
18,980,693 | In just over two years Chen Guanming says he has travelled about 60,000km through 16 countries, overcoming floods, war zones, mountain passes and temperatures of -30C.
His aim, he said, was to "spread the Olympic spirit".
He says he left his home on 23 May 2010 and arrived in London on 9 July.
John Beeston, from Norwood Green, in west London, discovered him at the top of Lower Regent Street looking "completely lost and downhearted".
"At first I assumed it was a tourist rickshaw. Then I looked back and thought 'No, this is something different'."
Mr Chen has pictures on his three-wheeled rickshaw of him posing in front of international landmarks and a banner saying he is on a journey of 140,000km (86,992 miles) - which includes China.
Mr Beeston, who runs an insurance brokers and travels to China on business, was able to chat to Mr Chen who is unable to speak English.
"I spoke with my limited Mandarin, asking if he was Chinese and he burst into life."
He took him to Soho's Chinatown where Mr Chen told his story and has since been showered with admiration and offers of accommodation.
He has even been bought a Jamaican tracksuit top.
"They couldn't find a Chinese one," Mr Chen said.
His story sounds so fantastical that few would give it house room, but the 57-year-old from Jiangsu province in eastern China, has the passport, press cuttings and book full of messages from around the world, to testify to his feat.
"It's like telling people that a Martian has landed in the garden," said Mr Beeston.
"But, what he's done isn't dissimilar to what Marco Polo did and the Italians named an airport after him."
In the first countries - Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam - he had to wring his clothes out seven or eight times a day because of the sweat. It was about 38C.
In Thailand, he was caught up in deadly floods.
On trying to leave South East Asia he was refused a visa in Burma.
Unperturbed, he backtracked and cycled to Tibet where he wended his way on his gearless bike up 7,000m high mountains.
Having crossed Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran he ended up in Turkey where it was -30C and he says he spent four days snowed in.
He says he supported himself couriering items along the way for people and through people's donations.
So was the journey worth it?
"London is especially beautiful," he says.
"People are very friendly. They always show warmth towards me.
"When I go back to China I want to tell them how civilised the English are."
He wants to carry on spreading his message of peace and environmental protection, he says.
"I'm a big fan of Olympic Games," he says with typical understatement.
"I wanted to come here because I wanted the whole world to support the Olympics and be part of it."
Ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games he led a personal crusade against littering, encouraging people to respect their environment.
To achieve this, he cycled to Beijing from his village, Erchen, in 2001 when China's bid was successful.
He says he went through 1,764 cities, covering more than 90,000km.
For three months he collected litter around Beijing and the Olympic Park.
He litter picked everything from cigarette butts to plastic bottles and was rewarded for his voluntary work by the authorities with a seat at the closing ceremony.
Now, he wants to be in the opening ceremony to round off his Olympic journey.
Asking Mr Chen if he thinks it will be "difficult" to take part in the ceremony on Friday seems crass given the scale of his achievement in coming this far.
And with his indomitable spirit, who's to say he won't achieve it?
Whatever happens, he has his heart set on making it to Brazil next for Rio 2016. | When London's mayor accepted the Olympic flag in 2008 a Chinese farmer who was looking on inside the stadium says he was inspired to travel to the next host city for the Games by the only way he could afford - rickshaw. |
32,154,966 | But the broad lines of the fight were drawn many months ago.
And the places where there were gaps in the campaigns were also obvious then: how much would Labour really cut in government to sort out the books? And how would the Conservatives really save £12bn from the welfare budget?
So far, there is no sign whatsoever that the two main parties will answer those significant questions in the next five weeks.
If you are a voter who has the audacity to want to know? Well, it seems that might just be tough luck.
It is not unusual in campaigns for political parties, particularly in opposition, to be well, slightly sketchy on detail.
People in my job spent much of the 2010 campaign asking the Conservatives what "further and faster" meant in terms of how they would get rid of the deficit.
They kept their answers firmly up their sleeve until after the campaign.
But with the election looming so very close, this silence doesn't help the stalemate.
Both sides are deeply, deeply reluctant to distract from their central message, and are playing to their base.
On Wednesday, the Conservatives released the names of 100 business people, many of whom have donated money to the party who, guess what, support their plans for the economy.
Labour are promising to legislate quickly to get rid of the worst kinds of zero-hours contracts where staff aren't guaranteed shifts and, by implication, wages.
The letter and the zero-hours announcement are important campaign moves.
But neither are surprising.
The caricature is big corporations versus the ordinary worker, or Goliath versus David, or the powerful and influential versus the hard-working less well off, with both parties as stuck in that narrative as the polling numbers are stuck in a numerical rut.
But despite the noise of the campaign so far, nothing much looks like moving votes.
Why? We are a long, long way from the era when politicians were fighting over the centre ground.
One senior Conservative told me, shaking their head: "It is pathetic, everyone is playing to base, everyone has given up the centre."
A key Labour figure put it a different way, describing the campaign as two "parallel elections".
However, that same source still believes they are playing to the centre ground. It is just that the centre ground, in their view, has moved.
But as strategists scratch their heads over the polls refusing to budge much beyond the margins of error, isn't it entirely possible that those two things are connected?
If the two main parties have more or less deserted the familiar centre, should we be surprised that it doesn't look like there will be any significant shifts of voters flocking to them?
One senior politician shrugged their shoulders disappointedly at what the main leaderships are offering right now:
"There is nothing inevitable about the idea of the end of big majorities, it's just that we are not offering voters very much that's worth going for."
The risk perhaps is that both main parties could look like they are talking only to themselves and their existing supporters - in a campaign where they want to avoid answering hard questions, avoid saying anything unexpected, and avoid any surprises.
Add to this the determination of all of the parties not to publish their manifestos until well into April and this election might end up being characterised by a lack of ambition.
A lack of ambition in campaigns designed to make sure core voters turn up, rather than attracting the new in any significant numbers, and a lack of politicians' faith in their own ideas that makes them reluctant to share their full plans until late in the day, if at all.
Again and again, we hear voters around the country saying they want politicians to tell them what's what.
It is naïve to imagine that doesn't have risks of its own.
But as both of the main parties concentrate on gingerly carrying their core voters like a Ming vase to the finish line, their hands are too full to able to reach out to anyone else.
So what chance is there the two big parties will be able to break out of the stalemate?
Maybe only if they are willing to break this relative silence first.
PS: The delay in publishing manifestos is not just a point for the political nerds.
Manifesto commitments are not only important for the public to be able to scrutinise. They also give civil servants vital guidance on how parties wish to govern, and if a party does win power, the House of Lords is not able continually to block legislation from becoming law. if it has been part of a party's manifesto. | Ok, it is early days, very, very early days of the official election campaign. |
37,809,151 | The tiles, made from glass, are intended to be a more attractive way to add solar panels to homes, compared with currently-used solar technology.
The launch took place in Universal Studios, Los Angeles, on what used to be the set for the television show Desperate Housewives.
It comes with Tesla due to take over struggling energy firm Solar City.
Some of the electric carmaker's investors have expressed concern over the takeover, suggesting it is a Tesla-funded bail-out of a company Mr Musk has a vested interest in as its biggest shareholder.
Solar City’s chief executive is Mr Musk’s cousin.
Bringing the solar tiles to the Desperate Housewives set was a way of displaying the idea’s key selling point: it looks far better than solar panelling. Mr Musk jokingly described it as a “sweet roof!”.
No price was given for the tiles, which come in a variety of colours and styles, though Mr Musk did say it would be cheaper than fitting a traditional roof and then adding solar on top.
Also part of the launch was Powerwall 2, Tesla’s home battery product. The primary function of the Powerwall is to store any surplus energy from the solar panels. It will cost $5,500 (£4,511), Mr Musk said.
Tesla posted a surprise profit in its last quarterly earnings - its first in three years.
The $2.6bn acquisition of Solar City seems set to see the company plunge back into the red, but Mr Musk insisted on Friday that the deal made sense as having separate companies would “slow things down”.
Tesla shareholders vote on the acquisition on 17 November.
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook | Roof tiles with built-in solar panels have been unveiled by Tesla chief executive Elon Musk. |
35,660,278 | TLP's £1bn project aims to pioneer the technology with Swansea becoming the first of six lagoons around Britain.
But now Ecotricity, one of the first green energy companies in the UK, said it is working on proposals to generate electricity through tidal energy.
In a letter sent to the UK government, it claimed Swansea could be the wrong place for such a project.
Ecotricity claims it can generate tidal energy at a lower price and financed over a shorter time than TLP.
The company's founder Dale Vince said the technology used to build the "sea walls" in Swansea was hundreds of years old and offered "no technological advance".
In the letter sent in January, he said: "Our analysis suggests that Swansea Bay is simply the wrong sized project in the wrong place and it is these constraints that are at the root of its very high cost of energy."
Ecotricity, based in Stroud in Gloucestershire, told BBC Wales it wrote to the UK government before it announced a review two weeks ago into the sector.
It believes tidal power can work at a lower price than the £168 per megawatt hour (MWh) across 35 years that is being discussed for Swansea Bay.
Founder Dale Vince said: "We were concerned that the UK government was being pushed into paying too high a price for tidal energy through the Swansea Bay scheme.
"That would be bad for renewable energy generally because it would reinforce the myth that green energy is expensive, and bad for tidal power specifically because it may never get off the ground."
Tidal Lagoon Power is now talking with the UK government about a lower price for their electricity generation over a longer, 90 year time frame, for Swansea.
But Ecotricity said it believes that price is too still too high.
The company will not say which sites it is looking at - including whether they would include Swansea - but acknowledges that the tidal range of the Severn Estuary is very attractive.
It will make a further announcement in the summer.
The review by the UK government - which is seeking "clarity" about the potential of tidal - is due to start in the spring and report in the autumn.
Ectotricity currently operates nearly 70 wind turbines, has 175,000 customers and powers the equivalent of more than 40,000 homes.
TLB - which last week said it welcomed the idea of competition - envisages Swansea as a first project to trial the technology with work starting next year.
Cardiff and Newport would be among future locations for larger lagoons which would be able to produce power even more cheaply.
A spokesman said: "The emergence of a competitive marketplace for the future is another clear sign that Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon is fulfilling its role as a pathfinder." | A competitor has emerged to challenge Tidal Lagoon Power (TLP) as the first to develop tidal energy in the UK. |
35,876,228 | Nguyen Huu Vinh, a former policeman, had connections to the ruling Communist Party elite. His assistant received three years. Both denied the charges.
They were detained in 2014. The "Ba Sam" blogs they were accused of posting attracted several million page views.
Earlier, police outside the court broke up protests seeking their release.
The one-party state is often criticised by rights groups for its intolerance of dissent. Vietnam's mainstream media are state-run and heavily regulated.
However, the internet has emerged as a forum for criticising the authorities.
Nguyen Huu Vinh's case differs from other dissident bloggers jailed in recent years because of his family background - his late father was a government minister and former ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Quynh Le of BBC Vietnamese says the blog, which began in 2007, was a mixture of news and commentary from a stable of distinguished contributors.
"I am completely innocent," Vinh told the court.
His assistant Minh Thuy Thuy said she did not know who had written the articles or posted them, the Associated Press reports.
The authorities said the two had lowered people's trust in the ruling party.
Presiding Judge Nguyen Van Pho said the articles "distort the lines and policies of the party and law of the state and vilify individuals". | A court in Hanoi has sentenced a well-known Vietnamese blogger to five years in jail after finding him guilty of publishing anti-state articles. |
34,500,716 | Media playback is not supported on this device
England became the first host nation to be eliminated in the group stages when they lost matches to Wales and Australia in Pool A.
"I ultimately accept and take responsibility for the team's performance," said Lancaster.
Lancaster, 46, was made permanent coach in 2012 and won 28 of his 46 games, but failed to win the Six Nations.
"I took on the role in difficult circumstances and it has been a huge challenge to transition the team with many hurdles along the way," he added.
"However, I am immensely proud of the development of this team and I know that there is an incredibly strong foundation for them to progress to great things in the future.
"We have played some excellent rugby and it was always going to be tough to get the right level of experience into them in time for 2015. It is a young group of players with the huge majority available for the World Cup in Japan in 2019, where I believe their recent experience will make them genuine contenders."
A review into England performance at the World Cup took place after the tournament, with Rugby Football Union chief executive Ian Ritchie stating that Lancaster agreed he should step down from his role.
''The Rugby World Cup was hugely disappointing for everyone associated with the England team and the subsequent review into the team's performance was always intended to be extremely comprehensive, which it has been," said Ritchie.
"Following the review, Stuart and I met, where we agreed that he should step down as head coach. This was subsequently ratified by the RFU board."
He added: "Despite the results during this World Cup he has much to be proud of, and has embedded a new group of players that will be representing England for a long time to come. Looking forward, we will leave no stone unturned to ensure England achieves sustained success in the future."
Former England international Andy Goode: "We were all excited pre-World Cup. But it was obviously a failure and, as he said, it was his responsibility. I am not surprised by the decision. It is probably the right one. There are some great coaches in the setup, who need to be looked at."
Former England and Bath hooker Lee Mears: "I wonder if they could have kept him in the RFU somewhere. You can't waste all that experience. It's very reactive and causes a load of havoc."
There is no word yet from the RFU on the future of Lancaster's coaching team of Andy Farrell, Graham Rowntree and Mike Catt. The full World Cup review will be presented to an RFU board meeting on 17 November.
The search will then begin for a replacement for Lancaster in time for next year's Six Nations, with England opening their campaign away to Scotland on 6 February.
Those linked with the vacant position include Australia's Michael Cheika, former Wallabies and Japan coach Eddie Jones, Wales boss Warren Gatland and Ireland's Joe Schmidt. | Stuart Lancaster has left his post as England coach following the team's early exit from the World Cup. |
36,497,763 | The BBC understands it wants to help other women who are told their baby has a life-limiting condition, including what options may be available.
It is the first time that the Department of Health has publicly addressed FFA in Northern Ireland.
It is understood the information will be contained in a leaflet.
Northern Ireland's chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, has asked the director of nursing Mary Hinds to lead the group.
A number of meetings have already taken place where women have described the availability of information including access to a termination and bereavement counselling.
This is a significant, albeit quiet, move on the part of the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care service to tackle an issue which has become controversial in Northern Ireland.
A fatal foetal abnormality diagnosis means medics believe an unborn child will die either in the womb or shortly after birth.
It is not grounds for a legal abortion in Northern Ireland. | The Public Health Agency is meeting women in Northern Ireland who had a pregnancy where the baby was diagnosed with a fatal foetal abnormality (FFA). |
40,698,168 | Dywedodd elusen salwch bwyta mwyaf y DU, Beat, bod pobl Cymru sy'n dioddef yn "haeddu gwell".
Yn ôl Llywodraeth Cymru maen nhw'n gwario mwy ar wasanaethau iechyd meddwl nac ar unrhyw ran arall o'r GIG.
Daw wedi i'r dyfarnwr Nigel Owens ddatgelu ei fod yn parhau i frwydro yn erbyn bwlimia hyd heddiw.
Mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn gwario £250,000 y flwyddyn ar wella gofal i blant ac yn rhoi £1m arall i wasanaethau arbenigol ar gyfer oedolion.
Ond yn Lloegr mae £30m yn cael ei wario ar wasanaethau plant yn unig.
Fe wnaeth BBC Cymru ddarganfod bod dau o fyrddau iechyd Cymru ddim yn cadw cofnod o nifer y bobl sy'n cael eu hasesu am anhwylderau bwyta.
Bydd Owens yn edrych ar y nifer cynyddol o fechgyn a dynion sy'n cael triniaeth fel rhan o raglen Week In Week Out nos Lun.
Dywedodd Ysgrifennydd Iechyd Cymru, Vaughan Gething bod angen i fyrddau iechyd fod yn ymwybodol o faint o bobl sydd angen help.
Ychwanegodd nad oedd y gwariant ar iechyd meddwl yn Lloegr wastad wedi mynd i'r gwasanaeth yn uniongyrchol.
Dywedodd prif weithredwr Beat, Andrew Radford: "Y pryder mwyaf ry'n ni'n clywed am Gymru yw tanfuddsoddiad, yn enwedig o'i gymharu â Lloegr.
"Mae pobl sy'n dioddef o anhwylderau bwyta yng Nghymru yn haeddu gwell na'r hyn y maen nhw'n ei dderbyn, ac maen nhw'n haeddu mwy o gyllid ar gyfer adnoddau a mwy o flaenoriaeth ar gyfer eu problemau."
Fel rhan o'r rhaglen mae'r Owens yn datgelu ei fod wedi dioddef o anhwylder bwyta bwlimia nerfosa am y 27 mlynedd diwethaf, a'i fod yn parhau i frwydro yn ei erbyn.
"Fi wedi siarad am ddelio â bwlimia yn y gorffennol ond dydw i erioed wedi datgelu fy mod yn parhau i ddioddef gydag anhwylder bwyta hyd heddiw," meddai.
Dywedodd bod y cyflwr wedi dechrau pan oedd yn isel am ei fod yn teimlo bod yn rhaid iddo guddio'r ffaith ei fod yn hoyw.
"We'n i hefyd dros fy mhwysau - tua 16 stôn a hanner," meddai.
"Yn fy llygaid i we'n i'n ordew ac yn meddwl na fyddai unrhyw un yn fy ngweld i fel deniadol tra we'n i'n dew.
"Felly fe wnes i ddechre' gwneud fy hunan yn sâl."
Llwyddodd i gael y gorau o'r salwch tua 10 mlynedd yn ôl, ond fe ddychwelodd yn 2015 wrth iddo gyrraedd pinacl ei yrfa - dyfarnu ffeinal Cwpan Rygbi'r Byd.
"Wrth i mi gerdded ar y cae y diwrnod hwnnw, byddai neb wedi credu 'mod i'n brwydro yn erbyn y ffaith bod y bwlimia yn dychwelyd," meddai.
Mae wedi llwyddo i ddod â'r anhwylder dan fwy o reolaeth erbyn heddiw, ond mae'n dal i ddioddef.
"Efallai bydd yn digwydd dwywaith mewn wythnos, ac yna dim byd am fisoedd," meddai.
"Wy'n gwybod ei fod yn gwneud mwy o ddrwg na da, felly pam ydw i'n parhau i'w wneud o bryd i bryd? Sai'n gwybod."
Mae anhwylderau bwyta yn achosi mwy o farwolaethau nag unrhyw gyflwr iechyd meddwl arall, ac yr amcangyfrif yw ei fod yn effeithio ar 1.6 miliwn o bobl yn y DU - 400,000 o'r rheiny'n fechgyn a dynion.
"Byddwn yn annog unrhyw un sy'n dioddef i wneud rhywbeth - ceisio cael cyngor proffesiynol, dweud wrth bobl amdano, peidio ei guddio, peidio dweud celwydd amdano," meddai.
"Mae hynny'n gam cyntaf grêt."
Week In Week Out, Nigel Owens: Bulimia and Me, BBC One Wales, 20:30nos Lun, 23 Gorffennaf. | Mae ymchwiliad gan BBC Cymru wedi darganfod bod llai yn cael ei wario ar wasanaethau i drin pobl gydag anhwylderau bwyta yng Nghymru nag yn Lloegr. |
37,435,356 | Whoever wins at Lord's will be crowned champions, while Somerset - who beat Nottinghamshire - will win their first title if the match is drawn or tied.
Tim Bresnan (142 not out) and Ryan Sidebottom guided Yorkshire to the four batting bonus points required to ensure a Yorkshire win would secure the title, regardless of Somerset's result.
Middlesex closed on 81-2, 39 behind.
The home side had been reduced to 2-2, but first-innings centurion Nick Gubbins and Dawid Malan remained unbeaten through to the close.
Earlier, the hosts missed opportunities to take control of the match in the morning session as Yorkshire's Azeem Rafiq was dropped twice on his way to 65.
Bresnan reached his hundred off 222 balls but he started to run out of partners, and last man Sidebottom was required to help the visitors past the pivotal figure of 350.
The pair came together at 334-9 and added 56 to forge a 120-run lead.
A rain shower took the players off with Yorkshire 349-9, and spinner Ollie Rayner bowled a brilliant maiden over after the hour-long break before Sidebottom struck a boundary off Toby Roland-Jones.
The home side's response to Yorkshire's 390 began dreadfully as Sam Robson edged to Alex Lees off Sidebottom for a second duck in the match.
Brooks then bowled Nick Compton for one, with Middlesex trailing by 118, before Gubbins and Malan led the recovery.
Yorkshire coach Jason Gillespie told BBC Radio Leeds: "Tim Bresnan did wonderfully well. It's one of the best knocks I've seen by a Yorkshire player during my time here. Take into account the situation and what was at stake - it was an incredibly disciplined knock.
"People questioned the decision to bat him at five, but the reality is he's been one of our most consistent batsmen of the summer. It allowed us to play a fifth seamer and we could attack because we knew we needed to take 20 wickets here to win the match.
"We know Somerset have won and we've got work to do, and both sides here at Lord's know they've got to win if they want to win the title. It's going to be a fascinating and massively entertaining final day." | Yorkshire's fighting third-day display against title rivals Middlesex kept alive their County Championship hopes. |
35,408,327 | The virus has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains and has been spreading on a massive scale in the Americas.
UK officials say women can talk with health professionals about the risks.
If travel is unavoidable, they should take precautions to avoid bites from mosquitoes that spread the disease.
Women planning to become pregnant should also be wary, says the National Travel Health Network and Centre.
Any pregnant woman who has recently travelled to a country where Zika is known to occur should tell their doctor or midwife.
The UK Foreign Office says people can search its website by country or territory to find out the latest situation.
The World Health Organization says the virus is likely to spread across nearly all of the Americas, apart from Canada and Chile.
Three Britons have already contracted the virus after travelling to South and Central America.
A spokeswoman from UK travel organisation Abta said women reconsidering their plans would be able to get a medical certificate from their family doctor in order to claim on insurance.
US experts at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention say insect repellents containing active ingredients, such as DEET and picaridin, are safe for pregnant and breastfeeding women.
To lower the risk of infections spread by mosquitoes, pregnant women should use insect repellants, stay indoors during peak times of mosquito activity (usually dawn and dusk) and wear protective clothing (such as long-sleeve shirts, long pants, and socks).
Zika is transmitted by the Aedes mosquitoes. The infection often occurs without symptoms but can cause an illness similar to dengue.
Symptoms include:
Patients usually get better on their own, but the big concern is the damage the virus might do to an unborn child.
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33,913,322 | Now Chris Buck, the director of Frozen and Tarzan, has got Disney fans talking by saying he thinks Anna and Elsa's parents were shipwrecked on an island, where they had a baby boy, Tarzan.
In an interview with MTV News, Buck said that although the movies are not officially linked, in his mind he sees Tarzan as being Anna and Elsa from Frozen's little brother!
The director also said: "I say, whatever people want to believe, go for it. If you want to tie them all together, then do it!"
Here are a few of our favourite (unofficial) fan theories...
Continuing the family theme, Rapunzel and Eugene are very clearly seen arriving at Elsa's coronation in Frozen. Considering they don't live in Arendelle, as Tangled is set in Germany, some people think they must be on the VIP invite list. There are also a few family similarities - both Rapunzel and Elsa are blonde and both have powers that look pretty but are kind of weird. (Glowing magic hair? Snowmaker hands?)
If Elsa and Anna's parents' ship capsized, some think that could have been right around Atlantica, where Ariel lives. And their ship does look suspiciously like the one Ariel explored in The Little Mermaid...
Not only do they look alike and both love the colour yellow, but consider this: In a scene in Tarzan, Terk is drumming on a tea set. The pot looks suspiciously like Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast (one of the teacups even appears to have a small chip). Some think that could mean that it was an heirloom passed down from great-great-great-grandma Belle.
This one is super complicated. It involves time travel and a whole bunch of magic, but basically, Boo learned how to travel through doors from Sully and Mike in Monsters, Inc. and some think when she grows up, she wants to find Sully again, so she time travels through doors to the time period of Brave. Why? Because she wants to understand the magical whisps, thinking they'll bring her back to Sully. While she's there, she takes up wood carving, which explains why she has a carving of Sully. It also explains why every time the door closes, the witch (AKA Boo) disappears. | Animation movie fans have many theories about how characters and plotlines from different films might just magically overlap. |
20,230,338 | Mr Hemingway, his wife Gerardine, and the HemingwayDesign team will create the overall scheme and branding for the disused Dreamland site in Margate.
It is hoped that stage one of the project to turn the site into a £10m heritage park will open in 2014.
Mr Hemingway said he was "excited about bringing a new vibrant life to an iconic British seaside institution".
"Having visited Margate over the past few months and seen the grassroots creative revolution that is taking place, we are thrilled, nay cock a hoop, at the potential of the place and can't wait to get stuck in," he said.
"We fully understand the scale of the task but with the creative community of Margate and environs we can deliver something of international significance."
The park will be run by the Dreamland Trust, which will be given the site by Thanet District Council for a peppercorn rent.
Chairman Nick Laister said he had no doubt HemingwayDesign would bring the trust's proposals for the site to life, exceeding its expectations.
"Wayne and Gerardine and their team have a genuine passion for the British seaside and for the Dreamland Margate project," he said.
"I am delighted to welcome them on to our team."
The heritage amusement park is seen as vital in the regeneration of Margate, along with the Turner Contemporary art gallery which opened further along the seafront last year. | Wayne Hemingway has been announced as the designer for the revival of a historic theme park in Kent. |
27,416,905 | State Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem has said more than one judge should have a chance to review the law.
The law bans abortions after a foetal heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks into pregnancy.
In April, District Judge Daniel Hovland found the law "invalid and unconstitutional".
"The United States Supreme Court has spoken and has unequivocally said no state may deprive a woman of the choice to terminate her pregnancy at a point prior to viability," Judge Hovland wrote in his ruling.
The US Supreme Court ruled in the landmark Roe v Wade decision of 1973 that abortion must be legal until a foetus is viable, typically 22-24 weeks.
"The legislature passed the law in hopes that a higher court would revisit the issue," Mr Stenehjem said in a statement to the Associated Press news agency.
"It seems prudent that an appellate court should have an opportunity to consider the issue rather than have one judge overturn the judgment of the legislative assembly."
The case will now be heard by the US 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
North Dakota's anti-abortion law was one of four such bills Republican Governor Jack Dalrymple signed into law in 2013.
The state's sole abortion clinic and the Center for Reproductive Rights sued to overturn the law and a US district judge ruled in April.
"The court was correct to call this law exactly what it is - a blatant violation of the constitutional guarantees afforded to all women," Center for Reproductive Rights president Nancy Northrup wrote in a statement after the April ruling. | North Dakota has appealed against a US judge's ruling striking down the state's "foetal heartbeat" abortion ban, the strictest in the country. |
34,384,668 | It hopes to prevent "unconscious bias" and tap a more diverse "talent pool".
For next year's recruitment round for 1,500 graduates and school leavers, an algorithm will consider "contextual" information alongside academic results.
It will take into account disadvantages such as attending an under-performing school or coming from a deprived area.
As an example, Deloitte says an applicant getting three B grades at A-level could be seen as "exceptional" if the average for their school was three D grades.
There will be a "university-blind" approach to selection, so that the name of the university attended will not be known.
The aim is to find students with "potential" and to prevent the recruitment process producing an intake from a narrow range of universities and social backgrounds.
"Improving social mobility is one of the UK's biggest challenges," said David Sproul, senior partner and chief executive of Deloitte UK.
But Mr Sproul said there was also a "business imperative", as firms needed "to hire people who think and innovate differently, come from a variety of backgrounds and bring a range of perspectives".
The move by Deloitte is the latest in a wave of changes by graduate recruiters wanting to look beyond academic results.
Ernst and Young has scrapped a requirement for school leavers to have the equivalent of three B grades at A-level or graduates to have an upper second class degree.
The accountancy firm will remove all academic and education details from its application process.
PricewaterhouseCoopers earlier this year also announced that it would stop using A-levels grades as a threshold for selecting graduate recruits. | Professional services firm Deloitte has changed its selection process so recruiters do not know where candidates went to school or university. |
38,828,061 | The group advertised the pets - which they sold to unsuspecting members of the public for an average of £450 - as "home-reared".
They handled about 750 puppies as part of the "sophisticated enterprise" which was worth up to £500,000, a court heard.
Each gang member was given a suspended jail sentence at Basildon Crown Court.
Teresa Wade, 57, Victoria Montgomery, 54, her daughter Roxanne Montgomery, 33, and Tony Hammond, 34, were convicted in October.
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During sentencing, Judge David Owen-Jones heard how the animals had been advertised online as being home-reared but were actually kept in cages in dark sheds.
Three of the dogs died, four more were put to sleep and others suffered serious health problems.
One of the dogs was "vomiting worms", some of its fur fell out and it had blood in its faeces, the court heard.
Since their conviction, the court heard, Wade had been involved in a car crash while Victoria Montgomery was not present at the sentencing as she was in hospital.
Judge Owen-Jones said: "It is my view that immediate custody threshold was passed but I cannot ignore the domestic and health issues."
Wade, 57, of Ship Lane, Aveley, Essex, was sentenced to 21 months in prison suspended for two years.
Victoria Montgomery received a 15-month jail term suspended for two years. Both were curfews from 8pm to 7am monitored by electronic tag.
Roxanne Montgomery, 33, of Grafton Road, Dagenham, Essex, and Tony Hammond, 35, of Brunswick Avenue, Upminster, Essex, were both sentenced to nine months in prison suspended for two years.
They were ordered to complete 120 hours of unpaid work.
All four defendants were ordered to pay £500 each in costs. | A gang of puppy farmers which sold hundreds of dogs kept inside cages on a farm has been spared jail. |
34,660,620 | Stephen Packer said former heads of Park View Academy in Birmingham did not act on the comment by Abid Ali.
Hardeep Saini and Monzoor (Moz) Hussain said they did not recall Mr Packer telling them about the remark.
They both deny unacceptable professional conduct at a teaching tribunal being held in Coventry.
The alleged comment did not to refer to terrorist group Islamic State, the National Council for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) panel agreed.
The tribunal heard Mr Ali failed to act when told of pupils refusing to be taught by a gay teacher, allegedly responding "well as Muslims, that's what we believe".
Mr Packer told the panel: "I spoke to Mr Saini about the concerns I had in relation to Abid Ali, particularly in relation to his homosexual comments and the fact that he had expressed that he wanted an Islamic state.
"Both Mr Saini and I spoke to Mr (Moz) Hussain, however I am not aware that any formal action was taken against Mr Ali."
Also accused of unacceptable professional conduct are:
All were employed at Park View Educational Trust (PVET) schools.
It is alleged that on or before 31 March last year teachers agreed to "the inclusion of an undue amount of religious influence in the education of pupils" at Park View Educational Trust (PVET).
It is claimed the PVET was at the heart of anonymous allegations, called Operation Trojan Horse, of a plot by hardline Muslims to take over several city schools.
The allegations of a co-ordinated plot - now widely believed to be a hoax - later triggered four official investigations, including one by the Department for Education.
In further evidence, the head of geography at Park View Academy denied making racial and religious slurs against the Pakistani community.
It is also alleged the woman - referred to only as Witness A - made a derogatory comment about a male Sikh staff member at the school.
She said she had "never" made any of the comments as she gave evidence against five former senior teachers.
All the teachers deny any wrongdoing. The hearing continues. | A teacher at a school linked to the Trojan Horse affair said he "wanted an Islamic state," according to a former vice principal. |
35,051,845 | It blames a "failure of leadership" at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
It says the deaths of mental health and learning-disability patients were not properly examined.
Southern Health said it "fully accepted" the quality of processes for investigating and reporting a death needed to be better, but had improved.
The trust is one of the country's largest mental health trusts, covering Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire and providing services to about 45,000 people.
The investigation, commissioned by NHS England and carried out by Mazars, a large audit firm, looked at all deaths at the trust between April 2011 and March 2015.
During that period, it found 10,306 people had died.
Most were expected. However, 1,454 were not.
Of those, 272 were treated as critical incidents, of which just 195 - 13% - were treated by the trust as a serious incident requiring investigation (SIRI).
The likelihood of an unexpected death being investigated depended hugely on the type of patient.
The most likely group to see an investigation was adults with mental health problems, where 30% were investigated.
For those with learning disability the figure was 1%, and among over-65s with mental health problems it was just 0.3%.
The average age at death of those with a learning disability was 56 - over seven years younger than the national average.
Even when investigations were carried out, they were of a poor quality and often extremely late, the NHS England report says.
Repeated criticisms from coroners about the timeliness and usefulness of reports provided for inquests by Southern Health failed to improve performance, while there was often little effort to engage with the families of the deceased.
The reasons for the failures, says the report, lie squarely with senior executives and the trust board.
There was no "effective" management of deaths or investigations or "effective focus or leadership from the board", it says.
Even when the board did ask relevant questions, the report says, they were constantly reassured by executives that processes were robust and investigations thorough.
But the Mazars investigators said: "This is contrary to our findings."
The culture of Southern Health, which has been led by Katrina Percy since it was created in 2011, "results in lost learning, a lack of transparency when care problems occur, as well as lack of assurance to families that a death was not avoidable and has been properly investigated," the report says.
The report was ordered in 2013, after Connor Sparrowhawk, 18, drowned in a bath following an epileptic seizure while a patient in a Southern Health hospital in Oxford.
An independent investigation said his death had been preventable, and an inquest jury found neglect by the trust had contributed to his death.
Responding to the report's findings, Connor's mother, Sara Ryan, said the entire leadership of Southern Health had to go.
She said: "There is no reason why in 2015 a report like this should come out. It's a total scandal. It just sickens me."
The report's authors, who spent months looking into how Southern Health failed to investigate so many deaths, seem to concur.
They say: "We have little confidence that the trust has fully recognised the need for it to improve its reporting and investigation of deaths."
In response, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust said it accepted its processes "had not always been up to the high standards our patients, their families and carers deserve.
"However, we have already made substantial improvements in this area over a sustained period of time."
It added: "These issues are not unique to the trust and we welcome the opportunity to shine a spotlight on this important area.
"Though the trust continues to challenge the draft report's interpretation of the evidence, our focus and priority is on continuing to improve the services we provide for our patients."
It said that when the final report was published by NHS England, it would review the recommendations and make any further changes necessary.
An NHS England spokesman said: "We commissioned an independent report because it was clear that there are significant concerns.
"We are determined that, for the sake of past, present and future patients and their families, all the issues should be forensically examined and any lessons clearly identified and acted upon."
It added: "The final full independent report will be published as soon as possible, and all the agencies involved stand ready to take appropriate action."
Norman Lamb, who was the care minister in the coalition government, said the findings were shocking: "You end up with a sense that these lives are regarded somehow as slightly less important than others and there can be no second class citizens in our NHS.
"The thought is just horrifying and there have to be some answers from the trust." | The NHS has failed to investigate the unexpected deaths of more than 1,000 people since 2011, according to a report obtained by BBC News. |
19,665,625 | MakerBot Industries, best known for its small 3D printers, has opened a shop in Manhattan through which it will aim to sell the joys of home fabrication to the general public.
The store opening comes as MakerBot releases the second incarnation of its Replicator 3D printer.
The Replicator 2.0 works to much finer resolutions than earlier versions and can fabricate much bigger objects.
MakerBot said the store, the first of its kind, would act as a showcase for 3D printing and stage demonstrations and workshops for those who were curious about the technology.
3D printing involves building up objects layer by layer out of plastic that is melted and fed via a carefully controlled nozzle to form a shape. The printers were initially used in engineering and design firms to produce and refine prototypes.
Now many home hackers, makers and artists use 3D printers to turn out their own customised creations. Examples include model soldiers, cases for home electronic projects, and furniture for dolls' houses.
Bre Pettis said the Replicator 2.0 was aimed at the "prosumer" - either a design professional or a hardcore hobbyist. The device costs $2,199 (£1,360) and builds objects up in layers only 100 microns thick. In previous versions, each layer was about 270 microns thick.
Mat Fordy, founder and boss of coolcomponents.co.uk that sells 3D printers and other home hacking gear, said the technology was proving popular.
"We've really seen the affordable 3D printer market in the UK explode over the last couple of years," he told the BBC. "Many types of people use them, not just professionals, but people who have an idea that they need to touch and hold."
He said the new MakerBot was a great looking piece of kit but supply problems had made it hard to get hold of.
"They never seem to have enough to go around, and that puts a lot of people off," he said. "Other excellent printers are in ready supply, and many people just give up waiting and get one of those instead." | The gospel about 3D printing is being taken to the streets of New York. |
35,504,189 | Indictments have been served on former Rangers owner Craig Whyte and ex-chief executive Charles Green.
Lawyer Gary Withey also faces charges along with David Whitehouse, Paul Clark and David Grier, who all worked for administrators Duff and Phelps.
The remaining nine charges are being heard at a preliminary hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Among the allegations dropped by the Crown was a charge that the joint administrators, David Whitehouse and Paul Clark, attempted to pervert the course of justice.
Prosecutors also withdrew a charge that the pair, along with Mr Whyte, Mr Withey and Mr Grier, agreed to do something that they knew or suspected or ought reasonably to have known or suspected would enable or further the commission of serious organised crime.
Mr Whitehouse, 50, Mr Clark, 51, were also taken out of an amended charge which now alleges that Mr Whyte, 45, Mr Withey, 51, and Mr Grier, 54, conspired together between 1 January in 2010 and 6 May in 2011 to obtain a controlling stake in the shareholding of the Ibrox club.
A further charge alleging that Mr Whyte, Mr Whitehouse, Mr Clark and Mr Green, 62, participated in a conspiracy to buy the business and assets of The Rangers Football Club plc in 2012 from the administrators at significantly below the true market value was also dropped.
Mr Whyte bought Rangers from Sir David Murray in 2011 for a nominal sum of £1 but it went into administration the following year.
A consortium led by Charles Green later bought Rangers' assets. | Prosecutors have withdrawn six of 15 charges brought against six men in the alleged Rangers fraud case. |
37,510,037 | Investment firm Greybull Capital bought Tata's Long Products Europe division in Scunthorpe for £1 in April.
Executive chairman Roland Junck said: "We have... returned the business to profitability in our first 100 days as an independent company.
"These results are testament to the hard work of our employees."
He said the company had completed the first stage of its turnaround plan which includes efficiency and cost-cutting measures, 270 new employees and a £50m capital investment.
The firm, with 4,800 employees, produces more than 2.8m tonnes of steel every year and has been working with new and existing customers, including Caterpillar, Toyota and Network Rail.
As well as its steelworks in Scunthorpe it has sites in Teesside, Workington and York.
"The transformation of our business will make sure we maintain the pace of growth and move forward as an outward-looking profit-making business," Mr Junck said.
"But while our future remains firmly in our hands, the UK steel industry still faces many challenges."
The industry was at a disadvantage compared with European rivals and Britain's decision to leave the European Union had not made things any easier, he said.
"There are differences which handicap the UK in terms of business rates, energy prices. If I had this plant in Germany we'd be in a much better condition." | The company which revived the British Steel brand says it is on track to return to profit this financial year after being sold by India's Tata Steel. |
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The Dutchman will become the youngest F1 driver in history when he competes in next year's championship.
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Verstappen, who turns 17 next month, currently races in Formula Three.
"I'm a relaxed guy. I will handle it," Verstappen, who will replace Jean-Eric Vergne at Toro Rosso, told the BBC.
Verstappen is the son of former Formula 1 driver Jos, 42, who contested 106 grands prix for teams such as Benetton and Tyrrell between 1994 and 2003.
Max Verstappen will break the record for F1's youngest ever driver by almost two years when he lines up for his debut next year.
Spain's Jaime Alguersuari - who was 19 years and 125 days when he raced in Hungary, also for Toro Rosso, in 2009 - is the current record holder. Alguersuari left Torro Rosso and F1 at the end of the 2011 season.
The youngest driver to earn a Championship point is Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat, who was 19 when he finished ninth in this season's opening race in Australia. The Russian will be Verstappen's team-mate in 2015.
Verstappen was a successful kart racer before driving for Van Amersfoort Racing in this year's Formula Three Championship.
He made an impressive transition to F3, winning six consecutive races at one stage, and has eight victories in 27 races so far this season, leaving him second to Frenchman Esteban Ocon in the overall standings.
Although he will graduate to F1 with fewer than 40 single-seater races under his belt, it is not unheard of for drivers to make the step up to the top level of the sport with such low levels of experience.
Finland's Kimi Raikkonen had only contested 23 single-seater races when he graduated to F1 in 2001. He went on to become world champion in 2007 and is a 20-time grand prix winner.
Verstappen is not fazed by his fast-track progress and believes the hardest transition has already been made.
"I think the biggest step I had was karting to F3. I think F3 to F1 will be a smaller step," he told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I'm not that worried about it. The cars are a really safe. I think it's more dangerous to bike through a big city than race in an F1 car."
Verstappen's F3 team boss also believes he can succeed.
"It is a huge step but I think if anyone can do it, it's Max," Frits van Amersfoort told the BBC. "I've never seen a kid that age who is so calm and so relaxed. He has incredible feeling with the car.
"Time will tell and it's a huge step, but I think Max is capable of doing it. He will need some guidance and Toro Rosso will give him that for sure."
By joining Red Bull's junior team, Verstappen is following the same career path as four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel and his Red Bull team-mate, Australian Daniel Ricciardo.
BBC 5 live correspondent James Allen said Verstappen might have the necessary requirements to race in F1 but that some drivers would be concerned at sharing the grid with a 17-year-old.
"The governing body, the FIA, has to award a super licence and you can't race a Formula 1 car until you've got a super licence," Allen explained.
"The minimum requirement for that is some victories in certain important feeder categories.
"Verstappen ticks the boxes, so he is eligible for a super licence, but I think there will be quite a debate this weekend at the Belgian GP."
The ousted Vergne, 24, has collected 11 points for Toro Rosso this season after making his F1 debut for the team in 2012.
The Frenchman wrote on Twitter: "Toro Rosso is a good school. I learnt a lot. Now focused on a great end of season.
"I'm already working for 2015. Still a lot to show in F1." | Sixteen-year-old Max Verstappen insists it is "more dangerous to bike through a big city than race in an F1 car" after being signed up to drive for Toro Rosso. |
33,166,540 | Syed Choudhury, 19, from the Grangetown area of the city, was arrested last December.
The Cardiff and Vale College student spoke only to confirm his name, and to admit engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
Originally from Bradford, Choudhury was living with his aunt in Cardiff.
The court heard how in July last year, Choudhury took part in a demonstration in Cardiff protesting about the conflict in Gaza.
He carried a banner proclaiming his support for Islamic State which brought him to the attention of anti-terrorism officers.
Prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse QC said in the weeks following the demonstration, Choudhury accessed websites about travelling to Syria and another one that was entitled "10 reasons to join ISIS".
Ms Whitehouse said he also downloaded images that showed his active interest in extremism and had conversations on social media about travelling to Turkey and Syria to fight.
Choudhury was arrested last December and during interview he repeatedly said he supported IS and that he would be happy to kill non-believers under Islamic State rule.
He was due to go on trial on Wednesday at the Old Bailey, but changed his plea after the jury had been sworn in.
In mitigation, defence barrister Abdul Iqbal said Choudhury did not appreciate the complexities of Middle East politics and he had been deeply influenced by older men in the Cardiff area who he considered to be more learned than him.
Mr Iqbal said the defendant was immature, "not the most academically capable" and had showed "immaturity and a lack of sophistication".
Judge Peter Rook QC adjourned proceedings until 7 July for a pre-sentence report to be compiled.
"It is quite clear you wanted to travel to Syria and join IS and the only reason you had not is because you had not found someone you trusted to travel with," he said.
The judge said a custodial sentence would be passed and the issue of "dangerousness" would be considered. | A Cardiff man who planned to travel to Syria to fight with Islamic State has pleaded guilty to a terror charge at the Old Bailey. |
36,021,403 | Greg Halford gave the hosts an early lead with a deflected strike from close range after Town failed to clear a corner.
Nahki Wells levelled when his low shot went under the dive of keeper Lee Camp.
Rotherham, nine points clear of the relegation zone with three games to play, need only one point to secure a third straight season in the division.
They were lucky to claim a point at the New York Stadium, with Huddersfield dominating the second half.
The Terriers host Birmingham City on Saturday, while Rotherham face Wolves. | Rotherham all but guaranteed their Championship safety with a draw against Huddersfield. |
40,491,874 | The victim, 17, was left blind in one eye after he was hunted down by three youths at Riverside College, Widnes, in December following a "trivial" scuffle.
Michael Jones, 18, of Widnes, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent and pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon.
He has been detained for nine years.
Seventeen-year-old Jamie Grimes, who had "bad blood" with the victim, admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent and was detained for five years for his part in the attack.
He denied knowing that Jones had the scissors, which was accepted by the prosecution.
Lewis Connor, 18, of Lune Way, Widnes, who was also with the pair, was given a 12-month community order after admitting putting a person in fear of violence.
Judge Neil Flewitt QC told the trio there was "no justification or excuse" for the "appalling" attack.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the victim, who has undergone four operations, may yet lose the eye itself and feels his "whole life has been destroyed".
The court heard the trio went from classroom to classroom hunting for their target following an altercation between him and Grimes.
When they found him in his maths class, the door was locked but the teacher Ken Wong heard a loud bang and the defendants burst in.
Grimes, of Steward's Avenue, Widnes, threw "forceful punches" on the boy before Jones, of Caldwell Road, stabbed him in the eye, chest and hand with decorating scissors in front of horrified pupils.
All three boys then fled.
Judge Flewitt, QC said Jones "has a propensity for violence... and for carrying serious weapons".
"You are clearly and will continue to be for some time a dangerous young man," he said.
On sentencing Grimes, the judge said it was "your fight... and you whipped up that group to look for the victim".
"You set loose the mayhem that followed," he added.
In an impact statement, the victim said he had given up his college course, lost his friends and was conscious of his appearance and feared that he would never work again.
Insp Chris Adkins, of Cheshire Police said it was a "pre-meditated, extremely violent attack, leaving the victim with horrific life-changing injuries". | A "dangerous" teenager who blinded a student by repeatedly stabbing him with scissors in front of his teacher and classmates has been detained. |
36,442,521 | Families had expressed concerns that they would not be given a free copy of the 12-volume report, due on 6 July.
However, Number 10 said: "There is no question of families of service personnel who died in Iraq having to pay for copies of the Chilcot report."
Next-of-kin were due to get a free hard copy of the £30 executive summary.
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But relatives, who have been waiting seven years for the long-awaited publication, had reacted angrily to the news that they would not get a free hard copy of the full report, which will be free online.
Earlier, Roger Bacon, whose son was killed in Iraq, told the Telegraph it was "ridiculous and very unfair".
"Where do they think the families are going to get the funds from to do that? This is big money for most people. We are not corporations or government organisations, we are ordinary people," he said.
"To be expected to pay that amount of money for a report that has had an enormous effect on all of us is really not on.
"To deal with something like this you need to have something you can hold and read. It is offensive to expect us to cough up that amount of money."
Rose Gentle, whose son Fusilier Gordon Gentle was killed in a bomb attack in Basra in 2004, aged 19, told the Press Association news agency it was "disgusting".
"Why should we have to pay - have we not paid enough times with the lives of our sons?" Mrs Gentle, from Glasgow, said.
"The families should get a free copy of this, we have paid the cost with their deaths...
"Why doesn't Tony Blair say 'I will pay for it', because he has got enough money."
Families have also been invited to attend inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot's public statement when the report is published and will be able to read an embargoed copy.
The inquiry was announced by former prime minister Gordon Brown in June 2009. The last public hearing took place in February 2011.
There are a number of reasons why it has dragged out so long.
But the main reason for the delay was the long tussle between the inquiry and the government over which classified material could be published alongside the report, or referred to in it.
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Shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry said it was "beyond insulting" that families of the bereaved would have to pay for a hard copy of the full version.
She said: "In the great scheme of things this is not a great deal of money and we have expected these brave men and women to put their lives on the line for our country.
"The least we could do is to give their families a proper full report."
Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said he had written to the Ministry of Defence asking that free hard copies of the report be made available to the families on request.
He said: "It is unbelievable that after all these years of waiting, of stalling and uncertainty, we now find out that the families will have to pay for a copy of the report.
"Families who have waited years, mothers and fathers who have fought to have this report see the light of day, should not have to pay for this."
The inquiry was set up in 2009 by then prime minister Gordon Brown to examine the lead-up to the invasion, from the summer of 2001 up until the withdrawal of the main body of British troops.
The report's long-awaited publication follows 130 sessions of oral evidence, the testimony of more than 150 witnesses and is more than 2.5 million words long.
The inquiry has analysed more than 150,000 government documents as well as other material related to the invasion. | Family members of British soldiers who died in the Iraq war will not have to pay £767 for copies of the Chilcot report, Downing Street has said. |
38,578,004 | The German car maker also said it would plead guilty to breaking certain US laws.
VW said it was in advanced discussions with the Department of Justice and US Customs about the deal.
The final agreement has yet to be approved by VW's management and supervisory board, which could happen later on Tuesday or Wednesday.
VW said it had negotiated a "concrete draft" of a settlement with US authorities that included criminal and civil fines totalling $4.3bn, as well as appointing an independent monitor for the next three years.
The $4.3bn fine means that the total costs associated with the emissions cheating scandal are set to exceed the $19.2bn the company has set aside to deal with the issue.
VW has already agreed to a $15bn civil settlement with environmental authorities and car owners in the US.
The scandal erupted in September 2015 when the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that many VW cars sold in America had a "defeat device" - or software - in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested and adjust the performance accordingly to improve results.
The German car giant subsequently admitted cheating emissions tests in the US and many countries throughout the world, including the UK.
Arndt Ellinghorst, head of global automotive research at Evercore ISI, said the draft settlement was good news for VW and would "draw a line under all remaining US-related legal risk".
It was important that VW had "managed to come to an agreement that allows the company to move on", he said, adding: "It's a major relief that this doesn't get dragged into the new US administration."
Mr Ellinghorst expected the company to increase its provisions for diesel-related costs by up to €3bn to as much as €21bn.
On Monday it emerged that VW executives knew about emissions cheating two months before the scandal broke, but chose not to tell US regulators, according to court papers.
The bosses involved include Oliver Schmidt, who was in charge of VW's US environmental regulatory compliance office from 2012 until March 2015.
On Monday he was charged with conspiracy to defraud and has been remanded ahead of a court appearance on Thursday. | Volkswagen has agreed a draft $4.3bn (£3.5bn) settlement with US authorities over the emissions-rigging scandal. |
34,798,447 | Somerset CCC, Gloucestershire CCC and the University of Exeter have joined forces for their bid, with home games played at several South West venues.
Lancashire confirmed their interest in July but have now asked to be involved in the T20 tournament next summer.
There were 28 bids made to the England and Wales Cricket Board by August.
"Our objective is to play matches at Taunton, Bristol and other venues around the region," said Somerset chief executive Guy Lavender in a statement.
"We not only want to produce an outstanding team but also to use this as a vehicle to engage more participation for women and girls right across the region."
Lancashire Cricket Board vice-chairman Bobby Cross added: "This is an unprecedented period in the development of the game in this country.
"We see WCSL as a fantastic opportunity to explore the potential for the next generation of young cricketers to push the boundaries and to give the national side a bigger pool of talented players challenging for places."
Hampshire's Ageas Bowl has also confirmed it is bidding to host a side in the inaugural Twenty20 event next season.
An announcement regarding the successful bids is expected by the end of January 2016. | A South West consortium and Lancashire are both bidding to host one of the six teams that will form the new Women's Super League in 2016. |
32,705,720 | Printed in 1611 and known as the "Great She Bible", it is one of the earliest known copies of the King James Version (KJV) of the Christian holy book.
It will be displayed at St Mary's Parish Church in Gisburn on Saturday.
The Reverend Anderson Jeremiah and the Reverend Alexander Baker found the old book following their appointment at the church last August.
It is called a "She Bible" because Chapter 3, Verse 15 of the Book of Ruth mistakenly reads: "She went into the city".
Thought to be typographical mistake, this verse was changed from another KJV edition which said "He".
The Bible has been assessed and authenticated by the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association.
Only a handful of the "She Bibles" still exist. Oxford and Cambridge Universities have one, as do Salisbury, Exeter and Durham cathedrals.
The historical significance of the Bible was not highlighted in the parish records so it was stored in a cupboard at the back of the church.
Mr Baker said: "It was a really exciting thing to discover - it looks just like something out of Harry Potter.
"One of the wonderful things about worshipping in a church as old as ours is the sense of history that oozes from its walls and discovering the treasures it has to offer.
"But we were stunned to discover a treasure as rare as this. We knew as soon as we saw the date of the New Testament it was a significant find."
Dr Jeremiah added: "It's amazing to think we are able to hold a book printed as the direct result of the command of King James 400 years ago."
"This English language version of the Bible was created to encourage ordinary people to discover the Good News of Jesus Christ for themselves and it is likely that it was the book that first took God's word into many people's homes in this part of Lancashire.
"Now we hope to encourage the people of Lancashire and elsewhere to visit our church and discover this Bible for themselves." | A rare 400-year-old Bible worth about £50,000 has been discovered in a Lancashire village church. |
39,363,065 | Pre-tax profit at the clothing and homeware retailer dropped 5.5% from £836.1m to £790.2m last year.
The firm, which had already warned profits would fall, said it remained "extremely cautious" about trading.
It said shoppers were shifting their spending away from clothing, at the same time as inflation was rising and incomes were being squeezed.
The profit drop in 2016 was the first for the retailer since the financial crisis of 2008.
Despite the fall, investors sent Next shares 8% higher in early trading in London.
Richard Hunter, head of research at Wilson King Investment Management, said investors were pleased with growth in the directory business and further details on a special dividend.
Sales at Next's online and catalogue business rose 4% to £1.7bn. But the retailer said shoppers continued to shift away from the High Street, as sales at its bricks-and-mortar business fell 3% to £2.3bn.
Next chairman John Barton said: "Trading conditions in the year ahead will continue to be tough, however I believe that by focusing on our core strengths, as we did during 2008, we will see Next emerge from this period stronger than before."
Next has "had a remarkable record of out-performing its main competitors", especially M&S, in the past eight years, said Bryan Roberts of retail consultancy TCC Global.
But the "general malaise" for retailers is now catching up with them, Mr Roberts told the BBC.
"We're spending less money on things and more on experiences or leisure," he said, adding that rising inflation and slowing growth in wages was also putting retailers under pressure.
There was also a "bit of an admission of guilt from Next" that they were "chasing the more fashionable end of the market and neglecting some of their core, mainstream ranges", he said.
Next said that by focusing energy on "adopting exciting new trends" it had omitted some of its "best-selling, heartland product from our ranges".
It said this would improve in the summer ranges, but added "we will not have our ranges where we want them until the autumn season".
Among the other challenges it was facing, Next warned that price inflation, which it attributed to the fall in sterling, might not ease until the second half of 2018.
It also said that with more and more shoppers going online, it was "legitimate to question the long term viability of retail stores".
Chief executive Lord Wolfson said: "The year ahead looks set to be another tough year for Next.
"We remain clear on our priorities going forward. We will continue to focus on improving the company's product, marketing, services, stores and cost control." | Next has reported its first fall in annual profit for eight years and warned of "another tough year ahead". |
37,038,387 | An investigation into the seven-hour blaze at the Regent Superbowl and the indoor market on Friday is ongoing.
Fire investigators have confirmed it started through an electrical circuit or item.
Phil Thompson, who has run the market for four years, said it was a "relief" to know it was not started on purpose.
He said: "You're thinking the worst of everything, someone getting in and doing something but obviously that's not the case which is lovely, absolutely brilliant.
"But for a freezer to cause this devastation is absolutely terrible."
Mr Thompson said the ice cream freezer was on the first floor of the bowling alley.
He said CCTV footage shows the appliance going up in flames - but a spokesman for Norfolk Fire and Rescue service said the findings of the investigation were yet to be confirmed.
The blaze left 42 businesses at the indoor market homeless.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council is hosting a drop-in sessions on Thursday to hear what the traders need to operate.
Councillor Penny Carpenter, deputy leader of the council, said: "As a council we need to speak to the traders personally on a one-to-one to see exactly what their requirements are going to be and how we can assist them."
She said the council had been in contact with the liquidators of the BHS store to see if the newly-vacated property could be used as temporary premises.
At the blaze's height, the pillar of smoke billowing from the country's oldest working bowling alley could be seen up to 11 miles away.
Eighty firefighters worked to tackle it and spent hours damping down.
It is thought it could cost £1m to clear the site. | The owner of Great Yarmouth's indoor market has said the fire which destroyed the building may have started in an ice cream freezer. |
36,879,742 | Not satisfied with the inevitable psychological blow to title rival Nico Rosberg that must have come with the knowledge that Hamilton had gained 49 points on him in just six races, the world champion openly undermined his Mercedes team-mate in the post-race news conference. While sitting right next to him.
And after sitting listening to it, Rosberg waded right in there himself.
The argument was about the events of qualifying, when Hamilton had lost out on pole to Rosberg on Saturday in controversial circumstances.
Hamilton was far from the only driver who felt stewards had been wrong in allowing Rosberg to keep the lap time that was set while double-waved yellow flags - the highest caution warning before a safety car - were being displayed.
Despite that, he said at the time he was "not too disappointed", while adding that he felt the situation needed clarifying.
But the incident clearly still rankled after the race.
"The stewards need to come up with some kind of solution because the whole 23 years of my racing, it has been 'if it's yellow flag, you slow down' and if it's double yellow flag, you be prepared to stop and Nico was doing the same speed at the apex as I was doing on the previous timed lap," Hamilton said, as Rosberg sat, face like thunder, alongside him.
"If there happened to be a car that was spun or a marshal on the track, it would have been pretty hard for him to have slowed down in that case.
"And the fact that he didn't get penalised for it means that we need to be careful because the message we're sending not only to the drivers here but also to the drivers in the lower categories is that it's now possible for you to lose only one 10th of a second in a double-waved yellow flag section, which is one of the most dangerous scenarios.
"They need to clear that up because before it was two-tenths that you were meant to lose with one yellow flag and half a second with two yellow flags. It wasn't the case yesterday and there was no penalty.
"So going into the next race, we could be battling for pole position and we see double yellow flags and we know we only have to do a small lift and lose one-tenth of a second and we'll be fine and go purple in the sector."
Before the compere had a chance to move things on to the next subject, Rosberg jumped in and asked for right of reply.
"Thank you for making that statement," he said to Hamilton, slapping him on the shoulder, voice dripping with sarcasm, before going on to say that he had lifted off the throttle 30 metres earlier than normal for the corner and entered it "20km/h slower".
"That's a completely different world in an F1 car," Rosberg said. "Everything is safe. So definitely I significantly reduced my speed and that's what it says you need to do and that's why for the stewards that was completely acceptable."
As for the increased speed at the apex of the corner, Rosberg said that was to be expected "on a drying track".
Hamilton was not finished, though. A couple of hours later, he raised it again in another news conference, this time in the Mercedes motorhome.
He initially said he "didn't want to get into that again - I don't want to get into a war. It wasn't accurate what Nico actually said but it doesn't really matter".
But a few questions later, he could not help himself, saying "lifting and coasting into a corner is fuel saving, and braking at the same place and getting on the power five metres earlier and being the same speed at the apex and much quicker at the exit is not preparing [to stop, as demanded by the rules]".
Technically, both men had a point. Rosberg was allowed to keep the time because stewards adjudged him to have slowed down sufficiently.
The drivers work to guidelines that sufficient slowing of pace for a double-waved yellow flag is to lose 0.5 seconds in a section of track defined by timing loops.
These are normally eight seconds long. But in this case, the timing section was only three seconds long. Rosberg slowed by a little under 0.2secs; so, technically, pro rata, that was enough.
The issue for the other drivers was whether this interpretation was the appropriate one in the circumstances. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo were among the leading drivers who felt it was not.
This will run and run - Hamilton has said he has already raised it with FIA F1 director Charlie Whiting. "He is going to think about it because that's not the way it should be," Hamilton said, adding that he would definitely raise it as a discussion topic in Friday's drivers' briefing at next weekend's German Grand Prix.
Of course, a tasty public row between team-mates and title rivals is good box office. But what is more interesting is what this says about the relationship between the two men.
Three races ago, before the European Grand Prix, Hamilton was saying how the things between himself and Rosberg were as good as they had been for years.
Rosberg put the lie to that in an interview before this weekend's race in Hungary. And now Hamilton has effectively undermined his own argument.
He could have kept this behind closed doors, dealt with it privately with Whiting. He could have mentioned it once and left it. But to bring it up three times in separate situations seemed to many like an attempt to unsettle Rosberg, perhaps even rub in the dispiriting turnaround in the championship.
Hamilton feels a sense of superiority over Rosberg; that has been clear for a long time. And it's not hard to see why.
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said after the race that it will always be close between Hamilton and Rosberg and that he expects the championship to go to the wire this season.
He may well be right, on one level. But the statistics of their time as team-mates tell their own story.
In two and a half seasons, Hamilton has won 26 races and Rosberg 16.
Three times in 2014, Hamilton's first world title for Mercedes, he made up gaps of 25 points - a clear win - or more and still won the championship by a significant margin after a difficult start to the season.
Last year, he walked it, hardly letting Rosberg get a look-in until the title was was good as sewn up.
And this year has strong echoes of 2014 again. Another difficult start - the worst part of it consecutive engine failures in qualifying in China and Russia - left Hamilton 43 points behind after four races.
In the next race, the two men crashed together on the first lap and had the riot act read to them by Wolff.
This, Hamilton said on Sunday, had felt like "rock bottom" but "ended up being a turning point".
"Where do we go from here?" he said of his thoughts at the time. "The only way was up. I managed to get my head together and get on with it."
Since then, he has hardly looked back. But for a bizarrely error-strewn qualifying session in Baku, he may well have won all six races.
If Hamilton's remarks were an attempt to score a psychological point, it was probably unnecessary. Hamilton utterly dominated in Hungary, even if he had an up-and-down weekend.
Blisteringly fast in first practice, he crashed at the start of the second. Struggling as a result in final practice, he was nevertheless on course for a pole with a lap that would probably have been half a second up on Rosberg's only to come across Fernando Alonso's spun McLaren broadside across the track.
In the end, the row over the yellow flags that incident produced was irrelevant. Hamilton made a slightly better start than Rosberg, and in a five-car concertina at the first corner involving both Mercedes, both Red Bulls and Vettel, the world champion emerged in the lead.
From there, he controlled the race at will, going only as fast as he needed to, upping the pace when asked. He kept Rosberg at arm's length as he protected the delicate Pirelli tyres - "like having £100 to spend and having to be careful how you spend it," Hamilton said afterwards.
He was "proud" he said, of how he had closed what he had thought back in Spain might be an insurmountable gap.
It will take more than this to break Rosberg, but his mantra that "it is only small differences that decide it; I just have to turn them around in my favour" is starting to wear thin.
More often than not, those differences are in Hamilton's favour.
His engine problems early in the season mean Hamilton will take a major grid penalty at one of the remaining nine races, which will almost certainly hand Rosberg an easy win such is Mercedes' superiority.
But if the battle between them continues in its usual manner, Hamilton is surely on his way to his fourth title and public point-scoring won't be necessary. | Lewis Hamilton leads the World Championship for the first time this season after his dominant victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix, but in some ways events after the race were just as important as what happened on track. |
37,260,570 | Italian Conti rode away from a 12-strong breakaway in the final 20km to win the longest stage of the race - 213.4km from Bilbao to Dantxarinea.
Froome and Colombian Quintana finished in the peloton almost 34 minutes later.
They were happy with a more sedate day in the saddle because both weekend stages feature mountain-top finishes.
Saturday's 196km stage includes four categorised climbs in the Pyrenees and culminates with a 21km ascent of the Col d'Aubisque, while Sunday's 118km stage finishes with a 14.5km ascent to Formigal.
Team Sky's Froome is aiming to become the first rider in 38 years to win the Tour de France and Vuelta in the same year.
Movistar's Quintana, who finished third behind Froome at the Tour, has won one Grand Tour, the 2014 Giro d'Italia.
Lampre-Merida rider Conti finished 55 seconds ahead of Switzerland's Danilo Wyss, who won the five-man sprint for second place.
"It's my first victory in a Grand Tour and it's a great feeling," said 23-year-old Conti.
Stage 13 result:
1. Valerio Conti (Ita/Lampre) 5hrs 29mins 04secs
2. Danilo Wyss (Swi/BMC Racing) +55secs
3. Sergey Lagutin (Rus/Katusha) same time
4. Vegard Laengen (Nor/IAM Cycling)
5. Michael Gogl (Aus/Tinkoff)
6. Yves Lampaert (Bel/Etixx - Quick-Step)
7. Cesare Benedetti (Ita/BORA) +1min 02secs
8. Jelle Wallays (Bel/Lotto) +1min 04secs
9. Gatis Smukulis (Lat/Astana) same time
10. Stephane Rossetto (Fra/Cofidis) +1min 08secs
Selected:
13. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +33mins 54secs
17. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) same time
21. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky)
28. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky)
General classification after stage 13:
1. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) 52hrs 56mins 29secs
2. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +54secs
3. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +1min 05secs
4. Esteban Chaves (Col/Orica) +2mins 34secs
5. Alberto Contador (Spa/Tinkoff) +3mins 08secs
Selected:
7. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) +3mins 25secs
15. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) +6mins 30secs | Britain's Chris Froome continues to trail leader Nairo Quintana by 54 seconds after Valerio Conti broke clear to win stage 13 of the Vuelta a Espana. |
19,071,026 | The sport's governing body, wants to "bridge the gap" between the amateur and professional ranks, whilst maintaining its Olympic status.
We have 10 categories for men, so why only three for women?
International Boxing Association (AIBA) president Dr Ching-Kuo "CK" Wu said of the women's weight divisions: "Three is certainly not enough.
"We have 10 categories [for men], so why only three for women?"
And he added: "It is because of [the International Olympic Committee's] quota. They have a limit of 10,600 athletes in total, and just 286 boxers.
"So we reduced the men's categories by one to make room for 36 women. It is a step in the right direction.
"AIBA is trying its best. Talk to the IOC!"
Women's boxing is not the only innovation AIBA has brought in for London - there is also a new scoring system.
Five judges score each round independently, and then a computer selects the three "similar scores" on the cards. Each boxer is given the average of his or her similar scores.
If there are no scores clustered together, the computer drops the highest and lowest, and records the average of the three remaining scores.
The other major change is that these scores are only updated at the end of each round.
"It's very simple and absolutely impossible to manipulate," said Wu, while admitting the changes could have been communicated better.
But this could be a brief chapter in Olympic history, as Wu wants to introduce the 10-point scoring used in professional boxing and AIBA's hybrid competition, the World Series of Boxing (WSB).
"You are not only scoring punches, you are assessing the shape of the fight, the style. The judges have more to consider," he said.
"But we will wait until all our judges reach that standard."
And with AIBA-sanctioned boxers already competing without head guards and vests, there is also no secret about Wu's desire to do away with these historic elements of the amateur game.
"Yes, this is the direction we're going," he said.
With 13 gold medals up for the grabs, London 2012's Olympic boxing tournament is being staged at ExCeL. The finals take place 9-12 August. | Olympic boxing at the 2016 Games in Rio could see more female fighters, no head guards and a pro-style scoring system. |
34,943,156 | They're laden with Christmas bags, overflowing with toys.
Beatrice has just celebrated a very special birthday. And rather than gifts, she asked her friends and family to donate to the toy bank instead.
"Aren't I lucky? 80! I don't want to say it, but 80 years of age," smiled Beatrice.
"I don't need anything. I've got a good home, good husband, good family, and we're well looked after. So what was the point in them buying me stuff? I mean, there's stuff in that wardrobe I think I've had since I was about 15. But somebody else can benefit from it."
The toy bank, based at 905 Govan Road, has been set up by volunteers, and will work with local community groups and food banks to find parents who need help.
Organiser John Beattie says locals are concerned about the growing number of people who are using food banks.
"People are really struggling this Christmas financially," he said.
"We have seen explosions in the numbers of people using food banks, and if people are struggling to feed themselves and their children, then they're going to have quite a poor Christmas, so we're really here to support those people.
From baby dolls to dinosaurs, Tonka trucks to teddy bears; the toys are starting to pile up. And as long as they are in good condition, they don't have to be brand new.
"This is the problem we have in our house," says John. "I've got an eight-year-old, and every year we have a clear-out before Christmas, and some of the toys are in perfectly good working condition.
"So that's the idea, that's why we set up a wee bit earlier - to catch people who will be having clear-outs of their kids previous toys."
The toy bank operates in Govan, but aims to help parents across the south of Glasgow - hence the name Community and Beyond.
Parents who are worried about the extra cost of Christmas can contact them directly, or through the local food banks.
They will be asked what age and sex their children are, and what sort of toys they would like to wake up to on Christmas morning.
Claire McCunnie is a development worker at the Glasgow South West food bank, and says she knows many mothers who could use some help.
"Once they pay their bills they just don't have enough to stretch, and obviously with Christmas coming up, that just makes life worse," she said.
"It just means they know their kid will get something, and that's all mothers want. They just want to give their children as much as they can. They want to feed their kids, and they want to make sure their kids have something on Christmas Day. And that's why this is fantastic."
And with her 80 years of experience, Beatrice Caddell agrees. "As you grow older, and you think about the past, about what you've done for them, how you've brought them up. As long as they're OK, we're OK. It's as simple as that. You never stop being a mum and dad."
As they sort through the donations, the volunteers put them into piles according to age and type. They will be cleaned, wrapped up, and delivered from mid-December.
It's hoped all these toys can be found a good home for Christmas. | As they struggle out of the cold and into the new Community and Beyond Toy Bank in Govan, there's a warm welcome for Beatrice Caddell and her daughter Lynn. |
34,683,056 | It says it has reached agreement with Austria on five crossing points on their border.
Authorities in Bavaria have complained a lack of co-ordination with Austria is hampering efforts to aid new arrivals.
Many others continue to make their way via Greece, in freezing temperatures, hoping to get asylum in Germany.
Meanwhile, more than 20 migrants - many of them children - have drowned in more boat sinkings in Greek waters while they were trying to reach European Union countries via Turkey.
Greek officials said 19 people had died and 138 were rescued near the island of Kalymnos.
Three others died off Rhodes and three were missing. Six were rescued there.
And the Spanish coastguard called off the search for 35 migrants missing at sea the day after their boat was shipwrecked en route from Morocco.
Fifteen migrants were rescued alive from the vessel and the bodies of four others were found.
A spokeswoman for Germany's interior ministry told AFP news agency that the new rules on entry points would go into effect immediately.
"We would like to have a more orderly procedure," she said.
A senior Bavarian politician said that under the agreement, 50 migrants an hour could cross into the state at the five agreed points.
Earlier this week, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maziere accused Austria of transporting refugees to the German frontier at night, leaving them there unannounced.
Federal police spokesman Heinrich Onstein has said everything was being done to prevent the migrants from having to sleep outdoors.
He said the problem had been that "we do not know how many people will arrive, and at which border post".
However an Austrian police spokesman dismissed such accusations as a "joke", given that Austria was receiving 11,000 people a day just at the Spielfeld crossing from Slovenia.
Germany expects at least 800,000 asylum seekers this year - some estimates put it as high as 1.5 million. That is at least four times the number who arrived last year.
Last Wednesday, more than 8,000 migrants arrived in Bavaria, German police said.
And last weekend authorities in Passau - a major transit hub for asylum seekers - said they had been overwhelmed by a new influx of some 15,000 people who arrived from Austria.
Several hundred spent a night out in the cold on the Austrian side of the border before reaching Germany, as the Austrian authorities said they had run out of beds for them.
The UN estimates that more than 700,000 migrants have crossed to Europe by boat so far this year - many of them refugees from war-torn Syria. The approach of winter has so far done little to slow the flow.
Migrant crisis explained in graphics | Germany is to restrict the number of entry points for migrants arriving via Austria, in a bid to control the flow as thousands cross into Bavaria daily. |
35,611,763 | Mr McAfee made the offer to the FBI in an article published by Business Insider.
Apple has refused to comply with a court order asking it to unlock the device, dividing opinion over whether the firm should be compelled to do so.
Mr McAfee said he and his team would take on the task "free of charge".
The offer came as Mr McAfee continues his campaign as a US presidential candidate for the Libertarian Party.
"It will take us three weeks," he claimed in his article.
Security expert Graham Cluley told the BBC he was sceptical of Mr McAfee's claims.
"The iPhone is notoriously difficult to hack compared to other devices," he said.
For instance, Mr Cluley cast doubts on Mr McAfee's idea that he could use "social engineering" to work out the pass-code of Farook's locked iPhone.
This is a process by which hackers try to find out login credentials by tricking people into giving them away.
"In a nutshell, dead men tell no tales," said Mr Cluley. "Good luck to Mr McAfee trying to socially engineer a corpse into revealing its pass-code."
"The FBI isn't interested anyway, they want to set a precedent that there shouldn't be locks they can't break," he added.
In his article, Mr McAfee stated that he was keen to unlock the device because he didn't want Apple to be forced to implement a "back door" - a method by which security services could access data on encrypted devices.
Chief executive of Apple Tim Cook had previously said in a statement that the firm did not want to co-operate.
He argued that introducing a back door would make all iPhones vulnerable to hacking by criminals.
Mr McAfee believes that it would be possible to retrieve data from the phone by other means - though he did not give many details of how it would be done.
"I would eat my shoe on the Neil Cavuto [television] show if we could not break the encryption on the San Bernardino phone," he added.
Some, including the Australian Children's eSafety Commissioner who spoke to tech website ZDNet, have said that Apple would not necessarily have to introduce a back door, but that the firm is only being asked to provide access to a single device.
Other tech firms have rallied behind Apple's following a few days of debate over how it should respond to the FBI's request.
Google boss Sundar Pichai had already expressed his support for Mr Cook and yesterday chief executive of Twitter Jack Dorsey added his approval via a tweet.
In a statement, Facebook said it condemned terrorism and had solidarity with the victims of terror, but would continue its policy of opposing requests to diminish security.
"We will continue to fight aggressively against requirements for companies to weaken the security of their systems," it said.
"These demands would create a chilling precedent and obstruct companies' efforts to secure their products." | Anti-virus software creator John McAfee has said he will break the encryption on an iPhone used by San Bernardino killer Syed Farook. |
40,867,272 | Airbnb confirmed it was quietly cancelling accounts of those travelling to Charlottesville to attend the "Unite the Right" rally on Saturday.
The company cited its discrimination policy, but users decried the move as a violation of free speech.
The row marks the latest flashpoint in a debate over rights to free speech.
Members of the so-called alt-right movement, which includes groups accused of racism and anti-Semitism, are expected to descend on Charlottesville on Saturday for the "Unite the Right" rally, to protest against the city's removal of a Confederate General Robert E Lee statue.
The event was scheduled to take place at a park that was also the locale of a raucous Ku Klux Klan rally in May. The park, formerly Lee Park, was renamed as Emancipation Park in June.
Speakers at the event include Richard Spencer, a leader of the alt-right movement, while members of the National Socialist Movement, the Traditionalist Workers Party and the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website have said they will attend.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups, said the event could be "the largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States".
However, it is unclear how many people the event is expected to attract. NBC29 reported that the event permit to host the event was for 400 people, but the Washington Post reports police are preparing for as many as 4,000 attendees.
Airbnb said it began removing accounts affiliated with the event after a user reported a thread of comments suggesting company properties would be used for after-parties for the neo-Nazi website, Daily Stormer.
The company issued a statement noting that it had established an Airbnb "Community Commitment" policy in 2016, which asked members to sign a pledge to "accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age".
The policy was created after the online accommodation site faced criticism over anecdotal evidence that black users routinely found it more difficult to book a room than white individuals.
The anti-discrimination agreement was directed at Airbnb hosts, but the latest move appeared to be the first time the company targeted guests.
The move caused a social media uproar, in which Twitter and 4chan users began posting Airbnb messages to banned users, noting the decision was "irreversible and will affect any duplicated or future accounts".
"People shouldn't just #boycottairbnb they should sue @airbnb", one user wrote.
In a statement to the BBC, rally organiser Jason Kessler called the move "outrageous" and said it "should be grounds for a lawsuit".
"It is the racial targeting of white people for their ethnic advocacy. The Unite the Right rally is opposed to the historical and demographic displacement of white people. Would Airbnb cancel the service of black nationalists or Black Lives Matter activists for their social media activity? Of course not!"
Airbnb argues that while it respects the right to freedom of expression, people have a moral responsibility to take action when facing extreme hatred.
The company cites its "Community Commitment", or pledge to treat all people equally, in terminating accounts ahead of Saturday's march.
Mr Kessler argues the company's anti-discrimination policy was intended to keep renters from "denying service to individuals based on race, religion or other identity characteristics".
"They have now unjustly expanded that policy to imply that they will search through your social media accounts looking for controversial opinions and deny service based on that," he said.
The debate recalls a case appearing before the US Supreme Court in October, in which a Colorado baker with religious objection to same-sex marriage lost a discrimination lawsuit for refusing to create a cake for a gay couple.
The case is a touchstone for longstanding culture wars over same-sex marriage, religious freedom and the First Amendment right to free speech.
Though anti-discrimination laws offer protections to the LGBTQ community in 21 states and the District of Columbia, no federal law requires bars private businesses from refusing to serve customers based on sexual orientation.
As a private business, Airbnb may be entitled to those same freedoms.
In an interview with the BBC last year, Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky said: "We made a decision that this is not a service for everybody. We said 'take it somewhere else. Not Airbnb.
"We started this company with the belief people are fundamentally good. Mostly everyone is really good, but when you have 100 million people, there are some who don't believe in what you believe in."
While it is unclear how AirBnB screens its users for political beliefs, the company explicitly says it does conduct background checks on members by looking at public state and county criminal records as well as state and national sex offender registries on US-based users, according to its website,.
It also checks the Office of Foreign Asset Control's list, which includes terrorist designations, and the company also uses approved background check providers.
The company also said in a statement to the BBC it used "background check processes" and community input to identify users whose behaviour was "antithetical to the Airbnb Community Commitment".
Some Twitter users pointed out that many AirBnB accounts are linked to Facebook accounts, which could allow the company to track those who RSVPd to the rally or similar events. | Organisers behind a white nationalist rally in Virginia are outraged after home-sharing company Airbnb kicked off users affiliated with the event. |
39,995,184 | SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon accused Tory counterpart Ruth Davidson of "talking so much about independence that I can't get a word in edgeways about it".
But Ms Davidson hit back by telling Ms Sturgeon: "The country said 'No' and you won't listen to them."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said people "want to move on" from the referendum.
The televised debate, which was hosted by the BBC's Sarah Smith in front of a live audience, also featured Willie Rennie of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Scottish Green Party co-convener Patrick Harvie and UKIP's David Coburn.
Ms Sturgeon opened the debate by arguing that only her party could protect Scotland from an "extreme Brexit".
And she said that supporting the SNP would "protect Scotland's right to make our own decisions" with regard to an independence referendum.
The first minister was followed by Ms Davidson, who told Ms Sturgeon that she should: "Fix our schools, don't split up our country. Champion our businesses, don't put a border at Berwick."
She added: "At this election we can send the SNP a message they can't ignore, and with your help we can stop them, and in so doing we can get back to the issues that really matter."
Ms Sturgeon responded by accusing the Scottish Conservative leader of using independence as a smokescreen for her party's "toxic" policies.
She said: "Ruth Davidson says I talk about nothing else, the truth is she talks so much about independence that I can't get a word in edgeways about it.
"Ruth Davidson is using independence as a smokescreen in this campaign because she knows the Tory record and Tory policies are toxic."
Ms Dugdale warned the opinion polls were suggesting that the Conservatives "will be back and they will be more destructive than ever before" after the election.
She added: "So who do you want to stand up to the Tories? Labour MPs who understand your life, because they've lived, or SNP MPs who will use every bit of Tory cruelty to exploit the case for independence."
Mr Rennie said the SNP's focus was "always independence", adding: "It took 44 days for Nicola Sturgeon to publish her Bill on another independence referendum. It took 15 months for them to write their mental health strategy.
"It took two years for us to persuade them to expand nursery education for two-year-olds and it took six years for us to persuade them about a pupil premium."
Meanwhile, Mr Harvie warned social and environmental rights, guaranteed in the EU, would be "in the hands of a hard right Tory government hell-bent on a bonfire of the regulations".
And Mr Coburn used his opening remarks to state that "UKIP is the party of Brexit. We must elect UKIP to the Commons to ensure Brexit means exit".
The debate also saw Ms Sturgeon come under fire from the politically balanced audience over the SNP's record on health and education - both of which are devolved to the Scottish Parliament.
One member said she was a nurse and had been forced to use a foodbank.
She said that colleagues were considering leaving nursing, adding: "You have no idea how demoralising it is to work in the NHS."
Making a direct plea to the first minister, she said: "Don't come on your announced visits, come in in the middle of any day to any ward, to any A&E department and see what we're up against."
Ms Sturgeon told her "My sister works in the National Health Service, believe me she tells me exactly what she thinks about these matters."
She said the "austerity policies" of the UK government meant public sector workers had had pay rises capped at 1%.
And she stressed that the Scottish government had a policy of no compulsory redundancies in the NHS and wider public sector.
Analysis
By Philip Sim, BBC Scotland political reporter
At times it was like a Thursday session of First Minister's Questions, with the leaders of the main parties trading barbs over a faintly baffling mix of devolved and reserved policies.
With the SNP defending 56 seats, it was natural that the other leaders would target Nicola Sturgeon.
So, the early stages saw Ruth Davidson and Kezia Dugdale attack the SNP's record in government, although the Scottish Tory leader came under sustained pressure herself over immigration.
There were the usual bouts of participants shouting over each other, and but it was notable that Ms Sturgeon came under much more detailed scrutiny than she did during the UK-wide debate on ITV on Thursday.
The first minister is a skilled operator when it comes to this political sparring though, so she held her ground reasonably well; it was a member of the audience who landed the most notable blow on her.
The nurse in the audience who took the first minister to task will go down as the most memorable moment of the debate, and will no doubt be the element which leads tomorrow's headlines.
There were also fierce exchanges between Ms Sturgeon and Ms Davidson over immigration, with the SNP leader arguing that Conservative manifesto pledges to slash net migration to the UK would be "devastating" for Scotland's economy.
Calling for politicians to be "honest" about immigration, Ms Sturgeon continued: "When we are talking about migrants here we are talking about people working in our hospitals, people serving us in our restaurants, we are talking about our friends and our neighbours.
"The language around immigration I think is shocking. We have got a need in this country to grow our population.
"If EU migration was to be ended over the next 25 years, or even constrained, we would see our working age population fall while our pensioner-age population is due to go up by 50%. That would be an economic catastrophe."
Ms Davidson said that "no one is talking about ending" migration from the EU, and that it was important that any immigration system was "trusted" by people in order to avoid it causing social unrest.
She added: "What I want to see is Scotland to be the most attractive place so we can attract the brightest and the best. At the moment, despite having a third of the landmass of the UK, and 8.4% of the population, we only attract 4% of immigrants to this country".
Ms Sturgeon said those figures - which Ms Davidson said were from the UK government - were "not true", and instead pointed to National Records of Scotland figures which said the country attracted 7% of migrants to the UK. | Scotland's political leaders have traded blows over independence and immigration in a heated BBC debate. |
34,140,406 | Suha Mohammed Ali and Dalia Kamal Youssef - known as the Egyptian Shakira and Bardis - were arrested over their scantily-clad performances in videos.
Lawyers filed complaints, saying they were outrages to public morality and harmed the image of Egyptian women.
In March, a well-known dancer - Safinaz - was sentenced to six months in jail for insulting the national flag.
She appeared in a video wearing a dress in its colours.
Another dancer, Salma el-Fouly, received a six-month sentence in July for a video in which she wore skimpy clothes while making fun of male gropers.
The male cameraman was also jailed for six months, while a second man who produced and appeared in the video was sentenced in absentia to a year in prison. | A court in Egypt has sentenced two belly dancers to six months each in jail for inciting debauchery. |
38,415,730 | Lawrie-Lin Waller, 33, said she and her friends were upgraded to business class, treated to bottles of champagne, and posed for selfies with the captain.
And on their trip from Gibraltar to Heathrow on 17 December, her friends Laura Stevens, 34, and Sarah Hunt, 35, enjoyed three-course meals.
Ms Waller said: "We're never going to experience anything like that again."
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She said their plane had been delayed, but when they arrived at Gibraltar airport everyone else had boarded an earlier flight.
Ms Waller, from Glasgow who is staying with her family in Witney in Oxfordshire over Christmas, said: "We were the only ones in the airport.
"It was very, very quiet, some of the duty-free shops were closed. and I thought 'oh that's strange'.
"I realised the only other people were staff and we were the only people on the flight."
She said once the three friends were on the plane the crew "found it very funny".
She said the captain told them he had never flown a flight with just three people on it before.
"They made us feel absolutely fantastic," Ms Waller added.
"I asked, 'is it okay if we sit in business class, instead of way back at the end of the plane?'
"And they said, 'yeah, sit right there in the front row' and they served us Champagne, which was lovely."
She said when it was time to land the pilot actually came out of the cockpit to tell them how they were going to land.
"[He said] it was going to be 'a blind landing', I think it's called, using only the radar," Ms Waller said.
"So I said at that point, 'I think we need another bottle of Champagne'." | Three British Airways passengers had a once-in-a-lifetime flight after finding they were the only ones on board. |
34,453,434 | Walsham Le Willows Football Club in Suffolk handed out half a dozen eggs to the first 50 paying supporters at the match v Brantham Athletic earlier.
The gesture was inspired by Non-League Day, a campaign to encourage supporters of bigger clubs to try local football.
Chairman Keith Mills said: "If we could attract an extra 20 people through the gate it would make a big difference."
Last year, Bungay Town gave out punnets of mushrooms in a similar ploy to tempt fans during the international break.
"We're all fighting for the same money," Mr Mills said. "We're a club that's out in the sticks and does well to attract supporters and sponsors, but it all boils down to money unfortunately."
The average gate at Summer Road, where admission is £6 for adults and £4 for concessions, is about 80 people.
Seventy-eight people attended Saturday's game, which was up on the last home game, watched by 42 people.
"One of our supporters, Mike Powles, is an egg producer so we asked him if we could give away some eggs," Mr Mills said. "It's a little gimmick but it got people talking."
Mr Mills hopes the free eggs, which were handed out after the match, will play a small part in spreading the popularity of non-league football, but said more support is also needed from high up.
"There's an enormous amount of money in the professional game and a lot of it is going out of the country, on foreign players," he said.
"The England team won't be successful until they support English players at grassroots levels."
James Doe, the founder of Non-League Day, which is now in its sixth year, said there is room for people to support more than one club.
"I hope Non-League Day can be an event which drives new people into grounds who wouldn't otherwise be there, providing them with an enjoyable experience and the clubs with some welcome extra funds," he said.
"Many non-league clubs are almost exclusively volunteer run, with money taken at the turnstiles often funding thriving youth set-ups, projects and facilities which are of benefit to the whole community." | A non-league football club gave fans a free box of eggs in the hope of boosting attendance. |
37,117,334 | The steam boat Arfon had remained untouched on the bed of the English Channel for almost 100 years until it was discovered in 2014.
The trawler swept mines laid by German U-boats off the Dorset coast until 10 of its 13 crew members died when it struck a mine in April 1917.
The new protection restricts access to the site.
Historic England said the trawler's mine-sweeping gear, deck gun and engine room were still intact on the seabed off St Alban's Head.
But the government heritage agency feared the Arfon, built in Goole, East Yorkshire, in 1908, could be vulnerable to uncontrolled salvage.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport granted it protection under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1973, which means access to the site is restricted to divers with a licence from Historic England.
Joe Flatman, the body's head of listing programmes, said: "The Arfon shipwreck is a rare survivor of a type of vessel once very common around the coastline of Britain but which has now entirely disappeared, surviving only in documents and as wrecks like this one.
"Trawlers, minesweepers and other coastal patrol vessels played a crucial role in keeping the sea lanes around the British Isles open during both world wars, a part of the war effort that is often overlooked." | The sunken wreck of a fishing trawler that swept for mines during World War One has been given special protection. |
29,899,769 | Using world survey data, the Lancet study authors found life satisfaction followed a predictable trajectory depending on where people lived.
In countries such as the UK and the US, life satisfaction followed a U-shape, dipping to a low in midlife.
In Africa it was low throughout, and in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Latin America it declined with age.
The reasons behind the trends were multiple and complex, but there were some plausible explanations as well as important lessons to be learned, said Prof Andrew Steptoe, of University College London, and colleagues.
Their report is part of a series on health and ageing, published in The Lancet, warning of a growing burden of chronic disease and diminished wellbeing affecting the quality of life of older people.
The researchers used four years of data from the Gallup World Poll in more than 160 countries covering more than 98% of the world's population, to make their evaluations.
As well as physical health and pain, they considered three measures of wellbeing:
In Western world nations, life satisfaction bottomed out between the ages of 45 and 54 before rising again.
Co-researcher Angus Deaton, of Princeton University in the US, said economics could explain this.
"This is the period at which wage rates typically peak and is the best time to work and earn the most, even at the expense of present wellbeing, so as to have increased wealth and wellbeing later in life," he said.
It might explain why elderly people were happier despite becoming more frail - although poorer health led to lower ratings of life satisfaction among the elderly, higher life satisfaction seemed to stave off physical health declines.
In transition countries, such as the former Soviet Union, life satisfaction declined steadily with age and was generally lower overall than in the West.
This could again be linked to economics, said the researchers. Older people in these countries had lost a system that, however imperfect, had given meaning to their lives, and, in some cases, their pensions and their health care.
In sub-Saharan Africa, satisfaction was very low throughout life, while stress and worry was high.
"The findings undoubtedly show the recent experiences of the region and the distress that these events have brought to older people," said Prof Deaton.
Prof Steptoe said while money did not equate to happiness, economic progress did promote wellbeing to an extent.
"It would appear that wellbeing goes along with economic prosperity in the world," he said. | Happiness nose dives as you hit middle age - but only if you live in the affluent West, according to experts. |
35,761,281 | The twins had their DNA tested after their family noticed they looked different, said local reports.
The occurrence, known as heteropaternal superfecundation, is rare with few publicly known about.
It happens when a woman's eggs are fertilised by two men within a short period of time.
Professor Le Dinh Luong, president of the Hanoi-based Vietnam Genetic Association which did the DNA testing, said the results were "100% correct" in what he called "an extremely rare case".
"There are only less than 10 known cases of twins with different fathers in the world. There might be other cases but the parents and/or the twins were not aware of it or didn't want to announce it," he told the BBC's Nga Pham.
He declined to give further details citing client confidentiality, but added that local reports stating the twins' location, names and timeframe were inaccurate.
Vietnamese news outlets began reporting on the case earlier this month, saying that relatives had noticed that one of the twins looked markedly different from its sibling and parents. | A pair of Vietnamese fraternal twins have been confirmed to have different fathers, a local genetic association has told the BBC. |
15,598,177 | Helen Thomas, from Newcastle Emlyn, died aged 22 after being struck by a police vehicle in 1989.
A bench was dedicated in her memory in the town centre on Sunday.
Women from across the UK camped outside the Berkshire airbase during the 1980s and 1990s to protest at nuclear missiles being sited there.
Mayor Hazel Evans said the town council wanted to honour her memory and her commitment to peace.
The bench is by the town clock in Newcastle Emlyn.
Members of Miss Thomas's family joined the service along with prominent peace campaigners from Wales.
Folk singer Dafydd Iwan who wrote a song about Miss Thomas was also taking part.
Before the ceremony, Mrs Evans said: "Last year it was the 21st anniversary of her death and there was a service at Greenham Common.
"She was born and went to school in Newcastle Emlyn and her family still have a business here.
"We felt it was appropriate to remember her fight against nuclear weapons."
Following her death, Miss Thomas's family challenged the verdict of accidental death at the High Court but the judge refused to re-open the inquest.
The first Cruise missiles were delivered to Greenham Common in November 1983. The last one was removed in March 1991.
During the height of the protests, thousands of women blocked the entrances to the base, cut through perimeter fences and formed human chains around the site.
The airbase was closed in 1993 but the peace camp remained until 2000. | A memorial has been unveiled to a Carmarthenshire woman who died while taking part in the Greenham Common peace protests. |
35,893,220 | The body of Roy Blackman, 73, was found inside the property on Headcorn Road, Biddenden, at about 09:00 GMT on Monday.
A post-mortem examination revealed he died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries.
Kent Police said a 49-year-old man, from Maidstone, was detained on Wednesday.
The force believes the break-in took place sometime between 01:00 and 03:00 on Monday.
Several suspects, who had "targeted a vulnerable man", are being hunted, a spokesman said.
Det Insp Lee Whitehead said: "Mr Blackman was beaten to death in his own home in what appears to be a violent burglary.
"A safe is missing from the property and we are keen to locate it.
"I believe that several suspects would have carried out this crime. They have targeted a vulnerable man in his own home leaving a trail of devastation in their wake."
He described Mr Blackman as a "well-known and well liked member of the community", whose killing had left his family "distraught".
Detectives are particularly keen to speak to anyone who may have been in the area of Headcorn Road between Weeks Lane and Frittenden Road from 19:30 GMT on Sunday into the early hours of Monday. | A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder of a burglary victim who was beaten to death at his Kent home. |
36,477,969 | Paul Olney, 35, was found dead at a property after police were called to Denham Close, Wivenhoe at about 15:50 BST on Monday.
Richard Waterhouse, 30, of Golden Noble Hill in Colchester appeared at Colchester Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody.
He is due to appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on Thursday.
A 37-year-old man who was also arrested has been released on police bail until 21 July. | A man has appeared in court charged with murder after a body was found at a property in an Essex cul-de-sac. |
36,394,832 | The benchmark Nikkei 225 closed 0.4% higher at 16,834.84 points.
At the G7 summit, under way in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned the global economy may be on the verge of a financial crisis similar to that seen in 2008.
Japanese media say the comments may indicate the government intends to delay the sales tax increase.
The planned increase was designed to help balance the budget.
Yet with Japan skirting recession, there has been increasing pressure on Mr Abe to postpone this, so the country can avoid slipping into deflation.
Fresh data on Friday showed that consumer prices fell for a second month in April to 0.3%, adding more pressure on the central bank to make additional stimulus efforts to achieve the 2% inflation target.
Investors across the Asia Pacific region were also looking ahead to a speech by the chair of the US Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen on Friday, for signs of whether the Fed will raise interest rates in June.
China's Shanghai Composite traded 0.3% higher at 2,830.42 while Hong Kong's Hang Seng was 0.8% up at 20,564.40.
In Australia, the ASX/200 wrapped the day higher by 0.3% at 5,405.90.
South Korea's Kospi index closed the day 0.6% up at 1,969.17. | Japanese shares traded slightly higher on hopes that the government might delay a rise in sales tax. |
35,449,848 | Wiltshire-based Stand Down aims to provide online counselling to personnel or veterans suffering mental trauma.
It was founded by Kyna Jeng following the death of her 38-year-old brother Anthony, a Royal Engineer, who suffered mental trauma after leaving the Army.
Lynch, from the 90s Irish girl group, took part in a parachute jump over Wiltshire to mark the launch.
A Royal Engineer in the British army for 14 years, Tony Jeng served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But it was only after he left the Army that his family noticed he was becoming more withdrawn and reclusive.
"He didn't sleep very well, drank a lot more then was healthy and stopped going out of the house," said Ms Jeng.
"Towards the end, he just became a recluse and not participating in life at all."
Despite "reaching out" to the Army and various charities, Ms Jeng said there had been "really no help or support available for him".
"Tony's post-traumatic stress disorder was a significant factor in his early death," she said.
"Unfortunately this situation is not unique, so our main aim is to provide a discreet, easily accessible service to people in my brother's position."
To mark the launch of the independent military charity, Ms Jeng's 17-year-old daughter Paris, along with Lynch, took part in the parachute jump at Netheravon Airfield.
"Keavy is a qualified humanistic counsellor who trained with a friend of mine and she was very, very happy to be the charity's official patron," said Ms Jeng.
"And it was her idea to jump out of an aeroplane from 10,000ft." | A charity offering psychological support to the armed forces has been launched by Keavy Lynch from B*Witched. |
33,984,467 | The transgender soldier had faced solitary confinement after being accused of having contraband items.
Manning, formerly known as Bradley, was convicted in 2013 of leaking thousands of secret files to Wikileaks.
She is currently serving 35-year sentence at a Kansas military prison.
The US Army declined to comment on the hearing, citing privacy laws, but earlier said such proceedings were a "common practice".
On her Twitter account, Manning said she would not be able to use the gym, library or go outdoors for three weeks as punishment.
Manning said the punishment also means she could spend longer in a high-security prison, as it represents a blot against her good behaviour records.
Among the banned items allegedly found in her cell was a tube of expired toothpaste, a copy of Vanity Fair magazine with transgender Caitlyn Jenner (formerly known as Bruce) on the cover and Malala Yousafzai's memoir.
Over 100,000 people signed a petition calling for the government not to sentence Manning to solitary confinement, the maximum penalty.
"When I spoke to Chelsea earlier today [Tuesday] she wanted to convey the message to supporters that she is so thankful for the thousands of people from around the world who let the government know that we are watching,'' her lawyer Chase Strangio said.
Manning, who legally changed her name in 2014, remains a soldier until her prison term ends.
Earlier this year, she was approved for hormone therapy after being diagnosed with gender dysphoria - the sense of one's gender being at odds with the sex assigned at birth.
Manning admitted handing more than 700,000 confidential documents to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq. | US Army whistleblower Private Chelsea Manning has said she has been found guilty of violating prison rules and has been temporarily barred from recreational activities. |
36,368,346 | Four helicopters and 20 lorries were destroyed in a series of fires inside the T4 base last week, the images from intelligence company Stratfor suggest.
The cause of the fires is unconfirmed.
The Russian military has denied reports that it had lost helicopters at the base as a result of an IS attack.
A news agency linked to IS, Amaq, was the first to report the incident, without saying what had caused the fires, says BBC Arabic Syria correspondent Rami Ruhayem.
"Burning of four Russian attack helicopters and 20 trucks loaded with missiles inside T4 airport in eastern Homs [province] as a result of a nearby fire," it said in an urgent report, leading to speculation that it could have been accidental.
On the same day, IS released an image it said showed one of its fighters firing Grad rockets at T4, also known as Tiyas.
"What the imagery tells us is that first of all this was not an accidental explosion, as some of the rumours kept saying," Stratfor military analyst Sim Tack said.
"It shows very clearly that there are several different sources of explosions across the airport, and it shows that the Russians took a quite a bad hit.
"An entire combat helicopter unit was wiped out - four helicopters in total - as well as some damage to some of the Syrian planes on the airport, and also very notably a logistic depot, likely one that was being used to supply those specific combat helicopters."
Mr Tack described Amaq's account as "very accurate", and suggested the helicopters and depot were destroyed by IS attacks.
He said it was unclear why IS had not officially said it had caused the destruction.
"In the past IS has claimed similar attacks, they have even videotaped the attacks themselves.
"In this case, we haven't seen any of those materials come out yet. One possibility is that by making the statement they were intending to claim it while not necessarily phrasing it that way."
Russian ministry of defence spokesman Igor Konashenkov insisted that "all Russian combat helicopters in Syrian Arab Republic continue their mission to destroy terrorists. There are no losses among the personnel".
He said the base had been damaged as a result of fighting between IS militants and Syrian army months before Russian military deployment there.
The area where the airbase is located is strategically significant, Rami Ruhayem says.
The province of Homs stretches out into the Syrian desert towards Raqqa, the capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed by IS in 2014, and Deir al-Zour, on the way to the border with Iraq, he notes.
As it tries to shake the government's grip on Homs, IS is facing a diverse range of factions on the ground.
A Kurdish-Arab alliance has announced the launch of a military campaign against IS north of Raqaa.
"With the participation of all SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces] units, we start this operation to liberate northern Raqaa" province, the SDF said on Twitter, quoting Kurdish commander Rojda Felat.
The assault will be supported by air strikes from the US-led coalition bombing IS in Iraq and Syria, it added.
The Iranian Al-Alam news website carried reports earlier this month that "Syrian allied forces" had cut off IS supply lines between Raqqa and Homs by taking over four hills overlooking the Shaer gas fields held by IS.
But Mr Tack counters that IS supply lines to Raqqa are holding.
"The regime and the Russians are facing notable challenges in trying to disconnect those two.
"Right now though, the emphasis seems to be more on moving towards Deir al-Zour rather than messing with Raqqa." | New satellite imagery appears to reveal extensive damage to a strategically significant airbase in central Syria used by Russian forces after a reported attack by so-called Islamic State (IS). |
39,289,651 | Analysts also said there was some relief in the market at the defeat of the anti-immigration Freedom party in the Dutch election.
The benchmark FTSE 100 rose 47.31 points to a record closing high of 7,415.57.
Earlier it hit a record intraday high of 7,440.4 points before falling back.
In mid-afternoon trading the index was 38 points higher at 7,406 points.
Neil Wilson at ETX Capital said the message from the US central bank was "the US economy is firing, but inflation is not going to be an issue. It's in no hurry to raise rates - and that is good news for equities."
As well as raising rates on Wednesday, the Fed also indicated it planned two more rate rises this year. However, that was not as aggressive as some had feared, with some having predicted a further three increases in 2017.
Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at First Standard Financial, said: "A less aggressive Fed was clearly the message the markets wanted to hear and indeed acted accordingly."
Yet Wall Street slid in afternoon trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 15 points, or 0.07%, at 20,934.85. The broader S&P 500 index also shed 0.12%.
Sterling hit a two-week dollar high of $1.2373, up 0.6%, after the latest interest rate decision from the Bank of England.
Interest rates were kept on hold at 0.25% as expected, but minutes of the meeting showed that one policymaker had voted for a rate rise, the first time since July last year that the vote had not been unanimous.
The minutes also indicated some other committee members might be close to voting for a rate rise
However, Ruth Gregory at Capital Economics said: "Despite the more hawkish tone of today's minutes, rates look set to remain on hold for some time to come.
"A rate rise towards the end of 2018 seems more likely to us - provided that growth remains relatively resilient, as we expect."
Mining companies dominated the FTSE risers, with Anglo American topping the leaders' board with an 8% increase.
Its shares were boosted after Indian billionaire Anil Agarwal said he would buy a stake worth up to £2bn in the diamond and platinum miner.
Hikma Pharmaceuticals was the biggest loser, falling almost 5% to £21.89, after JPMorgan cut its outlook on the company to "neutral".
Merlin Entertainments, the operator of Madame Tussauds and the London Eye, shed 3% after analysts Berenberg said they saw signs that demand could be slowing. | The London market hit new record highs on Thursday as investors reacted to Wednesday's interest rate rise by the US Federal Reserve. |
16,709,045 | Researchers traced the "microplastic" back to synthetic clothes, which released up to 1,900 tiny fibres per garment every time they were washed.
Earlier research showed plastic smaller than 1mm were being eaten by animals and getting into the food chain.
The findings appeared in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.
"Research we had done before... showed that when we looked at all the bits of plastic in the environment, about 80% was made up from smaller bits of plastic," said co-author Mark Browne, an ecologist now based at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
"This really led us to the idea of what sorts of plastic are there and where did they come from."
Dr Browne, a member of the US-based research network National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, said the tiny plastic was a concern because evidence showed that it was making its way into the food chain.
"Once the plastics had been eaten, it transferred from [the animals'] stomachs to their circulation system and actually accumulated in their cells," he told BBC News.
In order to identify how widespread the presence of microplastic was on shorelines, the team took samples from 18 beaches around the globe, including the UK, India and Singapore.
"We found that there was no sample from around the world that did not contain pieces of microplastic."
Dr Browne added: "Most of the plastic seemed to be fibrous.
"When we looked at the different types of polymers we were finding, we were finding that polyester, acrylic and polyamides (nylon) were the major ones that we were finding."
The data also showed that the concentration of microplastic was greatest in areas near large urban centres.
In order to test the idea that sewerage discharges were the source of the plastic discharges, the team worked with a local authority in New South Wales, Australia.
"We found exactly the same proportion of plastics," Dr Browne revealed, which led the team to conclude that their suspicions had been correct.
As a result, Dr Browne his colleague Professor Richard Thompson from the University of Plymouth, UK carried out a number of experiments to see what fibres were contained in the water discharge from washing machines.
"We were quite surprised. Some polyester garments released more than 1,900 fibres per garment, per wash," Dr Browne observed.
"It may not sound like an awful lot, but if that is from a single item from a single wash, it shows how things can build up.
"It suggests to us that a large proportion of the fibres we were finding in the environment, in the strongest evidence yet, was derived from the sewerage as a consequence from washing clothes." | Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned. |
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Despite making a solid start against the Chinese top seeds Zhang Nan and Zhao Yunlei, they were eventually beaten 21-15 21-7.
The Anglo-Scottish pair are ranked 20 in the world and were appearing in their first major final.
"Unfortunately they were a bit more experienced," Adcock told BBC Sport.
Zhang and Zhao's victory gave China their fifth gold medal of the championships.
Of the 21 other British players who entered this year, none made it past Wednesday's matches.
Neither Leicester-born Adcock, 22, nor Scottish 23-year-old Bankier, had ever come close to an international result of this magnitude at senior level.
They surpassed all expectations by defeating the eighth, fourth and second seeds en route to the final.
The British couple went toe-to-toe with the Chinese early on in the final as Bankier's confident net play disrupted their opponents' play.
A powerful smash by Adcock drew the British pair level at 15-15 and they looked on course to cause another upset.
But a series of mis-hits and errors allowed Zhang and Zhao to take control.
"The first set was absolutely crucial," Adcock told BBC Sport. "We were playing well until 15-15. It's where we've been strong all week, closing out matches and performing in tight situations.
"We've won a silver world medal and I see it as a stepping stone to winning the medal above. We can only use it as a positive."
By the second set, the Chinese had found their form and looked comfortable dealing with the British attack.
In front of a boisterous Wembley crowd, Adcock and Bankier struggled to cope with the Chinese duo's dominance as they fell 15-6 behind and the world's top pair soon clinched victory.
Bankier told BBC Sport: "It's hard to end the tournament on a loss when we've been on a high all week. But, when we reflect, we've produced some fantastic performances and had brilliant results against top 10 pairs."
This was the first appearance by Britons in a World Badminton final since Athens Olympic silver medallists Nathan Robertson and Gail Emms won the mixed doubles world title in 2006.
Five years on from that success, Robertson drifted out of the tournament alongside new partner Jenny Wallwork on its third day.
That pairing - seeded 10th - had been billed as Britain's likeliest chance of a medal, but unseeded Adcock and Bankier appeared inspired by their status as last Brits standing.
"We knew we could achieve good things but just not this early," said Adcock, who has only been playing with Bankier since September last year.
"We've proven what we can achieve, everything fell into place this week." | Britain's Chris Adcock and Imogen Bankier missed out on gold in the mixed doubles final at the World Championships at Wembley Arena. |
38,723,199 | The 21-year-old joins the Women's FA Cup holders ahead of the 2017 WSL 1 Spring Series, which begins in April.
Her move comes after Sunderland - who finished seventh in the top flight last season - reverted to part-time status.
Widely-tipped as a future England star, Mead earned her first senior call-up in 2015 but is yet to win her first cap.
The Whitby-born forward, who had a contract with Sunderland until 2019, has netted 10 times in 25 appearances for England at various youth levels.
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She won the PFA's Young Player of the Year award in 2016, after being voted as the WSL 1 Players' Player of the Year in 2015.
Mead - who signed a four-year deal with the Lady Black Cats in 2015 - graduated with a degree in sports development from Teeside University in July.
She was Sunderland's top league scorer again in 2016, netting five top-flight goals.
Arsenal, who finished third in 2016, get their league campaign under way at home to Notts County Ladies on Sunday, 23 April. | Arsenal Ladies have signed England Under-23 striker Beth Mead from fellow Women's Super League club Sunderland on an undisclosed-length full-time deal. |
33,039,374 | The letters include drawings and passages of surreal humour, such as: "Do you realise that if you shaved your nose every day you would soo grow a reasonable beard on it?"
The letters have been held by the Spender family for more than 70 years.
They have a combined estimate price of £28,000-42,000.
Oliver Barker, deputy chairman of Sotheby's Europe, said: "While relatively little is known about Freud's teenage life, the emergence of these letters is a sensational moment, providing a glimpse into the workings of a truly artistic mind.
"More than just letters, they are artworks in their own right. Filled with drawings and watercolours, they show the workings of the artist, reflecting his artistic output at the time."
The letters show Freud's humorous side, addressed to 'Spethan', 'Schuster' or 'Step-hanio' and signed off 'Lucelli', 'Lucio Fruit' or 'Lucionus Fruitata'.
Spender, who died in 1995, was known for his poetry and essays which addressed social injustice and the class struggle.
Freud would go on to be regarded as one of the finest British artists of the 20th Century. He died in 2011.
The letters will be offered at Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day Auction on 2 July. | Previously unseen letters by the then-teenage artist Lucian Freud to poet Stephen Spender are to be auctioned by Sotheby's. |
32,372,174 | The fire broke out just before 15:00 on Saturday at a semi-detached property on Ravenscraig Road in the town.
Firefighters found the body of man inside the property while tackling the blaze. Police have said the man's death was being treated as unexplained.
Three crews from the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service used a hose reel jet and breathing apparatus to bring the flames under control.
Insp Simon Reid of Police Scotland said: "Police along with Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Ambulance Service attended a property in Ravenscaig Road, following reports of a fire at a domestic property.
"Sadly, the body of a male has been found within the property and the cause of death remains unexplained at this time.
"A joint Police Scotland and Scottish Fire and Rescue Service investigation is ongoing to establish the circumstances of the fire."
A spokeswoman from Police Scotland said there was no other information about the man until a formal identification had taken place. | A man has died following a blaze at a house in Peterhead. |
15,819,767 | Workington Transport Heritage Trust plan to have the tram removed and restored at an estimated cost of about £15,000.
After its removal from the building near Carlisle College and restoration, it will go on display in Workington.
The tram was built in the early 20th Century and its last journey took place in Carlisle in the 1930s.
Before being moved into the building, it was believed to have been stood for many years as a garden shed.
The remains of the tram is mostly the framework of the lower saloon.
Phil Tuer, from the Workington Transport Heritage Trust, said restoring the tram was not going to be easy.
He said: "It's in a very sorry state of repair and requires a large amount of work to be carried out."
Alistair Grey is the secretary of the trust and says that the door to the building is smaller than the door that was on it when the tram was originally moved there.
He said: "Dragging the tram out will be a tight squeeze.
"It's been in the building for many years and the pigeons have left layers of muck that needs cleaning up."
Mr Grey said it could cost up to £15,000 to restore the remains of the tram.
He said: "It was a double-decker tram in its heyday and all that's left now is the wooden framework of the lower saloon, all the metal work, the chassis, the wheels and the controls have all disappeared, so it's going to cost that money to restore it.
"We're trying to create a flavour of what the tram would have looked like, we can restore this wooden saloon into a presentable exhibit and we can use it as a centre piece in a future visitors' centre in Workington.
"It will be used to tell the story of the Carlisle tramway system."
It is hoped the work on the tram will begin in December. | Carlisle's last surviving tram will be moved before the derelict building where is stands is demolished. |
18,415,078 | Burton made his Under-16s debut in a 1-0 victory in Spain in February.
The 15-year-old then had to pull out of the Montaigu Tournament in France in April after suffering a foot injury.
"It's great news for Callum who had the disappointment of having to withdraw from the last squad he was selected for," said Town boss Graham Turner.
"Callum comes in with the pros at least once a week and works with our goalkeeping coach Gavin Ward and he's making good progress.
"When he kept goal against the pros at the start of last season balls were flying past him, but now his reflexes are a lot better and he makes some good saves. There is a marked improvement in him."
Shrewsbury have produced a number of quality keepers, including the senior England side's current number one Joe Hart.
"You talk about Alan Boswell, Steve Ogrizovic, Ken Mulhearn. There's been some excellent goalkeepers here.
"Then there's Joe Hart obviously and hopefully Callum's going to be the next one on the line," Turner told the club's website.
Burton is one of six players in the England Under-16 squad (along with Leeds' Lewis Cook of Leeds, Middlesbrough pair Priestley Griffiths and Bradley Fewster and MK Dons duo Bamidele Alli and Brendan Galloway) not attached to a Premier League club.
Alan Boswell: Made 222 appearances before signing for Wolves in 1968
John Phillips: Oswestry-born, played 51 times before joining Villa in 1969. Understudy to Peter Bonetti at Chelsea. Four Welsh caps
Ken Mulhearn: Signed from Man City in 1971, made 370 appearances and was Graham Turner's first Town keeper
Bob Wardle: Spent two seasons with Town before leaving to go to Liverpool as part of Steve Ogrizovic deal in 1982
Steve Ogrizovic: Signed from Liverpool in 1982, played 84 games before signing for Coventry City for £72,500 in 1984
Joe Hart: Shrewsbury-born, twice sat on Town bench as 15-year-old. Played 54 games before joining Man City for an initial £600,000 in May 2006. Has now won 18 England caps. | Teenage Shrewsbury Town keeper Callum Burton has again been named in the England Under-16 squad for a tournament in the Faroe Islands in August. |
29,449,610 | The Cake Crew at Bala's Enterprise Park is installing a £250,000 production line to increase capacity to 750,000 cakes a week.
October is expected to be the busiest month on record, the company said.
A spokesperson said: "We would like to thank the Bala workforce for its performance in gaining this additional business through consistent quality."
The bakery supplies the major supermarket chains. | A Gwynedd bakery is creating 30 new jobs to meet demand for its cup and loaf cakes. |
33,210,406 | In the first robbery, two men, one armed with a knife, entered the shop at about 20:55 BST on Friday and demanded cash and cigarettes.
The second raid happened at about 07:30 BST on Saturday and again two men, one armed with a knife, stole cash and cigarettes.
Police said they "strongly believe" the robberies are linked.
Ulster Unionist councillor Jim Rodgers has said he is concerned by the number of robberies in the area.
"The police and the public need to do more to try and prevent these happening," he said.
"For those who are suffering, it is desperately serious.
"Many of us are working extremely hard to keep businesses in the east of the city and to attract new employers and this isn't helping matters."
The MP for East Belfast, the DUP's Gavin Robinson, said he was appalled by recent robberies in the area.
"Business and our wider community need reassurance that such lawlessness will not be tolerated," he said.
"The dark cloud of crime won't pass without intervention."
The men in the Albertbridge Road robberies were described as being of slim to medium build and both were wearing gloves and baseball caps.
One of the men was taller than the other, at 5ft 11ins tall.
He was said to have been wearing track bottoms, Converse shoes and a blue jacket with a lighter hood.
The second man was about 5ft 7ins tall and was wearing dark jogging bottoms, white trainers and a navy zip-up jacket.
Police have appealed for witnesses. | A shop on the Albertbridge Road in east Belfast has been robbed twice in less than 12 hours. |
19,596,901 | 1498 - Christopher Columbus sights the islands, which he names Grenada after the Spanish city.
1650 - French settlers from Martinique establish a colony and found Saint George's, the present capital.
1783 - France cedes Grenada to Britain in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles; African slaves brought in to work on the cotton, sugar and tobacco plantations.
1795 - Abortive rebellion against British rule led by Julien Fedon, an African planter who was inspired by the French Revolution.
1834 - Slavery abolished.
1885-1958 - Grenada acts as administrative headquarters of the British Windward Islands.
Post-independence PM Eric Gairy was ousted in the 1979 coup
1950 - Grenada United Labour Party founded by Eric Gairy.
1958-62 - Grenada is part of the British-sponsored Federation of the West Indies.
1967 - Grenada becomes autonomous, with foreign and defence affairs remaining under British control.
1974 - Grenada becomes independent with Eric Gairy as prime minister.
1979 - PM Eric Gairy ousted in coup organised by the leftist New Jewel Movement and led by Maurice Bishop, who proceeds to strengthen ties with Cuba and the US.
1983 - Bishop ousted and executed by former left-wing allies led by General Hudson Austin, who objected to his attempts to improve ties with the US; coup provides pretext for an invasion by the US; Austin arrested; Interim Advisory Council reinstates 1974 constitution.
6,000 US marines overthrew leaders of 1983 coup
On This Day: 1983 - US troops invade
1984 - Herbert A Blaize becomes prime minister after his centre-left New National Party (NNP) wins the general election.
1989 - Blaize remains prime minister after being replaced as head of the NNP; he later dies and is replaced by Ben Jones.
1991 - Coalition government headed by Nicholas Brathwaite, of the centrist National Democratic Congress (NDC) takes office after an inconclusive general election.
1995 February - Agriculture Minister George Brizan becomes prime minister after resignation of Brathwaite.
1995 June - Keith Mitchell becomes prime minister after his NNP wins general elections with comfortable majority.
1999 - Prime Minister Keith Mitchell's NNP wins landslide in general elections, taking all 15 seats in parliament.
2000 April - Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up with South African help to examine political upheavals of the "Revolutionary Years" between 1976 and 1983.
2000 September - Three Chinese diplomats on a private visit are deported for statements construed as interference in the internal affairs of Grenada. They were invited by the newly-formed Grenada-China friendship association of opposition leader Michael Baptiste.
2001 - Grenada blacklisted by Paris-based Financial Action Task Force for not doing enough to tackle money-laundering. Government begins review of offshore banking.
2001 - Opposition criticises government for establishing diplomatic ties with Libya and for Prime Minister Mitchell's trip to Tripoli. He went as part of an Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) delegation seeking economic help after a drop-off in aid from the US, UK.
2001 December - Canada imposes visa regime on holders of Grenada passports, which can be bought, over security fears following 11 September attacks. Grenada had earlier suspended sales to avoid awarding citizenship to terrorists.
2001 December - Underwater volcano Kick'em Jenny off the Grenada coast erupts, but does not break the water's surface.
2002 February - Paris-based Financial Action Task Force removes Grenada from blacklist of countries said to be insufficiently cooperative in fight against money-laundering.
2002 - Major organic banana project launched in an effort to boost the industry; 150 acres are set aside for organic cultivation.
2003 June - US Treasury Department's financial crimes agency withdraws its 2002 advisory on Grenada as efforts continue to clean-up offshore banking.
2003 November - Prime Minister Keith Mitchell narrowly wins a third term in office.
2004 September - Grenada takes a direct hit from Hurricane Ivan - the country's worst hurricane in living memory. Prime Minister Mitchell declares a national disaster; he says the island is 90% devastated.
Hurricane which hit in 2004 destroyed or damaged most of Grenada's buildings and crops
In pictures: The aftermath
Islanders finding their feet again
2005 January - Grenada re-establishes diplomatic ties with China, favouring Beijing over its former diplomatic partner Taiwan.
2005 July - Still recovering from 2004's Hurricane Ivan, Grenada is hit by Hurricane Emily. The storm kills one person, destroys crops and damages homes.
2007 February - UK-based Privy Court rules that 14 prisoners who were sentenced to death over the 1983 coup should be re-sentenced. It says the sentences, handed down in 1986, are illegitimate.
2008 February - Former prime minister Sir Eric Gairy is named as the country's first National Hero on 34th anniversary of independence.
2008 July - The National Democratic Congress takes a clear victory in elections, taking 11 parliamentary seats to the New National Party's four. The surprise win denies Keith Mitchell a fourth term in office, and Tillman Thomas of the NDC takes over as prime minister.
2009 September - The last seven of the 17 men convicted over the 1983 coup and murder of PM Maurice Bishop are released from prison after serving out their sentences.
2013 February - The opposition New National Party wins a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, taking all 15 contested seats. Keith Mitchell returns as prime minister. | A chronology of key events: |
35,471,724 | The first episode looks at the colourful forests of New England, on the east coast of the US, where the vivid greens of summer give way to the golds and reds of autumn.
This programme revels in the full glory of the spectacle, and reveals how this vibrant fiesta is created by the battles between the trees and the forests' inhabitants.
Moose, chipmunks, rattlesnakes and a bizarre mixture of caterpillars all play a crucial role.
But, surprisingly, the forest itself was made so colourful thanks to the hard work of a combination of beavers, ants and humans.
Here, we present a few images of some of the moments explored in the film.
Earth's Greatest Spectacles can be seen on BBC 2 on Friday 5 February 2016. | A new BBC series, Earth's Greatest Spectacles, explores three of the most seasonally changeable landscapes on the planet - Svalbard, Okavango and New England. |
35,775,559 | The session was due to take place at Huntingdon Racecourse but flooding in many parts of Cambridgeshire led to it being called off.
A racecourse spokeswoman said staff decided it was "too dangerous for people to access it on flooded roads".
Health and safety trainer David Passfield said: "You have to laugh at the irony of it".
Delegates had been expecting to learn about complying with health and safety laws before the racecourse's own health and safety regulations kicked in and dampened their plans.
More on the flooding and other stories from Cambridgeshire
A risk assessment was carried out and the risk posed by the floodwaters was deemed too great, Mr Passfield said.
"There were concerns about people getting in and out and becoming stranded."
The health and safety trainer said his "face dropped" when he "realised the irony of the situation".
The event has been postponed until the end of the month. | A health and safety training event has been cancelled because of health and safety concerns. |
37,081,754 | Froome, 31, won the Tour de France for a third time in July and then took Olympic bronze in the time trial at Rio 2016 on 10 August.
The Vuelta begins with a team time trial in Ourense, Spain on 20 August and finishes on 11 September in Madrid.
"You could say I have unfinished business," said Froome, who was second in the Vuelta in 2011 and 2014.
He was forced to drop out of the 2015 Vuelta - one of the sport's three Grand Tours, alongside the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia - when he broke a bone in his foot as he hit a barrier on the 11th stage.
Froome finished in 12th in the road race on the first day of competition in Rio, but claimed the time trial bronze medal behind winner Fabian Cancellara four days later.
Team Sky's line-up in Spain is completed by Ian Boswell, Michal Golas, Peter Kennaugh, Christian Knees, Michal Kwiatkowski, Mikel Landa, Salvatore Puccio and Leo Konig. | Britain's Chris Froome will ride in the 2016 Vuelta a Espana, Team Sky have confirmed. |
35,681,323 | Members of the far-right North West Infidels group were reportedly confronted by anti-fascist protesters outside St George's Hall on Saturday.
One officer suffered concussion after being hit by a missile, and was treated in hospital, Merseyside Police said.
The force said 34 people were arrested for offences including assaulting a police officer, violent disorder and possessing weapons. | Dozens of people have been arrested as rival protesters clashed in Liverpool. |
25,733,930 | Police were called to the Llandegfan house last October after neighbours reported not seeing the Reverend Basil Bevan, 85, for sometime.
Officers found his body in a mummified state, the inquest heard. His wife was also living at the house.
The coroner recorded a verdict of death from natural causes.
Officers who spoke to the vicar's wife decided she was unwell and took her to hospital.
The inquest in Llangefni was told that in interviews Pauline Bevan described how her husband had a heart attack in November 2010.
Dewi Pritchard Jones, senior coroner for North West Wales, said there had been problems identifying the body.
A DNA comparison with the cleric's brother only gave a partial match because of the poor quality of the sample.
The coroner said he was satisfied the body was that of Dr Bevan who, on the balance of probabilities, died of heart disease.
Mr Pritchard-Jones said: "Neighbours had commented to a police officer that they hadn't seen the Rev Basil Bevan for some time and there was concern regarding his welfare.
"After some time Mrs Pauline Bevan came out of the property and there was a discussion with the police officers present. She appeared to be unwell and was taken to hospital.
"The police then went into the property, being concerned regarding Dr Bevan's welfare. When they went inside the property they found it was in a considerable state of disarray.
"On searching it they came across mummified human remains. The remains were not capable of visual identification."
He added: "For reasons that are not matters of concern for an inquest the body was allowed to remain at the property."
The cause of Dr Bevan's death was recorded as heart disease and the verdict was natural causes.
He was believed to have been ordained in 1955 and spent most of his career in Wales, serving in the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon before moving to north Wales in 1978. | The body of a retired vicar which was found in a house on Anglesey had probably been there almost three years, an inquest has heard. |
38,142,124 | The draft guidelines for England say women predisposed to breast cancer because of a strong family history of the disease need this protection.
There are now three drugs to choose from - tamoxifen, raloxifene and, for the first time, anastrozole.
Anastrozole is cheaper than the other two and, for some women, has fewer side-effects and is more effective.
Trials show that per 1,000 patients taking anastrozole for five years, 35 cancer cases would be prevented compared with 21 for tamoxifen.
Which treatment is best for each woman will depend on her situation. If she is pre-menopausal, anastrozole won't be suitable because it knocks out the female hormone oestrogen, creating, in effect, a drug-induced menopause.
Clinical trials show anastrozole avoids two of tamoxifen's more serious side-effects - an increased risk of developing a blood-clotting disease, and an increased risk of developing womb cancer.
But anastrozole can make bones weaker and so it is not recommended for women with osteoporosis.
Women should discuss the relative merits and risks with their doctor when deciding which tablet to take.
Prof Mark Baker from NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) said: "Our draft guideline update recommends the use of anastrozole as a first-line treatment for post-menopausal women at high or medium risk of breast cancer who don't have osteoporosis.
"The evidence examined by the committee suggests anastrozole will not only reduce the number of breast cancer cases in these women compared to tamoxifen, but it is also a more cost-effective option."
Anastrozole costs about 4p a pill. The list price of tamoxifen is about 9p per tablet.
Baroness Morgan from the charity, Breast Cancer Now, was concerned that patients might not be able to access treatments, despite the recommendations.
Not all of the tablets are licensed for use as breast cancer prevention drugs. Doctors can still prescribe them off-label.
"This updated guideline is a great first step but we now need to ensure that these risk-reducing options actually make their way to patients that could benefit. Ultimately, if the full potential of anastrozole is to be realised for post-menopausal women, there needs to be far greater awareness and support for GPs in prescribing off-label treatments."
Some women find that the side-effects of these breast cancer pills are significant enough to stop them taking the medication.
Common side-effects, affecting at least one in every 10 women on the tablets, include hot flushes and sweats.
Breast cancer affects one in eight women in the UK. Most cases are not linked to a family history.
Around 5% of people diagnosed with breast cancer have inherited a faulty BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene.
If you have a faulty gene, it doesn't mean you'll definitely develop breast cancer, but you are at higher risk.
Out of every 100 women with a faulty gene, between 40 and 85 will develop breast cancer in their lifetime.
Genetic testing for breast cancer
Follow Michelle on Twitter | Hundreds of thousands of healthy women should take pills to cut their risk of breast cancer, says NHS watchdog NICE. |
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The Steelers won 6-5 in second overtime to deny the Devils a grand slam.
"What an epic game. I won't forget this one for a long time," Sarich told BBC Radio Sheffield after Levi Nelson' winning goal saw Sheffield come back from 3-1 down to clinch victory.
"We worked so hard for it. Hats off to Cardiff as well."
The Devils had been bidding to become the first team to win an Elite Ice Hockey League grand slam since 2012-13.
But they were denied by the Steelers, who also came from behind to beat Nottingham Panthers earlier in the play-offs.
"To pull the rabbit out of the hat against Nottingham and now to do it here in double overtime, it is a fairytale," Sarich added.
"This is right up there, it is tops. What a battle to get here and then, to do it like that, we're really happy."
The Steelers had not won the Elite League play-offs since 2013-14. | Sheffield Steelers defender Rodney Sarich says Sunday's dramatic overtime win over Cardiff Devils in the Elite League play-off was a "fairytale". |
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