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The authorities seemed to agree, with the FBI saying it was looking into allegations that the pictures were stolen.
Apple added it was investigating accounts being broken into and expanded "two-step verification" checks.
But how did Kardashian become the centre of a new leak?
That's pretty tough to answer.
Despite links to iCloud accounts, there is still no evidence about exactly how the photos were obtained in the first place and it's been claimed that some of the pictures in the new leak were taken from a Blackberry.
The original set of photos, which included images of the actress Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, became available after someone (no-one knows who that person was, but there has been online speculation) posted the pictures to anonymous online message boards 4chan and Reddit.
It's not clear yet where the second set of pictures came from but they were also briefly posted on 4chan and Reddit before being removed, according to reports.
The fact that Kim Kardashian told Newsbeat she doesn't have an iCloud account on her phone also makes it difficult to know how and when the pictures were accessed.
Following the first leak, a Reddit user called johnsmcjohn created a subreddit called The Fappening, which became a destination for users wanting to see the pictures.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, it gathered thousands of views and now Reddit has shut it down.
On Sunday, a Pastebin.com feed appeared called The Fappening 2 listed the leaks and claimed that more images would be released shortly.
Again, a bit of a tricky one.
For obvious reasons, it's difficult to say exactly what steps the FBI took between the two "leaks".
That said, following the original set of pictures appearing online, an FBI spokesman told the Associated Press news agency that it was "aware of the allegations" and was "addressing the matter".
According to an incredibly apologetic video called Jennifer Lawrence & Us, he's not going to post "intimate photos like that" anymore and he's trying to "think of other ways to make things right".
The 36-year-old said he would "use this as an opportunity to learn from and grow from and make some changes going forward". Well done Perez.
In simple terms "choose better passwords".
That's the advice from Oliver Crofton, a founder of Select Technology Concierge that provides secure tech services for the rich and famous.
Speaking to the BBC he added: "From experience with incidents in the past it typically comes down to weak passwords."
"They get into the email addresses associated with that individual and then they intercept a re-set request and log in."
Oliver said at least once a month a Select client will call saying they have had a "strange re-set request" that is probably evidence of an attempt to get at their online life.
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Otherwise, she said, the summit would not be able to make any decision.
Greece has less than two weeks remaining to strike a deal or face defaulting on a €1.6bn (£1.1bn) IMF loan repayment.
There are fears about the health of Greek banks, amid reports more than €4bn has been withdrawn this week.
On Friday, the European Central Bank (ECB) approved more emergency help for the banks. The amount of extra funding has not been officially disclosed.
Meanwhile, Russia says that it will consider granting a loan to Greece if it is asked.
If Greece fails to make the repayment due to the International Monetary Fund, it risks having to leave the eurozone and possibly also the EU.
The European Commission, the IMF and the ECB are unwilling to unlock bailout funds until Greece agrees to reforms.
They want Greece to implement a series of economic changes in areas such as pensions, VAT and on the budget surplus before releasing €7.2bn of funds, which have been delayed since February.
The emergency summit of leaders from eurozone nations will be held in Brussels on Monday, after negotiations on Thursday failed.
"Let me make it very clear as to the expectations," Mrs Merkel said on Friday.
"Such a summit can only become a summit of decisions if there is something to base a decision on.
"It is up to the three institutions [the ECB, IMF and European Commission] to assess this, and up to now we don't have that assessment."
Valdis Dombrovksis, European Commissioner for the euro, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that there had been "a strong signal" from the Eurogroup to Greece "that it's [the] last moment to engage seriously in negotiations".
Responding to the reports of big cash withdrawals by Greek savers, he said: "It's very clear that one of the most urgent things Greece needs is financial stability."
The Reuters news agency said withdrawals by Greek savers between Monday and Friday reached about €4.2bn, which represents about 3% of household and corporate deposits held by Greek banks at the end of April.
Close to €1bn was withdrawn on Friday alone, the financial website Euro2day said.
"There are no lines [queues] or panic, it has been a quiet and gradual phase of withdrawals," one banker told Reuters.
A fully fledged run on the banks could upset the plans of the Greek government and its creditors, says BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris.
He says that any introduction of capital controls will depend on the behaviour of the Greek people.
He says that if the outflow of deposits from banks reaches alarming levels which no-one can really cope with, then the decision is taken out of policymakers' hands.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday that there would be a solution to Greece's debt crisis.
"The [eurozone] leaders summit on Monday is a positive development on the road toward a deal," Mr Tsipras said in a statement.
"All those who are betting on crisis and terror scenarios will be proven wrong."
He added: "There will be a solution based on respecting EU rules and democracy which would allow Greece to return to growth in the euro."
Mr Tsipras was at an economic forum in St Petersburg in Russia on Friday with a delegation of ministers and business leaders.
At the forum, Greece and Russia signed a memorandum on extending the planned Turkish Stream gas pipeline to Europe through Greek territory.
Athens said funding would come from Russian state development bank VEB.
Greek Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis said at the signing ceremony that Greece needed support and not pressure, and that co-operation with Russia was not aimed against other countries or Europe.
President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Russia would consider granting Greece a loan.
But the issue was not raised in talks between Mr Putin and Mr Tsipras, he said.
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Or WhatsApp us on +44 7525 900971 | German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned there must be a deal between Greece and its creditors ahead of Monday's emergency EU summit. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33209199"} | 1,016 | 29 | 0.53798 | 1.206905 | 0.007795 | 1 | 37.375 | 0.75 |
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said there would be an investigation into whether the eight had illegally issued identity papers.
The consulates affected are in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans and New York.
The consuls' suspension comes days after local media alleged that they had issued illegal papers in exchange of payments of up to $50 (??30).
The only ones to remain in their posts were the consuls in Washington DC and San Francisco.
An estimated 700,000 people of Honduran origin resided in the United States in 2011, according to the US Census Bureau.
The case came to light after a group representing Hondurans living in the US said a number of consulates were issuing "consular IDs" - documents that bear the crest and flag of Honduras, but which are not officially recognised forms of identification.
President Hernandez said in a statement that such documents were "false" and that any consular staff issuing them would be penalised.
Jorge Rivera, of the Honduran Unity group in Dallas, Texas, said he knew of at least four consulates that had issued such IDs.
"They're selling them for $50 in a number of places and I don't know how the consulates can be doing that because that document is not an approved document," Mr Rivera said.
"They're just trying to make money," he added.
Expatriate Plinio Rodriguez said that the Honduran consulate in Los Angeles had issued him with a "consular ID", which he said he had found "very useful".
Mr Rodriguez told Honduran newspaper La Prensa that the ID was widely accepted by US authorities and even got him access to the prison in California where his son was serving time.
He said he had not been charged for the ID, but knew of others who had. | Honduras has suspended eight of its 10 consuls in the United States. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "26141335"} | 409 | 19 | 0.520296 | 1.275132 | -0.970803 | 1.307692 | 27.692308 | 0.692308 |
The Borussia Dortmund player has been strongly linked with a move to Manchester City this summer, when Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola will take over at Etihad Stadium.
On Friday, Dortmund tweeted the player had suffered a serious injury.
Gundogan, 25, injured his back in 2013 and has also had several knee problems.
He has featured 25 times for Dortmund in the Bundesliga this season and played in four Euro 2016 qualifiers, scoring the winner in September's 3-2 victory over Scotland at Hampden Park. | Germany midfielder Ilkay Gundogan is set to miss Euro 2016 after dislocating a kneecap in training. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36229512"} | 108 | 26 | 0.586566 | 1.123225 | -0.383691 | 0.529412 | 5.823529 | 0.411765 |
The presenter said he may not follow the old three-presenter format pioneered by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.
"They're the Three Stooges. They are the Bee Gees. They are that and I'm not. I'm me," he said at the Mipcom TV trade fair in Cannes, France.
"I'm a solo artist at the moment, I'm on my own. So do I form a band or not?"
The star had been expected to recruit two sidekicks, with Zoe Ball, Guy Martin and Dermot O'Leary among those previously rumoured to be in the running.
Evans also appealed to fans to send in their own audition tapes, and has given screen tests to some of those who did.
Speaking in Cannes, he told the Press Association: "We are going to do things differently, because we have to, we want to.
"And also, the second you wander off into the, 'Well, I'm the main host, and this is my mate over here and my mate over here', if there's three of you and you go and make a film together, suddenly you're doing what they did.
"Why would you do that? Because they were brilliant at it. I'm not going to do that.
"So, one thing is for sure, there's not going to be me and one guy there, and one guy there, that's not going to happen."
Evans also gave notice that he would shake up the format of the show, which he said previously consisted of four links and three pre-recorded items.
"We're going to change that," he said. "I can't tell you into what. I know, by the way, but I can't say at the moment.
"We are going to keep some things that I like, and my kids like, and my friends like, and that I liked anyway, but we are not going to throw the baby out with the bathwater."
The Stig - who joined Evans in Cannes - will appear in the new series, which begins next May.
Taking over the show was "formidable", Evans said, adding that it was "the biggest job I've ever had in my life". | New Top Gear host Chris Evans has hinted he won't have co-hosts when he takes over the motoring show next year. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34463140"} | 505 | 32 | 0.402554 | 1.018748 | 0.191742 | 0.64 | 18.32 | 0.56 |
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has joined calls for Mr Trump to be considered for exclusion from the UK.
Mr Trump, who owns two Scottish golf courses, had already been dropped as a business ambassador by Ms Sturgeon.
He has also been stripped of an honorary degree by Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen.
An online petition calling for Donald Trump to be blocked from entry to the UK has broken the parliamentary website record and is approaching half a million signatures. It currently has more than 470,000 names, beating the previous high of 446,482.
The Petitions Committee is expected to discuss the petition at its meeting on 5 January.
A rival petition saying Mr Trump should not be banned has reached more than 20,000 although it has been live for a shorter time.
In a briefing to journalists, Ms Sturgeon's spokeswoman said the first minister had made her views on Mr Trump "quite clear".
The spokeswoman added: "She agrees that there are laws around people who make certain comments being allowed in and he should be considered in the same way.
"The home secretary should consider the issue."
Home Secretary Theresa May has the power to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence is "not conducive to the public good or if their exclusion is justified on public policy grounds".
Ms Sturgeon was speaking after Mr Trump wrote an article published in the Press and Journal newspaper in which he said politicians should be thanking him for the work he has done in Scotland.
The US presidential hopeful said: "I have done so much for Scotland, including building Trump International Golf Links, Scotland, which has received the highest accolades, and is what many believe to be one of the greatest golf courses anywhere in the world.
"Additionally, I have made a significant investment in the redevelopment of the iconic Turnberry Resort, which will have massive ballrooms, complete room refurbishments, a new golf course and a total rebuilding of the world famous Ailsa course to the highest standards and specifications of the Royal and Ancient.
"If they - Nicola Sturgeon and RGU - were going to do this, they should have informed me prior to my major investment in this £200m development, which will totally revitalise that vast region of Scotland.
"The UK politicians should be thanking me instead of pandering to political correctness."
The billionaire property tycoon added in a tweet: "The United Kingdom is trying hard to disguise their massive Muslim problem. Everybody is wise to what is happening. Very sad. Be honest."
He also thanked the "respected columnist Katie Hopkins" for her "powerful writing on the UK's Muslim problem".
Rapper Snoop Dogg was temporarily excluded from the UK when his visa was refused, while former champion boxer and convicted rapist Mike Tyson was banned in 2013.
R&B singer Chris Brown, who had been sentenced to community labour for assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna, the pop singer, was blocked in 2010.
Mr Trump had been appointed as a GlobalScot ambassador by Labour's then first minister Jack McConnell in 2006.
However, a Scottish government spokeswoman said on Wednesday that Mr Trump's "recent remarks have shown he is no longer fit to be a business ambassador for Scotland".
Mr Trump - who has developed a golf resort at Menie, north of Aberdeen - was awarded an honorary degree by RGU in 2010.
But the university said his comments had been "wholly incompatible" with its ethos and values. | Donald Trump has hit back at high-profile Scottish snubs in the wake of his call for Muslims to be banned from entering the US. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35060868"} | 776 | 33 | 0.412087 | 1.023259 | -0.23179 | 1 | 25.259259 | 0.703704 |
The government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will also present the railway budget on 8 July.
India's economic expansion has slowed markedly, growing by 4.7% in the 2013-14 financial year and marking the second year of sub-5% growth.
Mr Modi's government has promised rapid economic reforms aimed at creating jobs and boosting foreign investment.
Media reports suggest that the federal budget may include measures designed to simplify taxation, reduce inflation and attract private investment.
The government has also spoken about its plans to introduce a general sales tax, encourage foreign investment and speed up approvals for major business projects.
Last week, the government announced an increase in passenger fares and freight rates to improve facilities and recover losses for its state-owned railway, which operates more than 11,000 trains and carries some 13 million passengers daily.
India's previous government presented an interim budget in February - ahead of the general election - to cover expenditure until a new government was installed.
Asia's third-largest economy has been weighed down by factors including high inflation, a weak currency and a drop in foreign investment. | India's new government will present its first federal budget on 10 July, media reports quoting officials said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "27990874"} | 238 | 24 | 0.597385 | 1.324965 | 0.094474 | 1.15 | 10.85 | 0.75 |
More expensive repairs and recent government changes to injury payouts pushed up annual insurance costs by 16%, according to Confused.com.
It found drivers paid on average £781 on comparison sites for a comprehensive policy in the year to March 2017.
Average premiums are set to rise to a record high and could pass £1,000 next year, it added.
Newer vehicles have seen some of the biggest rises, because their increasingly complex electronics have made repairs more expensive.
"A prang on a bumper is now not only a piece of plastic to be replaced, but a cacophony of sensors and cameras," a Confused.com spokeswoman said.
Insurers have also raised prices in response to a new formula for calculating compensation payments, according to the comparison site's research.
In March, when the changes kicked in, premiums rose 4%, Confused.com found.
The government altered the so-called Ogden Rate for calculating lump sum payments to accident victims who suffer long-term injuries.
Car insurers have warned that policy costs will "soar" to offset the higher payouts.
Confused.com said the pressure from the new formula, as well as an impending rise in Insurance Premium Tax, could result in premiums increasing throughout the year.
"As the industry adapts to additional pressures... we could be on course to drive past the £858 peak we saw in 2011," said Amanda Stretton, motoring editor at Confused.com.
"As car insurance costs continue to climb, average premiums could even break the £1,000 barrier by next year," she added.
The Confused.com research, which is carried out together with insurance brokerage Willis Towers Watson, checks more than four million car insurance quotes.
Its figures are higher than the Association of British Insurers, which found the average annual comprehensive policy cost £462 in the last three months of 2016.
But both reported that premiums were increasing in part because of rising repair bills.
According to its research, the highest rise in percentage terms came in Scotland, where car insurance prices increased 21% in the Scottish Highlands.
London drivers still paid the most in premiums though, with prices rising 16% to £1,514 on average in east London.
Men also tended to pay £96 more for insurance policies than women across the UK, it found.
Among age groups, premiums rose 11% for 17 year-olds, 23% for 66 year-olds, but dropped 3% for those aged over 71.
And younger drivers, who tend to make larger and more frequent claims, are set to face the brunt of rising insurance costs in the coming months.
"We would expect premiums for younger drivers to increase at a drastic rate over the next quarter and probably flatten out," a Confused.com spokeswoman said. | Drivers saw their car insurance premiums rise by an average of £110 in the last year, a comparison site says. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39558258"} | 609 | 27 | 0.495911 | 1.247117 | -0.255502 | 1.434783 | 23.565217 | 0.913043 |
The incident took place in Tudor Street at about 19:00 BST, where two men suffered "significant injuries" and were taken to hospital.
South Wales Police said the armed officers were deployed "to ensure the safety of the public and police officers at the scene".
Investigation are continuing. | Armed police responded to reports of a serious assault in Cardiff on Friday night. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39461603"} | 59 | 18 | 0.682406 | 1.142606 | -0.235937 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 0.4 |
Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire councils have delivered a "statement of intent" to the UK and Scottish governments in a bid to secure £2.9bn.
The statement outlines what benefits the funding would bring to the city and surrounding area.
A full bid submission is due to be drawn up by the end of this year.
Items at the top of the local authorities' list include providing more affordable homes, better rail connectivity and improved links to Aberdeen's harbour and airport.
Research into renewable and hydrogen technologies and international trade have also been mentioned.
Jenny Laing, leader of Aberdeen City Council, said: "We believe that the commitments this statement of intent identifies can form the basis for a City Region Deal that will benefit not only the economy of the north east, but the rest of Scotland and the rest of the UK.
"The challenge is to work towards a deal that will maximise the benefits of coordinated new and accelerated investment in the Aberdeen city region.
"We believe this statement articulates the progress that has been made so far and that a deal between the two governments can be made."
Co-leader of Aberdeenshire Council, Martin Kitts-Hayes, added: "We will continue to engage and collaborate with the two governments to deliver a City Region Deal that will ultimately contribute to the economic vision for the north east of Scotland.
"This is a successful region which plays a significant role in contributing to the financial wellbeing of Scotland, the UK and globally.
"By even greater collaboration across industry and all layers of government, we can protect the competiveness of the oil and gas industry already firmly established here and help to power tomorrow's world." | Housing and better connectivity are two of the main priorities set out in proposals for an Aberdeen City Region Deal. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34177189"} | 353 | 22 | 0.607149 | 1.451991 | -0.186408 | 1 | 15.666667 | 0.619048 |
Firefighters said the L & M Spray building was unsafe following the blaze which broke out in Gladstone Street at 10:20 BST on Saturday.
Huge plumes of smoke could be seen across the city during the fire - which was started accidentally.
Several streets were closed while the fire was tackled, causing delays in the city centre. | A spray paint factory in Leicester has been demolished after it was severely damaged by a large fire. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37076400"} | 76 | 23 | 0.57645 | 1.067636 | -0.55395 | 0.263158 | 3.315789 | 0.263158 |
The Bath second row played every minute of the 32-8 defeat by Australia and the 24-20 win against Argentina.
Wales face Japan on 19 November followed by South Africa a week later.
"I'd love to [play every game]. I'll play as much as I can and whenever I can for sure - after two 80 minutes on the bounce I'm enjoying it," said the 33-year-old Charteris.
"I had a bit of stop-start beginning to the season with a couple of injuries at Bath but I had three or four games on the bounce for them before coming in to this.
"I'm enjoying this and the more games you play consecutively the better you feel, within reason, but after 10 or 15 games you may need a bit of a rest but at the moment I'm feeling good."
"It is tough. My body is still pretty battered three days on from Argentina.
"I think the Japanese are probably smaller but it will be a faster more high tempo game so which will be a different challenge."
Japan beat Wales 23-8 the last time the teams met in June 2013, with eight of interim coach Rob Howley's current squad involved.
Liam Williams, Dan Biggar and Bradley Davies were among the players who started in Tokyo, when a large contingent of players were missing on British and Irish Lions duty in Australia.
"There's quite a few boys now who are regular players or in the squad who played on that Japan tour," Charteris said.
"It was some of the boys' first tour and they were disappointed with the result and I think certainly a lot of boys have stepped on from there and become regular starters for us now." | Luke Charteris says he would be happy to play in all four of Wales' autumn international matches if required. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37992214"} | 363 | 25 | 0.437054 | 1.089604 | -0.517169 | 0.47619 | 16.666667 | 0.47619 |
The Aberdeen-based company announced the "encouraging" find after completing drilling at an Eagle exploration well in the Greater Kittiwake Area (GKA).
EnQuest said initial analysis indicated "excellent reservoir properties".
EnQuest anticipates gross total recoverable reserves to be similar in size to those in the nearby Gadwall producing oil field, which was returned to production by the firm last year.
It has estimated total gross recovery from Gadwall at about six million stock tank barrels.
The company said it was continuing to evaluate the Eagle results.
In February 2014, EnQuest acquired a 50% stake as well as operatorship of GKA, which includes the Kittiwake field.
The company also has a 100% interest in the Kittiwake to Forties oil export pipeline.
In an update, EnQuest also reported that its 2016 drilling performance in the Central North Sea had been "excellent".
It said drilling of the Scolty/Crathes development wells was completed ahead of schedule and under budget, while the Crathes reservoir "exceeded expectations", with a small reserves upgrade.
Neil McCulloch, from EnQuest, said: "Following last year's production growth and unit operating cost reduction successes at GKA, this latest success demonstrates EnQuest's ability to create value from maturing assets and from near field exploration opportunities."
In March, EnQuest reported that its pre-tax losses more than doubled last year to about $1.3bn after it took a hit from the oil price slump. | Oil firm EnQuest has reported a new discovery in the Central North Sea. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36683679"} | 338 | 18 | 0.503456 | 1.24349 | -1.025979 | 2.285714 | 20.142857 | 0.857143 |
"The population explosion here has created the most congested city in the world," says the founder of Indonesian motorbike taxi and delivery business Go-Jek.
Just look at the numbers. The giant capital on the island of Java has an estimated population of more than 10 million people, with Greater Jakarta accounting for about 30 million. It's also home to an estimated 18 million motor vehicles.
The average speed a car can travel at is about 8km/h - a situation economists agree is hurting the city's growth capacity. Business visitors say they usually schedule just one meeting per day. The traffic is too terrible to make a second, they say.
So what's the solution?
Indonesian-born Mr Makarim thinks he's found it.
His firm, Go-Jek, which was launched in 2011 as a simple motorbike courier business, has evolved into a multifaceted service delivery and app-based transport provider. And it's taking Jakarta by storm.
"I probably wasn't the first to come up with the idea of Go-Jek," 30-year-old Mr Makarim admits. "A lot of people before me have thought of it as well. It's just that we were the first ones to execute this on a large scale."
The Harvard Business School graduate said he started out by approaching groups of informal motorbike taxis in Jakarta.
Referred to as "ojeks", these motorbike drivers work in groups on the city's streets offering anyone a ride for a few dollars. They're experts at weaving in and out of heavy traffic and are regarded as the most efficient and cheapest way to get from one place to another.
"I was doing summer internships during my business school time and I'd just hang out with street ojeks and buy them coffee and find out what their economic condition was like," Mr Makarim says.
"I wanted to find out... what they did and didn't like about their job.
"And that's when I quickly realised there was so much more that these guys could do. They were working 14-hour days with not much to show for it. Maybe just five bookings a day."
So Mr Makarim recruited a handful of drivers to work as freelancers for his start-up courier business.
Initially operating from a small apartment with a few staff taking calls for deliveries "from mostly family and friends", Go-Jek has transformed itself into a mobile app service with some 200,000 freelance drivers together with hundreds of other service providers.
"Within three months, three million people had downloaded the application - something we totally did not expect," Mr Makarim says. "We hit our end-of-year target in two months.
"Within a year we had over 11 million downloads, which was beyond all our expectations."
Customers can use the app to book a motorbike taxi, order food delivery, cleaning services, and even door-to-door beauticians and masseuses. Go-Jek has just launched Go-Car and after partnering with some of Indonesia's biggest banks, the firm is in the process of making its payment system cash free.
But the transformation from a start-up to a fully-fledged business hasn't been easy, Mr Makarim admits. Since 2011 there have been plenty of challenges.
"Our system nearly imploded from overuse soon after it launched. Then there was a temporary 12-hour ban on app-based transportation in Indonesia. We were extremely elated when that decision was overturned by the president and vice president," he says.
Other problems the firm has faced stem from the marketplace it's operating in.
Major competitors on the streets include app-based transport companies Uber and Grab, as well as local taxi companies. Earlier this year, street demonstrations led by traditional taxi drivers against firms like Uber became violent.
Scenes of a Go-Jek jacket being burned on the streets made headlines and some Go-Jek drivers were hurt during the demonstrations.
"That was a big problem that occurred... but we got through that," Mr Makarim says.
"The government is behind us, very supportive, and as long as we're improving the welfare of the majority of the people in the country, then we think people will ultimately support [us]."
Other hurdles the firm has had to overcome include securing financial backers.
"From our start in 2011, I didn't start working for the company full-time until after we got some investment backing," Mr Makarim says.
Singapore-based NSI Ventures, which is part of the Northstar Group, first invested in Go-Jek in 2014.
Other investors reportedly involved include Sequoia Capital, SoftBank, Vertex Venture and Yuri Milner's DST Global, though Mr Makarim prefers not to discuss the details of their involvement.
He's clearly grateful for their input, though. Earlier this year, he said the firm was aiming for a valuation of more than $1bn.
"Before [we had investors] I couldn't afford myself, so I had to go work for other people," he says. "I came onboard full-time in 2014 and we launched the app in 2015."
Mr Makarim refuses to discuss the firm's financials, but when asked if he would sell Go-Jek for the right sum, he says: "Sell up? Well... our investors need to profit at some point from their investment, but I don't see a sale happening anytime soon." | Nadiem Makarim is forthright about traffic conditions in his home town of Jakarta. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36330006"} | 1,208 | 20 | 0.40557 | 1.295703 | -0.720306 | 0.857143 | 77.785714 | 0.714286 |
William Kerr, 53, absconded from a bail hostel in Hull in March and was wanted on emergency recall to prison.
North Yorkshire Police arrested him in the Waterloo area of London on Friday, following an appeal on BBC Crimewatch.
Kerr was jailed for life in June 1998 for the murder of Maureen Comfort in Leeds. Her body was found in a bedroom cupboard and she had been strangled.
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The find, published in the journal Nature, pushes back the arrival of the first humans in what is now the UK by several hundred thousand years.
Environmental data suggests that temperatures were relatively cool.
This raises the possibility that these early Britons may have been among the first humans to use fire to keep warm.
They may also have been some of the earliest humans to wear fur clothing.
The discoveries were made in Happisburgh, in the north of Norfolk. At the time there was a land bridge connecting what is now southern Britain with continental Europe.
There are no early human remains, but the researchers speculate that the most likely species was Homo antecessor, more commonly - and possibly appropriately - known as "Pioneer Man".
Remains of the species have been found in the Atapuerca region of northern Spain, and dated to 0.8-1.2 million years ago. So the species could well have been in Britain at around that time, according to Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.
"If the climate was good and the land bridge was there, there's no real reason they couldn't have come (to Britain) as far back as 1.2 million years ago," he told BBC News.
Pioneer Man was much like our own species in that it walked upright, used tools and was a hunter gatherer.
But physically the species looked rather different. It had a smaller brain, strong brow ridges and big teeth, with some primitive features such as a flat face and no prominent chin on the lower jaw.
The discovery raises many new questions, such as how these creatures dealt with the cold winters that existed at the time. Scientists have also speculated that they may have used shelters and clothing.
It also raises the possibility that Britain was the first place where fire was used in a controlled way for warmth.
"Although we don't have the evidence for fire or of clothing to get through the winters up here, I think they must have had some extra adaptations," said Professor Stringer.
"I think the evidence suggests that they were living at the edge of the inhabited world in a really challenging environment and indeed they were real pioneers living here in Britain, nearly a million years ago," he said.
The research was led by Dr Nick Ashton of the British Museum, London, as part of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) project.
"The discovery is immensely surprising because we are dealing with an incredibly early date," Dr Ashton said.
He added that the environmental data that indicated the relatively low temperatures was "even more surprising".
"It's unusual to find humans in such a cool climate this far north at this very early date," he said.
This area of Norfolk was quite a different place one million years ago.
"The [River] Thames was flowing through this area. And at the site we have sediments laid down by the Thames," he explained.
Pioneer man was eventually wiped out by an Ice Age. These occurred about every 100,000 years, and each time that happened Britain was depopulated.
As conditions became more benign, a new group of humans arrived.
There were at least eight different waves of people that came in and died out before the last wave, which is the one that survives today. | Researchers have discovered stone tools in Norfolk, UK, that suggest that early humans arrived in Britain nearly a million years ago - or even earlier. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "10531419"} | 709 | 31 | 0.474824 | 1.119927 | 0.740755 | 1.714286 | 23.571429 | 0.857143 |
The incident happened at an address in West Main Street in Armadale, at about 20:40 on Tuesday.
Stuart Robertson, 27, and John Cowan, 18, both faced a charge of assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement, danger of life and attempted murder.
They appeared in private hearing at Livingston Sheriff Cout and made no plea or declaration.
They were remanded in custody after
The men were also charged with assault to severe injury, the Crown Office confirmed.
The case was committed for further examination and they are expected to appear in court again next week.
Both male victims were 22 years old. One sustained a minor injury and the other received treatment for a non-life threatening injury. They have since been discharged from hospital. | Two men have appeared in court charged with attempted murder following an attack of two men in West Lothian. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35526081"} | 159 | 22 | 0.620848 | 1.343884 | -0.110405 | 1.15 | 7.35 | 0.75 |
Eike Batista - who was once the country's richest man - was among nine people issued with arrest warrants on Thursday in connection with a wider $100m corruption scandal.
He is accused of paying $16.5m (£13m) in bribes to former Rio governor Sergio Cabral to win government contracts.
Mr Cabral was detained in December.
According to reports, police failed to find Mr Batista when they raided his home in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday and believe he may have flown to New York using a German passport.
Mr Batista's lawyer, Fernando Martins, said he was travelling and planned to turn himself in on his return.
However, police said they would class him a fugitive if he did not contact them soon and would seek his arrest through Interpol.
During much of the last decade, Eike Batista was seen by many as the face of Brazilian capitalism.
Bold, extravagant and charismatic, he made most of his fortune during the commodities boom that brought great wealth to Brazil.
But Mr Batista has plenty of critics too. Some say he was overconfident and sold projects to investors that were too good to be true - and were never concluded.
And in the past years, he made the headlines with all sorts of legal troubles - being accused of money-laundering and even stock exchange fraud.
In the process, he is reported to have lost all of his fortune, which at one point was estimated to be about $34bn.
Some will say that Mr Batista remains a symbol of the Brazilian economy, where false promises of great wealth ended in crisis and court battles.
Mr Batista, 60, made his fortune during Brazil's commodities boom of the last decade, with his Grupo EBX conglomerate spanning mining, oil, shipbuilding and logistics.
By 2012 he was listed by Forbes Magazine as the world's seventh richest man, with an estimated fortune of $35bn.
But by 2013, Grupo EBX had collapsed after global demand for commodities crashed, and Mr Batista's wealth slumped to under $1bn.
His arrest has been linked to a wider corruption probe in Brazil into the so-called "Car Wash" scandal.
It has focused on relationships between members of the current PMDB party administration, the former Workers Party administration, and some of Brazil's most prominent businessmen over contracts at oil company Petrobras and other state firms.
More than 100 people, including Brazil's most powerful building tycoon, Marcelo Bahia Odebrecht, have been convicted of crimes such as bribery, racketeering and money-laundering. | Police are seeking one of Brazil's best known businessmen after he failed to turn himself in as part of a corruption investigation. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38754635"} | 597 | 29 | 0.464688 | 1.259124 | 0.056506 | 1.333333 | 20.75 | 0.75 |
Felix Kjellberg, 25, known to fans as PewDiePie, records himself playing video games and uploads his reactions online.
He has 37 million followers on the video-sharing website - more than One Direction and Taylor Swift.
"He appeals to an attractive demographic of teens and young adults," said Ian Maude, from Enders Analysis.
"It's strange to imagine that somebody can earn so much from YouTube, but the equivalent of half the UK is watching his videos," he said.
On Tuesday, Mr Kjellberg posted a video titled Let's Talk About Money which has clocked up 1.6 million views in under 24 hours.
Addressing his fans, the Swedish gamer said: "Whenever it comes out how much I made a certain year, people just get so shocked. A lot of people are also very, very angry."
"They think I just sit on my ass all day and yell at the screen over here. Which is true. But there's so much more to it than that," he added.
Expressen looked at dividends paid by Mr Kjellberg's companies in order to work out how much he had earned.
In July 2014, Mr Kjellberg confirmed to an audience on Reddit that he had earned "roughly" $4m in 2013.
Responding to critics, he posted: "I still spent far more money on charities than anything I've ever spent for myself."
YouTube continues to be a profitable enterprise for its top tier stars, who earn money from advertisements placed around their videos.
The site's terms and conditions forbid creators from disclosing how much they earn, but on Monday gamer Olajide Olatunji, known as KSI, told the newspaper Metro he had earned enough money to buy his parents a house.
Although some stars supplement their income with product placement deals, Mr Kjellberg says he does not do very many.
"I make more than I need from YouTube," he wrote on Reddit. "With that freedom, but also to respect my fans for making that possible, I don't end up doing many endorsements."
Mr Maude, of Enders Analysis, has a word of caution for anybody eyeing up YouTube with dreams of becoming a millionaire.
"As with many things, a few people at the top do exceptionally well but there's a long tail of people who don't make any money at all," he said.
"People have to see something special in you. It doesn't happen for everyone."
In his video posted on Tuesday, Mr Kjellberg said: "It seems like the whole world cares more about how much money I make than I do myself."
He thanked fans for their support and added: "I'm just happy doing this. I would be doing it even if I was not as big as I am." | YouTube's most popular star earned $7m (£4.5m) in 2014, according to Swedish newspaper Expressen. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33425411"} | 628 | 26 | 0.44625 | 1.166799 | 0.219235 | 0.727273 | 25.5 | 0.636364 |
Their high fitness levels also appear to increase their chances of surviving cancer if they are diagnosed later on.
University of Vermont researchers said even small improvements in fitness could help to reduce cancer risk.
Cancer Research UK said investigating links between men's fitness levels and cancer risk was a new approach.
Being physically active and eating a healthy, balanced diet are already known to be important factors in reducing people's risk of developing cancer and other diseases.
But study author Dr Susan Lakoski said it would be more beneficial to tell people how much they needed to improve their fitness in order to reduce their risk of cancer to acceptable levels.
This could come in the form of a personalised plan, which should start with measuring their cardio-respiratory fitness.
This study of 14,000 men aged between 46 and 50, in Texas, tested their cardio-respiratory fitness levels at the outset by making them run on a treadmill to the point of exhaustion.
After that, their fitness levels were regularly tested over an average of six and a half years between 1971 and 2009.
Between 1999 and 2009, 1,310 of the men had been diagnosed with prostate cancer, 200 with lung cancer and 181 with colorectal cancer.
The study found that the men with high levels of fitness in middle-age reduced their risk of lung cancer by 55% and their risk of colorectal cancer by 44%, compared with the men with low levels of fitness - those who took more than 12 minutes to run or walk a mile.
However, the study found that the fit men in middle age did not appear to reduce their risk of prostate cancer.
The authors said the exact reasons for this were unknown but men with high cardio-respiratory fitness may be better at looking after their health and therefore more likely to undergo screening for prostate cancer, making them more likely to be diagnosed.
Dr Lakoski said fitness prior to a cancer diagnosis was important.
"This preventative message starts earlier than you think, way before you develop cancer.
"Your health behaviours and your fitness earlier in life has an impact 20 or 30 years later - and that's what people don't realise."
In the study, she said as long as people were above the low-fitness category, they already had a lot of advantages.
Tom Stansfeld, health information officer at Cancer Research UK, said: "Investigating links between men's fitness levels and cancer risk, rather than just the amount of physical activity they do, is a new approach.
"The results reconfirm the benefit of physical activity in decreasing men's risk of bowel cancer.
"Interestingly, the study also found a positive effect of fitness on reducing lung cancer risk, but more research is needed to understand this potential link better."
He said other research in women had shown that increased levels of exercise could reduce the risk of breast and womb cancers.
He added: "Being regularly physically active is great for your overall health and, as this study demonstrates, has benefits far beyond the health of your heart." | Very fit men in their late 40s are less likely to get lung cancer and colorectal cancer than unfit men, a study in JAMA Oncology suggests. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32065073"} | 642 | 38 | 0.51096 | 1.242354 | 0.098278 | 1.25 | 21.5 | 0.678571 |
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The festival starts on Saturday with a mass-participation one-mile open water swim across the famous lake, with 4,500 people expected to take part.
Then, on Sunday, the British Open Water Swimming Championships take place, including an elite invitation race.
Joining the swimming on both days will be Rio 2016 Olympian Jack Burnell and BBC Breakfast's Louise Minchin.
Get Inspired takes a look at the journey of four of the first-timers.
Swim motivation: It may have been 40 years ago but Carol Carter has never forgotten the joy and terror of giving birth to her son Mark, who was born 13 weeks premature.
He weighed just 1lb 13oz, and staff at West Middlesex Hospital didn't think he would survive.
Now, nearly four decades, later Mark is a healthy father and grandfather. He is also the inspiration for Carol to take on the Swim Serpentine and raise money for the charity that helped her.
Carol says: "It was a long time ago but it's not something you forget. I don't know why he came so early and he was just so small when he was born.
"I remember him being wrapped up in silver foil and whisked away. It was hard because I couldn't hold him or touch him and he was in hospital for three months. But the doctors and nurses saved his life and I'll be forever grateful. That's why I'm happy to be swimming for Tommy's.
Find out how to get into swimming with our special guide.
"I was quite a good swimmer when I was younger but after I got married and had children I didn't swim for quite a long time. Then, two years ago, I joined a gym and started building up the lengths in the outdoor swimming pool.
"Open-water swimming really is special. I don't think once you have done it you go back to an indoor pool. The other morning I was out early in the morning with the sun shining overhead, there were ducks around and geese flying overhead. It was amazing."
Swimming for: Tommy's
Target sponsorship: £500
Swim motivation: In 1984, Lee Menday was badly injured in the Falklands while serving in the Royal Navy. The injury left him in constant pain and resulted in surgery to have his lower leg amputated.
Now, at the age of 57, Lee is preparing for the Swim Serpentine, to give back to a charity who have supported him throughout.
Lee says: "It was hard at times. Physical training was the whole of my life. As part of my job in the Navy, I organised sports on my ship and on other ships. I enjoyed my career but the injury ended that.
"After my last operation I knew the place to be to start my rehabilitation was the pool. I got to the point with my swimming where I started to see progress and then I wanted to take it further - that's when Swim Serpentine came along.
"To now be in a situation where I can raise money for a charity like Blesma is great. If there has ever been an issue during my injury, the charity has been there to help and look after me."
Swimming for: Blesma
Target sponsorship: £500
Swim motivation: When 24-year-old Theodora Moss found out two years ago that she had Stage 2 Lymphoma it had a big impact on her life and her love for swimming.
Studying at medical school at the time, Theodora had chemotherapy while maintaining her studies. Because of her weakened immune system, she was not allowed to swim in public pools, but then found open-water swimming.
Theodora says: "As I lay in my student flat hearing friends come crashing in at 4am, I felt defeated by the injustice of it all. I simply could not believe this was happening to me.
"As my treatment came to an end and the spring arrived, I discovered the wonder of wild, open-water swimming. There were none of the coughs and colds I had to be wary of in public pools. Diving into a clear Yorkshire river I have never felt more alive.
"Every inch of my skin tingled and as the water flowed past I felt the worries wash away with it. That summer I swam as much outside as I could, from the Yorkshire Dales to Tooting Lido and the Cornish coast, and so was born a new obsession.
"Trekstock are an amazing charity run by young people for young people and their refreshing and inspiring network of young people and support programmes have helped me get my life back on track - open-water swimming included!"
Swimming for: Trekstock
Target sponsorship: £2,000
Swim motivation: For 10-year-old Mae Webster, life has not been easy. At the age of two she was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and has spent years on medication to try to keep the condition in check.
Mae had been making a steady progress until she had a relapse this year. That spurred 33-year-old mum Keri to take on the challenge of Swim Serpentine.
Keri says: "Mae had a flare-up earlier this year and ended up back in hospital. It was then that I decided to do something. I knew I had to do something positive to help children like her, who live with this incredibly painful and debilitating condition on a daily basis.
"Mae has been really supportive of me since I started training and she has found it quite inspiring. But to me, Mae is the real inspiration. She is so strong.
"Everyone pictures childhood as running and jumping around without any problems but Mae can't do these things without being in pain.
"Arthritis is hard to understand - not just the fact that you can get it at any age, but the fact that it is often a lifelong and very invisible condition.
"Arthritis Research UK has been an invaluable source of information for us. That's why I am honoured to be raising funds for the charity, and raising awareness."
Swimming for: Arthritis Research UK
Target sponsorship: £350
Target time: 35 minutes
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Anne MacAskill, 67, from Skye, and her friend Kay Simpson, 69, will tackle the challenge later this year to raise money for charity.
The venture will be carried out in a 22-year-old Renault Express in memory of Ms Simpson's late partner Duncan Strachan.
The women will travel across Europe and Asia, starting in July.
Rally entrants must finish the event by 12 September.
Danny MacAskill has gained international acclaim and recognition for risky feats performed on a bike, including stunts on Skye's Cuillin Ridge and riding along rooftops in Gran Canaria.
Videos of his stunts attract millions of internet hits. The short films include one shot at his family home on Skye that features his mother.
On her forthcoming driving challenge, Mrs MacAskill said: "We have an agreement. I don't worry about him and he does not worry about me.
"But he is delighted that I'm doing this. I've never done anything like it before." | Stunt rider Danny MacAskill's mother is to take part in the 10,000-mile (16,093 km) Mongol Rally in an old van. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35611719"} | 227 | 38 | 0.565344 | 1.639244 | -0.356022 | 0.615385 | 7.461538 | 0.538462 |
The colt was discovered alive alongside a toilet, bath and other rubbish on Meadow Lane in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, at about 20:20 GMT on Tuesday.
Nearby farm owner Tony Perrin said the "skinny and scrawny" horse was "kicking its legs but couldn't move".
The RSPCA, which is investigating, said the foal died before a vet could attend and the body has been removed.
Mr Perrin, who was called by police to assist, told Mansfield Chad: "It was awful - when I arrived it was still alive.
"This is the second time this has happened down here."
The 64-year-old said the injured foal must have been left after 18:00 GMT by whoever illegally dumped the rubbish.
Derbyshire Police said it had received a call from a member of the public who found the horse and contacted the RSPCA.
An RSPCA spokesperson said: "As our nearest available officer was 80 miles away dealing with an emergency, we requested that police send officers to the scene.
"Sadly, the officers later informed us that the colt - which we believe had suffered from a broken neck - died of his injuries before a vet could attend.
"The body was left at the site overnight and an RSPCA officer attended the following day to investigate the circumstances in which he was dumped at the scene.
"We would like to hear from anyone who may know where this horse came from or who may have seen anything suspicious in the area to contact us." | A horse with a broken neck has died after being dumped among fly-tipped rubbish. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38085127"} | 336 | 21 | 0.494171 | 1.203324 | -0.186576 | 1.235294 | 17.411765 | 0.764706 |
The group reported a fourth consecutive month of declines in factory activity, with growth at its slowest pace since May 2013.
The index stood at 50.1. Any number above 50 is considered expansion.
The strong US dollar has hurt exports and caused a number of job cuts at plants across the country.
According to the ISM, the number of manufacturing jobs declined by 8% last month compared to September.
The index for new orders rose to 52.9 up from 50.1, suggesting the slowdown may end in the coming months.
A decrease in spending by the oil industry has also taken its toll on manufacturing and is likely to continue to do so, analysts said.
"Until oil prices rebound significantly and stay high for a while you're unlikely to see a boost in their capital expenditures," said Dan North chief economist for Euler Hermes North America, the largest provider of trade credit insurance.
He added that the strong dollar and global economic slowdown are also worrying for the industry.
"We expect that in the long term we will still have a strong dollar. Combine that with global weakness and our exports will still suffer," Mr North said.
Separately, the US Commerce Department also reported a seven year high in construction spending.
It said that spending on new homes, highways, offices and other facilities was up 14.1% from the year before.
Both private and public sector spending was up.
Private home construction - the largest section of the industry- was up 17.2% compared to the previous year. | US manufacturing grew at its slowest pace in two years in October, according to data released by Institute for Supply Management (ISM). | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34703571"} | 314 | 29 | 0.503312 | 1.138035 | 0.118208 | 1.115385 | 11.538462 | 0.576923 |
Winger Wilson, 18, has not played for the Reds' first team, but was part of the senior squad on their pre-season tour of Asia and Australia this summer.
He has agreed a deal that will keep him at Gresty Road until January.
Scottish left-back Kingsley, 21, has joined the Alex on an emergency 93-day loan.
He began his career in Scotland with Falkirk before signing for the Swans in June 2014.
Kingsley played 12 times in League One for Yeovil Town in a three-month loan spell last season.
The pair's arrival brings the number of summer signings made by the Railwaymen to seven with both available to make their debuts in Saturday's League One game at Wigan.
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But its most revered residents of all are the ones that shun the five-star facilities and never ever pick up a tab.
The exclusive isle - off the north coast of Antigua and Barbuda - is the site of the world's longest running research programme for critically endangered hawksbill turtles.
And they have been here far longer than their human counterparts.
Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the study, funded entirely by Jumby Bay's well-heeled homeowners who include the likes of Lord Sainsbury, the former chair of the eponymous British supermarket chain, and author Ken Follett.
It has collated more data than any other project about the intriguing creatures which were previously considered too skittish to study, and is one of the only places in the world where their numbers are increasing.
The last three decades have seen almost 450 hawksbills tagged for monitoring purposes and the number of those nesting there increase three-fold.
Every single turtle laying eggs on the island's Pasture Beach is identified thanks to meticulous hourly patrols by researchers and volunteers every night for the duration of the five-and-a-half-month annual nesting season.
Dr Seth Stapleton, from the University of Minnesota who is overseeing the work, said 2014 had been a record year with nearly 90 hawksbills spotted.
"When the project started there were about 30 individuals nesting per season. What's even more remarkable is that we are continuing to see some of the same turtles that were first tagged in the late 1980s returning to nest here. They were originally tagged when they were probably 15 to 20 years old, and a few are still reproducing decades later."
Long hunted for their beautiful brown and gold shells - used to make everything from sunglasses to jewellery - the population of hawksbills worldwide has declined by 80% in the last 200 years.
They have been listed as critically endangered since 1996.
Although the trade is now banned, they still face horrendous odds with only one in 1,000 hatchlings making it to adulthood thanks to omnipresent marine predators.
Exacerbating matters further is hawksbills' late maturation; they do not usually begin to reproduce until they are at least 15 years old.
Dr Stapleton said the Jumby Bay study had been integral in providing fundamental information about hawksbills.
"Many details we now take for granted we learned there - for example, that they don't nest every year; they nest four or five times in one year, laying around 150 eggs each time and then skip a year or two," he explained.
"But there's still so much we don't know, such as how long they live. My ballpark guess would be 50 to 60."
Because turtles are tagged when in their so-called 'nesting trance' - a daze-like state during the egg-laying process when they are oblivious to their surroundings and unable to move quickly - most of the data gathered is about adult females.
Researchers are now taking genetic tissue from the hatchlings to compile information about the males, too.
Plans for the upcoming year also include deploying three satellite transmitters to track hawksbills' movements by GPS.
"This will enable us to better assess where they travel after nesting," Dr Stapleton added.
Hawksbills play a key environmental role by eating sponges which helps keep coral reefs healthy.
Ashton Williams, of Antigua's Environmental Awareness Group (EAG), said sadly a small number of turtles were still poached for their meat on the mainland.
"We were following tracks recently at Rendezvous Bay when the marks suddenly stopped. We could see where a turtle had been flipped over and dragged away," he said.
"Thankfully the younger generation aren't that interested in turtle meat but some of the older folk still have a taste for it. There's also a myth that the eggs are an aphrodisiac."
Mr Williams has been working to protect Antigua's marine life for the last 35 years.
"What I love most about turtles is their determination. The female leaves her environment and puts herself in so much danger all for the survival of her offspring," he said.
"When she goes into her nesting trance she's totally vulnerable to predators. To go through all that just to be killed by a man, it really hurts."
Happily for Jumby Bay's reptilian population, the private isle is one of the world's densest hawksbill nesting sites with one every two to three metres.
Donna Cook, the resort's spokeswoman, said the scheme would not be possible without the generosity of private homeowners.
"It's an amazing project," she added. "The island is one of the few places on earth where turtles are completely safe." | The private Caribbean island of Jumby Bay may be home to some of the world's most affluent and influential people. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32402723"} | 1,101 | 30 | 0.293557 | 0.812022 | -0.627618 | 1.272727 | 41.954545 | 0.727273 |
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Pick almost any of the teams at this year's tournament and compare them to their 1987 equivalents: the backs will be as heavy as forwards used to be, and today's forwards will be three stone heavier than yesterday's big men.
Sure, all of us are bigger on average than even our recent ancestors, but rugby union's new dimensions are a remarkable testament to the additional time, money and expertise that came in when the sport went professional in 1995.
Or that is what the sport's bosses will tell you.
But there is another theory to explain how the game got bigger, faster and stronger. It is why governing body World Rugby is spending more money on anti-doping than ever before, the federations are catching more cheats than ever before and anti-doping agencies are talking about the sport more than ever before.
Put simply - and it is a simple idea - rugby union got on the gear.
"There is going to be a temptation to dope, that will be too strong for some to ignore, in any situation where your success depends on physical characteristics from early on," said one anti-doping expert, who wished to remain anonymous.
"That is what made cycling so vulnerable: young guys, desperate to stand out in a team environment, where the advantage to be gained from doping would be enough to ensure a career.
"Is rugby any different? The physiology is but the concept is the same."
But it is just a theory and every theory, like elite athletes, needs to be tested.
Is rugby union, to paraphrase Tony Blair, still a pretty straight sort of sport, or is it as low down and dirty as baseball's asterisk years,cycling's EPO era or Russian athletics?
When it comes to anti-doping, there is a very obvious Catch-22. Take it seriously and catch people (because there are cheats in every area of human activity), or pretend to take it seriously and catch nobody.
Do the former and you have a "drugs problem"; do the latter, no problem…until a superstar makes a mistake and the edifice of propriety collapses.
You hear this dilemma a lot when you talk to people involved in the game's anti-doping efforts. They are well aware of the fact that rugby union tops UK Anti-Doping's (Ukad) banned list and that the trend over the last 12 months suggests the situation is deteriorating.
But they believe this is really a reflection of the sport's values and them doing their jobs properly.
"We have grasped the nettle," said Stephen Watkins, the manager of the Rugby Football Union's (RFU) anti-doping programme.
"All our testing is intelligence-led and targeted, and we get information from the police, the Border Agency, Ukad and the clubs themselves. They share their suspicions.
"Our experience is that the rugby fraternity does not tolerate it."
That sentiment is echoed by Watkins' counterpart at World Rugby, David Ho, who said the game's "values" of fair play and mutual respect were the difference between rugby union and sports more afflicted by doping.
"I think other sports are envious of those values," said Ho, whose organisation has just increased its anti-doping budget by 30% to £1.5m a year, the same amount the IAAF, the governing body of athletics, spends on drug testing.
The RFU carried out nearly 800 tests last season, up almost a third on the previous campaign with increases at every level from the Under-17s in the top clubs' academies to those on Six Nations duty.
The biggest increase, however, came in the tiers just below the Premiership, and this is where players are getting caught.
Sixteen of the 48 people serving Ukad bans come from rugby union. Rugby league is next, then boxing. Cycling, for so long doping's poster boy, is in a tie for sixth.
No player has tested positive in England's top flight for more than four years, but rugby union is responsible for 11 of the 25 cases recorded by Ukad in the last 12 months.
Read one of these sorry stories and you have almost read them all: an amateur, for a team you have never heard of, wants to get bigger so buys "something" - sometimes a steroid but usually a mislabelled or contaminated supplement with a macho name - from the internet, or a "bloke at the gym" and fails the first drugs test they are given.
Some of these cases are attempts to enhance performance - unequivocal cases of cheating - but others look a lot like symptoms of a much wider problem.
"Go to any newsagents and look at the magazines: the women's ones are all about losing weight, the men's ones are about gaining it," said Watkins.
"We know societal steroid use is up and it is very probably under-reported. The sad fact is that some of that falls into our sphere."
I have heard exactly the same explanation from anti-doping experts in Australia and South Africa: "bigorexia" is the issue, not cheating.
Dr Glen Hagemann is responsible for the one of the best bits of research we have into what is happening at the margins of professional rugby. He asked 12,463 students in 23 rugby-playing schools in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province what they were taking and why.
The most shocking of his findings were that almost one in 10 18-year-old boys had tried steroids, and rugby players were the most likely group to have done so.
The main reason they gave, though, was vanity.
"Steroids have become a lifestyle drug and many of the students did not even see it as cheating," said Hagemann, who does not think doping is a serious problem at the elite level in South Africa.
"I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I am saying there is a genuine interest in keeping it clean.
"If there is a problem, it is in the schools, where you cannot test without the school's permission, and at the club level, where there is very little testing."
Professor Stephen Moston, from the University of Canberra, has carried out similar studies in Australia, with similar responses.
"It's everywhere now - it's become normal to some groups," said Moston, when asked by reporters about doping among junior athletes.
"Young athletes think they are supposed to dope and there's no serious attempt to stop them."
Aurora Andruska, who led the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority's bruising investigations into team-sponsored doping in Australian Rules Football and rugby league, is certainly not frightened to ruffle the feathers of the sports establishment. But she agrees with those who think elite rugby union is relatively clean.
"I have concerns about performance-enhancing drugs across all of society - everybody from actors to doormen to prison officers - but when we looked at rugby union the problem areas seemed to be with guys trying to get that first contract, and then later when they were trying to hang on to it," said Andruska.
But there are some voices singing a different tune.
Laurent Benezech is no stranger to French rugby's dog house.
"When I was a player I set up a players' union - the federation thought I was a communist," the 48-year-old said with a chuckle.
"So I am used to being the pain-in-the-arse guy."
That pain got more acute when Benezech, who was capped 15 times by France in the mid-1990s, started to talk and write about doping.
It began when French anti-doping expert Francoise Lasne told a 2013 senate inquiry into cycling's problems that when it came to positive tests it was rugby union that led the way.
Lasne was simply stating a fact, just as Ukad chief executive Nicole Sapstead was stating a fact when she said much the same thing to a panel of MPs investigating athletics.
But French rugby was not in the mood for such straight-talking and Lasne was indignantly attacked by players, past and present, and the game's administrators.
Benezech, a thoughtful man, was troubled by this, particularly as he already harboured suspicions about the size and speed of the players he was watching in France's Top 14, European rugby's strongest league.
So he told French newspaper Le Monde that doping was rife in French rugby and always had been. His motivation was to warn players about the health risks of doping, especially when done in an unregulated fashion.
But there was no sign of gratitude in the response he got from the French players' union: it hit him with a defamation writ from more than 130 current players, each one asking for 2,000 euros in damages.
He would eventually be cleared, after the judge ruled he had spoken in good faith, but it was a stressful experience and it probably explains why his next contribution to the debate was a book called Rugby: Where Are Your Values?
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Benezech was much in demand last week when the story of an investigation into alleged fraud by a pharmacy that supplies RC Toulon - the winner of European rugby's premier competition, the Heineken Cup - was splashed across the French media.
The details of the investigation remain unknown but RC Toulon's colourful owner Mourad Boudjellal got on the front foot last week by saying the pharmacy, and not the club, was under the microscope, with the issue being the possible defrauding of the French health service.
"No player is concerned in this affair," said Boudjellal, before adding that jealousy of Toulon's success and French rugby politics were the reason the club had been dragged into the story.
The club has had issues in the past, though, with England's Steffon Armitage and Welsh prop Eifion Lewis-Roberts both testing positive for morphine, only to later be cleared of intentional wrongdoing. And the club has always been firm in its denials of cheating.
But Benezech believes many top clubs are exploiting grey areas in the anti-doping rules to manage injuries and keep players on the park.
Some would argue that is common sense for a successful team at the sharp end of a contact sport, and Benezech does not necessarily disagree: he just would prefer it to be done more honestly and safely.
"There is an equation for performance in top sport: steroids for muscles, growth hormone and cortisone for recovery, EPO for red blood cells and perhaps beta-blockers for concentration," he explained.
"You simply change the methods and quantities for each sport.
"Are rugby players cleverer than everybody else so they don't need to use these things? Is rugby somehow different?"
World Rugby, which only has 79 violations on its website after 12 years of global testing (the list mentioned in the opening paragraph, topped by Russia), says it is and points to just four positive tests from more than 2,000 samples in the last year as evidence of those "values".
There is a problem with putting too much faith in tests, though, as athletics should have learned with Marion Jones and cycling with Lance Armstrong.
"I had big legs but a small upper body and I never tested well in the gym," said former South Africa Under-21 player Carlo Del Fava.
"Put me on a field and I was OK, because I was aggressive and had decent ball skills, but my bench press was poor and in South Africa that was everything."
So Del Fava bought some unbranded steroids from a guy at the gym. He only had enough money to buy three injections' worth and had no idea what he was doing. But that was no defence when he failed a test and he was given a two-year ban in 2002.
He took his punishment, though, and came back more determined than ever. He would eventually play 54 times for Italy and enjoy a 10-year club career that took him around Europe. But most importantly, he rebuilt his reputation.
That is something Sam Chalmers, the son of former Scotland and Lions star Craig Chalmers, is trying to do now after he made the same mistake as Del Fava in 2013. He too was trying to rectify a size issue.
World Rugby has belatedly realised the benefit of persuading poachers to become gamekeepers and both Chalmers and Del Fava have appeared in videos produced by the governing body as part of its Keep Rugby Clean initiative.
But these two cases fit the narrative that rugby union has settled on: we do not have a problem, just isolated cases of youngsters making bad decisions, often because they want to look better on the beach.
This explanation makes sense only if you believe people who have got away with something stop doing it when they have achieved a certain goal, such as a better bench press, bigger biceps or a professional contract.
That is not the experience of rugby league in England and Wales, where Ukad continues to catch players higher up the chain, or in South Africa where rugby union is the most tested sport.
Khalid Galant, the chief executive of South African Institute for Drug-Free Sport, said that "gym culture and the ubiquity of supplements" were "a major problem", even at Super 15 level.
"I have been amazed at what I perceive to be rugby's naivety regarding doping," said the anti-doping expert quoted earlier.
"They really do believe these values give them some immunity.
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The migration, which will be complete by mid-2015, will end the need for the "paper counterpart" document drivers have to keep with their licence.
Insurers said "honest" motorists could see premiums fall by up to £15 a year.
At the moment, insurers cannot check licence or traffic offence details when they sell policies, meaning they have to "price in" risk factors.
The Association of British Insurers says premiums are pushed up by the fact that firms have to take account of the risk that drivers either do not tell the truth about speeding points to get a lower quote, or simply make a mistake.
"Significant cost savings" would also result from "reducing the need to obtain paper copies of licences from policyholders", the association added.
By Brian WheelerBBC News
Most of us would struggle to find the official document we are meant to keep with our driving licence. But from the middle of next year we will not need to.
All the information on it - such as speeding points - will be available online. It is one of 25 public services set to go digital by 2015.
Cabinet Office minster Francis Maude says the days when government IT projects were a by-word for disaster are over.
Britain now leads the world. And it has already saved taxpayers more than a billion pounds a year.
But critics point to universal credit.
The government's flagship welfare reforms rely heavily on new IT systems - and these have been hit by cost over-runs and delays straight from the bad old days.
A system due to be launched by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) will allow insurers to access the information using an individual's licence number.
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said anyone with a driving licence would be able to use the online database while there will be an assisted service for those who find it difficult to use the internet. They will be able to get help from a call centre, library or post office.
Most of the UK's 40 million drivers would see falls in premiums, he suggested.
"This will enable insurers, for example, to price much more accurately, because they will not have to take anything on trust," he said.
Driving records are one of 25 public services set to go digital by 2015, with Mr Maude claiming the UK now leads the world in online migration of public services.
The paper counterpart to the driving licence photo card is due to be phased out by 2015 while it was announced in December that paper car tax discs would also be scrapped.
The DVLA said that "although some services cannot be delivered digitally, such as assessing a customer's fitness to drive, we can improve the processes supporting the delivery of these services through making greater use of digital tools".
It has not ruled out job cuts at the DVLA headquarters in Swansea, after the new digital system launches in June, but is awaiting the outcome of a review of staffing levels.
The car rental industry will also be affected by the new system - but it denied government claims that it would reduce the cost of hiring a vehicle.
"There are around 10 million car rental transactions in the UK each year and the majority of rental bookings are approved very quickly and at no cost by checking the driver endorsement and qualification information contained on the driver licence counterpart," said a spokesman for the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association.
When that is not available, rental companies rely on the DVLA's expensive telephone-based system to access driver information.
"The DVLA has confirmed its plans to withdraw the counterpart from 2015 and has promised the industry that it will provide a viable online database.
"This project has not yet begun, but we hope that any solution will be cost-effective and provide real-time, 24/7 access. Even if this is achieved, it is very unlikely to be quicker or cheaper than the current system of checking the paper driver licence counterpart."
Initially, the new system will check users' identities by asking for their postcode and National Insurance number but, in common with other digital government services, it will eventually allow people to use their bank's system to prove their identity on websites providing government services.
Clicking on an icon will allow people to complete the check required by their bank, mobile phone company, or other service provider.
The approach would cut the number of passwords people need to remember, and avoid the need for a central government system to establish identities.
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Ava-Jayne Corless was attacked while sleeping at a house in Blackburn, Lancashire, in February 2014.
Lee Wright, 27, had denied the claim his pet, called Snoop, was a banned pit bull-type that contravened the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991.
At Blackburn Magistrates' Court, Wright was warned he was facing jail and will be sentenced later.
District Judge Gerald Chalk asked for a pre-sentence report to be obtained.
The judge agreed there was no evidence to suggest Wright had known the dog was of a prohibited breed.
He said both expert witnesses had relied on the American Dog Breeders Association as standard in making their assessment of the dog, but said it was "comment rather than definitive".
Wright had disputed the pet was a banned pit bull type dog in contravention of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, saying he believed it to be an American pit bull.
Ava-Jayne was killed in February 2014 at the defendant's house on Emily Street, Blackburn, as her mother Chloe King and Wright - her then-boyfriend - slept.
They believed the dog was in the kitchen blocked in by a speaker and a golf bag stand.
Police said at the time the dog - which was destroyed after the attack - had been identified by experts as a pit bull terrier-type.
During the two-day trial, expert witness Peter Olsen, a retired veterinary surgeon, had examined the dead dog and concluded it shared a "substantial number of characteristics" with a pit bull.
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Kenneth Hall, 49, from Bridgwater, Somerset, sold details about killers held at the hospital to the News Of The World and Mirror newspapers.
They included Robert Ashman, who attacked MP Nigel Jones and killed his assistant with a samurai sword in 2000.
Hall pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced next month.
The offences took place between 29 June 2002 and 6 October 2004.
Hall's wife Karen, who was also a nurse at Broadmoor, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the commissioning of the offence by allowing money she knew her husband was getting by selling stories to go into her account.
The mother-of-three did not sell any stories or disclose any confidential information herself, and was sentenced to five months in jail suspended for one year on Tuesday.
The Old Bailey heard how Hall made thousands of pounds selling stories to a freelance reporter, Anna Gekoski, who often worked for the News Of The World.
He later also made contact with a reporter at the Mirror.
Prosecutor Stuart Biggs said Hall "was both providing care and treatment to patients with mental health illnesses and personality disorders" when he sold the stories.
"And so he had responsibilities in respect of the risk they posed to each other, themselves and the community."
The court heard that Hall smuggled out patient notes relating to Ashman, leading to a number of stories, including one headlined, "Samurai Nut Could Be Free In 18 Months".
Mr Biggs said Hall also forged notes when he could not smuggle the originals out of the hospital.
In an email to Ms Gekoski, from 19 September 2003, Hall wrote: "Hope it goes in as a lot of work went into getting copies of those."
But the prosecutor said: "Many of the contents are fabricated. There is sometimes some truth, and sometimes there is more truth, but there is at least exaggeration.
"In this case it's a complete fabrication."
Hall also pleaded guilty to forgery.
Mr Biggs said: "In two different ways the public official abused his position.
"He had the credibility of the newspaper to create false documents, and he, on the rare occasions he was able, took out of the hospital a true document, with obvious sensitive and confidential information."
Sentencing Mrs Hall, who suffers from poor mental health and walks with a stick, Judge Timothy Pontius said it was a "tragedy" to see her in court.
But he said that in knowing her husband was making money by selling confidential information, she had encouraged the offending.
The judge told Hall, meanwhile, that a prison sentence "must be uppermost in the court's mind".
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Ryan was responding to speculation that the 29-year-old rugby league convert is being viewed as an England possible.
"He's got the quality and potential to do that," Ryan told BBC Sport.
"But to play for England he's going to have to play well in an area that's got stronger over the last few weeks."
Auckland-born Te'o, who played one rugby league international for Samoa in 2008, qualifies for England through his mother, who was born and raised there.
He is currently in his second season with Irish provincial side Leinster, who he joined from Australian rugby league side South Sydney Rabbitohs, where he had been a team-mate of Sam Burgess, who was about to make the same switch.
He is not scheduled to join Worcester until the end of this season, but already Ryan has been asked about what path lies ahead for the second of this winter's five pre-agreed signings.
"He's a player of quality and he's English qualified but I've not had any conservations outside that," Ryan told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"I know he's ambitious and that he's got aspirations to play Test rugby and I know he wants to do that through playing for Worcester. But I have no idea whether anyone else shares that line of thought.
"He's a real talent, a real athlete and is really driven to be successful. He's very direct. There's still things we think we can add to his game, but he's still got a lot to learn. The fact that we are bringing in a player of his quality, that he wants to come and that he sees what we're doing here is more important to me."
The speculation about Te'o comes on top of this week's revelation that Wigan and England winger Josh Charnley plans to switch codes to join Sale.
But it also comes at the end of a season in which the fate of Burgess in England's ill-fated Rugby Union World Cup campaign served as a warning to the dangers of over reliance on cross-code converts.
Worcester Warriors have so far have made five signings for the 2016-17 season.
They will also be bringing in another centre, New-Zealand-born Jackson Willison from French side Grenoble.
They have also signed three forwards, South Africa-born Northampton hooker Matt Williams, Bath lock Will Spencer and Bristol flanker Marco Mama. | Worcester Warriors boss Dean Ryan says that Leinster centre Ben Te'o, one of the club's signings for 2016-17, already has the potential to play rugby union for England. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35945006"} | 555 | 40 | 0.563133 | 1.484786 | 0.715819 | 1.382353 | 14.176471 | 0.852941 |
Midfielder Evans, 21, is a senior Wales international.
Former Aston Villa goalkeeper Leach 20, has represented England at under-20 level.
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A spokesman for the GMB union, which represents 63 firefighters at the site, said the action would be 24-hour strikes starting in July.
He said members felt they were not getting the right pay and were doing work above their role.
Sellafield Ltd said further talks are planned for 30 June but "arrangements are in place" to cope with action.
The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing and decommissioning site employs about 10,000 people.
GMB senior organiser for Sellafield, Chris Jukes, said almost all of the site's firefighters, who voted two to one in favour of industrial action, are part of the union.
He said: "The firefighters do a vitally important job and they feel completely taken advantage of by management, relying on doing work over and above what they are paid for.
"It is sinful that this highly skilled group of workers have been put in this position."
A spokesman for Sellafield Ltd said the firm was "committed to resolving" the issues.
He added: "The safety and security of the Sellafield site are our overriding priorities.
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Dylan Day was set up to raise the profile of his work, both in Wales and overseas, through a series of events.
They kick off in New Quay, Ceredigion, where sand artist Marc Treanor will re-create the event's 2016 logo.
On Saturday afternoon, Max Porter was announced as the winner of the £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize for his book Grief is the Thing.
Chairman of judges Prof Dai Smith said: "Max Porter, the judges felt, takes the common place of grief, the pall of death, the loss of loved ones, the things that we will all experience and transforms the ordinary through an extraordinary feat of imaginative prose, but prose that slips in to poetry and out again."
Other events are being held in Swansea, Laugharne, London and New York - all have strong links to the poet.
The launch of a new walking app will take place in Swansea, with a promenade performance beginning at Castle Square and ending at the restored Dylan Thomas birth place.
Laugharne in Carmarthenshire will celebrate its literary links with storytelling in the castle, music in the boathouse and an evening event at the Tin Shed.
In Fishguard a weekend festival is planned, with highlights including an Under Milk Wood walk and a screening of the new Welsh language film shot in Solva.
Other literary events are planned in Italy, Australia and Argentina.
Welsh singer and songwriter Cerys Matthews has encouraged people to get involved.
She said: "I've enjoyed celebrating Burns Night over the years and often wanted to celebrate Dylan Thomas in the same way.
"Enjoy the chance to savour the brilliance of his work."
The winner of the 10th annual International Dylan Thomas Prize is also set to be announced during a ceremony at Swansea University, with a £30,000 prize for the best published literary work.
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Premier League champions Chelsea will also enter an Under-21 side, as they did last season.
Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool have turned down the chance to participate.
The competition features 16 Under-21 teams from clubs with Category A academies, in addition to the 48 League One and League Two clubs.
Last season was the first time it was played under the new format.
Coventry beat Oxford in front of almost 75,000 at Wembley but prior to that the competition had been heavily criticised due to its low crowds, restrictive rules for the League One and Two teams, and the absence of most of England's major clubs.
Tournament regulations were tweaked in the summer, allowing greater flexibility in selection and fixture dates.
This has encouraged City and Tottenham to enter, in addition to Newcastle and Fulham, who are new entrants from last season.
Prize money has been increased to £3m per season, with the winner getting £100,000.
Tottenham head of player development, John McDermott, said: "We know the Checkatrade Trophy will provide a massive challenge for us and we look forward to testing ourselves."
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A contraflow system and a reduced speed limit will affect the A338 Spur Road over the two-week school holidays.
Dorset County Council said suspending the project for the break would "cost around four weeks of time, and would mean us finishing at the end of June".
The authority has advised motorists to "plan ahead".
The £22m project, which started in September, is due to finish at the end of May.
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A senior police officer in the state told BBC Hindi that Colonel Jasjit Singh had been arrested on Thursday.
He is accused of directing his men to loot gold worth 140m rupees ($2.1m;£1.8m) that was being smuggled into Mizoram from Myanmar in December last year.
Mizoram shares an international border with Myanmar.
The police official told BBC Hindi that eight other army personnel were also arrested from the state's capital Aizawl for their role in the robbery.
Mr Singh knew about the smuggling of gold on this route and ordered his armed men to loot the vehicle, he said.
The police took action after the driver of the vehicle, C Lalnunfela, filed a complaint with the police on 21 April.
Mr Lalnunfela said he had earlier been too worried about his safety to complain, but decided to go the police after his friends and family talked him into it.
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His status is such that the phrase to be "paxoed" has entered the media lexicon, meaning a journalistic "going over" to be avoided by hapless politicians.
However, many of Westminster's toughest and wiliest operators have succumbed.
The journalist has been no respecter of standing or affiliation, giving an equally rough ride to interviewees, whether they were Conservative or Labour, prime ministers, masters of the universe or junior officials.
Some hardened politicians reportedly refused to appear on the programme when he was presenting while others donned their tin hats and became regular sparring partners.
Perhaps more than any other, Michael Howard's appearance on Newsnight in 1997 has entered broadcasting and political folklore.
In the middle of a Tory leadership contest, Mr Howard was asked about his relationship with the former head of the Prison Service, Derek Lewis, whom he had sacked in 1995 after a series of escapes by IRA prisoners.
The Newsnight host famously put the same question 12 times to the former home secretary without appearing to get a satisfactory answer.
He later played down what many immediately hailed as a moment of journalistic genius, suggesting that he could not think of anything else to ask him as the interview progressed.
The BBC had well-documented run-ins with the Labour government in the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with much probing about the relationship between Tony Blair and George Bush.
In a 2003 edition, Jeremy Paxman took a different tack and appeared to take the prime minister genuinely by surprise when he asked him whether he and the US president had prayed together.
The same question has been posed several times since then but it was Paxman who asked it first.
Like Mr Blair, William Hague is regarded as one of the most talented media performers of his generation but that did not protect him when he was put on the spot in 2009 about Tory donor Lord Ashcroft's tax status.
As before, the Newsnight host deployed the tactic of asking the same question, or variations on the same question, on multiple occasions and the then shadow foreign secretary seemed taken aback by this.
Some politicians have literally had their careers made or broken by their appearances on Newsnight.
Junior Treasury minister and rising Conservative star Chloe Smith was dispatched to appear on the programme in 2012 to talk about a proposed delay to a rise in fuel duty.
What followed was painful to watch as the minister struggled to appear on top of her brief and give the appearance that she was privy to what was going on in the upper echelons of her department.
Chancellor George Osborne was criticised for not going on the programme himself and allowing Ms Smith to take the fire.
Although remaining magnanimous about the encounter, Ms Smith was moved to another job in a reshuffle that year and has since left the government.
The Newsnight host has not always had it his own way, of course, and some of his most memorable encounters have taken place when his subjects have fought back.
Media magnate Conrad Black famously chided Jeremy Paxman as a "gullible, priggish, English fool" when questioned about his (Black's) conviction for fraud and subsequent imprisonment.
And many felt the legendary interviewer finally met his match when he came up against Russell Brand last year.
His joust with the comedian and provocateur, in which Russell Brand mused on the point of voting and the need for a popular revolution, became an instant hit on social media.
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They will be permanently exhibited at a colonial-era cloister in Cartagena's historic centre.
Garcia Marquez set several of his works in the city, including Love in the Time of Cholera.
He died in Mexico in April 2014, where he lived for many years with his family.
The decision by his wife Mercedes Barcha and his two sons to bring his cremated remains to Cartagena was welcomed by his Colombian friends and many others in the country.
Garcia Marquez arrived in the city in 1948 and found a job as a journalist with a local newspaper, El Universal. To the end of his life, he kept a holiday home in Cartagena, which he visited frequently.
The celebrated author of One Hundred Years of Solitude also established a foundation there to train Latin American journalists, the Fundacion Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano.
Its director, Jaime Abello, said the decision to bring his remains to the city made sense.
"Cartagena is where Garcia Marquez built his home, the only one he ever built," he said. "Many members of his family live there and it's where his parents are buried."
"Garcia Marquez and his wife never stopped being Colombian, despite living many years abroad," said Mr Abello. | The ashes of the Colombian Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez will be taken to the Caribbean city of Cartagena in December. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33873523"} | 295 | 33 | 0.58962 | 1.406449 | -0.462695 | 0.88 | 9.68 | 0.64 |
The Dutchman, who joined United as a 16-year-old, has made 12 league appearances for his parent club.
The 19-year-old, who has also played in midfield, signed a new contract at Old Trafford in October that runs to 2020.
"I still have a lot to learn and therefore getting the opportunity to play more games on a regular basis will help my development," said Fosu-Mensah.
He was previously a youth player at Ajax under new Palace boss Frank de Boer, who said he intends to play his compatriot as a right centre-back or full-back.
Palace have already signed Chelsea and England Under-21 midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek on loan until the end of the season.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Crystal Palace have signed Manchester United defender Timothy Fosu-Mensah on a season-long loan. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40851164"} | 182 | 27 | 0.587838 | 1.222016 | -0.218868 | 1.277778 | 8.722222 | 0.722222 |
"This is a quest Los Angeles was made for," said LA mayor Eric Garcetti. "This city is the world's greatest stage."
The bid sets out $6bn (£3.8bn) in proposed public and private spending.
Los Angeles hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984, and if chosen would join London as another three-time-host city. It replaces Boston, which dropped out.
Los Angeles City council voted 15-0 to allow Mr Garcetti to negotiate with the US Olympic Committee, effectively giving the city's Olympic ambitions its blessing.
Boston had pulled out as the US candidate in July, after concerns that local funds would be used to pay for budget overruns.
Mr Garcetti said LA would stage games both "spectacular" and "profitable."
Much of the infrastructure needed for the games already exists in LA, but council members had to be reassured that the Games would not subject LA residents to unchecked spending or debt.
Many conversations about the potential games' cost to LA are to come later, council members said.
The host city will be chosen in 2017. Other cities being considered include Rome, Paris, Hamburg and Budapest.
Atlanta held the last Summer Games in the US, in 1996. Salt Lake City, Utah, hosted the Winter Olympics in 2002. | The US Olympic Committee (USOC) has named Los Angeles as the US bid for hosting the 2024 games. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34122208"} | 275 | 24 | 0.569216 | 1.29205 | -0.319674 | 1.714286 | 12.333333 | 0.761905 |
Holly Parkinson was one of the midwives caring for newborn Joshua Titcombe at Barrow's Furness General hospital in November 2008.
She faced being struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council after being found to have committed a string of errors.
These included not reporting Joshua's low temperature to doctors.
Joshua was one of 11 babies to die after being treated at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust over a nine-year period.
Mrs Parkinson was among a number of employees investigated after an inquest five years ago heard staff repeatedly missed chances to spot and treat a serious infection which led to Joshua's death after just nine days.
Mrs Parkinson will now be unable to practise for nine months, after which her case will be reviewed.
She has apologised to the baby's family but, eight years later, remains in denial about her role in what happened, a panel at the hearing in London was told.
Joshua, from Dalton-in-Furness, died after suffering pneumococcal septicaemia and a lung haemorrhage.
A hearing last month found Mrs Parkinson, who had been working as a midwife for five years at the time, failed in her duty to look after him properly, causing him to "lose a significant chance of survival".
She did not get a doctor when she recorded Joshua's low temperature, and admitted failing to document advice that observations should be carried out on the newborn.
The failures denied Joshua "any opportunity to be seen, assessed and treated" by a paediatrician, the panel ruled.
Chairman Stuart Gray said Mrs Parkinson appeared to still be in denial and "not fully accepting" of the impact of her actions.
He said she was at times "evasive, controlled and detached" when explaining what happened.
Mr Gray added: "There is a risk, albeit a low risk, of repetition which could once again place patients at risk of harm."
A number of other hearings involving midwives who worked for the trust are under way.
An inquiry led by Dr Bill Kirkup found last year found that a "lethal mix" of failures at the trust led to the unnecessary deaths of 11 babies and one mother between 2004 and 2013. | A midwife whose failings led to the death of a baby boy in Cumbria has been suspended for nine months. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37128340"} | 484 | 28 | 0.455406 | 1.208874 | -0.987877 | 1.428571 | 20.47619 | 0.761905 |
The changes, announced by the payments industry, will allow consumers to double check they are paying the right person.
When money is taken from an account by a direct debit, consumers will also be asked to confirm the payment.
The plans are designed help prevent fraud, and stop accidental transfers.
They are due to come into force by 2020 at the latest.
"Around £755m was stolen from UK bank accounts last year, and the problem looks set to worsen as criminals become more technologically savvy," said Ruth Evans, chair of the Payments Strategy Forum, which is recommending the changes.
"We need to address the issue head on."
The first new safeguard will be known as "Confirmation of Payee".
When a bank account holder makes a payment online, a message will come back from the bank, confirming the name of the person they are paying.
Only when they click "OK" will the payment go through.
This should stop people paying the wrong person accidentally, or being tricked into doing so by fraudsters.
The second proposed safeguard is "Request to Pay".
When a company wants to take a regular payment from a customer's account - for example gym monthly membership fees, or a mobile phone company charging for extra data used - the consumer will receive a message asking them to approve the payment.
Again they will have to click "OK" for the payment to be processed.
The plans have been welcomed by the Payments Systems Regulator (PSR) and personal finance experts.
"This is just the start, the ambitious reforms should make it far less likely you'll be hit with hefty fees for missed payments, much easier for you to stay informed about where your cash is going, safer for you to bank online and simpler for you to change account," said Hannah Maundrell, the editor in chief of Money.co.uk.
"It's rare you read an official paper that seems to 'get' all of the issues and addresses them sensibly. Simply put, these plans are brilliant news for everyone with a bank account."
However, Which? was less enthusiastic.
"This is a welcome first step, but is not a cure and won't be enough to protect people from bank transfer scams," said Alex Neill, managing director of Which? Home and Legal Services.
"With scams on the rise and scammers becoming ever more sophisticated, the financial regulators need to go further to ensure banks adequately tackle bank transfer fraud and safeguard us from scams."
The plans also involve the consolidation of three payment system operators:
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Football's world governing body said on Thursday that it paid the FAI 5m euros (£3.6m) after France controversially beat Ireland in a World Cup play-off.
FAI boss John Delaney said a deal was made to drop a claim against Fifa.
Mr Kenny said the payment, agreed in 2010, was "quite extraordinary".
Fifa is facing criminal investigations after allegations of "systemic and deep-rooted" corruption within the organisation, and its president Sepp Blatter is stepping down.
Mr Delaney said on Thursday that he had believed the FAI had a case against Fifa after French striker Thierry Henry's handball in the build-up to a decisive goal in the 2009 match in Paris which caused Ireland to miss the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
A Fifa spokesman confirmed it had "entered into an agreement with FAI in order to put an end to any claims" against it.
The fall-out has now spilled over into a summit of Ireland's cross-border peace-building North South Ministerial Council in Dublin, where Mr Kenny called on the head of Irish football to shed light on the payment.
The taoiseach (Irish prime minister) said: "I would say that any questions that need to be answered here in the interests of transparency and accountability... John Delaney should answer and will answer all of those questions, I'm quite sure."
Mr Kenny added that he believed the FAI chief's position remained "tenable".
The Irish sports minister Paschal Donohoe said he had spoken with Mr Delaney and pressed him to bring "clarity and certainty" to the matter.
"It is a significant amount of money, it is obviously something that the country does have a lot of interest in," Mr Donohoe said.
"It is in everybody's interest that these matters be cleared up."
He said he was "absolutely not aware" of any such payment and would be surprised if any of his predecessors knew about it.
Former Fifa vice-president Jim Boyce said he was "astounded" by the revelation and the FAI's payment should be investigated.
On Friday, the Republic of Ireland assistant manager Roy Keane refused to comment on the payment.
"Not today, I'm not in the mood for all that stuff today," he said when asked about the controversy.
But when asked whether Mr Delaney was "a distraction" to the national team's on-field matters, he joked: "Isn't he always?" | The Irish prime minister has urged the chief executive of the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to explain a multi-million euro sum it was paid by Fifa to prevent a legal battle. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33027445"} | 583 | 44 | 0.519124 | 1.349558 | 0.255791 | 0.864865 | 13.27027 | 0.702703 |
Mr Alexander said he was "lifting the lid" on plans including limiting child benefit and tax credit to two children.
He claimed his party blocked the move, which he said was worth £8bn.
The Conservatives said they recognised none of the proposals, which were "definitely not" party policy.
"This is desperate stuff from Liberal Democrats who are now willing to say anything to try and get attention," a Conservative spokesman added.
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The Conservatives have said they want to find a further £12bn in savings to the welfare bill, which they argue is achievable given that £21bn has been saved in the past five years.
They have yet to specify where the savings will be made, and Mr Alexander said the list of measures he revealed to the Guardian "shines a light" on the scale of cuts the Tories would have to make to working-age benefits.
The Guardian said the measures were contained in a paper circulated to the four most senior Cabinet members by Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith in 2012.
Mr Alexander said the proposals also included removing child benefit from 16 to 19 year-olds, as well as means testing the payment.
The coalition government has already restricted child benefit - aimed at helping parents cope with the cost of bringing up children - for parents earning £50,000 a year.
This election issue includes access to benefits (apart from pensions), poverty and inequality.
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Mr Alexander said: "I'm lifting the lid on this now because the Conservatives are trying to con the British people by keeping their planned cuts secret until after the election."
Rachel Reeves, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, said: "This evidence confirms the Tories' secret plan to cut family budgets."
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's The World at One on Wednesday, Conservative Chief Whip Michael Gove said working age benefits would be "frozen not cut" for two years under his party's proposals.
The welfare row comes ahead of the special edition of Question Time, broadcast from Leeds Town Hall and shown live on BBC One and broadcast on BBC Radio 5 live from 20:00 to 21:30 BST.
Mr Cameron will be first up, followed by Mr Miliband and then Mr Clegg. They will each appear separately to face audience questions, with David Dimbleby hosting. Each leader will be questioned for 30 minutes. The questions, which will be submitted by audience members on the night, will vary between the different leaders.
There will also be separate Ask the Leader programmes. On BBC One in Scotland, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will take questions at 21:30 BST, and in Wales it will be the turn of Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood after the News at Ten.
At that time, viewers in England will be able to watch Nigel Farage taking questions from an audience in Birmingham. This programme will be shown later in the evening on BBC One in Wales.
The Question Time show is the final programme of four that were agreed after drawn-out negotiations between parties and broadcasters over the timing and line-up of this year's election TV debates. | Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has said the Conservatives proposed to "slash" child benefit while the two parties were in government together. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32526461"} | 688 | 33 | 0.541638 | 1.433507 | 0.148351 | 0.965517 | 21.758621 | 0.758621 |
Football's world governing body found he had breached an earlier ban that barred him from all football activity.
Makudi, a former member of Fifa's executive committee, was banned for 90 days in October after allegedly breaching Fifa's code of ethics.
The 64-year-old was part of the group when it voted on who should host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in 2010.
According to Fifa, Makudi was "still involved in the affairs" of his national association during his suspension.
Makudi has also been fined 3,000 Swiss francs (£2,133). | Fifa has banned former Thai football federation president Worawi Makudi for three months. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35630686"} | 136 | 22 | 0.614736 | 1.235581 | -0.472139 | 0.571429 | 8 | 0.571429 |
They were investigating how the 4mm-long insect decides when to pounce.
Apparently the flies are not much good at judging the size of a target, so they use a strategy based partly on how fast a potential meal is buzzing past.
That means the researchers could trick the flies into going for targets that were far too big, but further away and faster-moving than expected.
The experiments, published in the journal Brain, Behaviour and Evolution, used a species called Coenosia attenuata, which is so good at killing other airborne critters - including fruit flies - that organic farmers use it as a biological control mechanism.
C. attenuata is an unfussy eating machine, explained Dr Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido - and that was partly why she started to study the little predators.
"It didn't look like they have a template for what they're looking for," she told BBC News.
"They go after things that are very slow, after things that are fast, after things that are white, things that are black..."
But a fly can't just pounce on everything. So what cue is the creature's brain looking for?
Many predators are able to gauge the size of their prey, using information like the comparison between two eyes to judge how far away it is and then calculate its size accordingly, before they decide whether to strike.
This includes dragonflies, which have much bigger eyes and brain than C. attenuata.
Dr Gonzalez-Bellido and her colleagues at the University of Cambridge set out to see whether these diminutive diners could do the same sums.
"We don't really know how well such small animals see; we don't really know what the constraints are on the system," she said.
In video experiments, her team presented the flies with moving beads of different sizes and speeds, as well as real fruit-fly meals. Every pounce was monitored using two cameras, so that the movement could be tracked precisely.
The cameras witnessed some extremely poor decisions, in which the 4mm insects set off after beads 12mm across. And the team saw similar mistakes when they observed the insects outside the lab.
"In the wild, we see them take off after bees - and then turn around, halfway through the flight," Dr Gonzalez-Bellido said.
Since the flies seemed unable to use a target's actual size in their decision, the researchers set about testing the role of various other factors.
This included calculating how big - and how fast - each target would appear to the fly, taking into account the exact distance between them.
Using these apparent or "subtended" values, instead of actual ones, the researchers discovered a particular ratio between size and speed that usually triggers a pounce.
"[A target] has a subtended size. But something that subtends a size could be small and close, or large and far away. So in theory, they could go after an aeroplane," Dr Gonzalez-Bellido explained.
"One way of solving this problem is to match up the size with the speed. So a plane may have the right subtended size, but it won't come across the retina at the right speed."
This relatively simple formula for picking a target, the researchers say, has probably evolved because of the tiny size of the fly's brain and eyes - but also because the decision has to be made extremely fast.
The killer flies in the study, on average, went for targets about 8cm away and they covered that distance in less than 0.4 seconds.
"If they take too long, it'll be gone," Dr Gonzalez-Bellido said. "And one way to take less time is not to bother working out how far away it is."
Furthermore, the experiments showed that the flies can detect extremely small targets, which will only trigger activation in a single lens of the fly's compound eye.
"That means that they've really tuned the system," said co-author Dr Trevor Wardill. "They really are doing quite well with a pretty tiny eye."
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Ghadami, who has played Kush Kazemi since 2014, said it was "such an honour" to be on the dancing show.
"It's going to be exciting, challenging and terrifying all at once and I am so looking forward to stepping out of my comfort zone and learning to dance."
He joins The Saturdays singer Mollie King in the 2017 Strictly line-up.
The 35-year-old, who won best newcomer at the TV Choice awards in 2015 for his portrayal of the gym-loving market trader, has also appeared in Doctor Who, Silent Witness, The Bill and Law & Order.
He stars in EastEnders alongside Tameka Empson, who was in Strictly last year.
Other contestants for this year's show will be named in the coming weeks.
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What is school performance data?
School performance data is statistical information showing how well pupils in England have done in public examinations taken at key points in their educational journey.
Data is published for children's attainment in national curriculum tests, often known as Sats, which are sat at the end of primary school at age 10 or 11.
At secondary school level, data is published detailing pupils' performance in GCSEs (and equivalent exams) at age 16 and A-levels (and equivalents) at age 18.
Secondary schools are considered to be "underperforming" if fewer than 40% of their pupils get five GCSEs at grade A*-C, including English and maths, and if the school has a below average score for pupils making the expected progress between Key Stage 2 (end of Year 6) and Key Stage 4 (end of Year 11) in English and maths.
Yes. From this year, only a pupil's first attempt at a qualification is included for league tables, aiming to end the practice of schools repeatedly entering pupils for exams in order to could boost their ranking.
The list of qualifications included has also been restricted to those which the government says are of the highest, academic quality and the number of non-GCSEs counting has been capped at two.
This is part of government reforms designed to make the exams and accountability system more rigorous.
The recognition of some popular unaccredited International GCSE qualifications have been phased out and no longer count for league table purposes.
Overall GCSEs have been toughened with exams taken at the end of the course and detailed changes to core subjects.
This year, primary schools are considered to be "underperforming" if fewer than 65% (up from 60% last year) of pupils get a Level 4 in maths, reading and writing, and pupils are not making the expected progress in these three subjects between the end of infants (age six or seven) and age 10 or 11, when they prepare to leave primary school.
Results of English grammar, punctuation and spelling tests are not taken into account in these floor standards.
In the past, only media organisations used the data to produce rankings in the form of school league tables.
But now the Department for Education effectively publishes tables, with a facility on its website that allows users to rank schools by different measures.
Wales and Northern Ireland abolished league tables in 2001, followed by Scotland in 2003. Scottish exam data is still published online.
It is not in a format where schools can be easily compared.
Wales recently began publishing tables placing schools in one of five performance bands.
The performance data in league tables is used widely by parents to judge how well schools in their area perform.
Supporters argue that the tables help drive up standards by increasing the accountability of schools and providing valuable information for parents.
Research carried out by Bristol University suggested the abolition of league tables in Wales had led to a drop in standards in the lowest 75% of schools.
Opponents say comparing schools in this way is too crude a measure of a school's quality, achievements and character.
They argue that the tables often say more about the intake of a school than the teaching and learning that goes on there.
And increasingly head teachers says the constant state of flux in the exams system makes comparisons between not very meaningful.
It is claimed they encourage competition rather than collaboration between schools in local areas and can lead to middle-class parents pushing to get their children into top schools, further driving down standards at less popular schools.
There are also suggestions that children are pushed into subjects and choices that make the school look good, rather than broadening their education.
The tables show how well a particular year group of pupils at a given school has performed in tests or exams. Most of the pupils will have started school a few years before taking the tests or exams and there may have been changes of staff or policy at the school in the interim.
The tables do not include information about the more holistic elements of a school such as extra-curricular activities on offer - for example, sport and drama - or details about a school's pastoral care system.
Some of these details may feature in the school's Ofsted report.
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Merson, aged 24, outlasted his final opponents in a marathon session that finished just before dawn after nearly 12 hours in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"I feel pretty good - got all the tears out so now I feel relaxed," the man from Maryland said after the game.
The no-limit Texas hold 'em series started in July with a field of nearly 7,000 players.
Jesse Sylvia finished in second place, netting $5.3m.
"That was nuts, man," the 26-year-old professional player from Las Vegas was quoted as saying by the Associated Press after the marathon match.
Before the final showdown, Merson and Sylvia eliminated Jake Balsiger, denying the the 21-year-old man from Arizona the chance of becoming the youngest World Series of Poker champion.
Balsiger's consolation, however, was a $3.8m cheque for the third place. | Professional US card player Greg Merson has won the World Series of Poker, going home $8.53m (£5.3m) richer. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "20150730"} | 196 | 30 | 0.578712 | 1.273926 | -0.263026 | 1 | 6.730769 | 0.538462 |
The fast food chain said it was "reconsidering all aspects of its International Olympics Committee business" as part of a plan to re-invigorate its business.
The IOC said it understood "that McDonald's is looking to focus on different business priorities".
The partnership began in 1976.
"For these reasons, we have mutually agreed with McDonald's to part ways," said the IOC.
The next Olympics will take place in Japan during 2020.
McDonald's had extended its sponsorship agreement with the Olympics in 2012 for a further eight years.
As a "Top Partner", it paid a reported $100m for each two-game deal covering the summer and winter Olympic Games up to and including 2020.
McDonald's partnership with the IOC will end immediately, but it will continue to be a sponsor of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018.
The IOC said on Friday: "The financial terms of the separation was agreed by all parties, details of which are confidential."
A number of companies have ended partnerships with the Olympics recently, including AB InBev's Budweiser, the hotels group Hilton and US telecoms giant AT&T.
McDonald's has been restructuring its business to arrest a decline in sales. Steve Easterbrook was appointed as chief executive in 2015 when he said he would "not shy away from the urgent need to reset this business".
Commenting on the "mutual" decision to part ways with the IOC, Silvia Lagnado, global chief marketing officer at McDonald's, said: "As part of our global growth plan, we are reconsidering all aspects of our business and have made this decision in cooperation with the IOC to focus on different priorities."
The IOC said it has no immediate plans to appoint a direct replacement in the "retail food operations sponsorship category" which will be reviewed. | McDonald's and the International Olympics Committee (IOC) are ending their long-running sponsorship deal three years early. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40304895"} | 395 | 25 | 0.584563 | 1.513174 | 0.17648 | 1 | 16.318182 | 0.636364 |
The pair were found at an address in Alpha Road, Croydon, at about 07:20 BST. The woman, 37, was taken to hospital in a critical condition.
The man, aged 25, was also wounded but his injuries were not thought to be life threatening.
A 34-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder. Police said the trio knew each other. | A man and a woman have been hurt in a suspected hammer attack in south London. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40658911"} | 85 | 22 | 0.587681 | 1.098161 | -0.97509 | 0.588235 | 4.705882 | 0.470588 |
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Frampton, 30, has not fought since his loss to Leo Santa Cruz in their WBA featherweight title fight in January.
Gutierrez, 24, has lost one of his 35 bouts and has earned 24 knockout wins.
"What happens if I lose this fight? There is no future," said Frampton, also a previous IBF world super-bantamweight champion.
Santa Cruz's victory over the Northern Irishman in Las Vegas six months ago avenged Frampton's triumph in New York last July.
Despite that first career defeat, Frampton believes he can re-establish himself as the planet's best featherweight.
"I lost a close fight with an under-par performance to a three-weight world champion.
"If I'm performing, I still believe I'm the best featherweight in the world and I believe I can beat guys like Leo Santa Cruz.
"But I don't want to overlook this guy Gutierrez. He is a very good fighter. He's had as many knockout wins as I've had fights."
Frampton had hoped to fight Santa Cruz for a third time this summer but with the WBA champion refusing to travel to Northern Ireland and a mooted contest with IBF champion Lee Selby also not materialising, he is instead fighting Gutierrez in his home city's SSE Arena.
"The most important thing for me was to come back and fight at home," added Frampton.
"But I need to look good. I need to be impressive and show the rest of the featherweights that the last fight was just a blip."
While Frampton has insisted he will not under-estimate Gutierrez, ranked eighth by the WBC, the Belfast man believes the home town crowd could help him clinch a knockout triumph.
"The noise, the atmosphere in the arena inspires me and the Chris Avalos fight (February 2015), the last time I fought in Belfast, I think that was my best performance even though some people say that was my first fight against Santa Cruz.
"If I'm performing, and with the way the last couple of weeks in sparring have gone, if I can carry that into the ring on Saturday night then I think I will get rid of this guy (knock him out)."
Both fighters attended a public workout with Gutierrez noticeably slimmer than when he attended the fight announcement in Belfast six weeks ago. | Carl Frampton has said defeat by Mexican Andres Gutierrez in Saturday's WBC world featherweight title eliminator could prove "career-ending". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40730161"} | 555 | 36 | 0.559834 | 1.486151 | 0.604858 | 1 | 18.96 | 0.76 |
Suzanne Goodall, from Beddau, Pontypridd, launched the hospice in Sully, near Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, in 1999, after 11 years of fund raising.
She was awarded an MBE in 2004 and officially retired in 2011, although remained in contact with the charity.
A spokesperson for Ty Hafan said Ms Goodall was a "true inspiration to staff and families".
"Her dedication and commitment meant that hundreds of families across Wales have been given a light in the dark while facing the realities of caring for a child with a life-limiting condition."
Ty Hafan provides specialist one-to-one care and outreach services to life-limited children and their families.
Ms Goodall came up with the idea for the charity after hearing about a friend's experiences volunteering in a children's hospice in Yorkshire and discovering that there were no such facilities in Wales.
The spokesperson added: "Suzanne's endless motivation to continue providing the best possible care and support to these families never wavered and she has remained a much-loved and highly respected figure throughout the charity.
"We are all deeply saddened by today's news and will greatly miss Suzanne's warmth and determination.
"Every one of us at the charity will honour her legacy by continuing to do all we can to support families who need us." | The founder of Wales' first children's hospice, Ty Hafan, has died, aged 95. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38574924"} | 291 | 22 | 0.60744 | 1.446466 | -1.11718 | 1.105263 | 13.684211 | 0.684211 |
Bill Milward "turned up the ball" for the second day of Royal Shrovetide Football in his hometown of Ashbourne, Derbyshire.
The game has been played almost every year since at least the 17th Century.
The match ended in a 1-1 draw after the Down'Ards goaled the ball late on Wednesday evening.
Mr Milward said: "I did practice a little bit - I tried with one hand to start but it over balanced me.
"Every year you look forward to Shrovetide. It's one of them things that gets in your blood."
Day one ended with a goal for the Up'Ards - those born north of Henmore Brook, but Matthew Etherington goaled for the Down'Ards at Clifton Mill, on Wednesday.
Mr Milward added: "Best day of my life - I couldn't have had a better time of it."
He first took part in the sometimes violent game when he was "about nine or 10" and continued to play until the outbreak of World War Two.
The veteran - awarded a Legion d'Honneur last year - drove an amphibious landing craft when the allies launched their invasion of Nazi occupied France in 1944.
The crowd sang happy birthday to Mr Milward as well as the traditional renditions of Auld Lang Syne and God Save The Queen before he threw the ball into the crowd.
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The wandering spider, commonly known as a banana spider, was spotted crawling out of the fruit in Asda's Chesser branch on Tuesday.
A shop worker caught the female arachnid in a plastic jar before calling the Scottish SPCA.
The spider, with a 10cm leg span, was taken to the Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World where it later died.
Shop worker, Petra Merriman, 45, caught the spider.
She said her male colleagues had been "in panic" after discovering the spider.
She said: "All the boys were running round like headless chickens.
"One of the chaps who was putting a box of bananas in the display took a lid off a box and saw it was curled around a banana.
"We got a phone call in the back office saying come and deal with this spider.
"The guys all said 'I'm not going.' I said I would. I'm not arachnophobic at all."
She added: "I brought a pot with a secure lid down with me, and I just popped it in.
"I didn't have to touch it, I just put the pot underneath it.
"Nothing like this has ever happened here before."
Kevin Thom, of Edinburgh Butterfly and Insect World, said: "It isn't deadly but its venom contains high levels of serotonin.
"If bitten you would experience pain, swelling, muscle spasms and flu-like symptoms which could be very unpleasant, depending on the amount of venom that was injected.
"These spiders can survive transport from abroad by shutting down and becoming very cold.
"They awaken when they warm up, which is often under bright shop lights.
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Nine people were detained after the Hamal was intercepted by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Somerset and the Border Force cutter Valiant.
It happened about 100 miles east of the city on Thursday.
The Tanzanian-registered boat was escorted back to Aberdeen, to allow a full search to be carried out.
A spokesman for the National Crime Agency (NCA) said: "A vessel was boarded by a team from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Somerset and Border Force cutter Valiant about 100 miles east of the Aberdeenshire coast.
"The vessel was accompanied into Aberdeen where a full search is now being carried out by specialist Border Force officers with operational support from Police Scotland.
"Nine crew were detained for questioning by investigators from the NCA's Border Policing Command."
The Border Force acted on information supplied by NCA, which recently replaced the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
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Most comments, headlines and captions are reflecting a sense of sadness, but add that the world needs to "follow his legacy and celebrate his life".
The Mail and Guardian headline reads: "Madiba: A symbol of the power of good".
The Herald says Mr Mandela was "a son of our soil, the founding father of our nation, who spent his entire life fighting to change our lives for the better".
The paper further highlights the importance of the leader's legacy for South Africa and the world.
"In every village, suburb, township, church, school and community hall in South Africa, men, women and children are in mourning for a man who was hidden from history for 27 years, yet lived in our imaginations as the feisty, courageous and utterly human symbol of liberation most of us yearned for," it says.
A commentary in South Africa's Business Day echoes similar sentiments, saying the nation has lost its favourite son.
"Our nation has lost a colossus, an epitome of humility, equality, justice, peace and the hope of millions; here and abroad... The large African baobab, who loved Africa as much as he loved South Africa, has fallen. Its trunk and seeds will nourish the earth for decades to come... Rest in peace, Comrade President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela," it adds.
Most papers feel Mr Mandela's achievements and his ideas remain etched in the collective memory of millions of people around the world.
The Mail and Guardian, in an editorial, says "our farewell bid to Nelson Mandela must not be final - we must refuse to say goodbye to his example, his ideals, and the dream we share with him".
Mr Mandela's friend and anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada paid his tribute in an article in the Times Live website.
"Farewell my elder brother, my mentor, my leader. With all the energy and determination at our command, we pledge to join the people of South Africa and the world to perpetuate the ideals and values for which you have devoted your life," he writes.
The Citizen reflects the emotions of people in Soweto - a city Mr Mandela made his home for many years - about their Tata (father).
"We are not here to mourn but to commemorate, honour, and celebrate him because of everything he has done," the paper quotes a resident as saying.
The Star published a full-page picture of Mr Mandela on its front-page with "The World Weeps" as its top headline - perhaps a message that shows how much the nation loved and admired their hero.
The website of IOL, a group which owns several news websites in South Africa, explains why a mood of celebration is prevailing over mourning in South Africa.
"His charisma, generosity of spirit, and an unwavering commitment to the well-being of his fellow humans, earned him love and acclaim across the globe," it says
And finally, The Citizen gives the link to what it calls Mr Mandela's first-ever TV interview.
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Katie Leong, 52, was convicted of attempted murder in March after blinding Daniel Rotariu, 31, at their home in Leicester on 26 July 2016.
Leong, who was described as being "fixated" with acid attacks, is serving a minimum of 17 years in prison.
Mr Rotariu suffered burns and nearly died following the six-second attack.
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During the trial, Mr Rotariu said he was woken in the middle of the night by a "burning" feeling.
The court heard Leong had poured sulphuric acid at 96% concentration over him, causing burns to a third of his body.
On Wednesday, Leicester Crown Court was told Leong has £13,000 in assets, as well as £1,500 in a Post Office savings account and £4,800 lodged with her sister, amounting in total to £19,300.
Leong appeared before Judge Nicholas Dean QC and asked for some of her funds to be left for her eventual release.
The 52-year-old, who represented herself, told the court: "I want to state that obviously I am in prison for a while and when I come out I don't want to be dependent on my family.
"I need a little bit myself for when I come out."
Judge Dean replied: "That is not really how it works. You are not giving anything, I am making an order that you pay compensation.
"My concern is to try and provide some measure, and it can only go a very modest way in truth, of compensation because of the horrific injuries."
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Hughes died on Thursday after being hit on the neck by a delivery from Abbott during a domestic match in Australia.
"I chatted to him on Thursday night and I was incredibly impressed by the way he was holding himself and his maturity," said Sutherland.
Some ex-cricketers fear Abbott, 22, may never play again following the tragedy.
"This isn't a moment in time thing, it's a grieving process that affects people in different ways," added Sutherland in a news conference on Friday morning in Sydney.
"We, and the relevant experts, will provide Sean with all of the support that he needs."
A tearful Abbott visited Hughes at St Vincent's Hospital before he died and was comforted by the batsman's sister, Megan, and Australia captain Michael Clarke.
The New South Wales bowler is also receiving counselling from Cricket Australia.
But former England bowler David Lawrence, who hit West Indies batsman Phil Simmons on the temple with a delivery in 1988, thinks Abbott's career could be over.
"I know what Sean is going through," Lawrence told BBC Radio 5 live.
"My thoughts go out to him. I don't think he'll play cricket again."
Hughes, who played 26 Tests for his country, collapsed face first on the ground after being struck by a bouncer from Abbott during a Sheffield Shield game between South Australia and New South Wales on Tuesday.
Hughes, 25, had been wearing a helmet but the ball missed it, striking him at the top of the neck and causing a vertebral artery dissection, which resulted in a "massive bleed" on the brain.
Abbott was pictured in the aftermath of the incident cradling Hughes, while other players waved medical staff on to the pitch.
Retired fast bowler Lawrence is concerned that Abbott may never get over the tragic event.
"When you turn and run in to bowl again, you are just going to have those images in your head," Lawrence told BBC Radio 5 live. "Will he ever be the same bowler again? I don't know."
Lawrence was just 24 when he struck Simmons, who was not wearing a helmet, with a delivery in a tour match in Bristol 26 years ago.
The batsman's heart stopped and he required emergency brain surgery, but he went on to make a full recovery.
"What gave me comfort was I was able to see Phil 48 hours after and he was able to tell me it wasn't my fault," Lawrence added.
"The bowler in this instance wouldn't have been able to do that. Hughes didn't make a recovery, wasn't able to talk to him."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 live that Abbott "was only doing his job".
He added: "It will take along time to heal. I just hope we get him back on the cricket pitch."
Ex-England all-rounder Ian Botham tweeted: "A very sad day for the world of cricket. So sorry for Phillip Hughes and his family. Spare a thought for Sean Abbott."
Shane Warne also called for the cricket world to support Abbott.
"It's important for friends and the cricket community to get round Sean," the Australian legend told Sky Sports News. "I'm sure he'll be distraught, but it's not his fault. Hopefully he'll be OK and can bounce back."
Matthew Hoggard, another former England paceman, told BBC Sport that the bouncer is part of a fast bowler's "armoury" and Abbott would not have been attempting to injure Hughes.
"You bowl it to be intimidating, but you don't bowl it to try and hurt people," said Hoggard.
"To bowl a ball that has resulted in somebody dying has got to be absolutely devastating. Hopefully he can get the support around him and find the strength to carry on.
"I'm sure Phil would have wanted it because it was a tragic accident."
Simon Hughes, BBC Sport's cricket analyst and former Middlesex bowler, fears Abbott will "need a lot of counselling" and a break from the game.
"I've hit people before, obviously not with those terminal circumstances," Hughes said. "It's a terrible feeling when you injure anyone in sport, even though you are trying to intimidate them.
"I don't know how he's going to cope with it because it never happened before, certainly in professional cricket, where a bouncer has actually effectively killed a batsman. He's going to need a lot of counselling."
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Former Australia fast bowler Shaun Tait, who roomed with Phillip Hughes on international duty, told BBC World that bouncers are "part of the game" and warned against any kneejerk reactions.
He added: "There is no blame being thrown at anyone. It's a freak accident.
"Whether they change the rules or whether they design new helmets, I don't know. That might happen. That's up to the powers-that-be. It's their decision, but the game rolls on. I think Phil would like the game to roll on."
Ex-Australia bowler Jason Gillespie told BBC Radio 5 live: "We're all feeling for Sean Abbott, who was just out there doing his job. They were very good mates and he was the first one there when Phillip fell down.
"He's 22 years old and he's got the cricket world in front of him and who knows how he's going to go on from here? The one thing he will have in place is absolute support from the cricket community."
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said it was important for people to "remember Sean Abbott", adding the New South Wales bowler would be "absolutely devastated at this tragic accident". | Sean Abbott is "holding up well" as he comes to terms with the death of Phillip Hughes, says Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30228827"} | 1,303 | 32 | 0.499057 | 1.418171 | -0.054 | 0.964286 | 41.75 | 0.678571 |
Nell Ryder was devastated to find the ashes of her husband John had been taken from her car in Liverpool on Saturday before the family could scatter them on the River Mersey.
Ann Stone, 60, found the container on Darby Road on Monday and said she is "thrilled" she could return his ashes.
Mrs Ryder said she was "overwhelmed".
The widow, from Chester, had travelled to Liverpool to carry out the final wishes of her Toxteth-born husband by spreading his ashes on the River Mersey.
But when she returned to the car from a family meal, she saw the window had been smashed and the container holding the ashes of Mr Ryder, who was a carpenter, had been taken along with presents for her grandchildren.
Funeral director Stephen Johnstone confirmed the ashes are those of Mr Ryder and returned them on Monday evening.
Ms Stone said she had just returned from holiday so "had no idea" about Mrs Ryder's appeal to find the ashes.
She said she was unsure at first what the container was after finding it inside a carrier bag near her car.
"To be honest my first thought was that it had whisky in it but then we saw the funeral directors number on it and realised.
"I'm absolutely delighted I could return his ashes to his wife. My parents have gone and it is devastating," she said.
Mr Johnstone, from Saltney, Chester said: "I'm buzzing. I'm so made up for her. This has made one family so happy.
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Muhammad Suleman, 25, admitted distributing or circulating a version of an al Qaida publication.
Jailing him at the Old Bailey, Judge Charles Wide QC rejected the suggestion that Suleman had approached the conflict in a" journalistic way".
Police found 430 documents containing extremist literature on a pen drive in a search of his home in December 2014.
Among the items seized during the search of the property in Peakdale Avenue, Crumpsall, were two laptops with software allowing access to the "dark web".
Officers later foiled an attempt by him to flee to Pakistan after the search and arrested him at Manchester Airport where his flight was delayed.
Some of the electronic documents included magazines detailing how to make homemade bombs and car bombs, training to become a jihadi fighter at home rather than "risking a dangerous travel abroad", information on sending and receiving of encrypted messages and methods.
Suleman admitted at an earlier hearing five counts of possessing documents likely to be of use to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism and two counts of distributing a terrorist publication.
The judge accepted his guilty pleas to disseminating the propaganda on the basis that he had been reckless rather than encouraging terrorism.
Det Chief Supt Tony Mole from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit said it was clear Suleman was "a staunch supporter of Islamic extremism and whilst there is no evidence whatsoever to suggest he engaged in any attack planning, he went out of his way to distribute extremist materials and make them accessible to others." | A Manchester man who translated extreme Islamist videos and uploaded them to YouTube has been jailed for 33 months. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33574903"} | 349 | 24 | 0.455756 | 1.169495 | -1.072703 | 0.35 | 14.6 | 0.35 |
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A Fifa taskforce has recommended switching the event to winter because of hot summer temperatures in Qatar.
That move has provoked plenty of criticism but Neville thinks it could be hugely beneficial to England's hopes of winning the tournament.
He believes players will be fresh and ready to take on the world's best.
"We normally go into a World Cup at the end of a long, hard, nine-month season when our players are absolutely dead on their feet," Neville, who won 59 caps for his country, told BBC Sport.
"For an England team, this might be the best thing that's ever happened."
The former Manchester United and Everton defender added that he would be "licking my lips" if he was England boss Roy Hodgson because "we'll have the freshest ever national team going to a World Cup".
Tuesday's recommendation is expected to be ratified by Fifa's executive committee in Zurich in March.
The proposal has been backed by Uefa president Michel Platini, the Confederation of African Football and Concacaf - the confederation responsible for football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The Asian Football Confederation president is Sheikh Salman.
Serbian Football Association vice-president Savo Milosevic called it a "good decision" as it would coincide with their winter break.
But it has prompted an angry response from a number of influential football figures, among them Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore, who has accused Fifa of "damaging" the traditions of the English game by disrupting the Christmas schedule.
Neville, however, believes the positives outweigh the negatives for the English game and the national team, whose one and only World Cup success came in 1966.
"We've cried out for a long time for a mid-winter break," added Neville. "Maybe this will give us a great chance of winning a World Cup."
England striker Wayne Rooney has played an average of 50 matches for club and country in the seasons preceding the last three World Cups.
In 2022, a typical England player at a club competing in the Champions League could expect to have played only 14 matches games between the start and the season and the end of October.
"In this country, we are very traditionalist," added Neville, who played for England between 1996 and 2007 but never made a World Cup squad.
"We like to have our 10 weeks off over the summer, the games over Christmas, but the game is changing now. People don't like change, but they have to get used to it."
Neville also thinks the summer heat in Qatar would have proved prohibitive had the tournament remained in its traditional slot.
Temperatures in the Gulf state can exceed 40C in June and July, while those in November and December drop to around 25C.
"I visit Qatar two to three times a year and to play it in the summer months would be impossible," said BBC pundit Neville, who also works for Doha-based broadcaster Al Jazeera.
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Neville conceded that the process by which Qatar was awarded the World Cup in 2010 before the timing of the tournament had been agreed was "all wrong".
He is also concerned at how a winter World Cup will impact on the FA Cup, but has challenged English football bosses to come up with a schedule that will suit all parties.
"Maybe FA Cup replays will have to be sacrificed, which would be a shame because it's a fantastic competition," said Neville.
"It's up to the Premier League and the FA to work out the best possible plan so that nobody suffers, so that everybody - clubs, managers and owners - is getting everything they want in terms of the correct amount of fixtures, the correct amount of time with their players and amount of time afterwards so players can recover."
Dr Jones, a lecturer in sports biomechanics and strength and conditioning, believes end-of-season fatigue is mental as well as physical.
"At the tail end of season you've got so many competitions finishing," he said. "Players are often playing twice a week in that time. These are big games that are mentally hard to recover from so it might be easier in November when the games are not so critical.
"Two games a week on top of what's already been played, be it 30 or 40 games, will have a cumulative effect. There are other factors, not just the physical timing of the World Cup. I think a chunk of it can be mental." | Staging the 2022 World Cup in November and December may be the "best thing that's ever happened" to England, says former international Phil Neville. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31610300"} | 1,021 | 34 | 0.50176 | 1.277064 | 0.309062 | 2.482759 | 31.413793 | 0.827586 |
The carriages on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in Pickering were damaged overnight on 22 July.
Two boys, both aged 17, had been arrested and released while under investigation, North Yorkshire Police said.
The force has asked people who may have images of the incident to contact them.
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Damage to the teak carriages, which date from 1930 to 1950, was extensive with windows smashed, furniture and fittings damaged.
The charity which runs the heritage railway said it was unable to estimate the cost of repairing the set of eight carriages but said it would "run into thousands".
It said it had been "overwhelmed" by support and had received almost £20,000 in donations in less than 24 hours.
The carriages are owned by several groups and individuals and were restored by the London and North Eastern Railway Coach Association, a volunteer-run, charitable organisation which restores heritage coaches.
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The 79-year-old Swiss held an emergency meeting with key Fifa officials on Thursday after world football's governing body was subjected to yet more damaging corruption claims.
Platini then made a personal appeal for Blatter to quit but was told it was "too late" to resign.
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Blatter later vowed to restore trust in Fifa and "find a way to fix things".
Opening a meeting of Fifa's congress on the eve of Friday's presidential election, he said: "These are unprecedented and difficult times for Fifa.
"It must fall to me to uphold responsibility for the well-being of the organisation."
However, while admitting he could not be held responsible for the actions of a few, he conceded: "I'm sure more bad news may follow but it's necessary to restore trust in our organisation."
His speech came just hours after Frenchman Platini said the latest crisis had left him "absolutely sickened", adding: "People have had enough, they don't want this president any more."
Blatter, who has been president since 1998, is seeking a fifth term when he takes on Prince Ali bin al-Hussein in Friday's election.
Several influential football figures had called for the vote to be delayed after seven Fifa officials were arrested in Zurich on Wednesday.
But Uefa, which governs European football, decided on Thursday not to boycott the election and will continue to back Prince Ali, although some member associations, such as Russia, have said they will back Blatter.
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While Prince Ali has not given up on prising some votes from Africa, Caf, which looks after the interests of the continent, has reiterated its support for Blatter.
President of the Nigerian Football Federation, Amaju Pinnick, told BBC sports editor Dan Roan that Blatter will definitely win the election and he should not be held accountable for the corruption allegations.
The Asian Football Confederation, too, supports the Swiss - although one of its members, the Australian football federation, has announced its intention to vote for Prince Ali.
Fifa was plunged into fresh crisis on Wednesday when United States authorities indicted 14 people and arrested seven senior football officials on bribery and racketeering charges.
In a separate development, Swiss officials opening criminal proceedings into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bid processes.
Blatter's decision to chair an emergency meeting with representatives from Fifa's six confederations is significant.
Such gatherings are rare.
It also took place without two of its nominated members.
Jeffrey Webb, president of the North, Central American and Caribbean Association (Concacaf), and Eugenio Figueredo, president of the South American confederation, were both absent after being arrested on Wednesday.
Concacaf later said it had provisionally suspended Webb and president of the Costa Rican Football Federation Eduardo Li, who was also among the 14 indicted by US authorities.
Blatter, who has been in power since 1998, was widely expected to win a fifth term as president before the current crisis engulfed Fifa.
But things are not so clear cut now.
He is understood to have widespread support among Fifa's 209 member associations, but Prince Ali, a Fifa vice-president from Jordan, could benefit from the latest crisis to his world football's governing body.
Prime Minister David Cameron and English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke joined those calling for Blatter to step down.
Britain's representative David Gill also says he will resign from Fifa's executive committee if Blatter is re-elected.
At their meeting on Thursday, Uefa delegates even discussed leaving Fifa and boycotting tournaments should Blatter be re-elected.
The Scottish Football Association's Stewart Regan told BBC Radio Scotland: "All of these things have been discussed."
But support for the president has come from Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has claimed the United States is meddling in Fifa's affairs in an attempt to take the 2018 World Cup away from his country.
No, it's not. Fifa's entire future appears to be at stake.
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Its reputation has been sullied by corruption claims for years now.
However, there is a sense that these latest developments could have a seismic impact on the footballing landscape.
Let's remember, there are two investigations here.
One is led by the United States, which is focusing on bribery claims going back more than 20 years and involving several key Fifa figures.
The other, led by Swiss authorities, is focusing on potential wrongdoing when voting took place for 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting rights.
Very. Seven Fifa officials were arrested in Zurich on Wednesday on charges they received more than $150m (£100m) in bribes.
Among them was Fifa vice-president Webb, a hugely influential figure who holds a lot of power in North America and the Caribbean.
In total, 14 defendants were charged by the US Department of Justice with racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies in a 24-year scheme.
Jack Warner, a former Fifa vice-president who quit world football's governing body in 2011, was also among them.
The US is trying to extradite all seven officials arrested in Zurich. Unsurprisingly, all seven are fighting such a move.
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It seems unlikely that either Russia or Qatar will be stripped of the tournaments at this stage, although anything is possible.
Despite Fifa's numerous attempts to prove the bidding process was fair, rumours persist that not everything was above board.
The latest development have only added to the speculation.
Naturally, both Russia, who were awarded the rights to stage the 2018 tournament, and Qatar, who will host the 2022 event, are fighting hard.
Both have always insisted that they won their bids fair and square.
Yes. The tournament was always going to be in Africa, but South Africa was chosen ahead of Egypt and Morocco.
However, the US investigation claims South African officials paid $10m (£6.5m) in bribes to host the tournament.
That has prompted a furious reaction from the South African government.
"When we concluded the Fifa World Cup here in South Africa, we got a clean audit report," said Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe. "There has never been any suggestion that anything untoward happened."
As you'd expect, it is working overtime to calm fears it is in meltdown.
Fifa director of communications Walter De Gregorio tried hard to put a positive spin on developments on Wednesday.
But not everyone believed him when he claimed the investigations proved Fifa was on the right track.
In an attempt to be proactive, Fifa has already banned 11 of the 14 people charged by the US Department of Justice.
But it is coming under increasing pressure from unhappy sponsors.
Visa. It says it will "reassess" its sponsorship unless Fifa takes "swift and immediate steps" to address the latest accusations.
Coca-Cola, Adidas, Nike and McDonalds have also voiced concern.
John Whittingdale, Britain's Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, has urged all sponsors to "consider following Visa's lead".
It's fair to say that the loss of a high-profile sponsor would have a damaging impact on Fifa, both in terms of revenue and reputation.
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The visitors had the better of the first half, Neeskens Kebano's drive was pushed clear by keeper Adam Bogdan.
Gary Caldwell's side went close when Yanic Wildschut cut inside and found Michael Jacobs, but his shot went wide.
Fulham keeper David Button was forced into action at the death, tipping Nick Powell's effort over the crossbar.
The game was marred by a serious-looking injury to Wigan midfielder Alex Gilbey, who was stretchered off in the first half with his leg strapped.
The draw moves the Latics up a place, but they remain in the relegation zone, while Fulham drop out of the top six.
Wigan have now failed to beat the Whites in their last 16 meetings - their longest winless run against an opponent and Fulham's longest unbeaten run against a side in their league history.
Wigan boss Gary Cauldwell: "I think if we can get our defending right, we will win a lot of football matches. As an attacking team, I don't think there's many better in the league.
"The way we pass the ball is excellent, we cause teams a lot of problems, and we have attacking players who can score goals.
"We've scored in all but one game this season, and that is our main strength. We are very good going forward and that will get us points this season.
"If we can get the defending bit right, we'll be very difficult to play against."
Fulham head coach Slavisa Jokanovic: "I cannot be satisfied because we didn't win the game. In my opinion we played very well, especially in the first 45 minutes.
"We defended very well but it was the same problems as the last two games. We had a problem opening up the game and we didn't create enough chances.
"We were moving around the box but weren't creating enough chances and we didn't score.
"At the end it's good news because we kept the clean sheet but we didn't score a goal."
Match ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Fulham 0.
Second Half ends, Wigan Athletic 0, Fulham 0.
Denis Odoi (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt blocked. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dan Burn.
Foul by Matt Smith (Fulham).
Nathan Byrne (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by David Button.
Attempt saved. Nick Powell (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Ragnar Sigurdsson.
Foul by Neeskens Kebano (Fulham).
Nathan Byrne (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Cauley Woodrow (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Neeskens Kebano (Fulham) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Max Power (Wigan Athletic).
Foul by Cauley Woodrow (Fulham).
Dan Burn (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Fulham. Ryan Tunnicliffe replaces Tom Cairney.
Denis Odoi (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Stephen Warnock (Wigan Athletic).
Attempt saved. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Max Power.
David Button (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Le Fondre (Wigan Athletic).
Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Ragnar Sigurdsson.
Foul by Tom Cairney (Fulham).
Nathan Byrne (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Adam Bogdan tries a through ball, but Adam Le Fondre is caught offside.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Nick Powell replaces Jordi Gómez.
Attempt missed. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Yanic Wildschut.
Attempt missed. Yanic Wildschut (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Stephen Warnock.
Scott Parker (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun MacDonald (Wigan Athletic).
Offside, Wigan Athletic. Nathan Byrne tries a through ball, but Adam Le Fondre is caught offside.
Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Adam Le Fondre replaces William Grigg.
Attempt missed. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is too high from a direct free kick.
Foul by Matt Smith (Fulham).
Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt blocked. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Shaun MacDonald.
Neeskens Kebano (Fulham) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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The northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali, and Moyamba in the south, will in effect be sealed off immediately.
Nearly 600 people have died of the virus in Sierra Leone where two eastern districts are already blockaded.
Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama has said the world needs to act faster to halt the West Africa Ebola outbreak.
"There is still a significant gap between where we are and where we need to be," Mr Obama told a high-level United Nations meeting on Ebola.
In other developments:
Mr Koroma's announcement follows a three-day nationwide lockdown that ended on Sunday night.
Two eastern districts have been isolated since the beginning of August and the extension of the indefinite quarantine means more than a third of Sierra Leone's 6.1 million population now finds itself unable to move freely.
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During Sierra Leone's three-day curfew, more than a million households were surveyed and 130 new cases discovered, the authorities say.
President Koroma said the move had been a success but had exposed "areas of greater challenges", which was why other areas were being quarantined.
Only people delivering essential services can enter and circulate within areas under quarantine.
In a televised address, the president acknowledged that the blockade would "pose great difficulties" for people.
"[But] the life of everyone and the survival of our country take precedence over these difficulties," he said.
According to WHO, the situation nationally in Sierra Leone continues to deteriorate with a sharp increase in the number of newly reported cases in the capital, Freetown, and its neighbouring districts of Port Loko, Bombali, and Moyamba, which are now under quarantine.
The BBC's Umaru Fofana in Freetown says Port Loko is where two of the country's major iron ore mining companies operate and the restrictions are likely to hamper business.
The WHO said despite efforts to deploy more health workers and open new Ebola treatment centres in the worst-affected countries, there was still a significant lack of beds in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with more than 2,000 needed.
The situation in Guinea had appeared to be stabilising, but with up to 100 new confirmed cases reported in each of the past five weeks, it was still of grave concern, it said.
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President Emmanuel Macron is hoping to obtain a strong mandate in parliament to help him pursue his reform plans.
His La République en Marche (Republic on the Move or LREM) with its MoDem allies is expected to win most seats.
Traditional parties are urging voters to back Mr Macron's rivals to stop a monopolisation of power.
President Macron formed his party just over a year ago, and half of its candidates have little or no political experience.
They include a retired bullfighter, a Rwandan refugee and a mathematician.
A party needs 289 seats to control the 577-seat National Assembly. LREM is predicted to win more than 400.
In the first round Mr Macron's LREM and MoDem won 32.3% of the vote.
The centre-right Republicans had 21.5%, while the far-right National Front (FN) had 13.2%, followed by the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) on just over 11%.
The Socialists, previously France's ruling party, and their allies won just 9.5%.
However, the turnout was low, despite claims that President Macron had re-energised the voting public.
Analysts said it reflected a sense of resignation among his opponents.
Only four seats were settled in the first round.
The second round will see the two top-placed contenders for each seat facing each other, along with any other candidate who won the support of at least 12.5% of registered voters in the district.
Here are some of the key battles to look out for:
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The claim was made by an Irish emigrant, now aged 69, who gave evidence to the inquiry via video-link from Australia.
The inquiry is examining abuse claims at Nazareth House and Nazareth Lodge.
The homes were run by the Sisters of Nazareth, who have made an apology to all in their care.
The pensioner, who broke down and cried during part of his testimony, said children at Nazareth Lodge were called "sons of whores".
He explained that he did not understand what the term meant, "except that it was obviously bad and meant we were all very bad children".
The witness, who is still trying to trace his mother, described how a visitor once asked him if he liked living in the home.
"I told her we were treated like slaves," he said.
The inquiry also heard how he was sexually abused by older boys at the home.
He said: "Disgusting things were done to me that I don't want to talk about."
Concluding his testimony, the elderly witness rejected an apology from the Sisters of Nazareth.
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The facility in Coatbridge is capable of washing and drying 600,000 items of bed linen and towels a week for hotels and restaurants around Glasgow.
Cupar-based Fishers also unveiled new livery for its 80-strong fleet of green and white trucks.
The livery features iconic tourism landmarks to tie in with the 2016 Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.
The first truck will feature imagery of Glasgow's Finnieston Crane, the Clyde Auditorium and the statue of the Duke of Wellington - complete with its famous traffic cone.
Managing director Michael Jones said: "This will be the largest single laundry investment ever to be made in Scotland and is testament to Fishers' confidence in the strength of the country's growing hospitality industry and our continuing commitment to the sector.
"We're immensely proud of our new super laundry which underlines our commitment to investing in the business in order to service the needs of our customers in the tourism and hospitality sector here in Scotland.
"Being close to our customers is really important to us and this new facility brings us 60 miles closer to the growing Glasgow hotels market." | Fife-based textile services company Fishers has officially opened a new £5m "super laundry" in North Lanarkshire. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35833469"} | 235 | 29 | 0.620555 | 1.485255 | -0.254791 | 0.652174 | 9.347826 | 0.478261 |
The paintings and drawings belonged to Cornelius Gurlitt, whose father was an art dealer in Hitler's Germany.
The son died nearly three years ago and left the works to the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern but a relative contested the will.
Works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall feature in the collection.
Some of the pieces are believed to have been stolen from Jewish owners.
Gurtlitt's cousin, Uta Werner, launched the court challenge and staked a claim to the collection.
But the German court rejected her argument, finding insufficient evidence that Gurlitt had not been of sound mind when making the decision.
It is thought the collection will go on public display next year.
The Bern museum welcomed the ruling and said it will not keep all the works, just those that "most probably were not looted".
It said it would be working closely with the German government and experts at the German Lost Art Foundation to research the back story of each work and begin restitution cases where applicable.
Gurlitt was known to be a reclusive man, who hid hundreds of works in his homes in the German city of Munich and Austrian city of Salzburg.
His father Hildebrand, as an art dealer for the Nazis, sold works stolen from Jews or confiscated as "degenerate" works.
More than 1,400 works were discovered in 2012 after Gurlitt's apartment was searched in a tax inquiry. Some have already been reunited with their owners and a few have been sold at auction.
Six months before he died, Gurlitt told Der Spiegel magazine, "I haven't loved anything more than my pictures in my life." | A hoard of Nazi-era artwork can be donated to a museum in Switzerland, a court in Germany has ruled. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38332637"} | 366 | 28 | 0.538327 | 1.354863 | -0.803845 | 0.565217 | 13.956522 | 0.565217 |
A number of guns have been confiscated from the home of the detained 48-year-old former policeman.
Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud also confirmed a second man was being held.
Saad al-Hilli, 50, an Iraqi-born British citizen, was found dead in his BMW car; his wife Iqbal, her mother and a French cyclist were also killed.
The 48-year-old man from the Haute-Savoie region, who was arrested on Tuesday, has been described in reports as a gun enthusiast, a bit of a loner and somewhat difficult.
Police found a Luger pistol during a search of his home in Talloires, about 10 km from the murder scene, but it was not the same model as the Luger used in the shooting.
Mr Maillaud said: "There is no direct link at the moment."
Mr al-Hilli and his family lived in Claygate, Surrey, and were on holiday at the time of the attack, along with Mrs al-Hilli's mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, who lived in Sweden.
Mr and Mrs al-Hilli's two young daughters, aged seven and four at the time, survived the attack, which took place in a car park near Lake Annecy.
The older daughter, Zainab, was shot and beaten. Her sister, Zeena, was found traumatised but physically unscathed after hiding under bodies in the car.
The body of the cyclist, Sylvain Mollier, was found nearby.
On Wednesday, Mr Maillaud said the ex-policeman's arrest did not mean the case was solved.
The man was described as having a strong resemblance to an identikit image of a motorcyclist seen near the murder scene.
"We are talking about one person who resembles the description of another man who was near the scene at the time," Mr Maillaud said.
"We do not know what he was doing there. As I speak to you, that person is still in detention but we have nothing that would link him to the crimes so far."
Mr Maillaud said the second man in custody was a friend of the ex-policeman.
The prosecutor said police "discovered a great number of munitions, explosives and detonators" during their search.
He said they believed the pair may have been involved with the trafficking of firearms.
Mr Maillaud said the Luger pistol recovered "is not the same arm" as the actual gun used in the shooting.
"It is not the same calibre, which is absolutely essential to note," he said.
Investigators have stressed that the presumption of innocence must prevail.
A 4x4 that police have been looking for since the shooting has still not been found.
Meanwhile, the UK side of the investigation continues.
More than 100 police officers in France and the UK have been involved in investigating the case and about 800 people have been interviewed.
French prosecutors previously said the "reasons and causes" for the killings had their "origins" in the UK and they investigated an alleged feud between Mr al-Hilli and his brother Zaid over inheritance.
Zaid al-Hilli, 54 and also from Surrey, denied involvement in the murders and accused French police of "covering up" the real target of the killings.
He was released from bail last month after being arrested last year on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder.
Surrey Police said there was not enough evidence to charge him.
The motive for the shootings has remained elusive.
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Forest fires in Portugal claimed scores of lives while emergency heat plans were triggered in France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Britain experienced its warmest June day since the famous heat wave of 1976.
Human-related warming made record heat 10 times more likely in parts of Europe the researchers say.
During June, mean monthly temperatures about 3C above normal were recorded across western parts of the continent. France experienced its hottest June night ever on 21st when the average around the country was 26.4C.
That same day had seen the mercury hit 34.5 at Heathrow in what was the UK's warmest June day for 40 years.
It was a similar story in the Netherlands which is set to have its hottest June on record while in Switzerland it was the second warmest since 1864.
Now, researchers with World Weather Attribution have carried out a multi-method analysis to assess the role of warming connected to human activities in these record temperatures.
"We simulate what is the possible weather under the current climate and then we simulate what is the possible weather without anthropogenic climate change, and then we compare these two likelihoods which gives us the risk ratio," Dr Friederike Otto from the University of Oxford, one of the study's authors, told BBC News.
"We found a very strong signal."
That signal, according to the authors, made heat waves at least 10 times more likely in Spain and Portugal.
Fires resulted in the deaths of 64 people in Portugal, while in Spain they forced the removal of around 1,500 people from holiday accommodation and homes.
In Central England, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands the intensity and frequency of such extreme heat was four times as likely because of climate change, the study says.
"We found clear and strong links between this month's record warmth and human-caused climate change," said Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI).
"Local temperature records show a clear warming trend, even faster than in climate models that simulate the effects of burning fossil fuels but also solar variability and land use changes," van Oldenborgh added.
The researchers say their reported results on the impact made by human related warming are conservative in some ways. Their study indicated that in countries like Spain, Portugal and France, climate change could be increasing the chances of extreme heat by up to forty times.
The scientists believe that the chances of these extreme heat events becoming much more common will increase unless rapid steps are taken to reduce carbon emissions.
"Hot months are no longer rare in our current climate. Today we can expect the kind of extreme heat that we saw in June roughly every 10 to 30 years, depending on the country," said Robert Vautard, a researcher at the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences (LSCE), who was also involved in the study.
"By the middle of the century, this kind of extreme heat in June will become the norm in Western Europe unless we take immediate steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
The researchers are calling on city leaders in particular to work with scientists and public health experts to develop heat action plans.
While, usually, researchers wait to publish research like this in a peer-reviewed journal, the team felt that speed was necessary to inform public debate.
"When extreme events happen, the question is always asked 'what's the role of climate change?' and often the statement is made by a politician or by someone with a political agenda and not based on scientific evidence," said Dr Otto.
"Our aim is to provide that for the role of climate change, to show what you can robustly say within the time frame when people are discussing the event."
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The double Olympic gold medallist suffered the injury in a crash in the opening stage on Saturday.
The Team Sky rider is lying in 194th place after Monday's third stage, nearly 27 minutes behind leader Jan Bakelants.
"I've been better," Thomas admitted after completing the stage in Calvi.
"Simon Gerrans did a great job to get the stage win. It was Daryl Impey who led him out and they got it absolutely perfect. The sprint was so close. Without that team support Gerrans would not have won.
"Mark Cavendish was not around to contest the finish and he did not take the intermediate sprint that seriously earlier in the day. He has expressed an interest in the green jersey but Peter Sagan and Marcel Kittel have got a big buffer on him now in the points category which is going to take some overhauling.
"At the back of the race, Geraint Thomas rode very bravely with a fractured pelvis. Team Sky's head of business operations Fran Millar says they are going to stop telling people to 'man up' and tell them to 'gee up' instead. It's a nice little phrase and very apt.
"I'm no doctor but I don't imagine any pain can be coming from the fracture itself because, if so, you just could not ride a bike. The pain is probably coming from all the tissue around it. So with any luck, after three or four days he might start to feel better and be able to get through this race."
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The fracture was revealed by an MRI scan on Sunday after initial X-rays had shown no injury.
"It explains a lot, because yesterday was one of the worst days I've had on bikes," said Thomas.
"But I've done so much to lose weight and get fit for this and I'm not just going to give up straight away.
"The experts said it's not going to get any worse, so we'll give it a few days to see if the pain goes down, then we'll see.
"I'm definitely going to give it a good go.
"My mum doesn't want me to, but it's the Tour, it's not your average race, and I'm definitely going to keep fighting."
Thomas started stage three in last place and finished nine minutes 15 seconds behind stage winner Simon Gerrans - a result that lifted the Welshman two places in the general classification.
However, he is unlikely to be of help to Team Sky in the team time trial in Nice on Tuesday.
But team principal David Brailsford was full of praise for Thomas's efforts.
"We all have different tolerances to pain but the determination and level of suffering required to ride on a course like this, with its twists and turns where you can never get into any kind of rhythm, was really considerable," he said.
"He suffered an awful, awful lot - he deserves every bit of recognition and support for his suffering."
Thomas himself summed up his day in a matter of fact manner: "It felt a lot better today than yesterday and it felt a lot better than it did at the start," he said.
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Liam White left HMP Standford Hill on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent on Sunday.
Kent Police, who were called to the Category D prison just before 14:00 BST, said the 23-year-old should not be approached by members of the public.
Armed robber Michael Wheatley absconded from the same jail in May and went on to raid a building society in Surrey.
His case sparked a political row over the day release of dangerous inmates amid criticism that arrangements were too lax.
Wheatley, 55, dubbed the "Skull Cracker" for pistol-whipping bystanders, was later caught and sentenced at Guildford Crown Court to life behind bars and told he would serve at least 10 years before being eligible for parole.
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The prime minister ruled out running for a third term in office ahead of the 2015 general election.
He said if he won he would serve the full five years of this Parliament, until 2020, and then leave Number 10.
Mr Cameron has been the MP for Witney, in Oxfordshire, since 2001.
He was re-elected in 2015 with a majority of 25,155.
Speaking to BBC deputy political editor James Landale last March, Mr Cameron had said: "I've said I'll stand for a full second term, but I think after that it will be time for new leadership.
"Terms are like Shredded Wheat - two are wonderful but three might just be too many."
There has since been much speculation over who will succeed him as prime minister, with Mr Cameron tipping Home Secretary Theresa May, Chancellor George Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnson as potential leaders.
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Evha Jannath, from Leicester, was on a school trip on Tuesday when she fell from a boat on the Splash Canyon ride.
While the park will open on Saturday, the ride will remain shut along with ones that overlook it as a mark respect to her family, officials said.
The park in Staffordshire has been closed since for police and Health and Safety Executive investigations.
Jonathan Hughes, vice-chair of the Staffordshire Branch of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, said the HSE would be talking to staff, the theme park operator, contractors and manufacturers of the ride to see how it operated.
"In addition, they will be looking at the history of the ride - its maintenance records, inspections, tests and details of any works carried out on the ride," he said.
Elsewhere in England, theme park operator Merlin Entertainments confirmed earlier it had reopened the Congo River Rapids at Alton Towers, Legoland Windsor's Vikings River Splash and Thorpe Park's Rumba Rapids, which had all been closed as a precautionary measure following the schoolgirl's death.
An inquest into Evha's death is expected to open next week, after a post-mortem examination which is expected to take place on Monday, Staffordshire Police said.
In a statement, the park said: "The terrible incident on Tuesday has left a family grieving and we continue to offer our deepest thoughts and condolences to the family and friends of Evha Jannath.
"Whilst the HSE and police authority carry on with their important work, we will reopen Drayton Manor Park on Saturday 13th May. We continue to offer support to all those affected, including colleagues, and will provide all necessary assistance to the relevant authorities.
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Mr Trudeau is a favourite of global progressives, who see him as a bastion against rising tide of anti-immigrant and protectionist sentiment and who campaigned on appealing to people's "better angels".
Mr Trump won the US election riding that anti-trade and anti-globalisation wave, and as a political outsider who is free with his insults.
The relationship between the North American neighbours is a vital one and depends in part on the Republican and Liberal leaders finding common ground, despite differences in personality and policy.
Here are five areas where Mr Trudeau and Mr Trump are somewhat simpatico.
1. They pulled off unexpected election victories after being discounted by rivals and pundits.
Pollsters in both countries failed to predict Mr Trudeau and Mr Trump's upsets, and both party leaders were seen as celebrity lightweights by rivals.
It is a similarity not lost on Mr Trudeau.
In a 16 December interview with a Montreal radio show host, the prime minister revealed he touched on that "common ground" during his congratulatory phone call to Mr Trump following the US election.
"He and I had a conversation about being knocked around by the media because, present company excluded, that's the experience that I'd had for years of people just slamming me and saying 'he'd never become prime minister,'" Mr Trudeau said.
2. They embrace politics in the social media age.
The prime minister and the president-elect both use social media for their political ends.
Mr Trudeau and his team know a charming photo opportunity of the photogenic prime minister, from shirtless selfies to yoga poses, can go viral and bolster his popularity at home and abroad.
He has leveraged social media as a tool to sell his brand of progressive cool to the world.
While Mr Trudeau has a healthy Twitter following for a world leader, with nearly 2.4m followers (and over 830,000 on Instagram), his influence on the platform is dwarfed by Mr Trump's 19.7m followers.
A prolific tweeter, Mr Trump wields his influential account to attack opponents, drive the news, and pressure US manufacturers to bend to his agenda.
He has, however, promised to be more restrained in his Twitter antics after being sworn-in 20 January.
3. They promised to change the way politics is done.
Mr Trump vowed during the campaign he would "drain the swamp", a catch-all promise for his supporters who see of Washington as a cesspool of lobbyists, corruption, and waste.
During the 2015 Canadian election, Mr Trudeau said his predecessor, former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, "turned Ottawa into a partisan swamp" during his near decade in power.
Mr Trudeau promised to put an end to partisanship and patronage in Ottawa, to usher in a more transparent and receptive government, and to make question period respectful again.
The two have faced critics who say those promises were quick to fall by the wayside.
4. They harkened to the past in their pitch to voters.
The two politicians pressed some very powerful nostalgia buttons as they campaigned to lead their countries.
Mr Trump's inescapable campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again", borrowed from former US president Ronald Reagan's 1980 race, looked back to a time when voters felt there was more prosperity and opportunity in the United States and when their nation garnered respect on the world stage.
Mr Trudeau was more subtle, though his campaign was woven through with a thread of nostalgia, from a promise to recommit troops to overseas peacekeeping efforts to a foreign policy return to when Canadians thought the world saw the country as its good neighbour.
After winning the election, Mr Trudeau and his MPs made "Canada is back" one of their favourite catchphrases.
5. They followed in their fathers' footsteps.
Fred Trump, the first New York real estate magnate in the Trump family, started a million dollar residential real estate business in Brooklyn and Queens.
The Donald learned the business from his father, switching from building low-income housing in New York City's outer-boroughs to luxury towers in downtown Manhattan.
Justin Trudeau grew up surrounded by politics and was once toasted by former US President Richard Nixon, who predicted the young boy would one day become prime minister like his father Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Trudeau senior served as in that role from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984, becoming one of Canada's most recognisable leaders. | At first glance, few people have less in common than Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President-elect Donald Trump. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38603859"} | 1,002 | 28 | 0.353143 | 1.00713 | -0.573614 | 1.166667 | 36.458333 | 0.833333 |
The court granted Mulcaire permission to appeal against two court orders that could have forced him to name the reporters.
The two-day hearing will begin on 9 May.
Earlier this month Mulcaire lost his appeal against the orders at the Royal Courts of Justice, but appealed.
He had appealed to try to avoid having to answer questions in civil proceedings that could incriminate him.
Mulcaire was jailed in January 2007 for six months along with the News of the World's royal correspondent Clive Goodman for illegally accessing voicemails of members of the royal household.
At the time he surrendered notebooks to the police containing information about phone hacking.
Mulcaire was contracted to the former newspaper to undertake "research assignments" from at least September 2001.
Comedian Steve Coogan and PR consultant Nicola Phillips, a former employee of the publicist Max Clifford, have since launched civil privacy cases against News International, the publisher of the now-defunct Sunday tabloid, and Mulcaire.
Currently, if questioned in the cases, Mulcaire would have to explain how he obtained voicemail numbers and passwords and who provided the details.
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The last words spoken were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero" - and not "all right, good night" as reported.
The transport ministry said forensic investigations would determine whether the pilot or co-pilot spoke the words.
The plane, carrying 239 people, was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing when it disappeared on 8 March.
The plane's last contact took place at 01:19 Malaysian time. Malaysian authorities say that based on satellite data they have concluded that it crashed into the southern Indian Ocean.
What we know
The search for flight MH370
The BBC's transport correspondent Richard Westcott says the new version of the last words is more formal and more in keeping with the way a pilot might usually speak to air traffic control than the wording previously reported.
It is not clear why it has changed or why it has taken the authorities this long to determine this, he says.
Aircraft and ships are scouring seas west of the Australian city of Perth looking for any trace of the flight.
On Tuesday, 10 planes and nine ships were expected to take part in a search covering an area of about 120,000 square kilometres.
Weather in the search area was expected to be poor, with areas of low visibility, the Australian Joint Agency Co-ordination Centre (JACC) said.
The JACC, led by a former top Australian military official, was formed on Monday to oversee the search and co-ordinate with the relevant international agencies.
Evidence from satellite "pings" received from the plane after its last contact with air traffic control and radar has been used to delineate a search area.
While floating objects have been spotted by search teams, none has been identified as coming from the Boeing 777.
The search teams are deploying a device known as a "towed pinger locator" (TPL) to listen for ultrasonic signals from the plane's "black box" flight-data recorders. The signals from the flight recorders last about 30 days.
On Monday, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said rescue crews had put no time limit on the hunt for the missing jet.
Dozens of relatives of some of the 153 missing Chinese passengers have travelled to Kuala Lumpur in their search for answers.
They have become increasingly angry with what they perceive as a lack of information from the Malaysian authorities.
Malaysian Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said on Monday that the government would soon hold a briefing for those families to update them on the search, which would include international experts to explain the research, data and methodology used in the operation.
The briefing would also be broadcast live to other families in Beijing, he said.
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Ollivier, 38, suffered fatal head injuries after his motorbike was involved in a crash with a car in Clerkenwell, central London, on his way to a performance in August 2015.
The cab driver was Abdul Qayyum, 44, from Slough, Berkshire.
He was found not guilty of death by careless driving on Tuesday after a trial at the Old Bailey in London.
Ollivier made his name with Matthew Bourne's company New Adventures, playing The Swan in Swan Lake and Speight in Play Without Words.
He had been on his way to perform in Bourne's production of The Car Man at Sadler's Wells Theatre.
After the accident, the choreographer described Ollivier as "one of the most charismatic and powerful dancers of his generation".
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"It was on the plane over I realised I'd made a mistake," a 25-year-old private tutor tells me.
He was flying to New York to spend the summer helping to prepare a 12-year-old boy for the Common Entrance exam - a test taken by children applying to private secondary schools.
The boy's mother had insisted he sat next to the boy so he could spend the flight time teaching him.
He did an hour and then given they were spending the next three weeks together, decided to take a nap.
The next thing he knew, he was being woken up by the mother standing over him, shouting "You think this is some kind of holiday?".
Given the high fees charged by such tutors and the intense competition for places at top British schools it's perhaps not surprising that tensions can sometimes run high.
"In an already privileged world, tutoring is an extra level of pushing," he says.
The Londoner uses the job's flexibility to fund his real passion of film production and acting. He is unwilling to be named in this article in case it jeopardises future jobs.
Yet he says the money easily makes up for the occasional difficulties. He charges anywhere from £40 to £90 an hour in the UK, although the agencies he is hired through take a 25% to 50% cut of this.
When he takes an overseas job, the fees are much higher to compensate for the fact that he can't do any other work. Typically he earns between £800 and £1,500 a week.
In three years as a tutor he's worked in India, Indonesia and Costa Rica, as well as the US.
Hiring an English tutor is increasingly common in many countries, particularly for those who want their children to go to an overseas private secondary school, he says.
The fact that he "sounds a bit posh" and went to a top London school are "valuable trading cards" in an international industry which is "a lot about image as well as actual background," he says.
This kind of tutoring is one of the British education services that makes a valuable contribution to the UK economy. Collectively, education exports were worth a whopping £17.5bn in 2011, the most recent figure available. This includes education products and services, income from international students in higher education as well as schools and English language lessons.
Those working in the industry suggest the value is likely to have grown since then.
Mark Maclaine, who co-founded the agency, Tutorfair, in 2012 after over a decade of tutoring, says overseas demand is enormous and growing. His overseas customers are mostly from Asia, the Middle East, eastern Europe and Russia.
Dubbed "a super tutor" due to his students' success rate, he charges fees on a sliding scale, anywhere from £150 an hour up to a staggering £1,000.
At the upper end of the scale, he says it's typically consultancy. A short time to teach someone how to study and prepare for an exam independently as opposed to a continuing arrangement.
Word of mouth recommendations have seen him hired by US actors and actresses and he's taught in a variety of exotic locations from a yacht sailing around the Caribbean to private islands in luxury holiday resorts.
He admits that the high pressure can create a toxic environment, and says experience has taught him to interview a family before he commits to a job.
We're speaking over the phone while he's in Bali, where he has tagged a holiday onto the end of a tutoring job.
"The British private education system is seen as one of the best in the world. Royal families, rulers of countries are very very keen that their kids get some form of education in Britain," he says.
The demand is high enough that two to three times a year Mr Maclaine will get an "emergency call" from a family desperate for his immediate services.
Normally these calls come when a child has failed a practice exam for a UK school and "everyone panics".
Often he'll offer to tutor by Skype, but occasionally when he's offered a "stupid amount of money" he'll agree to fly out.
"I'm a human being. I've got a mortgage to pay".
To help address the balance, Tutorfair says that for every child whose parents pay for its service it gives tutoring to another boy or girl whose mother and father, or other guardian, cannot afford to pay.
It's not just tutoring agencies cashing in on the foreign demand for a British education.
Many private schools have opened branches overseas: Harrow has schools in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Bangkok; while Dulwich College and Wellington College both have overseas franchises in China.
Such extensions create a handy extra revenue stream for private schools as the domestic market slows.
But Charles Bonas, founder of Bonas MacFarlane, which offers tuition and also advises on choices of schools from nursery to university, says many families still prefer to send their children to school in the UK.
He says partly it's because it's a way for wealthy families with drivers and nannies to help their offspring become more independent.
But he says the main reasons that parents choose the UK is because English is spoken as a first language, and the education is deemed well-rounded - teaching children how to think critically and take risks.
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Often parents only want the top name schools, he says recalling the time two years ago when the parents of a five-year-old girl said they wanted her to go to Eton next term. "They didn't take no as an immediate answer," he says.
But this is where the firm uses its consultation skills, a process costing from £3,000 to £12,000 with a relationship that can last years.
"I took on a parent last year whose children weren't even born yet. They're going to need a nursery, pre-prep, prep and a senior school," he explains.
Whether or not these arrangements are simply perpetuating inequality, Mr Bonas argues that they are of long-term benefit to the UK, and not just because of the economic boost.
"These children have often got a family business to take over and will be the movers and shakers in their world.
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"Rhodes has fallen" - so declared the students at the University of Cape Town when a statue of one of the most influential white men to set foot in Africa was removed with the tacit agreement of the University Council last week.
Since 1934, it had enjoyed pride of place on land bequeathed for the campus in Cecil Rhodes's will.
Rhodes left more than land as part of his legacy - there are scholarships, a prominent diamond mining company, a Rhodes University and more memorial structures than were ever granted to Alexander the Great.
A couple of sizeable African nations were given his name and biographers and filmmakers have for a century and more fed us his life of daring and glory for empire with sycophantic zeal.
Farai Sevenzo:
How more pertinent it would be to erect a statue of the Mozambican man caught by the world's press burning to death as a victim of xenophobic violence in 2008
And if you really feel like bonding with his bones, you can visit the Matobo Hills south of the city of Bulawayo in what used to be called Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and see a grave hewn from solid granite and read the words: "Here lies the remains of Cecil John Rhodes".
His name is as common in these parts as dust.
But the anger directed towards the bronze statue of the dead imperialist is more about the slow pace of transformation in this young democracy, where jobs are scarce for non-whites even after university education, where higher learning is dominated by white academics and where the everyday struggles of the poor are as infinite as Cecil Rhodes's fortune.
Cecil Rhodes, imperialist diamond magnate: 1853-1902
Controversial figure
Travelling around South Africa at the moment it is difficult to escape a perceptible air of uncertainty. The headlines are about power cuts and clean water, xenophobia, rape and the lack of opportunities for the young.
Those Africans who want to bring their skills here are treated with suspicion and the struggle to survive has been picking at the scars of reconciliation that have never truly healed.
All over the world there are graveyards full of statues which no longer chime with changed times.
But old Rhodes' legacy is stitched into the fabric of this half of the continent.
The custodians of that legacy have joined the names of "a 19th Century imperialist and a 20th Century liberator" to create the Mandela Rhodes Foundation.
Africa's most fervent "anti-imperialist", Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe took an eraser to many old names around his country. He changed Cecil Square, named after Robert Cecil the British prime minister at the time of Rhodes' expansionism, into Africa Unity Square.
Yet even he has said will not dig up the gold digger.
"We are looking after his corpse, you have his statue. I say to my people let's leave him down, down, down there," President Mugabe said on a state visit to South Africa last week.
Meanwhile, the Cape Town university students' protest has started a spree of statue vandalism - paint has been thrown on Queen Victoria's solid frame, on Afrikaner leader Paul Kruger's statue in Pretoria and even the figure of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indian independence hero, has been painted white for his alleged support of race separation during his two-decade stay in South Africa.
Politicians are now throwing firm words around about "white arrogance" and "no master race", clearly trying hard to make the most of the students' mood.
But do Africans need to be reminded daily of what they once were?
Pastor Xola Skosana told students at the removal of Rhodes's statue: "If we and our children cannot see ourselves in the architectural design around us, then we remain visitors to the only corner of the world God gave us. Europe, we visit, Africa we live in."
Some countries quietly removed their colonial statues - General Charles Gordon's statute was placed in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, in 1904 but was moved in 1959 to Lightwater in Surrey, to a school that still bears his name.
Samora Machel packed all his Portuguese imperialists into a museum as soon as he took charge in 1975, including the horse-riding figure of Mouzinho de Abuquerque, known in Portugal as "the pacifier of Mozambique", which once stood in front of Maputo's City Hall.
And French colonialist Louis Faidherbe no longer stands outside the Senegalese parliament.
Perhaps this illustrates that it is the setting of these colonial statues that is the problem in South Africa.
Rhodes's bronze was flanked by the majesty of the Cape landscape - it seemed to revere him and condone his imperialism.
The symbolism of these statues is heavy with the weight of a history that was at most times brutal to the Africans in whose lands they stand; yet is a complicated relationship.
Should the Victoria Falls still be named after a dead English queen? Should the statue of the man who claimed the falls for her - David Livingstone - still be looking over it in 2015?
The graves and statues of old colonial folk still attract the tourists and everywhere you look there are more pressing problems than the removal of colonial relics.
How more pertinent it would be to erect a statue of Ernesto Alfabeto Nhamuave in a prominent South African square. He was the Mozambican man caught by the world's press burning to death as a victim of xenophobic violence in 2008.
Correction 21 April 2015: This article has been changed to clarify that Cecil Square, now Africa Unity Square, in Zimbabwe was named after Robert Cecil, a 19th Century British prime minster. | In our series of letters from African journalists, film-maker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers if colonial heritage should be forgotten. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32338905"} | 1,330 | 34 | 0.362626 | 1.04252 | 0.437426 | 0.708333 | 45.541667 | 0.625 |
Azam Tariq died in Paktika province, near Pakistan's border. His son and nine others were also reported killed.
Tariq was a former Pakistani Taliban spokesman and part of a breakaway faction after the group split in 2014.
Many Pakistani Taliban now operate from Afghanistan after they were dislodged from strongholds in north-west Pakistan by a military offensive.
Reports say Afghan special forces backed by Nato troops killed Azam Tariq in the Barmal district of Paktika on Saturday night, but it took a day for his death to be confirmed.
Dawn newspaper reported that ground forces were backed by four helicopter gunships and two drones in a gun battle that went on for more than five hours.
Azam Tariq was chief spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban between 2009 and 2013, when Hakimullah Mehsud was leader.
After the latter's death in a drone strike, the movement split and Tariq became spokesman for a splinter faction led by Khan Said Sajna.
A spokesman for the Sajna group, Zeeshan Mehsud, telephoned journalists to confirm that Azam Tariq was dead.
He said the "matryrdom of Azam Tariq" was a cause of pride for the Mehsud tribesmen of South Waziristan.
He is the first prominent Pakistani Taliban leader to be killed in Afghanistan since the July 2016 killing of Hafiz Saeed Khan, the chief of so-called Islamic State for the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. | A leading Pakistani Taliban commander has been killed by special forces in eastern Afghanistan, the militants say. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37472326"} | 355 | 22 | 0.536868 | 1.175454 | 0.21291 | 1 | 13.842105 | 0.684211 |
Economy Secretary Ken Skates has published his revised case for an M4 relief road, following updated traffic projections.
It comes as a formula predicting future traffic, published by the UK government earlier this year, has been changed following Welsh Government complaints.
Mr Skates said it had been based on "zero-growth" in population.
The Welsh Government wants to build the new motorway to relieve congestion on the current M4 north of Newport through the Brynglas tunnels.
The inquiry, which will examine the controversial plan and alternatives, had been due to start on 1 November.
The existing Welsh Government timetable for the scheme predicts diggers in the ground by spring 2018.
It estimates autumn 2021 as the date when the new stretch of the M4 will be ready for motorists.
By then it would have been about 28 years since the road was first envisaged in 1993.
The current section of the M4 through central Newport will be reclassified as a non-motorway road by autumn 2022.
Objectors to the scheme may, however, attempt to challenge it in the courts via the judicial review process - something that could delay the project further.
The relief road's opponents include environmentalists, opposition politicians and Labour backbench AMs with concerns ranging from cost to the impact on the environment.
The details for the revised case for the relief road came as Mr Skates outlined his plans for transport investment over the next five years to a gathering of business people at Cardiff Airport on Wednesday.
He said the government was publishing a "full technical, economic and environmental report" of the M4 scheme.
The public inquiry would begin on 28 February 2017, with a pre-inquiry meeting held on 27 January, Mr Skates confirmed.
The Welsh Government is using a formula from the Department for Transport (DfT) to predict future traffic growth as part of its case to justify building the preferred so-called "black route" for the M4 relief road.
But a new version of this formula caused a delay to the public inquiry proceeding.
Sources said the new formula from the UK Department for Transport had predicted slower growth in traffic than previously expected.
BBC Wales was told ministers needed to postpone the inquiry to ensure the case for the preferred route was based on the most up-to-date evidence, or risk being vulnerable to legal challenge.
Following the Welsh Government's complaints about traffic forecasts earlier this year, the Department for Transport has published an updated set of traffic forecasts taking into account more "up to date and robust" evidence about housing growth.
The data includes assumptions on the number of future homes in south Wales based on a local development plans for future growth in south Wales and mid-Wales.
Mr Skates told BBC Wales: "We are looking at a major increase in the number of people will wish to travel, whether it be by rail, whether it be by bike, whether it be by car.
"In terms of road usage, there will be an increase that justifies the black route of the M4," he said.
He said some of the data from the new model was "incorrect quite frankly".
"It was based on assumptions of zero-growth in terms of population," he said.
"That is not right because all of the traffic modelling shows that there will be an increase in road use, and all of the modelling shows that there will be an increase in population within the region."
He said new modelling was brought forward after the Welsh Government had made "representations" that the data was wrong.
Other projects in the five-year plan include improvements to the A40, A55 and A494, the south Wales and north Wales metro schemes, a new rail franchise, a ports development fund, the development of a third Menai crossing, and better bus services.
Mr Skates revealed that a consultation on congestion solutions for the A494 and A55 in north east Wales - which could cost more than £200m - would take place in March 2017.
Russell George, economy spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives, said: "It has long been clear that a motorway grade solution is necessary to relieve congestion south of Newport, and business leaders and motorists are looking to the Welsh Government for a clear sign that this project is on track." | A delayed public inquiry into a new £1.1bn six-lane motorway south of Newport will begin on 28 February. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38301325"} | 912 | 27 | 0.46732 | 1.21636 | -0.233899 | 1.818182 | 38.454545 | 0.818182 |
Sam Dawson underwent treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The 2003 World Cup winner said he decided to speak out after a petition calling for all children to be vaccinated against the B-strain of the infection gained 400,000 signatures .
But experts warned they needed to see how effective the vaccine would be.
The campaign was started after two-year-old Faye Burdett died from the B-strain.
In a series of tweets, 43-year-old Dawson, who played for Northampton and London Wasps during his club career, said: "The 2 weeks of hell we've just had cos of Meningitis. Sami lucky due to amazing people @GreatOrmondSt #vaccinateNOW.
"I must also heap praise on @ChelwestFT [Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust] for their superb A&E and recognition of Sami's disease. We're indebted.
"I ask one favour. Please read and sign so fewer kids suffer."
The government's petition website states that any petition garnering more than 100,000 signatures will be considered for debate in Parliament.
Faye's story has been widely shared on social media after her mother Jenny Burdett, from Maidstone, Kent, published photos of her daughter lying in her hospital bed covered in a rash.
She said: "We campaign for change in her memory. There needs to be a roll-out programme to vaccinate all children, at least up to age 11."
A vaccine to protect against meningitis B became available on the NHS for children under the age of one in September, but parents who want to have older children vaccinated must pay privately.
The UK is the first country to have introduced the Men B vaccine.
James Stuart, a visiting professor at the University of Bristol and a World Health Organisation advisor, warned: "We need to know how well the vaccine is working. So it may not be the time yet to widen the programme."
Meanwhile, Professor of infection and immunity at Great Ormond St Hospital and University College London, Nigel Klein, said: "We all hope [it] will be successful.
"However as yet we really don't know how effective it will be and if there are going to be any problems and this is a major area of ongoing research supported by the Meningitis Research Foundation."
The Department of Health said: "When any new immunisation programme is introduced, there has to be a date to determine eligibility."
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Koeman told Belgian newspaper HLN that Lukaku, 23, has potential "greater and higher" than his current club.
George McKane, a founding member of the Everton Supporters' Trust, said Koeman is acting in Everton's best interests.
"It makes a pleasant change for someone to tell the truth," he told BBC Sport.
"What he's saying is what a lot of Evertonians are thinking."
McKane said Dutchman Koeman's comments on Lukaku, who reportedly handed in a transfer request this summer, could be aimed at raising the Belgium international's price.
Lukaku joined Everton for a club record £28m in July 2014, having scored 16 goals in all competitions during a season on loan from Chelsea.
He scored 20 goals in 2014-15 and 25 last season, and has seven of Everton's 15 Premier League goals this season. He is under contract until 2019.
Dave Kelly, chairman of supporters' group Blue Union, said Lukaku is not yet at the level of a Champions League striker, but that more Everton players should be trying to attract the interest of Europe's top sides.
"He should have ambition. Why should Romelu Lukaku have any responsibility to stay at Everton? He's not an Evertonian," Kelly said.
"I would love him to stay, but every player has his price. It's unfortunate that more of our players are not getting looked at by the European leagues.
"There needs to be a statement of intent from our owner, that if clubs want to buy our players it will be on our terms and for top dollar." | Everton boss Ronald Koeman was right to suggest striker Romelu Lukaku needs to leave Goodison Park to fulfil his potential, according to two of the club's supporters' groups. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37939697"} | 374 | 45 | 0.623885 | 1.542707 | -0.067823 | 0.875 | 9.9375 | 0.625 |
Following Thursday night's provincial draws, 2015 winners Monaghan will play Fermanagh in the preliminary round, with the winners taking on Cavan.
The beaten finalists in 2016, Donegal, will play Antrim while Down have been handed a last-eight clash against neighbours Armagh.
Tyrone won the 2016 Ulster title by beating Donegal 0-13 to 0-11.
Derry and the Red Hands also met at Celtic Park in the opening round of the 2016 Ulster SFC in May, with Tyrone running out 3-14 to 0-12 winners.
The victors in next year's contest will take on Donegal or Antrim in the semi-finals.
The other semi-final will see Down or Armagh facing Monaghan, Fermanagh or Cavan.
All-Ireland champions Dublin begin their defence of the Sam Maguire Cup against Carlow or Wexford in the Leinster SFC quarter-finals. | Derry will face title holders Tyrone in the big match of the 2017 Ulster Football Championship quarter-finals. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37644484"} | 210 | 25 | 0.704476 | 1.260247 | 0.01023 | 1.45 | 8.45 | 0.65 |
The A5119 in the New Brighton area of Mold has been closed in both directions and traffic has been reported to be heavy during Monday.
A team from Welsh Water is on site repairing the main.
The company has apologised for the inconvenience and said some customers may notice discolouration of their tap water when the supply is restored. | A road in Flintshire will remain closed overnight as work continues to repair a burst water main. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36824647"} | 71 | 23 | 0.666366 | 1.250615 | 0.097634 | 0.555556 | 3.555556 | 0.444444 |
The 35-year-old returned to the club in August 2013 after spells at Oldham, Port Vale and Chesterfield.
Whitaker came through the Silkmen's youth system and has made 329 appearances, and scored 50 goals, over this two spells.
Manager John Askey has also announced that full-back Andy Halls will be the club captain for the upcoming season. | Macclesfield Town midfielder Danny Whitaker has signed a new one-year deal with the National League side. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36745473"} | 84 | 28 | 0.629844 | 1.233222 | -1.047331 | 0.421053 | 3.736842 | 0.315789 |
The 38-year-old will be based in his native Germany as the Premier League club's European recruitment assistant.
"After my great spell at Swansea ended, I have decided to retire as a player," Tremmel told the club website.
"But I always had in mind to do something in football when I finished playing."
As well as his scouting duties, Tremmel will look into the possibility of sending Swansea youngsters on loan to German clubs.
"I think I have a good eye for talent and this idea came up. I am going to have a go and see how it works out," said Tremmel.
"I hope obviously that I can help the club."
Tremmel joined the Swans as a player from RB Salzburg in August 2010, making 52 senior appearances for the Welsh club. | Gerhard Tremmel has joined Swansea City's staff as a scout after the goalkeeper's playing contract was not renewed in the summer. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40630769"} | 180 | 38 | 0.635201 | 1.455209 | -0.4573 | 0.625 | 6.833333 | 0.541667 |
Williams is recovering in hospital in Singapore after undergoing an operation to stabilise a fracture, Cardiff said in a statement.
So emotional reading all the support. It's overwhelming. In the hospital next to my brother. He's a warrior.
The 22-year-old was injured while playing for the region at the World Club 10s in Singapore.
The Blues say arrangements are being made for his "safe transfer home".
Williams's family are at his bedside, along with senior Blues officials and medical staff.
Players from around the world have taken to Twitter to support four-times capped Williams.
Wales captain and Blues club-mate Sam Warburton tweeted the hashtag "#StayStrongForOws" while Toulon, British and Irish Lions and Wales full-back Leigh Halfpenny wrote: "Thoughts are with you and your family."
Australia flanker David Pocock wrote: "Owen, sending some love and well wishes from Canberra. We're all thinking of you and hoping for a speedy recovery."
Williams's brother, Gavin, tweeted: "So emotional reading all the support. It's overwhelming. In the hospital next to my brother. He's a warrior."
The Welsh Rugby Union offered its support and best wishes to Williams, and said it would "continue to liaise closely" with the Blues.
Blues said in a statement: "Cardiff Blues and the Williams family would like to thank the many hundreds of well-wishers who have offered messages of support.
"Cardiff Blues will be making no further comment, but will continue to share further updates when they are available.
"We would also ask that the privacy of Owen Williams and his family is respected at this time."
Williams came through the Blues academy system after being spotted playing for Neath College.
He signed for the senior side in 2010, but only made nine Blues appearances last season because of a hamstring problem.
The former Aberdare RFC player was capped by Wales at under-16 and under-20 level and made his senior debut against Japan in June 2013. | Cardiff Blues have revealed Wales centre Owen Williams has suffered a "significant injury" to his cervical vertebrae and spinal cord. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28021508"} | 461 | 28 | 0.528924 | 1.346646 | -0.486934 | 0.73913 | 17.521739 | 0.565217 |
Scotland Yard detectives also said they were looking at burglaries and charity collectors in the area.
Earlier, detectives released two e-fits of a man seen carrying a child towards the beach in Praia da Luz on the night Madeleine went missing.
But they have ruled out a previous sighting of another man by a friend.
Madeleine, from Rothley, Leicestershire, was three years old when she disappeared from her parents' holiday apartment on 3 May 2007.
Police have been revealing their latest findings in the search for her on BBC One's Crimewatch programme.
Det Ch Insp Andy Redwood, the senior Metropolitan Police investigating officer, said a number of men had been seen by witnesses in the area on the day Madeleine vanished and one theory was they could have been carrying out reconnaissance.
He said they wanted to track down men seen "lurking suspiciously" near the McCanns' apartment block.
DCI Redwood said it was a "revelation moment" when police discovered that the man seen by McCanns' friend Jane Tanner at 9.15pm was almost certainly an innocent British holiday-maker collecting his two-year-old daughter from a nearby creche.
He said: "Our focus in terms of understanding what happened on the night of 3 May has now given us a shift of emphasis. We are almost certain that the man seen by Jane Tanner is not Madeleine's abductor.
"It takes us through to a position at 10pm when we see another man who is walking towards the ocean, close by to the apartment, with a young child in his arms."
Madeleine's parents Kate and Gerry told Crimewatch they were "hopeful and optimistic" after police made a fresh appeal for information.
By Danny ShawHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
Scotland Yard has turned the inquiry on its head. Establishing that the Jane Tanner sighting was a "red herring" has opened up possibilities that were all but ruled out by previous investigators - not least the man seen with a child at 10pm.
The importance detectives have put on tracking that man down suggests they may have other information about him they haven't shared; perhaps phone records hold the key, as detectives indicated 10 days ago.
The question as to why it has taken six years for the Tanner sighting to be bottomed out and why e-fits of the 10pm suspect, compiled five years ago, have only now been publicised are uncomfortable ones - but are probably best addressed to the Portuguese authorities, who conducted the first investigation.
Mrs McCann said: "We're not the ones that have done something wrong here. It's the person who's gone into that apartment and taken a little girl away from her family."
In a Crimewatch update, DCI Redwood said there had been an "overwhelming response" to the programme with hundreds of calls.
He said: "We have had a number of calls from people who were in the resort at the time, which confirms to me the value of what we're doing."
Earlier, detectives releasing two e-fit images of a man said a family had seen him with a blond-haired child of three or four, possibly wearing pyjamas, heading away from the McCanns' holiday apartment.
The witnesses said the man was white, 20 to 40 years old and of medium build. He had short brown hair, was clean-shaven and of medium height, they added.
DCI Redwood said he could be the man who took Madeleine - but there could be an innocent explanation.
He said there had been a four-fold increase in the number of burglaries in the area between January and May 2007 and one possible scenario was that Madeleine had disturbed a burglar.
"Windows were a feature, as well as burglaries taking place in the evening," he said.
Two incidents had occurred in the McCanns' block - one attempted burglary and one actual burglary - in the 17 days before Madeleine went missing, he said.
There had also been an intruder in a property within the holiday complex where a British family with two children were staying the year before, he added.
Police are also looking at possible bogus charity collectors operating in the area at the time and have released two e-fit images of Portuguese men they would like to identify.
One is of a man aged 40 to 45, who knocked on the door of the apartment where the McCanns were due to stay on 25 April or 26 April between 2.30pm and 3pm, saying he was a charity collector.
The other, aged 25 to 30, approached a property on the Rua do Ramalhete, near the Ocean Club, at around 4pm on 3 May.
Inquiry timeline in full
Police have also released e-fit images of two men seen in the area around the time that Madeleine disappeared. Two are of fair-haired men who fit similar descriptions.
One is of a man who was seen twice by the same witness near the flat where the McCanns were staying. He was 30 to 35, thin, with short hair, shaving spots on his face and was wearing a black leather jacket.
The Crimewatch appeal also featured a detailed reconstruction lasting close to 25 minutes and covering events leading up to and surrounding Madeleine's disappearance.
In the programme, Mrs McCann described the moment that "panic kicked in" after returning to the apartment to find her daughter missing.
The Portuguese police who were originally investigating Madeleine's disappearance shelved their inquiry in 2008.
Scotland Yard began a review of the case in May 2011 and opened a formal investigation in July this year.
As a result, according to the Met police, the timeline and "accepted version of events" surrounding Madeleine's disappearance have significantly changed.
Madeleine and her brother and sister were left in the apartment at 8.30pm while her parents dined with friends at a nearby restaurant. Mr McCann checked on them at 9.05pm and Mrs McCann raised the alarm at 10pm.
DCI Redwood said he would travel to the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland to seek public support there and would repeat the appeals in Portugal - "a key country for us to trace any outstanding witnesses".
In Germany, a special edition of the crime programme Aktenzeichen XY - Ungeloest, which is translated as "File XY - Unsolved", will be aired on Wednesday night and will feature an appeal for information from Mr and Mrs McCann. | Police say one reading of Madeleine McCann's disappearance in Portugal in 2007 is that it has "all the hallmarks of a pre-planned abduction". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "24528530"} | 1,460 | 38 | 0.483759 | 1.274916 | -0.572276 | 1.137931 | 43.172414 | 0.793103 |
The visitors moved to 295-6, an advantage of 117 runs, with Peter Handscomb making 75 and Tim Bresnan 61.
Warwickshire, 152-8 after a rain-shortened first day, were earlier bowled out for 178.
Keith Barker was the last man out for 50, while Yorkshire seamer Ben Coad completed his second five-wicket haul of the season.
Coad, 23 and playing his fifth first-class match, bowled Chris Wright to follow 6-37 against Hampshire with figures of 5-52.
On a surface that is even-paced and only showed signs of extra bounce later in the day, Yorkshire opener Adam Lyth was caught down then leg side off Wright early in their reply.
But any hope that Warwickshire had of further inroads was snuffed out by a stand of 88 between Alex Lees and Handscomb, the Australian strong through the off side in his maiden half-century for the Tykes.
Wright, curiously unused for 35 overs, returned to bowl Handscomb, with the Bears whole-heartedly persisting to chip away at a Yorkshire top-order that failed to capitalise on a number of starts.
Lees made 36 before edging Barker to second slip, Gary Ballance nicked Oliver Hannon-Dalby behind for 22 and Jack Leaning fell to accurate off-spinner Jeetan Patel for 40.
When Bresnan was joined by Adil Rashid, Yorkshire attacked the second new ball, a sixth-wicket partnership of 54 coming in less than 11 overs.
But Bresnan was adjudged lbw to Barker, the left-armer who swung the ball throughout the day, leaving Rashid and Andrew Hodd to play for the close.
The rain that blighted Friday is forecast for Sunday, but Yorkshire already have a lead large enough to heap pressure on a Bears batting line-up that has made a poor start to the season. | Yorkshire built a healthy lead over Warwickshire on day two of their County Championship Division One game. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39608626"} | 447 | 22 | 0.455627 | 1.108621 | -0.163439 | 0.5 | 19.833333 | 0.5 |
The protesters at Spire Parkway Hospital, Solihull, are "disgusted" at the "slow reaction to their cases", a legal representative said.
They were among some 700 women treated by Dr Ian Paterson from 1993 to 2012.
Spire Healthcare said Mr Paterson was "personally liable" for private claims but it had settled some cases.
"Unlike in the NHS, Mr Paterson was not and has never been an employee of Spire Healthcare. As is industry standard, he practised as an independent practitioner under the grant of practising privileges at Spire's hospitals," its statement said.
It said ill health meant he currently lacked capacity to instruct lawyers, which had resulted in delays in litigation.
However, it added: "Despite that obstacle, wherever possible, Spire has entered into discussions with lawyers acting for patients in the private claims and has settled some cases.
"Furthermore, lawyers acting for all parties are actively exploring dates to return to the negotiation table to discuss the cases that are outstanding."
Mr Paterson, who was suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC) in 2012, carried out "cleavage sparing" mastectomies at Spire Parkway and Spire Little Aston, in Sutton Coldfield.
The GMC said the procedure, which left a small amount of tissue for cosmetic reasons, breached national guidelines because it risked the return of cancer.
He also carried out the procedure at Solihull Hospital, run by Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust which has been settling damages from NHS patients.
However, women treated at the two private hospitals say claims are taking too long.
Protester Frances Perks said she was given an unnecessary mastectomy and several other operations by Mr Paterson who treated her for 17 years.
Ms Perks said her mother and sister died from breast cancer and he repeatedly told her she was "high risk" but subsequent genetic testing found this was not the case.
"He always found these lumps and would say there is something sinister there," she said.
Ms Perks said she just wanted the claims to be settled.
"I just want it all wrapped up so I can get on with my life," she said. "I never thought I would be in this position and it has had a dreadful affect on me - physically, mentally and on my family," she said.
Ms Perks said Spire had a "duty of care" to patients operated on by Mr Paterson.
"We were private patients. You think that you are going to be looked after," she said.
Kashmir Uppal, from Thompsons Solicitors - which is representing some patients - said it was pursuing claims against both Spire and Mr Paterson's insurers.
However, she said it was "unique situation" because Spire was made aware of concerns over Mr Paterson and the cleavage sparing procedure by the NHS trust.
A review commissioned by Spire had also identified "lost opportunities" to take action, she added.
"They drew a blind eye to it, they can't turn around now and say it is not their responsibility," she said.
"They allowed this surgeon to come onto to their premises to operate on patients who presented to their hospital. Their breast care nurses were employed by them, they knew what was going on." | Women given unnecessary or incomplete breast operations by a surgeon at two private hospitals have protested about delays in receiving compensation. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31707284"} | 726 | 26 | 0.356659 | 0.985758 | 0.552743 | 1.136364 | 29.227273 | 0.681818 |
He was making the point that UKIP does not have a monopoly on candidates getting into trouble after the party's prospective MP for North East Hampshire, Robert Blay, was suspended after being filmed by the Daily Mirror apparently threatening to shoot a Conservative rival.
It isn't a strictly accurate comparison, because the figure is for councillors not just prospective parliamentary candidates, but let's go with it for now.
The number comes from a blog called Nope, Not Hope but it does not make quite the same claims about it that Mr Nuttall makes.
The blog says it has "published details of 319 councillors from Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who have been involved with the police over criminal activity or investigated for their behaviour", which is not the same thing at all.
And if you look at some of the miscreants cited in the list you may doubt the figure further.
It includes the widely-quoted comments by the Moroccan-born mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb. As far as I know, he has not been investigated for his comments, but more to the point Rotterdam is not part of the UK.
There are examples of the wives and children of councillors getting into trouble, although they themselves were not investigated.
And indeed there are examples of councillors who were investigated being counted more than once in the original list.
A councillor for Plaid Cymru in Wrexham, for example, appears on the list both when he pleaded not guilty to assault, and when he was found not guilty of assault. And of course, he does not count as being affiliated to Labour, the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats, so should not be on the list anyway.
This does not mean that UKIP has a monopoly on candidates getting into trouble though. The Liberal Democrats, for example, replaced Jason Zadrozny as their candidate for Ashfield in Nottinghamshire after he was accused of child sex offences.
The Conservative candidate for Dudley North Afzal Amin resigned over claims of a plot between him and the English Defence League. Both cases were widely reported.
Researchers from Loughborough University have been investigating the press coverage of political parties during this election, counting the balance of articles that have shown parties in a positive or negative light during the campaign.
They found that press coverage of UKIP has overall been slightly negative, although they found it had been considerably more negative about Labour.
But the 319 figure certainly does not stand up to the Reality Check.
What is the truth behind the politicians' claims on the campaign trail? Our experts investigate the facts, and wider stories, behind the soundbites.
Read latest updates or follow us on Twitter @BBCRealityCheck | Paul Nuttall, deputy leader of UKIP, said on the Today Programme this morning that: "Since January the first this year there's been 319 councillors from all of the other political parties who have either been convicted or stood down." | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32607979"} | 594 | 57 | 0.387616 | 1.098785 | 0.229014 | 0.978261 | 11.23913 | 0.630435 |
The Scottish champions were in pot four in Thursday's draw in Monaco, with the German champions top seeds and the big-spending French outfit in pot two.
"It could have been slightly easier but it's certainly box office," Lawwell told BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound.
"To host these fantastic European clubs will just be magnificent."
Bayern Munich have won the Bundesliga for the past five seasons and feature players of the stature of Manuel Neuer and Jerome Boeteng, while PSG boast the world's most expensive player, Neymar, in their ranks.
Anderlecht have begun their season in indifferent form but last season were knocked out of the Europa League last eight by eventual winners Manchester United.
Lawwell praised Celtic's manager, Brendan Rodgers, for guiding Celtic to their 10th Champions League group stage appearance, and spoke of the excitement at the draw.
"We're relishing it," said Lawwell. "I haven't spoken to Brendan since the draw but I'm sure he's relishing it and we'll be ready to do our very best.
"I'm sure we will do our supporters proud.
"Clearly, as everyone recognises, the job that Brendan has done has been absolutely exceptional. To qualify two years running for the Champions League, with all the difficulties that qualification process presents is just fantastic, it's astonishing.
"The team have come on, they have taken on what he has been teaching them. I'm sure we'll give it a right good shot."
Lawwell, who hopes to complete the loan signing of Patrick Roberts from Manchester City and the paperwork around Rivaldo Coetzee's arrival from Ajax Cape Town, said that being in the group stage is an important "part of the formula" that the club adheres to.
"We bring the players in, develop them, put them on the stage at Celtic Park and play them in the Champions League," he said.
"Then it's up to them. If they want to stay, fantastic, but they have an opportunity to go. Players want to play in the Champions League and they want to play for Celtic."
Meanwhile, Celtic defender Kieran Tierney said "everybody at Celtic is buzzing off Champions League football again".
He said: "This is what you want as a footballer. You're in the biggest tournament there is. So, to go out there, and play against the best is what you want to do."
At the prospect of stopping the attacking menace of Neymar, Tierney said: "You need to do your normal job - you defend as well as you can. You know they are top-class players you are up against but you don't want to go in with any fear at all.
"You don't know if they (PSG) will be complacent. Everybody knows what Celtic Park is like and everybody knows the atmosphere.
"They'll be under no illusions that we're going to do our best and work hard. We'll be looking to do well every game we can and take what we can." | Celtic are "relishing" the Champions League visits of Bayern Munich, Paris Saint-Germain and Anderlecht, according to their chief executive Peter Lawwell. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "41045300"} | 676 | 34 | 0.549214 | 1.50105 | 0.211433 | 1.071429 | 21.75 | 0.714286 |
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Organisations working with victims, including the Poppy Project, say the figure underestimates the scale of the problem and has been rising sharply in recent years.
It is a fate experienced by Ope, 24, who in 2005 met a man offering to help her leave her life in Nigeria and find employment abroad.
Her role, he said, would be as a nanny, or in a factory. She did not realise she would be forced into prostitution.
Following a treacherous four-day trip by boat, with little food or water, she arrived in Madrid, Spain, where she was put to work on the streets.
But after becoming the victim of rape, she was transferred to the UK by her traffickers. "It was like I was a slave," she says, on the work forced upon her.
One day, while being allowed to buy food in the market, she found a lost wallet containing identification. Taking money from her traffickers, she decided to run away.
But when she boarded a train at King's Cross St Pancras in London, Ope was stopped by an immigration officer and later sent to HMP Holloway.
While in prison, she was helped by the Poppy Project charity, before she was recognised by the court as a victim of human trafficking.
All criminal charges against Ope have now been dropped, but she may have to return to Nigeria, where she fears being re-trafficked.
Ope's name and some details of her story have been changed for her own protection.
Interview and animation by @jim_reed, artwork by Jesse Brown.
Victoria Derbyshire is broadcast weekdays from 09:15-11:00 GMT on BBC Two, BBC News Channel and online. Follow the programme on Facebook and Twitter, and find all our content online. | Nearly 800 women and girls working in the sex trade were identified as the victims of human trafficking last year, according to National Crime Agency figures seen by the Victoria Derbyshire programme. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32235112"} | 411 | 40 | 0.335969 | 0.867812 | 0.794639 | 0.911765 | 10.705882 | 0.558824 |
The change could be made within the next two weeks, Bloomberg quoted a source as saying.
The company has not yet commented on the report.
But in January, founder Jack Dorsey said Twitter would explore ways of enabling its users to write longer posts.
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Links currently take up to 23 characters of a tweet, reducing the space available to users for their own writing when sharing other online content.
The 140-character limit was originally added to make tweets fit into a text message. When the company launched in 2006, before smartphones were available, many users typed their tweets as texts before posting them.
Mr Dorsey has since described the limit as a "beautiful constraint" that "inspires creativity and brevity".
However, the company has struggled to attract new users and has seen its share price decline by more than 70% over the past year.
Last June, Twitter announced it would increase the limit on direct messages between one user and another to 10,000 characters.
In January, China's biggest microblogging service, Sina Weibo, dropped its 140-character limit, allowing some users to write longer posts. | Microblogging site Twitter is to stop counting photographs and links in its 140-character limit for tweets, according to a report from Bloomberg. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36305921"} | 263 | 31 | 0.578861 | 1.269618 | 0.185404 | 1.5 | 9.192308 | 0.730769 |
Tickets, which will go on sale at 12:00 BST on 21 October, will be priced at £10 - the same as last year.
Until 2014, the event was free but Mr Khan's predecessor Boris Johnson introduced a ticketing system to limit crowds which gather along the Thames.
At the time Mr Khan, then shadow London minister, claimed the change had been "driven by cuts not safety".
City Hall said the mayor had "personally scrutinised" the plans and has followed the advice of the Metropolitan Police, Transport for London, and local councils to retain the ticketing system.
About 110,000 revellers are expected to gather in the viewing areas for the popular show, which is focused around the London Eye.
Mr Khan said: "London is the best place in the world to see in the new year and every year thousands of people watch the spectacular fireworks display on the banks of the Thames.
"My number one priority is the safety of Londoners and visitors to the capital, and I want everyone to be able to enjoy this fantastic event in a way that is fun and secure."
For updates and information about how to book tickets go to www.london.gov.uk/nye. | The New Year's Eve fireworks display in London will continue to be a ticketed event, Mayor Sadiq Khan has said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37655878"} | 256 | 30 | 0.667668 | 1.591805 | -0.017446 | 1.26087 | 10.043478 | 0.826087 |
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