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The latest figures show sales are now above what they were in 2007, before the financial crisis that triggered the recession.
Department for Communities and Local Government statistics revealed 12,304 sales under right to buy in 2014-15, compared with 5,944 in 2012-13.
Housing charity Shelter said the homes were not being replaced by councils.
Birmingham City Council sold 517 homes, the most in the last financial year.
Although back to pre-recession levels, the numbers of sales by councils to their tenants under the right to buy were still less than a fifth of those for 2003-4, the year with the largest number of transfers this century.
Council tenants have had the right to buy the homes they live in at a discount since the early 1980s.
The government plans to extend the right to buy homes at discounted rates to 1.3 million housing association tenants. Critics say it will make the housing crisis worse.
Shelter said one in three homes sold under right to buy have not been replaced by councils since 2012.
And Councillor Peter Box, housing spokesman for the Local Government Association, said: "These figures make it more important than ever for councils to be given the funding and powers to replace any homes sold under Right to Buy quickly and on a one-for-one basis.
"The current scheme only allows councils to replace half or fewer of the homes they have sold. Councils need to be able to retain 100% of receipts from sales while Right to Buy discounts should be set locally so they reflect the cost of houses in the area."
As the largest local authority in Europe, Birmingham City Council topped the list for sales of council homes under right to buy with 517 homes sold. Neighbouring West Midlands council Sandwell was also in the top 10 with 256 homes sold.
The London borough of Southwark sold 304 homes. Property prices have been rising steadily and a site containing a pre-fabricated shed in Peckham recently sold for just under £1m at auction.
Communities Secretary Greg Clark said the sales came alongside a 25% increase in house building in the past year.
He said: "We are going further and will do everything we can to help families buy a place of their own." | The number of council homes in England sold under the right to buy scheme has more than doubled in two years. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34798790"} | 467 | 24 | 0.596517 | 1.414161 | -0.457288 | 1.590909 | 20.045455 | 0.772727 |
Coran Bogue, 23, from Newport, was involved in the incident on the A4810 Llanwern link road near Magor Brewery at about 05:50 BST.
He died at the scene after the crash between a Vauxhall Corsa and a lorry.
Specialist officers are supporting his family and police issued an appeal for information. | A man who died in a crash on the outskirts of Monmouthshire on Wednesday has been named by Gwent Police. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39063311"} | 79 | 28 | 0.659496 | 1.170508 | -0.628146 | 0.571429 | 2.809524 | 0.47619 |
At 19, she is also the youngest ever person to receive the honour.
During the official ceremonies in Ottawa, she called on Canadian politicians to use their influence to help fund education for girls worldwide, including refugees.
Ms Yousafzai is a global advocate for women's rights and education.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised Ms Yousafzai for her advocacy, calling her "the newest and possibly bravest citizen of Canada".
The Pakistani schoolgirl activist was originally meant to receive her citizenship in October 2014, an honour bestowed on her under former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper's government.
That event was cancelled when it coincided with the shooting death of a ceremonial guard Nathan Cirillo and an attack on Parliament by gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.
Soldier killed in Canada shootings
Malala spoke of the attack in her address said in an address to legislators in the Canadian Parliament on Wednesday. Many in the audience were in Ottawa that day.
"The man who attacked Parliament Hill called himself a Muslim," she said. "But he did not share my faith."
She said he instead shared the same hatred as the man who allegedly shot six people at a Quebec City mosque in January, the attacker who killed six people in London in March, and the Taliban gunmen who in 2012 shot her for defying their ban on girls attending school in her native Pakistan.
"These men have tried to divide us and destroy our democracies, our freedom of religion, our right to go to school. But we - and you - refuse to be divided," she said.
She also praised Canada's embrace of refugees and its ongoing international development work for women and girls.
Only five other people have received honorary Canadian citizenship: Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, religious leader Aga Khan, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Malala was accompanied on Wednesday by her parents Ziauddin and Toor Pekai Yousafzai.
Earlier in the day, Malala surprised Ottawa high school students by arriving unannounced to take their questions during an event with by Sophie Gregoire-Trudeau, Mr Trudeau's wife.
Ms Yousafzai will also meet with Conservative interim opposition leader Rona Ambrose, who called her a "symbol of determination and hope for young girls around the world".
In 2009, when she was just 11 years-old, Malala began writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service under a pseudonym, describing her life under the Taliban. | Nobel Peace prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says she is "humbled" to become the sixth person to receive an honorary Canadian citizenship. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39572985"} | 571 | 37 | 0.482049 | 1.311341 | -0.099232 | 1.25 | 19.958333 | 0.666667 |
Left-back Garmston, 23, is on his third injury lay-off of the season and has not played for almost four weeks.
"His parents know somebody over there and they want him to have some tests with the best in the world," Gills boss Ady Pennock told BBC Radio Kent.
"His parents are paying for it. We all want to do everything we can because he's a talented boy."
Garmston has been restricted to just 285 minutes of action this season and only made his first League One start of the campaign last month, before his latest injury.
Now the former West Bromwich Albion trainee, and Republic of Ireland Under-21 international, has sought out expert advice to get him back on the pitch.
Pennock added: "His dad's a physio and he spoke to our physio here and asked the question - we said of course, if it helps him.
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It will be based on the true story of James Donovan, a US lawyer recruited by the CIA to negotiate the release of a pilot shot down over Russia in 1960.
The Coens, best known for Fargo and No Country For Old Men, will write a new draft of the script, originally by British playwright Matt Charman.
It's the first time the duo have made a film with both Spielberg and Hanks.
However, Hanks starred in their 2004 remake of The Ladykillers; while Spielberg was an executive producer on their Western, True Grit, in 2010.
The four stars have 10 Oscars between them.
Joel and Ethan Coen's most recent film is Inside Llewelyn Davis. However, they are also known to write scripts on projects they are not directing, including the critically-panned Gambit - starring Colin Firth - and the forthcoming Angelina Jolie film, Unbroken.
Spielberg is believed to have several projects in the pipeline, including Roald Dahl adaptation The BFG, which is due to begin shooting in January 2015.
The new thriller will be his fourth film collaboration with Hanks, with whom he previously worked on The Terminal, Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me If You Can.
Charman, who wrote the first version of the screenplay, is best known for The Machine - a play about chess master Gary Kasparov's infamous match against the computer program Deep Blue. | Steven Spielberg is teaming up with the Coen brothers to make a Cold War thriller starring Tom Hanks. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "27521649"} | 325 | 27 | 0.564609 | 1.313835 | -0.543828 | 0.789474 | 14.105263 | 0.578947 |
The state-run Aerocaribbean aircraft had been flying from the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba to Havana.
The passengers included 28 foreigners. The other 33 passengers and seven crew members were all Cuban. There is no word on the cause of the crash.
However, both the data and voice flight recorders have now been located, investigators say.
"The black box and the voice recorder of the crashed plane... were found, so the investigation that is under way will have the basic elements to work with," Rolando Diaz, a prosecutor, told local media.
The French-built ATR twin turboprop went down late on Thursday local time in mountains near the town of Guasimal in Santi Spiritus province. Many of the 61 passengers it was carrying are believed to have been tourists.
A Civil Aviation Authority statement said the foreigners on the passenger list included nine Argentines, seven Mexicans, three Dutch citizens, two Germans, two Austrians, a French citizen, an Italian, a Spaniard, a Venezuelan and a Japanese citizen.
The twice-weekly flight 883 had originated in Port-au-Prince in Haiti and stopped over in Santiago.
The pilot reported an emergency before contact was lost.
Emergency crews and local residents had to use bulldozers to cut through thick vegetation to reach the crash scene, Cuban media say.
They pulled bodies from the wreckage but found no-one alive. One eyewitness described the crash site as "a ball of flame in the middle of the mountain".
It is not clear if bad weather was a factor in the crash. A tropical storm warning had been issued in Santiago de Cuba province where the plane took off.
One local resident said it was clear the plane was in difficulties before the crash.
"We saw it when it already had problems and was flying low," Miguel Garcia, a 68-year-old farmer, told the Agence France-Press news agency.
"At the moment, aviation and regional authorities are gathering the facts and details and have created a commission to investigate such a regrettable accident," the Civil Aviation Authority statement said.
News agencies report that the crash is the deadliest in Cuba since 3 September 1989 when a Soviet-built Ilyushin-62 heading for Milan crashed after take-off from Havana killing all 126 people on board and 40 on the ground.
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The clips were released through IS-linked Twitter accounts in the last few days, and are part of a co-ordinated social media campaign to convey a stark message to Muslims in the region.
The videos, which say that leaving what they call Muslim territory is a "grave sin", take advantage of the current European refugee crisis to tell prospective migrants that they can expect nothing but humiliation and exposure to immoral lifestyles should they decide to leave.
It is not the first comment from the extremist group on the refugee issue, but it is the clearest indication that IS is concerned by the numbers fleeing their rule.
The Arabic-language videos were produced by IS "provinces" in Syria, Iraq and Yemen and released by Twitter accounts linked to the group on 16 and 17 September.
According to the propaganda videos, life is calm under the governance and "complete security" of Islamic law under IS rule - glossing over entirely the daily fighting, air strikes and zero tolerance of dissent in the group's areas in Syria and Iraq.
The warm welcome to newcomers is a recurring theme in propaganda videos from IS, which desperately needs to sustain a viable population in order to bolster its claim to administer an Islamic "caliphate".
On the other side of the coin, they highlight what they say is the humiliation, deprivation and discrimination experienced by refugees and migrants under the canvas tents of refugee camps in freezing conditions and warn that they would be exposed to an immoral lifestyle in Europe.
Taking advantage of the European crisis, viewers are told that thousands are making a perilous journey to Europe to no good end, and face being met with heavy-handed treatment from security forces.
The stark choice presented by the clips is made clear: Heading for Europe is described as a "grave sin", with one commentary promising "hell-fire" for deserters.
IS had at first remained officially silent on the refugee crisis, but recently passed comment in its English magazine, Dabiq, released on 9 September.
IS' message on refugees has been amplified through a Twitter campaign that has attracted over 31,000 posts under a hashtag that translates as "where are you seeking refuge?"
As with any Islamic State propaganda campaign, powerful imagery is used to promote the videos. Viewers are drawn to one of the clips on Twitter with images of Alan Kurdi's body, juxtaposed with those of children injured in what IS claims are allied bombing raids.
But while the videos and social media campaign promote IS with a positive image, there is no mention of the brutal penalties meted out to those who dare question IS rule.
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Formula 1's Claire Williams and former jockey Hayley Turner become OBEs.
Davis Cup captain Leon Smith and player Jamie Murray, Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson and Welsh Rugby Union president Dennis Gethin are made OBEs.
There are MBEs for Chelsea Ladies' manager Emma Hayes, cricketer Stuart Broad and rugby referee Nigel Owens.
Former England and Newcastle captain Alan Shearer, who was made an OBE in 2001, becomes a CBE in recognition of his charitable services to the community in north-east England.
Shearer, 45, scored a record 260 Premier League goals in an 18-year playing career, hit 30 goals for his country and was top scorer at Euro '96.
Since retiring in 2006, he has worked as an analyst for the BBC's Match of the Day programme, and also acts as patron for the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation and the Alan Shearer Centre for people with complex disabilities.
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"It was a huge surprise and hard work to keep it quiet from the rest of my family and friends," he told BBC Sport.
Talking about his charity work, Shearer added: "I had to give something back. Footballers get a lot of criticism for not giving enough back.
"I was determined not just to hand the money over. I wanted to take an active part in helping to run it. It is great to be involved."
Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson is made an OBE for his services to the economy, sport and community on Teesside.
Gibson, 58, is the majority owner of a company that specialises in the transportation of chemicals and has used part of his estimated £195m fortune to bankroll Middlesbrough.
They will play in the Premier League next season after seven years in the Championship.
Gibson has also been an outspoken campaigner for the North East, and is a member of the Shadow Board of the South Tees Development Corporation, which aims to regenerate the region following the closure of the Redcar steelworks.
Chelsea Ladies' manager Emma Hayes is appointed an MBE for services to football.
The 39-year-old was named manager of Chelsea Ladies in June 2012 and won the Women's FA Cup and Women's Super League double in 2015.
England Ladies assistant manager Marieanne Spacey, 50, becomes an MBE for her services to football.
Rachel Anderson, the first Fifa-licensed female football agent, is also appointed an MBE - for services to gender equality in football.
Alastair Cook is made a CBE for his services to cricket, almost five years after he was appointed an MBE for his performances in the 2010-11 Ashes series victory in Australia.
The 31-year-old became the youngest player to reach 10,000 Test runs during the second Test against Sri Lanka in Durham in May.
He was appointed captain of the England Test team in 2012 following Andrew Strauss' retirement and led England to Ashes series wins over Australia in 2013 and 2015.
Cook's international team-mate Stuart Broad is made an MBE for services to cricket.
In January, he became the first England player for 11 years to top the International Cricket Council's Test bowling rankings, before being dislodged by new-ball partner James Anderson in May.
Broad, 29, took 8-15 as Australia were bowled out for 60 in their first innings of the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge last year to set up England's series victory.
Welsh Rugby Union president Dennis Gethin is made an OBE for services to rugby in his homeland.
Gethin, 72, was awarded two rugby Blues at Cambridge in 1965 and 1966 and played club rugby for Swansea, Neath, Cardiff, and Glamorgan Wanderers. He was been president of the WRU since 2007.
Rugby referee Nigel Owens is appointed an MBE for services to sport.
The Welshman, 44, refereed the 2015 Rugby World Cup final in England, and has officiated in a record five European Rugby Champions Cup finals.
Leon Smith and Jamie Murray have been honoured after Great Britain won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936.
Captain Smith, who guided Britain from the third tier to the title in five years, is made an OBE for his services to tennis.
Murray, older brother of British number one Andy Murray, is appointed an OBE for his services to tennis and charity.
The 30-year-old won the men's doubles title at the Australian Open with Bruno Soares, and became doubles world number one in April 2016.
Murray and Colombian wife Alejandra are high-profile supporters of the charity Children Change Colombia, which works to protect children in Colombia from sexual exploitation.
The two-time Grand Slam winner said he only discovered a letter informing him of the award buried in the post after returning from a lengthy spell on tour.
"For some reason I just knew straight away what it was going to be," he told BBC Sport.
"It's a real honour to receive it and I'm really proud of what we've achieved over the past year, especially the Davis Cup. It was a huge thing for the team and the country."
Martine Wiltshire nee Wright, who lost her legs in the 7/7 London bombings in 2005 and went on to represent Great Britain at sitting volleyball at the London 2012 Paralympics, is made an MBE for her services to sport.
Claire Williams, deputy team principal of Formula 1 team Williams Martini Racing and daughter of team principal Frank, is appointed an OBE for her services to Formula 1.
"To be able to play a role in a family legacy is an enormous privilege," she said. "Formula One, and Williams, are great success stories for the UK and I will continue to use my role to help showcase what a great sport Formula One is, what a brilliant platform for this country's expertise in high class engineering it is."
Former jockey Hayley Turner, who retired last year after riding 763 winners in a 15-year career, is made an OBE for services to horseracing.
"When you're riding and you're in the bubble, you don't realise or appreciate what you've done until you stop," she said.
"It's only now it's sinking in. I think the further away I get from the career that was, I'm going to appreciate it more and more.
"Three or four of the times I rode winners for [the Queen] she was there, so I've been very lucky."
There are also MBEs for UK Anti-Doping's Richard Driscoll, and Anna Kessel, the sports journalist and co-founder of Women in Football.
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE):
Alan Shearer OBE, for charitable services to the community in North East England; Alastair Cook MBE, for services to cricket.
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE):
Jamie Murray, for services to tennis and charity; Leon Smith, for services to tennis; Steve Gibson, for services to the economy, sport and community on Teesside; Dennis Gethin, for services to Welsh rugby; Hayley Turner, for services to horseracing; Claire Williams, for services to Formula 1 Racing.
Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE):
Stuart Broad, for services to cricket; Nigel Owens, for services to sport; Emma Hayes, for services to football; Rachel Anderson, for services to gender equality in football; Richard Driscoll, for services to anti-doping in sport; Martine Wiltshire, for services to sport; Anna Kessel, for services to journalism and women's sport; Marieanne Spacey, for services to football, Pauline Stott, for services to hockey and promotion of sport in Scotland, Shauna Coxsey, for services to climbing | Former England footballer Alan Shearer and England cricket captain Alastair Cook have been made CBEs in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36498359"} | 1,715 | 34 | 0.397391 | 1.10181 | -0.127117 | 1.217391 | 66.521739 | 0.782609 |
In a statement issued through police, Rohey Hydara expressed her condolences to the families of the dead and wished a "speedy recovery" to those injured.
Masood killed three people when he drove a car into pedestrians last Wednesday. He then fatally stabbed a police officer before being shot dead.
Inquests into the deaths of his four victims will be opened on Wednesday.
Ms Hydara went on to "request privacy for our family, especially the children, at this difficult time".
Her comments came after Masood's mother, Janet Ajao, said she had "shed many tears for the people caught up in this horrendous incident".
Masood, 52, is reported to have at least three children and one previous wife.
He drove his hired car into people on Westminster Bridge and then stabbed PC Keith Palmer, 48, outside Parliament.
His other victims were teacher Aysha Frade, 44, who worked at a London sixth-form college, US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, and retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, 75, from south London.
Thirteen people are understood to remain in hospital.
The Metropolitan Police said the victims of the attack have been formally identified and inquests into their deaths are due to be opened and adjourned at Westminster Coroner's Court.
The inquest into Masood's death will be opened and adjourned the following day.
The so-called Islamic State group has said it was behind his actions. But Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said while Masood "clearly had an interest in jihad", police had so far found no evidence of an association with the group or al-Qaeda.
Officers investigating the attacks are holding two people from Birmingham on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. Nine people have so far been released without charge, while a 32-year-old woman arrested in Manchester remains on police bail until late March.
Masood was believed to have been living in the West Midlands before the attack, and had previously spent time in Luton, Crawley, Rye and Eastbourne.
He was registered at birth in Kent as Adrian Elms and used the name Ajao after his mother married a man with that surname. He later converted to Islam and became Masood.
Speaking on Tuesday, his mother, Janet Ajao, from Trelech in Carmarthenshire, also said she was "shocked, saddened and numbed" by the attack.
She added: "I wish to make it absolutely clear, so there can be no doubt, I do not condone his actions nor support the beliefs he held that led to him committing this atrocity.
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Christiansen, 28, topped the standings in her Grade Ia category in Deauville.
She won in both the individual and the freestyle events on her horse, Athene.
Wells, 25, filled the first two spots in the Grade IV individual with Valerius and Fatal Attraction and then claimed freestyle success on Valerius.
Christiansen, who is hoping to add to her five Paralympic titles in Rio this summer, claimed impressive scores of 75.739 and 77.150
There was also a strong performance in the event from 67-year-old Anne Dunham who finished third behind Christiansen in the individual event and was freestyle runner-up.
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A frustrating display looked set to end in a draw until Baines cracked in a deflected shot from 20 yards.
Rooney was quiet when playing up front but improved once he moved back behind the striker in the second half.
The second leg takes place in Ruzomberok next Thursday.
Everton were dominant in possession throughout but still needed Maarten Stekelenburg to make a crucial save and turn Jan Maslo's header on to the crossbar.
Ronald Koeman gave debuts to summer signings Cuco Martina, Michael Keane, Davy Klaassen and Sandro Ramirez but will need a better performance if they are to reach the play-off round in August and avoid a repeat of him not reaching the group stage with Southampton two years ago.
It is 13 years since the then-teenage Rooney left Everton for Manchester United for £27m, with his move back this summer causing almost as much discussion and debate as his departure.
Is he the same player who left? No. But will he prove to be a shrewd signing for Koeman? For free, you'd think so.
He will be judged against stiffer opposition than the side who finished third in the Slovakian Fortuna Liga last season, but he will also have to play better to even keep his place in a rejuvenated Everton side.
Rooney has spent much of the last few seasons in midfield but started in the centre of a front three, showing some neat touches but also reminders that his sharpest days are perhaps behind him.
He had the best chance of the opening half hour, but his touch was not great and he could not get any power behind a shot, and he and Everton greatly improved once Sandro came on in the second half.
With Sandro stretching the Ruzomberok defence, Rooney and Klaassen looked dangerous in pockets behind him. Finding the right position for Rooney may be Koeman's biggest challenge in the coming weeks.
"It's something I've been looking forward to for the last few weeks," Rooney said.
"It's obviously great to be at Goodison wearing the blue shirt, it was a great feeling.
"But it was an important game for us so I had to put my emotions to one side. I've done that now and can get down to focusing more on the football."
What is not in doubt is that Koeman is in the process of assembling the strongest squad at Goodison in years. Ross Barkley may be set to leave but Everton continue to be linked to Swansea midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson as his replacement.
Even without Sigurdsson, Koeman now has plenty of attacking options to suggest losing Romelu Lukaku's 20+ goals a season may not be a disaster, although another out-and-out striker would be a shrewd addition before the end of August.
Sandro's arrival changed Everton's game, but Klaassen was the pick of the new signings on show, going close with a shot in the first half and a header in the second, all the time knitting together the best of Everton's play on a performance which was very much in pre-season mode.
But considering the injured Yannick Bolasie, Barkley, Ramiro Funes Mori and Seamus Coleman all missed out, £30m goalkeeper Jordan Pickford was on the bench with Sandro, Tom Davies, Gareth Barry, Phil Jagielka and Ademola Lookman and Aaron Lennon, and Muhamed Besic and James McCarthy were not involved at all, it is clear this is a Toffees squad packed with quality.
Whether it is good enough to challenge for a top-four place is another question, so perhaps winning the Europa League remains the best chance for Everton to qualify for the Champions League.
And for all the attacking talent on display, it was left-back Baines who found the breakthrough, scoring with a deflected shot from the edge of the area after a corner was only headed out to him.
Everton boss Ronald Koeman: "It's always difficult against these kind of teams who drop back. We are not 100% yet, it is pre-season and it is a good result. We would like to score more, we had chances but every clean sheet in European football is a good result.
"When Sandro came on Wayne Rooney had more freedom and we had pace up front which made the team better. We know that we would like another striker, you normally need two nines in the squad. I am really confident that we can bring in a good one to make us better.
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Farooq Siddique formerly of the Bristol Muslim Society and an ex-government adviser on radicalisation, pleaded not guilty at Bristol Crown Court.
The 46-year-old from Easton also pleaded not guilty to two counts of assault causing actual bodily harm and one charge of making a threat to kill.
Speaking outside court he said the charges were "absolute nonsense".
"These are allegation that are, in my view, worse than murder," he claimed.
"You can't say anything worse to a man than these kind of allegations. I'm utterly flabbergasted that it's got this far.
"I'll prove myself innocent."
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The small study, published in PLOS ONE, looked at 59 people who were all deemed to have mild to moderate dementia.
It is thought the body's response to gum inflammation may be hastening the brain's decline.
The Alzheimer's Society said if the link was proven to be true, then good oral health may help slow dementia.
The body's response to inflammatory conditions was cited as a possible reason for the quicker decline.
Inflammation causes immune cells to swell and has long been associated with Alzheimer's. Researchers believe their findings add weight to evidence that inflammation in the brain is what drives the disease.
The study, jointly led by the University of Southampton and King's College London, cognitively assessed the participants, and took blood samples to measure inflammatory markers in their blood.
Their oral health was also assessed by a dental hygienist who was unaware of the cognitive outcomes.
Of the sample group, 22 were found to have considerable gum disease while for the remaining 37 patients the disease was much less apparent. The average age of the group with gum disease was 75, and in the other group it was 79.
A majority of participants - 52 - were followed up at six months, and all assessments were repeated.
The presence of gum disease - or periodontitis as it is known - was associated with a six-fold increase in the rate of cognitive decline, the study suggested.
Dentist Dr Mark Ide from King's College London told the BBC News website he was "surprised" by the rate of decline, and said that as patients with gum disease chew on their teeth they were effectively giving themselves "mini-injections" of bacteria into their bloodstream.
"In just six months you could see the patients going downhill - it's really quite scary," he said.
Higher levels of antibodies to periodontal bacteria are associated with an increase in levels of inflammatory molecules elsewhere in the body - which in turn have been linked to greater rates of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease.
Prof Clive Holmes, senior author from the University of Southampton, said the results were "very interesting" and proved that this study needed to be carried out again but using a larger number of participants.
"However, if there is a direct relationship between periodontitis and cognitive decline, as this current study suggests, then treatment of gum disease might be a possible treatment option for Alzheimer's," he said.
He also said his researchers had taken into account the fact that gum disease may become more common in those people with Alzheimer's, because of a reduced ability to take care of oral hygiene as the disease progresses.
Dr Doug Brown, director of research and development at the Alzheimer's Society, also recognised that the study "adds evidence to the idea that gum disease could potentially be a contributing factor to Alzheimer's".
"If this is proven to be the case, better dental hygiene would offer a relatively straightforward way to help slow the progression of dementia and enable people to remain independent for longer," he said.
But he also described the study as "small" and said it was currently "unclear" whether the gum disease was the cause or the effect.
"We don't know if the gum disease is triggering the faster decline of dementia, or vice versa," he said.
In the UK around 80% of adults over 55 years old had evidence of gum disease, according to the adult dental survey of 2009, which is the latest data available.
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The grant, from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, was awarded to Swansea University's College of Engineering to fund new X-ray and electron microscopes.
It will allow scientists to look at objects on scales almost at the level of atoms.
The equipment could be used for imaging the structures of animal bones. | A university research team has been awarded £2.5m to buy high-powered microscopes. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32089838"} | 71 | 19 | 0.670409 | 1.232703 | -0.777932 | 0.529412 | 3.705882 | 0.411765 |
Their teeth contain DNA from the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis and their graves have been dated to 1348-50.
Records say thousands of Londoners perished and their corpses were dumped in a mass grave outside the City, but its exact location was a mystery.
Archaeologists now believe it is under Charterhouse Square near the Barbican.
They plan to expand their search for victims across the square - guided by underground radar scans, which have picked up signs of many more graves.
Crossrail's lead archaeologist Jay Carver says the find "solves a 660-year-old mystery".
"This discovery is a hugely important step forward in documenting and understanding Europe's most devastating pandemic," he said.
"Further excavations will follow to see if - as we expect - we are coming across a much bigger mass burial trench."
Between 1347 and 1351 the "Great Pestilence" swept westward across Europe killing millions of people. It later became known as the Black Death.
It arrived on Britain's shores in 1348 and is believed to have wiped out up to 60% of the population at the time.
In London, two emergency burial grounds were dug outside the walls of the City. One has been found at East Smithfield, while the other is known to lie somewhere in Farringdon.
In March 2013, Crossrail engineers uncovered 25 skeletons in a 5.5m-wide shaft - alongside pottery dated to the mid-14th Century.
Samples from 12 of the corpses were taken for forensic analysis. In at least four cases, scientists found traces of the DNA of the Yersinia pestis, confirming they had contact with the plague prior to their death.
To pinpoint which historical plague outbreak the "Charterhouse 25" could have fallen victim to, the researchers used radio carbon dating.
They determined the burial ground was used in at least two distinct periods - the earliest within the Black Death in 1348-50, followed by a later outbreak in the 1430s.
In a bid to understand just how far the grave extends across the square, Crossrail approached the University of Keele to undertake a forensic geophysics survey - using ground-penetrating radar.
The initial scan detected signs of further burials across Charterhouse Square and also the foundations of a building - possibly a chapel.
"We will undertake further excavations in Charterhouse Square later this year to confirm some of the results," said Mr Carver.
The skeletons provide a rare opportunity to study the medieval population of London, according to osteologist Don Walker, of the Museum of London Archaeology.
He said: "We can start to answer questions like: where did they come from and what were their lives like?
"I'm amazed how much you can learn about a person who died more than 600 years ago."
Analysis of the skeletons' bones and teeth indicates that:
Mr Carver said: "We can see from the people here that Londoners weren't living an easy life.
"The combination of a poor diet and generally a struggle means they were very susceptible to the plague at that time and that's possibly one of the explanations for why the Black Death was so devastating."
By sequencing the ancient bacterial DNA, researchers hope to understand how the plague has evolved and spread over the centuries.
Globally the infection still kills 2,000 people a year, including countries like Madagascar. Antibiotics are available, but if untreated the disease kills within four days.
Scientists hope to confirm whether the 14th Century strain was the grandmother of all plague that exists today.
The £14.8bn Crossrail project aims to establish a 118km-long (73-mile) rail link with 37 stations across London, and is due to open in 2018.
The excavations have already unearthed Roman skulls washed down a lost river, a Bronze-Age transport route, and the largest piece of amber ever found in the UK.
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They will be shown in the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography.
The Oxford academic photographed his neighbour Alice Liddell, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church, as a girl.
Years later she was photographed by him again, as well as by Julia Margaret Cameron whose work is also featured.
Carroll's fascination with Liddell, who died aged 82 in 1934, has been the subject of speculation.
Phillip Prodger, the show's curator, said: "Much has been written about the relationship between Carroll and Alice.
"We will never know exactly how Carroll himself felt about his subjects, and there is no doubt he developed deep personal attachments with many of his sitters.
"Nevertheless, Carroll nearly always photographed his children with their parents present, and no claims of impropriety were ever made in his lifetime.
"For Victorian artists, children represented the blank slate of humanity - the potential to experience pure thought and feeling before the corruptions of modern life intervened."
The images of Liddell as a girl come from the gallery's own collection, but have only rarely been on display.
The exhibition will also feature portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79), Oscar Rejlander (1813-75) and Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-65) as well as Carroll (1832-98).
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It says the law will help poor families earn a living and also give children a chance to gain skills and business knowledge.
Many fear that this will push millions of children into work, and out of school, taking away their right of a normal childhood.
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Humberside Police said the arrests were for "unrelated matters" and were made following searches, linked to the shooting, of houses in west Hull.
Armed officers and a police helicopter went to the restaurant on St Andrews Quay at about 11:30 GMT on Saturday.
The windows of a blue Volkswagen Golf were shot out. Nobody was hurt in the incident.
Police said two men who were arrested at the scene have now been released from custody.
The force said it believed it was an isolated incident, with the offenders and victims known to one another. No shots were fired by police.
Darren Woodhead was in the McDonald's drive-through queue when the shooting took place.
He said: "I heard gunshots close to us and a car sped off out of the drive-through.
"Within minutes police had arrived with pistols, then three police vans arrived with more heavily armed officers."
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H2O is the "lubricant" of biochemical reactions, and Nasa's announcement that liquid water flows under certain circumstances on the Red Planet will heighten expectation that this normally freezing, desiccated world might just provide a foothold for microbial organisms.
We know from Earth that life is tenacious.
Even in super-salty or acidic lakes, toxic dumps, and even boiling pools, some bugs are capable of eking out an existence. We call them extremophiles.
The immediate reaction of many to Monday's announcement will be to want to go look for extremophiles on Mars - to send either scientific instruments to examine the briney streaks in situ, or better still to bring some rock and soil samples back to Earth labs for analysis. But that is easier said than done.
For one thing, many of the locations where these dark streaks are located are in pretty inaccessible places. They run down the steep slopes of peaks and crater walls. Quite a number are inside the giant canyon system Valles Marineris.
The probes we've sent to Mars hitherto have all been targeted at flat plains. For obvious reasons. The precision of our landing technology is such that we cannot yet guarantee to put down "on the button".
Even the brilliant "skycrane" that delivered the Curiosity rover to the floor of Gale Crater in 2012 had a landing error ellipse of 7km by 20km. That's amazing after a journey of 570 million km, but the risk of slamming into Gale's big central mountain, or its crater walls, meant that engineers had no choice but to play safe and aim for flatlands that then required months of driving to get to the rover's primary science location.
Landing tech will improve, of that there is no doubt. And the copy of Curiosity that Nasa will send to Mars in 2020 expects to shrink the ellipse considerably.
But assuming you can put down safely, how do you get a robot to work on a steep slope? Present day rovers can only handle gentle inclines. Completely new types of probes would be needed - robots that can climb or even clamber over difficult terrain.
And as if that's not all hard enough, getting to investigate the enigmatic streaks faces another big challenge - and that is the risk of contamination.
The major space agencies, from the likes of the US, Russia and Europe, belong to what's called the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), which has drawn up guidelines for exploration.
Adhered to under international treaty, these guidelines describe the sort of cleanliness required by spacecraft, depending on where they want to go and what they want to do.
A flyby of a planet carries minimal risk, but Mars, with its history of water and its potential for life, finds itself in one of the top categories; and the streaks constitute a special region where extra care would be required.
There's good reason to try to be really clean. We don't want to carry earthly microbes to a pristine environment because that will prevent us from answering definitively one of the most fundamental questions in science: is there, or has there ever been, life on a planet other than our own?
Imagine a dirty spacecraft at Mars claiming a "positive detection" of indigenous microbes. That claim would rightly be dismissed with the criticism that the robot had merely seen evidence for Earth microbes that had hitched a lift to Mars.
You might think that spacecraft that have spent months travelling to the Red Planet, in the vacuum of space, exposed to copious amounts of ultraviolet light and damaging cosmic radiation, would effectively be fully sterilised by the time they arrive at the surface. But the experiments by astronauts at the Moon and on the exterior of the space station show otherwise. Some of the simplest organisms can be incredibly robust.
COSPAR's Planetary Protection guidelines would demand that any robot sent to water-made streaks - "recurring slope lineae" (RSL) to give them their proper name - had the highest level of cleanliness even before launch.
That is difficult, complex and expensive to achieve, but very doable. The Viking landers that went to Mars in the 1970s to look for life managed to attain this level of control, said Gerhard Kminek, the chair of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection.
"These are not new concepts. For 13 years we've had measures in the policy to deal with special regions and these have been reviewed, and in fact they were updated only last week. We had a meeting in Switzerland where we discussed anything with consequences for the policy, and of course RSLs are part of that. The point is we do not want to spend a lot of money trying to detect life on Mars only to end up just detecting terrestrial (Earth) organisms." | Wherever there's water, there's a good chance life can thrive. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34395569"} | 1,089 | 19 | 0.284518 | 0.754451 | -1.132385 | 1.071429 | 66.5 | 0.785714 |
Renard led Ivory Coast to the Africa Cup of Nations title in 2015, three years after winning it with Zambia.
After his Nations Cup victory with the Elephants Renard left to take over at French club Lille in May but was sacked in November.
Zaki left as coach of the Atlas Lions by mutual consent on 10 February.
As well as the full national team the Morocco football federation have announced that Renard will coach the one for locally-based players and oversee the Olympic side.
He has been set the targets of reaching the semi-finals of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon as well as qualifying for the World Cup a year later in Russia.
Renard will have two assistants, one is his long-time deputy Patrice Baumel and the other is the former Morocco international Mustapha Hadji.
Their first competitive games will be home and away Nations Cup qualifiers against Cape Verde at the end of March.
The two sides are currently top of Group F having won both their matches so far, Libya and Sao Tome are the other teams in the pool.
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The 34-year-old former Republic of Ireland international joined Town last summer from Brentford, Ipswich's opponents on Saturday.
Douglas made 169 league appearances for the Bees, scoring 17 goals, before joining the Tractor Boys.
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Set 171 to win, Scotland were well placed when openers George Munsey and Kyle Coetzer shared 84 in nine overs.
But as the Afghan spinners took hold, the Scots lost 4-24 and fell short on 156-5.
Earlier, Mohammad Shahzad hit 61 from only 39 balls and Asghar Stanikzai 55 not out as Afghanistan posted 170-5.
For Afghanistan, coached by former Pakistan batsman Inzamam-ul-Haq, it is the ideal start to a qualifying campaign from which one team from each group of four will advance to the main draw.
Scotland, however, will now need other results to go their way if they are to have a chance of reaching the second week.
Scotland have played in three previous World T20s and three World Cups - 19 games in total - without recording a win in a major ICC global event.
The closest they came was against the same opponents at last year's World Cup, when Afghanistan completed a thrilling run-chase in the final over to win by one wicket.
Here, Scotland had their opportunity, firstly when their bowlers applied the brakes in the second half of the Afghanistan innings and when Munsey and Coetzer were together.
But, after Coetzer holed out, the Scots fell behind and 39 runs off the final three overs was too big an ask.
While Coetzer busily accumulated and enjoyed some luck, Munsey showed power through the off side, before both fell in the space of three balls.
Coetzer dragged a Samiullah Shenwari long hop to deep square leg, while Munsey was lbw to 17-year-old leg-spinner Rashid Khan.
Indeed, Scotland faltered as Afghanistan used the slow Nagpur pitch to bowl 12 consecutive overs of spin.
While Matt Machan remained, they had hope, but after he sliced to point in off-spinner Mohammad Nabi's excellent penultimate over, the game was as good as done.
That Afghanistan, the highest-ranked Associate nation in T20 cricket, got to a target that was out of reach was thanks to the squat figure of Shahzad.
Not only did the right-hander show inventiveness with ramps and reverse-sweeps, but also the raw power to hit three sixes in four balls.
But after he lofted the left-arm spin of Mark Watt to long-on, Scotland halted the charge. At one point, Afghanistan went four overs without finding a boundary.
Captain Stanikzai was steady rather than destructive - his 50-ball stay included only three boundaries - so late impetus came from Shafiqullah's five-ball 14.
Scotland captain Preston Mommsen: "Unfortunately we couldn't quite get over the line, we lost a couple of wickets at crucial times and it wasn't to be.
"We got a brilliant start but couldn't keep the foot on the accelerator and it wasn't enough. If we'd kept them to 10-15 runs less it would have been a fairer reflection of our efforts, we've just got to address that middle period when their spinners tied us down."
Afghanistan captain Asghar Stanikzai: "The opening partnership started well and our total was good as it was a slow wicket. The first win is very important for us. We need good line and length bowling in the first 10 overs."
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Dessie Grew was shot dead alongside fellow IRA man Martin McCaughey in County Armagh in October 1990.
The pair, who were both armed with AK47 rifles, were shot more than 30 times when the SAS unit opened fire at isolated farm buildings near Loughgall.
The ruling is thought to be the first 'shoot to kill' verdict in Northern Ireland in 30 years.
The deaths caused controversy in Northern Ireland when it was revealed that neither of the IRA men had fired a shot during the incident, prompting claims that the SAS had opened fire on the men without making an attempt to arrest them.
The inquest, which opened in March, examined the cause of the men's deaths and the planning and control of the SAS operation - including claims that Mr Grew had been shot twice as he lay mortally wounded on the floor of a mushroom shed.
The County Armagh farm was believed to have been under surveillance on the night of 9 October 1990 and the SAS fired more than 70 rounds in the incident.
The Detail news website
reported that Dessie Grew had been shot 22 times with wounds to his heart, lungs, liver, kidney, ribcage and diaphragm while Martin McCaughey was shot 10 times.
During the case, an SAS witness identified only as 'Soldier D' admitted opening fire on Mr Grew while he was on the ground.
However, he insisted his actions been justified, claiming the IRA man had made a noise as the SAS entered the shed and he believed the soldiers' lives were in danger.
Reaching its verdict after hearing weeks of evidence, the jury ruled that that the SAS had used "reasonable force" during the operation and that the IRA men's own actions had contributed to their deaths.
"Mr Grew and Mr McCaughey put their lives in danger by being in the area of the sheds in the vicinity of a stolen car, which was expected to be used in terrorist activity," the verdict stated.
"They were both armed with guns, wearing gloves and balaclavas and were approaching soldiers who believed that their lives were in immediate danger."
The men's families had campaigned for an inquest to be held for more than 20 years.
During the case, their barrister said that the families accepted that that both men had been on what was described as 'active service' for the IRA and were therefore liable to arrest.
However they argued that the shooting of the two men as they lay dying on the ground was evidence of a shoot-to-kill policy.
The Detail reported that the jury could not agree on whether the SAS had attempted to arrest the IRA men.
However, they ruled that the soldiers were justified in opening fire as they thought the IRA men had moved towards their positions and they believed they were under attack.
"We cannot be unanimous on the balance of probabilities whether or not there was an opportunity to attempt arrest in accordance with the Yellow Card (British Army rules on soldiers opening fire) prior to the soldiers feeling compromised.
"However, once the soldiers felt compromised we agree that there was no other reasonable course of action," the verdict said.
The coronor, Brian Sherrard, praised the Grew and McCaughey families for the dignity they had shown throughout the inquest.
Dessie Grew was 37 at time of his death. His older brother Seamus had been shot dead by the police in 1982.
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The Royal College of GPs and the British Medical Association have been highly vocal in their warnings of the severe strain on primary care services in England and the sometimes intolerable workload.
Now they are talking of "a huge and important step in the right direction" and "a significant and comprehensive package of proposals". So what does it all add up to?
To an extent the positive reaction from the RCGP and the BMA reflects what they argue is the success of their lobbying campaign.
For some time they have highlighted and complained about the dwindling slice of the NHS cake awarded to general practice.
The new plan, set out by the head of NHS England, Simon Stevens, involves a reversal of that trend with the share of the NHS budget for general practice increasing from just over 8% this year to more than 10% by 2020.
Mr Stevens' comments alongside the launch of the plan are revealing. With what looks like a dig at successive governments he is saying very plainly that general practice has been underfunded for some time and that has contributed to the pressures on doctors and surgeries.
"If anyone 10 years ago had said: 'Here's what the NHS should now do - cut the share of funding for primary care and grow the number of hospital specialists three times faster than GPs', they'd have been laughed out of court. But looking back over a decade, that's exactly what's happened," Mr Stevens said.
The head of NHS England wants to let it be known that the pressures on GPs are being addressed and that action is now being taken.
The recruitment of 3,000 mental health therapists to work in practices alongside more clinical pharmacists, practice nurses, managers and receptionists is part of Mr Stevens' plan to ease the burden on GPs and allow them to focus more on those patients who most need care.
Boosting the GP workforce in England by 5,000 by 2020, in line with a government commitment, is at the heart of the new plan.
Mr Stevens and Dr Maureen Baker of the Royal College of GPs acknowledge this will not be straightforward but both seem confident it can be achieved.
They argue that the funding increase for general practice should make it easier to recruit. To reach that target, 500 extra doctors from outside the new UK will be required although reports that most will come from India have been denied.
So what about patients? The theory is that more money will facilitate extended surgery opening hours and the appointment of enough GPs to bring down waiting times for appointments.
Tailoring practice services to allow more online and Skype consultations for those who want them and "named doctor" relationships for older patients will be encouraged.
And yet doctors have been complaining that there is a real and immediate crisis for general practice with increasing numbers of unfilled vacancies and staff ground down by the workload leaving the profession.
The funding increases from NHS England will build up only gradually until 2020. One London GP said the announcement fell far short of what was needed to deal with a "state of emergency".
The challenge for Simon Stevens and GP leaders who support his plan is to show that doctors and patients are experiencing a tangible improvement.
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The head of the search and rescue agency said his team had found the aircraft completely destroyed and partially burnt.
The black box flight data recorder has also been found.
The plane came down on Sunday in dense forest in a mountainous area, close to its destination of Oksibil.
It was carrying 44 adult passengers, five children, and five crew members - all believed to be Indonesian.
The plane was also said to be carrying about 6.5 billion rupiah ($486,000; £300,000) in cash, which was due to be distributed to poor families in the area. Officials have not said whether this has been located.
Members of the rescue team - made up of about 100 police, military and civilians - began reaching the site on Tuesday morning.
Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia's search and rescue agency, told reporters: "The plane was totally destroyed and all the bodies were burned and difficult to identify."
Bad weather and difficult terrain at the crash site were hampering efforts to remove the bodies but they will eventually be taken to the provincial capital for identification.
Officials confirmed the black box had also been found. It contains data on the plane's operations and could yield clues as to the cause of the crash.
The ATR42-300 twin turboprop plane took off from Sentani airport in Jayapura at 14:21 local time on Sunday, but lost contact with air traffic controllers half an hour later.
Bad weather is believed to have been a possible reason for the crash. A search plane was forced to turn back on Sunday because of dangerous flying conditions.
Oksibil, which is about 280km (175 miles) south of Jayapura, is a remote, mountainous region, which is extremely difficult to navigate.
Trigana Air has had 14 serious incidents since it began operations in 1991, losing 10 aircraft in the process, according to the Aviation Safety Network.
It has been on a European Union blacklist of banned carriers since 2007. All but four of Indonesia's certified airlines are on the list.
Indonesia has suffered two major air disasters in the past year.
Last December, an AirAsia plane crashed in the Java Sea, killing all 192 people on board - and in July a military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan, Sumatra, claiming 140 lives. | Indonesian rescuers have recovered the remains of 54 people who died onboard a Trigana Air plane that crashed in Papua region on Sunday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33970184"} | 505 | 35 | 0.46475 | 1.134544 | -0.191717 | 0.875 | 18.708333 | 0.625 |
The authors of a report to Parliament say 25 million existing homes will not meet the insulation standards required by mid-century.
The UK needs to cut carbon emissions by 80% by then - and a third of those emissions come from heating draughty buildings.
The government said it would devise policies as soon as possible.
But critics say ministers have been far too slow to impose a national programme of home renovation which would save on bills and improve people's health, comfort and happiness. It would also create thousands of jobs.
Successive governments have been criticised for failing to tackle the UK's poor housing stock - some of the worst in Europe.
Local authorities have limited cash to insulate council homes, and landlords and owner-occupiers have proved reluctant to invest large sums in disruptive improvements that will save on bills, but take many years to pay off.
The report from a group of leading construction firms - the Green Building Council - says four out of five homes that will be occupied in 2050 have already been built.
That means 25 million homes need refurbishing to the highest standards by 2050 - at a rate of 1.4 homes every minute.
The authors say this huge challenge also offers an unmissable opportunity under the government's infrastructure agenda. The fiddly business of insulating roofs, walls and floors creates more jobs and has more benefits than any existing infrastructure priority, they maintain.
The question is how to pay. The government's Green Deal scheme for owner-occupiers collapsed amid a welter of criticism that interest rates for insulation were too high, and that the insulation itself was too much hassle.
The government has failed to produce a replacement solution to stimulate necessary demand for refurbishments amongst owner-occupiers. The Treasury is reluctant to throw public money at improvements that will increase the sale value of private homes.
The report recommends:
It says the construction industry needs certainty about what it is expected to deliver, and measurement to discover what is already being built. This should stimulate innovation, it says.
Julie Hirigoyen, head of the GBC, told BBC News there was a great prize to be grasped in upgrading building stock: "People will have warmer homes and lower bills; they will live longer, happier lives; we will be able to address climate change and carbon emissions.
"We will also be creating many thousands of jobs and exporting our best skills in innovation.
"Driving up demand for retro-fitting homes is essential for any policy to be a success - the Green Deal told us just offering financial incentives isn't necessarily the only solution. We need to make it all easy, attractive and affordable.
"The good thing is that the business community is really starting to recognise the opportunity."
Insulation: The unspoken reason for high fuel bills
Ms Hirigoyen called for support for innovation amongst builders. The GBC pointed to a firm, q-bot, which insulates people's floors by sending robots to creep under people's floorboards and spray them with foam.
The firm's head, Mathew Holloway, told BBC News: "We have to find new ways of doing things. Normal refurbishment often means literally tearing a home apart.
"That means local authorities having to re-house tenants whilst it's being done. With our robot, we can seal and insulate wooden floors without hardly touching the inside of the house."
Mr Holloway's start-up business was funded by the EU and the business department BEIS, but industry experts complain that building insulation research has received a tiny fraction of the sums channelled into glamorous renewables.
In the last 25 years, governments have tended to shy away from the issue. The Labour government made a rule that people extending their properties should be obliged to insulate the rest of their home too.
However, the Coalition government dropped the clause after it was labelled a "conservatory tax" in the media, even though it was not a tax and did not refer to conservatories.
The government is currently focused on bringing down bills through fuel switching - but home energy expert Russell Smith said: "Switching saves on average £25 a year. That's not much help to a person in fuel poverty. The solution is refurbishing homes, but it's difficult, so politicians keep putting it on the back burner."
Mr Smith is currently refurbishing Ruth Baber's home in Wimbledon, south London. He says it has added 10% to the £250,000 total cost, which included major extensions, but will save 80% of energy bills and take about 20 years to recoup.
Ms Baber is downsizing into the house and said: "I'm worried about climate change and I look forward to being able to control the heat in my house better. I've done it [the insulation programme] for my grandchildren, for the future."
The government's task is to persuade another 25 million people to follow her lead.
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It didn't take long for him to dive into his celebrations, popping into an ice bath with the Wimbledon trophy.
Andy's mum Judy was also close by to join in with the triumph.
Not all Murray's family were able to witness his big day first hand - his grandfather Roy missed the Wimbledon final to look after his dog.
The morning after, twice Wimbledon champ Murray revealed on a Facebook Live that there had been some good celebrations and he now can't wait to go to Rio for the Olympics.
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"Chocolate is the essential ingredient," says Igor Levit, who will play Beethoven's groundbreaking third piano concerto at the First Night.
"If my white tie is here and chocolate is with me, all is fine."
The classical music festival kicks off on Friday night with the world premiere of Tom Coult's St John's Dance. It will be shown on BBC Four from 20:00 BST.
The first night continues with a celebration of American composer John Adams, who turns 70 this year.
His piece Harmonium - based on poetry by John Donne and Emily Dickinson - will be performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Edward Gardner.
The concert concludes with Levit's chocolate-assisted rendition of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor.
The performances will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and on BBC Two from 21:00 BST.
Overall, the Proms season incorporates more than 90 shows, including performances in Hull and a tribute to cult musician Scott Walker.
Stars including Nicola Benedetti, Jarvis Cocker, Beatrice Rana, Simon Rattle, Jools Holland and Tom Jones all appear on the line-up.
Here are some of the things you should know about this year's programme. And if you want to go behind the scenes, why not join Proms director David Pickard live on Facebook at 14:30 BST for a tour of the Royal Albert Hall as it is set up for the first night.?
Chineke! will make their Proms debut on 30 August.
The brainchild of double-bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku, the ensemble is Europe's first majority BME orchestra. Founded just two years ago, it is one of the youngest groups ever to play the festival.
The orchestra is "not just Black African-Caribbean," Nwanoku told BBC 5 live. "We have Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iraq, Iran, even an Aborigine amongst us."
She says the ensemble was formed "to change perceptions" not just for the audience "but also us musicians ourselves".
The musician added: "I didn't know if this could exist. I had no idea. At the time [I established the orchestra], I could count on the fingers of one hand how many musicians of ethnicity I had ever worked with, and three of those were singers."
Pianist Gerard Aimontche, who occasionally plays with Chineke! (although not at the Proms) said the project will "break stereotypes".
"As you may know, black musicians very often get pigeonholed to jazz or hip-hop. It's a huge stereotype. People may not even know that black classical musicians exist. In reality, there are tons of us. I'm very excited about it."
"The amazing thing about opera at the Proms is it's like lifting the lid on the engine of opera, because you can see into the orchestra all the time. It's like you're enmeshed in it," says Radio 3's Tom Service.
"The storytelling is actually much more vivid because there isn't scenery, because there isn't a director in the way.
"You're forced to focus on the interactions between the singers, and you see what's happening with the musicians. You feel part of the drama. That's the unique thing about opera at the Proms."
Tom recommends the following operas from the 2017 programme: Beethoven's Fidelio (21 July); Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina (6 August); and Mozart's La clemenza di Tito (28 August).
A BBC Proms concert at the Royal Albert Hall is never "sold out" before the day of the performance, because for each Prom up to 1,350 standing, or "Promming" places are available in the arena and gallery on the day.
Queuing for those tickets is all part of the experience. But which should you plump for?
"As someone who's been Promming since I've been 13, here's my secret: If you stand in the middle of the arena, that is the best place in the entire arena to listen to the Prom," says BBC Radio 3's Sara Mohr-Pietsch.
Her co-presenter Petroc Trelawney disagrees. "I want to make a cry for the gallery because I love going up there," he told BBC Radio 2's Steve Wright Show.
"Downstairs in the arena, everyone's packed in and standing up. Up there, people are lying down. People bring cushions and blankets, they bring a little picnic to have in the interval. And the sound up there is extraordinary. [It] sort of gets whooshed up through the hall and it sounds fantastic."
On 29 July, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales will stage the first ever "relaxed Prom", delivering classical music in an informal environment.
"It's specifically designed not just for families, but also for adults with autism, sensory impairments and learning difficulties," says Tom Service.
"The message is simple to anyone who comes along: You can do what you want. You can talk, you can relate to each other however you like to. It's going to be a wonderful experience."
The broadcaster points out that this casual atmosphere used to be the norm.
"If you rewind 150, 200 years, it wasn't the case that everyone was sitting in silence and worshipping the music.
"The concerts were much more like being at Glasto and Latitude. So, for me, the relaxed Prom is a return to classical music's roots."
Sir Tom Jones will make his first ever appearance at the Proms as part of a celebration of soul record label Stax Records.
The singer will take part in a concert celebrating the Memphis-based label, performing tracks such as (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay and Soul Man alongside Stax stars Booker T Jones and Sam Moore. There will also be appearances by Beverley Knight, James Morrison and Ruby Turner.
"What a voice and what a personality," said David Pickard, who books the Proms for the BBC.
"Stax is really interesting. Their first big tour to the UK was 50 years ago, and Tom Jones is one of hundreds of artists who were hugely influenced by them."
The BBC has been broadcasting the Proms for the past 90 years, and to mark the anniversary, BBC Radio 3 is streaming the entire event in lossless audio.
In layman's terms, the concerts won't be compressed or squashed like an MP3 (which chucks out sounds the human ear can't hear). If you're interested in the nuts-and-bolts of what's being called "concert quality audio", there's a BBC blog post.
This audio won't be available on your radio, though. You'll need to go to the Proms website or the BBC Radio 3 website to experience it.
Prom 13, on 24 July, recreates a concert that originally took place in 1966.
It's to honour Malcolm Sargent, who was chief conductor of the Proms from 1947 until his death in 1967.
"We are recreating his 500th Prom," says Petroc Trelawney. "Isn't that amazing? One man conducted more than 500 Proms.
"Now we have dozens of conductors each year. But back then. you just had one or two conductors. So we have got all of Malcolm Sargent's hits, if you like, from that 500th Prom he did."
"Symphonies are the bread and butter of the Proms," says Tom Service, who picks Elgar's first and second symphonies as his personal Proms highlights.
The symphonies will be played on 15 and 16 July by the Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
"This is one of the most characterful and deep and warm and emotional orchestras in the world," he told BBC 6 Music.
"You'll know Elgar from the £20 note, with that Edwardian moustache. There's an idea that he represents old-world imperialism [but] this music is shot through with a genuinely radical spirit and an emotion that cuts you to the quick.
"It's there from the first bar of the first symphony. And the second symphony is, for me, literally devastatingly moving.
"You're going to have the most shattering, private intimate emotions on show here. And if you go there with Barenboim and Elgar's music, you're going to discover things about yourself, not just the symphony."
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Heatley fired into the bottom corner from the edge of the box in the 68th minute and then curled a sublime right-foot effort into the top corner on 74.
Third-placed Glenavon continued their recent good form by beating Coleraine 1-0 at Ballycastle Road.
Kevin Braniff headed home the winner from six yards out on the hour mark.
The Lurgan Blues are now unbeaten in their last nine away matches, stretching back to November, while the Bannsiders have lost five of their last seven home games.
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In the first half, Coleraine's Ruaidhri Higgins saw his drive whistle past the post and Kevin Braniff and Declan O'Brien went close for the visitors.
Braniff netted the winner against the run of play after the home defence failed to deal with Andy Hall's free-kick.
The best of the second-half chances fell to the hosts but Rodney Brown's header clipped the bar and Darren McCauley was denied by Jonny Tuffey.
Tuffey also made a fine save from James McLaughlin's 83rd-minute penalty after Kris Lindsay had been sent-off for a second bookable offence, a handball inside the area.
Crusaders had seen their lead at the summit reduced to two points when Linfield defeated Ballinamallard on Thursday night and the champions' recent form was not encouraging, having picked up just nine points from their previous six league fixtures.
In contrast, the Swifts had accumulated 13 points from six matches and had suffered just one reverse in seven Premiership outings.
Stephen Baxter's side started brightly as Michael Carvill saw his overhead kick sail over the bar and Andrew Mitchell struck a right-foot effort from 25 yards just wide.
Jordan Owens's shot was saved by Andy Coleman but for the most part, it was a lethargic, unconvincing first-half performance by the leaders.
After the break, Jordan Forsythe's header came off the post and into the hands of the goalkeeper, then Swifts forward Ally Teggart found himself through on goal but his left-foot attempt flew over the bar.
Heatley's double salvo in the space of six minutes took his season's tally to 22 goals and ensured Crusaders enjoy a five-point cushion ahead of their trip to Ballinamallard on Tuesday night. | Paul Heatley scored twice in the second half as Crusaders beat Dungannon Swifts 2-0 to restore their five-point lead at the top of the Irish Premiership table. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35904265"} | 555 | 41 | 0.435807 | 1.092781 | -0.030664 | 1.28125 | 13.96875 | 0.71875 |
Rowett had led the Blues to seventh in the Championship before his exit.
The Cumbrians are currently in talks with an overseas party with regard to a financial involvement in the club.
"We need to nail down what happens, because we're quite happy with [boss] Keith Curle," Clibbens said.
He told BBC Radio Cumbria: "I don't know the details [of the Rowett departure] but these are the realities of the world.
"Having a load of cash is only part of what we need to deal with here."
Carlisle have been linked with new investment for almost two years, while recent negotiations have accelerated to a point where finer details are being discussed.
On the field, manager Curle has assembled a team which is two points behind leaders Plymouth and second in League Two after 21 games.
"The investor has outlined his overall vision of what he thinks he would do with his club," Clibbens added. "We've got to drill down and see what that means in reality.
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In a speech, he said people should not have to "make trade-offs between privacy and security".
While not naming Facebook and Google explicitly, he attacked companies that "built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency".
Rights activists Privacy International told the BBC it had some scepticism about Mr Cook's comments.
"It is encouraging to see Apple making the claim that they collect less information on us than their competitors," Privacy International's technologist Dr Richard Tynan said.
"However, we have yet to see verifiable evidence of the implementation of these claims with regard to their hardware, firmware, software or online services.
"It is crucial that our devices do not betray us."
Addressing an audience in Washington DC, Mr Cook said: "I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information.
"They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetise it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be."
Mr Cook had been given a corporate leadership award by the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, a US-based research group.
According to TechCrunch, he later added that Apple "doesn't want your data".
Google has not commented on Mr Cook's comments specifically, but a spokeswoman referred the BBC to the privacy section of its website, which the company has recently updated.
"Ads are what enable us to make our services like Search, Gmail, and Maps free for everyone," one page reads.
"We do not share information with advertisers in a way that personally identifies you, unless you gave us permission."
Facebook suggested this page outlining how it collects user data.
While Apple does not hold the same wealth of data looked after by Google and Facebook, it does use personal information to target advertising.
A page for marketers on Apple's website offers "400 targeting options" for reaching users.
It reads: "Whether you're looking for moms or business travellers or groups of your own customers, we've got you covered."
Apple's lack of data, when compared with some of its rivals, could be a disadvantage for future devices. Services such as Google Now, which use stored data to predict what information users may need, require vast amounts of personal data to be effective.
Mr Cook also spoke at length about encryption.
His company introduced encryption measures by default to its devices late last year, a move heralded by privacy campaigners but heavily criticised by several governments.
Mr Cook hit out at governments that had pressured technology companies to allow for so-called "backdoors" to aid with counter-terrorism and other enforcement.
"There's another attack on our civil liberties that we see heating up every day," Mr Cook said.
"It's the battle over encryption. Some in Washington are hoping to undermine the ability of ordinary citizens to encrypt their data."
He added: "If you put a key under the mat for the cops, a burglar can find it too."
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The former captain scored 153 not out on day one at Edgbaston, as England closed on 348-3.
The England and Wales Cricket Board believes the Dukes ball is the closest in form to the traditional red one used in first-class and Test cricket.
"We'll know more two or three years down the line," said Cook.
"We'll then be able to see how it reacts in all kinds of situations, but I thought it was a good ball."
Cook scored 23 boundaries and batted out the full 90 overs of the opening day of the inaugural day-night Test in the UK.
"I can't see this not being a success in other parts of the world, but whether we need to do it in England is a different matter," he said.
"The trouble is that it's not dark until the last hour in England. In other parts of the world you get a session and a half in the dark."
The match began at 14:00 BST, with 'lunch' taken at 16:00, 'tea' at 18:40 and play finishing at 21:30.
"I was yawning at nine o'clock because that was about my bed time," said Cook.
"You're programmed to start at 11 with a red ball - the change can take a little bit of time."
The Essex batsman shared a 248-run partnership with captain Joe Root, the highest for the third wicket in a Test at Edgbaston.
Cook described Root - who made 136 - as a "genius," adding: "It's incredible how he manages to score like he does. If he's not the best English player I've played with then he's right up there.
"The way he moves, his rhythm - it's a lesson to us all."
West Indies bowling coach Roddy Estwick said the tourists were "disappointed in the dressing room", after the bowlers conceded 53 boundaries over the course of the day. | The "jury is still out" on the pink ball being used in the day-night Test against West Indies, says England's opening batsman Alastair Cook. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40970379"} | 461 | 39 | 0.433535 | 1.161931 | -0.412875 | 1.258065 | 13 | 0.806452 |
Carter, 26, will be available for Championship matches against Leicestershire, Surrey and Derbyshire.
Hogan hurt a hamstring playing for Western Australia and hopes to return against Derbyshire on 2 May, but is still awaiting further medical opinion.
"I've done a few running sessions, it feels positive but we'll wait and see how the scan comes back," Hogan said.
"I can do 85 to 90% of the things I'm required to do but we're not sure if I can bowl or not. We're quite tentative as to getting back into bowling because that's what happened last time I went back maybe a week too soon.
"It felt really good before and it happened [the re-occurrence].
"So it's frustrating I'm not able to participate in full training but positive in that it could have been a potential three-month injury and it's not going to end up like that."
In the meantime Carter, who has taken 70 wickets at 29.71 in 24 first-class matches since his debut in 2009, is set to make his first Glamorgan appearance at Grace Road on Sunday.
"I'm keen to play first-class cricket and Nottinghamshire want me to be involved in competitive matches," Carter told the Glamorgan website.
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In a joint statement, the companies said they would work together in "some areas of patent reform".
But the deal did not include licensing their technology to each other.
Apple - which produces iPhones - and firms that make phones using Google's Android software earlier filed dozens of lawsuits against one another.
Earlier this month, a jury in California ordered South Korea's Samsung firm to pay Apple $119.6m (£71m) for for infringing two of its patents.
The court also ruled that Apple infringed Samsung's patents and awarded $158,000 in damages.
Android software is now installed on some 80% of new phones sold every year. | Mobile phone industry giants Apple and Google have agreed to dismiss lawsuits they had brought against each other over technology patents. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "27452250"} | 149 | 26 | 0.704389 | 1.302639 | 0.270642 | 0.727273 | 5.863636 | 0.545455 |
After a 1-1 away draw last week, West Ham went behind when Filipe Teixeira precisely finished a swift counter-attack by the Romanian champions.
After the break West Ham's Jonathan Calleri and Winston Reid missed good chances and Ashley Fletcher went close.
But West Ham could not avoid a first competitive loss at the London Stadium.
"The disappointment is massive," said Hammers manager Slaven Bilic.
"We didn't play good in the first half or with desire as a team. We were second best."
Hammers boss Bilic had stressed the importance of "getting the job done" and reaching the Europa League group stage after starting their qualifying campaign back in late July.
But they could not break down a stubborn Astra side, who have only won once in five league games this season but went through on Thursday by converting one of just two shots they had on target.
In contrast, the Hammers had 17 unsuccessful attempts at goal - again highlighting Bilic's need for attacking reinforcements.
The Croat says he is interested in signing Manchester City forward Wilfried Bony, but will not "beg" anyone to join the club.
Bilic freshened up his side again, making eight changes from the starting XI which beat Premier League rivals Bournemouth at the weekend.
However, he had few attacking options to choose from, with Dimitri Payet, Andy Carroll, Manuel Lanzini and Andre Ayew all out injured.
As a result his team did not provide enough creativity and attacking threat against a side many expected them to beat.
Argentine striker Calleri missed two golden chances, one either side of the break, with only Fletcher - a young forward signed from Manchester United this summer - providing real spark when he came on shortly after the hour mark.
The Hammers' exit from Europe's secondary club competition leaves Manchester United and Southampton as the only English sides in Friday's draw.
Both teams moved directly into the group stage after finishing fifth and sixth in the Premier League last season, above seventh-placed West Ham.
Italian giants Inter Milan, Dutch runners-up Ajax and Spanish side Athletic Bilbao are all potential opponents for the English pair, along with Dundalk, who fell short of becoming the first Irish team to reach the Champions League group stage.
The draw takes place at 12:00 BST on Friday.
West Ham are left to focus solely on their domestic season. Next up is a Premier League trip to Manchester City, who have won both of their opening matches, on Sunday (16:00 BST). | West Ham failed to reach the Europa League group stage as Astra Giurgiu knocked them out in the qualifying round for the second year in a row. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37158826"} | 560 | 33 | 0.409076 | 1.076232 | 0.07395 | 1.642857 | 17.678571 | 0.785714 |
Andrew RT Davies also said Labour-Plaid Cymru policy liaison committees, set up in May to ensure Carwyn Jones's nomination as first minister, lacked clear remits for farming or Brexit.
Mr Davies said important issues would "fall by the wayside".
Ministers said their top priority was getting Wales the "best possible deal".
On Monday, Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths said Brexit was a chance to introduce a "made-in-Wales" approach to farming.
Mr Davies, who campaigned for Vote Leave during the EU referendum, was speaking to BBC Wales at the Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd, Powys on Wednesday.
Asked if he thought the Welsh Government could create its own agriculture policies after Brexit, he said: "From the discussions I've had on the show field there is a real issue around capacity in Welsh Government to reach for the challenge ahead and actually look at the opportunities that are opening up before us."
Mr Davies said: "At the moment I don't think that capacity exists and I don't think there [was] any pre-planning for the outcome of the referendum.
"That is deeply concerning."
Vote Leave had previously called for the Welsh Government to work with pro-Brexit politicians in forming their response to leaving the EU.
Mr Davies added that none of the working groups between Labour and Plaid Cymru "seems to have a clear remit when it comes to agriculture or indeed Brexit negotiations".
"Things will fall by the wayside that shouldn't be falling by the wayside," he said.
"We've heard on the show field today the lacklustre response to Bovine TB. As we can all look at the headlines about Brexit, there are the day to day challenges that the rural economy and agriculture faces.
"I see no impetus coming from government at the moment to address those day to day issues, leave alone the big headline issue of Brexit.
"I think it's deeply concerning that we had a priorities for government statement five days before the Royal Welsh... and not one mention of agriculture or the rural economy.
"If my memory serves me right there was little about rural broadband and connectivity, there was nothing about infrastructure and transport infrastructure for rural areas, or bovine TB...[or] to get small to medium sized businesses to locate to rural Wales to create quality jobs so we can have sustainable communities."
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "Our number one priority is to get the best possible deal for the people of Wales.
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Noye, 63, stabbed 21-year-old Stephen Cameron during a fight on an M25 slip road at Swanley in 1996.
He fled to Spain afterwards but was extradited in 1998 and jailed for life at the Old Bailey in 2000. He denied murder, on the grounds of self-defence.
Two previous appeals by Noye, in 2001 and 2004, were unsuccessful.
Mr Cameron was stabbed in front of his fiance, Danielle Cable, who is now in a witness protection scheme.
Noye's case was being looked at again following a decision by the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) to refer it to the Court of Appeal.
Clare Montgomery QC had told Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice, and two other judges that key prosecution witnesses at the trial were now "so discredited" that Noye's conviction should be quashed.
She said the court must regard pathologist Michael Heath and eyewitness Alan Decabral as being "so discredited or potentially discredited that the court would have to ignore their evidence".
Ms Montgomery said fresh evidence had demonstrated their unreliability and therefore the conviction was unsafe.
Mr Decabral, 40, from Pluckley in Kent, was shot dead in October 2000, six months after Noye's trial.
Noye launched his appeal in 2001 on the grounds that Mr Decabral had a criminal background and had lied in the witness box.
Kent Police said to date there had been no charges in relation to Mr Decabral's death, and the file on the case remained open.
Giving judgement on Tuesday, Lord Judge, sitting with Mr Justice Henriques and Mr Justice Davis, said there was no doubt that Mr Cameron was "deliberately stabbed" by Noye, and that it "was not self-defence".
Lord Judge said: "Rather it was a gross over-reaction in the context of a fight with an unarmed man, almost certainly consequent on the fact that the appellant was losing it."
He said nothing in Dr Heath's evidence "threw light on the truthfulness, or otherwise, of what the appellant asserted was in his mind, which was that he struck out in a panic while in mortal fear".
The prosecution case was that Noye had deliberately used the knife and caused the fatal injury, "not because he was in a panic or fearful of mortal injury, but because he had involved himself in a fight which he was determined he should not lose, and so he resorted to the use of a fatal weapon".
Lord Judge said: "To open the knife, and then return to the fight and 'punch' Mr Cameron with the open knife held in his fist was a wholly disproportionate response."
He went on to say that Noye could have tried to run away, or sought refuge among the many people who were nearby.
Lord Judge added that if Noye had genuinely thought Mr Cameron might have disarmed him and used the knife on him, he could have thrown it away.
"Dr Heath's evidence did not impinge on the essential issues in this trial, and the diminution of his standing as an expert witness does not undermine the safety of this conviction."
The judges found that no point raised during the appeal had caused the court to doubt the safety of the conviction.
Speaking outside court, Det Insp Dave Withers of Kent Police said: "We are pleased that the court have examined the evidence that has been presented and have found that the conviction is safe.
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The US Capitol police have accidentally left their guns in the building's toilets three times in 2015.
The officers involved have been disciplined. One gun was found by a child.
"We are now providing additional training on what to do when you have to go to the bathroom," Capitol Police Chief Kim C Dine told Congress.
The Capitol Police are responsible for protecting senators, congressmen and women, other staff and visitors to the Capitol in Washington DC.
They also police the Capitol grounds and the surrounding area.
Mr Dine was testifying to the House Administration Committee after a series of embarrassing episodes affecting the police force.
He said there was no excuse for leaving guns behind in toilets and more lockers are being installed to store firearms.
A first-time offender is typically suspended for five days but this could be increased to 30 days, he said. There could be sackings for individuals who re-offend.
"I would be remiss if I did not say that the officers involved in these recent weapons cases reported in the media in no way intended to leave their weapons unattended.
"But as noted, this is not acceptable and they will be held accountable,'' he said. | Armed police officers in Washington DC are being trained in how to use public toilets without leaving guns behind. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32832466"} | 254 | 23 | 0.521829 | 1.321699 | -0.111181 | 1.4 | 11.85 | 0.7 |
Andrea Bald is the great-great-great-granddaughter of William Bald - the man whose road changed the face of the Glens forever.
In 1831, Mr Bald was tasked with connecting the area's small towns and villages.
Up until then, the people of North Antrim lived as one community with their closest neighbours in western Scotland - connected by the sea.
The Kingdom of Dalriada, as it was known, comprised the northern part of County Antrim and some of the Inner Hebrides and Argyll, in Scotland.
It was easier to trade with those across the water than to traverse the mighty Glen to the likes of Ballymena or Belfast.
Many other engineers had been consulted on how to link the Glens with the rest of Northern Ireland, but most suggested a series of complicated bridges and passageways.
Mr Bald had a different vision. He set out to literally blast a road into the miles of towering sea cliffs - and succeeded.
The Antrim Coast Road - or the A2, to give it its less romantic name - hugs the dramatic coastline. It is flanked on each side by lofty cliff faces or miles of deep blue ocean and is a jewel in the crown of the area.
Ms Bald, who is also an engineer, believed her father's story about his grandfather's accomplishment was nothing more than a family myth.
As a child in the 1950s my Dad was told by his father, 'my grandfather built the Antrim Coast Road,'" she recalled.
"Without any details to go on - not even a first name - in about 2002, Dad decided he should search on the internet and came across an academic paper from the 1960s about William Bald, the man who built the Antrim Coast Road.
"By 2007 he had found quite a lot of information about William, his work and his family, but we hadn't found any records to confirm that he was really ours.
"I sent away to the UK for my great-grandfather's birth certificate, which confirmed that his father was Charles Bald, CE (Civil Engineer), eldest son of William Bald."
Now Ms Bald, along with her son Levi, has visited the Antrim Coast to experience the road for herself.
"It was an amazing feeling, driving the road," she said.
"It's such a beautiful area and certainly lives up to its reputation, it's just spectacular, but having the family link made it super special for me.
"In one way it was like going to an ancestor's house or gravesite.
"What I found really weird was that there were all these people who knew all about William Bald, my mystery ancestor.
"Levi and I stopped at a spot just north of Carnlough that my Dad had researched on the internet, called Largy Road.
"We talked to some people at a house there, sure enough, they knew the little stretch of road as Baldy's Branch, linking the old road down to the new coast road, or Baldy's road.
"It sounds sort of cheesy, but I guess it really instilled in me a sense of pride, learning about how significant the road really was to the communities of the Antrim coast."
Ms Bald was struck by the enormity of the job taken on by her great-great-great-grandfather.
"It's hard to fathom the scale of construction so long ago, and how huge a job it was to blast the cliffs and build miles and miles of road," she said.
"It dawned on me when I was there that there simply was no road before, no access by land to some parts, especially the headlands - so William must have been out in a boat to assess and plan and figure out what he was going to do.
"He must have been a pretty intrepid sort of a bloke."
Shaping the Coast will air on BBC Two Northern Ireland on Sunday 9 October at 10pm.
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The 33-year-old, who was most recently at Newcastle, quit rugby in May but has joined Andy Robinson's side to cover Marc Jones who has a knee injury.
Jones could be out for up to three months after sustaining the knock in a pre-season match.
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"The last thing Canadians expect is for me to come down and lecture another country on how they choose to govern," he said at the White House.
Both leaders stressed the countries' shared economic goals and co-operation at a joint news conference.
But their responses to questions about Syrian refugees underscored their contrasting policies on immigration.
Mr Trump defended his controversial travel ban, saying he wanted "to have a big beautiful, open door", but that "we cannot let the wrong people in".
The US president has stirred controversy for issuing an executive order temporarily banning entry of all refugees and visitors from seven mainly Muslim countries.
A federal judge has issued a temporary nationwide block on the travel ban, but the issue of refugees appeared to overshadow the joint news conference.
Mr Trudeau said the US and Canada had always been strong allies, fighting alongside one another on various battlefields.
"But there are times when we have differed in our approaches. And that's always been done firmly and respectfully," he said.
The prime minister added that Canada continues to "pursue our policies of openness" without compromising security and would serve as a "positive example in the world".
The Canadian leader made global headlines for accepting nearly 40,000 refugees, and has said his country will welcome those fleeing persecution and war.
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When Mr Trump signed the controversial order, Mr Trudeau tweeted his government's commitment to bringing in "those fleeing persecution, terror & war".
He also sent a pointed tweet that showed him greeting a young refugee at a Canadian airport in 2015.
"This is a delicate situation here I don't think it would help anyone in this country if the prime minister went to the US and started a fight," said Opposition Conservative leader Rona Ambrose.
The two men, however, emphasised their commitment to provide growth and jobs for people on both sides of the northern border.
"We will co-ordinate closely to protect jobs in our hemisphere and to keep wealth in our continent," said Mr Trump.
Mr Trudeau gave Mr Trump a framed photograph of the US president and the prime minister's father, Pierre Trudeau.
The picture was taken in 1981 when the then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau received an award in New York City, according to the prime minister's office.
The US president's pledge to renegotiate free trade deal Nafta has reportedly unsettled Canadian officials - 75% of the country's exports go to the US.
The two leaders, and Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka, also led a roundtable discussion on female workers.
The neighbouring countries launched a new task force called the United States Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Business Leaders-Female Entrepreneurs.
Ivanka Trump, who appealed to working women throughout her father's presidential campaign, helped secure female executives to participate and set the agenda for the meeting.
The joint task force may help allay tensions over some of the protectionist measures Mr Trump has issued since he took office in January.
It was a cold that Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal could barely comprehend.
On Christmas Eve, they found themselves struggling through a waist-deep field of snow in a rash night-time bid to sneak across the Canada-US border.
The two men had met a just few hours before at a Minneapolis bus station and both faced deportation back to Ghana after being denied refugee status in the US.
They had heard through a network of other refugees and African expats that if they could get into Canada, they had a second shot at asylum in the north.
By the time they reached Highway 75 in Manitoba, their hands had frozen into claws. They could not reach the phones in their pockets to dial 9-1-1 as planned. Mohammed's eyes had frozen shut.
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Theresa May: "What I recognise is that what we need in this country is strong and stable leadership."
It's probably fair to say that this is not the stuff of epic election moments - those times that have shaped all our destinies; moments when the country asks itself, truly, who governs?; days when suddenly, a leader, a party's fate is decided.
Theresa May, it's also probably fair to assume, did not dream of that question being put to her, nor of having to provide an answer, and, slightly robotically, grimly stick to her prepared script come hell or high water, rather than echo the colourful copy of her foreign secretary.
Nor perhaps, was Boris Johnson's first big day out on the campaign trail designed to land the prime minister with questions tonight about her intentions for Syria.
Would she just do Donald Trump's bidding if asked to help in another attack? Hypothetical questions she resolutely refused to answer at a rally of the party faithful in Yorkshire.
Yet few in Tory HQ will be weeping at the product of Boris Johnson's arrival in this campaign, whether it is his Victorian insult hurled at Jeremy Corbyn, which will have upset some voters, (we heard that sentiment that the Tories were "bullying" Mr Corbyn on the trail in Essex), nor his admission that it would be "very difficult" for the UK to refuse Donald Trump.
Whether it was the accidental or deliberate howls of not one, but two dead cats today, the foreign secretary's productive morning attracted yet more attention to one of the issues the Conservatives believe is most dangerous for Jeremy Corbyn.
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Brendan Boland was sexually abused by Fr Brendan Smyth in the 1970s.
An inquiry heard this week that police in Dublin were aware of Smyth's activities as far back as 1973, more than 20 years before he was convicted.
Mr Boland also said an apology to abuse survivors from a senior member of the Catholic church was "weak and feeble".
Smyth was a notorious child abuser, and was at the centre of one of the first clerical abuse scandals to hit the Catholic church in Ireland.
Details emerged at Northern Ireland's Historical Instutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry on Wednesday that gardaí (Irish police) were aware that a psychiatric hospital had diagnosed Smyth as "suffering from paedophilia".
But he was not jailed until the 1990s, when he was convicted of more than 100 indecent assaults against children, in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, over a 40-year period.
Mr Boland said the revelation that police knew of Smyth's offending was "shocking".
"[Gardaí] are equally as responsible as the Catholic church because they chose not to prosecute him," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.
"And if they had prosecuted him back then I would never have met him, so I'd never have been abused in the first place.
"I can't imagine what my life would've been like now. I don't think it'll ever leave me."
The retired Cardinal Seán Brady, the former head of the Catholic church in Ireland, appeared at the inquiry on Thursday and apologised to those affected by Smyth's actions.
He had been involved in a 1975 internal church inquiry into the priest's activities.
Mr Boland, who was 14 at the time, reported the abuse to the then Fr Brady, and was interviewed about his allegations.
Mr Boland was made to sign an oath of secrecy at the time, and police were never informed of the abuse.
Cardinal Brady's apology to Smyth's victims was "a last-ditch attempt to save his face and the face of the Catholic church", Mr Boland said.
He added that the senior cleric had made an attempt to contact him previously to apologise, but that it was to be "under his conditions".
"If I had have went I would've felt like a little boy again being scrutinised in his environment," he said.
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A statement from the organisers said they were advised to cancel the performance in light of "events that happened around New Years Eve".
This seemed to be a reference to reports that many woman were "molested" during celebrations.
However police have denied this is the reason for cancelling the concert.
"The organisers sought permission for today's programme only on 10 January. But our entire force is busy with security arrangements for the APMC Yard (agricultural produce marketing committee yard) elections. Let them seek fresh permission in time for their concert, we will allow it," Bangalore range Inspector General Seemant Kumar Singh told BBC Hindi's Imran Qureshi.
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The artist, best known for hits like Titanium and When Love Takes Over has a huge fan following in India.
He is scheduled to perform in Mumbai and the southern city of Hyderabad this weekend.
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Police were called to the River Erewash when the teenager did not re-emerge.
Fire officers and the ambulance service helped search for him and police divers found a body within two hours.
Nottinghamshire Police said in a statement that they were investigating the circumstances of the incident.
One local resident told the Nottingham Post that a boy had been there with his parents.
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The event had been facing the axe after sponsorship dried up.
However, councillors have now opted to spend £50,000 from the Common Good Fund to put on a display to see in the new year.
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The condition affects the internal organs, especially the lungs, by clogging them with thick sticky mucus, making it hard to breathe.
About a third of patients die before they get a donor lung. Here is one patient's story.
Matt Lodge, 23, from Bristol, had been on the critical list for two and a half years when he agreed to allow BBC Inside Out West to film his journey in May 2014.
Currently in England people have to opt-in if they want to donate organs when they die. Some campaigners are calling for an opt-out system to be brought in.
Mr Lodge and his family felt so strongly about the debate they agreed for the BBC to follow them regardless of the outcome.
He had to complete a furniture design course at home because he became too ill to continue his studies at university.
"My plan is to hopefully have a transplant, and get back to being able to work and to design," he said at the time. "It will allow me to get back to normal."
It was a race against time. Mr Lodge's condition was worsening. If he became too weak to endure the operation he would be taken off the waiting list.
Mr Lodge got the call to travel to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham after a possibly suitable set of lungs became available. He said he had "mixed feelings".
He was ready to have the operation, but it was a tense wait while doctors decided whether the donor organ was suitable.
And then came the bad news. He was told the lungs were not of high enough quality and the risk of a transplant would be too great.
Later that month he received another call as he was preparing to go to the Glastonbury Festival.
Again he travelled to hospital and again he was told the lungs were not suitable.
"It's the right decision, it's just frustrating," he said, as he headed off to the festival.
Finally, a suitable donor was found and Mr Lodge, who was now 24, was called in for his surgery.
A difficult operation was complicated further because his old lungs were so badly damaged they had become welded to his ribcage.
But after many hours in surgery the operation was completed. Mr Lodge woke up with a new set of lungs and surgeons were happy with the way the operation went.
However, he was not out of the woods yet. He suffered some serious complications including a stroke, causing temporary paralysis and tremors.
Seven weeks later things had improved. He was still in hospital and was recovering well.
"My friends say the biggest change is that I don't cough any more.
"And I can walk and talk [at the same time]. Before the operation I had to choose [to do one or the other]."
His mum Liz said: "He's a real fighter and he's come through it really well."
Mr Lodge still has cystic fibrosis - the operation is not a cure, and it's likely he will need another transplant operation in future. A new set of lungs lasts for eight years on average. But, for now, his quality of life has been vastly improved.
"I've still got a long way to go but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel," he said.
"Hopefully, in a few more months I'll be feeling my normal self."
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Peter McGrail's victory over Ukrainian Mykola Butsenko in the 56kg final was the high point for England, while Joseph Ward (81kg) won gold for Ireland against Russian Muslim Gadzhimagomedov.
On Friday, Callum French (60kg) took bronze as he lost his semi-final.
England claimed eight medals in total Ukraine - the highest of any nation. Their previous best was six in 2015.
Two years ago in Bulgaria, England claimed four gold, one silver and one bronze.
In Kharkiv on Saturday, Russia's Vasilii Egorov beat England's Galal Yafai (46-49kg), before Daniel Panev Asenov of Bulgaria beat Niall Farrell (52kg).
After McGrail's victory, Luke McCormack (64kg) was beaten by Armenian Hovhannes Bachkov, Abbas Baraou of Germany beat Pat McCormack (69kg), Cheavon Clarke (91kg) lost to Russia's Evgeny Tishchenko and FrazerEdward Clarke (+91kg) was outpointed by another Russian, Viktor Vykhryst.
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The BBC's Price of Football, the biggest study of its kind in Europe and now in its sixth year, looked at more than 1,000 ticket prices at 223 clubs.
The average prices in all four ticket categories we analysed in both tiers of the WSL have gone up.
However, the women's league as a whole worked out cheapest, with no matchday tickets costing more than £8.
The average price of the cheapest season ticket in the top tier is £34.78, while the average price of the most expensive season ticket is £44.44 - a rise of 15% from 2015.
In WSL2, the average price of the cheapest season ticket is £31.56 and the most expensive averages £34.67.
WSL1 side Chelsea Ladies and Oxford United Women in the WSL2 are the only clubs who have frozen or reduced their tickets in all categories.
The cheapest matchday ticket is available at Watford for £3, while you will pay the most at Birmingham City and Bristol City (£8).
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Deadlock over the issue had held up the last day of talks in Hamburg but a final agreement was eventually reached.
It acknowledges President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement without undermining the commitment of other countries.
The compromise comes after violent protests in the host city.
The joint summit statement released on Saturday said: "We take note of the decision of the United States of America to withdraw from the Paris Agreement."
However, the leaders of the other G20 members agreed the accord committing nations to restrict global temperature increases was "irreversible".
In her closing news conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she still deplored Mr Trump's position on the Paris accord but she was "gratified" the other 19 nations opposed its renegotiation.
The statement also said the US would "endeavour to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently".
Mr Trump has pledged to help the US coal industry make a comeback and has previously characterised the Paris agreement as trying to disadvantage American workers.
He won another concession on a second sticking point - trade. While renewing a pledge against protectionism, the communiqué for the first time underlined the right of countries to protect their markets.
Mr Trump cancelled his own scheduled news conference on Saturday, reinforcing the image of the G20 as the G19 + 1, reports the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Robbins.
It has been divisive summit in which the rest of the world has been struggling to come to terms with the US president's "America first" policy, our correspondent says.
"I think it's very clear that we could not reach consensus, but the differences were not papered over, they were clearly stated," Mrs Merkel told reporters.
She said she did not share the view of UK Prime Minister Theresa May that Washington could decide to return to the climate agreement.
But Mrs May reiterated her belief that the US could rejoin the accord in her news conference on Saturday.
And French President Emmanuel Macron also remained hopeful of persuading Mr Trump to change his mind, saying: "I never despair of convincing him because I think it's my duty."
He announced that Paris would host another summit on 12 December to make further progress on the climate agreement and to address financing.
There have been large protests in the city, with demonstrators and armed police clashing into the early hours of Saturday.
Demonstrators - who were protesting against the presence of Mr Trump and Mr Putin, climate change and global wealth inequalities - set fire to vehicles and barricades, threw rocks at officers and looted shops.
At one point, police chased protesters across rooftops while officers on the streets used water cannon on protesters.
Nearly 200 police officers were injured during the protests. Dozens of protesters have been detained.
President Trump met Prime Minister May on the sidelines of the summit on Saturday and said a US-UK trade deal would be signed soon.
He also confirmed he would visit the UK, but said the details had still to be worked out.
On Friday, the US president used his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 to discuss the alleged Russian hacking of last year's US presidential election.
President Putin said on Saturday he believed President Trump had accepted his assurances that Moscow had not interfered in the vote.
He said he had established a working relationship with his US counterpart and a ceasefire in southern Syria - agreed between the US, Russia and Jordan on Friday - was a result of America becoming more pragmatic.
Mr Trump held his final talks of the event with President Xi Jinping, where they discussed efforts to rein in North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
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Jenny Downey, described Michael Freshwater, 49, as the "perfect gentleman" and said she "still can't accept" his death.
He was found dead at his flat in Westridge Road, Southampton, on 29 April.
To date 12 arrests have been made in connection with Mr Freshwater's death, but no-one has yet been charged.
In an emotional appeal, Ms Downey said: "Micky was the love of my life, my rock, my best friend, my world, my everything. I will never stop missing him or loving him.
"I feel so lost without him and the pain never ends. I still can't accept he's gone."
Crimestoppers is offering a £10,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible.
Ms Downey added: "I just want to know what happened and get justice for something that is so, so cruel."
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The Bishop of Willesden, the Right Reverend Pete Broadbent, said the union between Prince William and Kate Middleton would last about seven years.
He apologised for the remarks on Monday but has been asked by the Bishop of London to withdraw from public ministry "until further notice".
The royal couple are to marry in April.
Clarence House announced on Tuesday that Westminster Abbey would be the venue for the 29 April wedding, which Prime Minister David Cameron said would be a public holiday to mark a "national day of celebration".
However, when the news of the engagement broke, the bishop wrote on the social networking site: "We need a party in Calais for all good republicans who can't stand the nauseating tosh that surrounds this event."
The Bishop of London, the Right Reverend Richard Chartres, who announced the suspension, said he had been "appalled" by the comments.
In a statement, he said: "In common with most of the country, I share the joy which the news of the engagement has brought.
"I have now had an opportunity to discuss with Bishop Peter how his comments came to be made and I have noted his unreserved apology.
"Nevertheless, I have asked him to withdraw from public ministry until further notice.
"I have been in touch with St James's Palace to express my own dismay on behalf of the Church."
The bishop made a number of comments on the site on Wednesday.
He said: "Marriages should be about family, not "some piece of national flim-flam paid for out of our taxes, for a couple whose lives are going to be persecuted and spoilt by an ignorant media".
He criticised the monarchy for a history of broken marriages and a "corrupt and sexist" hereditary principle, before going on to attack the "gutter press" for "persecuting" the Royal Family.
In a statement published on Monday, Bishop Broadbent said he had conveyed his own "sincere regrets" to the couple and to Prince Charles and admitted he had been "unwise".
"I recognise that the tone of my language and the content of what I said were deeply offensive, and I apologise unreservedly for the hurt caused," he said.
"I accept that this was a major error of judgement on my part. I wish Prince William and Kate Middleton a happy and lifelong marriage and will hold them in my prayers."
Graham Smith, of anti-monarchy campaign group Republic, said while he would not have used Bishop Broadbent's language, he shared his concerns about the "celebrity culture" surrounding the Royal Family.
"He has every right to raise those concerns and speak his mind on the matter, even using strong language to get his point across."
Bishop Broadbent was not believed to be among those present at the general synod or during a service of Holy Communion at Westminster Abbey attended by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on Tuesday morning, the Press Association news agency reported.
At the synod, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams said he spoke for those present in expressing "delight" at the forthcoming marriage.
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The health and social services scrutiny panel said working conditions and staff contracts at Jersey General Hospital should improve.
Chairman, Deputy Richard Renouf, said higher salaries would help attract more doctors and nurses to the island.
Health Minister, Senator Andrew Green, said he would consider the report.
Mr Renouf said recruiting staff in Jersey was more difficult due to higher cost of living and uncertainty about accommodation.
He said: "During the review we found several factors which may deter hospital staff considering relocating to Jersey. One of these factors was the high cost of living.
"If we are to resolve recruitment issues, the issue of pay levels that are appropriate to higher costs of living in Jersey must be addressed."
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Scotland's Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland has told the BBC the Libyans will work alongside Scottish and US investigators.
Mr Mulholland, Scotland's senior prosecutor, said it was a welcome development.
Libyan agent Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of killing 270 people when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie in southern Scotland.
Mr Mulholland said: "As a result of developing good relations and understanding of what we're trying to achieve, the Libyan law enforcement have appointed two prosecutors to work with the US and Scottish prosecutors in investigating this.
"So that's a welcome development and hopefully this will progress matters."
Scottish investigators have said they hoped the Libyan revolution, which deposed Col Muammar Gaddafi in August 2011, would open up new lines of inquiry.
By Glenn CampbellBBC Scotland news
Lockerbie investigators think there may be documents and witnesses in Libya that could lead them to further suspects in the case.
The only person ever convicted of the bombing was a Libyan agent, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, and the court that convicted him said he had been part of a state-sponsored terrorist act.
Ever since the revolution that overthrew Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, Scottish and American authorities have sought fresh co-operation from Libya.
A year ago, the Libyan ambassador to London, Mahmud Nacua, said the new government in Tripoli would release all files relating to Lockerbie but only when the country's security had been established.
Libya has become less stable since then with militias exercising considerable power.
That instability will make it harder to pursue fresh lines of inquiry in the Lockerbie case.
Megrahi is the only person to have been convicted of the 1988 bombing, but British officials have been attempting to establish whether anyone else in Libya could be brought to trial.
The Scottish government released Megrahi from jail on compassionate grounds after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He died last year still protesting his innocence.
Megrahi's release in 2009 was strongly criticised by the US administration.
US president Barack Obama said at the time: "We have been in contact with the Scottish government, indicating that we objected to this and we thought it was a mistake."
In March, Scottish police and prosecutors visited Libya to discuss the Lockerbie investigation.
The four-person team from the Crown Office and Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary was accompanied by an FBI delegation from Washington.
It met senior officials from the Libyan government in Tripoli. | Libya has appointed two prosecutors to work on the Lockerbie case. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "25409413"} | 580 | 16 | 0.575304 | 1.553847 | -0.356092 | 3.833333 | 39.583333 | 1 |
Manchester United forward Rooney was sidelined by a knee injury as Hodgson's team came from two goals down to win Saturday's friendly 3-2, with the younger generation flourishing in his absence in Berlin.
Tottenham's 19-year-old Dele Alli was man of the match and his partnership with club-mate Harry Kane continued to develop as the striker, 22, scored the goal that started England's comeback.
Leicester City's Jamie Vardy increased the pressure on Rooney's place with his first England goal but Hodgson said: "I have to repeat Wayne is our captain and he has captained the team extremely well in the past two years.
"He took us through a qualifying campaign where we had a complete success with 10 wins out out 10. It doesn't please me too much that it is suggested now that the moment he is injured and doesn't play he gets jettisoned in some way. He doesn't deserve that."
If Hodgson keeps faith with Kane and Alli in their current positions - and bearing in mind Vardy was also on the scoresheet and Arsenal's Danny Welbeck was back in England colours for the first time in a year after injury problems - Rooney is facing the biggest challenge to his place in more than a decade.
Hodgson insists the 30-year-old, England's record goalscorer with 51 goals in 109 appearances, will not allow the new breed to rest on their laurels.
He said: "When he comes back and is fit again he is going to be putting enormous pressure on these players, just like these players will be putting enormous pressure on him - and that is the situation we are looking forward to."
Alli's display and his partnership with Kane is emerging as a key option for Hodgson, leaving questions over where Rooney could fit in.
"Dele's performance against France in November was a man-of-the-match performance as well," said Hodgson.
"He was fantastic in that game and if anything it has pleased me even more that he has come out and done exactly the same again, and what is more he has done it in perhaps even more difficult circumstances.
"At the moment, all you can see with Dele is a very, very bright future. It is up to him and his club but he has got to make certain he doesn't think 'I am the complete and finished article'. You cannot be the complete and finished article at 19 - not if we are talking about winning tournaments.
"You need a little bit more experience and games behind you. I'm not trying to detract from his performance. We thought he was excellent from the first minute to the last. He is getting a lot of praise and I hope he enjoys it because he truly deserves it."
The emergence of a crop of exciting young players, and the brand of football they produce, has led to suggestions Hodgson is altering his approach to the game.
The 68-year-old denies that is the case.
"No, not at all," said Hodgson. "Unfortunately - and I don't know when I got it - but at some stage I was told I'm conservative in some way and that will stay with me for the rest of my life.
"I don't have it in Italy, I don't have it in Switzerland, just in England. I believe that is what is said. It is not true in my opinion and certainly I have never felt that way.
"I have worked for one or two teams, of course, where we have been nowhere near as good as the opposition and we have been put onto the back foot.
"But whenever I have had the team that has had the ability to take control of the game, take the initiative and take the game to the opposition, all of my teams have done that."
That being the case, Hodgson insists he is not motivated by a desire to prove people wrong.
He added: "You can't disprove what people say or think about you, you can only do your work and hope the work you do with the players will give some sort of reward or success.
"Then people can have their opinions. It has never bothered me at all - I haven't started thinking 'someone said that, I better do something different'.
"I think I have been, not quite a model of consistency throughout the 40 years, but there haven't been many ups and downs or twists and turns.
"I believe in playing football, I believe in taking the initiative and you can only win things if you have a team who can take the game to the opposition. It is difficult to win things in the long term if you go on the back foot." | England manager Roy Hodgson insists captain Wayne Rooney is still a major part of his Euro 2016 plans - even though his side beat World Cup holders Germany without the striker. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35908204"} | 1,065 | 41 | 0.436867 | 0.999455 | -0.316837 | 0.6875 | 29.65625 | 0.5 |
West Midlands Fire Service (WMFS) was inundated with more than 1,000 flood-related calls when the deluge started shortly after 18:00 BST on Thursday.
It said 1,000 homes in Birmingham either flooded or were at risk of flooding.
Worst affected areas were Selly Park, Harborne and Woodgate Valley.
The radiotherapy section of the former Queen Elizabeth Hospital also had to be cleared of 5,000 litres of water.
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It is the latest bout of flash flooding to hit the region in the last few days, with Birmingham's Heartlands Hospital declaring a major incident when its accident and emergency department was hit.
In the latest deluge, firefighters evacuated a children's home and helped eight youngsters into alternative accommodation.
Residents in Sir John's Road, Selly Park, had to move upstairs when 100 homes were flooded. The nearby Selly Park Tavern was also forced to close when water poured into its cellar.
Train services were cancelled and delayed through Lye in Stourbridge because of significant flooding on the track. Bournville railway station was also badly affected.
Network Rail said the lines had now been cleared, although passengers have been warned to expect some delays on services.
Fire crews warned drivers to stay away from roads around the Merry Hill Shopping Centre in Dudley after roads became impassable.
A number of Birmingham schools are closed today, including Moor Green Primary School in Moseley, Oaks Primary School in Druids Heath and St Mary's Primary School in Selly Oak.
The Environment Agency has 10 flood warnings in place. More rain is expected later today but forecasters say it should then begin to clear.
WMFS area commander Ben Brook said: "Although we believe that the worst of the weather has now passed, we are still asking people to be vigilant and to beware of the likelihood of intense rain with little notice.
"There is also likely to be a lot of standing water on roads, and we would remind people not to enter floor water either in vehicles or on foot. There will also be debris and waste on some roads, so drivers should be alert." | Flash flooding across the West Midlands has caused chaos with hundreds of homes, businesses, cars and roads becoming submerged under water. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36556884"} | 456 | 27 | 0.515136 | 1.15432 | 0.594275 | 0.875 | 17.041667 | 0.625 |
Athlete Stepanova, who helped expose state-backed doping, was ruled out when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned from Rio any Russian who had served a doping suspension.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) outlawed that ruling on Thursday.
But Stepanova, 30, said she was "hugely sad and heartbroken" at a lack of IOC support and therefore will not appeal.
Stepanova, who served a two-year ban for blood passport abnormalities in 2013, was not included in Russia's team but had hoped to be invited to the Games by the IOC to compete under a neutral flag.
She and husband Vitaly, a former Russian anti-doping official, said in a statement that the IOC had "turned a blind eye" to the risks the 800m runner took in exposing "systematic cheating in Russia".
"We believe that in exercising this discretion to deny Yuliya a place in the competition, it sends a message that the World Anti-Doping Code and the values of Olympism are merely words on a page," the statement added.
"As a result, we will not file an appeal to Cas."
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The Serb, who took Uganda to Gabon for their first Africa Cup of Nations in 39 years, says he is owed wages.
Micho concedes the FA is handicapped "without the support of government".
But he told BBC Sport: "If we can sort the situation amicably, that is good and well. But if not, I deeply regret I shall have to go the legal way."
Under Micho the Cranes bowed out in the group stage in Gabon after suffering narrow defeats to African heavyweights Ghana and Egypt before securing a 1-1 draw against Mali.
Uganda's performances are a sign that they are improving, especially considering their last appearance at the finals came in 1978.
But their development could be derailed as Micho warned he could soon be pursuing his options.
He has been heavily linked with a number of coaching posts, such as Ghana - the Back Stars' coach Avram Grant is set to leave after the Nations Cup - and South Africa.
"I have a contract until the 2019 Nations Cup but the bags of a coach are always half-packed - ready to stay, ready to go," he said.
"Uganda needs to decide. I am really open to everything because offers are coming.
"Uganda needs to provide better facilities, logistics and to fulfil contractual obligations - if they do that, we can continue because I am already heading the project in the right direction."
The BBC has contacted Fufa for comment but the governing body has yet to respond.
Despite the uncertainty over his role Micho, who has been involved in African football for 16 years, believes Uganda has a bright future after a host of young players gained crucial tournament experience in Gabon.
"The players have learnt that they are capable of playing at the highest level of international football - capable of playing against Egypt and Ghana, two teams we are playing in the World Cup qualifiers," he said.
When I look at everything that will happen, one thing is certain - I will still be in Africa
"We have removed that mental barrier that was in front of us. We have seen what we are capable of and whether with me or anyone else, I believe Uganda will be capable of going to the World Cup."
Later this year, Uganda continue their quest to reach the 2018 World Cup with home and away qualifiers against Egypt, a home tie with Ghana and a final qualifier in Congo in November.
The Cranes currently sit second in Group E with four points, two behind leaders Egypt and three ahead of Ghana while Congo have yet to win a point.
In June, qualifying for the 2019 Nations Cup in Cameroon also begins, with Uganda having been drawn against Cape Verde, Tanzania and Lesotho.
When devising a plan to qualify for the Nations Cup, Fufa and Micho had originally targeted the 2019 finals - only to achieve their aims two years earlier.
"Whoever (leads the team) against Cape Verde, Tanzania and Lesotho, Uganda can go to the Cup of Nations in Cameroon in 2019," he said.
"I count myself extremely proud man because I really left a legacy behind."
Micho's assertion is up by the fact Uganda were named as the National Team of the Year for 2016 by the Confederation of African Football.
His reputation has been further enhanced by his time with the Cranes.
And Micho's love for African football - which has led him to coach in Ethiopia, South Africa, Sudan and Rwanda - shows no signs of diminishing.
"When I look at everything that will happen, one thing is certain - I will still be in Africa, I will still be a servant and soldier of African football," he said of his future. | Uganda coach Milutin 'Micho' Sredojevic has told the country's FA to fulfil its contractual obligations or he we will quit and take legal action. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38771056"} | 817 | 40 | 0.486788 | 1.293566 | 0.553076 | 0.892857 | 26.392857 | 0.75 |
The doors had been smashed, glass littering the floor. Police were called.
When staff at Argonics Inc's Colorado office realised nothing had been taken they reviewed CCTV footage of the doors.
The suspect had not even bothered to cover their face. Plus, unusually, protruding from that face were long horns - a rogue goat was behind the damage.
The company uploaded the footage to their YouTube account and the video has since attracted close to half-a-million views.
"Our office manager arrived at the office on Monday morning and saw the doors were smashed," a company spokesperson told the BBC.
"He called the police to report a break-in.
"Once the police arrived, he thought to check the camera footage and saw that it was actually the goat."
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What sparked the goat's violent outburst remains unclear, but it hasn't prevented social media users from speculating about the goat's motives.
"He probably saw his reflection in the glass, thought it was another goat, got intimidated and enraged and tried to fight it," one YouTube user suggested below the video.
"It was peer pressure from a gang of goat looters," mused another.
Argonics staff were left with a lot of mess to clear up (and likely an unusual insurance claim to make).
The whereabouts of the goat are unknown, though it can be seen trotting away happily from the scene of the crime at the end of the video.
By UGC and Social News team | On Monday morning staff at a US polymer manufacturer arrived at work to discover a break-in. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40647768"} | 377 | 23 | 0.345493 | 0.948543 | -0.121794 | 2.315789 | 17.631579 | 0.736842 |
The latest instalment in the car-based franchise took more than £8.7m in its opening weekend, more than double the amount that Baz Luhrmann's film made between Thursday and Sunday.
Gatsby's £4.1m tally puts it just ahead of Star Trek Into Darkness, the weekend's third most profitable title.
The sci-fi sequel has now taken £15.6m since opening on 9 May.
Fast and Furious 6, which sees Vin Diesel return as fugitive race car driver Dominic Toretto, opened in 462 locations across the UK and Ireland, 60 fewer than The Great Gatsby.
On a screen by screen basis, however, the film proved much more successful, earning an average of £18,869 per screen compared to Gatsby's £7,845.
British actress Carey Mulligan, who stars alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Luhrmann's film, attended its star-studded premiere in Cannes last week.
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But the cast's promotional efforts did not help the F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation earn widespread critical acclaim, with the Daily Telegraph's Charles Moore calling it "terribly, terribly bad".
The latest instalment in Marvel's Iron Man series added £1.4m to its earnings in its fourth weekend in cinemas, taking its overall total to £33.8m.
Children's dance movie All Stars completes this week's top five, earning £196,579 in its third weekend on release.
US drama Mud, starring Matthew McConaughey as a drifter who befriends two young boys, climbs one place to six, while DreamWorks' animated comedy The Croods falls two places to seven.
Comedy 21 and Over, action thriller Olympus Has Fallen and Pedro Almodovar's I'm So Excited are ranked eighth, ninth and tenth. | Action sequel Fast & Furious 6 races ahead of The Great Gatsby in this week's UK and Ireland box office chart. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "22622158"} | 422 | 30 | 0.564421 | 1.514372 | 0.549283 | 1.73913 | 14.478261 | 0.782609 |
We've got a good team coming into the competition, the boys are on a high from the way their clubs are playing.
About 90% of the boys in the squad are playing for teams that have qualified for the knockout stages of the European competitions. I think that just shows the form that everyone is in and it's great to have guys who are in form playing around you.
For the Glasgow boys it's great coming off a high in Europe after a great win over Leicester at Welford Road that took us into the Champions Cup quarter-finals.
We were back in the Scotland camp on the Sunday afternoon so we didn't really get much time at all to soak it up, but in a way it was good to make the transition quickly. You need to forget about what's happened before and move on. The goal changes pretty quickly.
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I was rooming with Huw Jones on Monday which was good. I think rooming together is an important part of getting to know your team-mates. To be in a room with Huw is handy because he's going to be at 13 so to be able to chat to him and see what he wants on the field, get a better understanding of what he likes and how he plays is good. He doesn't play in the UK so it's good to understand what sort of style of play he likes and share stuff with him.
He's pretty chilled out which is good. We just sit about, watch some television and go to bed at roughly the same time, which is great because when you share with Jonny Gray he's in bed by 9pm and it's lights out!
Some of the chat in the build-up to this game was about me going up against Johnny Sexton. He has now been ruled out through injury, but I never really buy into these personal battles. It would have been good to go up against him, but Paddy Jackson has been going well this year.
It doesn't change that much for us as a team, our attacking or defensive game-plan. We might have to make some minor alterations, but it doesn't change much for us as a team or me as an individual.
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I've played against Sexton a few times, Jackson a few times. I've played against them all. I don't look at it as a one-on-one test. I just know I have to do my job on the pitch for Scotland so I can't get caught up in positional battles. If I start looking at it like that then I might start to change the way I play, so for me it's best to just stick to what I do and I think that is best for the team.
The way Munster and Leinster are playing at the moment, we know how good Ireland are going to be. We haven't beaten them in a good few years. I've only played against them once so I'm looking forward to the challenge. Joe Schmidt is a great coach. I would imagine he'll have a lot of trick plays up his sleeve for this game.
I don't really have any superstitions or a set pre-match routine. On the morning of a match I don't really tend to eat breakfast. I like to get a long lie and wake up whenever I want basically. I like to just do whatever I feel like to get me in the right frame of mind. That might be drinking a hot chocolate or eating a bag of sweets, anything so I'm going into the game feeling good, feeling comfortable.
The strength and conditioning guys aren't always too happy with that, but that's my routine, making sure I'm happy. For me, it's not a checklist of things that I must do, it's just making sure I'm feeling good going into the game.
We know that Scotland's opening-day record in the Championship is poor. As players we've mentioned it a few times. We need to start better. Every year you try to focus on the first game and we want to get out of the blocks as well as we can and get a good start to the tournament.
Momentum is so important. If you get off to a good start then it can set you up for the rest of the tournament. Hopefully, we can do that with a win against Ireland on Saturday.
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General Athanase Kararuza and his wife died instantly, while their daughter was injured. No group has said it was behind the attack in the capital.
More than 400 people have been killed in unrest since President Pierre Nkurunziza said he would run for a third term last April.
A string of high-ranking army officials have been targeted during the conflict.
Security forces have also been accused of killing opponents and dumping them in mass graves by rights group Amnesty International.
Shortly after the attack in Bujumbura, the International Criminal court announced that it was starting a preliminary investigation into the violence in Burundi.
This will decide whether a full-blown investigation will take place, which could result in charges against those accused of being behind the violence.
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BBC Great Lakes reporter Robert Misigaro says the killing is a blow for President Nkurunziza because it shows that he cannot guarantee the safety of his officers.
On Sunday the Minister for Human Rights Martin Nivyabandi survived a grenade attack as he was coming out of church.
Although both opposition and government forces are ethnically mixed, some fear that the violence could descend into a repeat of the genocidal killings which the country has previously experienced.
President Nkurunziza is the former leader of a Hutu rebel group which battled a Tutsi-dominated army for many years until he came to power in 2005 as part of a peace deal.
The African Union had said it would send a 5,000-strong peacekeeping force to the country even if the government did not accept it but it has since back-tracked. | A security advisor to Burundi's vice-president has been shot dead while dropping off his daughter at school. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36129899"} | 405 | 26 | 0.50879 | 1.244318 | -0.653042 | 0.714286 | 15.857143 | 0.619048 |
The flag, bearing a double 'S' in the style of the Nazi paramilitary force, was seen at Gamba's J-League game at city rivals Cerezo Osaka on 16 April.
The league has fined them two million yen (£13,500).
Gamba have banned members of the group responsible and issued an indefinite ban on flags and banners at games.
The club "immediately identified the supporter group in question and took swift and appropriate measures", the J-league said on its website.
"However, the club's efforts to establish a system of monitoring supporter activities and enlightening them is not enough to meet its important responsibility of preventing discriminatory action from happening," it added.
Gamba are third in the J-league with 19 points from 10 games and travel to Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo on Sunday. | Japanese side Gamba Osaka have been fined and reprimanded after their supporters waved a flag bearing a symbol similar to a Nazi SS insignia. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39881437"} | 202 | 43 | 0.643037 | 1.597318 | -0.478937 | 0.6 | 6.4 | 0.52 |
Peers rejected a Lib Dem attempt to block moves to accelerate the full switchover to individual registration.
From December, all household members must register by themselves or face being removed from the register.
Critics say "huge numbers" could be disenfranchised but ministers say "no genuine voters" will lose out.
To ease the transition to the new IER system, which was first agreed in 2013, nobody has so far been taken off existing electoral registers, but anyone who has not individually registered by 1 December will be removed.
Labour and the Lib Dems say by doing this then, rather than in December 2016 as was originally envisaged, risks robbing more than a million people of the chance to vote in next May's elections, including polls for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and new London mayor.
Opponents of the accelerated timetable for IER sought to block the measure through a so-called "fatal" motion but this was rejected by peers by 257 to 246 votes after a two-hour debate.
The Electoral Commission watchdog has called for the measure to be blocked by Parliament while work continues on the latest annual canvass of households to establish an accurate picture of current registered voters.
It says the risk of disenfranchising large numbers outweighs the chances of a smaller number remaining on the register who should not be.
Arguing for a delay, Liberal Democrat peer Lord Tyler, a former MP, said he had never heard a statutory body express its view with "such clarity".
"The official estimate is that 1.9 million people who are currently on the register and were on it at the general election in May will be dropped off it," he said. "At a stroke, ministers are prepared to disenfranchise huge numbers of electors."
But speaking out against the motion, Conservative peer Lord Dobbs said opponents had not provided a single example of any individual who would lose out as a result of the move.
And government minister Lord Bridges said the purpose of the move was to "remove ghost entries", people who had moved house, died or had never existed at all, a category of people he said accounted for 4% of those on the register at the general election.
He said such people had been given "ample opportunity" to confirm their identity, having been contacted by officials nine times.
No-one currently on the register "would lose their right to vote", he told peers, insisting the government should not tolerate the risk of fraud and IER was a step to a "more modern and secure electoral system".
Tuesday's vote came at a time of growing tension between the Lords and the Commons over the authority of the appointed House to challenge government business following peers' decision to demand major changes to the government's tax credit cuts. | Opposition peers in the House of Lords have failed in efforts to inflict another defeat on the government, this time over electoral registration. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34652008"} | 613 | 31 | 0.426437 | 1.079037 | 0.243051 | 0.88 | 21.8 | 0.72 |
Unwashed and still soiled with stains, the pants were worn beneath one of Presley's famous white jumpsuits during a performance in 1977.
The light blue briefs will go under the hammer at an auction of Elvis Presley pop memorabilia in Stockport, Greater Manchester, next month.
Presley died 35 years ago this month, on August 16 1977.
There is expected to be a lot of interest in the auction from his fans from across the globe.
The singer did not want any lines visible while he was on stage and this pair of underwear was obtained from the estate of Vernon Presley, the star's father.
Also up for sale is his personal Holy Bible, which is expected to raise up to £25,000.
The bible was given to Presley on his first Christmas at Graceland in 1957 and used throughout his life.
It contains his handwritten notes, thoughts, annotations and underlining throughout.
Poignantly, one of the many lines emphasised by the entertainer states: "What is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world and lose himself or be cast away."
Also on sale is 16mm film footage taken from Priscilla Presley's own personal home movies of the singer, especially of their holidays and their daughter Lisa.
It also includes footage of their wedding and the very first time Elvis and Priscilla brought their daughter home to Graceland from the hospital, Christmas inside Graceland and other special family moments.
The auction will be streamed live from the Omega Auctions website on 8 September. | A pair of Elvis Presley's underpants are expected to reach up to £10,000 when they are sold at auction. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "19385100"} | 341 | 27 | 0.596615 | 1.54374 | -0.633173 | 1.181818 | 13.318182 | 0.636364 |
The Argentina international leaves United just a year after they paid Real Madrid a British record £59.7m for him.
Di Maria, 27, has signed a four-year deal with the French champions after undergoing a medical in Qatar on Tuesday.
"I am very proud and I can't wait to wear the colours of Paris St-Germain," he said.
Di Maria failed to join United on their pre-season tour of America last month, and manager Louis van Gaal had said he "did not know why".
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The former Benfica winger made a strong start to his Old Trafford career, with a goal and an assist in three of his first four games.
But after being played in six different positions, including central midfield and striker, a pelvic injury kept him out for the whole of December 2014.
Reports that he was unsettled in Manchester followed an attempted break-in at Di Maria's home in Cheshire, in January.
He was then sent off in the FA Cup quarter-final defeat by Arsenal on 9 March and did not start another game until the final match of the campaign at Hull, only to limp off with a hamstring injury after 23 minutes.
A Champions League winner with Real, Di Maria will be competing with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani and Ezequiel Lavezzi for a starting place at PSG.
"I want to win the Champions League, which is a dream for all footballers, for a second time," he said.
"We will do everything we can to bring Europe's biggest trophy to France and the fans of Paris St-Germain."
United have themselves spent £83m this summer, including the £31m signing of Memphis Depay from PSV Eindhoven.
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The hosts were fined 1,500 euros (£1,340) after a water bottle was thrown from the stands at players.
But the disciplinary committee also criticised the "reproachable behaviour" of the celebrating Barcelona players.
The Catalan club said these declarations were "irresponsible".
"The most serious thing is the thrown bottle, but some players acted in a way we don't like," Tebas said after the incident, also suggesting Barcelona players provoked Valencia fans.
Barcelona said they have requested the Administrative Court of Sport open disciplinary proceedings against Tebas and members of the federation's competition committee.
The club's president, Josep Maria Bartomeu, added: "Making statements regarding the actions of the players adds even more tension to a situation that must be de-escalated.
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Companies House recorded Taylor & Sons as being wound up in 2009 when it was Taylor & Son in difficulty.
Former co-owner Philip Davison-Sebry, of Cardiff, is now at the centre of an £8.8m case against Companies House.
Last year's ruling said the error caused the company to go into administration but a High Court judge ruled on Wednesday it can be appealed.
In January 2015, Mr Justice Edis found Companies House owed a duty of care when entering a winding up order to take reasonable care to ensure it is not registered against the wrong company.
He said Taylor & Sons had proved the reason it went into liquidation was because of an error made by Companies House.
Now, government lawyers have been granted permission to challenge that decision in the Court of Appeal.
Taylor & Sons dated back to 1875 and more than 250 people lost their jobs when it went under.
The error was rectified within three days but in the mean time, the false information had spread online.
The company said word had already got around, resulting in orders being cancelled and credit facilities being withdrawn.
Paul Rees QC, for Companies House, argued the judge's decision set a dangerous precedent for the future, "opening the door" to similar claims.
Lady Justice Arden said: "Clearly this case has wide implications and there are compelling reasons why an appeal should be considered."
She described what happened to Taylor & Sons through no fault of its own as "most unfortunate".
No date was given for the full hearing of the appeal. | A decision that a spelling mistake led to the collapse of an engineering firm can be appealed, a judge has ruled. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35361066"} | 337 | 29 | 0.429282 | 1.059272 | 0.10748 | 1.086957 | 13.521739 | 0.73913 |
Napoli looked set to maintain their two-point lead until substitute Zaza's deflected 18-yard shot flew past away keeper Pepe Reina.
Juve, who are bidding for a fifth straight Scudetto, have now won 15 successive league games.
Napoli barely tested Gianluigi Buffon as their eight-match winning run ended.
Relive Juve's dramatic win over their Serie A title rivals
The visitors came closest to threatening when Juve defender Leonardo Bonucci's vital interception stopped Serie A's top scorer Gonzalo Higuain from making contact with a dangerous right-wing cross.
Argentina international Higuain had scored 24 goals in his previous 24 league matches, helping Napoli become the league's most prolific attack.
But, despite playing confidently and refusing to sit back, the visitors could not break down a Juventus defence that has only conceded 15 goals this season.
Zaza was introduced for Spain striker Alvaro Morata shortly before the hour mark, eventually making the decisive impact to spark joyous celebrations among the home players and supporters.
"I hope it's a decisive goal as far as the title race is concerned," said 24-year-old Italy international Zaza. "The good thing is it's now in our hands." | Defending champions Juventus moved top of Serie A for the first time this season as Simone Zaza's late strike saw off previous leaders Napoli in Turin. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35520216"} | 294 | 38 | 0.548903 | 1.237522 | 0.154071 | 0.75 | 8.392857 | 0.535714 |
The 35-year-old had played less than an hour of rugby all season before coming back from a shoulder problem on Sunday.
"To be out that long I feel pretty guilty about it - I haven't done much for the club, so I felt I owed a big performance," he told BBC Bristol.
"The main thing I was thinking was 'just don't get injured.'"
Henson slotted a drop-goal and kicked three penalties as Bristol, bottom of the Premiership, beat Bath for the first time in 11 years to move to within two points of 11th-placed Worcester.
He lasted just 12 minutes on his previous injury comeback in November and has spent almost four months on the sidelines since.
"It's been tough being out for so long and I become a loner when I'm injured," he added.
"I was so tired. I was tired from the first minute and I was just thinking maybe the second wind will come in, and it didn't.
"I've got a lot of friends at Bath because I played there not so long ago so I was a little bit nervous. Obviously because I've been out for four months and the last thing I want to do is get injured again.
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Ex-England international Salisbury has been appointed as new head coach of England's physical disability team.
Hunter will continue his work as coach of England's visually impaired side, now in a full-time capacity.
The ECB's head of disability cricket Ian Martin said: "This is an important step change in disability cricket."
He added: "I'm proud that we are the first international cricket board to make such a step.
"It will increase the capacity of our coaches to work with performance squads and is further evidence of the improvement and culture shift within our national squads."
Hunter recently led the England's visually impaired side to the semi-finals of the Blind World Cup in India, where they lost to Pakistan.
Salisbury's first assignment will be to prepare England's physical disability squad for games this summer as the side continues to build towards a world tournament in England in 2019.
"I am very humbled and honoured, especially knowing that we are the first two coaches in the world to be working full-time in disability cricket," he said.
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The 36-year-old was airlifted to hospital after he and an 18-year-old man got into difficulty in the River Garry near Invergarry, south of Loch Ness.
Police Scotland said the older man died in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, following the incident at around 12.30pm on Thursday
The younger man was discharged. Next of kin have been informed, police added.
Police, ambulance, fire crews, the coastguard and a Royal Navy search and rescue helicopter were involved in the operation to help the pair. | A man has died after falling from a canoe into a Highland river. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35208798"} | 121 | 19 | 0.374543 | 0.744522 | -1.426711 | 0.642857 | 7.285714 | 0.642857 |
They also re-opened a main thoroughfare in Causeway Bay, a shopping district.
It is the second day of operations which police say are to ease traffic disruption, not clear the protesters.
Demonstrators have occupied parts of Hong Kong for more than two weeks.
The activists, a mix of students and a pro-democracy group called Occupy Central, are demanding a fully democratic election in 2017.
China, which has control over Hong Kong, says residents can vote - but it will vet which candidates are eligible to stand.
On Monday, scuffles broke out between those opposed to the Occupy movement and demonstrators after police removed some barricades in Central district.
Men wearing surgical masks charged at the barricades and tried to remove them.
In a similar clash at the protest site in Mong Kok 10 days ago police said some of those involved had triad backgrounds.
Democratic Party lawmaker Albert Ho told AFP news agency on Monday that this was "one of the tactics used by the communists in mainland China from time to time. They use triads or pro-government mobs to try to attack you so the government will not have to assume responsibility".
Later on Monday protesters reinforced their barricades, building bamboo barriers and cement foundations.
On Tuesday, police arrived with bolt cutters, chainsaws and sledgehammers. Local media said they were using the chainsaw to cut through the bamboo barriers.
"To ensure public safety and maintain public order, police have to take necessary action to remove the barriers at the occupied spots so that traffic can be partially resumed," police said in a statement.
Some protesters were visibly distressed. "We are only residents and students," one protestor shouted according to AFP. "We will leave as we are unable to fight you but we will not give up."
At the start of the protests last month thousands of people were on the streets, with hundreds sleeping there overnight. However, numbers have dwindled in recent days.
Over the weekend, Hong Kong's embattled leader CY Leung said the protestors had zero chance of changing Beijing's mind on constitutional reform.
He added that the protest movement had spun out of control.
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But experts say many other factors could be at play and people should not stop taking supplements.
University of Auckland researchers analysed 23 studies involving more than 4,000 healthy people.
The UK government recommends children and over-65s take a daily supplement.
The New Zealand research team conducted a meta-analysis of all randomised trials examining the effects of vitamin D supplementation on bone mineral density in healthy adults up to July 2012.
The supplements were taken for an average of two years by the study participants.
Bone mineral density is a measure of bone strength and measures the amount of bone mineral present at different sites in the body. It is often seen as an indicator for the risk of osteoporosis, which can lead to an increased risk of fracture.
The trials took place in a number of different countries including the UK, the US, Australia, Holland, Finland and Norway.
Although the results did not identify any benefits for people who took vitamin D, they did find a small but statistically significant increase in bone density at the neck of the femur near the hip joint.
According to the authors, this effect is unlikely to be clinically significant.
Prof Ian Reid, lead study author, from the University of Auckland, said the findings showed that healthy adults did not need to take vitamin D supplements.
"Our data suggest that the targeting of low-dose vitamin D supplements only to individuals who are likely to be deficient could free up substantial resources that could be better used elsewhere in healthcare."
Writing about the study in The Lancet, Clifford J Rosen from the Maine Medical Research Institute agrees that science's understanding of vitamin D supports the findings for healthy adults, but not for everyone.
"Supplementation to prevent osteoporosis in healthy adults is not warranted. However, maintenance of vitamin D stores in the elderly combined with sufficient dietary calcium intake remains an effective approach for prevention of hip fractures."
The Department of Health currently recommends that a daily supplement of vitamin D of 10 micrograms (0.01mg) should be taken by pregnant and breastfeeding women and people over 65, while babies aged six months to five years should take vitamin drops containing 7 to 8.5 micrograms (0.007-0.0085mg) per day.
Dr Laura Tripkovic, research fellow in the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Surrey, said the study was important but very specific.
"I'm not surprised they didn't find any evidence of the effects of vitamin D on bone density because there are so many other factors involved in osteoporosis, like genes, diet and environment.
"To pin it all on vitamin D... it's difficult to do that."
Dr Tripkovic said it was no good taking vitamin D supplements if people didn't also maintain a healthy, balanced diet containing calcium and take plenty of exercise.
She said most healthy people should be able to absorb enough vitamin D naturally, through sunshine and diet.
"But if people are worried about their vitamin D levels then a multi-vitamin tablet would do. If you have bone pain and muscle aches then you should go and see your GP and discuss it."
We get most of our vitamin D from sunlight on our skin, but it is also found in certain foods like oily fish, eggs and breakfast cereals.
However, taking too much vitamin D in the form of supplements can be harmful because calcium can build up and damage the kidneys.
Experts advise taking no more than 25 micrograms (0.025mg) a day.
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The IPCC found Cdr Richard Walton met an undercover officer in 1998 which could have undermined an inquiry into possible corruption in the case.
The watchdog said the commander had a "case to answer" for misconduct but the Met disagreed - on the day he retired.
The Met Police said it would be "inappropriate" to discuss the case.
Stephen's father Neville Lawrence has urged the force to halt Cdr Walton's retirement.
Stephen was 18 when he was stabbed to death in April 1993 in an unprovoked attack by a gang of white youths in Eltham, south-east London.
The IPCC (Independent Police Complaints Commission) investigation followed the publication in March 2014 of a review by Mark Ellison QC into possible corruption and undercover policing linked to the Stephen Lawrence investigation.
The Ellison Review revealed an undercover officer held a meeting with Cdr Walton, who was responsible for making submissions to the Macpherson Inquiry which looked into failures in the investigation.
Mr Walton is alleged to have "obtained information pertaining to the Lawrence family and their supporters, potentially undermining the (Macpherson) inquiry and public confidence" and gave inconsistent accounts to Mr Ellison's review team.
The IPCC's review concluded his actions did not amount to gross misconduct but he did have a case to answer for misconduct - which can lead to a final written warning.
But the Met disagreed and as Mr Walton retired from the police on Wednesday, the IPCC cannot challenge the force's decision.
New Home Office measures prevent officers under investigation for gross misconduct resigning or retiring until the case has concluded but that did not apply to Cdr Walton, who could have been stopped from leaving had he been suspended but was not.
Neville Lawrence's legal team said the findings "provide enough justification that it is in the public interest to suspend Commander Walton immediately".
It added: "There is a strong public interest in ensuring any disciplinary sanctions are followed through, in order that the police are seen to be held accountable for their actions."
Cdr Walton said he had told the IPCC about his retirement and it was "disappointing" the watchdog had taken nearly two years to conclude its report.
He said: "I have been intending to retire from policing on this date for 30 years... so it is unfortunate it has taken so long for them to complete their report."
The IPCC is yet to comment.
The Met Police said it would be inappropriate to discuss the findings of the report until the IPCC's process had concluded.
In 2012, Gary Dobson and David Norris were found guilty of murdering Stephen.
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US oil fell 2.4% to $43.11 (£32.72) a barrel, its lowest level since April, meaning it has now fallen by 12% so far this month.
Brent crude dropped 2.1% to $44.75, its lowest level since 10 May.
Shares in oil and firms also lost ground, with Exxon Mobil shares down 1.8% and Chevron down 2.6%.
"Crude oil markets have been under pressure as oil supplies have started growing with the resumption of output from the capacity lost due to wildfires in the Canadian oil sands," said EY energy analyst Sanjeev Gupta.
Data from market intelligence firm Genscape also suggested US production had increased.
Inventory at the Cushing, Oklahoma delivery base rose by 1.1 million barrels in the week to 22 July.
"Supply continues to return from disruptions, refined products are severely oversupplied, crude demand is falling well short of product demand, and key product demand is decelerating," Morgan Stanley said in a note.
On Friday, data showed the amount of US oil and gas extraction points had increased for the fourth week in a row.
The slump in prices from as high as $115 per barrel in 2014 led many shale oil producers to cut the number of rigs as producing oil was no longer profitable.
But despite a decrease in American crude supplies over the past year, there are still large stocks of gasoline in the country, even as the US hits its summer driving peak.
The value of the dollar which has steadily risen over the past month has also put pressure on crude oil prices. | Oil prices have fallen to a three-month low, hit by rising concerns that a global oversupply of both crude and natural gas will dampen prices. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36887112"} | 349 | 35 | 0.469378 | 1.039752 | 0.437783 | 0.689655 | 10.551724 | 0.551724 |
The 22-year-old has only made eight starts in 17 appearances for Posh this season, scoring once.
Angol, who found the net 11 times in 38 matches for the League One side last term, has moved to Sincil Bank after forward Dayle Southwell returned to Wycombe at the end of his loan.
He is cup-tied for Lincoln's FA Cup quarter-final trip to Arsenal. | Peterborough striker Lee Angol has joined National League leaders Lincoln City on loan to the end of the season. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39182677"} | 89 | 24 | 0.646511 | 1.298587 | -0.288509 | 0.9 | 3.95 | 0.6 |
The local government body Cosla has blamed the job losses on a reduction in funding from the Scottish government.
It has warned of similar cuts in the coming year if the government reduces the value of the support it gives to councils.
The Scottish government has said it believes councils have been treated "very fairly".
Cosla President David O'Neill said: "The Scottish government needs to realise that if as a result of their political choices the local government settlement is cut again next week - this will have severe consequences for jobs across Scotland.
"There were 7,000 job losses arising from the £350m cut to Scottish councils last year.
A further reduction in budget of similar proportions, on an already reduced base, will have even more severe consequences for job losses in councils and have a wider knock on effect for jobs within communities."
He added: "Consequences for families and communities will be severe due to reduced local spending and the economic vibrancy of many communities will be threatened."
A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said: "Audit Scotland last week published their independent report into council finances and found that local government had experienced the same reduction in funding as was imposed on the Scottish government by Westminster.
"It is therefore clear that local government has been treated very fairly despite the cuts to the Scottish Budget from the UK government.
"Local government finance settlements were maintained in Scotland on a like for like basis over the period 2012-16 with extra money for new responsibilities resulting in total settlements of £10.8bn in 2014-15 and of over £10.85bn in 2015-16."
She added: "The Finance Secretary will publish the Scottish Draft Budget later this month that will support our economy, tackle inequality and provide high-quality public services for all." | Scottish councils have claimed that 7,000 jobs have gone in local authorities over the past year. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38202298"} | 386 | 20 | 0.540585 | 1.339643 | -0.316152 | 1.117647 | 20.411765 | 0.764706 |
The 23-year-old centre-back joins the U's after leading Argyle to the League Two play-off final last season.
Nelson turned down a deal to stay at the Devon club after his previous contract had expired and had been the subject of a bid from Barnsley.
"It's a step up in league from last season and Oxford is a huge club," he told BBC Radio Oxford.
Nelson spent seven years at Stoke's academy, finishing his scholarship at Argyle before going on to make more than 200 senior appearances for Plymouth.
"I can't wait to get started at Oxford and I'm looking forward to it," he added. "You've got to pay credit to the manager for what he did last season as they did the job going up automatically.
"They played some really good football and were a difficult team to play against and hopefully it will be the same again next season."
Argyle will be entitled to compensation from the deal, which will be set at a tribunal as Nelson is under 24 and came through the club's academy.
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City Football Group (CFG) has sold the stake to CMC (China Media Capital) and investment company Citic Capital.
It comes after six months of talks and is aimed at expanding CFG's interests in the Chinese football industry.
New shares will be issued in CFG in addition to those held by its owner, Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG).
CFG is an investment and development company which is privately owned by Sheikh Mansour of the Abu Dhabi royal family. It also includes New York City FC, Melbourne City FC and Yokohama Marinos.
The move will offer the chance for Man City and the other group clubs to grow a fan base in East Asia, where there is huge competition between top clubs in Europe, and beyond, to build up supporter numbers.
The ultimate aim is to turn those football fans into customers of club products and services too.
The move follows a visit to Manchester in October by the President of China, Xi Jinping.
Ruigang Li, who founded and chairs both the Chinese firms, will represent their consortium by becoming the seventh CFG board member.
This deal is big news for Manchester City, but I am told it is absolutely not the start of an exit strategy from the current owners. China has long been viewed as having huge potential for growth commercially.
In China, an area where only Real Madrid of the established European heavyweights has a significant presence, CMC Holdings will provide contacts to open the right doors to the right opportunities.
If their Abu Dhabi ownership is any guide, City's presence in China will expand rapidly.
It is also worth noting that through this deal, including satellite clubs New York City FC, Melbourne City and Yokohama Marinos, City are now worth approximately 10 times more than Sheikh Mansour bought the club for in 2008.
"Football is the most loved, played and watched sport in the world and in China, the exponential growth pathway for the game is both unique and hugely exciting," said Khaldoon al-Mubarak, chairman of CFG.
"We have therefore worked hard to find the right partners and to create the right deal structure to leverage the incredible potential that exists in China, both for CFG and for football at large."
CMC owns a number of exclusive major sports media rights including the Chinese Super League, China Football Association national teams and the China University Football League. CMC is also involved in sports production and media operations.
Citic Capital manages $5bn of capital for international and Chinese institutional investors, with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo and New York.
Professor Chris Brady, director for Sports Business at the University of Salford, said it was not just Man City who would benefit, as the move would also help China in its goal of becoming a power in football, a sport where it has underperformed.
"It is no coincidence that the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, included a visit to the Etihad on his recent state visit," he added. "President Xi Jinping is a self confessed football fan and is known to be willing to prioritise football across China to build the domestic game there.
"Although the investment probably overvalued City it fits perfectly with the Chinese strategy. City already have New York and Melbourne outposts and it is not unreasonable to assume that a Shanghai City or Beijing City could be the next stops.
"This would, in turn, open up the opportunity to develop a China-wide academy system. There is already strong Chinese investment in Italy's Serie A and further European investment should be expected." | Manchester City's parent company has been valued at $3bn (£2bn) after selling a 13% stake, worth £265m, to a consortium of Chinese investors. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34972478"} | 774 | 41 | 0.447997 | 1.191433 | -0.087641 | 0.794118 | 20.588235 | 0.676471 |
Archaeologists turned to the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification in Dundee after excavating the skull in eastern Brazil.
The decapitation is the oldest documented in South America by 6,000 years, and raised several questions.
Scientists in Dundee worked out how the decapitation was done with the limited tools available at the time.
Andre Strauss from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology was excavating the Lapa do Santo site in eastern Brazil when he unearthed a head buried under a rock.
The full skeleton was nowhere to be found, save the disembodied skull and the hands, which were placed over the face in a deliberate pose.
The remains were dated to 9,000 years ago, around 6,000 years before the next oldest known decapitation on the continent, in Peru.
Archaeologists were puzzled to how hunter-gatherers living in a simple society with few tools managed to carry out the gruesome act.
Mr Strauss turned to Professor Sue Black at Dundee University for help.
The team at CAHID were able to compare the case to a modern-day decapitation, and worked out that the skull had essentially been pulled off, with only partial cutting involved.
Prof Black said: "Examining the skull, we saw fractures consistent with hyper extension of the head and rotation.
"There would also have been cutting but the fracturing of the neck bones indicated a violence to the region."
Archaeologists cannot explain why the Lapa de Santo man was decapitated, having ruled out the possibility of his head being a trophy of some kind.
Examination of his bones suggest he was a local rather than an outsider or rival, leading to speculation that his death was part of some form of symbolic ritual. | Scientists at Dundee University were called in to investigate a decapitation which happened 9,000 years ago. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34348233"} | 407 | 26 | 0.573755 | 1.534147 | 0.070921 | 1.529412 | 19.235294 | 0.823529 |
Stephen Charters, 51, of Galashiels, began molesting his victims as a boy and continued on into adulthood.
He had denied a string of offences during his trial at the High Court in Edinburgh, but was convicted of seven sex crimes, including two of rape.
He was remanded in custody and will be sentenced next month.
Charters was charged with starting his sexual offending at the age of 12 - the youngest age for prosecution in Scotland.
A court heard he began by molesting a younger girl at a house in the Borders in 1977 and exposing himself and carrying out sex acts in her presence.
He later raped the girl when she was aged 11 and he was a teenager.
He also targeted another girl from the age of four and carried out indecency offences against her in the Borders, at a house in Midlothian and at Edinburgh's Royal Commonwealth Pool.
During the abuse he forced his victim to perform sex acts on him and raped her when she was aged between six and eight on an occasion between June 1984 and April 1987.
Charters also made sexual and inappropriate remarks to a girl aged between 10 and 11 between 1995 and 1997 in East Kilbride and during a car journey.
He had been on bail during his trial but after he was found guilty of the offences he was remanded in custody ahead of sentencing next month. | A man from the Scottish Borders has been found guilty of carrying out a catalogue of sexual abuse and rape of girls over two decades. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37163711"} | 325 | 31 | 0.60836 | 1.341385 | -0.361395 | 1.115385 | 10.153846 | 0.730769 |
Francois Zoko's strike in first-half stoppage time gave the Glovers the lead but Massey smashed home for his relegation-threatened team late on to seal a point and leave them three shy of safety.
A poor first period from both sides produced few chances, with Sandro Semedo wasting a two-on-one counter attack for Orient and Liam Shephard slicing Yeovil's best chance wide after being played in behind.
Yet just as a half-time stalemate looked inevitable, the hosts took the lead in the first minute of stoppage time. Sam Sargeant did well to parry a Tom Eaves shot from distance, but Zoko was quickest to react and turn in the rebound.
There were cards aplenty as tempers flared after the break and the visitors threw everything at it and committed more men forward.
It was a tactic that finally paid off when Massey capitalised on poor Yeovil defending to rifle the ball into the roof of the net on 88 minutes.
Match report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Yeovil Town 1, Leyton Orient 1.
Second Half ends, Yeovil Town 1, Leyton Orient 1.
Attempt saved. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt missed. Paul McCallum (Leyton Orient) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Omar Sowunmi replaces Francois Zoko.
Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.
Goal! Yeovil Town 1, Leyton Orient 1. Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the high centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town).
Tom Parkes (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Shayon Harrison (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient).
Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient).
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Liam Shephard.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Bevis Mugabi replaces Ryan Dickson because of an injury.
Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town).
Gavin Massey (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Liam Kelly (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card.
Matthew Dolan (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam Kelly (Leyton Orient).
Michael Collins (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Collins (Leyton Orient).
Attempt missed. Josh Koroma (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Substitution, Yeovil Town. Shayon Harrison replaces Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro.
Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Dickson (Yeovil Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sandro Semedo (Leyton Orient).
Corner, Leyton Orient. Conceded by Alex Lawless.
Attempt saved. Liam Kelly (Leyton Orient) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Francois Zoko (Yeovil Town).
Myles Judd (Leyton Orient) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Substitution, Leyton Orient. Josh Koroma replaces Nigel Atangana.
Attempt missed. Jean-Louis Akpa-Akpro (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Corner, Yeovil Town. Conceded by Tom Parkes.
Attempt saved. Ben Whitfield (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Tom Eaves (Yeovil Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
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The 39-year-old man hit two pedestrians in Tokushima city late on Tuesday. The other woman was seriously injured.
The driver, who has been taken into custody, told police he was not watching the road carefully.
Police, speaking late on Wednesday, said it was the first fatal accident in Japan involving the hugely popular augmented reality game.
Pokemon Go creator Niantic expressed "deep condolences to the family", in a statement, according to media reports. The smartphone app gives players a warning if it detects they might be in a moving vehicle.
Since the game was released in July, public spaces in many parts of the world have been filled with players chasing virtual monsters on their phones.
Many heritage sites and sensitive locations have banned people from playing on their premises.
However, recent data suggests that since its peak in late July when almost 45 million people worldwide were playing the game its popularity may have started to dwindle. | A driver playing Pokemon Go behind the wheel has hit and killed a woman in Japan, say police. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37182308"} | 205 | 22 | 0.580199 | 1.33136 | -1.233588 | 1 | 9.35 | 0.8 |
The force announced it was reducing the number of PCSOs to 251 from 331 because of financial pressures with 44 people facing redundancy.
A petition to increase tax and keep the officers was signed by 21,000 people.
Union Unison said it was "bitterly disappointed" by the decision and that those signatories were ignored.
Nottinghamshire's police and crime commissioner Paddy Tipping, who promised to increase the number of PCSOs when he was elected in 2012, said he had been forced to reduce them because of Government cuts.
When the force began consulting on the future of PCSOs it employed 331 officers, some of whom have since left, meaning 44 face redundancy.
In a statement, Nottinghamshire police said: "This was a difficult decision to make as we recognise the important job PCSOs do in serving our communities. We also acknowledge and are grateful for the public support our PCSOs received.
"However, the financial pressure that the force is under means that we have to work differently and make these decisions in order for us to continue serving the public in the best way we can."
Dave Ratchford, of Unison, said: "The members are bitterly disappointed not just because their jobs are now going to be removed but also because of the service they have provided and the work they have built up over the years in Nottinghamshire communities.
"We believe we have demonstrated quite clearly in a very short space of time that the people of Nottinghamshire want an alternative solution to this." | A quarter of Nottinghamshire's police community support officers will be cut despite 21,000 people calling for an increase in council tax to keep them. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34217992"} | 321 | 31 | 0.612987 | 1.386088 | 0.162141 | 0.961538 | 11.076923 | 0.730769 |
The attack happened near The Garage nightclub in Sauchiehall Street at about 03:00 on Wednesday 27 July.
A 21-year-old man suffered injuries that required hospital treatment.
The man police want to speak to is described as being white, fair haired, of slim-to-medium build and with tattoos on his forearms. | Police have released CCTV images of a man they want to trace in connection with a serious assault outside a nightclub in Glasgow city centre. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37908180"} | 75 | 31 | 0.651276 | 1.18625 | -0.067708 | 0.653846 | 2.461538 | 0.5 |
Latham's 104 from 111 balls provided the foundation for the Black Caps as they powered to 344-6 off 50 overs.
Despite William Porterfield's 48, Ireland could only manage 154 in reply off 39.3 overs as they ended their three-match campaign without a win.
New Zealand have beaten Ireland twice and Bangladesh once to win the series.
The Kiwis will meet Bangladesh again in the final game of the tournament at Clontarf on Wednesday.
Latham's innings eventually came to an end when he was stumped by Niall O'Brien off the bowling of George Dockrell.
However, it was a belligerent 44 from just 15 balls, including four sixes and three fours, from Colin Munro which helped push the total out of Ireland's reach as New Zealand blasted 72 runs from the last four overs.
Ireland's reply got off to a shaky start when they lost opener Paul Stirling in the third over with just a single run on the board, and although captain Porterfield steadied the ship, only he and Gary Wilson made it past 20.
Pace bowler Matt Henry, who was ably assisted by Corey Anderson and Scott Kuggeleijn with two wickets apiece, took 3-36.
This was another untimely Irish display with the game's bosses set to decide on their possible Test status next month.
Ireland had been competitive for much of last weekend's encounter with the New Zealanders, but this reverse will pile further pressure on coach John Bracewell and his struggling side, who subsequently went down by eight wickets to Bangladesh with 22.5 overs to spare.
Ireland are next in action in an Intercontinental Cup tie against the Netherlands at Malahide in August. | Skipper Tom Latham plundered a century as New Zealand crushed Ireland by 190 runs in Dublin to secure victory in the one-day international tri-series. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39994620"} | 391 | 38 | 0.493131 | 1.242401 | 0.23089 | 0.896552 | 10.965517 | 0.551724 |
Twenty firefighters attended the Sandwell College site in Crocketts Lane, Smethwick, just before 20:00 BST on Saturday.
The roof and first floor suffered "severe damage", West Midlands Fire Service said.
A spokeswoman said she did not know what caused the blaze. No-one was injured and police have not been informed. | A fire has engulfed a derelict former school building in the West Midlands. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37400913"} | 76 | 23 | 0.612697 | 1.105374 | -0.883539 | 0.714286 | 4.5 | 0.571429 |
Viktoria Gribovskaja claims Cox was angry and told her: "I will get rid of you. I will do you in the Irish way."
The WBO European super-middleweight, real name James Russan, was charged following the incident on 16 July.
The 29-year-old has previously denied common assault, violence to secure entry, harassment and criminal damage.
The couple began dating in 2014, after Swindon-born Cox met Ms Gribovskaja in a London nightclub where she was working as an exotic dancer, Croydon Magistrates' Court heard.
But according to Ms Gribovskaja, tensions had been building between them after the 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medallist accused her of being unfaithful.
She told the court that Cox had called her a "slut" in a series of abusive text messages from 13 July in the run-up to the alleged incident.
Three days later, she said she called police after he arrived at her flat in Lambeth at 01:00GMT "banging" and "screaming" for her to "open the door".
A "shouting" Cox then got in to her bedroom and told her to pack her things before grabbing her by the throat, according to Ms Gribovskaja.
"He was in front of me. He started to squeeze. I could not do anything. I could not breathe. I could not push him away," she told the court:
"I remember I touched his hand. I think probably he saw me scared. He stopped."
He left in his car before police arrived, it is claimed.
The trial continues. | Champion boxer Jamie Cox smashed into his ex-girlfriend's south London flat in the middle of the night and grabbed her by the throat, a court heard. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35294630"} | 370 | 40 | 0.539127 | 1.395683 | -0.01173 | 1.516129 | 10.096774 | 0.612903 |
Mr Veale will succeed Pat Geenty, who announced his retirement in February.
Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire and Swindon Angus Macpherson, said Mr Veale is "committed to my agenda of maintaining local policing".
Mr Veale said the challenge would be to save money while protecting frontline services. He is due to start on 1 June. | The new chief constable of Wiltshire has been named as Mike Veale who currently holds the position of Deputy Chief Constable (DCC) in the county. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32603977"} | 86 | 37 | 0.72133 | 1.350155 | -0.689133 | 0.357143 | 2.357143 | 0.357143 |
Yn eu plith mae David Duckenfield, cyn-brif uwch-arolygydd fydd yn wynebu cyhuddiad o ddynladdiad 95 o bobl drwy esgeulustod difrifol.
Bu farw 96 o bobl o ganlyniad i'r trychineb, ond ni fydd modd dod ag achos yn enw un ohonynt - Tony Bland - oherwydd rhesymau cyfreithiol gan iddo ef farw pedair blynedd ar ôl y digwyddiad.
Fe ddigwyddodd y trychineb mewn gêm bêl-droed rhwng Lerpwl a Nottingham Forest yn Stadiwm Hillsborough yn Sheffield.
Y llynedd daeth cwest i farwolaethau'r cefnogwyr i'r casgliad eu bod wedi'u lladd yn anghyfreithlon.
Roedd dau Gymro ymysg y meirw, John McBrien o Dreffynnon a David Brown, oedd yn cael ei adnabod fel Steve Brown, o Holt, ger Wrecsam.
Ar ôl y cyhoeddiad gan Gwasaneth Erlyn y Goron, dywedodd Joan Hope, mam John McBrien, ei bod hi yn siomedig na fydd mwy o bobl yn cael eu herlyn.
Roedd wedi bod yn aros am gyfiawnder am 28 mlynedd, meddai, a bod hynny wedi cael effaith ofnadwy ar y teulu.
"Dwi'n meddwl am John bob diwrnod o fy mywyd.
"Rwyf wedi rhoi'r gorau i geisio cyfiawnder, bydd yn rhaid i mi dderbyn anghyfiawnder."
Ond dywedodd gweddw Steven Brown ei bod hi'n bles gyda'r penderfyniad i erlyn, gan ychwanegu ei fod wedi cymryd amser hir.
"Hwn oedd y penderfyniad roedd y teuluoedd eisiau oherwydd mae'r mater wedi ei basio o un lle i'r llall, i fod yn onest doeddwn ddim yn credu y byddwn yn cael penderfyniad o'r fath."
Cyn i Wasanaeth Erlyn y Goron allu gosod cyhuddiadau yn erbyn Mr Duckenfield, y plismon oedd yn gyfrifol am reoli trefniadau ar ddiwrnod y gêm, bydd yn rhaid gwneud cais i'r Uchel Lys i godi gwaharddiad llys.
Cafodd y gwaharddiad ei osod ar ôl erlyniad preifat yn erbyn y cyn-blismon yn 1999.
Yn ogystal â Mr Duckenfield fe fydd y cyn-Brif Gwnstabl, Sir Norman Bettison, yn wynebu pedwar cyhuddiad o gamymddygiad mewn swydd gyhoeddus, cyhuddiadau yn ymwneud â honiadau iddo ddweud celwyddau ynglŷn â chefnogwyr.
Bydd Graham Mackrell, cyn-ysgrifennydd Sheffield Wednesday, yn wynebu cyhuddiad o dorri rheolau Iechyd a Diogelwch.
Mae Peter Metcalf, cyfreithiwr oedd yn cynrychioli Heddlu De Sir Efrog, yn wynebu cyhuddiadau o wyrdroi cwrs cyfiawnder yn ymwneud â newid tystiolaeth llygad-dystion.
Mae Donald Denton, cyn-brif uwch-arolygydd, ac Alan Foster, cyn-brif dditectif wedi eu cyhuddo o wyrdroi cwrs cyfiawnder.
Fe fydd y diffynyddion, ac eithrio Mr Duckenfield, yn ymddangos ger Ynadon Warrington ar 9 Awst.
Cafodd teuluoedd y rhai a fu farw yn Hillsborough wybod am y camau diweddaraf mewn cyfarfod preifat gyda Gwasanaeth Erlyn y Goron fore Mercher. | Mae Gwasanaeth Erlyn y Goron wedi cyhoeddi bod digon o dystiolaeth i gyhuddo chwech o bobl o ganlyniad i drychineb Hillsborough yn 1989. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40430920"} | 1,645 | 80 | 0.604934 | 1.603397 | 0.413133 | 1.791667 | 21.375 | 0.708333 |
The former Newcastle man scored from the penalty spot after Rigino Cicilia had halved the deficit following strikes from U's pair Chey Dunkley and Daniel Crowley.
Defender Dunkley gave the visitors the lead after 11 minutes, rising highest to meet Chris Maguire's free-kick from the left and guide a header past the stationary Jak Alnwick.
Oxford doubled their advantage just eight minutes later when Maguire slipped in Marvin Johnson to cut-back to Crowley who tapped home into an empty net.
The Valiants started the second half much brighter and got their reward after 54 minutes when Cicilia fired home his first Vale goal after Nathan Smith nodded down Taylor's free-kick.
Taylor, who signed for the club just 24 hours before the match, sealed the comeback five minutes later, slotting home past Simon Eastwood after Cicilia was pulled down in the box.
Report supplied by the Press Association
Match ends, Port Vale 2, Oxford United 2.
Second Half ends, Port Vale 2, Oxford United 2.
Attempt missed. Remie Streete (Port Vale) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Joe Rothwell (Oxford United).
Foul by Quentin Pereira (Port Vale).
Philip Edwards (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Joe Rothwell (Oxford United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt saved. Liam Sercombe (Oxford United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Chris Mbamba (Port Vale) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Philip Edwards.
Attempt missed. John Lundstram (Oxford United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Cheyenne Dunkley.
Substitution, Port Vale. Anthony de Freitas replaces Ryan Taylor.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Sam Hart.
Attempt saved. Tyler Roberts (Oxford United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Chris Maguire (Oxford United).
Foul by Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale).
Curtis Nelson (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Chris Maguire (Oxford United) right footed shot from the left side of the box misses to the right.
Corner, Oxford United. Conceded by Remie Streete.
Substitution, Oxford United. Tyler Roberts replaces Marvin Johnson.
Attempt missed. Philip Edwards (Oxford United) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
Anthony Grant (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam Sercombe (Oxford United).
Foul by Jerome Thomas (Port Vale).
Curtis Nelson (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sam Hart (Port Vale).
Chris Maguire (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Remie Streete (Port Vale).
Daniel Crowley (Oxford United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Rigino Cicilia (Port Vale) header from the left side of the six yard box is just a bit too high.
Corner, Port Vale. Conceded by Simon Eastwood.
Attempt saved. Ryan Taylor (Port Vale) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Chris Mbamba (Port Vale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Cheyenne Dunkley (Oxford United).
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The court heard an appeal brought by a white student denied a place at the University of Texas in 2008.
A ruling for Abigail Fisher could affect so-called affirmative action programmes elsewhere, analysts say.
The Supreme Court upheld the use of race in admissions in a 2003 ruling, but the court has become more conservative in the past nine years.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who wrote the decision on the 2003 University of Michigan case, has since retired.
Her successor, Samuel Alito, opposes the use of racial preferences in admissions.
Justice Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts asked probing questions about details of the University of Texas admissions policy and when race could become a deciding factor between otherwise similar applicants.
The chief justice also asked the university's lawyers how judges would be able to tell when the college achieved a "critical mass" of diversity on campus.
He added later in the session: "I'm hearing a lot about what it's not. I would like to know what it is."
Justice Anthony Kennedy, often seen as a deciding vote between the court's liberal and conservative justices, has also never voted in favour of racial preference, the Associated Press reports.
"What you're saying is what counts is race above all," Justice Kennedy said on Wednesday.
Liberal justices, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Stephen Breyer asked questions that some say suggested support of affirmative action.
Correspondents say that even if the court does not uphold the Texas admissions policy, striking down broader consideration of race in university admissions appeared unlikely.
The University of Texas updated its admissions policy after the 2003 Supreme Court ruling to consider race without using quotas.
Students in Texas high schools are automatically admitted to the university if they are in the top 8% of their class in terms of academic achievement.
The threshold was previously 10% and Ms Fisher's grades did not put her in that category.
Race and other factors can be considered as factors in admissions to any remaining spots - approximately 25% of the annual student intake.
Ms Fisher, along with another woman who has since dropped out of the case, filed a complaint arguing that the university's race-conscious policy violated their civil and constitutional rights.
She was never admitted to the University of Texas and has since graduated from Louisiana State University.
"If any state action should respect racial equality, it is university admission," Ms Fisher's lawyers said in their written submission to the court.
A federal appeals court has already backed the University of Texas admissions programme, saying it was allowed under the Supreme Court's Michigan decision.
Justice Elena Kagan, previously involved in the case as US solicitor general, has recused herself from the proceedings.
That leaves eight justices to decide the case, and a 4-4 tie would uphold the decision of the lower appeals court.
Private universities, including elite institutions such as Harvard and Columbia, have filed briefs to the court arguing that their national recruitment policies make it impossible for them to assure diversity without legal backing for racial preference, Reuters reports. | The US Supreme Court has challenged the consideration of a student's race in public university admissions policies. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "19899036"} | 674 | 23 | 0.516421 | 1.294339 | 0.057682 | 1.315789 | 32.157895 | 0.894737 |
The plan is being put forward by a London firm as an alternative to keeping Longannet power station open.
The giant coal-burner in Fife faces closure within a year unless it wins an auction to provide back-up supply.
That would keep it going for at least two years while grid connections between Scotland and England are improved.
Only once more transmission capacity is in place can Scotland be sure of maintaining voltage. A sub-sea link is being installed between Ayrshire and Merseyside, and cross-border links are being upgraded.
But until then, National Grid, which has responsibility to ensure the energy supply is maintained, says it has to strike a deal with a generating company to provide back-up power from coal, gas or oil burning power stations.
A decision is expected as early as this week. Deputy First Minister John Swinney was at Longannet on Monday to press the case for a decision that would retain the coal-burning plant and its 260 jobs.
Three companies are in the auction to provide the power. ScottishPower is bidding with the Longannet plant.
SSE/Scottish Hydro wants the contract to go to its gas-burning Peterhead plant.
The third bid is understood to be from Tower Bridge Ventures, based in London, which plans to build specialised barges.
These would burn liquified natural gas (LNG) to provide power, as well as generating heat and cooling. These are designed to be more efficient than existing thermal power stations, and could also produce compressed air and fresh water.
The company's website refers to a pipeline of projects, the biggest of which is in Scotland, and for 375 megawatts (MW). The auction is for at least 350 MW.
Industry insiders say the barge-based bid could be at a major advantage if it can avoid the fixed grid access charge which the existing power plants have to pay. These run to tens of millions of pounds per year.
"This is untried and untested," said one source. "They're taking risks with the Scottish economy. This wouldn't even be considered for power supply in London."
Helen Corey, chief executive of Tower Bridge Ventures, said the firm was set up in 2009, and will soon announce its engineering partners.
She declined to comment on the National Grid auction for Scotland, saying the company is in several commercially-sensitive discussions.
Its proposal to build floating power plants avoids the delays around planning approval for conventional ones. They can be moved to the communities where power is needed.
She said they could be a permanent solution to energy needs, or temporary to meet shortfalls, or provide emergency power, in the case of natural disasters.
Although the company is not yet operating any, the plan is for a variety of sizes, from 40MW up to 150 MW (30,000 to 110,000 homes).
Tower Bridge Ventures has been reported to be interested in setting up a base in Portsmouth, following the closure of the naval shipyard, from which it would also be able to supply power to the port city.
During his visit to Longannet, Mr Swinney urged the UK government to help prevent the early closure of Longannet, insisting it still had a vital role to play in delivering the country's energy supply.
Scottish Conservative energy spokesman Murdo Fraser claimed it was the Scottish government's "obsession with developing vast amounts of intermittent and expensive wind energy that has contributed to the current situation".
The energy union Prospect urged politicians to stop treating the troubled power station like a "political football" and urged them to work together to secure its long-term future. | Scotland's back-up energy supply could be provided by three to 10 gas-fuelled power stations on coastal barges. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31910874"} | 793 | 27 | 0.513995 | 1.330518 | 0.199001 | 1.521739 | 30.869565 | 0.826087 |
A condition for the IMF loan is the completion of a planned debt swap.
The Caribbean nation must get private sector lenders to accept more lenient terms on its existing heavy debt load, equal to 140% of economic output.
The Jamaican government is also implementing spending cuts and labour market reforms as it seeks to deal with a serious economic crisis.
"Over the last three decades, the Jamaican economy has experienced very low economic growth, declining productivity, and reduced international competitiveness," said Jan Kees Martijn, the head of the IMF's mission to Jamaica.
"An important factor behind these problems has been Jamaica's unsustainable debt burden, which has undermined confidence and elevated risks to the economic stability."
The four-year loan still needs to be approved by the IMF's executive board, which is due to review the terms by the end of March.
By then, the government in Kingston will need to have carried out necessary economic and fiscal reforms, and to have won a "high rate of participation of private creditors" in the debt swap.
"If this debt is not reduced, Jamaica faces a dismal future," Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said on Jamaican TV on Monday night, explaining the need for the swap.
About 55% of government spending goes towards paying the nation's debt, while 25% goes on wages. That leaves just 20% for everything else - including education, security and health.
The swap is likely to result in a significantly lower interest rate being paid by Jamaica to its lenders.
The relatively high current interest rate reflects the low expectations of lenders that the government will ever be able to repay its existing debts in full.
Lenders have already been hit once - it is the second such debt swap by Jamaica in three years. | Jamaica has agreed terms with the International Monetary Fund to receive a new $750m (£483m) loan. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "21478255"} | 376 | 29 | 0.477732 | 1.112658 | -0.764408 | 0.454545 | 16.045455 | 0.454545 |
The off-spinner was reported to the International Cricket Council after June's second Test against West Indies.
He took one wicket in 15.2 overs as the Windies won that Test by 10 wickets.
Analysis at Cardiff Metropolitan University found the 23-year-old's elbow extension when bowling exceeded the 15 degrees allowed under ICC rules.
The ban also applies to county cricket, where Williamson has taken five wickets from 61.4 overs for Yorkshire in the County Championship this season.
Williamson said: "I will focus on changing whatever's necessary to return to the bowling crease.
"Clearly, the onus is on me to satisfy assessors as to the legality of my action, and I'm aware I have some hard work in front of me to achieve that goal.
"It's never nice, going through this sort of process but it will be worth it if I can manage to bowl again at international level."
Although primarily a batsman, Williamson's part-time spin has often been used by New Zealand, where he has captured 24 wickets in 34 Tests and 23 victims in 54 one-day internationals.
The ICC recently banned another off-spinner, Sri Lanka's Sachithra Senanayake, for an illegal action. | New Zealand and Yorkshire batsman Kane Williamson has been banned from bowling in international and domestic cricket because of an illegal action. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28444107"} | 282 | 29 | 0.540783 | 1.24152 | 0.42951 | 1.565217 | 10.478261 | 0.869565 |
"The mountains of this country, the plains, highlands, cities will be not abandoned to terrorists," he said.
At least 16 Turkish soldiers died in Sunday's attack in the south-eastern Hakkari province, the army said.
In retaliation, Turkey carried out several air strikes on PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) targets on Monday.
Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Mr Davutoglu said: "You cannot discourage us from our war on terror. Those mountains will be cleared of these terrorists. Whatever it takes, they will be cleared."
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier said he was saddened by the attack and promised a "decisive" response.
"The pain of our security forces who were martyred in the treacherous attack by the separatist terrorist organisation sears our hearts," he said.
There has been a surge in violence between the army and the PKK after a ceasefire collapsed in July.
The PKK said it was behind the attack. Initially it said 15 soldiers had been killed, but later raised the figure to 31.
But the Turkish army said on Monday that 16 soldiers died, while six were injured.
The army said bombs had been detonated near two military vehicles in the village of Daglica on Sunday evening.
The area is close to the border with Iraq.
After President Erdogan's comments, about 200 people chanting slogans in his support attacked the offices of Turkish newspaper Hurriyet in Istanbul.
They accused the news organisation of misquoting Mr Erdogan and implying that he was trying to gain political capital from the Daglica attack.
Hurriyet has attracted criticism from pro-government circles over its coverage of the conflict between Turkey's government and the PKK.
The government says military operations against the Kurdish rebel group will continue until it withdraws from Turkish soil and disarms.
Curfews have been imposed in several towns where clashes take place and over a hundred districts have been declared "temporary security zones".
In response, several municipalities in the predominantly Kurdish east and south-east of Turkey have announced "self-rule".
Critics accuse President Erdogan of renewing violence to curb the support for the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), whose 14% share of the vote in June elections cost the governing AKP its majority in parliament.
The government denies these accusations. Many people fear the clashes will mount as snap elections scheduled for November draw closer.
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The body of Caroline Andrews was discovered at a property in The Street, Benenden on Thursday.
A book of condolence was opened at St George's Church in the village and prayers offered during the service on Sunday.
A 54-year-old man was detained on Friday in connection with her death, which is being treated as murder.
Mrs Andrews was described as a "loved and respected" supply teacher at Benenden CE School.
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Spain's Contador attacked to drop Colombian Henao with 52km of Sunday's eighth and final stage remaining.
But he was beaten to the stage win by Quick-Step Floors' David de la Cruz and took eight instead of 10 bonus seconds.
Henao, 29, trailed by a minute at one point but chased to finish 21 seconds down and secure the yellow jersey.
Team Sky have now won five Paris-Nice titles in the past six years and three consecutively, after former rider Richie Porte's success in 2015 and Briton Geraint Thomas' victory last year.
Ireland's Dan Martin completed the podium behind Henao and Contador, while Britain's Simon Yates finished ninth overall, following his victory on stage six.
Final standings:
1. Sergio Henao (Col/Team Sky) 29hrs 50mins 29secs
2. Alberto Contador (Spa/Trek-Segafredo) +2secs
3. Daniel Martin (Irl/Quick-Step) +30secs
4. Gorka Izagirre (Spa/Movistar) +1min
5. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/Quick-Step) +1min 22secs
6. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha-Alpecin) +1min 34secs
7. Jon Izaguirre (Spa/Bahrain-Merida) +1min 41secs
8. Warren Barguil (Fra/Sunweb) +4mins 07secs
9. Simon Yates (GB/Orica-Scott) +4mins 39secs
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Only she and left-winger Jeremy Corbyn offered "an alternative" to Labour of the last five or eight years, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
She refused to make any recommendation to Labour members for a second preference vote, saying she would "fight to the end" to lead the party.
She has dismissed calls to pull out and back Andy Burnham or Yvette Cooper.
She said: "I do believe I can win. This is not a choice between principle and power, we can have both."
"I think I'm the only candidate apart from Jeremy Corbyn setting out an alternative to what Labour was offering five or eight years ago."
She said ordinary Labour members were "desperate to win, get the Tories out, and make changes" on issues such as low pay and economic inequality.
With 50 days left in the leadership race, she said: "I'm making that case, and I'm going to do that until the end."
At-a-glance profiles of the four contenders
There had been some pressure on Ms Kendall to withdraw and back another candidate in order to defeat Jeremy Corbyn after the publication of the YouGov poll for the Times.
It suggested Mr Corbyn could receive 43% of first preference votes, ahead of Mr Burnham on 26%, Ms Cooper on 20% and Ms Kendall on 11%,.
But the Leicester West MP rejected the idea that she should pull out - with her aides accusing Andy Burnham's and Yvette Cooper's camps of "fuelling" the idea to distract from "their own issues".
The four leadership candidates, and five deputy leadership candidates, will take part in a Labour Party hustings in Warrington later.
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