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39,305,500 | The former MSP won a defamation case against the now defunct News of The World in 2006.
The paper's owner, News Group, wanted that ruling "struck down" following Mr Sheridan's 2010 conviction for perjury.
However, the Supreme Court said they had failed to "raise an arguable point of law of general public importance".
It follows a case heard at the Court of Session in Edinburgh last year, where News Group attempted to seek permission to have the original trial rerun. That was rejected in November.
The company then appealed to the Supreme Court, which has also declined to hear the case, meaning the Edinburgh judgement stands.
In a statement, the court said: "The Court ordered that permission to appeal be refused because the application does not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance, which ought to be considered at this time, bearing in mind that the case has already been the subject of judicial decision and reviewed on appeal".
The judgement finally brings to an end an 11-year legal process, which began when the newspaper published articles about Mr Sheridan's private life.
Mr Sheridan, a former leader of the Scottish Socialist Party and Glasgow MSP, was awarded compensation after winning the defamation trial in 2006.
It is understood that Mr Sheridan was not paid the money at the time of the original defamation judgement.
In 2010, he was found guilty of perjury while giving evidence during the earlier case and jailed for three years.
He was freed from prison after serving just over a year of his sentence. | The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a newspaper group trying to overturn the verdict that saw Tommy Sheridan awarded £200,000 in damages. |
38,326,963 | 15 December 2016 Last updated at 08:30 GMT
The Forever Hounds Trust was set up 20 years ago and wanted to celebrate its anniversary by inviting dogs and their owners to the service at St Michael's Without church in Broad Street.
The choir's performance included a canine version of the song "The 12 (Dog) Days of Christmas". | A Christmas carol concert especially for dogs has been held in Bath. |
36,168,354 | A penalty try helped the hosts lead 10-6 at the break before Jared Payne and Jackson crossed in the second half.
Rob Kearney and Luke Fitzgerald were sin-binned for Leinster, who failed to score in the second period.
The win guarantees Ulster a European Champions Cup place ahead of their final Pro12 game against the Ospreys.
Despite the emphatic defeat, Leinster remain in third and could still secure a home semi-final if second-placed Connacht slip up against Munster in next weekend's final round of games.
Ulster were forced to make a late change to the starting team with Craig Gilroy ruled out with a virus and replaced by Rory Scholes.
The home side started brightly with Jackson nailing a 12th minute penalty after obstruction on Andrew Trimble.
Ulster grew in ascendancy, moving the big Leinster pack around the pitch, and converted their dominance into points when Ruan Pienaar engineered the opening try.
He spotted a hole in Leinster's midfield, burst through the gap and launched a kick-chase before being clattered illegally by Rob Kearney after 18 minutes.
The Irish full-back was sin-binned for the cynical body-check which denied Pienaar a certain try and referee George Clancy awarded Ulster a penalty try, which Jackson converted.
With a 10-0 lead and Leinster down to 14 men, Ulster had the opportunity to press home their advantage but instead it was the visitor's who seized the momentum.
With Rhys Ruddock influential and Sexton pulling the strings, they worked their way into the game.
Leinster outscored Ulster 3-0 while Kearney was in the sin-bin, Sexton landing a difficult sideline penalty attempt in the 28th minute and he scored again to reduce Ulster's interval lead to 10-6.
Fitzgerald, part of a Leinster quadruple substitution early in the second half, was only on the pitch two minutes when he was sin-binned for holding Scholes' arm as he tried to collect a Stuart McCloskey pass.
Ulster ended a 35-minute scoring drought through Jackson's penalty to move 13-6 ahead.
Having failed to take advantage of Kearney's sin-binning, Ulster were more clinical with the extra man this time with Jared Payne scoring a 58th minute try.
After a lineout maul, Luke Marshall's fast hands deftly switched the play and Payne made the numerical advantage count by crossing over out wide.
Man-of-the-match Jackson added a penalty and a breakaway try, intercepting Eoin Reddan's misplaced pass, to wrap up a convincing victory for Ulster.
Ulster: J Payne; A Trimble, L Marshall, S McCloskey, R Scholes; P Jackson, R Pienaar; C Black, R Best, R Lutton; P Browne, F van der Merwe; I Henderson, C Henry, S Reidy.
Replacements: R Herring, K McCall, A Warwick, R Diack, R Wilson, P Marshall, S Olding, D Cave.
Leinster: R Kearney; I Nacewa, G Ringrose, B Te'o, D Kearney; J Sexton, L McGrath; J McGrath, R Strauss, T Furlong; D Toner, H Triggs; R Ruddock, J van der Flier, J Heaslip.
Replacements: S Cronin, P Dooley, M Ross, M Kearney, J Murphy, E Reddan, I Madigan, L Fitzgerald.
Referee: George Clancy (IRFU). | Paddy Jackson scored 18 points as Ulster strengthened their grip on a Pro12 play-off place with a comprehensive victory against Leinster. |
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The visiting goalkeeper denied Bryan Wharton and Gregor Fotheringham after Ayr's Paul Cairney had missed the target with his effort at Hampden.
The fourth-round replay ended 2-2, with the Spiders' Sean Burns sent off for a second bookable offence in extra-time.
The hosts twice went ahead through Paul Woods and Wharton, with Craig Moore and Conrad Balatoni levelling for Ayr.
Ian McCall's side, who drew 0-0 with Queen's Park at Somerset Park on Saturday, secured a fifth-round home tie against Stirling Albion or Clyde.
The hosts took the lead early on at the national stadium when Burns set up Woods to net inside the area and they led at the break with Wharton scoring shortly after Craig Moore's equaliser.
Former Kilmarnock defender Conrad Balatoni netted late in regulation time to force the additional 30 minutes and Burns' foul on Nicky Devlin resulted in a second yellow and a red card for the midfielder.
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And, in added time in extra-time, Ayr introduced their fourth substitute - allowed in extra-time in this season's Scottish Cup - as Michael Rose replaced Devlin. The Honest Men became the first club to take advantage of the new rule.
Rose scored one of Ayr's penalties but Cairney's miss gave Gus MacPherson's side the initiative.
However, Fleming denied Wharton and, after Patrick Boyle had put Ayr 5-4 up, Fotheringham as well.
Match ends, Queen's Park 2(4), Ayr United 2(5).
Penalty Shootout ends, Queen's Park 2(4), Ayr United 2(5).
Penalty saved! Gregor Fotheringham (Queen's Park) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Queen's Park 2(4), Ayr United 2(5). Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) converts the penalty with a left footed shot to the top right corner.
Goal! Queen's Park 2(4), Ayr United 2(4). Ross Millen (Queen's Park) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Goal! Queen's Park 2(3), Ayr United 2(4). Gary Harkins (Ayr United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty saved! Bryan Wharton (Queen's Park) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom right corner.
Goal! Queen's Park 2(3), Ayr United 2(3). Craig McGuffie (Ayr United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Queen's Park 2(3), Ayr United 2(2). Jamie McKernon (Queen's Park) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty missed! Bad penalty by Paul Cairney (Ayr United) right footed shot misses to the right. Paul Cairney should be disappointed.
Goal! Queen's Park 2(2), Ayr United 2(2). Adam Cummins (Queen's Park) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.
Goal! Queen's Park 2(1), Ayr United 2(2). Michael Rose (Ayr United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Goal! Queen's Park 2(1), Ayr United 2(1). Ryan McGeever (Queen's Park) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Goal! Queen's Park 2, Ayr United 2(1). Alan Forrest (Ayr United) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.
Penalty Shootout begins Queen's Park 2, Ayr United 2.
Second Half Extra Time ends, Queen's Park 2, Ayr United 2.
Substitution, Ayr United. Michael Rose replaces Nicky Devlin.
Attempt missed. Craig McGuffie (Ayr United) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jamie McKernon (Queen's Park).
Conor McVey (Queen's Park) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Conor McVey (Queen's Park).
Ross Docherty (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Paul Cairney (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Second Half Extra Time begins Queen's Park 2, Ayr United 2.
First Half Extra Time ends, Queen's Park 2, Ayr United 2.
Ross Millen (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ross Docherty (Ayr United).
Attempt saved. Bryan Wharton (Queen's Park) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
David Galt (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nicky Devlin (Ayr United).
Attempt saved. Gary Harkins (Ayr United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by David Galt (Queen's Park).
Nicky Devlin (Ayr United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Conor McVey (Queen's Park) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Robbie Crawford (Ayr United).
Attempt blocked. Patrick Boyle (Ayr United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Ross Docherty (Ayr United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Second yellow card to Sean Burns (Queen's Park) for a bad foul. | Greg Fleming saved two spot-kicks as Ayr United beat 10-man Queen's Park 5-4 on penalties in the Scottish Cup. |
36,570,146 | A 15ft motor cruiser was reported in trouble off St Margaret's at Cliffe near the Kent coast at 08:00 BST.
Dover lifeboat and a Border Force cutter were launched and the cruiser was towed to safety.
The Home Office said two European Economic Area nationals were on board the vessel.
A spokesman said Border Force officers were checking the validity of their documents. | Two people rescued in the English Channel after sending a distress signal are being questioned by Border Force officials. |
29,918,194 | Benjamin Herman, of Hook, Hampshire, is charged with three counts of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 13 in the early 1970s, when he was serving as equerry to Prince Philip.
The 79-year-old is also charged with one count of indecency with a child.
Mr Herman pleaded not guilty to the charges at Kingston Crown Court.
The count of indecency with a child relates to a claim he incited the same girl to commit an act of gross indecency between January 1972 and January 1974.
The assaults are alleged to have happened at a house in south-west London used by military personnel, where Mr Herman was living at the time.
He was a serving major in the Royal Marines on secondment as equerry, handling the Duke's private matters and engagements.
He has been bailed and a trial date has been set for 18 May next year. The case is expected to last two weeks. | A former personal assistant to the Duke of Edinburgh has denied four counts of historic sex abuse against a young girl. |
26,865,692 | The two men became involved in a personal row during Wednesday's event, accusing each other of misleading the public over EU powers.
Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg said he was on a mission to reverse "myth-making".
Mr Farage said his rival had "gone for me" rather than dealing with issues.
During the bad-tempered hour-long debate, Mr Farage accused Europhile Mr Clegg of "wilfully lying" over Brussels' powers over the UK, while Mr Clegg claimed the UKIP leader was peddling "dangerous fantasies".
Opinion polls suggest Mr Farage, who wants the UK to leave the EU, was more successful in persuading viewers of his case.
Asked on BBC Breakfast whether "his man", Mr Clegg, had won, Mr Cameron replied: "I didn't have a dog in the fight, as it were."
The prime minister summarised the debate by saying: "Nick thinks there's nothing wrong with Europe and we shouldn't have a referendum, and Nigel thinks there's nothing right with Europe and we should just get out and leave. They're both wrong."
Mr Cameron has said he will renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU before holding an in/out referendum in 2017, if the Conservatives win the next general election.
"That's what Britain needs and it's what people want: a proper choice but real change in Europe and that's what these European elections should be about," he said.
He said Mr Farage did not "recognise the fact that we've got to trade and compete in Europe".
"The problem with the UKIP view is it's sort of: 'Stop the world, I want to get off, Britain can't succeed.' It's deeply pessimistic. I'm very optimistic," Mr Cameron added.
By Ben WrightPolitical correspondent, Brussels
The BBC debate was the second Farage-Clegg confrontation to be held in as many weeks.
YouGov's snap poll gave it to Mr Farage by 68% to 27%, while a poll by ICM/Guardian found 69% of people watching thought the UKIP man had come out on top.
On BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show, Mr Clegg said he did not feel damaged by this verdict, adding: "I'm delighted we had the debate. I would do it every day of the week if people were up for it."
He added that he intended to overcome "20 years of myth-making" about the EU, insisting: "It's a marathon, not a sprint. This debate is going to continue."
The deputy prime minister said it was "extraordinary" that Mr Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband had declined to take part.
During the debate, Mr Farage distanced himself from Mr Clegg and other "career politicians", who he said were too willing to accept orders from Brussels.
But, on Jeremy Vine, Mr Clegg said that, like himself, Mr Farage had attended an "expensive" London school and had been a member of the European Parliament since 1999, making him a career politician.
He said: "He must explain why that kind of background makes him some kind of Sid Vicious character."
Appearing on the same programme, Mr Farage responded: "I spent 20 years in business. I've lived and breathed and worked in the real world and there's almost nobody left in frontline politics with that experience of the commercial world."
He also criticised his opponent's debating style, saying: "Nick Clegg made the mistake that career politicians have been making over the last few years. He decided, rather than dealing with the issues, to go for me and to go for UKIP's ideology, to paint us out as somehow to be mad, ranting conspiracy theorists, when all we want to do is govern our own country.
"That line of argument by Clegg turned people against him."
Mr Clegg kicked off Wednesday's debate - hosted by David Dimbleby - by accusing his opponent of foisting a "dangerous con" on the public by arguing for Britain's exit from the EU, telling the audience in the BBC's radio theatre that "if it sounds too good to be true, it is".
Mr Farage said he did not want Britain to be part of an "expansionist" EU foreign policy, claiming that the EU wants its own "army and navy".
The pair traded verbal blows over the percentage of British laws made in Brussels and argued over the effects of immigration.
Towards the end of the debate, the UKIP leader issued a warning about the rise of far-right parties in Europe, saying: "I want the EU to end but I want it to end democratically. If it doesn't end democratically I'm afraid it will end very unpleasantly."
He used his closing statement to make a pitch for votes in May's European elections, saying: "I would urge people - come and join the people's army. Let's topple the establishment who got us into this mess."
Mr Clegg, in his closing remarks, promised "real remedies for the way the world is today, not dangerous fantasies about a bygone world that no longer exists
"And that is why I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that we remain part of the European Union because that is how we protect the Britain we love."
Speaking on BBC One's Question Time, Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable said: "Farage, to give him credit, is a very effective, if demagogic, debater."
He also said Mr Clegg deserved "a lot of credit for showing the bottle to go out and debate".
The SNP said it believed in "positive engagement" with the EU and an independent Scotland would have "a seat at the top table in Europe".
Plaid Cymru said it wanted a "strong voice" for Wales in Brussels and it was concerned that Wales could be "pulled out of the EU against its own will and its own interests". | Prime Minister David Cameron has accused his deputy Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage of holding "quite extreme" views on Europe following their BBC TV debate on the issue. |
30,616,056 | More than 35,000 homes and 600 business premises now have solar photo-voltaic (PV) systems, December figures from regulator Ofgem show.
The capacity of these systems has reached 140 megawatts, a rise of 32% from 106 megawatts last year.
However, solar power capacity is still small compared to wind energy which has almost 40 times the installed capacity.
Green energy campaigners are calling on the Scottish government to do more to help homes and businesses harness the power of the sun.
WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said: "The total installed solar capacity may be small when compared to wind energy, but together these solar panels are helping to prevent thousands of tonnes of climate-damaging emissions every year.
"The great thing about solar is that it can be deployed easily and quickly in towns and cities or in places not suitable for wind turbines. Solar is also complimentary to wind and can share sites and grid connections." | Scotland's solar power capacity has increased by about a third in the past year, according to new figures. |
37,754,756 | Travel guide Lonely Planet named it fourth in a list of best regions to visit in 2017.
Surf Snowdonia, Penrhyn Quarry's zip lines and the underground trampoline in Blaenau Ffestiniog are all mentioned in the guide as attractions in the area.
Tom Hall, Lonely Planet's editorial director, said: "It's a stunning area with a vast array of activities on offer to keep travellers entertained."
North Wales was ranked higher than areas including Aysen in Chile, the Tuamotus in French Polynesia and coastal Georgia in the USA - Choquequiro in Peru took the top spot.
Mr Hall added: "We included north Wales in this year's list of top 10 regions because it deserves to be recognised on the global stage. North Wales is a gem and should be on every traveller's radar."
1. Choquequirao, Peru
2. Taranaki, New Zealand
3. The Azores, Portugal
4. North Wales
5. South Australia
6. Aysen, Chile
7. The Tuamotus, French Polynesia
8. Coastal Georgia, USA
9. Perak, Malaysia
10. The Skellig Ring, Ireland | North Wales has been chosen as one of the best places in the world to visit. |
33,298,705 | The Tunisian, whom Islamic State have named as Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani, lived in Jaafour until he was 19 or 20. He then went off to university at Kairouan but continued to visit the village regularly.
Officials said his named was Seifeddine Rezgui. He was shot dead by police after the attack on Friday.
His parents and sister and all of his close friends have been detained for questioning, but an uncle and a cousin in the village were both visibly extremely upset and shocked.
They seemed to have been pretty much traumatised by the news that it was their relative who carried out this deadly attack.
They said they had seen him literally two or three days before the event and that there was nothing in his behaviour to indicate he had been radicalised or that he was about to carry out an attack.
It seems that just the day before the attack, on Thursday, he was in Jaafour and he had his beard shaved off, presumably the better to make his way onto the beach without arousing suspicion.
Fifteen Britons among the dead
Everybody we talked to in Jaafour, whether his family or just fellow villagers, said he was just a very normal man - he prayed like other people here, he fasted like other people here, but he showed no signs at all of extremism.
The tendency in the village is to blame Kairouan - the big town where he went off to study.
Relatives believe he may been radicalised there but managed to hide it until he carried out this attack, leaving people in the village more shocked than they can say. | In the Tunisian village of Jaafour, where the man who is widely alleged to have carried out the attack in Sousse was born and bred, there is shock and distress. |
38,596,994 | The proposals have been backed in a government-commissioned review led by ex-energy minister Charles Hendry.
But the Angling Trust called for more environmental research to avoid "a colossal series of white elephants".
Ministers said they would study the report and decide how lagoons could contribute to the energy needs of Wales and the UK.
Mr Hendry's report into the technology's viability said it would make a "strong contribution" to the UK's energy supply and be cost effective.
He said approving a "pathfinder" lagoon off the Swansea coast should be seen as a "no regrets" policy.
Labour shadow business secretary Clive Lewis said there were "high hopes that tidal energy will get cheaper fast, as we've seen in other renewable technologies".
"The government has repeatedly delayed this project, despite Labour backing it months ago," he said.
"It's time to stop dithering and get it built."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood called the report "game-changing news for Swansea and for the nation".
"We now need to ensure that the project generates and delivers local jobs," she said.
For Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Mark Williams, the announcement was a "huge step forward".
"If we are to meet our climate change targets, it is vital that we invest up front for these type of ambitious projects," the Ceredigion MP said.
Pippa Bartolotti, deputy leader of the Wales Green Party, also called for the UK government to approve the project, saying the £1.3bn cost was "chickenfeed" compared to £37bn for the Hinkley C nuclear reactor.
Friends of the Earth (FoE) welcomed the document, but stressed it was crucial that any potential impacts on wildlife and the wider environment were properly considered before any lagoons were built.
FoE Wales acting director Haf Elgar added: "New clean energy sources are important but it is crucial that the government also ensures that adequate investment is targeted right now in low cost, renewable technologies, like solar and wind, that already generate a quarter of UK power."
Angling Trust & Fish Legal chief executive Mark Lloyd praised Tidal Lagoon Power, the company behind the scheme, for a "first rate job at spinning this project politically".
But he said the firm had "failed spectacularly to quantify" the impact on communities, wildlife and fisheries.
"The government should avoid giving its backing to what could be a colossal series of white elephants before carrying out a more strategic assessment of the sustainable management of the Severn Estuary and other areas with large tidal ranges around the UK," he said.
Joan Edward from the Wildlife Trusts also urged caution, calling the Severn Estuary a "remarkable and unique cathedral of Britain's natural heritage".
"Any major development within it risks dramatically affecting the fish and birds and other wildlife that depend on it," she said.
"We recognise the urgency for renewable energy development but its overall environmental impact must be assessed."
However Juliet Davenport, chief executive of scheme investor Good Energy, said launching a British tidal lagoon industry would be "presenting the world with another awesome low-carbon option".
"It is British know-how that will be called upon should other countries look to take up that option," she said.
"Tidal lagoons are a brilliant way for Britain to diversify its energy mix, keep the lights on [and] create a whole new industry and thousands of jobs."
Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns thanked Mr Hendry for a "comprehensive report" which sets out "both the opportunities and challenges".
"We now need to study this report and decide how tidal lagoons could contribute to the nation's energy needs both in Wales and the rest of the UK," he said.
A Welsh Government spokesman welcomed the "strong case for Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon to be a small scale pathfinder project, subject to number of key approvals in place".
"We will be considering the content of the report and look forward to discussions with UK government on how they intend to take the findings forward," he added. | UK ministers should "stop dithering" and approve plans for a £1.3bn tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay, Labour has said. |
37,676,869 | Brexit, as we have been told by the prime minister, means Brexit. But inflation also means inflation.
The pound has repeatedly lurched lower in value since the outcome of the June 2016 referendum. Against the dollar, it is now worth 20% less than it was before the vote, and that fall is unlikely to be reversed in a hurry.
The basic laws of economics dictate that this will translate into higher inflation: foreign firms exporting goods to the UK will continue to charge the same amount for them in euros, dollars or whatever, but they will cost more in sterling when the prices are converted.
UK inflation rate jumps to 1.6%
That goes for finished goods, such as food and drink or clothing, but also for raw materials that are processed here, such as car parts. Global supply chains mean that more than 50% of the components in cars "made in the UK" are actually sourced from overseas.
Petrol, too, is likely to go up in price, because oil is priced in dollars.
So higher rates of inflation appear to be a foregone conclusion. The question is, how much higher? What will the consequences be? And will anyone gain from this, or are we all set to lose out?
One estimate of the extent of possible price rises has come from the former boss of Northern Foods, Lord Haskins, who told the BBC that he expected to see food price increases running at an annual rate of 5% by this time next year.
He was speaking in response to supermarket chain Tesco's recent spat with Unilever, which was trying to pass on its higher costs incurred because of sterling's weakness - though that dispute has since been resolved.
The cost of food is an important factor in calculating the overall inflation rate, the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), which is published on a monthly basis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Some economists are predicting that the CPI could hit 3% by the end of 2017.
If overall inflation did climb to the level predicted by Lord Haskins, it could be nudging close to the highest rate in a decade. In recent years, there have been two peaks in CPI inflation, in September 2008 and September 2011. In both those months, it reached 5.2%.
By historical standards, however, that pales in comparison with the levels reached in the 1970s, when the UK experienced several years of double-digit inflation. The worst year was 1975, during which prices went up by an eye-watering 24.2%.
We are unlikely to return to those days. But of course, back then, the industrial climate was different, trade unions were stronger and large groups of workers were able to obtain pay rises to match, despite government attempts to impose wage restraint.
Nowadays, substantial pay rises are harder to come by, so a lower level of inflation can have a bigger effect on living standards.
If we have to spend more money on goods while our salaries fail to keep pace with rising prices, then we are all likely to suffer to some degree.
It will certainly make Bank of England governor Mark Carney's job harder, because the Bank has a 2% inflation target.
If it goes above that, it increases the likelihood that he will raise interest rates to combat it, thus making life harder for those who owe money, such as on mortgages.
Mr Carney has said that "monetary policy can respond, in either direction, to changes in the economic outlook" - meaning that the next move in interest rates could be up or down.
He has also spoken at length of the trade-off between price stability and other economic factors, meaning that the Bank will not necessarily rush to raise rates.
Bringing inflation back to target too rapidly could cause undesirable "volatility in output and employment", he says.
But at the same time, Mr Carney says "there are limits to the extent to which above-target inflation can be tolerated".
If you have a student loan, the level of interest charged is linked to a slightly different measure of inflation, the Retail Prices Index (RPI), and is not subject to the Bank of England's decisions.
But in most cases, a prolonged period of inflation reduces the value of people's debts, making them easier to pay off.
If inflation were to stay at that 5.2% level for 12 years, your debt would, in effect, be worth only half as much in real terms, because you would still owe the same number of pounds, but each of those pounds would have declined in value.
The outcome is similarly mixed for pensioners. In their favour, state pensions are guaranteed by what is known as the "triple lock". In other words, they rise each year by the inflation rate, average earnings or 2.5%, whichever is the highest.
However, private pensions are not similarly protected. And to make matters worse, retired people are likely to spend a higher proportion of their income on food and fuel, which are particularly affected by the pound's big devaluation.
Pensioners are also more likely to be living off income from savings, and savers are clobbered by high inflation. Just as inflation erodes the value of debts, it also reduces the spending power of money kept in bank accounts, because prices go up and your money doesn't, especially with the ultra-low interest rates paid by banks at the moment.
So there is no unalloyed benefit from higher inflation for anyone. But some will feel more pain than others, while borrowers will certainly benefit more than savers. | The downward pressure on the pound since the UK's vote to leave the European Union is starting to lead to upward pressure on the prices of most things we buy. |
35,558,093 | The End Of Longing is the former Friends actor's playwriting debut, which is showing in London until May.
Perry received a standing ovation after its premiere on Thursday evening, but critics have not been so supportive.
The Guardian gave it two stars, calling it "flimsy" with characters that "never really develop".
"It feels more like an extended sitcom in which there is little going on behind the lines," the paper said. "What works in half-hour bites on television looks decidedly thin on the stage."
Matthew Perry plays the lead character in the play - an alcoholic photographer who falls in love with a prostitute.
"There's so little believable connection or tenderness between these friends and lovers, and their characters have about as much depth as a puddle in a heat wave," wrote Holly Williams in her two-star review in The Independent.
According to Dominic Cavendish in The Telegraph, the play is "a curious waste of time, money and effort".
Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail was kinder, saying: "[Director] Lindsay Posner's production is coolly staged, well acted and thoroughly watchable."
"I enjoyed it, though fully expect to forget much of it within a week or so."
Theatre website WhatsOnStage gives the show four stars, commenting that Perry's writing shows "great promise".
But there's some good news for Perry. The Times gives it four stars, with Ann Treneman saying it is "funny" and "often laugh out loud", noting that Perry "looks like a man with something to prove to himself and us - and he has certainly done that".
Many reviewers were agreed the play would be most enjoyed by Friends devotees.
Indeed, several fans and celebrities took to Twitter after the show to express their enjoyment of it.
Actress Sadie Frost tweeted: "I really enjoyed such a wonderfully written play. All the performances were very strong - Perry was incredible."
Busted member Charlie Simpson also said he had "really enjoyed watching Matthew Perry", while EastEnders actress Bonnie Langford congratulated the cast on a "fabulous opening night".
Last week, Perry spoke to arts correspondent Rebecca Jones about his interest in writing, dating back to when he was the only Friends actor in the show's writers' room. | A play written by and starring Matthew Perry has received a mixed response from critics on its opening night. |
34,491,583 | Joe Giron told the BBC that he discovered altered admin settings on his personal router on 28 September.
The compromised router was hacked to send web browsing data to a malicious internet address.
Netgear says the vulnerability is "serious" but affects fewer than 5,000 devices.
Mr Giron found that the Domain Name System (DNS) settings on his router had been changed to a suspicious IP address.
"Normally I set mine to Google's [IP address] and it wasn't that, it was something else," he said.
"For two or three days all my DNS traffic was being sent over to them."
This means that the attacker could have tracked what websites Mr Giron was visiting, or even redirected him to malicious sites had they chosen to do so.
He has decided to turn off the router and not use it for the time being.
Netgear released a firmware update on Monday.
The vulnerability itself has been documented by security researchers at Compass Security and Shellshock Labs in recent months.
"Is it serious? Yes it definitely is," said Jonathan Wu, senior director of product management at Netgear, one of the top three router brands in the US.
"Because whenever anybody gets access to your router, they can alter settings to direct traffic to places you don't want it to go to."
The vulnerability allows attackers to gain access to the router settings without needing to provide login credentials, according to security researchers Daniel Haake and Alexandre Herzog of Compass Security in Switzerland.
Mr Giron thinks that in his case, access was gained remotely because his router settings had been configured so that they could be accessed from outside his network.
Mr Wu said that Netgear router owners would be prompted to update their firmware if they logged into their router's admin settings or if they had the Netgear genie app installed on their computer, tablet or smartphone.
It's problematic that firmware updates can't be automatically "pushed" to routers, according to Mark James, IT security specialist at Eset.
"The average user will throw the router in place and just use it," he told the BBC.
"The biggest problem that we have with these types of scenarios are people don't keep the software up-to-date."
What's more, anti-virus software for computers doesn't generally cover vulnerabilities on routers meaning that it would not detect such problems. | A security researcher in the US has said his Netgear router was hacked after attackers exploited a flaw in the machine. |
33,827,340 | The 31-year-old died in police custody in May after an incident in a Kirkcaldy street.
Mr Bayoh's family claim they were given five versions of what happened to him.
The Lord Advocate will now consider the contents of the report. PIRC said it would continue to pursue evidence.
A spokesman for PIRC said: "The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner has now submitted an interim report to the Crown Office on its independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Sheku Bayoh on 3 May 2015.
"Our team of experienced and skilled investigators have gathered evidence, taken statements from witnesses and recovered productions and continue to investigate complex lines of inquiry.
"The Commissioner will continue to pursue further expert evidence in relation to the cause of death and is working closely with the Crown Office in this regard.
"The Lord Advocate is now considering the interim report." | An interim report by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) into the death of Fife man Sheku Bayoh has been handed to the Crown Office. |
33,196,210 | The two men are believed to have been clinging to a British Airways flight from Johannesburg to Heathrow.
The victim was found on the roof of notonthehighstreet.com's headquarters on Kew Road, Richmond, at about 09:35 BST on Thursday. Police said his death was being treated as unexplained.
The man who was injured is in a critical condition in hospital.
The Met Police said it could not confirm if the two cases were linked.
In a statement, the force said: "At this time there is no evidence to link the death to the discovery of a stowaway in the undercarriage of a plane at Heathrow Airport; however this is one line of enquiry into identifying the deceased and the circumstances of his death."
The surviving man, who is believed to be aged 24, was found in the undercarriage of the plane at about 08:20 BST and taken to a west London hospital.
Officers believe they know his identity but are awaiting confirmation.
The 8,000 miles (12,875km) journey from South Africa to the UK usually takes about 11 hours.
In a statement, British Airways said: "We are working with the Metropolitan Police and the authorities in Johannesburg to establish the facts surrounding this very rare case."
Notonthehighstreet.com said the incident was "unrelated to the business or its team members and added the company was "co-operating with the ongoing police enquiry".
A post-mortem examination will be carried out on the dead man, who has not yet been identified.
Officers said enquiries are ongoing into how long his body had been on the roof.
There have been other cases where stowaways have fallen to their deaths in London after smuggling themselves onto planes and hiding in landing gear.
In September 2012, Jose Matada, 26, died after falling from the undercarriage of a flight from Angola to Heathrow on to a street in Mortlake, west London.
An inquest heard he may have survived freezing temperatures of up to minus 60C (-76F) for most of the 12-hour flight, but it was believed he was "dead or nearly dead" by the time he hit the ground.
Phillip Norton, BBC News Correspondent in Richmond
Aircrafts are a part of daily life in this area of London - just seven miles away from Heathrow - jets fly over every few minutes.
But the discovery of a man's body on top of the four-storey building close to Richmond station is particularly shocking for the community.
If the body had landed a few metres either side, it would have landed on a busy roundabout or near a row of shops.
And that another man has somehow survived such a long flight crammed into the wheel well of an aircraft is also surprising. If the moving mechanism of the landing gear or the cold does not cause death - a lack of oxygen often can.
People who work and live around here say they are shocked at such a tragic set of events. The local vicar will offer prayers for both men in a service at a nearby church tonight.
People's thoughts are very much with the two men who desperately tried to find a better life, but whose dangerous journey ended in tragedy. | A stowaway who is believed to have clung on to a plane has fallen to his death, while another is in hospital. |
35,443,434 | Ransomware encrypts data on infected machines and only unscrambles it if victims pay a fee.
The authority said it was working with its computer security provider to apply a fix to its systems.
Chief information officer Judith Hetherington-Smith said only a small number of files were affected.
She said the authority took action once the malware was identified and shut its systems down.
This meant some services were affected, including libraries and online booking systems.
Mrs Hetherington-Smith said: "People can only use pens and paper, we've gone back a few years."
Talking about the attack, she said: "It happened very quickly. Once we identified it we shut the network down, but some damage is always done before you get to that point - and some files have been locked by the software.
"A lot of the files will be available for us to restore from the back-up."
The council is "hopeful" most systems will be back working early next week.
It described the ransomware as "the biggest attack" it had ever experienced, adding it was "zero-day malware", meaning it was previously unknown to security experts.
The authority said it was "unfortunate to be the first victim", and was confident it had appropriate security measures in place.
Lincolnshire Police have confirmed they are investigating the attack.
The Information Commissioner's Office, which is responsible for the enforcement of the Data Protection Act 1998, said it was aware of the incident. | Lincolnshire County Council's computer systems have been closed for four days after being hit by computer malware demanding a £1m ransom. |
40,504,836 | 5 July 2017 Last updated at 09:11 BST
But it's not in space, but on the side of a volcano - Mount Etna, in Italy.
That's because it's one of the most moon-like places you can go to whilst still being on planet earth.
Scientists are currently testing the robots, and are hoping that when they do send them into space they'll be able to find out what other planets are made of.
And for now they it can get some pretty useful info for scientists about volcanoes. | Say hello to the very latest space robot! |
39,607,099 | Hart, 29, joined the Serie A club on a season-long loan in August after being told he was free to leave City by manager Pep Guardiola.
The England goalkeeper has said he is "surplus to requirements" at City.
"Hart wants to stay at Torino but we are all aware, both him and the club, we can't buy him," Mihajlovic said.
The Serb told Gazzetta dello Sport: "At the most we could take him on loan for another year but that depends on both Manchester City and him.
"We will need to know if Hart is going to be here next year because if he's not then we'll need to change the way we play."
In March, Hart told the BBC's Premier League Show that he does not see himself playing for City again, adding that a return to the Premier League was not top of his wish list.
Hart, who has played for England 70 times, has had "no communication with anyone" about a transfer after his loan spell at Torino ends in May.
Speaking on Thursday, Guardiola refused to discuss if Hart could have his loan spell extended in Turin.
"At the end of the season we are going to speak about the players who are under contract next year and about the loan players," he said.
Hart's 33-year-old replacement, Claudio Bravo, has been criticised by fans for his performances since his £15.4m arrival from Barcelona in August. Willy Caballero, 35, has featured in the squad for Premier League and Champions League matches since 21 January.
But Bravo was restored to the starting line-up for City's win against Hull last weekend. City play Southampton at 17:30 BST on Saturday.
"Every weekend I will decide who is in goal, " added the Catalan manager. "Last week I decided on Claudio.
"It depends on if the opponent makes a lot of high pressing or not and what I see in the training session. I have confidence with both. We will see." | Torino cannot afford to sign Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart on a permanent deal despite wanting to, says head coach Sinisa Mihajlovic. |
36,236,036 | He achieved almost 30,000 more votes than independent candidate George Ferguson who has held the leadership position since 2012.
Both first and second preference votes were counted across two rounds, with the pair left to a two-horse race in a copy of what happened four years ago.
Mr Rees received a total of 68,750 votes and Mr Ferguson 39,577 from 44.87% of the electorate who voted.
In his victory speech, Mr Rees said it had been "an incredible journey" which started many years before his first bid to take leadership of Bristol City Council in 2012.
He paid tribute to all his supporters and said the "collective action" had been humbling.
Mr Ferguson followed with a speech in which he quipped: "I want to thank you for giving me my life back."
He said to Mr Rees: "I hope you don't have to put up with some of the barracking and bile that I've had to put up with. I'll be the first there to defend you if you do." | Labour's Marvin Rees has been elected as Bristol city's mayor. |
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The Blues were knocked out of the Champions League by Paris St-Germain in midweek but lead the top flight by five points with 11 games remaining.
Mourinho said: "The people who went out last Wednesday are the same who've been top of the league since day one.
"They are the same people who won the Capital One Cup and the same people who are going to win the Premier League."
Mourinho said that he held a meeting with his players to discuss their defeat, on away goals, in the last 16 of the Champions League and had now "closed the chapter".
He added: "The only thing to speak about the Champions League is that if we win the Premier League we are top seeds next season.
"We closed the chapter, but we still have the book to write. We have 11 more matches to finish the book.
"Let's see if the last page of the book is with the Premier League trophy in our hands."
Chelsea host Southampton in the Premier League on Sunday, kick-off 13:30 GMT.
Former Liverpool players-turned-pundits Graeme Souness and Jamie Carragher were scathing of Chelsea's approach and conduct during their Champions League exit.
Mourinho said: "You know, the world is a bit strange, maybe because of diet and the quality of the products we are eating, because memories are getting shorter.
"When Jamie Carragher and Graeme Souness speak about it, it's because they're having a problem.
"Jamie stopped playing a couple of years ago and in two years he forgot everything he did on the pitch.
"Mr Souness also forgot but he stopped playing quite a long time [ago], and he also forgets that a couple of years after he left Benfica I coached there. I know a lot about him.
"I learned so much about him but also a certain kind of education, not just in football but also in life. So I prefer to laugh and say that envy is the biggest tribute that the shadows give to the man."
Souness won three European Cups as a player and his last managerial job was with Newcastle United in 2006.
Mourinho added: "The difference between me and Souness is this - Souness as a player, up there. Jose Mourinho as a player, down here. Jose Mourinho as a manager, up here. Souness as a manager, down there.
"With another difference - I was not a frustrated man because I was not a top player. He is clearly a frustrated man.
"I have lots of respect, in spite of some episodes, for a fantastic player with a fantastic career in a fantastic club with a top generation."
Chelsea were criticised after nine of their players surrounded referee Bjorn Kuipers before he showed Zlatan Ibrahimovic a red card following a challenge on Oscar in the midweek defeat by PSG.
Mourinho said: "If my players surround the referee, we are charged.
"We have to pay a fine and if we do that, the players pay the fine. At this moment we have eight months of competition, we have been charged once and we paid for that. It's as simple as that." | Chelsea will win the Premier League title this season, manager Jose Mourinho has predicted. |
39,611,617 | Resuming on 165-6, 299 behind, Ned Eckersley (88) and Richard Jones (23) helped Leicestershire reach 259.
Following on, they made a poor start, with Liam Norwell (5-33) and David Payne (3-50) reducing them to 51-5 before Eckersley (85) again top-scored.
He could not prevent an innings and six runs defeat as they were out for 201.
It is second time Leicestershire have failed to take a Division Two game into the fourth day this season, after suffering a similar defeat by Nottinghamshire last week.
And they were outplayed once again, losing their first three wickets inside the first eight overs in both innings to effectively end their chances after Will Tavare's century helped Gloucestershire set an imposing total.
Eckersley batted well, receiving support from Ben Raine (42) and Clint McKay (29) in the second innings, but with Colin Ackermann unable to bat due to injury, Exckersley's wicket - Norwell's 10th of the match - ensured a second demoralising defeat inside a week. | Leicestershire slipped to a second County Championship defeat of the season as Gloucestershire took 14 wickets to complete a resounding win. |
37,883,254 | The players' union, the Professional Footballers' Association, is working with the EFL and the club to try and rectify the issue.
All Morecambe's staff were due to be paid eight days ago.
"We have been assured that it will be sorted next week, so it's fingers crossed that will happen," said PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor.
"Apparently there's been cash-flow problems. I spoke to the owner and spoke to the Football League, and at the moment, no, the lads have not had their wages on time.
"There's talk of maybe selling a player, we're awaiting a response from the Football League with the chief executive there, Shaun Harvey, and the league's lawyers to see if the matter can be resolved as soon as possible and we have been assured that will be will the case.
"If it's as we've been told by the owner, we're optimistic it should be resolved quickly."
I want to stress that this is a short-term problem and assure fans that we have robust plans in place for the future of our great club.
The Shrimps, who host Coventry City in the FA Cup first round on Sunday, were taken over by Brazilian businessman Diego Lemos in September.
He said in a statement: "I would like to apologise to all the players and staff who have not been paid on time.
"I deeply regret the problems this has caused but want to reassure everyone that the issues will be resolved soon and I want to thank the players and the staff for their understanding so far.
"We have faced a number of unexpected cash flow problems, but have put plans in place to make sure we get some funds in place next week and make sure everyone receives the money they are owed."
Morecambe are 12th in League Two, with six wins from their 15 games this season. | Players and staff at League Two side Morecambe have not been paid wages that were due last month. |
29,121,655 | The company said it asked a judge investigating a former Petrobras director, Paulo Roberto Costa, for access to his confidential statements.
Petrobras said it had also written letters to companies allegedly involved in the scheme asking for help.
The scandal comes less than a month before presidential elections.
"Any irregular acts that may have been committed by a person or group of people, whether or not they are company employees, do not represent the conduct of the Petrobras institution and its workforce, made up of thousands of employees," said Petrobras in a statement.
On Saturday, one of Brazil's leading magazines, published the names of more than 40 politicians whom Mr Costa had accused of involvement in the alleged scheme.
In the magazine report, Mr Costa, who was head of downstream operations for Petrobras from 2004 to 2012, claimed that politicians received 3% commissions on the values of contracts signed with Petrobras when he was working there.
He alleged that the scheme was used to buy support for the government in congressional votes.
Mr Costa - who is in jail and being investigated for involvement in the alleged scheme - named a minister, state governors and congressmen.
Among them were members of the governing Workers Party and groups which back President Dilma Rousseff.
But the list of names published by Veja magazine also included rivals of Ms Rousseff.
Mr Costa was arrested in 2013. He struck a plea-bargain deal with prosecutors before providing the names.
Many of the politicians mentioned have denied involvement.
The BBC's Wyre Davies in Rio de Janeiro says the latest allegations could hurt President Rousseff.
During her presidency, Petrobras has dramatically underperformed and its costs rose sharply. | Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras, says it is investigating an alleged bribery scheme reported to be linked to top politicians. |
36,908,278 | The results came in the second wave of tests carried out by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on samples from the London and Beijing Olympics.
None of the medallists from London were due to compete in Rio next month.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said 11 of its competitors had tested positive.
They include Russian London 2012 silver medallists Alexandr Ivanov, Svetlana Tsarukaeva and Natalya Zabolotnaya.
Armenia's Hripsime Khurshudyan, Moldova's Cristina Iovu and Iryna Kulesha of Belarus - all of whom won bronze medals four years ago - also returned positive tests.
The IWF has imposed mandatory provisional suspensions on all 11 athletes, including Georgia's Rauli Tsirekidze, who was due to compete in Rio.
The other four weightlifters to fail tests were Russia's Andrey Demanov, Turkey's Sibel Simsek, Kazakhstan's Almas Uteshov and Azerbaijan's Intigam Zairov.
All of the athletes tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.
On the day the IOC announced the second wave of results, Turkish weightlifter Sibel Ozkan was stripped of the silver medal he won in Beijing. | Six London 2012 weightlifting medallists were among the 45 athletes who last week failed retrospective drug tests, says the sport's governing body. |
32,901,455 | Ciaran James Williamson died after the incident at Craigton Cemetery, in Cardonald, at about 19:25 on Tuesday.
He was pronounced dead at Yorkhill Hospital, where one of the 10-year-olds is in a stable condition. The third boy was later released from hospital.
Police said they were not not treating the incident as suspicious.
In a short statement issued by police, Ciaran's family said: "We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that our son Ciaran James Williamson sadly passed away in a tragic accident at Craigton Crematorium.
"We would respectfully ask that you respect our privacy at this distressing time."
Det Insp Tom McKean, of Police Scotland, said: "This is such a tragic set of circumstances and our thoughts are with Ciaran's family.
"Inquiries are ongoing, however the incident is not being treated as suspicious and a full report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal." | An eight-year-old boy has died and two 10-year-olds have been injured in a "tragic accident" involving a falling headstone at a cemetery in Glasgow. |
35,261,748 | The advert for 'Snowz' features famous Thai actress Cris Horwang attributing her success to fairer skin.
The company behind the product, Seoul Secret, issued a "heartfelt apology", saying it had not meant to offend.
The incident has reignited the debate about attitudes to skin colour in Thailand.
Comments about the shade of a person's skin have been commonplace in a country with an abundance of skin-whitening products, although many younger Thais now refuse to accept the stereotypes associated with skin colour.
"In my world there is tough competition. If I don't take care of myself, everything I have built, the whiteness I have invested in, could be gone," Cris Horwang warns in the video advert.
At that point her skin turns almost black, and a young, and very white, rival appears by her side. She looks down in dismay at her dark complexion and muses "if I was white, I would win".
The advert stirred up a storm of debate online, with many Twitter users critical of the advert itself as well as the decision to withdraw it.
One person wrote on a Thai-language forum Pantip.com: "I'm perfectly fine being dark-skinned and now you're saying I've lost? Hello? What?"
"Suggesting people with dark skin are losers is definitely racist," wrote another.
Seoul Secret quickly withdrew the advert, although it could still be seen on YouTube on Friday, and offered a swift apology.
"What we intended to convey was that self-improvement in terms of personality, appearance, skills, and professionalism is crucial," the firm said.
The BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok says that as an advertising slogan it could not have been blunter - ending as it does with "Eternally white, I'm confident".
The abundance of skin-whitening products available in Thailand, and the efforts many Thai women go to shelter from the sun, highlights the obsession with pale skin, our correspondent says.
Two years ago, when Nonthawan "Maeya" Thongleng won the 2014 Miss Thailand World beauty contest, much comment centred on how dark her skin was compared to typical contestants.
At the time she said she wanted to encourage all other women who felt insecure because of their darker skin.
Darker skin is often associated in Thailand with manual, outdoor labour, and therefore with being "lower class".
Also much of the urban elite are of ethnic Chinese origin, who tend to have lighter skin than the indigenous people of the Thai countryside.
"This is not a problem that is unique to Thailand. It's a problem that exists all over the world," says social critic Lakkana Punwichai.
"The issue also underlines the issue of class in Thailand, where those with darker skin are viewed as the poor from the rural north-east. We look down on them, on Cambodians, and Indians with darker complexions.
"However, attitudes are changing as Thai elites start to look down on women who long to be white, the same way some westerners look down on "blonde bimbos"," she said. | A Thai cosmetics firm has withdrawn its video advertising a skin-whitening product after it was attacked on social media for being racist. |
29,415,252 | Darrell Simester, 44, told Cardiff Crown Court they came after him and took him back to the farm.
He said he did not leave the farm again because he was scared.
Daniel Doran, 67, and David Daniel Doran, 42, deny requiring Mr Simester to perform forced or compulsory labour.
Giving evidence, Mr Simester, from Kidderminster in Worcestershire, told prosecuting barrister John Hipkin he had felt "scared, devastated" after he ran away from Cariad Farm in Peterstone with another man following a fire in the shed where he lived.
He was asked how he felt on the way back once David Daniel Doran had found him.
"Terrified," he replied, "of him hitting me or kicking me or whatever."
Mr Simester's brother Duncan broke down in court as he told of the moment he found him working on the farm.
He was pushing a wheelbarrow, was filthy, unshaven and wearing ripped clothes, and did not recognise his sibling, the court heard.
"I asked him if he wanted to see mum and dad. His reply was, 'How do you know mum and dad?'" said Duncan Simester.
"Because I am your brother" he had told him.
Duncan Simester said his brother continued to shovel muck as they talked and had seemed nervous.
"He was constantly looking over his right shoulder. He said, 'They're watching me. I can't talk to you'.
"I asked him if he wanted to come outside. He said he couldn't. I asked if he had a dinner break so we could meet in the pub. He said he couldn't," said Duncan Simester.
"He said if I came back later when it was dark he could possibly come out then [as] he would be locking up the gates."
Under cross-examination, Duncan Simester said things "hadn't always been 100% hunky-dory" since the family was reunited in February last year and his brother had moved back in with his parents as he could not pay his rent.
The family fell out over his continued gambling and Duncan Simester had hit his brother because of it.
The court also heard from Mr Simester's mother, Jean, who said Darrell Simester's phone calls had stopped on Christmas Eve 2008.
Mrs Simester cried as she described her son looking like a "little old man" when he was found last year.
"He was dirty and smelly. He didn't look like the son I had. He looked like a man of 90 more than a lad of 43. I couldn't believe he was my son," she said.
Defence counsel Kevin Malloy suggested to her that it was Mr Simester's choice to move away and no longer contact the family.
But Mrs Simester was adamant her son was held against his will and said he had been "bullied and brainwashed".
The trial has been adjourned until 3 October. | A vulnerable man allegedly forced to work on a Newport farm for 13 years has told a jury he was scared of being hurt by the farm's owners after he ran away once. |
39,041,519 | Andre Savelio crossed for Wolves early on, but tries from Jese Sene-Lefao, Zak Hardaker, Eden and Luke Gale gave the visitors a commanding lead.
Tom Lineham went over either side of half-time to reduce Warrington's deficit to six points.
Tries from Eden and Greg Minikin sealed the victory for Tigers, despite Savelio getting his second of the night.
Warrington had beaten Brisbane Broncos in the World Club Series in their previous fixture, but they remain without a point in Super League, having lost at Catalans in their season opener.
Castleford are top of the table and the highest scoring side in the league, despite playing one game fewer than both Huddersfield and Leeds - two of four sides level on points with the Tigers.
Former Man of Steel Hardaker scored his first try since joining on loan from Rhinos, while Eden now has three tries in two games since rejoining the club from Brisbane.
Tigers will aim to maintain their unbeaten record against Leeds in their next fixture, while Warrington will travel to Salford in search of their first points of the new campaign.
Warrington head coach Tony Smith:
"We couldn't cope with the speed of the play the ball and they blew our legs off in the first half and conceding back-to-back tries really hurts you.
"A few of our boys were off their best from their performance last week and you can't afford to be when your opposition has some attack in them.
"The players showed character to get back to a point that with a bit more fortune we could pinch the game.
"But to concede 30 points is not pleasing in our dressing room."
Castleford head coach Daryl Powell told BBC Radio Leeds:
"We had some tough patches in the game that we had to ride through, but I thought our players were awesome in finding a way to win when it looked like they were in the ascendancy.
"I'm just delighted that we've got a group of boys who can do some special things on a rugby field.
"They found a way to get in touching distance of us, which good sides can do to you. But we were durable enough to win the game which was obviously very pleasing."
Warrington: Johnson; Russell, Evans, Atkins, Lineham; Brown, Patton; Cooper, Clark, Sims, Hughes, Savelio, Westerman.
Replacements: Dwyer, Crosby, Livett, Westwood.
Castleford: Hardaker, Minikin, Webster, Shenton, Eden; Chase, Gale; Lynch, Milner, Springer, Sene-Lefao, McMeeken, Massey.
Replacements: Millington, Moors, Cook, Monaghan.
Referee: Phil Bentham. | Greg Eden scored a brace of tries to help Castleford go top of Super League with victory at Warrington. |
35,427,990 | The predators' battle over carrion was shot in the snow-covered Trossachs.
Full details of the fight, and which of the animals came out on top, will be given during Thursday night's programme.
Winterwatch has been capturing footage of wildlife in Scotland, including the Cairngorms.
The fox versus eagle footage was shot in the Trossachs, an area of mountains and glens in central Scotland.
Golden eagles are the UK's second largest bird of prey after the white-tailed sea eagle.
The raptors are mainly found in Scotland's north west Highlands and Islands, but a few are found at the RSPB's Haweswater reserve in Cumbria.
In the Cairngorms, Winterwatch has been reporting on efforts to conserve rare Scottish wildcats. | Footage of a fight between a fox and a golden eagle over food has been captured by BBC Springwatch's Winterwatch programme. |
30,531,025 | The Rhydymwyn Valley works, near Mold, which housed mustard gas shells in World War 2, had been earmarked.
Whitehall's Property Services Agency wanted assurances that the site could withstand flashes or blasts.
But the Welsh Office changed its mind about needing an emergency storage base for the nation's "few valuable items".
Fears of nuclear war with the Soviet Union had prompted government departments across the UK in the 1980s to plan for the worst, papers released by the national archives have revealed.
The scheme to protect art treasures was not originally due to include Wales but it appears a Welsh Office civil servant had asked Whitehall to reconsider.
The Property Services Agency - part of the Department of the Environment - proposed using two of the 10 chambers at Rhydymwyn in which they would construct buildings to house the art.
However, Welsh Office interest in the scheme appeared to cool, as shown by a letter to the Home Office by civil servant Tony Vinall in which he said the officers who made the original request had now gone.
"Present thought is that, although we do have a few valuable items, we are not really to be compared with the great national 'treasure houses' and it would make more sense for our local custodians to crate their most important possessions and put them in the most suitable sub-basement accommodation," he wrote.
Mrs Thatcher's ministers considered launching the controversial poll tax in Wales before England, according to other files just released.
The documents released by the National Archives also show Conservative government advisers feared a repeat of the 1984-85 miners' strike the following winter.
They also revealed Mrs Thatcher was warned by her Welsh Secretary that funding cuts would have "most damaging" political effects. | Plans to hide art treasures in underground tunnels in north Wales if a civil or nuclear emergency arose during the 1980s have emerged. |
33,262,884 | The tiny sea creature - Hallucigenia - lived 500 million years ago, but all fossils appeared to be without heads.
New specimens unearthed in Canada have revealed the missing part, revealing its strange face for the first time.
Dr Martin Smith, from the University of Cambridge, said: "It looks completely surreal. It is like something from another world."
The study is published in the journal Nature.
The first Hallucigenia fossil was discovered more than 100 years ago, and it baffled scientists.
The creature was tiny - less than 2cm long and thinner than a hair - but very strange.
One side of its thin, tube-like body was covered in pairs of enormous spines, while flimsy, stick-like clawed appendages dangled from its other side.
"It's had a pretty chequered history," said Dr Smith, who carried out the study with Dr Jean-Bernard Caron, from the University of Toronto, Canada.
"When it was first formally described, it was the wrong way up. It was only recently that we found on which side were its feet and which side was its back.
"Even then there has still been a lot of ambiguity as to which end was the head and which end was the tail."
Now though, new specimens unearthed from the Burgess Shale in Canada have revealed the creature in its entirety.
By delicately chipping away at the rock, scientists found a spoon-shaped head with some surprising features.
"When we put it into the electron microscope, we were delighted to see not just a tiny pair of eyes looking back at us, but also beneath them a really cheeky semi-circular smile.
"It was as if the fossil was grinning at us at the secrets it had been hiding," explained Dr Smith.
Inside the creature's mouth, the researchers found a ring of teeth and then another set of teeth running from its throat down towards its stomach.
The scientists believed Hallucigenia used its odd mouth arrangement to suck up food, and then move it down to its gut.
The study also helped to clear up another mystery - a strange blob found on the fossils that was once thought to be the creature's head.
"What our study shows is that it has a different composition from the animal. And rather than representing part of its body, it actually represents decay fluid - the contents of its guts - squeezed out as the animal was buried and fossilised," said Dr Smith.
Scientists say Hallucigenia is helping them to learn more about the Cambrian Period - a time when life exploded into a rich array of forms - and how it then settled back into the more normal looking creatures we see today.
Commenting on the study, Dr Xiaoya Ma, from the Natural History Museum, said: "Recently Hallucigenia sparsa was suggested to represent an early ancestor of the living velvet worms, known as Onychophora, as both of them share the similar growth pattern of claws.
"Velvet worms also possess a worm-like body with paired non-jointed legs, but they don't have paired dorsal spines.
"The discoveries will improve our understanding of the early evolution along the evolutionary line leading to today's velvet worms." | Scientists finally have a complete picture of what one of nature's most bizarre animals looked like. |
37,363,998 | The £1.24bn sale, called Project Eagle, first became embroiled in controversy in July 2015, when allegations of political interference were made in the Dáil (Irish Parliament). | The Irish government says it intends to set up an investigation into the sale of Nama's Northern Ireland portfolio - Northern Ireland's biggest ever property deal. |
38,391,608 | About 265,000 people use it weekly, with developments like a new BBC building raising it to 475,000 by 2026.
Prof Stuart Cole believes new platforms are needed and could be built on the nearby Brains Brewery site.
Both Network Rail and Cardiff council said they were looking at ways to upgrade the transport system.
When Isambard Kingdom Brunel diverted the course of the River Taff in the 1840s to create the station on the old city walls, it was not meant to take centre stage like it is now.
It was designed predominantly for through-trains transporting coal plus a small number of passengers on the mainline to Swansea and to outlying villages such as Whitchurch and Radyr.
But things have changed - 13m people used the station in 2013, a figure expected to rise to 23m by 2023.
Increases will be exacerbated by the Central Square, Capital Quarter and Brains Brewery developments, while a new tax office for 4,000 employees has been mooted and redevelopment work on Cardiff Arms Park is also proposed.
The city is simply not prepared for it, because Wales traditionally is not a nation of rail users, according to Prof Cole from the University of South Wales.
He said valleys lines were mainly for coal transportation and it was only around 1900 when the industry began declining that Taff Valley Railway began seriously looking at other uses.
Despite this, cars remained the favoured transport method in the city into the 1990s, according to Prof Cole.
"Even when a franchise was awarded in 2003, no growth was built into it. It was in 2006 or 2007 that overcrowding became clear," he said.
"It was perhaps rising fuel costs, congestion, people wanting to do their bit for the environment. That's when it started going up and there was no plan for this.
"People in Cardiff are not used to being mass transited. They won't cwtch [cuddle] up with everyone like on the Piccadilly line at 8:30."
Part of the solution is using bigger trains - with Prof Cole giving an example of the impact of Intercity 125s, each capable of carrying 1,000 people, waiting to ferry the 45,000 rugby day crowds in a bid to keep queues to a minimum.
A proposed new electrified Metro system should also help with speed - currently, about six trains an hour go through Llandaf station, compared to about 11 on many London underground routes.
However, Prof Cole believes a bigger issue is getting rising numbers of passengers on to platforms safely.
"It was never designed for mass transit. It's not a commuter railway station, so it's not even fair to say it's the contractor's fault," he said.
"It was built for a different era, for mainline trains and a few other local trains."
Prof Cole believes a new platform eight, opening in 2017, plus improved signalling will help.
But he claimed the area around the station had been developed with no overarching travel plan - saying a new bus station being built will be "world class" but "not big enough".
Employers will also have a big responsibility, with 4,000 tax office workers on flexi-time, for example, reducing rush hour pressures.
And while ambitious plans have been unveiled for redeveloping central station, Prof Cole said they do not address a major issue.
"Network Rail want a nice mall and frontage. It would be good, especially if it extended to the BBC building, as it would allow people to stand undercover after events," he said.
"It's very pretty, but the key thing is capacity - and new platforms are needed."
With little available land, Prof Cole believes a proposed redevelopment of the Brains Brewery site behind the station holds the key.
When negotiating planning permission, it is not unusual for developers to offer 10% of land value as a contribution to improvement schemes, called a Section 106 agreement.
Prof Cole said "there is a deal to be done" and if land was requested instead, new platforms could be built.
While SA Brain is still months away from submitting a planning application, could the idea be a possibility?
The proposal is a joint venture with Rightacres and its chief executive Paul McCarthy said: "The timing for bringing forward the Brain's site ties in perfectly with the Metro system delivery programme.
"Public transport is pivotal to the success of any business district and to have a Metro terminal at Central Quay, adjacent to the central train station, would be good for all concerned."
Cardiff council said it is "actively engaged" with Network Rail, the Welsh Government and developers to find ways to improve the station.
A spokesman said: "It's essential that the ongoing regeneration of Central Square is reinforced by the regeneration of central station and the leader of the city council continues to press the case for investment."
Commuter Andrew Jones from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, has already given up on the rail network.
"I could never get a seat on the train despite paying £20 a week," he said.
"It's easier to get here myself. I now bring my bike, which costs £15 a week and takes 15 minutes not 30."
One of Central Square's first tenant's - law firm Blake Morgan has moved in and employee Fiona MacDonald said the train from Lisvane and Thornhill is "fine" at 07:30 GMT.
However, this may not be the experience for commuters on the same line later in rush hour.
Gavin Davies, 31, who travels from Mountain Ash, said the journey is usually manageable, but adding Christmas shoppers into the mix has illustrated the pressures more people create.
"If you can't buy your ticket on the train, you buy it at central [station] to get through the barrier. But there was a queue from the one end right to the back," he said.
"I put it down to the time of year, but new developments won't help."
Tim James, Network Rail's head of strategy and planning in Wales, said work around the station is positive and co-ordinating activities will be "extremely important".
"We will need to refresh our [passenger] forecasts regularly to take into account any new developments in the immediate vicinity of the station," he added.
While admitting money is not currently available, Mr James said Cardiff council is helping it look at funding options for developing Cardiff Central.
He added: "We are particularly keen to leverage more commercial funding as a contribution towards delivering improvements for passengers and we are developing options to look at a range of possible solutions." | Cardiff Central railway station was built "for a different era" and will not be able to cope with a rise in commuters, a travel expert has warned. |
36,271,578 | Gordon Strachan names his squad on Thursday for the friendly fixtures with Italy and France and midfielder McLean, 24, is keen to add to his one cap.
That is despite Aberdeen facing a Europa League qualifier on 30 June.
"If I'm selected I would jump at the chance," said McLean, who made his international debut in the 1-0 win over Czech Republic in March.
"Of course I want to be involved. Players pull out at this stage of the season but for me it's an honour to be in that category.
"It's something every young player should want to do. Every Scottish player should want to represent their country and I'm no different."
McLean will play his 45th game of the season for Premiership runners-up Aberdeen against Hearts on Thursday, with the Dons ending their season at home to Ross County on Sunday.
But the early start to next season means their summer break is likely to only last until the middle of June.
Scotland play Italy in Malta on 29 May, then France in Metz on 4 June.
"They're really exciting games to be involved with, so hopefully if I've been selected I'll be able to take part in the games," said McLean.
"If I'm not selected it'll make me want to work harder. Last time I got the opportunity and it was a great experience and I want more of that in the future.
"It's not long (the summer break) but we need to use it well. It's been a long season for us but there's still two games to go. I don't think there's too many heads thinking of the break, but when it comes it'll be nice."
The Dons have made it as far as the Europa League third qualifying round in the previous two seasons before succumbing to Real Socieded in 2014 and Kairat Almaty in 2015.
"When we come back the European games will be there for us and it's a great occasion," added McLean.
"I think we'll be confident going into it, we've done well the last couple of years in Europe but we want to go that step further.
"The group stages will be what we want. We'll see how the draw is and we'll take it from there." | Aberdeen's Kenny McLean is willing to shorten his summer break in order to be part of Scotland's upcoming matches. |
31,109,310 | Further tests are needed to confirm the identity of the 41-year-old due to the extent of his injuries.
Detectives say at present they have no motive for the attack and are keeping an open mind.
The man who lived at a house in Glendhu Road was killed at the weekend. | Police in the Republic of Ireland are awaiting DNA test results to formally identify a man murdered in his home in Cabra in Dublin. |
13,377,377 | That is what might have been said to dozens of students at Atlantic College, Vale of Glamorgan, during the 1960s and early 1970s.
And, incredibly, they went on to do just that by creating the the Rigid-hulled Inflatable Boat, or RIB.
With its solid bottom and flexible sides, the RIB has become a cornerstone of modern boating, with umpteen variations in use for leisure, by the military and, crucially for this story, in life-saving.
For the RIB began life as an idea by teenagers studying at the boarding school housed in 12th-Century St Donat's Castle on the Welsh side of the Bristol Channel.
The college, founded in 1962 by the German educationalist who also set up Gordonstoun School which was attended by the Duke of Edinburgh and Prince of Wales - was run by a retired RN rear admiral, Desmond Hoare.
So, with sailing and canoeing on the timetable, combined with a commitment to hands-on community work by the 220-odd students at the time, it is perhaps no surprise that the college also had its own inshore lifeboat station.
Those students who took to the water for fun were the same ones who had to take turns four hours per week in the rescue boats for others doing the same thing.
They quickly came to the conclusion that the all-rubber boats they had for the job could be improved to better cope with the rough and tumble conditions of the Bristol Channel.
David Sutcliffe, a member of the college's founding staff in 1962, has since written a book about those pioneering days: The RIB: the Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Lifeboat and its Place of Birth - the Atlantic College.
He said: "They key thing was marrying together a high performance hull and a rubber tube."
"The students were always full of ideas. They did the building. We must have built 30 boats in the 1960s. They were all taken out and bashed around."
Those prototypes were made using marine plywood, with students spending hours in the workshop fixing the wood and rubber together.
Mr Sutcliffe said: "Desmond Hoare had a simple motto: if it works, improve it, if it doesn't, chuck it out.
"We had lots of experiences of it going wrong. If it was no good for our work on the Bristol Channel, then the boat came back in pieces.
"We went to sea every day throughout the year, so it was a tough research station."
Slowly, improvement by improvement, the students all but carved out a template for the modern-day light, fast, powerful RIB.
Along the way, this included equally pioneering innovations such as "wheeled" steering for the outboard engines and removing the transom to allow water to flow out.
The breakthrough in recognition came in 1969 when two Dutch students built a boat for a team in a round-Britain powerboat boat race.
Their entry, Psychedelic Surfer, took just three weeks to construct. This included perfecting a twin-engined wheeled steering.
They came in a credible 19th out of some 60 entries, beating many boats with small fortunes invested in them.
"It was the hero of the race. This proved that this type of boat could stand up to the worst conditions, outperforming many types of boat," said Mr Sutcliffe.
The RNLI was one of the first organisations to see that the RIB was the future.
The charity took on the idea and perfected a glass-reinforced fibre model, the B-Class Atlantic 21, named in honour of the college.
All this for £1, which was how much the charity paid to purchase the patent the rear admiral had by then submitted.
But he never cashed the cheque, and money remains a "painful" issue, according to Mr Sutcliffe.
He said valuations of the RIB market suggest an early patent would now be earning £15m a year.
He said: "We lost an opportunity of funding the college. It would not have occurred to Desmond to get a commercial advantage out of it.
"One can only look back and say that that was a might-have-been."
But the college's loss has been boating's gain.
The Atlantic 21 became part of the RNLI fleet in 1972 and by August 1993 it had made 15,601 launches and saved 4,717 lives.
A boat made from the original mould created by the students has gone on display at the National Waterfront Museum's Frontiers Gallery in Swansea until the end of May.
Hugh Fogarty, RNLI head of fleet operations, said: "The rigid inflatable boat was one of the biggest leaps in small boat design since the introduction of the inflatable.
"In the early days Atlantic College students and staff involved in the design worked collaboratively with the RNLI.
"Today the RNLI's two models of rigid inflatable lifeboat, the work-horses of the RNLI fleet, are classified as "B-class Atlantic 75 and Atlantic 85" in recognition of the designs' origins - a true testimony to those who designed and developed it.' | "Now, class, your homework is to develop a new type of speed boat that will revolutionise life-saving and boat design." |
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Inter scored with their first shot on target when skipper Mauro Icardi pounced to smash in a loose ball.
Dusan Tadic missed a controversial penalty in first-half injury-time, but Virgil van Dijk hooked in to level as Saints improved after the break.
And they claimed all three points after Yuto Nagatomo's own-goal howler.
The Inter defender, under little pressure, allowed Tadic's left-wing cross to bounce off his thigh and loop over his keeper Samir Handanovic.
Victory keeps Saints second in Group K with seven points from their four matches, meaning they could clinch a last-32 place if they win at leaders Sparta Prague in their next game on 24 November.
Southampton's rapid rise over the past seven seasons might be still fresh in the memory of most football observers, but hosting one of the world's biggest clubs in a competitive European fixture offered a reminder to those who had forgotten.
The fortunes of the two clubs back in the 2009-10 season could not have been more stark.
Inter were being managed by Jose Mourinho, had a star-studded squad led by Javier Zanetti and Samuel Eto'o, and went on to win an unprecedented Champions League, Serie A and Coppa Italia treble.
Southampton won the Johnstone's Paint Trophy. And, after entering administration the previous year, they went on to finish seventh in League One.
No wonder a fervent home crowd of over 30,000 greeted this victory with the sort of elation usually reserved for a trophy-lifting celebration.
The Nerazzurri are far from the force of old, lacking the star names of years gone by and unable to replicate their success as a consequence.
And the 12th-placed Serie A side arrived in England having sacked manager Frank de Boer on Tuesday, replacing him on a temporary basis with youth-team coach Stefan Vecchi.
Nevertheless beating a club of such magnitude - 18-time Italian champions and three-time European champions - represents arguably Southampton's greatest night in continental competition.
Two weeks ago, Inter snatched an undeserved 1-0 win in the reverse fixture at the San Siro thanks to Antonio Candreva's second-half goal.
After 45 minutes it looked as though Southampton might be left frustrated again.
After 90 minutes it was a victory that never looked in doubt.
Inter skipper Icardi put the visitors ahead with their first shot on target and many Saints fans probably feared the worst as their team trailed at the break following a chaotic end to the first half.
Polish referee Pawel Gil failed to send off Candreva for violent conduct after striking Saints defender Sam McQueen in the face, shortly after Saints were awarded a fortunate penalty for an accidental handball by Ivan Perisic.
Tadic faced a long wait as the situation was diffused, then saw his tame spot-kick blocked by Inter's penalty-saving expert Samir Handanovic.
But any perceived injustice that Southampton had from not having an numerical advantage was channelled positively after the break.
Southampton manager Claude Puel:
"I am happy for all the fans and players. They saw a very good game with a good result. It is a fantastic scenario.
"It was difficult at the beginning. We dominated all the game but we lost a goal and missed a penalty. But we did very good work.
"We knew how important it was to win tonight. It is a good result but we are not finished yet. We want to qualify. The work is not finished.
On whether Candreva should have been sent off: "Yes I think he should have been. Also there was a foul for their goal.
"It was important to continue the way we were playing and comeback in the second half. We played a good game. This is really important for my players to know they have such character in difficult situations."
Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk:
"The most important thing was that it was well deserved. We played good football, we were the dominating side, like before in Milan and today we rewarded ourselves with a win."
Inter Milan caretaker coach Stefano Vecchi:
"Southampton played with a lot of intensity. We faded in the second-half in terms of how we managed the ball, but the players gave everything.
"Southampton scored a couple of fortuitous goals and we lost the game. We need the rub of the green, which we are not getting.
"Some of our physical limitations came out in the second-half. When we started to tire, we needed to take the sting out of it. We dropped deeper and that can be lethal."
Ninth-placed Southampton return to Premier League action when they travel to Hull City on Sunday (14:15 GMT).
Inter, along with continuing the search for a new manager, must focus on improving their Serie A position, starting with Sunday's home game against bottom-side Crotone.
Match ends, Southampton 2, Inter Milan 1.
Second Half ends, Southampton 2, Inter Milan 1.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Felipe Melo.
Nathan Redmond (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan).
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan).
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) is shown the yellow card.
Miranda (Inter Milan) is shown the yellow card.
Offside, Southampton. Nathan Redmond tries a through ball, but Charlie Austin is caught offside.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Jonathan Biabiany replaces Antonio Candreva.
Attempt missed. Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan).
James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Felipe Melo (Inter Milan).
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Samir Handanovic.
Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Felipe Melo replaces Assane Demoya Gnoukouri.
Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Charlie Austin.
Attempt saved. Mauro Icardi (Inter Milan) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Southampton. Steven Davis replaces Dusan Tadic.
Foul by Charlie Austin (Southampton).
Danilo D'Ambrosio (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Nathan Redmond (Southampton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan).
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Sam McQueen.
Attempt missed. Nathan Redmond (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Dusan Tadic with a cross following a corner.
Substitution, Inter Milan. Éder replaces Gary Medel.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Andrea Ranocchia.
Attempt blocked. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nathan Redmond.
Foul by Cuco Martina (Southampton).
Ivan Perisic (Inter Milan) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Inter Milan. Conceded by Oriol Romeu.
Own Goal by Yuto Nagatomo, Inter Milan. Southampton 2, Inter Milan 1.
Goal! Southampton 1, Inter Milan 1. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Oriol Romeu (Southampton) hits the bar with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Nathan Redmond following a corner.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Samir Handanovic.
Attempt saved. Virgil van Dijk (Southampton) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Dusan Tadic with a cross.
Corner, Southampton. Conceded by Yuto Nagatomo. | Southampton remain on course to reach the Europa League knockout phase after fighting back to earn a memorable win against Italian giants Inter Milan. |
39,716,009 | Newcastle's managing director Lee Charnley was among "several men within professional football" who were arrested. He was released without charge at about 17:00 BST.
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) deployed 180 officers across the UK and France.
The BBC understands the suspected income tax and National Insurance fraud amounts to £5m.
HMRC said it searched premises in the north east and south east of England, and seized business records, financial records, computers and mobile phones.
Football's tense history with HMRC
West Ham's London Olympic Stadium and Newcastle's St James' Park were among the locations raided.
HMRC officers also visited offices belonging to Chelsea FC "in connection with its wider investigation", a club spokesman confirmed.
But it is understood the club's premises were not raided and no arrests were made.
"HMRC has requested certain information which the club will provide," the spokesman said.
Sources told the BBC the Magpies' managing director Mr Charnley, 39, was earlier taken away from St James' Park by officers.
He became the club's managing director three years ago, and has reportedly been credited with persuading manager Rafa Benitez to stay at the club.
Newcastle United confirmed "a member of its staff has been assisting HMRC with their inquiries" but said it would be making "no further comment at this time".
The BBC understands HMRC may wish to speak to Mr Charnley again over the next few weeks.
BBC Sports editor Dan Roan has tweeted that West Ham United was one of the clubs involved.
In a statement, West Ham United said it was "co-operating fully with HMRC to assist their inquiries" but there had been no arrests.
HMRC said it had arrested "several men working within the professional football industry for a suspected income tax and national insurance fraud".
"180 HMRC officers have been deployed across the UK and France today," the statement added.
"Investigators have searched a number of premises in the north east and south east of England and arrested the men and also seized business records, financial records, computers and mobile phones.
"The French authorities are assisting the UK investigation, have made arrests and several locations have been searched in France.
"As this is an ongoing investigation, HMRC is unable to provide any further detail at this time."
Newcastle were promoted to the Premier League on Monday, just 348 days after relegation.
According to its 2015-16 accounts, the club had a turnover of £126m, paid out £75m in players' wages and recorded pre-tax loss of £4.1m.
HMRC raided West Ham's offices at the London Olympic Stadium where the club moved in August, having played at Upton Park since 1904.
Companies House figures for 2015-16 show it turned over £142m, paid out £85m in player's wages and made a pre-tax loss of £4.8m.
In January, a Parliamentary Committee revealed 43 players, 12 clubs and eight agents were the subject of "open inquiries" by HMRC.
The Public Accounts Committee highlighted particular concerns about tax evasion in the football industry and the "misuse" of image rights to reduce tax liabilities. | Newcastle United and West Ham United's grounds have been raided in a fraud investigation. |
39,623,071 | A report to be debated at the Kirk's General Assembly in May said ministers should be permitted to perform same-sex ceremonies.
It also said the Kirk should apologise for failing to recognise the Christian vocation of gay people.
The report has been welcomed by the Reverend Scott Rennie, the gay minister whose appointment to an Aberdeen parish in 2008 caused controversy.
It will be presented to the General Assembly by the influential Theological Forum of the Church of Scotland, which challenges and expresses the theology of the life and work of the Kirk.
The Church of Scotland's principal clerk authorised early publication of the report following media coverage.
The General Assembly is being asked to consider:
The report stated: "We recognise that as a Church we have often failed to recognise and protect the identity and Christian vocation of gay people and believe that the Church as a whole should acknowledge its faults, whose identity and Christian vocation it has failed to recognise and protect."
Mr Rennie said the report was far-reaching, thorough, and impressive.
He said: "The request that the Kirk recognise its damaging failure through the years to value, encourage, and support gay people in its pews - and to do better in the future - is one of the most positive and hopeful things I have read in a report to the General Assembly in many years.
"It recognises, at last, the diversity of people that make up the Church of Scotland, and Scotland at large.
"It says in its own theological language: you are valued; you are part of us; and we have to do better at including you - and being just in our treatment of you."
The report reflected a range of theological thinking on the issue of same-sex relationships.
It acknowledged the traditionalist view that Biblical writers condemned same-sex acts, making the only appropriate response for the Church was to proclaim they are contrary to God's intentions for humanity - meaning gay marriages should be prohibited.
But it also examined the revisionist arguments.
It said: "Scriptural condemnations of same-sex sexual activity were framed in cultural contexts very different from our own and referred to individual acts rather than committed and faithful people willing to enshrine their relationships in vows before God."
The principal clerk to the General Assembly, the Very Reverend John Chalmers, said the issue had been a long-running argument in which there would not be a sole victor.
He said the Kirk called it "constrained difference", meaning that within limits it can make space for more than one approach among ministers and congregations.
He said: "When mutual flourishing is what you aim for, then you try to heal where you can.
"In an argument over 20 years, some people have been hurt on both sides. Some have felt unheard, marginalised and denied.
"That is why we think the recognition that some apologies all round are needed may help promote reconciliation and help us live with our differences where they exist."
Commenting on the early publication of the report, he added: "It is unfortunate that this report has found its way into the public domain before this year's volume of Assembly Reports has been published.
"However, it is important that people are now able to access the full report."
The Reverend Mike Goss, parish minister of Barry with Carnoustie Church, told BBC Scotland he did not think it was right that ministers should be allowed to perform same-sex ceremonies.
"Same-sex relationships are not what God has planned for us as human beings," he said.
"We are all messed up in different ways in our lives. I don't see that people in straight-sex relationships have got it all sorted. We know too many of them have gone wrong as well.
"But we don't bless that which is wrong and that has got to be key in terms of the Gospel."
Mr Rennie added: "Loving marriages, whether they are gay or straight, can make for a good and happy life.
"Christ's love for us, his people, is reflected in loving relationships. Marriage is something to be celebrated.
"I look forward to the day when I am able to conduct weddings for all couples, gay or straight, in the name of God."
The General Assembly will be asked to accept the report - but gay marriages in the Church of Scotland may not happen quickly.
The Kirk is keen to ensure it will not lose its current protection under equalities laws, and that those ministers or deacons who decline to carry out same-sex services cannot be prosecuted.
The Roman Catholic Church opposes same-sex marriage, while Scottish Episcopalians will make a decision in June - potentially putting them at odds with the Church of England.
Legislation allowing same-sex marriage in Scotland was passed by MSPs at Holyrood in February 2014 and came into effect in December that year.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "Decisions on whether or not to take part in same-sex marriage are a matter for individual denominations.
"The legislation was framed to reflect that some religious bodies would wish to take part and others would not, and within those religious bodies choosing to take part, some of their celebrants would not wish to do so." | Gay marriages may soon be able to take place in the Church of Scotland. |
34,756,912 | But the Wales captain, 27, says he would prefer to stay in Wales and perhaps win only one trophy during his career than seek success elsewhere.
"If it takes me another 10 years to win another trophy, then I'll do that - I'll stay here," said Warburton.
"I probably could have earned twice as much money going to France, but I wanted to stay in Cardiff."
Warburton was the first Welsh player to sign a national dual contract.
There are now 16 players on the deals which see the Welsh Rugby Union pay 60% of their wages.
The contracts also give the governing body greater control over the players, and can limit the number of games they play.
Warburton is one of only two Blues on the joint deals with utility back Gareth Anscombe the other.
Blues wing Alex Cuthbert turned down an offer of a contract during the 2014-15 campaign, according to Wales coach Warren Gatland, prompting speculation about his long-term future.
Fly-half Rhys Patchell is also being linked with a move away from Blues.
Warburton insists his heart is with the city of his upbringing and where he used to watch Wales and Cardiff predecessors Martyn Williams and Robin Sowden-Taylor play.
"I remember watching Dan Baugh playing when I was really young," said Warburton before Saturday's 35-30 Pro12 defeat by Glasgow.
"I didn't really know many players then and I remember seeing this guy with his collars tucked in and his socks down, just taking people's heads off and I was like 'I want to do that. I want to play for this team and do that'.
"I love Cardiff. That's why I've stayed here."
Warburton has helped Blues win one significant trophy, coming off the bench in 2010 when they beat Toulon in what was then the Amlin Challenge Cup final, Europe's second-tier tournament.
The 2013 British and Irish Lions captain and Six Nations Grand Slam winner believes "in time" Blues can go on to win more silverware under boss Danny Wilson, who is in his first season in charge.
Warburton returned from Wales World Cup duty as battling Blues lost to Pro12 title-holders Glasgow.
He says the Scottish team are an example of how his side can attain future success.
"If you've watched them over three or four years, they've slowly built nicely and that's hopefully what we're going to start doing." | Sam Warburton claims he could have doubled his earnings if he had left Cardiff Blues to play in France. |
39,077,191 | The 24-year-old suffered the injury late on in Monday's defeat at Championship leaders Newcastle.
Boss Steve Bruce had been concerned the injury could have left the former Brentford man out for the remainder of the season.
Hogan joined Villa from the Bees for £12m in January but is yet to score in four appearances.
Meanwhile, the Championship strugglers have confirmed that former Blackburn and QPR defender Christopher Samba, 32, is training with them.
Samba is a free agent after having his contract with Greek side Panathinaikos cancelled. | Aston Villa striker Scott Hogan has been ruled out for up to five weeks with an ankle injury. |
38,679,492 | A yw torcalon yn gallu dylanwadu ar iechyd? Ydy hi'n bosib marw, hyd yn oed, o dorcalon?
Mae'r Dr Gethin Ellis yn gardiolegydd yng Nghaerdydd a Bro Morgannwg: "Mae yna gyflwr o'r enw takotsubo cardiomyopathy (gair Siapaneaidd sy'n cyfeirio at rwyd neu siâp calon). Dydy o ddim yn gyflwr cyffredin o bell ffordd ond mae o wedi cael ei gydnabod ers tua degawd.
"Mae'n cael ei gysylltu gyda phobl sydd o dan straen ofnadwy, ond dydy'r arbenigwyr ddim yn ei ddeall yn iawn er bod lot o ymchwil wedi bod yn y maes.
"Beth sy'n digwydd efo'r cyflwr ydy bod rhywun yn gorymateb i straen nes eu bod yn creu'r holl hormonau 'ma. Mae lefelau yn codi i'r un graddau ag yn ystod trawiad. Mae'n wahanol i drawiad, ond mae'n edrych yn debyg iawn yn ôl yr effaith i'r galon.
"Rhywbeth dros dro ydi takotsubo cardiomyopathy sy'n para efallai am ddiwrnod ac yn achosi poen mawr. Fel arfer mae gan berson dueddiad i gael cyflwr o'r fath beth bynnag, ac mae merched yn fwy tebygol o'i gael na dynion.
"Er yn gyflwr anarferol, mae takotsubo yn digwydd i rywun ifanc sydd fel arfer yn iach. Os ydych chi yn eich 80au neu 90au mae marwolaeth sydyn yn gallu digwydd, ac yn aml oherwydd cyflwr sydd heb ddod i'r amlwg."
Dyw'r seicolegydd clinigol Dr Mair Edwards o Fangor ddim yn credu bod torcalon yn gallu achosi marwolaeth ond mae hi'n cydnabod y gall y galar gynyddu'r risg o broblemau iechyd.
"Mae pobl sydd dan straen mawr yn llawer mwy tebygol o anhwylderau, ond fel arfer pethau mân fel annwyd. Mae yna effaith seicolegol yn ogystal â ffisiolegol, ond i ddweud ei fod yn achosi marwolaeth? Mae'n anodd iawn dweud hynny."
Ddiwedd fis Rhagfyr bu farw'r actores Carrie Fisher o drawiad ar y galon. Ddiwrnod yn ddiweddarach bu farw ei mam, yr actores Debbie Reynolds o strôc, ac yn ôl ei mab roedd y straen o golli ei merch wedi bod yn ormod iddi.
"Mae'r galar o golli plentyn yn sicr yn cael effaith ffisiolegol ar bobl," meddai Dr Mair Edwards. "Be' olygai hyn yw mai nid dim ond galar emosiynol ydy o, ond bod o hefyd yn cael effaith o roi y corff dan straen.
"Mae cysylltiad agos rhwng y meddwl a'r corff - dydy'r ddau beth ddim yn byw ar wahân, ac os oes gwendid yn barod fe all arwain at mwy o broblemau na'r disgwyl."
Mae yna engreifftiau o gyplau priod yn marw o fewn dyddiau i'w gilydd, ond mae Dr Gethin Ellis yn credu mai rhywbeth i'w wneud gydag oedran yw hyn:
"Os yw cwpl yn briod ers dros hanner canrif, a bod un yn marw, mae enghreifftiau lle mae'r llall yn marw ddiwrnodau yn ddiweddarach... ond yr 'hanner canrif' ydy'r giveaway- dydi o ddim yn digwydd i gyplau yn eu 20au a 30au.
"Wedi marwolaeth ar ôl hanner canrif yn briod mae rhaid cydnabod bod y cwpl yna yn hen, dan bwysau, ac mae'r emosiynau ac iselder wedi ei gysylltu efo pwysedd gwaed ac os ydy'r pwysedd gwaed yn codi mae mwy o siawns o gael strôc neu drawiad ar y galon.
"Mae'n gysylltiad anuniongyrchol weithiau ond mae straen mawr yn gallu cael effaith ar berson, ac os ychwanegwch chi ffactorau fel oed, pwysedd gwaed a churiad calon, mae mwy o siawns o rywbeth i fynd o'i le.
"Hefyd, pan mae person mewn oed yn colli cymar wedi degawdau efo'i gilydd, weithiau maen nhw'n stopio cymryd gofal o'u hunain, stopio cymryd eu tabledi a stopio bwyta ac yfed." | Diwrnod i ddathlu ydy Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen ond beth yw goblygiadau colli cariad? |
22,447,414 | He has been replaced by Nick Chester, who has been promoted from his role as head of vehicle performance.
It is not known which team Allison will join but Ferrari are strong favourites.
Allison has had an offer from McLaren, which he is understood to have turned down, and has also been approached by Williams and Mercedes.
His departure is a blow to Lotus, whose driver Kimi Raikkonen is second in the world championship to Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel ahead of the fifth race of the season in Spain this weekend.
Team boss Eric Boullier said: "Nick is already directly involved with this and next year's cars, ensuring a smooth transition which has been under way for some time."
Boullier said Chester was already working on the design for the team's 2014 car, which will be built to new regulations that include the introduction of 1.6-litre V6 turbo engines with extensive energy recovery, to replace this year's 2.4-litre normally aspirated V8s.
Boullier said: "He assumes his new position at a tremendously exciting time for the sport. The 2014 technical regulation changes present many challenges, while our current position of second place in both the constructors' and drivers' world championships mean we cannot lose sight of this year's development battle.
"Nick really has his work cut out, but we know he is more than capable of handling the tasks ahead."
Allison's future has been the subject of fevered speculation in F1 for some weeks.
He has been linked to all the top teams - Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes - as well as Williams. But a Red Bull source dismissed the notion that Allison would be joining them and BBC Sport understands Allison has rejected an offer from McLaren.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo was asked on Wednesday, at a corporate presentation at the company's base in Maranello, whether there was any truth in talk of Allison return. "It's just a rumour," he said.
Mercedes motorsport director Toto Wolff told BBC Sport that Allison had been approached by Niki Lauda, the team's non-executive director, during the winter but insisted that it was a "historical discussion", appearing to rule out his appointment.
Mercedes have already signed former McLaren technical director Paddy Lowe, who will join the team in 2014 in a senior technical role overseeing the team's current structure.
Lowe is earmarked as a long-term successor to team principal Ross Brawn, but the two may well work together for some time as Lowe is faded in and Brawn edges towards retirement.
Wolff said that Lauda had approached Allison last winter as part of his fact-finding about which personnel might be available as Mercedes assessed its options for improving the team's performance.
Wolff said: "He started to speak to the good guys and asking them what their current employment situation was, and one was James Allison.
"That was a historical discussion, which I think was December, and this is when I came in and we stopped all that."
If Allison does move to Ferrari, it is unclear what role he would take. The team's current technical director is Pat Fry, who has been in his role for less than two years.
Fry and Allison have previously been colleagues, at the Benetton team in the 1990s.
Allison worked at Ferrari for five years from 2000, the period during which they dominated F1 with Michael Schumacher, before moving back to Renault - renamed Lotus in 2012 - in 2005 as deputy technical director.
He was in that role when Fernando Alonso won his two titles for the team in 2005 and 2006 before being promoted to technical director in 2009. | Lotus technical director James Allison, one of the most highly regarded design engineers in F1, is to leave the team. |
32,384,397 | Launching the party's manifesto, the ex-miners' leader called for the UK to leave the EU to save £170bn a year.
He also pledged a tax on bank profits to fund a million new or renovated homes, nationalising all transport systems, and the scrapping of Trident.
All eight Socialist Labour candidates at the election are standing in Wales.
Mineworkers' pensions
Party treasurer Ken Capstick said the party was anti-austerity and wanted to see "a transfer of wealth back into the hands of ordinary working people and away from the richest people in this land".
"We're fed up to the back teeth of the poorest people in this land having to bear the brunt of this economic crisis that they did not create," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"They are not the perpetrators of this crisis, but they are being made the victims of it and the richest people in this land have been supported by this coalition government - they are being saved from their own actions.
"No-one has faced any prosecutions as a result of what the bankers did in 2007-8 that brought this economy to the very brink of disaster."
Mr Capstick, former vice-president of Yorkshire National Union of Mineworkers, claimed both Labour and Conservative governments had "taken money from people's pension funds for years", so a key party policy would be to nationalise private pension funds.
"The mineworkers' pension fund has half its surplus taken by this government every time there's an actuarial valuation..." he told Today.
"If they can do it to us, then what's the difference in us doing the same thing?"
Faith schools
Mr Capstick said nationalising transport and bringing it up to date would cost around £100bn, but added: "The things that would cost us are outweighed by the things we'd do away with."
These would include scrapping the UK's Trident nuclear missile programme and withdrawing from the EU.
The party would introduce a 90% top rate of tax on incomes over £300,000, and use profits from the banks to help subsidise a £12 an hour minimum wage.
Socialist Labour has also pledged to scrap nuclear power and launch an integrated energy policy, based on a publicly-owned deep mine coal industry along with forms of renewable energy.
Unveiling the party's manifesto in Port Talbot, Mr Scargill added: "We should abolish all private schools, such as Eton, Harrow and Westminster, because they are an elite which gives a better education because of the more money that is pumped into them.
"We believe all faith schools should be abolished as well because they are a breeding ground for prejudice and intolerance.
"If Muslims, Buddhists, Catholics or Protestants can go to university together then they can go to school together."
Mr Scargill, famous for his role in the miners' strike, formed the Socialist Labour Party in 1996 as a reaction to Tony Blair's overhauling of Labour's commitment to socialism.
Elsewhere on the campaign trail on Tuesday, Labour's Shadow Energy Secretary Caroline Flint visited the site of a planned tidal lagoon project in Swansea.
The Conservatives called for a freeze on council tax, while Plaid Cymru campaigned in Carmarthenshire for better rural broadband and mobile phone coverage.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats launched a "Countryside Charter", aimed at boosting rural areas by creating thousands of jobs and providing essential services. | Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party says public schools like Eton and Harrow should be abolished and a 90% top rate of tax introduced. |
34,024,695 | McGeouch, 22, made 26 appearances for Hibs last season while on loan.
"I'm really pleased to join Hibs permanently and pick up from where I left off last season," he told the Hibs website.
"I really enjoyed playing for the club and working with Alan Stubbs, so when the opportunity came up to come back to Hibs it was the right choice for me."
It is another piece of business between the Easter Road club and Celtic, with playmaker Scott Allan having moved west in a permanent switch and Liam Henderson having moved to Leith on loan.
McGeouch added: "At this stage in my career, I need to be playing games on a regular basis and I felt I really benefited from that experience last season."
Stubbs, Hibs' head coach, said: "He was one of our stand-out performers last season and he is a player that I've wanted to sign on a permanent basis from the very first day he joined on loan.
"So the fact that we're now in a position to make that move a reality is fantastic news for everybody connected to the club."
Meanwhile, Hibs have loaned out winger Alex Harris to Championship rivals Queen of the South.
The 20-year-old has started 28 games for the Edinburgh side and was with Dundee on loan for the second half of last season, featuring in 16 games.
"It's important that Alex continues his development by playing regular first team football and unfortunately we couldn't offer him that here," said Stubbs. | Hibernian have signed midfielder Dylan McGeouch from Celtic on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee. |
38,798,442 | Simon Burrell, 43, who was head of Ruskin Junior School in Swindon, was convicted of fraud last year.
Burrell improperly claimed and received additional pay while at the school between January 2011 and May 2013.
A teacher misconduct panel said he had breached teaching standards in a "serious and significant way".
The panel decided that he should be prohibited from teaching for a period of at least two years.
Burrell may apply for the prohibition order to be overturned in January 2019.
He was head teacher at Ruskin School between April 2010 and August 2014.
He left the school to take up a new post as head teacher at nearby Grange Federation.
Soon after, a financial audit at the school identified some irregularities, and it began an investigation before referring the matter to the police.
Burrell was arrested on 23 December 2014, and on 8 June 2015 he was charged with fraud and forging documentation to facilitate the improper payments.
He resigned from his post at Grange Federation on 31 August 2015.
In March 2016, Burrell received a suspended 12-month sentence at Swindon Crown Court. | A former head teacher has been banned from teaching for at least two years after he stole more than £19,500 from a school he worked at. |
34,849,297 | Kick-off was delayed by 15 minutes with added security checks following the Paris attacks a week ago.
Hamburg had two shots on target, Pierre-Michel Lasogga's penalty and Lewis Holtby's close-range finish, with Mats Hummels adding an own goal.
Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored his 15th league goal of the season and had another ruled out.
Match ends, Hamburger SV 3, Borussia Dortmund 1.
Second Half ends, Hamburger SV 3, Borussia Dortmund 1.
Foul by Adnan Januzaj (Borussia Dortmund).
Matthias Ostrzolek (Hamburger SV) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Hamburger SV. René Adler tries a through ball, but Pierre-Michel Lasogga is caught offside.
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Lukasz Piszczek tries a through ball, but Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is caught offside.
Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund) hits the left post with a left footed shot from outside the box.
Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt saved. Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by René Adler.
Attempt saved. Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Attempt missed. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by Cléber.
Goal! Hamburger SV 3, Borussia Dortmund 1. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Adnan Januzaj with a through ball.
Attempt missed. Gideon Jung (Hamburger SV) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Ivo Ilicevic.
Attempt blocked. Ivo Ilicevic (Hamburger SV) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Nicolai Müller.
Substitution, Hamburger SV. Marcelo Díaz replaces Lewis Holtby.
Attempt missed. Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Marcel Schmelzer.
Attempt missed. Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Corner, Borussia Dortmund. Conceded by René Adler.
Attempt saved. Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Gregoritsch (Hamburger SV).
Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Lewis Holtby (Hamburger SV).
Substitution, Hamburger SV. Michael Gregoritsch replaces Gojko Kacar.
Julian Weigl (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lewis Holtby (Hamburger SV).
Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nicolai Müller (Hamburger SV).
Substitution, Borussia Dortmund. Adnan Januzaj replaces Marco Reus.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Castro (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Offside, Borussia Dortmund. Mats Hummels tries a through ball, but Marco Reus is caught offside.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Cléber (Hamburger SV).
Attempt missed. Ilkay Gündogan (Borussia Dortmund) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Lukasz Piszczek.
Foul by Lukasz Piszczek (Borussia Dortmund).
Ivo Ilicevic (Hamburger SV) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan (Borussia Dortmund) wins a free kick in the attacking half. | Borussia Dortmund's seven-game winning run came to an end as they were stunned by a clinical Hamburg performance. |
40,414,929 | The 30-year-old was arrested in February after being spotted driving a Mini Cooper S in Maxwellton Street, Canal Street and High Road.
The court heard from a witness who said he saw Mr Nutini order vodka in a Paisley bar before driving off.
Mr Nutini denies a charge of drink driving.
The witness, Colin May, told Paisley Sheriff Court he reported the singer to police when he saw him driving a car shortly after leaving DeBeers Bar.
Mr May said he had earlier seen Mr Nutini and a friend ordering rounds in the bar.
He said the singer, who was with another man and woman, ordered one round while the man bought another two.
Fiscal Depute Frank Clarke, prosecuting, asked Mr May: "Were you able to hear what was ordered?"
He replied: "From memory, I believe it was vodka, more than one, but I could not be certain of that."
Mr May was later asked about seeing Mr Nutini in the driving seat of a black Mini at traffic lights on Maxwellton Street and Canal Street in Paisley.
He continued: "I had seen him drinking at the bar having more than what would be the legal limit of one to two drinks.
"At first I was a bit thrown and continued my journey home, then I called the police to tell them what I had seen."
Cross-examined by defence agent Massimo Franchi, Mr May was asked: "He goes back to his table and you don't know what happens, those drinks could have been spilled, you don't know?" Mr May agreed.
Mr Franchi put it to the witness: "You don't know if he drank vodka or soda and lime?"
Mr May replied: "I heard vodka being ordered."
When pressed by the sheriff if he could say what Mr Nutini was drinking, he answered: "No I can't."
The trial continues. | Singer Paolo Nutini has gone on trial accused of driving under the influence of alcohol while more than twice the legal limit in Paisley. |
33,688,426 | The BBC has learned that Platini - after receiving indications of support from four continental confederations - will be a candidate when polling takes place on 26 February.
The 60-year-old former France and Juventus midfielder could declare as early as Wednesday.
Switzerland's Sepp Blatter, 79, has been in charge of Fifa since 1998.
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He is standing down as a result of a corruption crisis at world football's governing body.
Platini is the overwhelming favourite to replace him.
As well as the backing of his own European confederation, he is understood to have gained support from:
If every football association within those confederations voted for Platini, he would secure 144 votes, which is more than enough for him to be elected as Blatter's successor.
That is unlikely to happen, however, given some football associations will back rival candidates or abstain.
Nevertheless, Platini is still expected to poll a significant number of votes.
The election will be held in Zurich at an emergency congress attended by the Fifa member associations.
Candidates have until 26 October to be nominated.
As a player, Platini won three Ballon d'Or titles in the mid 1980s as well as a European Cup, Cup Winners' Cup and Super Cup with Juventus.
The former Nancy and Saint-Etienne midfielder, who became famous for his ability to score from free-kicks, also won league titles in France and Italy.
He also helped France to European Championship success in 1984 and third place at the 1986 World Cup.
Platini was elected Uefa president for a third term in March, when he stood unopposed.
He marked his re-election by:
Under his presidency, Uefa has seen a number of major developments.
Next year's European Championship will feature more teams than ever, up from 16 to 24. Then in 2020, the tournament will be staged in 13 cities across as many countries.
In club football, the Champions League has grown in popularity, with British broadcaster BT Sport agreeing to pay £900m for exclusive live rights to European football's top club competition from 2015-16.
However, Platini has faced criticism, largely over his support for Qatar's staging of the Fifa World Cup in 2022. | Uefa president Michel Platini will announce later this week he wants to be the next president of Fifa. |
36,303,928 | Twenty-six of Oxfordshire's 44 centres are set to close despite the plans previously being shelved.
David Cameron wrote to the authority last year expressing "disappointment" at cuts to various services.
His mother, Mary, then reportedly signed a petition opposing cuts to children's centres.
The council announced that from spring 2017 there will be 18 centres, with eight providing childcare services. Currently there are 44 children's centres and seven intervention hubs.
Child services bosses blamed government cuts and claimed "financial pressures" and rising demand meant the structure of the service had to be reviewed.
Cabinet member for children, education and families Melinda Tilley said: "I have no choice but to save the money, the government has stopped the money.
"We cannot continue as we are... and that's something I find doesn't seem to get through.
"When you take £6m out of services it's going to have consequences."
Save Oxfordshire's Children's Centres has called the proposals an "unforgivable waste of money", claiming cash is being "funnelled" into intervention hubs for vulnerable children rather than to children's centres.
Campaigner Jill Huish said: "It's our young families and children that are going to get cheated.
"What's happening is they're taking money away from prevention and putting it into cure. It's basically plugging one hole to create another.
"That hole is going to mean families falling through the gaps; it means some children will be invisible [to services]."
The council said 30 extra staff will be drafted in to the remaining 18 locations to help identify vulnerable children.
Mrs Tilley added: "What we are proposing is the safest possible system that protects vulnerable families and links effectively with other agencies.
"Our priority is keeping children safe and supporting the most vulnerable families."
The authority has said it is also providing £1m to help communities take on the running of current children's centres post-2017.
The full council will consider the new proposals on 24 May. | A Conservative council at the centre of a cuts row involving the prime minister has announced it will close more than half its children's centres. |
40,548,796 | Vettel was given a 10-second stop-and-go penalty in the race in Baku for deliberately driving into Hamilton.
Governing body the FIA decided at a hearing on Monday not to take more action against the Ferrari driver.
"I would have been uncomfortable to go further than what has been done," said FIA president Jean Todt.
"I would be very comfortable to be very strong if it happens again. He knows that."
Todt did not specify what he meant by a "very strong" punishment, but it can only mean a disqualification from at least one race.
Todt, who was talking to BBC Radio 5 live, said: "Clearly I wish that he would have been able to control himself better."
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Vettel was also put on a warning after last year's Mexican Grand Prix, when he swore over the radio at FIA F1 director Charlie Whiting because was unhappy about a lack of action over the driving of Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
Todt said: "People say he had already a warning after Mexico. This is true, but it was a completely different matter. He lost control and was insulting one of the stewards. It was a different category.
"So on the first category he has no more joker, on the second category he has no more joker."
Vettel has apologised publicly for the incident, and also for falsely accusing Hamilton of brake-testing him.
It was Vettel's belief that had caused him to run into the back of Hamilton, provoking his anger and leading to him then banging wheels with the Mercedes.
Hamilton has said Vettel did not apologise in their first conversation about the incident on the day after the Baku race, but that the following day he did so when they exchanged text messages.
Todt said he called the meeting on Monday to ensure Vettel understood Hamilton had not been responsible for the incident in any way and to acknowledge the German was the one who carried the responsibility for it.
"I felt it was very bad for the sport and very bad for the image of the sport and for the fans, because when you are a champion at this level you must be an example," Todt said.
"I am sure a lot of young people and fans were shocked by this attitude and particularly - even if I said the matter was judged by the stewards - I was not very comfortably with the statements after the race where the team and the driver seemed not to understand what had happened. So I thought in this case I wanted to understand even myself better.
"I was confused - was Hamilton part of it, responsible for some unnecessary action? And I got confirmation that what he did was exactly the same as what he did at the first safety car and he had absolutely no responsibility.
"So I thought it was important to have that said and understood by Sebastian Vettel, which was not what he said (after the race), including also his team.
"I do respect a lot pressure and i can sympathise the emption and we can allow special circumstances in special conditions.
"So he acknowledged he was the only one guilty, that he would not do that any more - which was very important."
Todt said Vettel had also offered to talk to young drivers and give them the benefit "of his good and bad experience". | Sebastian Vettel has been told he faces "very strong" punishment if he commits an offence similar to his collision with Lewis Hamilton in Azerbaijan. |
38,606,917 | Borussia Dortmund's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Liverpool's Sadio Mane headline the list of stars taking part in the tournament, which was won by Ivory Coast in 2015.
The final takes place on 5 February and you can find the full fixture list here.
Here is our group-by-group guide to Afcon 2017: | The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations kicks off on Saturday when hosts Gabon take on Guinea-Bissau at Stade de l'Amitie in Libreville (16:00 GMT). |
23,753,634 | The 30-year-old, from York, was given the prize by digital TV channel Dave, whose panel put a selection of their favourites to a public vote.
He won for the joke: "I heard a rumour that Cadbury is bringing out an oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese Wispa."
The top 10 funniest included jokes by Tim Vine and Marcus Brigstocke.
The judges sat through hours of material before nominating their favourite three gags for the shortlist.
The top 10 were:
Auton, who recently quit his job selling paintbrushes in London's Soho to perform full time, said: "I am honoured to receive this award and just pleased that a joke that tackles the serious issue of the invention of a new chocolate bar can be laughed at by the people of Britain."
2012 Stewart Francis
2011 Nick Helm
2010 Tim Vine
2009 Dan Antopolski
2008 Zoe Lyons
The award, officially known as Dave's Funniest Joke of The Fringe, has been going for six years.
Previous winners include king of the oneliner Tim Vine and deadpan Canadian Stewart Francis.
Auton, whose show The Sky Show is on at the Banshee Labyrinth at 16:00, is the first winner to appear as part of Peter Buckley Hill's Free Fringe, which asks audiences to pay what they want at the end of the performance.
The Edinburgh Fringe, the world's largest arts festival, runs until Monday 26 August.
This year's three-week festival has seen 2,871 shows performed by 24,107 artists in 273 venues across Scotland's capital city.
In order to compile the shortlist, each of the judges sat through an average of 60 different comedy performances and sifted through more than 3,600 minutes of material. | Comedian Rob Auton has won an award for the funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe. |
25,099,940 | In its hey-day Spanish City, with its distinctive white dome, attracted thousands of visitors to Whitley Bay each year.
But it fell into disrepair in the 1990s and shut to the public in 2000.
Grade II-listed Spanish City and the Whitley Bay Pleasure Gardens opened in 1910.
A 60-bed hotel, a care home, 20 apartments and 24 town houses are also planned in a bid to help regenerate the area, the council said.
Ivor Crowther, Head of HLF North East, said: "This iconic building holds an incredibly special place in the hearts of all of us who live in the North East and beyond."
The grant would "unlock the potential of Spanish City", in the hope of encouraging private investment and wider regeneration. | A 103-year-old seaside tourist attraction is to be restored and reopened thanks to a £3.7m Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant. |
40,861,326 | Released in 1968, and written by Jimmy Webb, it was the first top 10 single for country singer Glen Campbell, who died on Monday, aged 81.
Like many of his fans, Campbell's reaction to the song was immediate and tender.
"When I heard it I cried," he told BBC Radio 4 in 2011. "It made me cry because I was homesick."
The lyrics describe a lineman who is also pining for home and imagines he can hear his absent lover "singing in the wire".
"I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time," he tells her. "And the Wichita Lineman, is still on the line."
Webb, while proud of the song, has always insisted it was unfinished, and says he initially considered that famous couplet "the biggest, awfulest, dumbest, most obvious false rhyme in history".
He wrote the song to order in 1968, after Campbell had found success with another of his songs, By the Time I Get to Phoenix.
"They called me and said, 'Can you write us a song about a town?'" he recalled in a Radio 2 documentary about Campbell's career.
"And I said, 'I'm not sure I want to write a song about a town right now. I think I've overdone that'.
"He said, 'well, can you do something geographical?' and I spent the rest of the afternoon sweating over Wichita Lineman."
Although the song is set on the Kansas-Oklahoma border, Webb actually wrote it at a grand piano in Hollywood.
"I was living in a kind of communal environment with 25 or 30 of my best friends," he said in the book Chicken Soup for the Soul: Country Music.
"There were a couple of clowns who came into my music room and spray-painted my piano green, I think, because of [the lyrics to] MacArthur Park: 'All the sweet, green icing flowing down.' They thought it was pretty funny.
"So I spent the afternoon trying not to brush up against the piano and writing a song at the same time. That whole afternoon was a comedy, with a sticky green piano and several desperate calls from the recording studio."
He had called up the image of a lineman from a childhood journey across the panhandle of Oklahoma.
"There's a place where the terrain absolutely flattens out," he told the BBC. "It's almost like you could take a [spirit] level out of your tool kit and put in on the highway, and that bubble would just sit right there on dead centre. It goes on that way for about 50 miles.
"In the heat of summer, with the heat rising off the road, the telephone poles gradually materialise out of this far, distant perspective and rush towards you.
"And then, as it happened, I suddenly looked up at one of these telephone poles and there was a man on top, talking on a telephone.
"He was gone very quickly, and I had another 25 miles of solitude to meditate on this apparition. It was a splendidly vivid, cinematic image that I lifted out of my deep memory while I was writing this song."
"I thought, I wonder if I can write something about that? A blue collar, everyman guy we all see everywhere - working on the railroad or working on the telephone wires or digging holes in the street.
"I just tried to take an ordinary guy and open him up and say, 'Look there's this great soul, and there's this great aching, and this great loneliness inside this person and we're all like that. We all have this capacity for these huge feelings'."
But while Webb worked on the lyrics, Campbell and his producer Al DeLory were getting impatient. They were in the recording studio, with a tight deadline, and no song to record.
"They said, 'We're really in a hurry, send it over'. And I said, 'OK, but the third verse I don't have'."
What Webb didn't know was that DeLory's uncle had been a lineman in Kern County, California.
"As soon as I heard that opening line," he later recalled, "I could visualise my uncle up a pole in the middle of nowhere. I loved the song right away."
"He wrote it for me in no time," Campbell agreed. "Jimmy Webb is just that kind of a writer. He's such a gifted man."
Campbell cut the song with musicians from The Wrecking Crew - a group of LA session musicians who played on most of Phil Spector's records, as well as the first Monkees' albums and The Byrds' cover of Bob Dylan's Mr Tambourine Man.
"We knew that this tune was special," said bassist Carol Kaye - who added the descending six-note intro.
"When he started singing, the hair stood up on my arms and I went, 'Woah, this is deep'."
Musically, the song plays a clever trick by starting in the key of F major before switching to the relative minor, D major and never fully resolving - echoing the lineman's disjointed state of mind.
DeLory wrote an evocative orchestral arrangement in which the strings mimicked the sighing of the telephone wires. To get around the problem of the unfinished third verse, Campbell picked up Kaye's DanElectro six-string bass guitar and improvised the song's famous solo.
Webb, however, thought they'd rejected the song.
"A couple of weeks later I ran into him [Glen Campbell] somewhere, and I said, 'I guess you guys didn't like the song.'" he recalled.
"He said, 'Oh, we cut that'. I said, 'It wasn't done! I was just humming the last bit!'"
"He said, 'Well it's done now!'"
Wichita Lineman jump-started Campbell's career, helping the album of the same name go double platinum in the US, and giving the star his first chart hit in the UK.
But over the years, Campbell was always careful to highlight Webb's role.
"He's just an exceptional writer. He pours his heart out," he said. "And I think that's where the music comes from: the heart."
Webb returned the compliment, telling BBC Four: "He made me sound good. He made me sound like a genius. But really, I just did what I did and he had the wherewithal to follow through - and hit some notes that really, honestly, he shouldn't have been able to hit.
"A lot of other singers would have said, 'Hey, listen - take this home and work on this, son. Because I can't sing on that.'"
And what about that "dumb" lyric? Over the years, Webb made his peace with the line - realising his discomfort over the rhyme had blinded him to the words' raw power.
"Had I known what I was doing, I wouldn't have written that line. I would have found a way to make it rhyme," he told NPR in 2010. "It was only years later that I became aware of what a songwriter was even supposed to do. I was really just a kid who was kind of writing from the hip and the heart."
David Crary, a real-life lineman who repairs high voltage power lines across America, says he wouldn't change the words for the world.
"I think Jimmy Webb hit the nail on the head," he told Radio 4. "It describes a lot of linemen, what they go through on the road, away from their family.
"When I hear that song, or when I'm singing it, it brings lots of memories back of storms that I've been on, whether they're ice storms, hurricanes [or] tornadoes.
"The most important part is getting back to your family in one piece."
Campbell - who spent the majority of his life on the road - had an equally personal connection to the lyric.
"'I want you for all time,' I always say that to my wife, because it cheers her up," he said.
"We got some grown kids and they say, 'Oh, you guys. You guys are like lovebirds.'"
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | A simple tale of a lonely telephone repairman working in the vast open plains of the American Midwest, Wichita Lineman is one of the most perfectly realised pop songs of all time. |
27,297,351 | In Vanity Fair magazine, Monica Lewinsky, 40, writes that she deeply regrets the fling.
The president "took advantage" of her, she writes, though she describes their relationship as consensual.
In 1998, Republicans failed in their effort to oust him from office on the grounds he had lied about the affair.
But with Mr Clinton's wife Hillary said to be mulling a 2016 run for the presidency, the Lewinsky matter has re-emerged in US political discourse, in part because Republicans are eager to wield it against her.
In an advance excerpt from the article released by Vanity Fair, Ms Lewinsky writes she hopes to reclaim her story and says she is still recognised every day and sees her name thrown about in pop culture and the news media.
"I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton," she writes.
"Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened."
Ms Lewinsky writes that she suffered abuse and humiliation after the scandal broke in 1998, in part because she was made a "scapegoat" to protect the president.
"The Clinton administration, the special prosecutor's minions, the political operatives on both sides of the aisle, and the media were able to brand me," she wrote.
"And that brand stuck, in part because it was imbued with power."
Since leaving the Clinton administration, she worked briefly as a handbag designer and as the host of a US reality dating show.
Ms Lewinsky then moved to London for a graduate degree, but said she has had difficulty gaining employment in the US because of her past.
Arguing Mr Clinton had lied to federal investigators about his relationship with Ms Lewinsky, who was in her early 20s, the Republicans in the House of Representatives impeached the president, essentially bringing him up on charges in the Senate to determine whether he could be expelled from office.
That effort failed, and Mr Clinton served in the White House until his term ended in 2000.
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, went on to be elected US senator and to serve as secretary of state under President Barack Obama, and is currently tipped as a frontrunner for the Democratic 2016 presidential nomination.
The Republicans have indicated recently that Mr Clinton's affair with Ms Lewinsky will be fair game should Mrs Clinton indeed run.
Republican Senator Rand Paul - also tipped to run for the presidency in 2016 - said this year that "bosses shouldn't prey on young interns in their office".
Mr Clinton "took advantage of a girl that was 20-years-old and an intern in his office", he added. "There is no excuse for that and that is predatory behaviour."
In her piece, Ms Lewinsky signals that her desire in breaking her silence after so many years is to "give a purpose" to her past.
"Perhaps by sharing my story, I reasoned, I might be able to help others in their darkest moments of humiliation," she writes.
Ms Lewinsky now aims "to get involved with efforts on behalf of victims of online humiliation and harassment and to start speaking on this topic in public forums". | The one-time White House intern whose affair with President Bill Clinton led to his impeachment has broken her long silence in the media. |
33,533,698 | Richard Johnson, 24, was convicted of killing Joshua Bradley, 19, in the fight on 8 February by a jury at Nottingham Crown Court.
The court heard Mr Bradley had been trying to help a friend who was being assaulted when he was fatally injured.
Johnson, of Hyson Green, was told he must serve at least 25 years before he is eligible for release.
Mr Bradley was pronounced dead at the scene in Thurland Street, Nottingham.
A second defendant, Zaiem Zulqurnain, 19, of Newlyn Drive, Aspley, was found not guilty of murder and also cleared of violent disorder.
The jury was earlier instructed to find Muhamed Adnan, 22, of Middleton Boulevard, not guilty of murder.
He had already admitted violent disorder and will be sentenced later.
Mr Bradley had been a boxer since he was seven years old. He was a Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire youth champion and represented England at youth level, according to the Nottingham Post.
After his mother's death in his early teens he gave up the sport but continued to help young members at Bilborough Boxing Club, the newspaper reported.
Det Supt Kate Meynell, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: "This was a wholly unnecessary death of a young man in the prime of his life.
"Johnson purposefully took out a knife into the city centre, and brandished it when the fight broke out in a state of bravado.
"Joshua, who was an accomplished boxer, went to help a friend who was being assaulted but tragically ended up losing his life.
"For Joshua's family and friends, that night changed everything.
"They will never see Joshua again, they didn't get a chance to say goodbye and now have to try to go on without him." | A man who stabbed an "accomplished" boxer through the heart in a street brawl has been handed a life sentence. |
36,422,653 | The Yorkshireman took advantage of the perfect conditions on Tuesday to post a speed of 130.626 on his Tyco BMW.
John McGuinness, a 23-time winner, was second at 129.618 on his Honda.
Hutchinson, 36, heads the Superstock times to date with a lap of 128.723 on Tuesday, while Bruce Anstey is best of the Supersports with 124.508.
New Zealander Anstey's speed was marginally faster than the previous benchmark of 124.46 set by Bradford's Dean Harrison in Monday night's session.
Hutchinson (124.156) and Dunlop (124.053) lie third and fourth respectively in the overall Supersport leaderboard for the week.
Lincolnshire's Ivan Lintin tops the Lightweight class for Supertwins with 118.00 as he bids to repeat his success in that event last year.
In addition to Hutchinson and McGuinness, Michael Dunlop, Peter Hickman, Conor Cummins and Dean Harrison have now all posted speeds in excess of 129mph in the Superbike class.
Kiwi Anstey fell just short of that on Tuesday evening with a lap of 128.976 on his Padgett's prepared MotoGP-based Honda RC213V-S.
BMW-mounted Michael Rutter is second quickest in the Superstock class after recording 128.429 on Tuesday, ahead of Harrison, who set 128.044 in Monday's practice.
After setting the quickest time on Monday evening, John Holden and Andy Winkle again topped the sidecar leaderboard on Tuesday, improving their speed to 113.15mph.
Father and son team Ian and Carl Bell were only marginally slower at 112.98mph.
Practicing is scheduled to continue on Wednesday evening. | Ian Hutchinson set the fastest Superbike practice speed of the week to become the first rider to lap at over 130mph at this year's Isle of Man TT. |
28,777,142 | Iran was against US intervention, he said, and the world should respect the results of Iraq's April election which saw victory for Nouri Maliki's alliance.
But the ayatollah has been overtaken by events.
The past week has seen the US launch air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Iraq, while in Baghdad Mr Maliki has failed in his bid to return to the prime minister's office.
Although this all goes contrary to Iran's stated wishes, officials in Tehran have said almost nothing.
"Iran's silence shows they are happy with what's happening in Iraq," says Ghassan Attiyah, president of the Baghdad-based Iraqi Foundation for Development and Democracy.
Mr Attiyah says that Iraq's new Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi has strong ties to Iran and for this reason the Iranians have not tried to block his nomination.
"They were not happy with Maliki from the beginning but they accepted him because the Shia bloc supported him in parliament," he says.
"But when he started losing and alienating Kurds and Sunnis, Iran didn't like it."
Iran has also confounded expectations that it would issue an angry condemnation of the US air strikes this week on IS positions in northern Iraq.
In fact, in a striking change of tone, an advisor to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Monday that Iran and the US should work together to counter IS in Iraq.
Observers say the realisation that the militants are now just 25km (16 miles) from Iran's western border may well have influenced thinking in Tehran.
It is clear that the threat posed by the Islamic State is another factor in Iran's decision not to actively oppose the appointment of Mr Abadi as Iraq's new prime minister.
Unlike US President Barack Obama, Iran's president has yet to congratulate Mr Abadi on his appointment.
But in a phone call on Monday to congratulate another newly elected leader in the region, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said a government must be formed in Iraq "as soon as possible", and that Iran would support "the person who is approved by the majority of Iraqi lawmakers".
It was the first clear indication that Iran was not intending to stand firmly behind Mr Maliki as it has done for its other regional protege, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
There was more bad news for Mr Maliki on Tuesday when the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, also voiced support for the move in Baghdad to choose a new prime minister.
Mr Shamkhani's call for all Iraqi groups and coalitions to keep united and work together to protect national unity seemed like a coded message to Mr Maliki that his time was running out.
The hardline Javan newspaper, affiliated to Iran's Revolutionary Guard, adopted a similar tone.
In an editorial, it called on him to show "selfless compliance" to the Iraqi president's decision.
The final nail in the coffin was Ayatollah Khamenei lending his support to Mr Abadi's appointment on Wednesday.
"I hope the designation of the new prime minister in Iraq will untie the knot and lead to the establishment of a new government and teach a good lesson to those who aim for sedition in Iraq," Ayatollah Khamenei said in a speech to foreign ministry officials and diplomats.
"Maliki won't leave easily," says Mohsen Milani, the Iranian-born director of the Center for Strategic and Diplomatic Studies in Florida.
"But if both Iran and the US support the new government, he has to go."
Mr Maliki said Mr Abadi's nomination was a "violation of the constitution" but for Iran what is important at the moment is to see a unified Shia bloc in Iraq and a new government formed without further delay.
And if Mr Maliki cannot deliver either of these things, then as far as Iran is concerned, his time is up. | Less than two months ago, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spelled out his position on Iraq. |
25,044,780 | Indeed, perpetual arguments about the past are poisoning the present and threatening the future.
The problem is there is no agreement on the solution. There is no single solution. And there is no pain-free solution.
"If we spend our time trying to say: 'Can we find the one thing that will deal with the past?', I don't think we will find that one thing," Professor Brandon Hamber told BBC One's The View programme.
Prof Hamber is originally from South Africa and now works for the University of Ulster's International Conflict and Research Institute.
He spoke to The View as the fall-out continued from the attorney general's suggestion that, perhaps, it is time to halt all investigations and prosecutions of Troubles-related offences since 1998.
Although there has been only a handful of prosecutions since the Good Friday Agreement, John Larkin's comments have caused great controversy, particularly among victims seeking justice, as well as truth.
While Mr Larkin did not use the word amnesty, that could be the practical effect of such a new law.
Prof Hamber said Mr Larkin's comments cannot be ignored, particularly in the context of unresolved cases from the Troubles.
"One does have to consider the challenge that for some victims they are going to die before they get justice," he said. "(That) does need to be talked about. What he is raising needs to be talked about."
Mr Larkin went further than the recommendations from the 2009 Eames-Bradley report on dealing with the past.
Those recommendations were over-shadowed by rows about money for victims, rows about who is really a victim, and the competence of a legacy commission.
That commission would have ended the piece-meal approach to the past, by providing a one-stop alternative to public inquiries.
The body, it was suggested, could probe unsolved cases, get information and still allow for the possibility of justice once the evidence had been gathered.
Five years on, Dennis Bradley who co-authored the report is clearly frustrated. He said if the nettle had been grasped then, Northern Ireland would have been further ahead today.
Mr Bradley said, instead, the past remains as a "cancer" in society and politics.
He pointed to on-going divisions over who was to blame for the Troubles and what the truth actually is about the past.
"It's cancerous because one group of us want the truth and want to know the British government were as bad as the IRA - that they did illegal things," he said.
"And other people want to know that the IRA were real baddies in this and, by the way, the UVF weren't good either. So we fight around those issues and we have fought about those issues constantly.
"Now, if we can get past that. both at an individual and community level, we can then get on with things."
He said the problem is that politicians still want to solve it in a way that suits their constituency.
"You can't do that. You can only solve this if you solve it for everybody," he said.
Mr Bradley expressed deep regret that the Eames-Bradley report was not implemented.
"(We) would have been finished now," he said. "We would have moved towards this famous amnesty we are talking about and people are now beginning to point up."
Patrick Corrigan, of Amnesty International, said truth, justice and acknowledgement to victims were the key to society moving on.
Mr Corrigan said his organisation was opposed to a blanket amnesty on human rights grounds because victims of crime were entitled to access to justice.
"That must be a possibility that is pursued... Anything else would be letting down victims," he said.
However, Mr Corrigan acknowledged the reality that in many, perhaps most cases, the best that could be hoped for is some kind of truth recovery.
Clearly, the need for the truth has trumped the desire for justice before in the peace process.
In the search for the Disappeared, for example, those providing information about where bodies are buried are granted immunity from prosecution.
But even then, there are difficulties facing up to the past.
Sandra Peake, chief executive of victims' group, WAVE, said people did not always want to engage and answer questions about where they buried someone.
"Some people simply don't want to go back there," she said.
Dealing with the past is now in the hands of the US diplomat, Dr Richard Haass.
Ms Peake said a process is needed that is centred on the victim and the survivor.
She suggested Dr Haass not only deal with story-telling and memorials but also re-examine the proposed Eames-Bradley legacy commission.
Most now agree the status quo ad-hoc approach to the past, where details emerge in books and films and media interviews, cannot continue.
Dr Philip McGarry, a consultant psychiatrist who has counselled both victims and perpetrators, said it was not possible to ignore the past, or try to move on without dealing with it.
"There comes a time when the denials, the half-truths and the lies will no longer, in essence, cut the mustard.
"People don't want vengeance but what they do want is a sense of a recognition and acceptance of what happened was clearly wrong."
He warned that unless Northern Ireland faced up to its past in a healthy way, it was destined to continue as a divided society, with violence around the edges and the potential for bad things to happen.
"We can't ignore the past," he said.
"As a human being it's impossible to just draw a line when you have suffered a terrible hurt."
One thing is certain, whether Dr Haass goes for the soft or hard options, there is no pain-free prescription. | The 1998 Good Friday Agreement was Northern Ireland's roadmap out of the Troubles, but it has not provided an escape from the past. |
31,669,807 | Media playback is not supported on this device
Both sides hit the post but it was a game of few clear chances on a testing and uneven surface.
Pavel Pogrebnyak saw his effort strike the woodwork for the visitors while Bradford's Gary Liddle was denied by the frame from a speculative shot.
The replay at Madejski Stadium is scheduled for Monday, 16 March.
Bradford came into the tie having knocked out Premier League Chelsea and Sunderland en route to the last eight and named the same starting line-up that beat the Black Cats 2-0 in the fifth round.
Reading had beaten three Championship sides on their way to the quarter-finals and made two changes from the side that drew 1-1 against Bolton on Tuesday.
In front of a capacity crowd the hosts from League One put in some determined tackles on their Championship opponents as they sought to press in the early stages, although a weak header from James Hanson was their only chance in the opening 15 minutes.
It fell to the Royals to create the first clear opening when Russian striker Pogrebnyak struck a post with a right-footed shot after latching on to Jamie Mackie's cross.
Bradford hit the woodwork themselves when midfielder Liddle's speculative cross almost crept past the stranded Adam Federici.
Bradford had the better of what chances there were in a second half that proved more listless than the first.
Felipe Morais found space moments after the restart but chose to square the ball across goal rather than shoot, while Hanson's side-footed effort flashed agonisingly wide and Andrew Davies headed just over the bar.
Reading almost snatched a late winner when Oliver Norwood floated a free-kick into the box, but a combination of the post and some desperate defending kept the ball from crossing the line with Pogrebnyak loitering.
Bradford City manager Phil Parkinson: "We're still in the hat so we're pleased with that. You've got to give Reading credit - they came and made it difficult. It was a cagey old affair.
"I thought our lads did excellently in a different type of way than against Sunderland. We had to be very professional and wait for the moment to arrive. Unfortunately it didn't. In the second half we had the momentum but we didn't have that touch of class in and around the box.
"We look forward to the replay. Everyone will be expecting Reading to win that one but you never know what can happen on the night. We know they'll approach it differently and look to open up."
Reading manager Steve Clarke speaking to Match Of The Day: "For both teams, today was a proper old-fashioned Cup tie. There were plenty of physical challenges with both sides determined not to go out. We hit the woodwork twice, they hit it once. In the second half, they pinned us back more than we would have liked, but we still looked a threat coming forward.
"This is still a dangerous tie for us as they've knocked two Premier League teams out. It's still 50/50 as I see it. Both sides can keep the dream going and see who they might get in the semi-final when the draw is made on Monday." | Bradford and Reading must meet again for a place in the FA Cup semi-finals after playing out a tense and scrappy goalless draw at Valley Parade. |
15,521,300 | Much of the country is mountainous and prone to earthquakes and eruptions from around 20 active volcanoes. It is often buffeted by typhoons and other storms.
The Philippines - a Spanish colony for more than three centuries and named after a 16th century Spanish king - was taken over by the US in the early 20th century after a protracted rebellion against rule from Madrid.
Spanish and US influences remain strong, especially in terms of language, religion and government. Self-rule in 1935 was followed by full independence in 1946 under a US-style constitution.
The US is a close ally and has provided military aid to help combat Muslim and communist insurgencies.
Population 96.5 million
Area 300,000 sq km (115,831 sq miles)
Major languages Filipino, English (both official)
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 66 years (men), 73 years (women)
Currency Philippine peso
President: Rodrigo Duterte
Incendiary politician Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as the Philippines' 16th president in June 2016.
The former mayor of Davao City won a landslide victory at the polls following his foul-mouthed populist tirades that exposed deep voter anger at the political establishment.
His stunningly successful election campaign focused almost entirely on the scourges of crime, drug abuse and corruption, with voters seemingly undeterred by his pledge to have tens of thousands of offenders killed.
During his 22 years as mayor of Davao City, Mr Duterte denied any involvement in the running of vigilante death squads, which human rights groups say have killed more than 1,000 people since the late 1990s.
His incendiary rhetoric has alarmed many of his critics. In his inauguration speech, Mr Duterte conceded that his methods may appear "unorthodox and verge on the illegal" but the former prosecutor conceded he knew right from wrong and would abide by the rule of law during his six-year term.
Powerful commercial interests control or influence much of the media.
The lively TV scene is dominated by free-to-air networks ABS-CBN and GMA. Some Manila-based networks broadcast in local languages. Cable TV has extensive reach.
Films, comedies and entertainment shows attract the largest audiences.
There are more than 600 radio stations. With around 100 outlets, Manila Broadcasting Company is the largest network.
The private press is vigorous, comprising some 500 newspaper titles. The most popular are Filipino-language tabloids, which can be prone to sensationalism.
1542 - Spanish expedition claims the islands and names them the Philippines after the heir to the Spanish throne. Three centuries of Spanish rule fail to conquer Muslim areas in the south.
1890s - Beginnings of insurrection against Spanish rule.
1898 - During the Spanish-American War, the US navy destroys the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. Spain cedes the Philippines to the US, which proclaims military rule and begins to forcibly incorporate Muslim areas.
1941-1944 - The Philippines are occupied by Japan during the Second World War, but are retaken by the US.
1946 - The islands are granted full independence and renamed the Republic of the Philippines.
1965 - Ferdinand Marcos is elected president; he declares martial law in 1972.
1983 - Anti-Marcos lawyer Benigno Aquino is assassinated at Manila's airport as he returns from exile.
1986 - Marcos ousted in "people power" revolt after claiming victory over Aquino's widow in an election that many believe was stolen.
2001 - President Joseph Estrada is forced out by a military-backed "people power" uprising.
2001 - Troops comb the jungles of south-western Basilan island for Abu Sayyaf Muslim extremists holding 20 hostages, including three Americans. | More than 7,000 islands make up the Philippines, but the bulk of its fast-growing population lives on just 11 of them. |
34,114,828 | Planners have already approved the development at Ballynakelly, near Coalisland.
Mid-Ulster Council's planning committee met on Tuesday evening.
It said it would delay its decision until members visited a similar plant.
Councillors also want to view the site at Ballynakelly.
Several hundred people have written to the Planning Service to oppose it.
The proposal would see a 500KW digester that would take 10,950 tonnes of silage and 1,450 tonnes of slurry a year. It would treat it in sealed units to create gas which would be used to produce power. The residue would be returned to farms for spreading.
Documents submitted as part of the planning process show that there would be around 10 loads a week of material arriving at the facility, which is 100 metres from a housing development of 31 homes and a children's playground.
Callan Renewables Ltd, which is behind the scheme, said the facility would generate enough renewable electricity to power 500 homes.
Locals opposed to the development have sent letters to the planners saying it is "large-scale, commercial and out of character with the surrounding local area".
Callan Renewables Ltd defended the location of the site.
"Despite suggestions that the plant is located within an established residential area, the site is located within an industrial area with the nearest residential property circa 150 metres away," the company said in a statement.
Planners said that as the plan would entail the extension of a farmyard already used for industrial purposes, the proposal would not have a "negative impact on the character of the area".
They also said that as the plant would use methane gas from slurry, which would otherwise be released into the environment, it would be of benefit and in line with current government policy on meeting renewable energy targets.
But DUP peer Lord Morrow said he was "amazed" that planners had approved the proposal.
"It appears that the planners are choosing to ignore the will of the local community, who have voiced their objections totalling well over 500 submissions," he added.
"I cannot recall another application in the South Tyrone area attracting so many objections." | Councillors have deferred a decision on whether to give the go-ahead for a commercial waste digestion and power plant that objectors claim would be too close to homes in a small County Tyrone village. |
33,827,293 | The event, which is open to amateurs and international champions, takes place on 22 August on Windermere.
It is run by the South Cumbria Rivers Trust (SCRT) to raise funds.
Entrants in one of four categories must make a stone skip on the surface of the water at least three times, with the winner making the longest throw.
Entry costs £3 for adults, £1 for a child and £10 for a team of up to four people.
Competitors get three stones, from a selection provided by the organisers, and skims must stay within lanes laid out in the water.
Julius Barratt, of SCRT, said: "We hope to encourage as many people as possible to enter, so that we can raise lots of money for river conservation, so that both local residents and visitors can enjoy the leisure activities and scenic beauty that they provide." | People with a good eye and a deft hand are being invited to sign up for the All England Stone Skimming Championships. |
20,166,315 | They say that two more people were seriously injured at the gathering at the Madrid Arena.
It was not immediately known what caused the crush, but reports suggest the panic began after a flare was thrown in the crowd.
The indoor arena, which can hold up to 10,000 people, was later evacuated.
The three women were trampled to death at about 04:00 local time on Thursday (03:00 GMT), Spanish police say.
Two of the victims were 18 years old, while the third was 25.
A police investigation is currently under way.
"There was a human crush at the only exit they had because the others were sealed off," a partygoer - who gave her name as Sandra - told Spain's Cadena Ser radio station.
A police investigation is currently under way.
UK exchange student David Wilkinson told the BBC that he was near the entrance as the crush was starting.
However, he said he and his friends hadn't realised there had been a tragedy until some hours later.
"I saw one of the entrances was overflowing with people and, with other entrances closed off, something bad was bound to happen," he said.
"People were close to being trampled all night with many falling over multiple times as they struggled to find space to stand.
"There was no police evacuation to deal with the emergency. Some of my friends were still partying oblivious to the events."
The Halloween music party featured a number of well-known DJs.
The stampede recalled a mass panic at the Love Parade music festival in Germany that killed 21 people in 2010. | Three women have died in a stampede at a Halloween party in Madrid, Spanish officials say. |
33,059,066 | The crash caused a gas bottle to explode which set fire to the Serves You Right Cafe in Ravenshoe, south of Cairns, in Queensland state.
Three people are in critical condition and have been airlifted to hospital. The driver is among the injured.
It is not known what caused the vehicle to veer off the road.
Patients were being treated for a "varying degree of burns" said Queensland Ambulance Service Assistant Commissioner Rod Sheather. The fire took an hour to bring under control, he said.
Kate Lewis, who works at a supermarket across from the cafe, described the scene as horrific.
"We just heard a massive sonic boom and went running out and saw the cafe on fire and lots of burned people," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Ravenshoe, a farming town, has a population of about 1,000 people. | Nineteen people have been injured when a pickup truck crashed into a cafe in northern Australia, causing a fire that engulfed the building, police said. |
39,029,902 | Carney, 28, who denied the charge but was found guilty by the Rugby Football League, was also fined £300.
He will miss Salford's trip to Leeds Rhinos on Friday and the visit of Warrington Wolves on Saturday 4 March.
Meanwhile, Rhinos second row Jamie Jones-Buchanan, 35, pleaded guilty to a charge of of Grade A dangerous contact and was fined £300 by the RFL.
Neither player was initially cautioned by match officials during their respective Super League games.
Carney's Salford won 30-20 at Huddersfield, while Jones Buchanan's Leeds beat Leigh 17-14. | Salford Red Devils winger Justin Carney has been banned for two matches for Grade C contact with a match official. |
38,906,322 | Slade dubbed the fans who turned up for Tuesday's EFL Trophy semi-final win over Wycombe as "unbelievable".
"I've not known it that vocal. They were like the 12th man," said Slade.
"It probably cost us a few quid, them coming on the pitch at the end, but it was good to see them so excited."
Slade told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire: "They were enjoying it and why not? I'd have run on too."
City fans have attracted headlines of a less attractive sort this season for various forms of protest against City's owners Sisu, with pitch invasions. again involved.
But their long-running problems on and off the field were put to one side as League One's bottom club won 2-1 to set up a Wembley meeting on 2 April with the winners of the other semi-final between Luton and Oxford.
Whoever wins that semi at Kenilworth Road on 1 March, it means a nostalgic three-decade throwback to the 1980s for the Wembley final.
It now pitches 1987 FA Cup winners Coventry up against either the 1986 (Oxford United) or 1988 (Luton Town) League Cup winners.
But, after 13 League One games without a win, Slade is more concerned with building on that sense of winning spirit to see his side through their next 10 season-defining matches prior to Wembley - and eat into the eight-point gap that currently separates them from safety.
"Our attitude was very good," said Slade. "It's important for us to maintain that going back into the league programme.
"Wycombe kept coming and coming. Our lads have seen just how hard you have to work to get results."
"It's a great feeling," said City midfielder George Thomas, scorer of the Sky Blues' second goal which proved to be the winner once the iconic Adebayo Akinfenwa had reduced Wycombe's arrears in the 55th minute.
"The chance to get to Wembley had the lads excited but a bit nervous. And we didn't want the to let the fans down," Thomas told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire.
"When we saw Akinfenwa coming on, we knew it was going to be a physical second half but our centre-halves dealt with him great. We got there in the end and did the job."
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Most Sky Blues fans were determined to enjoy an all too rare famous night. 30 years after their only two previous visits to Wembley (the 1987 FA Cup final and Charity Shield) Coventry City are finally returning to the national stadium and only a few supporters seem concerned that it's the much-maligned Checkatrade Trophy.
Fans young and old relished a night off from the despair, despondency and anger which have reached new levels this season. The players too, clearly appreciated being on the end of cheers and plaudits, several apparently reluctant to leave the field while fans celebrated.
The realities of the club's problems on and off the field will no doubt kick in again when they line up for a League One relegation six-pointer at Oldham this weekend but for now let Coventry City folk smile for a change. | Coventry City manager Russell Slade has excused excited Sky Blues supporters for running on the pitch after seeing their club reach Wembley for the first time in 30 years. |
39,490,754 | Dann came on as a half-time substitute at Stamford Bridge following an injury to fellow centre-back James Tomkins.
But the 30-year-old had to be withdrawn 15 minutes later after twisting his knee while blocking a Diego Costa shot.
Palace boss Sam Allardyce said the injury was "more serious than we first thought".
"He'll be in a brace for two or three weeks and then we'll go from there," he added.
Allardyce said the injury suffered by Tomkins was "not so bad", but he would not be available for his side's next match.
Palace, who are 16th in the Premier League, four points clear of the relegation zone, travel to Southampton on Wednesday (19:45 BST). | Crystal Palace captain Scott Dann will be out for at least "a few weeks" after suffering a knee ligament injury in Saturday's 2-1 victory at Chelsea. |
38,177,944 | Mr Wilson's comments came in an email to a constituent who had asked if he would wear a red ribbon supporting World AIDS day.
Ms Bradley was speaking on BBC's The View on Thursday.
"I know Sammy, I know him well. I know he's forthright," she said.
"I know he says what he thinks and what he feels. If I'm honest, I would say I was slightly disappointed by that reaction. I believe it wouldn't have been that difficult to wear a red ribbon in support.
"I don't believe that would have been difficult for anyone to do", she added.
Her comments came after the East Antrim MP said there are areas of medicine and diseases which "have not received the same attention as AIDS and which affect far more people".
These diseases were "not always as a result of lifestyle choices", he said, adding they "deserve higher priorities then they have been given at present".
The DUP MP told his constituent that considerable resources had been put into dealing with AIDS "sometimes at the expense of other illnesses which affect people, such as dementia and cancer, and which are not always as a result of their own behaviour".
Mr Wilson said he appreciated his constituent's concerns about AIDS but added: "You will appreciate that there are people who suffer from mental health problems, dementia and cancer which also have a huge impact on their lives and which are equally deserving of resources". | The DUP MLA Paula Bradley has said she is disappointed by comments made by her party colleague Sammy Wilson questioning the emphasis placed on HIV & AIDS over other diseases. |
37,676,928 | The incident happened at about 18:00 on Saturday on Station Road in Selkirk.
The man is described as between 30 and 40 years old with short, dark hair which might have been a wig.
He was wearing a dark coloured dressing gown and outdoor shoes. Police said he might have come from the direction of the town's Muthag Street.
Insp Bryan Burns said: "This indecent and inappropriate behaviour is totally unacceptable and has left the two witnesses understandably distressed.
"We are keen to hear from anyone who may have seen this individual or who has any information that can assist us in identifying him." | A man who may have been wearing a wig has indecently exposed himself in front of a woman and her young granddaughter in the Borders. |
36,416,265 | The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Russian aircraft targeted various positions overnight.
But Russia has denied carrying out operations over the city, Interfax news agency reports.
Idlib city and the province of the same name are a bastion of groups including the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
The Nusra Front is excluded from a partial cessation of hostilities brokered by the US and Russia in February to make way for a resumption of peace talks.
The Syrian Observatory said the attacks hit several residential areas. There were also strikes near a hospital and a public garden, it added, saying that seven children were among the victims.
Pictures showed buildings destroyed and rescue teams working through the night searching for casualties.
Russia is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has carried out an air campaign that it says targets "terrorists".
Meanwhile, the Turkish foreign ministry said the death toll in the strikes was above 60, and that 200 people had been injured.
In a statement, it called on the international community to act against what it called the "indefensible" crimes of the Russian and the Syrian administration.
Turkey has strongly criticised the Russian operations in Syria and opposes the Assad government. | At least 23 people have been killed by air strikes on the rebel-held city of Idlib, in north-western Syria, activists say. |
37,285,576 | Ronnie Coulter, 48, denies killing the 32-year-old on 4 November and trying to conceal the alleged crime. He also denies allegations of theft.
Mr Coulter, from Wishaw, has lodged a special defence of incrimination to the murder charge, blaming two other men.
His trial, before judge Lord Matthews at the High Court in Glasgow, is expected to last about five weeks.
In a brief first day of evidence, the jury was shown a number of maps and images of areas related to the investigation into Mr Chhokar's death.
The court heard from retired Det Sgt Ian Davidson, 52, who was based at Coatbridge police office in 1998 and worked on the inquiry.
Mr Davidson told the court that during the investigation he took a number of statements from witnesses.
He identified Caplaw Tower in Gowkthrapple, Wishaw - the block cited as Mr Chhokar's home address, that has since been demolished.
The jury was also shown a photograph of a car - a Ford Orion - similar to the one driven by Mr Chhokar, parked in Garrion Street, Overtown, where he was stabbed to death.
Mr Davidson said the car in the photograph was part of a reconstruction used by police "to replicate where Mr Chhokar's car was that night".
The charges against Mr Coulter allege that he was acting with two other men - Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery - at the time of the alleged attack.
The murder charge includes allegations that Mr Chhokar was punched and had his arms grabbed to prevent him from defending himself.
He is then said to have been hit with a wooden baton before he was repeatedly struck with a knife and killed.
It is further alleged that Mr Coulter did previously "envince malice and ill-will" towards Mr Chhokar.
Mr Coulter is also accused of attempting to defeat the ends of justice on 4 and 5 November 1998 at waste ground between Overton and Gowkthrapple, all Wishaw.
It is claimed he got another person to hide clothes worn during the alleged murder and destroyed, disposed of or concealed a knife.
Mr Coulter is further accused of attempting to pervert the course of justice with "intent to avoid detection, arrest, prosecution and conviction" between November 1998 and February 1999.
He is also charged with forging the signature of Mr Chhokar to help cash a giro cheque for £100.70 on 4 November 1998.
He is then accused of breaking into Mr Chhokar's home in Gowkthrapple, Wishaw - while acting along with Andrew Coulter - and stealing a cooker.
Mr Coulter, who is represented by Donald Findlay QC, denies all the charges against him.
He has lodged a special defence of incrimination to the murder charge blaming Andrew Coulter and David Montgomery.
He has also lodged a special defence of incrimination against Andrew Coulter in relation to the alleged forging of the giro and theft of a cooker.
The trial before judge Lord Matthews continues. | A man has gone on trial charged with the 1998 murder of Surjit Singh Chhokar in Overtown, North Lanarkshire. |
35,595,209 | The Blades have won just one of their last five games and are now five points outside the play-off places.
"We can only say sorry to the fans, it was a bad performance. I think we are letting them down a bit too much at the moment," Baxter told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"I'm a football fan myself and losing a game ruins your week."
A first-half goal from Craig Jones gave the Shakers, who lost 6-0 at Coventry on Saturday, their first win in four matches.
Baxter said his team could have no excuses for their first league defeat at Gigg Lane since 1952.
"These are the games that we have got to go and win to get up the table where we should be. It's very hurtful to get beat," he added.
"I'm not really sure what was missing, because we started the game well. They say goals change games and it did.
"Once the goal went in we were chasing the game but there's no excuses. It was a poor performance from us." | Sheffield United forward Jose Baxter apologised to the club's supporters after their 1-0 defeat by Bury. |
36,853,932 | Owen Smith - who is challenging for the party leadership - told The Guardian Mr Corbyn had let new PM Theresa May off the hook at Wednesday's session.
But Jeremy Corbyn ally Diane Abbott blamed Labour MPs.
She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme they had "sat on their hands" and sulked instead of getting behind him.
"If Owen Smith wants Jeremy to score over Theresa May in Prime Minister's Questions, he needs to talk to his colleagues," said the shadow health secretary.
"They refuse to cheer, they sit on their hands, they sulk, they chat among themselves, and some of these Labour MPs need to understand, it's not about supporting Jeremy as a person, it's about going into the chamber for Prime Minister's Questions and supporting your party.
"When Theresa May came in she got huge cheers from the Tory benches. When Jeremy came in there was silence."
She added: "If your own side isn't behind you it's really difficult to hit your stride. I thought he did fine but if Owen Smith is worried, first and foremost, talk to Labour MPs and get them to support Jeremy in the chamber."
Mr Smith told The Guardian he was "furious" about Mr Corbyn's "useless" performance at Wednesday's big set-piece event, which saw Mrs May make her debut at Prime Minister's Questions.
"Jeremy is just not up to the job of taking them on at the dispatch box. I don't think he enjoys it; I don't think he's robust enough at arguing Labour's case," he said.
Mr Smith said that instead of putting together a credible government in waiting, Mr Corbyn had made Labour a "laughing stock". | Labour MPs have been accused of deliberately undermining leader Jeremy Corbyn by refusing to cheer him at Prime Minister's Questions. |
33,091,349 | A new social media trend has kicked off in China, with thousands of netizens uploading photographs of themselves showing off their bodies and undertaking the challenge.
Popular among many young female users on Weibo, the trending topic - which translates as "reaching your belly button from behind to show your good figure" - was mentioned more than 130m times among Weibo readers.
It also spawned 104,000 active discussion threads, but has also led to concern about whether it's promoting an unhealthy body image.
"Look! Success. More than four hours and I've finally reached my belly button," said Weibo user GayleRabbit.
Another user remarked: "Whoa. Why does my belly button suddenly look and feel brand new?"
While the trend was dominated by many female users on Weibo, a photo uploaded by a male blogger took the microblogging community by storm.
"Is this trend really that difficult? I don't think so," said Weibo user Sough Sa.
His photo showcasing his attempt at touching his belly button, drew 2,634 likes and was shared more than 8,452 times.
It also drew more than 2,000 comments from other users on Weibo.
"You go Buddha! Show the skinny girls how it's done," said one user.
Weibo user MedicalCream Tang Zhao said: "Now you did it! So don't lose weight and please stay the same."
"I always root for the underdog. Now I don't feel so inadequate about not being able to touch my belly button," said another user.
"Does one need to have flexible arms? Or a skinny waist to pull this off?" asked Weibo user Chantilly623.
But some experts argued that China's new belly button trend bordered on promoting eating disorders and "distorting" society's standards of beauty.
"Quirky poses and pictures can be fun but sometimes they also become expressions of competitiveness or insecurity," said Jolene Tan, Programmes and Communications Senior Manager at Aware, a non-governmental organisation in Singapore championing women's rights.
She also told the BBC that the trend seemed to be "one more way of scrutinising women's bodies to see whether they are 'good enough'".
"We need to do more to promote acceptance of diversity in women's bodies." | Can you touch your belly button by reaching behind your back and around your waist? |
39,507,839 | The full-back, 29, is on the cusp of his 200th appearance for the Falcons, who he joined as an academy player and made his first-grade debut in 2007.
He played his junior rugby for Consett and Barnard Castle school.
"I just wanted to know if Newcastle were keen to keep me because I am happy here and didn't want to go anywhere else," said Tait.
Tait, whose deal at Kingston Park is described as "long-term", has been selected 14 times in the Premiership this season and scored two tries.
"He has turned in extremely consistent performances which are right up there at the top," said director of rugby Dean Richards.
"He is a guy who doesn't shirk away from hard work. We're delighted he has pledged his future to us." | Alex Tait has signed a new contract with Newcastle Falcons, although the length of the deal is undisclosed. |
37,202,045 | His announcement on Friday quadruples in size a monument originally created by President George W Bush in 2006.
The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument will now span 1.5m sq km (582,578 sq miles), more than twice the size of Texas.
The designation bans commercial fishing and any new mining.
The White House says the expansion is helping to protect more than 7,000 species and improves an ecosystem affected by ocean acidification and warming.
A fact sheet previewing the announcement also states that the expanded area is considered a sacred place for Native Hawaiians.
The expansion was welcomed by environmental campaigners.
"By expanding the monument, President Obama has increased protections for one of the most biologically and culturally significant places on the planet," said Joshua Reichert, an executive vice president at the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Greenpeace also hailed what it called a "bold decision" that will ban commercial fishing and mineral extraction in the region.
But some fishing groups have voiced concerns.
"We are disappointed that the president has made a decision to close an area nearly the size of the entire state of Alaska without public process," Sean Martin, the president of the Hawaii Longline Association told the Associated Press news agency.
"This action will forever prohibit American fishermen from accessing those American waters. Quite a legacy indeed," he added.
The oceans are under multiple assault from over-fishing, waste plastics and pollution.
They're also suffering from climate change and ocean acidification - a problem caused by manmade carbon dioxide emissions dissolving into the sea and changing its chemistry.
Scientists say coral reefs are less vulnerable to changes in climate and chemistry if they are protected from other threats - that's what the president is doing by banning commercial fishing and any new mining.
It's part of a fledgling success story in marine conservation. The UK has led the way with protected zones in the Indian ocean, round Pitcairn Island, and round Ascension Island in the Atlantic. Meanwhile, conservation on land is a continuing struggle thanks largely to population growth and the spread of farming.
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The area is also known for its many shipwrecks and downed aircraft from the Battle of Midway, which marked a major shift in World War Two.
President Obama, who was born in Hawaii, will travel to the Midway Atoll next week.
With this announcement, he will have created or expanded 26 national monuments during his time in office.
In 2014, he extended the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument south-west of Hawaii, which now covers 1.2m sq km (490,343 sq miles). | US President Barack Obama has expanded a national monument off Hawaii, creating the world's largest marine reserve, the White House says. |
34,490,520 | The practice has become so common that many women don't even consider it harassment - many consider it a mere annoyance, a necessary evil in the modern cyber quest for love.
Whitney Wolfe, a co-founder of dating app Tinder, says she wants her new company to disrupt the sector, and cut back on the amount of online harassment directed towards women.
She describes her start-up Bumble as a "feminist dating app", where men are typically more polite, because women make the first move.
"In every other facet of a young woman's life we are owning our worlds in a very independent way," Ms Wolfe says from her hip, co-working space in Austin, Texas.
"We work, we create, we support ourselves, and it's encouraged to do so. The only thing that hasn't caught up to that is how we date."
The 26-year-old entrepreneur founded Bumble a year ago. She says the restrictions in the app which block men from driving the conversations are pushing social change.
The word feminism has been co-opted and contorted, she says, but "what it really means is equality between men and women". When women make the first move, she says, men are often flattered and behave much more politely.
In the world of dating apps, Ms Wolfe is famous for co-founding and then being ousted from Tinder, the wildly popular dating tool that first started in 2012.
She then sued her fellow co-founders last year for sexual harassment. Ms Wolfe refused to discuss details of the case with the BBC, but she maintained her "co-founder" status, and she reportedly received about $1m (£650,000) when the lawsuit was settled with no admission of wrong doing.
Maintaining the "founder" title is important. Female founders and chief executives are rare. Fewer than 3% of venture capital-backed companies are run by women, according to a 2014 study by Babson College about bridging the gender gap in entrepreneurship.
"Only a small portion of early-stage investment is going to women entrepreneurs, yet our data suggest that venture capital-funded businesses with women on the executive team perform better on multiple dimensions," the report's author Candida Brush said when it was released.
"The venture capital community, therefore, may be missing good investment opportunities by not investing in women entrepreneurs."
Ms Wolfe says it's important for women to feel empowered in dating as well as in business, where women too often "hesitate" to start their own companies.
"Sometimes there's this hesitation involved with women" when it comes to starting businesses, she says.
"There's this hold back there, and until we break the mould - and there are positive examples set, and it's something that is achievable - I don't think we're going to see much of a change."
Ms Wolfe isn't the only entrepreneur breaking the mould when it comes to dating apps where women call the shots.
Siren is a dating platform made by women and marketed to women users. It allows women to control their visibility, so they can block their profile from other users.
For example, some users only make their profile visible to social media contacts.
How pervasive is harassment online? A Pew Research Centre report in 2013 found that 28% of online daters have been harassed or made to feel uncomfortable.
For women, 42% have experienced negative contact, compared with just 17% of men.
One online dating user, Mandy Tugwell, says she removed her online dating profile from a mainstream dating site after she got naked pictures of men, and was repeatedly asked if she was into sexual fetishes.
"I was like, OK this isn't going to work," she says. "I got really creeped out."
But Ms Tugwell did find a serious relationship on a niche dating site targeted at black women and Asian men.
Ms Wolfe says the crowded field of online dating and social media networking sites isn't intimidating. Tinder is a juggernaut, and there are dozens of other niche sites to choose from, she says.
Finding love and connections is "a huge, huge need" she adds.
"It's part of who we are as human, to date and find people to share time with.
"I don't think we need to compete with anyone. I think we can be a standalone entity that is trying to fill a void.
"It's a unique mission. I'm happy to compete in a field that's crowded." | Women who use online dating websites often complain of receiving unwanted, unsolicited photographs of "crotch shots" from men. |
38,391,507 | The 24-year-old Australian started his career with Brisbane Broncos before joining Manly last season.
Parcell is likely to replace James Segeyaro who returned to his native Australia recently after the 26-year-old said he was homesick.
"I'm really excited about the style of football they want to play," Parcell told BBC Radio Leeds.
"I think what they're looking to do at Leeds will really suit me.
"Coming over to England has always been something that I've wanted to do but this has come about sooner than I expected."
He added: "I can understand after what's happened that fans might be worried I won't stick around, but I really think that this is going to suit me and I am excited about the prospect of living on the other side of the world.
"I don't think homesickness is going to be an issue." | Leeds Rhinos have signed Manly Sea Eagles hooker Matt Parcell on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee. |
37,997,713 | The jobless rate fell to 4.8% in the same period, while the number of people in work went up by 49,000, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Average weekly earnings grew by 2.3% in the year to October including bonuses and by 2.4% excluding bonuses.
The Bank of England has forecast that unemployment is set to rise amid uncertainty over Brexit.
However, the ONS said the latest figures brought the unemployment rate to its lowest level since the three months to September 2005.
The total number of people in jobs remained at a record high of 31.8 million, the figures showed.
ONS statistician David Freeman said: "Unemployment is at its lowest for more than 10 years and the employment rate remains at a record high. Nonetheless, there are signs that the labour market might be cooling, with employment growth slowing."
Analysts also noted that the pace of jobs growth was slowing and attributed this to the effects of the UK's vote to leave the EU.
"The Leave vote is starting to sap the jobs recovery of its previous strength," said Ruth Gregory, UK economist at Capital Economics.
"Employment growth slowed sharply - with the 49,000 rise in the three months to September down from August's 106,000 and well below the consensus forecast of 91,000."
The British Chambers of Commerce said Brexit was "dampening firms' recruitment intentions" and that this would put "increased pressure on UK employment levels".
"These subdued labour market and economic conditions are also expected to keep a lid on wage growth over the next year, despite higher than expected levels of inflation," said BCC head of economics Suren Thiru.
The BCC called on Chancellor Philip Hammond to include measures in his Autumn Statement next week that would "support firms looking to recruit and invest in their workforce, including measures to boost investment and lower upfront business costs".
The number of self-employed people increased by 213,000 to 4.79 million - 15.1% of all people in work.
Meanwhile, the number of people claiming unemployment benefits in October increased by 9,800, the biggest rise since May, the ONS said.
The employment figures are based on the Labour Force Survey, in which the ONS speaks to about 40,000 households once every three months.
That is a very large survey, but it still means the figures are not precise.
The ONS is 95% confident that the figure of a 37,000 fall in unemployment is accurate give or take 79,000. That means that the fall in unemployment is not statistically significant. | UK unemployment fell by 37,000 to 1.6 million in the three months to September, hitting an 11-year low. |
35,103,478 | Graham Jenkins, who lived in Cwmafan, Port Talbot, died in his sleep aged 88 after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease a number of years ago.
He was the youngest of the 13 children born to Burton's mother, Edith Jenkins. She died soon after he was born.
Mr Jenkins is survived by his wife Hilary, 86, and two sons Richard and Alun.
His funeral will be held at Margam Crematorium on Thursday.
Mr Jenkins's niece Sian Owen said: "We've had comments whether the crematorium will be big enough for the funeral.
"He was brilliant, kind hearted, a real gent."
Burton's daughter, Kate, is among those who will attend the funeral.
After the death of his mother, Mr Jenkins was brought up by one of his brothers, while Richard, who was the 12th-born child, was raised by his sister.
Mr Jenkins had worked as a market inspector in Port Talbot, manager of Afan Lido, and latterly as a sports organiser for the BBC in London.
He had also lived in Guernsey before moving back to south Wales.
On a local website, Mr Jenkins recalled competing against his famous brother in the Eisteddfod: "Rich won, even though I was told I had the sweeter voice, however Rich had the stage presence.
"I cried over this and Rich kindly shared his winnings with me. "
He also wrote that he acted as a stage double for Burton, adding, "at one time I had to kiss Elizabeth Taylor".
Burton, who was famously married twice to film star Taylor, died in 1984. | The last surviving brother of the late Hollywood actor Richard Burton has died, his family has confirmed. |
39,820,182 | It has lasted longer than some forecast.
Enda Kenny became Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) in a Fine Gael-led government, that included independents in the cabinet.
The main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, agreed to support the government for three budgets and in confidence motions.
Critics said this much derided "new politics" would not last 12 months, but it has - though it has come at price.
Compared to previous Dáils (Irish parliaments), very little legislation has passed - 18 bills in the last year, and six so far this year.
While previous governments dominated the legislature, this one is a prisoner of it and, as a result, bulls tend to get teased out a lot more.
This government tends to lose a lot more parliamentary votes too.
It is also the case that many decisions are pushed down the road partly because of the perception that a general election could happen unexpectedly.
That is partly the reason that Enda Kenny is now on his "long goodbye" as Fine Gael leader and taoiseach.
After a poor performance in his handling of allegations relating to the Garda whistleblower affair in February, his party feared there could have been an election even though he had said he wouldn't lead them into the next one.
That prompted Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney, the favourites to succeed Mr Kenny, to hint gently that it was time to go but that they would give him the space to do so.
After the formal beginning of the Brexit negotiations, the end of Enda as leader seems nigh.
While in Canada, meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mr Kenny appeared peeved to be asked yet again about his intentions.
Whoever succeeds him will do so at a time of great uncertainty, and not just because of Brexit and what it will mean for Ireland, north and south, politically and economically.
"No politics" in Northern Ireland and "new politics" in the Republic may not seem the ideal scenario to deal with the complexity that Brexit will bring.
There are also decisions to be taken about that most vexing of issues - public sector pay after years of austerity.
It is an issue that so often in the past has brought the state almost to the point of penury.
While Fine Gael may well get a poll bounce with a new leader, the same polls show that if a general election were held tomorrow the result would not be very different from the last one, with no party in any way close to an overall majority.
As of now "new politics" seems here to stay. | A year ago a new Irish government was formed following an inconclusive general election and many weeks of negotiation. |
40,043,401 | Wuilly Arteaga has become a regular fixture at the country's street demonstrations, calmly playing classical tunes amid the chaos.
But on Wednesday evening, a video went viral, showing him in tears with a scuffed violin, its strings all broken, allegedly by police.
His growing fanbase has offered to raise funds for a new instrument.
Mr Arteaga thanked his supporters with a video message on Twitter: "Even though I lost my phone in the protests, I have been receiving lots of messages via social networks."
He said he has not been involved in any of the fundraising activities, and has not accepted any donations, but he will start replying to people on Thursday.
Earlier, the musician told local reporters his account of how the violin was broken.
"I was playing in the middle of the protest when the National Guards' motorcyclists came up and grabbed the violin by its strings," he said.
He said he refused to let go and fell down, hurting his leg, which is when it was pulled from his arms.
When he asked for it back, a member of the forces gave him the damaged instrument and Mr Arteaga said he hugged him.
Mr Arteaga often dresses in full yellow, blue and red colours of the Venezuelan flag, and has become a symbol of the more peaceful approach to protesting, although he is often found playing in the front line.
Venezuela has seen almost daily anti-government protests since April and at least 55 people have been killed in protest-related violence.
The country's deepening economic and political crisis has led to triple-digit inflation, a high crime rate and clashes between protesters and security forces. | Venezuelans have rallied online to help a violist who had his instrument broken during a protest. |
34,216,117 | "I'd be lying if I said that I knew I was there," Mr Biden said on Thursday.
Supporters have encouraged Mr Biden to run as fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton's poll numbers have declined.
However, he has questioned whether he has "emotional energy" to run after the death of his son Beau in May.
"Nobody has a right, in my view, to seek that office unless they're willing to give it 110% of who they are. And I am, as I said, I'm optimistic, I'm positive about where we're going," Mr Biden told Mr Colbert. "But I find myself - you understand it - sometimes it just overwhelms you."
Mr Biden, 72, failed in his bids for the White House in 1988 and 2008 before becoming Barack Obama's running mate.
Representatives for Mr Biden said the vice-president would make a final decision by October.
Some had speculated that Mr Biden would use the high-profile appearance on Mr Colbert's new show as a way to launch his campaign.
Instead, the interview with Mr Colbert focused on how Mr Biden is coping with the loss of his son Beau, who died of brain cancer aged 46 at the end of May.
Choking up at times, Mr Biden talked about his son and his last days.
"'Dad, I know how much you love me. Promise me you're going to be all right'," Mr Biden recalled his son telling him. | In an emotional interview with talk show host Stephen Colbert, US Vice-President Joe Biden has said he has still not decided whether he will run for president. |
31,495,367 | Ian Loak, from Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, threatened a 22-year-old man who had been making fun of him.
Northampton Crown Court heard Loak had been "very drunk" when he made the threat. He later began to hit a wooden fence with the Gurkha machete.
Loak pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon.
He was sentenced to 12 months in jail, suspended for two years.
Northamptonshire Police had received reports of a man standing in a street with a weapon at 19:20 BST on 21 July.
Police were called to the scene and arrested Loak. They found a knife in his pocket and a search of his home uncovered the machete.
At various times in the case the prosecution referred to the weapon as a "machete" and a "Gurkha Kukri" knife.
The prosecution said Loak had a number of previous convictions for violent offences, the last of which dated back to 1998.
The court heard he had been convicted of a "very serious offence" in 1987, which earned him the nickname of "the Axe Man".
Judge Lynn Tayton asked if the prosecution had any more details of this offence, but was told they did not.
The court heard Loak had suffered a stroke which had "changed his personality".
Judge Tayton told Loak: "If you do anything like this again and despite your age, despite your ill health you will go to prison."
She also ordered Loak to keep to a curfew between 07:00 and 19:00 for the next six months. | A 70-year-old known locally as "the Axe Man" has been given a suspended prison sentence after threatening to stab someone with a machete. |
31,586,890 | For young Jews, the violent anti-Semitism comes as a shock, and a reminder of the Holocaust 70 years ago.
Here are the views of five young people across Europe, including one who knew Dan Uzan, the 37-year-old man shot dead while guarding Copenhagen's synagogue on 15 February.
It feels weird at the moment - on the one hand I feel very safe, on the other I don't. I've known this would happen for a long time, so it didn't come as a surprise. We've asked for more security from the government several times.
I used to say "Hi" to Dan when I saw him at the synagogue. One of my best friends was Dan's pallbearer - he stands outside as well and it could have been him.
I went to the synagogue for a memorial to Dan and I was afraid. I have an American boyfriend and I think I want to emigrate. I'm not sure I feel safe enough to raise children here.
It means a lot to see my countrymen rallying around us, especially at the memorial. But all the racism scares me. You see so much abuse towards Muslims: why wouldn't they say it to Jews?
If you know enough about Jewish history, then you know it's not safe to be a Jew in Europe right now.
You can see it slowly coming. It was the same before the Second World War - the anti-Semitism just grows and grows.
I can feel it coming. I don't want to die in Auschwitz.
It's no easy task being a French Jew at the moment. We're always being asked whether there is a future for Jews here. I think there is.
I'm not living in fear but when I go to a kosher supermarket, I can't stop myself thinking it is a target.
Anti-Semitism has risen every year - and the French people realise more and more that it has grown. The president supported us and said that France would not be France without the Jews. I couldn't agree more.
Some Jews want to leave to Israel and I'm okay with that. But I won't move to Israel because of fear. I think if someone needs to leave France, it's not the Jews - it's the haters.
Being a Jew in Eastern Europe is different from elsewhere: I always have to make a good impression because I am the only Jew that most people know.
When I go out, I can't wear my kippah (skullcap) or a Star of David t-shirt. When I wear those, I feel that I am not a member of Hungarian society.
I believe in change and that in my lifetime we will change people's thinking. I don't want to be afraid to be a Hungarian Jew. I don't want to go and live in Israel, I want to stay and live here.
However, Hungary's second biggest political party, Jobbik, is anti-Semitic and a very big problem. There was a similar situation before the Second World War. We have to do something. I don't want to believe it will be the same.
I think being a young Jew in London hasn't changed visibly after these attacks. I've always felt safe and part of a thriving intellectual community. Receiving the news about the attacks is shocking, upsetting and scary but doesn't change this.
I have thought about being attacked, and so have my friends in the community. But these attacks are rare. Until we see evidence that it could happen here, I don't want to spread the panic.
My dad and his family left Iraq in the 1970s to seek refuge from terrible persecution, and that's exactly what they've found. These attacks have caused fear and panic, but we still feel safe in Britain.
It's pretty scary to be a Dutch Jew at the moment.
My niece and nephew go to the same Jewish elementary school as I did - there are now soldiers standing outside with guns.
Whenever I'm with my Jewish friends, we talk about security and threats; a few years ago we would never do that. I'm not saying people should be afraid because stopping living your life is how the terrorists win.
I don't see a clear way of stopping these attacks - I can't say if we do this or that then in 10 years it will all be fine. So I think my children will be scared as well.
But I still feel safe to be Jewish here; I don't think people should leave Europe for Israel. I feel much more Dutch and European than Israeli. This is my home.
Life for German Jews hasn't changed, but being a Jew in Germany already makes my everyday life very different.
The attacks were scary but I went to a Jewish high school and synagogue. There have been police in front of them for a long time.
I am a full part of German society. Most of my friends aren't Jewish, but still it is impossible to wear a kippah outside.
I do think twice before I tell somebody that I am Jewish - I know that sometimes you have to keep it to yourself.
I experience anti-Semitism - words like "dirty Jew".
Once I was out with my school and singing to commemorate victims of the Holocaust. Students from another school started throwing coins and then attacked us.
It's only happened a few times and people often step in. The government helps by speaking out a lot.
There is also a new type of anti-Semitism, mostly informed by people's views of Israel, even though most Jews are not necessarily Israeli. A lot of this comes from Muslim immigrants.
I believe we can co-exist but radicalism is challenging this. Even if an attack happened here, it would still take a lot for me to leave. I feel at home here. | Europe's Jewish communities have had to boost their security after four Jewish men were murdered at a kosher supermarket in Paris and a fifth man was shot dead outside a Copenhagen synagogue. |
37,457,983 | The ex-director of civil rights group Liberty, who Labour recently nominated for a peerage, accused MPs of failing to see it is "time for change".
The outcome of the Labour leadership election between Mr Corbyn and Owen Smith will be announced on Saturday.
The winner will be unveiled at the party's annual conference in Liverpool.
Speaking to BBC's Newsnight, Baroness Chakrabarti hit back at the 172 Labour MPs who helped to trigger the leadership challenge against Mr Corbyn when they supported a no confidence motion following the EU referendum.
The Labour peer said she did "not approve" of a 67-year-old man "being mugged in broad daylight, in cold blood, by people who don't see that it is time for a change".
She added: "I think it's going to be incredibly important that the Labour Party unites behind whoever wins.
"I hope and believe it will be Jeremy Corbyn."
Mr Corbyn is hot favourite to see off the challenge from rival Mr Smith, prompting speculation about what former cabinet ministers who resigned following the Brexit vote will do if he does win.
Lisa Nandy, the former shadow energy and climate change secretary, indicated she would only return to the Labour frontbench if Mr's Corbyn leadership team changed their ways.
She told Newsnight: "I resigned from the shadow cabinet not because of policy differences but because of a fundamental disagreement with a sort of approach that says that this is a battle, this is a war, and it must be won and dissenting voices must be silenced."
A political party or shadow cabinet "simply cannot survive if you refuse to hear dissenting voices and work as a team to try and resolve differences," she added.
"Then it is not a shadow cabinet. It is quite simply just a fan club," she said.
Meanwhile, Lord Hain, the former Labour cabinet minister who knew Mr Corbyn as a "junior" anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1970s, says the party is facing the gravest crisis in its history.
"We are facing the biggest crisis that the party has faced, even compared with the Ramsay MacDonald defection 80 years ago and the crisis that followed the 1979 defeat and the breakaway by SDP and the defection of significant numbers of Labour members and leaders.
"This is more serious."
He added: "The hard left around Jeremy have never had control of the party before, they have never had control of the leadership and they have never had control of the organisation.
"If they get that then they will have achieved what they want to achieve, which is control of the party rather than winning the country." | Labour MPs who have sought to depose Jeremy Corbyn are guilty of mugging a decent man "in cold blood", Baroness Chakrabarti has told the BBC. |
26,583,314 | At their spring conference in Dartford, party chairman Robin Tilbrook suggested England should vote for independence.
The country's desire for more conservative government was being thwarted, he said.
In April Mr Tilbrook said that up to one in 10 party members had converted from the British National Party.
Mr Tilbrook founded the English National Party in 1998 and the party - which was renamed in 2002 - achieved its first major success in 2009 when Peter Davies won the Doncaster mayoral election.
But Mr Davies subsequently quit the party over the BNP influx.
The party campaigns for EU exit and the establishment of an English parliament.
Mr Tilbrook criticised the previous Labour government's devolution policy, which he said had "seriously undermined the English sense of identity".
"Elections to the Scottish Parliament showed that the Scots had shifted their allegiance from Labour to the SNP, but they still want the English to be governed by the Labour Party," he said.
"They vote to place Labour politicians, who they don't particularly want at home, in Westminster.
"The English, who have voted Conservative more often than Labour in all post-war elections have to accept a block vote of Labour members of parliament sent to Westminster by the Scots.
"Should we not vote for our independence given that we risk being governed from a country that already regulates its own affairs and has no clear commitment to ours?"
Ahead of the conference Mr Tilbrook told the BBC that the party was composed of social democrats trying to be the "voice for English nationalism".
There was a "good chance" that the party would pick up seats at the European Parliament in May's elections, he said.
He also warned: "We are moving towards what's probably the break-up of the UK.
"This year we've got the Scottish referendum on independence and one of the things that has delighted us is we've had the president of the EU Commission tell us that if Scotland decides to go then that means they're out of the EU.
"So if England decides to go, equally we're out of the EU."
The party was optimistic about the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament, he continued.
"People are feeling much more strongly about being English. If we double our vote there's a good chance we're going to start winning MEP seats." | Democracy in England is being undermined by a "block vote of Labour MPs sent to Westminster by the Scots", the English Democrats have said. |
40,840,070 | Jim McInally's side, who lost in the play-offs last season, came from behind to win 2-1 at Galabank.
Stenhousemuir, who also dropped down, lost 3-2 at home to Stirling Albion.
Montrose won 3-1 away to Edinburgh City, Berwick Rangers dumped Clyde by the same score and Elgin City and Cowdenbeath drew 1-1.
Peterhead made it three wins in succession thanks to two goals in the last five minutes.
Defender Peter Watson headed Annan into the lead just before the half-hour mark as the home side sought their first win of the season under new manager Peter Murphy.
But former Falkirk captain McCracken shot Peterhead level and Jamie Stevenson, the one-time Mallorca midfielder, fired home the winner in stoppage time.
Stirling also came from behind to secure a third straight victory, with 18-year-old on-loan Hearts midfielder Callum Morrison playing a prominent role.
Midfielder Harrison Paton shot Stenhousemuir into a 21st-minute lead, but former Stenny forward Darren Smith replied just over 10 minutes later after being set up by Liam Caddis.
Mark McGuigan headed the hosts back in front soon after with his second goal since arriving from Stranraer, Ross Meechan the provider.
Morrison fired Stirling's second equaliser nine minutes after half-time before setting up forward Ross Kavanagh's winner eight minutes from the end as the Warriors were left still seeking a first win of the season.
Montrose appear to have recovered from three opening League Cup hammerings - conceding 14 goals in the process - as they secured a second win in a row.
Two strikes within two minutes put them in control at Ainslie Park, where Edinburgh are groundsharing with Spartans as Meadowbank Stadium is being redeveloped.
Evergreen striker Chris Templeman fired the first after 28 minutes and Connor McLaren, the forward signed from Stirling, added the second.
Defender Iain Campbell put the game beyond the Citizens with a free-kick shortly after the break.
Edinburgh were reduced to 10 men when defender Shaun Harrison was shown a second yellow card with nine minutes left.
The 10 men managed to pull one back two minutes later through on-loan Hibs forward Lewis Allan, but City remain on the hunt for their first win of the season.
Clyde, now with Jim Chapman in charge, are hoping to avoid another play-off to avoid dropping out of the Scottish Professional Football League, but the former Annan boss was left disappointed as two-goal Andrew Irving and Aaron Murrell combined to inspire Berwick to a first win of the season.
The Bully Wee made a positive start, with former Scotland striker David Goodwillie firing them into the lead from 35 yards after 23 minutes.
Irving, the 17-year-old on-loan Hearts midfielder, levelled on the stroke of half-time, set up by Murrell.
Murrell, the 19-year-old striker signed from Dundee United, edged the Wee Rangers in front with seven minutes remaining and then set up Irving for the third with a minute to play.
Elgin avoided a fifth straight defeat thanks to Matthew Cooper's equaliser against Cowdenbeath, but Jim Weir's side have now gone 17 games without a victory.
Defender David Syme headed his third goal of the season for the Blue Brazil, who avoided relegation last season after a penalty shoot-out win over East Kilbride, since arriving from Raith Rovers.
That came after 11 minutes and, although defender Cooper replied just a quarter of an hour later, there were to be no more goals as the visitors ended a run of three straight defeats. | David McCracken's second goal since arriving from Falkirk helped relegated Peterhead get their League Two campaign off to a flyer against Annan Athletic. |
39,485,807 | She met Jerry Brown for talks in Sacramento during a five-day visit to the United States.
They discussed how the two administrations could work together to achieve the ambitions set out in the Under2 memorandum of understanding between subnational governments.
This aims to cut CO2 emissions.
Mr Brown has criticised President Trump for his executive order overturning many climate change policies introduced by President Obama.
Ms Sturgeon and Mr Brown also discussed the importance of offshore wind in tackling climate change and considered how the two governments could share knowledge and best practice in developing this technology.
The Scottish government committed to pressing ahead with plans to both set and deliver ambitious domestic measures to reduce carbon emissions and provide leadership and example in the spirit of the MoU and the historic Paris Agreement.
Following the meeting, the first minister said: "Scotland is making huge progress in delivering our climate change ambitions, but we are not complacent and there is still much to achieve.
"Today's meeting strengthened our relationship with the government of California and I'm confident we can work together to achieve the targets set out by the Under2 MoU.
"We have also offered to help the Under2 Coalition, representing over one billion people, to prepare for a major summit in 2018 which will bring together the public and private sectors, alongside NGOs, to build support and action aimed at persuading national governments to increase their efforts to tackle climate change, in what will be an important year for taking stock against progress of the Paris Agreement."
WWF's US senior vice president of climate change and energy, Lou Leonard, said: "It is good to see climate action high on the agenda of Scotland's first minister on her trip to the United States. This is a strong reminder that climate change is a priority for our allies around the world.
"Over the years, California and Scotland have inspired the world by setting bold targets and investing in a clean economy. Now both governments are looking to collectively up their game. To successfully address the climate challenge, it is essential that the leading players work together to do even more."
On Tuesday Ms Sturgeon will be giving a speech at Stanford University on Scotland's place in the world.
The Scottish Conservatives have questioned Ms Sturgeon's priorities, saying she should "get back to the day job". | First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has signed a joint agreement with the governor of California committing them to work together on climate change. |
36,204,805 | Polling stations opened their doors at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00.
Votes are being cast in elections at Southampton and Portsmouth city councils, eight other district councils as well as for Hampshire's PCC.
Across England elections are taking place for more than 120 councils, and to elect 36 PCCs. | Voting has begun in police and crime commissioner (PCC) and local council elections in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. |
40,401,471 | It is facing billions of dollars in liabilities over its defective airbags, which have been linked to at least 17 deaths worldwide.
Some of the airbags contained faulty inflators which expanded with too much force, spraying metal shrapnel.
US-based Key Safety Systems (KSS) has bought all of Takata's assets, apart from those relating to the airbags.
The $1.6bn (£1.3bn) deal was announced after the Japanese firm filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, with similar action taken in Japan.
"Although Takata has been impacted by the global airbag recall, the underlying strength of its skilled employee base, geographic reach, and exceptional steering wheels, seat belts and other safety products have not diminished," said KSS chief executive Jason Luo.
More than 100 million cars with Takata airbags, including around 70 million vehicles in the US, have been recalled since concerns first emerged in 2007. It is the biggest safety recall in automotive history.
The faulty airbags are believed to have been manufactured between 2000 and 2008 in Takata's US factory.
The first explosion happened to a Honda Accord in 2004 in Alabama, injuring the driver. But both Takata and Honda said it was "an anomaly" and didn't disclose the danger of exploding airbags for years.
It was a decade later in 2014 when the New York Times reported about its alleged cover-up which led to legal action against Takata. The firm finally accepted the full responsibilities the following year.
The company's chairman and CEO Shigehisa Takada - who's the grandson of the founder - has been criticised repeatedly for mishandling the crisis.
In a press conference on Monday, he apologised and promised to resign after a new management team takes over.
But there are still many unknowns.
The cause of the malfunctions has not yet been identified, and despite the size of the the recall, Takata admits it is not clear how many of the airbags are still in vehicles on the roads.
In January, Takata agreed to pay $1bn (£784m) in penalties in the US for concealing dangerous defects, and pleaded guilty to a single criminal charge.
The firm paid a $25m fine, $125m to people injured by the airbags as well as $850m to carmakers that used them.
But it is facing further legal action in the US and liabilities of 1 trillion yen ($9bn) - including to 10 carmakers who used its airbags.
Three of them - Honda, Nissan and Toyota - who have been paying recall costs until now, told the BBC that while they would continue negotiating, they were not hopeful of getting the money back.
Trading in Takata shares has been suspended on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and the firm will be delisted late next month.
Small businesses that may be affected by Takata's bankruptcy will get support including loan guarantees says Japanese trade minister Hiroshige Seko. | Japanese car parts maker Takata has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US and Japan. |
34,864,863 | Footage from Queensland Police shows a speeding car erratically crossing lanes on two major Gold Coast roads.
After several minutes the car stops due to a flat tyre, and a man emerges holding a large knife and a dog.
The man appears to threaten a motorist with the knife before running off the motorway in Thursday's incident.
Still clutching the dog, the man rushes into a residential area near Gold Coast Airport and enters a house.
Police said they confronted the man and he surrendered to them without incident.
A 24-year-old man was charged with a number of offences over the incident, including attempted robbery, dangerous driving and entering a dwelling with intent.
Local media named the man as Kayne Selfe and said he had been remanded in custody after a court appearance.
Police said the dog was found safe and well. | Australian police have released footage of a man who allegedly threatened a motorist with a knife while carrying a dog. |
35,998,648 | Politicians out at campaigning events across Scotland took the chance to talk about their policies to create and protect jobs in Scotland.
Willie Rennie underlined his commitment to vocational training during a visit to Gorgie City Farm in Edinburgh.
Meeting volunteers while cleaning out a pig sty at the farm, Mr Rennie said his party would increase opportunities to gain industry-recognised vocational qualifications.
He said: "We know that formal education is not for everyone and we need to do more to ensure that everyone has the chance to learn in the way that works best for them.
"This is not only about increasing the number of apprenticeships we deliver in Scotland, but also working with industry to boost the range of approved qualifications available to young people, and others who want to gain new skills."
Nicola Sturgeon said the creation of jobs in Scotland was "vital to all of our other ambitions".
While visiting a salvage business in Drumchapel, the SNP leader said high and growing employment and well paid jobs would support the economy, which in turn would support public services.
She said her party would continue to put "great emphasis" on the economy, especially through the small business bonus which makes it easier for firms to take on more workers and create employment.
Ms Sturgeon also visited the former Tata steel plant in Dalzell to see it handed over to new owners Liberty House.
Labour's Jackie Baillie visited a voluntary centre which helps young people develop skills for work while campaigning in Bathgate.
Party public services and wealth creation spokeswoman Ms Baillie said Labour would set out an anti-austerity pledge to raise £3bn more than the SNP would.
She said this would partly come from tax increases and partly from Holyrood's borrowing powers.
The money would be used to invest in education and training, including programmes to create a skilled workforce.
Ruth Davidson urged the creation of "regeneration zones" during a visit to the Inchinnan business park in Renfrew.
The Scottish Conservative leader outlined plans for business rates relief, access to superfast broadband and other benefits.
She said this idea would boost employment and support new businesses.
Ms Davidson also firmly backed Prime Minister David Cameron, saying he had answered "every question" about his tax affairs.
Alison Johnstone visited a sports centre in Edinburgh while campaigning for better investment in sport.
The Green candidate for Edinburgh Central said she wanted to see cuts to the sports budget reversed, saying this could stop the NHS "bearing the brunt" of people growing unfit.
On jobs, Ms Johnstone called for 4,000 more teachers in schools as part of an investment in education, along with 200,000 new jobs in sustainable industries like renewables, forestry and biomass.
She said another Green priority was to ensure those working in the care sector are paid a living wage. | Scotland's party leaders addressed the issue of employment while out on the Holyrood campaign trail. |
33,905,737 | It has reported increases in emergency ambulance call-outs, A&E admissions, emergency admissions, diagnostic tests and treatments.
However, the NHS is failing to meet some key targets, including those for cancer treatment, ambulance response times and A&E waiting times.
NHS England acknowledged the increases were part of a continuing trend.
"The long-term trend is one of greater volumes of both urgent and emergency care and elective activity," it said.
It is the first time NHS England has published its data from a wide range of services on the same day.
The snapshot provided by "super-Thursday" shows that in the year up to June 2015:
However, two out of the eight targets for cancer treatment were missed.
They included only 81% of patients starting treatment within 62 days of being referred by GPs, when the target is 85% of patients.
That target has not been met since the last three months of 2013 and is now the worst since records began in 2009.
Emma Greenwood, the head of policy at Cancer Research UK said: "Today's figures yet again show thousands of cancer patients are being failed.
"England's cancer survival already lags behind comparable countries and will only get worse if the target continues to be breached.
"This cannot be allowed to continue."
Three NHS standards for ambulance waiting times were also missed.
The pressures on A&E do appear to be easing slightly with 94.8% of patients being dealt with within four hours.
The 95% expectation was missed for the whole of winter and dropped below 90%, but throughput in A&E departments is now close to the target.
And there was also a big increase - of more than 12% - in what are known as delayed transfers of care (moving patients out of hospitals and back into their own homes).
Anna Bradley, the chairwoman of the patient group Healthwatch England, said: "Yet again, the number of people being kept in hospital when deemed fit to leave has increased.
"What is frustrating is that we know that in some places services work really well across boundaries and patients are discharged safely with the care and support they need.
"With a few basic changes to discharge planning, this good practice could be replicated across all services."
Meanwhile, the GP National Recruitment Office figures show that one in five GP training places are currently unfilled.
Dr Chaand Nagpaul, from the British Medical Association, said: "With medical graduates turning their backs on general practice, there is no sign that the government will be able to fulfil its pledge to recruit 5,000 GPs and open all surgeries seven days a week.
"Whatever the rhetoric, on the ground these plans are completely undeliverable." | The demand for hospital services is soaring, according to official data from NHS England. |
38,220,980 | The incident happened at about 16:10 on Monday on Abercromby Place at its junction with Dundas Street.
A 73-year-old man was attempting to cross the road when he was struck by a silver-coloured saloon car, which then failed to stop.
It was last seen heading east along Abercromby Place. Police are appealing for witnesses.
The man sustained serious injuries and he was transported by ambulance to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh where he remains in a stable condition.
Sgt Iain Blain, of Police Scotland, said: "We are pursuing every line of inquiry in relation to this incident and we're eager to trace the driver of this vehicle.
"I urge anyone who can help identify this person to contact police immediately.
"Similarly, if you were in the area of Abercromby Place on Monday afternoon and saw the silver coloured saloon vehicle then please get in touch." | A pensioner is in hospital with serious injuries following a hit-and-run as he crossed an Edinburgh road. |
38,754,477 | An estimated 200,000 Welsh children live in poverty and are more likely to experience poor health, according to the report.
Dr Mair Parry, RCPCH Officer for Wales, said if robust action was not taken a "whole generation" would be failed.
The Welsh Government said it would consider the report's recommendations.
Poverty is classed as those living with a household income of less than 60% of the median (middle) figure.
Children from the most deprived fifth of the population are 70% more likely to die in childhood than those living in the most affluent parts of Wales, the report claimed.
Children's Commissioner for Wales, Prof Sally Holland, said reducing poverty rates was the "most important task" facing the Welsh Government.
The RCPCH report recommends several improvements to improve children's health and reduce child deaths.
These include measuring children for obesity throughout their childhood and stopping takeaways opening near schools and swimming pools.
Dr Parry said the growing gap between rich and poor was risking children's health and the recent scrapping of the target to end child poverty by 2020 by the Welsh Government should "worry us all".
She added: "We must show real leadership to prevent illness from the very start of life and promote good health and well-being across the whole of society.
"If we don't, we will fail a whole generation in Wales."
The report recommends extending the Welsh Government's Flying Start project to allow all children living in poverty the chance to access support.
In 2014-15, 37,260 children were involved in the project, which offers part-time childcare for under-fours.
While the number of children getting help from the Flying Start programme has increased, most are "still not receiving support".
Children living in poverty are at increased risk of poor health due to a range of issues, including mothers smoking during pregnancy, a poor diet and being more likely to drink, use drugs and smoke, the report stated.
Flying Start manager for Ceredigion, Rhian Rees, said getting the "right messages" across to families was the biggest challenge.
She said: "If we want to close the gaps between the children who are in our most deprived areas and not in our most deprived areas, we have to make sure that important messages are conveyed and that sometimes takes a bit more time and resources."
Plaid Cymru AM Rhun ap Iorwerth described the poverty rate in Wales as "disturbing".
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Our programme for government, Taking Wales Forward, includes our Healthy Child Wales programme.
"The programme will ensure that inequalities linked to poor child health are further reduced by ensuring that we deliver a universal service to all children in Wales, with additional support provided in response to identified need." | Poverty is the biggest threat to children's health in Wales, a report by the Royal College of Paediatrics has claimed. |
24,060,801 | The 28-year-old will serve an immediate three-game ban, while seven matches are suspended until the end of the season.
The player must also pay a fine of £7,500.
Black was accused of gambling on 160 matches over a seven-year period, including betting against his own team on three occasions.
The SFA has a blanket ban on footballers betting on any matches.
Rangers Football Club notes today's verdict by the Judicial Panel which has imposed a 10-match ban and £7,500 fine
The penalty applies to charges of "betting on three football matches on then-registered club not to win" and "betting on a further 10 football matches that involved then-registered club".
A third charge of "betting on a further 147 football matches" resulted in a censure.
It is the first time a player in Scotland has been punished for breaking gambling regulations.
Black played for Inverness CT, Hearts and Rangers in the period concerned.
The midfielder, capped once for Scotland, will miss games against Arbroath, Queen of the South and Forfar and will be free to return for the League One meeting with Stenhousemuir on 28 September.
The suspended penalty will only be triggered if the player commits a further breach of disciplinary rules 22 or 23, which apply to betting.
Fraser Wishart, chief executive of the players' union PFA Scotland, said he did not have an opinion on the punishment handed to Black, but insisted it presented an opportunity for all stakeholders in the Scottish game to review and bolster the rules regarding players gambling on football matches.
"If there is any good outcome from this, then I think it's raised the spectre of this regulation," said Wishart.
What it does do, it gives us the opportunity to have an open, frank and adult conversation about the current regulations
"We, as a union, have been talking to players for the last two or three years during our normal club visits about the rules on betting, so at least it's opened it up and it's in the public domain.
"What it does do, it gives us the opportunity to have an open, frank and adult conversation about the current regulations.
"I'm not taking any view on it, but I think it's an adult conversation, let's be open - let's grasp the nettle and see whether we can come up with something that's appropriate for the game."
In a statement, the Ibrox club said: "Rangers Football Club notes today's verdict by the Judicial Panel which has imposed a 10-match ban and £7,500 fine on Ian Black.
"Three of the matches will be served immediately - meaning the player would miss games against Arbroath, Queen of the South and Forfar - and a further seven games will be suspended until the end of the 2013/14 season.
"Black would be free to return to action against Stenhousemuir on Saturday, September 28, 2013." | Rangers midfielder Ian Black has been given a 10-match ban after admitting to a breach of Scottish FA regulations on football betting. |
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