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The 44-year-old, from Aberdeen, will take up her role as a vocal coach at the Glasgow school for music, drama and dance in the next academic session.
Milne has performed in many of the world's finest opera houses, opera companies and festivals.
The RCS graduate said she was looking forward to working in a "world-leading musical environment".
"I am delighted to be joining the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland," she said.
"I'm looking forward to working in such a vibrant and world-leading musical environment.
"As an alumna of the RCS, I appreciate the training that goes on behind the scenes and I cannot wait to get started, working colleagues and students to ensure the continued visibility of the RCS's reach nationally and internationally."
Milne was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2005 for services to opera and music.
The renowned recitalist has appeared at the Aix-en-Provence, Edinburgh and City of London festivals, the Oxford Lieder Festival, London's Wigmore Hall, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and at the Schumannfeste in Dusseldorf.
RCS Principal Professor Jeffrey Sharkey said she would bring unique qualities to the school.
"Lisa is one of the world's leading opera singers with an enormously distinguished international career," he said.
"She is an inspirational performer and teacher and her passion for her art will motivate the next generation of opera singers from the RCS.
"I am delighted she will be returning to her alma mater where students can learn from one of the finest singers in the world." | The renowned Scottish soprano Lisa Milne is to become a teacher at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS). | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32704937"} | 359 | 30 | 0.645092 | 1.603362 | -0.051989 | 1.52381 | 15.285714 | 0.761905 |
The magazine published photographs of Mr Hollande and Ms Gayet arriving separately at an apartment in January.
The payout was far lower than the 50,000 euros the actress had sought.
The Paris court ordered the magazine to publish the ruling on the front page of its next edition.
Closer caused a political storm in France on 10 January when it published images purporting to show Mr Hollande and Ms Gayet arriving at a Paris flat for alleged trysts.
Although he refused to comment on the allegations, President Hollande announced that he had "put an end" to his "shared life" with long-term partner Valerie Trierweiler shortly afterwards.
During court hearings, Ms Gayet's lawyer said she had been "hunted" by journalists.
"She was assaulted by swarms of photographers... it was like the hunt of a wild animal," he said.
Closer's lawyer maintained that the magazine was justified in publishing the photographs, saying they were in the public interest because they raised questions about Mr Hollande's "duty of transparency".
Ms Gayet has also filed two criminal complaints: one for a breach of privacy over photographs taken of her inside a car and another accusing paparazzi of "endangering others" while chasing her.
The mother of two, who has acted in more than 70 films over a 20-year career, has kept a low profile since the scandal broke.
During a rare public appearance in New York earlier this month she fended off questions about her relationship with President Hollande, saying: "My private life is my private life." | A French court has ordered Closer magazine to pay Julie Gayet 15,000 euros (£12,000) over a breach of privacy for revealing her affair with President Francois Hollande. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "26768415"} | 356 | 42 | 0.606264 | 1.542459 | 0.38864 | 1.066667 | 10.133333 | 0.666667 |
The youngster made the statement during a recorded police interview after the two-year-old was found dead at a house near Glenrothes on 22 March 2014.
Rachel Fee, 31, and Nyomi Fee, 28, deny murdering Liam and harming two other boys.
The boy also said he felt "unsafe" with the two accused.
In the interview footage shown to the jury on day 11 of the trial at the High Court in Livingston, the boy claimed he suffered a catalogue of abuse at the hands of the two accused.
He said Nyomi Fee told him she had killed his father with a drill-like saw because she did not like liars.
He added: "I didn't like it. I was thinking I would be dead."
The interviewers, a police officer and social worker, told him his father was still alive.
The boy said he felt unsafe at the Fees' house and was made to take cold showers "for 15 or 20 minutes" if he wet the bed.
He said the showers made him shake and Nyomi Fee told him to "stand still".
He also said he was made to hit the boy the women are accused of falsely blaming for Liam's death 20 times with an action figure, and was told by Nyomi Fee to "whack him really hard".
In previous evidence, he said the other boy was responsible for Liam's death because Nyomi Fee had told him so.
The jury has already been shown a video interview with that boy, who told police he had "strangled" Liam but that the toddler had been sitting up and watching television afterwards
Rachel Fee and Nyomi Fee, who are originally from Ryton, Tyne and Wear, deny a series of mistreatment and neglect charges against two other children, as well as the murder charge.
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Originally from Damascus in Syria, they, daughter Naya and son Nael arrived as refugees in Montreal in the depths of winter.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasn't there to greet them at the airport, as he did with other Syrian refugees.
But the couple felt they had to give their thanks to him in some way - so have named their newborn son after him.
Justin Trudeau Adam Bilan was born on Thursday in his parents' new city of Calgary. (His first name is Justin Trudeau, not Justin, by the way.)
In Damascus, Muhammad, now 29, worked as a barber. But he had once been targeted by the Syrian army and detained.
After he was freed, his family learned the authorities were looking for him again, and that he could face further detention - a fate from which many have not emerged.
Their chance to leave came when they found out Canada was starting to take in Syrian refugees after Mr Trudeau took office. Five years into Syria's war, they jumped at the chance.
After spending some time in Montreal, in the eastern province of Quebec, the family was eventually moved to Calgary, in the western province of Alberta.
"Canada is much more safe - there's no war, nothing," Afraa Bilan told the BBC by telephone. "Everything is different, everything is good - nothing like Syria."
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Afraa admitted to having been "a little bit distressed" on arriving in Canada, and to have found it difficult to adapt - especially to the winter weather.
But she now speaks fluent English and Muhammad works part-time in a grocery shop.
They hope baby Justin Trudeau will one day meet his rather more famous namesake.
"He is a really nice man," Afraa said. "He helped us a lot. This was a small thank you for bringing us to Canada. We want to thank him and all the Canadian people."
Between November 2015, when Mr Trudeau became prime minister, and January this year, more than 40,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled in Canada. About 1,000 of them moved to Calgary.
In late January, after US President Donald Trump imposed a ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, Mr Trudeau took to social media to confirm his government's commitment to helping "those fleeing persecution, terror & war".
In Ontario in February, another Syrian couple named their newborn Justin in tribute to the prime minister, but Justin Trudeau Adam Bilan is thought to be the first baby Justin Trudeau (not counting the original Justin Trudeau, of course). | When Muhammad and Afraa Bilan arrived in Canada in February last year, they were starting a new life in a completely new country. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39830440"} | 605 | 33 | 0.485093 | 1.439912 | -0.727531 | 1.24 | 21.44 | 0.84 |
The men, from Rochdale and Oldham, "groomed" girls, one as young as 13.
Liverpool Crown Court heard the men plied their victims with drink and drugs so they could "pass them around" and use them for sex.
The case, involving Asian defendants and white victims, sparked protests by far-right groups but police insist the grooming was not "racially motivated".
The offences which centred on Heywood included rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.
Two of the defendants on trial, Qamar Shazad and Liaquat Shah both of Rochdale, were acquitted and walked free from court.
The court was told that the abuse, which began in 2008, took place at two takeaways in the town involving a group of men aged between 24 and 59. The takeaways are now under new management.
A failed police investigation in 2008 allowed the abuse to go undetected for another two years.
The oldest defendant, a 59-year-old man from Oldham was found guilty on all counts but cannot be identified for legal reasons.
Some of the girls were beaten and forced to have sex with "several men in a day, several times a week", the jury was told.
One teenager told the jury she was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night.
Another recalled being raped by two men while she was "so drunk she was vomiting over the side of the bed".
Police said the victims were from "chaotic", "council estate" backgrounds. The girls were targeted in "honeypot locations" where young people were seen to congregate, such as outside takeaways.
Rachel Smith, for the prosecution, told the jury: "No child should be exploited as these girls say they were."
In court, many of the defendants argued that they were not aware the girls were underage.
But Senior Investigating Officer Det Insp Mike Sanderson said this was no defence.
"What we are dealing with here is the deliberate targeting of young, vulnerable girls by a group of older and in most cases much older men who simply saw them as 'fair game'.
"They preyed on the fact that the young girls were extremely vulnerable and impressionable."
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of of the Ramadhan Foundation, accused Pakistani community elders of "burying their heads in the sand" on the issue of on-street grooming.
"There is a significant problem for the British Pakistani community," he said.
"There should be no silence in addressing the issue of race as this is central to the actions of these criminals.
"They think that white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused without a second thought; it is this sort of behaviour that is bringing shame on our community."
But Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) denied that the ethnicity of either the defendants or the victims was a factor.
"It is not a racial issue," he said. "This is about adults preying on vulnerable young children.
"It just happens that in this particular area and time the demographics were that these were Asian men."
It was also revealed in court that a 15-year-old victim who became pregnant by one of the defendants went to the police in August 2008.
After the verdicts, GMP and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) apologised for failing to bring her case to trial following her cry for help.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission is spearheading an investigation into that failed inquiry.
It can also now be reported that the trial was delayed by two weeks when two Asian barristers quit saying they had been intimidated outside Liverpool Crown Court.
All those convicted were found guilty of conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with girls under the age of 16.
A 59-year-old Oldham man - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - was convicted of two rapes, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation. | Nine men have been convicted of being part of a child sexual exploitation ring in Greater Manchester. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "17989463"} | 918 | 23 | 0.367939 | 0.993139 | -0.509678 | 1.277778 | 44.333333 | 0.833333 |
Homes on Yorkshire Housing's Hob Stone site were built out of position by as little as 11cm, reports The York Press.
The association must now apply for a Variation to a Condition order as the Acomb development does not match the plans approved by City of York Council.
Yorkshire Housing said it was still working to ensure new residents could move in as soon as possible.
Properties on the site have been built between 11cm and 75cm out of place and the location of an access road also varies from the agreed plans.
Of the 55 homes, 14 have been sold and 41 rented.
A spokeswoman for Yorkshire Housing said the discrepancies were spotted during a review of the site by contractors.
She said a Variation to a Condition application was submitted last month but advised that it could take up to 13 weeks for the council to process.
"This is the first time an issue like this has come to light on one of our schemes, we are investigating how this has happened," she said.
"Yorkshire Housing employ a building contractor to execute the scheme in accordance with planning permissions.
"We are keeping customers who are renting or buying the affected homes up-to-date with progress and will do as much as possible to make sure that people can move into the homes they are renting or buying as soon as possible."
A City of York Council spokesman said: "Once all necessary detail has been provided and we have the full context of the plans we can proceed." | A housing association is facing a planning hurdle after building 55 new homes in the wrong place. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36795144"} | 317 | 20 | 0.470394 | 1.112625 | -0.147582 | 0.777778 | 16.611111 | 0.777778 |
He told the BBC it was possible to have "proportionate, targeted and effective" measures to stop suspects returning.
While the option of removing passports would be examined, the UK always needed to act within the law, he said.
He also said the UK would reserve the right to take military action in Iraq without consulting Parliament first.
Mr Clegg said he supported the "convention" that the government should seek MPs' approval before undertaking any military action, but he told BBC Radio 4's Today there may be circumstances where emergency action had to be taken quickly where it might not be "pragmatic" to do so.
BBC political editor Nick Robinson said there was a growing sense the UK might be willing to take part in "punitive action" against Islamic State fighters in Iraq.
Prime Minister David Cameron did not rule out UK participation in further air strikes when he updated MPs on events in the Middle East on Monday.
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Mr Clegg defended planned new anti-terror measures after the reviewer of terror laws, David Anderson, said there were "significant difficulties" with preventing UK-born terror suspects from re-entering the country.
The prime minister has pledged to hold all-party talks on whether it is possible to remove the passports of UK nationals returning from conflict zones likely to present a threat to domestic security.
But Mr Anderson said there were legal issues and warned that the UK could end up in a "game of pass the parcel" with other countries' suspected terrorists.
Mr Clegg said it was right to "examine the options" but insisted: "We are not going to do something which flouts international and domestic law. Of course we can't do that. We must act within the law."
He rejected claims that his party, the Liberal Democrats, had watered down the government's response by blocking plans which could result in terrorist suspects effectively having their citizenship removed.
"It is not a question of whether I will let it happen. It is important to underline this is not an argument between two political parties.
"This is about a government across the coalition seeking to do what is proportionate, effective and targeted to keep this country safe in keeping with our long-standing legal and judicial principles."
He said it was possible to "square the circle" by giving the police greater powers to temporarily confiscate the passports of people suspected of travelling to Iraq and Syria to fight as well working with airlines to stop returning fighters from boarding planes to return to the UK.
He also insisted plans to re-introduce powers to relocate terror suspects under the government's terror prevention and investigation measures was not a return to the system of control orders scrapped by the coalition in 2011.
Labour said the government was in "complete disarray" over the way forward, with no guarantees of new laws or details about when any new powers would come into force.
"Over the weekend, the government said they intended to block suspected British terrorists from returning to the UK," said shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper.
"Yesterday they admitted they had to comply with international law and could not remove citizenship after all. But the prime minister still claimed to have vague plans to stop people even though no-one at all can explain what he is talking about."
While he sensed the terror response was not a source of tension between the coalition partners, Nick Robinson said there was a striking mismatch between the government's rhetoric last week about what it was intending to do and the actual detail of what had been announced. | The UK can take action to stop British jihadists re-entering the country without flouting international law, Deputy PM Nick Clegg has insisted. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "29027995"} | 764 | 38 | 0.509897 | 1.320604 | 0.485773 | 1.846154 | 27.076923 | 0.846154 |
His Australian team-mates called him "Sir Voges" after he took his average above Bradman's 99.94 before it settled on 97.46 when he was out for 239 in the first Test in New Zealand on Sunday.
"I'm happy it's back under 100, it was never going to stay there," said Voges.
New Zealand ended day three on 178-4 in their second innings, 201 runs behind.
Voges' second Test double century, which propelled Australia to 562 in their first innings, should have ended when he was bowled for seven by Doug Bracewell.
However, he was reprieved by a no-ball call, that was later shown to be a legitimate delivery by television replays.
"I thought I was out," said Voges. "But to have that bit of luck and then capitalise on the second opportunity, I'm very happy.
"It was a bad leave and I turned around and looked at the stumps, went to walk off and saw the umpire's arm out. It was a little bit of luck."
Voges' 364-ball knock, which featured three sixes and 30 boundaries, was finally ended when he was caught and bowled by Mark Craig, a record 614 runs since he was last out.
He has now scored 1,267 runs since making his debut last year at the age of 35 against the West Indies.
New Zealand openers Tom Latham and Martin Guptill put on 81 for the first wicket but both were deceived by well-flighted deliveries from off-spinner Nathan Lyon.
Guptill (45) was the first to fall, top-edging a delivery that was well caught by Mitchell Marsh, while Latham (63) hit a poor shot to Usman Khawaja at mid-off.
In between, Kane Williamson was restricted by Josh Hazlewood's disciplined bowling and he edged the Australian seamer to wicketkeeper Peter Nevill to depart for 22.
Captain Brendon McCullum was then given out leg before wicket to Marsh in the final over, a call that was upheld by the decision review system, to leave the Black Caps perilously placed. | Adam Voges said he was uncomfortable with comparisons to legendary Australia batsman Sir Donald Bradman, despite both having a Test average in the 90s. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35572389"} | 500 | 36 | 0.370459 | 1.007574 | -0.221649 | 0.769231 | 15.846154 | 0.615385 |
If Real were to get a draw at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday, I would fancy them heavily in the second leg. So the first game is key for City.
Real's firepower means they will have chances in Manchester, of course, but City have match-winners too and they have to go for it while being clever and cautious at the same time.
It is going to be interesting who City manager Manuel Pellegrini goes with in midfield, where he needs to find that very delicate balance between trying to put Real on the back foot, while keeping the back door locked.
Yaya Toure's injury means City are likely to be without a key player and one of their main goal threats, but the form of Kevin de Bruyne means that is not as big a blow as it once would have been.
Although he was fit, there was no room for Toure in the second leg of City's quarter-final win over Paris St-Germain because of the partnership of Fernandinho and Fernando.
Playing at the heart of City's midfield in Pellegrini's 4-2-3-1 formation, the Brazilian duo gave City legs, discipline and defensive cover.
Fernandinho and Fernando protected the back four so well, allowed the full-backs to get forward and gave the front players a great platform to work from.
Should they be picked together there again against Real? Yes, 100%.
Two dedicated holding midfielders are very important against such a good attacking side because City are going to come under pressure at times.
In central defence, Eliaquim Mangala and Nicolas Otamendi played well against PSG.
But Vincent Kompany is fit again and, if he is sharp enough after being rested against Stoke on Saturday, I would pick him and play Mangala alongside him for his powerful, physical presence.
In a game like this one, you are looking for players who can conjure up a moment of brilliance in the final third to make something happen out of nothing.
It is in this area where Pellegrini has the most options, even with Toure unavailable.
Toure can score from anywhere at any time so, in a game where City need goals, he will be a big miss.
But one advantage of him being out is that, while De Bruyne has the legs to play wide, he is better in that number 10 role. So, by playing him there you use him in the position where he is most effective.
Because of how good De Bruyne's end product is, Pellegrini will want him on the ball as much as possible.
There are times when you can be nullified centrally if a team packs out their midfield and the only space is wide but, more often than not, you get more touches of the ball in the centre and that will mean De Bruyne can create more.
Playing there he is also likely to have more chances to score himself too.
The £55m Belgian scored crucial goals in both legs of the quarter-final and the onus will be on him and Sergio Aguero to provide the main goal threat again.
The problem with using De Bruyne as the number 10 is that it means pushing David Silva out wide, usually to the left.
That does not help to give the team width or protect his full-back, because he likes to drift inside himself.
Every time Silva does not track back, City will be vulnerable down the flanks because the Real full-backs will definitely push on when they are attacking.
From that point of view, Jesus Navas and Raheem Sterling offer the most pace and, with it, the most defensive cover.
But City need goals on Tuesday, so they cannot play both of them.
They lose a goal threat by playing Navas - he does not score enough - but Sterling has not played enough recently to get the nod in a game as big as this.
Silva is City's most creative player, which makes up for what he lacks defensively, so I would pick him on the left of De Bruyne, with Navas on the right.
Ideally all three of those players would offer a goal threat, but that trio gives the side balance and it is still an attacking selection.
I think that offers City their best hope. The away leg will be different, of course, but because they are at home and because they need goals, I would go with those three.
The simple fact is City, with the players they have got and the way they usually set up, are not capable of sitting off, parking the bus and trying to nick a goal.
There is no way changing their tactics and philosophy at this stage of the competition will get them a result anyway. They have to believe in their ability, and really go after Real to cause them problems.
It won't be easy, though. You can get at Real defensively but I don't think they will take their eye off the prize in the same way they did in the first leg of their quarter-final, when they lost 2-0 in Wolfsburg.
Even then, they still turned the tie around at the Bernabeu.
If he is fit, Cristiano Ronaldo is their main threat because of the sheer number of goals he scores - more than anyone else in the team - but clearly they have other danger men like Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema too.
Both teams are set up to score goals and I think we are going to see a terrific tie.
Can Man City do it? Possibly. But Pellegrini's side will have to play really well in both matches and ride their luck at times to win the tie over two legs,
I make Real favourites but, if they get it right on Tuesday, I think City have got a chance.
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Rahul, from Barnet in north London, impressed quizmaster Richard Osman by answering questions such as: "What is the scientific name for apricot?"
Rahul has an IQ of 162, which qualifies him to be a member of Mensa.
Twenty contestants aged eight to 12 will be whittled down to one winner over the course of a week.
Rahul also achieved full marks in a spelling test, correctly reciting the letters in words like garrulous, accouchement, and hyponatraemia (low level of sodium in the blood).
In a timed memory round, he answered 14 questions out of 15 correctly, but did not have time to answer the final question. He scored higher than any other participant.
Contestants will have their knowledge of maths tested on Tuesday.
Rahul's father, IT manager Menish, said: "As a comparison Rahul is as clever as Albert Einstein or Stephen Hawking."
Rahul, who says his favourite language is Latin, said: "I think I'm a genius.
"I'm good at mental maths, general knowledge and I find it quite easy to memorise stuff."
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On Twitter, Stacy Aplin wrote: "Rahul is my new favourite person. He's such a CUTIE! #ChildGenius."
Dan Williamson wrote: "Fabio and Rahul are on another level, they will go far. #ChildGenius."
Although Rahul received the highest marks in the first round of the knowledge show, he was not the only person to capture the public's imagination.
Brother and sister Fabio and Olivia also sparked debate, while their ambitious mother Susan was the source of some amusement.
During the hour-long show Susan described herself as a "helicopter mum" who pushed her children to excel.
In an unorthodox move, the stay-at-home mum openly favoured her nine-year-old son Fabio over 12-year-old Olivia.
She said: "I love my daughter dearly, but I'm rooting for Fabio."
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Both siblings made it to the second round.
Twitter user Ruthie Gignell said: "The hardest thing about watching #ChildGenius was the heartbreaking, blatant favouritism Fabio and Olivia's mother showed towards her son."
Although the show has been criticised for putting children under pressure, the host said he "didn't mind people going through a bit of trauma".
"I don't mind people going through difficulty," Osman told the Radio Times.
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Staff at London's Palace Theatre have been told to refuse entry to anyone with tickets that have been resold.
One ticket for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which normally has a face value of up to £70, is currently for sale on a secondary website for £6,200.
Producers called the secondary ticket market "an industry-wide plague".
Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender said it was a matter "which we as producers take very seriously".
In a statement, they added: "Our priority is to protect all our customers and [we] are doing all we can to combat this issue. From the outset, accessible pricing has been of paramount importance to us.
"We have already been able to identify, and refuse entry to a significant number of people who purchased tickets through resale sites and will continue to track down touts and refuse entry to anyone who has knowingly bought a ticket from a tout through the secondary market."
On average, around one person per day has been turned away since previews of the play began in early June.
Tickets for the two-part show have been in huge demand, and fans have cursed touts who sell them on for inflated prices.
Re-selling tickets is not illegal, but the producers warn that any tickets that are advertised for sale on the internet, in newspapers or elsewhere will be "automatically void".
Only those bought from the two official ticketing platforms - Nimax and ATG - are allowed.
The show is sold out, although there is an online lottery every Friday in which 40 tickets are released for every performance the following week.
At the time of writing, one ticket to watch one part of the show from the stalls is on the Viagogo website for £6,213.76, while Stubhub is offering two tickets for both parts for £4,999 each.
Viagogo has not returned a request for comment. StubHub has previously said its sales were "driven by supply and demand" and that sellers "set the price for what they think the market will bear".
Meanwhile, the script of the play, written by Jack Thorne and approved by Potter author JK Rowling, has become the UK's fastest-selling book this decade.
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The idea came from designer Wayne Hemingway, part of the Dreamland planning team, who found the old illuminations in a yard in Blackpool.
"There were a fair amount basically rotting outside on an industrial estate near the airport," he said.
Blackpool councillor Graham Cain said it was a pleasure to be involved.
Dreamland closed in 2003 and its Grade II* listed Scenic Railway ride was damaged in an arson attack in 2008.
The site is being redeveloped with historical rides from around the UK as well as classic sideshows, vintage cafes, restaurants and gardens.
"We haven't got an awful lot of money to play with and one of the ideas was to see if there were any old seaside artefacts not being used around the country," said Mr Hemingway, who grew up in Morecambe.
"Obviously I know a lot about Lancashire and I thought 'I wonder what happens to all those illuminations in Blackpool?'."
The donated lights include light fountains, giant snowflakes, angels and devils and lettering from one year's Hawaiian theme.
"We've got all these big things that say 'aloha' but we are cutting them up and changing the letters round and spelling new things," said Mr Hemingway.
Mr Cain said Blackpool had many more illuminations than it could use in its six-mile display, which this year will be switched on on 29 August.
"We have got some great jewels here but its just that we haven't got the the space for them," he said.
"I'd like to see what our illuminations are like in another town.
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The 23-year-old left-back came through the youth system at the Addicks, before making his debut for them in 2014 after a loan spell at Notts County.
Fox has made 116 appearances in total for League One Charlton.
He is cup-tied for the Owls FA Cup game at Middlesbrough on Sunday, but could make his debut in the next league match against Huddersfield on 14 January.
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The 46-year-old who received an OBE in the New Year's Honours List, had been favourite to be Swansea new manager.
The Swans are now expected to appoint Paul Clement but Roberts says Coleman could manage his hometown club one day.
"It is an honour to manage your country and Chris has been doing that with great success and he would be reluctant to walk away from it," he said.
"I think it is inevitable that he is linked with most of the top jobs that are available at the moment, and since the summer, because of the fantastic job he has done with Wales.
"So I think that is quite natural. But of course, he is in a job and it is a fantastic job. It is an honour to manage your country and he has already stated publicly that this will be his last campaign.
"He will want to finish this campaign, hopefully by arriving in Russia in 2018. So if it all goes to plan - and we know that things change quickly in football - that would be his wish and hopefully it pans out like that.
"That is purely because this is probably Chris' one and only chance of managing Wales."
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Coleman led Wales to the semi-final of Euro 2016 and Roberts thinks it is possible that he will one day want to manage Swansea, even if his immediate focus could be on a stint abroad.
"As he has stated already, his preference is to go back into club football, whether that be domestically or abroad [when his contract expires]," Roberts told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"I don't think any job is bigger than managing your country.
"Perhaps there will be an opportunity to come and manage Swansea at the Liberty in the future, who knows? Whether he will want to do that or not remains to be seen.
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The Moyola Park pro had been on course to qualify for next week's Tour School after sharing fifth spot at the halfway point in the pre-qualifier at El Saler.
But a wrist injury forced him to pull out before round three on Sunday.
The other Ulster hopefuls in the various pre-qualifiers in Spain look to be facing exits.
Alan Dunbar still has an outside chance of claiming a top-15 spot at Lumine in Tarragona.
Dunbar shot a one-under 70 to move to four under par which is five shots outside the current likely qualification mark.
Open Championship hero Paul Dunne also has work to do after a 71 left him sharing 25th spot two shots ahead of Dunbar while another Walker Cup player Gary Hurley is tied for 21st at the same venue on seven under.
Caldwell's hopes are over at Panoramica in Castillon after a third-round 77 left him on four over and 14 shots outside the current qualifying mark.
At the same venue, Warrenpoint man Colm Campbell is eight shots away from a qualifying position on two under after a 70 with Jack Hume also sharing 44th spot after his 72.
Brian Casey is on course to progress to PGA Catalunya next week after his superb 64 left him in second spot at Panoramica on 19 under.
Michael McGeady is six shots off a qualifying postion at El Saler after a 69 left him on two over while Richard Kilpatrick's hopes were extinguished after an 80 left him way off the pace on 10 over.
Rory McNamara's prospects also appear to have faded at the Valencia venue after a 73 left him sharing 54th spot on three over. | Chris Selfridge's hopes of staying on course for a European Tour card were wrecked as he was forced out of the qualifier in Valencia on Sunday. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34750068"} | 387 | 36 | 0.445701 | 1.089701 | -0.562212 | 1.035714 | 11.214286 | 0.678571 |
Barkhuizen's opener in the rescheduled game was a volley that squeezed under Adam Collin from Michael Rose's cross.
The second was despatched from the spot after a handball by Louis Laing.
Vadaine Oliver scored late on, with Jon Stead, Alex Rodman and Jonathan Forte among those denied in a second-half flurry.
But the Shrimps held out, with former Nottingham Forest keeper Barry Roche in inspired form.
Torrential rain brought an early end to the initial fixture on Saturday, 1 October.
Match ends, Notts County 1, Morecambe 2.
Second Half ends, Notts County 1, Morecambe 2.
Attempt saved. Alex Rodman (Notts County) header from the centre of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Goal! Notts County 1, Morecambe 2. Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. Assisted by Matt Tootle.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Alex Whitmore.
Substitution, Morecambe. Paul Mullin replaces Kevin Ellison.
Attempt missed. Richard Duffy (Notts County) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Ryan Edwards.
Attempt blocked. Thierry Audel (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Carl Dickinson (Notts County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Kevin Ellison (Morecambe).
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Alex Whitmore (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Alex Rodman (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.
Ryan Edwards (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ryan Edwards (Morecambe).
Attempt blocked. Alex Rodman (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner, Notts County. Conceded by Liam Wakefield.
Attempt saved. Alex Rodman (Notts County) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Substitution, Morecambe. Ntumba Massanka replaces Michael Rose.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Forte (Notts County) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Vadaine Oliver (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left.
Substitution, Morecambe. Peter Murphy replaces Lee Molyneux.
Corner, Morecambe. Conceded by Louis Laing.
Jonathan Forte (Notts County) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Jonathan Forte (Notts County).
Andrew Fleming (Morecambe) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Jordan Richards (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrew Fleming (Morecambe).
Substitution, Notts County. Vadaine Oliver replaces Jon Stead.
Substitution, Notts County. Aaron Collins replaces Graham Burke.
Substitution, Notts County. Thierry Audel replaces Haydn Hollis.
Louis Laing (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alex Whitmore (Morecambe).
Matt Tootle (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Jennings (Morecambe).
Goal! Notts County 0, Morecambe 2. Tom Barkhuizen (Morecambe) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the centre of the goal.
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The tourists began day three on 80-4 in reply to the Proteas' 423, which had been anchored by centuries from JP Duminy (155) and Hashim Amla (134).
But Sri Lanka were skittled for 131 before lunch and asked to follow on.
They fared little better second time around in Johannesburg, only opener Dimuth Karunaratne (50) providing any resistance as they crumbled for 177.
Visiting skipper Angelo Mathews, dismissed twice for 19 and 10 in Johannesburg on Saturday, admitted his side had struggled in South African conditions.
With the Wanderers ground traditionally assisting seam bowlers with pace and bounce, a four-strong pace attack of Wayne Parnell (4-51), Vernon Philander, Kagiso Rabada and debutant Duanne Olivier did the damage - with the Proteas only needing to bowl one over of spin in the entire match.
"I have been part of many defeats, but as a captain it is certainly the worst defeat," said Mathews.
"We did our best by preparing pitches in Sri Lanka with lots of grass but unfortunately we couldn't handle it.
"Teams come to the subcontinent and struggle. We beat Australia 3-0 but we need to find a way to win overseas as well."
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South Africa, having lost the number one Test ranking spot after their home defeat by England almost exactly a year ago, are now firmly in third place after this success, combined with Pakistan's 3-0 loss in Australia which has seen them drop to fifth.
Proteas captain Faf du Plessis said: "We want to get back to number one, although it could take a bit of time with the number of games India are playing there."
South Africa now meet Sri Lanka in three Twenty20 matches, beginning at Centurion on 20 January, and five one-day internationals. | South Africa wrapped up a 3-0 Test series whitewash after thrashing Sri Lanka by an innings and 118 runs. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38624641"} | 429 | 28 | 0.428177 | 1.067759 | -0.118109 | 1.045455 | 16.909091 | 0.590909 |
Mills won gold in Rio with her partner Saskia Clark sailing in the 470 class.
But the 28-year-old from Cardiff is seeking a new challenge and will experiment with the FX class.
"I think this next year's a good opportunity for me to try something else just to keep it fresh and, in a years' time, I can make a decision of where I want to go," said Mills.
"I've been sailing in the 470 class now for 10 years. It's such an amazing boat and I've learnt so many amazing sailing skills from it.
"The new boat is a lot faster quite a different challenge. I'm really excited to try something new."
The FX is a two-person boat and is one of the five sailing classes open to women in the Olympics.
"We have a national competition coming up in November and that'll be my first opportunity racing that boat," Mills added.
Mill's sailing partner Saskia Clark was one of several British athletes who had their medical records leaked earlier this month.
The records showed Clark was given a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) to treat her asthma during the Beijing and London Olympics.
TUEs allow banned substances to be used for medical reasons.
"For us in sailing it's not a massive factor. There aren't many TUEs in sailing aside from something like an asthma inhaler," said Mills.
"We aren't even that aware of what even people could take and get a TUE for. It's something that needs to be under scrutiny to make the process better and to make sure all the athletes are happy.
"I've spoken to Saskia and she totally relaxed. It's hard for us to even comprehend that it would be an issue because in sailing there's so much going on. Fitness is a huge part of it but there are 50 million other things we have to worry about." | Wales' Olympic sailing champion Hannah Mills is considering changing boats ahead of the Tokyo Games in 2020. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37514518"} | 421 | 21 | 0.465201 | 1.18279 | -0.010308 | 0.526316 | 20.368421 | 0.421053 |
The local authority's cabinet gave the go-ahead for the facility that will cater for youngsters aged three to 19.
It will include a revamped library, community cinema and sporting facilities.
It is also hoped it will be a catalyst for attracting further investment, such as in a proposed international standard 3G playing field. | More than £10 million will be invested in a new learning campus on the site of Ysgol y Berwyn, Bala, Gwynedd. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34260212"} | 71 | 36 | 0.488427 | 0.920182 | -1.04404 | 0.48 | 2.56 | 0.32 |
The 29-year-old moved to City in 2014 from Arsenal Ladies, having also played for Leeds United Ladies after starting her career at Sunderland Women.
She has won 85 caps for her country and has led the national side since 2014, as well as playing for Great Britain at the London Olympics in 2012.
"I've only ever seen my future at the club," she told the club website.
"This will be my fourth season and I've loved every single minute of it. I had no intention of going anywhere else and this is my home now."
The length of Houghton's new contract has not been disclosed.
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This year's prize focused on garden cities, and the government said it was watching with interest.
Winner David Rudlin suggested Norwich, Northampton, Oxford and Rugby were among places which could be expanded as part of the scheme.
Many of the towns could be doubled in size, providing hundreds of thousands of new homes, he said.
The question for entries was: "How would you deliver a new garden city which is visionary, economically viable and popular?"
A government-run process on identifying options for new garden cities is already under way.
Garden cities are large-scale developments in which, according to the government, certain features can be "hardwired into designs from the beginning".
The government has said it does not want to "impose any definition of what garden cities are", but features can include "quality design, gardens, accessible green space near homes, access to employment, and local amenities".
Britain's oldest garden city is Letchworth in Hertfordshire, dating from 1903.
Mr Rudlin, of urban design consultancy Urbed, said the next government should introduce a Garden Cities Act under which towns and cities could bid for garden city status, but he said settlements should not have it imposed on them.
The towns and cities he identified for possible expansion also include Reading and Stafford.
In 2013, the construction of 109,370 new homes was completed in England - the lowest figure for four years - but government figures suggest 221,000 new homes are needed every year in England and Wales.
Oxford was one of the cities identified by Mr Rudlin, and Oxfordshire County Council leader Ian Hudspeth said he welcomed the "stimulus" that the Wolfson Prize had given to the debate.
"Our economic plan proposes that 80,000 new jobs and 100,000 new homes need to be built by 2031 across the county," he said.
"Therefore, we cannot rely on small, short-term fixes - we need to think of larger, bolder solutions."
Prize founder Lord Wolfson said he was "delighted" the competition had attracted "so many powerful and creative proposals".
"David's entry is a tour de force of economic and financial analysis, creative thinking and bold, daring ideas," he said,
"I congratulate him and his team on a fantastic contribution to the debate on how we can deliver great new places for future generations to live, work and play in."
BBC local government correspondent Mike Sergeant said Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg had been a "particularly vocal supporter" of new garden cities, taking inspiration from long-standing garden cities including Letchworth and Welwyn.
The Wolfson Prize is said to be the second-biggest cash award in economics - after the Nobel Prize.
A £50,000 runner-up prize was given to housing charity Shelter, which proposed a settlement of up to 48,000 people at Stoke Harbour on the peninsula between the Thames and Medway rivers. | A plan to give "garden city" status to up to 40 English towns has won the £250,000 Wolfson economics prize. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "29056829"} | 630 | 28 | 0.553109 | 1.599442 | 0.008407 | 1.041667 | 23.916667 | 0.791667 |
The SFO said the matter was related to corruption in Somalia.
In a statement, Soma said it was "confident" that there was "no basis" to the allegation.
The company's directors include former Conservative Party leader Lord Howard and Lord Clanwilliam, but Soma said "no suspicion whatsoever" was attached to either man.
The SFO released a statement saying whistleblowers were "valuable sources of information".
It added: "We welcome approaches from anyone with inside information on all our cases including this one - we can be contacted through our secure reporting channel, which can be accessed via the SFO website."
Soma said the allegations were from a third party, not from a current or former employee.
"Soma Oil and Gas has always conducted its activities in a completely lawful and ethical manner and expects this matter to be resolved in the near future," it added.
The BBC understands that a UN monitoring group has also been investigating Soma over a capacity building programme which it signed with the Somalian government last year.
Many major oil companies withdrew from Somalia in the early 1990s when civil war began.
According to the company website, Soma Oil and Gas was founded in 2013 to "pursue oil and gas exploration opportunities in Somalia". | The Serious Fraud Office has opened a criminal investigation into British company Soma Oil and Gas. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33747169"} | 289 | 23 | 0.526067 | 1.300577 | 0.056074 | 1.235294 | 14.588235 | 0.529412 |
At the heart of the dispute are eight uninhabited islands and rocks in the East China Sea. They have a total area of about 7 sq km and lie north-east of Taiwan, east of the Chinese mainland and south-west of Japan's southern-most prefecture, Okinawa. The islands are controlled by Japan.
They matter because they are close to important shipping lanes, offer rich fishing grounds and lie near potential oil and gas reserves. They are also in a strategically significant position, amid rising competition between the US and China for military primacy in the Asia-Pacific region.
Japan says it surveyed the islands for 10 years in the 19th Century and determined that they were uninhabited. On 14 January 1895 Japan erected a sovereignty marker and formally incorporated the islands into Japanese territory.
After World War Two, Japan renounced claims to a number of territories and islands including Taiwan in the 1951 Treaty of San Francisco. These islands, however, came under US trusteeship and were returned to Japan in 1971 under the Okinawa reversion deal.
Japan says China raised no objections to the San Francisco deal. And it says that it is only since the 1970s, when the issue of oil resources in the area emerged, that Chinese and Taiwanese authorities began pressing their claims.
China says that the islands have been part of its territory since ancient times, serving as important fishing grounds administered by the province of Taiwan.
Taiwan was ceded to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, after the Sino-Japanese war.
When Taiwan was returned in the Treaty of San Francisco, China says the islands should have been returned too. Beijing says Taiwan's Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek did not raise the issue, even when the islands were named in the later Okinawa reversion deal, because he depended on the US for support.
Separately, Taiwan also claims the islands.
The dispute has rumbled relatively quietly for decades. But in April 2012, a fresh row ensued after outspoken right-wing Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara said he would use public money to buy the islands from their private Japanese owner.
The Japanese government then reached a deal to buy three of the islands from the owner in a move to block Mr Ishihara's more provocative plan.
But this angered China, triggering public and diplomatic protests. Since then, Chinese government ships have regularly sailed in and out of what Japan says are its territorial waters around the islands.
In November 2013, China also announced the creation of a new air-defence identification zone, which would require any aircraft in the zone - which covers the islands - to comply with rules laid down by Beijing.
Japan labelled the move a "unilateral escalation" and said it would ignore it, as did the US.
The US and Japan forged a security alliance in the wake of World War II and formalised it in 1960. Under the deal, the US is given military bases in Japan in return for its promise to defend Japan in the event of an attack.
This means if conflict were to erupt between China and Japan, Japan would expect US military back-up. US President Barack Obama has confirmed that the security pact applies to the islands - but has also warned that escalation of the current row would harm all sides.
The Senkaku/Diaoyu issue highlights the more robust attitude China has been taking to its territorial claims in both the East China Sea and the South China Sea. It poses worrying questions about regional security as China's military modernises amid the US "pivot" to Asia.
In both China and Japan, meanwhile, the dispute ignites nationalist passions on both sides, putting pressure on politicians to appear tough and ultimately making any possible resolution even harder to find. | Ties between China and Japan have been strained by a territorial row over a group of islands, known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu islands in China. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "11341139"} | 836 | 42 | 0.466185 | 1.190102 | -0.167866 | 1.53125 | 22.6875 | 0.84375 |
The American four-division world champion failed to make the weight for Friday's WBA bout in Washington.
The fight at the DC Armory still went ahead, but only Theophane, 35, was eligible to win the world title.
However, referee Luis Pabon halted the contest in the ninth round, meaning the belt remains vacant.
Theophane, who weighed on the 140-pound limit, was on the ropes in the second round and had a swollen eye by the fourth.
The Briton recovered to land solid punches in the sixth, seventh and eighth rounds, but the bout was stopped in the ninth after Broner hit back with a body shot and a right hook.
"I always could do better but I did what I had to do to get the victory," Broner, 26, said.
"I've been going through a lot this week and to come in here and bottle everything up and stay focused and get it done, I want to give a pat on the back to myself." | Britain's Ashley Theophane failed in his attempt to claim the World Boxing Association super lightweight title after being stopped by Adrien Broner. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35949775"} | 226 | 32 | 0.503877 | 1.166328 | 0.417577 | 0.625 | 8.375 | 0.541667 |
DUP MP Sammy Wilson told the BBC Monday's shooting was part of an ongoing paramilitary feud in the area.
The victim is understood to be a high-profile loyalist.
Mr Wilson said things had escalated to the point where one side "in broad daylight and unmasked had taken the opportunity to try to kill".
There has been an ongoing feud between loyalist factions in Carrickfergus for months, and Mr Wilson said there was a chance of retaliation in the area.
"There is no point in me or anyone else appealing to the two sides to back off, the police should make quick arrests and put people behind bars to send out a message that if this continues then people will be caught and they will serve long times in jail," he said.
The gun attack happened at Pinewood Avenue in Woodburn on Monday afternoon.
The ambulance service received a call at about 14:15 GMT following reports of a man with a gunshot wound, and he was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
DUP MLA David Hillditch said: "When guns are brought on to the street in broad daylight in a heavily built up area, it only brings home the dangers that are involved in this type of feud.
Alliance MLA Stewart Dickson said the attack had "cast a shadow" over the area.
"Any attack of this nature where a weapon is discharged is incredibly scary for the community," he said.
"Who knows what the risks are - obviously an individual has been seriously injured, but on top of that there there are people living in houses locally, there are schools and businesses in the area that are vulnerable to this type of attack.
"It is absolutely appalling."
The shooting came after a serious assault on a door man at a nearby bar on Sunday.
Two brothers and another man from Carrickfergus appeared at Belfast Magistrates' Court on Monday charged with attempted murder. | A man who is in a critical condition after being shot in the neck in Carrickfergus, County Antrim has been named locally as George Gilmore. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39264234"} | 423 | 35 | 0.382845 | 0.95196 | -0.853337 | 0.962963 | 13.888889 | 0.592593 |
The "modern memorial" involved about 1,500 voluntary participants appearing in public spaces across the UK.
Photos and reactions to the project quickly spread across social media, connected by the #wearehere hashtag.
Each carried a card with the name of the soldier they represented and his age - if known - when he died.
The Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest of World War One, began on 1 July 1916. All of the 1,500 men represented died on the first day of fighting.
More than one million men were killed and wounded on all sides during the five-month conflict, with the British suffering a total of nearly 60,000 casualties on the first day alone.
The project, entitled We're Here Because We're Here, was commissioned by 14-18 NOW, the UK's arts programme for the World War One centenary.
The day-long event - code-named Project Octagon - saw "ghost Tommies" appear at shopping centres, train stations and high streets and beaches.
The Royal Exchange in Manchester, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the National Theatres of Scotland and Wales were among 25 organisations involved.
According to organisers, it "broke new ground in terms of its scale, breadth, reach and the number of partners and participants involved".
Turner Prize winner Deller said he wanted to make "a contemporary memorial... that moved around the UK with unpredictability".
Norris described the work as "a truly national piece of theatre" that offered "a powerful way to remember the men who went off to fight 100 years ago."
The volunteers, who were drawn from a range of professions, were aged between 16 and 52, reflecting the ages of the men who would have fought in the Somme.
Jenny Waldman, director of 14-18 NOW, said the project had given "hundreds of young people across the UK the chance to find out more about... the bloodiest day in British military history."
Comedian Dawn French was among those to post a picture on Twitter, asking: "Has anyone seen WW1 soldiers on their commute this mornin?!"
Many others have posted their own pictures of soldiers they have sighted in locations as far afield as Chester, Glasgow and Newcastle.
Norris and Deller are appearing live on BBC Radio 4's Front Row at 19:15 BST to discuss the project.
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It is the fourth time the Peak District open air pool has opened on the first day of the year.
Assistant Manager George Foy said regular swimmers and some novices enjoyed their dip in the 10C pool. | Hundreds of people took an outdoor plunge in the Hathersage Lido in land-locked Derbyshire to celebrate New Year's Day. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38484217"} | 54 | 32 | 0.485007 | 1.030321 | 0.167919 | 0.391304 | 2.130435 | 0.304348 |
Cardinal Pell met privately with a group of survivors who flew to Rome to watch him testify to an Australian Royal Commission into child abuse.
The cardinal gave his evidence from Rome via video link due to ill health.
A spokesman for the survivors, David Ridsdale, said they had "an honest dialogue" at Thursday's meeting.
"There were no formalities... it was extremely personal in terms of what everyone was allowed to say and responded to," he said.
"This has been a very long, long process and this is just another step in that it doesn't change drastically the reality of institutional systemic abuse across the world that was covered up, it doesn't change that."
The group initially refused to see Pell, but said they met on a "level playing field" after some conditions surrounding the discussion were removed.
Cardinal Pell described the two-hour-long meeting as "hard", "honest" and "occasionally emotional".
He told reporters he was committed to working with the group to help stop suicides and end suffering.
"One suicide is too many. And there have been many such tragic suicides," he said.
On his fourth day of testimony on Thursday, Cardinal Pell admitted that a student told him a priest was "misbehaving with boys" in the 1970s.
He told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse that he did not act because the student did not ask him to do anything about the complaint.
The cardinal also said it was a "disastrous coincidence" that five paedophiles came to be at the same school and parish in Ballarat in Victoria state the 1970s.
The Catholic Church in Australia has already accepted that there were hundreds of cases of abuse by paedophile priests over more than 80 years. | Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell has promised to help lower suicide rates among people who were abused by Catholic priests as children. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35722733"} | 396 | 28 | 0.509917 | 1.206345 | -0.08441 | 0.652174 | 15.347826 | 0.565217 |
Scientists have converted two of the 43 bunkers at the former Loring Air Force Base, Maine, which has been a wildlife reserve since the mid-1990s.
The artificial hibernacula are designed to safeguard bats from the disease that was first recorded in the US in 2006.
White-nose syndrome (WNS) has killed up to an estimated 6.7 million bats so far and is continuing to spread.
(Source: US Fish & Wildlife Service)
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The disease, first described in a cave system in the state of New York, affects hibernating species is now found in 22 US states and five Canadian provinces.
The once secretive site in Maine, which was the closest US-based airbase to Moscow and a key asset for the US Strategic Air Command during the Cold War, was closed in 1994 before being reborn as the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge.
Steve Agius, the refuge's assistant manager, said that staff felt the derelict grass-roofed bunkers had more potential ecologically than just offering nesting sites for sandpipers and sparrows.
"The bunkers remained a curiosity for years and biological staff speculated that perhaps the structures could provide overwintering hibernacula for bats," he said.
The devastating impact of WNS on a growing number of US bat species led to the bunkers being assessed as potential winter homes for hibernating bats.
As a result, one of the bunkers was modified by US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) staff, and 30 male little-brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) arrived at their new winter home in December 2012.
The bunker's conversion included installing roosting places for the bats and CCTV to monitor the hibernating mammals.
Ann Froschauer, the USFWS WNS spokeswoman, explained the merits of using these artificial caves in the battle against the killer disease.
"One of the problems about WNS is that the fungus persists in the environment for an unknown amount of time and does not require bats as a host," she explained.
"If there are no bats then the fungus goes back to doing its normal soil function, such as degrading organic matter. Then, if any new bats come into the area, they are exposed to it."
Highlighting a fundamental barrier in curbing the transmission of the disease, Ms Froschauer added: "We cannot go into a natural cave or mine that has a lot of diversity - a lot of naturally occurring fungi - and then spray some sort of chemical.
The US has 45 recorded species of bat living in the country. More than half hibernate in order to survive the winter months.
To date, experts have said that 11 species have either been directly affected by WNS or the disease poses a risk to their long-term survival.
Species with recorded WNS cases:
(The gray bat and Indiana bat are federally listed as endangered species)
Species that have tested positive for the fungus (Geomyces destructans) but have not developed WNS:
(Source: Whitenosesyndrome.org)
"But in a human-made structure, like a bunker, we can go into a site like that [after the bats have left] and we can actually scrub a place down."
However, she said that even if the vast resources - financial and technical - needed to build a network of refuges for bats were available, the process of hibernation still held secrets waiting to be unlocked by science.
"Hibernation is something we are getting a lot better handle on but we do not really understand all of the things that are going on," she told BBC News.
"It is tough to hibernate bats and make sure we have all the right conditions - there are a lot of challenges."
The challenges facing attempts to extend this possible solution across the country were highlighted when biologists found that only nine bats - less than a third of the artificial colony - survived the winter.
Steve Agius observed: "While some of the bats survived the capture, transportation, and hibernation, it is clear that increasing the overwinter survival rate is essential when considering the value of further developing artificial hibernacula."
WNS has been described by some biologists as the worst wildlife health crisis in the US in living memory.
It is named after a white fungal infection that appears on the muzzle and/or wings of infected animals.
Researchers say the fungus (Geomyces destructans) thrives in the dark, damp conditions - such as caves and mines.
Studies suggest the fungus arrived in the US after it was somehow transported (probably via humans) from Europe or possibly Asia.
No turning back
Ms Froschauer said frontline efforts were focused on biosecurity in the guise of decontamination and restricting access to places where the disease was known to be present.
She explained US Geological Survey scientists had been able to cultivate viable fungal spores from tiny samples of soil, raising fears of a nightmare scenario of WNS being transported by humans or freight to western US states.
"A tiny chuck of soil - smaller than a US Dime - could easily be stuck in the tread of your shoe could easily be moved, especially if you were to jump on an aeroplane and not even be aware of it," she observed.
In order to minimise the risk of the disease being transported to unaffected areas, the USFWS and other agencies have produce decontamination documents for cavers, researchers and other groups that could come into contact with the fungus.
Even though efforts are being made to stop the disease spreading rapidly, WNS is still extending its range. In its recent update, the US FWS said the disease had been confirmed in Quebec, Canada - the most northerly case to date.
This suggests that the pathogen has not yet reached its limits in terms of how far it can spread geographically, meaning that bat experts and conservationists in these areas have to be on alert for signs of the disease.
Ms Froschauer said experts were resigned to the notion that strategies would have to focus on how to manage the disease, rather than eradicate it from the landscape.
"I expect to see over the next few years the spread continuing in those areas that are just getting the disease," she observed.
"We appear to be observing some sort of timeline between when the disease arrives to when we start to see these population level effects.
"To date, it is not slowing down, it is not stopping its spread."
She said evidence seemed to suggest that there was about a two to three year period between the disease first arriving in an area and signs that it was having an impact at a population level.
"We are getting a lot better at detecting the presence of the fungus earlier, we are finding the fungus in advance of seeing the disease manifest itself.
"A couple of years ago, the only way we knew there were affected bats was because we saw bats with the visible fungus growing on them and observing the behavioural changes."
Ms Froschauer explained that the scientific consensus was that this disease was here to stay and it was not going to be possible to "unpick what had been done".
"We will never see bat populations in the eastern US and Canada at pre-WNS levels in our lifetimes, or for generations afterwards," she warned.
"Our best bet now is to work towards how we can contain the disease while we are working on the science side of things and the other things that could interrupt the cycle of the disease and allow us to work towards the conservation of bats." | Cold War nuclear bunkers are the latest attempt to safeguard US bat populations under attack from white-nose syndrome. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "22354517"} | 1,710 | 23 | 0.471728 | 1.394551 | 0.39277 | 1.619048 | 69.952381 | 0.761905 |
After an emergency cabinet meeting, Arvind Kejriwal promised a raft of measures to combat the extreme air pollution.
All construction and demolition work has been banned for five days in the city.
Water will also be sprinkled on main roads to help suppress dust.
Mr Kejriwal advised Delhi-ites to stay indoors as much as possible and work from home if they can.
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Other measures announced by the government include fighting fires at landfill sites, and shutting down the coal-based Badarpur power plant.
About 1,800 municipal schools had already been shut in the capital on Saturday because of pollution.
The move came after levels of PM2.5 - tiny particles that can clog people's lungs - soared to over 90 times the level considered safe by the World Health Organization (WHO) and 15 times the Indian government's norms.
Hundreds of people wearing face masks held protests at Delhi's Jantar Mantar monument on Sunday, sharing their fears and frustrations on social media using the hashtag #MyRightToBreathe
India's NDTV quoted an official of the India Meteorological Department, who said visibility in Delhi was just 200m (656ft) at 8.30am local time, "caused by the heavy fog and smoke".
Mr Kejriwal called on India's national government to help control the smog which has enveloped the city since Diwali.
The Hindu Festival of Lights is widely celebrated with fireworks, which release soot and dust into the air.
During the winter months, Delhi's pollution is aggravated by many of the city's poor burning rubbish at night to stay warm.
Agricultural waste is also set on fire around Delhi to clear cropland, and burns for days on end. Technically such fires are banned, but attempts to impose cash fines on farmers who break the law have done little to stop them.
Delhi's air pollution levels have been a concern for some time, and the Indian capital has vied with Beijing for the unwanted title of "world's most polluted city".
The Delhi government has tried various schemes to contain the problem, including a crackdown on diesel vehicles, and a car rationing scheme where those with odd and even registration numbers were banned from the roads on alternate days.
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Allardyce left his role after the Daily Telegraph claimed he told undercover reporters posing as businessmen how to "get around" player transfer rules.
Frenchman Arsene Wenger, who manages Arsenal, and Tottenham's Argentine boss Mauricio Pochettino have said they would be open to taking the job.
"We have to be managed by an English person," Shearer told Football Focus.
Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn has said he is not "wedded to the fact" Allardyce's replacement has to be English.
He added Wenger, 66, would "fit the criteria perfectly".
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Shearer, who scored 30 goals in 63 appearances for England, believes the FA needs to better utilise players who have recently retired from international football.
The 46-year-old believes they can provide valuable guidance on "what has gone wrong in previous years".
"We've got to try and find ways to incentivise our former international players who are coming towards the end of their careers to stay in the game," he said.
"A lot of them now are multi-millionaires so there is no incentive for them to stay in the game.
"We've got to try to find a way to keep Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Rio Ferdinand in the game."
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The man, who was suffering from back pain, was on the Wipeout ride at Pleasurewood Hills in Suffolk.
Firefighters had to use a cherry picker to reach him on Sunday afternoon.
Park-goer Bryony Davies said the incident lasted at least two hours. "Wipeout got stuck at the top and staff did incredibly well to get people down," she added.
Around 20 firefighters rescued the man in his 40s, who was taken to hospital in Gorleston from the park, near Lowestoft.
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Group Commander Ali Moseley said by the time fire crews had arrived, park staff had "managed to get the rollercoaster car down to an elevated platform after it seemed to get stuck in a very high position".
He added: "The car was about three metres off the ground in an awkward position as there was only an angled platform to stand on around the car to get access to him.
"The incident was caused because there seemed to be a fault with the ride. It didn't result in any massive injury, but there was some injury to the individual."
Mr Moseley said the other people on the ride were "quickly evacuated before the fire service arrived".
Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service described it as an "unusual" call-out.
A spokeswoman for Pleasurewood Hills said it was "a minor incident that was dealt with by [our] team". | A man had to be rescued by firefighters after a rollercoaster became stuck "in a very high position" on its tracks. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40628317"} | 312 | 30 | 0.626881 | 1.43273 | -0.356469 | 2.208333 | 11.625 | 0.875 |
The Uefa Women's U19 Championship represents so much more for the teenage student from Ballynahinch in County Down.
To prove Northern Ireland can mix it with the continent's elite, the chance to catch the eye of professional clubs and to inspire girls to get on the football pitch and follow in their footsteps.
It's an opportunity to be seized with both hands and the Cliftonville Ladies midfielder is determined not to miss out.
"We're not here just to make up the numbers - we're a very good side and we aim to show that in the tournament," said Chelsea fan Emma.
"It's fantastic that Northern Ireland is hosting such a big event and it opens up possibilities for all us.
"There will be plenty of scouts at the games so a few good performances could make a big difference to our careers.
"We all dream of playing professional football, like some of the Northern Ireland senior women's team, and it's an added incentive to impress when it all starts next week.
"It would also be great if the tournament encourages more girls to play football and hopefully we'll have plenty of young fans at the matches."
Emma's passion for the game was ignited at the age of four, kicking a ball about in the garden with her sister.
Team football meant playing alongside boys but Emma excelled and was marked out early as a leader by skippering her side.
Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard were childhood heroes but now her footballing role models, including England winger Karen Carney, are found in the female ranks.
It reflects the growth and increased profile of women's football, with Northern Ireland but one example.
From a starting point of 18 teams in the 1970s, the NI Women's Football Association now boasts 55 sides.
There is also the elite Women's Premiership, a seven-team league formed last year and where Emma hones her skills.
Media coverage is on the increase and Northern Ireland's three group games will be streamed live on the BBC Sport website.
"The publicity has been brilliant so far and and it's really encouraging for us that so many people will following our progress in the tournament," added Emma.
"I was just treated as another player in the boys team and being a girl has never been a barrier for me, I've always been encouraged.
"The women's game is really taking off here and it would be great if in years to come it became semi-professional like the men's Irish Premiership.
"Simone Magill is at Everton and is among many in the senior international team to play in England - I'm just 18, I've plenty of years ahead of me and they are an inspiration, showing what is possible for us."
Northern Ireland kick off the tournament on Tuesday against a Spain side which has reached the final four times in the last five years.
Celtic neighbours Scotland are next up at Windsor Park before a final group game against six-times champions Germany.
It's a tall order for Alfie Wylie's team but they are high on confidence after two impressive wins over Wales a fortnight ago in the Super Cup NI youth tournament.
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An opening 3-1 victory at the Ballymena Showgrounds was followed by a 4-0 hammering, which included a top-corner cracker from the Northern Ireland captain.
"That was definitely my best international goal and it was a superb performance from the team," said Emma.
"Our preparations are going so well and there's a real buzz in the squad, we can't wait to get started on Tuesday.
"We're massive underdogs but that suits us fine as we're determined to prove the doubters wrong and hopefully spring a surprise.
"Yes, it's going to be tough but this is Northern Ireland's first time in the finals and we are relishing the challenge." | Leading out the hosts in a major European tournament will be just one box ticked for Northern Ireland skipper Emma McMaster. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40764950"} | 862 | 28 | 0.452444 | 1.318716 | 0.171684 | 0.818182 | 35.272727 | 0.636364 |
After United's Europa League final win against Ajax on 24 May, Mourinho said he had given executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward a list of transfer targets.
Senior United figures spoke privately about signing three or four players.
There could be developments later this week, but so far the only new signing has been 22-year-old defender Victor Lindelof from Benfica for £31m.
It is understood Mourinho wants at least one forward to compensate for the loss of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 35, because of injury, as well as a holding midfield player.
Efforts to sign Atletico Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann, 26, for a fee that would have come close to the world record £89m United paid Juventus for midfielder Paul Pogba 12 months ago were compromised by Ibrahimovic's major knee injury, which will keep him out until the New Year.
Atletico were also banned from buying players during the current transfer window and Griezmann signed a new contract, retaining a 100m euros release clause.
Another potential target, Everton striker Romelu Lukaku, 24, is thought to be more interested in joining Chelsea, so Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata, 24, has emerged as United's preferred striking option.
However, efforts to do a deal with Real have, thus far, met with frustration.
His father and agent met with Real officials at the Bernabeu on Monday and although it is still anticipated a transfer will happen, United's departure for their five-match pre-season tour of the USA on Sunday has created an artificial deadline there is no certainty of meeting.
Tottenham's Eric Dier, 23, and Chelsea's Nemanja Matic, 28, have been spoken of by club officials as possible additions to fill the holding midfield role.
However, any attempt to get Dier would involve protracted discussions with Tottenham, which United have never found easy.
It is understood Chelsea will not even entertain the prospect releasing Matic until they have completed the transfer of 22-year-old France midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko from Monaco.
United officials also spoke to Inter Milan about winger Ivan Perisic, 28, but that move is hampered by the Italian side's improved financial situation, meaning they have no urgent need to sell.
The situation is somewhat different to 12 months ago, when Ibrahimovic, centre-half Eric Bailly and midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan were all signed two weeks before United went on their pre-season tour of the Far East, with Pogba coming in later.
Mourinho is mindful his squad needed improving, as - despite winning the EFL Cup and Europa League last season - they finished sixth in the Premier League.
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Network Rail and British Transport Police figures show an 11% rise in incidents to 8,265, compared with 2015.
Some 115 people have been killed on rail tracks over the past five years, with almost half of them aged under 25.
Network Rail and the police said taking a short cut was the most common reason given for trespassing, followed by thrill-seeking.
CCTV shows 'shocking' railway trespassing in Yorkshire
Simon Munn was one such person who took a short cut, and lost his leg as a result.
When he was 22, he trespassed over a track on the way home from the pub to avoid an extra five-minute walk to a crossing.
"As I crossed the track I got my foot caught," he said.
"I don't know how long I was there, but I heard the train coming. I couldn't move.
"Trains moving that fast can't stop in time to miss you and they can't swerve. It's too late by then."
He had to have his leg amputated and spent weeks in hospital.
"Now I really know what the cost of trespassing and taking short cuts can be.
"I was lucky it wasn't my life," added Mr Munn, who has since represented Britain at the 2012 and 2016 Paralympics in wheelchair basketball.
The number of people trespassing on tracks started being recorded in 2007.
Now, on average, one person commits the offence nearly every hour, according to the statistics.
Allan Spence, Network Rail's head of public and passenger safety, said there was a "huge" and "worrying" rise each year.
"Britain has the safest railway in Europe but still too many people lose their lives on the tracks," he added.
"The dangers may not always be obvious, but the electricity on the railway is always on and trains can travel up to 125mph.
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Sgt Joseph Campbell, a father-of-eight, was shot dead as he closed Cushendall RUC station in County Antrim in 1977.
"Senior RUC officers and management had information on a very specific threat and failed to respond," Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire said.
But he said he did not believe the RUC colluded in the murder.
In his report, published on Friday, he said senior RUC officers failed to act on warnings from junior officers concerning a specific threat against Sgt Campbell, made long before he was murdered.
Speaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster on Friday, Dr Maguire said the head of special branch at that time knew about this threat and it was "highly likely" that the chief constable at the time, Kenneth Newman, also knew.
However, Mr Newman told the ombudsman investigation that he did not remember this.
"There was no corrective action taken by the RUC to warn Joe Campbell, increase patrols or move him from his position, none of that happened," Dr Maguire said.
"There was a prolonged failure in duty to the Campbell family."
Dr Maguire said the original investigation into the murder was "very poor" and that the 1980 investigation had been undermined by a lack of information.
"The impact of the murder of Joe Campbell reverberated throughout RUC at the time, I was surprised the chief constable did not recollect it," he said.
"There is no doubt in my mind that the Campbell family were failed by the RUC."
In his 50-page report, Dr Maguire found that the two criminal investigations into the shooting had been flawed, and hampered by the withholding of sensitive intelligence information, including the threats to the victim's life.
The Campbell family has welcomed elements of the ombudsman's report, but said they were unhappy that Dr Maguire's investigation did not find evidence of RUC collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.
Sgt Campbell had been a well-known and respected police officer in the County Antrim community for many years.
The shooting took place on the evening of 25 February 1977 and since then, his widow and children have campaigned for more information about the circumstances surrounding his death.
The Campbell family believe that the killing was carried out by a loyalist paramilitary - Robin Jackson - with the aid of rogue elements of the security forces.
Jackson was a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).
Joe Campbell Jr told BBC Radio's Good Morning Ulster programme that he had been in his father's police station in connection with an unrelated matter shortly before the murder.
"He came down to the station, he was unexpected there and as I was leaving, he opened the gate for me and told me to get home quickly," Mr Campbell said.
"I didn't think anything of it at the time, but not more than 10 minutes later he was murdered at the gates he had let me out of."
Another son, Tommy, said his father's moods had changed dramatically in the months before the murder.
"He had become more conscious about his own personal security. He was careful about what we were doing and where we were about," he said.
"It's well documented that on the night this happened, a phone call was received.
"He went to the station. He put on his own personal protection weapon, which he never wore. He just didn't wear a gun at all at any stage.
"While we are aware at the time that something a bit different was going on, it's only after the murder, and in latter years, that we could contextualise it."
While the family has alleged a wider conspiracy of a cover-up, Dr Maguire said he had been unable to substantiate all of their allegations.
However, he found both the victim and his family were failed by the actions of the RUC before and after the shooting.
Dr Maguire said: "I have to conclude that Sgt Campbell, a dedicated community police officer in the Glens of Antrim, was failed by senior members of the police service, of which he was a respected member."
He added that there was "sufficient, reliable evidence that senior police officers throughout the RUC's command structure" were aware of the threats to Sgt Campbell's life and "failed to act upon them".
Dr Maguire said he uncovered the systematic destruction and removal of RUC documents, and adds that some retired RUC officers refused to cooperate with his investigation.
There were two RUC investigations into the murder of Sgt Campbell, carried out in 1977 and 1980.
As a result of the 1980 investigation, a member of RUC Special Branch in Ballymena, County Antrim, was arrested and tried for the murder.
The Crown case had been that a "rogue" Special Branch member had been carrying out criminal activities, including armed robberies in County Antrim, and had murdered Sgt Campbell to prevent him from passing on information about him.
The Special Branch officer was acquitted of murder.
Thirty years later, Police Ombudsman inquiries into the killing uncovered new evidence, but the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) decided no further prosecutions would follow.
The Police Ombudsman's investigators heard from Special Branch officers who had passed their concerns about Sgt Campbell's safety on to their senior officers, including that "Joe was to be lined-up to be murdered".
Army intelligence officers had also been aware of the risk to Sgt Campbell.
One police officer was told by a member of the public that there was a link between a bank robbery in Cushendall in early 1977 and the murder of Sgt Campbell several weeks later.
The officer passed this statement on, and said he was always surprised that he was never asked about it.
In conclusion Dr Maguire said: "The inadequacies of those investigations further undermined the prospect of effective investigation of the murder of Sgt Campbell and promoted an atmosphere of suspicion in which allegations of a wider conspiracy, whether correct or incorrect, have subsequently thrived and the family of Sgt Campbell have been failed."
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), which replaced the RUC in 2001, expressed its sympathies to the Campbell family and said the ombudsman's report made "difficult reading".
PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Alistair Finlay said: "It is clear there were significant shortcomings in the RUC handling of information prior to the murder and in both subsequent police investigations into Sgt Campbell's murder."
Mr Finlay expressed disappointment that "a number of retired officers felt unable to engage with this Police Ombudsman's investigation".
However he added that policing "back in 1977 operated in a very different context" and said RUC officers investigated 112 troubles-related murders that year. | The murder of a police officer 37 years ago could have been prevented by senior Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) commanders, the police ombudsman said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "28036063"} | 1,531 | 41 | 0.541998 | 1.479936 | 0.323921 | 1.5 | 47.392857 | 0.785714 |
Vueling will operate direct flights three times a week from Scotland's capital to Rome Fiumicino, Paris Orly and Alicante.
Fiumicino and Orly are new routes for Edinburgh Airport, with Vueling flying to both from 29 March next year.
Its flights to Alicante will start from 16 June next year.
Gordon Dewar, chief executive of Edinburgh Airport, said: "It is tremendous that we have two new routes to Rome and Paris and we have increased our service to Alicante - this offers our passengers even greater choice and is further confirmation of Edinburgh Airport's position as a key driver for Scotland's economy.
"This commitment from Vueling, a strong European airline, shows that we've listened to our passengers and recognise the need for greater choice and European connectivity, this expansion in service is good news for business and leisure travellers, for Edinburgh and for Scotland as a whole.
"With over one million passengers through the doors at Edinburgh Airport last month - and in every one of the last five months - we are continuing to grow, create jobs and make a positive contribution for Scotland's economy." | Three new regular passenger flights to major European destinations have been confirmed at Edinburgh Airport. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34542037"} | 250 | 17 | 0.563017 | 1.224313 | 0.156701 | 1.125 | 13.4375 | 0.625 |
FedEx Cup holder McIlroy intends to play in all four play-off events in the US over the next month before competing in the Dunhill Links event in Scotland.
The play-offs begin with this week's Northern Trust Open as McIlroy aims to get in contention to retain the title.
"I'm OK to play these next four out of five weeks," McIlroy told ESPN.
"But then I do need a prolonged break at some point in 2017 to be ready for 2018."
McIlroy had said he might not compete again in 2017 after finishing in a share of 22nd place at the US PGA Championship but last Friday confirmed his intention to attempt to defend his FedEx Cup crown.
McIlroy is 43rd in the FedEx Cup standings and will need to move into the top 30 in order to earn entry to the concluding Tour Championship.
The Northern Irishman won the second play-offs event in 2016 before clinching a £7.8m bonus as he topped the FedEx Cup standings after triumphing at the Tour Championship.
The play-offs begin with the New York event before next week's Dell Technologies Championship in Boston.
After a week's break, the series resumes with the BMW Championship in Illinois before the Tour Championship in Atlanta.
McIlroy said on Tuesday that Harry Diamond will continue to caddie for him during the play-offs after he split with his long-time bagman JP Fitzgerald following The Open.
The US PGA was only McIlroy's 13th tournament of a season in which he has not won.
McIlroy took six weeks off after losing out in a play-off for the South African Open in January and also missed the PGA Championship at Wentworth and the Memorial Tournament. | Rory McIlroy says he aims to play in five more events this year before taking an extended break to aid his recovery from a rib injury. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "41022771"} | 396 | 36 | 0.572868 | 1.297615 | 0.07991 | 0.703704 | 12.296296 | 0.555556 |
The plenum kicks off a big year for China, building up to next year's party congress, a twice-a-decade event.
While this week's gathering is largely pre-scripted, a communiqué is usually released at the end of event - and that should help the outside world figure out which way China is headed.
Political considerations - especially party leadership, succession issues and a "code of conduct" for party cadres - are likely to dominate proceedings. But here are three things I'm watching for on the economic front:
A recent Pew poll showed that corrupt officials are the top concern of Chinese people. So the key theme of this meeting - discipline - is an issue close to the hearts of many in China.
Cracking down on corruption, both within the party and in business circles, has been key to President Xi Jinping's reform agenda. It's thought that more than a million officials have been punished in his anti-corruption drive over almost four years.
But critics say that arresting individuals is the easy bit and that President Xi has done little to get to the root of the problem. There have been no meaningful moves towards regulation or systems that allow whistle-blowing for example they argue.
Analysts say President Xi believes that the only way for him to realise his "China Dream" (his vision of China's economic and military rejuvenation) is if the Chinese Communist party remains disciplined, and graft-free. Of course, the anti-corruption drive has also had a knock-on effect on the economy: there's been less spending in provinces than in previous years because of fears that excessive wealth might bring with it unnecessary and unwanted attention.
As Michael Clauss the German Ambassador to China wrote in a recent editorial in the South China Morning Post, "it is hard to hide…[the] disappointment" when it comes to opening up China to non-state competition.
State-owned enterprises dominate China's business landscape, and that makes it very difficult for other firms - both local and foreign - to compete.
China has consistently said it is cleaning up the so-called "zombie" firms but it has so far been unwilling or unable to shut down many of these bloated companies.
Part of the reason is unemployment. The slowdown in the steel and iron sectors means we've already seen massive job losses, resulting in millions of migrant workers heading back to their villages. The Communist Party doesn't want to risk the social instability that may arise from widespread rural joblessness.
Which brings us back to the whole rebalancing thesis which China started spouting a few years ago to explain its gradual, managed slowdown.
The idea was that China needed to rein in growth after years of double-digit GDP data. And it was going to be a controlled deceleration, as the economy shifted gears and changed focus to keep growing.
Under that vision, old pillars of the economy like manufacturing, exports and government spending become less central, with consumption and services having a greater emphasis. The problem though is that that's not what the data is showing.
While consumption is picking up - it's still largely debt that's helping to drive the economy forward. The central bank has already warned about high levels of credit, especially in the property market, as I've written about before.
All of these considerations will weigh heavily on the minds of China's leaders this week. And even though we're unlikely to hear what China's leaders really think about the shift in the economic focus, the communiqué released later this week might just give us some clues. | China's top Communist party officials are in Beijing for a four-day, behind-closed-doors meeting this week. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37748277"} | 799 | 29 | 0.41617 | 1.029613 | 0.451188 | 1.291667 | 29.625 | 0.791667 |
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These tiny little mammals are nocturnal, which means they only come out at night.
This means they are rarely seen.
But conservationists say their numbers are dropping and now a team is trying to save the small creatures.
Check out the video to find out what is being done to help! | You might not have heard of a hazel dormouse and to be honest you probably won't have ever seen one either. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40728101"} | 74 | 31 | 0.345699 | 0.768101 | -1.254591 | 0.217391 | 2.956522 | 0.217391 |
Prosecutors said the 40 men were involved in attacks which swept through the southern city of Assiut last year.
The court acquitted 61 others involved in the case.
The Egyptian authorities have jailed more than 16,000 people since last August.
At least 1,400 people have also been killed in a wide-ranging crackdown against opponents of the government.
Following the ousting of Mr Morsi in the summer of 2013 there was unrest across the country.
In Assiut, several police stations were set alight along with five churches and a number of shops.
Delivering its verdict the city's criminal court sentenced two defendants to 15 years in prison, AFP news agency reported, while others were handed jail terms ranging from one year to 10.
Dozens of Mr Morsi's supporters have been sentenced to death in mass trials over the past year.
Mr Morsi and fellow leaders of the now banned Muslim Brotherhood organisation are also being held in jail or on trial facing the death penalty. | Dozens of Egyptian Islamists accused of torching churches and police stations after the ousting of former President Mohammed Morsi have been jailed for up to 15 years. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30532889"} | 226 | 39 | 0.65273 | 1.302729 | 0.067402 | 1.392857 | 6.714286 | 0.678571 |
Erick Maina, 15, was found in Fazakerley, Liverpool, on Saturday. The cause of death has not been revealed.
Racist comments about him were later found daubed near his school, Maricourt Catholic High School in Maghull.
An 18-year-old man from Netherton and a 17-year-old from Bootle are accused of racially aggravated criminal damage. Both are due before Sefton magistrates.
On Monday, the school's head teacher Brendan McLoughlin paid tribute to the "bright and intelligent" pupil.
"Erick was a popular and well-liked pupil at the school. He represented his peers as form captain and was a member of the school council," he said.
Detectives are investigating the boy's death on behalf of the Sefton coroner. | Two teenagers have been charged over racist graffiti that appeared hours after the death of a black teenager. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30094045"} | 186 | 22 | 0.456407 | 1.027909 | -0.603938 | 0.368421 | 7.894737 | 0.368421 |
While not fully self-driving, the software means the Model S and new Model X can "automatically steer down the highway, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic".
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk said the autopilot mode was designed to increase driver confidence on the road.
However, Mr Musk said users adopting the software - available in North America from Thursday - should exercise caution while using it.
"It should not hit pedestrians, hopefully," he told the media. "It should handle them well."
He added that if the car is involved in a collision, the driver is still liable.
"The driver cannot abdicate responsibility. That will come at some point in the future."
Other regions of the world would be updated in the next couple of weeks pending regulatory approval.
The software uses a combination of cameras, radar, ultrasonic sensors and mapping data to determine its position and navigate.
When the car has arrived at its destination, it is able to scan for an available space and park itself.
Unlike Google, which is aiming for a fully-autonomous vehicle, Tesla's approach is to gradually introduce features which take away the need for drivers to carry out certain functions.
Currently there are limitations to the software which would improve over time, Mr Musk said.
"If there's heavy snow it's going to be harder for the system to work, so we'd advise caution.
"Essentially it's like a person - how well can a person figure out what route they should take. Over time it will be better than a person.
"Long term it will be way better than a person. It never gets tired, it's never had anything to drink, it's never arguing with someone in the car. It's not distracted."
Other car manufacturers such as BMW and Volvo are also developing, and implementing, autonomous features to their cars.
Google's entirely self-driving car has clocked up well over one million miles on public roads, mostly in California.
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The 29-year-old from Caerphilly failed to report for an out-of-competition test on 1 December 2015.
Clabby was playing in the Welsh Premiership for Bedwas at the time.
His ban is backdated from 28 January 2016 until 27 January 2020 and he becomes the 15th registered WRU player to be on UK Anti-Doping (Ukad)'s list of banned sportspeople.
Clabby was told by Bedwas coach Steve Law that he was among four players who had to submit a sample following a training session, but could not be found or contacted by telephone when the anti-doping official had dealt with a colleague.
He later claimed to have had a work emergency, but his supervisor gave evidence that he had tried to call Clabby without success before the training session.
Clabby was found to have deliberately avoided the drug-testing official to evade his test.
Ukad chief Executive Nicole Sapstead said: "Kurt Clabby's decision to evade sample collection is not just a serious breach of the rules but it also goes against the spirit of sport and his responsibility as a sportsperson.
"We treat violations such as this with the upmost seriousness and we will always seek to impose the maximum possible sanction on any individual who decides to consciously cheat the system."
A WRU statement said: "Following a four-year suspension to Kurt Clabby of Bedwas and Nelson for evading, refusing or failing to submit a sample collection, the WRU has reiterated its call for players to 'stay onside'.
"The Welsh Rugby Union has increased its level of anti-doping education across all levels of Welsh rugby and has invited community clubs to nominate club integrity officers to receive further guidance.
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The delegation from Visit Britain visited museums and other local attractions.
Hull will host the year-long UK City of Culture arts festival next year.
Garry Taylor, from Hull City Council, said the visit was "incredibly important" in promoting the city to an international audience.
"Visit Britain are incredibly influential," he said.
"The role they play internationally in changing perceptions, them experiencing Hull first hand is incredibly important.
"The conversations we've having, it's not the place that they were expecting it to be."
Hull is undergoing a £25m revamp ahead of next year's festival.
Streets are being repaved and new lighting installed to highlight the city's landmark buildings.
More than £15m is being spent refurbishing the New Theatre and the Ferens Art Gallery. | Hull has been visited by a group from the UK's international tourism body in an attempt to promote the city around the world. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35678411"} | 176 | 29 | 0.583161 | 1.324739 | -0.101195 | 0.68 | 6.44 | 0.6 |
The main parliamentary opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood, was reduced from 20% of the seats in the previous parliament to zero.
The second largest group, the liberal Wafd party, won a mere three seats in the first round of elections (out of a total of 518 seats). The results strained the credulity of even those most sympathetic to the regime.
Egypt has in the past at least allowed the appearance of democracy, though not necessarily the substance. Within constraints, the opposition was allowed to participate.
The parliament, while ultimately dominated by the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), had, in recent years, come somewhat alive. There was a relatively boisterous independent press. Elections were rigged but not stolen outright.
None of this, of course, changed the outcome - a repressive regime that refused to share power - but it did, at least, give the opposition an opening.
That opening is now gone. It is worth noting that the results of 28 November were genuinely surprising to nearly everyone, including NDP officials who had hoped for a more "credible" result.
It would be misleading to say that Egypt is "on the brink" - as several experts have recently claimed - although it may be.
Analysts have long warned that the Egyptian regime, while seemingly durable, is increasingly unpopular and perceived as illegitimate.
Meanwhile, Egyptians themselves, long accused of political passivity, have taken to the streets in unprecedented numbers, protesting against their country's economic and political deterioration.
This does not mean Egypt, one of America's closest allies in the region, will fall. But with these most recent elections, the regime has over-reached.
In opting to wipe out its opposition, and with such lack of subtlety, it has made a major and potentially debilitating miscalculation.
The regime has lost whatever legitimacy it had left. More importantly, however, it has breathed new life into what was just one month ago an aimless, fractious opposition that couldn't agree on whether or not to boycott the elections.
Repression, when it reaches a certain level, can help unify an otherwise divided opposition. The Brotherhood and the Wafd, wary of each other in the lead-up to elections, are now promising greater co-operation. They will have to; the regime no longer has anything to offer them.
Meanwhile, Egypt will have a parliament but one with virtually no opposition. The Egyptian regime appears unaware of something its neighbours have long known: the most effective autocracies are the ones that manage rather than destroy their opposition.
And with no-one to fight, the NDP may very well end up fighting itself. Rather unwittingly, the ruling party has created the very political context most likely to tear it apart.
There are reports, and much speculation, about internal rifts within the regime over who will succeed the ailing president, Hosni Mubarak, now nearly 30 years in power. And for the first time since he took over, no-one is quite sure who the next president will be.
Gamal Mubarak, the president's son, has long been the favourite but there are those in the NDP who are searching quietly - and sometimes not so quietly - for an alternative.
Political scientists Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe Schmitter, in their book Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, write that "there is no transition whose beginning is not the consequences - direct or indirect - of important divisions within the authoritarian regime itself". Those divisions, in Egypt, are only likely to grow.
For the NDP to make a strategic blunder at such a crucial moment in Egypt's history suggests a regime that is nervous, unsure of itself and increasingly incoherent.
This was the first such mistake. Whether there will be more - and whether the opposition manages to capitalise - will determine the course Egypt takes in the coming, critical months.
Shadi Hamid is director of research at the Brookings Doha Center and a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. This is the first of a series of three viewpoints on Egyptian politics in the aftermath of the 2010 parliamentary elections. | Egypt may very well have just experienced the most fraudulent parliamentary elections in its recent history. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "11961685"} | 933 | 19 | 0.389349 | 1.002216 | 0.272154 | 1.470588 | 47.529412 | 0.882353 |
Police found a corroded sawn-off shotgun, another shotgun in poor condition and an antique pistol at Richard Watt's home.
He admitted firearms offences at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Watt was warned only exceptional circumstances could prevent a minimum sentence of five years.
The court heard the guns were found in the former gun enthusiast's Corthan Crescent in September last year.
Defence counsel Jonathan Crowe said that about 20 years ago a work colleague of Watt, who knew of his interest in guns, offered him two shotguns.
He took them home to examine than and found the bag also contained the component parts for a sawn-off shotgun.
Mr Crowe said Watt returned them to the colleague and said he did not want them - but the colleague also did not want them.
The defence counsel said he knew he should have taken them to the police, but thought he might get himself or the colleague into trouble.
He said Watt thought he would put them in the gun room in his cellar and "forget about them".
He said they lay there gathering dust and added: "There is no suggestion the guns were recently used or fired."
Mr Crowe said: "He did not know that the court must consider sending him to jail for a minimum of five years."
The defence counsel said he intended to make a plea that exceptional circumstances existed in the case which could allow the minimum sentence to be avoided.
He said the guns had been kept in relatively secure conditions and there was little chance of them "falling into the wrong hands".
He told the court: "There is no suggestion, other than the possession of the guns, that Mr Watt was in anyway involved in criminality."
Mr Crowe said that once background reports were available "it may be apparent that to imprison a 76-year-old, who is a first offender, would be perhaps arbitrary and disproportionate".
Deferring sentence, Lord Burns said: "Parliament has dictated that unless exceptional circumstances exist a minimum sentence of five years should be imposed."
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The 24-year-old has made 14 appearances for the Latics since moving to the DW Stadium from fellow Championship club Wolves in August.
The former Tottenham and Swindon player is Addicks boss Karl Robinson's fourth signing of the transfer window.
"Nathan can be phenomenal going forward, is very quick and will add energy to the squad," Robinson said.
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She has been named locally as Lorna Carty, from Robinstown in County Meath.
The attack happened in Sousse, a popular tourist resort, and most of those killed are believed to be British.
The Irish department of foreign affairs has said there are "grave" concerns for two other Irish people believed to have been caught up in the attack.
Islamic State extremists have said they were responsible.
So far, five Britons have been confirmed dead by the Foreign Office, and the Tunisian health ministry said eight Britons had been identified among the dead.
Tunisia's prime minister Habib Essid said the majority of the 38 people killed in the attack were British.
He has announced a clampdown on security and said army reservists would be deployed to archaeological sites and resorts.
David Cameron, the UK prime minister, said the country must be prepared for a high British death toll.
Thomson and First Choice have said their customers were among "a number of fatalities", and they have sent 10 planes to bring home 2,500 tourists.
On Friday, Charlie Flanagan, the Irish minister for foreign affairs, said his department was working to establish if any other Irish citizens had been killed or injured in "these brutal attacks".
He said they were advising people planning to travel to Tunisia to "exercise extreme caution".
"For those Irish citizens who are due to travel to Tunisia over the coming days and who now do not wish to travel, they should discuss their arrangements with the relevant travel companies," he said.
"Irish citizens in Tunisia should remain extremely vigilant and follow the instructions of the police, tour operators, and their hotel staff."
Irish embassy staff, including Irish Ambassador to Spain David Cooney, who is also accredited with Tunisia, arrived in Sousse on Friday night to provide consular assistance to citizens caught up in the attack.
Ms Carty, who was in her 50s, was on holiday with her husband who made contact with the Irish consular authorities.
Irish politician Ray Butler said he had spoken to her husband.
"It was one of the hardest phone calls I've ever made and it's so sad to hear what happened, for this lady to be enjoying her holidays out on the beach and to lose her life," the County Meath representative told Irish broadcaster RTÉ.
"I've been told that one of their family relations had given them the holiday as a gift, because her husband had undergone heart surgery, so they could go and enjoy themselves."
Tunisia has been on high alert since March when militants killed 22 people, mainly foreign tourists, in an attack on a museum in the capital Tunis.
The attack on Friday happened at a beach near the Hotel Imperial Marhaba, officials said.
Tunisia is a popular destination for Irish tourists.
Dublin woman Elizabeth O'Brien, who was on holiday with her two sons in Sousse, told RTÉ how they had to run for their lives.
"I saw a (hot air) balloon collapse down, then rapid firing, then I saw two of the people who were going to go up in the balloon start to run towards me - because I thought it was fireworks," she said.
"I thought 'oh my God, it sounds like gunfire', so I just ran to the sea to my children and grabbed our things and as I was running towards the hotel, the waiters and the security on the beach started saying 'run, run run!' and we just ran to our room."
Travel blogger Johnny Ward, from Kilkeel in County Down, is in the Gammarth resort, close to the capital Tunis, with his mother.
Gammarth is about 100km north of where the attack happened, and Mr Ward said there was "outrage from the locals here just as much as there is from the tourists".
Security appeared to have been tightened in the country and the atmosphere "feels quite on-edge", he added.
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Marie Cooke, from Nottinghamshire, said the MP placed the cup on her table during a break at a rally at the Albert Hall in Nottingham on 20 August.
Ms Cooke, who works for Age UK, said she saw it as a "cheeky" opportunity to raise money for the charity.
She said about 4,000 people watched the item on eBay, and it was eventually won after 22 bids on Thursday evening.
Ms Cooke was outside the Nottingham Playhouse when Mr Corbyn asked her if she minded if he put his cup on her table.
"We were happy to oblige," she said.
"[When] he went back into the Albert Hall to deliver his speech we thought we'd be a bit cheeky and take the cup and put it on eBay.
"[On Thursday] it just went mad with over 4,000 people looking at it, and we raised £51."
The fundraiser said she would attempt to get Mr Corbyn's autograph to prove it was his cup.
The cup was won by a student in Oxford, according to Ms Cooke.
"I think they are going to turn it into some kind of relic," she said. | A disposable coffee cup believed to have been used by Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn has sold for £51. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34082958"} | 256 | 24 | 0.504822 | 1.216947 | -0.162868 | 0.714286 | 11.142857 | 0.428571 |
The Scottish government's #inspiringteachers campaign will focus on science, technology, engineering and maths.
It will feature people in public life sharing their memories of teachers who inspired them.
The move comes as councils in northern Scotland prepare for a summit to try to tackle local teacher shortages.
Details of the campaign were announced by the Education Secretary Angela Constance at the Scottish Learning Festival in Glasgow.
Ms Constance also announced funding for projects to boost resources for schools in disadvantaged areas.
The government said the £1.5m Access to Education Fund would give young people access to additional resources to remove barriers to learning and raise attainment.
This could be delivered in several ways, for instance through improved IT, mentoring schemes and projects to enhance language skills.
Ms Constance said: "We all remember a teacher who inspired us, who brought their subject to life, and we want everyone to share their stories to help attract the best talent into educating young people today.
"We hope that the #inspiringteachers campaign will attract more high-quality, passionate teachers into the profession, particularly in science, technology, engineering and maths where we know there is a demand.
"This is alongside action we are already taking to maintain teacher numbers, encourage and support extra graduates into hard-to-recruit subjects and rural areas. For example, the first students graduating from the part-time distance course we funded at the University of Aberdeen are now teaching in Aberdeenshire and Highland Council schools as probationer teachers."
Next month six councils in northern Scotland will hold a summit meeting to discuss how to tackle local teacher recruitment problems which have left vacancies unfilled.
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Russian state TV's coverage of the crisis has been consistently sensationalist, using a wide repertoire of propaganda techniques to incite revulsion and hostility towards the authorities in Kiev.
Television in Ukraine has fastened on the role of the Kremlin and decries Russian media "lies", though with less emotive language than Moscow-based channels.
A constant refrain of Russian TV's reporting of the Ukraine crisis has been its attempts to equate the current authorities in Kiev and their supporters with fascists.
One of the ways they have done this is to brand them as banderovtsy, followers of controversial Ukrainian nationalist and wartime partisan leader Stepan Bandera.
Bandera was demonised by the Soviets and still is by Vladimir Putin's Kremlin as a Nazi collaborator, but is revered as a hero in parts of Ukraine.
The word junta is often used on Russian television to describe the Ukrainian government, suggesting a lack of legitimacy following the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February.
More emotive is the use of the words "fascist" and "Nazi" in many Russian TV reports. They are words used in several contexts, from portraying the far-right Right Sector as Ukraine's real driving political force, to drawing parallels with World War Two.
Russian state TV widely uses the term "punitive operation" when referring to Ukraine's security operation in the east.
The term, which normally refers to wartime German reprisals on Soviet territory, was first heard during a speech by Mr Putin on state TV in March, in which he said that supporters of Mr Yanukovych were being threatened by "repressions and punitive operations".
Russia's state channels Rossiya 1 and Channel One have each used the term in more than 500 reports, and the word "punishers" more than 100. Their use is not universal, however. Gazprom-owned NTV has used the term sparingly, and has never used "punishers".
In Ukrainian newscasts, stories about Russia portray the country in a negative light but language has been restrained in comparison to that on Russian TV. There has also been mild criticism of the country's military commanders.
Coverage has evolved in recent days from suggestions of Russian involvement to direct accusations. Russian forces, which were previously described as "someone helping from the neighbouring state", are now openly accused of taking part in the fighting. According to one report on the 1+1 channel, Ukrainians "are being killed not only by terrorists, but also by Russia".
Pro-Russian separatists are routinely referred to as "terrorists" as Ukrainian channels follow the government line, irrespective of ownership or leaning.
Much Ukrainian coverage has been devoted to accounts of torture and kidnapping by pro-Russian fighters, and rebutting what it calls Russian media "lies" about the Ukrainian government's self-declared "anti-terrorist operation".
If the Russian stance on any issue is mentioned, it is invariably dismissed as "Kremlin propaganda" with Oleksandr Dubynskyy, a journalist working for Ukrainian 1+1 TV, referring to the Russian pro-Kremlin LifeNews rolling news channel as "liars and scoundrels".
Stronger editorial criticism of the Russian authorities can be seen away from news broadcasts, with documentaries and live discussion programmes promoting strong anti-Moscow views, and it is on live talk shows where the most outspoken views on Russia are heard.
The Freedom of Speech programme on ICTV and Shuster Live on Kiev's state-run UT1 both feature harsh criticism of Russia, voiced by numerous Ukrainian officials and politicians.
However, alternative opinions are also aired, and presenters make no attempt to block dissent.
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The Avengers star has been signed up to "talk to the animals" in Universal's The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle.
Syriana director Stephen Gaghan will lead the remake of the story of the eccentric physician who lives with a host of animals he claims to converse with.
Downey Jr will follow actors Rex Harrison and Eddie Murphy in the role.
The character of the doctor was created by children's author Hugh Lofting in the 1920s.
But as Universal haven't released any details of how their film will look, we don't know if their story will be set in that era.
The original big-screen version was a colourful, costumed period piece when British actor Harrison, of My Fair Lady fame, took on the role in 1967.
That movie went on to be nominated for best picture at the Oscars.
In 1998, Murphy then played the character in a comedy version of the film, which earned a 2001 sequel.
There was also an animated Doctor Dolittle TV series which ran from 1970-1972.
Downey Jr will next be seen in Spider-Man: Homecoming this summer as well as Avengers: Infinity War next year.
He is also due to play Sherlock Holmes for a third time.
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They come to the Detroit Motor Show in droves, eager to get a peek at the latest offerings from the big three US car makers and the European manufacturers who are competing for market share in the lucrative car market.
But car firms here, while continuing to focus on horsepower, are beginning to turn their attention to processing power.
That's because most analysts agree that if car makers want to appeal to a younger generation, who are driving approximately 23% less than they used to, they'll need to shrink cars into, well, iPhones.
"If you look at the buying decisions of the younger generation, they're a little worried about the navigation system that gets you from point A to point B, but mainly they're interested in texting and being able to communicate with their friends," says Gary Silberg, the national automotive sector leader at consultancy KPMG.
"Whoever gets that right, that's who will win in the marketplace."
Dieter Zetsche, the boss of Mercedes, put it more bluntly.
"The car of the future [is] a smartphone on wheels," he told the BBC.
While only about 10% of cars are connected to the internet today, that number is expected to balloon to 90% by 2020, according to the consulting group Machina Research.
The big question is who will be behind the software that connects cars - traditional car manufacturers like Mercedes and General Motors, or Silicon Valley giants like Apple and Google, who have turned their attention towards Detroit?
Both tech firms have come out with in-car entertainment operating systems in the last year.
"There is a huge battle between the tech giants and auto firms right now," says Bryan Reimer, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) AgeLab and the associate director of the New England University Transportation Center.
"The question is: are you going to go to the dealer five years from now and have the choice of an Apple interface, an Android interface or a [traditional] manufacturer's interface?"
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For now, most of the car firms, whose offerings are on display in Detroit, are playing it safe by keeping their options open - while keeping their ears to the ground about what's happening in Silicon Valley.
Take Ford, for example.
Mark Fields, the company's chief executive, told the BBC that the company was planning to open a Palo Alto office next week, to ensure that it remained close to Silicon Valley while considering its options.
"I think there are a lot of interested parties in what they call the fourth screen now - the screen within the vehicle," says Mr Fields.
"There are a lot of competitors that we recognised, a lot of competitors we didn't recognise, and there are probably a bunch of competitors that haven't been born yet that want a piece of the auto industry."
Ford's strategy has been to continue to develop its software in house, while making sure that it is compatible with the latest tech offerings from elsewhere.
It unveiled the latest version of its in-car entertainment software, Sync 3, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) last week, which featured upgrades like the ability to update the software wirelessly, as well as enabling it to interact with apps such as Spotify and AccuWeather.
Notably, the company also switched from using Microsoft software to Blackberry's QNX operating system.
Yet Don Butler, Ford's executive director of connected vehicle and services, said the company was still committed to remaining "device agnostic".
"Whether you've got a Blackberry, iPhone, or any of the various flavours of Android device, your phone will be compatible with the Sync system," says Mr Butler.
The crucial challenge for everyone will be to keep up with changing technology.
"We're willing to toss out a smartphone every year or so but vehicles need to last 10 years," says MIT's Mr Reimer.
"No-one is going to have their iPhone 6 in their hands 20 years from now."
This need to predict what consumers will want in five, 10 or 20 years is complicated by the fact the industry suffers from a data problem.
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While Apple might know every app you open on your iPhone, and Google may know exactly what you search for on its engine, car firms really don't have a good sense of what exactly people want to do and interact with while in their cars.
Do we really want to be able to update Facebook while on the go? Or would we settle for being able to sync our Pandora playlists while in traffic?
And then of course there is the possibility that all of this might be made semi-irrelevant by the introduction of driverless car technology, which would free up our hands altogether.
"We're just at the beginning of a remarkable era where the car is going to change dramatically," says Guggenheim Partners senior managing partner John Casesa.
"And all of us are at the moment just trying to figure out how long it will take us to get there." | Detroit in January is largely filled with just one group of people, petrolheads. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30786709"} | 1,128 | 19 | 0.264312 | 0.776538 | -1.602602 | 0.733333 | 70.533333 | 0.733333 |
Olly Martins has issued a statement in advance of the government spending review later this week.
Bedfordshire had a high concentration of potential extremists, he said.
"Neighbourhood police underpin counter-terrorism strategy because they can pick up local intelligence about radicalisation and plots," he said.
"If this local intelligence is not passed on, national agencies are not going to be able to deal with threats."
The Home Office declined to comment ahead of the spending review.
But, Chancellor George Osborne refused to rule out cuts to the number of frontline police officers in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, from the UK government's Counter-Terrorism Policing Network, has called on members of the public to provide "information needed to defeat terrorism", Mr Martins said.
Mr Basu described information-gathering at street level as a "lifeline".
"The level of the threat is complex and ranges from lone attackers intent on carrying out crude, simplistic and violent attacks to sophisticated networks," he said.
"There is now an increased desire among these terrorists to spread terror by attacking civilians at their most unguarded moments."
Mr Martins said Bedfordshire had one of the lowest ratio of police officers to population in England and was regarded as a rural force, but its crime statistics reflected a largely urban character.
Further cuts would make intelligence-gathering at neighbourhood level on the scale needed "inadequate".
An online petition he has raised on the government website has already attracted 10,000 signatures, which will secure a written answer from the government.
However, 100,000 signatures are needed to trigger a parliamentary debate, his main objective.
During his interview with Andrew Marr, Mr Osborne said the counter-terrorism budget was being increased and more money would be spent on defence. | Further cuts to community police in Bedfordshire could hamper the flow of intelligence to security agencies, the police and crime commissioner claims. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34902925"} | 413 | 26 | 0.5158 | 1.314502 | 0.70219 | 0.833333 | 15.041667 | 0.75 |
Lord Advocate Frank Mulholland said the test was simple: "If it would be illegal to say it on the street, it is illegal to say it online."
The Crown Office said it would not pursue satirical or mildly offensive humour or provocative statements.
But it promised a "robust" response to hate crime, stalking or credible threats of violence
The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has previously sought clarity on where the legal boundary lies in such matters.
The guidelines state that communications should be considered for prosecution if they:
The Lord Advocate said the aim was not to deny freedom of speech, but the law would target internet trolls posting sectarian, homophobic or violent messages or pictures.
In an interview with the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, the Lord Advocate was asked how "grossly offensive" could be defined when it could be seen as relative.
He replied: "The guidance sets out that it would not include, for example, humour, satirical comment, which is part of the democratic debate, so there's guidance to prosecutors as to what's not included.
"It doesn't include offensive comment because we recognise that, in a democratic society, with use of social media you can have offensive comment which wouldn't be criminal but it's really the category above the high bar grossly offensive which has a significant effect on the recipient of the comment.
"We've all seen on the media reports of what you described, internet trolls, where this kind of comment, grossly offensive comment, is sent out to directly wound and has quite a significant effect."
He added: "There's very detailed guidance of all the factors that prosecutors will take into account when they assess whether or not to raise criminal proceedings in relation to grossly offensive comments posted on social media." | Prosecutors have set out new guidelines on whether messages posted on social media should be treated as a crime. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30309411"} | 397 | 26 | 0.498143 | 1.202655 | 0.231336 | 1.55 | 17.8 | 0.85 |
So pledges being made this week on fares by the 2016 mayoral contenders are worth examining closely.
Mind you, how far such retail offers affect voting intentions is a difficult one.
In 2012 Ken Livingstone pledged to cut fares and opinion polling suggested it was popular. But it wasn't enough to return him to City Hall.
Yet Boris Johnson was definitely worried by the Livingstone pledge and knew he had to pull out the stops to counter it.
It clearly affected his thinking.
In 2008 Johnson had promised to deliver consistent annual fare rises of two per cent above inflation to allow TfL's business plan to be fulfilled and maintain levels of investment.
He explicitly ruled out stop-go fare decisions.
But two years into his second term - and with a general election looming - he and the Conservatives too succumbed.
For three years now, fare increases have been pegged to the rate of inflation only.
Now Labour's Sadiq Khan is promising a four-year freeze in cash terms - in other words, not even allowing them to go up in line with inflation.
He claims this will cost £450 million a year, which he says will be compensated for by efficiencies and better property deals.
Caroline Pidgeon - if Liberal Democrat mayor - would introduce half-price fares before 7.30am at a cost, she estimates, of £30m a year.
The Greens' Sian Berry promises a flat fare and the abolition of zones which, taken together with other measures, would cost about £260m a year.
With all the pledges, the big unknown is how much extra income might be generated from a resultant increase in ridership.
The Conservative Zac Goldsmith has said that it is rash to promise fare freezes, not least when the Chancellor is turning off the grant tap - cutting £2.8bn over the next four years.
This will all revive the debate about whether over these last few years Londoners have been paying fairly today for improvements tomorrow.
And whether the burden has been shared reasonably - with taxpayers across the country - of modernizing the transport system of the "engine-room" of the UK economy.
But in the end, fares will be just one - albeit important - area which voters chuck into the mix when they consider the candidates' overall credibility and credentials to be mayor. | With its £11bn budget accounting for about two thirds of City Hall spending, transport is the mayor's biggest financial responsibility. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35247783"} | 526 | 29 | 0.426868 | 1.083643 | 0.020337 | 0.708333 | 19.041667 | 0.625 |
It was a good night for the Conservatives across the South East - as it was across the country (apart from in Scotland).
In Kent, the Conservatives' strategy to decapitate the UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, worked and he failed to win South Thanet, losing out to the Tory's Craig Mackinlay.
The party also claimed another UKIP scalp in Rochester and Strood. Where candidate Kelly Tolhurst, who lost to Mark Reckless in last November's by-election, won convincingly.
The Tories also did well in some of the Sussex marginals. Labour threw a huge effort at winning Hastings and Rye but Amber Rudd held on and more than doubled her majority.
In nearby Brighton Kemptown, Simon Kirby was defending one of the slimmest majority's in the South East but he also retained his seat.
The Tories made most of their gains across the country at the expense of the Liberal Democrats. And in the South East it was no different.
The former Home Office minister and Lib Dem MP Norman Baker lost his seat in Lewes to the Conservative, Maria Caulfield.
And his fellow Lib Dem, Stephen Lloyd, also lost his Eastbourne seat to the Tories.
In fact it was a catastrophic night for the Lib Dems.
They were very confident of holding on to their two Sussex seats and also thought they would make a gain in Maidstone.
So much so that Nick Clegg spent quite a bit of time canvassing here. In the end, as elsewhere, they've been wiped off the map.
For Labour, the glimmer of good news in the South East was that their candidate, Peter Kyle, successfully took Hove. But otherwise it was a truly dreadful night for them.
They disappeared off the map in the South East at the last election and five years on there is no sign of a resurgence.
Ed Miliband appeared to have given up on Kent but Labour did pour resources into the marginals in Sussex.
In fact, the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, was one of the big-hitters who made several campaign trips to Brighton and to Hastings.
Having been one of the biggest casualties of the night - having lost his own seat in Morley and Outwood by just over 400 votes - he may now regret trying to woo voters in Sussex.
It was a good night for Caroline Lucas, who increased her majority in Brighton Pavilion, but she remains her party's only MP.
There is already talk of her taking over again from Natalie Bennett as leader - she said it would be up to the party to decide. Watch this space.
And as I touched on earlier, it wasn't a good night for UKIP. The party's leader.
Nigel Farage, failed at his seventh attempt to become an MP. He finished second to the Tories, with Labour in third place. However, shortly after the result he said he "had never felt happier" and the "weight had been lifted" from his shoulders.
In almost record time, following his defeat, he announced he would resign as leader. He said he would take the summer off. But, crucially, he didn't rule out standing again - the message seemed to be he wants a rest but he may be back.
It was also not a good night for UKIP in terms of seats - they come out of this election with fewer than they went in with and now have only one - Clacton, in Essex. But in terms of their share of the vote the party has done pretty well, with its share of the overall vote increasing.
UKIP supporters will feel very sore that despite winning almost 4m votes, and being the third party in terms of share, they retained only one MP, compared with the SNP, which has 56 MPs for a very much smaller share of the vote - about 1.4m.
So, I think today's result will increase calls for electoral reform and also calls for UKIP to be represented in the House of Lords.
Nigel Farage may not be an MP but with UKIP now the third party in terms of share, I wouldn't bet against him becoming Lord Farage in future.
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David Crompton was suspended following the Hillsborough inquests in April 2016 with Dr Alan Billings citing an erosion of public trust in the force.
Dr Billings said he would be "seeking permission to appeal against the outcome".
The Hillsborough victims' families also reacted angrily to the ruling.
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But, Mr Crompton said the court's decision "speaks for itself".
"I welcome today's decision by the court to overturn the Police and Crime Commissioner's decisions first to suspend me, and then to require me to resign," he said.
"The court's judgment concludes Dr Billings acted unlawfully from start to finish, branding his course of decision making 'irrational', 'perverse', 'unreasonable', 'misconceived' and 'wholly disproportionate'."
He added the judgment repeated "almost all of the arguments made originally by Sir Thomas Winsor (Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary) nearly a year ago in his advice under the statutory process to the Police and Crime Commissioner".
The pair had clashed in the wake of the April 2016 inquest findings into the deaths of 96 people in the Hillsborough stadium disaster in 1989.
Reacting angrily to the ruling Margaret Aspinall of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, whose son James died in the disaster, defended Dr Billings saying he had "made the correct decision" in calling for Mr Crompton to resign.
"Nothing at all surprises me what goes on, what annoys me is that this senior officer can win this case, yet we, the [Hillsborough families], went for judicial reviews and lost them," she said in a statement.
In a statement the day after the Hillsborough inquests concluded, Mr Crompton alluded to "other contributory factors" to blame for the deaths of 96 football fans.
However, the judgement said: "It would be impossible for any fair-minded observer to conclude that the Chief Constable was challenging the conclusion of the jury that Liverpool football supporters had been blameless.
"The only contributory factors identified by the jury had been the conduct of parties unconnected to Liverpool supporters."
Sitting in London, Lady Justice Sharp and Mr Justice Garnham ruled in Mr Crompton's favour.
Dr Billings said the decision had "potentially serious implications for the governance arrangements for the police service generally and not just in South Yorkshire".
He added he would consult with the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCC) before proceeding as he recognised the process had been expensive.
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Bairstow, who was dropped on 71, struck seven sixes and 16 fours in a stand of 189 in 25 overs with Joe Root (55).
His was the third century of the day as Stephen Cook (106) and Michael Richardson (100no) saw Durham to 335-5.
Bairstow and Root both fell to James Weighell (3-60), but Yorkshire reached 339-4 with 14 balls to spare.
The White Rose county, who last lifted a limited-overs trophy in 2002, have won all three games so far, while Durham have one victory from three.
Keaton Jennings set the visitors on their way with 72 before a brilliant boundary catch by Peter Handscomb brought his innings to an end.
South Africa Test opener Cook's 108-ball century was his first for Durham, while Richardson reached three figures from only 87 balls with two runs off the final delivery of their innings.
However, they were overshadowed by Bairstow, who revelled in his new role at the top of the order and raced to his hundred from 70 balls.
He was particularly punishing on the leg-side and had the chance to become only the third batsman after Surrey's Alistair Brown and Ravi Bopara of Essex to make a double century in a List A game between two first-class counties.
The 27-year-old was caught behind from the final ball of the 34th over, leaving Yorkshire to score 87 from the final 16.
England Test captain Root played on during an unproductive period when they failed to find the boundary between the end of the 33rd and middle of the 39th overs.
Skipper Gary Ballance, though, hit three successive boundaries off Paul Coughlin in the 41st over in his 29 before trod on his stumps, leaving Handscomb (47 not out) and Tim Bresnan to finish the job. | England's Jonny Bairstow hammered 174 off 113 balls as Yorkshire beat Durham at Headingley to maintain their 100% start to the One-Day Cup. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39792885"} | 416 | 41 | 0.45857 | 1.11779 | 0.251718 | 0.607143 | 12.821429 | 0.607143 |
The move is part of the final report from the Scottish government's enterprise and skills review containing a range of measures to help business.
Economy Secretary Keith Brown said it showed how to "transform the performance" of the economy.
He said it recognised the need for dedicated support to southern Scotland as already offered in the Highlands.
Mr Brown launched the report while meeting Dumfries and Galloway business Kite Power Systems.
The company has secured £7m of equity funding for its innovative approach to harnessing wind energy.
He said the report contained measures to "enable more businesses to deliver strong, vibrant and inclusive growth at scale".
In addition to the new enterprise agency the final report also includes:
"We have recognised the importance of providing dedicated support to the south of Scotland in the same way we currently do for the Highlands and Islands," said Mr Brown.
"A new agency will be established to meet the distinctive economic needs of communities in the south of Scotland.
"The fundamentals of Scotland's economy are strong and - as this report confirms - we are doing all that we can to build upon these further."
However, south of Scotland Labour MSP Colin Smyth criticised the three-year timescale for getting the new organisation fully set up.
"A proposal was put to the government that would have seen a new agency up and running within months using the local councils under current laws," he said.
"Clearly the government's obsession with centralisations means they want to control everything including this new agency.
"The document they have published simply cuts and pastes the one the two councils produced in relation to the boundaries of the new body and what its aims should be.
"But the Scottish government hasn't proposed anything itself other than dither and delay."
Dumfriesshire Conservative MSP Oliver Mundell MSP said the announcement had his "wholehearted support".
"This is a Conservative manifesto commitment that is set to be delivered," he said.
"There is no doubt that the extra Conservative representation following the 2016 Scottish Parliament election reinforced the need for the Scottish government to take the economic priorities of the south of Scotland more seriously."
Susan Love of the Federation of Small Businesses said the Scottish government deserved credit for pursuing reform.
"While the review process was difficult and sometimes fraught- it looks to us like there's much to be applauded," she said.
"These good ideas now need careful and swift implementation."
Scottish Borders Council's Mark Rowley said it was "delighted" the needs of the area had been recognised.
"The south of Scotland faces particular challenges such as an ageing population, traditionally lower wages and digital connectivity issues," he said.
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Four crossings will be changed from half barriers to full ones and extra track will be laid.
Work is being done at crossings in Balderton, Rossett, Saltney and Pulford which will see some road closures.
Public meetings will be held, starting on Wednesday, to discuss the work with people in the area.
James Jackson of Network Rail Wales said: "We are carrying out work which will allow for more frequent and faster journeys for the increasing numbers of passengers travelling between north and south Wales.
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Danish worker Per Terp died and Frank Kroeger had to be resuscitated twice after the incident at Harwich in 2010.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard a missing bolt caused the accident but the HSE said it would have been avoided had "the right questions been asked".
Denmark-based Siemens Windpower A/S and London firm Fluor Ltd were both fined.
Mr Terp, 42, was crushed on 21 May 2010 at Harwich International Port.
His colleague Mr Kroeger was airlifted to Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge with serious, life-changing injuries.
A heavy blade root was being lifted in an H-type lifting frame by the jack-up vessel Sea Jack, but the frame gave way and dropped the load, the court heard.
Siemens pleaded guilty to two charges under the Health and Safety Act and Fluor was found guilty of one offence.
Judge David Turner QC said there needed to be "greater clarity" between the companies.
Speaking after the hearing, Health and Safety Executive inspector Julie Rayner said: "This incident could easily have been avoided had suitable systems and procedures been in place to ensure that all loads were properly connected whilst being lifted.
"Had the right questions been asked when the lift was being planned and had the bolt and two brackets holding the blade and frame together been checked before they were lifted, the death and serious injury of two workers could have been prevented."
Siemens Windpower was fined £375,000 and told to pay costs of £105,355, while Fluor was fined £275,000 with costs of £271,048. | Two companies have been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds over an accident with a wind turbine blade that left one man dead and seriously injured another. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34424017"} | 345 | 31 | 0.469665 | 1.233171 | 0.230915 | 0.642857 | 10.821429 | 0.571429 |
The 50-year-old and three colleagues fish from two small, open-deck boats based in the seaside town of Lambert's Bay, on South Africa's windswept west coast.
Fishing using lines rather than nets, they typically catch just 20 fish a day per vessel, with the main species being snoek (a type of mackerel), and sea bream.
It's a tough life, and like anyone in his trade, Mr Shoshola has two main concerns - finding the fish in the first place, and then being able to sell his catch.
A new app called Abalobi is helping him to do both more easily.
The app, which is being piloted by the University of Cape Town, utilises GPS so Mr Shoshola can record for future reference exactly where he had a good haul. And he can now sell the fish via Abalobi before he has returned to shore, easily finding out the best possible price.
"It has removed a lot of the worry," he says. "I have a wife and three kids to support, and it gives me much more security."
With the help of a growing number of apps and digital services such as Abalobi, it has never been easier to pinpoint the exact spot where the prized fish await, and then sell them after you have caught them.
But with ever increasing concerns about depleting global fish stocks - the United Nations claims that 90% of the world's stocks are either full-fished or over-fished - is that a good thing?
Many of the digital fish trackers, including Abalobi, claim to have conservation at their heart, but not everybody is convinced.
"The problem is that in practice all that happens is unscrupulous people use apps to target the fish and wipe them out even quicker," says UK fishing expert Matt Hayes, who runs an Atlantic salmon fishery in Norway.
He is also worried that small-scale fishermen could ultimately become unemployed.
"You don't want to deprive someone of a living, but you don't want to bestow upon them the tech that means they will fish themselves out of existence.
"I wrestle with it a lot. It concerns me."
However, Dr Clive Trueman, associate professor of marine ecology at the UK's National Oceanography Centre, is more positive about apps like Abalobi.
"It's nothing that commercial fishermen haven't been doing by word of mouth for centuries," he says.
"Some of these apps may also end up being very effective for scientists and managers to work out where the fish are, and where they are going.
"We can use them to catch more fish, but also to direct conservation."
Serge Raemaekers, a fisheries researcher at Abalobi, says that conservation is at the very centre of their scheme.
Using Google's cloud platform technology, data collected by the fishermen is to be shared with students at the University of Cape Town who are monitoring the sustainability of South Africa's fish stocks.
The fishermen can also use the technology to monitor stocks, and stay away from any areas where they themselves think the fish population should be left to recover.
Technology is also being used on a worldwide scale to protect fish stocks.
In September last year, Google joined with ocean conservation group Oceana to launch Global Fishing Watch (GFW), a free platform that tracks the location of the world's commercial fishing boats.
It does this by utilising the fact that more than 200,000 sea vessels constantly transmit their position, speed and direction via the global automatic identification system (AIS).
GFW, which also uses Google's cloud computing services, already has more than 25,000 registered users, and more using the website without logging in.
"Anyone who is interested in a vessel, and wants to know where it is today, can go to a variety of sources that provide real-time data, and see where it is at that moment," says Jackie Savitz, senior vice president at Oceana.
"Authorities find out suspicious activity and then track vessels down."
Suspicious activity includes ships that switch off AIS or don't use it at all.
"It's possible the bad guys turn off AIS," says Ms Savitz. "But we can see when they turn it off, and we see it when it comes back on."
GFW has already notched up some success stories - using its data, a vessel was caught fishing in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area in the Central Pacific and forced to pay a $2m (£1.6m) fine to the Republic of Kiribati, one of the poorest countries in the world.
In Italy, the University of Bari has partnered with US technology group IBM since 2012 to pilot a similar cloud-based fishing app to Abalobi.
The organisations say it has resulted in more targeted fishing, with the fishermen only catching as many fish as the market demands.
Back at Abalobi - which means "traditional fisher" in the isiXhosa language - the project has secured grants from the South African government. It has also been helped by mobile phone network Vodacom allowing the app to be used data-free.
More than 100 South African fishermen are now signed up, and Mr Raemaekers says Abalobi is receiving interest from groups in the Seychelles and the UK.
Mr Shoshola adds that using the service is helping him and his three friends expand the business, because for the first time they have recorded data that they can take to the bank and use as evidence to help them hook some loans to grow their fishing operation.
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For the first time, all of the local authority's seats will be contested. Previously only a third of seats would be up for grabs at each election.
Polling stations opened their doors at 07:00 BST and will close at 22:00.
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Gunmen opened fire on their car as they travelled towards a health clinic, the eyewitnesses said.
Two of their bodyguards were also killed in the attack, while another Syrian and Somali doctor were seriously wounded, they said.
Many militias and criminal gangs operate in Somalia.
In recent years, the country has also been hit by an insurgency waged by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group.
However, it did not carry out the attack, an unnamed senior official of the group told the AFP news agency.
The Syrian doctors were believed to be in Somalia as aid workers.
The BBC's Mohamed Moalimu reports from Mogadishu that the ambush took place in Siinka Dheer, a government-controlled district about 20km (13 miles) south of the capital.
The gunmen escaped after firing indiscriminately at the vehicle, eyewitnesses told him.
The two wounded doctors are receiving emergency treatment at Mogadishu's Medina Hospital, our reporter adds.
The bodies of the six people killed in the attack have also been brought to the hospital, he says.
In August, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) announced that it was closing all its programmes in Somalia because of "extreme attacks on its staff".
Armed groups and civilian leaders increasingly "support, tolerate or condone the killing, assaulting, and abducting of humanitarian aid workers", it said at the time.
MSF had worked for 22 years in the war-torn country.
Over the last two years, al-Shabab militants have been driven out of Somalia's major towns and cities by pro-government forces and a UN-mandated African Union force of some 18,000 soldiers.
But the group still controls many towns and rural areas of southern Somalia.
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Goals from Lukas Schubert, Ronan Curtis, Aaron McEneff and Rory Holden clinched the victory to keep the Candystripes in fifth place.
Schubert headed in the first in the 32nd minute and Curtis drilled in the second on 62 minutes.
McEneff made it three with a penalty before Rory Holden came on as a sub to score his first goal for City.
Derry are now one point behind Shamrock Rovers and two behind third-placed Bray Wanderers.
Sunday's game came just three days after Derry's 10-2 aggregate defeat by Danish side FC Midtjylland in the Europa League.
Despite that experience, Derry are determined to get back into European football next year and this win over a ragged Rovers keeps them right in the mix.
Derry were on top for most of the match against Sligo who have not won on the road in the league this year.
Although boosted by a home win over Shamrock Rovers, Gerard Lyttle's men failed to make an impression at Buncrana.
Schubert, whose only goal of the season had been on the first day of the season, nodded in the opening goal after the ball spun up in his favour.
Sligo keeper Micheal Schlingermann made a string of fine saves to keep Sligo in the match but there was nothing he could do when the ball fell for Curtis who chested down to drill in his sixth goal of the season.
McEneff netted a 74th-minute penalty after Ben Doherty was fouled by defender Kyle Callan-McFadden.
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They said Pakistan-born Khuram Butt, 27, of Barking, London, had been known to police and MI5 but there had not been any intelligence about an attack.
The other attacker was Rachid Redouane, 30, from Barking, who police said had claimed to be Moroccan-Libyan.
The attackers were shot dead by police. All 12 people arrested after the attack have now been released without charge.
The seven women and five men were arrested in Barking on Sunday following the attack in which seven people were killed and 48 injured.
The attackers drove a hired van into pedestrians on London Bridge before stabbing people in the area around Borough Market.
A vigil was held at Potters Field Park near London Bridge on Monday evening to remember the victims.
NHS England said 36 people remained in hospital, with 18 in a critical condition.
Redouane, who was a chef, also used the name Rachid Elkhdar. He had not been known to police.
Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said: "Inquiries are ongoing to confirm the identity of their accomplice."
He said the investigation into Butt had begun two years ago but "there was no intelligence to suggest that this attack was being planned and the investigation had been prioritised accordingly".
He added: "Work is ongoing to understand more about them, their connections and whether they were assisted or supported by anyone else."
Butt featured in a Channel 4 documentary last year about Islamist extremists with links to the jailed preacher Anjem Choudary.
The attacker, who had older siblings and was married with at least one child, could be seen in the programme arguing with police officers in the street.
An online CV seen by the BBC shows that Butt had achieved an NVQ Level 2 in business administration.
He went on to work in an administrative role for a company called Auriga Holdings, based in East Ham, which manages Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets.
He had also worked for London Underground for just under six months as a trainee customer services assistant, before leaving in October last year, Transport for London said.
And Butt was the sole director of a now-dissolved company called Kool Kosmetics.
The vigil began as a sombre and quiet gathering under the trees in Potters Field Park, where people stood in quiet contemplation looking out over the Thames.
So many spoke of their desire to stand together with others and show love.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan's speech roused the quiet crowd of thousands into hearty applause when he spoke of his disgust and defiance over the horror of Saturday's events.
After a minute's silence, many went forward to lay flowers beneath the flagpoles of City Hall.
It was a dignified show of solidarity and strength in the face of fear and hate.
Read more here.
BBC home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani said two people in Barking had raised concerns about Butt.
One man called the anti-terrorism hotline in 2015, while a woman went to the local police station because she was scared Butt was trying to radicalise her children.
Security officials made him a lower priority than other targets because of a lack of information that he was involved in attack-planning, our correspondent said.
Sources in Dublin said Redouane was understood to have been carrying an identification card issued in the Republic of Ireland when he was shot dead, the Press Association reported.
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said he was not a member of a "small group" being monitored by Irish police in respect of radicalisation.
Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, 30, was the first victim to be named. Her family said she had died in her fiancé's arms after being struck by the attackers' speeding van.
The sister of 32-year-old James McMullan, from Hackney, east London, said he was believed to be among those who died, after his bank card was found on a body at the scene.
A French national was also killed in the attack, according to foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
Among other developments:
It is the third terror attack in the UK in three months, following the car and knife attack on Westminster Bridge in March, in which five people were killed, and the Manchester bombing on 22 May, in which 22 people were killed. | Two of the three men who carried out Saturday night's terror attack in London have been named by police. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40165646"} | 947 | 23 | 0.352964 | 0.89619 | -0.340715 | 1.571429 | 40.047619 | 0.904762 |
Osprey Lydiate is back training after suffering a neck injury while Liam Williams (foot) played 60 minutes for Scarlets last weekend.
"Everything's good with Liam and Dan Lydiate has joined back in," said Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde.
Williams played the first hour of the Scarlets' defeat in Connacht on Sunday.
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It was his first appearance since limping off during Wales 15-6 defeat by Australia on 10 October.
Lydiate was forced off during the Ospreys' New Year's Day win over Newport Gwent Dragons and has not played since.
"Things went as well as they could for Liam," added McBryde.
"He definitely won one collision (when Connacht wing Matt Healy was forced off through injury) and he was pretty secure under the high ball.
"Difficult circumstances for him, but he's come through unscathed so whether he's fit enough to start an 80 minutes - he's certainly fit enough to play some part."
Lydiate is not alone as a Wales back-rower short of match time.
Captain Sam Warburton has played just once for Cardiff Blues in the last two months, against Calvisano on 22 January, because of an ankle injury.
"I think we've got to look at each individual as to how much game time they need before they get back to full steam," added McBryde.
"Sam Warburton doesn't need a lot of match time and he's straight back up there.
"It's a discussion to be had with Dan (Lydiate).
"The one thing we are seeing in a positive light is that Dan is taking part in our training sessions which are quite intense, and he's come through those scenarios okay, though it's not the same as a game."
Warburton did not play for Cardiff Blues against Edinburgh despite saying he would like more game time after his comeback.
"Warren just held him back," said McBryde.
"It was hard to manage last week because we lost all the French and English-based players after the start of the week, which left us with 10 or 11 players for the Friday and Saturday session."
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The Sentencing Council for England and Wales says offending may be partly a product of discrimination and "negative experiences of authority".
It is the first guideline to stress discrimination as a youth crime factor.
Official statistics show that young people from minority backgrounds are over-represented in the justice system.
While national statistics show that ethnic minorities account for approximately 14% of the UK's population, the Youth Justice Board says a quarter of all young people arrested in the year to March 2016 were from these backgrounds - some 21,900 people.
The overall number of young offenders cautioned or convicted has been declining, but the rate of decrease has been slower for minority offenders.
In the new guideline - which applies to all offenders aged between 10 and 17 - the council says that any sentence must aim to prevent them from committing another crime, while also taking into account the child's welfare.
"While the seriousness of the offence will be the starting point, the approach to sentencing should be individualistic and focused on the child or young person," states the guideline, which comes into force in June.
It stresses that sentencing judges and magistrates should take into account underlying factors, including the over-representation of black and minority ethnic children in the justice system.
"The factors contributing to this are complex," it says.
"One factor is that a significant proportion of looked-after children and young people are from a black and minority ethnic background.
"A further factor may be the experience of such children and young people in terms of discrimination and negative experiences of authority.
"When having regard to the welfare of the child or young person to be sentenced, the particular factors which arise in the case of black and minority ethnic children and young people need to be taken into account."
The guidelines go on to tell judges and magistrates to take into account a youth's mental and educational development, emotional volatility and whether they were from a poor background or grew up around other offenders.
Evidence of abuse or neglect and peer pressure may have also played a role in criminality, they say.
Sentencing Council chairman Lord Justice Treacy - the judge who oversaw the trial of the racist killers of teenager Stephen Lawrence - said the guideline had prevention of reoffending at its heart.
"No-one wants children who commit offences going on to become adult criminals," he said.
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A 2-1 defeat at fellow-strugglers Hull has left the Swans once more looking over their shoulders, just three points above the drop zone.
Two goals from Tigers substitute Oumar Niasse were enough to decide the contest, despite a late goal from the visitors' defender Alfie Mawson.
"We're nowhere near safe and we've got a lot of work to do," said Clement.
"Before we went into this game I did not think we were anywhere near safe.
"We are not in a dissimilar position to where we were when we started the game.
"There's still a lot of football to be played. We've 10 games to go, we've got to start playing well again and we've got to bounce back next time against Bournemouth."
Clement admitted his side were hit on Humberside by the loss of defender Angel Rangel and particularly the departure before the break of in-form striker Fernando Llorente.
"He's been a key player for us recently. He gives us a lot of different threats. So that was a loss for us," said Clement.
"But I don't think the injury is serious. He's got a dead-leg. Angel Rangel has an ankle injury.
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"The two injuries in the first-half have hurt us. Not necessarily because the players coming on are not good enough, they are good players.
"But what happens in the second-half is that you are limited in what you can do then. Then (Martin) Olsson got injured and we had to play with an injured player."
Clement was critical of his side's defending for the Hull goals and said his side needed to be more clinical at the other end.
"The way we defended was just not good enough on the day," the Swansea boss added. "We have to be disappointed with how they scored and how open we were.
"In recent games we have been much tighter than that.
"For long periods we looked like we had good control of the game, particularly in the first-half. The defensive shape was good, we created good chances on the counter-attack.
"We had a fantastic chance to score with a lovely ball from [Gylfi] Sigurdsson into [Wayne] Routledge - that was a key moment at 0-0.
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The psychoactive substances, including Spice, Killer Smeg and SpongeBob, are thought to have been bought in the Old Eldon Square area of Newcastle.
The drugs previously fell under the category of so-called "legal highs" before being banned in May.
Police said the six people suffered an adverse reaction but are not thought to be in a life-threatening condition.
Northumbria Police has urged anyone in possession of the drugs to hand them in to police to avoid anyone coming to further harm.
Ch Insp Barrie Joisce said: "So far we have not received any reports of a life-threatening reaction to these drugs but we are concerned that people could be putting themselves at risk.
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The 64-year-old said he had recently suffered "extended periods" of ill health and did not feel he could serve for a further five years.
Several well-known MPs, including Sir Eric Pickles and Alan Johnson, have said they are standing down ahead of the snap general election on 8 June.
Mr Allen said it had been "the hardest decision of my life".
The former warehouse worker won the Nottingham North seat in 1987 and successfully defended it in six further general elections.
Mr Allen has served as a senior whip and earlier this decade chaired a select committee on political and constitutional reform.
In a letter to constituents he wrote: "I have suffered extended periods of ill health this year with more expected.
"I would have enthusiastically completed the rest of the Parliament to 2020.
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Australia, all out for 60 in 18.3 overs. Stuart Broad, eight wickets for 15 runs. All of it done with 20 minutes to go until lunch on the first morning of an Ashes Test. There are no missing characters in this paragraph, although there are plenty in this Australia team.
This has been a series on fast-forward, yet even by the standards of a nonsensical summer this was a morning that felt like watching the trailer rather than an actual film.
The shortest first innings in Test history. Only two players making double figures. Extras the leading scorer for the first time in an Ashes contest.
England supporters were in real danger of forgetting their own names, never mind the identity of their team's missing fast bowler. Only three times in Test history has a team bowling first been batting before lunch on the first day.
How embarrassing was it for the old enemy? Lunches themselves have lasted longer. Hell, so have cups of coffee.
Australia would have been mortified had the top score by any of their players had been 60. Had any single batsman not lasted for 111 balls there would have been questions about the team's attitude and technique.
Instead they lost their first three wickets inside the first eight deliveries.
After 20 minutes their scorecard read 0 0 6 0. That's the international dialling code for Malaysia, so if the rest of your number is 10 1 2 13 1, you might find yourself receiving some unusual calls.
Pity the person with tickets who stopped en route to Trent Bridge to pick up a paper or grab a sandwich for later. The first over alone saw 10 runs scored and two wickets fall, which felt like the entire daft series summarised in six deliveries until you saw what happened next.
These Ashes are not simply racing past at unprecedented pace. They are accelerating. We are getting to the point when buying tickets for the third day is as much of a gamble as walking out to bat without pads.
Adam Voges - poor old hapless Adam Voges, a grand total of 74 runs in the entire series - could at least complain that he fell to an impossible catch; Ben Stokes's one-handed dive at fifth slip was every bit as extraordinary as Andrew Strauss's Superman effort to see off Adam Gilchrist on this same ground a decade ago.
Even then his shot was poor, but in a rogue's gallery like this, no witness could ever pick it out.
Chris Rogers went for the first duck of his Test career. He has now been out three times in the last five balls he has faced from Broad coming round the wicket.
Steve Smith was squared up, David Warner beaten through the gate. Those first three set a template that all would follow: playing too hard, playing too early, playing in a manner that spoke of disintegrating confidence and an inability to cope with the moving ball.
Michael Clarke? He fell to a shot that would have felt inexcusable had it been the morning of the second day and his team 300 up. It was not so much a captain remaining on the bridge as his ship went down as grabbing the last lifejacket and smothering himself with it.
As you watched England's six slips crouching, as you listened to the joyously sarcastic standing ovation when the innings limped past 50, it was almost impossible to recall that this was a team who had handed out a 405-run thrashing less than three weeks ago.
Beaten by eight wickets in Birmingham last week, humiliated in less time than it takes for a Twenty20 innings a few days later. If this was cycling, the international governing body would be ordering spot-checks for motors in cricket balls.
For England's supporters it was wondrous stuff, perhaps only the dismissal of Australia for 98 on the first morning of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG in 2010 coming close in recent Ashes memory.
For Broad, on his home track, as the new leader of his country's attack, it was both a classic whirlwind burst and something entirely beyond those previous tornados like at Durham in 2013 and at The Oval in 2009.
Australia would take 8-15 as a score when the two nations meet again in the Rugby World Cup this autumn. Here those figures have surely cost them the Ashes.
They are the best figures by a fast bowler in any Ashes Test, home or away, and the best figures for England since Devon Malcolm's 9-57 at the Oval 19 years ago. Not since Sydney Barnes 102 years ago has an England bowler taken five wickets before lunch on the first day of a Test.
Somewhere there will be Englishmen bemoaning the speed of this match, wishing even on a subconscious level that Australia were acting more like the ultimate Test opponents and less like a bunch of hapless innocents.
Even with England's reply in progress it is worth reminding those neurotics of the myriad humiliations handed out in reverse in the last 25 years.
Eighteen months ago, Australia were thrashing Alastair Cook's team 5-0, an experience so miserable that the memory still brings a dread lurch in the guts of those Englishmen who experienced it.
The first session, Trent Bridge, 2015. Remember it forever, or at least until The Oval brings something even wilder and weirder. | Jimmy who? | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33806964"} | 1,200 | 4 | 0.177918 | 0.482662 | -1.556425 | 0.666667 | 345 | 0.666667 |
Security forces fired warning shots and the driver, who is underage, was detained, a government statement said.
Mr Temer was not in the Alvorada Palace at the time.
Brazilian media have shown footage of a gate lying on the ground along with what appear to be a number of spent bullet cartridges.
Earlier, a Supreme Court judge sent a charge of corruption against President Temer to Congress - the next move in a process which could see him removed from office and face trial.
Mr Temer has been indicted for arranging to receive millions of dollars in bribes from a meat-processing company.
He has denied any wrongdoing.
The lower house of Congress is expected to vote in the coming weeks on whether to allow him to be tried.
Mr Temer, one-third of his cabinet, four past presidents, and dozens of politicians are either on trial, facing charges or under investigation in a giant three-year corruption inquiry linked to the state oil company.
Since taking office, he has led a market-friendly government which has tried to implement unpopular labour and pension reforms that, he says, are vital for Brazil's economic recovery.
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A joint statement says: "All groups formed abroad without having returned to the country do not represent us."
They also call for the opposition to unite under an "Islamic framework".
Islamist rebel forces have become increasing prominent in the conflict in Syria, and they are believed to command tens of thousands of fighters.
The signatories include members of the Free Syrian Army as well as more radical Islamists - among them the powerful al-Nusra Front, which has links to al-Qaeda.
It comes amid fighting on the ground between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), an offshoot of al-Qaeda, and more moderate rebel forces, especially in areas along Syria's northern and eastern borders.
In a video statement published online on Tuesday, 11 of the most powerful Islamist groups declared that they rejected the idea that opposition leadership could come from any organisation based outside Syria that was not working closely with those on the inside.
The Istanbul-based Western-backed National Coalition was formed in November 2012 and is recognised by more than 100 countries as a legitimate representative of the Syrian opposition.
"These forces believe that it they are most legitimately represented by those who have lived the same experience and shared in the same sacrifice of their honest sons."
"Therefore the National Coalition and its transitional government led by Ahmed Tomeh do not represent it and will not be recognised."
Mr Tomeh was appointed last month to form an administration to govern rebel-held areas of Syria and co-ordinate the provision basic services and supplies.
The statement also called on "all military and civilian forces to unite under a clear Islamic framework based on Sharia [Islamic law], which should be the sole source of legislation".
It urged members of the opposition to "reject division" and put "the interest of the Ummah [Islamic nation] over the interest of each group".
The BBC's Kevin Connolly in Beirut says the declaration reflects two growing trends.
One is the increasing influence of Islamist rebel movements within the coalition fighting President Bashar al-Assad; the other is the "Islamisation" of some of the other groups, including members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), our correspondent says.
The statement is an attempt to shift the political balance of power in favour of those doing the fighting on the ground and is also an indication that jihadist groups like the al-Nusra Front are very much centre stage in the conflict, an awkward reality for Western powers, he adds.
Charles Lister of IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre said the three moderate Islamist groups which signed the statement - Liwa al-Tawhid, Liwa al-Islam and Suqur al-Sham - had represented the National Coalition's main rebel presence on the ground in Syria.
"The inclusion of the core of [the National Coalition's] force... effectively depletes [its] armed wing, the Supreme Military Council," he told the Reuters news agency. "It is likely that the moderate Islamist coalition has ceased to exist as a single organisation structure."
In a separate development on Wednesday, United Nations inspectors returned to Syria to continue their investigation into the alleged use of chemical weapons during the conflict.
Last week, they confirmed that the nerve agent sarin was used in an attack on several suburbs of Damascus on 21 August, in which hundreds of people were killed.
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He told AMs he could not recommend the assembly consents to the next step of devolution without agreeing on funding.
Mr Jones's comments create the potential for another stand-off with UK ministers over Wales' budget.
Addressing AMs, Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said a similar deal had been reached with the Scottish Government.
The Wales Bill, currently going through Parliament, would give the Welsh Government some powers to vary income tax, without the need for a referendum.
For the tax powers to work, the rest of the Welsh Government budget will be adjusted by the Treasury under what is known as a fiscal framework.
A similar deal was agreed with Scotland in February, paving the way for more tax devolution there.
Although the Wales Bill is a matter for Parliament, AMs will be asked to give it their consent in a vote.
Mr Jones said he could not recommend that consent be given without an agreement on the fiscal framework to make sure Wales does not lose out.
"As the Bill currently stands, the Treasury can impose a financial settlement on the people of Wales without the agreement of this place and that is wrong in principle," he said.
"It does not apply in Scotland."
Mr Cairns said: "The Scottish Parliament naturally wouldn't pass a legislative consent motion until there was satisfaction over the fiscal framework, and I think that is a natural place.
"I've said clearly to the first minister that's the position I would expect the assembly to take."
Mr Cairns said AMs should "take confidence" from a UK government pledge to introduce a so-called funding floor, designed to protect the Welsh budget.
He added: "It is in that spirit that I want to continue this discussion that will be developed in parallel with the bill."
The Welsh Secretary was making his annual statement in the Senedd on the Queen's Speech - a tradition that will be scrapped by the bill.
Mr Jones criticised the failure to create a new separate legal jurisdiction for Wales and said the bill "cannot possibly be a lasting settlement as far as Wales is concerned".
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood criticised Labour MPs for failing to support a Welsh legal jurisdiction in a House of Commons vote on Tuesday.
She told Mr Jones "to tell his MPs to get a grip".
The bill would not offer stability "in anything more than the immediate short term", she added.
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In 2014 there were 128, compared with 165 the previous year and 207 in 2004.
Fewer women smoking and campaigns to teach new parents the safest sleeping position for their newborn - on their backs - are both factors, experts say.
The Office for National Statistics said the fall was driving the downward trend in overall unexplained infant deaths.
Figures gathered from the ONS include cot deaths (sudden infant death syndrome) as well as deaths of children younger than one for which the cause remained unknown even after a full investigation.
Together these accounted for 8% of all infant deaths occurring in England and Wales in 2014 - 1% lower than in 2013 - with just over half of the victims being boys.
Rosie Amery, from the ONS, said: "A number of factors may have contributed to the fall, including warmer than average temperatures throughout the year, fewer women smoking at the time of delivery and greater awareness of safer sleeping practices," she said.
The ONS began recording sudden infant deaths in 2004.
Overheating is a known risk factor for cot death and during cold winters the risk of the baby getting too hot under extra clothing and blankets is increased, according to experts.
There are measures people can take to lower the risk of sudden infant deaths and Francine Bates, from the Lullaby Trust charity, urged parents to follow the "safer" sleep advice - lying babies on their backs at bed and nap time.
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Up to three armed men took hostages in the town near the border with Belgium, reports said.
One of the hostage takers was killed during the police operation, according to local officials.
The incident was not related to the security situation in France following the 13 November attacks in Paris.
Local authorities said the hostages were now in a "secure place"; at least one suspect had been arrested, according to reports.
Local media said the incident took place at around 19:00 local time (18:00 GMT), and an area of the town was cordoned off.
It is not clear how many people were held hostage.
Gunshots were fired, according to local residents.
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In a first for a UK prime minister, Mr Cameron has released a summary of his tax returns from 2009-15 as he tries to defuse a row over his finances.
The two £100,000 payments were made a year after the PM inherited £300,000 from his father in 2010, papers show.
Ministers said he'd done nothing wrong but Labour said questions remained.
Meanwhile, Mr Cameron is to make a statement to MPs on Monday on government measures to tackle tax evasion.
In the past six years, Mr Cameron earned a total of almost £1.1m and paid about £400,000 in income tax, according to the three-page summary.
Last year, he paid almost £76,000 in tax on an income of more than £200,000. Those earnings included almost £47,000 from a share of rent paid on his family home in west London.
Downing Street is providing no details about the £72,000 the PM received for selling "other shares" beyond his investment in his Blairmore Holdings fund or the £40,000 he received in cash from his stockbroking account.
The payments by Mary Cameron to her son in May and July 2011 were given tax free, and will only become liable to inheritance tax of up to 40% if she dies within seven years of handing over the money.
Downing Street said the payments were an attempt to "balance" the sums received by all the Cameron children, as Mr Cameron's older brother had inherited the family home.
Mr Corbyn said Mr Cameron needed to publish his full tax returns dating back to before he became prime minister in 2010, when he sold off shares in his late father's offshore investment fund for a £19,000 profit.
"I want to see the papers," Mr Corbyn told the Andrew Marr show.
"We need to know what he's actually returned as a tax return. We need to know why he put this money overseas in the first place, and whether he made anything out of it or not before 2010 when he became prime minister. These are questions that he must answer."
Asked about the £200,000 gift Mr Cameron received from his mother, the Labour leader said there was "possibly" a case for looking at inheritance tax rules.
He said: "It does actually reduce the level of inheritance tax that is available for the Exchequer as a whole."
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the prime minister had "effectively inherited £500,000 from his mum and dad and not paid a penny on it," which, he said, showed there was "something wrong with the system".
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has, meanwhile, published her tax return for 2014/15, and committed to publishing it annually for as long as she is First Minister. It shows she earned £104,817, and paid more than £31,000 in tax.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale was the first Scottish party leader to publish her tax returns, on Saturday, and was swiftly followed Ms Sturgeon, the Conservatives's Ruth Davidson and Lib Dem Willie Rennie.
Inheritance tax is paid if a person's estate (their property, money and possessions) is worth more than £325,000 when they die. The rate is 40% on anything above the threshold.
Married couples and civil partners are allowed to pass their possessions and assets to each other tax-free.
The deceased's estate may not have to pay inheritance tax on assets the deceased gave away as gifts while they were alive. The original owner must live for seven years after giving the gift.
By BBC economics editor Kamal Ahmed
One person's tax planning is another person's tax avoidance - so whether David Cameron's tax affairs are controversial or not is really a matter of where you stand on the payment of tax.
Most tax accountants would advise a wealthy family on "gifts" - payments of money - to their children and how to ensure they are not liable for inheritance tax by making payments in tranches to avoid breaching tax thresholds.
Mr Cameron's family appear to have done this, and Downing Street says the payments were made by the prime minister's mother to "even out" the inheritance payments made to her children following her husband's death. Not to avoid tax.
Read Kamal's full analysis
Mr Corbyn, who has promised to publish his own tax returns "very soon", also suggested Britain needed to be "much more assertive" on the question of overseas arrangements in the UK's overseas territories and asked why Britain was "encouraging" tax havens.
And he said greater openness around tax affairs might be expected from all those in public life, not just MPs, in future, saying: "I think we're moving in that direction".
The SNP are, meanwhile, calling on Mr Cameron to publish a financial statement on all government ministers, including Chancellor George Osborne, revealing whether they have benefited from offshore tax havens.
A Treasury source said: "We have been clear that the chancellor has never had any offshore shareholdings or other interests.
"His income and interests are straightforward and declared publicly: his salary, rental income from a property in London and a shareholding in his father's firm, Osborne and Little.
"He is always happy to consider ways to offer even more transparency."
Energy and climate change secretary Amber Rudd defended the prime minister on the Andrew Marr show, saying Mr Cameron had "said all there is to be said" about his tax affairs, having taken the "unprecedented step" of publishing details.
She said Mr Cameron and his family had done nothing wrong and had paid the correct amount of tax due, adding that going after tax havens had been a "key priority" for the government since 2010.
Mr Cameron has also announced a new task force to investigate tax-dodging allegations arising from the leak of 11 million documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, known as the Panama Papers.
The prime minister was dragged into the controversy when it emerged his late father's investment fund, Blairmore, was a client of the firm.
Downing Street issued a series of statements over four days as pressure on Mr Cameron mounted before he finally admitted he had benefited from the fund.
On Saturday, he admitted he could have better handled the row over his financial affairs, telling people to "blame me" for the slow response, not Downing Street officials.
He said he was publishing the information on his income to be "completely open and transparent".
Mr Cameron's tax schedule from RNS Chartered Accountants also showed:
The prime minister's salary was steady at £142,500 from 2010 to 2015, but there were tax variations due to treatment of his pension contributions and the different approaches to his £20,000 tax-free allowance.
In terms of rent earned on the Notting Hill house, Mr Cameron's 50% share, minus expenses, was £45,041 in 2011-12, £46,700 in 2012-13, £47,764 in 2013-14 and £46,899 last year.
The new tax task force announced by Mr Cameron will have initial funding of £10m and involve staff from the Serious Fraud Office and Financial Conduct Authority as well as HMRC and the NCA.
The government said the agencies had leading technology, experts and resources to tackle money laundering and tax evasion.
Mr McDonnell said proposals for the task force to report to the chancellor and home secretary were "unacceptable".
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A former tennis player, who competed in Wimbledon in the 1960s, he is an advocate of healthy eating.
But when it comes to business it appears he has a rather different appetite, one that stretches to ready meals and processed foods.
His company 3G Capital - which already owned Heinz and Burger King - bought the US food giant Kraft last month, in partnership with billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
The products may have a tendency to stretch your waistline, but Lemann, who was born in Rio de Janeiro, is obsessed with lean companies.
In late 2008, barely months after acquiring Anheuser-Busch, makers of Budweiser beer, Lemann and his associates overhauled the company, shedding 1,400 jobs, some 6% of its workforce.
In one year, 3G Capital found $10bn in savings and divestments.
Executives lost all sorts of privileges: walls were torn down and personal offices were joined together in open plan spaces.
The number of company Blackberries issued to employees fell from 1,200 to 720.
Freebies like free baseball tickets, free beer or first-class tickets were cut. Private jets belonging to Anheuser-Busch were sold.
"They take cost-cutting very seriously," says Cristiane Correa, a journalist and author of Dream Big, a book on the rise of Lemann and his two fellow countrymen and partners Marcel Telles and Beto Sicupira.
"Some people get really scared by that. Afterwards, of course, the company grows and they end up hiring again, but at start it is ugly."
Cost-cutting is one of 3G Capital's obsessions.
But there are others too, such as meritocracy and investing in the right people.
Some of 3G Capital's top executives that today are in charge of leading global brands have been with Lemann since the early days of Garantia - the bank he founded in the 1970s.
Back then, the magnate had already coined the term PSD to describes his ideal employees: "Poor, Smart, with a Deep Desire to Get Rich."
Marcel Telles, one of 3G's three strongmen and with a net fortune estimated upwards of $13bn, started out his career as a sort of office boy in Garantia.
One trait that is conspicuously absent in 3G Capital's business model is innovation.
The company makes its fortunes by finding optimum ways of producing something simple - like a burger or ketchup - and repeating that formula on a larger scale, without requiring much creativity.
"This model is well-suited to the food industry, where you can make a lot of money if you are disciplined enough to avoid waste when producing," says Leni Hidalgo, a professor at Brazil's Insper business school, who worked in one of Lemann, Telles and Sicupira's businesses in the 1990s.
Last month's Heinz-Kraft merger turned Lemann into a food tycoon, now leading the third largest food and beverage conglomerate in the US.
In the 2000s:
Massive offshore oil discovered
20 million people lifted from poverty
Achieved investment grade rating in credit agencies
Won bids to host Olympics and World Cup
Now:
Austerity measures and spending cuts
Large scale Petrobras corruption scandal
0.1% GDP growth in 2014
Rising inflation (7.7% compared with a target of 4.5%) and unemployment (5.9% up from 4.8% in January 2014)
Currency close to its lowest point in 12 years - $1 is worth almost twice as much as five years ago
It has been almost a decade since the business world saw the rise of another ambitious Brazilian - mining tycoon Eike Batista.
For much of the past 10 years, Batista - a flashy maverick with an extravagant lifestyle - was the world's seventh richest billionaire, and seen by many as the international face of Brazil's then vibrant economic growth on the world stage.
Much of Batista's wealth was made during a cycle of high commodity prices.
But once that cycle came to an end, a mixture of economic downturn and bad decisions meant he lost much of his lustre and fortune.
In a way, Batista's story is a chronicle of Brazil's journey from hype to economic downturn, in which the fortunes of South America's largest country roughly followed the same timescale.
Now the subject of a series of criminal charges his fall from grace was absolute, while Lemann claimed the post of Brazil's richest person.
Many commentators see him as the "anti-Batista" - a prudent manager with a low profile and discreet lifestyle who is not given to grandiose statements.
But just as with Batista in the 2000s, Lemann now seems like an appropriate choice to be the "face" of Brazil's tougher economic reality in 2015.
His philosophy of cost-cutting and efficiency savings is currently in vogue in his home country - as the government turns to austerity measures in a bid to put the Brics nation back on a path of sustainable growth.
But Prof Hidalgo says 3G Capital is, in many ways, the opposite of the typical Brazilian industry.
Their firms have discipline, high productivity and low waste - qualities many companies in Brazil are still lacking today.
"Brazilian businesses have much to learn from them," says the professor.
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It was one-sided from the start with Paul Shiels, Neil McManus and Conor Johnston netting for the holders.
Fiarcha Bradley's goal saw Armagh trail 3-16 to 1-2 at the break before Johnston added two more Antrim goals in a 22-point victory.
Antrim's Paddy Burke and Orchard defender John Corvan were sent-off in the second half for two yellow cards.
This proved to be little more than a training session for Antrim ahead of next weekend's Christy Ring Cup encounter against Carlow.
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Antrim capitalised on a strong breeze on their backs in the first half and the outcome was settled by the interval.
Shiels hit the top corner and within a minute Ciaran Clarke set up McManus for an easy goal.
Armagh needed a bit of fortune and they got it when Connor Corvan's free struck the upright and Bradley reacted quickest to net.
The impressive Johnston burst clear and fired home Antrim's third goal to give them a 20-point advantage at the break.
Armagh did improve on the restart with the wind advantage and David Carvill rattled over six points in the second half.
Antrim's eased up with the game won but Johnston was hungry for more goals and the forward completed a hat-trick.
It was far from being a physical game but Burke and John Corvan were dismissed as the Saffrons were crowned provincial champions once again.
Derry claimed the Ulster Hurling Shield title by beating Tyrone 1-17 to 1-12, but they survived a major scare in the final at Pairc Eire Og in Carrickmore.
The Oak Leafers went into the decider as hot favourites to triumph and reclaim their place in the senior championship next season.
Ruairi Convery's dead ball striking was the difference in the end, a 12 points tally helping his side to a five-point win.
Convery and Tyrone's Damien Casey were the main marksmen in the first half, which ended with wind-assisted Derry ahead by 0-9 to 0-6.
Casey brought Tyrone level three minutes into the second half, but a Gerald Bradley goal settled Oak Leaf nerves.
Convery continued to hit the target as Derry went seven clear, but Tyrone hit back with a Justin Kelly goal to make it a three-point game going into the final five minutes.
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Ron Phillips, 70, was repeatedly punched as he took cocoa back to the cabin he shared with his wife June, 68, Teesside Crown Court was told.
The couple were on an all-inclusive cruise off Lanzarote when the alleged attack occurred in January 2014.
Graeme Finlay, 53, from Glasgow, denies unlawful wounding.
The court heard Mr Phillips, who has had a hip replacement, was knocked out during the incident and his wife was later found to have suffered fractured two vertebrae after being shoved against a wall.
Mr Finlay, of Meadowside Quay Walk, told police he hit Mr Phillips in self-defence, but he denied attacking his wife during the cruise on board the Thomson Celebration.
Mr Phillips claimed he was carrying their two mugs of cocoa back to their cabin when he was punched in the corridor. His wife had gone before him and was holding the door open.
He said: "I turned my head to the left and the next thing I knew, I was coming to on the floor with various people around me."
He needed six stitches to a head wound and was treated by the ship's medical staff.
The court heard the couple had been assisted by the crew to get on board the cruise ship as they both had "limited mobility".
Lewis Kerr, prosecuting, said Mrs Phillips had seen her husband being punched several times and that when she went to his aid, she was pushed against a wall leaving her unconscious.
Mr Kerr said after the attack, the crew found blood stains in Mr Finlay's cabin and he was "disembarked" from the cruise.
Mr Finlay, who also denies causing grievous bodily harm, was questioned by police in the UK and said there had been an argument that night, and accepted he hit Mr Phillips, but did not accept causing the injury to Mrs Phillips.
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The 29-year-old moved to the Scottish Premiership side from Preston last summer on a three-year deal and scored 10 goals in 37 Rangers appearances.
Garner had previously found the net 57 times in 148 matches for North End over the course of three seasons.
He helped the Lancashire club win promotion to the Championship via the League One play-offs in 2015.
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Robertson, 31, fought back from 5-1 down to add the title to his World Championship and Masters triumphs.
"To become the first overseas player to win all three is a fantastic feeling," the Australian told BBC Sport.
Selby, the 2012 UK Championship winner, missed the chance to overtake Robertson as world number one.
Robertson won the World Championship in 2010 and the Masters - the game's most prestigious invitational event - at Alexandra Palace last year, while his UK Championship victory is his ninth ranking title.
"Mark in the first session was too good for me today," he said.
"If I was another professional, Neil Robertson would be the benchmark for me right now. He is dedicated, he is such a good competitor and to turn it round from 6-3 down was great. I always felt he was hitting the ball better than Selby."
"Tonight I came out 6-3 down and I just had to play good snooker to get back in. When I beat John Higgins in the Wuxi Classic, I said the way I played was the best, but today was definitely the best I have played in a final.
"When I came over to England, [China's world number three] Ding Junhui and I turned professional at the same time, and to get the Triple Crown ahead of him is a fantastic achievement."
Robertson and Selby, 30, had faced each other in the Masters final at the beginning of the year when Selby came out on top 10-6.
And the defending UK champion, who had made snooker's 100th maximum 147 break in the semi-final against Ricky Walden, started the match in stunning fashion, stroking in a sublime 130 clearance en route to a four-frame advantage.
But Robertson, who withstood a comeback from Stuart Bingham in the last four to reach the final, hit back with breaks of 54 and a superb 123 to stay in touch at 5-3 after the first session.
He then won three of the first four frames in the final session, including superb back-to-back centuries of 122 and 132 to restore parity at 6-6.
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All the momentum was with the Melbourne man as he won his fifth frame in a row to make it 8-6, but Selby took the 15th with a run of 74, his highest break since the fifth frame.
Robertson was 48 ahead in the next, but Selby gnawed away at the deficit and needed only the final black to level the match when he missed a fairly routine top-cushion pot, an astonished Robertson tapping in to go one away from victory.
And he clinched the 17th with a knock of 57 to secure the £150,000 prize money and complete the Triple Crown.
Selby - who has now won only three ranking titles from his 10 final appearances - told BBC Sport: "I played sort of OK in the first session but tonight I was very poor.
"I didn't deserve to win. I had more than my fair share of chances [but] I didn't take them and Neil did.
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Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer of Woodstock, Ontario, appeared in court on Tuesday morning.
The victims were residents in two long-term care facilities where Ms Wettlaufer worked and were between 75 and 96 years old.
Police said seven of the victims were given a fatal dose of a drug.
The victims were five women and three men and were all residents of Caressant Care in Woodstock and Meadow Park in London, Ontario.
What we know about accused Canadian nurse
"The victims were administered a drug... there are obviously a number of drugs that are stored and are available in long-term care facilities," Woodstock Police Chief William Renton said at a news conference.
The chief declined to comment on a possible motive, but did add that investigators are confident that they have identified all victims.
Caressant spokesman Lee Griffi said the accused was a registered nurse and left their employment approximately two and a half years ago.
"We deeply regret the additional grief and stress this is imposing on the families involved," Mr Griffi said in a written statement.
Woodstock is a car industry and agricultural town of some 37,000 people, about 128km (79 miles) west of Toronto.
In the residential neighbourhood where the Caressant Care facility is located, few people were seen coming and going.
Media were staked outside the property, across from a local school.
In the hallway of the adjoining retirement residence, a television could be heard playing the news of Ms Wettlaufer's arrest.
An employee at the facility, who was not authorised to speak on the record, told a reporter that it was a shame the actions of one person could colour a whole profession.
Ms Wettlaufer was also an employee at Christian Horizons, the long-term care facility confirmed.
A spokesperson for the organisation, which was not named in the police investigation, said she stopped working for them in 2007.
"Christian Horizons fully intends to cooperate with the authorities in their investigation in this matter," said chief executive Janet Noel-Annable in a statement.
The daughter of one of the victims said she felt something was amiss when her father, Aprad Horwath, died at 75 in the Meadow Park facility.
"You don't want to believe any of this until you get to this stage when you're actually hearing it on the radio, and then you know that it's real, and even then it's hard to believe," Susan Horvath told AM980 radio in London, Ontario.
"I wanted to talk and just for my dad so that people know what happened to him instead of putting it down as, 'oh he had a stroke' or, 'oh, the old age'."
Ms Wettlaufer says on her Facebook profile that she studied religious education at London Baptist Bible College before she went to nursing school at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario.
She lists Lifeguard Homecare as her current employer. A representative from Lifeguard Homecare has yet to respond to the BBC's calls.
On the College of Nurses of Ontario website, Ms Wettlaufer's profile states that she became a registered nurse in August 1995 and then resigned on 30 September 2016.
The profile also lists Parker as her former surname, and has recently been updated to note that she is facing murder charges and is remanded in custody.
Ms Wettlaufer frequently posted pictures of herself on social media with her elderly parents, and described her passion for animals and the Harry Potter series.
"Father's day is a great reminder of how blessed I am to still have my Dad alive and able to spend time with me", she wrote beneath a picture of her father.
In another post, dated 28 September 2015, Ms Werrlaufer spoke about her difficulties overcoming alcoholism.
"My own voice called to me in the darkness. Others hands lifted me when I chose the light. One year ago today I woke up not dead. 365 days clean and sober," she wrote.
The deaths took place between 2007 and 2014.
Police have identified the victims as:
Police revealed few details about the motive or circumstances surrounding the deaths, but said that the investigation into all eight deaths started on 29 September after police in Woodstock received certain information.
The investigation was a joint effort between Woodstock Police Service, London Police Service and the Ontario Provincial Police.
Police said they do not know if there are other victims, but that the nurse worked in other facilities. They are urging the public to come forward if they have any information.
The criminal case is the largest in Ontario province since 2006, when five men were charged for murdering eight members of the Bandidos biker gang.
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The Private Housing (Tenancies) Bill creates a streamlined system aimed at protecting tenants from the threat of unfair eviction and big rent increases.
The Scottish Association of Landlords had claimed the bill could drive some renters out of the market.
After a lengthy debate in which a number of amendments were considered, MSPs voted for the bill by 84 to 14.
The provisions are aimed at creating a modernised system which is easier for tenants to understand.
During debate of the bill, Housing Minister Margaret Burgess announced that if the SNP are re-elected in May, fees will not be charged for tenants or landlords going to a tribunal.
Ms Burgess, who is stepping down at the Holyrood election in May, said the bill as it stands will allow tenants to feel "more secure in their homes".
She it was necessary to legislate to "rebalance" the relationship between landlords and tenants a fairer one, adding that there had been a "collaborative" approach to the bill.
Student accommodation is exempted from the bill, but Ms Burgess said in the private rented sector all tenants should be treated the same, including students.
Labour supported the government, with Ken Macintosh said the bill could have been done better and done sooner, but described it as "a good step forward".
The Scottish Conservatives did not support the legislation, with Alex Johnstone saying the government had come down on the side of the tenant and saying more should have been done for landlords.
He said: "We should have done more to create a proper balance between landlord and tenant."
The Lib Dems also backed the bill, while Green MSP Patrick Harvie said Holyrood should be more "bold" and "radical" to close the gap between the social rented sector and the private rented sector.
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The Wellcome Trust team says a specific speech test accurately predicts whose stutter will persist into their teens.
About one in 20 develops a stutter before age five - but just one in 100 stutter as a teen and identifying these children has so far been difficult.
Campaigners said it was key for children to be diagnosed early.
Stuttering tends to start at about three years old. Four out of five will recover without intervention, often within a couple of years.
But for one in five, their stutter will persist and early therapy can be of significant benefit.
The researchers, based at University College London, used a test developed in the US called SSI-3 (stuttering severity instrument).
In earlier work, they followed eight-year-olds with a stutter into their teens.
They found that the SSI-3 test was a reliable indicator of who would still have a stutter and who would recover - while other indicators such as family history, which have been used, were less so.
It showed the test was highly sensitive and specific in classifying those with a stutter who would recover, those whose stammer would persist and those who were "fluent" - had no communication difficulties.
A fluency result is important because it shows the test can be used on unaffected children, which it would have to be if it was to be used to screen for problems.
This latest paper, published in the Journal of Fluency Disorders, looked at another 272 children with a stutter and 25 without, aged five to 19.
It showed that the test could reliably be used across the age range.
The researchers also found so-called "whole word repetition" was not a reliable indicator of persistent stutter.
Core symptoms were found to be prolonging parts of words, partial repetition of words or "blocking" on the first part of a word.
Prof Peter Howell, who led the research, said: "If we can identify children at risk of stuttering, then we can offer appropriate interventions to help them early on.
"Primary school is a key time in a child's development and any help in tackling potential communication problems could make a big difference to the child's life."
He told the BBC: "We had already looked at children aged eight to teens. But we wanted to establish if we could extend those findings to younger children.
"What the paper is showing is that the prospect of being able to screen children looks like a real possibility, based on this data."
Norbert Lieckfeldt, chief executive of the British Stammering Association, said: "The crucial thing about this research is that it seems to be able to be accurately predict which children will have a persistent stammer.
"That would be a huge step forward."
Mr Lieckfeldt added: "At five, there is still a window of opportunity to help those with a stammer.
"If we intervene early enough, there is a really high success rate of normal, fluent speaking, whereas for six- to eight-year-olds, the recovery rate drops like a stone." | A screening test for children starting school that could accurately detect early signs of a persistent stutter is a step closer, experts say. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "20080203"} | 703 | 31 | 0.551561 | 1.378224 | 0.817623 | 1.04 | 24.24 | 0.72 |
Murray is the last British player left in singles' competition after defeats for Dan Evans and Tara Moore on Friday.
In the opening two rounds, Murray, the 2013 Wimbledon champion, has not lost a set and only dropped 15 games.
"If you can win matches easily it does help because you can rest. It has been a good start," he said.
Millman, 27, is ranked 67th in the world and nearly quit tennis after suffering a serious shoulder injury three years ago.
"I worked in the City for a little bit at one of my mate's companies - I was dressed up in a suit each day going in," said Millman, who admitted he had "never been inside Centre Court or Court One".
"I really have an appreciation of these moments right now, because there was a big time there where I wasn't too confident.
"You dream of playing on the biggest courts against the biggest players. I feel as if I deserve to be there and I'm going to give it everything."
That third-round match is scheduled to be second on Centre Court on Saturday and will be the first time Murray and Millman have met in a Grand Slam.
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Murray has only played Millman once, winning two sets to one in the second round of the Brisbane International on a hard court in January 2013.
"I didn't know him before we played in Brisbane," said the world number two. "He played extremely well that day. He was ranked about 200 at the time.
"I came off the court and I said to Dani Vallverdu, who I was working with, 'He's top 50 for sure if he keeps going'.
"He moves well and has a great attitude. But obviously it's a different surface, different place. The match-up will be a bit different on a grass court."
World number one Novak Djokovic has won 30 Grand Slam matches in a row, with his last loss coming against Stan Wawrinka in the final of the French Open in June 2015.
But he has a fight on his hands when he resumes on Court One on Saturday two sets to love behind against America's 28th seed Sam Querrey.
Querrey took the first set on a tie-break before cruising through the second 6-1 only for the rain to arrive, meaning they have to conclude their third-round match on Saturday.
"Querrey maintained his level and Djokovic looked as though he was uninterested," four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist Tim Henman told BBC Sport.
"He obviously isn't but since he is down two sets to love he will be happy to have a break and talk to his team.
"He has got to draw on last year's experience. He is certainly hoping that history repeats itself."
Last year, Djokovic trailed South African Kevin Anderson by the same margin in their last-16 tie when bad light stopped play and the Serb came back to win a day later.
Australia's Nick Kyrgios, who beat German Dustin Brown in a five-set thriller on Friday, is also in action on Court One on Saturday.
He takes on Spain's Feliciano Lopez with the winner playing the victor of the Murray-Millman match in the last 16.
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Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova is going to have a busy schedule if she is going to have more success at the tournament, as she is yet to finish her second-round singles match.
She returns on Saturday with work to do to stay in the competition after losing the first set 7-5 to Russia's Ekaterina Makarova.
Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, a Wimbledon runner-up two years ago, defeated British number one Johanna Konta on Thursday and is in action against 19th seed Dominika Cibulkova.
Wimbledon organisers have already announced that there will be play on the middle Sunday of the tournament for the first time since 2004.
The opening week's schedule has been disrupted by rain delays and there could be more frustration for tennis fans on outside courts on Saturday.
Steve Cleaton of BBC Weather said: "It will be bright, breezy and dry for lengthy periods, but there will be the risk of occasional showers through the course of the day.
"Any showers should move through fairly quickly, but they could be heavy."
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The former New York Giants star had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a statement released by NBC said.
Dozens of former professional US football players have suffered from the same degenerative disease, which can only be diagnosed after death.
His family decided to have his brain assessed by medics.
He suffered unspecified "cognitive and behavioural symptoms" as he grew older, according to their statement.
They "made the difficult decision to have his brain studied in hopes of contributing to the advancement of medical research concerning the link between football and traumatic brain injury".
Gifford, whose widow is NBC's Today host Kathie Lee Gifford, died at his Connecticut home aged 84 in August.
He played for the New York Giants from 1952-64, selected as the Most Valuable Player in 1956 and an eight-time selection to the Pro Bowl.
In 1977, he was inducted into the American Football Hall of Fame, and he helped the Giants win the NFL title in 1956.
After his playing career he moved into TV commentary, working for ABC's Monday Night Football from 1971 to 1997.
"Frank Gifford was the ultimate Giant. He was the face of our franchise for so many years," Giants President John Mara said after his death.
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You only find out if what you've ordered actually fits you once it's arrived - and if it doesn't, there's the hassle of packing it back up and returning it. It's a bigger problem than you may think.
"Almost one in four garments are being returned - 70% of those returns are because the customer's got the wrong size," says Heikki Haldre, chief executive and founder of London-based Fits.me.
Companies like his are using technology to reduce these high return rates.
Fits.me has developed a virtual fitting room that works in conjunction with a retailer's online store. Shoppers enter some basic measurements and a virtual mannequin adjusts to fit their dimensions.
The user can then dress the mannequin with different sizes, allowing them to see how different garments will fit before making their purchase.
More than 30 retailers have already signed up to the service, including Superdry, Hugo Boss and Thomas Pink.
Being more confident about getting clothes that fit also means shoppers buy more, says Mr Haldre.
"It removes the risk when buying online. And when this risk is taken away, the sales for the retailers increase. Fits.me virtual fitting room users buy almost two times more than non-users."
E-sizing technology has entered the world of high-end, bespoke menswear, too. Carlos Solorio, co-founder of American firm Arden Reed, wanted to change the way men were measured for clothes.
"Tailoring hasn't really changed in the last 200 years," he says. "And so we came up with The Tailor Truck."
His customised van is equipped with the latest 3D scanning technology and travels around the US. Using 14 Kinect sensors, the scanner takes more than 3.5 million body point measurements. These are sent to a production facility in Asia and the customer receives their tailor-made suit in four to six weeks.
"Customers get a custom suit with a price ranging from $500-1,500 (£300-900), which is lower than your typical custom suit," says Mr Solorio.
"We saw a problem in the market," he says. "Custom suiting was really limited towards wealthy individuals, and the experience wasn't the best.
"You'd have to do various fittings, you'd pay upwards of two or three thousand dollars for one suit, and the fit wasn't always there, even with an experienced tailor."
Computer scientists at London College of Fashion are developing software that allows shoppers to use their own, domestic equipment to try to find the perfect fit.
"Many people shopping online don't know their size for that particular brand," says Mouhannad Al-Sayegh, from the college's Fashion Digital Studio.
Using their own camera, whether a webcam or on a smartphone, the consumer takes an image of themselves and uploads it to the site. They tell the computer where their hands and feet are and provide some basic data like their height, weight, age and gender.
This information is sent to the server and the computer does the rest. It identifies the shopper's body shape, removes that from background, and then extracts the measurements.
"We realise people might have busy backgrounds, so we developed this technology so that it can be used anywhere. Even if you have a busy background, this algorithm will be able to pick that person out," Mr Al-Sayegh says.
Using garment data provided by the retailer, the software is able to make a size recommendation for the shopper. Mr Al-Sayegh hopes it won't be long before the technology is available on most online clothing stores.
"If we can provide technology that will help customers find their size at home, this will significantly reduce the returns rate."
And that's not just good for the consumer - it's good for the business.
On many occasions retailers cover the costs of ill-fitting items being returned. And when they are returned, they're often resold only at a heavily discounted price. This means retailers lose out.
"The problem is about €12bn (£10bn) - this is the value of garments either being returned or lost sales," says Heikke Haldre of Fits.me.
And then there are the environmental impacts. Mr Haldre says that for every 100 sales, there are 162 shipments due to returns and exchanges.
"One thing for me is clear," he says. "The virtual fitting rooms, whether it's Fits.me or whether it's someone else, these will be the standard solution for online shopping."
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At the end of the day, the FTSE 100 was up 43.27 points at 5,966.80.
The benchmark share index fell below 6,000 on Tuesday for the first time since February on worries over rising support for the UK leaving the EU.
The pound also steadied on Wednesday. Sterling rose 0.52% against the dollar to $1.4189 and climbed 0.22% against the euro to €1.2625.
All eyes will be on the US Federal Reserve later as it announces the outcome of its latest policy meeting.
The US central bank is not expected to announce a rise in interest rates, but its statement will be examined closely for clues as to the timing of a rise later this year.
In London, mining shares helped to drive the increase in the FTSE 100 as the price of aluminium and copper rose. Glencore shares climbed 6.5% and Anglo American rose 5.2%.
But shares in housebuilder Berkeley Group fell 1.2% after it said new home reservations were down 20% ahead of the EU referendum.
The company also reported a 9% fall in full-year profits to £530.9m.
In the FTSE 250, shares in Jimmy Choo jumped 13.8% after the luxury shoemaker issued an upbeat trading update.
The company said it had made a good start to the year and was trading in line with its expectations. | (Close): The FTSE 100 recovered some of the ground lost in Tuesday's sell-off as shares in mining companies rose. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36536066"} | 291 | 31 | 0.483625 | 1.114396 | 0.131897 | 1.04 | 10.2 | 0.56 |
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) is investigating the incident after receiving reports of pollution of the tributary near Llanpumsaint.
About 200 trout, 40 lamprey and hundreds of bullheads have been killed.
NRW said officers identified the pollution as slurry from a nearby farm and have stopped any further pollution.
Kimberley Redman, natural resource management team leader for NRW, said the pollution has had a "significant impact" on fish in the river.
She added: "Following quick action from our officers to identify the source and stop the pollution, it's unlikely that we'll see further impact." | Hundreds of fish have been killed by pollution in the River Gwili in Carmarthenshire. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39079210"} | 143 | 24 | 0.606655 | 1.164727 | -0.813647 | 1.733333 | 7.666667 | 0.8 |
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Konta, who broke into the world's top 10 last year, beat Agnieszka Radwanska to win her second WTA trophy at the Sydney International on Friday.
The 25-year-old begins her campaign against Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens on Tuesday (midnight on Monday in the UK).
"I'm very pleased with the level I played," said Konta of her Sydney win.
"But we all know that it's not a given. It doesn't decide how you will do in the next event.
"I'm taking it as a positive from the week itself, but I'm looking to again work hard here and really try to do the best that I can."
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Sydney-born Konta reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open last year - the furthest she has ever progressed in a Grand Slam.
And despite enjoying her most successful season to date, she chose to split with coach Esteban Carril in December after two-and-a-half years together.
Konta is now working under Belgian Wim Fissette, who has previously coached former world number one Kim Clijsters and two-time Australian Open winner Victoria Azarenka.
"My previous situation came to a natural end so I was in the market. It came together nicely for us," Konta told BBC Radio 5 live.
"We're doing some great work together. I'm really enjoying learning from him. He's a coach who's been on tour for some time and has worked with some of the best players.
"I'm trying to be a sponge and trying to absorb all the information he's passing on."
Sue Barker, who reached the semi-finals of the women's singles at the Australian Open in 1975 and 1977, believes Johanna Konta is good enough to win this year's competition.
"Last year's Australian Open was her big breakthrough tournament," Barker told BBC Radio 5 live's Sportsweek programme.
"We had been seeing her get better and better but at the Australian Open she started to believe in herself. She has not sat back and has improved week after week.
"I watched her final against Radwanska in Sydney last week and it was the best I've seen her play. She looked incredible and doesn't have a weakness.
"She is hitting the ball so hard and she is not just a top-10 player, she is a Grand Slam contender."
Konta will return to ninth in the world rankings on Monday following her win in Sydney and Barker thinks Konta can beat the best players.
"Johanna is seeded ninth so has not got the protection of being in the top eight but there is not one person that's just so outstanding in the women's game," added Barker.
"Angelique Kerber is a solid world number one but she is beatable and Johanna has the game to beat her. She certainly has a chance to win it." | British number one Johanna Konta says it is "not a given" that she will be a contender for the Australian Open title despite winning the warm-up tournament. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38628097"} | 676 | 39 | 0.466065 | 1.209019 | -0.177965 | 1.375 | 18.625 | 0.8125 |
The sides were level at 10-10 at half-time after Nili Latu bundled over for Newcastle and Telusa Veainu brought Leicester back on terms.
Peter Betham wriggled through after a missed tackle to give Tigers the lead.
Leicester denied Newcastle a losing bonus point when Laurence Pearce crossed after Betham's fine offload.
Victory lifted Leicester to third before Harlequins' meeting with Gloucester on Sunday, while a dramatic late win for London Irish against Northampton saw Newcastle slip to the bottom.
Dean Richards' side, without a win this season, made the early running and were rewarded through Latu finishing off a five-metre line out from the catch-and-drive and Craig Willis kicking the extras.
Leicester tight-head Fraser Balmain was sin-binned for a dangerous tackle, but Newcastle's own indiscipline saw them reduced to 13 men at one stage in the opening 40 minutes.
Belisario Agulla and Mark Wilson went to the sin bin within the space of a minute for a dangerous tackle and failing to release respectively.
Leicester fly-half Freddie Burns chipped away at the deficit before Veainu ran through in the corner after having an earlier effort disallowed.
Mathew Tait also had a try ruled out against his former club as he failed to ground the ball, but Betham put Tigers ahead for the first time after Newcastle's defence was stretched.
The Australian then turned provider to make victory safe for Richard Cockerill's men when number eight Pearce crossed for Leicester's third try.
Leicester boss Richard Cockerill: "I'll take the four points but we were pretty ordinary, we were inaccurate and created lots of opportunities but Newcastle came and fought hard and made us work very hard for it.
"Newcastle were good and their set-piece was excellent and they worked hard, but if you're inaccurate and you let the official in and you don't control it yourself then you get what you get."
Newcastle director of rugby Dean Richards: "If we can have a little bit more patience in attack and we didn't have that today... the first 20 minutes we showed that patience and that shape and it caused them problems and as soon as we lost that patience, our game went to pot a little bit and we had to defend long periods.
"When we did get the ball, we tended to lose it within two to three phases.
"I thought our pack was outstanding but again it comes down to that little bit of accuracy but I thought we defended really well.
"We're not even a third of the way through the season yet but as we have in the last few seasons we tend to come out and surprise people towards the end of the season and we'll start to get the wins that we want."
Leicester: Tait; Veainu, Betham, Smith, Goneva; Burns, B. Youngs; Mulipola, H. Thacker, Balmain, Barrow, Slater, Croft, McCaffrey, Pearce.
Replacements: T. Youngs, Aguero, Cole, De Chaves, Fonua, Harrison, Bell, Bai.
Newcastle: Hammersley; A. Tait, Agulla, C. Harris, Watson; Willis, M. Young; Vickers, McGuigan, Welsh, M. Wilson, Robinson, Hogg, Welch, Latu.
Replacements: Lawson, Rogers, Vea, Botha, Clever, Takulua, Catterick, Socino.
Referee: Tim Wigglesworth
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Following back-to-back league postponements, January signings Antonio German and Aidan Nesbitt are still waiting to make their debuts.
St Johnstone defender Brian Easton misses out again with a gashed foot but will resume training later this week.
New signing Plamen Krachunov could feature if international clearance arrives in time.
The Bulgarian provides cover for skipper Dave Mackay, who has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a hip problem.
Saints' planned visit to Firhill on Boxing Day was postponed after torrential rain and Thistle have been idle over the last two weekends after call-offs.
Those cancellations leave the hosts with four games in hand on their nearest rivals in the bottom half of the table.
"The players are desperate for a game," said manager Alan Archibald.
"There's a bit of pressure on us, we've got to take something from our games in hand.
"St Johnstone are a difficult proposition but we're the home side and we need to make sure we play at a good tempo."
Saturday's 2-1 win over Motherwell at McDiarmid Park was Saints' first three points since 5 December and lifted them up to fifth in the Premiership.
"It was nice to get the win," said manager Tommy Wright.
"It got us back into the top six and now this is one of the games in hand that we have got so we have to try to make the most of it and pick up more points.
"We are not taking anything for granted, it is one win and we have to try to build on it."
Thistle were 2-1 winners in Perth in October, while they triumphed 3-0 on St Johnstone's last visit to Firhill in March. | Partick Thistle right-back Mustapha Dumbuya remains sidelined with an ankle injury. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35430343"} | 397 | 25 | 0.456732 | 1.096124 | -0.286588 | 0.5 | 24.785714 | 0.357143 |
Paul Jacobs, 23, from Stourbridge, says he is "lucky to be alive" after being injured in August 2009 while serving with 2nd Battalion The Rifles.
He was awarded the George Medal for bravery after being left blinded by a bomb while on patrol.
But now he is taking up rowing - and wants to compete at the highest level.
If he fulfils his dream, it would be a remarkable achievement for Mr Jacobs, who is determined to "crack on with life" and is training most days.
"I lost the sight in one eye and the other faded within six months," he said.
"I was in Selly Oak Hospital for some time and then went to Headley Court."
After leaving the Surrey rehabilitation centre, Mr Jacobs moved from London to Stourbridge.
It was during his time at Birmingham's Selly Oak Hospital that Mr Jacobs met his wife Louise, where she still works as a healthcare assistant.
"My wife's from Stourbridge and I just wanted a fresh start," he said.
He enjoys Thai boxing and has competed in marathons and triathlons, and hopes to compete in Ironman events, despite also suffering muscle damage to his right arm and leg in the bomb blast.
Relying on touch and verbal directions, even during the swimming leg of triathlons, Mr Jacobs said sport offered an escape.
"I keep myself busy so I don't have too much time to think about things.
"I'm determined to do the London Marathon next year and I've done other charity fundraising events too," he said.
However, it is in rowing that Mr Jacobs is bidding to compete for his country, targeting the Rio Games.
"I've got a very competitive streak. I don't like losing," he said.
He said sport had also offered him a chance to feel more independent.
He said: "They say you can be independent but you can't ever be truly independent; it's a fact that I have to rely on other people.
"I'm learning white cane skills which gets me from place to place but life is obviously easier when you can see what you're doing.
"Having no sight can be a bit crazy, you build up a mental picture of things you've never seen before.
"I guess it's your brain compensating and your imagination going into overdrive." | A former soldier has targeted the 2016 Games in Rio after being blinded in Afghanistan. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "20314809"} | 527 | 19 | 0.389515 | 1.080367 | -0.439025 | 0.8125 | 29.625 | 0.6875 |
People trying to log on to the site were faced with a message saying: "Something went wrong. We're working to get it fixed as soon as we can."
The short shutdown drew attention across the web with many taking to Twitter to ask what all the fuss was about.
Facebook apologised for the problem but did not say what caused it.
"Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused."
It is not yet clear how many countries were affected. | Facebook's website was inaccessible for many of its 1.3 billion users for around 15 minutes this morning. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "27920028"} | 139 | 24 | 0.586984 | 1.206643 | -1.083218 | 0.578947 | 7.105263 | 0.473684 |
The suspects pleaded not guilty but the judge ordered they remain in custody.
They face three counts of murder for the deaths of lawyer Willie Kimani, Josphat Mwenda and their driver Joseph Muiruri.
The three went missing in June after Mr Kimani filed a case against a police officer on behalf of Mr Mwenda.
A week later, decomposing bodies of the three were recovered in a river, in the outskirts on Kenya's capital Nairobi.
Post-mortem reports said the bodies had signs of torture.
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Kenyans in fear of police 'death squads'
The killings sparked outrage in Kenya and many have blamed the police force for a series of extrajudicial killings in recent years.
The hashtag #StopExtrajudicialKillings gained popularity on social media as people gathered to take part in protests around the country.
A joint statement by 34 Kenyan and international human rights organisations condemned the killings.
The government has denied the existence of police death squads, saying any killings are the work of "rogue officers".
Kenyan security forces carried out 25 extrajudicial killing between 2013 and 2015, Kenya's official rights body said.
However, non-governmental watchdog Independent Medico-Legal Unit (IMLU) says the police killed 97 people in 2015 alone. | Four police officers have been charged with the murder of a lawyer and two others, which sparked protests against extrajudicial killings in Kenya. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36824522"} | 304 | 32 | 0.607215 | 1.345337 | -0.16963 | 0.96 | 10.04 | 0.72 |
A post-mortem examination showed John Clift, 54, suffered the heart attack prior to the collision near Pwllheli on April 29.
Mr Clift died at the scene of natural causes.
The office of North West Wales coroner, Dewi Pritchard Jones, said there would not be an inquest into the death.
The incident between an emergency ambulance and a patient care service ambulance happened on the A499, north of Y Ffor.
Mr Clift, from Pwllheli, was driving the service ambulance. | An ambulance driver who crashed into a second ambulance in Gwynedd had suffered a heart attack at the wheel. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36227096"} | 115 | 27 | 0.667215 | 1.367269 | -0.713118 | 0.8 | 4.8 | 0.6 |
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