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The contenders fielded questions from a special BBC Question Time audience in Oldham, chaired by David Dimbleby.
Mr Corbyn insisted Labour would "come together" if he was re-elected leader but Mr Smith said the party would be in opposition "for a generation".
The head-to-head came just weeks before voting in the race closes, with the winner to be named on 24 September.
Mr Corbyn is being challenged for the leadership after many of his top team resigned and he lost a vote of confidence among Labour MPs.
He is still deemed to be the frontrunner among party members while his rival Mr Smith, a former shadow work and pensions spokesman, commands support among Labour MPs.
Responding to an audience member who suggested that the failure of the two candidates to unite the party meant Labour was "unelectable", Mr Corbyn said it would "come together" again after the contest if he were to win.
"You will see the wish of MPs to reflect the wishes of party members all over the country that there's a coming together in order to oppose this Tory government," he told the audience.
Mr Smith said he admired Mr Corbyn's "optimism" but added: "I don't think that's what we will see." He said Labour was going "backwards" under Mr Corbyn and at its "lowest ebb in the polls since 1982".
Setting out his stall, Mr Smith insisted he was the one to turn Labour in to a "credible opposition" that could "take on the Tories" - adding that he was "incredibly confident" he could win the leadership election.
On Brexit, Mr Corbyn - who campaigned for Remain but who has been accused by many Labour MPs of not making the case to stay in the EU forcefully enough - said he wanted to remain in the single market "if it's possible, and I think it probably is".
His comments come after his aides suggested on Wednesday that he might rule out full membership of the single market unless the UK could negotiate exemptions from key EU rules.
Meanwhile, Mr Smith restated his wish for a second EU referendum, and said he wanted Labour to promise at the 2020 general election to take Britain back into the EU.
Asked if that meant to ignore the Brexit vote, he replied: "Well, exactly."
The two leadership contenders also clashed over the party's record on tackling anti-Semitism and abuse within Labour, with Mr Smith questioning whether Mr Corbyn was "entirely committed" to it.
He claimed there was a "hard left infiltration" of Labour and that some were "bringing in to our party anti-Semitic attitudes".
"Jeremy has not been strong enough in speaking out against it," he said, saying many in the Jewish community felt that the review of anti-Semitism in Labour, conducted by former Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, had been inadequate.
He said he would launch a new review "to look at the problem that we've got in Labour, and to deal with it" with a "zero tolerance approach".
But Mr Corbyn hit back, criticising Mr Smith's attacks as "unfair". "I have spent my life opposing racism in any form," he added.
He defended the anti-Semitism review and said "obviously it should be subject to review at a later stage to see how it is getting on".
And he insisted Labour "is a safe place to be" for people of all faiths and religions.
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Spinner Rebecca Grundy and seamer Natasha Farrant, who were both in England's squad for the recent Women's World Twenty20, are not included.
The three-match series is Heather Knight's first as captain, following the retirement of Charlotte Edwards.
The first game takes place on Monday at Leicester (14:00 BST).
"Alex has worked incredibly hard at her game over the last 12-18 months, and I have been very impressed with her skill as a left-arm spinner in the time that I have been working with her," said coach Mark Robinson.
As well as Grundy and Farrant, the other names missing from the World T20 squad are Edwards and Lydia Greenway, who have both retired from internationals, and Sarah Taylor who is taking a break from cricket to deal with anxiety issues.
In Taylor's absence, Amy Jones will keep wicket, with batter Lauren Winfield - who was left out of the World T20 - as back-up keeper.
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Fellow batter Fran Wilson, added to the list of centrally contracted players last year, returns to the squad having played her last international in 2011, while uncontracted seamer Beth Langston is ruled out with an ankle injury.
Robinson added: "Monday is going to be a very proud day for our new captain and vice-captain, Heather Knight and Anya Shrubsole.
"Pakistan cannot be underestimated. They showed everyone during the World Twenty20 how dangerous they can be, when they beat the hosts India on their own patch."
Full squad: Heather Knight (capt), Anya Shrubsole (vice-capt), Tammy Beaumont, Katherine Brunt, Kate Cross, Georgia Elwiss, Jenny Gunn, Alexandra Hartley, Danielle Hazell, Amy Jones (wk), Laura Marsh, Natalie Sciver, Fran Wilson, Lauren Winfield, Danielle Wyatt. | England have called up uncapped Middlesex left-arm spinner Alex Hartley for the first two games of their one-day international series with Pakistan. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36557236"} | 419 | 33 | 0.407339 | 0.976541 | 0.49002 | 1.296296 | 13.481481 | 0.777778 |
The 28-year-old joined the Tykes for a third spell in November and scored nine goals in 34 competitions.
The former Liverpool trainee scored at Wembley as the Oakwell side won both the Johnstone's Paint Trophy and the League One play-off final.
"I'm absolutely delighted. I've listened to my heart," Hammill told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"The affinity that the fans have for me was one of the main reasons for staying.
"Taking that team spirit that we have here forward I am sure we will have a really impressive season."
The new deal will keep him at Oakwell until the summer of 2018. | Barnsley winger Adam Hammill has signed a two-year contract after helping the club to the Championship. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36531749"} | 137 | 25 | 0.558842 | 1.188395 | -0.93448 | 0.526316 | 6.789474 | 0.421053 |
Portuguese midfielder Filipe Morais was credited with the 82nd-minute winner, with defender Mark Beevers also in the mix as Bolton scrapped to get the ball over the line.
Rochdale, now without a goal in 474 minutes, claimed the close-range attempt had not crossed the line but referee Chris Kavanagh ignored the protests.
Bolton enjoyed the best of a low-grade first half but it still took them 34 minutes to muster a worthwhile goal attempt.
Then, in quick succession, Gary Madine and Liam Trotter forced Joseph Rafferty and Mark Kitching to clear off the line.
The visitors' lack of recent fire-power was only too evident and it took them until nearly half-time to win their first corner.
Bolton, who lost injured wing-back Andrew Taylor before the break, then survived two scares of their own as Dale committed more men into attack.
Ollie Rathbone drilled one effort narrowly wide before keeper Ben Alnwick denied skipper Ian Henderson from close range.
But the game was heading for a stalemate until Wanderers struck to earn a first league win over their neighbours since 1973.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Rochdale 0.
Second Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 1, Rochdale 0.
Peter Vincenti (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Niall Canavan.
Substitution, Rochdale. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing replaces Joseph Rafferty.
Substitution, Rochdale. Callum Camps replaces Oliver Rathbone.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Tom Thorpe replaces Liam Trotter.
Jay Spearing (Bolton Wanderers) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Bolton Wanderers 1, Rochdale 0. Mark Beevers (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Mark Kitching.
Substitution, Rochdale. Peter Vincenti replaces Joe Thompson.
Attempt saved. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Mark Kitching.
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Chris Long replaces Adam Le Fondre.
Attempt missed. Niall Canavan (Rochdale) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Ben Alnwick.
Attempt saved. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Attempt missed. Dean Moxey (Bolton Wanderers) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Corner, Bolton Wanderers. Conceded by Jamie Allen.
Keith Keane (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Adam Le Fondre (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Keith Keane (Rochdale).
Attempt saved. Ian Henderson (Rochdale) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Oliver Rathbone (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Mark Kitching (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Filipe Morais (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Mark Kitching (Rochdale).
Foul by Liam Trotter (Bolton Wanderers).
Joe Thompson (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Second Half begins Bolton Wanderers 0, Rochdale 0.
First Half ends, Bolton Wanderers 0, Rochdale 0.
Filipe Morais (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Calvin Andrew (Rochdale).
Substitution, Bolton Wanderers. Dean Moxey replaces Andrew Taylor because of an injury.
Foul by Gary Madine (Bolton Wanderers).
Niall Canavan (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Josh Vela (Bolton Wanderers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Joe Thompson (Rochdale).
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Defender Jason Demetriou met George Evans' pass to put the Saddlers ahead, his shot deflecting off Posh's Miles Addison and into the back of the net.
Evans, on loan from Manchester City, then turned goalscorer as he poked home Kieron Morris' pull back.
The goals came against the run of play as the visitors had been enjoying the better of the second-half exchanges.
Posh's Conor Washington had his side's best chance as his point-blank header was tipped over by goalkeeper Neil Etheridge.
Walsall head coach Sean O'Driscoll told BBC WM:
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"A clean sheet, I think that's been a massive plus for everybody.
"If you look at the team, there's goals. There's quite a lot of forward players and forward-thinking players and we've not got arguably our best striker on the pitch.
"I think clean sheets bring confidence, as well as helping to win games."
Peterborough boss Graham Westley told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire:
"They dominated the first half, but we did what good sides do, we dug in, we were resilient.
"We went forward with too little composure, we were too quick to play the forward pass and as a result our play was patchy.
"I asked them to show much more composure in the second half, much more control over the game, and I thought they did.
"We were relentless in terms of our possession for long periods, didn't take our chances and then were punished in the cruellest of ways towards the end." | League One leaders Walsall scored twice in the last 10 minutes to secure a hard-fought victory over Peterborough. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35147990"} | 364 | 26 | 0.399808 | 0.980141 | -0.238768 | 0.52381 | 15.095238 | 0.428571 |
Daniel Craig will play 007 for the fourth time in the film, due to be released in the UK on 23 October.
Several Twitter users have posted pictures, but the palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, has declined to comment.
Sony Pictures has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.
Samantha McGregor posted a picture of the cranes and asked: "Where is James?"
Jonny Dyer tweeted: "Lots of very expensive cars and film unit gear at Blenheim Palace today. Staff cagey but seems to be new #bond #007."
Matt Lawley added a photo of a "007 crew minibus" sign, while Finnish 007 location bloggers Pirita and Mika also claimed the site had been used for filming.
The palace has previously featured in several films, including Gulliver's Travels and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. | The appearance of huge cranes and fast cars at Blenheim Palace have fuelled rumours on social media it is being used as a location for the new James Bond movie, Spectre. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31301128"} | 193 | 44 | 0.571082 | 1.41684 | 0.463139 | 0.939394 | 5.090909 | 0.636364 |
The 23-year-old Frenchman spent the 2016-17 on loan at Elland Road, scoring twice in 38 league appearances.
He is the first player to sign for the Whites since Andrea Radrizzani completed his takeover of the club on 23 May.
The Championship side are looking for a new manager after Garry Monk resigned last week.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Leeds United have signed Sporting Lisbon winger Hadi Sacko for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40132117"} | 88 | 31 | 0.528122 | 1.02156 | -1.164201 | 0.4 | 3.9 | 0.3 |
The heavenly host of four will patrol the streets of Leamington Spa to direct motorists to spaces, help with change and even add 20p to the meter if a car is about to go over its allocated time.
Equipped with trumpets, they have said they will also blow their horns if they spot a traffic warden approaching.
The angelic duties get under way on Thursday.
For more on this story and other local updates see Coventry and Warwickshire
The idea came from the local Business Improvement District (BID) partnership.
Organisers said the aim is "to generally add a little bit of cheer into the day of shoppers" as well as boost trade.
Matt Crooks, from BID, said: "We were thinking that parking in town at Christmas is difficult, and we were wondering what we could do to make that whole experience a little bit more fun and a little bit more festive, and therefore we came up with the idea of parking angels."
Warwickshire County Council said that while it welcomes initiatives that bring shoppers in to the town, if drivers overstay their welcome in parking bays they will get a fine.
The county council's income last year from parking penalty charge notices was £700,000. | A flock of "parking angels" has been recruited by traders to help shoppers avoid fines while Christmas shopping. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35052900"} | 269 | 25 | 0.561457 | 1.503862 | 0.350971 | 0.666667 | 11.238095 | 0.571429 |
A statement said it had begun talks to sell "a portion of its ownership". Once a deal is done, Nintendo will no longer be the team's principal owner.
It has struggled to repair its finances in the face of competition from mobile gaming. On Wednesday it released a 60% net profit drop for the past year.
Nintendo took over the team in 1992 when it was at risk of being relocated.
The president at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi, then pushed the investment so it could become the principal owner of the Mariners. Since then, the baseball team has had several star Japanese players including Ichiro Suzuki and Hisashi Iwakuma.
Nintendo's ownership also helped boost the team's popularity among Japanese baseball fans.
Profits from the planned Seattle Mariners sale were not reflected in Wednesday's weak financial forecasts and the firm said that they would "adjust the financial forecasts and release them as needed" once a deal was agreed. | Japanese gaming company Nintendo plans to sell its majority stake in the US baseball team, Seattle Mariners. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36157001"} | 207 | 21 | 0.663618 | 1.31789 | 0.09524 | 1.157895 | 9.684211 | 0.736842 |
Eyup Yildirim of New Jersey and Sinan Narin of Virginia face assault charges, police said.
The brawl involving protesters and Turkish security personnel happened during a visit by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last month.
Police called it a "brutal attack on peaceful protesters".
Mr Erdogan was in a car parked nearby and witnessed the fighting.
Mr Yildirim and Mr Narin were both identified as supporters of Mr Erdogan in a detailed New York Times report into the violence.
The newspaper said the men had travelled to Washington to support the Turkish president, but it was unclear if they had a formal connection to his security detail.
Video footage showed men in suits charging past police to kick and punch protesters. Two other men have previously been charged.
Eleven people were hurt in the fracas, nine of whom needed hospital treatment.
The US complained to Turkey about the incident and confirmed that Turkish security guards were involved.
However, the Turkish Embassy said protesters had provoked Turkish-Americans who were there to greet the president, and they in turn responded in self-defence. | Two Turkish nationals living in the US have been arrested in connection with violence outside the Turkish ambassador's residence in Washington. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40282963"} | 243 | 26 | 0.648549 | 1.425339 | -0.155769 | 0.826087 | 9.173913 | 0.652174 |
Hudson's arrival on a one-year contract can help counter balance the potential loss of Ian Sharps and Ben Heneghan.
Hudson, 24, was released after helping Wrexham finish eighth in the National League, nine places above Chester.
Chester have also confirmed that former Wrexham left-back Johnny Hunt, 25, has agreed a new one-year deal.
Hunt follows the lead of Luke George, Kane Richards,James Alabi and Jordan Chapell in signing new contracts.
Chester suffered a blow earlier this month when John Rooney, brother of England captain Wayne Rooney, turned down the offer of a new contract to move the other way across the Welsh border and join Wrexham.
New manager Jon McCarthy, who was appointed as Steve Burr's successor in May, has also lost 22-goal top scorer Ross Hannah to Barrow,
But two more signings are expected to be announced at Bumpers Lane in the next week.
Former Cambridge United and Welling United player Hudson scored seven times in 69 games in his two seasons at the Racecourse Ground.
Veteran centre-half Sharps, who has been appointed as McCarthy's number two, will retain his playing registration, but only for emergencies. | Chester manager Jon McCarthy has made his first signing by bringing in central defender Blaine Hudson, following his release by Wrexham. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36589124"} | 262 | 30 | 0.665488 | 1.468967 | 0.156751 | 1 | 10.086957 | 0.565217 |
Jill Saward, then 21, was sexually assaulted by two men in Ealing, west London, in 1986. Her father Michael, and her boyfriend were severely beaten.
At the end of the trial of her rapists, the judge said her trauma "had not been so great", sparking outrage.
Ms Saward was the first rape victim in the UK to waive her anonymity.
How vicarage rape case changed treatment of victims
She went on to use her public profile to campaign for the victims of sexual violence.
Ms Saward, 51, who was also known by her married name Drake, had three sons and lived with husband Gavin in Hednesford, Staffordshire.
In a statement, her family said she had dedicated the past 30 years of her life to helping other people.
They said Ms Saward had requested her organs be donated to others after her death.
"It gives us great comfort to know that our wonderful wife, mother and sister was able to help other people to the very end," they said.
Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, also paid tribute, tweeting: "Sorrowed to hear of the death of Jill Saward (Drake), heroic and remarkable campaigner for the victims of rape: much sympathy to her family."
In what became one of the most high profile criminal cases of the decade, in March 1986 four men broke into the vicarage home of Michael Saward.
The churchman, who was at home with his daughter and her then-boyfriend David Kerr, answered the doorbell, only to be confronted by the knife-wielding intruders.
They broke into the house and, after demanding to know where the family kept their valuables, they attacked Mr Saward and Mr Kerr. Both men suffered serious injuries, including fractured skulls.
Two of the men then dragged Ms Saward upstairs to a bedroom, where she was repeatedly raped.
The case was the focus of huge media attention, not least because the two rapists received substantially shorter prison sentences than the man convicted only of burglary.
Robert Horscroft, then 34, was sentenced to 14 years in jail for his part in the burglary.
Martin McCall, then 22, was given five years for rape and a further five for burglary, and Christopher Byrne, also 22, was given three years for his part in the sexual assault and five for the burglary.
Mr Justice Leonard, the Old Bailey judge who made the comment about the extent of Ms Saward's ordeal, was censured for the remark and apologised for it later in his life.
"That reflected how little understanding there was," she later said.
"I'd been suicidal three times, I'd had post-traumatic stress disorder, which wasn't really recognised then."
By speaking out about her ordeal, she vowed to help tighten rape laws and called for better victim support.
In 1990, she published her memoir, Rape: My Story, and four years later set up a help group for victims and their families.
She also became a counsellor.
Among the causes she successfully campaigned for was the barring of accused rapists from cross-examining victims while representing themselves in court.
Ms Saward believed forgiveness was "very important".
"They'd destroyed enough, I didn't want them to destroy anything else. Forgiveness gave me that liberation, that freedom, to move on," she said.
In 1998, she came face to face with a member of the gang who devastated her life - but did not rape her - and told him: "You don't need to say sorry."
Speaking to the BBC in 2004, Ms Saward said she had come to terms with her public profile.
"Ealing vicarage rape victim - that's been my tag for the past 18 years... I make no complaint about this tag as it has enabled me to challenge politicians and work for change."
"I've been on TV and radio talking about the serious subjects of rape and forgiveness many times."
Ms Saward, who was born in Liverpool, stood for election to Parliament in July 2008 against then shadow home secretary David Davis.
In 2012 she welcomed proposals for tougher sentences on sex offence offenders.
And in 2015, she called a suggestion by MPs for sex crime suspects to be granted anonymity "insulting".
In a statement, the charity Rape Crisis said: "Jill Saward was a good friend and valued supporter of the Rape Crisis movement for three decades.
"Waiving her right to lifelong anonymity, she campaigned tirelessly for both legal and social justice for victims and survivors of rape and sexual violence.
"Jill was able to step outside of her own harrowing experience to highlight the needs and rights of all those impacted by sexual violence.
"Jill was courageous, pioneering and an inspiration. She will be sorely missed."
Polly Neate, chief executive of Women's Aid, said: "She made the journey from victim, to survivor, to campaigner." | A woman who became a sexual assault campaigner after she was raped during a burglary at her father's vicarage has died after suffering a stroke. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38522714"} | 1,140 | 40 | 0.4286 | 1.112751 | -0.349404 | 1.111111 | 36.481481 | 0.814815 |
Huda al-Ajmi, a 37-year-old teacher, has been also convicted of misusing her mobile phone.
She can appeal against the sentence.
Kuwait has punished several Twitter users in recent months for insulting its ruler, Sheikh Sabah al-Sabah, who is described as "immune and inviolable" in the constitution.
In May, an appeals court overturned a five-year sentence for prominent opposition figure Mussallam al-Barrak who was convicted of "undermining" the ruling emir, says his defence lawyer.
The former MP was arrested over remarks he made at a rally in October, urging the emir to avoid "autocratic" rule in Kuwait. Mr Barrak was handed the sentence in April, but later freed on bail.
His trial prompted angry protests and clashes between activists and police.
There has been a recent clampdown in Kuwait, with activists and MPs being charged with insulting the emir through comments posted on social networking sites such as Twitter.
While Kuwait has not seen the same scale of pro-democracy uprisings as in other Arab states, there has been growing tension between former MPs and the government, which is dominated by the Sabah family. | A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a woman to 11 years in jail for insulting the emir and calling for regime change on social networking site Twitter. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "22841172"} | 281 | 34 | 0.639147 | 1.460402 | 0.235518 | 1.074074 | 8.481481 | 0.62963 |
Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said about 120 fighters on both sides had been killed around the town of Ratyan on Friday.
As many as 20,000 refugees fleeing the fighting have gathered at a border crossing with Turkey.
Turkey says it is prepared to help the refugees but the frontier is shut.
In the past few days, the Syrian army backed by Russian air power has made a series of gains in Aleppo province.
Syrian state TV said on Friday that pro-government forces had seized Ratyan, just north of Aleppo city.
Rebel chief Hassan Haj Ali told Reuters the town had not yet fallen but there were "very heavy battles".
"The regime is now trying to expand the area it has taken control of," he added.
"Now the northern countryside [of Aleppo] is totally encircled and the humanitarian situation is very difficult."
Earlier in the week, the Syrian government claimed a major victory by breaking the rebel siege of two towns in Aleppo province, severing an opposition supply line from Turkey to Aleppo city.
"It feels like a siege of Aleppo is about to begin," said David Evans, a spokesman for aid group Mercy Corps.
Before the civil war, Aleppo was a key commercial centre and home to more than two million people. Since 2012 it has been divided into rebel- and government-held areas.
The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said up to 20,000 people fleeing the fighting in Aleppo province had gathered at the Bab al-Salam border crossing on the Turkish border.
March 2011: Anti-government protests erupt across Syria, but Aleppo is initially untouched as a result of a state crackdown
February 2012: As the rebellion turns into a conflict, clashes between rebels and the government are reported with increasing frequency in Aleppo province
July 2012: The battle for Aleppo begins. Rebels make swift advances, but are unable to consolidate their gains and the city becomes divided
2013: The government begins bombarding rebel districts with barrel bombs, causing thousands of casualties
September 2015: Syria launches a fresh offensive in the wake of Russia's intervention in the conflict
February 2016: The government captures towns north of Aleppo, threatening to encircle the city
Aleppo profile
It said between 5,000 to 10,000 refugees had also fled to the nearby city of Azaz.
"Humanitarian organisations are responding to the needs of those displaced, but ongoing military conflict is making access to populations in need increasingly difficult," the UN's Linda Tom told AFP news agency.
In a televised speech, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey would not leave refugees "without food or shelter" but he would not say if they would be allowed in.
Nato has accused Russia of "undermining" Syrian peace efforts through its strikes, which it says are mainly aimed at opposition groups. Russia insists it only targets what it calls terrorists.
On Friday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Russia of being engaged in an "invasion" of Syria, saying it was trying to create a "boutique state" for ally President Bashar al-Assad.
Mr Erdogan said Russia and the Syrian government were together responsible for 400,000 deaths in Syria.
On Thursday Russia accused Turkey, key backer of Syria's opposition, of preparing a ground invasion, an accusation Mr Erdogan called "laughable".
Turkey and Russia have been embroiled in a row since Turkey shot down a Russian jet it accused of violating its airspace in November.
Why is there a war in Syria?
Anti-government protests developed into a civil war that, four years on, has ground to a stalemate, with the Assad government, the Islamic State group, an array of Syrian rebels and Kurdish fighters all holding territory.
Who is fighting whom?
Government forces concentrated in Damascus and the centre and west of Syria are fighting the jihadists of Islamic State and al-Nusra Front, as well as less numerous so-called "moderate" rebel groups, which are strongest in the north and east. These groups are also battling each other.
More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed and a million injured. Some 11 million others have been forced from their homes, of whom four million have fled abroad - including growing numbers who are making the dangerous journey to Europe.
How has the world reacted?
Iran, Russia and Lebanon's Hezbollah movement are propping up the Alawite-led Assad government, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar back the more moderate Sunni-dominated opposition, along with the US, UK and France. Hezbollah and Iran are believed to have troops and officers on the ground, while a Western-led coalition and Russia are carrying out air strikes. | Fierce clashes have been reported near Aleppo in northern Syria, as government forces try to surround rebels holed up in the strategic city. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35508379"} | 1,083 | 34 | 0.449064 | 1.09066 | 0.726943 | 1.16 | 37 | 0.76 |
Michelle Kiss, from Whalley in Lancashire, was among 22 people who died when a suicide bomber attacked concertgoers on Monday.
In a statement, the family said she was a "loving" wife, mother and daughter to whom "family meant everything".
They said they hoped to draw from her strength to carry on.
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The victims of the Manchester Arena bomb attack
In a statement, her relatives said: "[Michelle] tragically died during the horrible event that occurred on Monday night.
"Family was her life and we are all obviously devastated by her loss.
"We hope to draw from the courage and strength she showed in her life to get through this extremely difficult time."
Fourteen of the 22 victims have been named so far, including an eight-year-old girl and a Polish couple.
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Launching the Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Analytics, Cardiff University and Airbus said it was the first of its kind in Europe.
Their research will aim to protect corporate IT networks, intellectual property and critical national infrastructure.
The university has also been awarded almost £2m, aimed at developing a machine to detect cyber threats.
The centre will be located at the university's School of Computer Science and Informatics.
Together with experts from Airbus, researchers will carry out studies into machine learning, data analytics and artificial intelligence for cyber-attack detection.
The centre will also develop academic programmes in cyber security, in an attempt "to fill the skills gap that currently exists in the field".
Dr Pete Burnap from the university, the centre's director, said: "Cyber security analytics is about improving our resilience to cyber-attacks through data modelling to detect and block malicious behaviour before it causes its full impact.
"But [it's] also about understanding what motivates the behaviour, what its likely impact will be, and how to communicate security alerts among decision and policy-makers."
Dr Kevin Jones, head of cyber security innovation at Airbus, said collaborating with universities was "a key approach in the future protection of critical systems".
He said the centre would enable the rapid transfer of research into operational activities and ensure researchers are able to access the latest techniques and data.
In March, the National Cyber Security Centre's Cardiff-born director of operations said Wales was well placed to take advantage of the growing industry in tackling online crime.
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For fairly obvious reasons, neither MI5 or their detective counterparts give the public a daily briefing on what they are up to - but their work surfaces every time there is an arrest.
The latest quarterly statistics from the government show how much the picture has changed in little over four years since Syria began its slide into chaos.
In the year to the end of March, 299 people were arrested for terrorism-related offences - up a third on the previous year and, crucially, the highest number since the government began formally collecting data since 2001.
Provisional police figures for arrests in the year to 1 July indicate that formal record has already been surpassed by reaching 372.
Arrests initially began to rise after 9/11 as the security services began to shift resources from Northern Ireland (as its peace process moved slowly forwards) towards identifying al-Qaeda-inspired extremists.
Within a few years there were a series of arrest spikes as major bomb plots were foiled - and then a substantial jump in the wake of the 7/7 London attacks. That year had been the highest on record, with 284 arrests, until today.
The trend then began to fall as the threat from al-Qaeda-inspired extremism appeared to decline. Its leadership was on the back foot - many of them detained, dead or in hiding - and increasingly struggling to maintain contact with would-be recruits in the West.
Back here in the UK, we were still witnessing one or two very serious court cases a year involving substantial allegations of plots to bomb and kill.
The two most serious cases led to the only terrorism murders the UK has suffered since 7/7 - Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich and Muslim grandfather Mohammed Saleem, killed in the street by a neo-Nazi who then tried to bomb three mosques.
Syria has changed everything.
When the jihadists began moving into Syria - and their would-be recruits began arriving from the West - the arrests began to rise.
Just over 18 months ago, the Crown Prosecution Service made clear that anyone joining Syria's conflict risked prosecution because the UK's definition of terrorism includes acts of violence committed overseas. And the figures have shown how that policy has since been pursued.
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Not everyone who is arrested in a terrorism-related investigation is held under the special laws that allow detention without charge for 14 days. In 2006, almost all terrorism arrests were under this power which, at the time, allowed detention for 28 days. Today, four-fifths of arrests are under standard police powers which typically require charge or release within 24 hours.
However, that is not the whole story. While the number of people held under Terrorism Act arrest powers has fallen, the time they are being held has crept up again. In 2013/15 just one person was held for more than seven days, In the last year, 21 people were held for more than a week. Fifteen of them were subsequently charged. That's the highest proportion of people detained for more than seven days since 2001.
Typically, about four out of every 10 arrests lead to a charge - although last year the rate moved up to 55%. The Home Office expects the arrest/charge ratio to rise in the coming months.
This lag between arrest and charge is down to the nature of many of today's investigations. Many are specifically related to travel to Syria or radicalisation or incitement of others and charging decisions in these cases often involve complex and lengthy analysis of social media trails.
So it's not uncommon for someone to be arrested, see their phone data copied, and then to be bailed while police investigate without the added pressure of a custody clock ticking away on the desk.
The outcomes of those prosecutions can be quite complex to break down because, in some cases, a trial can take a year to go before a jury.
But of the 35 people tried in the year to March, 33 of them were convicted - and 31 of those were specifically for offences under terrorism legislation.
This prosecution data will change very rapidly in the coming weeks because there are at least a dozen major prosecutions due to come before juries before the new Year. Almost all of these cases involve allegations of links one way or another to Syria.
Two final thoughts about the data that has come out today that says something about the long-term trend.
The BBC's unique public database which tracks the Britons who have gone to Syria specifically to join jihadist fighting is a sea of very young faces - and quite a few women too - and the arrest data back home backs that up.
The proportion of those being arrested in the UK who are women has been slowly rising since 9/11. In the decade after figures began to be collected, around 7% of all those held were female - a figure that has now notched up to 12%. The 35 women held in the last year is the highest figure on record and a great deal of that is down to allegations of travel to Syria - or assisting others.
On age, while there has been an increase in arrests across all age groups, except those in their late 20s, the average age has been falling. The number of 18 to 20-year-olds arrested has more than doubled from 20 to 43.
This should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who has been following how the internet is changing how we understand and react to global events.
The original revolutionary jihadist creed of 20 years ago, and its transmission, greatly relied on personal contacts and experience, kinship and study circles.
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The claims were made to MPs at a hearing into the collapse of the firm.
In a scathing attack, the ex-chief executive of BHS, Darren Topp, alleged Mr Chappell threatened to kill him during a row over company money.
Mr Chappell described that claim as "absolute rubbish" in a comment to a reporter after he had given evidence.
Mr Chappell, whose Retail Acquisitions bought BHS for £1 last year, defended his recovery plan for BHS, saying it had been "credible and viable".
He told MPs that as the 163-store chain teetered on the edge of collapse, Sir Philip Green, whose Arcadia group sold BHS to Mr Chappell last year, scuppered a rescue deal with Mike Ashley, the owner of Sports Direct.
However, Sir Philip has denied knowing of any bid interest from Mr Ashley.
Earlier, Mr Topp said he initially took Mr Chappell's claim to be a turnaround specialist and property expert at face value. When Mr Chappell's promises "unravelled", rather than "putting money in" he had "his fingers in the till," Mr Topp said.
Former BHS financial consultant Michael Hitchcock was similarly scathing of Mr Chappell and his team. He told MPs: "I think I was duped. I think the technical term is a mythomaniac. The lay person's term is he was a premier league liar and a Sunday pub league retailer. At best."
He added: "The credibility and ability of the people Dominic surrounded himself with were not fit for purpose... I fundamentally don't think he understood what was going on.
"I question his intelligence, he wasn't a retailer. The motive was purely for his own benefit. There is a big smell test which I adopt in a lot of these situations, and it just did not smell right," Mr Hitchcock said.
What we have learnt for sure is that Retail Acquisitions Limited, the company set up to buy BHS from Sir Philip, was not a normal company.
Some directors resigned the minute the deal was done as they felt uncomfortable that the board was becoming stuffed with friends of Dominic Chappell. This is a board remember that voted in favour of using company money to refinance the mortgage of Mr Chappell's father.
The stage is now set for Sir Philip Green to take the hot seat next Wednesday. He calls the shots at BHS's former parent company Arcadia and its ultimate owner Taveta Investments, which in turn is owned by his wife Lady Tina Green. That set up is not exactly normal either.
Mr Chappell, a former racing driver with limited retail experience, had promised to put millions of pounds into a BHS after he bought it from Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group.
He said his business plan for BHS was fundamentally sound and the retailer could have survived if he had been able to raise sufficient funds.
However, there are questions over his decision to transfer about £1.5m out of the company to Sweden. Mr Topp said his initial reaction to hearing of the transfer was to call the police.
During a heated phone call, Mr Topp told MPs, Mr Chappell threatened to kill him. "If you kick off about it, I'll come down there and kill you," Mr Chappell is alleged to have said.
However a Daily Telegraph reporter tweeted that, after the hearing, Mr Chappell described that claim as "absolute rubbish".
The money was transferred back to BHS, minus transaction fees.
Meanwhile, Mr Hitchcock said he was forced to change the company's bank mandate to "stop any chance of money flowing outside of the business".
During his questioning, Mr Chappell said Sir Philip could have done more to help save BHS, rather than tip it into administration.
Arcadia was a major secured creditor, and it was Sir Philip who took the decision to call in administrators Duff & Phelps, Mr Chappell said.
Mr Chappell claimed that just before BHS went into administration he had arranged a rescue deal backed by the billionaire owner of Sports Direct, Mike Ashley.
On learning of this deal, "Philip went absolutely crazy, screaming and shouting down the phone that he didn't want to get involved with Mike Ashley," Mr Chappell said, adding that it was then that Sir Philip called in a £35m loan.
During the hearing Mr Chappell also accused administrator Duff & Phelps of being "heavily conflicted" because of its close connection with Sir Philip, describing the firm as the billionaire's "ponies".
Mr Chappell also said he was looking at launching a legal suit against Arcadia and Sir Philip over a BHS property sale by the tycoon to his stepson. He claimed that BHS missed out on £3.5m because of it.
However, a spokesman for Sir Philip denied those claims. He said he was "unaware of any bid interest by Mike Ashley."
Moreover, Sir Philip had not chosen the BHS administrator, and "did not ban or block Retail Acquisitions from meeting with the pensions regulator", the spokesman said.
BHS could have been saved had Mr Chappell "brought funding to the table," he continued.
Sir Philip's firm Arcadia "invested substantially in BHS and there was significant funding at the point of sale. He [Sir Philip] gave Retail Acquisitions every opportunity to succeed in the turnaround," the spokesman added.
The BHS pension scheme, fully funded a decade ago, now has a £571m pension deficit and negotiations over plugging these liabilities formed a key part talks to rescue the retailer.
Mr Chappell claimed BHS was "held to ransom" by the Pensions Regulator and Sir Philip. He said he attempted to meet the Pensions Minister three times, only for her to cancel on the grounds of being conflicted.
Also during his evidence, Mr Chappell:
MPs have already taken evidence from the pensions regulator and financial advisers on the sale of BHS to Retail Acquisitions. Sir Philip is due to appear later this month.
The Business, Innovation and Skills Committee and the Work and Pensions Committee are hearing evidence into the collapse of the 163-store group, which resulted in up to 11,000 jobs losses and left a huge hole in the pension fund.
Duff & Phelps announced last month that BHS would be wound down with the loss of up to 11,000 jobs after efforts to find a buyer failed.
BHS, which went into administration in April after the company ran out of money and could not pay suppliers, is holding closing down sales over the coming weeks.
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The FTSE 250-listed firm saw its share price close down 6.2% after pre-tax profit fell from £104.4m to £17.9m.
Overall, the FTSE 250 was 0.26% lower at 19476.35, while the 100-share index was down 0.63% at 7387.80.
On the currency markets, the pound was up 0.91% against the dollar at $1.2931 and 0.65% higher against the euro at 1.1377 euros.
Dixons Carphone started the day strongly after reporting record annual profits, but gave up all its gains and was down 0.74% at the close.
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Urthecast already has a pair of cameras on the International Space Station, one of which returns short videos.
The new proposal would see free-flying optical and radar sensors circling the globe by the start of the next decade.
Urthecast has asked the UK manufacturer SSTL to make the satellites, and the Spanish concern Elecnor Deimos to design the ground control segment.
The Canadian firm's vision remains the same - to try to push out high volumes of data in easily accessible ways.
It says it wants to drive Earth imagery beyond its traditional customer base, to enable new "Big Data" applications and even social media sharing.
"The goal here is to take vast amounts of Earth observation imagery from multiple sensors, and to put it all on to a very user-friendly, cloud-based platform that allows people then to manipulate the data, to use it, to display it, and to transfer it on to other types of platforms and applications," Wade Larson, Urthecast's president and chief operating officer, told BBC News.
US firm Skybox Imaging, acquired by Google last year, is also building a constellation of video cameras in orbit.
One of the innovative aspects of Urthecast's proposed constellation is the intention to pair an optical satellite (which sees the Earth in visible light) with a radar platform (which can see the ground day or night and in all weathers).
Four such pairs would be launched in two planes - one going over the poles, the other plane concentrating its observations on mid-latitudes.
The radar sensor would lead, with the optical camera following about a minute behind.
Earth observation experts have long talked about the advantages that come from such an arrangement.
The all-weather capability of radar means an image of some sort is always guaranteed, while the lead spacecraft can also spot the cloud-free locations to maximise the chances of getting a picture with the following visible camera system.
Urthecast has been working on a radar sensor that will operate simultaneously in the X-band and L-band frequencies, permitting features to be seen on the ground as small as one metre and five metres across, respectively, when the system is put into a "spotlight" mode.
The optical cameras will achieve half-metre resolution, and will be switchable into a video mode, producing short segments of moving imagery at 30 frames per second.
Apart from the radar sensors, which will be produced in Canada, all of the satellite manufacturing and integration will be done by the UK's Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd at its Guildford base. This includes the optical cameras.
Each spacecraft will weigh a few hundred kilos, and should be launched in batches in 2019 and 2020.
"There are several reasons why Urthecast came to us, not least because of our experience in constellations," said Luis Gomes, the director of Earth observation for SSTL.
"We have our Disaster Monitoring Constellation; we're building the Galileo satellite-navigation system for the EU, and we're producing the FORMOSAT-7 constellation.
"They came to us and said, 'you guys know how to do this'. And putting the radar together with the optical opens up some really powerful Earth observation techniques."
Elecnor Deimos Space, which is based in Madrid, will do the mission planning and analysis, and look after the ground stations used to communicate with the satellites, amongst other activities.
The Urthecast initiative is just the latest constellation announcement in recent months. Just last week at the Paris Airshow, Airbus (which owns SSTL) said that it would be building 900 spacecraft for OneWeb, which aims to cover the Earth with broadband connectivity.
However, constellations do have a chequered history. A number of past projects went bankrupt: they were not able to earn sufficient income to support the substantial early capital investment needed to build their orbiting networks.
Mr Larson said Urthecast did not intend to repeat the mistakes of history. One way to do that, he explained, was to get customers to buy into the constellation in the same way holidaymakers buy into timeshare apartments.
"These key strategic partners would help us fund the project through its build phase. If these customers buy a satellite or a pair of satellites, they can use not only those satellites when they're over their area of interest, they can also federate the capacity of the entire constellation. So not only do they get the cost-saving economies of buying satellites that are much cheaper because they're part of a constellation, but they're also getting the coverage and re-visit capability of way more satellites than they paid for."
This model is very similar to the one SSTL itself now operates with its Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC), in which a number of national governments have banded together to fly a group of EO satellites in orbit.
"Our system would be like DMC on steroids," said Mr Larson.
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Stephane Smith, born in Brazil but raised in the UK, scored from a penalty corner for the host nation's first ever goal at an Olympics.
But the team ranked 30th in the world were soon overwhelmed as GB struck nine goals without reply.
GB, who had lost to Belgium and drawn with New Zealand in Pool A, are third in the table.
The top four from each group progress to the quarter-finals, with Britain still to play Australia and pool leaders Spain.
Brazil, having shipped 12 goals against Belgium and seven against Spain in their opening fixtures, turned out to be the ideal opponents to give GB a much needed first victory of the Games.
And after the Rio crowd had celebrated the opener for the home side, GB responded with two goals each from Barry Middleton, Sam Ward and Ashley Jackson as well as strikes from Adam Dixon, Harry Martin and Mark Glerghorne.
Australia could have gone above Britain with a win, but Belgium's Tanguy Cosyns struck to secure a 1-0 victory, and Spain top Pool A after a 3-2 victory over New Zealand.
The Netherlands registered an emphatic 7-0 win over Canada in Pool B with Mink van der Weerden scoring three goals, while India beat Argentina 2-1. Pool leaders Germany beat Ireland 3-2 to leave the Irish winless after three games. | Great Britain's men recovered from a surprise Brazil lead to win 9-1 and record their first victory of Rio 2016. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37029305"} | 299 | 25 | 0.521868 | 1.254359 | -0.136037 | 1.083333 | 11.5 | 0.666667 |
The Swiss, 32, broke Raonic in the first game and went on to win 6-4 6-4 6-4 in one hour and 42 minutes.
He will take on top seed Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final, after in four sets.
Federer is trying to win his 18th Grand Slam title, and his first since beating Andy Murray at Wimbledon in 2012.
Fifteen years after making his first appearance at the All England Club, Federer has the chance to extend the record he has already set for major victories and break new ground for Wimbledon titles in the men's game.
"That was a big victory," said the Swiss, who lost in the second round last year. "I really had to focus on every point. I know that is always the case at this stage but it was hard.
"I had to be very careful on my service games and I knew there were only going to be a few chances on his serve, but I am very, very happy.
"I played some great tennis under pressure at times because I didn't play well here last year, and I expect a lot of myself. In the second week I have played better as the week has gone on.
"Now I can look forward to another great match with Novak."
Raonic had made history just by reaching the last four, as the first Canadian man to do so, but suggestions the 23-year-old was ready to strike a blow for the younger generation proved misguided.
The difference in experience was vast, with Federer playing in his 35th Grand Slam semi-final and unbeaten in eight previous Wimbledon semi-finals.
Moving superbly, attacking the net when possible and patiently waiting for his chances on the return, the Swiss looked as sharp as ever on the familiar ground of Centre Court.
Raonic topped the standings for aces going into the semi-final, hit the second-fastest serve of the tournament at 141mph and dropped serve just twice.
But despite lacking his opponent's raw power, Federer had only been broken once and he offered up just a single break point as he dominated the match.
He got a huge boost with an immediate break following a double fault and an error from Raonic, and calmly served his way out of trouble at 4-3 on his way to clinching the set.
There was the expected flow of huge Raonic serves as the second set sped by, before Federer made his move at 4-4.
A sweeping backhand down the line put the pressure on at 0-30 and Raonic succumbed with a wayward smash, allowing Federer to arrow another backhand winner.
The pattern repeated itself at 4-4 in the third, when Raonic opened with a double fault and soon found himself at 0-40, thumping a forehand over the baseline on the second break point.
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The 30-year-old, who also played for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Blackpool and Fulham, has been without a club since leaving Gillingham last year.
O'Hara appeared as a contestant on Channel 5 series Celebrity Big Brother earlier this year.
"When I came out of Big Brother, I had to be realistic about where I was going to play," he told BBC Essex.
Billericay are ninth in the Isthmian League Premier Division, three points adrift of a play-off place. The club signed former England international Paul Konchesky, 35, earlier this month.
Former England U21 international O'Hara played in the League Cup final for Tottenham against Manchester United in 2009. After the game finished goalless, he was the first of three players to miss penalties for Spurs as his side lost 4-1 in the shootout.
"I was worried the fact that I did Big Brother and with my injuries in the past whether I'd get back," O'Hara admitted.
"I wasn't getting a call (from league clubs) and this gives me a chance. I've committed to the end of next season."
Billericay have recently been taken over by multi-millionaire Glenn Tamplin, who said shortly after completing a deal for the club that he was "comfortable" investing £10,000 a week.
On Monday, club chairman Dan Groves confirmed "there is truth" in reports former The Only Way is Essex personality Mark Wright is set to invest in the club.
"I'm in negotiations with Mark, but I'm not sure if it will happen," Tamplin revealed. "There are no guarantees and we will see what happens.
"I know this might look like a media circus but money isn't important, it's about attitude and energy.
"People have to be coming here for the right reasons. I want this club in the Football League with crowds of 5,000 and I don't see why this can't happen."
Tamplin also revealed O'Hara has agreed to forfeit his wages if he gets injured and that a clause will allow him to leave if a "Championship or above" club comes in for him. | Former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Jamie O'Hara has signed for seventh-tier side Billericay Town. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39369410"} | 486 | 27 | 0.443514 | 1.127663 | -0.380933 | 0.75 | 26.375 | 0.625 |
The site, which gets 250 million visitors per month, said the chat areas of the site were "no longer" proving useful to users.
Most users now preferred to talk about films and actors on IMDB'S social networks, it said.
One media commentator said the boards were "terrible" and deserved to be shut down.
IMDB said the decision to close the message boards had been made after "in-depth discussion" about them. It concluded that the amount of talk on the boards and the topics they covered were not a "positive, useful experience" for the majority of its users.
It said the decision was also driven by considerations of how much traffic was flowing to the boards and analysis of who was using them.
IMDB said there was far more engagement with its editors and staff via its accounts on various social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Users have two weeks to archive any messages or information they want to keep and to swap contact details with other users.
The boards and private messaging systems will close on 20 February.
"We regret any disappointment or frustration IMDB message board users may experience as a result of this decision," it said in a statement.
Sarah Perez from news site TechCrunch bid "good riddance" to the message boards and said the chat rooms were one of the "worst places to socialise on the internet".
Ms Perez said the lack of moderation meant the boards were home to "pointless and hateful commentary".
IMDB, or the Internet Movie Database, lists information about films and actors. It was founded by Briton Colin Needham in 1990 and sold to web retail giant Amazon in 1998 for $55m (£44m).
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Beating Bowel Cancer urged more people to come forward, and Public Health England to make it a priority to increase screening rates.
Figures show that uptake among the eligible 60- to 74-year-old age group was 58% in 2012-15.
This compared with 72% for breast and 79% for cervical cancer screening.
The bowel cancer screening programme is much newer - it was only introduced in 2006.
The data - obtained via a parliamentary question - also showed regional variations.
Dorset had the highest uptake at 66% and West London the lowest at 42%.
Beating Bowel Cancer chief executive Mark Flannagan said: "We must do better than this.
"We know that bowel cancer screening saves lives by leading to early diagnosis yet in some areas fewer than half of those eligible are actually taking it up."
The tests, called faecal occult blood tests, are sent in the post to everyone in the target population every two years.
They help detect polyps, which are non-cancerous growths which may develop into cancer over time.
Polyps can bleed and the test identifies tiny amounts of blood that normally cannot be seen.
In the first four years of the programme, more than 7,000 cancers were detected and 40,000 patients had polyps removed.
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Xana Doyle died after the silver Toyota Avensis ended up on its roof on Usk Way, Newport, on 9 January.
Gwent Police say a 21-year-old man has been charged with taking and driving away, and vehicle interference.
He will appear before the city's magistrates on Thursday.
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It comes after MSPs heard claims that the military was targeting pupils from deprived areas for recruitment.
Religious group Quakers in Scotland and military recruitment watchdog Forces Watch raised the issue with the Public Petitions Committee.
Their submission said the MoD had asked Education Scotland for school deprivation data last year.
It followed an earlier attempt to obtain a database of sensitive student information for England in order to better target Army recruitment, the submission said.
It added: "In 2013 the Army stated that its schools careers advice 'is often more tailored and directed to those at risk of disengaging with education or work or those who struggle academically'."
Quakers in Scotland and Forces Watch are seeking guidance on how school visits should be conducted to ensure "political balance and offer a realistic representation of the role of the armed forces and what a career in the armed forces involves".
They are also calling for public monitoring of the number and location of visits, the purpose and content of visits and comparison with the number of visits by other employers.
Parents and guardians should also be consulted as to whether they are happy for their child to take part in armed forces' activities at school, they said.
Committee convener Johann Lamont said MSPs should ask children's commissioner Tam Baillie for his views, as well as the Army, the Scottish government, councils, the Scottish Youth Parliament and Skills Development Scotland.
Ms Lamont said: "I can see in some localities with a strong connection to the army individual schools might be very keen on this but in other areas there is less of a connection.
"There is a dilemma between particular communities being targeted, but also recognising that some young people can potentially get good employment outcomes from making an active choice to go into the armed forces.
"We need to get a sense of what that looks like, what the safeguards are and the extent to which it is not being targeted at particular communities." | Scotland's Children's Commissioner is to be asked for his view on members of the armed forces visiting schools. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37371908"} | 416 | 25 | 0.519234 | 1.403121 | -0.289335 | 1.809524 | 18.095238 | 0.857143 |
Police said the discovery was made in the grounds of Culgruff House Hotel at Crossmichael.
Robert Shaw, 52, was reported missing on Friday, sparking a search involving the Galloway Mountain Rescue Team.
A formal identification has still to take place. Police said there were no suspicious circumstances.
Meanwhile, police are still appealing for information as a search continues for a missing Stranraer man.
Dennis Brough left his home in the town's Garrick Drive last Wednesday.
The 66-year-old is about 6ft tall and slim, with grey hair and a beard.
He was driving a black Landrover Freelander with the licence plate FD05 EBG.
Police said there had only been one unconfirmed sighting of him in Ardwell on the road to the Mull of Galloway last Thursday.
Extensive searches were carried out at the weekend, involving the police dog unit, coastguard and an RAF Sea King helicopter. | A search for a man reported missing from his Dumfries and Galloway home has been stood down after a body was found. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35091504"} | 217 | 31 | 0.529626 | 1.162085 | -1.30952 | 0.956522 | 7.652174 | 0.695652 |
Holders Hull FC entertain Catalans Dragons while Warrington Wolves, last year's losing finalists, are at home to local rivals Widnes Vikings.
League One side Barrow Raiders, the lowest-ranked team left in the competition, travel to Leeds Rhinos, who are second in Super League.
Championship side Swinton host Wigan after beating Huddersfield on Sunday.
Elsewhere, Hull KR travel to Salford Red Devils in a rerun of the Million Pound Game, which Salford won 19-18 to maintain their Super League status and relegate Rovers.
Second-tier Dewsbury Rams face a local derby against Wakefield Trinity, while Featherstone meet Halifax in the only all-Championship tie.
All sixth-round ties will be played over the weekend of 13-14 May.
Leeds Rhinos v Barrow Raiders
Salford Red Devils v Hull KR
Castleford Tigers v St Helens
Featherstone Rovers v Halifax
Hull FC v Catalans Dragons
Dewsbury Rams v Wakefield Trinity
Swinton Lions v Wigan Warriors
Warrington Wolves v Widnes Vikings
Sign up for rugby league news notifications on the BBC Sport app | Super League leaders Castleford Tigers will host St Helens in the sixth round of the Challenge Cup. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39712156"} | 288 | 22 | 0.697997 | 1.319653 | -0.007578 | 1.388889 | 11.444444 | 0.833333 |
The Texas Department of Public Safety and Waller County Jail have agreed the payout to relatives of Sandra Bland, says their attorney, Cannon Lambert.
But the defendants' legal team said the settlement had not yet been finalised.
Ms Bland killed herself in July 2015 three days after her arrest for a minor traffic offence, authorities said.
The family lawyer said that under the settlement the county jail will step up staff training and inmate monitoring.
"This is the beginning, not the end," he said, adding that Ms Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, had insisted jail reform be included in the settlement.
"It's awesome," Ms Bland's mother, Geneva Reed-Veal, told the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper.
"It's a victory for mothers across the country."
Ms Reed-Veal said that as part of the settlement Waller County Jail will be required to have a 24-hour nurse on duty.
Ms Bland died by asphyxiation after using a plastic bag to hang herself in her cell, authorities said. Her death was officially ruled a suicide.
She was about to begin a new job in the Houston area when she was pulled over by a state trooper for failing to change lanes without signalling.
A dashboard camera filmed the officer, Brian Encinia, arguing with Ms Bland, and threatening her with a stun gun.
"I will light you up!" shouts Mr Encinia, who was later fired and charged for lying to authorities about the arrest.
The death led to nationwide protests by activists from Black Lives Matter. | The family of a black motorist found hanged in her Texas jail cell has reached a $1.9m (£1.4m) settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit, a lawyer says. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37369556"} | 360 | 43 | 0.496239 | 1.312644 | -0.356739 | 0.685714 | 8.942857 | 0.571429 |
Robert Blay, who is standing in North East Hampshire, was secretly filmed by the Daily Mirror making the comments about Ranil Jayawardena.
The recording appears to show Mr Blay threatening to shoot Mr Jayawardena if he ever became prime minister.
A UKIP spokesman described his comments as "abhorrent".
North East Hampshire was held by the Conservatives at the last election with a majority of more than 18,500.
The Mirror published a video of Mr Blay speaking to its investigators at a public meeting on Saturday in Ramsgate, Kent, addressed by party leader Nigel Farage.
Ex-Conservative Mr Blay noted Mr Jayawardena had been tipped as Britain's first Asian prime minister.
The Mirror reported that he said: "If he is I will personally put a bullet between his eyes. If this lad turns up to be our prime minister I will personally put a bullet in him. That's how strong I feel about it."
Questioning Mr Jayawardena's background, he said: "His family have only been here since the 70s. You are not British enough to be in our parliament.
"I've got 400 years of ancestry where I live. He hasn't got that."
A UKIP spokesman said Mr Blay had been suspended as soon as the remarks came to light - and offered an apology to Mr Jayawardena.
"Any comments of this sort have absolutely no place in British politics or public life, and the party would like to take this opportunity to apologise to Mr Jayawardena for any distress caused."
Mr Jayawardena said he was shocked somebody with Mr Blay's apparent views could be selected as a UKIP candidate.
He said: "My family believes in hard work. My father came to this country to do just that - never claiming a penny from the state.
"He's contributed to society as a magistrate - and I've done the same as a local councillor.
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The Scots had beaten China's A team in the quarter-finals but lost out 4-1 to the hosts' B side, who secured the £120,000 top prize in Wuxi.
China's Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo won the event the last time it was played, in 2011, defeating Northern Ireland.
Zhou and Yan edged out Wales 4-3 in the semi-final before beating the Scots.
The Chinese teenagers have both won the world amateur title, Zhou had his rookie year on the professional tour last season, while Yan is now debuting on the circuit.
China established into a 3-0 lead in the final as Yan beat Higgins in the opening frame with a break of 100, Zhou saw off Maguire with runs of 44 and 51 then the home team added a doubles frame.
Former UK champion Maguire took frame four against Yan, but Zhou's 33 clearance in frame five against four-time world title holder Higgins gave China the title.
For the first time, China had been allowed to enter two teams into the competition and, having come through the group stage, their B team defeated Australia 4-2 in the quarter-finals.
They then edged out Welsh duo Mark Williams and Michael White 4-3.
Scotland beat China A 4-1 in the last eight then defeated India 4-3, with Maguire taking a dramatic final frame on the last pink after Aditya Mehta had missed a match-winning chance. | Fifteen-year-old Yan Bingtao and Zhou Yuelong, two years older, have beaten former world champion John Higgins and Stephen Maguire to win the World Cup. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33214814"} | 320 | 45 | 0.603174 | 1.431691 | -0.191186 | 0.741935 | 9.290323 | 0.677419 |
Monkey World ape rescue centre in Dorset has rescued 100 primates from the British pet trade, half of which have been in the last five years.
It wants owners to be forced to provide the same level of care as zoos.
Centre director Dr Alison Cronin was joined by musician Peter Gabriel and South Dorset MP Richard Drax to hand over more than 110,000 signatures.
Dr Cronin said, despite building two facilities to house more than 50 "pet" monkeys - including marmosets, tamarins, capuchin monkeys, spider monkeys, a saki monkey, and a lemur - the rescue centre was now full and had a waiting list.
She said: "There is also a very tragic human side to this story as many well-meaning, but ignorant, people are buying these wild animals, at vast expense, from unscrupulous breeders, animal dealers and pet shops that are taking advantage and telling people it is OK to keep a monkey in solitary confinement, in a bird cage, in their sitting room.
"It is tragic and out of control."
Monkey World is home to over 250 primates of more than 20 different species and is the largest primate rescue operation in the world. | A petition calling for an end to the suffering of monkeys bought as pets has been handed in at Downing Street. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36092019"} | 280 | 25 | 0.563608 | 1.337603 | -0.693866 | 0.5 | 10.5 | 0.5 |
Nick Mann, 34, was travelling back from a concert in March when he was struck and killed by a train at Old Street Station.
His brother Robert had fallen onto the line and Nick was trying to pull him to safety as the train hit them.
A verdict of accidental death was recorded at St Pancras Coroners' Court.
Robert Mann was seriously injured and is still recovering.
Peter Darling, an inspector for the Office of Rail and Road investigations, told the court his investigations had found "no breach of health and safety" and called the death a "tragic accident".
Nick Mann, who lived in Wimbledon, south London, was originally from Shropshire. He had spent Saturday with his brother at a Shrewsbury Town FC game before going to a heavy metal concert in the evening.
A witness to the accident told the court they had been walking "really close" to the edge of the platform and "were jumping and celebrating, very cheerful".
He added: "One of them slipped, the other person was trying to pull him out. It was really, really fast."
The court also heard evidence from the driver of the train, who said he had seen "a male stumbling and fall onto the track just in front of me" and that he had immediately pushed the emergency brake.
Their mother, Pauline Mann, told the court in a written statement they had spent "the perfect day together" and said: "I will always miss my darling son."
Mr Mann's wife, Jennifer Kavanagh, described her husband as "selfless, kind, warm and loving and he put other people first. We had a wonderful decade together". | The death of a man killed by a London Underground train as he tried to pull his brother from the track was an accident, a coroner has ruled. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34641183"} | 357 | 38 | 0.546155 | 1.288203 | 0.235048 | 1.266667 | 11.166667 | 0.8 |
The 28-year-old, linked with Manchester United, will join Atletico after the Copa America campaign with Argentina.
He spent six seasons with Benfica, making 200 appearances with 32 goals, having joined them from Argentine giants Boca Juniors in 2010.
Gaitan won three straight league titles with Benfica and was a Europa League runner-up twice. | Atletico Madrid have agreed a deal to sign midfielder Nicolas Gaitan from Benfica for 25m euros (£19.7m). | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36555103"} | 83 | 34 | 0.735814 | 1.304712 | -1.008289 | 0.26087 | 2.956522 | 0.26087 |
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Fury, 27, pulled off one of the biggest upsets in heavyweight history, outpointing Ukrainian Klitschko and bringing his nine-year reign to an end.
There was a rematch clause in the fight contract, but it is yet to be decided whether Germany or the UK will host it.
"I lost the battle but the fighter is still in me," said Klitschko, 39.
"We'll soon work out when and where the rematch will take place and let you know," he added.
Fury replied: "I'm a fighter, so I will take on all challengers. I want to be a great champion and I'd like to do it all again. Who knows what the rematch holds? One thing I can say about it is that it's going to be explosive."
Fury, from Manchester, won by a unanimous decision at the 50,000-capacity Esprit Arena to wrest the WBA, IBF and WBO belts from Klitschko.
He is Britain's fifth bona fide world heavyweight champion, after Bob Fitzsimmons, Lennox Lewis, Frank Bruno and David Haye.
Herbie Hide and Henry Akinwande both held WBO versions of the title at a time when the organisation's title holders were not widely recognised as genuine world champions.
And while Fury was happy to trash-talk his rival during the build-up to the fight, afterwards he was full of respect for "a great champion".
"If I could be half as good a champion as Wladimir Klitschko I would be very, very happy," said Fury. "He put up a really good fight. I found him quite awkward to land clean on, as he did me. He landed some great punches but it just wasn't his night.
"The ones who believed were very few. The ones who disbelieved were very large. We've been on a 27-year mission. Every left and right turn I've taken has led to this moment and I wasn't going to let it slip."
Asked why he threw so few right hands - Klitschko threw only 18 power punches in the entire fight - the beaten man replied: "My right hand was not injured. I should have thrown more right hands, but after throwing left hands, I couldn't find the distance and land as many as I wished.
"I wish I could have landed more clean shots. Tyson was quick with his hands and his body movement, and I couldn't land the right punches."
Fury said he would celebrate his win in sedate style with his family, including wife Paris, who found out on Friday she is pregnant with their third child.
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"I packed up drinking and having a good time, all the things that are supposed to be the great things in life. I'm not interested in them," said Fury.
Vitali Klitschko, himself a former heavyweight world champion and now the mayor of Kiev, said he was shocked by how badly his younger brother performed.
"I know how good Wladimir is and Wladimir did not show how good he is," said Vitali. "I know his strengths but I couldn't see any of it.
"Maybe it was just a bad night and I'm quite sure Wladimir will take the rematch chance and show the world who the real Wladimir Klitschko is."
Fury's trainer, his uncle Peter, said his charge would get even better and predicted the result of the rematch would be the same.
"Tyson can raise his game. This was his first big test. Now he has come through that test, you will see more of his boxing ability," he said.
"You are seeing a future heavyweight sensation. We are looking forward to the rematch and if we have to come to Germany again, we will." | Wladimir Klitschko says he will fight Tyson Fury again next year, having lost his world heavyweight titles to the British fighter in Dusseldorf. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34956724"} | 900 | 39 | 0.4357 | 1.049312 | 0.306026 | 1.04 | 30.72 | 0.8 |
Three-year-old Jack Rowe was being looked after by his older brother at their home in Upavon, Wiltshire, on 9 July - the day of his third birthday.
Salisbury Coroner's Court heard Jack had a "fear of water" and was normally reluctant to swim.
His family have called for pool gates to be made a legal requirement.
The court heard how the toddler's mother, Olivia Rowe, had left him in the care of brother Harry while she took her daughter to a school disco.
But while Harry was in the toilet, it is thought Jack tried to reach into the pool for a toy and fell in.
He was later found "unresponsive" and was taken to Southampton General Hospital, but died the following day.
Mrs Rowe described her son as an adventurous, kind little boy, but said he did not frequently use the pool.
"He never went swimming, to get him in you'd have to really bribe him," she said.
"He had no desire to go in on his own so we didn't think there was a possibility that something like that could happen."
A verdict of accidental death was recorded. | A toddler who died after he was found at the bottom of his family's swimming pool was probably reaching for a toy when he fell in, an inquest has heard. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32323404"} | 253 | 40 | 0.601969 | 1.422952 | -0.173037 | 1.151515 | 7.121212 | 0.787879 |
English and French clubs intend to quit the Heineken Cup next year in favour of the proposed Rugby Champions Cup.
While Dodson admits the implications of a split are "grave", he insists there remains time for dialogue.
He said: "I won't pretend it's not a serious financial issue for the SRU but there is still a lot of talking to do."
The SRU receives around £5m a year for Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh participating in the Heineken Cup.
And European Rugby Cup (ERC), which has run the Heineken Cup since it began in 1995, wants to reopen negotiations.
English Premiership and French Top 14 clubs say they will not attend talks planned by the organising body next month.
They believe the Heineken Cup structure favours teams from the Pro12, which is made up of sides from Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.
But Dodson believes there will be further talks and that agreement can be reached on a format that includes Scotland's two representatives.
"I remain very confident that there will be a European competition next season and that the Scottish clubs will be in that competition as long as it is in our interests to do so," he told BBC Scotland.
"I think it's been wrongly portrayed that we have been maintaining a position. That's not the truth.
"We have always been prepared to talk and meet with people to try and get this great competition back on track.
"We are not ruling anything in or ruling anything out at this stage. I think it would be crazy to do that.
"Everyone has said they want to play in a competition where everyone is involved. That is our position and will continue to be our position."
The SRU has previously stressed that any competition must be supported by national governing bodies as well as the International Rugby Board (IRB).
"It's a high-stakes game for everyone," Dodson added.
"But the most important thing is that we have a period now where we can get down to negotiations.
"A lot of public statements have been made and we have been very keen not to get involved.
"We prefer to do our talking in private where it is meaningful and progress can be made.
"In the next two or three weeks people will get round the table again to make real attempts to get this thing solved."
Dodson was talking at the Scottish launch of this season's Heineken Cup, with Edinburgh opening their campaign against Munster on 12 October and Glasgow at defending champions Toulon the following day. | Scottish Rugby chief executive Mark Dodson thinks a solution will be found to ensure Scottish clubs take part in European competition next season. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "24367796"} | 547 | 29 | 0.521243 | 1.317808 | 0.556318 | 1.291667 | 21.25 | 0.625 |
Whyte, found not guilty of taking over the club by fraud in May 2011, was fined by the governing body in 2012 but the money was never paid.
SFA chief executive Stewart Regan confirmed the body will take advice about how to recover the money.
Regan declined to comment on the High Court verdict concerning Whyte.
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"Clearly, the trial verdict is a matter between Craig Whyte and the Crown," he said.
"The verdict is the verdict. It's not a matter for the Scottish FA.
"It has had a telling effect on Scottish football. We found Craig Whyte not to be a fit and proper person several years ago. He won't be involved in any football club or any member of the Scottish FA.
"That money (the £200,000 fine) has never been recovered. That will be something we will take advice on and should the opportunity present itself then we would certainly consider that."
Regan intimated that the SFA had not previously chased payment of the fine through the courts because the cost of doing so might outweigh the sum owed.
And although he described the Rangers story over the past five years as "regrettable" he said he himself had "no regrets" over the way he and the SFA handled the situation. | The Scottish Football Association is to consider pursuing former Rangers owner Craig Whyte for a fine of £200,000 for bringing the game into disrepute. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40174547"} | 289 | 34 | 0.543672 | 1.303149 | 0.345689 | 0.923077 | 10 | 0.692308 |
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German, Hungarian and Austrian nationals were killed in Tuesday's attack in the remote Afar region, official spokesman Bereket Simon said.
Two German tourists and an Ethiopian policeman and driver were then abducted, he said.
Eritrea has denied the accusation by Ethiopia that it was behind the attack.
Ethiopia has threatened "whatever action is necessary" against its neighbour over the tourist killings.
"The government cannot and should not sit idly by while the regime in Asmara continues to sponsor acts of terror within Ethiopia's territory with impunity," it says in a statement published on the country's foreign affairs website.
An Eritrean official dismissed the accusation and said it was common practice for the Ethiopian government to blame his country for anything happening in Ethiopia.
The BBC's East Africa correspondent Will Ross says there is a danger that this incident could further fuel the animosity between two nations that are already bitter enemies.
The tourists are believed to have been visiting a volcanic region in Afar - which correspondents describe as extremely hot and inhospitable - when they were attacked before dawn on Tuesday.
Banditry is common in the area where both Eritrean and Ethiopian separatist rebels have operated.
Two Germans, two Hungarians and an Austrian were killed in the attack, according to Mr Bereket, the Ethiopian government spokesman.
Two others were seriously hurt and a third is said to have escaped the attack unharmed, Ethiopian Television (ETV) reported.
The two injured tourists - both believed to be Belgian - had been taken to a clinic by the military, it said.
The four people kidnapped were taken over the border to Eritrea, Mr Bereket said.
He blamed the attack on gunmen who he said were "trained and armed by the Eritrean government".
"It is the usual terrorist activity by the regime," he told Reuters news agency.
But such allegations were an "absolute lie", Eritrea's ambassador to the African Union, Girma Asmerom, told Associated Press news agency.
Correspondents say that Ethiopia routinely accuses Eritrea of supporting rebels.
Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, but when a border war broke out five years later, tens of thousands of people were killed. Since then things have remained tense.
In 2007, five Europeans and 13 Ethiopians were kidnapped in Afar. Ethiopia accused Eritrea of being behind that kidnapping, though Eritrea blamed Ethiopian rebels.
The hostages were all eventually released and Ethiopia says it will try to free those who were abducted on Tuesday.
In December, the UN imposed limited sanctions on Eritrea after it was accused of arming Islamist insurgents in Somalia. Eritrea denies the allegation.
Ethiopia has now called on the international community "to get serious about the destabilising role" of its neighbour. | At least four people have been kidnapped and five foreign tourists killed in an attack near the Eritrean border, the Ethiopian government says. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "16610890"} | 663 | 34 | 0.555133 | 1.348111 | -0.102644 | 1.68 | 21.36 | 0.88 |
Centre Hospitalier de Calais has bid to provide services to patients in the county, NHS commissioners said.
South Kent Coast Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said the "finer details" were being worked out.
People who chose to have treatment in France would pay for their own travel and incidental costs. Unison said it was an "admission of failure".
Hazel Carpenter, chief accountable officer for South Kent CCG, said treatment in France would be an option if a patient wanted it, in discussion with their GP.
She said commissioners recently invited organisations to provide general surgery, gynaecology, cataract surgery, pain management and orthopaedics to apply for the work, and two French providers applied as well as several English providers.
"We carried out a careful assessment of the services they offer and are visiting sites," she added.
"The two French providers, among others, fulfilled our criteria and we expect to finalise a contract with them."
Analysis: Mark Norman, BBC South East Today Health Correspondent
The devil is in the detail here. It seems a good idea to use spare capacity in France for NHS patients needing general surgery, but...
Both the French hospital and the NHS say Calais clinicians will share patient information with NHS GPs but the hospital director in Calais was unsure how that would work in practice
While the NHS has said post-operative checkups could be done in France or via Skype it remains to be seen if patients will be prepared to travel or use the technology available.
What happens if something goes wrong? - 24-hour access to the surgical team sounds great but will sick patients have to cross the Channel?
And it's the NHS who will have to pay for their care after a month.
Meanwhile, the East Kent Hospitals Trust, already in special measures and struggling financially, could now lose the income from up to 300 patient operations a year.
The French hospital hopes to see the first UK patients before Christmas and plans to treat between 300 and 400 NHS patients per annum.
Martin Trelcat, general manager of the Calais hospital, said it had been giving English classes to about 70 nurses and language would not be a barrier.
Simon Bolton, Unison spokesman, said it was "an admission of failure" by the NHS.
He said the CCG had failed to make sure the NHS could tackle waiting lists, which he said were lengthening because of government cuts.
Adding that patients wanted to be treated as quickly and as close to home as possible, he said: "The idea that this is some great consumer choice is frankly crazy."
Damian Collins, Folkestone and Hythe MP, said it was sensible to use a fantastic hospital that might be less than an hour away from some and more accessible than hospitals in London.
He said using Calais would help deal with NHS overcrowding and added: "If this deal hadn't been struck, I'm sure we'd have had people coming to us saying there's capacity in the hospital in Calais."
A spokeswoman for the NHS South East Commissioning Support Unit said the deal was not a waiting list initiative but rather about following EU competition rules which gave patients more choice.
She said French providers would operate like other NHS referrals where GPs would share patient information and also receive discharge and care plan details after the treatment.
French and English providers were bound by the Data Protection Act with regard to patient records, she added.
Providers would give patients 24-hour access to the surgical team for two weeks after treatment, and would pay for any readmission to hospital within 30 days of discharge.
And follow-up checks after surgery could be done by phone or Skype or at another visit to the hospital, she said.
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The Porsche ploughed into Caffe Nero on Packhorse Road in Gerrards Cross at around 12:20 BST.
The driver was treated for minor injuries and a man and woman were temporarily trapped inside the shop.
Thames Valley Police said no other vehicles were involved and the crash was not thought to be suspicious. The road was closed but has since reopened.
Firefighters from Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service released the injured driver and assisted with the removal of the Porsche 911 Carrera. | A driver had to be treated for minor injuries after her sports car crashed through a coffee shop window. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32764548"} | 111 | 22 | 0.554657 | 1.097855 | -0.223247 | 1.25 | 4.45 | 0.55 |
Gareth Southgate's side went ahead in Avignon through Lewis Baker's looping header after eight minutes, his fourth goal of the tournament.
Baker's Chelsea team-mate Ruben Loftus-Cheek then doubled the lead with a composed finish from 15 yards.
Abdou Diallo's close-range finish gave France hope but England held on.
The win means England end the tournament with a perfect record of five wins from five, having also defeated Portugal, Paraguay, Guinea and Japan en route to the final.
They scored 15 goals in total - seven of those coming in a rout of Guinea - with Baker's four goals ensuring he finishes as the tournament's top scorer.
"I think we were the best team today and the best team in the tournament. But you have to get over the line," Southgate told FATV.
"I thought the players were exceptional, not just today but the whole two weeks. They've been a pleasure to work with.
"This win should give them confidence, both collectively and individually."
England: Pickford, Iorfa, Targett, Chalobah, Chambers, Hause, Watmore (Swift 65), Ward-Prowse (c), Loftus-Cheek (Stephens 90), Redmond, Baker. | England Under-21s won the Toulon Tournament for the first time since 1994 after beating hosts France 2-1 in the final on Sunday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36410296"} | 293 | 29 | 0.378829 | 0.88405 | -0.203572 | 0.56 | 9.8 | 0.48 |
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It's not too late to enter this year's FA People's Cup - as long as you do it by the deadline anyway - and that is at midnight on Sunday.
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Canada-based businessman Rich Donovan worked as a trader for Merrill Lynch for 10 years after he graduated from the prestigious Columbia Business School. It was competitive enough, but with cerebral palsy he felt he had more to prove.
"I was told to my face that I would never be a trader. They were wrong, but that's just the reality of having a disability. You figure out how to work around it."
He says he was asked at every job interview, "Can you physically do this job?" His answer was always the same: "I don't know, but we're going to find out."
Donovan was offered every job he went for and says there was "never a time that I hit a barrier, largely because I was 10 steps ahead of what I needed to be".
It is this attitude that has led him to identify a market worth $8 trillion (£6.4tn) and brimming with untapped talent: the disability market.
After he left the trading floor, Donovan set up the Return on Disability Group (ROD). The firm helps companies improve their products, customer experience and recruitment for disabled clients, as well as alerting investors to companies that target that market. Its slogan is "translate different into value".
He estimates the market comprises about 1.3 billion people with disabilities worldwide, plus an additional 2.42 billion people once their friends and family are taken into account, which Donovan describes as "huge".
It seems hard to believe that such a market could be overlooked, but he says it has largely gone unseen because people look at it from the wrong angle.
The key, he says, is not to consider disability a niche market, but as an "emerging market" - and to challenge the conventional because "companies and governments have no clue how to convert that size into value".
Donovan says traditional government schemes to get more disabled people into work or bespoke products made for disabled people fail to properly utilise the market.
For that, you need to think beyond lunches and motivational talks and remember business is always about money.
"Most companies think they need to be perfectly ready to provide an 'accessible' space for disabled workers. The reality is disabled people know what they need to be successful. Companies only need to listen and adjust to those needs," he says.
"Quotas and equity laws do not cause hiring, it's the promise of future profits that does. Companies, by their very nature, act in their shareholders' best interests, doing what will grow revenue in the fastest way possible."
Therefore, Donovan says, companies should "attack the market" as they would any other.
"Find out the desires of disabled consumers as they relate to your profitable enterprise, adjust your product and messaging to attract their business then execute this in line with your company's process and culture."
Donovan believes mistakes are often made when companies try to "disable" their business or do just enough to comply with regulations.
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"Disabled people don't want 'special' products," he says. "But they are hungry to be included in the mainstream consumer experience.
"Most companies today look at this as a government regulatory mandate; they're not looking at this as a profitability opportunity, they're not looking at this as an innovation opportunity to improve products for users.
"They're looking at this as a charity effort," he says.
Donovan believes the key to cracking this market is to flip the disabled consumer experience to ultimately benefit the mainstream audience.
"We've learnt that people with disabilities use things very harshly, they use them in extreme ways, and if you can learn how they use things and use that information it makes that core product better for everyone. That way the returns really take off."
The former trader says there is one company that already does this: Google.
"The core of what they do is innovation and in most of their products there is some disability component. It's at the very core of what they do.
"Look at the Google [self-driving] car - you can imagine the head engineer walking into his team and saying 'OK, build me a car that a blind guy can drive' and that's exactly what they did.
"They're very focused on leveraging disability to make the core product experience better for everyone."
Donovan says the disability market has only really existed within the past decade continues to develop.
"They're still grappling with what that looks like and that process historically takes a few years," he says. "You look back at women and race and it takes a little bit of time to adjust to that reality and disability has just started to do that."
But it is not just the disability market that Donovan's company has been tasked with growing.
His clients have also asked him to apply the same ideas to sexuality and poverty.
Donovan's ambition is to move away from government regulations and to help companies serve non-traditional markets with the aim of ultimately increasing profitability - a process he describes as "figuring out how to 'eat that elephant'".
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But three years ago, it was a very different scene. Noisy protesters had gathered outside Dublin's government buildings, demonstrating against the country's bailout.
In the midst of the eurozone debt crisis, Ireland was forced to accept a 67bn euros (£57bn) lifeline from the European authorities.
There was anger over the huge burden the bailout had put on Ireland's population.
Now, three years on, Ireland has left the bailout programme.
But few have forgotten the economic pain and particularly the bust in the property market.
During the boom, Dublin's skyline was a forest of construction cranes.
Low global interest rates allowed Irish banks to go on a lending spree, with much of the money ending up in the construction sector.
When the bubble burst in 2008, many companies could not pay off their loans and hundreds of property firms ended up going bust each month.
Jarlath O'Leary experienced the boom and bust in the industry first hand.
His crane hire company did well during the good times, but when the crisis hit he saw demand drop by 85%.
He slashed staff numbers and reduced investment, but managed to survive while many of his competitors went bust.
Now the company is back in expansion mode and Mr O'Leary is positive about the future.
"It's different now from what it was like in the boom; business is much more like what it was historically," says Mr O'Leary.
Having fallen 50% from the peak, house prices are now up 10% in Dublin in the last year.
Residential construction is still fairly subdued but with Google, Facebook and Intel all expanding their operations in Ireland, there are hopes the building industry will grow in a more sustainable way.
"There are a number of big multinational companies that are investing heavily in new offices. Ireland feels like a good place to invest again," said Mr O'Leary.
Having had such a tough recession, many economic indicators in Ireland are bouncing back.
The economy has been creating jobs, with 58,000 new positions created over the last year.
The unemployment rate now stands at 12.5% (though this is still a lot higher than the UK's rate of 7.6%).
But the improvements have come at a price.
Public sector wages have fallen on average by around 20% since the start of the crisis and those in the private sector have also seen their pensions and pay slashed.
In graphics: Eurozone crisis
Part of the story behind the improved jobs numbers has been increase in migration from Ireland over the past few years.
In the last year, more than 34,000 young people have left the country, with the UK and Australia the two most popular destinations.
There's a feeling of relief and celebration around the main square of Trinity College Dublin.
The students filling out of exam rooms ready for the Christmas holidays seem positive about their futures, but the shadow of the financial crisis is never far away.
Cormac Noonan, 21, has seen the pressure of the lack of opportunities in the job market first hand.
His older brother was forced to move to Australia to find work in the construction sector and he is unsure if he will find work in Ireland once he finishes his degree in management and computing.
"It's tough for young people to have to move away to find work. It's also very difficult for their parents, with them being in places like Australia and Canada.
"But hopefully things will pick up and they can come back and work in Ireland again," he said.
The Irish government is trying to strike the right balance between trumpeting the country's achievements and warning about the challenges ahead.
It has already made 28bn euros worth of spending cuts and tax rises over the last three years.
"This is a very important moment. Three years ago this government was broke, we were in a position where nobody would lend to Ireland," says Eamon Gilmore, the deputy prime minister.
"Three years ago this country was losing 7,000 jobs a month. Now we are creating 5,000 jobs a month.
"But there is still lots to do - we still have a very high level of unemployment, especially amongst young people," he said.
There are some who worry that a downturn in the world economy could have a serious impact on Ireland's heavily export-dependent economy.
But for the moment, many in Ireland are just coming to terms with what's become a rare commodity in past five years - good economic news. | Like cities across Europe in December, Dublin's streets are full of happy shoppers lugging their Christmas shopping home. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "25339066"} | 970 | 25 | 0.367679 | 0.971829 | -0.851202 | 0.761905 | 42.571429 | 0.47619 |
It delivered 9.93 million vehicles worldwide in 2015.
In North America, there was annual growth of 4.4%, with the US accounting for the lion's share.
In Western Europe, 3.43 million customers bought a new VW vehicle, up 4.8% on 2014.
Matthias Muller, chief executive of VW, said: "Delivering almost 10 million vehicles is an excellent result, particularly in view of the continued challenging market situation in some regions, as well as the diesel issue in the final quarter of last year."
Sales in Russia and Brazil were both down.
The company said that "tense" conditions in Russia, which saw a 36.8% drop, continued to have an effect on deliveries in Central and Eastern Europe.
Brazil saw a 38.1% fall in sales.
Both Bric countries have been hit by low commodity prices, a slowdown in the world economy and volatile currencies.
"While developments in the markets of Brazil and Russia had a noticeable impact on deliveries by our brands, we made advances in Europe." Mr Muller added.
German consumers remained loyal, with a 4% increase. Growth was also strong in Spain and Italy. | Carmaker VW has announced an increase in annual sales in the US and Western Europe, despite a major scandal in which it admitted fitting software to its vehicles to cheat emissions tests. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35281307"} | 237 | 38 | 0.477179 | 1.041792 | 0.261942 | 0.911765 | 6.735294 | 0.617647 |
Twelve out of 150 lower house seats remain in doubt, with counting of pre-poll, postal and absentee votes to resume on Tuesday.
The official Australian Electoral Commission tally has Labor on 67 seats and the ruling Liberal-National coalition on 66 seats.
Independents and minor parties gained an unprecedented share of the vote.
Analysts expect the remaining ballots to fall in favour of the government and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said early on Sunday morning he expected to get the 76 seats he needs to form a new administration.
But many analysts are predicting a hung parliament, where neither party has an absolute majority.
In that case, both Mr Turnbull and Labor leader Bill Shorten will have the chance to form government by doing a deal with independents and minor parties.
Mr Shorten said in a speech that Mr Turnbull's coalition had lost its mandate to govern.
Nearly a quarter of Australians voted for a lower house candidate from outside the major parties.
Voting is compulsory in Australia and uses the alternative vote system where voters rank candidates in order of preference.
All 150 seats in Australia's lower house, the House of Representatives, were being contested at this election, as were all 76 seats in the upper house, the Senate.
It is the first time in decades that all the seats in both houses have been contested in a single election.
The double-dissolution election, as it is known, was called by Mr Turnbull in an attempt to break a deadlock over industrial relations legislation.
Counting will not resume until Tuesday because postal votes, absentee votes and pre-poll votes need to be packaged up and returned to each electoral district to be processed.
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Chaos is come again.
Unstable government has been the norm in Australia ever since Julia Gillard deposed her Labor colleague, Kevin Rudd, during his first term as prime minister in 2010.
Ms Gillard fumbled her way into minority government at that year's election. The period that followed was marked by vicious divisions in Labor. Ms Gillard never managed to gain the electorate's trust.
Facing dire opinion polls, Labor briefly switched back to Kevin Rudd for the 2013 election. His second stint at the top was brief - the Liberal Party's right-wing warrior, Tony Abbott, easily defeated the bitterly divided government.
But Mr Abbott was himself deposed in a coup last year after similarly disastrous polling. Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister, and promised the instability would end.
Now Mr Turnbull, like Ms Gillard before him, is now facing a term in minority government, where every mistake is magnified and every by-election fraught.
On top of this comes the minor party factor. As is the case elsewhere in the world, many Australians appear dissatisfied with mainstream politics.
Both Pauline Hanson's One Nation and the Nick Xenophon Team believe in economic protectionism. Ms Hanson's anti-immigration views are well known and 18 years in the political wilderness have not mellowed her.
Labor leader Bill Shorten says the close election result is a vindication of his policies. But a more fundamental shift may be occurring in Australia's politics, echoing the rise of Donald Trump in the US and the UK's electorate referendum vote to leave the EU.
Senator Nick Xenophon's newly-formed party, the Nick Xenophon Team, took the lower house South Australian seat of Mayo, formerly a safe Liberal seat.
Mr Xenophon is expected to be returned to the Senate and his party appears certain to gain additional upper house seats.
Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has polled strongly in Queensland and although it has not won a lower house seat, its preferences have tended to flow to the opposition Labor Party.
Ms Hanson, who gained notoriety for her anti-immigration views in the 1990s, told the Nine Network that, based on early results, she was likely to secure two spots in the Senate.
Independents Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie and Cathy McGowan were all returned to the lower house, as was Greens MP Adam Bandt.
Mr Turnbull and Mr Shorten traded barbs as the close result became apparent, with the prime minister accusing the opposition of a dishonest "scare campaign" over the country's public health system, Medicare.
He described the claims the government planned to privatise Medicare as "some of the most systematic, well-funded lies ever peddled in Australia" and said police would probably investigate claims of fraudulent distribution of text messages.
Mr Shorten, meanwhile, said Mr Turnbull would "never again be able to promise the stability which he has completely failed to deliver tonight".
The leadership of both is being openly called into question.
Mr Turnbull toppled the unpopular prime ministership of his conservative colleague Tony Abbott with a promise that he could deliver the votes needed to keep the coalition in power.
The prime minister was toppled once before by his party's right-wing and one conservative commentator has already called on Mr Turnbull to resign.
Despite his strong showing, reports this morning said some Labor figures were agitating against Mr Shorten in favour of popular left-winger Anthony Albanese. | Australia will not know the result of its federal election for days as counting in tight seats continues. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36696929"} | 1,203 | 20 | 0.501853 | 1.214734 | 0.202205 | 0.894737 | 54.631579 | 0.789474 |
It will be the first Chinese lender to own a vault in London as it looks to grow its precious metals business.
The vault, which is in a secret location and is being sold by Barclays, can hold up to 2,000 metric tons of gold, silver, platinum and palladium.
The deal will give ICBC more influence over trading, pricing and storage of precious metals.
No financial details were given but the deal is expected to be completed in July.
China accounts for more than a quarter of global gold demand but trading of the yellow metal remains centred out of London and New York. Around $5tn (£3.5tn) in transactions were handled in London's bullion market last year.
ICBC Standard Bank's head of commodities Mark Buncombe said the purchase "enables us to better execute on our strategy to become one of the largest Chinese banks in the precious metals market".
Last week, ICBC became a member of London's precious metals clearing system, which is where trades are settled.
As ICBC takes on more Western clients, the bank needs infrastructure close by to store the physical gold or metals.
Barclays, meanwhile, is exiting the precious metals business as part of a restructuring aimed at making the bank smaller and more focused.
The vault is one of the largest in Europe and took more than a year to build.
It was opened in 2012 by Barclays, which says it is located within the M25 motorway that circles London.
The London bullion market has seven providers of vault storage services, including the Bank of England, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase. | China's ICBC Standard Bank, the world's biggest bank by assets, has agreed to buy a massive vault in London. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36309062"} | 349 | 29 | 0.637487 | 1.514214 | 0.043564 | 1.333333 | 12.958333 | 0.75 |
Doncaster goalkeeper Thorsten Stuckmann saved an early Sam Foley penalty, but Foley made amends to put Vale ahead with a header on 35 minutes.
Uche Ikpeazu doubled the lead just after half-time.
Byron Moore's backheel two minutes from time secured the points, but Rovers are yet to win in League One and have not scored since the season's opening day. | Port Vale eased to a comfortable win over a lacklustre Doncaster side struggling for goals this season. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33944364"} | 93 | 26 | 0.622759 | 1.203494 | -0.391847 | 0.444444 | 3.944444 | 0.444444 |
The justice secretary joined a number of politicians attacking the poster, featuring a photo taken in Slovenia, with George Osborne saying it had "echoes" of 1930s' literature.
But UKIP leader Nigel Farage defended it, saying it was "the truth".
He said it was "about us being part of a European Union that isn't working".
Critics say the migrants shown in the poster were not coming to the UK and have accused UKIP of trying to scare voters ahead of Thursday's EU referendum.
Mr Gove said: "When I saw that poster, I shuddered. I thought it was the wrong thing to do."
But Mr Farage, who is not part of the official Leave campaign, defended it in a series of interviews on Sunday morning, saying the scene depicted was "a direct result" of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to open her country's doors to Syrian refugees, which he described as "one of the biggest political failures of modern times".
"The point of that poster was to say that Europe isn't working," he told Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5 live, adding: "Something that's true can't be a scare."
This issue covers immigration and free movement within Europe.
Mr Farage said anyone who "dares challenge" the "narrow Westminster consensus" on free movement attracts abuse, and said his party was trying to put across a "positive message".
He told Murnaghan on Sky News: "It was a one-day poster. I have got six posters and you will see the next one tomorrow morning in the national press and online.
UKIP's next posters would be "all about this country not the wider point it was making there about the European Union failing us all," he added.
Asked whether he was stoking up hatred, he told ITV's Peston on Sunday: "I think I have been a politician who has been a victim of it, to be honest with you.
"When you challenge the establishment in this country, they come after you, they call you all sorts of things."
Mr Farage said his side of the EU debate had the "momentum" until the death of Labour MP Jo Cox, which prompted both campaigns to be suspended.
"It has had an impact on the whole campaign for everybody," Mr Farage said.
His party's poster has been attacked by politicians on both sides of the EU debate.
Pro-Leave Commons Leader Chris Grayling said: "It's the wrong poster, it was the wrong approach, it's the wrong view."
While on the Remain side, Mr Osborne described it as "disgusting and vile" with "echoes of literature used in the 1930s", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for it to be withdrawn.
"My argument is let's deal with the impact, let's invest in housing and public services rather than blame immigrants or take a view that we should somehow close our borders," she said.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was an "appalling" poster showing "a lot of desperate people fleeing from war". | Leading Leave campaigner Michael Gove says he "shuddered" when he saw UKIP's "breaking point" anti-EU poster showing a long queue of migrants. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36570759"} | 705 | 41 | 0.56521 | 1.436724 | 0.676362 | 0.933333 | 20.866667 | 0.733333 |
The Welsh Labour leader has been speaking in Chicago on his US business tour.
He said it was crucial for the party to "get its act together" once the contest between Owen Smith and Jeremy Corbyn was over.
Mr Jones said UK Labour was currently failing to provide "effective opposition" to the UK government.
He said he did not want to see "weeks and months of animosity" when the new UK Labour leader is announced later this month.
The Pontypridd MP and Labour leadership contender, Owen Smith, said if he wins he would campaign for a new referendum on EU membership, while his opponent Jeremy Corbyn is against this.
Carwyn Jones told the audience in Chicago he also opposed a new EU referendum.
Another vote, he said, would been seen as "an attempt by the establishment to overturn democracy".
Mr Jones has previously said he will not publicly back either of the leadership candidates. | First Minister Carwyn Jones says Labour is undergoing a "great deal of division that will take some time to repair". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37324214"} | 199 | 26 | 0.559405 | 1.170713 | -0.718081 | 0.652174 | 7.913043 | 0.478261 |
Relegated Dundee United return to the second tier for the first time in 20 years with a slimmed-down and rebuilt squad assembled by new boss Ray McKinnon.
Despite predictions of financial hardship at Tannadice, United still managed to pay out for the services of defender Lewis Toshney from McKinnon's former club, Raith Rovers, no doubt helped by the fact that 19 players and their wages exited along with manager Mixu Paatelainen.
The new incumbent over at Easter Road, Neil Lennon, has so far merely tinkered with the squad inherited from Alan Stubbs that won the Scottish Cup but missed out on promotion through the play-offs.
Having lost out in the play-off final last season, Falkirk are the most likely challengers to United and Hibs for the title and paying a fee to Queen of the South for defender Lewis Kidd is perhaps an indication of their continued ambition.
However, they sold talented Will Vaulks to Rotherham United and much-lauded fellow midfielder Blair Alston left on a free transfer, joining St Johnstone along with defender Keith Watson from St Mirren, the pair being a rarity this summer - being players who have made the step up from last season's Championship to the Premiership.
Last season: 2nd Scottish League One
Manager: Ian McCall
Ayr-supporting midfield talisman Ryan Stevenson surprisingly left for Championship rivals Dumbarton, but the midfielder has been replaced with the younger Paul Cairney, who helped Stranraer challenge the Honest Men for promotion.
Verdict: 9th. Ian McCall knew he had to strengthen a side that only managed to win promotion via the play-offs. The quality of the opposition means he will need all his experience of managing at this level to steer the Honest Men clear of relegation.
In: Daryll Meggatt, defender (Dundee); Michael Rose, defender (Aberdeen); Paul Cairney, midfielder (Stranraer); Jordan Hart, goalkeeper (Annan Athletic). Loan: Jamie Thomas, forward (Burnley); Craig Moore, forward (Motherwell); Kevin Nisbet, forward (Partick Thistle).
Out: Ryan Stevenson, midfielder (Dumbarton); Alan Trouten, midfielder (Brechin City); Andy Graham, defender (Alloa Athletic); Gerry McLauchlan, defender (Cowdenbeath); Kieran Wood, defender (Cumnock); Craig McCracken, defender; Andrew Muir, defender; Adam Hodge, defender; Shaun Newman, goalkeeper.
Last season: 8th
Manager: Stevie Aitken
Ryan Stevenson adds his experience to the Sons' midfield as manager Stevie Aitken battles against the odds to assemble a squad capable of competing with full-time rivals.
Verdict: 10th. Stevie Aitken has looked to recruit the best of part-time talent from the leagues below but is still likely to find himself fighting another battle to avoid the drop.
In: David Smith, midfielder (Falkirk); Ryan Stevenson, midfielder (Ayr United); Andy Stirling, midfielder (Stranraer); Craig Pettigrew, defender (Stranraer); Robert Thomson, forward (Brechin City); Josh Todd, midfielder (Annan Athletic). Loan: Daniel Harvie, defender (Aberdeen); Sam Stanton, midfielder (Hibernian).
Out: Steven Saunders, defender (The New Saints); Jon Routledge, midfielder (The New Saints); Kevin Cawley, forward (Alloa Athletic); Scott Taggart, defender (Alloa Athletic); Jordan Kirkpatrick, midfielder (Alloa Athletic); Christian Nade, forward (Stranraer); Mikey Hopkins, defender (Burnbrae); Paul Heffernan, forward. Loan ended: Tom Walsh, midfielder (Rangers); Calum Waters, defender (Celtic); Jamie Lindsay, midfielder (Celtic); Kler Heh, midfielder (Sheffield United). Loan: Ryan Clark, midfielder (Kilwinning Rangers).
Last season: 12th (relegated) Scottish Premiership
Manager: Ray McKinnon
New manager Ray McKinnon has concentrated on recruiting players with top-flight experience as he rebuilds a squad that has shed 19 players after relegation. Cammy Bell could be the most astute signing should the goalkeeper recapture the form that led to Scotland call-ups before injury and failing to recapture his place with Rangers.
Verdict: 2nd. Ray McKinnon appears to have not only recruited well but instilled a renewed belief in the players he inherited from Mixu Paatelainen and a close battle between themselves and Hibernian for the title appears likely.
In: Ray McKinnon, manager (Raith Rovers); Laurie Ellis, assistant manager (Raith Rovers); Willo Flood, midfielder (Aberdeen); Cammy Bell, goalkeeper (Rangers); Tope Obadeyi, forward (Kilmarnock); Frank van der Struijk, defender (Willem II); Wiliam Edjenguele, defender (Veria); Nick van der Velden, forward (Willem II); Stewart Murdoch, midfielder (Ross County); Lewis Toshney, defender (Raith Rovers, undisclosed). Loan:Tony Andreu, midfielder (Norwich City); Cammy Smith, forward (Aberdeen).
Out: Mixu Paatelainen, manager; Gordon Young, assistant manager; Paul Paton, midfielder (St Johnstone); Robbie Muirhead, forward (Heart of Midlothian); Callum Morris, defender (Aberdeen); Florent Sinama-Pongolle, forward (Chainat); Kieran Freeman, defender (Southampton, undisclosed); John Rankin, midfielder (Falkirk); Darko Bodul, forward (Amkar Perm); Euan Spark, defender (Dunfermline Athletic); Guy Demel, midfielder; Fiji Kawashima, goalkeeper; Ryan Dow, forward; Edward Ofere, forward; Gavin Gunning, defender; Michal Szromnik, goalkeeper; Joe McGovern, goalkeeper; Greig McNaughton, defender; Henri Anier, forward. Loan ended: Billy Mckay, forward (Wigan Athletic); Riku Riski, forward (Rosenborg); Kyle Knoyle, defender (West Ham United). Loan: Justin Johnstone, forward (York City); Cammy Ballantyne, defender (Montrose); Aaron Murrell, forward (Cowdenbeath); Brett Long, goalkeeper (Forfar Athletic).
Last season: Champions, Scottish League One
Manager: Allan Johnston
Pars manager Allan Johnston has bolstered his League One championship winning squad with players of Premiership experience and will hope that Gavin Reilly, on loan from Hearts, can compensate for top scorer Faisal El Bakhtaoui's refusal to sign a new contract.
Verdict: 7th. Allan Johnston's runaway League One champions should have enough about them to avoid relegation trouble. A lack of cutting edge means it is likely to be a year of consolidation rather than a promotion challenge this time round.
In: Kallum Higginbotham, midfielder (Kilmarnock); Lee Ashcroft, defender (Kilmarnock); Nat Wedderburn, midfielder (Inverness Caledonian Thistle); Ciaran Lafferty, forward (Celtic); Nicky Clark, forward (Bury); Euan Spark, defender (Dundee United); Scott Lochhead, midfielder (unattached). Loan: Gavin Reilly, forward (Heart of Midlothian); Paul McMullan, forward (Celtic); John Herron, midfielder (Blackpool).
Out: Faisal El Bakhtaoui, forward (Dundee); PJ Crossan, forward (Celtic, undisclosed); Scott Robinson, midfielder (East Fife); Shaun Byrne, midfielder (Livingston); Shaun Rooney, defender (York City); Ryan Wallace, forward (Albion Rovers); Jordan Orru, defender (Berwick Rangers); John Potter, defender (retired); Craig Reid, defender; Josh Falkingham, midfielder; Cammy McClair, midfielder. Loan ended: Brad McKay, defender (St Johnstone).
Last season: 2nd
Manager: Peter Houston
Manager Peter Houston has managed to retain most of the squad that took his side to the play-off final last season. The loss of Blair Alston to St Johnstone will be a miss in midfield, but the capture of Lewis Kidd from Queen of the South adds youthful legs to the defence.
Verdict: 3rd. Losing two of their most talented midfielders is likely to leave the Bairns just short of the quality needed to challenge for the title, but their manager's organisational abilities should ensure another chance of promotion via the play-offs.
In: John Rankin, midfielder (Dundee United); Lewis Kidd, defender (Queen of the South, undisclosed); James Craigen, midfielder (Raith Rovers); Luca Gasparotto, defender (Rangers); Liam Henderson, defender (Heart of Midlothian). Loan: Danny Rogers, goalkeeper (Aberdeen).
Out: Will Vaulks, midfielder (Rotherham United, undisclosed); Blair Alston, midfielder (St Johnstone); David Smith, midfielder (Dumbarton); Kevin McCann, defender; Lewis Small, forward; Liam Dick, defender; Graham Bowman, goalkeeper; Alex Tokarczyk, goalkeeper. Loan ended: Conor McGrandles, midfielder (Norwich City). Loan: Kevin O'Hara, forward (East Fife).
Last season: 5th
Manager: Jim Duffy
Exciting winger Bobby Barr has been lost to Championship rivals Raith Rovers and, in his search for a replacement, manager Jim Duffy will be hoping that nephew Gary Oliver will repay his faith for the fee paid to Queen of the South for the Scotland Under-21 forward.
Verdict: 5th. With Denny Johnstone and Declan McManus no longer on loan, Morton might struggle for goals, but there is a continuity about Jim Duffy's squad that should ensure mid-table safety and a possibly promotion play-off place.
In: Michael Doyle, defender (St Johnstone); Gary Oliver, forward (Queen of the South, undisclosed); Kudus Oyenuga, forward (unattached). Loan: Jamie Lindsay, midfielder (Celtic); Aidan Nesbitt, forward (Celtic).
Out: Bobby Barr, midfielder (Raith Rovers); Kudus Oyenuga, forward (Hartlepool United); Joe McKee, midfielder (Carlisle United); Michael Miller, defender (Livingston); Frank McKeown, defender (Stranraer); Peter MacDonald, forward (Clyde); Stefan McCluskey, midfielder. Loan ended: Declan McManus, forward (Fleetwood Town); Denny Johnstone, forward (Birmingham City); Luca Gasparotto, defender (Rangers); Alex Samuel, forward (Swansea City). Loan: Alex McWaters, forward (Largs Thistle); John Tennent, defender (Cumbernauld Colts).
Last season: 3rd
Manager: Neil Lennon
Neil Lennon's first signing as Hibs manager was big, even eye-catching, not in terms of name - Grant Holt is short and snappy - but in terms of stature, the striker being an imposing presence and having made a name for himself helping Norwich City to England's top flight. However, can a 35-year-old released by Rochdale compensate for the exit of Celtic loanee Anthony Stokes?
Verdict: 1st. Hibs' fine showing against Brondby, despite their Europa League exit, suggests Neil Lennon's side can build on the excitement of last season's Scottish Cup final triumph and challenge for the title and automatic promotion.
In: Neil Lennon, manager; Gary Parker, assistant manager; Grant Holt, forward (Rochdale); Brian Graham, forward (Ross County); Ross Laidlaw, goalkeeper (Raith Rovers). Loan: Andrew Shinnie, midfielder (Birmingham City); Ofir Marciano, goalkeeper (Ashdod).
Out: Alan Stubbs, manager (Rotherham United); John Doolan, assistant manager (Rotherham United); Chris Dagnall, forward (Crewe Alexandra); Mark Oxley, goalkeeper (Southend United); Conrad Logan, goalkeeper (Rochdale); Kevin Thomson, midfielder (Tranent); Josh Peters, forward (Forfar Athletic); Sean Brennan, goalkeeper (Berwick Rangers); Farid El Alagui, forward. Loan ended: Anthony Stokes, forward (Celtic); Niklas Gunnarsson, defender (Valerenga); Liam Henderson, midfielder (Celtic). Loan: Sam Stanton, midfielder (Dumbarton); Lewis Allan, forward (Livingston); Oliver Shaw, forward (Stenhousemuir); Ryan Porteous, defender (Edinburgh City); Aaron Dunsmore, defender (Edinburgh City); Ben Stirling, defender (Berwick Rangers); Sean Mackie, defender (Berwick Rangers).
Last season: 7th
Manager: Gavin Skelton
Gavin Skelton has stepped up to manager to replace Jamie Fowler, who exited after Queens failed to make the promotion play-offs and will face similar cash restraints. The Dumfries outfit have lost Scotland youth pair Gary Oliver and Lewis Kidd, but at least Queens received fees for their exits to Morton and Falkirk respectively.
Verdict: 8th. James Fowler paid for missing out on the play-offs, but the Doonhamers might struggle once more to finish in the top half of the table under former assistant Gavin Skelton.
In: Jamie Hamill, midfielder (Kilmarnock); Stephen Dobbie, forward (Bolton Wanderers); Steven Rigg, forward (Carlisle United); Grant Anderson, midfielder (Raith Rovers); Lyndon Dykes, forward (Surfers Paradise Apollo); Lee Robinson, goalkeeper (unattached).
Out: James Fowler, manager (replaced with assistant Gavin Skelton); Gary Oliver, forward (Greenock Morton, undisclosed); Lewis Kidd, defender (Falkirk, undisclosed); Kyle Hutton, midfielder (St Mirren); Ryan Conroy, midfielder (Airdrieonians); Iain Russell, forward (Airdrieonians); Shaun Rutherford, defender (Cowdenbeath); Robbie Thomson, goalkeeper; Jay Munro, midfielder. Loan ended: Andy Murdoch, midfielder (Rangers); Alex Harris, midfielder (Hibernian). Loan: Jack Leighfield, goalkeeper (Gretna 2008).
Last season: 4th
Manager: Gary Locke
Gary Locke has a hard act to follow after Ray McKinnon, now at Dundee United, led Rovers to the play-offs. The new Rovers boss will hope that two of his former charges, Chris Johnston and Kevin McHattie, can live up to their previous promise after their arrival from his former club, Kilmarnock. French centre-half Jean-Yves M'voto is one of the division's most intriguing additions. The 27-year-old started his career at Paris Saint-Germain before moving to Sunderland and had spells with Southend United, Oldham Athletic, Barnsley and Leyton Orient before leaving Zawisza Bydgoszcz following their relegation from the Polish top flight.
Verdict: 6th. Gary Locke has a hard act to follow after Ray McKinnon, now at Dundee United, led Rovers to the play-offs. It is such a cut-throat division this season that even improving the squad he inherited is likely to merely mean another campaign scrambling on the fringes of the play-off places.
In: Gary Locke, manager; Darren Jackson, assistant manager; Rudi Skacel, midfielder (Mlada Boleslav); Chris Johnston, midfielder (Kilmarnock); Kevin McHattie, defender (Kilmarnock); Jean-Yves M'voto, defender (Zawisza Bydgoszcz); Conor Brennan, goalkeeper (Kilmarnock); Bobby Barr, midfielder (Greenock Morton); Craig Easton, midfielder (Torquay United). Loan: Aaron Lennox, goalkeeper (Aberdeen); Declan McManus, forward (Fleetwood Town); Scott Roberts, midfielder (Rangers).
Out: Ray McKinnon, manager (Dundee United); Laurie Ellis, assistant manager (Dundee United); Lewis Toshney, defender (Dundee United, undisclosed); James Craigen, midfielder (Falkirk); Ross Laidlaw, goalkeeper (Hibernian); Grant Anderson, midfielder (Queen of the South); Rory McKeown, defender (Accrington Stanley); Aidan Connolly, midfielder (York City); Elliot Ford, defender (Brechin City); David McGurn, goalkeeper (Cowdenbeath); Darren Petrie, midfielder (Stirling Albion); Ryan McCord, midfielder (Arbroath); Joel Thomas, forward; Scott Law, goalkeeper; Elliot Ford, defender; Kieran Campbell, defender. Loan ended: Harry Panayioutou, forward (Leicester City); Louis Longridge, forward (Hamilton Academical); Ryan Hardie, forward (Rangers). Loan: Jonny Court, forward (Montrose); David Mckay, defender (Montrose).
Last season: 6th
Manager: Alex Rae
Having taken over in December and steered St Mirren clear of relegation trouble, Alex Rae has set about putting his own stamp on his side. Stalwarts Jim Goodwin and Steven Thompson have gone, but experienced striker John Sutton has returned and former Doncaster Rovers centre-half Gary MacKenzie could be an excellent addition.
Verdict: 4th. Alex Rae has recruited well and assembled a squad unlikely to suffer the start-of-campaign hangover from relegation they endured last season and that should secure their place among the sides battling for promotion.
In: John Sutton, forward (St Johnstone); Gary MacKenzie, defender (Doncaster Rovers); Rocco Quinn, midfielder (Ross County); Kyle Hutton, midfielder (Queen of the South); David Clarkson, midfielder (Motherwell); Ben Gordon, defender (Livingston); Scott Gallacher, goalkeeper (Alloa Athletic). Loan: Tom Walsh, midfielder (Rangers); Lawrence Shankland, forward (Aberdeen); Ryan Hardie, forward (Rangers).
Out: Keith Watson, defender (St Johnstone); Jim Goodwin, midfielder (Alloa Athletic); Steven Thompson, forward (retired); Scott Agnew, midfielder (Stranraer); Liam Dick, defender (Stranraer); Barry Cuddihy, midfielder (Annan Athletic); Alan Gow, forward; Alex Cooper, midfielder; Sean Kelly, defender; Stuart Carswell, midfielder; Cameron Howieson, midfielder; Jaison McGrath, forward. Loan ended: Paul McMullan, forward (Celtic); Lawrence Shankland, forward (Aberdeen). | Big spenders Rangers have made their exit from the Scottish Championship, but four new managers and the prevalence of single-season contracts has still ensured plenty of player turnover and interest outside the top flight. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36394320"} | 4,807 | 42 | 0.392458 | 1.025868 | 0.350639 | 0.947368 | 89.894737 | 0.684211 |
Iranian authorities said there was no longer hope of finding any of the country's missing pilgrims alive.
According to Saudi officials, 769 people died in the crush in Mina, near Mecca, and 934 were injured.
The Saudis have been criticised over their handling of security and for the slow publication of casualty figures.
Iranian officials allege that the overall number of deaths is now more than 1,000. Pakistan, India, and Indonesia have also suggested death toll may be higher than the 769 reported by Saudi Arabia.
Saudi authorities have not released a breakdown of victims by nationality, but a tally of the numbers of dead released by individual countries adds up to more than the official figure.
The crush occurred as two large groups of pilgrims converged at right angles on the way to taking part in one of the Hajj's major rites at the Jamarat pillars.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Saudi Arabia to apologise for the deadly stampede and warned of "harsh" measures if the kingdom fails to promptly repatriate the bodies of Iran's dead.
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has accused Iran of "playing politics" with the disaster and called on the Islamic Republic to await the outcome of an investigation ordered by Saudi Arabia's King Salman.
But Saeed Ohadi, the head of Iran's Hajj department, told state television that Iranian officials are trying to return bodies of Iranian pilgrims "as soon as possible".
Mr Ohadi said Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed not to bury any of the dead in Saudi Arabia without prior permission by Iran or the families of the deceased.
Saudi officials have blamed pilgrims for the stampede, suggesting some had "moved without following instructions by the relevant authorities".
The disaster was the second to strike the region in two weeks, after a crane collapsed at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, killing 109 people.
Reported deaths by nationality so far - total of at least 906
Timeline: Deadliest stampedes
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Los Che, who saw off Rapid 10-0 on aggregate, have won their last two La Liga games - having failed to win any of Neville's first nine league matches.
"That was the big thing, to keep the momentum going," he said.
"We have a very big week - Bilbao, Malaga and Atletico Madrid. But the confidence going into it is good."
Valencia, 11th in the table, are at home to Athletic Bilbao on Sunday (15:00 GMT) as they try to make it five consecutive wins, before visiting Malaga on Wednesday and hosting title-chasing Atletico Madrid on Sunday, 6 March.
They were goalless at half-time in Vienna, before goals from Rodrigo, Sofiane Feghouli, Pablo Piatti and Ruben Vezo sealed the win.
They have been drawn against Athletic Bilbao in the last 16.
Neville said: "The professional attitude and mentality were the things I was most happy with. The performance was very good.
"I told the players we had two jobs - one was to complete the tie and also I wanted the momentum to keep going and I wanted a good performance. Thankfully we got both.
"All the players are fresh. We left six or seven players behind with [assistant] Pako Ayestaran and our fitness coach to prepare them. I'm happy with the players who played tonight - they played well." | Valencia boss Gary Neville says confidence is high in the squad after they beat Rapid Vienna 4-0 for a fourth successive win. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35669034"} | 313 | 27 | 0.555326 | 1.272893 | -0.026897 | 0.8 | 11 | 0.56 |
After four cagey rounds, Crolla landed a massive left hook to the body that floored the champion, who could not make the count.
Crolla, 29, was fighting in front of a raucous home crowd in Manchester after taking Perez to a draw in July.
And his world title win comes less than a year after he suffered a fractured skull when confronting burglars.
"It is an amazing feeling, it is a dream come true, now I just want many more nights like this in Manchester," said Crolla, who now has 30 wins, four defeats and three draws.
"I've dreamed this dream since I was 10. I didn't know it was going to be this good. It is better than I ever dreamed it would be."
In December 2014, Crolla was hit with a concrete slab as he attempted to apprehend two men who had broken into the house of his next-door neighbours. He also suffered a broken ankle.
He had been due to fight Richar Abril for the WBA title in January, but eventually got his chance against Perez in Manchester in July, failing to take the belt in a drawn decision after many observers thought he had done enough to win.
But in this return bout, the result was in no doubt.
There was little to choose between the two in the opening four rounds, though Crolla was moving well and regularly making Perez miss.
Then, in the fifth, with Perez on the ropes, Crolla switched his attack from the head and nailed the champion in the side.
Perez shook as his head as he fell to the canvas, remaining on his knees as the 10-count was completed, sealing only his second defeat after 32 wins and a draw.
"I was very confident I would get him out of there," added Crolla. "I thought it would have been a head shot. I touched him with a right hand and sunk him with a left.
"After the first fight I went away and worked hard with the team, we have worked so hard in the gym. I just have to thank the team around me. Joe [Gallagher, trainer] has turned my career around and so many people had given up on me.
"I have come to this arena since I was 10 watching Naseem Hamed, Joe Calzaghe and Ricky Hatton. To do it here is what I dreamed of." | Anthony Crolla knocked out Colombia's Darleys Perez in the fifth round to win the WBA lightweight title. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34893093"} | 542 | 29 | 0.407516 | 1.042231 | -0.10085 | 1.052632 | 25 | 0.631579 |
The proposed Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) would ban certain anti-social activities in the city centre and fine those who breach the order.
Opponents say the PSPO would effectively criminalise homelessness and is an attempt by the council to "cover up" the city's housing crisis.
Oxford City Council already spends more than £1m on homelessness support.
It said the claim about the order criminalising homelessness was "untrue".
The petition was set up by Oxford University Student Union group On Your Doorstep, which aims to raise awareness of homelessness.
Its statement said: "Criminalising rough sleeping in the city centre will only increase (already high) levels of stigma surrounding Oxford's homeless population.
"It risks treating rough sleepers as a problem to be dealt with, as an inconvenience, as a threat, rather than as individual human beings."
A council spokesman said: "Oxford City Council spends over £1m on support for homelessness. It is wrong to suggest the proposed PSPO would change any of that support. It is also untrue that the proposed order would 'criminalise' rough sleeping.
"A small number of people continue to beg and sleep on the city's streets despite receiving support and having been allocated accommodation. It is only that behaviour that would be covered by the proposed PSPO."
Alex Kennedy, campaign manager for homeless charity Crisis, said: "I don't know exactly the individuals that the council are speaking about but if people have been offered accommodation and are still sleeping rough... often there are understandable reasons for that.
"Some people who have had previous drug and alcohol problems don't then want to spend time in a hostel if lots of the people they will be living with have got drug and alcohol problems themselves.
"I just want to question why it might be that somebody who has seemingly been given an offer of shelter is sleeping on the streets. I would want to look into the reasons for that rather than think fining is going to solve the problem." | A petition urging Oxford City Council to scrap plans to ban rough sleeping in the city has gained 65,000 signatures. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32282822"} | 441 | 25 | 0.59741 | 1.544007 | -0.147862 | 1.952381 | 18.857143 | 0.714286 |
Second-from-bottom Leigh led 14-10 at the break thanks to Dawson's brace and Vea's first, while Jamie Shaul and Carlos Tuimavave went over in response.
Ben Reynolds converted his own try edge Leigh further ahead before Albert Kelly put Shaul over for his second try.
Kelly ensured a tense finish with a late try, but Leigh held on for their first Super League win away from home.
The Centurions, who were recently knocked out of the Challenge Cup and beaten in their first Magic Weekend appearance last week, went ahead after Matty Fleming sent Dawson over in the right-hand corner.
And while Shaul levelled midway through the first-half for fourth-placed Hull, Dawson was quick to put the visitors up once again.
Steve Michaels thought he had restored parity nine minutes before the interval, but his try was ruled out because of a knock-on that led to the ball arriving at his feet over the try line.
Vea then got on the end of a grubber kick from Josh Drinkwater to touch down, but again the hosts responded as Tuimavave strolled through without any resistance
Reynolds went over six minutes after the break, but the Black and Whites would not yield as Kelly broke away on a 40-metre run before sending Shaul in to score, only for the full-back to then allow Vea to grab a second of his own by failing to gather a high ball.
Despite the difficulty of the kick, Reynolds converted to put Leigh ahead 26-16, which proved enough as Hull's Jansin Turgut was denied a try for a forward pass and Josh Griffin went close before Kelly's converted try with less than five minutes remaining made for a nervy finish.
Hull FC head coach Lee Radford:
"We started the game at Leigh Centurions tempo and we finished it at Hull FC's tempo,"
"Confidence is a funny thing and you forget how to catch a pass like we were three weeks ago.
"We have to play at a tempo to allow us to get confidence back. It was a really slow ruck all game but we need to adjust to that.
"Saturday's defeat had a knock on effect on players' mindset but that will come as soon as we start playing at the tempo we want to play at."
Leigh head coach Neil Jukes told BBC Radio Manchester:
"I'm really pleased for everybody especially the fans that tuned up here tonight on Bank Holiday weekend.
"The players worked so hard and it is so difficult when you seeing working hard and sometimes just missing out.
"It is really difficult to keep motivating them and telling them there is light at the end of the tunnel from what we did last year.
"The staff are working harder than even and sticking together is key from the top with the owner to the guys that are on the bench supporting us."
Hull FC: Shaul; Michaels, Tuimavave, Griffin, Rawsthorne; Kelly, Sneyd; Bowden, Houghton, Watts, Manu, Minichiello, Green.
Replacements: Turgut, Fash, Downs, Washbrook.
Leigh Centurions: McNally; Dawson, Fleming, Paterson, Brown; Reynolds, Drinkwater; Weston, Hood, Acton, Vea, Hansen, Stewart.
Replacements: Pelissier, Tickle, Hopkins, Burr.
Referee: Ben Thaler. | Matty Dawson and Atelea Vea scored two tries each to help Leigh overcome Hull FC and end a nine-match losing run. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40018229"} | 771 | 33 | 0.427847 | 1.154098 | 0.107154 | 0.708333 | 27.375 | 0.625 |
Liverpool Ladies currently play on an artificial surface at the Select Security Stadium in Widnes.
Last month Stoney's England colleague Claire Rafferty refused to play on the pitch, citing injury concerns.
"I don't think it's right, especially if players have to miss out because of it," Stoney said. "Ideally we'd play all our games on grass."
She added: "I don't think you have any 4G pitches in the men's top league. It just puts people at risk, so it's not ideal."
Sunderland's Lucy Staniforth has also criticised the Liverpool pitch, describing it as "absolutely abysmal" and "a serious injury risk".
Last year, the Women's World Cup in Canada was played on artificial turf, despite a legal challenge from leading players.
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The route crossed Westminster Bridge, through Croydon to Redhill in Surrey, and then onwards through Sussex towns including Crawley and Cuckfield.
All the vehicles taking part were manufactured before 1905.
Organisers said this year's run had an American theme with a celebration of US car marques.
Names included Cadillac, Ford and Oldsmobile, alongside less well-known names such as Pope, Waverley and Northern.
From Europe, Renault and Vauxhall had entered cars from their heritage fleets.
Sussex car enthusiast Henry Lawson from Henfield, whose family were taking two cars this year, said the run showed the development of motoring over a period of 10 to 15 years.
"None of them are younger than 1904, but you'll see the development where the later ones are actually starting to be fairly consistently four wheels, a steering wheel and so on.
"But in the early cars you've just got these crazy things where the passenger is out in the front facing forwards or facing backwards and all sorts of things where people were actually just trying to come up with the right answer."
Chairman Ben Cussons said the oldest car on this year's run was the 1888 Truchetet, and one of the rarest was the 1901 Isotta Fraschini.
He said the event was a glorious celebration of the motor car and tribute to pioneering "automobilists".
Cars arrived in Brighton throughout the day with the first ones reaching the seaside, where the skies were clear by the coast, at about 10:00 GMT.
TV presenter Chris Evans, who joined Ken Bruce and Alex Jones on vintage buses filled with bidders who raised funds for the BBC's Children in Need, said: "It was very smooth and brilliantly well-marshalled.
"We had lovely coffee stops on the way, a great coffee stop in Crawley, croissants and coffee courtesy of Harrods. Who doesn't want to be at that on a Sunday morning?" | More than 400 veteran cars set off in thick fog from Hyde Park to make their way to the coast in the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34692738"} | 435 | 32 | 0.460011 | 1.29993 | 0.11845 | 0.7 | 12.433333 | 0.566667 |
It has been suggested that Conservative supporters and "hard left" activists have been registering for the vote in order to back the left wing MP.
As a result, two backbench MPs, Graham Stringer and John Mann, have called for the leadership contest to be halted.
But another leadership candidate, Andy Burnham, said he had seen no evidence of infiltration "on a large scale".
"If John [Mann] has evidence then he needs to send it to the Labour Party," he told Sky News.
Mr Mann told the Sunday Times the contest was "totally out of control", and said acting leader Mrs Harman should step in so proper checks could be conducted.
On BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend, Mr Stringer called for the "deeply flawed system" - whereby non members can pay £3 to become an "affiliated supporter" and take part in the leadership election - to be scrapped.
"The party has a difficult choice. It either has to go ahead with this election or it has to delay the decision, or it has to change the system," he said.
Labour could end up with a leader "who is chosen by readers of the [Conservative-supporting] Daily Telegraph", he said, adding: "I am worried that people who do not have the interests of the Labour Party at heart are joining the Labour Party."
Labour says it has a "robust system to prevent fraudulent or malicious applications" and that anyone "not sharing the aims or values of the Labour Party will be denied a vote".
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Corbyn said: "I only want people to register as Labour supporters if they are genuine Labour supporters and they want to stay for the longer course."
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The popularity of the Islington North MP's campaign has sparked a row within the party.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is among those to have warned Labour against moving to the left following a poll that put Mr Corbyn ahead of Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall in the race to succeed Ed Miliband.
Mr Corbyn said he was "making no predictions" over the outcome but said he was in the contest "for real".
He also said it was not an "extreme position" to consider renationalising some privatised services, saying 60% of people backed returning the railways to public ownership.
He said he would be "much happier" with a "regulated, publicly run service delivering energy supplies".
Asked whether he saw himself as a Marxist, Mr Corbyn said it was a "very interesting question" and praised some of the revolutionary thinker's ideas.
He added he did not think party leaders should "lay down policies" and that instead they should "encourage the growth of ideas".
Ms Kendall, who has rejected suggestions she should quit to allow another candidate to defeat Mr Corbyn, told the Independent on Sunday Mr Corbyn's politics were "not right for Labour or the country".
In the Sunday Mirror, Ms Cooper said the party needed to "get serious".
"Get this wrong, and we will write off the 2020 election and condemn Britain to a Tory future," she added.
Former cabinet minister Alan Milburn told Sky News Labour risked being cast into "political oblivion", saying Mr Corbyn was a "perfectly nice chap - but I don't think even Jeremy thinks he is prime ministerial material".
Ex-SNP leader Alex Salmond said he could work with Labour on "a range of issues" if Mr Corbyn became leader.
Mr Salmond said the Islington North MP was a "substantial politician" and criticised his "demonisation" in the press, saying the two parties could co-operate on welfare reform and Trident renewal. | Jeremy Corbyn says he only wants "genuine Labour supporters" to vote for him in the party's leadership contest. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33667699"} | 862 | 30 | 0.527487 | 1.19399 | -0.198526 | 1.454545 | 34.590909 | 0.909091 |
But rain restricted play at the SSE Swalec Stadium to 35.4 overs.
Nick Selman put on 83 with Rudolph before falling lbw to Jeremy Lawlor for 30.
Glamorgan are without Will Bragg, Graham Wagg and Timm van der Gugten through injury, ahead of the Championship season starting on 7 April.
All three are fitness concerns for the trip to Northampton, though Glamorgan will have South Africa batsman Colin Ingram back after his successful One-Day Cup campaign in his native country, and are still trying to complete the signing of fast bowler Marchant de Lange.
The teams observed a minute's silence before the start of play in memory of the late Glamorgan coach and player John Derrick, who died at the age of 54.
Rudolph's innings came off 103 balls and included 10 boundaries, following a knock of 60 against Gloucestershire the previous day.
He is aiming to recover form after a disappointing 2016 season, in which he made 659 Championship runs.
Glamorgan captain Jacques Rudolph told BBC Wales Sport:
"It's a pity we couldn't get back on, but it was nice to get out in the middle. I feel I've been striking them quite nicely and my partnership with Nick Selman was good.
"My preparation for the last couple of months has been spot-on. I was fortunate to train outdoors in turf nets in South Africa with Craig Meschede for a month which really helped and I'm happy with where I am.
"I don't think one season should put me in a position where I have to prove myself. I think I've done that over 19 years but this year my ball-striking's been pretty clean so hopefully come Northants I can continue with that.
"At the moment it's a bit of a guessing game who'll be fit (for the Northants game). As soon as Colin arrives and potentially Marchant, that will give us a better selection to choose from." | Glamorgan captain Jacques Rudolph led the way with 63 not out as his side reached 122-1 against Cardiff MCCU. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39421641"} | 444 | 29 | 0.40986 | 1.145928 | -0.80028 | 1.090909 | 17.272727 | 0.545455 |
Broad, 29, has played only two ODIs since the 2015 World Cup and was left out of the squad for the World T20.
"I've got a lot of hunger and desire to get back in that team consistently," he told the BBC's Stumped.
"A huge target is 2019. I've got a lot of experience, played 121 ODIs and I've got a pretty good record."
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Nottinghamshire bowler Broad was left out of the one-day squad for almost a year after England were knocked out of the World Cup in the first round.
While that was partly to look at new faces, it was also to manage his workload - Broad had knee surgery in 2014.
However, he was recalled for the one-day series in South Africa, playing the final two games of a series that England lost 3-2.
"I've played all three formats for eight or nine years and coped quite well with that," said Broad, who is set to miss a World T20 tournament for the first time after captaining England in 2012 and 2014.
Speaking in his role as an ambassador for The Belfry Golf Club, he added: "Part and parcel of being an international cricketer is staying fit and fresh for as much cricket as possible.
"We know it's a short career, so you have to try and be in the best possible shape."
After defeating South Africa 2-1 in the Test series, England can claim to have won their most recent series against seven of the nine other Test-playing sides.
The two trophies outstanding are for the contests with Sri Lanka and Pakistan, who both visit England this summer.
"With those two coming over this summer, we have a huge driving point," said Broad, who is third on the all-time list of England Test wicket-takers with 333.
"It's great to have, because it keeps you continually trying to improve."
Broad's tally of 56 Test wickets in 2015 was bettered only by India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, while his 6-15 in the third Test win over South Africa took him above Ashwin and Proteas pace bowler Dale Steyn to the top of the world bowling rankings.
Broad is the first England bowler since 2004 to top the list, while before that Sir Ian Botham led the way in 1980.
"I'm hugely proud to be number one, it shows that you take important wickets," said Broad. "To follow Beefy (Botham) and Harmy as the only other two to have been ranked number one for England, it brings it home how special that is.
"I'm not overnight going to think I'm a better bowler than Dale Steyn, I've just been fortunate that I've stayed on the park recently and taken some consistent wickets.
"Hopefully I can be there for a period of time. I'm not going to be one of those bowlers who just stays there for five weeks. It gives me huge hunger and a huge desire to improve."
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An estimated 61 million children are "left behind" by their migrant parents.
Many people can only access public services in the villages they come from, so migrant workers' children stay behind to keep up their education.
Rural governments will be asked to monitor the welfare of children who live alone.
Parents will be encouraged to take their children with them when possible.
In 2013 a spate of sex abuse cases involving "left-behind" children shocked China.
Millions of migrant workers have moved from the Chinese countryside to cities in recent decades. The World Bank predicts that by 2030, up to 70% of Chinese people will live in cities.
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China children 'pesticide deaths'
Many children are left with extended family members but circumstances force some to live alone.
In June 2015 four "left-behind" siblings died of apparent pesticide poisoning. They were all under the age of 14 and their parents had left the village in search of work. The police did not rule out suicide.
In December the Chinese government announced it would offer residency status to some of the migrant workers who have moved from rural areas in recent decades.
It means migrants will be entitled to use public services, such as health and education, where they live, rather than in the villages they come from.
They will be able to apply if they can show proof of work, study or housing in a city for six months.
Under the hukou system of household registration, all Chinese people must be classed as either urban or rural. The hukou system was set up in the 1950s to control the movement of people between cities and the countryside.
Until the changes are fully implemented, rural governments are being told to support these children, says the BBC's Celia Hatton - a difficult challenge for overburdened and underfunded officials. | The Chinese government has issued new guidelines to protect children in rural areas whose parents have moved to cities to work. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35581716"} | 404 | 24 | 0.52792 | 1.335005 | -0.06778 | 1.363636 | 16.818182 | 0.727273 |
Nippon Yusen, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha said the joint venture would see savings of more than 110bn yen ($1bn; £820m) a year.
With a fleet of 256 container vessels, the proposed business would hold about 7% of the world shipping market.
Globally the shipping industry is suffering from overcapacity and weak economic growth.
That has left hundreds of ships standing idle and earlier this year led to the collapse of South Korea's Hanjin - the world's seventh largest container shipping firm.
The merged group, which would become the world's sixth largest container shipping operation by capacity, is expected to start operating in April 2018.
Shipping analyst Greg Knowler of IHS said the deal did not come as a complete surprise, given all carriers had reported some huge losses in the past past year or so.
"The quest for scale, and expectations that weak demand and excess capacity will continue for at least another two years, are driving the wave of consolidation that has swamped the liner shipping industry this year," he said.
The three Japanese companies said that "by strengthening the global organization and enhancing the liner network, the new joint-venture company aims to provide higher quality and more competitive services in order to exceed our clients' expectations". | Three of Japan's biggest shipping companies are merging their container operations to become more efficient. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37819631"} | 295 | 20 | 0.580733 | 1.267521 | 0.120092 | 0.647059 | 14.764706 | 0.647059 |
Wycombe Wanderers striker Adebayo Akinfenwa reported an incident to the referee after a match against Cambridge United on 19 November.
The Football Association confirmed it was investigating, as did Cambridge United and the police.
It has now emerged a Cambridge fan has been banned by the club.
Akinfenwa, 34, reported the incident to referee Trevor Kettle, who included it in his match report.
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The FA contacted both Akinfenwa and Cambridge United for their observations of events during the League Two match earlier this month, and both clubs confirmed they would take "appropriate action" against those involved.
Cambridgeshire Police said it was continuing to investigate the incident and appealed for anyone with information to contact them. | A football club has banned a supporter indefinitely following allegations of racist abuse at a recent game, the BBC has learned. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38129433"} | 168 | 29 | 0.555411 | 1.025515 | -0.378745 | 0.521739 | 6 | 0.521739 |
And in the chamber beneath the great glass dome, there was a sombre atmosphere as German politicians paid tribute to the country's longest-serving post-war chancellor, who died on Friday at the age of 87.
"We owe it to Helmut Kohl" said the speaker of the house, Norbert Lammert, "that a peacefully united Germany in a free and peaceful Europe is a reality".
How ironic, then, that as Europe prepares to publicly honour the man often referred to as the chancellor of unity, it is becoming increasingly clear that Helmut Kohl also left behind a personal legacy of discord and acrimony.
Even as MPs stood for a minute's silence, German TV news programmes were running reports of the escalating conflict within Helmut Kohl's family.
Extraordinary footage has emerged of his son Walter and two of his grandchildren arriving, dressed smartly in black clothes, at the family home in Ludwigshafen.
In front of journalists and well-wishers bringing flowers and candles, they knocked several times but were apparently refused entry and eventually escorted away by a policeman, who was overheard telling Mr Kohl that there was a restraining order in place which prevented him from visiting the property.
It is common knowledge here that Walter Kohl does not get on with his father's second wife. And an undignified public row over the episode at the house has erupted as Maike Kohl-Richter's lawyer issued a statement blaming Mr Kohl for his actions.
Mrs Kohl-Richter, an economist who once worked for the late chancellor, is herself a controversial figure who, as her husband's health declined, fiercely guarded access to the former chancellor.
They married in 2008 after he suffered a severe brain injury which left him largely unable to speak. She was more than 30 years his junior and, following the marriage, Mr Kohl became estranged from the rest of his family and was rarely seen in public.
Nevertheless, his opinions still made headlines, thanks largely to one of his very few confidants, Kai Diekmann, the former editor of Germany's tabloid newspaper Bild.
It is through Mr Diekmann that we know that Helmut Kohl will not be buried alongside his first wife, who took her own life in 2001.
Hannelore Kohl, who suffered from a debilitating allergy to sunlight, is buried in the Kohl family grave in Ludwigshafen.
According to Mr Diekmann, Helmut Kohl and his second wife changed his funeral plans two years ago when he was seriously ill. He will now be laid to rest in the grounds of Speyer Cathedral.
But what has intrigued many Germans is the late chancellor's apparent decision to refuse a state memorial ceremony. Mrs Kohl-Richter has insisted his wish is honoured and so, instead, a European service will be held in Strasbourg Cathedral.
It is widely believed that Mr Kohl, who was notorious for harbouring resentment, held many current German ministers in contempt.
Do not forget, after all, that Angela Merkel, once the protegee he referred to as his "Mädchen" (girl), betrayed him by highlighting his role in a party corruption scandal.
Mr Kohl, it appears, neither forgave nor forgot.
Maike Kohl-Richter reportedly tried, and failed, to prevent the German chancellor from speaking at the Strasbourg memorial.
In addition to the praise heaped upon the late chancellor in the German parliament on Thursday, the speaker of the house also said that Helmut Kohl had "sometimes an exceptionally stubborn personality". It was, of course, a characteristic that helped him to achieve the political victories for which he is now so widely lauded.
As the funeral arrangements are made and as the biographies and eulogies are prepared, the Kohl family continues to squabble.
Kohl's political creed was said to have been shaped by his childhood in the destruction of wartime Germany. He understood how terrible the consequences of division could be.
He also knew, perhaps better than anyone, how hard it is to heal such discord. | In the bright heat of a Berlin summer morning, the flags above the Reichstag flew at half-mast. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40368709"} | 935 | 28 | 0.298274 | 0.787259 | -1.455376 | 0.666667 | 36.809524 | 0.47619 |
On his first official visit to the US, the Pope paraded through Washington DC, greeting thousands of the faithful.
Sofia Cruz was stopped at first when she pushed past the barriers but the Pope waved her forward.
To loud cheers, the Pope gave Sofia a hug and a kiss and took her note.
"She came back and her father was just in tears. And the whole crowd in my section were just going nuts," said Joseph Reblando, who was standing next to the Cruz family.
Sofia said she wrote the letter about the five million children in the US like herself whose immigrant parents could be deported.
She also included a drawing with a message in Spanish that translates: "My friends and I love each other no matter our skin colour."
Immigration has become a major issue in the US presidential race with some candidates urging mass deportations.
About 11 million people, some with native-born children, live in the US illegally.
Democrats have advocated providing them with a path to citizenship, but many Republicans oppose such measures.
Sofia and her parents, who are from Mexico but now live in a suburb of Los Angeles, said they hope the Pope will speak about the immigration issue when he addresses the US Congress on Thursday. | The five-year-old daughter of undocumented immigrants managed to deliver a hand-written message to Pope Francis by pushing past metal barriers and a phalanx of security guards. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34343955"} | 266 | 43 | 0.532005 | 1.259547 | 0.063058 | 0.636364 | 7.575758 | 0.515152 |
England have not been the world's leading side since Great Britain claimed the World Cup in 1972.
Australian Bennett, 66, has signed a two-year deal to replace Steve McNamara, whose contract expired.
"The gap between us, Australia and New Zealand is smaller than ever," said Tomkins.
England are currently third in the Rugby League International Federation (RLIF) world rankings behind New Zealand and Australia.
Bennett is the most successful coach in NRL history, with seven Grand Final wins.
"His experience will help us," added Tomkins. "Becoming the world's leading side is the target, 100%."
'McNamara should be commended'
The Rugby Football League announced on Tuesday that McNamara's five-year reign would not be continuing, despite the 44-year-old leading England to victory over New Zealand.
Bennett, who will lead England through the 2016 Four Nations and 2017 World Cup, was announced as his successor just hours later.
"We've had the potential and players to become the world's number one side but we've not quite performed," Tomkins, 26, told BBC Sport.
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"Wayne Bennett is a big signing. He's been proven in the NRL for a number of years.
"He's got all the experience in the world so there's no reason he can't bring that to us and push us on."
The Wigan player added: "Steve McNamara has done a great job and he should be commended.
"He's leaving the England set-up in a much better place than he found it and that's testament to him."
Tomkins has rejoined Wigan for the new Super League campaign, determined to prove he deserves to be England's first-choice full-back.
Leeds Rhinos' Zak Hardaker, the 2015 Man of Steel, took the role in the Test series against New Zealand after Tomkins was ruled out after knee surgery.
Tomkins' absence meant McNamara did not have to choose between the pair, or find an alternative role for one of the men.
"Zak played there, I was injured, and it's good we've got healthy competition," said Tomkins, who believes he will be fit enough to make his Wigan return in May.
"But I want to play full-back - no doubt about it."
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Wigan begin the new campaign on Thursday hoping to go one step further than the back-to-back Grand Final defeats they have suffered in the past two seasons.
"We've got a very strong squad, playing in two Grand Finals and coming close is heartbreaking," said Tomkins. "I had to watch it as a fan and this season we will be aiming to rectify that.
"Hopefully the team will be in good stead when I come back from injury and my experience and leadership can give them that boost."
Tomkins returned to Wigan after spending two years at New Zealand Warriors, leaving the NRL with a year left on the three-year deal he initially signed.
"I missed playing the big games - the likes of St Helens, Warrington, Leeds - those big rivalry games. You don't get the same atmosphere in the NRL," he said.
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"Over there I had to adapt my game to how other players play and hopefully that will give me some new tools to perform in Super League."
BBC Radio 5 live sports extra has live coverage of two fixtures on the opening weekend of the 2016 Super League season.
You can listen to defending champions Leeds Rhinos hosting Warrington Wolves on Thursday (19:30 GMT), before Wigan Warriors' home game against Catalan Dragons on Friday. | England can be the world's leading Test side for the first time in more than 40 years under new head coach Wayne Bennett, says full-back Sam Tomkins. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35473969"} | 828 | 35 | 0.570683 | 1.342369 | 0.595789 | 1.53125 | 23.65625 | 0.78125 |
Exeter Crown Court heard Chay Roberts-Jones, of Preston Street, "accidentally hit" one girl "somewhere around the chest" during a camping trip.
The 29-year-old denies three counts of sexual assault.
He was suspended from Blundells School in Tiverton in 2014 over the allegations.
The prosecution alleges Mr Roberts-Jones ran his fingers over the 16-year-old girl's breasts during the camping trip.
Frederick Morris told the jury he was on the trip and said the girl was wearing a zip-up onesie, which she opened herself to reveal a t-shirt.
"There was a conversation and Mr Roberts-Jones was telling a story," he said.
"He was in the middle of a circle and as he turned around during the story he accidentally hit the girl.
"It was completely by accident and he apologised straight away."
Mr Morris said Mr Roberts-Jones "hit her somewhere around the chest" and "apologised and nothing was made of it".
The court heard he was living in a cottage in the school grounds and was engaged to a female teaching assistant at the time the alleged offences took place in 2011, 2013 and 2014.
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Parker, Joshua's mandatory challenger, knocked Dimitrenko down four times and won by TKO in the third round.
Joshua, 26, is scheduled to defend his title in Manchester on 26 November.
His promoter, Eddie Hearn, has said that Parker, 24, is Joshua's most likely opponent.
Saturday's fight finished in controversial fashion as Parker, who has won all 21 of his professional bouts, appeared to deliver a blow to the ribs while Dimitrenko (38-3) was on one knee.
"It was not correct. I was down on one knee and he hit me," said 34-year-old Dimitrenko. "But this is the boxing business - heavyweight boxing." | New Zealand's Joseph Parker remains on course to challenge Britain's Anthony Joshua for his IBF world heavyweight title after beating Russia's Alexander Dimitrenko in Auckland. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37532051"} | 160 | 38 | 0.597186 | 1.259856 | 0.367654 | 0.448276 | 4.793103 | 0.448276 |
The staff member became entangled with the hydraulically operated machine at the firm's shop in Middlesbrough's Captain Cook Square in December 2013.
The company must also pay £4,800 in costs.
It was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court having pleaded guilty to a health and safety offence at a previous hearing.
Easi Recycling Solutions Limited, which supplied and installed the machine, was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £6,800 costs having also previously admitted its guilt.
Judith Hedgley, Middlesbrough Council's environmental health and trading standards manager, said the woman's "serious crushing injuries" would have been avoided "if better safety procedures, supervision and training had been implemented for the users of the machine". | Discount retailer Poundworld has been fined £60,000 after a woman's arm was crushed in a cardboard compactor. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37255857"} | 164 | 28 | 0.50585 | 1.188215 | -1.287027 | 0.7 | 6.8 | 0.5 |
Ryan Christie was the architect of the opener with a burst of pace down the left flank and composed cut-back which Vincent dispatched form close range.
Debutant Storey finished from an angle late on to seal the points.
It was a poor evening for Hearts, who had Juwon Oshaniwa dismissed just before the second goal after he lashed out at Tobi Sho-Silva.
This may be the spark Inverness require to progress this season.
Both sides handed debuts to recent recruits with Storey starting up front for the home side and Danny Swanson named in the Hearts line-up.
Hearts seemed to be edging the early stages with both sides comfortable in possession but rarely threatening.
Juanma Delgado broke into the box after Josh Meekings lost possession and claimed for a penalty under Ross Draper's challenge but the striker appeared to go down too easily.
Storey showed a flash of what he can offer when Danny Williams flicked a pass in behind, a heavy touch just carrying the ball through to goalkeeper Neil Alexander.
The game became more and more scrappy, exemplified when Juanma powered a fresh air-shot nowhere to the delight of the home crowd.
Oshaniwa then saw a low drive edge past the post after the ball deflected into his path before Robbie Neilson's side had a second penalty claim turned down.
Sam Nicholson struck a fierce effort off a defender's arm and referee Steven McLean seemed to make the correct call that there was no intent.
But Neilson seemed to believe hands were raised and made his thoughts known to an official.
Play improved in the second half and Christie, back on loan at Inverness after signing for Celtic, provided the spark the Highlanders needed.
He showed great pace to escape down the the left and squared accurately for the onrushing Vincent, who fired home from close range. It was Caley Thistle's first home goal in just over four and a half matches.
They took real confidence from that and looked far more purposeful.
Swanson offered most of Hearts' creativity but Owain Fon Williams was rarely troubled throughout as the visitors struggled to cut the home side open.
Oshaniwa was red-carded for hitting out at Sho-Silva after the pair had exchanged while awaiting a corner.
And Storey put the result beyond doubt after Iain Vigurs played a low ball across goal, striking powerfully past Alexander to seal a deserved Inverness win.
Match ends, Inverness CT 2, Heart of Midlothian 0.
Second Half ends, Inverness CT 2, Heart of Midlothian 0.
Attempt missed. Callum Paterson (Heart of Midlothian) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right following a corner.
Corner, Heart of Midlothian. Conceded by Josh Meekings.
Attempt blocked. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Juanma (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Danny Devine (Inverness CT).
Juanma (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Juanma (Heart of Midlothian).
David Raven (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Goal! Inverness CT 2, Heart of Midlothian 0. Miles Storey (Inverness CT) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the high centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Tobi Sho-Silva (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Neil Alexander.
Attempt saved. Tobi Sho-Silva (Inverness CT) header from very close range is saved in the bottom left corner.
Juwon Oshaniwa (Heart of Midlothian) is shown the red card for violent conduct.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Callum Paterson.
Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Prince Buaben (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Greg Tansey (Inverness CT).
Attempt blocked. Juwon Oshaniwa (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Gavin Reilly replaces Sean McKirdy.
Attempt missed. Tobi Sho-Silva (Inverness CT) header from the centre of the box is too high.
Billy King (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT).
Igor Rossi (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tobi Sho-Silva (Inverness CT).
Substitution, Inverness CT. Iain Vigurs replaces James Vincent.
Attempt missed. Billy King (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Tobi Sho-Silva replaces Ryan Christie.
Attempt missed. Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Prince Buaben (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Miles Storey (Inverness CT).
Attempt missed. Billy King (Heart of Midlothian) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Jamie Walker (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Greg Tansey (Inverness CT).
Substitution, Heart of Midlothian. Jamie Walker replaces Danny Swanson.
Danny Swanson (Heart of Midlothian) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David Raven (Inverness CT).
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Kyle Bennett, Danny Rose and Carl Baker scored first-half goals before Kal Naismith added a fourth shortly after the interval.
Pompey find themselves just four points shy of second placed Plymouth following a third straight win.
The home side took the lead after 12 minutes when Bennett struck a shot from outside the area, which took a heavy deflection as it looped over visiting goalkeeper James McKeown.
Their lead doubled midway through the first half when Gareth Evans' pass was dummied by Bennett, leaving Rose to find the net with a deflected strike from distance.
Pompey added another goal on the stroke of half-time when Evans and Baker linked up down the right before the midfielder smashed his effort into the roof of the net.
Less than a minute into the second half the home side got their fourth after McKeown could only parry Baker's long-range shot into the path of Naismith, who made no mistakes completing the rout.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Portsmouth 4, Grimsby Town 0.
Second Half ends, Portsmouth 4, Grimsby Town 0.
Attempt missed. Michael Doyle (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Danny Andrew.
Danny Rose (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Luke Maxwell (Grimsby Town).
Attempt missed. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Conor Chaplin replaces Eoin Doyle.
Attempt blocked. Jamal Lowe (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Adi Yussuf replaces Akwasi Asante.
Foul by Carl Baker (Portsmouth).
Zak Mills (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Eoin Doyle (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt missed. Eoin Doyle (Portsmouth) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Zak Mills.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by James McKeown.
Attempt saved. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Jamal Lowe replaces Kal Naismith.
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Matthew Clarke.
Attempt saved. Gareth Evans (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Luke Maxwell (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Doyle (Portsmouth).
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Danny Rose.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Brandon Comley replaces Jamey Osborne.
Substitution, Grimsby Town. Craig Disley replaces Sam Jones.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Zak Mills.
Attempt blocked. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Scott Vernon (Grimsby Town) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Grimsby Town. Conceded by Gareth Evans.
Attempt blocked. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Sam Jones (Grimsby Town).
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Jamey Osborne (Grimsby Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Goal! Portsmouth 4, Grimsby Town 0. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Carl Baker.
Attempt saved. Carl Baker (Portsmouth) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Second Half begins Portsmouth 3, Grimsby Town 0.
First Half ends, Portsmouth 3, Grimsby Town 0.
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Swiss Raoul Savoy is charged with reviving the Scorpions' fortunes as they comeback from a ban that saw them miss the 2015 Nations Cup campaign.
"We can write a new history now, we are starting from zero," he told BBC Sport.
"We have a lot of new players who are just starting out and it is also a young squad with a lot of talent."
The Gambia were initially banned in May 2014 for two years from all Confederation of African Football competitions for deliberately falsifying player's ages in an under-20 match.
The ban was lifted just 5 months later after a new Gambia Football Association executive was voted in.
The 42-year-old Savoy returns to Africa after previously working in Cameroon, Morocco, Ethiopia, Swaziland, Algeria and the Central African Republic.
As well as South Africa his side will play World Cup finalists Cameroon and Mauritania in Group M of the 2017 qualifiers and he is aware of the challenge ahead.
"Of course, South Africa and Cameroon are more experienced and bigger teams than us but in football you never know," he said.
"If they give us a chance to challenge them and become the surprise of the group, we'll do it of course.
"We are not saying we are victims, we know we have the potential but we are new.
"That's why we must learn match after match and we'll see - maybe we'll create some surprises. Why not?"
Savoy is confident that he has the raw materials to work with in The Gambia.
"There is a lot of talent here; it's a talented country," he insisted.
"It's a small country but they also have a lot of talent based out of the country - in the United States, in Europe, in England, everywhere.
"Some of them have already played for the national team, others are new now, they will get their first cap in the next week.
"I think I will have a lot of work to do to go and watch all of them (across the world) and chose a better team in the coming months."
And he hopes that his latest post can be a stepping stone to bigger things and follow the likes of Philippe Troussier and Herve Renard.
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The Centre on Religion and Geopolitics, linked to former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, also says that 60% of the rebels could be classified as Islamists.
It argues that attempts by world powers to distinguish between moderate and extremist factions are flawed.
Western countries have stepped up air strikes against IS in Syria and Iraq.
But the Centre on Religion and Geopolitics said the greatest danger to the international community was groups who share the IS ideology but are currently being ignored.
They number about 100,000 fighters, the centre said.
"The West risks making a strategic failure by focusing only on IS," the centre said. "Defeating it militarily will not end global jihadism. We cannot bomb an ideology, but our war is ideological."
If IS is defeated, dispersed fighters and other extremists could attack targets outside Syria under a rallying cry that "the West destroyed the Caliphate", the centre warned.
Such new groups could compete for the spotlight to ensure allegiance from the global fighters and financing that IS currently attracts.
By contrast, fewer than a quarter of the rebels surveyed were not ideological, the centre said.
But many of those were willing to fight alongside extremists and would probably accept an Islamist political settlement to the civil war, it claimed.
In response, the military campaign against IS must be accompanied by an "intellectual and theological defeat of the pernicious ideology that drives it", the centre said.
It also said that unless Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaves or is removed from office, the war in the country is likely to spread further. | At least 15 rebel forces in Syria are ready to succeed so-called Islamic State (IS) if it is defeated by the US-led coalition, new research suggests. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35144420"} | 346 | 36 | 0.476117 | 1.171054 | 0.349893 | 0.588235 | 9.176471 | 0.470588 |
Polling stations opened their doors at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00.
The result is expected to be announced at about 17:00 BST on Friday.
Across England elections are taking place for more than 120 councils and the London Assembly, and to elect mayors in Bristol, Liverpool, London and Salford, and 36 police and crime commissioners. | Voting has begun to elect a police and crime commissioner for Avon and Somerset. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36204604"} | 77 | 19 | 0.61663 | 1.124747 | -0.652915 | 1.066667 | 4.4 | 0.533333 |
Pamela Geller is a harsh critic of political Islam who has often faced threats from jihadist groups.
She sponsored a competition to draw the prophet Muhammad which was attacked last month by two Islamic State-inspired gunmen in Texas.
On Tuesday Boston police in shot dead a suspect who had been under watch.
Boston Police Commissioner William B Evans described the plan to target Mrs Geller as "more along the lines of wishful thinking."
"There was some mention of that name", Mr Evans told a television program on Thursday morning.
Early on Tuesday morning Usaama Rahim, 26, called his nephew, David Wright, 24, to inform him that the plan had changed and he now intended to "go after" the "boys in blue" according to a conversations recorded by the FBI.
Investigators believe "boys in blue" was code for Boston police officers.
Two hours later Rahim was shot and killed while under surveillance by counter-terrorism officers.
Police say Rahim attacked officers with a large combat knife after being approached by five officers in the residential Roslindale neighbourhood.
He was shot three times and later died in hospital.
Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Rahim had been "communicating with and spreading ISIS [Islamic State] propaganda online".
"These cases are a reminder of the dangers posed by individuals radicalised through social media," said Mr McCaul.
Facebook posts published by the Boston Globe newspaper show that Rahim had been contacted by the FBI in the past.
"Damn FBI calling my phone!" Rahim wrote in 2012. "They just want any opportunity to drag a Muslim into some DRAMA . . . He wanted to meet up with me and 'Talk.' HA! I said about WHAT?"
"Try again, monkey-boys . . ." he followed up in a later post.
Rahim had worked for CVS since March but previously was a security guard, for a time employed at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center.
An investigation will be conducted by Boston Police and the FBI to determine if the shooting was justified.
David Wright was arrested later on Tuesday after a raid at his home in Everett, Massachusetts and now faces charges of conspiracy to obstruct an investigation.
Authorities also searched a home in Warwick, Rhode Island, but officials refused to say confirm it was linked to the Boston investigation. | Two men who plotted to "randomly" behead Boston police officers had initially planned to target a conservative blogger. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33011845"} | 520 | 27 | 0.43568 | 1.207344 | -0.175384 | 1.095238 | 22.52381 | 0.619048 |
China's richest man has continued his Hollywood shopping spree - snapping up the company that runs the Golden Globes.
Dalian Wanda, run by property magnate Wang Jianlin, is paying $1bn (£800m) for Dick Clark Productions that also runs the Miss America beauty pageant and the Billboard Music Awards.
The Chinese conglomerate already controls the AMC cinema chain, the second largest in the US, as well as Legendary Entertainment , co-producer of hit films including Godzilla and The Dark Knight Rises, and has a tie-up with Sony Pictures.
It seems that Mr Wang, who sits on a personal fortune of $32.1bn (£26.4bn) according to a recent rich list, really is buying up the US entertainment industry, one step at a time.
Many suspect it is just a matter of time until he gets a big chunk of one of Hollywood's big six film studios. Earlier this year he got close to buying a 49% stake in Paramount Pictures from Viacom before the deal collapsed.
Dalian Wanda said the purchase of Dick Clark Productions represented Wanda's "first step" into television production.
But long before this deal, some US politicians were already worried about China's influence in Hollywood and the US media - whether that is censoring media or producing pro-Chinese propaganda. In September, 16 members of the US Congress called for greater scrutiny of foreign investments, mentioning Dalian Wanda by name.
Mr Wang has not shied away from his ambition to make China a dominant global force in entertainment and to bring "more Chinese elements" to the output.
But he insists he is motivated by a "business perspective" rather than a political one, with China's box office takings predicted to match the US and Canada by 2018 - and to grow by around 15% each year for the next decade.
"You cannot try to just make money in the Chinese market and disregard Chinese tastes," Mr Wang said earlier this year.
But there is "soft power" at play here too - using businesses to wield cultural influence over the way China is portrayed.
Next year Legendary Entertainment, in partnership with Universal, will release Great Wall - starring Hollywood stars Matt Damon and Willem Dafoe alongside big name Chinese actor Andy Lau and boy-band idol Wang Junkai,
And crucially, it will be the first major Hollywood film, aimed at a global audience, to be set, filmed and produced in China. | When owning a huge cinema chain is not enough, why not buy the firm behind one of the film and television industry's most high-profile awards as well? | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37869173"} | 557 | 36 | 0.412215 | 1.127896 | 0.240424 | 0.8125 | 14.875 | 0.625 |
The Oscar-winning actor is rumoured to be playing the lead villain in Star Wars Episode VIII.
"I know that Star Wars fans are hardcore and I'm very excited to be part of this great franchise," Del Toro told the BBC.
"I read the script and l can tell you it's a very good script."
Director Rian Johnson's as-yet-untitled sequel is due out in May 2017.
Del Toro, who is in London to promote his latest film Sicario, said he couldn't reveal much about the character he'd be playing.
"I haven't started it put it together. I'll build it with the director. I don't like to talk about things until they're done. I almost feel like you jinx it. Walk the walk and then talk the talk.
"But walk the walk first."
Del Toro appeared as the Collector in last year's Marvel movie Guardians of the Galaxy. In Sicario, he plays an enigmatic "consultant" on a an elite task force fighting a drug cartel on the US-Mexico border.
The first new Star Wars film to be released will be Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens - out in the UK on 17 December. | Benicio del Toro says he's excited about his upcoming role in Star Wars but doesn't want to "jinx it" by saying too much. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34329523"} | 284 | 39 | 0.562834 | 1.337929 | -0.100955 | 1.035714 | 8.857143 | 0.678571 |
Jasmine Rana presented a petition signed by 70,000 people calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to secure her father's return to the UK.
Mohammed Asghar's family and solicitor met with a Foreign Office minister.
Mr Asghar, who is said to be mentally ill, is in hospital after he was shot by a prison guard last month.
He was arrested for writing letters claiming to be a prophet and convicted of blasphemy.
Mr Asghar's relatives and their lawyer, Aamer Anwar, met with Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond earlier this week to discuss the situation.
They hoped to discuss the case with Mr Cameron while in London, but instead met with Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood.
In a public statement, Ms Rana said that her father suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, diagnosed by UK doctors in 2010. She said that shortly after this diagnosis he travelled to Pakistan where he was arrested on blasphemy charges.
Ms Rana said: "Despite the fact that Pakistani law says that mentally ill people cannot be given the death penalty, my dad was convicted and sentenced to death at the beginning of this year.
"Ever since then we have been terrified for his safety and two weeks ago our worst fears came true when a police officer came into my dad's cell and shot him in the back. A second shot was also fired and missed."
Ms Rana said that they had been working with the Scottish and UK governments to urge the Punjab authorities to acknowledge Mr Asghar's mental illness and ensure his safety, but that their request had not been taken seriously.
She said that Punjab authorities were refusing to give them access to information about Mr Asghar's mental health and about "what really happened" in Adiala prison on the day he was shot.
Her statement ended: "My dad has spent a very long four years in prison without proper treatment for his illness. His life remains at risk for as long as he is held in Pakistan. I have come to London today to ask the prime minister to intervene to bring dad back home. It must end now - he has suffered enough."
Earlier this week, Mr Salmond offered the full support of the Scottish government in attempting to secure Mr Asghar's release.
Speaking after Wednesday's meeting with Mr Salmond, Mr Anwar said: "We welcome the unconditional support of the Scottish government, the first minister and their repeated attempts to assist Mr Asghar and his family."
He said they were "disappointed" that David Cameron had not responded to the request to meet with them when they handed in the petition.
Pakistani authorities have attempted to return Mr Asghar, who is from Edinburgh, from hospital to the same prison where he was shot.
Kate Higham, an investigator at Reprieve, described Mr Asghar as "seriously mentally ill". She said he should never have been sentenced and that he is "extremely vulnerable" in Pakistan.
She said: "It's clear that the Pakistani authorities are unwilling to acknowledge his illness or allow his lawyers and family to support his case. David Cameron must intervene as an absolute priority to ensure that Mr Asghar is properly treated by the authorities, and ultimately allowed to return home."
The Reprieve charity said that the authorities in Punjab province, where Mr Asghar is being held, have refused requests by his lawyers to access the results of an investigation into the shooting, as well as information relating to his medical assessments since the incident.
Mr Asghar was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in Edinburgh's Royal Victoria Hospital shortly before his trip to Pakistan in 2010.
He was arrested there for writing several letters claiming to be a prophet and was sentenced to death for blasphemy.
Those accused of blasphemy in Pakistan are at high risk of attack from religious extremists. | The daughter of a man from Edinburgh who is on death row in Pakistan has met UK government officials to plead for intervention. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "29658735"} | 847 | 27 | 0.48116 | 1.331046 | -0.038038 | 1 | 30.833333 | 0.75 |
The body of Brian Martin, 34, was discovered in his flat in Lincoln Avenue on 7 November.
His family had raised the alarm after becoming concerned for him. It is thought he may have been dead for several days.
Officers investigating the murder want to hear from anyone who was aware of a disturbance at the flat.
The murder inquiry was launched following a post mortem examination.
Det Insp Alan McAlpine said: "My team of detectives have been carrying out door to door inquiries, and are accessing all available CCTV from the immediate vicinity to try to piece together his last known movements.
"It is understood at this time he had lain in the flat for a few days before being discovered.
"I would like to reiterate my appeal for information to the local community of Knightswood for their assistance.
"The area of Lincoln Avenue is very residential with a lot of properties, therefore I would ask anyone who lives nearby and who may have witnessed or heard something unusual or witnessed any kind of disturbance to get in touch with police." | Police have said the death of a man found in the Knightswood area of Glasgow was murder. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37930757"} | 220 | 22 | 0.488956 | 1.002129 | -1.105232 | 1.111111 | 11.555556 | 0.777778 |
The dead man was Christopher Pariseleti, 41, owner of Pariseleti Construction, police told local media.
In a statement, Newton-John and her husband said they were "in shock" over the death at her home near Palm Beach.
A worker was reportedly seen crying at the property after the shooting at noon on Monday at Jupiter Inlet Colony.
The Australian star and her husband, John Easterling, were not at home when the incident happened, said police.
Officials told ABC News the death had been classified as suicide, and there were "no suspicious circumstances". | A man who shot and killed himself at actress and singer Olivia Newton-John's Florida home was a contractor working on the property, police say. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "23775404"} | 124 | 32 | 0.675534 | 1.44184 | -0.406599 | 0.931034 | 3.931034 | 0.586207 |
Lawyers for one of the men successfully sued by relatives of some of those murdered indicated a hearing planned for January may have to be put back.
The potential hold-up is due to material being sought in a bid to help overturn the original findings.
Twenty-nine people including a woman pregnant with twins were killed in the Real IRA bombing in August 1998.
After being updated duon Monday, Lord Justice Higgins told the legal teams involved: "If there is to be an application to vacate the date for which this appeal is presently fixed, that application will require to be made in the first half of November."
A separate bid by victims' families to obtain a more punitive award of exemplary damages against those deemed responsible is also due to be mounted during a scheduled two-week hearing.
In a landmark ruling last year Mr Justice Morgan, now the lord chief justice, ordered that more than £1.6m in total should be paid out to 12 relatives.
Four men were found liable for the atrocity: Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell, Seamus Daly and Colm Murphy.
Their planned challenges to the verdict were originally in doubt until they were all granted legal aid earlier this year.
During a review hearing on Monday Mary Higgins QC, for Daly, stressed that all involved wanted the appeal to go ahead on time.
But she flagged up potential delays over obtaining all transcripts and documents required to mount a full challenge to the original verdict.
Brett Lockhart QC, for the victims' families, claimed the only difficulty appeared to be over Daly's requests for "all sorts of extraneous material".
Mr Lockhart said Daly wanted to go over "various other conspiracy theories", but accepted it was his right to bring the appeal in whatever way he wanted.
However, he added: "The fact they wish to have such a wide-ranging amount of documentation should not be permitted to delay the trial of this matter."
Lawyers on both sides were told to meet again later this week in an attempt to finalise indexes of material they will seek to rely on. | Appeals by four alleged dissident republicans held liable for the Omagh bomb atrocity could be delayed. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "11567685"} | 459 | 27 | 0.480885 | 1.221974 | 0.143621 | 0.823529 | 24.176471 | 0.470588 |
The foreign secretary said the PM had "put things back together and got the show back on the road" after a "difficult" election.
Asked about about any leadership contest, he said there would not be a vacancy "for a very long time".
He also appeared to backtrack on his previous support for axing the public sector pay cap.
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Johnson said he agreed with Chancellor Philip Hammond on public sector pay and the need to take a "fiscally sensible and responsible" approach.
A source close to Mr Johnson had previously said the foreign secretary supported a better pay deal for public sector workers and believed this could be done without causing "fiscal pressures".
Mr Johnson, who was briefly a rival to Mrs May in the Conservative leadership contest which followed David Cameron's resignation last year, sought to play down talk of a fresh contest.
He said: "The last thing people want is any more of this kind of nonsense.
"They want to see a long period of stability and calm and progress for the British people."
Mr Johnson also used his Today interview to urge China to step up economic pressure on North Korea following the launch of a long-range missile in defiance of a ban by the UN Security Council.
"My view is that what the North Koreans are doing is reckless, it's indefensible, it's in defiance of UN resolutions, repeated UN resolutions, it's illegal and I think that it is very important that the world stands together against what they re doing.
"People will say well, what can we actually physically do, and the single most important thing is for the country with the most direct economic relationship with North Korea, that is China, has got to continue to put on the pressure.
"In the last six months or so, we are seeing some real changes in Beijing's attitude to North Korea and that's got to go further."
China and Russia have urged the United States to show restraint, after the American ambassador to the United Nations warned that North Korea's test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile had cast a dark shadow over the world.
Nikki Haley told an emergency meeting of the Security Council that the test represented a sharp military escalation.
Asked about whether he believed US President Donald Trump, who will later meet Theresa May in Hamburg, was unpredictable she said the UK did not "agree with everything Washington currently says".
But she added: "I think, actually, that Donald Trump's approach to politics has been something that has gripped the imagination of people around the world.
"He's engaged people in politics in a way that we haven't seen for a long time, with his tweets and all the rest of it. I do think that he raises people's awareness of issues, he engages in a very direct way." | Boris Johnson has dismissed leadership speculation, saying Theresa May has shown "unbelievable grace and steel". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40517324"} | 638 | 23 | 0.426175 | 0.981381 | -0.108156 | 0.789474 | 30.315789 | 0.578947 |
Police said he was Scott Pankhurst, also known as Scott Finnie, who lived in Dundee.
The accident happened on the A85, two miles east of Gilmerton, at about 20:00 on Tuesday. The road was closed while emergency services dealt with the incident.
Police said inquiries into the accident were continuing. | A 42-year-old driver who died after a tree hit his car in Perthshire has been named. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40199942"} | 69 | 24 | 0.524297 | 1.08415 | -1.377012 | 0.142857 | 2.857143 | 0.142857 |
At Vibrant Gujarat 2015 they have made an exception though - shoppers can choose between just two items: a collarless jacket or a collarless shirt, traditional garments popularised by the fashion tastes of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Take home the original souvenir," says the sign above a photo of the "Modi Jacket". "Made in India, loved by the world."
The conference plays unashamedly on Mr Modi's popularity both with business leaders and more widely in Gujarat, the state where he was chief minister for 13 years.
His face looms from almost every billboard, while another stall lets visitors take a virtual "selfie" with the Prime Minister.
The official photos will be a touch more formal - with A-list guests including US Secretary of State John Kerry, heads of the United Nations and World Bank and dozens of government ministers and global chief executives.
And while the event is billed as attracting investment to Gujarat, Mr Modi's speech, a rare one in English, was pushing the message that India as a whole is open for business.
"We have a large number of hands to work and, we have even larger number of dreams to be realised," he said.
Tens of billions of dollars were committed by Indian firms on the first day of the conference, though observers said these events had a history of pledges that were never followed through.
A $1.5bn (£987m) UK investment in a new power plant was one of the few solid foreign investments unveiled. And UK Trade Minister Lord Livingston told the BBC that Mr Modi was a big factor in that investment.
"What he wants to do is bring that degree of pro-business friendly environment to India. I certainly see among Indian and UK businessmen excitement and possibilities. And we are starting to see some changes and I think we expect a lot more on the way."
A film played to the thousands of delegates highlighted policy decisions taken by the government since coming to power, from raising the foreign direct investment levels for insurance, defence and railways, to overhauling labour laws.
But some say more real action is needed on the ground, with delays in approving projects still a big issue according to Edward Monser, president of US manufacturing and technology firm Emerson.
"We look at a great backlog of identified projects," he told the BBC .
"The faster they can get that approved, the faster the economy can grow."
The economy was at the heart of Mr Modi's election campaign last year, with a pledge that he could do for India what he had managed in his home state.
But opponents say Gujarat failed to outperform several other states. Others argue it fared less well on social indicators, including malnutrition and literacy rates.
And while World Bank President Jim Yong Kim used his speech at the summit to describe India as "a bright spot in an otherwise mediocre global economic outlook", he also pointed to changes needed if growth is to benefit more people.
"The Indian society has an enduring exclusion that is based, among other things, on caste identities," he said.
"This bias can impede shared prosperity, serving as a basis for discrimination in many spheres."
It was a sentiment shared by some locals outside the conference centre too.
Waiting in line for a rickshaw, a middle-aged woman complained to my colleague that the state government had spent heavily on the summit, while doing little for the poor.
Cooking gas prices had doubled, she said. And a new policy giving her a bank account meant she was spending money travelling to the nearest branch to withdraw cash.
Mr Modi has arguably won over Indian business and is showing signs of doing the same with would-be investors, but convincing many of his own people to believe in his vision could be a much trickier task. | Stalls selling clothes don't usually feature at conferences dedicated to foreign investment. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30772884"} | 846 | 18 | 0.402336 | 1.174858 | 0.224517 | 0.571429 | 54.428571 | 0.428571 |
An International Cricket Council (ICC) movement expert found his arm extended beyond the 15 degrees allowed.
Phangiso, 32, is in the Proteas squad for this month's World T20 in India.
If he passes a re-test on 7 March, he will be available for the final T20 against Australia and the World T20.
South Africa meet England in their opening game on 18 March.
Phangiso was reported by umpires after helping Lions reach the final of South Africa's domestic 50-over competition.
He will remain with the South Africa squad and work with spin bowling coach Claude Henderson and Cricket South Africa high performance manager Vinnie Barnes to try to remedy his action.
South Africa face Australia in Durban on Friday, Johannesburg on Sunday and Cape Town on 9 March. | South Africa left-arm spinner Aaron Phangiso will miss the first two matches of the Twenty20 series against Australia after tests showed his bowling action was illegal. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35697565"} | 175 | 36 | 0.65344 | 1.337212 | 0.338212 | 0.724138 | 5.275862 | 0.586207 |
Of 5,515 stray dogs picked-up by councils in Ulster, only 286 had to be put to sleep, compared to 409 last year.
The total number of stray and abandoned dogs in Northern Ireland has also fallen; from 5,653 in 2015.
Although almost half of the dogs recovered were reunited with their owners, many live in rescue centres.
"This year's Stray Dog Survey shows good news for Northern Ireland," said Ronnie Milsop, Dogs Trust Campaigns Manager for Northern Ireland.
"Whilst it's positive that the number of dogs put to sleep by local authorities has decreased, any dog destroyed for want of a home is one dog too many.
"We work very closely with the Local Authorities who should be commended on their efforts to encourage responsible dog ownership through neutering, microchipping and education over the past year."
Dogs that are picked up by the council are held at pounds for seven days.
After that councils must re-home the animals or find spaces for them in rescue centres.
Each council area has different resources and a limited number of spaces.
If room cannot be found for an animal they have to be put down.
Almost a third of this year's stray and abandoned dogs were reported to have microchips, which accounts for the high number of pets that were reunited with their owners.
Microchipping is a procedure carried out a a veterinary practice. A tiny microchip is inserted under the animal's skin.
This chip gives the pet a unique code that can be scanned and matched to the owner's contact details, which are kept on a database. | The number of dogs being put down by councils in Northern Ireland has decreased by 30% in the last year. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37481552"} | 359 | 23 | 0.589363 | 1.417876 | 0.017055 | 2.318182 | 14.363636 | 0.863636 |
Allen has one year left on his Liverpool contract and started only 19 games in the entire campaign.
"I think it hinges on the pre-season plans and what exactly the club are hoping to do, everything comes into that," Allen explained.
"As a footballer you want to play every minute of every game. That's been the challenge for me."
Allen discussed his future at the club in January but it was decided to hold off on a decision until the summer.
Liverpool spent £15million on Allen in August 2012.
"There was a conversation with the club in terms of what the future did hold for me, if I would feature more or if I would feature in the plans moving forward," Allen said at Wales' pre-Euro 2016 training camp in Portugal.
"They [chief executive Ian Ayre and manager Jurgen Klopp] made it clear at that stage I wouldn't be moving anywhere.
"I knew where I stood, and it was good to have that conversation and know that I had the second half of the season to look forward to with Liverpool.
"As soon as the season finished with Liverpool I said to myself, 'I don't want to have any distractions and I am fully focussed and engaged on purely all things Wales'.
"That's where I am at the moment."
Allen feels his season improved, along with Liverpool's, after the appointment of Klopp.
"What was great about the second half of the season was all the different competitions and how far we went," Allen said.
"There was so much to play for and every player in the squad had a part to play.
"The support [from the fans] has been brilliant in the last few months.
"It's always great for a player, it always helps you when you step out on the pitch. I've enjoyed that and it made things easier.
"People have talked about the improvement in my game this year, but it's almost a back-handed compliment in some ways.
"In the first half of the season I hadn't played. I'm 26, not 36, so I am still developing and improving.
"I'd be very disappointed if I said at the end of any year that I hadn't improved as the season had gone on." | Liverpool midfielder Joe Allen says his future at Anfield could depend on the chances he is given in pre-season. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36393965"} | 484 | 27 | 0.460805 | 1.091037 | 0.014962 | 1.181818 | 21.409091 | 0.545455 |
Glangwili Hospital has been forced to close the Dewi Ward and its coronary care unit to new admissions.
The hospital has also isolated affected patients and is limiting visitor numbers.
People are asked to stay away if they have had diarrhoea or vomiting in the last 48 hours or been in contact with someone who has in the last 72 hours.
Hospital manager Sarah Perry said: "We have taken a number of measures to protect patients and reduce the spread of infection." | An outbreak of diarrhoea and vomiting has caused two wards to be closed at a Carmarthen hospital. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32223368"} | 106 | 31 | 0.564977 | 1.185769 | -0.262913 | 0.5 | 5.111111 | 0.5 |
Fane Valley is based in Banbridge ,County Down, and employs more than 2,200 people.
Lakeland Dairies are based in Bailieboro, County Cavan, and employ almost 700 people.
The merger will only involve part of the business, Fane Valley Dairies, Fane Valley Stores and Fane Valley feeds. The company's meat and food processing sectors are not included.
Trevor Lockhart, chief executive of Fane Valley, said: "We'll be stronger together - and I am absolutely confident that this move will make better businesses, can deliver more competitive returns and can ensure the sustainability not just our farmers, but of our staff."
The first joint company will be in the agri-business sector and will be led by Fane Valley.
It will pool both of the societies' feed manufacturing, sales and stores activities.
Lakeland Dairies will be a partner and a shareholder in the business. It will be worth around £125m per year.
Lakeland Dairies will manage the merged dairy processing activities and operation.
Fane Valley will be a partner and shareholder.
In Northern Ireland, Fane Valley and Lakeland Dairies currently procure 580m litres of milk each year for processing into a wide range of value added dairy products and food ingredients, which are exported worldwide.
The move will create the second largest milk processor in Ireland behind Glanbia.
The turnover of the new venture is estimated to be about £480m pounds a year.
Michael Hanley, chief executive of Lakeland Dairies, said the move was driven by "common sense, a lot of trust between both parties and a recognition that farmers are entitled to get the best returns possible from the dairy markets".
"There was a recognition that to compete globally you need a certain level of scale and efficiencies to drive through the plants," he said.
Both co-operative societies will continue to operate on an independent basis outside of the joint ventures.
The possibility of a full merger has not been ruled out.
There are consultations taking place with staff. But both companies said there would be no job losses. | Fane Valley is to merge some parts of its business with Lakeland Dairies. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33799191"} | 467 | 20 | 0.617749 | 1.761746 | -0.335879 | 1.285714 | 29.071429 | 0.714286 |
The fire in Glentaise Drive was reported to the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) shortly after 08:00 BST on Monday.
Residents got out before crews arrived.
NIFRS Station Commander Noel Darley said: "After initial investigation, we're treating the fire as a deliberate fire."
He said it appeared that the fire "started in the roof void of one of the properties and spread to an adjoining property".
"The prompt response from the Ballycastle crews undoubtedly prevented much more substantial fire spread to a further four adjoining properties," Mr Darley added.
Two fire appliances from Ballycastle Fire Station and one from Coleraine Fire Station were deployed to the scene.
They left the scene shortly before 09:45 BST and the arson investigation has been passed through to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). | Two houses have been badly damaged and a further two homes sustained slight smoke damage in an arson attack in Ballycastle, County Antrim. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34378365"} | 187 | 32 | 0.647944 | 1.322017 | -0.012047 | 0.6 | 6.44 | 0.52 |
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust said it is considering slashing opening hours at Grantham and District Hospital due to a severe shortage of doctors.
It said closing the Grantham A&E rather than the departments at Lincoln County Hospital or Pilgrim Hospital in Boston was the "safest option".
A spokesman for the trust said failing to act "may put patients at risk".
The Royal College for Emergency Medicine (RCEM) said news of the potential closure was "disappointing, yet unsurprising".
Dr Suneil Kapadia, medical director at the trust, said: "We haven't made a final decision yet and we hope to avoid this, but the reality is we will need to temporarily reduce the opening hours of A&E at Grantham.
"The quality and safety of patient care is the trust's number one priority and we haven't rested on our laurels."
A recruitment drive both in the UK and overseas and the offer of premium rates to attract agency doctors failed to attract more staff, while £4m has been invested in urgent care services.
"Despite this, we have reached crisis point," Dr Kapadia said.
71,000 Lincoln County Hospital - 190 per 24 hours
55,000 Pilgrim Hospital, Boston - 147 per 24 hours
29,000 Grantham and District Hospital - 80 per 24 hours
A trust spokesman said emergency departments at the hospital normally work based on having 15 consultants and 28 registrar or middle grade doctors.
However, it currently has just 14 consultants - 10 of whom are locums - and 12 middle grades.
Lincoln County Hospital or Pilgrim Hospital both take more seriously ill patients and have a higher number of patients attending A&E and being admitted than Grantham, the spokesman said.
The trust is working with other A&E providers, East Midlands Ambulance Service and clinical commissioning groups in an effort to avoid the closure at Grantham.
RCEM President Dr Clifford Mann said: "The great efforts made by doctors and nurses to help patients in under-resourced locations sometimes is not sustainable.
"As well as potentially putting patient safety at risk, placing an ever increasing workload on overstretched staff can create a vicious circle in retention and recruitment, with many overworked trainees simply choosing to leave the country or indeed the specialty altogether.
"The wider picture is there is a real crisis in emergency medicine as our workforce numbers are not growing fast enough to keep pace with rising numbers of patients attending A&E Departments." | Hospital bosses could shut an accident and emergency department at night in order to combat a staffing crisis. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37026000"} | 548 | 24 | 0.339688 | 0.976252 | 0.250549 | 0.526316 | 24.789474 | 0.526316 |
The "care calculator" covers both residential care and the support provided in people's own homes.
Users can submit their postcode and find out how much each service costs wherever they live in the UK.
Care Minister Norman Lamb said it was a great example of "public sector broadcasting", while users praised they way it explained the system.
The gudie also gives details about how the systems differ in the four nations - since devolution, the way services are organised has diverged.
The ageing population means there is an increasing focus on care services - and how they link up with the NHS.
About 420,000 people live in care homes across the UK, while another 1m get help in their own home.
Some people pay for all their care, while others get help from their local councils towards their fees.
There are another 1.5 million people who rely on friends and family for support.The guide has been compiled using information from analysts LaingBuisson, councils and through the Freedom of Information Act.
It shows how care costs can vary - in Barnsley the average sum paid for a care home place is £399.13 a week, for example, while in the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea costs top £1,000.
Users in England are also able to get an estimate of how much they may have to pay before their care costs are capped under a reform due to be introduced in April 2016.
420,000
people live in care homes
1 in 3
pay for themselves
£574 avg weekly fee in England
£513 avg weekly fee in Wales
£510 avg weekly fee in Scotland
£492 avg weekly fee in N Ireland
Elsewhere in the UK, the guide provides information about local fees - and what elements of the system are free.
In Scotland, personal care is free, while in Northern Ireland many do not have to pay for home care. In Wales, help at home is capped at £55 a week.
Norman Lamb, England's care minister, said: "This calculator is a fantastic resource.
"It gives you lots of great information and is what public sector broadcasting is all about. I'm really impressed."
Janet Morrison, chief executive of the Independent Age charity, said: "Working out what to pay for care is a complex business and is often approached at a strained and emotional point in people's lives.
"Anything that makes this process simpler to plan, understand and navigate is applauded."
Caroline Abrahams, of Age UK, added: "The BBC's care cap calculator is a useful tool that brings some clarity to a complicated system."
The guide has also been well received by the public. One BBC website user in Rome emailed the BBC to say: "Many thanks for this very useful tool. I am following the care of my elderly mother who lives at home in Surrey and found the tool very informative and useful."
While a twitter user said: "Such an important policy issue and what a great resource."
The launch of the calculator has also prompted wide-ranging debate and comments on social media about the care system. One Facebook user described how an elderly neighbour was helped by people living locally, meaning she only needed professional help just before she died at the age of 89.
"The cost was negligible to the taxpayer compared to what it would have cost if all the neighbour's had ignored her. Surely we all owe it to our friends and neighbour's to do our bit?" | The BBC has been praised for launching a "fantastic" online guide to the care system for the over-65s. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31004434"} | 745 | 30 | 0.446363 | 1.171052 | -0.646178 | 1.238095 | 33.142857 | 0.857143 |
A representative in the Wales squad at the Commonwealth Games, 22-year-old Moore, who runs for Birchfield Harriers and Cardiff Met University, only had eyes for medals earned on the track.
Fast forward to 2016 and Moore is now a woman on a mission, to represent Wales at athletics and Team GB at the Winter Olympics. Bobsleigh now means a whole lot more to her than just a plotline from a well-loved Disney movie.
She is currently in New York, preparing for the latest leg of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation World Cup as part of her new role as a brake-woman in the women's GB bobsleigh team.
She is not ready to give up on her athletic dreams either, as the Newport athlete aims to conquer both the summer and winter disciplines.
Moore is not entirely sure how or why she decided to try out winter sports, but Cool Runnings definitely played a part.
"It is quite strange. Everyone asks, 'how did you get into bobsleigh?' And to be honest, I am not really sure. But I am enjoying it anyway," she told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"The basis of my bobsleigh knowledge was like everyone else's, Cool Runnings.
"Everyone instantly thinks of that film and I've had so many people asking me if I have a lucky egg, or whether I kiss my lucky egg.
"That is all I heard before I started and that was all I knew of bobsleigh.
"One of the boys who is on the bobsleigh team, Judah [Simpson], used to do athletics alongside me and we trained in the summer together.
"I saw how well the bobsleigh team were doing, they had been doing exceptionally well recently and I had a chat with him and said 'how do I get involved with this?'
"I thought it was something I would enjoy. I am really grateful he recommended it, it is really good fun."
Moore says her initial fears of participating in bobsleigh, where speeds can reach 125 miles per hour, were quickly extinguished once she got a taste for the event.
"I have always been someone who likes to find thrills and conquer my fears and things like that," she said.
"When you are stood at the top of the track you can't see the finish. So it is not too bad, I get in and shut my eyes until it is time for me to brake.
"It is really fun, that is the main thing. The one word I would use to describe bobsleighing is 'fun'."
Moore is determined not to pick between her winter and summer sports, insisting her future will include success in both.
"I wouldn't and I won't prioritise one sport over the other. I think I can do both and that is definitely my plan," she added.
"If anything, I think the bobsleigh will aid my athletics. Some of the other people in the team, like Joel [Fearon], have had such a successful season on the track as well.
"I think it only helps and assists the athletics and visa-versa. Bobsleigh is such a powerful sport, you need that power, especially at the start and I think I bring that from the athletics side.
"Next year what I will be trying to do is qualify for the Commonwealth Games.
"The hope is certainly that 2018 will be a really busy year, because it is the Commonwealth Games and the Winter Olympics as well.
"I think I am pretty good with time management and I hope to be able to do both.
"If all goes to plan, that is what will happen.
"The cherry on top would be to win a medal in both, but I know I need to train really hard just to achieve those goals and get to the two events." | Just over a year ago, if you had asked Mica Moore about bobsleigh, the 100m sprinter would have talked about the 1993 Disney movie Cool Runnings. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38238477"} | 850 | 39 | 0.407825 | 1.208678 | -0.004341 | 1 | 25.833333 | 0.666667 |
The lawyer for Thomas Sinclair told Llanelli Magistrates' Court, Carmarthenshire, the article was not "likely" to identify the person.
Mr Sinclair, 37, from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, denied breaching the Sexual Offences Act.
Judgement has been reserved until May. | The editor of the Ceredigion Herald has pleaded not guilty to printing an article likely to identify the victim of a sex offence when they are automatically given lifelong anonymity. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39654227"} | 71 | 43 | 0.661779 | 1.33599 | -0.278333 | 0.548387 | 1.677419 | 0.354839 |
German media say the 31-year-old backpacker, who spoke neither German nor English, underwent a medical check and his fingerprints were taken.
A Red Cross worker later found out that the man's wallet had been stolen in Stuttgart. But instead of going to the police the man registered as a migrant.
A Mandarin speaker solved the puzzle.
The translator was found at a Chinese restaurant near the migrant hostel where the tourist was staying, in Duelmen, near the west German city of Dortmund.
In early July the tourist arrived at the hostel on a bus with migrants, from Dortmund.
"He was so different from the others. Very, very helpless," said Red Cross worker Christoph Schluetermann.
A translation app confirmed Mr Schluetermann's suspicions that the tourist had got entangled in the asylum system by mistake.
"It came up with phrases like 'I want to go on a trip abroad'," he said. It emerged that the tourist had plans to visit Italy and France.
The man, from northern China, had calmly allowed the authorities to take away his passport and visa, and take his fingerprints.
He then had a medical check and was given the standard papers that migrants get on arrival in Germany. He had meals at the migrant hostel and received some spending money.
Mr Schluetermann said hostel staff made futile calls to various consulates, hoping to identify the tourist. An error over the man's visa caused further delay.
Finally his asylum application was stopped and he was able to continue his European tour.
According to German broadcaster WDR, the man did not get angry but left Germany saying simply that he had imagined Europe to be quite different. | A Chinese tourist spent nearly two weeks in a German migrant hostel after mistakenly applying for asylum when he actually wanted to report a theft. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37013007"} | 370 | 34 | 0.542305 | 1.4556 | 0.334836 | 0.653846 | 12.846154 | 0.5 |
The study used tree ring records and historical documents to reconstruct yearly temperatures going back 2,100 years.
Scientists say that past natural variability in temperatures was greater than previously thought.
As a result, climate models may be underestimating the frequency and severity of heat waves in the future.
According to the study, Europe has seen an increase in summer warming of 1.3C between 1986 and 2015.
In this period there has also been an increase in severe heat waves, most notably in 2003, 2010 and 2015.
The 2003 event was linked to the extra deaths of thousands of elderly people due to heat stroke, dehydration and increased air pollution.
In 2014, researchers from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that the period between 1983 and 2012 was likely the warmest 30 years of the last 1,400 in the Northern Hemisphere.
But this new, large-scale study, involving 45 researchers from 13 different countries, attempts to put the European temperatures experienced in the past three decades into an even broader context.
They have understood for many years that the last 1,000 years was cooler because of the Little Ice Age, which lasted from the 14th to the 19th Century.
They wanted to go as far beyond that as they could to better understand natural variability.
To do this, the researchers used recently developed statistical reconstruction methods, as well as a number of what they term "high quality proxy records", to estimate the European mean temperature variation since 138 BC.
"We've got 2,000 years of reconstruction where we have values for every year and the big surprise was that there wasn't a single 30-year period that was as warm as the last 30 years; that was unexpected," said Prof Danny McCarroll from Swansea University, UK, who was part of the research group.
The researchers then used modern climate models to predict past temperatures and compared the results with their newly reconstructed record.
"The modern models don't reconstruct the full range of climate change in the past, so they are underestimating the natural variability of the climate," said Prof McCarroll.
"When they predict forwards, they predict the effect of CO2 but they have to sit natural variability on top of it. If they underestimate that they underestimate the extremes - so the recurrence of heat waves are likely to be underestimated by these models."
Even though the new reconstruction has a wider range of natural variability in summer temperatures than previous attempts, the temperature data recorded in the past 30 years still sits outside it, pointing towards the same inference as made by the IPCC - that the recent warming is mainly caused by humans.
"The last 30 years lie beyond the bounds of natural variability," said Prof McCarroll.
"Climate modellers are always reticent to say a weather event is because of anthropogenic effects - but if you see those 30 years in the context of 2,000 years, and it's so unusual, it really suggests it is because of the greenhouse effect."
The team found that the first century was the warmest in their analysis, slightly hotter than the 20th Century but according to team, the difference between the two was not statistically significant.
There were plenty of warm summers during Roman times, but conditions in Europe cooled between the 4th and 7th Centuries. The medieval era was generally warm.
The research has been published in the journal of Environmental Research Letters.
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