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37,748,139 | Previous Chinese-led bids for the estate were blocked by the government, which cited national security concerns.
The Rinehart offer had hoped to appease those government concerns.
The new counter-bid has four of the country's wealthiest cattle families offering A$386m (??240m; $293m).
Kidman had already accepted the joint $A365 million offer by Ms Rinehart and Chinese developer Shanghai CRED Real Estate.
However, the company's board is required to consider any higher offers.
The Rinehart bid also is still pending approval from the country's foreign investment board.
The new offer was filed late on Sunday from the BBHO consortium, comprising the Brinkworth, Buntine, Harris and Oldfield families, and would not require such approval.
The sale of the Kidman estate, which comprises farms the size of South Korea, has highlighted the concerns over the sale of Australian assets to Chinese investors.
The stockman who built an Australian cattle empire
101,411
sqkm of overall territory
77,300 sqkm to be sold
1% of Australia to change hands
15,000 tonnes of beef carcass shipped globally per year
The landholding - with its 10 cattle ranches, a bull breeding stud and a feed lot covering 101,411 sq km (39,155 sq miles) in four states - encompasses about 1.3% of the Australian continent.
A successful bid by BBHO would create one of the world's biggest cattle businesses, with more than 500,000 head of cattle.
A spokeswoman for Ms Rinehart said the two bids were, in fact, priced "about the same" because the Rinehart bid excludes two of the Kidman properties.
These are close to a government weapons-testing range at Woomera and therefore deemed to be too defence-sensitive to go into partly foreign ownership. | A new all-Australian bid for the Kidman estate, the country's largest cattle farm, has topped an offer led by the country's richest woman Gina Rinehart together with Chinese investors. |
40,505,479 | Ex-Plaid Cymru leader Lord Wigley said a bill he will introduce in the Lords would ensure forces have enough money.
Prime Minister Theresa May told MPs on Wednesday her government had protected police funding since 2015 and crime was at a record low.
Lord Wigley's bill stands no chance of becoming law without government support and a lack of parliamentary time means it is unlikely to progress further.
His proposed new law would scrap the current system, where the UK government sets the police budget annually, with regional police and crime commissioners submitting "funding estimates" to the home secretary instead.
An independent adjudication body would resolve any gap between the two.
Lord Wigley said: "Police forces in Wales and in England have been subjected to sustained cuts to their budgets which have undoubtedly detracted from their capacity to support the work of the security services.
"Government funding for the police has been cut by 25% over the past five years and vital aspects of policing and public safety are now under-resourced as a result."
The UK government has said anti-terror budgets have been protected but Lord Wigley said: "Units such as safer neighbourhood teams, which carry out crucial work in support of counter-terrorism efforts, have been cut to the bone.
"Ten years ago, safer neighbourhood teams, which collect intelligence on extremist, gang and criminal activity, would have had six officers including a sergeant and two police constables and they covered, on average, one council ward each.
"Now each team has an average of just three members of staff and cover areas that are 75% bigger than before."
He said his bill sought to make sure police forces had sufficient resources to keep people safe.
"It would ensure that police budgets reflect their needs, allowing vital units such as safer neighbourhood teams to take a greater role in supporting the work of security and intelligence services," Lord Wigley added. | A change to how police are funded is to be put forward by a Welsh peer. |
38,424,440 | The struggling Sky Blues were on course for victory after skipper Jordan Willis converted a Chris McCann cross in the 19th minute.
While that effort did prove enough to snap a run of seven successive League One defeats, Michael Bostwick's dramatic equaliser denied Slade's side victory.
The hosts had been way below par in a game of very few chances. It took until the second minute of the second half for them to test Coventry keeper Lee Burge, who kept out a Lee Angol header.
Burge then saved a 25-yard rocket from Marcus Maddison before a brilliant block prevented Bostwick from slamming in the rebound.
Burge also held a late Ryan Tafazolli effort in a scramble before Bostwick headed in Maddison's cross to rescue Posh a point in the third minute of added time.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Peterborough United 1, Coventry City 1.
Second Half ends, Peterborough United 1, Coventry City 1.
Goal! Peterborough United 1, Coventry City 1. Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) header from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Marcus Maddison with a cross.
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Ben Stevenson.
Foul by Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United).
Jordan Turnbull (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Dion Kelly-Evans.
Attempt blocked. Chris McCann (Coventry City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Dion Kelly-Evans.
Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United).
Kyel Reid (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right.
Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Marvin Sordell (Coventry City).
Substitution, Coventry City. Marvin Sordell replaces Marcus Tudgay.
Attempt missed. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Andy Rose.
Lee Angol (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dion Kelly-Evans (Coventry City).
Attempt saved. Shaquile Coulthirst (Peterborough United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Dion Kelly-Evans.
Attempt saved. Marcus Maddison (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Jamie Sterry.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Shaquile Coulthirst replaces Tom Nichols.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Callum Chettle replaces Leonardo Da Silva Lopes.
Substitution, Peterborough United. Marcus Maddison replaces Paul Taylor.
Substitution, Coventry City. Jodi Jones replaces George Thomas.
Attempt missed. Paul Taylor (Peterborough United) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Peterborough United. Conceded by Jordan Turnbull.
Attempt blocked. Chris Forrester (Peterborough United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Chris McCann (Coventry City).
Michael Smith (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jamie Sterry (Coventry City).
Michael Bostwick (Peterborough United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Tafazolli (Peterborough United).
Chris McCann (Coventry City) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | New boss Russell Slade was denied his first win as Coventry boss by a last-gasp leveller at Peterborough. |
37,605,963 | The 1.4-mile (2.3km) tunnel, between Bradford and Halifax in West Yorkshire, could be opened for £2.8m, said Queensbury Tunnel Society.
Highways England has said it could cost £35m to make it safe for future use.
The tunnel, last used by trains about 60 years ago, is partly flooded and has collapsed in some places.
More on this story and others from West Yorkshire
Campaigners in the village of Queensbury came up with the cycleway idea to encourage bike use.
It would avoid steep, busy roads and provide a direct link between Bradford and Halifax.
The Queensbury Tunnel Society's report said most of the tunnel was in a fair condition and could be repaired.
It would involve patching small areas, with concrete repairs to bigger patches of missing brickwork, said the report.
Defective brickwork would be replaced open joints re-pointed.
"Queensbury Tunnel has to be made safe, it does not have to be made perfect," it said.
Highways England is responsible for the tunnel as part of the Historical Railways Estate.
It said it was "open to the idea" of transferring the tunnel to another public body to maintain it.
It said a new owner could be offered the £3m estimated cost of closing the tunnel.
"An independent study commissioned by Highways England carried out earlier this year revealed the condition of the tunnel continues to deteriorate and that it would cost an estimated £35m to make it safe for future use," it said.
Work on closing the tunnel would begin next summer if a transfer cannot be agreed, it said. | Converting an abandoned railway tunnel into an underground cycleway could cost a tenth of official estimates, said campaigners. |
37,428,022 | In his break, Bristol illustrator Henry St Leger uses his discarded biscuit and tea-cake wrappers to create mini-masterpieces of dinosaurs.
The tiny and shiny prehistoric creatures even have their own blog.
Mr St Leger, 33, who lives in Yatton, north Somerset said: "I have been making things with the wrappers for as long as I can remember."
"Both my brother Samuel and I used to make little men or dinosaurs whenever we had a Tunnocks caramel wafer.
"The wrapper on a Tunnocks is quite unique in that it's kind of a foil and paper combo and it seems to work beautifully for making things with."
When taking breaks from his job, Mr St Leger began making and leaving the "wrapper raptors" at the nearby Spike Island cafe where staff started keeping them in a collection.
"After that I decided to start blogging them on Tumblr more for my own amusement than anything," he said.
But the models, which range from a menacing pack of T-Rexes to airborne Pterosaurs and even tiny dinosaur eggs, soon created their own fan base among his colleagues.
Mr St Leger said: "Two exceptional Aardman directors Richard Webber and Merlin Crossingham, animator and director extraordinaire Jane Davies-Watkins kindly got involved after seeing the blog and my disgustingly talented brother has done a fair few.
"I specifically do dinosaurs because they are fun to do and it tests my very rusty childhood knowledge of dinosaurs- although I have gone well beyond that now and have to do a bit of research," he said. | An employee of Aardman Animations has been delighting cafe-goers with his origami skills. |
36,887,347 | Yates, 23, was suspended after an administrative error led to him using an asthma inhaler without permission.
"I am going to enjoy this moment," the Orica-BikeExchange rider said. "It's my first victory as a full professional."
Yates' twin brother, Adam, was crowned the best young rider at the Tour de France, which finished on Sunday.
Simon Yates was sanctioned by governing body the UCI in June for a "non-intentional" anti-doping rule violation, resulting in the suspension.
He returned to action on 11 July and subsequently finished 20th at the Tour of Poland. | Simon Yates claimed his first victory since returning from a four-month drugs ban at the one-day Prueba Villafranca-Ordiziako Klasika in Spain. |
30,794,264 | Llanelli RFC is hosting a live extract of 'Grav' at the pitchside in Parc y Scarlets ahead of its first performance in Milford Haven next month.
Gravell played for Llanelli from 1970 until 1985 and was president of the club until his death in 2007.
He was capped for Wales and the British Lions, and worked on screen and radio.
Gravell was part of the 1972 Llanelli side that beat the touring All Blacks 9-3 at Stradey Park.
He played for his country 23 times and was considered one of the great centres.
After retiring from rugby he went on to appear in a number of film and television productions including Rebecca's Daughters alongside Peter O'Toole, and was a much-loved rugby commentator for the BBC and Welsh language channel S4C.
He died in 2007 following complications from diabetes.
Welsh actor Gareth John Bale, who helped devise the show along with Torch Theatre director Peter Doran, will take the role of Grav. | A one-man show depicting the life and times of rugby legend and broadcaster Ray Gravell is having a launch at the club to which he dedicated his life. |
39,454,759 | 31 March 2017 Last updated at 13:00 BST
This may look like a cross between a mouse and a hedgehog, but it's actually a lowland streaked tenrec.
Four of the little creatures have arrived at Chester Zoo. Check them out: | Say hello to a pretty unusual creature. |
14,337,500 | The Independent, the Guardian and
Daily Star
lead with the possible hacking of Sara Payne's phone.
The
Guardian
says the revelation will revive speculation about the role of former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks in the affair.
And the
Independent calls the latest development in the continuing scandal a "sinister new twist".
A man described as a former English Defence League activist has admitted to
the Times
that he could have inspired Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik.
Paul Ray, who the paper says has fled to Malta fearing arrest, says he had direct contacts with Mr Breivik.
However, he said he rejected Mr Breivik as a Facebook friend because he "didn't like the look of him".
He says what Mr Breivik has done is "pure evil" and "does not equate" to anything he's involved in.
The
Daily Mail attacks David Cameron and Nick Clegg for failing to tackle the growth in plastic carrier bags,
despite promises made in opposition.
It says tackling the scourge of carrier bag pollution is more useful and popular with voters than "putting exorbitant taxes on fuel bills".
The
Sun wants shops to cut back on them but is against the 5p tax on bags which has been mooted.
"We don't need any more taxes," says the paper.
The
Daily Telegraph
tells how police seized a stolen motorbike in a raid on a house in Edinburgh and spent a further four hours searching the property for other stolen goods.
The Yamaha machine has been returned to its rightful owner.
It transpired that he bought the bike a few weeks earlier at a police auction of unclaimed stolen goods.
The householder, who said the raid was embarrassing and stressful, has demanded an apology and compensation. | Claims that the mother of murder victim Sarah Payne may have been the victim of phone hacking is widely reported in Friday's newspapers. |
40,602,165 | Aurimas Butkys, 25, ran off earlier, shortly after he entered Boston Police Station in Lincolnshire.
He had been detained on a extradition warrant in connection with an assault in Lithuania, Lincolnshire Police said.
The suspect was last seen on Tower Street wearing a dark t-shirt and brown shorts. The force has asked for any sightings of him to be reported. | A man has escaped from custody while being escorted into a police station wearing handcuffs. |
32,038,186 | Following a two-year break, the LHC is getting ready to smash protons together once again - at new, higher energies.
Before the collisions begin, proton beams must travel safely around its 27km circumference in both directions.
Those full laps were expected to begin this week, but that plan will now be revised.
Cern, the European nuclear research organisation which runs the LHC, said the "intermittent short circuit" was discovered on Saturday.
It affected one of the magnets that will eventually send protons racing around the LHC - specifically a magnet in "sector 3-4".
Nearby, sector 4-5 of the machine - the area which triggered a more eventful false start when the LHC first commenced operations in 2008 - had already been lagging behind the other seven in the gradual "training" process that the magnets must go through.
But the short circuit is a more serious problem, in terms of the delay it could impose on the restart.
Cern said it was "a well understood issue", but because the magnets are supercooled to temperatures approaching absolute zero (-273C), the repair could be time-consuming.
If it requires the faulty magnet to be warmed up and re-cooled, the delay may stretch from a few days to "several weeks", the organisation announced on Tuesday.
"Any cryogenic machine is a time amplifier, so what would have taken hours in a warm machine could end up taking us weeks," said Cern's director for accelerators, Frederick Bordry.
Scientists at Cern emphasised that the restart timetable was always flexible and that Run Two of the world's largest machine is still on target.
Rolf Heuer, the organisation's director general, said: "All the signs are good for a great Run Two. In the grand scheme of things, a few weeks' delay in humankind's quest to understand our Universe is little more than the blink of an eye."
When it eventually comes to the science, there are many big items on the LHC team's wish list for Run Two - including detecting dark matter, making further observations of the Higgs boson, and ultimately, the search for a "new physics" outside of the Standard Model.
Particle physicist Jonathan Butterworth, from University College London, works on Atlas - one of four major experiments spaced around the LHC's huge circle. He told BBC News that the experiment teams were ready to go, and waiting to hear more from the scientists and engineers who manage the beams.
"It's a very separate organisation, basically," Prof Butterworth said. "The accelerator guys are all within Cern - and we're sort of ready and waiting. We do what they tell us at this stage."
But he added that the time will not be wasted. The experiment teams can make extra improvements to their own systems while they wait - particularly to the computer code used to control the detectors and analyse data.
"Every day, we have people frantically coding stuff up to be even more ready," he said.
Dr Andre David, who works for Cern on the CMS experiment, also said the additional time would be valuable. He and his colleagues are "enjoying" the chance to make sub-millimetre adjustments to some of the detectors inside CMS.
"We are profiting from this time to collect more cosmic ray data, which is crucial to align the very tiny inner detectors," Dr David told the BBC.
Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that bombard the Earth, but few of them penetrate the atmosphere. High-energy muons, however, interact so infrequently with matter that some of them make it right into the LHC tunnels, 30 storeys underground.
"As they go through the experiment, we can detect them, just like any other muon produced in a collision," Dr David said. "These muons are extremely valuable, because we can figure out where the signals are that they leave behind - without any beams."
By making miniscule adjustments to the alignment of their detectors, the researchers can "smooth out" the way they will identify and measure these particles when they fall out as debris from proton collisions.
Those collisions were originally - tentatively - timetabled to kick off in May, but the short circuit now makes that estimate seem even less certain.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter | The rebooted Large Hadron Collider is facing a delay of days or even weeks, after a short circuit was detected in one of its powerful electromagnets. |
40,605,117 | He was guest of honour as the annual parade this time marked 100 years since the Americans entered World War One.
French President Emmanuel Macron said "nothing will ever separate" France and the US, and Mr Trump's presence showed "a friendship across the ages".
Earlier Mr Macron stood in a military jeep and inspected the troops.
He is now in Nice, attending a commemoration for last year's Bastille Day terrorist attack, in which a Tunisian-born man drove a huge lorry into a celebrating crowd on the beachfront, killing 86 people.
At the start of the ceremony people were honoured for their heroism on the night.
They included Franck Terrier, the man who drove his scooter alongside the speeding lorry and jumped on to its cab, punching the driver through the window in a desperate attempt to force him to stop.
Mr Terrier was given a lengthy ovation and awarded the Légion d'honneur - France's highest order of merit.
France remains under a state of emergency, following a spate of terror attacks by jihadists.
In Paris earlier, President Trump and First Lady Melania warmly embraced their French counterparts - Mr Macron and his wife Brigitte.
Mr Trump called Bastille Day "a wonderful national celebration".
"Our two nations are forever joined together by the spirit of revolution and the fight for freedom," he said.
Earlier, he suggested he could review his position on climate change, after Mr Macron argued in defence of the 2015 Paris accord.
"Something could happen with respect to the Paris accord," Mr Trump said. "We'll see what happens."
Last month he had said the US would withdraw from the Paris accord, citing moves to negotiate a new "fair" deal that would not disadvantage US businesses.
On Thursday, Melania Trump toured Notre Dame cathedral with Brigitte Macron, and prayed before a statue of the Virgin Mary. | President Donald Trump has applauded the Bastille Day parade in Paris, where US and French troops marched together down the Champs-Élysées. |
36,338,538 | Media playback is not supported on this device
The Red Devils failed to secure their place in Europe's elite club competition after finishing fifth in the Premier League.
However, they have the chance to finish the season with a trophy when they play Crystal Palace at Wembley on Saturday.
"Qualification is not a title. A title is the FA Cup," said Van Gaal.
"It is important for the players. They can look at and hold the cup, that's an exciting moment and especially here in England because the FA Cup is a big title.
"Also for Manchester United it is a big title. I have read that the club's last FA Cup was 2004 so that's a long time ago."
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Van Gaal's future remains uncertain heading into the game.
The Dutchman said after Tuesday's final league game against Bournemouth that he planned to see out the remainder of his three-year contract at Old Trafford.
Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho continues to be linked with Manchester United.
Van Gaal, though, was keen not to be drawn on speculation about his future, saying his focus is only on winning Manchester United's first piece of silverware since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.
"A club like Manchester United needs silverware," he added.
"It is not good to speak about my interest. For the club it is important and it is very important for the players and, of course, for the manager and staff it is very important. But first place is the club.
"The most interesting point is that we are able to win something. We are very close but when you don't win, you have nothing.
"First we have to win, then you can say it's the first title after the period of Alex Ferguson."
Who do you think should start the FA Cup final? Step into Alan Pardews shoes and pick your XI - and then share it with your friends using our brand new team selector. | Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal believes winning the FA Cup will be more memorable for his players than qualifying for the Champions League. |
38,331,974 | A selection of the best photos from across Africa this week: | Images courtesy of AFP, AP, EPA, Reuters |
35,050,681 | The Pro12 leaders will be without a host of first-team regulars, including most of their pack, for Saturday's European Champions Cup game against Glasgow Warriors.
Pivac was already without long-term absentees Liam Williams and Scott Williams.
"At my age you don't lose too much sleep over it," Pivac said.
"It's about saying 'here's an opportunity' for some more players."
Prop Rob Evans, hooker Ken Owens, flanker Aaron Shingler, lock Jake Ball will miss the trip to Scotland.
Forward John Barclay will also miss out on facing his former club with a shoulder injury while wing DTH van der Merwe will be absent.
Flanker James Davies has been ruled out for up to 12 weeks with a foot injury he suffered during the Pro12 win over Zebre.
Wales back Liam Williams is set to return early in the new year following a foot injury which ended his World Cup.
Centre Scott Williams hopes to return from his World Cup-ending knee injury before the end of the season.
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"We had a lot [of injuries] last year and I thought that was quite a bit," Pivac added.
"But I'm learning very quickly that it seems to be commonplace.
"We do everything we can to give the guys breaks when they need them. If you don't listen to people's bodies you are going to get these injuries.
"We've got to be very careful with these guys. These guys have had a big workload and they are genuinely knocked around."
Scarlets host Glasgow in the return match on 19 December ahead of the Pro12 Christmas derbies against Ospreys and Cardiff Blues.
Pivac's side face Connacht at home on 10 January before they conclude their Champions Cup pool fixtures against Racing 92 and Northampton Saints.
"Hopefully we'll get through this week without any more [injuries]," Pivac added.
"What we've got to make sure is that we don't rush guys back too soon and end up putting them back another four or five weeks.
"It just shows the depth you have to have in your squads." | Head coach Wayne Pivac says Scarlets' current injury list is the worst he has faced since joining the region in 2014. |
38,827,978 | During Bournemouth and Arsenal's 3-3 draw, then-Hitchin Town player Alfie Barker posted: "Big hype just for a disappointment like the nine months leading up to your child's birth."
Barker, 18, admitted an FA charge at a hearing on Tuesday and is banned from all football activity until 1 August.
He was also fined £250.
Arter, whose side were 3-0 up against the Gunners, and partner Rachel's baby daughter Renee was stillborn in December 2015.
Barker, who was sacked by Hitchin and Codicote FC, where he had been on loan, after sending the tweets, has also been warned as to his future conduct.
He was charged with allegedly posting comments which were abusive and/or insulting and/or improper and/or brought the game into disrepute.
Barker later apologised for his "disgraceful comments" and said that he would accept any punishment given to him. | A non-league player has been suspended for seven months as a result of tweets he sent to Bournemouth's Harry Arter about the death of his baby daughter. |
36,949,648 | The visitors' Mikael Mandron and Joe Partington combined well early on, the former forcing a good save from Jamie Butler.
Butler had to be in fine form again to thwart the French forward from close range.
The Spitfires went in front in the second half, courtesy of James Constable, but Jamie Day's men roared back and Lee Barnard fired past Ross Flitney from 25 yards for the equaliser.
Late on, Ryan Cresswell had to clear off the line to preserve a point for Eastleigh.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Braintree Town 1, Eastleigh 1.
Second Half ends, Braintree Town 1, Eastleigh 1.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Ryan Bird replaces James Constable.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Scott Wilson replaces Mikael Mandron.
Goal! Braintree Town 1, Eastleigh 1. Lee Barnard (Braintree Town).
Jack Midson (Braintree Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Own Goal by Ian Gayle, Braintree Town. Braintree Town 0, Eastleigh 1.
Substitution, Eastleigh. Adam Dawson replaces Joe Partington.
Second Half begins Braintree Town 0, Eastleigh 0.
First Half ends, Braintree Town 0, Eastleigh 0.
James Constable (Eastleigh) is shown the yellow card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Eastleigh's 1-1 draw at Braintree kept both clubs unbeaten in the fledgling National League table. |
33,901,731 | Of the 38 people killed in the terror attack at a resort near Sousse, 33 were on Tui holidays, 30 of whom were British.
In an interview with me this morning, Peter Long, the chief executive of Tui, which owns the travel companies Thomson and First Choice, said that the attack was "the most tragic event and loss of human life that I have ever had to deal with".
You can read about the full impact on the company here.
Mr Long also told me of his new fears about a different part of the world - Greece. There, he said, images of clashes between migrants and local officials on Kos and other important tourist islands in Greece could damage the vital holiday industry.
It is time for European governments to help Greece deal with the migrant issue, coming as it does hard on the heels of the economic crisis.
"Here we have another tragedy unfolding in terms of those migrants and we have to have empathy and sympathy for them - being forced to go onto boats and desperately trying to arrive in other countries and arriving in some of the Greek island, notably Kos," he said.
"I think the Greek authorities are doing all they can to be thoughtful and caring towards these migrants and process them through the system so they can go from the islands to the mainland where it will be easier to assist them."
Tourism is one of Greece's most important industries, worth about £20bn a year to the country. More than 650,000 people are employed in the holiday sector and more than 22 million people travel to Greece every year from around the world.
In its third quarter results, Tui said that the economic turmoil of the debt crisis had affected demand for Greek holidays, especially from Germany. A developing issue around immigration could pose a fresh threat to the sector.
"I worry about the publicity putting people off going to the Greek islands," Mr Long said.
"Those poor unfortunate migrants are located at the moment in Kos town and we have hotels throughout the island."
"Therefore I hope the Greeks are able to process [the migrants] and I'm sure other European governments will look at ways of helping them through this difficult situation with so many migrants arriving at the same time."
"We know that tourism for Greece is so important, their economy is fragile and what we don't want to see [is] a deteriorating demand from our customers going to the Greek islands."
"So I hope this situation is resolved quickly so our customers don't become concerned about travelling to Greece." | The announcement of travel giant Tui Group's results this morning were always going to be dominated by the impact of the terrible events in Tunisia in June. |
39,591,148 | Police charged Shaun Power, 33, of Kettering Road, Romford. He has been bailed to appear before Highbury Magistrates' Court on 12 May.
Two people have previously been charged in connection with the prison escape.
In addition, a 19-year-old was arrested and bailed but will face no further action, and a 24-year-old woman has been bailed pending further enquiries. | A man has been charged with harbouring a prisoner who escaped from Pentonville jail in November. |
34,594,812 | Egyptologists and snake experts have combined to examine the plausibility of the tale of the queen being killed by a cobra hidden in a basket of figs.
They believe a snake big enough to kill the queen and two maids would not have been small enough to be concealed.
They also challenge the credibility of three consecutive fatal bites.
Cleopatra, who died at the age of 39 in 30BC, was a ruler of Egypt who became embroiled in power struggles within the Roman empire.
But her story and her death have become part of popular legend, portrayed in fictional form from Hollywood epics to Carry On films and television comedy.
From Roman sources onwards, her death has often been attributed to a poisonous snake or "asp", with the queen using the fatal bite as a way of ending her own life.
But Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley and Andrew Gray, curator of herpetology at Manchester Museum, say the supposed culprit - a cobra - would have been too physically big to be concealed in the way that has been portrayed.
They are typically 5-6ft long and can grow to 8ft (2.5m), and the Manchester experts reject the idea such a snake could be hidden in the way suggested.
Even if such a snake had been smuggled in to Cleopatra, they say it would have been very unlikely that it could have killed Cleopatra and two of her servants in quick succession.
"Not only are cobras too big, but there's just a 10% chance you would die from a snake bite: most bites are dry bites that don't inject venom," said Mr Gray.
"That's not to say they aren't dangerous: the venom causes necrosis and will certainly kill you, but quite slowly.
"So it would be impossible to use a snake to kill two or three people one after the other.
"Snakes use venom to protect themselves and for hunting - so they conserve their venom and use it in times of need."
Dr Tyldesley, author of Cleopatra: Egypt's Last Queen, is a contributor to a free online course - a Mooc - about ancient Egypt made by the university.
The course, A History of Ancient Egypt, is being launched next week and will study Egypt from before the pharaohs through the relationships with Greece and Rome and ending with Cleopatra. | The story that Cleopatra, ancient queen of Egypt, was killed by a snake bite has been rejected as "impossible" by University of Manchester academics. |
35,344,663 | Scientists sequenced genomes from 10 skeletons unearthed in eastern England and dating from the Iron Age through to the Anglo-Saxon period.
Many of the Anglo-Saxon samples appeared closer to modern Dutch and Danish people than the Iron Age Britons did.
The results appear in Nature Communications journal.
According to historical accounts and archaeology, the Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britain from continental Europe from the 5th Century AD. They brought with them a new culture, social structure and language.
Genetic studies have tackled the question of Anglo-Saxon ancestry before, but sometimes gave conflicting results.
Confounding factors included the close genetic affinities of people in North-West Europe and the scarcity of ancient DNA from indigenous Britons and the Germanic-speaking migrants.
Dr Stephan Schiffels of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany sequenced genomes of human remains from Hinxton, Saffron Walden, Linton and Oakington - all of which are near Cambridge.
The burials fall into three different age categories: Iron Age, early Anglo-Saxon and Middle Anglo-Saxon.
Contrary to narratives suggesting large-scale displacement of the Britons by Anglo-Saxon invaders, the researchers found evidence of intermarriage in the earliest phase of settlement.
In order to disentangle the Anglo-Saxon signal from the indigenous British genetic background, the researchers looked at many rare mutations across the whole genome.
"We found that these rare mutations were the key to studying historical samples. We could compare our ancient samples with modern samples in an improved way," Dr Schiffels told BBC News.
"We could look at these in a very large sample of modern Europeans. For example, we studied low frequency mutations that must have occurred in the ancestors of the Dutch over the last few thousand years.
"We found that these mutations were shared with the Anglo-Saxon immigrants at a factor of two more than they are with the indigenous Celtic people. These rare mutations are found only with whole genome sequencing."
From there, the scientists could track the contribution made by those Anglo-Saxon migrants to modern British populations.
They found that on average 25%-40% of the ancestry of modern Britons is attributable to the Anglo-Saxons. But the fraction of Saxon ancestry is greater in eastern England, closest to where the migrants settled.
Even traditionally Celtic populations, such as the Welsh and Scottish show some Anglo-Saxon-like ancestry - even though it is typically lower than that in eastern England. But Dr Schiffels points out that it is difficult to tell when this genetic component arrived there until DNA from Iron Age remains in those regions is analysed.
In another study, also published in Nature Communications, Prof Dan Bradley from Trinity College Dublin and colleagues analysed the genomes of nine individuals from Roman-era York.
They found that six of the individuals - presumably indigenous Britons - were similar to the modern Welsh, but different from populations living in Yorkshire today.
However, one of the individuals had genetic affinities with people from North Africa and the Middle East, providing evidence of long-scale migration in Roman times.
The burials at Driffield Terrace, from which the genetic data was drawn, fit the profile of Roman gladiators.
The majority were male, under 45 years old and had been decapitated. They were also slightly taller than the average for Roman Britain, with most showing signs of trauma to their bones.
However, Prof Bradley and his colleagues point out that the remains might also be compatible with Roman legionaries.
Follow Paul on Twitter. | The present-day English owe about a third of their ancestry to the Anglo-Saxons, according to a new study. |
37,502,381 | Both teams came into the game unbeaten in all competitions but Yannick Carrasco's low strike ensured the home side finished with their record intact.
Antoine Griezmann struck the bar with a penalty and Fernando Torres hit the post with a header for Atletico.
Franck Ribery and Robert Lewandowski missed good chances for Bayern.
The defeat is Carlo Ancelotti's first as manager of the German side.
It is also a repeat of the first-leg scoreline between the sides in last year's semi-final clash, which Atletico won on away goals.
Diego Simeone's side deserved their win, which would have been more comfortable but for Torres' inability to finish into a near empty net at the far post in the first half, and Griezmann's wastefulness from the spot after Luis Felipe had been fouled in the box in the second.
Bayern were under par, failing to get their chief attacking threat - Lewandowski - into the game often enough, with the Polish striker heading his only chance wide from an unmarked position near the penalty spot.
Atletico's win means they top Group D with six points, three ahead of Bayern and five ahead of both Rostov and PSV, who drew 2-2 in Russia on Wednesday.
Match ends, Atlético de Madrid 1, FC Bayern München 0.
Second Half ends, Atlético de Madrid 1, FC Bayern München 0.
Attempt saved. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Arturo Vidal with a cross.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Gabi (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Thomas Partey replaces Antoine Griezmann.
Attempt missed. Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann with a headed pass following a corner.
Corner, Atlético de Madrid. Conceded by Javi Martínez.
Attempt blocked. Diego Godín (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabi.
Foul by Mats Hummels (FC Bayern München).
Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) header from the left side of the box is too high. Assisted by David Alaba with a cross.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolás Gaitán (Atlético de Madrid).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Delay in match Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) because of an injury.
Delay in match Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid) because of an injury.
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Saúl Ñíguez (Atlético de Madrid) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Penalty missed! Still Atlético de Madrid 1, FC Bayern München 0. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) hits the bar with a right footed shot.
Penalty conceded by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Atlético de Madrid. Filipe Luis draws a foul in the penalty area.
Attempt blocked. Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Koke.
Attempt missed. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Attempt saved. Filipe Luis (Atlético de Madrid) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Antoine Griezmann.
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Nicolás Gaitán replaces Fernando Torres.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Xabi Alonso.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Saúl Ñíguez.
Attempt blocked. Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by David Alaba with a cross.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Stefan Savic.
Attempt missed. Antoine Griezmann (Atlético de Madrid) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Fernando Torres following a fast break.
Franck Ribéry (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Juanfran (Atlético de Madrid).
Substitution, Atlético de Madrid. Kevin Gameiro replaces Yannick Carrasco.
Attempt missed. Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by David Alaba with a cross.
Foul by Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München). | Atletico Madrid made it two wins out of two in this season's Champions League and inflicted a first defeat of the campaign on Bayern Munich. |
37,248,143 | PCC David Jamieson said it would cost West Midlands Police about £500,000 a time when the Tories meet in Birmingham in October and return in 2018 and 2020,
He has written to Home Secretary Amber Rudd to ask for a discussion about a "fairer arrangement".
The Home Office said the funding had been reviewed as "fairer" than before.
A government grant will pay for policing of the events, a spokesman said.
Previously forces were reimbursed 85% of the operational costs plus planning costs, he added.
"This was deemed a fairer way of compensating police forces who should plan for a political party conference in the same way that they plan for other large-scale events for which they do not receive additional funding," a spokesman added.
In his letter to the home secretary, Mr Jamieson said: "It must be highlighted that making these events as safe as possible requires meticulous, extensive planning by West Midlands Police.
"It is therefore troubling that the dedicated planning team, who began work for this year's conference last autumn, is costing approximately £460,000, which will not be recouped.
"Significantly, in 2014 when Birmingham last hosted the conference, the cost of this planning team reached £520,000.
"The next four years could cost the force £1.5m if this issue is not resolved."
Birmingham's International Convention Centre played host to the conference for the fourth time in September 2014.
At its peak, the Conservative Party conference police planning team will consist of three chief inspectors, five inspectors, eight sergeants, four PCs and four police staff, Mr Jamieson said.
There will be 24 police employees working in the planning team in total - 12 full time and 12 part time, he added. | A police force is facing a £1.5m bill to plan safety operations for the next three Conservative Party conferences, its crime commissioner has said. |
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Rooney's injury-time equaliser at Stoke on Saturday was his 250th for United, breaking Charlton's 44-year-old record.
"I would be lying to say that I'm not disappointed to have lost the record," Charlton, 79, told the United website.
"However, I can honestly say that I'm delighted for Wayne. He deserves his place in the history books."
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He continued: "He is a true great for club and country, and it is fitting that he is now the highest goalscorer for both United and England.
"It has been great to watch him every week since his arrival at Old Trafford in 2004; he set the tone with a wonderful hat-trick on his debut and he has thrilled us all in the years since, going on to enjoy a hugely successful career.
"I was 35 when I retired. Wayne is only 31 and still going strong, so I don't think he's done by a long stretch yet. He continues to show that he can contribute goals, assists and performances whenever called upon. He will raise the bar even further before he calls it a day.
"Now he's the man to beat, and I can't see anybody doing that for a long, long time."
Sir Alex Ferguson, who managed United from 1986 to 2013 and brought Rooney to the club in August 2004 from Everton, told ManUtd.com: "I would like to say huge congratulations to Wayne on reaching this milestone.
"Wayne thoroughly deserves his place in the history books of this great club and I am sure that he will go on to score many more goals."
Current United boss Jose Mourinho said: "It is the record of the biggest club in England and one of the biggest in the world.
"Before him the record belonged to a legend of English football. Now Wayne becomes a legend of Manchester United."
Stoke boss Mark Hughes, who had two spells as a striker with United said: "It is an outstanding record and won't be surpassed. It has taken 40-odd years for Sir Bobby's record to be broken which shows how high a mark it was."
Rooney, 31, said he was honoured to break the record.
"I am very proud," he told Sky Sports. "It is not something I expected when I joined. I am proud and I hope there is more to come.
"The players who have played for this club have been world class. I am proud to play for this club and to be all-time goalscorer is a huge honour."
Asked about Charlton by Gary Lineker for Match of the Day, Rooney added: "He's such an iconic figure, and has been for so long. When you sign for the club, you realise how important he is. To surpass him in goals is something I never thought I'd do. I have the utmost respect for him.
"He came and congratulated me in the dressing room so I know he's pleased in some way.
"I'm a team player but records are important. When you finish your career you can look back on it and it's something to tell your kids."
England boss Gareth Southgate told the Football Association official website: "When you look at whose record he has broken and the way that Sir Bobby is revered in this country and by his club, it shows you what an achievement it is.
"To be leading goalscorer for United - overtaking Sir Bobby - and for England is an incredible achievement.
"To have scored that many goals then you have got to have performed so consistently over such a long period of time which is a mark of an outstanding player. Wayne has managed to achieve that." | Sir Bobby Charlton says Wayne Rooney is "a true great for club and country" after the striker broke his Manchester United all-time goalscoring record. |
31,977,122 | But it seems Sinitta has a good idea why Zayn Malik had to pull out of the One Direction tour.
In a statement the band said he'd been "signed off with stress", and Simon Cowell's wing lady thinks that's down to their punishing schedule.
Sinitta reckons it's "burn out", and that the singer could probably do with a few decent nights of sleep.
"I know their schedule has just been non-stop ever since they left the show (X Factor)."
Unfortunately for Zayn, taking a few days off is often all that's needed to spark rumours that he's leaving the band.
"Nothing like that's been announced," said Sinitta.
"Let's just see what happens.
"When we don't see them here, it's not that they're resting, it's that they're in another country.
"They're literally promoting their records non-stop around the world, so they don't get a lot of downtime."
The X Factor judge was also keen to dismiss claims Simon Cowell's record label Syco had been pushing the boy band too hard.
"They are hungry, they are excited, they want to go and meet all the fans.
"They're trying to meet all the fans' demands and not leave anybody out.
"But it's hard to be there for everybody all the time, but we've only got One Direction."
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter, BBCNewsbeat on Instagram and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | You often see her wearing unusual outfits at Simon Cowell's pad during judges houses on X Factor. |
32,668,864 | More than 7,800 people were killed in the disaster on 25 April, and thousands more were injured.
An appeal was launched last month by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), which which is made up of 13 UK aid charities.
A total of £47m has been raised across the UK. The funds will be used to bring aid to an estimated 310,000 people.
It will help with emergency supplies, including food, shelter, water and sanitation kits.
DEC said it was working in some of the worst-affected parts of the country.
Neil Mathers, chairman of the Scottish appeal, said: "Despite the immense challenges facing those affected and relief efforts, the response continues to grow day by day.
"We are now delivering more aid to some of the worst-affected areas, and our members are expanding their efforts into remote regions."
He said teams were working round the clock to provide aid.
"A huge amount of work remains to be done before the monsoon rains make the response even more difficult and the risk of disease outbreaks increase," he added.
"The overwhelming generosity people in Scotland, and indeed all over the UK, will help families get through the next few months and rebuild their lives over the coming years."
Donations to the appeal are being accepted via the DEC website and the 24-hour donations line 0370 60 60 900. | People in Scotland have donated £4m to an appeal to help survivors of the Nepal earthquake. |
38,690,471 | Sitting in an industrial unit in Newport, Memet Ali Alabora is telling the story of how he ended up in Wales.
Alongside him are the writer Meltem Arikan and the actress Pinar Ogun - three Turkish artists who now call Cardiff their home.
In the summer of 2013, Turkey was in turmoil. An estimated 3.5 million people were on the streets.
What began as a small protest against plans to redevelop Gezi Park, one of Istanbul's rare central green spaces, mushroomed into huge demonstrations across Turkey.
Memet, Meltem and Pinar were there and what started as an environmental protest would end up changing their lives forever.
"I still get affected by talking about it," Pinar recalled.
"When I think about it, it makes me feel sick."
A number of people were killed in the unrest and thousands more were injured during that summer.
Soon Memet, Meltem and Pinar were thrown into the heart of the turmoil.
Some pro-government media accused them of inciting the protests through a play they had put on some six months prior to when the demonstrations began.
"Mi Minor was the first of its kind in terms of combining social media and a theatre play," Memet said.
"It has a unique style where the audience can stand alongside the actors and shout and protest."
The play's story is one of repression and rebellion, and some media played clips of the performance alongside images of the protests.
"We were accused of making the rehearsal of the Gezi Park protestors with our play," Memet said.
"Then we were accused of being a terrorist organisation that wanted to overthrow the government.
"It got to the point where it became such a violent and threatening point that we felt it would be better to leave the country."
Meltem, who wrote the play, giggled, her head in her hands - she explained she feels there is not much else she can do.
"I wrote an absurd play but then our lives became more absurd. I choose laughing," she said.
While time may have helped to ease the pain, the group find it hard to think about their lives back in Turkey, where they still have many friends.
The group left Turkey three-and- a-half years ago and came to Wales, where despite their story the biggest question they face is why they moved to Cardiff.
"It's as if the story is so normal but the abnormal thing is why we chose Cardiff or Wales," explained Meltem, who arrived here in 2004 and said she felt she belonged here.
Memet explained: "The story starts in 2004 when Meltem first arrived in Wales. And the first thing she ever felt was, I belong here and I have to live here. And from that day on she tried to convince us."
Pinar says the group are very happy in their new home city of Cardiff: "I remember just walking one day during Christmas in 2013. I was crying because of the pain and that feeling of loss. And the city was just smiling back at me and saying, this is going to be fine. So the energy and the beauty of the city, I think it cuddled us and that's how we managed to heal ourselves to be honest."
The group are now putting on their first production in Wales, called Enough is Enough.
It focuses on themes of sexual violence and how society deals with them and gives the audience the chance to "shout out" their concerns and figure out how to take action.
"What we always want to do is to challenge and agitate the audience," Memet said.
The focus again has the potential to be controversial and it starts its tour across Wales on Tuesday. | "I can see the confusion on your face, you may be thinking there is something wrong with the translation but no, that's what really happened." |
39,802,420 | Gordon, 24, feels he is "a totally different player" at Jagiellonia Bialystok, having helped the club to the summit of Poland's top league since joining them from Hamilton in January.
"Most of his points, for me, didn't ring true whatsoever," said McCall.
"Football is a simple game."
Defender Gordon claims that the detail is far greater in Polish coaching than he experienced at Hamilton and Partick Thistle.
He told BBC Scotland: "I don't want to talk down Scottish football, but we have so much to learn in terms of technical ability, structure of play, all these things you see at international level.
"The whole structure and how they make the game so easy - once you work hard and understand the way they want to play, it makes the game so much easier."
Gordon claims that, such is the level of preparation at his new club, "nothing is left for players to make decisions in games".
But when asked if there was a problem with Scottish coaching, McCall, in charge of his eighth senior club at Championship bottom side Ayr, told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound: "No, not at all.
"I learned many years ago that coaching and management are two very different things. I worked under Iain Munro many, many years ago. He wasn't a good manager but in terms of coaching, he was absolutely outstanding. He had you working on all sorts of things.
"You have to embrace modern ways but you have to always retain that football is a simple game and not overcomplicate it.
"Brian Clough and Jock Stein, I can feel them turning in their graves listening to those (Gordon's) comments.
"There's a simplicity to what (Celtic manager) Brendan Rodgers does. That's why people enjoy watching it. It's done at pace, it's high pressure, but there's a simplicity to it.
"I hope Ziggy is enjoying his football but for me it doesn't ring true."
Tam McManus, described Gordon's analysis as "a bit of nonsense".
"I think we've got a good coaching network," said McManus, 36, who played for Hibernian and several other Scottish clubs, and also in the United States.
"Players improve themselves. If you have something within you to go and improve you go and work on your weaknesses. That comes from within you.
"He's having a little pop, I think. Ziggy has gone over there and done well, he's playing at a good level, but I don't think the league is any better than our league." | Ayr United boss Ian McCall and former Hibernian striker Tam McManus have dismissed comments made by Ziggy Gordon that coaching in Scotland has "a long way to go" to match Polish standards. |
18,788,628 | Mahmoud al-Sarsak, 25, arrived by ambulance to a hero's welcome at a Gaza hospital.
In March, Mr Sarsak launched an intermittent hunger strike in protest at his detention but agreed to resume eating in exchange for early release.
Israel accused Mr Sarsak of involvement with the militant group Islamic Jihad, which Mr Sarsak has always denied.
Mr Sarsak had shed considerable weight during his incarceration, the BBC's Farhana Dawood in Jerusalem reports.
"Thank God he is released, I hope that all prisoners will be released," Mr Sarsak's sister, Wafa, told the Reuters news agency.
After being taken to Gaza's al-Shifa hospital, Mr Sarsak returned to his family home in Rafah.
Members of Islamic Jihad were among hundreds who came to welcome Mr Sarsak in Gaza, and the group issued a statement welcoming Mr Sarsak's "victory over the Israeli jailer".
Mr Sarsak was held under Israel's Unlawful Combatants Law, which allows Israel to indefinitely detain without charge or trial foreign nationals suspected of involvement in organisations or activities hostile to the state. Suspects' cases are reviewed by a court every six months.
Israel says Mr Sarsak, a member of the Palestinian football team, was arrested based on information that he was a member of Islamic Jihad, had planted bombs and recruited and trained other militants.
The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) had urged European football's governing body, Uefa, to ban Israel from hosting the continent's under-21 championship next year over the issue of Palestinian players in Israeli detention.
Palestinian Olympic squad goalkeeper Omar Abu Rois and Ramallah player Mohammed Nimr are also being held in Israel without trial.
The global governing football body, Fifa, had last month expressed its concern over Mr Sarsak's detention and asked Israel's football association to take action.
Former Manchester United player Eric Cantona was among those who signed a petition calling for Mr Sarsak's release. | A Palestinian footballer who was in Israeli detention for three years without charge has returned to Gaza. |
40,538,582 | The body of David Miller, 56, was found at his home in Northampton last June.
Ian Cuthbertson, 49, Michael Hallett, 37, Joseph Catlin, 30, and Zena Kane, 35, all of no fixed address, deny murder.
The court heard Mr Cuthbertson had gone to the flat for "a bath, a change of clothing and to watch TV".
Mr Miller had been stabbed multiple times and crude attempts had been made to destroy his body during the attack at Patterdale Walk, Boothville, Northampton, on 14 June 2016.
He had been partially-dismembered.
Summing up at Northampton Crown Court, prosecutor Peter Joyce QC said the defendants had acted like "a pack of wolves".
He said the only possible verdicts were guilty of "murder, murder, murder, murder".
He told the jury: "It is not argued that what happened to David Miller wasn't murder.
"The question is whether one or all of these four defendants took part."
He called the killing of Mr Miller "a team job", saying that was why none of the accused had given evidence during the trial.
Mr Joyce dismissed a statement to police by Mr Cuthbertson - in which he denied he had been at the scene - as "lie, after pathetic lie, after pathetic lie".
He also accused Ms Zane of "crocodile tears" and "hypocrisy".
Solicitors for all four of the accused are due to sum up their defences on Monday.
The case continues. | A homeless man accused of killing a man in his own flat was "petrified" when the attack was carried out, a court has heard. |
29,877,365 | Jurassica would see a semi-subterranean cavern built in Portland within a 40m (132ft) deep limestone quarry.
Science journalist Mike Hanlon, behind the idea, said the road and rail network was "not fit for purpose".
It is reached by a single carriageway causeway road from Weymouth. The nearest train station is in Weymouth.
If it goes ahead, it is expected to be completed by 2019 or 2020.
Jurassica said an estimated 500,000 to 600,000 visitors a year were expected.
The attraction will house fossils, interactive displays and robot swimming plesiosaurs in an aquarium.
Mr Hanlon said it would enable visitors to feel they were "in a different world".
At a meeting on Friday night held to discuss the plans with residents, Mr Hanlon said the "main logistical issue" with the project was traffic.
A Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) funding bid for £16m is due to be submitted by the charity on 29 November.
The outcome of the bid is expected in April.
Mr Hanlon said further funding would also be sought from the Wellcome Trust - an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health.
The project was awarded £300,000 in July from the Local Enterprise Partnership for a feasibility study.
A charitable trust has been formed for the museum with all profits from Jurassica going back into the charity.
Sir David Attenborough is patron of the project and the Eden Project's Sir Tim Smit is its trustee.
This article was amended on 29 September 2015 after a clerical error by the Jurassic team led to incorrect projected visitor numbers being stated in a report by Weymouth and Portland Borough Council. | A charity behind a project to build an £80m underground dinosaur museum on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset has commissioned a £30,000 traffic study. |
21,453,696 | Zhifei Li, 28, smuggled more than 20 raw rhino horns, while Shusen Wei, 44, is charged with trying to bribe a federal law enforcement officer to aid Mr Li, federal prosecutors said.
Qing Wang is accused of sending carved rhino cups to Mr Li in Hong Kong.
US federal law bars trafficking in endangered species.
Mr Li and Mr Wei are Chinese nationals. The investigation was carried out by the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
According to prosecutors, Mr Li sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to a co-conspirator in the US to buy rhino horns, which were sent in porcelain vases to another person in Hong Kong, in an effort to evade US authorities.
'Good health'
Mr Li is also accused of trying to buy two rhino horns for $59,000 (£38,000) in a hotel room in Miami in January from an undercover fish and wildlife officer. He also asked the undercover officer to procure more horns and send them to Hong Kong.
Mr Wei, who was sharing a hotel room with Mr Li, later asked an undercover informant to take a fish and wildlife officer out for dinner and offer her money to help Mr Li, prosecutors said.
Meanwhile, prosecutors say Mr Wang bought libation cups carved from rhino horn in the US and sent them to Mr Li in Hong Kong.
Some believe drinking from intricately carved rhino horn cups brings good health, and the cups are highly prized by collectors, US authorities said.
Native to Africa, the black rhinoceros is classified as a critically endangered species, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
But demand for rhino horns and the prices paid for them on the black market have soared in recent years, US prosecutors said. | Three people have been arrested in the US and accused of conspiring to smuggle endangered black rhino horns and carvings from the US into China. |
33,020,224 | A Rembrandt etching, from 1634, and a 1504 engraving by the German artist Durer were reported missing in April.
They were found on Thursday in the library's print stacks by a conservation officer.
"We're thrilled to have found these treasures right here at home. They were found safe and sound, simply misfiled," said Library president Amy Ryan.
Durer's Adam and Eve and Rembrandt's Self-Portrait With Plumed Cap and Lowered Sabre were found in the library's storage room, following an eight-week search of 320,000 items.
Boston police, the FBI and the US attorney's office had been investigating the whereabouts of the artworks, whose combined estimated value was around $630,000 (£411,000), amid suggestions they had been stolen.
'Cloud lifted'
Ryan, president of the Library since 2008, announced she was stepping down earlier this week.
A damning audit - released last week - criticised the library, accusing it of ineffectual protection of special collections and disorganised storing of valuables.
The same week saw the library announce that gold coins, apparently stored in a time capsule, may have gone missing decades ago.
"It's a cloud lifted, a burden off our shoulders," Ryan told the Boston Globe, following the discovery of the missing artworks on Thursday. "Everyone is happy."
"Someone just said this to me and it's true: 'Nothing is missing under my watch'".
"All the items that we have been told are missing - but that have not been verified - went missing years before I started at BPL [Boston Public Library]."
However, Ryan insisted she would still go ahead with her resignation on 3 July despite the good news.
The Boston Public Library is the first municipally funded library in the United States and one of the first free public libraries in the world. | Two valuable artworks believed to have gone missing from Boston Public Library have been found... in the library. |
14,293,095 | Trains last stopped in Carno, near Newtown, and Bow Street, near Aberystwyth, in the 1960s.
But Mid Wales Transportation, a group working with the Welsh Government, said there was a strong case for future investment in both the stations.
The Welsh Government said it had received the group's report.
Campaigners in both villages have been fighting to reopen their local rail links.
Mid Wales Transportation, also known by its Welsh name of Trafnidiaeth Canolbarth Cymru (TraCC), assists the Welsh Government in delivering its national transport policies in the region.
It has carried out an appraisal into the possibilities of reopening Carno and Bow Street stations.
Its chairman, Trevor Roberts said: "TraCC has responded positively to the request of the National Assembly's Enterprise and Learning Committee and has completed the WelTAG report (transport appraisal).
"The final report clearly demonstrates that there is a strong case for the Welsh Government and rail industry in Wales to include plans for these two new stations in their future investment programmes and I would urge them to do so at their earliest opportunity."
Transport projects seeking funding, such as Carno and Bow Street, are appraised under a scheme funded by the assembly government.
The appraisal is then presented to officials so it can be considered for the assembly government's national transport plan.
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "Welsh Government provided assistance to develop the business case for both Carno and Bow Street Station.
"We have received TraCC's conclusion of the business case appraisal, and look forward to future discussion of this with them to identify how they want to prioritise this scheme within their regional transport plan."
Supporters of the campaigns in Carno and Bow Street were unavailable for comment. | There is a strong case to reopen two railway stations in Powys and Ceredigion, claims a regional transport group. |
38,965,725 | Hundreds of candidates were found to have cheated to gain admission to medical colleges between 2008 and 2013.
The Vyapam scandal has seen thousands of arrests and many mysterious deaths.
Vyapam is the Hindi acronym for an office that conducts examinations for government jobs and medical school admissions in the state.
In its verdict, the Supreme Court said the accused had engaged in "acts of deceit" and "mass fraud".
The scandal involved leaking question papers, rigging answer sheets and hiring bright students as impersonators to sit for candidates, as well as selling medical school seats to the highest bidder.
Anything between 1m rupees ($15,764; £10,168) and 7m rupees was paid for a seat, correspondents say.
More than 2,000 people have been accused in connection with the scandal since 2012.
Some 33 people - mostly accused in connection with the scam - have died in the past three years, raising suspicions of foul play. It is not clear how many of the deaths are linked to the scandal. | India's Supreme Court has cancelled the licenses of 634 doctors embroiled in a medical school admissions scandal in central Madhya Pradesh state. |
35,673,761 | Finn, 26, was forced out of England's tour of South Africa in January with a side strain, but has withdrawn from the upcoming tournament in India with a left calf problem.
Plunkett, 30, was in the England party for the T20 leg of the South Africa tour, but did not play in either game.
England's first World T20 game is against West Indies on 16 March. | Pace bowler Steven Finn has been ruled out of England's ICC World Twenty20 squad and replaced by Liam Plunkett. |
38,834,440 | The shadow culture minister was among 47 MPs to ignore the party's three-line whip to back the European Union Bill.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn previously suggested shadow ministers could be sacked if they went against the whip.
MPs overwhelmingly backed the measure in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
There were 498 votes in favour to 114 and the move will allow Prime Minister Theresa May to get Brexit negotiations under way.
The bill now faces further scrutiny in the Commons and the House of Lords before it can become law.
The prime minister has set a deadline of 31 March for invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, getting official talks with the EU started.
Cardiff West MP Mr Brennan was one of seven Welsh Labour MPs to oppose the move as most MPs from Wales backed it.
Bridgend MP Madeline Moon and Rhondda MP Chris Bryant, Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley), Owen Smith (Pontypridd) and Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth) were the others voted against the move.
Mr Brennan was the second Labour front-bencher in Wales to announce he would vote against Jeremy Corbyn's wishes, following Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens who quit as shadow Welsh secretary on Friday over the order.
In a blog post ahead of the vote Mr Brennan wrote his constituents had given him a "clear message" and it was his "duty to oppose" the Bill.
Cardiff was one of five areas in Wales to vote remain at the referendum in June.
Mr Brennan wrote that Prime Minister Theresa May's recent speech on the process of leaving the EU had "helped to clarify that the path she is leading the UK down is likely to make Britain little more than an annex of Trumpland".
"That is a future I cannot vote for. It is also a future which a clear majority of my constituents do not support," he wrote.
He added: "I believe it is now quite clear that triggering article 50 will lead Britain on a road to the kind of economy and society I have never believed in.
"That is also the view of the majority of my constituents. Taken together, those two things mean that I cannot vote to trigger Article 50."
The MP added that he respected those who had taken the opposing view after June's Brexit referendum, but added: "I have come to the conclusion that the Government is intent on a disastrous direction of travel that becomes almost inevitable with the vote on Article 50, and that it is my duty to oppose it." | Brexit rebel MP Kevin Brennan could be sacked from Labour's frontbench for defying the party to vote against triggering Article 50 and leaving the European Union. |
23,048,047 | Magnitsky died in a Moscow prison after he was arrested while trying to expose tax fraud nearly four years ago.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe report accuses the Russian authorities of a cover-up.
But its author, Andreas Gross, said US-style black-listing of Russian officials was counter-productive.
Washington passed legislation known as the Magnitsky Act last year, to withhold visas and freeze financial assets of Russian officials thought to have been involved with human rights violations. The law has been applied to 18 Russian individuals by name.
Russia, which is a member of the Europe-wide body, is invited to comment on Mr Gross's findings before the report is submitted for approval in September.
Allegations that Magnitsky was tortured in custody have been rejected by Russian investigators, while attempts to prosecute prison doctors for negligence resulted in no convictions.
One trial which did begin this year is that of the dead man himself, who is being prosecuted posthumously for tax evasion.
Soon after the US Congress passed the Magnitsky Act in December, Moscow banned Americans from adopting Russian children, and it recently pressured the Irish Republic, a Council of Europe member, to back down from endorsing the American black list.
Parliaments in several other European countries have also been considering action, following the American example.
"I... call on the... Assembly to send a clear signal to the Russian authorities that the cover-up must be reversed and the true culprits must be held to account," Mr Gross, a Swiss Socialist MP, writes.
His report calls on Russia to
It is "in the interest of Russia and of all her hard-working and tax-paying citizens" for the Russian authorities to punish the culprits, he says.
But he rejects the idea of targeted sanctions as envisaged by the US.
Asked by the BBC News website what "intelligent sanctions" might mean, Mr Gross said this could not be decided until the truth about Magnitsky and his work to uncover corruption was established.
However, his report suggests countries might take the British approach of denying entry visas to any persons suspected of having committed serious crimes.
Washington's targeted sanctions, he argued, were a legally dubious "quick fix" which had made it even more difficult to establish the facts as they had fuelled Russian hostility.
"Nothing will change for the better for the Russian people only because 18 people are prevented from entering the United States," he said.
"Such sanctions are as un-smart as military actions when you have no political perspective for overcoming a crisis."
He said they did not serve Magnitsky's goal of stopping the theft of public money and private property in Russia, nor did they help protect people against abuse in Russian prisons.
Magnitsky was working as an auditor at a Moscow law firm when he discovered what he said was a massive fraud by tax officials and police officers.
He is said to have uncovered the alleged theft of $230m (£150m). After reporting it to the authorities, he was himself detained in 2008 on suspicion of aiding tax evasion.
He died in custody on 16 November 2009 at the age of 37 of conditions caused by untreated pancreatitis.
Magnitsky's colleagues at the firm, London-based Hermitage Capital Management, say the case against him was fabricated to make him halt his investigations.
"He was a decent man who discovered huge injustices," Mr Gross said on Tuesday. "Instead of being praised for that and being supported, he was unjustly treated and brought to his death. It is totally upside-down. He should have been treated as a hero of Russia." | A draft report for Europe's top human rights watchdog advocates "intelligent sanctions" over the death of Russian whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky. |
36,522,349 | Midfielder Medy Elito has agreed a move to another club after failing to confirm a new deal at Rodney Parade.
The quartet were offered new terms in May and Football League rules state that players must notify their club of their decision within a month.
Byrne has been linked with ex-County boss Justin Edinburgh's Gillingham. | Newport County have withdrawn contract offers to captain Mark Byrne, forward John Christophe-Ayina and Danny Holmes who will all now leave the club. |
39,976,260 | The men sexually assaulted the victim as she was driven around Coventry in January 2016 after promising her a lift home after a night out.
They then drove to a location where she was repeatedly raped.
Calin Lacatus, Timotei Baran and Constantin Vila were convicted of rape and sexual assault after a three-week trial at Warwick Crown Court.
Lacatus, 28 of Beake Avenue, Coventry, was jailed for 10 years for three counts of rape and one of sexual assault.
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Baran, 21 of no fixed abode, was sentenced to nine years for two counts of rape and one of sexual assault.
Vila, 28 of Victory Road, Coventry, was jailed for eight years for rape and sexual assault.
The woman had been at Grosvenor Casino and met Lacatus outside after leaving at about 23:00 GMT, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
After a conversation, he agreed to give her a lift home and as she got into his Volkswagen Golf, the two other men joined them.
After being repeatedly sexually assaulted and then raped by the three men, the woman managed to escape and called a friend who drove her back to the casino where they contacted police.
Jonathan Kelleher, from West Midlands Crown Prosecution Service's rape and serious sexual offences unit, said: "These defendants are dangerous sexual predators who preyed on a vulnerable woman.
"They subjected the victim to a horrendous sexual assault after luring her into their car under the pretence of giving her a lift home.
"We would like to take this opportunity of commending the victim for her support and helping us to bring these three men to justice." | Three men have been jailed for the rape of a woman they "lured" into their car. |
25,208,407 | It will be built by a consortium comprising of Belfast company Gilbert Ash and Spanish firm FCC.
The next few months will be spent agreeing the final cost.
Work has been scheduled to begin next spring, subject to final contract approval by the Northern Ireland Executive.
The facility - at Desertcreat, near Cookstown - has been in the pipeline for several years and will be one of the biggest construction projects in Northern Ireland.
Justice Minister David Ford said: "This is another significant phase in the development of this unique project.
"The delivery of the college is an important commitment in the Programme for Government and will provide a much needed boost to our local construction industry with the creation of much needed jobs."
There had been problems over costs incurred by the design team working on the project.
It was revealed in March that "professional incompetence" by the design team had led to the costs spiralling from £101m to £137m.
The project was first announced in 2004 and was originally due to be finished in 2008.
The cost envisaged at the time was £80m. | The long-awaited £130m police, fire and prison training college project in County Tyrone has moved a step closer with the appointment of a contractor. |
38,549,282 | Its new ranking emerged in a Civil Aviation Authority report on airport and passenger activity for 2016.
In the league table of 47 UK airports, Belfast International comes in behind Heathrow, Gatwick, Edinburgh and Glasgow in terms of passenger flow.
Overall, the airport grew by more than 17% last year with over 5.1 million passengers through the facility.
That figure is expected to grow further in 2017, despite the decision by United Airlines to end its trans-Atlantic service months after a £9m rescue deal.
Managing Director Graham Keddie said it was "an outstanding result" for the airport.
"Passengers are voting with their wallets. They want value for money and frequent services at the best times of the day," said Mr Keddie.
"Small to medium businesses are doing more business in GB and we're able to get them to their target markets at competitive rates with easyJet and Ryanair.
Mr Keddie said the airport could do "much more with the right supports".
"Air passenger duty is a considerable disadvantage, not only to our airports, but to Northern Ireland as a region," he said.
"If it disappeared, we could transform inbound tourism, leading to further significant investment along with the creation of thousands of jobs. Getting rid of this impediment is, in my view, a no-brainer."
Speaking about the end of the United Airlines service, he said: "We're working closely with government to deliver a major long-haul project that would open up attractive additional and badly-needed connections." | Belfast International is now the fifth busiest airport in the United Kingdom for domestic passenger traffic. |
37,805,719 | The council, which has been operating since 1994, said in a letter that it cannot stay open because of a "severe cash-flow problem".
It said that it had failed to gain two Stormont grants that would have totalled £90,000.
Patrick Yu, the council's executive director, said closure was a "painful decision".
"This is the best way to protect the achievement, reputation and integrity of NICEM," he said.
In the letter, he said that while NICEM had "several outstanding funding applications" it was "unable to sustain a sufficient cash flow".
He said the council would be dissolved after a general meeting on 7 November.
He added his thanks to those who had joined "our anti-racist movement".
"Despite this set back, the vision and values of NICEM will continue as well as the anti-racism movement in Northern Ireland." | Northern Ireland's Council for Ethnic Minorities is set to close because of a lack of funds. |
30,366,041 | Rodgers - who dropped struggling goalkeeper Simon Mignolet for Brad Jones - can point to a succession of brilliant saves from United's David De Gea and a controversial second goal from Juan Mata as significant factors in defeat.
This, however, will do little to ease the growing concerns for Rodgers and Liverpool, with the memory of their thrilling 3-0 win here in March - in a sequence that almost took them to their first title in 24 years - seeming an age away.
United captain Wayne Rooney gave them an early lead and Liverpool had every right to feel aggrieved when Mata headed in from a clearly offside position to take the game away from them just before half-time.
Even before United took the lead, De Gea made an important save from Raheem Sterling, denying the England youngster on four occasions as well as producing three vital contributions to stop Liverpool substitute Mario Balotelli getting his first Premier League goal for the club.
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Robin van Persie's third for United at the end of a lightning counter-attack only added to Liverpool's pain and gave the scoreline a lopsided look given the amount of work done by De Gea.
United's sixth successive league win continued United's resurgence under manager Louis van Gaal and put Liverpool's decline since they came so close to winning the Premier League into even sharper relief. Liverpool now trail third-placed United by 10 points.
Liverpool's owners, Fenway Sports Group, intend to give Rodgers until the end of the season at least to turn matters around given the credit he still has after last season, but after a miserable Champions League campaign was confirmed by their exit at the group stage following the midweek draw with Basel, these are crucial days for the northern Irishman.
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He now faces a huge seven days with a Capital One Cup quarter-final at Championship leaders Bournemouth on Wednesday before Arsenal visit Anfield next weekend.
The reshuffled team sent out at Old Trafford by Rodgers gave Liverpool and their manager cause for optimism in an energetic early spell but the momentum shifted crucially in the 13th minute as De Gea saved from Sterling at one end and Rooney scored at the other.
In the space of 25 seconds, Liverpool should have taken the lead but then found themselves behind as Antonio Valencia nutmegged Joe Allen and pulled the ball back for Rooney, who scored with Jones diving in the wrong direction.
De Gea thwarted Sterling - utilised as a lone striker - once more before United doubled their lead in controversial fashion five minutes before half-time.
Mata was clearly offside when he headed in after Van Persie got a slight touch to Ashley Young's cross. There was daylight between Mata and the last Liverpool defender, so it can only be assumed linesman Mike Mullarkey did not believe Van Persie got a touch.
It was a demoralising blow for Liverpool who, having had to replace Glen Johnson with Kolo Toure in the first half after he suffered a groin injury, replaced Adam Lallana with Balotelli at the restart.
Whereas United had taken the chances that had come their way, Liverpool had wasted every opportunity, as Sterling did once more early in the second half.
Michael Carrick, who had been immaculate, inexplicably allowed Jonny Evans' pass to roll straight to Sterling, who hesitated, even when he seemed to have rounded De Gea, allowing the goalkeeper to get back and save.
De Gea's development into a world-class goalkeeper has been confirmed by a series of stellar performances this season and he showed his quality and reflexes again to turn Balotelli's close-range shot on to the bar.
The difference between the sides was illustrated once more as Van Persie wrapped up United's win. Dejan Lovren scooped Rooney's pass hopelessly into the path of Mata, who found Van Persie to score, with Jones once again on the wrong foot. | Clinical Manchester United increased the pressure on Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers as they capitalised on some poor defending to run out comfortable victors at Old Trafford. |
32,780,960 | 19 May 2015 Last updated at 12:02 BST
Some people think that keeping polar bears in captivity can help the species survive in the future but other people don't agree.
We want to know what you think about zoos. Maybe you think it's a good thing animals can live in zoos or perhaps you think they should live in the wild.
Send us an email to newsroundcomments@bbc.co.uk to tell us what you think.
In the wild polar bears rely on sea ice to hunt but some scientists believe that this ice is melting earlier and forming later each year which means the bears have less time to find food they need.
They say because of this polar bear numbers could drop over the next 100 years.
Leah went to see the only two polar bears that live in England to find out how they are looked after and also heard from a campaign group who don't think they should be in the UK. | In the UK the only way you can see a polar bear is in the zoo. |
36,732,898 | Lord Ahmed of Rotherham said he opened the envelope in his office and was told to stay where he was as it was treated as a chemical or biological incident.
The independent House of Lords member said the powder was later found to be harmless.
Police said they were called at 12:30 GMT to reports of a suspicious package.
"We are examining the contents," a spokesman said.
Lord Ahmed told the BBC the white powder spilled over him and the envelope had contained a note with the words "paki filth".
He said: "The powder went all over my clothes and I immediately shook it off. I realised this powder could be anything.
"It was frightening, and I think that even more than it being frightening for me, it was a big shock for everyone who was around me because security personnel came and told everyone to be calm and remain seated, and you could see the police officers with guns."
He said every five minutes medics were looking at his face to "see if it had turned blue".
He said he thought of the recent death of MP Jo Cox who was killed in a street of her constituency in Birstall, West Yorkshire.
"I immediately thought that this could be more serious than just an abusive letter," he said.
Lord Ahmed said he was "concerned" by what happened and said he had been targeted by racist messages about a dozen times before.
He believed he received those messages because of his status as the first Muslim life peer in the House of Lords, he said. | There has been a security alert in Parliament after an envelope containing white powder and a racially offensive note was sent to a Muslim peer. |
34,775,388 | Boyle told the Radio Times the refusal left he and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce "in grief".
He wanted his film about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs to "fill the space in my heart left by the abandoned Bowie script", he added.
Boyle said Bowie's decision made him determined to get the Jobs film made.
The new film, with a screenplay by The West Wing's Aaron Sorkin, stars Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet, has been tipped for Oscars success.
Meanwhile, Boyle is set to revisit his 1996 breakthrough cult hit Trainspotting, and he is hoping that the second instalment will coincide with the film's 20th anniversary next year.
He told the Radio Times: "It's not called Porno!", in reference to the Irvine Welsh novel of the same name, on which it is loosely based.
"It's T2 for now. We've got a window for the original cast to shoot in spring 2016 and hopefully it will come out the same year, on the anniversary." | Danny Boyle has spoken of his disappointment after David Bowie refused to let the director use his music for a film project. |
38,935,074 | The Irish have won only one of their three Group A games with the top three of the five teams progressing.
Tournament favourites India posted 250-2 in Colombo on Friday with Thirush Kamini hitting an unbeaten 113.
Ireland were bowled out for just 125 in 49.1 overs, Gaby Lewis top scoring on 33 while Isobel Joyce added 31.
Joyce and Kim Garth each took a wicket but the Irish bowlers struggled as India piled on the runs.
Kamini and Deepti Sharma put on an opening stand of 174 at the P Sara Oval to set up a formidable target for the Irish.
Ireland were 4-2 and 15-3 as wickets tumbled, with Laura Delany (21) and Amy Kenealy (20) the only other players to make double figures.
Poonam Yadav took 3-30 as group leaders India made it three wins from three games and book their place n the Super Six.
Ireland beat Zimbabwe in their opener before a 146-run defeat by hosts Sri Lanka on Wednesday.
"India are a very strong side and they played good cricket throughout," said Ireland coach Aaron Hamilton.
"We struggled at the start of our batting, as we did against Sri Lanka. We hit the fielders a lot and I thought we could have been braver and taken on their bowling more and hit over the top."
In Friday's other Group A game, Zimbabwe beat Thailand by 36 runs to leave Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Ireland on four points apiece, but with Ireland having played a game more.
In Group B, Scotland are on the brink of elimination after losing to Bangladesh by seven wickets, while Papua New Guinea were thrashed by Pakistan after being bowled out for 40.
The top four from the Super Six stage qualify for the World Cup, which takes place in England this summer.
All matches played in Colombo & start at 04:30 GMT. CCC = Colombo Cricket Club; MCA = Mercantile Cricket Association Ground; NCC = Nondescripts Cricket Club; PSS = P Sara Oval | Ireland have to beat Thailand on Saturday to maintain hopes of making the Women's World Cup Qualifier Super Six after a 125-run defeat by India. |
36,057,358 | The visit came as China said one of its highest-ranking military officials had also visited the region recently.
Tensions have escalated in the South China Sea in recent years, with China steadily expanding its military presence in the region.
This week the US and the Philippines agreed to conduct joint patrols there.
China claims most of the sea as its own and has become increasingly assertive.
Ash Carter arrived on board the USS John C Stennis on Friday and gave a statement alongside Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin.
"What's new is not an American carrier in this region," he said. "What's new is the context of tension which exists, which we want to reduce."
He said that the US wanted to work together with China and that the trip was meant to show support for allies, rather than provoke Beijing.
The US has expanded its support for allies in the South Pacific in recent months, following China's military build-up - which includes the construction of islands with airstrips.
China, which claims a wide swathe of the sea, has been reclaiming land around reefs.
The US and other countries have called for the halt of such activities, accusing China of militarisation but Beijing has insisted that the construction is for civilian purposes.
Last week, US military officials announced they would send $40m (£28m) in military assistance to the Philippines to increase intelligence-sharing, surveillance and naval patrols.
Contested South China Sea | The US Defence Secretary, Ash Carter, has visited an American aircraft carrier in the contested waters of the South China Sea. |
38,826,851 | He was one of 16 people arrested across the central state of Hesse, as 1,100 police searched flats, businesses and mosques.
The man is also wanted by Tunisian authorities over a jihadist attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis.
Twenty-one tourists and a Tunisian were killed in March 2015.
Many of the victims were British, Japanese, French, Italian or Colombian.
Authorities in Frankfurt said Wednesday's operation was the result of a four-month investigation. They had evidence Islamists were preparing an attack, but described the planning as in its early stages.
Those arrested are aged between 16 and 46 and are suspected of helping a foreign terrorist group and of planning serious violence.
Three men were held in separate raids in Berlin late on Tuesday which included a mosque that Tunisian jihadist Anis Amri visited shortly before driving a heavy goods lorry into a crowded Christmas market in December, killing 12 people.
One of the three detained was said to be in charge of the Fussilet mosque, which has been described as a base for radical Muslims in Berlin.
Amri had spent four years in jail in Italy before travelling to Germany but repeated attempts to send him back to Tunisia had failed because officials there said he had no documents.
Police said the Tunisian man picked up on Wednesday was detained at his home in Frankfurt. He had spent 10 years in Germany until 2013 and had returned as an asylum seeker in August 2015.
Since his return he is suspected of setting up an IS support network.
Tunisian authorities have also linked him to a deadly March 2016 attack on the town of Ben Guerdane, close to the Libyan border.
He was in detention in Frankfurt facing extradition for several weeks but was released last November because Tunisian authorities had failed to submit documents in time. | A 36-year-old Tunisian man suspected of recruiting for jihadist group Islamic State has been detained in multiple raids in Germany. |
35,411,170 | The Gunners have activated a release clause in the Nigeria international's contract with the Reds.
Oshoala will now hold talks with Pedro Martinez Losa's side but the move is subject to the 21-year-old receiving a work permit for the 2016 campaign.
Oshoala was named the BBC's Women's Footballer of the Year in 2015.
She joined Liverpool ahead of the 2015 WSL campaign and scored three goals in 12 league outings last season. | Liverpool Ladies have "reluctantly accepted" a transfer bid for striker Asisat Oshoala from fellow Women's Super League side Arsenal Ladies. |
36,601,061 | Recent Rangers signing Barton, 33, was quoted as saying Brown was "nowhere near his level".
"I've not been in his league, he's in my league," joked Scotland skipper Brown, 30.
"I think we'll get on really well, him being a Celtic fan, so I think we'll get on great."
Meanwhile, Brown is relishing playing under new manager Brendan Rodgers.
"He's been really positive with what he's done on the pitch so far," said Brown.
"It's exciting everybody, the way we're going to play and we're just looking forward to every single moment of it.
"We're going to be a lot closer on and off the field so it's going to be good times for us ahead. It's just a positive vibe throughout."
Of Celtic's league opener against Hearts on 6 August, the captain said: "We've got a new manager, we've got a fresh start. We'll show what we can do."
Brown was missing injured for a period midway through last season and then sat out the end of the campaign after Celtic had secured a fifth straight title.
"That's me back to normality," he added. "I've had a good four or five weeks off for the first time in 10 years so it's been lovely.
"I feel fine. I feel just as fit as I was last season when I was playing injury-free." | Celtic captain Scott Brown expects to get on well with Rangers midfielder Joey Barton, saying the Englishman is a fan of the Premiership champions. |
37,058,132 | Police are investigating the incident, which happened at 02:15 BST on Friday on the A5025 in the centre of the village of Pentraeth.
The injured man was one of the occupants of a black Ford Mondeo which crashed.
It is understood he is local and has possible life-changing injuries. | A man in his 20s has been seriously injured in a car crash on Anglesey. |
20,718,631 | The incident happened in the second half of last Friday's Heineken Cup match at Franklin's Gardens, which Ulster won 25-6.
The Saints skipper was cited after the match and pleaded guilty to the charge.
Hartley, 26, will now miss the return game against Ulster on 15 December and the home Premiership fixture against leaders Harlequins a week later.
The ban was imposed at a disciplinary hearing in Dublin on Thursday.
Earlier this year, the England hooker was banned for eight weeks after being cited for biting Ireland flanker Stephen Ferris during a Six Nations clash at Twickenham.
And Hartley was banned for 26 weeks in April 2007 after being found guilty of gouging the eyes of Wasps players James Haskell and Jonny O'Connor.
However, a European Rugby Cup statement said judicial officer Roger Morris had determined that the incident against Ulster was at the "low-end entry point" for offences committed under law 10.4 (a), which covers striking or punching an opponent,
Striking offences deemed to be in the mid-range carry a five-week suspension, while anyone guilty of a top-end offence can receive a ban of anything from eight and 52 weeks.
Speaking following the incident Saints director of rugby Jim Mallinder told BBC Radio Northampton: "He's our captain and our talisman and it's a frustration to lose him.
"But it's competitive. He's come up against an old adversary in Rory Best and although it wasn't a massive incident, it was something.
"It's playing on the edge, but not going over it, and it's something all the players have to learn."
Hartley will be free to play again from Christmas Eve but Northampton do not have a fixture until the Premiership match at Saracens on 30 December. | Northampton hooker Dylan Hartley has been banned for two weeks for striking Ulster's Rory Best. |
33,395,049 | 4 July 2015 Last updated at 13:46 BST
She said the Games would bring "honour and pride" to the country.
Some 12,000 people will be chosen to carry the Olympic torch through some 300 Brazilian cities next year.
Rio de Janeiro will be the first South American city to host the Olympics.
The BBC's Wyre Davies sent this report from Brazil. | Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has unveiled the torch to be used at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. |
38,654,147 | The claim: The UK could negotiate an agreement that gives some of the benefits of customs union membership while still allowing other trade deals to be negotiated.
Reality Check verdict: Turkey has a deal for partial membership of the customs union so it is possible, but the terms are not favourable to Turkey. The prime minister says she does not want to replicate any existing agreements. There is a limit to what the government will be able to achieve in the negotiations if it is not prepared to impose the EU's tariffs on non-EU countries.
But she said that she did want to reach some sort of customs agreement with the EU.
"Whether that means we must reach a completely new customs agreement, become an associate member of the customs union in some way or remain a signatory to some elements of it, I hold no preconceived position," she said.
The EU customs union is a trade agreement between European countries that they will not impose tariffs (taxes on imports) on each other's goods and agree to impose common external tariffs on goods from other countries outside the customs union.
It means that once a product is inside the customs zone it can be transported without customs checks to any other country in the union.
Mrs May specified that there were two parts of the customs union that she could not accept.
One of them was the common external tariff, because having to impose the tariff would get in the way of free trade agreements outside the EU.
The other was the common commercial policy, which is the part of the EU treaties that sets out the principles for EU trade, including that it is the EU that sets external tariffs and negotiates trade deals, rather than individual member states.
The customs union is made up of the 28 EU members states and Monaco.
The EU also has separate customs union agreements with Turkey, Andorra and San Marino.
Turkey's agreement covers industrial products and processed agricultural products.
That means Turkey has to impose the common external tariff and meet EU regulations on its industrial products, but not its unprocessed agricultural ones.
So when Turkey negotiates trade agreements with other countries, it still has to impose the EU's external tariff on industrial products and processed agricultural products (unless those countries also have trade deals with the EU).
It's also a one-sided agreement, with non-EU countries that have free trade agreements with the EU automatically getting access to Turkish markets although Turkey does not get access to theirs.
And it means that on the products covered by the agreement, Turkey must keep to EU regulations.
Clearly the EU regulations would not currently be a problem for UK companies, which already follow them, but a Turkey-style deal would mean being bound by future changes to the regulations without having any say in them.
The question is whether the UK, which has stressed it does not want to replicate any existing agreements, could negotiate a deal with the EU that would allow tariff-free access for some industries to the customs union without getting in the way of the UK's trade agreements with other countries.
Theresa May said she wanted the UK's trade with the EU to be "as frictionless as possible", without specifying what benefits she would like to keep.
But there is a limit to what the UK can secure in the negotiations without agreeing to the EU's tariffs on non-EU countries, because that would mean that other countries could get a back-door, tariff-free route into the EU.
Read more from Reality Check | Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Tuesday that the UK would definitely not continue to be a full member of the customs union because that would prevent trade deals being negotiated with non-EU countries. |
31,795,128 | Hereford County Hospital declared an "internal incident" after beds were closed due to sickness and diarrhoea on inpatient wards.
The number of people requiring admission is also up by 16% on the same period last year, the hospital said.
A spokesman said it has postponed some routine operations after the situation "worsened over the weekend".
Richard Beeken, from the health trust running the 220 bed hospital, said cancelling operations was a "last resort".
He said many of the patients with sickness and diarrhoea were "very poorly" and require "a longer stay in hospital than expected".
When a hospital declares a major incident or internal incident, it indicates the pressure on services has forced the need for special measures to be introduced.
The declaration allows hospital bosses to call in extra staff to help.
Wye Valley NHS Trust said it was working with West Midlands Ambulance Service, the commissioners for healthcare in the county, the Herefordshire Clinical Commissioning Group and Herefordshire Council to manage the situation. | A Herefordshire hospital has postponed operations because of high demand at A&E and a sickness outbreak. |
37,584,431 | This topic goes back a long way, possibly starting shortly after the 22 councils were put in place in 1996.
Questions including whether they are too small to deliver services like education and social services have being asked about local authorities in Wales.
The size of public organisations is an important issue.
Bigger organisations do not necessarily deliver better services than smaller ones. No one size fits all.
Some of the biggest authorities in terms of population have above the Wales average performance in many areas.
It is also the case that, on average, the best performers are the smaller, more rural authorities.
Apart from structures, there may also be a range of other factors supporting and promoting effective services and these will also include leadership, expertise and the demand for the service.
The most effective authorities might be those with excellent leaders who can operate in a range of contexts.
At this point in 2016, finances are really stretched like never before and ministers might look back and wonder why structural reorganisation has not happened.
For now, a full scale re-organisation is off the agenda. It is too expensive and too much of a distraction. The public want the focus to be on services and not structures.
Instead, and building on existing good practice, local authorities will do what they have been doing for some time - building up effective joint working around service delivery.
It is reduced budgets, cuts in funding and a desire on behalf of local politicians and officers to keep up services that have been a big driver of this change rather than politicians in Welsh Government.
There are many joint arrangements in place and shared officers across a number of authorities - and this pattern is incrementally changing local government as we know it.
The Welsh Government is now keen for this joint working to go much further.
Local Government Secretary Mark Drakeford laid out his vision for the future of local government in Wales on Tuesday and said the current 22 councils will remain in place unless there were cases where authorities wanted to merge voluntarily.
The minister is keen on an approach where cities and regions are responsible for services, including strategic transport, and economic development, with organisations similar to health boards in Wales delivering other services, including education and social services.
Local authorities will be strongly encouraged to deliver services jointly and work even more closely with other bodies including health, police and the ambulance service.
Clearly, then the agenda is much more regional for the delivery of key services.
Over the next five years I think that a new pattern of local government will emerge and there will be joint heads of service across two or three councils in some areas of delivery and maybe even a shared chief executive or two.
A few councils are likely to merge voluntarily.
It might look like there are 20-22 authorities but behind this, there will be a complex web of shared leadership and service delivery.
Structure will not be important.
In the new more developed world of collaboration, a big issue will be the integration with other services and not just local government - police, fire and rescue, ambulance, housing, health and so on.
Joint working arrangements to deliver services will become the norm and these will be different across different parts of Wales.
The citizens of Wales have a right to the best services. It is these services, with on-time delivery, of the highest quality, which interest citizens more than structures. | As the structure of local government returns to the agenda - and merger proposals are effectively scrapped - Prof Catherine Farrell of the University of South Wales looks at the debate around reorganisation, and what could be on the horizon. |
40,331,873 | The ruling is a victory for the Asian-American rock band The Slants, which sued after the government rejected its registration to trademark its name.
Band members said they were reclaiming the term, which was viewed as derogatory to Asians.
Band leader Simon Tam said they were "humbled and thrilled" by the ruling.
"This journey has always been much bigger than our band - it's been about the rights of all marginalized communities to determine what's best for ourselves," he wrote on Facebook.
The US Patent and Trademark office had denied the application, pointing to a portion of the law that prohibits federal registration of a trademark if it disparages persons, beliefs, or institutions.
In a unanimous 8-0 decision, the Supreme Court said that clause was unconstitutional.
"It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the decision.
The US government had said its decision to refuse the band trademark registration was not a violation of free speech because the band could still use the name.
But federal registration is important because it makes trademarks more secure, said Ronald Coleman of the Archer law firm, one of the lawyers who argued the case for the band.
The decision has implications for a case that is already pending over the name of the US football team, the Washington Redskins.
The US Patent and Trademark office cancelled the team's trademark registrations in 2014, after five Native Americans said the name was offensive.
Paul Fucito, a spokesman for the trademark office, said it is reviewing the decision and expects to issue new guidance for employees. | The top US court says the government cannot deny registration of trademarks with offensive terms, arguing that is a violation of the right to free speech. |
40,519,624 | Laura Matthews-James, 35, from Pen-y-groes, was seven months pregnant when her Fiat 500 collided with Robert Hitchcock's car on 26 February 2016.
She denies causing death by driving without due care and attention after the crash on the B4300 near Carmarthen.
Swansea Crown Court heard she had no memory of overtaking two vehicles at once before crashing.
Ms Matthews-James, a biomedical scientist, had been on her way to work when she crashed into Mr Hitchcock, 54.
He was killed instantly and she was airlifted to hospital where doctors discovered her baby had died and performed an emergency Caesarean section.
She told Swansea Crown Court she had no memory of the crash but had no reason to rush to her job at Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen.
She said: "I wouldn't take any risks because I was pregnant.
"My boss was quite flexible as long as I was there around 9am."
She admitted overtaking cars, sometimes two at a time on the same stretch of road on previous occasions, but said there had never been any problems.
She told the court: "You can see quite far ahead."
Asked why she overtook cars if she was not late, she said: "Just because they were going slower than I wanted to go.
"I was going about 40 in a 60 area. I thought to myself, 'I don't want to do 40 all the way to Carmarthen'."
The court heard mud from surrounding fields was found scattered along the road after the crash, which could have created a potential hazard.
Ignatius Hughes QC, defending, said Ms Matthews-James had been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder after the combination of the crash and losing her unborn son.
Mr Hughes read out a statement from a forensic psychiatrist who said she had been left in a "fragile and stressed" emotional state.
It said: "She has said she doesn't want to bring a child into the world because in her words 'I've killed my baby'".
The trial continues. | A woman who lost her unborn baby after a head-on crash that killed a man has denied taking a risk by overtaking. |
34,211,227 | Mr McGuigan was shot dead last month and police said they believed members of the Provisional IRA were involved.
Bobby Storey, Eddie Copeland, Brian Gillen had been arrested in Belfast on Wednesday. The unnamed woman, who is 50, was detained on Thursday.
Mr Storey, a former IRA prisoner, is the northern chairman of Sinn Féin.
In a tweet, Mr Storey's lawyer John Finucane said: "After two days in Antrim, my client Bobby Storey has been freed. No evidence was put at any stage and my client will be suing for unlawful arrest."
The Police Service of Northern Ireland's Chief Constable George Hamilton said last month that detectives believe Provisional IRA members had a role in Mr McGuigan Sr's murder.
But he added there was no evidence at that stage that the killing had been sanctioned at a senior level of the organisation.
Sinn Féin said the IRA no longer exists after it ordered an end to its armed campaign in 2005.
A total of 17 people have been arrested in connection with Mr McGuigan Sr's murder. | Four people arrested following the murder of former IRA man Kevin McGuigan Sr, including three senior republicans, have all been released unconditionally. |
35,427,461 | Coal seam gas (CSG) is found in coal deposits and it has supplied 90% of domestic gas in the state of Queensland for the past two decades.
But activists want to stop exploration in neighbouring New South Wales because they say it could lead to an environmental catastrophe.
Campaigners argue the process of mining the gas will contaminate groundwater supplies, a charge the industry rejects.
One of the frontlines lies in the red scrub a short drive from the farming town of Narrabri, 525km northwest of Sydney. It's here that energy firm Santos wants to extract enough natural gas to provide up to half of the supplies used in New South Wales homes and businesses each day.
Up to 1,000 metres beneath the rust-coloured dirt are the seams that contain the gas, which is mostly methane. It's trapped by the pressure of underground water, and when that is pumped out the CSG is collected.
However, the water extraction process and the waste water it creates has led to controversy.
Near Narrabri, some protesters have employed desperate measures to make their feelings known.
Don McKenzie, a 64-year old farmer, sits with a bicycle lock around his neck that is clamped around the steel fence to a CSG water treatment plant, where more than 100 demonstrators have gathered. They are a disparate bunch; from landowners to conservationists, and Aborigines to the so-called Knitting Nannas, a group of older women who sit and knit as part of a gentle, yet determined protest.
"We are being forced into doing this because the government is backing these people and the government will not listen," Mr McKenzie told the BBC. "We've made it very, very clear we don't want this coal seam gas."
Australia is the first country to convert CSG into liquefied natural gas (LNG), where natural gas is cooled to make a liquid, shrinking its volume for easier storage and transportation.
The hope is that LNG will prove to be another big export earner for Australia, with industry bodies predicting that Australia will be the world's leading LNG exporter by 2018.
To overtake current front-runner Qatar, Australia has spent massively.
Some 70bn Australian dollars (US$49.2bn) has been invested in the east of the country, exploiting new reserves of CSG and building the facilities to ship exports to Asia and beyond out of the port of Gladstone in the northern state of Queensland.
LNG supplies come from so-called conventional offshore fields off north and western Australia, and from coal deposits, mostly in the east.
The commercial production of gas from coal seams began in Australia in 1996 in Queensland's Bowen Basin, north of Brisbane. It now supplies 90% of the state's domestic gas needs and employs more than 20,000 people.
However, the industry's experiences in other states has been mixed. There's a moratorium on exploration in Victoria while more scientific assessments are carried out. In New South Wales there has been concerted community opposition to CSG developments.
The protest near Narrabri is good-natured and is a "show of force", according to Jeremy Buckingham, a Greens party MP who sits in the New South Wales Legislative Council.
"This is risky, dangerous industry. We do not want, we do not need, and we want these companies to go away," he said.
"My biggest concern is that groundwater will be contaminated. Invariably we've seen in other jurisdictions in Queensland and the United States ground water contaminated. Water is more precious than short-term profits from unconventional gas."
Activists take us deeper into the Pilliga State Forest to the gates of another water treatment plant. It's here they claim that an accidental leak of water extracted from coal seams has "killed" a tract of woodland. The wastewater is salty, and, according to environmentalists, loaded with chemicals, some of them highly toxic.
"It's Armageddon water," said one campaigner, who lives at a protest camp several kilometres away.
They fear that untold damage will be inflicted on the Great Artesian Basin, one of the largest underground water reservoirs on earth that lies underneath about a fifth of the Australian continent.
But the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association (APPEA), which represents the oil and gas exploration and production industry, strongly rejects any suggestion of environmental vandalism.
"The industry is strictly regulated and is safe for the environment," it said in a statement to the BBC. "Every credible, independent scientific study in Australia, the UK, the US and Canada confirms that the industry is safe when properly regulated."
"There has been no impact on water supply or quality. Indeed the industry provides regional communities with a new supply of treated water - producers are required to put all the water extracted from development to 'beneficial use'," it added.
Santos, the energy company that hopes to start CSG production in the Pilliga State Forest, said it adheres to safety regulations that are "among the most stringent in the world."
"One of our utmost priorities is ensuring all water resources are protected," a spokeswoman told the BBC. "Claims that our Narrabri Gas Project will have a detrimental impact on the Great Artesian Basin are fundamentally incorrect." | A natural gas that supporters say could power another resources boom in Australia is proving highly controversial. |
35,833,987 | 17 March 2016 Last updated at 13:38 GMT
"I would have never had imagined that Erdogan and the AKP government would have come this far," said Sevgi Akarcesme.
Asked whether the European Union is doing enough in response to alleged abuses of democracy in Turkey, she said that while individual politicians were still committed to EU values, the institution was failing.
"European leaders are giving Erdogan opportunities on golden plates," she added.
A Turkish court put Zaman newspaper - a vocal critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - under state control earlier this month. No explanation was given for the court's decision.
Zaman is closely linked to the Hizmet movement of influential US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, which Turkey says is a "terrorist" group aiming to overthrow President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government.
Mr Gulen was once an ally of Mr Erdogan but the two fell out. Many Hizmet supporters have been arrested.
Watch the full interview on BBC World News and BBC News Channel on Thursday 17 March 2016 or watch on BBC iPlayer (UK only) | Turkey is going through "a civilian coup d'etat", the editor-in-chief, of English language newspaper Today's Zaman has told BBC HARDtalk. |
38,337,390 | Murray Davidson slotted the game's only goal two minutes before half-time, side-footing home from inside the box.
Killie's Souleymane Coulibaly had a free kick saved by Zander Clark, before his counterpart Jamie MacDonald brilliantly denied Graham Cummins.
Kilmarnock's Luke Hendrie was sent off in the dying minutes for two bookable offences in quick succession.
Storm Barbara subsided enough to give the players a fighting chance of providing some football and they made a decent fist of it.
Danny Swanson, close to signing a new deal with St Johnstone, was again outstanding for his team, inventive and creative in the middle of the park - although he did fade and was eventually replaced by Liam Craig.
Kilmarnock were forced to replace the injured Rory McKenzie with Dean Hawkshaw after just 32 minutes and that was a blow, for McKenzie had been closest to scoring for them in the first half with a low shot which troubled Zander Clark.
It was a better game than the crowd of 3,056 had any right to expect, given the weather conditions.
However, Davidson's goal was all too easy from a Kilmarnock perspective.
Blair Alston floated in a corner from the right and almost casually Davidson stepped on to it to open his right foot and slot it beyond goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald.
The home support had MacDonald to thank for keeping them in the game with a fabulous double save, but it was to no avail.
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And Kilmarnock's night ended with further problems. Hendrie was first yellow carded for a crude challenge as St Johnstone tried to waste time at the corner flag.
He followed that up within seconds with a second yellow for what looked like comments made to referee Stephen Finnie.
The result saw Lee Clark's men drop to eighth, while St Johnstone moved to within one point of fourth-placed Hearts.
Kilmarnock manager Lee Clark: "We didn't deserve anything. We started average at best. We have to be more ruthless, we can't keep relying on Souleymane Coulibaly to score wonder goals. The second half deteriorated into long balls.
"I take responsibility for the way we deteriorated. I made the wrong decision with the first substitution. Not that putting Kris Boyd on was the wrong one, but the person I took off, Nathan Tyson, was the wrong decision, I should have had Kris and Nathan on together."
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright: "Kilmarnock looked threatening in the first half. We gave away silly free-kicks and gave them an opportunity to put balls in our box, but we dealt with them well.
"As the second half wore on I thought we looked the more threatening and we saw the game out which was important."
Match ends, Kilmarnock 0, St. Johnstone 1.
Second Half ends, Kilmarnock 0, St. Johnstone 1.
Attempt saved. Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Second yellow card to Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock).
Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock).
Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Luke Hendrie.
Attempt blocked. Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is blocked.
Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock).
Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Dean Hawkshaw (Kilmarnock).
Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Blair Alston (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Liam Craig (St. Johnstone) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box.
Foul by Innes Cameron (Kilmarnock).
Chris Millar (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Brian Easton (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Liam Craig (St. Johnstone).
Attempt missed. Joe Shaughnessy (St. Johnstone) header from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Iain Wilson.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Gary Dicker.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by Souleymane Coulibaly.
Substitution, Kilmarnock. Innes Cameron replaces Steven Smith.
Corner, St. Johnstone. Conceded by William Boyle.
Attempt missed. Steven Smith (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt saved. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Dean Hawkshaw (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Luke Hendrie (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Graham Cummins (St. Johnstone).
Attempt saved. Souleymane Coulibaly (Kilmarnock) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Souleymane Coulibaly (Kilmarnock) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by David Wotherspoon (St. Johnstone).
Substitution, St. Johnstone. Liam Craig replaces Danny Swanson.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Foul by Dean Hawkshaw (Kilmarnock).
Murray Davidson (St. Johnstone) wins a free kick on the right wing. | St Johnstone moved seven points clear in fifth place in the Scottish Premiership with victory at Kilmarnock. |
36,725,200 | The programmes, presumed lost, were recorded by Everett for early commercial station, Radio Victory.
They feature his trademark homemade sound effects and jingles.
Former presenter Andy Ferris who discovered the reels said they showed Everett was "relentless in his pursuit of entertainment".
They include his creations Sing-along-with-the-Beatles, The Backward Contest and sci-fi hero Captain Kremmen.
Mr Ferris recently rediscovered the programmes in a collection of reels he purchased from the station when it lost its licence in 1986.
"At the time Everett was a household name with a very popular television show. He sent us a tape every week of one of his put-together programmes - it was great," Mr Ferris said.
"It was Kenny being funny and taking the mick and playing the music he liked at the time - he'd be very amusing and dropping in lots of sound effects."
Everett's wife at the time, Lee Everett Alkin, remembers him recording shows at their home in Cowfield, Sussex, using multi-track recorders to achieve what were ground-breaking effects for the time.
"I'd be having tea with someone and all of sudden you'd hear all these sound effects - horrendous bloodcurdling screams - from down the corridor. So in the end we sound-proofed him!"
The Victory programmes - along with remastered versions of earlier BBC Radio Solent programmes - are due to feature in a BBC documentary about Everett's life.
Producer Richard Latto, said: "It's remarkable how fresh the shows sound after all these years.
"The techniques Kenny used 45 years ago are still staggeringly impressive, but that's why he's hailed a genius by so many in the industry."
The tapes sold for £720 at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
Kenny Everett | Rare recordings of eccentric pioneering radio DJ Kenny Everett broadcast on local radio in Portsmouth in the 1970s have been unearthed. |
33,333,888 | The Greek government has requested a new bailout deal from the eurozone.
Greece is now just hours away from a deadline to repay €1.6bn (£1.1bn) to the International Monetary Fund.
After seeing sharp falls on Monday, the Dow Jones rose 23 points, or 0.1%, to 17,619. The S&P 500 index gained five points, or 0.3%, to 2,063.
The tech-focused Nasdaq index climbed 28 points, or 0.6%, to 4,986.
Among individual stocks, shares in ConAgra Foods rose 0.67% after company said it would exit its private label foods business.
General Electric shares fell 0.26% after it sold its European private equity financing business to a unit of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp for about $2.2bn. | (Close): Stocks on Wall Street closed up slightly as investors followed talks between Greece and its creditors. |
39,875,890 | The 12-time Grand Slam champion beat Spanish wildcard Nicolas Almagro 6-1 4-6 7-5 and plays Feliciano Lopez next.
Defending champion Djokovic, 29, described Friday's decision as "shock therapy", and will be on the tour alone until he appoints a new coach.
Rafael Nadal also went through with victory over Italian Fabio Fognini.
The Spaniard won 7-6 (7-3) 3-6 6-4 in a match that lasted just under three hours to set up a tie with Australia's Nick Kyrgios.
Britain's Andy Murray is already through to round three after Tuesday's straight-set victory over Romanian Marius Copil.
He will play Croatia's world number 59 Borna Coric, who beat Pierre-Hugues Herbert of France 7-5 6-4 on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Djokovic said he may appoint a new coach before the French Open, which begins on 28 May.
"I'm going to think about who I want in my team and I don't yet have anyone. But I think by the French Open, or after the French Open, I'm going to have someone," he said.
"I understand people are trying to speculate and create a list because I was saying I would like to have someone who was kind of in my shoes before."
In the women's tournament in Madrid, Eugenie Bouchard advanced to the quarter-finals after top seed Angelique Kerber retired from their match through injury.
World number two Kerber was trailing 6-3 5-0 against the Canadian, who beat Maria Sharapova - the woman she called a cheat - on Monday.
Despite the third-round exit, Germany's Kerber is still guaranteed to overtake American Serena Williams as world number one when the latest WTA rankings are published on Monday.
Bouchard, ranked 60 in the world, goes on to play Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova, the world number nine.
BBC tennis correspondent Russell Fuller:
This was a stuttering start to life without the coaching team which had been such a huge part of his career, but Djokovic played very soundly in the deciding set from 3-0 down, as Almagro's purple patch faded spectacularly.
The world number two was watched by his brother Marko and Pepe Imaz - a former pro, who now promotes a 'Love and Peace Tennis Experience' - and has been part of Djokovic's wider team for a few years.
Fognini, meanwhile, reminded us of his exquisite talent in a mesmerising match with Nadal. He saved one match point with a 90mph forehand onto the baseline, but once again, for the 11th time out of 11 on clay this year, Nadal ran out the winner. | World number two Novak Djokovic reached the Madrid Open third round by winning his first match since parting company with his coaching staff on Friday. |
38,813,737 | Since the Carl Frampton-Leo Santa Cruz rematch was announced, thousands of Frampton fans have been busy making their plans, saving their money, and buying their T-shirts for the trip of a lifetime to come to the mecca of boxing to support their local hero.
Not since the halcyon days of Ricky Hatton has a fighter from the United Kingdom brought such a following to Vegas. While it will take some doing for any boxer to match the estimated 33,000 supporters Hatton brought over in December 2007 for his highly anticipated bout with Floyd Mayweather, Frampton has a large and loyal fan base that continues to grow.
It all led to an incredible atmosphere on the Strip with a sea of green and chants of 'mon the Jackal' emanating from many a hotel casino in the days leading up to the fight.
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The sense of anticipation continued to build in the MGM Grand Hotel on Friday at the weigh-in and on Saturday ahead of the fight. The MGM's Grand Garden Arena has hosted many iconic fights down the years, and given the quality of their first world featherweight title contest, the rematch was widely expected to be another classic.
Vegas is notorious for the chancers and spivs who weave their way round the Strip. The way Frampton and Santa Cruz conducted themselves in the build-up to, during and after their fights has been in stark contrast to that, with honesty, sportsmanship and mutual respect emanating from all their actions.
The bonhomie between the fighters extended to both sets of supporters on fight night with the Irish and Mexicans mixing well before and after the fight. This led to some unexpected sights including a group of Santa Cruz supporters singing "everywhere we go - it's the Ulster boys making all the noise" and Frampton fans trying to explain to a rather bemused group of Mexicans who Gareth McAuley and Stevie Davis are, and why they were being continually celebrated in song.
While 'Sweet Caroline' was sung with the usual gusto and the fans gave feverish support to Frampton as he made his way to the ring, his supporters were acutely aware that the two fighters are evenly matched and that the fight was likely to be another tight affair. So the tension was palpable in the arena at times during the fight.
The bout was another demonstration of boxing at the highest level and the majority decision in favour of Santa Cruz reflected the closeness of the contest.
But Frampton was heroic until the end. His gracious comments in his post fight interview did him immense credit, proving he is as class an act in defeat as he has always been in the ring.
He did not attempt to make any excuses for the loss - but simply conceded his opponent was the better man on the night. The way he has conducted himself since the result has left an indelible mark in Vegas, with a number of Mexican and American fight fans commenting on how they were struck by the dignity and humility Frampton demonstrated in defeat.
One of the reasons Frampton generates such devotion from his fans is that he has remained genuinely unaffected by the great success he has achieved and the fame that has come with it. It is very evident he appreciates the huge level of support and loyalty he generates in his fans, and he is keenly aware of the financial sacrifices his fans have made to support him on his quest to conquer America, which is why he is adamant his next fight will be in Belfast.
The loyalty is reciprocal as it is clear the support means a great deal to Frampton, and in the immediate aftermath of his first career defeat he spoke of feeling he had let his fans down. But none of his supporters felt let down at all, they were all aware that Frampton had lost narrowly to an excellent fighter, and they wanted to show the Tigers Bay man that they would be backing him now more than ever.
This was evident in the feverish cries of "there's only one Carl Frampton" as soon as the result was announced in the ring and in the raucous welcome Frampton received the following day when he attended a post-fight party in a local Irish bar.
At that gathering in the Irish bar, the overwhelming feeling from the fans was that while they were of course disappointed the Ulsterman had lost, they felt it was a very close fight and they just wanted to be there to demonstrate to Frampton that they would support him in the tough times as well as the good.
As many of the Jackal's fans began their long journey home on Monday, they were in upbeat mood, in spite of the result, as Jonathan from Antrim explained.
"While the result was obviously not what we wanted, Frampton fought well, and certainly did not disgrace himself in the ring. The way he has accepted defeat has also reflected well on him," said Jonathan.
"The whole trip has been amazing. Seeing so many people from Northern Ireland descend on the Vegas Strip to support one of our own has been fantastic. Northern Ireland is on a real sporting high at the minute with the success of our golfers, our football team and of course Carl's achievements. Long may it continue."
Throughout fight weekend in Vegas, as the song goes, the Ulster Boys really were making all the noise with casino bosses eager for another Frampton fight on the Strip before too long.
For many Frampton fans, recovering physically, emotionally and financially from this "trip of a lifetime" may take some time! | They came, they saw, and the 'Ulster Boys' left an indelible mark on the famous Las Vegas Strip. |
36,650,022 | Fourteen patients were treated in a corridor within the A&E department on Sunday, a hospital spokesman said.
The daughter of one elderly patient, who did not wish to be named, said it was "horrendous" and her mother waited 18 hours for a bed.
The trust, rated inadequate last year, said there had been a 20% rise in ambulance arrivals over the past year.
Up to 98 ambulances went to Worcester and 56 to the Alexandra Hospital on Sunday.
More updates on this story and other in Hereford and Worcester.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust said it had to amend capacity in Worcester and at its other hospital in Redditch, opening an extra 20 beds.
The corridor is able to take patients and is staffed when needed, it said.
"Sunday in particular, we believe, was our busiest day ever," a spokesman said. "We did work with the ambulance service to look after patients for a short period. This is something we have done with the ambulance service before.
"We have and are continuing to put in additional staffing to support this increase in demand as well as increasing the size of our A&E."
The trust said it accepted that some ambulance journeys could have been managed differently, and said its main response of admitting more patients was "not working for our hospitals or for our patients". A new emergency department is expected to be open later this year.
The 84-year-old patient's daughter told BBC News her mother was sent home with antibiotics because there were no beds available but despite being readmitted a day later she still waited several hours for a bed.
She said there were two "banks" of mostly elderly patients were on either side of the corridor.
West Midlands Ambulance Service said it saw a 20% increase in 999 calls in Worcestershire on Sunday, and said journeys to Worcester had "steadily increased" since a recent reconfiguration of services from Redditch. | Worcestershire Royal Hospital has experienced what doctors believe was its busiest day ever at the weekend. |
40,745,235 | Every day some 8,000 trucks travel the 2.8km (1.75 miles) between border checkpoints at Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, under the steel arches of the Ambassador Bridge and over the Detroit River.
The 88-year-old bridge - the busiest border crossing by trade volume in North America - is a vital link between the two countries.
It connects industrial nerve centres in each country, feeding highly integrated cross-border supply chains.
And each day, trucks from Laval International, a 42-year-old compression mould making company based in Windsor, come and go across the span.
Company president Jonathon Azzopardi has a message he'd like to deliver to Donald Trump, as Canada, the US, and Mexico prepare to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta).
"Canada, of all three of the partners, is the only one that fulfilled its obligations," he says.
"You didn't fulfil your promises. We did."
On 16 August, the three trading partners will sit down in Washington, DC, for the inaugural round of talks launched at US President Donald Trump's behest.
Mr Azzopardi says Canadian companies like his have invested in the American and Mexican economies, creating jobs and helping to sustain communities.
"Did we profit from it? We grew, yes. But did we also reinvest? 100%. They can never take that away from us."
He says he'd be "hard pressed" to find the same number of American and Mexican companies who did the same for the Canadian economy.
In Windsor, where so many livelihoods and companies depend on Nafta, people are feeling wary, says Keith Henry, president at Windsor Mold, a tooling and automotive components company with divisions in Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee and Mexico.
"The Nafta uncertainty is just causing - has caused - everybody to just pause because they don't know where to invest, they don't know what's going to happen," he says.
They hope legislators on both sides of the Canada-US border understand the vast and dynamic market that has grown within Nafta, which formed the world's largest free trade zone when it came into force in 1994.
Canada is America's second largest trading partner. In 2016, more than $540bn-worth of goods passed over the border, from avocados from California to petroleum from Newfoundland and Labrador.
But while trade between the two countries is integral for both economies, manufacturing is heavily concentrated in specific regions and industries.
Almost 40% of all US goods sold to Canada comes from just five states: Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Texas and New York, and is concentrated in just a few industries such as automobiles and machinery.
In Canada, Ontario produces about half of all goods sold to the US and much of its products are tied up in the auto industry. All in all, the auto industry in Ontario and Michigan alone is responsible for about 12% of all trade between the two nations.
The Windsor-Detroit region is one of Nafta's epicentres.
Windsorites see their town as a Detroit suburb, sharing a vital auto industry with Motor City.
The big three - General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) - have had their headquarters in Michigan. Ford and FCA have operations in Windsor, helping generate around 20,000 jobs.
Windsor is also a hub to move goods, services, and people across the border.
Almost 17% of all Canadian exports end up in Michigan. Over 10% of Canada's imports from the US come from Michigan.
Because the border is so close and convenient, over 6,000 Windsor residents cross each day to work in the US, under Nafta provisions for professional workers.
Mr Azzopardi didn't always support Nafta.
He remembers his father, the company founder, coming home and warning the freshly-inked trade deal was a job killer, a disaster for the Canadian economy and exporters like him.
Mexico had cheaper labour and could make cars for less. There were a couple of years of struggle in Windsor.
But the region's manufacturers learned how to compete, becoming suppliers within the integrated continental market.
"We've expanded to Mexico, we're growing together," says Mr Azzopardi. "That's the secret sauce that people don't see."
As the big three auto makers expanded operations into Mexico, their clients - companies like Laval International and Windsor Mold - expanded with them.
Says Keith Henry: "We didn't put a plant in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labour and make parts there and ship them back to the United states and Canada."
"We located in Mexico because our customers were expanding their business operations in that country."
Zekelman Industries is the largest independent pipe and tube manufacturer in North America, producing 2.5 million tons of pipe and tube annually in 15 manufacturing plants in the US and Canada.
The company's products can be found in the the roof of the Skydome, where Toronto's popular baseball team - the Blue Jays - plays.
The company also produced 125,000 tons of hollow steel structural tubing used in the security fence along the US-Mexico border.
CEO Barry Zekelman understands the resentment in US Rust Belt states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin that helped propel Donald Trump into the White House.
He's ready with a quote from another US presidential candidate, Ross Perot, who warned in 1992 that Nafta would result in the "giant sucking sound" of American jobs heading to Mexico.
"That's exactly what happened," he says.
"You have communities that you drive through, you go through these towns and they've disappeared. "
Mr Zekelman understands why the Trump administration has targeted the $63.2bn trade deficit the US has with Mexico, and doesn't think that the White House takes real issue with Canada as a partner.
"Trump's a big personality and that style rubs a lot of people the wrong way," he says.
"But he's there. He's president and you have to learn how to deal with it. So everyone needs to calm down. I don't think he has any animosity towards Canada."
It's a belief bolstered by comments the president made to his Mexican counterpart.
According to a leaked transcript of a January phone call recently published by the Washington Post, Trump told Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto that: "Canada is no problem - do not worry about Canada, do not even think about them. That is a separate thing and they are fine and we have had a very fair relationship with Canada".
In July, the US set out its broad negotiation objectives for the talks, which include reducing the US trade deficit and improving market access in Canada and Mexico for US manufacturing, agriculture, and services.
Canadian industries in the US sights include dairy, wine, and grain.
Trade-dependent industries worry about who might become pawn in the negotiations, unsure what might be traded for more access or to protect another industry.
Canada's economy is hugely dependent on trade with the US, with over 75% of its exports heading south across the border.
The trade pact opened up new export opportunities, helped businesses become globally competitive, and brought in foreign investment.
But it's not an entirely a one-way street.
Canada isn't without leverage, says Lawrence Herman, with the CD Howe Institute, an economic think tank.
"We purchase selected products, we're a major market for so many states. The Midwest is highly dependent on trade with Canada. There are pressure points."
Almost 9m American jobs are dependent on trade and investment with Canada.
It's that message Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has been bringing to American lawmakers.
Over the past few months, ministers, provincial premiers and even city mayors have beaten a path to the US to plead the pro-trade case.
Industry and lawmakers from US states that count on the agreement being there for business have also warned the administration to tread carefully in the Nafta renegotiations.
In Canada, there is no dispute that the US economy has to be sound. The country depends on its 320m consumers.
"If the US (economy) catches a cold, we die of the flu. And we shouldn't be ashamed to say that," says Mr Azzopardi.
"Just because we're the little brother doesn't mean we don't contribute. We contribute a lot."
Data reporting by Robin Levinson King | As Canada, the US and Mexico prepare to sit down and renegotiate their trade deal at President Donald Trump's request, unease has enveloped a motor industry town in Ontario which finds itself on the front lines of this battle over North American trade. |
39,950,091 | A man has been charged with the murder of Tracy Kearns, 43, from Kinmel Bay, whose body was discovered on Saturday after being missing since 7 May.
Her mother, Eileen, said the former supermarket manager was a "wonderful mother who adored her children".
"She had a bubbly personality and was a real good laugh. She will be missed by us all," she said. | A tribute has been paid to a mother-of-two found dead by police in Conwy county. |
39,652,756 | The open-air events will be staged at a new outdoor amphitheatre on the marina on 22 July as part of the Hull City of Culture celebrations.
Handel's Water Music will be performed three times at Stage@TheDock theatre.
David Pickard, director of the BBC Proms, said: "I thought it was important, most specifically this year, to mark Hull as a City of Culture."
He said the organisers wanted to make a statement about the Proms being for the whole country.
"I was also looking to expand the initiative we took last year of taking some Proms out of the Albert Hall," said Mr Pickard.
Live updates on this story and others from the Humber region
He said he had always wanted to mark the 300th anniversary of Handel's Water Music with "something special".
Hull City Council leader Stephen Brady said: "We are absolutely delighted to have the BBC Proms coming to Hull as part of their 2017 season.
"It is a real honour to have this prestigious event travel out of London for the first time in recent history to our great city during our reign as UK City of Culture 2017.
"The Stage at the Dock will provide a fantastic setting."
The Hull concerts are part of the BBC Prom's new programme called 'Proms at...', which launched in London last year.
This year the annual classical festival at London's Royal Albert Hall will feature music from the Harry Potter films as well as themes from Star Wars, Jaws and Indiana Jones, as part of a concert celebrating the 85th birthday of film composer John Williams.
Explore the full line-up on the BBC Proms website | The BBC Proms is to host three concerts in Hull - leaving London for the first time since the 1930s. |
27,465,199 | Prince Charles and Camilla were greeted by dignitaries and the waiting media ahead of dozens of engagements across three provinces.
They flew into Halifax, Nova Scotia, on board a Canadian Forces Airbus.
The royals will attend events including one marking the 150th anniversary of the Charlottetown conference which led to the Canadian Confederation.
After stepping off the plane, the duchess was presented with flowers by Grace Elizabeth Lenihan, aged three, and her nine-year-old sister Molly Jane.
The royals were presented to a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, Chief Superintendent Brian Brennan, before leaving for a reception with the Governor General of Canada, David Johnston.
They chatted informally with the governor general at a photocall at Halifax's Government House.
To mark the royal tour, Prince Charles has been appointed to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada some 57 years after his father, the Duke of Edinburgh, was given the same honour.
There had been fears in recent weeks that the long-scheduled tour might not go ahead following last month's death of Camilla's brother Mark Shand.
The Duchess was left "devastated" by the death of Mr Shand, 62, from a head injury after a fall in New York.
During their visit to Halifax, the royal couple will watch military personnel take part in the Grand Parade on Victoria Day, the Canadian national holiday to mark Queen Victoria's birthday.
The prince will deliver a speech at the parade and lay a wreath at a cenotaph to commemorate those killed in World War One.
The royal couple will visit a military family resource centre in Halifax which provides support to some 20,000 local servicemen and women and their families.
Charles and Camilla will have tea with World War Two veterans and war brides at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, which was where half a million military personnel left for the conflict.
Prince Charles will meet traders at a local farmers' market in Halifax, while the duchess will witness the work of a project that helps victims of domestic violence.
The couple will visit Pictou County for an event to celebrate Celtic heritage in Nova Scotia.
They will travel to Charlottetown, Bonshaw and Cornwall in Prince Edward Island and Winnipeg in Manitoba during the tour.
It is the third time they have travelled to Canada together and is Charles's 17th official visit to the country. | The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall have arrived in Canada for the start of a four-day royal tour. |
40,839,512 | Kim, who led by two overnight, carded six birdies to move onto 17 under par, clear of England's Georgia Hall (70) and Thailand's Moriya Jutanugarn (67).
Compatriot Inbee Park matched Michelle Wie's first-round course record 64 to move into a share of fourth.
American Ally McDonald (70) is also seven shots back on 10 under.
Park, the 29-year-old Olympic champion bidding for a second British Open title after her 2015 triumph, birdied her opening two holes, picked up three more shots before the turn and then birdied the 11th, 13th and 17th on her back nine, narrowly missing another long birdie putt on the 18th.
"I've prepared myself pretty well last week at the Scottish Open, in the bad weather and the bad wind and all sorts," she said.
"The expectation was pretty low, I just made the cut and I wasn't putting well.
"The greens were much quicker today than the last two days which helped me a lot."
The 2013 winner, Stacy Lewis, also took advantage of the relatively kind conditions to post a seven-under 65 and move up to nine under, eight shots behind.
But it is Kim who will head into the final round on Sunday enjoying a commanding lead.
"I know the expectation and I haven't made the bogeys yet," she said.
"But I think I should give myself a little bit of credit for it, and enjoy tonight. And whatever happens tomorrow happens."
Hall, from Bournemouth, carded five birdies and a terrific eagle on the fifth, but a bogey on the 16th and a double bogey on 17 saw her slip from second to tied third in her last three holes.
Fellow English duo Jodi Ewart Shadoff (71) and Mel Reid (69) are among a group of six players on eight under.
Sally Watson, the only Scot left in the tournament, dropped three shots for a round of 75 to finish level par. | South Korea's Kim In-kyung extended her lead at the Women's British Open to six shots after a third-round 66 at Kingsbarns in Fife. |
25,007,469 | If the £27m plans are approved, New College Nottingham's Basford Hall campus would be completely demolished and rebuilt for opening in 2015.
The new campus, which would become a hub for training, could provide a jobs boost for the area.
The £9m investment has come from the Skills Funding Agency. The college said the rest of the money would be loaned.
The college said students would be able to continue their studies at the Basford Hall site during construction as the new campus would be built around the existing one.
Dawn Whitemore, principal and CEO of New College Nottingham, said the campus would become a regional hub for training in construction, science, technology and sustainable technologies.
She added: "We are determined to ensure it is a true 'community college' which reflects the hopes and aspirations of those living nearby, we are committed to supporting everyone who wants to learn, wherever their starting point."
Basford Hall campus, which dates to the 1960s, was saved from closure six years ago. At the time the college had wanted to sell it because it said it would be too expensive to update. | A Nottingham college has secured £9m of funding towards its multi-million pound redevelopment of one of its sites. |
21,082,876 | He said some shows now neglect traditional storytelling for the sake of "gratuitous" use of CGI graphics.
The 84-year-old, who was a fixture on Jackanory from the 1960s to '90s, said: "You can't help but notice how children's TV has changed".
Cribbins is returning to the genre in the new Cbeebies show Old Jack's Boat.
He said the series, which starts on Monday, has "a very nice balance" between traditional storytelling and animation.
But of other children's programmes, he said: "It's all very fast and noisy now I think.
"You think of the gentleness of Jackanory, somebody would walk onto the set, sit down and say 'hello I'm going to tell you about Ratty and Mole and the Wind in the Willows' and off you went.
"Nice and gentle, and the only thing you saw, apart from the guy or lady talking to you, was a few captions and illustrations, which were stills. That was how it used to be. Pure, simple storytelling.
"Now there seems to be - sometimes, not always - a tendency to use every single opportunity to put in CGI and animation and a lot of it is, I think, gratuitous when the story is actually doing the work for you.
"I think we've got a very nice balance with Old Jack's Boat of story and little bits and pieces [of animation] as well."
Old Jack's Boat was co-written by former Doctor Who scribe Russell T Davies and features ex-Doctor Who actress Freema Agyeman.
Cribbins is also known for playing Wilfred Mott in Doctor Who as well as for roles in Coronation Street, Last of the Summer Wine and Worzel Gummidge.
He holds the record for the most Jackanory appearances - 111 in total - and played station porter Albert Perks in classic 1970 film The Railway Children. | Actor Bernard Cribbins, who provided the voices of 1970s TV favourites The Wombles, has said modern children's TV has become too "fast and noisy". |
38,462,658 | One man survived, a second died and a third is still missing after the Belgian vessel overturned on Tuesday.
An investigation into the cause of the incident will be carried out by Belgian authorities, as will the missing person enquiry, the Coastguard added.
A salvage operation is expected to begin later on Thursday.
A temporary exclusion zone has been put in place around the vessel to allow the operation to take place.
The vessel from Belgium capsized off Ramsgate on the Kent coast at about 23:00 GMT on Tuesday.
Dover Coastguard said weather conditions at the time were "relatively benign" and the sea had been calm.
A man was rescued from the upturned hull at 07:30 GMT on Wednesday after he was spotted clinging to the vessel by a passing boat.
A second man "showing signs of life" was rescued from the sea later in the day but died in hospital.
The third crewman remains unaccounted for. An extensive search involving helicopters and boats was called off for the day late on Wednesday due to fading light. | There are no plans to resume the search for a missing fisherman after a boat capsized in the English Channel, the Maritime & Coastguard Agency has said. |
37,167,172 | The Black Cats have struggled for top-flight survival during the past four seasons and have lost their opening two Premier League games.
"There have been managers come and gone and everything has been very close to the bottom every season," said Moyes.
"I've said I want to change that but I can't do that overnight."
Moyes took over from Sam Allardyce at the end of July and has had limited time to strengthen his squad.
They lost 2-1 at Manchester City on the opening day of the season and were beaten by the same scoreline at home to Middlesbrough on Sunday.
The former Preston, Everton, Manchester United and Real Sociedad boss says he would "like to get a few" more players in but has "got a lot of work to do with the players".
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"I've told people that it was always going to be difficult," added the Scot, whose side play Shrewsbury in the EFL Cup on Wednesday (19:45 BST).
"I think I said when we came we were always going to build. I've come in late on, it's never going to be easy.
"I hope I was being realistic. There was no point in me telling people untruths - I wouldn't do that. Do we want to be there? No."
The Black Cats' past four seasons have seen them finish 17th, 14th, 16th and 17th - often staying up thanks to late rallies. The 2010-11 campaign was the last time they did not change managers during the season.
Moyes added: "The fact of the matter is we need to make improvements. We need to get more players in, we need to add to the squad."
Meanwhile, Sunderland keeper Vito Mannone has been taken to hospital after injuring his arm in training.
The 28-year-old Italian, who has played in both of Sunderland's game so far this season, suffered the problem during training. | Sunderland manager David Moyes says he was being "realistic" when he told the club's fans to prepare for another relegation battle. |
29,932,722 | And yet, before the last long weekend of qualifiers until spring next year, there is a welcome sense of anticipation in the air. Have football's routinely ridiculed executives actually changed something for the better?
So far this autumn we have had shocks - Slovakia beating European champions Spain 2-1, Poland beating newly crowned world champions Germany 2-0, Iceland seeing off World Cup semi-finalists the Netherlands 2-0.
We have had close-to-home thrills: Northern Ireland winning their first three qualifying matches for the first time, Wales taking seven points from nine, Scotland beaten only by Germany.
We have had dreariness too, not least with England - a home win over San Marino so preordained there were 35,000 empty seats, an absence of big matches to look forward to in the months that follow.
England's problem is once again likely to be less in making a major finals than doing something worthwhile when they get there. It is reflected in the reaction of their players after each match: some satisfaction, little joy.
But for others there is that rare thing: hope that they too could join the party.
Scotland have not qualified for the finals of a major tournament in 16 years. Northern Ireland have waited 28 years, Wales a heavy 56.
All three will go into 2015 believing those wilderness years could be coming to an end.
Wales have Gareth Bale as their superstar saviour to lead them to the promised lands - the most expensive player in the world assuming the kind of role which David Beckham, another Galactico of his time, so studiously took on in the early noughties for England.
When Bale was not saving his team from embarrassment in Andorra with a match-winning free-kick, he was popping up at left-back against the likes of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Cyprus, covering every blade of grass in pursuit of his and his country's dreams of long overdue qualification.
In Gordon Strachan, Scotland have a manager with first-hand experience of major tournament showdowns, while in Michael O'Neill, Northern Ireland have a coach who is melding disparate parts into a greater whole.
Before statues of Michel Platini and his Uefa executive committee are commissioned for Belfast and parks in Edinburgh and Cardiff named after his vice-president Senes Erzik, the caveats.
Hope has bloomed before, not least when Wales reached the play-offs for Euro 2004 and Northern Ireland beat Spain 3-2 in qualifying for the 2008 edition.
Wales went on to lose to Russia. Northern Ireland sunk back into the no man's land of their group. Spain won the whole thing.
Then there is the Republic of Ireland, level on points with Poland at the top of Group D, travelling to Scotland on Friday with a second consecutive European Championship finals in their sights.
But what of four years ago, when all those expectations withered with three consecutive and chastening defeats when they got to the tournament?
And here we come to another problem. Despite all these headline-grabbing defeats for the big boys, all of them are still likely to make it through come November next year.
The Netherlands could finish third in Group A, losing four times to Iceland and Czech Republic, and it still would not knock them out. Germany could remain beneath Poland and the Republic in Group D and still qualify without recourse to a play-off.
These shocks, on the surface so thrilling, are in part a direct result of the vast safety net Platini's new system incorporates. Spain and Germany, even with injuries, can afford to rest established stars or blood new talent. Defeat is never terminal in this land of third chances.
With that comes the flip side: for the smaller nations pulling off great one-off results (Northern Ireland winning away in Greece, Poland beating Germany for the first time in their history), those exceptional performances bring a smaller reward.
David might have landed a stone on Goliath's temple, but no longer need it be a knock-out blow.
Anticipation builds most easily when the route ahead is clear. Uefa's 'Week of Football' concept means keeping track is almost impossible.
Only on one day of the week - Wednesday - are there no games scheduled. Matches sneak up on you when you least expect them - Thursday nights, Sunday tea-time, Sunday evenings.
It is death by meaningless match, suffocation by complication. And for what? To arguably do it all over again once summer 2016 comes around.
European Championships have frequently been more enjoyable for spectators than the over-inflated World Cups with which they alternate.
There is a tautness about watching 16 teams in four groups, straight into a quarter-finals a fortnight later and the final itself a further week on.
In France, instead, we will go through an entire group stage just to get down to those 16 nations.
Even in the groups of four, the four best third-placed teams will qualify for the knock-out stage, meaning only eight teams will actually exit after that first round - a competitive false-start that will bloat a format that has worked brilliantly since eight finalists became 16 at Euro 96.
That expansion 18 years ago made geo-political as well as sporting sense.
The 34 nations that began qualifying for the 1992 championship were multiplied by the break-up of the old Eastern Bloc even before the finals in Sweden took place; in a few years Uefa went from 33 nation members to 48.
Back then, Scotland had to top a group that also contained Switzerland, Bulgaria and Romania to qualify. England had to out-do Ireland, Poland and Turkey.
Both unequivocally earned their places at the finals, even if they blew it when they arrived. The only second chance went to eventual winners Denmark when original group winner Yugoslavia collapsed into civil war.
When powerhouses like Spain and Italy do not make it through, as they failed to do in 1992, you can argue that the filtering process is too harsh. The multiplication this time owes far less to logic.
The 1992 tournament was done and dusted in 16 days, Euro 96 in 22. The 2016 edition will stretch over 31, across 10 venues, with a total of 51 games - 20 more than in 2012.
There will be quality in there, but it will require sifting. More than ever before, even for the smaller nations who make it through, there will be games that as a spectator you can afford to miss.
Who is this ultimately to benefit - those nations for whom qualification now carries new meaning, those big teams who can fall asleep and wake up in the finals, or Platini and Uefa, empire builders of the modern sporting world? | This was supposed to be the flabbiest, most tedious qualification process international football has ever cooked up: 53 European nations reduced to 24 finalists so interminably, and with so many caveats, that even the obsessives would turn their backs long before the end. |
34,952,382 | The site allows people to upload training materials and then charge Udemy users, of which there are more than seven million, for access.
But several experts and academics have expressed anger at finding their courses uploaded to the site and offered up for sale, without their permission.
Udemy, which raised $65m (£43.3m) in investment in June this year, responded by saying it relies on users flagging copyright infringing content and would review its procedures for doing so.
Rob Conery discovered that his programming courses had been reposted - but sometimes with identifying information intentionally removed.
"Piracy happens," Mr Conery said.
"But I've never seen it rewarded so openly… so brazenly.
"I work really hard on these videos and someone just stole it and is selling it on Udemy."
Udemy had been selling one of Mr Conery's courses for $15 (£10) - discounted from the usual $24 (£16). The deal was also being promoted in a Facebook advertisement.
The course had a five-star rating, and has had 923 enrolments, worth almost $14,000 (£9,300) at the discounted price.
In response to the complaints, Udemy said it takes copyright claims seriously and removes courses that are flagged up by the community.
However, to report instances of copyright infringement, users must first join Udemy - an obstacle described as "sleazy" by Mr Conery. A separate support email can be used by non-members, but this method of reporting content is not publicised clearly on the site.
Computer security expert Troy Hunt also found his material posted on Udemy. A course about ethical hacking - also now removed - was being sold for $47 (£31).
The Udemy version was identical to a course Mr Hunt had posted on an alternative site - although the Udemy version had the words "Hi, I'm Troy Hunt" removed from the beginning of the course.
Also, he had found that watermarks on the slides had been blurred out.
After being contacted by the BBC, Udemy responded to complaints in a blogpost.
It said no money had changed hands from the sale of Mr Hunt's course "as the fraudulent instructor had created coupon codes to allow students free access to the course".
The company added: "As an open marketplace of online content, we, like other platforms, face bad actors that seek to profit by stealing intellectual property and reposting it as their own.
"This is in clear violation of our terms of use and against every principle we hold as supporting open marketplaces.
"Our escalation team will be meeting after the holiday to review all of our copyright processes, including allowing people who do not have a Udemy account to use our flagging notification system."
Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC | Udemy, a platform for experts to sell educational courses, has been accused of not doing enough to remove stolen content from its service. |
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Alexander Kokorin missed the best chance of a lifeless opening half, heading wide from six yards.
Substitute Kevin Mirallas hit a post with Belgium's first shot on target with six minutes remaining.
"On the balance of play, Belgium do not deserve it, but Marc Wilmots will say, 'We have six points from two games, we are growing into this tournament'. But they have been poor. They will not go far."
But Origi turned in from Eden Hazard's cross to take Marc Wilmots' team into the knock-out phase.
Russia's hopes of following them into the last 16 now hinge on their final group match against Algeria.
Fabio Capello's side were better than in their 1-1 draw with South Korea but still lacked a cutting edge and Belgium found a way to win despite an unconvincing display.
Origi, 19, impressed when he came off the bench in the opening 2-1 victory over Algeria and, once again, the Lille forward did well when he replaced Romelu Lukaku - who appeared far from happy with the decision - early in the second half.
They may have six points from two matches, but Belgium - who lost Arsenal defender Thomas Vermaelen to injury - will have to play far better to continue their progress.
All three of Belgium's goals have been scored by substitutes.
Another player do well coming on against Algeria, Dries Mertens was given a starting place and carried all of Belgium's threat down the right flank in the first half.
The Napoli winger had an effort blocked after a fine run and, following Kevin de Bruyne's surge forward, he attempted to feed Romelu Lukaku rather than shooting from a good position.
Mertens drove wide of goal after another impressive break but other than that Russia were barely troubled in a slow opening half.
They went close themselves when Viktor Fayzluin's low effort was pushed away by Thibaut Courtois, who also made a scrambling stop from Maksim Kanunikov.
Kokorin should have opened the scoring just before the interval but he glanced a header wide at the far post from Denis Glushakov's fine cross.
Glushakov thumped a wild effort off target from a narrow angle as the second half started at an even lower tempo with both sides appearing content with a draw.
Andrey Eschenko dragged an effort wide after a decent Russian move, then Everton winger Mirallas was denied by the foot of a post.
Hazard drove wide after breaking into the area but the Chelsea forward made a more decisive contribution in the 88th minute, breaking down the left flank and pulling back for Origi to score.
Belgium manager Marc Wilmots:
"[Origi] is in a good space right now. He's 19 years old. It was a bit of a surprise since he was an unknown before I selected him. Now everyone knows who he is.
"It was a hard game because the Russians were expecting us - the players were tired, it was hot, the Russians were already cramping up after 60 minutes.
"It was not an easy match but I think we deserved to win it."
Russia manager Fabio Capello:
"I am very happy with the performance the team and I thought the result was unfair.
"The truth of the matter is we had chances to win it but we lost. Both teams gave it their all and unfortunately it was Belgium that was able to make it.
"We have to look forward and I said when we came to play in this World Cup after being absent for 12 years that this will be a great help for us to understand the level we need to be at in future competitions." | Belgium substitute Divock Origi grabbed a winner two minutes from time against Russia to take his side into the last 16. |
40,740,503 | Citrus County Sheriff's Office said the anonymous woman had used a specialist scent preservation kit.
It can hold a person's scent for up to seven years.
In a Facebook post police said she stored the scent two-and-a-half years ago, and a picture of the jar showed it was dated January 2015.
Scent preservation kits involve rubbing a pad on a person's underarm, then sealing it in a sterile jar so police dogs have a reliable scent to smell before looking for a missing person.
Manufacturers say they work better and more quickly than articles of clothing, because they are not contaminated by other people's smells or smells from the environment.
Dogs have a stronger sense of smell than humans and working police dogs are trained to sniff out drugs, people and in some cases corpses.
Some police forces around the world, including in China and Germany, have held scent samples from criminal suspects and crime scenes to help in their investigations.
But there are concerns over a high failure rate; in 2006 it was found that only a quarter of people indicated by dogs in New South Wales, Australia, turned out to be carrying drugs when they were searched.
In this case, though, the missing person was found and the dog earned a celebratory ice cream. | A woman with dementia who went missing in Florida was found by a police dog in a matter of minutes, having bottled her scent in advance. |
34,009,258 | Bake A Cake Catering in Halesowen ceased trading on Monday and cannot refund or fulfil orders, from cakes to table decorations.
Action Fraud and Dudley Council's trading standards department have received complaints.
Company owner Lisa Holt said a "hate campaign" of burglary and arson ruined her business.
Facebook group 'Bake A Cake Catering customers looking for replacement suppliers' has more than 2,500 members.
Dozens of caterers, florists and events companies posted offers of help on the page.
Laura Nolan, of the Nuthouse Bakery in Brierley Hill, used the page to offer five brides free wedding cakes and home made chocolates.
She said: "It's heartbreaking for the brides. I just wanted to help. The brides are just flabbergasted when I tell them.
"One lady couldn't stop crying - you could see the relief."
Katie Battle, of Kits Green Birmingham, is marrying partner of 10 years Richard Washbourne on 26 September.
The couple paid Bake A Cake £600 for a cake, catering, a photo booth, room and table decorations and a sweet cart.
She said: "I was absolutely gutted. This wedding was a stretch for us anyway - we have saved for years to get married and this has now put me into debt.
"It's awful when this is supposed to be the happiest time of my life.
"This lovely lady rang me and said she could do the cake for me. There are just some amazing people out there."
West Midlands Police is investigating a burglary and an arson at Bake A Cake headquarters in Albert Street, Halesowen.
A spokesman for Action Fraud said reports had been sent to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.
And Dudley Council said anyone affected should call the Citizen's Advice Bureau on 03454 040506. | Caterers have vowed to save the day for brides and grooms let down when a wedding company folded. |
35,094,041 | They were the first in the world to vote in a referendum for same-sex marriage; the measure may have been introduced in other countries, but by a court decision or a parliamentary vote.
And the joy in Dublin Castle on that Saturday evening in May was unconfined.
More than 3,000 people - gay and straight, parents and children, friends and activists - gathered to cheer each constituency result.
Among them was the drag queen and gay rights activist Panti Bliss, whose arrival was loudly greeted as rainbow flags and Irish tricolours were proudly waved.
From the moment the ballot boxes were opened, it was clear it was an overwhelming 'yes' vote.
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One couple who were in the RDS venue in Dublin to watch the count said they could not have been happier.
The result meant that New Zealander Nerilee Ceatha and her Irish partner, Barbra Clinton, could upgrade their 2008 civil union in New Zealand to a civil marriage.
Nerilee said: "Barbra gets to live with her family, with me recognised as her family in her country of origin.
"Today means our young people get a country and a future that we can come back to, that we can be diverse and celebrate our differences.
"Today means everything."
Barbra added: "Today says that Ireland has fabulous young people, fabulous people who came and voted yes.
"I think it says that Ireland has matured."
Also looking on as the votes were counted on that sunny May day was Barry McCrea, a gay man who works in Italy as a university lecturer.
One of thousands who came home to vote, he stood beside his father, Colin, who said he had campaigned for a 'yes' vote to give his gay children equal rights, in spite of the opposition of the Catholic and Christian churches and other religions.
"I think people make up their own minds now," he told me.
"They're saying the church's view isn't necessarily the right one.
"And this was people overwhelmingly saying: 'We think for ourselves.'"
For Barry it was a very emotional day.
"We rely on our fellow citizens to look after us, and this feels like the rest of Ireland embraced us and said: 'There's room for you and you're part of society,'" he said.
"It means everything - I feel fully Irish for the first time."
The year also saw a dress rehearsal for the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
At the beginning of August, President Michael D Higgins, Irish prime minister Enda Kenny and politicians from both side of the Irish border were in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery to mark the burial of the Fenian leader Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa 100 years ago.
The funeral is probably best remembered for Padraig Pearse's graveside oration in which he berated the British: "The fools, the fools, the fools. They have left us our Fenian dead.
"And while Ireland holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be at peace."
It was noticeable that the Irish army, also officially known as Óglaigh na hÉireann, played a central role in the commemoration.
O'Donovan Rossa ceremony takes place
No Royals at 1916 celebrations
The new year will see a general election taking place against the backdrop of the centenary as well as a growing and recovering economy.
The outgoing Fine Gael and Labour coalition is keen to portray the election as offering voters a choice between continuity and stability versus anarchy and chaos.
Fine Gael TD Regina Doherty said her party had "done a lot" since it was given a mandate in 2011.
"We fixed the economy that was in ribbons at the time, getting our people back to work," she said.
"We're doing that but it's only half-done.
"That's why we're asking people to return this government so that we can create the 200,000 new jobs we need for full employment and to put more [police] on our streets, more teachers in our schools and more doctors and nurses in our hospitals."
But for Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh, the forthcoming campaign will be about ending the austerity of tax rises and public spending cuts associated with the economic crash.
"I believe we will have a new government elected, and that government will hopefully be a left-wing government," he said.
"Then there'll be a change in this state in how it delivers its services."
Unlike the UK, the Republic of Ireland does not have fixed-term parliaments, and the prime minister has the prerogative to decide when the general election will be.
Most commentators believe it will in February, possibly on the 26 of the month. | It was the year that people in the Republic of Ireland made history. |
35,091,748 | The foreign secretary said the UK's plan to stop migrants claiming in-work benefits for four years was the "only proposal on the table" right now.
But he said alternative ideas that had the "same effect" would be listened to.
No 10 has rejected media reports that it may back down on the key demand.
Downing Street has said David Cameron will put forward the benefits waiting time when EU leaders discuss the UK's renegotiation aims at a summit later this week and insisted the British people need action on this and all other aspects of his four-point plan.
The prime minister is pushing for EU reforms ahead of the UK's in-out referendum, which he has promised will take place before the end of 2017.
Ministers say the "pull factors" encouraging migrants to come to the UK need to be addressed but several European leaders object to the UK's proposals while Conservative Eurosceptics argue the curbs will make little difference to overall levels of immigration and the focus should be on reclaiming powers for the UK Parliament to set its own borders policy.
Speaking ahead of a meeting of foreign affairs ministers in Brussels, Mr Hammond said requiring EU migrants to wait four years to receive in-work benefits, such as tax credits, had been a "consistent demand".
"We've put that proposal on the table. It's very clear," he said.
But he suggested the UK was prepared to look at other options as long as their ultimate impact was the same.
"We've heard a lot of our partners in Europe have concerns about it. So far we haven't heard any counter proposals. We haven't heard any alternative suggestions that will deliver the same effect in a different way.
"But we have made very clear if people have other ideas that will deliver on this very important agenda for British people we're absolutely prepared to listen to them and we're prepared to enter into a dialogue about them, but at the moment the only proposition on the table is our four year proposal."
The prime minister, who spoke to his Slovakian counterpart Robert Fico on Monday to discuss the UK's renegotiation, has acknowledged no agreement will be reached this week on the UK's wider agenda for reform.
But senior Conservatives are hopeful progress can be made paving the way for a possible deal in February.
Asked whether Mr Cameron was prepared to compromise on the four-year limit, Downing Street said he was "open to looking at new ways of dealing with the issue" but the basis for discussions would be "what's on the table".
The Mayor of London and Conservative MP Boris Johnson said the rest of the EU had "recklessly" disregarded a proposal from the UK which he believed would go down well with their citizens.
"These people are radically and dangerously misreading the prime minister if they think he wants to stay in the EU at any price," he wrote in the Daily Telegraph. "The David Cameron I know is much more Eurosceptic than some of his senior colleagues."
And Tory MP Kevin Hollinrake told Radio 4's World at One that the EU need to wake up to public concerns about migration in the UK, warning "the whole EU project could fall apart" if the UK voted to leave.
But the PM is also facing a backlash from some within his own party who argue he has not been bold enough.
Former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson likened the PM's position to "someone bobbing about in the back of a dinghy, being towed along by a Channel ferry", arguing his negotiations were "froth and nonsense" compared with the much bigger question of the future shape of the eurozone.
And the Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan told the World at One that the UK was "banging the table and angrily demanding the status quo", having abandoned hope of securing meaningful opt-outs from social and employment laws or European court judgements.
Appearing before a committee of peers, Europe minister David Lidington said the UK had to be "sensitive" to the concerns of former Eastern Bloc countries about migration, saying their history under Communist rule meant the issue had a particular "emotional resonance".
But he suggested other EU countries were "quite shocked" that the UK, according to demographic trends, was set to overtake Germany as the EU's most populous country by 2050 and he believed a "good agreement" could be reached in this and other areas.
Mr Lidington said there was a "way to go" in the negotiations but this week's meeting would signal "where we can see low hanging fruit" and what other areas required more time and work, adding that he suspected "nothing is going to be agreed until everything is agreed".
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BBC News EU referendum special report | Philip Hammond has said the UK is willing to consider other proposals to reduce levels of EU migration amid reported opposition to its plan to limit access to in-work benefits. |
35,864,952 | The 30-year-old has been out for two months following surgery on a broken bone in his foot.
He was due to be out for 12 weeks, giving him little time to prove his fitness for Euro 2016 in France, but he is confident of making it, if selected.
"I'm still doing well and hoping to be be back to play a part before the end of the season," he told BBC Sport.
"Hopefully I can play a few games in and then be selected for the Euros. It's a tough ask but I'm hoping to be involved. It would be great for me and my family..
"It has been an amazing campaign. It's great to have been part of that journey and it would be great to top it off by getting in that squad."
Shrewsbury-born Edwards already has 31 caps to his name, five of which have come during Wales' qualification campaign for their first-ever European Championship finals.
But, given the way Chris Coleman's Welsh warm-up programme has worked out, if he is to make it across the Channel this summer to represent the Principality and play against England, the country of his birth, he will have to prove his fitness purely in a Wolves shirt.
The two forthcoming friendlies with Northern Ireland on Thursday, 24 March and Ukraine on Easter Monday are Coleman's two main warm-up matches prior to picking his squad.
Wales' only other planned warm-up game is against Sweden in June - six days before their Group B opener against Slovakia in Bordeaux on 11 June.
Wales' trip to the World Cup in Sweden in 1958 remains the nation's only ever appearance at a major finals.
Only two Midlanders, West Bromwich Albion full-back Stuart Williams and Aston Villa wing-half Vic Crowe - later to become Villa manager - were in that Wales squad.
But Wolves did have four players in the England squad in 1958, Peter Broadbent, Eddie Clamp, Bill Slater and the captain Billy Wright.
This time round, along with Birmingham City winger David Cotterill, Albion defender James Chester and Walsall striker Tom Bradshaw, there are four contenders from West Midlands clubs to get in Chris Coleman's 23-man party.
If Edwards does make it, he would become the first Wolves player from one of the four home countries to play at a major finals since Steve Bull, then technically still a Third Division player, represented England at the Italia 90 World Cup.
The late Emlyn Hughes, England's captain in 1980, remains Wolves' only British player to have represented his country at the European Championship finals. But he did not play a game in that tournament, in Italy - and was on the bench for England's three group games.
The club did have three players - Stephen Ward, Stephen Hunt and Kevin Doyle - in the Republic of Ireland squad at Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. | Wolves midfielder Dave Edwards is still hoping to be fit for Wales duty at this summer's European Championship. |
34,409,209 | The 25-year-old man turned on to the tracks on Wednesday night and became stuck trying to reverse, police say.
He managed to get out of the car before it was hit by the train which pushed the wreckage 15m along the tracks, causing lengthy commuter delays.
None of the 13 passengers on the train was injured.
A local resident told ABC News that it was not the first time such an incident had happened.
"His GPS has turned him left onto the railway lines," the resident said of the latest mishap. "It looks a lot like a road at night."
Australia has seen a number of GPS errors.
In 2012, police in the town of Mildura were reported to have warned motorists not to rely on satnavs to find the town because several people had instead navigated themselves into a remote national park.
March 2015: A group of Belgian tourists are sent on a detour of close to 1,200km (750 miles) after a GPS navigation error by their bus driver saw them arrive at La Plagne in the Pyrenees rather than La Plagne in the Tarentaise Valley
June 2013: A woman follows her GPS right into the path of an oncoming train in Belmont, US
January 2013: A woman leaves her home in Belgium intending to pick up a friend in Brussels, 144km (90 miles) away. After switching on her GPS, she ends up in Zagreb, Croatia.
March 2012: Japanese tourists drive a rental car into the Pacific Ocean as as they follow GPS instructions down a road toward Australia's North Stradbroke Island
May 2008: A group of travellers nearly plunge off a cliff to their deaths because of a GPS error as they were making a scenic drive from Bryce Canyon, in the US state of Utah, to the Grand Canyon in Arizona
October 2006: A man using his GPS to direct him on a trip from New York to Pennsylvania instead crosses the border into Canada | A Melbourne driver who followed satnav directions onto a set of railway tracks narrowly escaped with his life after his car was hit by a train. |
39,869,280 | The fire at Universal Recycling in Kilnhurst, South Yorkhsire, burned for two days from Monday.
South Yorkshire Fire Service said the blaze was accidental and caused by machinery.
Environment Agency officials have previously had to intervene at the site following complaints from neighbours about dust and noise.
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During the fire, up to 500 tonnes of burning plastic, metals and other materials sent a plume of thick black smoke hundreds of metres in the air, visible for miles.
After the fire service announced the fire was accidental, Mark Readman tweeted: "The stockpiling of such quantities of combustable noxious fume emitting material in a residential area was not accidental."
The Environment Agency said that following its previous intervention, the company had "taken steps to make improvements including updating equipment and improving their operating procedures".
It said it would now consider whether further action needed to be taken and would "review the site's fire prevention plan". | The Environment Agency will review fire safety at a recycling centre hit by a major blaze. |
34,050,873 | A British youngster cost almost £50m, Manchester United were linked with everyone, their goalkeeper had his head turned by Real Madrid, transfer requests were handed in, U-turns were performed and the most expensive footballer in British history jumped ship to Paris.
But what did we learn? Here are 15 lessons from the summer transfer window.
When contract talks between Real Madrid and Sergio Ramos were stalling in June, Manchester United bid £28.6m for the Spain defender. Fast forward to August and the World Cup winner agrees a new five-year contract with the La Liga side.
Because six days later he might just pose with another one...
David De Gea to Real Madrid has been the longest-running saga of the summer. The Spain goalkeeper spent the beginning of the season stuck in the stands alongside the exiled Victor Valdes and number two Anders Lindegaard, over concerns Madrid's overtures had distracted him.
Or you will end up like Victor Valdes, who was put up for sale by the Dutchman, who claimed the goalkeeper refused to play for the reserves.
Karim Benzema sent the rumour mill into overdrive with this picture he posted on Instagram. The logical conclusion drawn was that the Real Madrid striker was on his way to London to sign for Arsenal.
Or maybe not...
This was the transfer window where Raheem Sterling became the most expensive English player ever, as Manchester City spent £49m on the 20-year-old forward, before he had even played 100 league games.
After 11 seasons at Stamford Bridge, Petr Cech left Chelsea to move to London rivals Arsenal and then helped his new team beat his former side in the Community Shield.
United's summer spending may have included German World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger, but it was the players they didn't sign that created the biggest headlines. During the summer they have been linked with Tottenham's Harry Kane, Real Madrid's Gareth Bale and Nathaniel Clyne, who signed for Liverpool from Southampton, amongst many others.
Champions League winner Xherdan Shaqiri joined Mark Hughes's revolution at Stoke for a club record £12m. The Switzerland winger joined former Barcelona players Bojan Krkic, Moha El Ouriachi, Marc Muniesa and Ibrahim Afellay at the Britannia.
After Angel Di Maria failed to join United on their pre-season tour of America in July, Louis van Gaal said he didn't know where the midfielder was. It turned out the Argentine had flown to Qatar to have a medical before his move to Paris Saint-Germain.
This was the transfer window where Crystal Palace flexed their financial muscle and proved they could compete for the world's best. Their marquee signing was France midfielder Yohan Cabaye, who left PSG to join Palace for a club-record fee of £10m.
Pedro to Manchester United looked a dead cert, until Chelsea swooped in and signed the Barcelona forward for £21m. The signing came just four days after the Premier League champions were beaten 3-0 by Manchester City.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers took his spending to £289m in three years at Anfield with seven summer signings including Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke for £32.5m and Brazil midfielder Roberto Firmino from Hoffenheim for £29m.
Burnley, who were relegated from the Premier League last season, signed Brentford striker Andre Gray for an undisclosed club-record fee, believed to be £9m, in their attempt to gain promotion at the first time of asking.
From John Stones to Saido Berahino, if you really want to leave, then hand in a transfer request to try to force the issue. Of course it doesn't mean your club will listen to it. | Two months of excitement and desperation for football fans is almost over as the transfer window nears its conclusion. |
33,219,028 | The 29-year-old only joined Atletico last summer from Bayern Munich and scored 20 goals in 43 games for the Spanish side.
He has agreed a four-year deal with the beaten Champions League finalists, who said the fee could rise to £15m.
"I like Juventus and I like the city [Turin]. I hope I will be happy here. I will fight for my new team," he said.
It is the third time in four years Mandzukic has joined a side straight after they lost the Champions League final, following his 2012 move to Bayern and last summer's switch to Atletico.
Juventus striker Carlos Tevez, their top scorer last season with 20 Serie A strikes, has been linked with a move away from the Italian champions.
Argentine legend Diego Maradona hinted recently he could rejoin Boca Juniors.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Juventus have signed Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic from Atletico Madrid for £13.6m. |
36,180,200 | Williams was playing for the first time since last September and scored in the 11th minute and had a hand another try.
The Wales international was substituted after 52 minutes to save him for next week's Pro12 showdown with Munster.
"I didn't expect him to go that well to be honest with you. If anything I thought he over-achieved," said Pivac.
"I thought he played very very well first game back.
"His decision making, the timing of the pass just to hold the defenders and put guys away - that's class.
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"I guess it would have put a smile on [Wales coach] Warren Gatland's face with the summer tour just around the corner."
Wales play a three-test series against New Zealand in June.
Williams suffered knee ligament damage in Wales' 2015 World Cup pool win over England at Twickenham.
The match against Dragons was the centre's first of the season for Scarlets, who could yet claim a place in the Pro12 play-offs.
If they beat Munster in Thomond Park next week and Ulster lose at Ospreys, Scarlets will clinch fourth place.
Williams said he wanted to get "a good week training" before the match in Munster after a pleasing return.
"It was better than I thought," he said.
"It's great to be back - it's been a long time and I'm just happy to be back with the boys.
"But it was tiring and I thought I might not make it to half time."
Asked about his Wales tour prospects, Williams said he was just concerned with the Scarlets' remaining match.
"Those things are out of my hands," he added. | Coach Wayne Pivac praised Scarlets centre Scott Williams after his try-scoring return in the 34-20 Pro 12 win over Dragons on Judgement Day IV. |
34,665,731 | Julia Knight, 56, denies attempting to murder Irene Robson, 81, at Horton Hospital in Banbury in October 2014, but admits administering the insulin.
She told told a jury at Oxford Crown Court she did it so that she would not be discharged from hospital.
Ms Knight also denies causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
She told the court she wanted her mother to remain cared for and not be sent home.
She said: "I felt terrible because I knew I was going to make mum unwell.
"It was a stupid, stupid, thing to do. If I could go back and change it, I would."
She admitted she told a series of lies to police in January when she was questioned.
The court heard she had a forged a prescription for insulin, which she had collected at a Sainsbury's store in Banbury.
When asked by defence barrister Simon Mayo QC why she had insisted to officers she had not injected her mother, she said: "I realised it was serious. I was ashamed of what I had done."
Prosecutor John Price QC claimed she had intended to administer a lethal dose to Ms Robson before leaving the Horton.
He asked: "Why did you inject your mother with a substance which for all you knew could kill her within five minutes and do nothing for an hour and twenty minutes?"
She replied: "I never intended my mother to die."
Ms Knight also told the court she had attempted suicide in 2006 by injecting herself with insulin.
Ms Robson died in September but the jury was told earlier in the trial that her death was not relevant to the case and had no bearing on the issues they had to consider.
The trial continues. | A nurse who injected her mother with a potentially lethal dose of insulin has told a court she only wanted to make her a "little bit poorly". |
38,368,004 | The club who rose from the brink of relegation from the Football League to the top flight without breaking the bank while playing football 'the Swansea way' are now entrenched in the Premier League relegation zone.
They were a club run by a board comprised of businessmen, most of whom were local, and included a fan representing the Supporters' Trust. That same fan-owned club is now in the hands of US owners following a takeover in the summer.
Now stuck in 19th-place at Christmas, supporter discontent is growing by the game with chairman Huw Jenkins and manager Bob Bradley increasingly in the firing line at the Liberty Stadium.
So what are their prospects, and where did it go wrong in 2016?
The omens are not great - but better than they would be if West Ham had not beaten Hull last Saturday to send the English club into bottom place.
Of the 21 teams that have been in 19th-place at Christmas in the history of the Premier League, 11 have avoided relegation.
And 13 have survived from 18th spot at Christmas, including the Swans last term when their late season rally saw them finish in 12th place - but not before then-manager Garry Monk had lost his job.
The team bottom of the Premier League at Christmas rarely survives. It's a feat that has been pulled off only three times in the history of the tournament.
But Swansea are above Hull on goal difference only - so there's little comfort in that statistic.
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When Swansea opted to sack Francesco Guidolin on his 61st birthday in October and replace him with former US coach Bob Bradley, the fact that it no longer registered as a surprise was the biggest surprise.
After a seven-year period where Roberto Martinez, Paulo Sousa, Brendan Rodgers and Michael Laudrup presided over an era of unprecedented success - only Laudrup was sacked - the days of Swansea showing patience on the field appear long gone.
Bradley was Swansea's fourth managerial appointment in three seasons, with chairman Jenkins, once considered by Swans fans to be English football's shrewdest operators, insisting he was to blame for their situation.
A high turnover of managers has led to a situation whereby it doesn't even shock to see calls for Bradley's head, despite him being less than 80 days into the job.
Things are not helped by a lack of cohesion stretching off the field and into the corridors of power at the Liberty Stadium.
Swansea's Supporters' Trust have made their dissatisfaction known regarding how relations have broken down with the club since the US takeover, prompting an apology from majority shareholders Jason Levien and Steve Kaplan.
Swansea have lost six of their 10 games since Bradley succeeded Guidolin, with 25 goals conceded during that time to leave them 19th in the Premier League with only goal difference keeping them ahead of bottom side Hull.
Questions also remain as to whether Swansea's new owners are willing to provide the funds to improve what is looking like an increasingly dire situation.
It would be an understatement to surmise that Swansea's summer transfer dealings left something to be desired.
Top goalscorer Andre Ayew departed for a record fee, but his big money replacement Borja Baston has failed to find his feet in England, scoring just once in 11 games so far this season.
It is a tale of two Welshman, however, that most frustrates Swans supporters who feel the club was weakened significantly over the summer.
Captain for club and country Ashley Williams was sold to Everton, with only young and inexperienced defender Alfie Mawson, who had no top flight experience, signed as a potential replacement.
And not only have Swansea seen a former fan favourite shining on Merseyside, but they failed to bring another one home from the red side of Stanley Park.
Ex-Swan Joe Allen was keen on a return to the Liberty Stadium, but despite starring for Wales at the Euros, Swansea were beaten to the signing by Stoke, a move described as 'a disaster.'
Swansea managers do not pick the players the club signs, but with recent transfer moves proving more miss than hit, that issue has come to the fore ahead of the January transfer window.
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Not only have Swansea gone backwards on and off the field, but they are becoming an increasing soft touch to face, especially away from the Liberty Stadium.
It has not proven easy to replace former skipper Williams, one of the Premier League's most reliable defenders, and Swansea subsequently have conceded more goals (37) than any other side so far this season.
Their apparent lack of fight has already caught the attention of several pundits and it seems undeniable that a relegation battle beckons unless a considerable amount of money is spent in January on new players.
The issue of whether funds will be available and whether chairman Jenkins and beleaguered coach Bradley are the men to identify the players, however, remains to be seen.
It's a statement of the obvious - but a point worth making nonetheless - to say the only Christmas present Swansea want is points.
The squad have decided against holding a Christmas party because of the club's predicament and one former player has a stark message for the team.
"We have now reached the period where to stay in the Premier League they have to do it by hook or by crook," said Owain Tudur Jones who was at the club between 2005 and 2009.
"We have to forget about the Swansea way, that's gone for now - it's going to take a lot of time and the right people and certainly the right manager at the club to get that back.
"At the moment it is just trying to get the job done and these next two home games are huge."
There is no element of exaggeration in describing the next few weeks as the most pivotal in a decade and the club must get it right.
Otherwise, Swansea's Premier League tenure will be neither a dream or a nightmare, but simply a memory. | They were once lauded as the perfect example of how to run a football club, but the Swansea City dream has turned into a nightmare in 2016. |
36,590,813 | The playing surface at Lille's Stade Pierre Mauroy cut up during France's draw against Switzerland on Sunday, with players losing their footing.
Bad weather is being blamed, despite a retractable roof at the stadium, and the pitch will be replaced on Friday.
The Republic must beat Italy to have any chance of reaching the last 16.
Martin O'Neill's side drew 1-1 against Sweden in their opening match, before a 3-0 defeat by Belgium left them bottom of the group going into their third and final match.
Neither the Republic not the Italians have been able to train at the stadium in the build-up to Wednesday's fixture.
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Uefa, European football's governing body, says the last-16 and quarter-final games scheduled to be played at the venue on 26 June and 1 July respectively, will still go ahead.
The new pitch is being brought in from the Netherlands.
"The extremely difficult weather conditions in the past few weeks (rain, humidity, lack of sunshine) have caused irreversible damage to the surface at the stadium," said Uefa.
"We saw the pitch didn't look that great but it's going to be the same for the Italians as it is for ourselves so that makes it a level playing field," said Ireland left-back Stephen Ward.
"Myself and Wes Hoolahan have played in the League of Ireland so we're used to it." | The Republic of Ireland will play their crucial Euro 2016 group match against Italy on Wednesday on a pitch that Uefa says is "irreversibly damaged". |
33,164,525 | Artist Chris Rutterford spent more than a year completing the giant work, which has gone on show ahead of the 701st anniversary of the battle.
The mural was crowd-funded, with people making donations to have their faces included as soldiers in the conflict.
Famous faces appearing alongside Robert the Bruce include Lorraine Kelly and former Scotland rugby star Al Kellock.
One of the warriors is even pictured holding his pet cat in one hand and a battle axe in the other.
Mr Rutterford, who has previously painted murals depicting Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations and Robert Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter, said he wanted to "emphasise the heartbeat of humanity at the historic site".
He said: "As a proud Scot the Battle of Bannockburn is something I've always wanted to paint. It's a defining moment in Scottish history and such a powerful story.
"To have it hung on the battlefield is a huge honour.
"I think you need real diversity in the crowd, and everyone is allowed to have their own perspective on it. For me, allowing people to add their character to the image is the only way to give it a ring of truth."
Robert the Bruce won a famous victory against King Edward II of England at the battle on 23 and 24 June, 1314.
The mural will be on show in the courtyard of the Bannockburn visitor centre until 31 October. | A 30-metre mural depicting the Battle of Bannockburn has gone on display at the battlefield it depicts. |
21,813,361 | Slough MP Fiona MacTaggart posted the message at 20:25 GMT and gave people a retweet deadline of 21:00.
The Labour MP thanked the 14,268 retweeters for "being so generous for me" and posted that she had "no regrets" despite being "Twitter naive".
She called accusations she would claim the money back on expenses "sad".
"I knew it would be a lot but it was more than I expected," Ms MacTaggart said, "I had expected to give around £10,000 but there you go, it was a risk I took".
She said she wanted to come up with an interesting way to encourage others on Twitter to donate to Comic Relief.
"Someone from Australia retweeted it and said she gave 30 Australian dollars so that's rather wonderful".
She added: "The thing about Comic Relief is about being quirky about giving.
"The first time I did any support for Comic Relief I was a teacher and I taught for a day dressed up as a chicken."
She attracted some critical tweets about her donation, such as @greyfox63 who wrote the MP would "probably claim it back on her expenses form anyway".
Ms MacTaggart responded: "So sad so many people said this. I won't."
The MP, who has represented Slough since 1997, is the daughter of the late multimillionaire property developer Sir Ian MacTaggart and inherited a large portion of his estate.
Of her donation she said: "It is a pretty big chunk from my savings but I can afford it."
But she added she would not be posting any more Twitter donation pledges. | A Berkshire MP is donating £14,268 to Comic Relief after posting a "naive" Twitter message saying she would pledge £1 to the charity for every retweet. |
28,818,181 | To get there England outclassed Ireland in Paris 40-7 in the semi-final.
BBC Sport has asked retired players from the previous three World Cups to share memories.
"The memories of losing the World Cup Final in 2010 in a match that we should have won are still very raw - even four years on. I will never get over it and even now I still go over and over the match in my mind, willing history to change. I will, however, describe one of my favourite moments of that day.
"We walked out of the tunnel at the Stoop in front of a packed stadium. After the anthems it was time to face the famous New Zealand Haka. Before they began the home crowd started singing Swing Low and continued through to the end. The Black Ferns struggled to get the noise of their Haka above that of the crowd.
"I was stood between prop Sophie Hemming and flanker Maggie Alphonsi - two of my great friends. Maggie was also belting out Swing Low as loud as she could but as captain I was always questioning what was appropriate.
"My head was telling me that we should stand there and quietly respect and face the Haka but my heart was telling me that this would never happen again.
"I listened to my heart and I enjoyed and soaked up every single second - the atmosphere of the crowd, the sight and sound of the Haka in the distance, the closeness of the team bound together, the emotion of my team-mates.
"As I will never forget the final few seconds of the final, the pain of having to hold it together to speak to the press after the final whistle, so too will I never forget the most special of moments - facing the Haka with the incredible sound of Swing Low being sung with such emotion by the crowd and team-mates."
"Being part of a World Cup team is something very special. You will create memories both on and off the field that will stay with you forever and develop lifelong friendships.
"I remember in 2006 looking around the changing room before the final thinking there is no one else I would rather take to the field with. Looking around the room you knew everyone wanted to win for each other and for all those people that had supported us both as a team and individuals.
"We had done everything we could and to be at the pinnacle of your sport and leading out an amazing group of players in a World Cup final is something I will never forget. Unfortunately the result did not go our way in 2006 and we lost to New Zealand.
"But you all need to believe this is your time. As players you should have complete confidence in all the preparation that has got you to this point. All the blood, sweat and tears are for this moment!
"Not many people get to say they have played in a World Cup final and even fewer get to say they have lifted the trophy. This is your opportunity, everyone is behind you and believes you can do it."
"My memories of 2002 in Barcelona are still tainted by a loss. We met Canada in the semi-finals. It was a ferocious encounter in the heat that saw us raise our game to new levels. Canada where still a relative unknown and both teams were desperate to get to the final.
"We had approached the season with a new coach and new attitude. Geoff Richards had come in and changed the way we thought about preparation and training; body shapes had changed, fitness and match understanding had increased.
"What hadn't changed was the the feeling when you pull on that jersey, for a moment it defines you. It unites you with those who have worn it before and those that want to fill it. It contains your passion, your fears and your belief.
"We had a large contingent of families and friends out there and many more at home.
"The myth is you are doing it for them and your country. That is not true - you do it for those who stand in that changing room with you, who you have trained, dreamed, cried and sweated with.
"Those who know you will give your all and those you will look to after 80 minutes and say we are England, we are world champions." | England's women beat Canada 21-9 in the World Cup final on Sunday, having lost the last three in 2002, 2006 and 2010. |
38,972,751 | 14 February 2017 Last updated at 17:57 GMT
Puppy smuggling is when puppies are transported illegally from one country to another.
They are often born in bad conditions and then smuggled to places like the UK to be sold.
Luckily, these guys were rescued!
Ayshah went to meet them and find out more about the issue... | Dogs are known as man's best friend but there are big problems with how some are bred and transported. |
20,810,421 | More than 2,100 gaming accounts were closed as part of Operation: Game Over run by New York's attorney general.
It was able to target the accounts because registered sex offenders are required to surrender details of their online aliases.
Blizzard, Microsoft, Sony, NCSoft and many other game firms are backing the purge, aimed at protecting children.
"The internet is the crime scene of the 21st Century, and we must ensure that online video game platforms do not become a digital playground for dangerous predators," said New York's attorney general Eric Schneiderman in a statement.
Mr Schneiderman said the action would make online gaming communities a safer place for children. Many parents did not know, he said, that online gaming platforms and services let players communicate anonymously. However, he added, offenders had used this capability in the past to contact and "groom" children they later went on to abuse.
New York's Electronic Securing and Targeting of Online Predators Act, known as the e-STOP law, requires convicted sex offenders to tell the state which email addresses, login names, screen identities and other online aliases they use. These are then passed on to game and web firms that have signed up to help the programme.
Gaming accounts on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, Gaia Online and many others have been deleted as a result of the law.
This action builds on the first stage of the e-STOP programme that saw more than 3,500 online accounts used by sex offenders shut down. | Hundreds of accounts for online games used by registered sex offenders have been shut down in the US. |
40,883,507 | Steve Ashman said the man's information led to the conviction of 17 men and a woman for abusing girls in Newcastle.
The informant was paid £10,000, and headlines have focused on criticism of that, rather than on the case.
The paedophile had himself served a prison sentence for rape.
The last of four trials, spread across two years, ended on Wednesday and in total 18 people, mostly of Asian backgrounds, were convicted of sexual exploitation and drugs offences.
Most of them were men from Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Indian backgrounds.
The court heard how vulnerable girls and women were abused at parties or "sessions" in Newcastle.
Northumbria Police asked a previously convicted child rapist if he could get them more information about the parties.
The NSPCC said that using him in this way was a decision that "crossed the line".
Jim Gamble, former head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, said: "Personally, I can't envisage circumstances where I would have authorised payment to someone convicted of rape.
"I can't imagine how you could have control mechanisms in place with an informant of that type that you were going to task that would give reassurance that they still didn't represent a risk to young and vulnerable women."
But Northumbria Police's Chief Constable Steve Ashman rejected suggestions that the informant was encouraged to go to the parties in order to report back to them.
In fact, Mr Ashman said the informant was specifically told he would be arrested if he attended the parties himself.
He said: "In this specific instance, we used an informant in very controlled circumstances.
"The recruitment and registering of any informant is carefully risk assessed against what are the potential gains we can get from using that individual."
The defendants were convicted of abusing girls who were plied with alcohol and drugs before being forced to have sex.
A court heard that the vulnerable victims, some as young as 14, were exploited by a "cynical organisation".
Over the course of the four trials, 20 young women gave evidence covering a period from 2011 to 2014.
The police investigation, Operation Sanctuary, is continuing.
There have been about 100 convictions so far. | Northumbria's chief constable has firmly rejected claims that paying a child rapist to help secure convictions of sexual exploitation may have placed some victims at greater risk. |
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