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The strikes hit an IS training camp in Sabratha, around 70km west of Tripoli.
US officials said it was "likely" that the strikes had killed senior Tunisian extremist, Noureddine Chouchane.
Chouchane has been linked to two attacks that took place in Tunisia last year, including an attack that killed 30 Britons.
The IS group has been active in Libya for over a year, and the US estimates it has up to 6,000 fighters there.
Libya remains in chaos more than four years after the overthrow of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, and is being fought over by a number of groups, including the self-styled IS.
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The BBC understands that British bases were involved in the attack but that no British assets, such as warplanes, were involved.
The mayor of Sabratha put the death toll at 41, and said the majority of those killed were Tunisians.
US Defence Secretary Ash Carter last week said the US would continue to target militants in Libya.
"We always keep open the option to do things unilaterally," he told the BBC.
In November, a US strike in Derna reportedly killed Iraqi IS commander Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, who was said to be the group's leader in Libya.
The US has launched several unilateral raids and operations in the country since it helped oust Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
The pre-dawn raid by US warplanes is the most significant military operation undertaken by the US in Libya this year. However, it is unlikely to have a major impact on the operations of so-called Islamic State.
The raid took place near the Tunisian border, far to the west of IS's centre of gravity which is in Sirte, in the centre of Libya's Mediterranean coastline.
There, and in other locations, IS is believed to have amassed up to 6,000 fighters, with more recruits streaming in each week from both Syria and sub-Saharan Africa.
Yet Washington will be looking to use the air strike as a deterrent, hoping to send a message to IS jihadists that even if it takes months to track down suspects it will eventually find them.
Talk of greater Western military involvement on the ground has been scaled back though, as Libya continues to struggle to find a national unity government that can overcome its profound security challenges.
Noureddine Chouchane is also believed to have been behind the attack on the Bardo Museum in Tunis last year, which left 19 people dead.
The gunmen in both the Sousse and Bardo attacks are believed to have trained in Libya, which shares a border with Tunisia. | US warplanes have carried out attacks on militants from the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Libya, killing at least 38 people. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35613085"} | 641 | 32 | 0.441705 | 1.04617 | 0.106442 | 1.777778 | 19.888889 | 0.740741 |
Ireland posted 104-6 from their 20 overs, a total China never did not threaten to overtake.
Captain Isobel Joyce hit an unbeaten 41 off 36 balls, while her China counterpart Huang Zhuo was her team's top scorer with an unbeaten 39.
Ireland play their final Group B against Zimbabwe on Tuesday.
A win would see the Irish avoiding tournament favourites Bangladesh in the semi-finals, with Scotland the likely semi-final opponents.
Zimbabwe beat the Netherlands by two runs on Sunday to maintain their 100% record.
In Group A, Bangladesh beat Scotland by eight wickets and Papua New Guinea secured a seven-wicket victory over the hosts Thailand. | Ireland made it two wins from two by beating China by 28 runs at the ICC Women's World Twenty20 qualifying tournament in Bangkok. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34957469"} | 147 | 29 | 0.622941 | 1.386974 | -0.028803 | 0.52 | 5.2 | 0.52 |
Former Temple University employee Andrea Constand alleges the 79-year-old entertainer drugged and molested her.
The trial is tentatively set to begin on 5 June next year near Mr Cosby's home.
At least 50 women have accused Mr Cosby of sexual assault, and prosecutors want 13 of them to testify.
The former star of The Cosby Show faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
A lawyer for Mr Cosby welcomed the trial date, saying: "The time has come to shine a spotlight on the trampling of Mr Cosby's civil rights."
Once fondly known as America's Dad, Mr Cosby was the first African-American to host a primetime television programme.
Although many women have accused him of rape, he is only facing charges in this one case due to statutes of limitations.
Thirteen of his accusers may be allowed by the judge to take the stand because the state of Pennsylvania allows witnesses to give evidence of past acts that might display a "common scheme, plan, or design".
Prosecuting lawyers say these women could demonstrate Mr Cosby shows a pattern of behaviour that is consistent with Ms Constand's accusations.
In 2004 Ms Constand was 31 when she visited Mr Cosby's home seeking career advice after befriending him through Temple University, where he served on the board of trustees.
She said Mr Cosby gave her three blue pills which made her legs feel "like jelly" and that he then began to touch her inappropriately.
"I told him, 'I can't talk, Mr Cosby.' I started to panic," she said in a criminal complaint in December last year.
Mr Cosby has maintained all of his sexual encounters with women were consensual, and that Ms Constand never asked him to stop.
In 2006 Mr Cosby settled with Ms Constand after providing an undisclosed cash sum to her.
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The driver of the BMW was arrested after the vehicle hit the terrace of the cafe in Sept-Sorts, near La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, French media say.
An interior ministry spokesman told the BBC the driver was 32 and French.
While his actions are said to have been deliberate, the incident is not being treated as a terror attack.
He had, the spokesman said, tried to kill himself a few days ago. It appears he had no previous criminal record.
According to RTL radio, he told police had weapons in the car.
First reports gave the age of the dead girl as eight but later she was said to have been 13.
Her little brother is among those injured, police sources told AFP news agency.
The incident in Sept-Sorts, a small village 55km (34 miles) east of Paris, happened around 20:30 (18:30 GMT).
"Half of the car entered the restaurant and knocked down all the customers and staff in its way," a soldier was quoted as saying by Le Parisien newspaper.
France and a number of other countries have seen deadly vehicle attacks on civilians, notably in the French city of Nice on Bastille Day 2016 when 84 people were killed.
Last week, a man rammed a group of soldiers in Paris, injuring six of them, before being shot and injured by police as he tried to escape. | A car has crashed into a pizzeria in a village east of the French capital Paris, killing a girl and injuring 12 other people, four of them seriously. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40930898"} | 310 | 39 | 0.498533 | 1.202226 | -0.093378 | 0.967742 | 8.903226 | 0.709677 |
They issued separate appeals in the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) newspaper, as France remains in shock from the murder of a priest by Islamist extremists last week.
The 41 prominent Muslims and Mr Valls said a French Muslim foundation set up in 2005 must be relaunched.
Mr Valls's stance drew some criticism.
Two politicians in the right-wing opposition party The Republicans - Eric Ciotti and Christian Estrosi - accused Mr Valls of hypocrisy for failing to prevent the opening of a Saudi-funded mosque in Nice.
Mr Valls was booed at a commemoration in Nice on 18 July for the 84 people killed by a lorry which ploughed into a holiday crowd on the city's beachfront promenade. The Tunisian driver is believed to have been inspired by so-called Islamic State (IS).
There is widespread concern in Europe about the influence of Saudi Arabia's ultra-conservative Wahhabi version of Islam.
In his appeal in JDD (in French), Mr Valls said the French state must avoid "any paternalism" towards Islam, but "there is an urgent need to help Islam in France to rid itself of those who are undermining it from the inside".
"To do that, we have a duty to build a real pact with Islam in France, and give the foundation a central role."
He did not give details of what the foundation's role would be or how it would interact with mosques.
Mr Valls, a Socialist, warned that "if Islam doesn't help the Republic to fight those who challenge public freedoms, it will get harder for the Republic to guarantee this freedom of worship".
Separately, 41 prominent French Muslims issued a joint statement in JDD saying "we must speak up now because Islam has become a public issue and the current situation is intolerable".
The signatories included former ministerial advisers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, scientists and academics.
They deplored the spate of attacks by jihadists in France, including those in Paris last year, the Nice attack and the murder of an elderly priest in a church in a Rouen suburb.
"We Muslims were silent before because we understood that in France religion is a private matter," they said - a reference to the French state's strict secular policy.
"A Foundation for Islam in France was set up more than 10 years ago and now it is time to reactivate it," they said. "It has never worked properly... but now it should be empowered to collect donations."
They called for "a cultural battle against radical Islamism among the youth". It should include transparent funding of mosques, proper training and salaries for imams and theological work, they said.
In 2004 the French government said the country's imams must all learn French and widen their education because, it argued, a majority of them were from outside France.
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On Sunday two men were arrested over the murder of Father Jacques Hamel, 86, during a church service.
Farid K, 30, a cousin of attacker Abdel Malik Petitjean, was arrested on suspicion of "terrorist association".
The other man, Jean-Philippe Steven J, 20, was put under formal investigation for allegedly attempting to travel to Syria in June with Petitjean.
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Nash, 86, and his 82-year-old wife Alicia were killed when their taxi crashed in New Jersey, they said.
The mathematician is renowned for his work in game theory, winning the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1994.
His breakthroughs in maths - and his struggles with schizophrenia - were the focus of the 2001 film.
Russell Crowe, who played him, tweeted: "Stunned... My heart goes out to John & Alicia & family. An amazing partnership. Beautiful minds, beautiful hearts."
The film's director, Ron Howard, also tweeted his tribute to the "brilliant" John Nash and his "remarkable" wife.
Alicia Nash helped care for her husband, and the two later became prominent mental health advocates.
The two were thrown from their vehicle, police said. Media reports said the couple may not have been wearing seatbelts when they crashed.
Their taxi driver, and a passenger in another car, were also injured.
Born in Bluefield, West Virginia, Nash first studied in Pittsburgh before moving to Princeton.
His recommendation letter contained just one line: "This man is a genius."
Nash married Alicia Larde in 1957, after publishing some of his breakthrough works in game theory, which is the mathematical study of decision-making.
But he developed severe schizophrenia soon after, and Alicia had him committed for psychiatric care several times. The couple divorced in 1962.
"I was disturbed in this way for a very long period of time, like 25 years," Nash said in an interview on the Nobel website.
The two stayed close, and his condition had begun to improve by the 1980s. They remarried in 2001.
The President of Princeton, Christopher Eisgruber, said he was "stunned and saddened" to hear of their deaths.
"John's remarkable achievements inspired generations of mathematicians, economists and scientists who were influenced by his brilliant, groundbreaking work in game theory," he said.
Even this week, Nash received the Abel Prize, another top honour in the field of mathematics.
Great new mathematical ideas have a balance to strike - they must be precise enough to allow detailed conclusions to be drawn, and yet sufficiently loose that they can be useful in a wide range of problems.
The Nash Equilibrium, for which he won a Nobel Prize, is just such an idea. It offered something truly new - the ability to analyse situations of conflict and co-operation and produce predictions about how people will behave.
Nash's famous equilibrium has grown to be perhaps the most important idea in economic analysis and has found application in fields as diverse as computing, evolutionary biology and artificial intelligence.
More recently it has been used in studies of corruption and also name-checked amidst the Greek financial crisis.
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Sales in the division rose 2.3% - well above expectations for about 0.5%.
The figures came on a bumper day for retail results, with trading updates from Tesco, John Lewis, Debenhams and Primark owner ABF.
Marks and Spencer's chief executive, Steve Rowe, said "better ranges, better availability and better prices" had helped sales to recover.
But growth was helped by the timing of Christmas this year, which meant there were extra shopping days.
Food sales were up by 0.6%. That compares with Tesco's food sales growth of 1.3%, while Sainsbury's food sales were down slightly.
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M&S estimated that the timing of Christmas had added about 1.5% to the clothing and home sales growth and about 0.3% to food.
But Mr Rowe warned timing would be against them for the next trading update: "As we look forward, our Q4 [fourth quarter] reported numbers will be adversely affected by sale timing and a later Easter."
Marks & Spencer has turned out to be this year's surprise Christmas package.
In a festive season where most of our big retailers did better than expected, M&S stood out, finally shrugging off its clothing sales hoodoo.
Clothing sales have been in decline - and often sharp decline - for the last five years, with the exception of one positive quarter two years ago.
Over Christmas, however, like-for-like sales were up 2.3%, although the company was quick to point out that 1.5% of that was down to how Christmas fell, which meant there were five extra trading days compared to the relevant period a year earlier.
Even so, a 0.8% increase is not to be sneezed at, and is evidence perhaps that the back-to-basics reforms of chief executive Steve Rowe, which include hundreds of job losses at head office and the closure of most of the international stores, is having some effect.
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Analysts broadly welcomed the latest results. Bryan Roberts, global insight director at TCC Global, told the BBC: "It might be the sign of some green shoots in that part of the business."
The improved performance comes after a poor set of figures for Christmas 2015. Then, like-for-like sales in food rose 0.5%, while turnover from its clothing and homeware lines plunged by 5.8% because of "unseasonal conditions and availability".
On the same day as those figures were announced, M&S said that chief executive Marc Bolland was stepping down and Steve Rowe - then the director of general merchandise division - would replace him.
Mr Rowe has taken action, including cutting prices for nearly a third of the ranges and increasing staff numbers on the shop floors.
In September, Mr Rowe said more than 500 senior jobs would be cut, and, two months later, announced plans in November to close around 30 UK stores and convert 45 more into food-only shops.
The retailer also announced plans to close some of its overseas stores.
Among the key trading updates on Thursday, the John Lewis Partnership said like-for-like sales at its department stores had risen 2.7% over Christmas, while its Waitrose supermarket chain chalked up a 2.8% gain.
However, it warned that its staff bonus would be "significantly lower" this year because of the "challenging market outlook", adding that trading profit was "under pressure".
John Lewis staff are partners in the company and own the business. Last year, the bonus pool for its 91.500 staff totalled £145m, with an average payout of £1,585.
Supermarket giant Tesco reported a rise in Christmas sales, helped by strong demand for fresh food.
Christmas like-for-like sales grew 0.7% in the UK, and were up by 0.3% across the group as a whole.
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Prof Bob Steele has been appointed chairman of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC).
The UK NSC advises Ministers and the health service in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Prof Steele said he was "honoured" to take up his new role.
The professor is one of the UK's leading authorities on cancer screening, which can detect the disease in its earliest stages.
His main interest is in colorectal cancer.
Prof Steele, who is head of cancer research at the university's school of medicine, said: "Screening is a vital component in our resources to tackle disease, and it is essential that it is employed responsibly by the NHS." | A Dundee University professor has been chosen to lead the national committee advising the Scottish and UK governments and NHS on medical screening policy. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36684322"} | 148 | 29 | 0.639152 | 1.403787 | 0.562279 | 0.76 | 5.4 | 0.68 |
The Bastion Memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, bears the names of all 453 UK personnel who died in Afghanistan.
He told their family and friends during the service of dedication that it would be a "place of pilgrimage" for them.
Some 3,500 people, including Prime Minister David Cameron, attended.
Military representatives, military charities and organisations, the UK's Nato allies and other senior politicians were also present.
A one-minute silence was observed during the service in memory of those lost.
The memorial, which replicates the design of the original memorial wall in Camp Bastion, was blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury at a commemoration service at St Paul's Cathedral in March.
Harry said it "reflected the spirit of the old one"
The prince laid a wreath of poppies, with the message: "The fathers, sons, daughters, brothers and sister named on this memorial, will forever be in our thoughts and prayers, as are those who miss them so dearly."
The sun glinted from the cross made of shell-casings that sits atop the memorial wall that once stood at the heart of Camp Bastion.
It is engraved with the names of the 453 British servicemen and women who died between 2001 and 2014.
Before laying a wreath, Prince Harry - himself a veteran of that war - spoke with feeling of the pain of loss, saying that each person who had lost a loved one would feel a different emotion: "grief, sorrow, loss, anger, or regret for that left unsaid."
For Jacqui Thompson, the widow of Senior Aircraftsman Gary Thompson, the oldest serviceman to be killed, the loss is still raw.
She visited the National Memorial Arboretum when the wall was being rebuilt here, and a locket she wore in Gary's memory is now embedded within it; a small comfort for the widow and five daughters that he left behind.
Rifleman William Aldridge was the youngest serviceman to die. He turned 18 just months before he was killed by a Taliban bomb in 2009.
Today, for the first time, his mother Lucy saw her son's name on the memorial.
The war itself may be over, but for the families who've lost their loved ones, the pain goes on, although here at the memorial wall, their names and their sacrifice will live on.
Harry said: "As we sit here amongst friends, we can take comfort in the knowledge that they gave their lives doing a job they loved, for a country they loved, and amongst mates who loved them dearly."
He added: "Once this ceremony is ended and all the trappings of the day have been cleared away, this will become a place of pilgrimage, a quiet space for remembrance just as it was in Camp Bastion, all those miles away."
Harry leaves the Army this month after a 10-year career, having action in Afghanistan twice - most recently in 2012, when he served as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner.
See the full list of those who died in Afghanistan here.
The foundations of the memorial incorporates material from the original wall, with the brass plaques from the original memorial brought back from Afghanistan to be encased within the new granite structure.
It also features a cross made of shell casings from the original structure, Afghan pebble chippings and the last union flag to fly over the memorial at Camp Bastion.
140,000
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£21.5bn
Total operational cost
453 UK troops killed
108 died in 2009 - the worst year
470 mentors staying on
UK forces were part of a US-led coalition which invaded Afghanistan and toppled the ruling Taliban in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks in the US.
At the peak of the 13-year campaign the UK military had 9,500 troops and 137 bases in Helmand Province.
The UK ended its operations in Afghanistan in October, while Nato finished its mission in December. | Prince Harry said those who lost their lives during the Afghanistan conflict will be "forever in our hearts" as he unveiled a memorial to their sacrifice. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33085826"} | 870 | 34 | 0.494258 | 1.251557 | 0.024021 | 1.37931 | 26.793103 | 0.896552 |
More than 45 firefighters were needed to contain the blaze, in Hillmans Fancy on Friday night, and prevent it from spreading to six oil tankers.
Firefighters initially used unmanned external jets to tackle the fire.
There are no reports of any injuries and the cause of the fire is being investigated.
Fire crews from Coleraine were supported by others from Portrush, Portstewart, Ballymoney and Kilrea during the operation. | A major fire has been put out at a car repair workshop next to an oil depot in Coleraine, County Londonderry. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34626097"} | 96 | 29 | 0.639744 | 1.192788 | -0.920634 | 0.304348 | 3.434783 | 0.304348 |
Welsh international Owain Fon Williams and his Inverness Caledonian Thistle team-mate Ali Sutherland have personal connections to children's units.
After falling seriously ill as a boy, Fon Williams spent three months in a Welsh children's unit and later Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool.
Sutherland's girlfriend Dawn Cowie was an inpatient at Raigmore's unit.
She is now a fundraising assistant with Archie Highland, a charity that supports sick children and their families across the north of Scotland.
Fon Williams, who has already got a head start on his team-mate in the facial hair growing stakes, and Sutherland are taking part in the charity's Beards for Bairns challenge.
The goalkeeper and striker will not shave for more than a month from Christmas Day until Burns Night on 25 January. | Two footballers are giving up shaving for a month to show support for Raigmore Hospital's children's unit. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38220260"} | 198 | 27 | 0.584535 | 1.415023 | -0.474345 | 1.05 | 7.65 | 0.65 |
Phillip Harkins, 33, is alleged to have killed 22-year-old Joshua Hayes during a failed robbery in Florida in 1999.
He returned to Scotland after being released on bail in 2002 and was jailed the following year for killing a woman in a road crash in Greenock.
Harkins fought extradition attempts and his final appeal to the European Court of Human Rights has been turned down.
The 33-year-old allegedly shot Mr Hayes with an assault rifle during an attempted robbery in Jacksonville, Florida.
He denies any involvement, and campaigners on his behalf say there is no physical evidence linking him to the crime, and the case rests on testimony provided by a co-accused as part of a plea agreement.
Harkins returned to Scotland after being released on bail in 2002 and was involved in a car crash in his native Greenock, which claimed the life of 62-year-old Jean O'Neill.
He was jailed for five years at the High Court in Edinburgh in 2003 after he admitted causing death by dangerous driving.
While in custody, Harkins was transferred to Wandsworth Prison in London, while proceedings got under way to extradite him to the US.
After losing a succession of attempts to block his extradition, Harkins took his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
The case focused on Harkins' complaint that if he was extradited, he was at risk of the death penalty or a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.
In its unanimous ruling, the European Court said that "diplomatic assurances" from the United States that the death penalty would not be sought in Harkins' case "were clear and sufficient to remove any risk" that he could be sentenced to death if extradited.
The court also ruled that it would not be "grossly disproportionate" for Harkins to be given a mandatory life sentence.
It said that he had been over 18 years of age at the time of his alleged crime and had not been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder.
The seven judges also found that the killing of Mr Hayes had been part of an attempted armed robbery and said this was "an aggravating factor".
The court also noted that Harkins had not yet been convicted and, even if he were, keeping him in prison might continue to be justified throughout his lifetime.
The judges said that even if that were the case, the Governor of Florida and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency could decide to reduce any sentence.
In a separate development, the European Court also turned down an appeal against extradition to the US from British national Joshua Edwards.
He is accused of having intentionally shot two people, killing one of them and injuring the other, who had allegedly made fun of his appearance.
As in the Harkins case, the European Court ruled that there would be no violation of Edwards' human rights if he was extradited to face trial. | A Scottish man who is wanted for murder in the United States has lost a nine-year legal battle to avoid extradition. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "16596596"} | 650 | 27 | 0.442334 | 1.154552 | -0.334242 | 0.875 | 23.5 | 0.625 |
It says a new contract-based law will replace the "kafala" system, ensuring greater flexibility and protection.
Human rights groups say the change leaves the system - which they describe as modern-day slavery - intact.
Qatar has imported hundreds of thousands of construction workers for the 2022 football World Cup.
Rights groups say many of them have died because of appalling working conditions.
Qatar says a new law is coming into effect on Tuesday.
"These new legislative changes, combined with ongoing enforcement and a commitment to systemic reform, not just in Qatar but also in countries of origin, will ensure workers' rights are respected across the entire labour pathway," the government said in a statement.
But Amnesty International says the measure will not lead to significant changes.
"This new law may get rid of the word 'sponsorship' but it leaves the same basic system intact," Amnesty's James Lynch said.
Rights groups say that migrant workers will still need employer's consent to return home.
Earlier this year, Amnesty accused Qatar of using forced labour to prepare for the 2022 World Cup.
Qatar said it was "concerned" by the allegations and would investigate. | Qatar is ending its labour sponsorship system that forces foreign workers to seek their employer's permission to change jobs or leave the country. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38298393"} | 261 | 27 | 0.646527 | 1.382081 | 0.411808 | 0.64 | 9.4 | 0.56 |
Maxine Smith, leader of the SNP group on the local authority, said the charge paid by tourists worked well in other parts of Europe and the US.
She told BBC Radio Scotland it could be a few years before such taxation was introduced.
A tourist tax has previously been suggested for Edinburgh.
The SNP group, when it led Highland Council's administration, proposed that visitors staying in hotels, guest houses and bed and breakfasts could be asked for a contribution towards roads maintenance and waste services.
Ms Smith told BBC Radio Scotland the extra charge would not discourage tourists coming to Scotland.
She said: "If you look at what has happened in Europe and the States it doesn't put people off at all.
"In fact, when they know they are going to get better facilities and better attractions they are all for it."
A spokesperson for the Scottish government said: "The Scottish government has no plans for a bed tax or tourism levy." | A senior councillor at Highland Council has suggested a tax on hotel rooms would raise millions of pounds to improve facilities and attractions. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35482243"} | 197 | 27 | 0.671574 | 1.589906 | 0.419344 | 0.833333 | 8 | 0.666667 |
He was speaking hours after the US and Arab allies launched their first air strikes against IS in Syria.
Activists say at least 70 IS militants and 50 other al-Qaeda-linked fighters were killed in the strikes.
US state department spokeswoman Jan Psaki said the US had warned Syria in advance "not to engage US aircraft".
But she added that Washington had not requested permission or given advance notice of the timing of the attacks.
President Obama confirmed that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Bahrain and Qatar had taken part in or supported the strikes.
He said the US was "proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these nations".
The Pentagon said warplanes, drones and Tomahawk cruise missiles were used in the strikes.
IS has seized large areas of Syria and Iraq, and the US has launched nearly 200 air strikes in Iraq since August.
But Monday's strikes expanded the anti-IS campaign across the border into Syria for the first time.
The strikes targeted the group's main headquarters in its stronghold of Raqqa, north-eastern Syria, as well as training compounds, vehicles and storage facilities in several other areas.
They were organised in three separate waves with US fighter jets carrying out the first set, and Arab nations participating in the second and third, Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant General Bill Mayville told reporters.
Later on Tuesday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said the US would not "allow geography or borders" to prevent action against IS militants.
"We will hold them responsible for their grotesque atrocities," he said at the United Nations in New York, flanked by Iraq's president and foreign minister.
President Obama said al-Qaeda-linked militants, known as the Khorasan Group, were also targeted with air strikes in Syria.
US officials say the group had been plotting "imminent attacks" against the West, and had established a safe haven west of Aleppo.
As well as informing Syria's government of the impending strikes, the US reportedly told Iranian officials attacks were imminent, Reuters reports.
In other reaction:
The Pentagon set out three broad groups of targets arranged in an arc across northern Syria.
Those closest to the Mediterranean coast seem to have been hit largely by Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from warships - this is an area where Syrian government air defences may still have coverage.
In a briefing Lt Gen William Mayville noted that Syrian air defences were "passive", as he put it, during the course of the operation.
This suggests a conscious decision by Syrian commanders who perhaps feared that active scanning by their defences might draw down air attacks upon them.
The operation was notable for involving aircraft from Jordan and from Washington's Gulf allies. It also marked the first use in combat of one of the USAF's most modern aircraft, the F-22 Raptor.
This, the Pentagon is stressing, is just the start of "a sustained air campaign", the tempo of which, says a Pentagon spokesman, "will be dictated by facts on the ground".
US pundits question Syria air strikes
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, quoted by state media, said he supports any international efforts to combat "terrorism" in Syria.
Analysts say it is significant that countries with a Sunni majority, like Jordan and Saudi Arabia, are among those supporting US efforts against IS.
IS members are jihadists who adhere to an extreme interpretation of Sunni Islam and consider themselves the only true believers.
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Newcastle host Liverpool on Sunday with Klopp's side having won seven of their last eight games in all competitions.
A win at St James' Park for Liverpool will also take them six points off top flight leaders Leicester.
"They are title contenders, in terms of the form they are in and the way they are going," said McClaren.
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Klopp took over from Brendan Rodgers in early October and Liverpool drew his first three games in charge.
But the German has improved his side's fortunes, suffering just one defeat, which came against Crystal Palace, and leading Liverpool to the semi-finals of the League Cup.
"Everyone comes into a club in different situations," said McClaren, whose side are second-from-bottom of the Premier League.
"I don't think anyone would dispute what Brendan had done. He had brought in some very talented players, and you have seen that Jurgen has taken that on."
McClaren spent a spell in Germany as manager of Wolfsburg and twice lost out in games against a Borussia Dortmund side managed by Klopp.
"What Dortmund had, I can see that in the Liverpool team," added McClaren. "It's coming and they demonstrated on Wednesday [in beating Southampton 6-1] what they are capable of doing.
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The 14-time major winner, who first moved into the top 100 in 1996 and then spent a cumulative record 683 weeks as world number one, has dropped to 104.
The 39-year-old American has not played since withdrawing from the Farmers Insurance Open on 6 February.
Woods has said he is "hopeful" of a return for the first major of the year, the Masters, starting on 9 April.
After withdrawing from February's event at Torrey Pines with back problems, Woods announced he would be taking an indefinite break from the sport, describing his performances this year as "unacceptable for tournament play".
Woods, who carded an 82 at the Phoenix Open in January - his worst round as a professional - added that he won't return until he can "compete at the highest level".
The last time Woods was outside the top 100 in the world was in September 1996 when he was ranked equal 221 and on his climb to the top.
The following week, he jumped to 75th by winning the Las Vegas Invitational as a 20-year-old for the first of his 79 PGA Tour victories.
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Her unlikely draft law has a simple aim, she says - to protect unborn children everywhere.
Which is why it wants all "emissions outside of a woman's vagina, or created outside of a health or medical facility" to carry a $100 (£81) fine.
If a man made such an emission it would "be considered an act against an unborn child".
If it sounds like something out of a dystopian novel, that is because it is meant to.
Jessica Farrar, a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, submitted House Bill number 4260 last week. She knows it will never become law. Indeed, it is unlikely to make it far at all.
But she argues it is no more extreme than the restrictions put on women by the state of Texas when it comes to choosing whether or not to end their pregnancy.
The last straw for her came with the most recent in a string of proposed bills, which she saw as chipping away at women's rights.
The latest wanted to force women to choose whether to bury or cremate the embryonic remains of either a miscarriage or abortion.
During a hearing for the bill last August, state Senator Don Huffines said: "For far too long, Texas has allowed the most innocent among us to be thrown out with the daily waste."
Ms Farrar decided to put a different spin on this belief.
"It got me thinking, maybe what's good for the goose is good for the gander," Ms Farrar told the BBC. "If we are taking these measures because of the sanctity of life, well, we just cannot waste any seed."
But her critics were not impressed. "Plain stupid," said one on Twitter, saying that only a fertilised embryo needs protecting, and asking if she would also use the law on menstruating women.
"Life begins at conception," Mr Huffines had said.
Texas has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the US - even though the Supreme Court overturned a 2014 ban on drug-induced abortions after seven weeks last year.
The restrictions mean clinics providing abortions are few and far between. According to the Texas Tribune, there were 19 abortion clinics in June 2016, the vast majority of them concentrated in urban areas.
It has left 95% of counties within Texas's expansive borders without a clinic. In the 885km (550 miles) between San Antonio and El Paso - the same distance as between Penzance and Edinburgh - there are no abortion clinics.
Ms Farrar also speaks angrily of women forced to sit and listen to a lecture on the moral implications of abortion, and look at images of foetuses when they seek terminations. They also undergo an intrusive vaginal ultrasound to hear the baby's heartbeat, and receive warnings of abortion being linked to breast cancer, even though this claim has been disproved.
"It is clear this is about manipulation," said Ms Farrar, whose bill suggests a male equivalent for each step, including a "digital rectal exam".
"As if every woman has not thought about this [abortion]. The fact is, only she knows what has happened in her life," she said.
Texas-based group New Wave Feminists insists it wants to support women, but believes a foetus has rights too.
"Many would say that the foetus is actually the most vulnerable member of the human family and yet, because it is smaller, weaker, and can't tell us to stop, we've decided it's okay to dispose of it however we see fit," the organisation says.
Texan women are not alone in facing an increase in legislation over abortion.
Anti-abortion activists and their supporters have become emboldened as Donald Trump's White House shifts away from the pro-choice stance of the Obama years.
A slew of new restrictions has been proposed by lawmakers across the country. Among them, one which would force women in Oklahoma to get permission from their sexual partner to allow them to have an abortion.
The man who proposed that bill, which passed its first reading in February, described a pregnant woman as a "host" for her unborn child. The idea is something Ms Farrar fears in her own state.
"We are dealing with more measures being proposed which would treat the woman as an incubator," said the Houston native, who was first elected to the Texas House in 1994.
Already, the right to life of an unborn child overrules a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order in Texas for women who are pregnant.
A DNR order would normally mean medical staff do not attempt to bring a patient back to life if they stop breathing or their heart stops, because of the damage already done to the patient.
Now, new proposed legislation would force women to carry an unviable foetus to term if it is discovered after 20 weeks, while another could even prevent a doctor telling a family of their baby's condition if he feels they may choose an abortion.
Elizabeth Graham, director of anti-abortion organisation, Texas Right to Life, defends preserving the life of the foetus.
"Current provisions singling out disabled preborn children for death are not only embarrassing for the state but morally unconscionable."
Ms Farrar argues that more pressing issues need to be addressed, like the fact Texas has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced "significant" pay rises for the top players.
We are proudly creating the first group of full-time women's professional cricketers
England's women won back-to-back Ashes series against Australia in 2013-14.
Captain Charlotte Edwards took to Twitter to react to the news, writing: "Today is a day I never thought I'd see in my time as a player!"
Former captain Clare Connor, who is now head of women's cricket, told BBC Sport: "Charlotte Edwards and I had to pay for our first England blazer to go on tour to India in 1995 and now 18 years on, what a fantastic day this is for the sport.
"I am incredibly proud of the backing the ECB give the women's game and it is a monumental day for our sport.
"Not a lot will change in how we offer contracts but the huge difference is the amount of money we're talking about.
"Players coming trough our pathway now have the opportunity to aim to play professional sport and for any woman that's an incredible dream."
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ECB chairman Giles Clarke called the team's success in the Ashes "a real bright spot" and said he hoped they would "become some of the best-paid sportswomen" in the country.
"These pay rises are significant and, as a result, we are proudly creating the first group of full-time women's professional cricketers," he said.
Increases to pay and investment will be funded by revenues from International Cricket Council events held in England.
An ECB statement said players involved in the recent Ashes success will receive bonuses.
The game's governing body has also committed to reviving inner-city cricket over the next 10 years and hopes to attract thousands of new players.
The "Eureka" study, conducted by the ECB and involving almost a million participants, shows that people in inner cities struggle to get access to grass pitches.
908,000 participants
1.7m people have played cricket in the last 12 months
375,000 people were involved in cricket matches in a single week last June
30% of cricketers are from an ethnic minority
31 is the average age of amateur players
93% of cricket players are male
50% of players think "playing in the right spirit" is the most important part of the game
A new London-based pilot scheme run by the ECB will build and renovate cricket grounds.
Minister for Sport Helen Grant welcomed the "significant financial commitment" into both the women's game and inner-city facilities.
She added: "Sport generally, and cricket specifically, appeals to people right across the country and it is excellent news that the ECB are acting to improve access and revive interest in cricket in our urban centres."
Shadow Minister for Sport Clive Efford said: "Cricket is showing the way to other sport governing bodies with their investment and by creating a professional team of elite women cricketers they will inspire a new generation young women to play in the future."
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26 January 2016 Last updated at 11:15 GMT
Over the weekend more than a metre of snow fell in some parts causing lots of problems.
Giant panda Tian Tian lives at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC in America.
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But the BBC has uncovered a large collection of images for an exclusive online documentary about the strange movie, as producer Richard Latto explains.
The Day the Clown Cried told the story of a fictional clown, Helmut Doork, who was thrown into prison and eventually used to entertain children and lead them into the concentration camp gas chambers.
Lewis - at the peak of his career after success in The Nutty Professor and the Bell Boy - wrote and directed the film, and was at first very passionate about the idea. But perhaps even he eventually found the subject matter too harrowing.
The film has never been released, with only a handful of people claiming to have seen anything from the production. Lewis himself avoids questions about it during interviews and public appearances.
For the BBC documentary The Story of Day the Clown Cried, presenter David Schneider went to hear the stories of people close to the production, including the late Lars Amble, who played a Nazi guard.
Amble remembers being asked to take part by Lewis: "He was staying in Stockholm in a hotel. He called me up, I went to his room and suddenly he says I know which part you are going to have, a very mean guy.
"He was a very professional actor and director. He gave us all confidence."
Jack Kotschack was one of the producers. His son Erik remembers the period well when his father was working on the production.
"He was very thrilled to do this, to be part of it. When they made a decision to shoot the scenes from the concentration camp in Sweden, my father was the guy who made it possible.
"Jerry Lewis was big at that time. It was a big story for Sweden. He was a person who took [control of] the room, a big character and actor."
But the production was beset with problems and Kotschack says the working relationship between his father and Lewis fell apart.
"He sent a telegram 'to the smallest man in town from Jerry Lewis to Jack'.
"In the beginning they were best of friends but in the end not so."
There are many people on the internet who have circulated alleged copies of the script, and even some who have attempted to re-enact the entire film online.
So what is the fascination with this project?
"This is a very interesting film because very few people have seen anything from it," says Jan Lumholdt, a film critic based in Sweden.
"He's a comedian and this is his most serious film ever. This gives it a very interesting energy and dynamic.
"I always felt that there are countless examples of great dark serious performers and dark work by comedians, there is a certain touch to it."
There have been many films about the Holocaust and it's often hard to come to terms with a fictional story set during this dark period in history. But Yael Fried, project manager of the Jewish Museum in Stockholm, is in favour of such projects.
"We need different ways and methods of understanding the Holocaust and fiction can help us with that," he says.
"You can use fictional characters in a real environment. I think you have to be careful and very clear that it's fiction."
It's rumoured by many that Lewis attempted to introduce moments of comedy into the production. The main character's name was seemingly changed from Karl Schmidt to Helmut Doork.
"As the child of a Holocaust survivor - my mother got out of Vienna in 1938 along with her playwright father and actress mother - the Holocaust was something that I have always been very aware of," says Schneider.
"As a comedian, I've always been fascinated by whether you can do comedy about such a difficult and taboo subject.
"I used to compere Jewish comedy gigs and I remember once getting a note passed to me backstage saying: 'We are a coach party of Auschwitz survivors come to see you. Please can you say hello to us during the gig?'
"And I just thought, what am I meant to do? Go on and shout: 'Hi, is there anybody from Auschwitz in the place tonight?'
"A lot of Jewish comedians found themselves exploring this area, just because it's so central to their identity."
The documentary also shares previously unseen archive footage of Lewis being interviewed on the set.
"Comedy is our safety valve, without it I think we would disappear, evaporate," he says.
"My philosophy of comedy is a man in trouble. There for the grace of God go I."
The Story of the Day the Clown Cried can be seen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03dj9kr
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The suspect, Dylann Roof, 21, was detained during a traffic stop in Shelby, North Carolina.
After a court appearance on Thursday, Mr Roof waived his right to extradition and was flown back to South Carolina.
Six women and three men, including the pastor, died in the attack. A hate crimes investigation has been launched.
Several churches in Charleston were full to overflowing on Thursday evening as prayer services were held. Some services were held outdoors.
Outside the Emanuel AME Church, where the attack took place, hundreds gathered in soaring heat to pay tribute.
"We really have to fight together to go on and to live a civilised life where race doesn't matter," said one woman, Martha Watson.
At a vigil for victim Sharonda Singleton, her teenage children told the BBC they had forgiven the killer and wanted to focus on moving on in a positive way.
Services were held in several other cities, including Miami, Detroit and Philadelphia.
In New York, services and protests took place, with placards including such messages as "Black Lives Matter" and "Stop killing black people".
Richard Price, executive assistant at the Harlem Church of Christ, said: "That someone would come and infiltrate that sacred space, one of the only spaces we ever really have, and to violate that space, and then to shoot the place up...
"This is a deep, deep-seated hurt that may never ever heal."
A prayer vigil was also held outside the US Capitol. Senate chaplain Barry Black said: "Our hearts ache because, in the future, people will feel fear in the house of God when they should feel peace and serenity."
US President Barack Obama said he and his wife had known several members of the Emanuel AME Church, including pastor, Clementa Pinckney.
Mr Obama called the church a "sacred place" in the history of Charleston and spoke of his confidence that the congregation and the community would "rise again".
He also raised the issue of gun ownership, saying: "At some point, we as a country have to reckon with the fact that this type of massacre does not happen in other advanced countries".
Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said the US had to face "hard truths" on guns.
"How many innocent people in our country, from little children to church members to movie theatre attendees, how many people do we need to see cut down before we act?"
At the scene: BBC's Rajini Vaidyanathan
People are hurting in Charleston. But for the hundreds who packed into the gymnasium at the Goose Creek High School, it was also a reminder of the importance of love.
Sharonda Singleton coached the girls athletics team here. As her photo rested on an easel on the polished floors in the vast sports hall, her friends and family paid tribute.
Speaking for the first time since the deadly attack on the AME church where she worshipped, Sharonda's two children, Chris and Camryn, told me they forgive the man who killed her.
"We already forgive him and there's nothing but love from our side of the family," Chris told me.
Many will find this incomprehensible. Charleston is often called the Holy City for the number of churches it is home to, and the role religion plays here. For some, like Chris and Camryn, unwavering faith is the only way to turn such a devastating loss into something positive.
The police chief in Shelby said Dylann Roof was arrested after a tip-off from a local florist, Debbie Dills.
"At first I thought, nah, it couldn't be," Mrs Dills said. "I didn't want to overreact."
Mrs Dills trailed the suspect's Hyundai car while talking on the phone to police, who then pulled the car over near a supermarket.
Dalton Tyler, who said he was a friend of Mr Roof, told ABC News the suspect had spoken in support of racial segregation and had "said he wanted to start a civil war".
Mr Roof had attended a Bible study group for nearly an hour at the church before becoming aggressive and violent, Charleston's county coroner said.
Eight people died at the scene and one person died later in hospital. There were three survivors.
Along with Rev Pinckney, a 41-year-old father of two, the other victims have been named as Cynthia Hurd, 54; Tywanza Sanders, 26; Ms Singleton, 45; Myra Thompson, 59; Ethel Lance, 70; Susie Jackson, 87; the Rev Daniel Simmons Sr, 74; and DePayne Doctor.
Cynthia Taylor, a niece of Ms Jackson, said she had spoken to a survivor, Felecia Sanders, who said she had played dead as she lay on top of her granddaughter to protect her.
Police and officials were quick to call the attack a hate crime.
The Emanuel church is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church in the US south. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King gave a speech there in April 1962.
Tensions have been heightened since the shooting two months ago of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man by a white police officer in North Charleston, which prompted angry protests.
The officer has since been charged with murder.
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The 60-year-old woman picked up a first man in Lanark at about 22:00 on Saturday then collected his friend.
As they drove towards West Calder, she was threatened with a knife, told to pull over and assaulted.
When she awoke the men had gone and her jewellery was missing. Police are treating it as attempted murder.
The first man was picked up by the blue Peugeot Horizon private hire car on Hyndford Road in Lanark and the second was in Hope Street, opposite Lanark Fire Station.
The woman was forced stopped the taxi on the A704 at the junction for Pateshill Water Treatment.
Both men were described as having Eastern European accents, being of slim build and about 6ft tall.
The first man was wearing a black hooded top, dark trousers and dark gloves. The second wore an army-style khaki hoodie with the hood up.
Det Insp Stevie Bertram, of Livingston CID, said: "This has been an extremely traumatic ordeal for the victim and we're currently treating the attack on her as an attempted murder.
"As part of our investigation, we're urging anyone with information about this incident or the identities of the men to get in touch.
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NMW has started individual discussions with staff affected by proposals to scrap "premium payments".
It follows a breakdown in negotiations with the PCS union.
Staff who do not sign up to the new conditions could face being dismissed and offered their jobs on new terms.
NMW director general David Anderson said a failure to resolve the dispute meant the museum was using its reserves to cover costs.
He said: "I think we have to bring this to a conclusion.
"We have got staff coming to us asking if they can sign up to the offer that we are making. And in the broader context of the museum's finances, every month that goes by without resolution costs us a further £70,000 from our reserves.
"We simply cannot afford to continue to have the dispute running and we now need to bring it to a conclusion. If we don't do this, this puts the museum's finances at strategic risk."
As part of the deal to end extra payments for working weekends and bank holidays, NMW is offering staff a lump sum equivalent to two years' worth of premium payments.
600 staff
300 receive weekend premium payments
£4,000 lump sum offer equivalent to two years of weekend payments
-4.7% grant funding cut from Welsh Government, 2016/17
About 300 of the museum's staff receive the payments and 220 are PCS members.
The union is currently holding strikes at NMW sites every weekend and has been staging industrial action for more than two years.
PCS Wales said none of its members had so far agreed to the museum's offer and it was prepared to re-enter negotiations in order to settle the dispute.
"What we'd like is for the museum to enter back into discussions with us, be more open and transparent, give us more information and to settle this dispute, we need to see an improvement in the offer," said Shavanah Taj, PCS Wales secretary. | A long-running dispute over weekend payments to staff is putting the finances of National Museum Wales at risk, its boss has warned. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36036975"} | 399 | 28 | 0.549634 | 1.448256 | 0.499351 | 0.846154 | 14.538462 | 0.769231 |
Maalik, which had already been playing in cinemas, was declared "uncertified for the whole of Pakistan" by the ministry of information this week.
Previous bans on films have come from provincial censorship boards. In this case the creators say they don't know why the government itself intervened.
But the authorities' move reveals something about the current environment in Pakistan.
Maalik tells the story of a former special services commando hired to protect a corrupt feudal lord who has risen to become chief minister.
Everyone for different reasons.
The chief minister character (called saaeen - the Sindhi word to indicate a person of influence) is very similar, some say, to the present chief minister of Sindh province, including being of the same ethnicity. An unnamed ministry official told The Express Tribune the film had been banned because it shows a former chief minister as a man of corruption and opulence.
The current chief minister's daughter and parliamentarian Nafisa Shah said on Twitter: "Maalik' is an ill conceived film will only divide Pakistan&harm national unity. The filmmakers, financiers &even censors cannot be patriots."
The parts of the movie that show government officials are deeply divisive, with some saying it amounts to military propaganda - while others think it makes the civil government look like it's not serious about tackling terrorism.
Other complaints stem from a scene where the chief minister is shot by his guard, which has parallels to the real-life killing of Punjab governor Salman Taseer - which deeply divided the nation. Some think the film is promoting vigilantism.
It tells us that this film has touched a nerve with authorities with its depiction of politicians and ethnic stereotyping.
The strong reaction to this film on social media suggests that the film plays to the already divisive view of the civil-military dynamic in the country and is perceived to be deepening the divide.
Authorities in Pakistan are very concerned with how they are perceived, especially abroad. Whereas this might be considered an overreaction in some countries, it has become the go-to method for the authorities to ban content they deem offensive or controversial.
But others still feel no matter what the film depicts, banning it amounts to censorship.
Freedom of speech is already under pressure in Pakistan, with many journalists, analysts and commentators feeling that there are some topics, including religion and the military, that you just can't touch- and that leads to what some call a culture of self-censorship. | The Pakistani government has taken the rare step of directly banning a film, dividing public debate and sparking cries of censorship, reports BBC Urdu's Nosheen Abbas. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36157115"} | 567 | 46 | 0.407258 | 1.10787 | 0.61859 | 0.5 | 15.966667 | 0.5 |
Family members confirmed to local media that Obdulia Sanchez, 18, is the driver seen in the social media video.
The woman identified as Ms Sanchez is seen singing before the crash and then turns the camera on her sister to record her severe injuries.
She is suspected of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
"Jacqueline, please wake up," the woman can be heard saying in the video as she films the victim's bloodied face.
"I f****** killed my sister, OK? I know I'm going to jail for life," she says after positioning the camera to film both herself and her sister.
Officials say Jacqueline Sanchez, 14, was thrown through the back windscreen of the 2003 Buick when Ms Sanchez over corrected after swerving nearly off the edge of the road.
The car then swerved to the opposite site of the road, crashed through a barbed wire fence and overturned in a field.
An unidentified teenage passenger was also ejected from the back seat, suffering a serious injury to her right leg.
Neither passenger was wearing a seatbelt, officials say.
"I killed my sister, but I don't care," the woman says in the video as the other passenger is seen trying to wave down cars along the rural road.
"This is the last thing I wanted to happen to us, but it just did."
The footage was originally posted on Instagram but a copy was recorded by a friend of a friend of Obdulia Sanchez and shared on a Facebook account.
Relatives told local media that Jacqueline was about to celebrate her Quinceanera, a Hispanic coming-of-age tradition celebrated on a girl's 15th birthday. | Police have arrested a woman who appears to have recorded an Instagram live video both during and after a car accident which killed her sister. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40707764"} | 382 | 29 | 0.46007 | 1.238785 | 0.153135 | 0.846154 | 12.961538 | 0.615385 |
The pair, both 24, have been given three-month contracts with the County Championship Division One side.
Thornton made his first-team debut in their One-Day Cup win over Northamptonshire on 27 April, while Spencer is yet to play for the county.
"They are two very different bowlers and good options for Ian Bell to have as captain." said coach Jim Troughton.
Warwickshire's sport director, Ashley Giles, had talked about bringing in "new blood" after they made an difficult start to the season.
Under first-team coach Troughton and skipper Bell, the Bears began the new Championship season with successive innings defeats, before a draw against Surrey halted their poor form.
The One-Day Cup victory against Northamptonshire was followed up by 50-over defeats by Durham and Leicestershire.
"Both these guys played a fair bit of second-team cricket for us last year," Troughton added.
"It's good to have them on board, especially with us having a couple of other guys coming back from long-term injuries." | Warwickshire have awarded professional contracts to seam bowlers Grant Thornton and Mitchell Spencer. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39793397"} | 237 | 19 | 0.535423 | 1.237359 | 0.111793 | 0.642857 | 15.142857 | 0.642857 |
Mullah Mohammad Rasool was chosen to lead the splinter group at a meeting of fighters in western Farah province.
The dissidents say new Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour hijacked the movement because of personal greed.
He was appointed in late July after the Taliban admitted that Mullah Omar had been dead for two years.
In recent months divisions in the Taliban have burst into the open - and correspondents say the split now appears entrenched.
This is believed to be the first formal split in the Afghan Taliban since their emergence in the mid-1990s. The divisions emerged after the death of Mullah Omar was confirmed in late July - many Taliban accused his successor, Mullah Mansour, of hiding the news.
Mullah Rasool says he and his supporters tried hard to convince Mullah Mansour to step down and let the new leader be appointed by consensus - but they say he refused.
At this stage it is not clear if the dissidents can rally mass support among Taliban fighters to be a real challenge to the leadership.
Mullah Mansour claims he has significant support from members of the Taliban leadership council. He has also bolstered his position with recent military victories - in particular in Kunduz, which briefly fell to the Taliban in September, the first provincial capital to do so since they were ousted in late 2001.
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The BBC obtained video of the Farah meeting, at which Mullah Rasool, wearing glasses and a black turban, made a 13-minute speech to dozens of his heavily-armed followers.
He will have four deputies - Abdul Manan Niazi, Mansoor Dadullah and Shir Mohammad Akhundzada were appointed to deputise on military affairs and Mullah Baz Mohammad Haris was appointed his deputy for political affairs.
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Much of this work sits in storage in the Tate, in legal limbo, owing to one simple omission.
William's son, John, was found dead at his home in 1995. In the house was a letter from his lawyer encouraging him to make a will. He never did.
With no known blood relatives, John's estate - including hundreds of works by his father - is one of thousands which have landed on the desks of the Bona Vacantia division, part of the Government Legal Department.
It seems likely that no heirs will be found. Under the rules, the art should eventually be sold for the best price and the proceeds handed to the Treasury. The chancellor, George Osborne, might recognise the work - his parents once had a Roberts painting hanging over their fireplace.
Yet, the benefit for taxpayers is likely to be cultural, rather than financial, as the art is on loan to the Tate.
As for more than 15,000 other estates on the Bona Vacantia division's unclaimed estate list, their fate depends on whether anyone can prove they have a genuine inheritance claim.
Step into the 1910 room at Tate Britain in London, and the eighth work of art on the right is The Cinema by William Roberts.
It is the only work by Roberts that is on display in the free galleries of the Tate, but others are on show in galleries around the UK.
The story of his life's work is more accurately told in the unseen Tate collection.
A founder of the Vorticist art movement, he died in 1980 and his wife Sarah died in 1992. Her death led to an inheritance tax bill which was settled when 117 works were eventually allocated to the Tate collection in lieu of the tax.
When their only child John died, friends organised for about 550 of William's works, which had been in John's possession, to be stored at the Tate.
"John and his mother had hoped to set up a house museum [including these works], but they never managed to get the funding," said Michael Mitzman, a consultant at legal firm Mishcon de Reya.
"I nagged him [John] to write a will."
But he did not and 430 of these works form part of the estate which is being overseen by Bona Vacantia.
It will be held for another 10 years - some 30 years after John's death - to give any surviving members of the family the chance to make an inheritance claim.
In this case it is highly unlikely. Mr Mitzman could find no eligible relatives. The BBC's Heir Hunters programme drew a blank when searching for direct descendants.
Enter the William Roberts Society which foresaw the threat of these works being sold and the money ending up in the Treasury coffers.
It argued that the artwork that the Roberts family owned should be kept together for the benefit of the public and students. The government eventually agreed. One minister said the intention was to give this work to the Tate should no relatives come forward.
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Artwork by an English cubist is not the only unusual asset on the books of estates being dealt with by the Bona Vacantia division.
One actor's estate includes royalties still being paid for re-runs of The Benny Hill Show and Hancock's Half Hour. The office was also asked, but declined, to get involved in one case from 1896, with an estate including shillings and a horse.
About 2,000 new unclaimed estates are referred to the division each year.
"The average estate is worth less than £4,000. These are not life-changing sums of money. But they are almost like a little lottery win [for eligible relatives]," says Melanie Hooper, head of the estates group in the Bona Vacantia division.
"Whether the size of the estate is £500 or £500,000 does not matter to us. It is the entitlement, not the amount, that matters."
The little-known Bona Vacantia division has a staff of 50, of whom 18 deal with estates.
Bona Vacantia means vacant goods and is the name given to ownerless property, which by law passes to the Crown.
The Treasury Solicitor acts for the Crown to administer the estates of people who die intestate (without a will) and without known kin (entitled blood relatives) and collect the assets of dissolved companies and other various ownerless goods in England and Wales.
Unclaimed estates are dealt with separately in two areas of England - the Duchy of Cornwall and the Duchy of Lancaster - by lawyers for Prince Charles and the Queen respectively.
In Scotland, unclaimed estates are dealt with by the Office of Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer.
In Northern Ireland, the responsibility for dealing with them is that of the Crown Solicitor for Northern Ireland.
The division handled 4,332 estates in England and Wales in the year to the end of March 2015, accounts show. It collected income of £18.4m, and paid out £6.1m - most of which would have gone to relatives with claims on estates.
In an intriguing twist of law in England, cases in Cornwall and around the North West of England are administered by solicitors for Prince Charles and the Queen. Any funds that remain after an allowance for future claims and costs go to charity.
In the Duchy of Cornwall in 2014-15, some £215,000 was given to the Duke of Cornwall's Benevolent Fund which primarily supports environmental, conservation, wildlife and community projects.
Some £2.47m was given to the Duchy of Lancaster Jubilee Trust to fund charitable causes, particularly the maintenance of historic buildings on Duchy estates. This covers Lancashire, Merseyside, parts of Greater Manchester, parts of Cheshire and parts of Cumbria.
In the vast majority of cases, eligible descendants come forward to claim an estate, so how do they know they have an entitlement?
It used to be the case that estates were advertised in The Times and the local newspaper where the individual was born.
Now unclaimed estates in England and Wales are being added to an online list. This process is expected to be completed in September when it will include all unclaimed estates which have been recently referred, but not yet administered, and historic cases which have not yet been claimed by entitled relatives.
The list in Scotland includes the value of the unclaimed estates.
Relatives ranging from a husband, wife and civil partner to half uncles, aunts and cousins may have an entitlement claim when somebody dies without having made a will.
A touch of detective work by these individuals or solicitors can unearth their eligibility.
Others may receive a call out of the blue from a private genealogist, or heir hunter. This industry has grown from a dozen or so private firms to more than 100 now.
They tend to alert people that they might have a claim, and organise the paperwork involved before taking a cut of any successful payout.
The advantage for customers is that genealogists might have found a link to an estate of somebody whose name they do not recognise. It is their choice whether or not they want to use the private firm's services. They can look at the Bona Vacantia website for information before making a decision.
Various rules are involved in making a claim including:
In England and Wales, the value of an estate is only revealed to a successful claimant. It might only be £500. It might be much more.
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Volleyball will miss out on 2021 if Guernsey's bid to host is successful, as well as the 2019 Games in Gibraltar.
"We've got quite a few good juniors coming through the ranks," Jennifer Lindfield from the Guernsey Volleyball Association (GVA) told BBC Sport.
"They won't be able to play Island Games for four years which will mean we might struggle to keep them engaged."
Football, golf and cycling have all been reinstated for 2021 after also missing out in 2019, but Guernsey's organising committee felt that they did not have enough space on the island to house another team sport.
"I'm quite upset that I won't be able to play my sport at a home games in front of my friends and family," added Lindfield, who plays for Guernsey as well as acting as the GVA's secretary.
"But after hearing the reasons I totally understand it was a very hard decision and that volleyball just missed out.
"It's very frustrating, we'd love to have volleyball back in at home games."
And Lindfield says she has not ruled out the possibility of several islands coming together and holding their own event to replace their Island Games experience.
She continued: "It could be possible to make up a mini tournament, but we would have to speak to the other islands and come up with a plan of where we could play it.
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The contents of an ATM on Main Street in Limavady were stolen at around 05:00 BST this morning, police said.
Thieves broke into a charity shop to get access to the machine.
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In a goalless first half, Yeni Ngbakoto shot straight at Adam Bogdan for QPR, while Wigan had Craig Morgan's far-post header disallowed for offside.
The winning goal came just minutes into the second half, when Nedum Onuoha lashed in after Jake Bidwell's free-kick was only half cleared.
Max Power fired wide and Will Grigg headed over for Wigan as QPR held on.
The first five minutes saw Ngbakoto almost put the visitors ahead, but his shot failed to trouble Bogdan in the Wigan goal, while Morgan's header was the best chance for the hosts in the opening period.
QPR went into the game on the back of defeats by Barnsley and Preston, but showed great resilience once they had taken the lead, epitomised by Alex Smithies' save at full stretch to deny Luke Garbutt.
Wigan had found the net at least once in their past 16 league outings, but despite those late efforts by Power and Grigg, it was QPR who took all three points.
QPR manager Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink:
"For us it was important we came here and made sure our platform and organisation was right.
"We also had to make sure we didn't give a lot away, and made it difficult for them. We knew how they wanted to play, and how dominant they can be.
"I think we pushed them all over the pitch, and at times we could have been better with the ball and calmer with the ball.
"Overall it was a very solid performance, it was a grinder, and at times a little bit nervous. That is normal away from home. We stayed together as a team and we ground out a good win."
Wigan manager Gary Caldwell:
"It's frustrating again. I thought we created opportunities, even more so towards the end of the game.
"We could have switched play better, we could have played in wide areas better, we know they're a team that plays narrow.
"Again we conceded a poor goal, and we have to learn that clean sheets are going to be the bedrock of our success this season. We have to stop conceding poor goals.
"There were a few positives, we created opportunities, the players gave me everything, they kept going. We just have to work hard and make sure we get the little things right that become big things in the game."
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Queens Park Rangers 1.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by James Perch.
Attempt missed. Massimo Luongo (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Ariel Borysiuk.
Attempt missed. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Michael Jacobs with a cross.
Foul by William Grigg (Wigan Athletic).
Grant Hall (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Adam Bogdan tries a through ball, but Craig Davies is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Ariel Borysiuk (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Massimo Luongo.
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Craig Morgan.
Attempt missed. Jordi Gómez (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Max Power.
Attempt saved. Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Substitution, Queens Park Rangers. Ariel Borysiuk replaces Tjaronn Chery.
Attempt missed. Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left following a set piece situation.
Craig Morgan (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Craig Morgan (Wigan Athletic).
Tjaronn Chery (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Craig Davies replaces Luke Garbutt.
Foul by Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic).
Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic).
Nedum Onuoha (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Jake Buxton tries a through ball, but William Grigg is caught offside.
Attempt missed. Luke Garbutt (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Karl Henry (Queens Park Rangers).
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Jordi Gómez replaces Alex Gilbey.
Attempt missed. Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic).
Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Jordan Cousins (Queens Park Rangers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tjaronn Chery.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Jordan Cousins.
Foul by Craig Morgan (Wigan Athletic).
Yeni N'Gbakoto (Queens Park Rangers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt missed. Max Power (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by William Grigg.
Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sebastian Polter (Queens Park Rangers).
Attempt saved. Luke Garbutt (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Michael Jacobs with a cross.
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Myrtle Simpson, who is originally from Aldershot and now lives in the Cairngorms, has been recognised for achievements in the Arctic.
In the 1960s she became the first woman to ski across Greenland with four others on an unsupported expedition.
Her husband, Hugh, was awarded a Polar Medal more than 50 years ago.
The Simpsons are the only the second husband and wife to both be awarded the medal. Sir Ranulph Fiennes and his late wife Virginia were the first.
The medal is approved by The Queen and is given to those who have undertaken expeditions in extreme hardship.
Mrs Simpson has still to hear the date when she will receive the medal. She told BBC Radio Scotland she hoped it would not clash with her competing in a ski race against a 97-year-old fellow skier George Stewart.
The forthcoming Masters category race sees Mrs Simpson defending the title.
She said: "If I don't take part I'm never going to have the chance to win the trophy again."
The Polar Medal was first awarded in 1904 as a reward to those who took part in Captain Scott's first expedition to Antarctica.
Mrs Simpson, who is in her 80s and worked at Belford Hospital in Fort William after qualifying as a radiographer, went on her first expedition to the Arctic in the 1960s.
After becoming the first woman to ski across Greenland, she attempted to ski to the North Pole in 1969, getting further than any other woman had previously.
Her husband, her companion on all her Arctic expeditions, was awarded his own Polar Medal for his work in the Antarctic.
Mrs Simpson is an experienced climber and has completed routes in Scotland as well New Zealand, Peru and China.
She is also known as the "Mother of Scottish skiing" by playing a part in establishing Scotland's first ski centres, including CairnGorm near Aviemore.
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17 January 2017 Last updated at 06:54 GMT
The RSPB are encouraging thousands of kids in the UK to spend an hour a day birdwatching.
They want kids to take note of what birds they see, and how many of them there are.
But what is so interesting about birdwatching? Jenny's been to meet some kids who took her under their wing... | A bird protection charity is calling for kids to help keep an eye out for our feathery friends. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38640327"} | 80 | 21 | 0.548734 | 1.206218 | -0.78155 | 0.421053 | 3.736842 | 0.315789 |
3 August 2017 Last updated at 16:06 BST
They want someone who can protect the Earth from pollution, and maybe even aliens!
It's a big responsibility and pays a lot of money.
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Erickson Jacob, 44, of Henley-on-Thames was sentenced on Tuesday after being found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and one of causing a child to engage in sexual activity.
Jacob was acquitted of one count of sexually assaulting a child under 13 by the jury at Oxford Crown Court.
Det Con Sophie Holliss said the victims showed "bravery" in the case.
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His comments came during questions to UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt in the House of Commons on Tuesday.
The Conservatives have joined the Daily Mail in criticising Labour's record on health in Wales.
The Welsh government has denied claims that thousands of patients in Wales were "desperately" seeking treatment in England.
Mr Davies asked Mr Hunt if any English patients had asked him for treatment in Wales. | Monmouth MP David Davies has attacked the Labour Welsh government's running of the NHS in Wales. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "29708977"} | 104 | 21 | 0.484378 | 1.128596 | -0.038836 | 1.111111 | 5.222222 | 0.666667 |
The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) said it received a referral on Thursday night after the death of a person in custody in Dundalk.
It said a GSOC team had been deployed and "inquiries are ongoing".
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Congress party spokesman Janardhan Dwivedi said Mrs Gandhi was "likely to be away for two to three weeks".
Earlier he said the surgery had already taken place and been successful, but he later corrected his statement.
Mrs Gandhi, 64, is seen as India's most powerful politician. She holds no official post, but many consider her the de facto head of the government.
The announcement has taken India by surprise. It is not clear where Mrs Gandhi has gone - the Press Trust of India, quoting Congress party sources, reports that she left for the US on Wednesday.
The BBC's Mark Dummett in Delhi says her absence comes at a critical time for the government as it deals with corruption scandals and high price rises.
India has some of the best medical facilities and doctors in the world and speculation is rife as to why Mrs Gandhi chose to go elsewhere for surgery.
Some reports suggest she may need specialist treatment not yet available in India, but these are unconfirmed.
Other people wonder whether Mrs Gandhi wants to avoid the inevitable media circus there would be, were she to attend a hospital in India.
Mr Dwivedi did not say what the operation was for, nor where it would take place.
"Sonia Gandhi has been recently diagnosed with a medical condition that requires surgery... She has travelled abroad and is likely to be away for two to three weeks," he told reporters.
Earlier the spokesman said that she had already had a successful operation in the US, but later corrected his mistake, saying it would take place in the next two to three days.
Mrs Gandhi has named a four-member team to run party affairs during her absence, he said. The team includes her son and MP Rahul Gandhi, who is tipped as a future prime minister.
Mrs Gandhi's absence from the opening session on Monday was remarked upon in the Indian media, but explained by a "viral infection" from which she was said to be suffering.
Italian-born Mrs Gandhi is the widow of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. She nominated Manmohan Singh to the prime minister's post in 2004 and is widely believed to be more powerful than him.
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Dibble worked with Bluebirds boss Neil Warnock at Rotherham in 2015-16 and he is leaving the Millers to join Cardiff.
BBC Wales Sport has learned Margetson had been told by Cardiff his contract would not be renewed.
Margetson, 44, is joining Sam Allardyce, for whom he worked at West Ham United.
Allardyce also had Margetson on his England staff during his brief reign.
Having been appointed by the late Gary Speed in 2011, he helped Chris Coleman's backroom staff guide Wales into the 2016 European Championships where they reached the last four.
Palace say he will continue in his England capacity.
Cwmbran-born Dibble's career began at Cardiff in 1982
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The data-sharing agreement, revealed by New Scientist, includes full names as well as patient histories.
Google says it will use the data to develop an early warning system for patients at risk of developing acute kidney injuries.
But critics have questioned why it needs the data of all patients to create such a specific app.
Under the data-sharing agreement, Google's artificial intelligence division DeepMind will have access to all of the data of patients from the Royal Free, Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals in London going back over the past five years and continuing until 2017.
It plans to use the data to develop an app known as Streams that will alert doctors when someone is at risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI).
The data remains encrypted, meaning that Google employees should not be able to identify anyone, according to the Royal Free Trust.
It said that doctors from the Trust approached DeepMind about the development of the app.
In a statement, it said: "Our arrangement with DeepMind is the standard NHS information-sharing agreement set out by NHS England's corporate information governance department, and is the same as the other 1,500 agreements with third-party organisations that process NHS patient data.
"As with all information sharing agreements with non-NHS organisations, patients can opt out of any data-sharing system by contacting the trust's data protection officer."
Sam Smith, a co-ordinator of patient data campaign group MedConfidential, said: "The big question is why they want it. This a very rich data set. If you are someone who went to the A&E department, why is your data in this?"
Google said that it needed general data in order to identify patients who might be at risk of developing AKI.
AKI is a contributing factor in up to 20% of emergency hospital admissions, according to the NHS. It estimates that around a quarter of cases are preventable.
It is not clear how exactly Google will use the data to provide this early warning system but the BBC understands that no artificial intelligence will be used.
Dominic King, a senior scientist at Google DeepMind, said: "Access to timely and relevant clinical data is essential for doctors and nurses looking for signs of patient deterioration. This work focuses on acute kidney injuries that contribute to 40,000 deaths a year in the UK, many of which are preventable.
"The kidney specialists who have led this work are confident that the alerts our system generates will transform outcomes for their patients. For us to generate these alerts it is necessary for us to look at a range of tests taken at different time intervals."
Google has not ruled out the use of the data for other purposes but said it will only ever be used for improving healthcare and will never be linked to other Google accounts or products.
Google does have big ambitions in healthcare.
In 2013 it launched Calico, a firm set up to look at ways to tackle ageing while X, Google's research arm, launched Baseline in 2014 - an ambitious plan to map genetic information to gain a picture of what makes humans healthy. | Google has been given access to an estimated 1.6 million NHS patient records, it has been revealed. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36191546"} | 654 | 21 | 0.475417 | 1.167091 | -0.745667 | 1.052632 | 32.157895 | 0.631579 |
Some 23,000 people have been detained or arrested since the July coup, although the government has not said its move is to free up space for them.
The justice minister said those who had served half their sentence, rather than two-thirds, would be eligible.
Crimes such as murder and sex abuse would be excluded, he said.
It is clear that the post-coup clampdown has stretched the prison service to breaking point and extra capacity is urgently needed, the BBC's Mark Lowen reports from Istanbul.
Some 187,000 people were being held in Turkey's 364 prisons this year, according to figures published in March by Turkey's justice ministry (in Turkish). That figure was already 4,000 higher than the capacity and the recent detentions have placed the system under extra strain.
The government is not directly linking the decision on prison release to the post-coup clampdown - it would not accept there is a problem with prison overcrowding,
But when more than 23,000 people are under arrest or detention within a month, any country would struggle to cope. Turkey's prison population has more than trebled since the governing AK Party came to power in 2002, with reports of prisoners sleeping in shifts.
Capacity will be stretched even further with the new arrests.
Rights groups here believe political opponents are being rounded up under the pretext of backing the coup-plotters or the alleged mastermind, US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. But the government insists that all those detained or investigated have proven links to the Gulen network.
The biggest purge in Turkey's modern history is straining the country. Judges and police are among those fired, so processing cases will be even harder. But the government says that the gravest attack the Turkish state has ever faced requires the sternest of responses.
Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag emphasised the conditional release did not apply to anyone convicted of crimes committed since 1 July, which automatically disqualifies anyone arrested in the aftermath of the failed coup a fortnight later.
It was not an amnesty, he added.
Since the coup was put down, Turks have witnessed a purge of people in the military and public services suspected of supporting US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is accused of orchestrating the plot.
As well as thousands of detentions, 82,000 people have been dismissed or suspended from their jobs. Further dismissals were reported on Wednesday, affecting 2,360 police and dozens of civil servants and staff from the military and coast guard.
Some 240 people died resisting the coup on 15 and 16 July, as rebel parts of the military tried to seize control of Turkey, sending tanks into Ankara and Istanbul. | Turkey is to release conditionally 38,000 prisoners jailed before last month's failed coup, while its jails are crowded with new detainees. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37103965"} | 603 | 35 | 0.540232 | 1.273393 | 0.470755 | 0.791667 | 21.25 | 0.625 |
The project has seen the capacity of Allonby's wastewater treatment works doubled, United Utilities said.
A new underground storage tank has been created to capture more storm water and reduce sewer spills.
Ultraviolet equipment that kills bugs has raised the quality of the treated wastewater which is returned to the sea, the firm added.
Allonby, on the Solway coast, was rated "poor" in 2015 under European standards known as the revised Bathing Water Directive. | A £4.5m scheme to improve the quality of bathing water on the Cumbrian coast is up and running. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36038257"} | 104 | 25 | 0.58536 | 1.23185 | -0.473966 | 1.095238 | 4.190476 | 0.619048 |
A Facebook post describing attacks on Christopher Cooper's son and daughter drew worldwide attention earlier this year when it was shared 200,000 times.
Furness Magistrates' Court heard in the following weeks he then jabbed his finger towards the alleged bully's face outside North Walney Primary School.
Mr Cooper, of Walney, Cumbria, admitted a Section 5 public order offence.
District Judge Gerald Chalk said it was ironic that in complaining about bullying, Mr Cooper had used bullying behaviour himself.
Speaking outside court after the sentencing, Mr Cooper, 37, said the school and Cumbria Police had failed to act when he repeatedly raised concerns his children were being targeted.
"When you're let down by two institutions that are there to protect your children, then you're left with no option," he said.
In addition to the two-year restraining order, he was ordered to pay a £120 fine, £85 court costs and a £20 victim surcharge.
Supt Rob O'Connor said: "We understand Mr Cooper had his children's welfare as priority and that parents will sympathise with his desire to protect them.
"However, this case has shown that there is no excuse to take the law into your own hands."
In a statement in March, the school said it did not accept Mr Cooper's description of its actions.
It said: "Our understanding to date was that while he was understandably angry that incidents had occurred, he was satisfied with the actions of the school and the plans put in place." | A dad who confronted a 10-year-old boy he accused of bullying his children has been issued with a restraining order. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36796875"} | 346 | 33 | 0.447023 | 1.11093 | -0.624593 | 0.88 | 11.92 | 0.64 |
Profits at Google parent Alphabet increased 28% year-on-year to to $5.4bn (£4.2bn), boosted by advertising on mobile phones and the popular YouTube video service.
Amazon profits climbed more than 40%, to $724m (£560.8m). It was its eighth quarter in a row of profit.
Microsoft also had a strong quarter, with profits up nearly 28%, while chipmaker Intel's profits rose 45%.
Amazon said its growth was propelled by sales for web services and retail subscriptions, such as Amazon Prime.
The firm highlighted its international activity, noting expansion in India, Mexico and the UK. But executives told investors that more spending on content, products and warehouses for distribution lies ahead.
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"Although Amazon's sales advanced by a respectable 23% over the quarter, the pace of growth at the online behemoth remains much slower than it was over most of the prior fiscal year," said Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail.
"Some of this is the result of a less favourable exchange rate diluting contributions from the international business. However, some is also down to a more challenging demand environment in North America, which has limited spending uplifts on products within Amazon's core territory."
Microsoft was lifted by its cloud computing products, such as Azure, which were $4.8bn, up 28% compared with the previous year.
"Our results this quarter reflect the trust customers are placing in the Microsoft Cloud," said Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella.
"From large multinationals to small and medium businesses to non-profits all over the world, organisations are using Microsoft's cloud platforms to power their digital transformation."
Microsoft also received a boost from social network LinkedIn, which it bought for $26bn in June last year.
It contributed $975m in revenue in the quarter, $25m more than analysts had predicted.
Chipmaker Intel's profits rose 45% to $2.9bn, with revenue up 8%. The growth was driven by its memory division, which recently launched a new technology, with revenue up 55%. | Profits surged at four US tech giants in the first three months of the year. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39740164"} | 478 | 20 | 0.419468 | 1.046898 | -1.015334 | 0.875 | 27.25 | 0.5 |
Anti-fracking protesters in Cheshire blocked Eddie Stobart's Orford depot's exit and walked slowly in front of lorries at Appleton Thorn.
They want to persuade the firm to stop supplying Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site at Little Plumpton, Lancashire.
An Eddie Stobart spokeswoman said one of its tankers had visited the site.
She said seven lorries had been unable to leave the depot on Hawleys Lane in Orford due to the protest, which began at about 03:00 BST.
Two protesters who chained themselves to a metal and plastic pipe and lay across the road were cut free by police.
The campaigners have not stated how long they plan to block the site but said they were taking direct action as a "last resort".
Cheshire Police said two men have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.
One protester, known only as Katrina, was "slow walking" in front of the lorries leaving Appleton Thorn.
She said: "Ultimately we would like Stobart to pull out of their contract with Cuadrilla.
"But if they don't, it would be like a warning shot to other suppliers and hopefully Stobart's will think twice about entering into a contract with fracking companies in future."
There were about 10 campaigners at each of the protest sites in Orford and Appleton Thorn.
The protests are part of a week of action targeting contractors working to supply Cuadrilla's Preston New Road site, which is being prepared for test drilling.
Protests have been held near the Little Plumpton site since Cuadrilla started work there on 5 January.
The government approved Cuadrilla's plans for horizontal hydraulic fracturing at the site in October last year.
A spokeswoman from campaign organisation Frack Free Lancashire said they felt they had been "bullied by the government".
"Lancashire County Council voted democratically to say no to fracking but then it was overturned by the government - so if that's not bullying, I don't know what is," she said.
Cuadrilla declined to comment. | Campaigners targeting companies that supply an energy firm's fracking site have stopped lorries from leaving a haulage company's depots. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39444031"} | 489 | 33 | 0.463916 | 1.183269 | 0.417722 | 0.772727 | 17.681818 | 0.772727 |
Islamophobia Awareness Month is run by organisation Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend).
Mend says the logo of a finger pointing upwards signifies the "oneness of God in Islamic prayer ritual".
However, in recent years it has also been used by so-called Islamic State militants in propaganda images.
Bedfordshire Police initially tweeted its support for the campaign using the logo before later removing the posts.
The force said: "It has come to our attention the pointing finger logo used to illustrate social media posts around Islamophobia Awareness Month is similar to that used by Isis.
"The logo was produced by a national charity and was used in good faith.
"As a consequence and to avoid offence, Bedfordshire Police has deleted these posts and will not tolerate Islamophobia or any other form of hatred or discrimination."
A spokesman for MEND said it was "surprised" Bedfordshire Police decided to stop using the #Iam logo for the campaign, which shows a finger on a hand pointing upwards.
He added the logo had been used since 2012 and signified the "oneness of God in Islamic prayer ritual" and the I in #Iam2016.
The organisation believes it was a "knee-jerk" reaction to some harassment and does not think anyone else has stopped using the logo.
It added it was "open to comments" and could "review" it. | Bedfordshire Police deleted social media posts about Islamophobia after it emerged a logo was similar to a hand gesture popular with Islamic militants. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37999087"} | 304 | 31 | 0.703691 | 1.790784 | 0.556519 | 1.333333 | 11.208333 | 0.75 |
The match, organised by the Liverpool FC Foundation, will feature sides led by club captain Steven Gerrard and retired vice-captain Jamie Carragher.
Suarez, who left Anfield to join Barcelona for £75m last July, is among those who have agreed to play.
Fellow former Liverpool players Fernando Torres, Pepe Reina, Dirk Kuyt and Xabi Alonso will be involved too.
Chelsea captain John Terry, his team-mate Didier Drogba and former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry have also confirmed they will be involved.
The teams will be completed with Liverpool players not on international duty and academy prospects. The two managers have yet to be announced.
Suarez won all three English domestic player of the year awards last season, scoring 31 Premier League goals as Liverpool finished runners-up to Manchester City.
He left shortly after receiving a four-month suspension for biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini while playing for Uruguay in a World Cup match in Brazil in June.
Money raised will go towards a number of causes, including the club's foundation, which funds community programmes across the city.
Proceeds will also go towards Alder Hey's new children's Hospital in the Park project, the Wirral-based Claire's House children's hospice, youth charities Positive Futures and Cash for Kids, and Centre 56, which supports women and children who have suffered or are at risk of domestic abuse. | Former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez will return to Anfield to play in a charity match on 29 March. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31754094"} | 309 | 26 | 0.609107 | 1.400603 | -1.004617 | 1.052632 | 14.157895 | 0.736842 |
Thomas, 23, watched as his ball bounced once and flew into the hole on 13, helping him to a round of 66.
He leads on 12 under, one clear of Johnson (66) and two ahead of Rory McIlroy (70) and Phil Mickelson (68).
Jordan Spieth of the US made a bogey-free 63 to move to seven under par.
Johnson led for much of the day as overnight leader McIlroy failed to fire, but after five birdies the American slipped back with a bogey on 16, allowing Thomas to go past him.
Thomas came through the back nine in 31 shots, adding birdies at the 15th and 16th to ensure he will go out last alongside Johnson on the final day.
Mickelson finished the day on 10 under par after an extraordinary back nine, which saw him require three free drops in succession after a spectator picked up his ball on the 10th, and he then drove into the bushes on 11 and 12.
Playing partner McIlroy remained very much in contention after a back nine that produced one birdie and eight pars.
"It was hard to get any rhythm because Phil was here, there and everywhere, so I was waiting a lot," McIlroy said after his one-under-par round.
"It probably shouldn't have affected me but it did a little bit."
England's Westwood moved within a shot of the Northern Irishman thanks to a 66, while compatriots Tommy Fleetwood (66) and Tyrrell Hatton (68) are one further back on eight under.
McIlroy will return to world number one if he wins in Mexico and Johnson finishes worse than fourth on his own. | American Justin Thomas made a hole-in-one at the 13th on his way to taking the lead from world number one Dustin Johnson in round three of the World Golf Championships event in Mexico. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39168545"} | 383 | 43 | 0.502411 | 1.196548 | 0.546535 | 1.157895 | 8.605263 | 0.736842 |
1820 - Britain and local rulers sign a treaty to combat piracy along the Gulf coast. From this, and later agreements, the area becomes known as the Trucial Coast.
1892 - Deal between the Trucial States and Britain gives Britain control over foreign affairs and each emirate control over internal affairs.
1948 - Sheikh Saqr Bin-Muhammad al-Qasimi becomes Ruler of Ras al-Khaymah.
1950s - Oil is discovered.
1952 - The seven emirates form a Trucial Council.
1962 - Oil is exported for the first time from Abu Dhabi.
1966 August - Sheikh Zayed Bin-Sultan Al Nuhayyan takes over as Ruler of Abu Dhabi.
1968 - As independence looms, Bahrain and Qatar join the Trucial States. Differences cause the union to crumble in 1971.
1971 November - Iran occupies the islands of Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa.
1971 December - After independence from Britain, Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujayrah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Qaywayn come together as the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Sheikh Zayed Bin-Sultan Al Nuhayyan presides over the federation.
1971 - UAE joins the Arab League.
1972 - Ras al-Khaymah joins the federation.
1972 January - Sheikh Sultan Bin-Muhammad al-Qasimi becomes Ruler of Sharjah.
1972 February - Federal National Council (FNC) is created; it is a 40 member consultative body appointed by the seven rulers.
1974 September - Sheikh Hamad Bin-Muhammad Bin-Hamad al-Sharqi becomes Ruler of Fujayrah.
1981 February - Sheikh Rashid Bin-Ahmad al-Mualla becomes Ruler of Umm al-Qaywayn.
1981 May - UAE is a founding member of the Gulf Cooperation Council; its first summit is held in Abu Dhabi.
1981 September - Sheikh Humayd Bin-Rashid al-Nuaymi becomes Ruler of Ajman.
1986 October - Sheikh Zayed Bin-Sultan Al Nuhayyan is re-elected as UAE president - his fourth term.
1987 June - Attempted coup in Sharjah. Sheikh Sultan Bin-Muhammad al-Qasimi abdicates in favour of his brother after admitting financial mismanagement but is reinstated by the Supreme Council of Rulers.
1990 October - Sheikh Rashid Bin-Said Al Maktum dies and is succeeded by his son Sheikh Maktum Bin-Rashid Al Maktum as ruler of Dubai and UAE vice-president.
1991 - UAE forces join the allies against Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait.
1991 July - Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) collapses. Abu Dhabi's ruling family owns a 77.4% share.
1992 Iran angers the UAE by saying visitors to Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb must have Iranian visas.
1993 December - Abu Dhabi sues BCCI's executives for damages.
1994 June - 11 of the 12 former BCCI executives accused of fraud are given jail sentences and ordered to pay compensation.
1996 - Iran fuels the dispute over Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb by building an airport on Abu Musa and a power station on Greater Tunb.
1996 June - Two BCCI executives are cleared of fraud charges on appeal.
1998 - UAE restores diplomatic relations with Iraq; they were severed at the outbreak of the 1991 Gulf War.
1999 November - Gulf Cooperation Council backs the UAE in its dispute with Iran over Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa .
2001 June - President Sheikh Zayed pardons 6,000 prisoners.
2001 November - Government orders banks to freeze the assets of 62 organisations and individuals suspected by the US of funding terrorism.
2004 November - UAE President Sheikh Zayed Bin-Sultan Al Nahyan dies and is succeeded by his son, Sheikh Khalifa.
2005 December - Sheikh Khalifa announces plans for the UAE's first elections. Half of the members of the consultative Federal National Council will be elected by a limited number of citizens.
2006 January - Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum, UAE PM and vice-president and ruler of Dubai, dies during a visit to Australia. He is succeeded by his brother, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum.
2006 March - Political storm in the US forces state-owned Dubai Ports World to relinquish control of terminals at six major American ports. Critics of the ports deal feared an increased risk of terrorist attack, saying the UAE was home to two of the 9/11 hijackers.
2006 March-June - Economic changes announced. They include bringing the days of the official weekend into line with Western nations, introducing laws to reduce the dependence on foreign workers and allowing labourers to form trade unions.
2006 16 December - First-ever national elections. A small number of hand-picked voters choose half of the members of the Federal National Council - an advisory body.
2007 April - UAE unveils a national development strategy aimed at making it a world leader.
2007 September - Dubai and Qatar become the two biggest shareholders of the London Stock Exchange, the world's third largest stock exchange.
2008 January - France and the UAE sign a deal allowing France to set up a permanent military base in the UAE's largest emirate, Abu Dhabi.
2008 July - The UAE cancels the entire debt owed to it by Iraq - a sum of almost $7bn.
2009 February - Dubai sold $10bn in bonds to the UAE in order to ease liquidity problems.
2009 March - Sulim Yamadayev, a rival of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, dies after an apparent assassination in Dubai.
2009 May - The UAE withdraws from plans for Gulf monetary union, dealing a blow to further economic integration in the region.
2009 November/December - Government-owned investment arm Dubai World requests a moratorium on debt repayments, prompting fears it might default on billions of dollars of debt held abroad. Abu Dhabi gives Dubai a $10bn handout - $4.1bn to bail out Dubai World.
2010 January - Burj Khalifa tower opens in Dubai as the world's tallest building and man-made structure.
Palestinian militant leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is killed in a Dubai hotel, in a hit widely blamed on Israel.
2011 March - UAE joins international military operation in Libya.
2011 April - Five activists who signed an online petition calling for reforms are imprisoned. They are pardoned and released in November.
2012 April - The UAE recalls its ambassador to Iran after the Iranian president visits a Gulf island, Abu Musa, claimed by both countries.
A member of the ruling family in Ras al-Khaimah is put under house arrest after calling for political openness.
2012 July - The UAE begins operating a key overland oil pipeline which bypasses the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has repeatedly threatened to close the strait at the mouth of the Gulf, a vital oil-trade route.
2012 November - Mindful of protests in nearby Bahrain, the UAE outlaws online mockery of its own government or attempts to organise public protests through social media. Since March it has detained more that 60 activists without charge - some of them supporters of the Islah Islamic group, which is aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood elsewhere in Arab countries.
2013 July - Sixty eight alleged members of Al-Islah are jailed on charges of planning to overthrow the government.
2013 November - Trial in UAE of Egyptians and Emiratis accused of starting a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is outlawed in the Gulf state.
2014 January - Sheikh Kalifa, president of the UAE Federal Council and Abu Dhabi's ruler, undergoes surgery after suffering a stroke.
2014 March - Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain withdraw their ambassadors to Qatar in protest at what they say is its interference in their internal affairs.
2014 July - The UAE announces plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars in what would be the first space probe by an Arab or Islamic country.
2014 August - UAE intervenes in Libya, targetting Islamist militants with air strikes, US officials report.
2014 September - The UAE and four other Arab states take part in US-led air strikes on Islamic State militants in Syria.
2014 November - Amnesty International accuses UAE of carrying out an unprecedented clampdown on dissent since 2011.
UAE publishes its list ''terrorist organisations'', including dozens of Islamist groups and charities.
2014 March - The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain temporarily withdraw their ambassadors from Qatar after alleging that it has been meddling in their internal affairs.
2015 March - The UAE and four other GCC states take part in Saudi-led air strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. | A chronology of key events: | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "14704414"} | 2,089 | 8 | 0.214334 | 0.541993 | -1.33792 | 0.5 | 274.5 | 0.5 |
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The 31-year-old received the call on Saturday from Warren Gatland when Youngs withdrew after learning his brother Tom's wife is terminally ill.
"I've been a competitor all my life, that's one of my strengths," Laidlaw said.
"I want to start. It's making sure when I get an opportunity that I take it."
Laidlaw admitted his involvement with the Lions squad came under difficult circumstances, with Youngs pulling out to support his brother.
The Scot made his first start for Gloucester at the weekend after two outings off the bench following nine weeks out injured, but says he is close to 100% fitness and ready to take his chance in New Zealand.
"First and foremost, everybody's thoughts are with Tom, with Ben and the whole of the Youngs family," Laidlaw said.
"I never got the call until late on Saturday night, so it's a quick turnaround. I've got a few things going on, I'm moving clubs [to Clermont Auvergne], so the house is getting packed up as we speak. I was planning to move out today, so I'm pretty busy on that front. I'm delighted to be here and to get started.
"Because it's happened so quick and the logistics of getting down here, it's probably not [sunk in], but it will in the next few days. We've potentially got a few games left with Gloucester this season, so my focus will be on that and trying to win some silverware with them in the Challenge Cup final on Friday night, and potentially the play-offs as well. Then we'll look forward to the Lions.
"I'm well over 90% (fitness-wise) now and you don't want to be playing if you're not close to 100%, but nobody's ever quite 100% these days. I feel good and that's credit to the strength and conditioning team and the physios down at Gloucester."
Laidlaw joins Glasgow Warriors duo Stuart Hogg and Tommy Seymour in the Lions squad and says he is "delighted" to have added to the Scottish contingent travelling to New Zealand.
"You fly the Scottish flag, you're an ambassador for your country and for your team-mates when you come away on trips like this," Laidlaw said.
"I just caught up with Hoggy and Tommy this morning and the Scottish boys on the trip will put our best foot forward. They were pretty happy to see me, and I was with them, they're a couple of good boys.
"To work with different coaches is a great thing, you can always try to learn something new and clearly the coaches on this tour are vastly experienced. There are brilliant players throughout the squad as well, so you just try hard to work with everybody and get the best out of each other. For us to be successful, we will need that to happen." | Scotland scrum-half Greig Laidlaw is targeting a starting place with the Lions after being brought into the squad as a replacement for Ben Youngs. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39847079"} | 653 | 38 | 0.46392 | 1.146622 | -0.110035 | 1.037037 | 21.925926 | 0.592593 |
Denis Cheryshev, 24, gave Real the lead but the Russian should have been serving a one-game ban, say reports.
Newspaper AS has published a document showing he received three bookings in the domestic cup competition while on loan at Villarreal last season.
This first-leg tie was the first opportunity he had to serve the ban.
Real boss Rafael Benitez was manager of Valencia when they were disqualified from the Copa del Rey - the Spanish Cup - having played too many non-European Union players in a tie against Novelda in 2001.
Last season Osasuna were kicked out of the tournament for playing an ineligible player after Unai Garcia was selected in the win over Mirandes despite having been sent off the previous season.
Cadiz will have to report the situation to the Spanish Football Federation on Thursday.
The club's Twitter feed, said during the game: "The Board of Directors of @Cadiz-CF will meet at the end of the match."
Cheryshev was taken off moments after half-time as a double from Isco secured victory for the 19-time Copa del Rey winners, with Kike Marquez scoring a late goal for the hosts. | Real Madrid could face disqualification from the Copa del Rey after fielding an ineligible player in their fourth-round win over Cadiz, report Spanish media. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34990505"} | 278 | 40 | 0.60267 | 1.408842 | 0.517255 | 1.678571 | 8.071429 | 0.678571 |
James Collins scored on his home debut from a Joel Byrom free-kick, before John-Joe O'Toole doubled the lead when he deflected Ricky Holmes' shot into the back of the net.
Rod McDonald headed a third for the Cobblers and Alex Kenyon had a shot over the bar for the Shrimps.
Paul Mullin scored a consolation goal for Morecambe from a loose ball.
The Cobblers have now won five straight league matches, while Jim Bentley's Morecambe saw their four-game unbeaten streak ended as they fell to 14th. | Northampton Town earned a comfortable victory against Morecambe to move two points clear at the top of League Two. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35330871"} | 137 | 26 | 0.539657 | 1.158645 | -0.43746 | 0.35 | 5.15 | 0.35 |
He tweeted he was "so excited" after the news was revealed on the Strictly Twitter account.
"As a fan of Strictly for years, I have always imagined myself on the show, but the timing has not been right... until now!" he said in a statement.
Yesterday former shadow chancellor Ed Balls was the first contestant confirmed for the next series.
Young performed on last year's series of Strictly - performing his track Joy.
The Brit-award-winning singer has released six albums and has an EP coming out this autumn.
The singer won the first series of Pop Idol in 2002 and his debut single Anything is Possible/Evergreen is still one of the 20 biggest selling singles of all time in the UK.
He appeared in the film Mrs Henderson presents alongside Dame Judi Dench and Bob Hoskins in 2005.
He has taken ballet lessons in the past and was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 2013 for best actor for his role in Cabaret the musical.
Earlier this year he appeared in the Great Sport Relief Bake Off.
Young had put out a series of cryptic tweets on Tuesday teasing the announcement.
Six hours before the announcement he tweeted: "Today is going to be exciting..." and then three hours later he tweeted: "Big news coming at 3pm - Can you guess?!" Fans were soon quick to guess his news and welcomed it on Twitter.
Strictly hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman recently revealed that they already know who all the contestants are for the new series.
Winkleman said: "There's something for everyone... there's young, there's old, there's small, there's tall, there's cuddly, there's abrasive.
"Actually there's no abrasive ones, I miss the abrasive ones."
Ed Balls told Chris Evans on the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show that it was a "dream come true" to take part in the show but he was "scared to death". | Will Young is the second celebrity to be announced for this year's Strictly Come Dancing line-up. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37024094"} | 467 | 26 | 0.502169 | 1.25589 | -0.939399 | 0.85 | 19.65 | 0.65 |
The club wants to know the identity of the corporation before paying £5.75m, which was due on 30 January.
Club president Hammam has been widely seen as Langston's representative.
"Court proceedings have been issued against Vincent Tan to pay an amount of £5.75 million plus interest," said Hammam in a statement.
"This amount is due to be paid by the club and Mr Tan legally and personally guaranteed payment in the event of non-payment by the club.
"This amount is the balance due under the Settlement Agreement with Langston as unfortunately Mr Tan and the club are now in default with the legally agreed payments.
"Legally the demand is from both the club and Mr Tan, but it is for Mr Tan to honour the guarantee he has given or to use his resources to allow the club to pay its debts.
"It is to be hoped that Mr Tan recognises and executes his legal responsibilities and in so doing avoids the Club itself being dragged into the legal proceedings."
Cardiff City and Tan have yet to comment.
Before Hammam's confirmation of the litigation, Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman explained why they have held back the payment.
"It is bad governance not knowing who is the owner of a debt we are trying to honour," said Dalman.
He added: "Right now I want to know who it is."
Dalman said former owner Hammam had told the club he was "not" a representative of Langston.
The original debt of £24m was in the form of loan notes issued by The Langston Corporation when Hammam was at the helm of the club.
In 2013 Cardiff and Langston announced "an amicable resolution" to the longstanding debt issue.
Hammam became life president of the club as part of the settlement and his representative Michael Filiou also took a seat on the board of directors.
"Michael Filiou represents Langston on the board, but he cannot tell us who he represents," said Dalman. | Former owner Sam Hammam says current backer Vincent Tan and Cardiff City are being sued over nearly £6m owed to creditors Langston. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31040542"} | 435 | 31 | 0.617866 | 1.84811 | 0.134811 | 0.92 | 15.68 | 0.6 |
The information ministry said many of the dead and injured were villagers trying to collect spilled fuel.
The train was travelling from Mandalay to Myitkyina in the north, near the border with China.
No explanation has been given for the accident, but Burma's railways are in poor condition after years of neglect.
Officials told the BBC Burmese service that three wagons overturned and burst into flames.
There were seven wagons carrying petrol and two more of diesel, officials said.
The ministry posted images on its website of burnt-out wagons and what appeared to be charred bodies.
The train came off the rails near Kantbalu, a town some 500 miles (800km) north of the main city, Rangoon.
The number of people killed in the accident was unclear. The government said 25 people died and 62 people were injured.
But emergency officials told the BBC that more than 80 were wounded, and that 27 had been killed.
Two people died after being transferred to hospital, emergency officials said. | A train carrying petrol has derailed and burst into flames in northern Burma, killing at least 25 people and injuring dozens more. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "20272264"} | 224 | 34 | 0.66064 | 1.367028 | 0.550975 | 1.375 | 8.291667 | 0.708333 |
Duncan suffered a heart attack in July and died at a hospital in Los Angeles after failing to recover.
He was nominated for an Oscar in 2000 for his portrayal as convicted murderer John Coffey alongside Tom Hanks in The Green Mile.
Paying tribute to his co-star, Hanks described him as "magic".
"I am terribly saddened at the loss of Big Mike," said the actor. "He was the treasure we all discovered on the set of The Green Mile.
"He was a big love of man and his passing leaves us stunned," Hanks added.
A former bodyguard, the 6ft 4in (1.93m) Duncan was an imposing figure who played a wide variety of action roles and also voiced animated parts.
His versatility saw him team up with Bruce Willis to save the Earth in Armageddon, then play it for laughs in Will Ferrell's racing comedy Talladega Nights.
In recent years he was seen in US sitcom Two and a Half Men and could be heard in animated comedy Family Guy.
But he will be remembered primarily for his role as John Coffey a convicted murderer possessed of extraordinary healing powers, in the adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Green Mile.
His performance won him a nomination as best supporting actor and kick-started an acting career that only began once he gave up bodyguard work in his thirties.
The film's director Frank Darabont described Duncan as "one of the finest people I've ever had the privilege to work with or know".
"Michael was the gentlest of souls - an exemplar of decency, integrity and kindness," he said in a statement. "The sadness I feel is inexpressible."
Duncan, who was born in Chicago in 1957, died on Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
His fiancee, the reality TV personality Reverend Omarosa Manigault, asked for privacy until his funeral and memorial events were announced. | Actor Michael Clarke Duncan, who rose to prominence playing a death row inmate in acclaimed film The Green Mile, has died at the age of 54. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "19472267"} | 453 | 35 | 0.492619 | 1.279604 | -0.009656 | 1.103448 | 13.172414 | 0.62069 |
Its history is rooted in celebrating African-Caribbean culture and community cohesion over the August bank holiday weekend.
But headlines in the run-up to this year's event have appeared to focus on crime and violence instead of calypso and costumes.
"Prior to Notting Hill Carnival, we're disrupting gang crime, drug supply, knife crime and offences that could impact the safety of the weekend," said the Met Police.
It revealed officers made 290 arrests, recovered 190 knives and 18 firearms and seized a kilogram of suspected heroin before the two-day event.
Fears have been expressed on social media people might take acid to the event and police have reportedly warned business owners to prepare for trouble.
Former Kensington MP Victoria Borick told LBC radio organisers need to tell revellers "don't bring your knives, don't bring your guns, don't bring your acid this year".
However, the focus on crime and violence has led to a social media backlash with many questioning whether the carnival is being unfairly portrayed.
"How many drugs did you lot seize in the run up to Glastonbury or we only doing tweets like this for black events?" grime artist Stormzy asked.
Those on the ground at the carnival say the atmosphere is "positive".
"After carnival you hear about all these madnesses, but we've never experienced or seen it because we don't have that sort of atmosphere," says Errol Smith, from King SSP Sound System - one of more than 30 that play at the carnival.
"It's peaceful - everyone jumping up and down and having fun. We've never had any issues or problems in the eight years we've been there. From where I've been, people are just enjoying themselves."
Carnival has experienced trouble over the years including a riot in 1976 and five deaths between 1987 and 2004.
At last year's event, police made 454 arrests - the highest for 10 years - with 90 being for possession of an offensive weapon, 17 for assault and 169 for drugs.
Two people suffered serious injuries after being stabbed.
The Metropolitan Police Federation has said its rank-and-file officers "dread" working at the carnival.
Speaking after last year's event, federation chairman Ken Marsh said the carnival was being "hijacked" by troublemakers intent on "turning it into a bank holiday battleground".
"Last year we had an officer stabbed. This year colleagues were assaulted, abused and spat at," he said. "Forty-three were injured - with eight needing hospital treatment. How can that be right? It's completely and utterly unacceptable."
Meanwhile, a report by the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee in January said the carnival posed a "real risk to public safety" due to violent crime and overcrowding.
Statistics for 2013-16 show the proportion of arrests at the Notting Hill Carnival was only half that at Glastonbury - one of the UK's other biggest outdoor events.
Notting Hill saw an average of 3.5 arrests for every 10,000 people who attended over those years. Glastonbury's corresponding figure was 7.4.
However, the data does not reveal whether the arrests were for low-level or more serious crimes.
George Ruddock, editor and managing director of black newspaper The Voice, says there is a "stigma" attached to the carnival.
"It's targeted because it's got its origin as being a black cultural event," he said.
"Fifty-one years later the police still think it's predominantly black people who will be there but surprise, surprise, it won't be. There will be a mixture of cultures there.
"I think if there's any kind of event which has predominantly black entertainment and attracts a crowd, there would still be this kind of focus."
Ben Wilson from the London School of Samba, which has been performing at the carnival for 34 years, says the stories which focus on crime at the event are "unfair".
"I think there are definitely racial undertones. It's not white people portrayed in these crimes. It is black gangs portrayed, and of course the carnival is next to many million-pound houses who would love to see us get out of town and go to a park."
Jo Jordan, 23, was attacked by a gang who stabbed him in the arm and stole his watch at the carnival last August.
Despite his injury, he believes the number of arrests at carnival represents "the small minority who go for the wrong reasons".
"It's a scary world we live in - I could be walking down the street and someone could try and rob me so you need to be careful. If I'm going to go [this year] I won't wear something expensive and attract attention.
"But there's still so much positive thing to gain from carnival, I feel like something needs to be done to stop the bad outweighing the good."
Lucy Knight, 46, from Shepherd's Bush, has been been to every carnival since she was 13.
"I can't say carnival doesn't have a problem because that would be to ignore the fact that when you have a million people in one area you're going to have crime rates and when you have people drinking and got people doing drugs there is going to be crime.
"But you have to look at the statistics when held against other festivals and events. If you look at any town on a Saturday night and you will find more crime there than carnival statistically speaking."
The carnival's organiser, London Notting Hill Carnival Enterprises Trust, says its focus is on "our community, our culture and having a celebration".
Trustee Kemi Sobers said: "There is this relentlessness on crime which we find is deeply unfortunate. If there was no crime in the wider society and there was crime at carnival then perhaps we focus on that.
"We do our utmost to ensure the safety and security of the million people that come to our event and try to stress policing yourself.
"We have 1,000 stewards there to help us and as back-up we have the Met Police as part of a range of emergency services that support our event.
"There are 10,000 narratives that you could extrapolate from carnival and its preparation this week. Some choose to concentrate on policing and crime and we choose to concentrate on our community." | For 50 years, jerk chicken, reggae, soca and sound systems, a touch of rain and a colourful parade have made up Notting Hill Carnival in west London. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "41023844"} | 1,414 | 42 | 0.42391 | 1.262645 | -0.876663 | 0.96875 | 39.65625 | 0.65625 |
Rob Camm, 23, from Breadstone, Gloucestershire was paralysed from the neck down in a car crash in 2013.
He used voice recognition software to write essays and used head movements to control his mouse pointer.
Mr Camm will graduate in politics and philosophy at the University of Bristol on Friday afternoon.
"Before the accident, I had always been the type of person who wanted to be the best they can be," he said.
"Getting a first has made me feel that way again."
He said he "could not believe it" when he saw his result.
"I had to keep refreshing the student information page to be sure. Not many people get a first so I'm very proud of managing to do that.
"It's been good to get out of the house and have a purpose. Meeting people and socialising has been hard, but many things are possible with some planning."
Mr Camm will now study for a law conversion course at the University of Law in Bristol, and has recently moved to the city from his family home near Berkeley in Gloucestershire. | A man with tetraplegia who is graduating with a first class degree says his time at university has given him a purpose. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40605793"} | 232 | 32 | 0.447156 | 1.182738 | 0.290722 | 0.913043 | 9.521739 | 0.565217 |
Russia had agreed to ensure Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles were destroyed - and its failure to do this enabled the attack, he said.
The US fired 59 missiles at a Syrian airbase after the alleged attack.
Syria has denied using any chemical agents, and Russia says the US gave no evidence Syria has chemical weapons.
Russia is the Syrian government's main ally, and helped facilitate a 2013 agreement to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal.
The suspected chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun on Wednesday left 89 people dead.
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Speaking on CBS's Face The Nation, Mr Tillerson said there was no evidence to suggest Russia was part of the alleged chemical attack.
However, "whether Russia was complicit here or whether they were simply incompetent or whether they got outwitted" by the Syrian government, they had "failed in their commitment to the international community", he said.
Russia had agreed to "be the guarantor of the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles... the result of their failure has led to the killing of more children and innocents," Mr Tillerson added.
Mr Tillerson is set to meet his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, this week in Moscow.
The Russian government has denied that Syria carried out a chemical attack, saying that civilians on the ground were poisoned after Syrian planes struck a depot producing chemical weapons for rebels.
Western governments, rebel leaders and a weapons expert all criticised this claim, saying the evidence pointed to an attack by the Syrian government.
Following the suspected attack, US President Donald Trump launched air strikes against a Syrian government air base, and branded Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad a "dictator" who had "launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians".
The Syrian government called the strikes "foolish and irresponsible", while Russia accused the US of "an act of aggression against a sovereign state delivered in violation of international law under a far-fetched pretext". | US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has criticised Russia, saying it had failed to prevent Syria from carrying out a chemical attack on a rebel-held town. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39548388"} | 470 | 36 | 0.555209 | 1.310877 | 0.285376 | 1.2 | 13.566667 | 0.733333 |
Scott Panetti, 56, is slated for execution on Wednesday for the fatal shootings of his in-laws in 1992.
High court justices in 2002 prohibited the execution of the mentally impaired, but have allowed it for mentally ill inmates with a rational understanding.
Panetti's lawyers argue the mentally ill should also be exempt under law.
A number of conservatives leaders have also joined the fight to save his life, writing a letter asking Texas Governor Rick Perry to commute the death sentence to life in prison.
"As conservatives, we must be on guard that such an extraordinary government sanction not be used against a person who is mentally incapable of rational thought," according to the letter.
"It would be immoral for the government to take this man's life."
The Texas inmate was severely mentally ill "before, during and after the crime for which he has been sentenced to death", lawyers Gregory Wiercioch and Kathryn Kase told the Supreme Court on Monday.
Panetti was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1978 and hospitalised more than a dozen times before killing Joe and Amanda Alvarado.
"Imposition of the death penalty on people with severe mental illness, as with people with intellectual disability, does not serve the two goals of deterrence and retribution because of their reduced moral culpability," his lawyers told the court.
The Supreme Court added a provision mandating that an inmate have a rational understanding of why he was being put to death in 2007 under a previous appeal from Panetti.
His case has gone to the high court for review at least five times since his 1995 conviction, records show.
A separate appeal for the inmate - requesting a delay in execution to evaluate his mental competency - is currently before a federal appeals court.
Ellen Stewart-Klein, an assistant Texas attorney general, told that appeals court Panetti's medical records "strongly indicate rational awareness of his impending execution and the reason for it".
"Panetti's mental status has at best been severely exaggerated by his counsel," she added. | Lawyers for a schizophrenic Texas inmate set to be executed this week have called on the US Supreme Court to halt the lethal injection. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30297638"} | 452 | 36 | 0.471773 | 1.19241 | 0.022424 | 0.8 | 15.84 | 0.64 |
With 37 million people said to own a smartphone in the UK, touchscreen is king.
Phones, tablets, many cash points and self-service check-outs are all designed to give the consumer control at the swipe of a finger. But what if you can't use them?
Political reporter Esther Webber recently posted a snapshot of her battered Nokia on Facebook accompanied with the caption "Goodbye my lover" a reference to James Blunt's hit. It was like 2005 all over again.
But her love for the old phone wasn't some kooky style choice, it was a necessity which came with chunky buttons and physical mechanisms. The tremors from her cerebral palsy making touchscreen surfaces almost impossible to use.
"Pressing a button, however small, is a cruder, more definite movement than the sensitive skidding of the touchscreen," she says.
"My imprecise hand movements make it impossible to tap out anything resembling an intelligible sentence. At primary school I used an electric typewriter and at secondary school, a laptop.
"But when smartphones arrived, for the first time, I felt excluded."
According to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 11 million people have cerebral palsy globally, an additional 10 million have Parkinson's Disease and with an aging population there is growing demand for a solution.
It was a situation noted by two of the university's students - Aviva Dayan and Ido Elad - and their Professor Yuval Kochman who went on to develop a potentially "life-changing", but yet-to-be-named, tremor absorbing software which could open up touchscreen technology to millions of people.
Dayan says: "A close friend of our family, who we refer to as uncle, has cerebral palsy and he took a huge, daily, part in my upbringing. A few years ago I found myself frustrated that I couldn't Skype him because he can't use it.
"I want to be able to Skype with my uncle and I hope to do the same for other people in similar situations. The next step is to allow people like my uncle to generally use all touchscreen functionality, everywhere, like anyone else."
Dayan describes the software as a "translation programme" which intercepts and "listens" to the shaky screen touches, cancelling out the "noise" of the tremors for the operating system to understand and act upon without delay.
It's still being discussed how the technology can be rolled out. Options include having an app available to download or getting a deal to incorporate it directly into phone operating systems.
Dayan says: "As far as the user is concerned, they just press the icons on the screen, and the computer works just the same as it works for anyone else."
She says the bonus is that it would work with any phone and not "come with 'special needs' adaptations".
For Webber that is music to her ears compared to current options.
"Voice commands? OK, but the other passengers on the bus don't really need to know where I'm planning to go for drinks. Detachable keyboards? Yes, but the process of assemblage takes the 'mobile' out of mobile phone."
At Scope, Assistive Technologist Kim Lawther says this type of technology could "change lives".
"Quite a number of my students experience involuntary spasms, which makes certain technologies impossible to use, so if you're able to almost cancel those out then the technology is usable," she says.
"The pros are obvious. If it works, that would change lives but the cons are all the unanswered questions, until you get the final software it's hard to be too excited."
For now, she acknowledges Webber's frustrations but says voice commands to "do the hard work" such as updating a Facebook status or keyboard adaptations remain "the best thing" for now.
Robin Christopherson, the Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet agrees the product being nurtured is "powerful" and something he would "love to see built into the operating system," but it comes with a warning to the aspiring entrepreneurs.
"iOS and Android build in lots of cleverness, so I do ask myself why can't Apple or Google just build the extra level of noise cancellation into the accessibility settings?"
He predicts if the system piques a company's interest it might just buy it out saying "it wouldn't be the first time by any means".
Apple did not respond to requests to talk about the potential of the tremor absorber, and Android simply highlighted its voice activation services - both companies perhaps keeping any future plans to themselves.
The potential of the students' project was first identified at a science fair by Tamir Huberman a business development specialist for the university's for-profit company, Yissum, which aims to turn the best ideas originated at the university into businesses.
He says "as a rule of thumb" about $500,000 is needed to help fund the wider trials and get this technology into development . It is hoped it will be available within two years.
Following the "death" of her Nokia, Webber opted for a BlackBerry with keyboard, although the company recently announced plans to stop designing its smartphones in-house leaving her fearing facing her touchscreen "nemesis" sooner rather than later.
She says: "What's happening in Jerusalem sounds like something that would make a big difference. Other people with fine motor impairments tell me they've just 'got used' to typing gobbledygook or rearranging all their apps with one errant movement. As someone who writes for a living this idea horrifies me.
"I just hope technology catches up soon."
Voice recognition on Android: Converts the user's speech into text for typing messages and launching applications
Speak passwords on Android: A system which will read out passwords to the user with TalkBack making is easier to fill in passwords
Touch and hold delay on Android: When having to tap and hold something on the screen to activate it, users can set a delay between the two motions so the device can tell the difference between a quick and long press
Inverting colours on Apple: Changing the colour combination of the device can improve the contrast between text, image and background making items easier to identify
Switch control on Apple: This highlights items one by one before the user can then make a selection by activating a switch
Guided access on Apple: This limits what can be accessed at any one time so you concentrate on a selected app which can use useful for those with attention and sensory challenges
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Emergency services were called to Devil's Bridge, near Aberystwyth, at 10:54 BST on Tuesday.
Special rope rescue teams combined with HM Coastguard to rescue the woman.
She was taken to Aberystwyth's Bronglais Hospital with what are thought to be non life-threatening injuries. | A woman who was left stranded after falling down an embankment in Ceredigion has been rescued and taken to hospital. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36082654"} | 74 | 31 | 0.675289 | 1.183484 | -0.196772 | 0.380952 | 2.52381 | 0.285714 |
The officials work for the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation and Canadile Miners, state media reported.
They are suspected of fraudulently obtaining a licence to mine the controversial Marange fields, in the east of the country.
Marange is mired in controversy over legal issues and abuse by the military.
The Kimberley Process, a global certification scheme meant to prevent trade in "blood diamonds", has limited sales from Marange after its investigation found soldiers had beaten villagers to force them to mine the gems.
The group is due to meet to review Zimbabwe's efforts to curb abuses by government soldiers.
The state-run Herald newspaper said those arrested included Dominic Mubaiwa, chief executive of the ZMDC, and Lovemore Kurotwi, the local head of Canadile Miners - a joint Zimbabwean-South African venture.
The report said they faced charges of misrepresenting that the joint venture firm was able to fund mining operations in Marange.
"Blood diamonds" are rough diamonds used by rebel groups or their allies to finance wars and conflicts.
The Kimberley Process was set up in 2002 after the diamond trade was accused of fuelling several conflicts in Africa. | Zimbabwean police have arrested six directors of two diamond mining corporations on suspicion of fraudulently obtaining a licence. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "11697908"} | 262 | 24 | 0.59101 | 1.250934 | 0.089217 | 1.631579 | 11.526316 | 0.578947 |
The five-time world champion, 39, was included in the draw but said last week that he would decline the invitation to play without stating why.
Tournament organiser have now confirmed the two-time winner will not feature.
O'Sullivan's decision not to play means Ruhr Open winner Rory McLeod will now be assured of an invite to play in the event, which begins on 10 November.
Writing on Twitter last week, O'Sullivan said: "I don't want fans buying tickets for Coventry thinking I'm playing. I said I hadn't entered weeks ago. Nothing's changed."
World champion Stuart Bingham will play the opening match of the tournament, while the likes of Neil Robertson, Shaun Murphy and world number one Mark Selby will also be in action. | Ronnie O'Sullivan will not defend his Champion of Champions title in Coventry next month. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34506331"} | 171 | 21 | 0.608742 | 1.294935 | -0.225378 | 0.666667 | 10.066667 | 0.533333 |
Blair Nimmo, of administrators KPMG, confirmed no party had been prepared to buy the business and assets at Hawick Knitwear in their current format.
The company called in administrators nearly six weeks ago after experiencing "difficult trading conditions".
More than 100 staff were made redundant immediately with just 56 workers retained to complete remaining orders.
Mr Nimmo said discussions were continuing with various parties who had offered to acquire the assets of the company and may at some point start production from the Hawick Knitwear premises.
He added: "However until a formal agreement is concluded we are not in a position to provide further information." | A prospective buyer has yet to be found to take over a Borders knitwear firm as a going concern. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35577820"} | 134 | 25 | 0.540328 | 1.246234 | -0.592336 | 0.35 | 6.05 | 0.35 |
He was sentenced to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to defraud.
The 35-year old is the first individual to face a jury trial for manipulating the rate, which is used as a benchmark for trillions of pounds of global borrowing and lending.
Many of the world's leading banks have paid heavy financial penalties for tampering with the key benchmark.
The jury found Hayes guilty on all eight charges of conspiracy to defraud.
Hayes stood impassively as the foreman on the jury read out all eight guilty verdicts.
His wife noted down the verdicts as they were read out.
At one point, he shook his head and looked across at his wife, mother and stepfather in the public gallery.
Hayes held his head in his hands while his lawyer read out a list of mitigating factors.
Hayes was sentenced to 14 years, half to be spent in custody before any possibility of release on licence.
Justice Cooke said Hayes was the "centre and hub" of the manipulation.
He said: "You succumbed to temptation because you could... To gain status, seniority and remuneration," adding that Hayes' actions were "dishonest and wrong".
The case was brought by the Serious Fraud Office, which said Hayes set up a network of brokers and traders spanning 10 financial institutions and cajoled or bribed them to help rig Libor rates for profit.
During the trial, jurors were told that Hayes promised to pay a broker up to $100,000 to keep the Libor rate "as low as possible".
It took the jury one week to arrive at the verdicts.
Defence barrister Neil Hawes asked the judge to take into account the prevalence of Libor manipulation at the time, and also that Hayes had been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum.
Mr Hawes also said that managers and senior managers at Hayes' bank knew of, and in some cases condoned, Libor manipulation.
Hayes, a former star trader originally from Fleet in Hampshire, rigged the Libor rates daily for nearly four years while working in Tokyo for UBS, then Citigroup, from 2006 until 2010.
Citigroup says it has no comment about the verdicts. UBS has said it was not a party to the case.
Hayes's trading activities were based around movements in the Libor rate - the London interbank offered rate.
It is an interest rate used by banks around the world to set the price of financial products worth trillions of pounds.
Rigging even minor movements in the rate can result in bumper profits for a trader manipulating the rates, or the rate can be moved simply to make a bank look more creditworthy.
During the trial, the court heard that manipulating the Libor rate was so commonplace that an offer of a Mars bar could get it changed.
Hayes told a fellow trader: "Just give the cash desk a Mars bar and they'll set wherever you want."
Hayes confessed, saying that he did not want to be extradited to the US.
He claimed that the manipulation was widespread.
Hayes initially co-operated with investigators, confessing to the manipulation.
But four months after he was charged in 2013, he changed his legal team, and his plea.
He pleaded "not guilty" to the charges, resulting in the trial, which began on 26 May. | Former City trader Tom Hayes has been found guilty at a London court of rigging global Libor interest rates. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33763628"} | 768 | 28 | 0.493628 | 1.381736 | -0.192841 | 0.9 | 32.65 | 0.9 |
The 30-year-old was also questioned on suspicion of acting in a disorderly manner on the Flybe flight from Liverpool on Thursday.
He was detained at George Best Belfast City Airport on Thursday afternoon.
A police spokesman said the man has since been released on bail pending further inquiries. | A man was arrested on suspicion of endangering the safety of an aircraft following an "incident" on board a Belfast-bound flight, police have said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36804345"} | 63 | 36 | 0.719074 | 1.29867 | -0.259821 | 0.733333 | 1.9 | 0.533333 |
The target, first set by David Cameron in 2010, has never been met and net migration was 273,000 according to the latest figures.
Mrs May said she wanted "sustainable" levels of migration which she said would be in the tens of thousands.
She was speaking on a general election campaign visit to Enfield in London.
With the 8 June election announcement taking most of Westminster by surprise, the parties have yet to put forward formal policy manifestos, but Mrs May indicated her backing for the migration pledge, which she was responsible for as home secretary under Mr Cameron.
"We want to see sustainable net migration in this country," she told the BBC.
"I believe that sustainable net migration is in the tens of thousands.
"Leaving the European Union enables us to control our borders in relation to people coming from the EU, as well as those who are coming from outside."
Questions had been raised about whether the commitment would feature in the Conservative manifesto after Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said earlier that immigration was "not about putting numbers on it" but about ensuring Britain had the skilled workers it needed.
The government has promised new migration controls after the UK leaves the EU, when freedom of movement rules will no longer apply.
But it has yet to set out the precise model it will adopt.
Mrs May hit back at Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who used a campaign speech to paint the general election as the "people against the Establishment" and an "ego trip" for the PM.
She said the election was about "ensuring that we have strong and stable leadership in this country" as well as strengthening the government's hand in Brexit talks. | Theresa May has indicated she will stick with the government's long-running aim of reducing migration to below 100,000. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39658785"} | 339 | 27 | 0.581804 | 1.392892 | 0.074385 | 0.772727 | 15.136364 | 0.590909 |
Wantage Community Hospital was scheduled to shut early in summer after raised levels of legionella bacteria were detected in its hot water system.
An online petition to save the hospital was signed by more than 3,900 people.
Oxford Health NHS trust has now said its midwifery and physiotherapy services will remain open.
Campaigners have said the trust should also reverse plans to close the hospital's 12 bed in-patient service.
The trust has said repairs to the hospital's old, corroded pipework, needed to reduce the legionella risk, will not go ahead until after a consultation in the autumn.
A trust spokesperson said it had "listened to local concerns" and offered to continue running services where there is the least risk to patients.
But she added: "It remains necessary to close the 12-bed inpatient service to protect those people more exposed to legionella risk and who are typically the most vulnerable in the event of an outbreak.
"The inpatient service must be closed since it would be impossible to relocate these patients quickly if an emergency shutdown is required."
Emma Jones, who started the petition, said the hospital was "vital to local people".
The facility's long-term future will be decided after a public consultation later this year, which will also look at other NHS services across Oxfordshire.
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It didn't look like much, to be honest. A pale blue linen folder on top of a pile of books. The sort of binding someone might use for a PhD thesis. Bigger than A4. And just a few pages long.
But I picked it up. And straight away I was intrigued. A few cuttings from newspapers carefully tucked inside. Then several pages of beautiful, handwritten calligraphy.
It was a testimonial to a priest, to commemorate 50 years in the service of the church.
I'd never seen anything like it before. And it was only priced at £6:50. So, I thought I had to buy it.
When I got it home, there was time to read it more carefully.
It was addressed to Father John Rooney, priest at St Columbkille's. Dated May 1974.
And there were references to the Scottish Catholic Aid Fund (Sciaf). Father Rooney, it said, was chosen to be a founder member, national chairman, and administrator of Sciaf.
The first place to start, to try and find out more, was back at the bookshop where I'd bought it - "Voltaire and Rousseau" in Glasgow's west end.
Eddie McGonigle, one of the two brothers who run the shop, recognised the document straight away.
He remembered that it had come with about 2,000 books, "virtually all Catholic theology", from a house in Motherwell. They'd all been in good condition, and had sold quickly.
But he'd never seen anything like the testimonial before.
"It's the type of thing that would be handed to another priest. Or someone would hand it in to their parish priest. So it wouldn't end up here", he told me.
Next stop, the parish where Father Rooney was serving when he celebrated his milestone in the priesthood.
St Columbkille's is a busy place. Hundreds of parishioners gathered for morning Mass in the church hall on the day I was there, including children from the local Scout group who processed in and took part in the service.
Afterwards, in the parish house, I heard some memories of John Rooney from people who'd been children in the parish when he was there.
Michael McGrath said: "The memory I have of him is meeting him as he would walk up and down Rutherglen Main Street, wearing his black coat and his black trilby hat.
"He would doff his hat to every family he passed."
Miriam McKernan laughed as she told me: "I don't remember many sermons. But I remember one, where he was advising how we should baptise our children.
"I would have been about 10 at the time. And I can remember him saying 'You must give your child a saint's name. Otherwise you might as well call her Carrot!'"
But then a real breakthrough. The priest at St Columkille's now is Father Pat Hennessey. I asked him to look at the list of signatures at the end of the testimonial, to see if he recognised any of the names.
"That's my signature there", he pointed. And there, indeed, it was. The Reverend Patrick Hennessey.
He was young, fresh-faced, and just out of the seminary. His first posting. And he remembered the celebration when his boss marked 50 years as a priest.
"A lot of people made great speeches," he said. "And there was great joy, really.
"And we all felt delighted for Monsignor. He became Monsignor that night."
But it turns out that the cuttings I'd seen in the front of the folder were obituaries - from the local papers, and the Catholic press.
John Rooney died just days later.
Father Pat remembered that, too.
"After such joy over in the hall, his funeral was celebrated here in the church."
And that was quite an occasion, too. The funeral Mass was attended by a Cardinal, two Archbishops, five bishops, and hundreds of parishioners.
Pat Hennessey says the service recognised John Rooney's work in education. And it commemorated the fact that he'd been "the driving force" to get Sciaf established.
So, finally, my quest took me to Sciaf's present headquarters at Park Circus in Glasgow.
Director, Alistair Dutton, pointed out the remarkable coincidence that a document written to commemorate John Rooney's Jubilee had come to light in the year that the organisation he'd helped to start is itself celebrating 50 years since its foundation.
He said it had begun as a parish effort.
"But very quickly the Bishop, and then the Bishops' Conference more generally, recognised the value of that," he said.
"And so in September 1965 there was this pastoral letter that launched Sciaf as the official aid agency for the (Roman Catholic) church in Scotland."
Mr Dutton said it was "incredibly moving" to see the document written to celebrate one of the charity's founders.
He added that it was "really reassuring to go back to the spirit of the founders, and just see we are still true to exactly what they wanted to achieve.
"We're bigger now, but that means we're able to do more of it. I'm pretty confident if Monsignor John Rooney was sitting here now, he'd be smiling at what we're doing."
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Donald confirmed Hill will take permanent charge of the Spitfires for a second time after a turbulent season which saw three changes in management.
Former Gillingham boss Hessenthaler will be Hill's assistant.
"We should be achieving much more than we have this year for the money we've been spending," Donald said.
The National League side parted company with Chris Todd, Ronnie Moore and Martin Allen this season as they finished a disappointing 15th.
Hill returned as director of football and caretaker manager in February.
"Since Richard left the first time, I've given other managers more money to spend on the squad than he had," Donald told BBC Radio Solent.
"I'm hoping that if we can give him a little bit of that extra money, we will do a lot better. But, Richard and Andy have got to spend the money right over the summer."
Midfielder Ben Strevens will continue on Eastleigh's coaching team alongside Paul Reid on the scouting side. | Eastleigh chairman Stewart Donald hopes new management pairing Richard Hill and Andy Hessenthaler will spend wisely on the squad for next season. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39784545"} | 220 | 29 | 0.631254 | 1.50119 | 0.649018 | 1.130435 | 8.391304 | 0.695652 |
The savings ratio - which measures the outgoings and incomings that affect households - has been falling sharply for more than a year.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the ratio stood at 1.7% from January to March, down from 3.3% in the previous quarter.
The UK economy grew by 0.2% in the first quarter of 2017, the ONS said.
This was unchanged from an earlier estimate but confirmed the slowdown from the 0.7% rate seen in the final quarter of last year.
Growth in the business services and finance sectors helped to offset slower consumer spending, the ONS said.
Consumer spending and saving were hit by another fall in disposable income.
For the first time since the 1970s, disposable income has fallen for three quarters in a row.
Concerns have also been expressed about the level of consumer borrowing on loans, credit cards, overdrafts and car finance.
But the ONS also said that the timing of tax payments was a major factor in the cut in savings levels since September last year. Gross saving of £5.6bn in the first quarter of the year was a sharp drop from £11bn the previous quarter, and £17.7bn in the three months before that.
Darren Morgan, head of GDP at the ONS, said: "The saving ratio has fallen again this quarter to a new record low, partly as a result of higher tax payments reducing disposable income.
"Some of the fall could be as a result of the timing of those payments, but the underlying trend is for a continued fall in the saving ratio."
Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the TUC, said: "These figures make for grim reading. People raiding their piggy banks is bad news for working people and the economy.
"But with wages falling as living costs rise, many families are having to run down their savings or rely on credit cards and loans to get through the month. With household debt now at crisis levels, we urgently need to create better paid jobs."
Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: "This suggests that the crisis in earnings not keeping up with prices means that many working households are struggling to make ends meet."
Vince Cable, from the Liberal Democrats, said: "Rising prices and falling wages since the Brexit vote mean families are increasingly unable to live within their means or save for the future.
"Our economy's reliance on consumer spending, propped up by debt, is not sustainable and combined with an extreme Brexit the consequences could be severe."
Earlier this week, financial information service Moneyfacts said that savers have faced a "never-ending battle" to get a decent return on their cash over the past few years.
Nine out of 10 easy access savings accounts pay interest of less than 1%, and a third of such accounts failed to even pay a rate matching the current base rate of 0.25%.
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The body of John Henry Sabine was found at the rear of flats at Trem-y-Cwm, Beddau, on 24 November. The cause of death was blunt force head trauma.
Mr Sabine's wife Leigh Ann, who died last October, is the main suspect.
His inquest in Aberdare was told she admitted killing her husband with a stone frog in a phone call to a friend.
South Wales Central Coroner Andrew Barkley said it was "beyond doubt in my mind that foul play was the cause of his death".
He said the cause was blunt force injury to the head, with the evidence about the stone frog fitting with this.
Mr Sabine, who had not been seen for 18 years, would have been 85 when his body was uncovered - it is still not known when he died.
His decomposed body was found wearing Marks & Spencer pyjamas and was wrapped in many layers of heavy-duty material, such as roofing felt, as well as shopping bags and bin bags tied with green string.
It was relatively well-preserved because of a process known as "chemical mummification", which can persist for years or even centuries.
The coroner said there was no recorded history of domestic violence or that Mrs Sabine acted in self defence and he was satisfied her husband was unlawfully killed.
"Precisely what happened and the circumstances will sadly never totally be known," he added.
The hearing was told Mr Sabine's wife admitted killing her husband during a phone call to Valerie Chalkley in 1997.
In written evidence to Aberdare Coroner's Court, Mrs Chalkley said she had been friends with the couple.
In 1997, after she moved to Hull, she had a call from Mrs Sabine and joked: "I thought you two would have killed each other by now."
Later in the conversation, Mrs Sabine said: "You know what you just said about killing him. I've killed him with a stone frog I kept by the side of the bed."
Mrs Chalkley added: "The problem with Ann was you never knew if she was telling the truth or not."
Mrs Sabine described her husband as jealous and possessive and told her his behaviour "drove her mad", Mrs Chalkley added.
Forensic pathologist Dr Richard Jones said a single blow from the 1.1kg (2.4lbs), 14cm (5.5in) object could account for all of the fractures.
The inquest heard that, before Mrs Sabine's death in October, she had asked a neighbour to move a "medical skeleton" from her garden, bought while she was training to be a nurse.
Neighbour Michelle James described how, after Mrs Sabine had died, a few people decided to play a joke with the purported medical skeleton by pretending it was a new boyfriend for one of her friends.
They took a knife and tried to cut open the packaging around it, when they made the grim discovery.
"I started screaming: 'It's a dead body, it's a dead body'. I went inside and was saying: 'Don't think I'm nuts but there's a dead body in the garden'," she said.
Police Community Support Officer Gareth Bishop said he was called to the house after the discovery of the skeleton and described "a strong rotting smell, like from a compost bin".
Mary West, a street pastor and executor of Mrs Sabine's will, said in written evidence Mrs Sabine "span a myth about her life", with stories of winning a modelling contract in Australia, a glamorous singing career and tales of her husband's affairs. | A man found wrapped in plastic in his Rhondda Cynon Taff garden was unlawfully killed, a coroner has concluded. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36330451"} | 829 | 33 | 0.356674 | 0.998009 | -0.28924 | 1.142857 | 34 | 0.666667 |
The 36-year-old has not been selected since Pakistan's early exit from the World Twenty20 in India in April, after which he resigned as Twenty20 captain.
A hard-hitting right-handed batsman and leg-spinner, Afridi retired from Test cricket in 2010 and from one-day internationals in 2015.
He has scored more sixes than any other player in the history of one-day international cricket, with 351.
Meanwhile, off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has also been omitted by the Pakistan Cricket Board, hurting his chances of making a comeback in the national side. | Pakistan have decided not to renew Shahid Afridi's central contract. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37792649"} | 139 | 18 | 0.592849 | 1.191476 | -0.902015 | 0.416667 | 9.583333 | 0.416667 |
Shadow Lords leader Baroness Smith said the move was a "massive over-reaction" to the government's defeat over tax credit changes last year.
She was speaking as peers debated the proposals put forward by Conservative Lord Strathclyde.
The Tory peer said Lords were actually being given a new "very practical" power they had never had before.
He led a review launched by David Cameron into the powers of the House of Lords after they blocked plans to cut tax credits in October, to the anger of Conservative ministers.
The cuts were later shelved in the Autumn Statement.
The review recommended taking away the absolute veto the House of Lords had over laws, called statutory instruments, and instead create a new procedure allowing them to send the secondary legislation back to the House of Commons to "think again".
They would only be allowed to do this once, enabling the House of Commons to have the final say and push through its agenda even if the Lords disagrees.
Lord Strathclyde told a packed Upper House this new procedure would be the "ping without the pong" referring to legislation that goes back and forth between the House of Commons and Lords until both agree, commonly known as ping-ponging.
But Baroness Smith said it was "an unnecessary solution to a fictitious problem".
"The reality is that we seldom use our powers to their limits," she said.
"But that doesn't mean they shouldn't exist."
Unlike in the Commons, the Conservatives do not have a majority in the House of Lords.
Making his maiden speech in the House of Lords, former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling said he understood the frustration of being a government minister.
George Osborne should have been grateful to peers for bringing about the reversal, he said, recalling the former Labour government's much-criticised abolition of the 10p rate of income tax.
He said the tax credit changes should have been introduced as primary legislation in the first place, which would have allowed the Lords to scrutinise them.
"I am increasingly concerned about the amount of constitutional change taking place in this country on a piecemeal basis," he added.
In recent years, Lord Strathclyde said the House of Lords had developed a "lesser understanding of the implications of what happens when we use our powers too aggressively" and enjoyed "unfettered powers" to veto secondary legislation.
Under the proposed model, he said: "We have a conversation between the two Houses but they (the Commons) have the final say."
It was right for the Lords to have a new procedure "to do what we do best, which is to ask the Commons to think again", he added. | Labour has accused the government of trying to "stifle debate" by removing peers' power to veto some draft laws. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35306094"} | 614 | 30 | 0.463173 | 1.186867 | 0.262432 | 0.869565 | 23.043478 | 0.608696 |
Redrow Homes' outline proposals for the greenfield site near St Fagans includes almost 6,000 homes, four schools, shops and parks.
If passed, Plasdwr will be built over 20 years and will also include sports and healthcare facilities.
But residents and politicians have objected over traffic, overdevelopment and environmental concerns.
Plans for the first stages of the development, which will see about 1,000 homes built on land near Pentrebane Road and Llantrisant Road, have already been granted.
The latest phase of the scheme is for homes on a 900 acre-site (368 hectare) of fields bordering Fairwater, St Fagans, Danescourt and Radyr.
As well as homes, it includes proposals for three primary schools, a secondary school, playgrounds, play areas and facilities for teenagers such as a BMX or skateboard park.
There could also be two food stores, a GP surgery and dentist, sports pitches and allotments as well as restaurants and pubs.
New roads, bus routes and cycle paths are also planned.
But community councils in Radyr and Morganstown and St Fagans are against the scheme, while a petition of more than 200 names and 130 letters have also been submitted in opposition.
Plaid Cymru AM Neil McEvoy and Rod McKerlich, councillor for Radyr and Morganstown, are also against it.
Their concerns include worries about wildlife, increased traffic, and questions over whether local services could cope with the large influx of new residents it would bring.
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Magnox, the owners of the Trawsfynydd station, said 90 jobs are to go.
The staff, who work for various contractors at the plant, will lose their jobs between now and the end of the year.
Around 180 workers are employed by Magnox on site, while the number of people employed by contractors will be cut from 220 to 130. | Dozens of jobs are being lost at a Gwynedd nuclear power station which is being decommissioned. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32400837"} | 79 | 26 | 0.617884 | 1.233782 | -0.947509 | 0.470588 | 4.058824 | 0.352941 |
Last week's debutant Baily Cargill could keep his place because Simon Francis is still nursing a hamstring injury and may not be ready to return.
West Ham welcome back Michail Antonio after a one-match ban, and Winston Reid should have recovered from a leg injury he suffered against Chelsea.
Andy Carroll and Robert Snodgrass are expected to be fit despite both needing stitches after that game.
John Motson: "This is a game in which I'm expecting goals.
"Bournemouth have conceded 36 goals in their past 15 league games, while West Ham have failed to keep a clean sheet in their last six.
"The Cherries have let in three or more goals in 10 league games this season - they really need to tighten up at the back to avoid being dragged into a relegation battle.
"But they're missing Nathan Ake, and the absence of Tyrone Mings for the next five games won't help.
"Yet it's an important game for West Ham too, as they aren't going through a great spell either.
"In short, both teams need a win to turn around a very indifferent spell."
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe: "West Ham have done well. They've picked up, got some good results and it coincides with some key players returning for them.
"They're a different team with Andy Carroll - he's got strengths and is a huge part of their game."
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic: "They have had a few defeats and a draw but the last game [a draw against Manchester United] would have given them a big boost and confidence.
"It's a great result to get a point at Old Trafford, especially with 10 men.
"We are expecting a difficult game. [It's] a small pitch and a good atmosphere."
Eddie Howe's side need a win - they have not had one in their past eight league matches - and I think they might do it on Saturday.
I don't see West Ham's season just petering out, because they are chasing a top-half finish - but I am backing Bournemouth to edge this one.
Prediction: 2-1
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SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) is a super-computer created by @ProfIanMcHale at the University of Salford that is used to predict the outcome of football matches. | Bournemouth will be without suspended pair Andrew Surman and Tyrone Mings. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39163776"} | 580 | 20 | 0.34738 | 0.922555 | -0.494526 | 0.666667 | 40.583333 | 0.5 |
Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly she had signed up to direct the movie, titled Project Delirium.
It is based on a 2012 New Yorker story about the controversial Army research.
Lawrence said: "It's based on this article about mental warfare in the '60s, like an acid experiment gone terribly wrong."
The star won an Oscar in 2013 for starring in Silver Linings Playbook, and has been nominated two further times, for American Hustle and Winter's Bone.
She can currently be seen in the final instalment of The Hunger Games series, Mockingjay Part Two.
"I have wanted to direct as long as I've wanted to act," she said. "I just don't talk about it because I'd rather just do it."
She added: "I've wanted to direct since I was 16 and always thought I should start making steps towards that. If I had tried to do it earlier, I wouldn't have been ready. Now I actually feel ready."
Project Delirium is expected to tell the story of research carried out by Colonel James S Ketchum, who tested psychoactive chemicals on around 2,500 soldiers in the belief that such agents could be used to incapacitate enemies.
However, many of the volunteers have since claimed the experiences led to a range of mental and physical health problems.
In 2013, a Californian judge ruled that those who took part were entitled to more information about the chemicals they were exposed to, but not entitled to additional government-funded medical care, the New Scientist reported at the time. | Actress Jennifer Lawrence is to move behind the camera to direct her first film, about US military experiments in mind-altering chemical weapons. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34930870"} | 337 | 29 | 0.52497 | 1.356998 | 0.182165 | 0.5 | 11.730769 | 0.423077 |
Milan have reached the Coppa Italia final but remain sixth in Serie A, 27 points off leaders Juventus.
Mihajlovic picked up two points from his last five games in charge and lost 2-1 at home to Juve in his final game.
The 47-year-old was appointed as Milan boss in June 2015 and Brocchi, who had been working as youth team coach, will take over until the end of the season.
In a statement, the 18-time Serie A winners said they wanted "to thank Mihajlovic for the dedication and hard work carried out this season".
Brocchi, 40, made 161 appearances for Milan between 2001 and 2008 and retired when a Lazio player in 2013. | AC Milan have sacked Sinisa Mihajlovic as manager and replaced him with their former midfielder Cristian Brocchi. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36020105"} | 156 | 31 | 0.574895 | 1.242687 | -0.274247 | 0.5 | 7.666667 | 0.388889 |
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Heatley raced on to a superb long ball by Billy Joe Burns and got past keeper Conor Devlin to score the winner.
Burns was later sent-off for two yellow cards while Cliftonville substitute George McMullan got a red for comments made from the touchline.
Crusaders remain seven points ahead of second-placed Linfield.
Overall, referee Ross Dunlop issued two red cards and 11 yellow in what was a highly-competitive north Belfast derby.
Cliftonville, League Cup winners last weekend, now find themselves 12 adrift of the leaders.
They had a Johnny Flynn header ruled out for offside and also felt they should have been awarded a penalty for hand ball against Jordan Owens.
However, the points went to Crusaders and the way their players celebrated on the pitch after the final whistle, illustrated just how import the victory was as they go for back-to-back titles.
Cliftonville, champions in 2013 and 2014, really needed a victory to throw the title race wide open.
But now, many will view the battle for the Premiership crown as a two-horse race between the holders and David Healy's Linfield.
Crusaders scorer Paul Heatley: "In my opinion Cliftonville are out of it now, and I think most people will see it that way.
"We have been beaten just two times this season and it shows how consistent we have been.
"It is why we are 12 points ahead of Cliftonville of seven of Linfield with a game in hand."
Cliftonville manager Gerard Lyttle: "The big decisions didn't go our way today and we seemed to get all the bookings.
"It is not the first time we have come down here and the decisions have gone against us.
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Mr Reilly, from Kilkeel in County Down, was expelled from UKIP last week. He had originally been suspended in September.
He was UKIP's candidate in last year's European elections, receiving more than 24,000 votes.
TUV leader Jim Allister said Mr Reilly "fits exactly into the TUV profile".
"Henry is both a proven, staunch traditional unionist and a Eurosceptic," Mr Allister said.
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The cost of watching football has been a hot topic of debate, with supporters at Liverpool organising a high-profile protest over proposed increases in season ticket prices.
Now the top flight's 20 clubs have "unanimously agreed" that more should be done to help away fans.
The £30 away ticket cap will be introduced from next season.
In a statement, the Premier League said away fans were "essential for match atmosphere" and helped make the league unique.
It also recognised that away fans often had travel costs to pay on top of the price of a match-day ticket.
Eight of 18 Premier League clubs who took part in the BBC's latest Price of Football study already offer away tickets for less than £30 for some matches.
But the study, published in October, also found that nine clubs charge more than £30 for their cheapest away ticket.
The change is likely to see travelling supporters paying more to watch second-tier football than top-flight games next season. The Price of Football study found 13 clubs in the Championship charge £30 or more for their most expensive away tickets.
The new measures will replace the Away Supporters' Initiative.
This was introduced in 2013 and saw clubs individually implement a range of measures, including travel subsidies, reciprocal pricing and reduced admissions as well as improved facilities.
The Football Supporters' Federation (FSF) has long campaigned for cheaper tickets and wanted prices for away fans capped at £20.
FSF director of communications Michael Brunskill welcomed Wednesday's announcement, calling it "good news for fan groups around the country".
He added: "This shows that clubs will listen to reasonable, well articulated mass movements."
Labour's shadow Minister for Sport Clive Efford gave the announcement a cautious welcome.
"This is a welcome step in the right direction, but it is still £10 above the level that fans have called for," he said.
"The Football Supporters' Federation must be congratulated on the effectiveness of their Twenty's Plenty campaign."
Liverpool fans group Spirit of Shankly, who helped to successfully lead protests against a proposed price increase at Anfield earlier this season, said the away ticket cap was "a very good step in the right direction".
Spokesperson James McKenna credited the Premier League's new £5bn television deal, which starts next season, as the driver for the cap: "We have been saying the price of away tickets was too much and this new TV deal presented them with an opportunity to lower them."
Everton chief executive Robert Elstone said the move was "absolutely right for away fans and for the Premier League".
He added: "Most clubs have recognised for some time that we need to do something for the travelling supporter."
Stoke chief executive Tony Scholes added: "[Away] supporters pay a disproportionately high cost to follow their team in terms of match tickets and travel and we are delighted the £30 initiative has been adopted."
The away ticket price cap was announced on the same day Arsenal and Tottenham announced ticket price freezes for home fans.
Arsenal also said they would provide a further £4 discount for away supporters, meaning Gunners fans will only pay £26 to go to away games.
Kevin Miles, chief executive of FSF, said his organisation was "very pleased the voice of fans has been listened to".
He added: "A maximum price of £30 for away tickets will save a lot of fans a lot of money, and for many will make the difference between attending away games or not.
"We hope many clubs will also follow the example of Arsenal and reduce away ticket prices for their fans even further."
The move could mean that in many cases it will be more expensive to watch an away match in the Championship than in the Premier League.
BBC Sport's 2015 Price of Football study found that 13 of 24 clubs in English football's second tier had a most expensive away ticket of £30 or over.
A Football League spokesman said: "The Football League has always determined that the issue of ticket pricing is a matter for individual clubs, particularly given that ticket revenue forms a far greater proportion of their turnover than it does for Premier League clubs.
"Overall, our clubs offer excellent value for money with the very best value being reserved for those supporters committing to a season ticket. Two-thirds of the 16 million admissions recorded by our clubs last season were season ticket holders and, as a result, the average ticket price paid per paying spectator was just £14.
"Nevertheless, today's decision will give our clubs something to consider given that they are in a competitive market for spectators and therefore must be able to offer value for money.
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Facebook says it will appeal against the decision and that the order relates to a cookie it has used for five years.
The cookie is installed when an internet user visits a Facebook page even if they are not members.
However, the Belgian court said that the company was obliged to obtain consent to collect the information being gathered.
"The judge ruled that this is personal data, which Facebook can only use if the internet user expressly gives their consent, as Belgian privacy law dictates," it said in a statement.
If Facebook fails to comply, it could face a fine of up to 250,000 euros (£180,000) per day.
The fine would go to the Belgian Privacy Commission, which brought the case, the court added.
Cookies are simple files that track whether a user has visited a website before and notify the site itself.
They can track a number of user activities, such as how long they stayed, what they clicked and any preferences selected.
"We've used the Datr cookie for more than five years to keep Facebook secure for 1.5 billion people around the world," said a Facebook spokesperson.
"We will appeal this decision and are working to minimise any disruption to people's access to Facebook in Belgium." | A court has given Facebook 48 hours to stop tracking people in Belgium who are not members of its social network. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34765937"} | 264 | 23 | 0.641461 | 1.370703 | -0.566918 | 0.954545 | 11.227273 | 0.590909 |
Experts from Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial team believe the pendant belonged to Karoline Cohn, who may have known the famous diarist.
Like Frank, Cohn was born in Frankfurt in 1929. Yad Vashem traced her via a date of birth engraved on the pendant.
Historians say they have found evidence of only two pendants of the kind.
The small triangular pendant is engraved on one side with the words "Mazal Tov" (congratulations) in Hebrew, alongside Cohn's date of birth and the name of her home city - Frankfurt.
On the reverse is the Hebrew letter "Hay", often used to represent a name of God, surrounded by three Stars of David.
Researchers are now trying to discover from any remaining relatives whether the two girls could have been related.
Yad Vashem is working alongside the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) to excavate parts of the former death camp at Sobibor.
The pendant was found at what is believed to be the location where victims undressed and had their heads shaved before being sent into the gas chambers.
Yad Vashem said the items recovered, which also included a Star of David necklace and a woman's watch, probably fell through the floorboards and remained buried.
Cohn was born in Frankfurt on 3 July 1929. She was deported from the city on 11 November 1941 to the Minsk ghetto.
The ghetto was liquidated in September 1943 and Cohn may have been among some 2,000 of its residents sent to Sobibor, where the pendant lay concealed for more than 70 years.
Records show that Frank owned a nearly identical pendant, differing only in the date of birth engraved on one side.
Yoram Haimi, an archaeologist with the IAA who led the excavation at Sobibor, said: "This pendant demonstrates once again the importance of archaeological research of former Nazi death camp sites.
"The moving story of Karoline Cohn is symbolic of the shared fate of the Jews murdered in the camp. It is important to tell the story, so that we never forget."
More than 250,000 Jews are believed to have been killed at Sobibor, in Nazi-controlled eastern Poland. Unlike some facilities which also functioned as labour camps, Sobibor was among the Nazi camps built solely to exterminate Jews.
The Nazis destroyed the camp following an uprising in 1943 and planted it over in an attempt to cover up their crimes.
Archaeologists have since discovered the foundations of gas chambers and a train platform.
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The 20-year-old had a two-shot lead going into the final round and carded a six-under 66 to finish on 23 under par.
Northern Ireland's Stephanie Meadow began the day tied in third but hit an even-par 72 and finished tied for 10th.
Jutanugarn's 23 under equalled the course record at Priddis Greens Golf and Country Club in Alberta, Canada.
Scotland's Catriona Matthew finished tied for 37th on six under, with England's Jodi Ewart Shadoff two shots further back in a tie for 48th. | Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn claimed her fifth victory of the season with a four-shot win at the Canadian Pacific Women's Open. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37211256"} | 135 | 35 | 0.608726 | 1.28805 | -0.607323 | 0.52 | 4.24 | 0.44 |
Maria Byrne, 35, died at the couple's home in Morgan Crescent, Theydon Bois, Essex, on 13 February.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard she had been hit on the head by Darren Byrne, 40, after finding out he had been having an affair.
Judge Charles Gratwicke described Byrne's crimes as "wicked and heinous".
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Byrne, who had denied the charges against him, had doused his wife's body with white spirit and had turned on the hob before going on an hour-long dog walk.
Returning to find his plan had not worked, he concocted a charade, the jury was told.
He called the emergency services to say his wife was "burned" and told the operator: "The stove was on and the frying pan's on the other side of the room. She's not breathing."
The court heard Byrne had told paramedics his wife had been making him a bacon sandwich and when he returned home she was dead.
Mrs Byrne's death was initially treated as unexplained but a murder inquiry started following a post-mortem examination, which identified white spirit on her clothing.
A half-empty bottle of white spirit was also found in the garage, the jury heard.
Byrne, a father of two, will be sentenced later this week. | A husband who hit his wife over the head before dousing her body in white spirit and turning on a gas hob has been found guilty of murder and arson. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38287511"} | 327 | 36 | 0.54243 | 1.3911 | 0.19091 | 1.064516 | 8.612903 | 0.741935 |
Dr Peter Bennie said health service funding was stagnating despite the "unprecedented challenges" facing it.
And he called for an "honest debate" on how the NHS could be sustained for future generations.
The Scottish government recently published its blueprint for the future of the NHS.
The document calls for an end to the country's "fix and treat" approach, with greater emphasis on preventing people becoming ill in the first place, and intervening as quickly as possible to prevent their conditions becoming more serious.
It also sets out commitments to treating people closer to home rather than in hospital whenever possible, recruiting more GPs and nurses and regionalising some hospital services.
It followed an Audit Scotland report which showed that the NHS had met only one of its eight waiting time targets, with the service needing to make "unprecedented savings" next year.
In his Christmas message, Dr Bennie said: "Report after report on the state of the NHS in Scotland have set out the increasing scale of the challenges the health services faces.
"Audit Scotland reiterated what BMA Scotland have been saying for some considerable time: the NHS in Scotland is struggling to cope.
"But despite the body of evidence to show that urgent action is needed now, the much needed plans for action have been allowed to slip."
BMA Scotland is the trade union that represents the country's doctors.
Dr Bennie said Holyrood's health committee had highlighted major problems with recruitment and retention across the health and social care sectors in Scotland - not just the NHS - particularly in remote and rural areas.
He added: "The government's response must not simply repeat the tired mantra that Scotland is spending more money on the NHS than ever before, and has more nurses and doctors than ever before. This completely misses the point.
"Vacancies in the medical workforce are increasing and the range and scale of pressures on the service continue to grow. There are significant problems in recruitment and retention of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, yet the official figures still struggle to capture the real extent of medical vacancies.
"Action is needed now to make Scotland a more attractive place to work if we are to address these vacancies which exist across consultant, GP, trainee and specialist posts."
Dr Bennie went on to say that Scotland's ageing population meant the increasing demands on the health service were outstripping the available resources - a situation he argued was becoming unsustainable.
He said NHS funding had been "virtually stagnant across the UK" since the onset of austerity, with the UK spending a lower proportion of its GDP on healthcare than most comparable EU countries, with the gap growing in recent years.
He added: "If the NHS does not get the resources it needs to keep pace with demand, then the only alternative is to look at the range and models of services that can realistically be delivered within the budget provided.
"If the gap between demand and resources is going to continue, then there is no choice but to ask what the NHS in Scotland can and can't deliver in the future."
Responding to Dr Bennie, Health Secretary Shona Robison said she agreed on the need for a mature plan as a result of the changing nature of healthcare delivery.
She added: "That's why the last few months has seen the publication of three crucial building blocks for the transformational change required.
"The National Clinical Strategy is a blueprint for what health and social care will look like in the decades to come.
"The Chief Medical Officer's annual report focusing on realistic medicine calls for a new relationship between doctors and patients and families built on mutual trust and shared decision making.
"Finally, just this week, we published a National Delivery Plan with concrete actions for the next year and beyond."
But Scottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron claimed the NHS in Scotland was "on its knees", and said the SNP administration had "no excuses" after 10 years in power.
He added: "This is yet another startling attack on the SNP's handling of the NHS, and it's time they started to listen.
"For too long the SNP has failed to prioritise our health service, and as a result standards have dropped with almost all national targets missed last year."
Scottish Labour's health spokesman, Anas Sarwar, said: "A decade of SNP mismanagement has increased pressure on staff in every part of our health service - from nurses who say their workload is getting worse, to GPs who say their surgeries are understaffed." | The Scottish NHS is struggling to cope with the increasing demands being placed on it, according to the chairman of BMA Scotland. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38438070"} | 977 | 26 | 0.491944 | 1.219428 | 0.208569 | 1.75 | 37.208333 | 0.833333 |
European Commission said it had "unconditionally approved" Peugeot's move to buy the European division of General Motors (GM).
It said it had concluded that "the transaction would raise no competition concerns in the relevant markets".
Vauxhall employs 4,500 people in the UK at plants in Ellesmere Port and Luton.
Elsewhere in Europe, Opel employs about 33,500 staff in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Spain and Italy.
GM agreed the sale of its European division, on which it has not made a profit since 1999, to Peugeot in March.
In 2016 it lost $257m (£206m), making it the 16th consecutive loss-making year for GM in Europe, bringing its cumulated losses on the continent since 2000 to more than $15bn.
The deal will mean that Peugeot becomes Europe's second-biggest carmaker, after Volkswagen.
It will enable the firm to boost its presence in the UK and to re-enter the US market, which Citroen left in 1974 and Peugeot exited in 1991.
In its statement, the European Commission said that in terms of the manufacture and sale of motor vehicles, the two firms had a combined market share of more than 40% in only two national markets, Estonia and Portugal, for small commercial vehicles.
"In the other affected markets, the market shares remain small," it added.
"The Commission investigation also showed that the merged entity will still face strong competition from manufacturers such as Renault, Volkswagen, Daimler, Ford, Fiat and various Asian competitors." | The European Commission has given the go-ahead to the takeover of Vauxhall and Opel brands by France's PSA Group, maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40511283"} | 336 | 41 | 0.582088 | 1.318989 | -0.029007 | 0.833333 | 10.166667 | 0.633333 |
John Kear's side failed to win a game in last year's tournament.
But tries from Steve Parry, Dalton Grant and Anthony Walker, plus three Courtney Davies goals, ensured a moral-boosting win for Wales.
Scotland were always playing catch-up but finished with tries from Dale Ferguson and Oscar Thomas
Wales started brightly and Parry weaved his way through the Scottish defence to go under the posts, allowing Davies an easy conversion.
Davies increased the home side's lead when he was the subject of a dangerous tackle, picking himself up to kick the resulting penalty goal.
Scotland hit back through a Ferguson try between the sticks, converted by Danny Brough.
But Grant squeezed over in the corner to give Wales a 12-6 lead at half-time.
Ferguson nearly grabbed a second try as Scotland started the second period well, but he was held up over the line.
Wales stretched their lead with another Davies kick, before Walker went over after good work by Rhys Williams and Ollie Olds.
Thomas ensured a thrilling finale as his try, converted by Brough, brought Scotland to within a converted try of claiming a draw.
But Wales held firm to get their campaign up and running.
Wales next host France at Cardiff Arms Park on 30 October, before an away game in Ireland on 7 November.
Wales squad: Michael Channing (Castleford Tigers), Dalton Grant (Dewsbury Rams), Courtney Davies, Jamie Murphy, Steve Parry, Lewis Reece (Gloucestershire All Golds), Craig Kopczak (Huddersfield Giants), Elliot Kear, Rhys Williams (London Broncos), Matt Barron, Ricky Hough (Newcastle Thunder), Joe Burke, Rob Massam, Christian Roets (North Wales Crusaders), Morgan Knowles (St Helens), Ollie Olds (Souths Logan Magpies), Anthony Walker (Wakefield Trinity), Phil Joseph (Widnes Vikings), Rhodri Lloyd (Wigan Warriors)
Scotland squad: Danny Addy, Dale Ferguson (Bradford Bulls), Corbyn Kilday (Central Queensland Capras), David Scott (Doncaster), Lewis Clarke, Scott Plumridge, Craig Robertson (Edinburgh Eagles), Joe McClean (Gloucestershire All Golds), Danny Brough (Huddersfield Giants), Sonny Esslemont, Adam Walker (Hull KR), Johnny Walker (Leigh Centurions), Ben Hellewell, Oscar Thomas, Alex Walker (London Broncos), Liam Hood (Salford Red Devils), Richard Harris (Warrington Wolves), Ben Kavanagh (Widnes Vikings), Harvey Burnett (unattached) | Wales opened their European Championship campaign with an impressive win over defending champions Scotland in Wrexham. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34533979"} | 621 | 23 | 0.408831 | 1.048602 | 0.48756 | 0.588235 | 28.588235 | 0.588235 |
Archie Aitken wrote the note, "I hope you find your treasure, when I grow up I would like to join you", and put it in a plastic a bottle in the Tyne.
Sent from more than 1,000 miles in Lista, Norway, Archie and his family now want to find the mystery pirates.
Archie said: "There's only two pirates left so it shouldn't be that hard."
Archie's mother, Suzanne, said he had sent the bottle, from Hexham, after becoming "obsessed" with the film Treasure Island.
She said: "It's quite special. We had completely forgotten about it.
"Then on Saturday morning, with all the Christmas cards, lo and behold there was this postcard from Norway. We were so shocked and delighted.
"It's a mystery. But then pirates are like that. They are at sea for long periods of time, so maybe they don't want to be found." | A boy aged nine has been sent a postcard from "pirates" in Norway after they found a message in a bottle he sent from Northumberland two years ago. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35101652"} | 217 | 40 | 0.600934 | 1.650631 | 0.073643 | 0.903226 | 6.193548 | 0.709677 |
Addressing political leaders on Monday, Theresa Villiers told political leaders it was "make your mind up time".
Ms Villiers, who has chaired 150 meetings in the process, said they have had "plenty of time to discuss the issues".
Talks between Northern Ireland's five main parties and the British and Irish governments have lasted 10 weeks.
The deputy first minister said negotiations, aimed at resolving the political crisis at Stormont, should not go beyond Wednesday.
Martin McGuinness said a sticking point is on institutions designed to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.
First Minister Peter Robinson said he was hopeful progress would be made during Monday and Tuesday.
The discussions are focusing on finance, paramilitary activity and how to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict.
Mr McGuinness said the best thing local politicians could do is to forge an agreement this week.
He said the government needed to come up to the mark in meeting the concerns of victims about "national security" being used as a reason not to disclose information.
But he added that if the government did not do this, there is no reason why the politicians cannot press ahead on other issues on which progress has been made.
A minute's silence was held at by MLAs at Stormont's Parliament Buildings on Monday morning as a mark of respect for the victims of Friday's gun and bomb attacks in Paris, in which 129 people were killed.
Afterwards, Mr Robinson said events in France heighten resolve to ensure that paramilitarism and terrorism in Northern Ireland is over once and for all.
Cross-party discussions began in September in a bid to resolve Northern Ireland's current political crisis.
That crisis erupted when police said they believed IRA members had been involved in the murder of a former IRA man in Belfast in August.
The parties have also been at loggerheads over the implementation of welfare reforms.
A welfare reform deal had been agreed almost a year ago, but Sinn Féin withdrew its support in March. | The Northern Ireland Secretary of State has demanded politicians reach a deal on the Stormont talks this week. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34827209"} | 445 | 23 | 0.535064 | 1.279953 | 0.00474 | 1.421053 | 20.736842 | 0.789474 |
It comes after a string of recommendations from Dame Elish Angiolini in her report into the handling of the issue at Mortonhall crematorium in Edinburgh
Aberdeen has always maintained that the powerful burners in place at Hazlehead left no ashes.
Neil Cooney said Aberdeen would have to change in line with technology.
Dame Elish said any crematorium that cannot guarantee ashes to return to bereaved families should stop cremating babies.
Mr Cooney, convener of housing and environment at the city council, told BBC Scotland: "We broke no rules, we followed the criteria that was demanded under the old regime, and we really handled it with as much sensitivity as we could.
"The technology has changed and we have got to change with it."
He said any residual ash left under new modern techniques would be returned to undertakers.
A separate inquiry into how infant remains have been dealt with throughout Scotland is expected to report at the end of May.
Former high court judge Lord Bonomy has chaired the Infant Cremation Commission, which will recommend changes to the law to prevent a similar scandal happening again. | A senior Aberdeen councillor has promised a review into the way cremations of babies are handled. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "27238172"} | 240 | 21 | 0.637408 | 1.491176 | -0.237691 | 0.705882 | 12.470588 | 0.588235 |
Richards struck just before the hour mark, after John Mullins was penalised for handling the ball in the area.
The hosts managed just one shot on target in the game and winger Chris Maguire also struck the post.
Northampton are now eight points clear of second-placed Plymouth at the top and 18 ahead of Accrington in fourth.
Meanwhile, Oxford remain the in automatic promotion places, six points clear of Accrington despite the defeat. | Northampton equalled a 56-year-old club record as Marc Richards' penalty gave them an eighth successive victory - at the expense of promotion rivals Oxford. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35529483"} | 100 | 38 | 0.662932 | 1.324885 | 0.522283 | 0.433333 | 2.833333 | 0.366667 |
Broadcast media are mainly commercial and are open to diverse comment. There are three terrestrial TV stations and a handful of cable channels. The main newspapers are privately-owned.
Jamaica enjoys a top 20 ranking in the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index.
BBC World Service radio is available on FM.
Jamaica had 1.6 million internet users in June 2012 (via Internetworldstats). | Jamaica enjoys a free press and its newspapers frequently criticise officials. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "18784064"} | 83 | 17 | 0.682642 | 1.278559 | 0.225369 | 1.083333 | 6.25 | 0.583333 |
If your answer to that question is a resounding "no way", and the very thought conjures up terrifying images of unwitting drug mules and long prison sentences, you might need to think again.
"I always take things back from my travels for family and friends," says 45-year-old French airline worker Olivier Kaba. "Now not only am I able to bring things for others, but I get rewarded financially for doing it.
"In the past two years I have made about 1,000 euros ($1,100; £860)."
Olivier is a regular user of Worldcraze, one of three similar firms that have launched in recent years to help connect people who would like to buy something from a different country, with travellers who have spare space in their suitcase and want to make a bit of money by being informal couriers.
The idea is that the buyer can quickly get his or her hands on a product that may not be available to buy or import where he or she lives (country A), or that the item may simply be a lot cheaper abroad (country B).
So with transactions made via the three companies' websites and apps, travellers who are due to fly from country B to country A can purchase and transport the products for the buyers. They can then arrange to meet to hand them over.
Over the past 24 months Olivier says he has transported everything from three months' supply of French salami to the US, bags of Japanese sweets called "Tokyo banana", and 20kg of fabric samples for a woman starting her own business.
"I discover new products I have never heard of," he says.
Worldcraze was launched in 2012 by French entrepreneurs Frederic Simons and Guillaume Cayard.
On a trip to New York Frederic noticed a large price difference between Levi's jeans in France and the US, and the idea was born.
Today Worldcraze says it has 10,000 users, with Apple products being the most frequently delivered items.
From each transaction Worldcraze takes €2.50 from the buyer, and 10% of the traveller's payment, which is up to 10% of the cost of the product being transported.
Singapore-based Ouibring has a similar business model.
Founded in 2016 by developers Joel Gordon and Andrew Crosio, they say that one Ouibring delivery is now made every day on average.
Goods delivered so far include artisan coffee from Japan to Hungary, a baby carrier from Thailand to the US, a candle carried from India, and a room spray from Singapore to the Czech Republic.
"For shoppers this is a way of getting previously unavailable products, full stop," says Joel.
"For bringers [the travellers who deliver the items] it's about making some money, and meeting interesting people who appreciate the effort, and can share tips for exploring the place you're visiting, or the next step on your journey."
To remove the risk of illegal or counterfeit products being transported both Ouibring and Worldcraze only allow users to buy and collect new products from legitimate shops.
Worldcraze's chief marketing officer Constance Claviez Homberg says: "Our users can't buy illegal products because they are buying products directly in shops.
"That way it is just impossible to carry illegal stuff, or counterfeit products. [And] travellers have to upload the product's bill on our platform to prove that the product is congruent."
The company also advises users to check on whether the item in question is legal in the destination country, and has staff that check out requests made on its website and app every day.
Ouibring's Joel Gordon says that it also has a "moderation system" which "flags requests that may be inappropriate, and we remove requests if required".
He says that the company also advises users that if they are unsure about anything they should get in touch via its secure contact form "and we'll get back to you asap".
"We are happy to provide advice for travellers for specific questions," says Joel. "At the end of the day, it is the individual traveller's responsibility to ensure they comply with the relevant laws of the country they are travelling to."
Mumbai-based Beck Friends, another firm that enables travellers to transport goods for other people, doesn't limit people to purchasing new items.
Instead a traveller recently transported a much-loved teddy bear from Chicago to Mumbai after its owner, a four-year-old girl called Heer, left it behind.
To remove any security concerns, the buyer and carrier have to be first connected on social media, such as on Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+. Users must also upload two valid forms of identification, such as a passport and driving licence.
Beck co-founder Deep Malhotra says: "Security is the prime concern, and we are building a robust platform to address this."
Where things get more complicated is the issue of export and import tariffs, which vary greatly from country to country. All three companies say they advise users on this, and it is the buyer who ultimately has to pay any charges.
If any traveller is unsure of something, or gets into any difficulties, all three companies say they have support staff available around the clock to help, be it via telephone, live web chat or email.
Ouibring's Joel Gordon says that he doesn't think security or customs worries will hold back the growth of his company.
"Our vision is to become another part of daily international life, like Airbnb, with people all around the world helping to make transport, logistics and travel work together better." | The next time you take an international flight, how about transporting something in your suitcase for a complete stranger? | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39851770"} | 1,202 | 24 | 0.250696 | 0.687101 | 0.121749 | 0.809524 | 52.857143 | 0.619048 |
In the next two days Europe's research ministers will decide whether to push ahead with the mission to send the rover to the Martian surface in 2021.
A team at Aberystwyth University has developed a special camera on top of the ExoMars rover.
Dr Matthew Gun hopes it will capture life on the Red Planet by sampling soil drilled from under the surface.
The team - previously overseen by Prof Dave Barnes, who died in 2014 - is developing calibration equipment for the panoramic camera on the rover.
Similar to a chart of "stable" colours used by photographers at the start of any session, the kit ensures the shades being captured in images of the Martian surface will be accurate.
A recent study found the Beagle 2, the failed British mission in 2003, did not crash-land and came "excruciatingly close" to succeeding.
The research fellow said it would be exciting but "deeply frustrating" if the Beagle 2 had been operating for all this time but had been unable to send the data back to Earth.
He said the team were learning from previous mistakes and are hopeful they will find life on the Martian surface when the mission starts in 2021.
"I never thought I would be doing anything like this when I was in school," he said, adding the team was continuing the work in Prof Barnes memory.
"It has evolved quite quickly over the last few years, we learnt a lot from the Beagle 2."
But Dr Gunn said sending members of the public into space was still some way off.
"There are a lot of people trying to do things like that - there have been technological advances but it would need a lot more before people can go out there," he said.
"I can see it happening one day." | A Welsh scientist working on sending a robot with a selfie stick into space believes it will find life on Mars. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38156230"} | 390 | 25 | 0.400863 | 1.018133 | -0.198675 | 1.090909 | 16.090909 | 0.636364 |
The New York to Paris flight landed at Shannon Airport after 07:30 local time.
It has been reported that the 172 passengers had an "urgent need" to use the toilet after the facilities on board became unusable.
The crew asked for engineers to be on standby to service the aircraft's toilets when it landed.
The flight resumed its journey to Paris shortly after 09:30. | A transatlantic flight diverted to the Republic of Ireland after crew requested a landing so that passengers could use an airport's toilets. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38437297"} | 86 | 30 | 0.694936 | 1.383741 | 0.130558 | 0.625 | 3.083333 | 0.541667 |
The blaze, which broke out at Asda in Wigmore Lane on 6 March, was tackled by almost 100 firefighters, with 16 engines and three aerial platforms.
The GMB union said the company had told it refurbishment should be complete in three months.
Asda said it was "unable to confirm dates at this stage".
A spokesman said: "We want to get the store back open as quickly as possible.
"We are doing everything we can to get the store back up and running for our customers as soon as we can."
The workforce has been redeployed to other stores in the region.
An investigation into the cause of the blaze is ongoing. | Workers at a Luton supermarket forced to close after it was severely damaged by fire, are being told it will be about 12 weeks before it reopens. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39453489"} | 142 | 36 | 0.587358 | 1.186659 | -0.262409 | 0.586207 | 4.586207 | 0.448276 |
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