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Howe received the accolade at the 10th annual Football League awards ceremony as recognition for his achievements with Bournemouth.
In two spells, the former Cherries player has guided the club from Football League survival after a 17-point deduction in 2008-09 to within two games of reaching the top flight for the first time.
The 37-year-old is on course to become one of only a small selection of managers to have guided a team through three divisions into English football's top flight, but how has he done it?
Here BBC Sport speaks to three men who know Howe better than most.
John Williams was in charge of Bournemouth's centre of excellence, first meeting Howe as a shy 13-year-old. The former Cherries defender has been a summariser for BBC Radio Solent for over 10 years, watching Howe learn his craft as a manager.
"He was quiet as a mouse. If you can imagine your first day at school, Eddie was like that for quite a while," Williams told BBC Sport. "In fact it nearly hindered him. There was an awful lot to come out in terms of personality and character. Tony Pulis [Bournemouth manager at the time] wasn't that sure whether he could come through. We had to get Tony to come down and watch him on a number of occasions before he took him on.
"Once he got in the changing room, he found his feet. He was one of the boys. When you get in the first team, it's another cup of tea. I remember him being man of the match in his first game.
"He is a fantastic, polite lad, who has become determined, super hard and that's the reason why he is hopefully going to be picking up the Championship in two weeks' time.
"He's learned things from managers he's played under. He's had some crackers like Harry Redknapp at Portsmouth.
"This is the best Bournemouth side I have seen going back to 1986. I speak to fans of 50 and 60 years and they say they have never seen such dynamic football.
"The attention to detail is the one. He is always looking for that different edge, that little angle. How your team, plays, defends - he is always trying to pick up on something that is going to make a difference."
Steve Fletcher was Howe's team-mate at Bournemouth and played under him in the final years of his career. Fletcher is Bournemouth's record league appearance holder and now works in their player recruitment and scouting department.
"He's so dedicated, he is meticulous," Fletcher told BBC Sport. "He works so hard and has a passion for this football club.
"He eats, breathes and sleeps football. It is his club. He watched as a boy from the terraces and he'd do anything to see Bournemouth get to where he wants them to be. He'll stop at nothing.
"I played for 24 years under some fantastic managers and he stands out. He is a million miles ahead of everybody else. He is just different. Every little thing you wouldn't think matters, matters to Eddie. I believe he will go on to do bigger and better things - hopefully with Bournemouth but he's definitely a unbelievable manager in the making.
"He is so meticulous on the training ground, his attention to detail is phenomenal and his man management skills are brilliant.
"He was my room-mate for a while - looking back I always realised he had an old head on young shoulders and he thought about things in more detail. He was a very deep and private man.
"Nobody could foresee the success he's had in such a short space of time. It's phenomenal what he's achieved. The award just proves how highly thought of he is. To have played with him for 11 years and then under him for five years and to have been his friend for 22 years, I'm so proud."
Harry Redknapp has always been considered Bournemouth's greatest ever manager - until this season. Redknapp signed Howe as a player at Portsmouth.
"I produced teams that play good football," Redknapp told BBC Sport.
"I had 10 years at Bournemouth, I was the most successful manager in their 100-year history. Eddie Howe has come along and blown me out the water. He is fantastic - I love watching them play.
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Bottom-placed Swans face third-from-bottom Black Cats in a Premier League match on Saturday.
Bradley's side have picked up five points from his seven games in charge with pressure mounting for change.
"If that's the case it shouldn't be Bob Bradley that loses his job, it should be the person who employed Bob Bradley," said Moyes.
"Bob has only been in the job [a matter of weeks]. It must have been the people who made decision, that's the way I would look at it."
Bradley is the first American to manage in the Premier League and the fourth Swansea manager in less than three years.
Chairman Huw Jenkins has said he accepts responsibility for the turmoil in at the club.
Former Everton manager Moyes, who was under pressure himself after a poor start to the season, believes Swansea's plight cannot be blamed on a man who has been in charge for less than two months.
"I think Bob Bradley would have to be given time," he added.
"Whoever would go into Swansea, or Sunderland for example, or some of the clubs at this end of the table and expect it to be a massive turnaround? If anybody thinks that they are completely wrong. They really are."
Bradley has defended himself in the face of criticism, accusing some people of not liking him because of his American accent and claiming some critics are talking "garbage".
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Lee Ross, 42, from Colchester, Essex, decided to get inked after seeing a Facebook post asking if any fans of Gimp Man would consider doing so.
Gimp Man rose to prominence after he started appearing in public to raise money for Colchester Mind in 2014.
"Lee's taken quite a step. He's a walking advert now," Gimp Man said.
Gimp Man - whose identity is kept secret - gives £1 to the charity every time someone takes a picture with him when he is out in public.
He donated £50 after Mr Ross had the tattoo done, and a number of other donations have been made as a result of the inking.
"It's a big brave step, and I'm really thankful for his help in raising money," Gimp Man told the BBC.
Mr Ross said his wife and children were "used to the madness I get up to".
"I can live with doing crazy things if in some way it's helping someone out," he said.
"It's a great-looking tattoo - the detail is fantastic, and when it's healed it will look better."
Tattooist Nicola Baran offered her services after seeing Gimp Man's Facebook post and put together the design herself.
"It took about two and half hours to do," she said. "The most difficult part was the face as it was small, so it was tricky to get the detail in there.
"I think it's exciting to do something different. Often people have the same designs over and over again, so it was fun to do something out of the ordinary." | A baker has had a picture of the "Gimp Man of Essex" - a man who goes out in public dressed in head-to-toe latex - tattooed on his leg for charity. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36974211"} | 359 | 50 | 0.539596 | 1.433506 | 0.168066 | 1.131579 | 8.552632 | 0.710526 |
Globally, there isn't as much sea ice as there used to be, and scientists are worried about this.
Find out below what sea ice is and why we're talking about it.
Sea ice is frozen ocean water.
Together, the Arctic and Antarctic are known as the Earth's polar regions
It forms on the surface of the water in winter when it's cold.
Generally, in the summer, it melts and becomes ocean again. However, some sea ice stays all year round.
It is found in the oceans around the Arctic (north) and the Antarctic (south).
Most of the world's sea ice is found in the Arctic.
According to the National Snow Ice and Data Center (NSIDC), sea ice covers just over 9.6 million square miles of the Earth. That's about 2.5 times the size of Canada!
It is different to icebergs as these are created on the land from fresh water or snow, which then break off into the sea.
Sea ice actually forms on the water from salty, ocean water.
Back in 1979, satellites started monitoring sea ice, to keep an eye on how much of it there was.
We are talking about sea ice because the satellite pictures are showing that, year by year, there appears to be less and less of it forming in the Arctic.
Not only that, but the speed at which it is vanishing there has sped up.
NSIDC reported that in January 2017, there was about 5.17 million square miles of Arctic sea ice recorded.
That might sound like a lot, but it is actually the lowest amount of Arctic sea ice recorded for January since it started being monitored in this way 38 years ago.
In fact, it's 100,000 square miles less Arctic sea ice than there was in January 2016.
In the Antarctic the situation is more complicated.
According to the NSDIC report in February 2017, the amount of summer sea ice in the Antarctic is the lowest on record.
But Dr James Pope, a climate scientist from the British Antarctic Survey, says that's unusual.
"Overall, Antarctic sea ice has been steadily increasing in size, year on year, from the 1970s. So what's happening now is against the trend."
He says this could be important and scientists will need to examine how the Antarctic sea ice behaves in the future.
Sea ice is important as, even though many of us will never even see it during our lives, it can have an effect on the climate.
The ice is very bright and reflects the sun's light back into space, meaning that polar regions with sea ice stay cooler.
When there is less sea ice, not as much sunlight is reflected back into space, so temperatures in the polar regions rise.
These warmer temperatures mean more melting, which means less sea ice - and the cycle continues, having a warming affect on the area.
As the ice melts, it also means there's more water in the sea, so levels can rise which can lead to flooding.
Warmer temperatures in the Arctic and the Antarctic can also affect how the world's atmosphere behaves, as air moves around the Earth.
This can have an influence on things like wind and storms as far away as Europe, where we live.
It doesn't just affect temperature though. Sea ice also influences how the ocean behaves and moves, as cold, polar water from beneath the sea ice sinks and heads to the Equator, while more warm water heads back towards the polar regions.
Finally, melting sea ice can have an effect on wildlife too.
For example, polar bears rely on sea ice to hunt. So if there is less sea ice, they can struggle to get enough food.
Seals and walruses also use sea ice for resting and giving birth.
Some people living in the Arctic also use it for hunting and transport, so melting sea ice can make their hunting seasons shorter.
Just five years ago, the Met Office predicted that, during the summer, the Arctic could have almost no sea ice by the year 2030.
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The former Peterborough boss was appointed boss of the Keepmoat Stadium side, who are currently 20th in the table, on Friday.
"This club is ready to go, there is no question about that," the 43-year-old told BBC Radio Sheffield.
"There is a good blend of youth and experience. I've had plenty of time to look at them and there's a team there."
He continued: "It has been made clear that the aim is to get to the Championship. The reality of that means this season we need to get 21 wins from our remaining 35 games.
"It's an exciting challenge and one that we will meet head-on."
Ferguson, who is the son of former Manchester United boss Sir Alex, will take charge of the team for the first time in Saturday's home match against Bradford.
He has replaced fellow Scot Paul Dickov in the Keepmoat Stadium dugout after the former Oldham boss was sacked on 8 September after taking just six points from their opening six league games.
Interim boss Rob Jones won one of his six matches in charge to leave Doncaster above the League One drop zone on goal difference only.
Ferguson left Peterborough in February after four years with the London Road side and has signed a rolling contract with Rovers.
He said he had benefitted from taking some time out of the game.
"I wanted the break and I felt that I needed it in the right way," he added.
"I went straight from playing to management and then had maybe a month between leaving Peterborough and Preston and going back to Peterborough.
"There was an offer straight after I left Peterborough and in the summer, but the timing wasn't right." | New Doncaster boss Darren Ferguson believes the team can challenge for promotion from League One this season. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34548413"} | 365 | 21 | 0.481425 | 1.143904 | 0.115052 | 1.055556 | 19.111111 | 0.722222 |
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It was a first defeat in 11 Wimbledon semi-final appearances for the seven-time champion.
Afterwards, the 34-year-old saluted all corners of Centre Court, prompting speculation that he might be bidding farewell for good.
"To be very clear for you, I hope to be back on Centre Court," said the 17-time Grand Slam champion.
"It was a thank you for the crowd. That's what I was going through, not thinking that this might be my last Wimbledon."
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Raonic, the first Canadian man to reach a Grand Slam singles final, will face Britain's Andy Murray in Sunday's final.
Federer's semi-final defeat followed a marathon five-set win over Marin Cilic in the previous round, in which he came back from two sets down and saved three match points.
The Swiss world number three is enduring the toughest year of his career. He missed the French Open because of injury, bringing an end to a streak of 65 successive appearances at Grand Slam events stretching back to 1999.
He has also failed to add to his 88 tour titles this year, suffering his longest drought since 2000, and arrived at Wimbledon having suffered back-to-back semi-final losses in Stuttgart and Halle.
Federer, who had surgery earlier this year on the same knee he hurt on Friday, will be 35 next month.
He has not beaten world number one Novak Djokovic at a Grand Slam since the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2012, when he went on to win his last major title.
"It's a dream to win my eighth title here but it's not the only reason why I play tennis," said Federer, who will represent Switzerland at the Olympics next month, injury permitting.
"I know Wimbledon is important, but it's not everything. I have played 10 sets [against Cilic and Raonic]. It's very encouraging for the season. I was insecure coming into Wimbledon." | Roger Federer said he had no intention of retiring after losing to Milos Raonic in the semi-finals at Wimbledon. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36751760"} | 451 | 28 | 0.502329 | 1.161991 | -0.548064 | 1.681818 | 18.727273 | 0.681818 |
The move is expected to lead to a sharp devaluation of the currency.
President Mauricio Macri hopes it will boost exports and spark economic growth.
But consumers fear it could further drive up Argentina's already high inflation rate,
Some retailers also expressed concern that shoppers would be cautious in the short term as they see their purchasing power reduced.
Argentina has been plagued by financial volatility in recent decades with inflation running at around 25% according to private estimates.
The central bank's currency reserves have been depleted after the previous leader, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, used them to prop up the peso.
With reserves running low and many Argentines turning to the black market to get dollars, Mr Macri promised to change that policy as soon as he took office.
He was sworn in last week.
The peso will be allowed to float when markets open on Thursday.
Analysts predict a fall of up to 30% from the current controlled rate of 9.8 pesos to the dollar.
They say they expect it could fall to 14.5 pesos to the dollar, the rate at which the currency has been trading on the black market.
The Argentine economy is so dependent on US dollars that grandmothers give their grandchildren 10-dollar bills as birthday presents and adults hoard them under the mattresses. So that is why in dollar-addicted Argentina, the end of the "cepo" or exchange controls was anxiously expected.
The government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner tried to end the buying of dollars four years ago, but prohibition simply fuelled the black economy.
Since then, a legion of informal street sellers in Buenos Aires' main thoroughfare, Paseo Florida, offer foreign currency at much higher rates than the official one which is extremely hard to buy legally.
Argentines also found other creative ways to circumvent restrictions, from organised day-trips to neighbouring Uruguay to get US dollars from cash machines to Bitcoin trading.
The new policy may satisfy middle and upper-class Argentines who will now be able to get their dollars freely.
But they are also fearful of the consequences: higher prices and a potential devaluation of their currency.
Argentine Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay said he accepted the rate would weaken to "close to" 14.2 to the dollar.
He said the central bank had been given the right to intervene if the exchange rate fell too quickly.
But he was adamant that change was needed: "The old system had killed the goose that laid the golden egg" by restricting the growth of the economy.
He outlined that exchange controls would end for all businesses who would be allowed to buy as many dollars as they needed.
But he said, for the time being, ordinary Argentines would still face restrictions on the amount of dollars they could buy a month. | Argentina has announced it will lift its currency controls, which were imposed four years ago to prop up the peso. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35114972"} | 621 | 26 | 0.487047 | 1.090222 | -0.26004 | 2.590909 | 24.772727 | 0.772727 |
NI Screen, which helps fund the series, estimates it has brought almost £150m into the local economy since production began in 2010.
The worldwide hit fantasy drama receives generous tax breaks to film in Northern Ireland.
However, NI Screen insists the returns are high.
Chief Executive Richard Williams said: "In terms of jobs and services here, we're just creeping up to £150 million across the six seasons.
"To be very clear about that, that is spent on people who live here and on services that are provided by people here."
Tourism NI also believes the industry is getting a boost from Game of Thrones visitors who want to see landmarks from the show in reality.
The marketing body is currently collating figures to establish just how much fans of the show spend in Northern Ireland.
Judith Webb, Tourism NI's Experience Development Officer, said: "We can see already that businesses are growing on the back of the Game of Thrones series.
"Two years ago, there were three operators promoting Game of Thrones experiences and now we've over 25 with more in the pipeline.
"Those businesses are also reporting that business has doubled each year upon year which is just tremendous.
"People come for Game of Thrones and stay for Northern Ireland."
Like every TV show, Game of Thrones will eventually come to an end.
So what happens when it wraps up?
Richard Williams said: "There are people in China who don't know where Northern Ireland is, but they know Titanic and they know Game of Thrones, and we need to capitalise on that.
"Game of Thrones will leave us with two really substantial legacies.
"From my point of view, the most substantial one is the infrastructure - the film studios.
"On the other side of it, there is a huge legacy piece in terms of the awareness Game of Thrones has driven for Northern Ireland and importantly right across the globe." | Season Six may have just ended, but Game of Thrones is still big business for Northern Ireland - its principal filming location. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36749938"} | 400 | 27 | 0.554787 | 1.455971 | 0.484245 | 1.166667 | 16.208333 | 0.583333 |
The Lions' League One play-off final victory over Bradford in May was marred by a pitch invasion after the game.
The EFL described that incident as "completely unacceptable", while City boss Stuart McCall said he was "close to clocking" some of the invaders.
Measures will include reviewing ticketing for Millwall away games.
An EFL statement said: "In the event Millwall qualify for any future EFL final at Wembley, the EFL and the club will review ticketing, security and stewarding arrangements, giving full consideration to any previous issues that have taken place.
"The EFL and the club will work on specific measures in relation to Millwall supporters attending fixtures at other EFL clubs.
"This initiative will see, amongst other things, the EFL and Millwall collaborate on how tickets are sold for away games."
A Millwall statement said the measures will be "fair and proper for the club's core supporters, who provide outstanding backing of the team".
The EFL added there was no timeframe to implement the measures and "further details will be announced in due course".
Millwall start the new season at Nottingham Forest on Friday, 4 August. | The English Football League (EFL) is working with Millwall "to repair reputational damage" caused by a "minority of the club's supporters". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40828530"} | 256 | 36 | 0.62886 | 1.377422 | -0.652474 | 0.862069 | 7.896552 | 0.586207 |
19 February 2016 Last updated at 15:18 GMT
Researchers at the University of Roehampton, in England, studied a group of ten king penguins.
They measured the penguins' weight and studied their movements on a treadmill, finding that fatter birds were less steady on their feet.
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They are the latest Republican figures to weigh in on the backlash to Donald Trump's latest remarks blaming "both sides" for violent clashes in Virginia.
It culminated with a woman's death and nearly 20 wounded when a car ploughed into a crowd at the far-right rally.
On Wednesday, Mr Trump disbanded his jobs councils amid an exodus of CEOs.
Representatives from companies like Merck, Under Armour, and Intel had quit the group over Mr Trump's reaction to the events in Charlottesville.
Republican elected officials around the country expressed outrage when Mr Trump appeared to defend the organisers.
"As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by that city's most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights," a statement from the two former presidents said.
"We know these truths to be everlasting because we have seen the decency and greatness of our country."
The violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday have sparked a heated debate on US race relations.
A public memorial for Heather Heyer, the woman who was fatally struck by a car that ploughed into a group of anti-racism protesters, was held on Wednesday in Charlottesville.
Her mother, Susan Bro, delivered a powerful speech calling on people to "find a way to make a difference". She added it was "just the beginning of Heather's legacy, not the end".
"They killed my child to shut her up. Well guess what, you just magnified her," she said before the crowd erupted into a standing ovation.
"I'd rather have my child, but by golly, if I'm going to give her up, we're going to make it count," she said.
The fallout from Mr Trump's comments on Tuesday continued in Washington, where Republican lawmakers reacted angrily.
Many echoed House Speaker Paul Ryan who said: "White supremacy is repulsive.. There can be no moral ambiguity."
"I think there is blame on both sides," Mr Trump told reporters at a tense press conference at Trump Tower in New York.
Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter
For some top Republicans lately, Donald Trump is He Who Cannot Be Named.
They find it easy to condemn white supremacists and the hate that motivated the violence in Charlottesville, but when it comes time to single the president out for blame - up to and including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan - the criticism becomes oblique and the condemnation implied.
Administration officials are treading even more carefully. Chief of Staff John Kelly may have repeatedly winced on Tuesday, but he's back on the job today. Gary Cohn, the president's senior-most economic adviser, reportedly told friends he was "disgusted" by the president's actions - but not so much that he would speak out on the record.
Perhaps some Republicans - with an eye on polls showing his support among the party faithful largely holding strong - are reluctant to draw the ire of a president known to keep close tabs on his friends and foes.
While outrage over the president's response to Charlottesville has reached a frenzied pitch, storms like this have erupted before and moved on, leaving Mr Trump still standing.
"This too shall pass" isn't always a balm for the distraught. It can also be a warning.
"You had a group on one side that was bad. You had a group on the other side that was also very violent. Nobody wants to say that. I'll say it right now."
"What about the alt-left that came charging... at the, as you say, the alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? (...) There are two sides to a story," Mr Trump said in response to one reporter.
He condemned the driver of the car, but said those who had marched in defence of the statue had included "many fine people".
His comments were said to have caught senior White House officials off guard.
Following the news conference, the White House sent a set official talking points to Republican congressmen, urging them to say Mr Trump was "entirely correct" in his latest remarks on Charlottesville.
"Despite the criticism, the President reaffirmed some of our most important Founding principles: We are equal in the eyes of our Creator, equal under the law, and equal under our Constitution," a bullet point read.
Mr Trump's remarks were welcomed by David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who tweeted: "Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa."
But many others strongly condemned the comments.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday it was important to condemn far-right views "wherever we hear them".
"I see no equivalence between those who propound fascist views and those who oppose them," she said.
Of the reactions of some 55 Republican and Democrat politicians collected by the Washington Post, only the spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, Kayleigh McEnany, expressed her support.
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Veteran Republican Senator John McCain tweeted: "There is no moral equivalency between racists & Americans standing up to defy hate & bigotry."
One of Mr Trump's former rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Marco Rubio sent a series of tweets.
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Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO trade union federation, became the fifth prominent business leader to resign from President Trump's advisory body, the American Manufacturing Council, over the issue.
In another development, the response of former President Barack Obama to the violence in Charlottesville has become the most-liked tweet ever.
The message, quoting Nelson Mandela, reads: "No-one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion."
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The 11 Asian females from the Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus are being retired amid changing attitudes to animals used as performance acts.
The animals took to the ring in Providence, Rhode Island, and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, ending nearly a century and a half of tradition.
They will be housed at a conservation centre in Florida run by the company.
Some animal rights activists have criticised the facility, describing it as little more than a breeding centre, with inadequate space for the elephants.
This is disputed by the circus's Center for Elephant Conservation, which says the focus is on animal care, conservation and health. The centre also carries out studies into the apparent ability of elephants to suppress cancer more easily than humans.
At the show in Rhode Island, where six elephants were displayed, ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson described it as an emotional time.
"That's history tonight there, ladies and gentlemen, true American icons,'' he told the crowd.
Elephants have been used in American circuses for 200 years.
Circus pioneer Hachaliah Bailey bought an African elephant, Old Bet, in 1808, said to be the first elephant to perform in the US.
They are still used in other circuses in the US, but in recent years animal rights campaigners have thrown a spotlight on the welfare of these and other animals in the entertainment industry.
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Norway will pay the impoverished West African country $150m (£91.4m) to stop deforestation by 2020.
There have been fears that the Ebola crisis would see increased logging in a country desperate for cash.
Norwegian officials confirmed details of the deal to the BBC at the UN climate summit in New York.
Liberia's forests are not as big as other countries but the country is home to a significant part of West Africa's remaining rainforest, with about 43% of the Upper Guinean forest.
It is also a global diversity hotspot, home to the last remaining viable populations of species including western chimpanzees, forest elephants and leopards.
But since the civil war ended in 2003, illegal logging has become rife.
In 2012, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attracted international criticism when she handed out licences to companies to cut down 58% of all the primary rainforest left in the country. After protests many of those permits were cancelled.
Some researchers have connected the current outbreak of Ebola with the widespread destruction of the forests, bringing people into contact with natural reservoirs of the virus.
Now the Norwegians and the Liberian government have signed a deal that they both believe will protect the forests into the future.
"We hope Liberia will be able to cut emissions and reduce poverty at the same time," said Jens Frolich Holte, a political adviser to the Norwegian government, speaking to the BBC on the sidelines of the UN climate summit in New York.
"We have funded efforts in Indonesia and Brazil, but I think this is the first time we have entered a deal on a country level."
Under the terms of the agreement, Norway will help Liberia to initially build up the capacity to monitor and police the forests.
Liberia will refrain from issuing any new logging concessions until all existing ones have been reviewed by an independent body.
The country agrees to place 30% or more of its forest estate under protected area status by 2020. It will also pilot direct payments to communities for protecting the forest.
Ultimately the Norwegians will pay for results, with independent verification that trees remain standing.
The development has been welcomed by environmental campaigners in Liberia.
"This partnership holds promise not only for the forest and climate; but for forest communities that have been marginalised for generations," said Silas Siakor, a Liberian environmental campaigner and Goldman Environmental Prize laureate.
"The partnership's commitment to respecting and protecting community's rights with respect to forests is laudable."
Experts believe that Liberia has turned to logging as a way of raising cash in difficult times. With the current Ebola outbreak having a significant economic impact on the country, the Norwegian deal is timely.
"Our hope is that the situation there now will be contained and resolved," said Mr Frolich Holte.
"But we also need to give Liberia a long term hope for development and that is what this rainforest money will provide for them, a long term vision for a country with reduced poverty and reduced deforestation."
With widespread corruption and a government struggling to impose its authority, campaigners recognise that stopping all the logging in Liberia will not be easy.
"There is the potential for this to go wrong, both Norway and Liberia will have to make sure that this deal does not get affected by corruption, but I am cautiously confident it can be done," said Patrick Alley, the director of campaign group Global Witness.
"It's really good news, it's transformational for Liberia when all the news coming out of there is bad - I think this will be a real boost."
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Fans will be able to access club-branded apps to get news, social media content, highlights and betting.
However access to the wider internet would not be possible.
The Football League said "the majority" of clubs had signed up to participate in the deal.
A full list of confirmed participating clubs will be announced after 30 June.
British wi-fi provider Intechnology will implement the service.
In an online article, the Football League said the service would "deliver the complete digital match day experience to supporters".
The free wi-fi would come as a boon to fans who had been frustrated with overloaded mobile networks at half-time, according to Intechnology chief executive Peter Wilkinson.
Having to use 3G or 4G services could also be expensive, he added.
However, wi-fi at sports events does not always prove popular with fans.
In 2014, supporters at PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands protested against the introduction of wi-fi at their club's stadium, saying spectators should pay attention to what is happening on the pitch, not their smartphones. | England's Football League has announced that free wi-fi, for a particular set of official apps, will be made available at Championship, League One and League Two stadiums. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35942609"} | 231 | 39 | 0.632947 | 1.344188 | 0.110958 | 1.088235 | 6.382353 | 0.617647 |
It says Britain can trigger Article 50, which sets a two-year deadline for a deal, by making a formal declaration either in a letter or a speech.
UK PM David Cameron has said he will step down by October to allow his successor to conduct the talks.
But EU foreign ministers have urged Britain to start the process soon.
Since Thursday's vote there has been intense speculation about when, and how, the UK might begin formal negotiations.
A spokesman for the European Council, which defines the EU's political direction and priorities, reiterated on Saturday that triggering Article 50 was a formal act which must be "done by the British government to the European Council".
"It has to be done in an unequivocal manner with the explicit intent to trigger Article 50," the spokesman said.
"It could either be a letter to the president of the European Council or an official statement at a meeting of the European Council duly noted in the official records of the meeting."
On Saturday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the EU had "no need to be particularly nasty in any way" in the negotiations with Britain.
She said that deterring other countries from leaving the EU should not be a priority in the talks.
Mrs Merkel added that she was not in favour of pushing for a speedy withdrawal.
"It shouldn't take forever, that's right, but I would not fight for a short timeframe," she said.
In other developments:
Mrs Merkel was speaking after several EU foreign ministers, including Germany's, had urged Britain to quickly implement its exit.
"This process should get under way as soon as possible so that we are not left in limbo but rather can concentrate on the future of Europe," German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
His Dutch counterpart Bert Koenders said the continent could not accept a political vacuum, saying "this will not be business as usual".
Speaking later to the BBC, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves said he didn't think it was "even legally possible" to force the UK to speed up the exit process.
"I understand it is very difficult for Prime Minister Cameron, who was against leaving the European Union, to now go ahead and do this," he told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme.
"I think we should give them time; let them decide how quickly they want to do it."
He described Britain's exit from the bloc as "a disaster" saying Estonia had often aligned itself with the UK and had counted on Britain to present their shared views.
The UK's decision to leave the EU has sent shockwaves across the continent with leaders of Eurosceptic parties in France, the Netherlands and Italy demanding referendums in their own countries.
In response, some EU politicians have called for speedy reforms to quell further unrest.
French economy minister Emmanuel Macron suggested a new mission statement should be drafted and put to a referendum of all EU citizens.
"We've never had the courage to organise a true European referendum in its real sense," he told a conference.
"We would first build this new project with European peoples and then submit this new road map, this new project, to a referendum [across the bloc]."
The first summit of EU leaders with no British representation will be held on Wednesday, a day after Mr Cameron holds talks with members.
Global stock markets and the pound fell heavily on the news of the so-called "Brexit", while credit rating agency Moody's cut the UK's outlook to "negative".
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The Scottish Conservative leader said she wanted to build consensus around a Brexit deal that put economic advancement at its heart.
She also dismissed reports that Scots Tories might "break away" from the main UK party.
The Scottish Conservatives won an extra 12 seats in Thursday's election.
The performance of Scottish Tories was in marked contrast to that in England and Wales where Prime Minister Theresa May lost her majority in the House of Commons.
Ms Davidson spoke to reporters in Stirling as she showed off the 13 Scottish Conservatives who will now take their seats at Westminster.
She said: "I'm going to make sure that along with the 13 MPs we're sending to Westminster, we put Scotland's case forcefully and make sure that we deliver for Scotland and make sure that the union delivers for Scotland too."
She added: "I want to ensure that we can look again at issues like Brexit which we know we are now going to have to get cross-party support for - and move to a consensus within the country about what it means and what we seek to achieve as we leave."
Asked what she meant with her call for an "open Brexit" she said: "I've never believed in the terms of hard or soft Brexit.
"I want to talk about open or closed - and as someone who believes in open politics, that's about making sure we tear down barriers rather than put them up.
"It's about making sure we put free trade and economic advancement at the heart of the Brexit deal as we leave."
She also said she had received assurances from Theresa May that any deal with the Democratic Unionist Party would not erode LGBTI rights in Northern Ireland, and that the UK government would use its influence to "advance" those rights.
Earlier she had taken to Twitter to dismiss a report in the Daily Telegraph that she wanted to "tear her Scottish party away from English control" .
The paper, which stands by its report, said there were tensions during the campaign, and that Ms Davidson's aides were working on a deal to set up a separate organisation in Scotland.
Pressed on the issue in Stirling, she said: it had been decided when she became leader that "we would have complete autonomy over policy, candidates, campaigning, finance, which is what we have... but we would take the Conservative whip at Westminster and that is exactly what is going to happen".
Ms Davidson also confirmed she had given her "full support" to Mrs May staying on as prime minister.
Earlier the SNP's cabinet secretary for finance and the constitution, Derek Mackay, insisted his party had won the election in Scotland, despite seeing its number of MPs fall from 56 to 35.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: "The 2015 result was incredible, very difficult to repeat - but we won more seats than all the other parties put together."
He said it was too early to say whether the SNP would now "park" its demand for a second independence referendum after 60% of Scottish voters backed pro-union parties.
"Of course we will listen and reflect. It's too premature to say what we would do next around that," he said.
"We will continue to deliver good governance for Scotland, stand up for Scotland in the Westminster parliament, make sure we can get the best possible deal for Scotland in terms of the negotiations on Brexit."
Scottish Labour demanded Nicola Sturgeon ditch plans for a second independence referendum.
James Kelly, who was the party's election campaign manager, said: "Nicola Sturgeon has some very serious questions to answer now.
"She must categorically drop her plans for a divisive second independence referendum and get back to the day job.
"Across the UK, the election showed there is huge support for Labour's vision for investment in our public services, and Nicola Sturgeon needs to accept that she has been too distracted by the constitution for too long." | Ruth Davidson has said she will argue Scotland's case "forcefully" to the prime minister after major Tory gains north of the border. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40232374"} | 848 | 31 | 0.505881 | 1.364776 | 0.183702 | 1.269231 | 30.461538 | 0.730769 |
He found prominence for his landscape paintings, many of his native Anglesey.
After teaching and studying art at Croydon Art College in London during the 1960s, he returned home to the island in the 1970s before retiring to focus on painting in 1996.
He has had international success, with works held in public and private collections in The Hague, Paris, New York, Australia and the UK.
"The loss of a fine artist is always sad, and none more so than the news of Wilf Roberts' death after his illness of the past 18 months," friend and gallery owner Martin Tinney said.
"His integrity shone through when preparing for a new exhibition - not for him the churning out of numerous works to please an audience - he released pictures from his studio only when he was happy that they were 'ready'.
"Over the years, I was delighted to become a friend of Wilf and his devoted wife Sue. She has been his rock over the past difficult months and my heartfelt sympathy goes out to her and the family." | The Welsh artist Wilf Roberts has died, aged 75, following an illness. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37420916"} | 233 | 18 | 0.573599 | 1.406138 | -1.138877 | 0.8 | 13.866667 | 0.666667 |
Anyone found breaking the law will face a fine and up to five years in prison.
Hindus, who comprise 80% of India's 1.2bn population, revere cows and the sale and consumption of beef is banned or restricted in many states.
Correspondents say most beef sold in India is actually from water buffaloes which are not considered sacred at all.
But in Maharashtra, buffalo meat, generally seen to be of inferior quality, makes up only 25% of the market and the ban is likely to be felt more keenly there.
The state includes India's commercial capital and biggest city Mumbai.
The Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill took 19 years to become law - it was first passed by the state's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena government in 1995 and was sent to the president for approval in January 1996.
The BJP, which returned to power in the state last year, once again pushed for it to be signed into law. Reports say a group of BJP MPs from the state met President Pranab Mukherjee last week to discuss the matter.
On Tuesday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis tweeted his thanks to the president:
The BBC's Shilpa Kannan in Delhi says the Maharashtra beef ban is the toughest so far in India - along with cows, it also forbids the killing of bulls and bullocks and even possessing beef, which will now be considered as contraband.
Unhappy beef traders in Maharashtra are checking if they can challenge the ban - they say the move will render tens of thousands jobless.
Although many Hindus consider cows sacred, large numbers of India's population still eat beef and unproductive cattle are slaughtered for their meat and other products.
Following the Maharashtra ban, there is concern over what will happen to bulls and bullocks or to cows too old to produce milk or to give birth.
Critics of the bill say their owners, mostly farmers, could now be stuck feeding them for years until they die of natural causes.
Our correspondent says beef is more popular with the poor in India as it is typically cheaper than other meats such as chicken or mutton.
But because of religious sentiments and bans in various states, most of India's beef is exported - with a 20% share of the global market and exports worth more than $4bn (£2.6bn) a year, it is now the country's top agricultural export, beating the more famous basmati rice. Buffalo meat, however, accounts for 80% of the exports.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led his BJP party to a landslide win in last year's general election, has in the past complained about India's "pink revolution" of rising meat exports, and expressed hope of bringing in a national ban on cow slaughter. | The Indian president has approved a bill which bans the slaughter of cows and the sale and consumption of beef in the western state of Maharashtra. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31712369"} | 646 | 33 | 0.534822 | 1.331573 | 0.058866 | 3.037037 | 19.851852 | 0.888889 |
About 250,000 people were hit by power cuts, officials said, mostly caused by snow-laden trees falling on cables.
One death was reported - of a worker trying to clear ice - and two other people were injured by a fallen power line, Chilean media said.
Meteorologists say it was the heaviest snowfall in Santiago since 2007.
It came as the city and surrounding region were enduring an unusually cold snap.
As well as the power cuts, the weather has caused traffic disruption in the capital and several sporting fixtures have been postponed.
The big freeze was not bad news for everyone, however, and thousands of children headed outdoors to build snowmen and throw snowballs.
Forecasters say lighter amounts of snow are still expected to fall. | A rare snowfall in the Chilean capital Santiago has caused disruption and blackouts, leaving thousands of residents shivering in the dark. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40620077"} | 163 | 31 | 0.696496 | 1.362296 | 0.69653 | 1.086957 | 6.347826 | 0.73913 |
Inspired by a heartbreak, it juxtaposes downbeat lyrics with a euphoric chorus, over a driving percussion loop.
The song received its first play on BBC Radio 1, where Mistajam made it his hottest record in the world.
It's Lorde's first new material since the Disclosure collaboration Magnets in 2015 and precedes her second album, which is due later this year.
"Finally! It's only been three years, huh?" she told Radio 1.
Here's all you need to know about the song - and Lorde's new album.
"I am so proud of this song," wrote Lorde on Twitter. "It's very different, and kinda unexpected. It's complex and funny and sad and joyous and it'll make you DANCE."
"It's the first chapter of a story I'm gonna tell you. The story of the last two wild, fluorescent years of my life.
"This is where we begin."
Lorde told Mistajam that Green Light was "about me trying to figure out how to put myself back together" after her first significant heartbreak.
It opens on a sombre note, as Lorde recalls the beginning (or end?) of her relationship.
"I do my makeup in somebody else's car," she sings over a minor key piano. "We ordered different drinks at the same bar."
"Did it frighten you, how we kissed when we danced on the light-up floor?"
But Lorde goes on to call her lover a "liar", practically spitting the line: "Those rumours they have big teeth, they bite you."
As she ramps up towards the hook, she's getting ready to pack her belongings - while admitting she's finding it hard to finally make the break.
"I wish... I could just let go," she sings as, in the background, a chorus of cheerleaders chant: "I'm waiting for it, that green light. I want it."
The green light is a recurring theme in F Scott Firzgerald's The Great Gatsby, signifying the elusive promise of the future. Lorde may be referring to that or, more simply, a green light giving her permission to move on with her life.
Structurally and thematically complex, Green Light isn't as immediate as previous Lorde singles like Royals and Yellow Flicker Beat. In particular, there's an awkward gear change from the haunting, dramatic verses into the choppy, beat-driven chorus. But in common with one of the year's other great pop comebacks - Katy Perry's Chained To The Rhythm - the song rewards repeated listens.
The cathartic music video, directed by Grant Singer and featuring Lorde dancing in strobing green lights and on car roof-tops, helps give the song some context, too.
Lorde's spent last year working on her new album with US musician Jack Antonoff. You might know him as a member of the group .fun, the band behind the 2011 smash We Are Young. You might also know him as the boyfriend of Girls creator Lena Dunham; as the co-writer of three songs on Taylor Swift's synthpop opus 1989 - or even through his solo project, Bleachers.
Either way, Green Light (along with most of Lorde's new material) was recorded in his home studio in Brooklyn, as pictured in this Instagram shot.
"We worked out of the house for the better part of a year, in this tiny little room covered in bizarre animal wall paper," she said.
From the teenagers who hid in the school toilets to hear the song premiere, to the fan who wrote "this was worth the million year wait", it's fair to characterise the reaction as "broadly positive".
Last year, Lorde scolded an impatient fan who said he was "giving up" on the chances of hearing a follow-up to her debut album, Pure Heroine.
Speaking to Mistajam, she explained the extended break had been necessary.
"I needed to just go away, go home to New Zealand, and hang out by myself and figure out what I was going to do next. I knew I couldn't make the same thing again, and I had to figure out what it was that I wanted to say. And I'm so glad I took that time, because this record is the coolest thing I've ever made."
Earlier this week, eagle-eyed fans spotted the cryptic message "M*******A" in the title bar of Lorde's website.
They guessed, correctly, that this was a hint about her album title... with possible names including Macadamia (?), Mona Lisa or Musomania (an obsession with music).
But she's since revealed the record will be called Melodrama.
"I wrote this album about this crazy year of my life," she explained. "I partied a lot and I felt all the feelings - and it was all so fluorescent. So I decided to call the album Melodrama."
David Bowie believed the Lorde was "the future of music", according to one of his oldest friends - which is why the singer was chosen to pay tribute to him at last year's Brit Awards.
Going back to the studio after that performance, she said his spirit informed he writing.
"I feel like the whole time spent writing this record, I've had him in my thoughts, I've had him in my heart.
"It's hard not to make something and not think, 'What would David think of this? If I could play it to him, what would he say?'"
"This is as pop-dance as it gets," she told Mistajam. "We were just in the studio, mashing around on the piano and... that's what it is."
"We didn't turn it into the single, it was just born that way."
The 20-year-old added the new album was more varied than her debut. "There's a lot of beats again but there's also instruments that are going to surprise people."
Asked if she'd be visiting Worthy Farm this June, Lorde replied: "You know, farms are cool. I love farms. I'm a big fan of farms. So who knows?"
A week into Donald Trump's presidency, Lorde posted a link to the album Sweet Sexy Savage, by US R&B singer Kehlani.
"After a horrifying, anxiety-inducing week of news, music like this allows much needed catharsis," she wrote. "I truly believe in the necessity of cathartic pop records in times like these.
"I love the big sprawling projects too, but there's something about the falls & lifts of meticulous pop, moments designed for u to feel what u need to, that's more important than ever.
"You're probably guessing what kind of record I've made based on these tweets."
We can't wait.
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The foreign secretary urged Russia to "work with the rest of the world" rather than "stick like glue" to President Assad's regime.
G7 leaders are meeting to search for a unified solution to the Syrian war.
Russia and the United States have criticised each other following a US strike against a Syrian airbase.
US officials say the base was used to launch a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians.
Syria has denied using any chemical agents, and Russia says the US has failed to provide evidence Syria has chemical weapons.
Russia also accused the US of encouraging "terrorists" with its unilateral actions.
The UK government has backed the US action - and Mr Johnson, speaking as he arrived for the G7 talks in Lucca, said the strikes had "changed the game".
He said the evidence that President Assad's regime was behind a chemical weapons attack was "absolutely conclusive" and said Russian President Vladimir Putin was "toxifying the reputation of Russia by his continual association with a guy who has flagrantly poisoned his own people".
Asked about the possibility of further sanctions, he said "we will be discussing the possibility of further sanctions on some of the Syrian military figures and indeed on some of the Russian military figures who've been involved in co-ordinating the Syrian military efforts and who are therefore contaminated by the appalling behaviour of the Assad regime".
Earlier Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who did not support the US strikes on the Syrian airbase - warned of a "proxy war" developing between the United States and Russia.
The Labour leader also accused Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson of "encouraging further bombing" for suggesting the US could launch more missile strikes against the Syrian regime.
The Labour leader said Mr Johnson should have held "robust" talks with Russia rather than pulling out of a planned trip to Moscow, adding: "The solution has to be political."
He said: "Surely we have to get Russia and America around the table together to put pressure on respective parties to this war, because it's in danger of becoming a proxy war between them, in order to have a meaningful and effective ceasefire."
The Foreign Office is believed to have prepared a paper on possible sanctions that could be imposed on Russia that will be considered by G7 countries, BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said.
Russia will also be offered a greater role in international affairs should it end its support for President Assad, in what Foreign Office sources described as "a carrot and stick approach", he added. | Further sanctions will be considered against Russia over the "appalling" behaviour of the Syrian regime, Boris Johnson says. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39554200"} | 553 | 26 | 0.534875 | 1.296298 | 0.668441 | 1.636364 | 22.727273 | 0.909091 |
Danielle Hall, 21, fell from the ninth floor of the Bermudas Apartment Hotel on the Avenida de Esto-colmo in Benidorm in the early hours of Sunday, Spanish police confirmed.
She is believed to be from Northumberland and had arrived in the resort the previous day with her boyfriend and his family.
Spanish Police are investigating the circumstances of Miss Hall's death.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said in a statement: "We are providing support to the family of a British national who has died in Benidorm, Spain.
"We are in contact with local authorities."
Northumbria Police said they had been made aware of the incident and were liaising with Miss Hall's family.
She had previously worked at the Tesco Extra store in Hexham in Northumberland in the catering department and was employed by Compass.
A spokeswoman for Compass said: "We are greatly saddened to hear about Danielle's death.
"Although only employed by us for a short while, Danielle was a well-liked and valued employee who will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with her family and friends". ​ | A British woman has died in a fall from a balcony in Spain. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37972571"} | 259 | 17 | 0.551506 | 1.232694 | -1.36061 | 1.5 | 15.428571 | 0.785714 |
"All industries are being disrupted.
"Farmers in Ghana are saving time and money by using their smart phones to trade their products before the long walk to market begins, and underprivileged women in South Africa are breaking out of the cycle of poverty after training means that they can help US customers with their technology problems.
"Even the animal videos posted online, much mocked by some, are now enabling scientists to gather meaningful data about animal relationships that would never have been accessible before.
"But beyond the hyperbole, this 25th birthday and as part of that, I hope, this debate is a good moment to reflect on all of the different aspects of the web."
"My contribution is inspired by my first-hand experience of a 94-year-old friend who is determined not to be excluded, who has combated bereavement, loneliness, kept mentally active and even perhaps deferred or diminished the onset of mental illness by becoming internet proficient.
"In the UK today, there are 10 million people over the age of 65, and by 2050 that will be over 20 million. 11% of one-person households over state pensionable age had internet access in 2000 and today it's over 40%.
"However, my lords, there are still around six million pensioners who have never used the internet. 75% of people in the UK who are over 75 years old consider themselves lonely.
"My 94-year-old friend would never consider himself lonely. For him the internet is infinitely flexible. Online book groups, staying in touch with friends via email and text, Skype calls, downloading music and videos: that's what keeps him so alert and interested in the world outside."
"We celebrated the universality of the web at the Olympics opening ceremony, with Sir Tim Berners-Lee tweeting: 'This is for everyone.'
"I still find the speed of development since I first used the Netscape browser quite extraordinary.
"Sir Tim and the early pioneers of the web deserve huge recognition for their setting of the open and neutral standards which ensured the growth of the world wide web."
"Online pornography; the objectification of women; the bullying of young people: there's a dark side and we shouldn't be surprised at that, given that this is human nature engaging with a wonderful invention with all kinds of dark possibilities.
"I'm reminded from my experience of being a university teacher that when students in writing an essay search the web to fill up a couple of pages, you could always tell because it just didn't fit in the main argument, because they didn't understand what kind of angle it came from.
"The point of that, of course, is that information, that the web is wonderful at making available, information needs interpretation, and wisdom is interpretation on a very wide scale of the big picture."
"Unlike the early cry of 'free, open and democratic', we are all aware that the web has become monetised with a value that is entirely dependent on harvesting data, data created by interacting as much as humanly possible with the commercial platforms on the web.
"The millions spent on the vast and incremental experimentation of combining neuroscience and technology to keep us attached to our devices is not actually disputed by those who do it, but it does fuel a culture of compulsion and disclosure, and distraction that has a particular implication for young people who are not yet fully formed."
"The internet has been the greatest transformative force in history bar none, because of the speed of the transformation: 20 years.
"The invention of writing is perhaps the only parallel. That took 5,000 years and was only the prerogative of elites.
"There's never been anything like this before in history, so it's not surprising that it's rather difficult to come to terms with its long-term impact."
"One hundred and eighty three billion emails are sent every day. Had we had the wit at the outset to place a 1p levy on each email - these are unaudited figures, I hasten to add - it would generate today, worldwide, £730bn [a year].
"That's 29 times the amount spent by the UN and all of its agencies each year, it is more than the global aspiration for development and climate change mitigation, recommended by any agency.
"This tiny levy could totally change the landscape of aid worldwide.
"I realise it is rather late in day to suggest this, but it has another advantage: if there was such a levy, it might just allow people to pause momentarily before hitting that quite dreadful 'reply to all' button."
"If our banks exploited information about our private transactions in the manner of Google, there would be uproar.
"If the ugly, threatening sexist abuse that is harboured routinely on Twitter took place in the pub, it would more often be prosecuted.
"Online fraud takes place on a gigantic and global scale. In the UK we neither measure its impact on our citizens, nor do we do anything material to counter it.
"The task of the next 25 years is, without threatening in any way the precious, priceless benefits that the world wide web have brought us, is to extend to it civilised standards and the rule of law." | The government's former digital tsar and founder of Lastminute.com Baroness Lane-Fox has led a Lords debate on the 25th anniversary of the creation of the world wide web. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "25757175"} | 1,152 | 47 | 0.369342 | 1.095701 | 0.134603 | 1.6875 | 32.9375 | 0.625 |
The larvae were being sold for food in south-eastern Katanga province.
Days of violence began when a group of Batwa, also known as pygmies, accused the Luba ethnic group of imposing an illegal levy on the sale of caterpillars and beating up vendors.
The two groups have clashed several times in the last few years.
The Batwa killed several members of the Luba ethnic group near the region of Kabalo in Katanga. The Luba then launched a revenge attack, killing at least 13 pygmies.
Tensions between the hunter-gatherer pygmies and the Luba, a Bantu ethnic group, have caused hundreds of deaths over the past three years.
Caterpillars are a delicacy in western DR Congo, in the area around the capital Kinshasa, hundreds of miles from Katanga where the deadly clashes occurred.
They are harvested from trees, smoked and often eaten with sauce.
However they are an unexpected cause of conflict in DR Congo, particularly in Katanga.
That province is not known for its love of eating caterpillars and people have certainly never killed for them before.
But there is a running feud in the area between pygmies and other ethnic groups.
Pygmies are native to the region but they feel they are marginalised, with unequal access to resources and education.
So when they felt that one of their main sources of income was being subject to an unfair tax, the result was violence. | At least 16 people have been killed in a row over a disputed charge on the sale of caterpillars in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37695489"} | 343 | 32 | 0.547775 | 1.310993 | -0.435937 | 1.730769 | 10.461538 | 0.730769 |
The Belfast Trust confirmed that a ward was closed briefly and two patients were affected in Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast.
C. diff is a bacterium which causes extreme diarrhoea in some patients.
One of the rehabilitation wards for elderly patients in Meadowlands was closed for a deep clean but has now reopened.
In a statement, the trust said it is continuing to "review and monitor the hygiene standards on the ward".
"The situation is being monitored closely and infection prevention control measures are in place to maintain a safe environment for our patients.
"We continue to work closely with staff and request visitors to adhere to the visiting policy.
"We would request families not to visit if they themselves are unwell," it added. | A hospital in Belfast has been affected by an outbreak of Clostridium difficile (C. diff). | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40614788"} | 164 | 22 | 0.62878 | 1.365517 | -0.403565 | 1 | 8.111111 | 0.555556 |
Legal proceedings are ongoing over the store's location, originally planned for Sprucefield, near Lisburn.
Paul McMahon, who is also director of Belfast's Castle Court shopping centre, said clarity was needed over planning.
He said costly legal battles were counterproductive.
"What that does is send out the wrong message that Northern Ireland is not open for business," he told the BBC's Inside Business.
"We need a policy that is explicit and crystal clear around town centres first.
"If you were to apply that policy, that would bring John Lewis to a capital city, which in this case would be Belfast."
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Set a notional 539, the hosts were bowled out for 361 shortly before tea on the final day thanks to 21-year-old pace bowler Kagiso Rabada's 5-92.
Usman Khawaja made 97 and Peter Nevill an unbeaten 60 for Australia, who lost 3-0 in Sri Lanka in August.
Victory was South Africa's third in a row at the Waca, after 2008 and 2012.
It was completed without Dale Steyn, the world's number two-ranked bowler who was ruled out of the series on Friday with a fractured shoulder.
Australia, 169-4 overnight, survived for 119 overs in total in the fourth innings on a pitch featuring large cracks.
However, their first-innings collapse proved costly, slipping from 158-1 to 244 all out in response to South Africa's 242.
JP Duminy made 141 and Dean Elgar 127, putting on 250 for the third wicket in South Africa's second-innings 540-8 declared.
The second Test in Hobart starts on Saturday and the final Test in Adelaide on 24 November.
Australia batsman Joe Burns will replace Shaun Marsh, who suffered a broken finger in Perth, for the second Test, while the uncapped Callum Ferguson has been added to the squad.
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What we wanted to see on the fifth day, when defeat seemed inevitable, was some fight and character.
We got that and then some.
For England to take it to the penultimate ball of the match, so nearly pulling off the greatest rearguard in Test history, was absolutely extraordinary.
Everyone involved played with real passion and determination and, after everything that has happened in the past six months or so, it was important for England to put up such a fantastic show of resistance.
"The criticism of Cook is out of order - it's a few people with an agenda against him. But he is under pressure. He needs to find form with the bat and everything will flow from there.
"I don't think captaincy is a burden. Alastair is a strong character. It does all seem to be getting a little but too much at the minute. Perhaps that's why people need to support him rather than swinging axes."
At the end of it all, to see James Anderson, a man who has seen and done so much in a long career, in tears, was a very powerful image.
That England got so close to saving the game was down to Moeen Ali's outstanding maiden Test hundred.
Not only fighting to save the match, but also for his place in the side, Moeen, a natural flair player, produced an innings of discipline and determination. He could have done no more.
Looked at from an entirely neutral point of view, it was a wonderful Test, made all the more so by the fact it is the second in as many weeks to have such a dramatic finish.
Just like at Lord's, England should have won at Headingley. It is a skill to take the opportunities that present themselves in Test cricket, a skill that, at the moment, England do not possess.
However, despite the defeat, there are positives for England to take, not least Moeen, but also the runs scored by Joe Root, Gary Ballance and Sam Robson, and the hostile pace bowling of Liam Plunkett.
What they need now is for the captain to score some runs.
Which brings us to Alastair Cook, who is under pressure not only for the run of six defeats in seven Tests, but also because of a year-long run of poor form with the bat.
I had dinner with Cook on the second evening of this match and he was his usual, steely self. The manner in which he talked of the future gave no indication that he was considering surrendering the captaincy, and he confirmed as much in some bullish post-match interviews.
But he knows he is under the cosh and the criticism he is receiving is clearly affecting him.
There is an agenda out there, which can be seen by anyone on social media. Cook is not on Twitter but he has been made aware. These personal, vitriolic attacks by some high-profile individuals are out of order and have stepped over the mark.
However, Cook is such a steely individual that they might even make him dig his heels in even more. If that is the case, certain issues need addressing.
The first, most obviously, is his batting. An average of 25 over the past 12 months is well below the standard we expect from the man who has scored 25 Test centuries, more than any other England player.
England need Cook the batsman more than they need Cook the captain, and the man himself will know that his primary job is to score runs.
Although he would not want to give up the captaincy, he knows that, if necessary, someone else could do that job if it meant he could get back to his best at the top of the order.
Secondly, the rest of the England team must take responsibility for their own game because the captain is only as good as those around him.
"Cook is a really, really nice boy. He's honest and he's straight but his form is suffering. He needs to start scoring runs because it's a results-orientated business.
"He has to have some imagination with his captaincy, one plan can't fit into every situation."
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There are more reasons for Cook to continue than the obstinate streak that has made him such a successful batsman.
The England and Wales Cricket Board has invested heavily in him, making Cook the man around which the team will be rebuilt following the Ashes debacle. If Cook quits, the ECB will be very disappointed.
Also - and this is not damning him with faint praise - there seems to be no other viable alternative.
Stuart Broad is not physically fit enough to do the job - he has a long-standing knee injury that will require surgery - Matt Prior is working his way back in to the side and the feeling is Ian Bell is not a natural leader and would be better off left to concentrate on his batting.
A lack of leaders in the England side is one we have talked about for some time. These players hardly ever appear in county cricket, so have little experience of captaincy. For that reason, Cook has been learning on the job.
It has been suggested that he should give up the one-day job, but that is not relevant at the moment - England do not play another one-day international until the end of the India Test series. That is a discussion for another time.
Instead, with Cook still at the helm, England must concentrate on getting the captain and the rest of the team in the right frame of mind for the first Test against India starting on 9 July.
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One week ago any debate would have been unthinkable. In authoritarian Uzbekistan, it would have been too risky to even acknowledge any health problems.
But Mr Karimov's daughter Lola posted a message on Facebook saying he had suffered a brain haemorrhage. Now a nation of 31 million is facing the prospect of an Uzbekistan without President Karimov, and no named successor.
In recent years any debate about the succession has inevitably been embroiled with the Karimov family's "dirty laundry".
Until just a few years ago, many believed that Mr Karimov would be succeeded by his glamorous eldest daughter, the pop diva, fashion designer and businesswoman Gulnara Karimova. She was clearly being groomed as such and regarded as one of the most powerful people in the country.
But her downfall was swift and brutal.
In 2013, with allegations of corruption swirling, Ms Karimova's businesses were requisitioned, and her TV and radio channels shut down. She was also probed for corruption in cases involving hundreds of millions of dollars in Europe and US. She is now believed to be under house arrest.
"Gulnara Karimova tried to go beyond what was permitted in the system," Dr Eric McGlinchey, associate professor at George Mason University says. "She tried to accumulate not just some of the economy, she tried to accumulate all of the economy. She didn't compromise, she didn't play by the rules."
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As Gulnara Karimova was losing power, she accused her younger sister Lola Tillayeva-Karimova and her mother of trying to get rid of her.
Many analysts say this family feud reflected a deeper power struggle in the nation.
Among those who Gulnara named as being behind her troubles are people who are now contenders for the job. One of them is Rustam Azimov, who is both deputy prime minister and finance minister.
Mr Azimov was appointed minister back in 1998 and considered very close to Islam Karimov.
Viewed as a more pro-Western voice he was the governor of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development for Uzbekistan in the 1990s.
Alisher Taksanov, an Uzbek journalist who lives in Switzerland argues that Mr Azimov has a good chance also because he is from the "Tashkent clan".
"This clan has managed to seize all key positions in the country - interior ministry, security services, finance ministry, etc. This clan is more powerful than their rival 'Samarkand clan' headed by the Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev."
Clans in central Asia are networks based on regional loyalties and these networks are used to accumulate power and wealth, so particularly influential at times of succession.
But others believe that Mr Mirziyoyev who has served as prime minister since 2003 is more likely to succeed President Karimov.
"If you look at who has more state resources, then Shavkat Mirziyoyev has better chances," says Kamoliddin Rabbimov, an Uzbek political analyst who used to work in the presidential administration before fleeing to France.
"He has been at this job for 13 years and appointed his people to key positions all around the country," Mr Rabbimov argues.
Most agree that the head of the security services Rustam Inoyatov, a former KGB spy, will be a power broker.
Mr Inoyatov is also one of those accused by Ms Karimova to be behind the demise of her empire. But such intrigue imparts a powerful message about how a power transfer will happen in Uzbekistan. Whoever wants to succeed President Karimov must reach a compromise with the rest of the political elite, something Gulnara Karimova refused to do.
"All things point to continuity, to someone who would be inclined to maintaining the kind of regime that Karimov created," Dr McGlinchey argues. "And the reason for that, if you look at Uzbekistan, all sources of wealth [there] come from the government. People who are wealthy in Uzbekistan will have a strong incentive to maintain the system that gave them the wealth in the first place."
So the transition is largely expected to be quiet and hidden from the public and many expect the tone Mr Karimov has set, where dissent is not tolerated and any protest quashed, to continue.
Indeed the successor may not necessarily be a well-known figure, analysts argue.
"This may be a compromise candidate that all power brokers are comfortable with and as a result might not be the big three that we keep hearing about," Dr McGlinchey says.
What is clear is that the new leadership will not try to change the authoritarian system in Uzbekistan. They will continue relying on repression and state propaganda to maintain their power, just as Mr Karimov has done for 27 years. | With the only leader Uzbekistan has ever known still in hospital, and the opposition speculating he might even be dead, the focus is firmly on Islam Karimov's successor. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37241645"} | 1,214 | 45 | 0.462261 | 1.295668 | 0.223053 | 1.03125 | 30.03125 | 0.71875 |
Google stands accused of using its 90% market share of internet search in Europe to promote its own services.
The company has offered to change the way it displays some results to address the worries.
But European Commission competition chief Joaquin Almunia said Google must rethink its response and "present better proposals".
"I concluded that proposals that Google sent to us months ago are not enough to overcome our concerns," Mr Almunia said on Wednesday.
In response, Google spokesman Al Verney said the search giant remained committed to settling the case, and that its offer "clearly addresses" the four areas of concern highlighted by the EU.
Those areas of concern, first highlighted in 2010, were:
On advertising, competitors have complained that it is too difficult to place ads on Google's Ad service using third-party software.
Both sides of the dispute have said they are eager to reach a settlement, but if necessary, the commission could formally file a case - leaving Google open to the prospect of being fined 10% of its annual revenue.
Google submitted in April its proposal to solve the problem. It agreed to display links to rivals close to where it displayed its own services on its results page.
It also offered to more clearly label results from YouTube, Google Maps and its other sites.
But lobby groups from other companies, including Microsoft, disputed the effectiveness of the changes.
"It is clear that mere labelling is not any kind of solution to the competition concerns that have been identified. Google should implement the same ranking policy to all websites," Microsoft said in April.
Google had also been subject to an earlier US Federal Trade Commission probe into competition issues - which ruled there were no concerns.
After receiving Google's proposals in April, the EU submitted the offer to the complainants - Google's rivals - for their consideration.
By Mark GregoryBBC News
Until recently it had seemed that European competition authorities would follow their American counterparts in deciding there were no serious concerns for Google to address.
But now after studying the small print of the search company's proposed remedies, EU officials are clearly taking a much tougher line.
They seem to have some sympathy towards the view - vigorously expressed by Google's opponents - that the search giant's plans to give greater prominence to links to rivals' sites were essentially cosmetic, and would not lead to significant changes in the flow of internet traffic.
The EU has in effect thrown the ball back into Google's court, demanding that it volunteers more meaningful concessions, backed with a still-distant threat of a legal battle and severe penalties if it fails to do so.
The interested third parties include Microsoft, Expedia and Trip Advisor - who form part of Fairsearch, a group of businesses looking to increase competition in the search industry.
A study of UK web users commissioned by the group, conducted by a pair of US academics, suggested that, even under the new proposals, Google-owned services enjoyed "better placement, richer graphics and better visuals" than competitors.
It said that as many as one in five of the 1,888 people studied clicked on Google's commercial web services, compared to one in 200 clicking on its rivals.
Another group, the Microsoft-backed Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace (Icomp), called for a "tight deadline" for Google's revised offer.
"It is reassuring that the commission has recognised, as had been argued by many, that Google's offer of proposed remedies was inadequate," said Icomp's legal counsel David Wood.
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McCoy, 40, announced on Saturday that this season will be his last in racing.
In an in-depth interview with the BBC, the 19-time champion jockey said a three-week injury lay-off earlier this season was the "toughest" of his career because it ended his hopes of reaching the 300 milestone.
He discusses the decision to retire, injuries and his plans for the future.
McCoy spoke to racehorse owner JP McManus, agent Dave Roberts and wife Chanelle before announcing his decision to retire after riding his 200th winner at Newbury on Saturday.
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"Dave Roberts came for dinner and my wife, Chanelle, had no idea why he was coming down. The only person that I'd really spoken to about it was JP, my boss.
"I was a bit low for the next couple of days, so I think I'm going to have my moments.
"I jokingly said I started thinking about it five years ago. In some ways I was joking but I thought, '20 jockey championships, is that realistic? Could I possibly achieve that?'
"And then when I rode my 4,000th winner, I was quite happy and people were asking about riding 5,000. To this day I still feel I could ride 5,000 winners, if I wasn't in the position that I'm in.
"I've been very lucky all my life and the way it happened at Newbury couldn't have been any better.
"It was for JP. I'd ridden a winner earlier in the day on a horse of John Ferguson's to get me to 199. It was my local track, my wife was only down the road. She wasn't even going to come racing until she heard I'd won the first one.
"In some ways I wanted to and in some ways I didn't. I would have liked not to have to announced I was retiring."
With 200 wins this season, McCoy is 79 clear of closest rival Richard Johnson as the Northern Irishman closes in on a 20th jockeys' championship.
"I genuinely think if I retired today and came back as someone else tomorrow, I could ride another 700 winners, no problem. The thing for me was being lucky enough to be in the position I'm in.
"I've won 19 jockeys' championships and hopefully this year will be my 20th. You try to achieve that every year and I always had that little fear of carrying on longer than I should do.
"I've looked up to leading sportspeople all my life. In the last few years, you look at Brian O'Driscoll, who went out at the top. Sir Alex Ferguson won Manchester United's 20th title and retired. That is the way you should depart, when you're at what you think is the top of your game.
"That is the most difficult thing about it because you're leaving when you're still enjoying what you do and at a time when you'd like to carry on, but sometimes you've got to do the right thing.
"I thought about leaving it until the end of the year but I didn't want speculation and people writing about it and talking about it. I wanted it to be on my terms."
The extensive list of injures McCoy has suffered during his 20-year career includes a broken leg, arm, ankle, both wrists, shoulder blades, collar bones, cheekbones and all of his ribs. He has also broken several vertebrae in his back, suffered punctured lungs and had all his teeth replaced due to racing injuries.
Of all of his setbacks, McCoy said a fall at Worcester in October 2014 was the hardest to deal with because it meant he would not achieve his ambition of riding 300 winners in a season.
"I won't miss them but those things challenge you in life and maybe that's the way I am.
"I'm the kind of person who likes to be challenged. When I fell, I always felt I could get up again and carry on.
"After the fall at Worcester, at the time I was the only one who knew what I was dealing with. I had a punctured lung, I dislocated a collarbone, I had broken two ribs. I went back riding after three days and managed to break the same collarbone I'd dislocated.
"I was doing press-ups on the ground to show the doctors it wasn't sore. That's something I don't think I'd have been able to do 15 years ago. It's something I've trained my mind and body to cope with.
"I had the aspiration of riding 300 winners at that time and I knew if I wanted to do that then I had to carry on. I couldn't afford the days off but in the end I had to face up to it.
"Those three weeks I had off were probably, emotionally, the toughest in my racing career.
"At that point in the season I had ridden my fastest 50th winner, my fastest 100th winner, my fastest 150th winner and I thought, 'I can ride 300 winners and this would be the way I'd like to retire'.
"I'd have achieved what I have never been able to achieve in 20 years. When that was taken away from me, that's probably the one thing that hit me the hardest."
At 17, McCoy rode his first winner in Ireland in 1992 and began racing in England two years later. He says he has no firm plans for his retirement but would like to stay involved in racing.
"I'm slightly concerned I have a bit of an obsessive personality. I like to have this idea that I'm going to enjoy my retirement a bit. There's sporting events around the world that I would like to go and see.
"If Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather fought in Las Vegas, I'd like to go and see that. I'd like to go and see Rory McIlroy win the Masters and watch Arsenal win the Champions League final.
"I love racing and it's been so good to me. I'm not going to be bitter about the fact I can't ride any more. I'm well aware that this happens to everyone.
"Whether it be this year or next year, I know there's going to be a good horse that I could have ridden. I would like to stay within racing and try to do whatever good I can for the sport.
"I don't think retiring is anything to be congratulated for. I've been extremely lucky and I know it's the right thing and that the time is right." | Jockey AP McCoy says he will regret not being able to end his career with 300 winners in a season. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31255704"} | 1,487 | 30 | 0.486277 | 1.245098 | -0.619761 | 2.619048 | 63.190476 | 0.904762 |
Selten, 45, was arrested in May 2013 for selling 300 tonnes of horsemeat labelled as beef.
He was found guilty of forging invoices, labels and declarations and using forged documents to sell meat.
Selten's lawyer said his client was "upset and surprised" by the verdict.
The scandal broke in Ireland and Britain in January 2013 when it was found that frozen burgers supplied to several supermarkets, including Tesco, contained horse DNA.
It resulted in a recall of 50,000 tonnes of meat products across Europe, making it one of Europe's largest food scandals.
Selten had been mixing horsemeat with beef and selling it on as 100% pure beef.
Dutch authorities took 167 samples from his meat supplies in February 2013 and 35 tested positive for horse DNA, the court in Den Bosch heard.
At least 336 tonnes of horsemeat passed through his two businesses between 2011 and 2012, the court said.
The court judgment says that because Selten, whose two companies were declared bankrupt in 2013, sold to foreign firms, "he contributed to a negative image for the Dutch meat industry and damaged the sector's interests".
Selten's lawyer told the BBC his client was "upset and surprised" by the verdict.
He said the court's judgment would now be read and a decision made as to whether to appeal.
At the end of his trial last month, Selten said: "Mistakes were made in our bookkeeping.
"I am not the big horsemeat swindler they're all looking for. I was careless with my administration, but not intentionally."
BBC Hague correspondent Anna Holligan says this was a case of food fraud, rather than food safety.
In handing down the two-and-a-half year sentence, the judge said that Selten had already suffered, she reports - he has been declared bankrupt and is facing damages claims of 11 million euros ($12m; £8m). | Dutch horsemeat trader Willy Selten has been found guilty of falsifying documents and sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail for his part in Europe's horsemeat scandal. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32202995"} | 422 | 46 | 0.625304 | 1.731821 | 0.298054 | 2.323529 | 11.147059 | 0.794118 |
The six survivors, all women, walked to a remote village and are being looked after in Dirkou, Niger, Red Cross official Lawal Taher said.
They say several children are among the dead.
The Ghanaians and Nigerians were trying to get to Libya, reports Nigerien news site Sahelien.
So far no-one has visited the site to identify the bodies, Mr Taher added.
The route from Niger to Libya is one of the main ways migrants reach North Africa before crossing the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe.
Crossing the Sahara is one of the most perilous parts of the journey as migrants are crammed into pickup trucks often with only enough room for a few litres of water, reports Reuters news agency.
The harsh Sahara: By Martin Patience, BBC News, Nigeria
The unforgiving conditions of the Sahara Desert mean that a broken down vehicle is often a death sentence for migrants.
Niger serves as a transit point for West Africans hoping to reach Europe to start a better life.
Every year, tens of thousands of migrants cross the Sahara to reach Libya. From the Libyan coast they board rickety boats to ferry them to Europe.
Many drown in the Mediterranean but, perhaps, less well known, are the dangers they face while crossing the Sahara.
It's not known how many deaths there are every year - as it's a vast, ungoverned region. But many migrants die of thirst, while others are robbed and attacked by criminal gangs and security forces.
'My sister drowned getting to Europe'
Authorities told Reuters that is it almost impossible to know how many have died in the vast and unpoliced Sahara.
Last June, the bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, were found in the Sahara Desert near Niger's border with Algeria.
It appeared they had died of thirst after being abandoned by their smuggler, a government minister said at the time. | Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, the Red Cross has told the BBC. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40118370"} | 432 | 34 | 0.570745 | 1.367781 | 0.235145 | 1.655172 | 12.896552 | 0.827586 |
People have faced a 10-mile detour since Eastham Bridge in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire, gave way in front of a school bus in May.
Two pairs of steel beams, 33m (108ft) long and weighing 84 tonnes in total, have been lifted across the River Teme.
The bridge is expected to open to traffic in two months.
The 18th Century original collapsed after fast-moving water undermined its piers.
The bus driver managed to reverse off the bridge as its apex crashed into the river below.
Farmer Celia Adams said she was "very very pleased" to come on Saturday and "see that we're getting the bridge put up again".
She said: "We farm either side of this river so we've had tremendous detours for months.
"Now [we've] just started lambing so we've got all the upheaval of all the flock of ewes to be lambed and we're not able obviously to go to the other side unless we do the 10-mile detour."
Worcestershire County Council said Saturday's work represented a "major milestone".
Head of highways Jon Fraser said: "People have been very concerned... It's massively important for the local people.
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The 21-year-old lines up with Edinburgh team-mate Hamish Watson and John Barclay in the back row.
Grant Gilchrist replaces injured lock Richie Gray, while winger Tommy Seymour returns to take over from Tim Visser.
The final change from last weekend's late loss to Australia sees Fraser Brown start at hooker.
Ross Ford, who won his 100th cap in the 23-22 defeat, drops to the bench, along with Visser and Ryan Wilson.
Edinburgh back row Cornell du Preez was called up for the first time, but there is no place in the matchday squad for the South Africa-born 25-year-old, who became eligible last month through residency rules.
Cotter said that the game has come too soon for Du Preez to make his debut, but club-mate Bradbury gets the call.
"He's impressed us in training, he gets an opportunity," said the head coach.
"He's athletic and we're playing a team that moves the ball pretty quickly. He's well balanced between attack and defence, he's not a one-dimensional player.
"He can jump in the lineout and turnover ball he carries well. He moves across the ground.
"We're playing a team that offloads the ball a lot, with athletic forwards, so we need defensive qualities, but we also want to take the ball to them and Magnus gives us the opportunity to run very hard at them as well."
Richie Gray suffered a head knock against Australia, as did John Hardie, an early replacement for Wilson against Australia, who is expected to be out of action for eight weeks after surgery on his sprained ankle.
"If you look at last week's game, there were 500 collisions and Richie had a big part of those and can't take the field this week," said Cotter.
"That's what happens, but it's opportunities for others. We selected a squad knowing that getting to the last game we might have a few guys down. We just try do our best."
There are two changes among the replacements, with prop Alex Allan and lock Tim Swinson coming in for Gordon Reid and the promoted Gilchrist.
Scotland are aiming for a third consecutive victory over the Pumas, following a 41-31 success at Murrayfield two years ago and a 21-19 win in Cordoba in the summer of 2014.
Argentina have the upper hand overall, with nine victories from the 15 meetings since the first recognised Test in 1990.
"Every week we want to improve," added Cotter. "We did a lot of good things against Australia: we scored three tries to their two, we were aggressive in attack and our defence held strong for the most part.
"While it's disappointing we didn't walk off with the win, I'm proud of the courage the players showed and the way they adapted to changes due to injuries.
"Saturday's game is going to be a different challenge for us, both physically and mentally, against a very dangerous Argentina side."
Scotland: Hogg, Maitland, Jones, Dunbar, Seymour, Russell, Laidlaw (capt), Dell, Brown, Fagerson, Gilchrist, J Gray, Bradbury, Watson, Barclay.
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After claiming five of the six points on day two, they needed just two-and-a-half points from Sunday's eight singles for victory at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club.
Bailey Tardy, Monica Vaughn and Andrea Lee all secured wins for the Americans.
But Meghan MacLaren held on to defeat USA's Bethany Wu at the 17th and secure the winning point for GB & Ireland.
A win for Leona Maguire over Sienna Brooks and a half-point from Olivia Mehaffey against world number one Hannah O'Sullivan had put the hosts on the verge of victory.
Following the flurry of American success, MacLaren saw her three-hole lead with four to play cut to a single hole before taking the penultimate hole for a 2&1 win to settle the overall contest.
Moments later, Bronte Law defeated Mika Liu by two holes to become just the second player ever to record a perfect 5-0 record, American Stacy Lewis having done so at St Andrews in 2008, the year the event switched from two to three days.
Mariel Galdiano defeated Irish golfer Maria Dunne in the last match to narrow the margin of defeat for the Americans to three points.
World number four Law said: "For me to end it this way - it's probably going to be my last Curtis Cup - is just a dream. I am so proud to just represent my country."
US captain Robin Burke felt her side had been capable of pulling off a similar comeback to that of last year's Solheim Cup team, who recovered from a four-point deficit in the singles in Germany.
"GB & Ireland just played really well yesterday," she said.
"They made a ton of birdies on us and we almost recovered. We just didn't quite get there." | Great Britain and Ireland won the Curtis Cup for only the second time in the last 10 contests after overcoming a resurgent USA 11½-8½ in County Wicklow. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36513092"} | 407 | 44 | 0.491244 | 1.15932 | 0.172722 | 0.928571 | 12.392857 | 0.571429 |
However the study suggests performance has improved in other areas and there is no evidence that Wales is "lagging behind" any other part of the UK.
The research - comparing England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - shows a significant deterioration in Welsh waiting times since 2009.
This was during an "unprecedented squeeze" on finances.
Those behind the research claim the performance on waiting times should "set alarm bells ringing amongst policy makers" at a time when governments across the UK are considering how to prioritise spending in a time of austerity.
But across a number of other measures - such as rates of avoidable deaths - the research suggests the NHS in Wales is broadly in line with the rest of the UK or has improved to a "similar level to England".
According to Health Minister Mark Drakeford the study proves Prime Minister David Cameron's recent attacks on the performance of the Welsh NHS had been "utterly unfounded".
"I would say this report shoots Mr Cameron's fox good and proper," he told BBC Wales.
The research, jointly commissioned by Nuffield Trust and The Health Foundation, also concludes that "the performance gap between England and the rest of the UK has narrowed in recent years" and that "there is little sign that one country is moving ahead of the others consistently across the available indicators of performance".
It also suggests differing health policies, introduced across the UK since devolution, may have had less effect on performance than may have been expected.
WAITING TIMES
In the years leading up to 2009/10, the length of time patients had to wait for a wide range of common procedures improved significantly in Wales and across the UK.
But since then waiting times in Wales for many of those procedures have lengthened substantially. This is in contrast to the trends England and Scotland.
The research notes that in 2012/13 patients in Wales waited on average about 170 days for a hip or knee replacement, compared to 77 days in England and 67 days in Scotland.
The study also reveals that 10% of patients in Wales at that time had to wait almost 300 days for a knee or hip replacement, a coronary artery bypass, or removal of a varicose vein.
It also indicated the average Welsh waiting time for a hip replacement had lengthened by 69 days. In 2009/10 the wait was 101. Between 2012/13 it was 170 days.
According to the study, the reasons for the deterioration were "unclear" but it suggests the decision by the Welsh Labour government not to protect its health budget after the last assembly election in 2011 (in contrast England, Scotland and Northern Ireland) may be a contributory factor.
Between 2010/11 and 2012/13 the research notes health spending in cash terms rose by 1% a year in England and Scotland and by 2% a year in Northern Ireland. The NHS in Wales however saw a 1% a year cut.
Previously the Welsh government has claimed that despite the squeeze on NHS spending it has protected its social care budget to a much greater extent than elsewhere in the UK.
The report's authors concede the potential effects or benefits of that decision on social care may not have been reflected in this particular study.
OTHER MEASURES
But beyond waiting times the study suggests the Welsh NHS faces other distinct challenges.
During the period under study:
However other indicators are more encouraging.
Wales had the second lowest death rates for men and women due to diseases (such as heart disease) which can be treated by healthcare.
Although worse than in England, the avoidable death rate was lower than in the north east of England which has a similar, but not identical socio-economic profile. The north east has, however, seen a faster rate of improvement.
Meanwhile, life expectancy in Wales, although lower than in England continues to be higher than in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the north east of England.
The Welsh public seem to be more satisfied with the way the NHS is generally run and about the performance of their GP surgeries than patients in England and Scotland. However Welsh patients have the least positive experience of hospital stays.
And despite long waiting times, more knee replacement operations are performed in Wales per head of population than anywhere else, but fewer varicose vein removals. For gall bladder, coronary bypass, hernia and hip replacements the Welsh NHS is in the middle of the pack.
There is no significant difference, according to the report, between Wales and the rest of the UK when it comes to breast screening, immunisation rates and survival following kidney transplants.
ANALYSIS
With the political row about the state of the Welsh NHS showing no signs of abating, and with each side accusing the other of giving the public a misleading picture about its performance, this report's publication could not have been timed better. So what does the study conclude?
Given the ferocity of the attacks on NHS, the Welsh government will take some comfort from such findings as there is "little sign that one country is moving ahead or lagging behind".
In Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, David Cameron claimed yet again that Labour had a "truly dreadful" record on health and that the "shambles" in Wales was in stark contrast to the "well-run" NHS in England.
The critics however will seize on the far more pointed descriptions of Wales' lengthening waiting times where words such as "striking", "disproportionate" and "alarm bells" were used.
They will argue the study demonstrates how thousands of patients have had to wait longer in pain - simply because they live in Wales.
Throughout the report the evidence seems to suggests - broadly speaking - the more you spend - the better the NHS performs.
So there will be questions about whether the Welsh government made a mistake in not following the other nations in protecting it's health budget back in 2011.
Was the decision last year to give health a cash injection of over £600m over three years a tacit admission of that?
The health minister says the assembly government chose instead to protect social care to a much greater extent than elsewhere.
That decision he claims is now reaping many benefits - with a fewer numbers of patients in Wales than ever before facing delayed transfers of care from hospitals.
TRENDS ELSEWHERE IN THE UK
The researchers note the following trends in NHS performance across the four nations.
Since undertaking the previous study in 2010 (which used data up to 2006/7) England performs marginally better across a number of key indicators, including avoidable deaths, life expectancy and ambulance response times.
But, the report says the gap has narrowed and differences between the countries are often small. Nurse staffing levels have been lower in England than in the other three countries over the period studied.
Scotland shows a marked upturn in performance on indicators associated with targets and performance management, such as waiting times for planned surgery, which now broadly match England's, and ambulance response times.
Wales demonstrates improved performance on a number of indicators, but shows deteriorating performance on waiting times since 2010, with striking rises in waits for common procedures such as knee or hip operations. In 2012/13 a typical Welsh patient waited about 170 days for a hip or knee replacement compared to about 70 days in England and Scotland.
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Tiny Rebel brewery in Newport wanted Swedes to taste bottles of its "unique schizophrenic" Fubar pale ale.
But the export drive was blocked after a consumer protection agency said the label was contrary to guidelines.
Co-founder Bradley Cummings, 26, said: "Looks like Fubar won't be heading over to Sweden any time soon."
The firm, launched 18 months ago, has already seen exports of bottles and kegs to Denmark, Norway, Italy and Australia.
But hopes of adding Sweden to the list stopped with an email asking the firm to review the label on the bottles of beer.
It said: "In reviewing this label, we believe this may be contrary to the Consumer Agency's guidelines for advertising of alcoholic beverages to consumers.
"The overall impression including weapons and bullet holes are not expected to exercise special moderation."
Mr Cummings said he had not long returned from a business trip to Sweden to discuss exporting Fubar so the email rejection was a surprise.
He said: "It might have been our fault for not looking at the advertising laws. Every country is different and we do appreciate that.
"It would be boring if everything country was the same. They have a very different drinking culture over there."
Fubar was runner-up in the Welsh champion beer awards in Cardiff in June, which saw the brewery sweep the board.
Mr Cummings said the firm, started with partner Gareth Williams, 31, now employs six people and produces the equivalent of 640 casks of beer, in casks for the UK market and bottles and kegs for overseas, a month. | A brewery's bid to export one its brands to Sweden has faltered because the beer's label features a hand grenade and bullet holes. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "23600242"} | 353 | 34 | 0.53274 | 1.432279 | 0.282382 | 1 | 12.230769 | 0.692308 |
Mr Lungu, elected in January, collapsed while giving a speech to commemorate International Women's Day in the capital, Lusaka, on Sunday.
During the campaign, Mr Lungu's allies denied reports he was sick and he offered to undergo a medical check-up.
The election was called following the death of his predecessor Michael Sata.
Mr Lungu, 58, was treated at a local hospital and his office issued a report assuring Zambians that the president was "feeling better" and would return home on Monday.
A statement from the president's office said he was suffering from a narrowing of the oesophagus which needed "high-tech medical procedure which is currently unavailable in Zambia".
"Therefore he has been referred for specialised treatment abroad," it said.
It said this was a recurrence of a condition for which he had been treated 30 years ago.
The statement did not specify when Mr Lungu would have the operation and journalists were not allowed to ask questions at the press briefing.
Mr Lungu, a former defence minister, is due to serve the remainder of Mr Sata's term, until elections in 2016.
While Mr Sata was president, the government was accused of covering up his ill-health.
Journalist Meluse Kapatamoyo says that after the deaths of two serving presidents in six years, some Zambians are concerned about Mr Lungu's condition.
Mr Sata died while in London and Ms Kapatamoyo says Zambians are likely to be even more anxious when Mr Lungu goes abroad for treatment.
However, she says that some people have been reassured by the regular medical updates on Mr Lungu's condition. | Zambian President Edgar Lungu has to undergo throat surgery abroad, his doctors say, after earlier reporting that he had malaria. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31795526"} | 392 | 28 | 0.591125 | 1.465682 | -0.046526 | 0.869565 | 13.826087 | 0.608696 |
Groups of bankers who went by the exotic names of The A Team, The 3 Musketeers and The Players colluded to fix foreign exchange rates for the advantage of their banks.
And themselves.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) helpfully published a selection of the messages - just so we could all see what was going on.
Mr McEwan is one banking chief executive who has actually faced the media music today. Of course, his bank is 80% owned by the taxpayer, so he has more responsibility than most.
But the approach is certainly in contrast to the response of others. HSBC, for example, put out a one line statement this morning after the announcement of the record fines for foreign exchange manipulation.
"HSBC does not tolerate improper conduct and will take whatever action is appropriate," it said.
In his interview with me, Mr McEwan was slightly more expansive.
"The chat room articles talk about the individual looking after themselves and not looking after the customer and that's the thing that makes me cringe," he said.
"We are building an organisation centred around the customer and these are a few people looking after themselves and their mates at other firms - unacceptable, totally unacceptable."
He said disciplinary action could follow and I understand that three people have already been suspended by RBS with a further six under what is known as "serious review". Over 50 present and former staff are having their work investigated.
"We have a major accountability review that started some months ago," Mr McEwan said.
"We've been looking through the millions and millions of emails and files and chat room conversations. That process is underway today to look at who is accountable.
"As an organisation we do want to hold people accountable for good behaviour and rewards - and bad behaviour. We will be clawing back [pay awards] and taking disciplinary proceedings where wrongdoing has been done."
This has been another grim day for banking.
Despite protestations that things are changing, there is evidence published by the FCA today suggesting that, before the official investigation, whistleblowers were ignored by banks and complaints from customers (the global businesses and pension funds that rely on foreign exchange markets) pushed aside.
Interviewing the Governor of the Bank of England on Monday, I was struck when he said issues of misconduct were now so widespread they could have an impact on financial stability.
And the banks are nowhere near out of this peculiar Groundhog Day - where fines arrive as regularly as London buses.
Banks are still setting aside billions of pounds to deal with the mis-selling of payment protection insurance.
Further, banks have paid out £1.4bn to settle claims they mis-sold interest rate hedging products to small businesses. There will be more to come.
On foreign exchange, criminal investigations are ongoing by the Serious Fraud Office and the Department of Justice in America.
They could drag on to 2016 with trials and possible jail sentences.
There are also investigations into the operation of the commodities market and the US housing market at the time of the financial crisis.
Legal action is pending over efforts by RBS to raise £12bn of capital in 2008 and Lloyds calamitous takeover of Halifax Bank of Scotland the same year.
And RBS will soon hear the details of millions of pounds of fines it is facing over the collapse of its IT systems in 2012 which led to people being locked out of their accounts.
Barclays is also facing regulatory misconduct claims over its capital raising, also in 2008, from Qatari and Abu Dhabi investors.
And so it goes on. And on.
Public frustration is understandable. At the top - the likes of Mr McEwan - there seems genuine desire for change.
And of course, the vast majority of people working in banking - traders included - are simply trying to do a good job.
But while a handful of influential "Musketeers" and "Players" are talking about screwing the opposition and doing collusive deals (remember, the evidence published today is from as recently as last year) the public will remain sceptical that the banking stables can ever be cleaned out. | The chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has told me that he "cringed" when he saw copies of the chat room messages which talk of "making free money" and "keeping numpties out of the market". | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30027544"} | 886 | 55 | 0.358252 | 0.986764 | -0.076925 | 1.340426 | 17.297872 | 0.787234 |
Carwyn Jones said the OECD report "nails the lie that the NHS in Wales is being out-performed by England".
The Welsh Conservatives pointed out the OECD had not looked at waiting times.
Plaid Cymru said the report backed its view that local health boards were "not fit for purpose".
Mr Jones claimed David Cameron and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had "denigrated" NHS staff in Wales to gain political advantage.
He said the UK government should examine its own record on health in England.
"There is a good reason that junior doctors are not on strike in Wales," he said.
"It is because we value our NHS workforce, and work with them to modernise and bring through change.
"With a growing social care crisis in England, and the continuing doctors' strike, it is time the Tories focused on getting their own house in order.
"We accept that the NHS in Wales has challenges ahead - just like every healthcare system in Europe - and we are up for meeting that challenge.
"That is why we spend more on the NHS and on social care than in England; why access to cancer drugs is faster and why we are investing more than ever in training nurses and other NHS staff."
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said Labour needed to apologise for longer waiting times in Wales, availability of cancer treatments, and £1bn of budget cuts since 2011.
"Let's be clear - this report is not a comparison study, and it fails to take into consideration one of the most important aspects of the patient experience - waiting times," he said.
"Previous reports by the House of Commons Library, the Wales Audit Office and the Nuffield Trust have showed that spending has been slashed by Labour since 2011 and that waiting times are much longer here in Wales."
Plaid Cymru's health spokeswoman Elin Jones pointed to the OECD's criticism of the local health boards in Wales, and recommendation of "a stronger central guiding hand".
"The health board model that currently exists in Wales is too cumbersome and unwieldy, and Plaid Cymru is proposing a model to create nationally-designed hospital services serving local communities throughout Wales with a modern, safe service," she said.
"Plaid Cymru will create a Community NHS to integrate all local health and care services, to meet the needs of local communities and to be innovative in its response to those needs."
A UK government Department of Health spokeswoman said: "This report shows the NHS is a leader in transparency, implementing quality and collecting patient feedback, which are all essential to our promise to deliver high quality care to every patient, seven days a week.
"We know there is still much more to do in order to make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world, which is why we have prioritised frontline care and invested £10bn to fund the NHS's own plan for its future."
The political stakes couldn't really be higher as the governments in Cardiff and London digest the OECD report this morning.
I was in Llangollen in 2014 when David Cameron made his remark about the Welsh border being a "line between life and death".
It animated the bitter disagreements between the two administrations on how the NHS should work, and it's soured the relationship ever since.
The Conservatives insist they were drawing attention to perceived failings by the Labour-run Welsh NHS - and given the Tory gains made in last year's general election, they may feel vindicated.
But Labour insist they were unfairly criticised - yes, some waiting times are longer, but on other indicators Wales is doing better than England.
It's fair to say some in the Welsh government found the relentless media focus in the wake of the Cameron remarks pretty bruising.
The OECD (which didn't look at waiting times, by the way) concludes that Wales isn't doing better or worse than its neighbours - hence the demand from the first minister for an apology from the PM.
He's unlikely to get one - and, with an assembly election in three months time, don't expect the rhetoric to be toned down either. | NHS staff in Wales deserve an apology from the Tories, the first minister has said, after a major report said the health service was no worse in Wales than elsewhere in the UK. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35559356"} | 912 | 39 | 0.536288 | 1.348921 | -0.086398 | 1.805556 | 22.75 | 0.861111 |
Composer Matthew Herbert, known for his use of "found sounds", has been appointed creative director.
One of his first commissions is a "sonic memorial" to the BBC's Bush House building which, until recently, was the home of the World Service.
The original workshop was known for its pioneering use of electronic sounds.
Founded in 1958, it was best-known for creating the eerie swoosh of the Doctor Who theme tune, but its compositions were also used in numerous radio dramas, The Goon Show and The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
As well as music, the workshop created sound effects - from champagne corks popping to the distorted, strangulated voices of the Daleks.
While the first workshop was based in the BBC's Maida Vale studios, the new incarnation will live online, at The Space, a new digital arts service developed by the Arts Council and the BBC.
Herbert will lead "seven fellow cutting-edge collaborators" in making new sounds and music.
The composer is known for his experimental sound collages, which often have socio-political themes.
On last year's One Pig film and album, he recorded the life of a pig from birth to its slaughter at 20 weeks, and its subsequent serving as a meal.
In a live performance at 2004's London Jazz Festival, he drove a tank over a replica of a meal Nigella Lawson had cooked for Tony Blair and George Bush.
More conventionally, he has worked on records at the innovative edge of pop, including Bjork's Vespertine album.
His first work for The New Radiophonic Workshop takes audio from 25 previous projects featured on the website - from theatre performances to poetry readings - creating a "curious murmur of activity".
It can be heard by clicking on a button labelled "listen to The Space" at the top of any page on the website.
"It is the perfect time for the rebirth of the workshop," he said.
"The rapid pace of change in technologies has meant our imaginations are struggling to keep up.
"By bringing together the people making the technology with people making the music, we are hoping to find engaging answers to some of the modern problems associated with the role of sound and music on the internet, in certain creative forms and within broadcasting."
The other artists joining Herbert in the New Radiophonic Workshop are Mica Levi, from the band Micachu and the Shapes, Yann Seznec, Max de Wardener, theatre director Lyndsey Turner, Patrick Bergel and broadcast technologist Tony Churnside. | The BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, which created theme tunes and sound effects for programmes including Doctor Who and Blake's 7, is to reopen after 14 years. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "19568120"} | 585 | 37 | 0.404511 | 1.146337 | -0.157124 | 1.2 | 16.666667 | 0.733333 |
McColgan, 24, broke her ankle in January and has suffered a setback in her return from injury.
"Initially, we believed this injury would be a small blip in the road meaning six weeks off from running," McColgan wrote in a training blog.
"Sadly, the fracture has fully extended."
The Scot competed at London 2012 in the 3000m steeplechase, failing to make the final, and came sixth in the same event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
She said: "There is nothing I can do except rest and attempt to let the bone heal as impacting the joint will continue to open the fracture.
"The healing becomes less likely as time goes on, so shortly I will find out whether I need to undergo surgery in order to force the bone to heal.
"Hopefully from September I can slowly build up my training again. A completely injury-free, illness-free, winter is going to be central to my preparation for 2016 and many athletes struggle to achieve that.
"Rio 2016 will come round before any of us realise and at the end of the day the Olympic Games is the pinnacle. All the hard work, dedication, and sacrifices are purely for the Olympics. Every athlete wants to be a part of it.
"My event choice is still under question - perhaps a move to the 5000m or 10,000m will be more feasible after foot surgery, rather than risking injury over the steeplechase in such an important year." | Eilish McColgan says the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio are "now more than ever" her goal after revealing she is unlikely to race again this year. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32820579"} | 318 | 35 | 0.572463 | 1.389113 | -0.044223 | 0.862069 | 10.206897 | 0.724138 |
He was responding to a question by MP Dominic Grieve about the Heathrow spur.
Mr McLoughlin said: "I would now like to make clear that we do not intend to build the spur as part of Phase 1 or 2 of the HS2 scheme".
HS2 is a planned high-speed rail network from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
Previously the government had said any decision about the Heathrow spur would be delayed until the Davies Commission's report on future UK airport capacity had been completed.
Responding to Mr Grieve's written Parliamentary question, the minister cited the Airports Commission review findings - published in November - which "indicated that an HS2 spur is highly unlikely to be necessary to support any expansion of Heathrow airport".
Nick Hurd, Conservative MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner tweeted he was "delighted" the government had dropped the idea and gave "credit to ministers for listening to our argument".
He said the best way of connecting passengers to Heathrow was via Old Oak Common. He said it also simplified the case for extending the HS2 tunnel to protect Ickenham and Colne Valley.
Paul Prentice, assistant news editor at Rail magazine said it was a "very sensible decision. Bearing in mind there is already a spur tunnel to Heathrow and another western link being built".
Campaigner Lottie Jones from Hillingdon Against HS2 said the group was "delighted" with the decision but cautious that it was not "just a pre-election sweetener" that might be revoked. | Plans for a new rail link to Heathrow Airport as part of the HS2 high-speed network have been ruled out by the transport minister Patrick McLoughlin. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31814933"} | 351 | 40 | 0.506765 | 1.201576 | -0.030255 | 1.310345 | 10.068966 | 0.758621 |
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir told the BBC's Inside Business programme the funding could apply to private companies and councils.
"I am of the opinion, we've had a chance to discuss it very briefly at the executive that we should have our own stimulus package sitting at the centre," he said.
"So if we set x million pounds aside or tens of millions of pounds aside each year that we say to the councils in particular, we say to the private sector, could you match this if we set aside x million, can we have a multiplier effect of two or three times that."
Inside Business is on Radio Ulster at 13:30 GMT on Sunday 27 November. | The finance minister has asked the executive to consider an economic stimulus package which would see businesses matching investment money put forward by the government. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38097788"} | 154 | 27 | 0.524901 | 1.253312 | 0.691432 | 0.461538 | 5.115385 | 0.307692 |
For 150 years, the town's steelworks, with plumes of smoke rising from their imposing towers, have dominated Scunthorpe's skyline and its manufacturing industry.
But the past 40 years have marked a long, slow decline, with numbers employed at the plant on North Lincoln Road dropping from 30,000 in the 1950s to 4,000 in 2015.
Now, almost a quarter of those people are set to lose their jobs.
"This will kill Scunthorpe, there will be nothing."
So says Karen Hope-Dilley, who runs the Grange Lane Cafe just down the road.
She said: "Morale of the customers is just at rock bottom. People are really scared about what's happening.
"They're worried about their jobs, their futures, their children, their families."
Adrienne Calder, who also works at the cafe, said it could cost the family their business.
"Everyone is in the same situation, we could potentially close down because we haven't got the people coming in to buy our food."
For those directly affected by the news, the future seems even more bleak.
Single dad David Sayers is the third generation of his family to work at the Scunthorpe site and described the news as a "disaster."
"I support my family and if I potentially lose my income, I could lose my home as well," he said.
For others, whose entire careers have been spent on the plate mills, prospects could be limited.
James Parkinson worked at the steelworks for more than 30 years, as did his father, uncles and grandfather.
"If you ask anyone in the town, they will know someone who's worked there.
84,900
Total employment
56,300 Full-time employed
20,600 Part-time employed
8,000 Self-employed
4,000 Tata steelworkers
"Now they're getting rid of 900 jobs and they're going to say, 'Sorry son, there's no jobs for you, here's your redundancy, we'll try to help as much as we can'.
In nearby Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lorraine Cable, whose two sons both work at Tata, said the future was no brighter for the younger generation.
200,000
People employed in the UK steel sector in the 1970s
30,000 People employed in the sector today
2,200 Job losses at Redcar
900 Jobs axed at Scunthorpe
270 Jobs to go in Lanarkshire
"They would have to sign on like everyone else because there will be so many people looking for jobs and there aren't any at the minute, even without people being laid off."
"There's nothing else here for them."
Resident Eric Longbottom said competition is likely to be fierce for the few jobs going once the redundancies are made.
"A friend of mine was out of work for two or three years and every time he went for a job, there were 20 or 30 people applying for the same one.
"So what's it going to be like now? There will be 100 people or more going for those jobs. It's devastating, it will affect people for miles around."
Nic Dakin, Labour MP for Scunthorpe, said the development was "devastating" for workers and their families.
"The key issue at the moment must be to make sure that they are given maximum support during this very difficult time," he said.
Many fear the latest announcement - which has done nothing to quell rumours of the site's eventual closure - could turn Scunthorpe into a "ghost town".
Asim Akhter, manager of Home Furnishings in the town centre, said something needed to be done to save the site.
"If it closes it will be chaos for the town. That site is half of Scunthorpe, if someone can come and take over, that could save Scunthorpe.
"If not, it's sad news for everyone."
One resident who spoke to BBC Radio Lincolnshire described the knock-on effect the job losses would have on the town.
"It's not just steelworkers' jobs, it's peripheral businesses, small construction companies, suppliers, they are all going to suffer," he said.
Meanwhile, chaplain for the steelworks Rev Peter Vickers said it was an emotional time for staff.
"You've got fear, you've got anger, you've got frustration, you've got doubt - you've got them all.
"There's been an awful lot of fretting going on and I suspect a lot of friction in various households, where all the parties in the family work on this site."
Retired steelworker David Jenkins, who worked at the plant for 40 years, said it was "a sad day".
"I feel very sorry for the lads who are left there. It's been coming for a long time," he added. | As 900 workers at Tata's Scunthorpe plant face losing their jobs, what will be the knock-on effect for the North Lincolnshire town "built on steel"? | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34580178"} | 1,080 | 41 | 0.527204 | 1.499313 | 0.625712 | 1.96875 | 30.09375 | 0.90625 |
Researchers push, kick and tease the remarkable new Atlas robot, which is an upgrade of models we've seen from the firm previously.
Despite the distractions, Atlas continues with its task of picking up and moving boxes.
In one instance, a member of the Boston Dynamics team gives Atlas such a severe whack to its upper back that it falls over, face first on to the floor.
After a moment of reflection, the robot pushes its arms out and jolts itself upright, before somewhat dejectedly walking out of the building.
Other demonstrations shown in the video posted by Boston Dynamics show Atlas walking around in the snow, righting itself whenever it encounters difficult terrain.
"It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated," the company explained.
"It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain and help with navigation."
The robot is 5ft 9in (175cm) tall and weighs 180lb (82kg).
We learned in December last year that plans to develop a four-legged dog-like robot had been shelved after it was deemed too noisy for its purpose on combat zones.
It had been hoped that the robot would be able to follow troops while carrying extra kit.
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In a statement, the central bank said it would no longer accept Greek government bonds as collateral for lending money to commercial banks.
The move makes access to cash more expensive for Greece's banks.
In Athens, the stock market fell more than 6%, while bank stocks tumbled as much as 16%.
The ECB said that its move was because it could not assume a "successful" deal on Greece's €240bn (£179bn) bailout.
Shares in Greek banks fell sharply, with Alpha Bank shares were down 10%, Eurobank shares down 15%, and National Bank of Greece 12.3% lower. The wider Athens stock market initially fell more 10% before recovering slightly.
Italian and Spanish stock markets were also trading down about 1% by mid-morning.
The yield, or interest rate, on Greek bonds rose more than two percentage points as investors demanded higher returns on the country's debt.
The newly-elected Greek government is in talks with international creditors over the terms of its bailout, which it thinks are too harsh.
The Greek finance ministry said the ECB's decision, which is due to come into effect on 11 February, would have "no adverse impact" on the country's financial industry.
It said the sector was "fully protected", with other options still available.
Banks can still access funding through the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) programme, run by Greece's central bank, and at a much higher cost to the banks.
According to the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, the interest rate is 1.55%, compared with 0.05% on regular ECB financing.
Earlier on Wednesday, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, met the ECB's president Mario Draghi to discuss the country's bailout.
Analysts said the ECB statement was a sign the meeting had not been a success.
"This is clearly the ECB signalling to the Greek government: You're going to have to talk to [international lenders] the troika and get a deal,'' Jacob Kirkegaard, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics told the Associated Press.
"Otherwise, really bad things are going to happen.''
The euro fell sharply against the dollar on the news, dropping more than a cent to $1.1331.
On Thursday, Mr Varoufakis is due to meet his German counterpart, Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of the toughest critics of the new Greek government.
The European Central Bank's decision reflects the uncertainty about whether Greece will reach an agreement on its bailout programme with the rest of the Eurozone.
Greek government bonds have such a poor credit rating that the ECB only accepts them as collateral if the Government has such a support programme in place.
The immediate direct impact on the Greek banks is likely to be relatively moderate. They can use other assets to borrow from the ECB and they can turn to the national central bank - but at a higher interest rate.
The move does however add to the pressure on the Greek government to do a deal.
Over the next few weeks the banks in Greece could face further stress.
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Mary Colwell will walk from Enniskillen to the east coast of England to help the curlew.
Its numbers have declined rapidly in Northern Ireland in recent years.
It is now on a red list of birds giving cause for conservation concern. The journey will take Mary six weeks.
Along the way she will promote the plight of the wader whose evocative call was once common in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland has lost around 80% of its curlews in the past two decades.
The drainage of land, the planting of trees in wetland, and pressure from predators have all had an impact.
The RSPB is running several conservation programmes in Northern Ireland in counties Fermanagh, Down and Derry.
They are working with farmers to preserve habitat.
In Fermanagh, there are thought to be only around a hundred breeding pairs.
The bird likes rough, wet vegetation and grasses of different heights where they can hide from predators and forage for food.
Mary Colwell has had a lifelong interest in the birds.
"I love the way they look," she said.
"I love the long bill, it looks quite comical. It has got a little head and a plump body and long legs.
"But it holds all those characteristics with tremendous grace and beauty.
"And combine that with its call which is utterly evocative and beautiful, particularly at this time of year when they're breeding."
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Goals from Kyle Bennett, Michael Doyle and a Matt Pearson own goal gave Pompey a 3-1 win in the League two match - their third victory in four games.
Portsmouth have lost only one of their last seven matches and are six points behind third-placed Plymouth.
"The first half was probably the best performance we have had in relation to the magnitude of the game," said Cook.
"We absolutely dominated a team that have been excellent at home," he told BBC Radio Solent.
"We took a lot of criticism at Barnet away and we have taken that criticism properly - we have stood up like men."
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No other Brit has managed that many, and only 45 other players from around the world have passed the landmark since Open tennis began in 1968.
There are eight other currently active players who have passed 500 wins too, with Roger Federer topping the pile on 1,012 wins.
But which of Andy's 500 victories have been the most significant?
The 18-year-old Scot had already proved he knew his way round a grass-court by reaching the third round at Queen's where he came up against the 2002 Australian Open champion Thomas Johansson. Murray split the first two sets with the Swede on two tie-breaks, and it was nip and tuck in the decider when the Scot's physical condition deteriorated. He struggled with cramp, appeared to faint at one point and could barely run by the end of the match. Johansson came through 7-6 6-7 7-5 but Murray proved he could mix it with the world's best, although his weak physical condition was a concern.
By now Murray was hovering around the top 10 in the world but was yet to make a breakthrough in a Grand Slam. In the fourth round that year, Murray came up against the flashy Frenchman Richard Gasquet, who stormed into a two-set lead. Murray showed impressive steel and determination however to drag himself back into contention in front of an increasingly hysterical centre court crowd. Murray's physical condition was much improved and when he secured victory in the fifth set, he turned to his box and flexed his bicep, highlighting the work he'd put in off court to toughen himself up.
The Spaniard had thrashed the Scot in the last eight of Wimbledon a couple of months previously, but when they met again in the last four in New York, Murray was tougher both physically and mentally. It was his first appearance in a Grand Slam semi-final and he took the fight to the then world number one, even winning the physical battle with a player renowned for his strength and powers of recovery. Murray went through to the final in four sets, where he was dismantled by Roger Federer in three. Not the result he wanted, but it was further proof that here was a Grand Slam champion in waiting.
Murray was still waiting for that maiden major triumph after three previous final defeats, and anticipation was rightly high after he booked his spot in the Wimbledon final. On the other side of the net was arguably the greatest player of all time, particularly on a grass-court, Roger Federer. The Swiss is immensely popular wherever he plays, not least on centre court which is why the crowd's affection appeared to be evenly split. Federer impressed on the way to a four-set win, but it was during the presentation ceremony that Murray really left his mark. The Scot gave a tearful speech which endeared him to millions and released some of the pressure and tension he had been carrying on his shoulders.
Just a matter of weeks after his Wimbledon final defeat, Murray had the chance for revenge against the Swiss on the same court in the Olympic final. On this occasion there was no doubt where the crowd's loyalties lay; Murray swept to victory on the back of a vocal and euphoric wave of British Olympic fever. He handed the Swiss one of his most humbling defeats in a final, securing the gold medal with an ace. It may not have been a major, but it was his biggest title to date and it proved he was getting closer to that all important first Grand Slam crown.
Murray was the form player of the summer after that Wimbledon final and his gold medal triumph. However, he had suffered defeat in all his four Grand Slam finals to date. On this occasion it was the defending champion Novak Djokovic on the other side of the next. Murray made a strong start, taking the first two sets before being pegged back by the dogged Serb. At the start of the fifth Murray took a bathroom break when he looked in the mirror and promised himself he would do whatever it took to get over the line. He then dug deep to become Britain's first Grand Slam winner in 76 years by posting a 7-6 7-5 2-6 3-6 6-2 triumph in an epic four hours and 54 minutes in the Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Murray had got the Grand Slam duck off his back, but the one everyone really wanted to see him win was Wimbledon. Unlike 12 months previously there was no doubt where the loyalty of the crowd lay, with Murray roared out as he stepped onto a blisteringly hot centre court. The atmosphere resembled the Olympic final of the previous year and Murray repaid his support by producing the most accomplished performance in a major final of his career. The Scot stormed into a two-set lead and served for the match at 5-4 in the third. What followed was a nerve shredding final game where break points came and went, before Murray eventually sealed the win at his fourth attempt, ending a 77-year wait for a British men's singles champion at Wimbledon.
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But the review acknowledged the need for a long-term vision for learning, assessment and qualifications.
Education Minister John O'Dowd commissioned the review following a plan to change the exams in England.
Mr O'Dowd presented the review findings to the assembly and has opened a consultation process.
The review was conducted by the Northern Ireland examinations board, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA).
It made 49 recommendations ranging from short-term changes to GCSEs and A-levels, to exploring the use of the GCSE and A-level brand alongside England and Wales.
Mr O'Dowd told the assembly he was pleased with the report.
"This an important piece of work and provides an unprecedented opportunity to set out our own stall for learners here.
"The recommendations articulate what we should do to improve the life chances of our young people.
"The report allows us to pro-actively determine what is right for us in the context of our own curriculum and to align our qualifications to our curriculum in the interests of all learners."
The report proposed that GCSEs and A-levels remain as they are, but there will be discussions about those names.
Pupils will still be tested periodically as well as at the end of the courses and coursework will still count towards the final result.
The review also said consideration should be given to streamlining GCSE English and English language.
It recommended a new mathematics qualification and a new IT course.
The Ulster Teachers' Union urged Mr O'Dowd to take on board feedback from teachers during his consultation.
Avril Hall Callaghan said its biggest concern was that Northern Ireland pupils "should not be disadvantaged by any changes".
"The education secretary in Westminster, Michael Gove, has also proposed swingeing changes to the system there, so we are facing a period of upheaval and it is vital that our young people should not suffer as a result," she said.
"Northern Ireland has traditionally produced some of the UK's top performing students and any changes to the system must ensure this gold standard remains."
President of the NUS-USI student movement Rebecca Hall expressed reservations about the planned removal of second re-sit opportunities.
"This could have a very negative impact upon people's ability to fulfil their potential and have access to the widest possible range of opportunities," she said.
"We do, however, recognise that the minister is ensuring a high degree of consistency in the qualifications.
"We also recognise the fact that this announcement today, in cementing the future of these qualifications, will hopefully help retain their integrity and portability."
In June, Westminster Education Secretary Michael Gove announced an overhaul of GCSEs in England, which would move from coursework to exams at the end of two years.
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Eleven rugged oil beetles, which are believed to be in serious decline, were counted at the Elliott nature reserve on Swift's Hill near Stroud.
The Stroud valleys have been a stronghold for the beetle, as have reserves in Somerset and Wiltshire.
A Buglife spokesman said the beetles were usually found in low numbers, so to find 11 in one go was "impressive".
The beetle species was first recorded at the Elliott reserve in 2007 by entomologist Jon Mellings, from Dursley.
He returned to the site last November and recorded seven specimens which he reported to Buglife as part of their autumn rugged oil beetle survey.
Mr Mellings, said: "The beetles were feeding on various herbs and grass stems but were initially difficult to spot even with torchlight."
Subsequently a Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust (GWT) ecologist visited the same spot a month later and recorded 11 beetles.
Kathy Meakin, from the GWT, said oil beetles were parasites of solitary mining bees and added that this particular species was "fascinating".
"It's a very good sign we are getting our habitat management right if we can find rare, specialised parasites," she said.
The rugged oil beetle - meloe rugosus - is one of four types of oil beetle believed to have suffered drastic decline in the UK, with another four oil beetle species now thought to be extinct.
Andrew Whitehouse, from the Buglife conservation charity, said the Stroud valleys were a "national stronghold" for the species.
"Somerset and Wiltshire are also 'hotspots' - we have historical records for a good number of sites," he said.
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There are two obvious answers to that question. One, the two sides will get back round the table in a bid to break the deadlock. In fact, the first talks are to take place at the conciliation service Acas on Thursday.
And, two, hospitals will start the process of rearranging all those cancelled operations.
Ultimately both tasks will prove tricky. The British Medical Association and government are, it is fair to say, still some way from reaching an agreement - the Acas talks are just focused on getting them back round the table rather than finding a solution to the deadlock.
And this is being done with the clock ticking before the next walkout - planned for 26 January - gets under way.
In the meantime, hospital managers are trying to find spaces on the operating lists for the 4,000 patients who have had their treatment postponed. This comes on top of the few thousand cancellations that were made ahead of the first strike on 1 December which ended up being called off at the last minute.
And all this, of course, comes in the middle of winter - the busiest time of year for hospitals. Suffice to say, it will be a logistical nightmare for hospitals in the coming weeks.
But sooner or later both these issues will be resolved. What is uncertain is the long-term impact of this dispute.
While the past weeks, if not months, have seen people poring over the details of the new junior doctor contract, if you step back it is clear that this row is about much more than payments for anti-social hours, career progression and limits on working hours.
It is a row that goes to the very heart of the challenge facing those who work in the NHS, those who use it and those in charge of running it. That is to say, how do we keep squeezing more from a system that it is plain to see is under so much pressure?
This week - Conciliation service Acas is hopeful that talks between junior doctors' leaders and government can restart
26 January - Doctors to stage second strike, this time for 48 hours, but emergency cover will again be provided
10 February - All-out strike to run from 08:00 to 17:00
The junior doctors' row explained
There are plenty of people - both in government and outside it - who think there is more the health service can give. And they may be right.
But it is also quite obvious that the tide of goodwill is running low. On the picket lines and on the wards, junior doctors have spoken almost as one, arguing the government is simply asking too much of them.
And it not just doctors who are angry. Last weekend thousands of nurses and midwives took to the streets of Manchester, Newcastle and London to object to government plans to take away their bursaries that cover the costs of studying.
They argue their degrees are different from other courses because they spend a lot of their time working in hospitals and in the community and do not have the opportunity to do the part-time work that many students do to help them with the cost of studying.
And this is likely to be just the start. Talks are already under way to reform the consultants contract, while many believe next on the hit list will be Agenda for Change, the contract which covers more than 1m staff from caterers and admin staff to nurses and midwives.
The NHS may be getting more money this Parliament - £8.4bn above inflation by 2020 - but that is dwarfed by the £22bn it has been told to make in "efficiency savings" in return.
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Anas Abdalla had denied preparing for acts of terrorism by hiding in a lorry at Dover with another extremist.
The Birmingham man claimed he was fleeing unwarranted security services intrusion in his life.
At one point, two police officers were instructed by the CPS not to answer questions about MI5 in open court.
Abdalla was convicted by a majority of 11 to one and will be sentenced at a later date.
As he was taken down to the cells, he threw a plastic cup at a counter-terrorism officer and said: "One day we will be standing in a bigger court than this."
The prosecution, originally scheduled to be a three-week case at the Old Bailey, has taken 18 months to complete with four trials and highly unusual legal arguments over whether or not prosecutors should respond to the allegations levelled against the Security Service.
In April 2015 Abdalla, 27 and from the Acocks Green area of Birmingham, was arrested alongside two other men in the back of a lorry in Dover. The prosecution was initially expected to focus on public evidence from an undercover officer that the men had been planning to reach Syria to fight.
Named only as "Mohammed", the officer spent months infiltrating supporters of the self-styled Islamic State group in the West Midlands, including Abdalla and his friend Gabriel Rasmus. Mohammed described both men in court as committed supporters of the self-styled Islamic State, with the means to join it to fight.
Rasmus pleaded guilty to preparing for acts of terrorism while Abdalla and the third man in the lorry, Mahamuud Diini, denied the offence.
But the case became bogged down over whether or not prosecutors would respond to Abdalla's claims that he only wanted to leave the UK because MI5 had made his life a misery.
In February 2013, the Somali-born British citizen said detectives "tricked" him into a meeting at a police station with an MI5 officer called "Phil" who allegedly warned that if he did not become an informant his "life will be very difficult".
Over three months of legal clashes during the first two attempts to hold the trial, the defence and prosecution argued over what should be disclosed to the defence and jury about the purported meeting.
Eventually when two West Midlands Police counter-terrorism officers, Detective Constable Brett Bambury and Detective Sergeant Ryan Chambers, appeared in the witness box, both of them said they could "neither confirm nor deny" anything about the alleged meeting, an instruction given to them by the CPS.
That triggered further rows with Judge Christopher Moss QC complaining about the "unsatisfactory stance of the Security Services". He gave an undisclosable ruling against the prosecution - who then threatened to pull the entire case unless the Court of Appeal overturned it.
While they won that challenge against the judge, he had to halt the case days later amid more behind-the-scenes arguments.
At the third attempt to hold the trial in April, the same two police officers were instructed to give the same "neither confirm nor deny" answers.
This time, the new trial judge Richard Marks QC told jurors that they must accept the defendant's account as "accurate and reliable" in the absence of any contradictory prosecution evidence.
That jury failed to reach a verdict in the case against Abdalla - but cleared Mahamuud Diini who had said he was trying to go abroad to find his missing brother.
Ahmed Diini, also a close friend of Abdalla, had been banned from the UK in 2011 as a suspected extremist. He had disappeared in Turkey after jumping from the window of an immigration detention centre.
Anas Abdalla told the trial that part of the reason he was scared of the Security Services was that Ahmed Diini had told him that a British intelligence officer had been complicit in his earlier torture in an Egyptian prison.
As the fourth and final trial approached in August, prosecutors sought permission for "in camera" evidence from an unnamed witness who would specifically respond to Abdalla's police station allegation and his claims of ongoing harassment. The application did not state that there would be a response to the Egypt claims.
When this final trial got to the point where the detectives had been asked in the earlier trials what had happened at the police station, the proceedings went behind closed doors.
BBC News cannot report what the jury heard as the media and public were barred. But during Abdalla's later appearance in the witness box, he didn't repeat the allegation that he had been threatened at the police station.
Instead, he said he had left the meeting with MI5 with "a handshake and a smile" - although still refusing to help them.
In his ruling explaining why secret evidence would be allowed, Judge Marks said prosecutors had "significantly altered their stance" now that there was only one defendant involved.
While not specifying who the prosecution was calling as a witness, he said the new evidence was "extremely limited" and "highly relevant". He dismissed suggestions from the defence that this "late ambush" amounted to an unfair trial.
"It is eminently preferable and in the interests of justice [if the law allows] for the jury to hear the evidence so that they may be in the best possible informed position so as to be able to reach a conclusion that is fair to both the prosecution and the defence in so far as this critical aspect of the case is concerned," he said in the open ruling.
The judge said that he had been persuaded to allow the secret hearing because of the risk that whatever was said would indirectly compromise the trust that current and future informants place in the Security Services.
"There is a world of difference between, on the one hand, a would-be informant reading/hearing publicly what a defendant has said in open court and, on the other hand, reading/hearing the evidence of any state agent," said the judge.
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Robert Lewandowski had a shot cleared off the line and then hit the post.
But Vidal turned in Thomas Muller's cross in the 90th minute, before Robben thumped a second in stoppage time.
Bayern, who host Arsenal in a Champions League last-16 first-leg match on Tuesday, extended their league lead as RB Leipzig lost 3-0 at home to Hamburg.
Saturday's match was Bayern's first since captain Philipp Lahm made his surprise announcement that he would be retiring at the end of this season.
They remain on course to send him off with a treble of Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup - but were unconvincing for much of the afternoon.
Both Mats Hummels and Lewandowski were unable to convert early chances, before the Poland international ran on to Xabi Alonso's through pass and chipped keeper Martin Hansen, only for Marvin Matip - brother of Liverpool defender Joel - to clear off the line.
Muller was denied by Florent Hadergjonaj's goalline clearance early in the second half, and Lewandowski swerved a shot against the post before the two late goals turned one point into three.
RB Leipzig, in second, seemed to be the only team who could challenge Bayern for the title, but they fell to a fourth defeat in seven Bundesliga matches as Hamburg boosted their hopes of avoiding relegation.
Defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos headed in the opener against his former club, before Brazilian Walace added a near-identical second. Aaron Hunt wrapped up victory with his 50th Bundesliga goal.
That lifted Hamburg out of the relegation play-off place, into which dropped Werder Bremen, who were beaten 1-0 at home by Borussia Monchengladbach.
Third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund, in fourth, also lost. Javier Hernandez, the former Manchester United striker, scored twice for mid-table Bayer Leverkusen as they beat Eintracht 3-0 - with his first goal a clinical finish from seven yards, and his second a sublime volley.
The biggest upset of the day, though, was Dortmund's 2-1 defeat at Darmstadt, who had collected just one point from their previous 11 league matches. Terrence Boyd and Antonio Colak scored to give Darmstadt boss Torsten Frings victory over a club he used to play for.
Match ends, FC Ingolstadt 04 0, FC Bayern München 2.
Second Half ends, FC Ingolstadt 04 0, FC Bayern München 2.
Attempt missed. Stefan Lex (FC Ingolstadt 04) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Lukas Hinterseer.
Goal! FC Ingolstadt 04 0, FC Bayern München 2. Arjen Robben (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Douglas Costa.
Goal! FC Ingolstadt 04 0, FC Bayern München 1. Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Thomas Müller.
Substitution, FC Ingolstadt 04. Anthony Jung replaces Mathew Leckie.
Attempt missed. Douglas Costa (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Thiago Alcántara.
Mats Hummels (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Lukas Hinterseer (FC Ingolstadt 04).
Foul by Arturo Vidal (FC Bayern München).
Lukas Hinterseer (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Javi Martínez (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Douglas Costa with a cross following a corner.
Corner, FC Bayern München. Conceded by Florent Hadergjonaj.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Arturo Vidal.
Corner, FC Ingolstadt 04. Conceded by Arturo Vidal.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Rafinha replaces Philipp Lahm.
Substitution, FC Ingolstadt 04. Stefan Lex replaces Pascal Groß.
Foul by Thiago Alcántara (FC Bayern München).
Pascal Groß (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Arjen Robben with a cross following a set piece situation.
Pascal Groß (FC Ingolstadt 04) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Philipp Lahm (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Pascal Groß (FC Ingolstadt 04).
Foul by David Alaba (FC Bayern München).
Alfredo Morales (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, FC Ingolstadt 04. Lukas Hinterseer replaces Darío Lezcano.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Arjen Robben replaces Joshua Kimmich.
Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München) is shown the yellow card.
Romain Brégerie (FC Ingolstadt 04) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Romain Brégerie (FC Ingolstadt 04).
Foul by Thomas Müller (FC Bayern München).
Romain Brégerie (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Offside, FC Bayern München. Thiago Alcántara tries a through ball, but Douglas Costa is caught offside.
Substitution, FC Bayern München. Douglas Costa replaces Xabi Alonso.
Foul by Xabi Alonso (FC Bayern München).
Markus Suttner (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Robert Lewandowski (FC Bayern München).
Marvin Matip (FC Ingolstadt 04) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
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The warehouse is on the Wakefield 41 Industrial Estate, close to Junction 41 of the M1, West Yorkshire Police said.
Kenmore Road, Wakefield, is closed in both directions as fire crews tackle the flames.
A further 50 firefighters are also tackling a second West Yorkshire blaze at an industrial site near Halifax.
Footage of the Wakefield fire has been captured by eyewitness Graham Moore.
Around 80% of the 86,000 sq ft (8,000 Sq m) building is on fire, the fire service said.
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The child's body was found in Broadway, Sheerness, on Saturday afternoon, Kent Police said.
The remains had been found just before 12:50 GMT and the remnants of a small fire were also found at the scene, police said.
The girl who was arrested on Wednesday afternoon, is receiving support, a spokesman for Kent Police said. | A teenage girl has been arrested after the remains of a newborn baby were found in a Kent street. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39217710"} | 76 | 23 | 0.727317 | 1.314967 | -0.928588 | 1 | 3.35 | 0.7 |
The singer and TV star was "thrilled and excited" about the idea, Nick Fiveash said.
"Her manager, son Robert Willis, had been in continuous talks with a West End producer regarding early stages of planning, but obviously these are now on hold for the time being," he said.
Black is to be buried in her home city of Liverpool later this week.
Black, who emerged from the city's music scene in the 1960s before becoming the host of hit TV shows Blind Date and Surprise Surprise, died at her villa in Estepona on the Costa del Sol on 1 August.
A coroner ruled last week that the entertainer died from an accidental traumatic head injury after a fall.
Cilla Black's early years were dramatised in a three-part ITV series in 2014 starring Sheridan Smith.
Jeff Pope's drama charted how the young Priscilla White was transformed into a chart-topping singing star.
The entertainer's funeral on Thursday will take place at St Mary's Church in the suburb of Woolton.
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Under the changes, union members will have to "opt in" if they want to pay a political levy as part of their fees, rather than having to opt out.
Labour's Harriet Harman said changes to party funding should not be "rigged in favour of the Tory Party".
The Trade Unions Bill will also feature a minimum turnout for a strike ballot.
Trade unions use their political funds to campaign on wider political issues.
Currently, once a decision has been taken by ballot to maintain a political fund, individual members have to take a deliberate decision to "opt out" if they do not want to contribute.
By proposing that trade unionists must now "opt in" the object is clear - fewer members are likely to make a conscious effort to do so, so funds would decrease.
This is precisely what happened between 1927 and 1946 when the "opt in" system was introduced after the general strike, only to be repealed by the post-war Labour government.
But what effect will this measure have on Labour Party funds today?
Changes introduced by Ed Miliband mean that those union members who want to be associated with the Labour Party - or, in the jargon, who wish to be "affiliated supporters" - must now consciously opt in.
It's estimated that affiliation fees from big unions such as UNITE and the GMB will fall substantially as a result.
So if the government now applies the same principle to political funds as a whole, this would hit Labour less hard than it would have done before the Miliband reforms.
But smaller political funds would also make less cash available to union leaders to make , at their discretion, the separate party political donations on which Labour increasingly depends.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills said no further details were available as the bill was still being worked on.
A Unite spokesman said: "Political funds are already subject to approval being given in regular ballots by unions. Tory hedge fund and multimillionaire donors will face no similar restrictions, leaving boards free to write hefty cheques backing the Tory party.
"Absent from the Tory manifesto, there is zero popular mandate for this move which is just one more attack on working people. It is clear there is no place for trade unions in Cameron's 'one nation'."
Paul Kenny, of the GMB, added: "This will not deter or silence the voices of millions of working people who have already given their approval for political funds through democratic ballots governed by statute."
Responding for Labour to the Queen's speech, Ms Harman said: "If there are to be any changes to party funding, it must be on a fair, cross-party basis, not just rigged in favour of the Tory party."
The speech promised reforms of trade unions, to "protect essential public services against strikes".
These also include pre-announced measures including a 50% voting threshold for union strike ballot turnouts, and a requirement that 40% of those entitled to vote must back action in essential public services - health, education, fire and transport.
Time limits will also be introduced on a mandate following a ballot for industrial action.
Ministers say this will ensure strikes are the result of "clear, positive and recent decisions" by union members as well as ensuring that disruption to essential public services has a democratic mandate. | Unions have accused the Conservatives of a "shamelessly partisan attack" on Labour Party funding with reforms proposed in the Queen's Speech. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32904362"} | 739 | 35 | 0.489854 | 1.224802 | 0.363851 | 1.36 | 26.68 | 0.8 |
Bees play a crucial role in the survival of many of the crops in our food chain - one in three mouthfuls of food depends on the pollinating insects, according to the British Beekeeping Association - but their numbers are significantly declining.
A recent US report said that American beekeepers lost 44.1% of their hives between March 2015 - April 2016 - the highest rate of decline since the annual study began six years ago.
There are a number of reasons for this dramatic fall. One is the deadly varroa destructor, a parasitic mite that feeds on bees, and can kill off a whole hive.
At present, varroa infestations can be controlled, but not removed completely.
Bee populations have also been killed by disease, and the use of certain pesticides and fungicides on crops.
Together with the impact of varroa mites, this has also led to a big increase in colony collapse disorder - when worker bees abandon their hives.
In the US the precarious situation has been made much worse since the summer, due to aerial spraying of insecticides to target mosquitoes that could carry the Zika virus.
As the insecticides also kill bees, millions have died, wiping out whole honey farms. One report from South Carolina earlier this month said it looked as if the bees had been "nuked".
But despite the continuing woes faced by beekeepers, a number of technology firms are trying to help.
Bee Smart Technology aims to allow beekeepers to remotely monitor their hives, so that they can more quickly, and more easily, check whether there is a problem.
Ivan Kanev, co-founder and chief executive, says: "We figured beekeepers don't really rely on modern technology.
"The last meaningful innovation was the invention of the motorised vehicle so they could transport hives… so we decided to do something about it."
Bee Smart, which has a research and development division in Mr Kanev's native Bulgaria, and a marketing team in California, has developed a small box of sensors that attaches to the frames in a hive.
The system monitors a number of metrics including temperature, humidity, the colony's levels of activity, whether the queen is mating, and even the sound of the bees.
Bee Smart also claims that its sensors can predict when a swarm is imminent.
The box is battery operated and needs charging every three months. Data is sent via the cloud's data centres to Bee Smart, where it is processed, analysed and then sent to the beekeeper.
Mr Kanev adds that in the US the beekeeping industry is big business, but is not predominantly about harvesting honey.
"Here honey is a secondary thing for bee keepers, [instead] they rent out their bees for pollination services," he says.
"They are transporting bee hives across the country to pollinate different crops."
The almond farms of California, for example, which rely on honey bee pollination, will pay around $200 (£150) per hive for the service.
Mr Kanev adds: "When you're transporting your beehive, as a beekeeper you might think of those as your assets - being able to remotely monitor their state is becoming very important."
Bee Smart is set to launch a closed trial of its technology in the coming weeks, but Mr Kanev says that in tests so far there has been a "visible improvement" in beehive health, season after season.
"The product is based around the idea that bees are critical for us and they are in danger," he says.
In the UK Plan Bee is hoping to go one step further with a complete one-stop-shop for potential beekeepers when it launches in the next few weeks.
Based in Motherwell, Scotland, it offers a monitoring service for the hives, complete with data analysis, powered by a credit-card sized Raspberry Pi computer.
But Plan Bee does not want to exclude the human touch.
"We'll provide the hives, the honey bees, and 28 visits a year to the beehive," said chief executive Warren Bader.
"It's like garden maintenance but for bees."
Fellow UK business Tumbling Dice is another firm looking to help beekeepers.
It has developed an active vision system called Rana, which is currently being trialled by researchers in the US state of Utah.
It also uses a Raspberry Pi computer to analyse individual video frames received from monitor cameras. The system can be programmed to track a specific event, such as when individual bees leave a hive.
"This is more about looking at the foraging behaviour of the bees than the health of the hive," says Tumbling Dice founder Mark O'Neill.
But what about efforts to tackle the varroa mite?
Current treatments tend to involve chemicals, but one successfully crowd-funded scheme called Thermosolar Hives hopes to offer a hardware solution after raising more than $44,000.
Invented by Czech scientist Roman Linhart, the Thermosolar Hive uses solar power to heat the inside to 40C for 150 minutes. He says this doesn't harm the bees, but will destroy the mites.
The treatment then has to be repeated 10 days later to attack mites that return to the hive attached to bees who were out during the initial treatment.
Mr Linhart, who has been a beekeeper for 25 years, and spent 10 developing the product, says his technology is preferable to the uses of chemicals, to which he says mites are becoming resistant.
"Our [development] work took so long because we have tested it in different areas like high mountains, lowlands, cities, or regions with very hot summers," he told the Digital Trends website back in May.
He also said he faced hostility from rivals.
"There were some problems with company producing chemicals for varroa treatment, and some with people who are trying to breed varroa-tolerant bees," he added.
"They were not very happy to see that something like our hive can disrupt their business."
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The men included 102 from Lewis, while others came from the Northern Isles, Wick, Avoch, Glasgow, Fife and Barra.
They were among 1,500 members of the Royal Naval Division held in a camp dubbed HMS Timbertown.
BBC Alba's documentary of the same name draws on Admiralty records to tell the stories of its Scots' inmates.
The Royal Naval Division was set up by Winston Churchill when he was lord of the Admiralty.
In October 1914, the division was caught up in the fall of Antwerp following a month-long siege by German troops.
Following Germany's invasion of Belgium in August 1914, Antwerp had sheltered the Belgian's King Albert I, along with his government, civilians and thousands of soldiers, including elements of the British Expeditionary Force.
After the city and its fortifications fell, the men of the Royal Naval Division crossed into Holland to evade capture.
They reached the town of Groningen where the authorities had a camp of wooden huts built to hold them until the end of the war.
In the documentary, BBC Alba's Angela MacLean retraces the sailors' journey and recounts the experiences of the Lewis men in the camp.
Interred with them were men from all over Scotland and the rest of the UK and included fishermen, an actor, a burglar and the Duchess of Cambridge's great grandfather, Frederick Glassborow.
There were escape attempts and deaths from illnesses in the camp.
Football matches and cabaret shows organised by the men were watched by local people, who were allowed, on occasions, to visit.
Some of the sailors were allowed to return to the UK on leave for family funerals and even to help with take in harvests on farms and crofts, on condition they came back to the camp.
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But then the so-called Islamic State (IS) group has never claimed any of the attacks in Turkey that it is believed to have committed.
The Turkish government and the CIA both say the assault on Istanbul's Ataturk airport bears all the signs of the jihadist group.
Over the past year, Turkey has been gripped by a wave of bombings across the country.
Those claimed by Kurdish militants have tended to hit organs of the Turkish state - police vehicles or military buildings - with which the PKK is fighting a renewed conflict.
But a high-profile international target is more the style of IS.
In a recent message, a supposed spokesman for the group called for specific attacks during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is now. And Tuesday - the day the airport was hit - marks exactly two years since IS declared its "caliphate".
It's conceivable that this was an anniversary show of strength: the jihadists may have lost Falluja but they're certainly still in business.
Six big IS attacks in Turkey in the space of 12 months. What on earth is happening to the once stable corner of the Middle East?
As ever in Turkey, the answer depends on which side of the deep political divide you find yourself.
For the diehard supporters of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's polarising president, this is revenge for the country's fight against terrorism.
"[The West] left us alone in fighting Daesh that attacked Turkey," said Mr Erdogan last month, using another acronym for IS.
"None of those who said they're fighting Daesh have either made them suffer the losses or pay the price Turkey has done."
He and his government have even repeatedly suggested that IS and the PKK are working in cahoots to destabilise Turkey: a seemingly absurd suggestion, given the hatred between the two.
But for the arch critics of Turkey's president, the past 12 months show a litany of intelligence lapses and policy failures.
Known IS cells in Turkey, notably in the southern city of Adiyaman, were left to plot successive attacks in a murky tea-house before striking in Diyarbakir last June and Ankara in October - attacks that killed more than 100 people.
"We have the list of possible suicide bombers in Turkey - but cannot arrest them until they act", said the then Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
And, goes the argument, it proves the widely-held view that Turkey was too slow to wake up to the threat of IS.
Many believe that some elements within Turkey's Islamist-leaning government stomached, or even fostered, jihadist groups in Syria that tallied with their beliefs, creating an environment in which IS could grow.
For the first few years of the Syrian war, Turkey's border with Syria was somewhat porous, allowing jihadists and weapons to cross in both directions - until pressure from the US and others grew and Turkey tightened controls.
Ankara has always vehemently denied the allegations, claiming there is no proof of sinister cross-border movement and that the media and Western governments are attempting to besmirch Turkey while ignoring the fact that it has taken in almost three million Syrian refugees.
But what is clear is that as Turkey has become a more active part of the US-led coalition against Islamic State, it is considerably more vulnerable.
Any sympathies that the group thought it might have had in Turkey have been largely obliterated by successive attacks, making this country much more of a target.
Turkey's southern US airbase at Incirlik is used for nightly bombings of IS positions. Revenge is now a key reason why Turkey keeps getting hit.
And, as the attacks in Paris, Brussels and elsewhere have shown, IS remains a formidable force, albeit a depleted one.
Its militants have the ability to circumvent powerful governments with strong intelligence agencies. And in a country like Turkey, with a 500-mile-long (800km) border with Syria and 200 miles (320km) with Iraq, it has easier passage - and fertile ground.
Turkey is reeling from yet another devastating attack. Security across the country has been stepped up. But it's increasingly clear that the government is trying to close the stable door after the horse has bolted.
And the reality, for this nervous nation, is that more strikes will come. | Two days on from a brazen attack on Europe's third busiest airport, there has been no claim of responsibility. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36675187"} | 988 | 28 | 0.338661 | 0.885124 | -0.523553 | 0.772727 | 38.590909 | 0.681818 |
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The little reptile had travelled from Spain to a supermarket in Powys, Wales, hidden amongst the green vegetables.
Before the surprise discovery Charlie had wanted a gecko as a pet and had been asking his parents for one.
The family decided to keep the stowaway pet and have now named him 'Broc'.
So how has Broc's first year gone in his new home? Martin has been finding out. | Last Christmas 11 year-old Charlie's mum, Jolene, was cooking dinner when she found a live gecko in a pack of broccoli. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35031301"} | 109 | 34 | 0.513672 | 1.245484 | -0.954908 | 0.407407 | 3.333333 | 0.407407 |
The 29-year-old scored 15 goals last season to help Europa FC to the Gibraltar Premier Division title.
Walker scored Gibraltar's first goal in a World Cup qualifying fixture when they lost 4-1 to Greece in September 2016 and has 22 caps.
He played in Portsmouth's 2012-13 campaign making 28 appearances.
The length of Walker's contract with County has not been disclosed.
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"The foreign spy was caught red-handed as he was receiving secret documents from a Russian citizen," the Federal Security Service (FSB) said.
Lithuania has refused to comment on the claims.
Russia's relations with its Baltic neighbours have deteriorated amid fears of a spillover from the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite has previously warned of the "very real" threat of Russian aggression.
Earlier this month Lithuania said it had detained a suspected Russian spy who had been trying to infiltrate the country's leadership, law enforcement and security institutions.
In a statement, the FSB said the suspect arrested on Tuesday had admitted to being an officer of Lithuanian military intelligence.
He was being detained in Moscow's Lefortovo jail, it said.
A court later ordered the man - named as Arstidas Tamosaitis - to be held in custody for two months pending investigations, a court spokeswoman told Interfax news agency.
The arrest is the latest in a series of spy cases amid tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine.
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EU leaders gathering for a summit in the Latvian capital, Riga, on Thursday are expected to focus on the conflict in eastern Ukraine as well as the tensions in the region over the crisis.
Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine last year alarmed its Baltic neighbours in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
The three ex-Soviet states have in recent days written to Nato military chief Gen Philip Breedlove, asking for a brigade-sized unit to be deployed permanently in the Baltics.
Nato forces have been conducting military drills in the Baltic states in recent months, while Russian soldiers have been taking part in exercises in its region bordering Estonia and Latvia.
Lithuania has said it is reintroducing military conscription due to "the current geopolitical environment".
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A relatively quiet deadline still saw Premier League clubs part with £45m, taking the total January transfer spending to £130m.
But what did we learn from the window? BBC Sport takes a look.
BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty: "The bigger clubs are notoriously wary of buying in January unless they have a cast-iron guarantee of quality. The better players rarely become available and those of that quality have either played, or are playing, in the Champions League.
"It is a small market and consequently class is harder to find. Manchester City found it in a striker with proven Premier League quality in Wilfried Bony while Chelsea bought a player with World Cup pedigree in Juan Cuadrado.
"The clubs at the sharp end of the Premier League have a clear summer strategy and hope to get the major deals done then. They use January almost like a safety net should they need to top up their squad for any reason - although if that rare chance to sign a player of the highest quality becomes available they are at the ready."
McNulty: "The face of QPR manager Harry Redknapp told the tale as he looked back on a transfer deadline day in which he struggled to add new faces to a side lying 19th in the Premier League.
"Hull City manager Steve Bruce was also bitterly disappointed as a deal to sign Spurs winger Aaron Lennon fell through. Despite that, Bruce will have high hopes for striker Dame N'Doye, who completed his move just after midnight.
"West Brom manager Tony Pulis will be happy to have added Callum McManaman to provide pace and width and also Manchester United's Darren Fletcher for experience, although he would have liked to add even more numbers to his squad.
"Crystal Palace have pulled off the coup of signing Wilfried Zaha on a permanent deal so they will feel more confident of survival.
"So as the window closes, QPR will be unhappy, West Brom and Palace will be more optimistic and Hull will be somewhere in between."
There were 35 Premier League signings in the January window, compared to 46 last season, but why is that?
"More than any other transfer window to date, the impact of financial fair play seems to be taking hold, especially for the big clubs," said football finance expert Robert Wilson of Sheffield Hallam University.
"Chelsea demonstrate the real impact of the new regulations with a great deal of focus now being placed on their net transfer spend position. No longer are we seeing clubs 'splash the cash', instead they look to sell before they buy, hence selling Schurrle to facilitate the signing of Cuadrado.
"Manchester City have followed suit - they seem more cautious and no longer seem to throw the kitchen sink at player acquisitions. After being hit with a hefty fine they are looking to balance the books first and foremost.
"The anomaly is surely Manchester United. Many expected them to spend again. They can certainly afford to with the revenue they generate. I think that their lack of spend is much less to do with being worried about financial fair play and much more to do with a long term strategy to 'buy better'.
"It's good to see some good business decisions being made that will place the long-term stability of clubs first. Ultimately I think it will make for a more competitive league, albeit one that is more disparate - the rich clubs are able to get further away from those with less resources. The top six are more competitive with each other, the middle eight and the bottom six competitive with each other."
BBC World Service's John Bennett: "Just like in England, this window has felt quiet this year on the continent. Between them, the champions in Italy, France, Germany and Spain only made three signings, all of them on loan. In France spending was down 53% compared to last year.
"Inter Milan and Wolfsburg will be delighted with their work in January. Inter boss Roberto Mancini complained that he'd inherited the wrong type of players when he took over as head coach but Xherdan Shaqiri and Lukas Podolski have added quality and balance to the squad.
"Meanwhile, Wolfsburg beat Bayern Munich 4-1 on Friday and Andre Schurrle's arrival is the perfect way to build on that result.
"David Moyes will be one of European football's frustrated managers. Real Sociedad failed to sign anyone, missing out on possible targets such as Etienne Capoue, Nabil Bahoui and Joel Campbell."
Strikers - the players to save you from relegation or to kick-start a flagging bid for European qualification. Everyone wants to sign one, right?
On the evidence of this window, that is either not true or goalscorers are not readily available. Only eight of the 35 players signed by Premier League clubs in January were strikers and three of them were signed by Crystal Palace.
However, while more players from other positions were signed, clubs were less inclined to take a risk with their attacking recruits, opting for experience rather than youth, with the average age of strikers signed significantly higher than that of defenders or midfielders.
Sunderland and Crystal Palace brought in seasoned Premier League campaigners in 33-year-olds Jermain Defoe and Shola Ameobi respectively, while Manchester City made arguably the biggest move of the window by signing Wilfried Bony, 26, from Swansea.
Look down the list of confirmed transfers and one word pops up more than others: Undisclosed.
Officially, not a single club has chosen to reveal exactly how much money has changed hands for the purchase, or sale, of a player in the top flight.
It is a trend that has gathered pace in recent years. In January 2013, two of the 26 deals where a transfer fee was paid were disclosed while last year there was just one - Juan Mata's £37.1m move from Chelsea to Manchester United. The other 47 transfers involving a fee were undisclosed.
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Emergency services were called to the A20 Airport Cafe in Sellindge, near Folkestone, at about 08:30 BST.
The man's body was found after the lorry pulled up at the Kent service station. It is believed it had travelled from France.
Kent Police and the South East Coast Ambulance service were called to the cafe, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of death is not yet known.
The lorry was being operated by Iberian-based transport firm KLOG.
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South Africa's Oscar Pistorius was the first amputee sprinter to compete with able-bodied athletes at London 2012.
Pistorius was cleared to race by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and reached the 400m semi-final in London.
Inventor Van Phillips believes blade runners could soon "run faster than we have seen before" as designs improve.
"At some point they are really going to have to define what can be used," Van Phillips told BBC Radio 5 live.
Pistorius was originally banned from competing against able-bodied rivals by athletics governing body the IAAF before later being cleared to run by Cas.
"Oscar was first told he had an unfair advantage," said Phillips. "He went to a group of engineers, some of whom I know, and they showed after tests that he didn't have an advantage.
"I happen to believe that's not quite the way it is."
But German long jumper Markus Rehm will miss the Rio Olympics after failing to prove his prosthetic leg did not give him an advantage.
Phillips added: "It is a matter of time before you get a genetically gifted athlete who loses his leg and with a running prosthetic, he will run faster than we have seen before.
"It may not be in the 100m where the blocks make it more precarious, but maybe in the 200m where starting blocks aren't as important.
"The design of sprinting legs is still in its infancy and eventually the authorities will have to step in."
American Phillips shaped the future of Paralympic competition after he himself received a substandard prosthetic after he lost his leg in an accident in 1976.
With a background in engineering, it was the technology of swimming springboards that provided the concept of blades for athletes.
"We'd bounce on that board and it bends and swings you up," he said.
"I was going "come on, you've got to be able to put that into a foot."
Having spent 15 years working and developing blade technology, Phillips believes the current design propels athletes by a number of inches.
"I've built hundreds of feet," he said.
"Most were failures, some worked but were too complex and cost too much.
"This final evolution is a design that no matter how you land on it, it can have vertical travel for up to three inches."
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It wants to recruit about 500 men and women to help deal with natural disasters and to patrol borders.
The recruitment drive follows the announcement by the United Nations mission that it would be leaving Haiti in October.
But critics say the island's small budget should be spent on the national police force of about 15,000 officers.
A Ministry of Defence statement said the recruitment drive is open to both men and women between the ages of 18 and 25, who have passed their secondary education exams.
The UN Security Council agreed in April to withdraw their security forces, the blue helmets, and leave only a small police presence to support the Haitian police.
The UN departure has sparked a debate over whether Haiti should or should not form a new army.
Many politicians support the idea arguing it would provide jobs for young people.
But the government's critics say a military force could quickly become politicised, becoming a weapon in the hands of whoever is the president or prime minister.
For much of Haiti's history, the army has been used to crack down on political dissent by a series of authoritarian presidents.
During the 29-year family dynasty founded by Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier in the 1950s, the army was pushed aside and replaced by the Tonton Macoutes, a feared private militia famed for its savagery.
But when Duvalier's son, Jean Claude, was ousted and fled to France in 1986, the army high command - notorious for its repressive tactics and packed with Duvalier appointees - remained in place.
After Haiti's first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was ousted in a 1991 military coup, soldiers and paramilitary forces committed countless atrocities and are estimated to have killed about 4,000 people over the next three years.
Haiti's leaders argue the new army would have different kinds of military duties, providing help after natural disasters and fighting smuggling.
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These were the worst civil disturbances in England since 1919, according to contemporary historian Lord Hennessy, and had no parallel, in scale, until the riots last summer.
While there are many differences, the similarities between the riots of 1981 and 2011 are "uncanny", he says.
The then prime minister's personal file on the riots reveals she was warned in April that "spontaneous disorder" was "likely" among the country's ethnic minority communities by a secret Home Office report.
Britain was in recession. Unemployment was high, especially among the young, and among Britain's black and Asian population.
There was also considerable tension between police and some communities. There had been fierce riots in Brixton, south London, that month lasting several days.
TV news had shown police officers in their everyday helmets and uniforms, cowering behind flimsy-looking riot shields as bricks and bottles were hurled at them.
That happened again, as riots broke out in Toxteth, Liverpool, on 3 July, before erupting in other English cities.
Like last summer, police struggled to keep control of the streets and mass media were blamed for encouraging copy-cat rioting. But in 1981 the disorder took place mostly in the deprived inner city, rather than spreading to the suburbs.
The file gives an unusually detailed picture of how Mrs Thatcher responded, according to Lord Hennessy. He describes it as "almost blow by blow, minute by minute".
For instance, on 11 July, in the morning, she talked to her Home Secretary Willie Whitelaw.
He had just visited Manchester and Liverpool and reported that there was now "widespread anxiety" about civil unrest in London, and properties were being boarded up across the city.
There had been reports of disorder in many parts of the capital. Just the night before, according to the file, there had been rioting in Brixton, Battersea, Clapham, Streatham, Hackney and Acton.
Cars had been burned in Southall, and petrol bombs thrown in Dalston. Stoke Newington police station had been attacked.
Mrs Thatcher and Mr Whitelaw discussed how to get better equipment for the police, and briefly touched on the idea of sending in troops - something a Liverpool MP had called for.
They agreed that using the Army "could not be contemplated". They would prefer to arm the police, the record notes.
That very evening Mrs Thatcher visited the Metropolitan Police and spent more than seven hours with the commissioner, only leaving New Scotland Yard at three in the morning.
The police had appealed for a new Riot Act and they had also given her a shopping list of riot gear - shields, protective clothing, water cannon, CS gas, rubber bullets and surveillance helicopters.
New tactics, new equipment, "saturating" the cities with police, ended the riots.
"An age of innocence" had ended, according to Lord Hennessy. "People thought riots couldn't happen here - but they did."
The police got their equipment but they didn't get the new law immediately - it was only in 1986 that a new Public Order Act was passed.
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Britain's Murray and Brazilian Soares beat the Canadian pair 6-4 6-7 (5-7) 10-7 in 97 minutes.
The Australian Open champions face third seeds Ivan Dodig of Croatia and Marcelo Melo of Brazil in Sunday's final.
"Today these guys were just a little bit more solid," said Nestor.
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The Canadians, who were teaming up at an ATP World Tour event for the first time since 2013, pegged back the second seeds from a set down but double-faulted in the third-set match tie-break to give their opponents the edge.
"They made a few more balls at the key moments," Nestor added. "They put a lot of first serves in play in the match tie-break and played solid doubles."
It is a second ATP World Tour Masters 1,000 final of 2016 for Murray and Soares, after they finished runners-up in Monte Carlo.
In the other semi-final, Dodig and Melo beat Florin Mergea and Horia Tecau of Romania 6-4 6-3 in 71 minutes.
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The party voted in favour of an independent review of the sport, stricter ownership rules, and tougher action against discrimination.
Activists at the Lib Dem conference in Glasgow were told of "huge levels of debt", fans being "priced out", and clubs being "trashed" by their owners.
The party agreed to adopt the motion, called "reclaiming the beautiful game".
It proposed making homophobic chanting a criminal offence, strengthening the "fit and proper person" rule to decide if an individual is fit to own or become a director of a club, and to divert a share of TV revenues to support the grassroots of the game.
The motion also expressed "concern" that "winning has become the primary motive in the sport", which it claimed was leading to "financial risk taking, high debt levels and almost a hundred instances of club bankruptcy since 1992".
Opening the debate, Steve Bradley, the party's prospective Parliamentary candidate for Bath, said: "Football has an appeal and a relevance in Britain that goes far beyond sport."
But the game also has a "dysfunctional side", he said, "which risks its future viability".
The motion "blows the whistle on the mismanagement of English football's boom", Mr Bradley told activists.
He said the wealth at the top of the game was not trickling down to lower levels, and raised fears about the amount of debt clubs were building up.
Mr Bradley said governing bodies had "ceded control of the game" to the most powerful clubs, and "large swathes of the population" were "priced out altogether".
And he said there was a need to protect some clubs from being "trashed on the whims of those who just happen to be the current custodians of long-standing institutions".
Edward Lord, a former anti-discrimination adviser to the Football Association, said an independent review of football governance would "make it more effective, inclusive, and no longer subject to conflicting vested interests".
But the line in the motion about the motive to win was branded "ridiculous" by Sheffield Central candidate Joe Otten.
He asked: "Are we a liberal party or a back-of-the-envelope over-regulation party?"
And Lib Dem councillor Prue Bray said she was "furious" the motion made what she said was little reference to women's football, and suggested the authors should go on equality and diversity training.
Winding up the debate, Manchester Withington MP John Leech said even many Premier League clubs struggled to make a profit, and said many smaller sides "teeter on the brink, year after year" financially.
As well as finances, Mr Leech said the motion was about fans, who he said were "the true life blood of football".
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Some of the affected banks have been asking their customers to change security codes. They are also blocking and replacing debit cards.
The breach is thought to have been caused by malware on an ATM network.
Some customers are complaining that large sums of money have been taken from their accounts.
Indian banks have issued nearly 700 million debit cards.
The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), which controls all retail payments systems in India, confirmed in a statement that there was a "possible compromise at one of the payment switch provider's systems".
A security breach of this scale is likely to create a lot of negative sentiment among bank customers.
While the government is now investigating the incident and most people don't expect a big monetary impact, the reputation damage will be large.
Already, Indians are suspicious of electronic payments and the country is largely a cash economy. Most people use cash for most purchases - whether it's buying vegetables from the street vendor or buying gold jewellery in high end store.
According to a study by Visa, only 10 digital transactions per capita are carried out in India compared to 163 in Brazil or 429 in Sweden. This poses a huge financial burden on the economy and banks have been trying hard to wean Indians from cash.
But they haven't been very successful. Indian banks had issued 697 million debit cards as of July this year - a small number compared to many other countries.
But while the government has been trying to sell cards as a risk free method of payment compared to using physical money, not many are convinced that banks are taking enough cyber security measures.
Indian banks have reported close to 12,000 frauds related to credit and debit cards and net banking in 2015, the government told the Upper House of the parliament earlier this year.
All Indian Banks have cyber security protocols comparable to their international peers says Mohit Bahl, Head, Forensic Services at KPMG India.
"But they are not as robust in constantly monitoring and updating their security measures. This breach could have happened in anywhere in the world. Banking and financial services sector is particularly vulnerable.''
"All affected banks have been alerted by card networks that a total card base of about 3.2 million could have been possibly compromised," the NCPI statement said.
It added that a total of 13m rupees ($194,612;£159,031) have been withdrawn, mainly in China and the US, through fraudulent transactions so far, affecting 19 banks and 641 customers.
The NPCI has urged customers "not to panic" because "corrective actions already have been taken".
"The advisory issued by NPCI to banks for re-cardification [reissuing of new cards] is more a preventive exercise," it said.
Payment platforms like Visa, Mastercard and RuPay said their own networks were not affected but they were helping Indian authorities in their investigation.
Several banks have also confirmed that they were taking measures to avoid fraudulent transactions.
The State Bank of India (SBI), the country's top lender, said it had found about 620,000 of its more than 200 million cards were "vulnerable". But Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, a deputy managing director at SBI, told the Reuters news agency that he did not expect any significant financial loss to take place.
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The Dow Jones rose 106.7 points to 18,004.16, its first close above 18,000 since July.
The S&P 500 gained 13.61 points to 2,094.34, and the Nasdaq index climbed 26.15 points to 4,569.31.
Markets shook off early losses caused by a drop in the oil price after a meeting of oil producers failed to reach a dealnt to cap output.
News that Kuwaiti oil-workers were on strike helped bring the price of crude oil back up from severe lows.
Shares of Chevron rose 1.5%, while Exxon was up 1%.
Toymaker Hasbro rose 5.8% after it reported stronger-than-expected profits and revenues for the first quarter.
Net income jumped to $48.8m from $26.7m a year earlier, with net revenue up 16.5% to $831.2m. The toy company was helped by strong demand for Star Wars, Frozen and Disney Princess toys.
The news also helped lift shares of Walt Disney by 2.9%.
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The UK soldier, of 28 Engineer Regiment, attached to 21 Engineer Regiment, died at Patrol Base Hazrat, in Helmand's Nahr-e Saraj district.
The gunman fired at Afghan troops and then British soldiers before being killed. Afghan officials dispute Taliban claims he was acting for them.
The male soldier's next of kin have been informed of Monday's attack.
Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman described it as a "tragic incident", adding: "The PM's thoughts are very much with the family and friends of the soldier who was killed."
The spokesman said the military had stepped up counter-intelligence efforts and the vetting and screening of new Afghan National Army recruits.
The attack comes as President Hamid Karzai is due in the US for a visit seen as key to the future of the American presence in Afghanistan.
Spokesman for Task Force Helmand, Major Laurence Roche, said: "This is an extremely sad day for the Corps of Royal Engineers and everyone serving with Task Force Helmand. Our thoughts are with the soldier's family and friends at this time."
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville said the attack is thought to have been triggered by an argument between Afghan National Army soldiers.
Shortly after details of the incident emerged, the Taliban said they were behind the shooting, but they often wrongly claim such attacks, he said.
By Quentin SommervilleBBC News, Kabul
There has been a dramatic rise in green on blue, or insider attacks. In terms of British soldiers, five were killed by Afghan colleagues back in 2009, last year, the figure was 14.
More starkly, all six soldiers killed in the current "Black Rats" tour of duty, died at the hands of Afghan security forces.
The Afghan military has grown at a tremendous rate over the past three years, the army is now 195,000 strong. But that has meant that there hasn't been proper screening of new recruits.
The Afghan government are trying to remedy that. Also, the Afghan intelligence service, the NDS, is deploying its men into the ranks, to look for Taliban infiltration. Soldiers returning from leave will be questioned to see if they or their families have been the target of Taliban infiltration.
There is recognition that the Taliban are coercing or compelling Afghan troops to attack foreign soldiers. And a grim acceptance from ISAF commanders that insider attacks cannot be completely prevented.
Afghan defence officials told the BBC that initial assessment suggested the gunman was a soldier from the eastern province of Laghman.
An official said: "Currently there is an investigation into the attack. Initial assessment and information shows the attacker was not linked to the Taliban.
"After he killed the British soldier, he tried to escape but members of the Afghan national security forces opened fire, killing him.''
There has been a sharp rise in so-called insider attacks against local forces and Nato troops in Afghanistan. In 2012, more than 60 Nato service personnel, and a quarter of the British troops who died in Helmand, were killed in such attacks.
All six of the British troops killed during the latest six-month tour of duty have died this way. A total of 439 UK service members have lost their lives in Afghanistan since operations began there in October 2001.
President Karzai is arriving in the US for a three-day visit, which will include a meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday.
It will be their first face-to-face talks since the US presidential elections.
Correspondents say relations between the two countries have been more fractious than usual in recent months.
Mr Karzai wants US troops out of Afghan towns and villages. Some 30,000 foreign soldiers left Afghanistan last year, and most of the remainder are expected to pull out by the end of 2014.
Our correspondent says the US president is likely to discuss the size of the force that remains, and whether they are there to fight the Taliban or shift their primary focus to tackling al-Qaeda.
Mr Karzai's visit comes days after a drone attack that killed Pakistan militant leader Mullah Nazir, who was accused of sending fighters to Afghanistan to support the Taliban.
Ahead of the trip, the White House issued a statement saying Mr Obama "looks forward to... discussing our continued transition in Afghanistan, and our shared vision of an enduring partnership" between the two countries.
Mr Karzai is expected to provide a request for future requirements for the Afghan military such as heavy weaponry, an improved air force and medical support.
Our correspondent says the US spent almost $120bn (£74bn; 91bn euros) in Afghanistan in 2011, a figure that diplomats in Kabul say will be increasingly difficult to justify because of economic problems at home and extensive corruption within Afghanistan.
Meanwhile Mr Karzai has held back from signing a long-term binding security agreement with the US, amid fears that Afghan sovereignty is being undermined.
He is unwilling to grant US soldiers immunity from prosecution and is unhappy that Afghans are still being held in US-run military prisons on Afghan soil, our correspondent adds.
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A woman was airlifted to hospital in Aberdeen after falling on the Mar Lodge estate on Wednesday - the third major rescue in the first few days of 2017.
Shaun Roberts, of the mountain centre Glenmore Lodge, said Scotland had good information services.
He urged hill users to "ask questions of themselves" before setting off.
Mr Roberts told BBC Radio Scotland: "What's really important about when people plan their day is the information that they put into the planning.
"We're kind of blessed with a quality avalanche information service and also quality weather forecasts.
"They're at our fingertips."
Rescues in the Cairngorms have included that of a couple who spent the night in blizzard conditions after getting into difficulties while walking their dog on New Year's Day.
In a second incident, two young climbers carried to safety a walker who was suffering from hypothermia.
"Also people need to ask some reasonable questions of themselves in terms of experience of the snow," Mr Roberts said.
"Often, if there is doubt, that's normally pretty much a red flag in terms of have you got the right information and do you have the right experience to interpret the information you've got." | A series of rescues in the Cairngorms has prompted a warning to climbers and hillwalkers to take adequate precautions. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38517578"} | 273 | 33 | 0.547307 | 1.329624 | 0.166369 | 1.2 | 12 | 0.6 |
Michael Matheson, who last year stopped plans for a new women's prison in Inverclyde, wants Scotland to "lead the world" with a fresh approach.
There are currently 450 women in Scottish jails, with the figure doubling in the past decade.
Mr Matheson will speak at an international summit in Edinburgh on the issue.
The justice secretary said jailing women wasn't part of his vision for a "modern and progressive country", and highlighted how many children of imprisoned mothers go into a cycle of offending.
He accepted serious offenders must be imprisoned, but has scrapped plans for a new jail, saying he wanted Scotland to be bolder and more ambitious in the way female offenders are managed.
On Thursday, he will be joined in Edinburgh by experts from Denmark, Sweden, Australia and Canada who are taking part in the three-day summit.
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Buttler was reprimanded for reacting to what he called a "send-off" by Bangladesh after his dismissal.
The 26-year-old was out lbw as England, chasing 238, were all out for 204.
"He didn't react because he was captain - he thought Bangladesh stepped on his turf," Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 live.
"I don't think he did anything wrong. When the opposition comes at you what are you to do?"
Buttler and some Bangladesh players were seen approaching each other after the wicket - which came off a review - and the umpires had to step in.
Buttler was also found guilty of using "obscene, offensive or insulting" language - including as he walked off the ground - which Vaughan said the Lancashire man "will be disappointed with".
"Buttler has a lot more fire than you think," he said. "He's got the steel in his eyes. On this occasion he had some words that came out as well. Maybe Bangladesh know if they disturb the England captain they can win the series."
After the game, tempers appeared to flare between all-rounder Ben Stokes and Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal, as the teams shook hands.
Vaughan said: "I thought that was petty and immature (from both teams). You're playing for your country. Whatever happens in the game that's fine. After the game you shake hands. You look them in the eye and say 'well played Bangladesh'."
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Hatters midfielder McGeehan was injured early on during Pompey's 1-0 win.
"He's a young, talented kid that works hard, grafts, doesn't go down but the booing him off and cheering is an absolute disgrace," said Jones.
"When anyone gets carried off on a stretcher, I don't care who you are, you show an element of class."
He continued: "They showed what type of fans they were."
Pompey fans reportedly sang "you're going home in an ambulance" to the 21-year-old, who has scored 11 goals in 28 matches for League Two side Luton this term.
Portsmouth chose not to respond directly to Jones' comments, but a spokesman said everyone at the club sends their best wishes to McGeehan for a full and speedy recovery.
McGeehan was also shown a yellow card by the referee while on the stretcher after pounding the floor in pain or frustration.
Jones told BBC Three Counties Radio: "The referee showed a lack of understanding and empathy, maybe, but I'm just disappointed for the kid.
"Hopefully he'll recover quickly and be back sooner rather than later but it's a real travesty for the boy and obviously disappointing for us." | Portsmouth fans showed a lack of "class" towards Cameron McGeehan after he broke his leg in Monday's match, according to Luton boss Nathan Jones. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38495434"} | 293 | 38 | 0.5724 | 1.422067 | 0.072196 | 1.137931 | 8.517241 | 0.655172 |
Staff at the Dublin Waste-to-Energy plant complained of breathing problems, blurred vision and nausea, according to Irish broadcaster, RTÉ.
Nine were discharged from hospital, but two were kept in overnight.
The plant's operators said the lime was "contained within the building and did not escape into the environment".
A spokesperson for Dublin Waste-to-Energy Ltd said the company was "investigating the incident thoroughly".
It is also co-operating with investigations by the Environmental Protection Agency and Health and Safety Authority.
The plant at Poolbeg started to incinerate waste for the first time last Thursday in what its operators described as its "important 'first fire' milestone".
The operators said the safety of its employees and contractors was of "utmost importance".
"Late on Wednesday night, a small amount of lime was inadvertently released inside the flue gas treatment area during the commissioning and testing of the Dublin Waste to Energy plant at Ringsend," their statement said.
"At the time, there were a number of workers in an adjacent area. As a precaution, eleven workers were sent to St Vincent's Hospital nearby for medical evaluation."
The statement added: "We are investigating to understand what exactly occurred, but it appears from preliminary investigation that the release of the lime was due to a problem with a door seal in the fabric filter bag house."
The facility was developed with the aim of reducing Dublin's reliance on exporting waster or sending it to landfill.
The operators have said the project will divert up to 600,000 tonnes of waste from landfill and export, while generating electricity "for at least 80,000 homes". | Eleven workers were taken to hospital after lime was "inadvertently released" inside Dublin's new incinerator plant on Wednesday night. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40199683"} | 361 | 34 | 0.690712 | 1.757452 | -0.163441 | 1.782609 | 14.26087 | 0.826087 |
The Institution of Civil Engineers Scotland (ICE) will call for a national debate on energy in a report due to be published next month.
The organisation wants the government to outline how the gap caused by cuts to electricity-generating capacity will be filled.
The government said it had a "balanced energy mix to provide energy security".
The report will also highlight Scotland's energy "quadrilemma" - the need to reduce carbon, cut consumer costs, ensure security of supply and take into account the social acceptability of different types of energy sources.
It was announced earlier this year that Longannet, the largest power station in Scotland and the second largest in the UK, would be shut down in March next year after 46 years of producing power.
Debates continue over the potential use of fracking, the controversial gas drilling technique which is currently subject to a Scottish government moratorium, and the extent to which onshore wind farms are used across Scotland.
Professor Gary Pender, of Ice Scotland, said: "Scotland will transition from being a net exporter to being a net importer of electricity if the closures of Longannet, Hunterston and Torness are not replaced by new development.
"We will be calling for a national debate on how we, as a country, deal with this to ensure that we have a resilient supply with sufficient capacity for the long term.
"Energy policy is hugely politically controversial, with wind power, nuclear power and onshore gas extraction provoking particularly emotional and politically-motivated responses.
"We need to move beyond this, at times, irrational and ill-informed discourse about all these forms of energy generation and conduct a thorough, expert-informed assessment of the right approach for Scotland."
Ice Scotland represents 8,000 people.
A Scottish government spokeswoman said: "Scotland's abundant energy resources play a vital role in delivering security of electricity supply across the UK; Scotland exported 28% of all electricity generated in 2013.
"We have a clear policy for a balanced energy mix to provide energy security for the future that balances fossil fuels alongside the growing importance of renewables, which again saw record levels of generation last year, and without the need for new nuclear power.
"As we move to a low-carbon energy system over the longer term, we expect Scotland to maintain its position as a net exporter of power even after Longannet closes, whereas the UK as a whole is increasingly reliant on imports from other European countries." | Civil engineers want the Scottish government's energy policy to be informed by expert advice. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34668166"} | 544 | 18 | 0.530467 | 1.374445 | 0.431014 | 1.375 | 30.0625 | 0.875 |
So she embarked on the road trip of lifetime and unwittingly became an internet hit along the way, when the Facebook page about her travels started attracting more than 440,000 followers.
Mrs Bauerschmidt, from Michigan, spent just over a year on the road with her son Tim and his wife, Ramie Liddle, in their motor home, before her death last week.
They had travelled more than 13,000 miles (20,900km) and visited 34 states.
The adventure began in July 2015, when, after a routine scan, Mrs Bauerschmidt's doctors told her she had terminal cancer.
It was just two days after the death of her husband, Leo.
Her daughter-in-law said: "Tim and I had lived on the road for a couple of years, and when her husband passed we did what all families do and invited her to live with us."
"She thought about it for about a minute-and-a-half and said, 'Yes'. She was ready for an adventure."
"One of the first things we did was buy a wheelchair for her, and that was her ticket to freedom," said Ms Liddle.
"From that point, on we could go out and about on outings or do whatever she wanted."
It was Ms Liddle's idea to start the Facebook page Driving Miss Norma.
"It was just so my family would know where we were, but Norma was absolutely shocked when it took off," she said.
Ms Liddle said they had travelled from place to place, staying anything from a day to a month depending on how they felt.
And as Mrs Bauerschmidt's Facebook following had grown, they had started to get invitations to lots of events and gatherings - including an Atlanta Hawks basketball game and countless people's homes for dinner in the evenings.
The family travelled across the country harvesting hazelnuts in Friday Harbour in Washington, taking part in the St Patrick's Day Parade in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, visiting Yellowstone National Park and touring the Massachusetts coast.
They took a trip underground to visit the Consolidated Gold Mine in Georgia and Mrs Bauerschmidt even managed to fulfil one of her lifetime ambitions when she took a ride in a hot air balloon in Florida.
"In the last year, we have seen the best of the best of the people in this country," she said.
Ms Liddle said her mother-in-law had been a very humble woman with no grand needs, but she had had a very clear idea about what had been important to her.
"She had a very happy last year, and was a very simple woman who had never had any attention in her life," she said.
"And that's the beauty of this story - she was just herself."
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Colum Eastwood said the idea of a deal being struck during the campaign was "not credible" and politicians "should give up the pretence of negotiations".
The parties will review the talks process on Thursday with the UK and Irish governments, Sinn Féin has said.
At Westminster, MPs have passed an emergency bill to extend the talks.
A new 29 June deadline is proposed to give parties more time for negotiations after the election.
The bill would also allow the collection of rates in the absence of an executive, and could become law by the end of the week.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has published indicative figures for a budget he will impose if Stormont's parties do not reach a deal.
It would include a 2.5% cut to spending on education.
Speaking in the House of Commons, he said the government would be prepared to implement it "as a last resort".
"This is not a step any government would take lightly," he said.
"But this house must not forget the duties we uphold for the people of Northern Ireland."
A round-table discussion involving the parties took place on Monday, with more bilateral meetings due in the coming days.
The leaders of the two main unionist parties are meeting on Monday to discuss a possible electoral pact.
But Ulster Unionist leader Robin Swann said Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has "made the conversation a bit more difficult" after she outlined her party's position in the Belfast Telegraph.
The snap general election comes after devolved government in Northern Ireland collapsed in January over a botched energy scheme.
The late Martin McGuinness, of Sinn Féin, quit as deputy first minister in protest at the DUP's handling of the Renewable Heat Incentive scheme scandal.
It led to a snap Northern Ireland Assembly election on 2 March, which saw a surge in Sinn Féin's vote.
Stormont's two largest parties have been unable to reach agreement to share power since that date, and were warned they face either a second assembly election or direct rule from Westminster.
However, Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to call an election to the House of Commons made a deal even less likely as parties switched to campaign mode.
The government published its Ministerial Appointments and Regional Rates Bill on Friday.
It began its accelerated passage through Westminster late on Monday afternoon, with MPs discussing the measures in a debate lasting just under four hours.
Members of the House of Lords will get their opportunity to scrutinise the bill on Wednesday.
Once passed, the law will give he Northern Ireland civil service the authority to collect the regional rate, increased in line with inflation, and push the deadline for restoring devolution back to 29 June.
That means the Stormont parties will not face the near impossible task of finding a compromise while campaigning in the general election.
However, whether they can reach a deal in the summer, which they could not do in the spring, remains open to doubt. | Talks to restore a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland should be "paused" until after the snap general election, the SDLP leader has said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39687590"} | 646 | 34 | 0.524595 | 1.280226 | 0.470824 | 1.586207 | 20.275862 | 0.827586 |
The cash comes from "efficiency savings" and money returned by BT as part of the government's flagship broadband rollout scheme.
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley said the funds would bring faster broadband to some of the remoter parts of the UK.
Experts said it was not all "new money" but would still be welcomed.
The cash will be made up of £150m in cost savings and the rest in the form of returned subsidies from BT, the government said.
Under a 2010 deal, the government paid BT to roll out superfast broadband in hard-to-reach areas where providers had said it was not cost-effective to install broadband infrastructure.
As part of the agreement, if more than 20% of premises in those areas bought superfast broadband, BT had to repay some of the subsidy.
On average, the take-up has been 30.6%, leading to a forecast repayment of £292m, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport said.
There are two views of the programme to roll out superfast broadband to places which might not be reached by the market.
To the government and BT it's that rare thing, a public/private partnership which is actually going to come in under budget and deliver more than was promised.
To its critics, the Broadband Delivery UK project has seen an overbearing monopoly handed huge sums of public money with little democratic accountability, and the result is that the UK has been given only a semi-fast network which is not future-proof.
But after some early stumbles, BT does look likely to meet the target of putting 95% of homes within reach of superfast broadband by 2017 - and this new investment could mean that 97% are reached by 2020.
The programme is doing what it promised - and the UK is ahead of other major European countries in rolling out superfast broadband.
Ah, say the critics, but only if you think a broadband connection that still makes its final journey into homes via a copper wire is superfast. If you're looking at fibre direct into the home - something even the government says should now be seen as the gold standard for broadband - the UK is still in the slow lane.
Openreach's answer to this is that a new "amazing" technology, called G.fast, will make it possible to achieve speeds of over 100 megabits per second over the copper connections.
The prospects for those people still waiting for any kind of decent connection have brightened slightly - but the row continues over what kind of broadband network will make the UK fit for the future.
The extra funds will be spent in all areas of the country through the Broadband Delivery UK scheme.
Ministers set up the programme so that by the end of next year, 95% of UK premises would be able to buy superfast broadband - defined as 24Mbps. Such speeds enable families to stream TV on multiple devices at the same time.
The extra funds are designed to reach the remaining 5% of the UK and improve speeds where coverage is patchy.
"The key point is this is not £440m of new money," said Andrew Ferguson, consumer telecoms expert at Think Broadband.
Of the £292m to be returned by BT, the company has already announced about £150m, he said.
Still, regardless of the source of the funds, more money going into infrastructure is "good news", he said.
"The pace of broadband rollout doesn't necessarily match what everyone wants and households aren't necessarily getting as much information as they would like," he added.
The village of Pudlestone in North Herefordshire is one rural location where higher speed broadband cannot come fast enough. The nearest telephone exchange for Pudlestone is about three kilometres from residents' homes meaning speeds are low. Pudlestone villagers have run a co-ordinated campaign to highlight the slow speeds they get and have written to politicians and BT to in a bid to accelerate work to improve speeds.
Linda Fryer, secretary of the Pudleston village hall committee, said everyone in the village was "fed up" adding that it was "extraordinary" if anyone's net connection went faster than one megabit per second (Mbps).
"I can't use Facetime to talk to my children, I can't download films and using things for shopping and banking can be very difficult when the thing drops out," she told the BBC.
Local residents are also wondering why they pay the same monthly fees as others in nearby towns who are enjoying speeds much closer to the national average of 28Mbps.
Retired nurse Judy Thompson said: "If you went in to a restaurant and ordered a cheese sandwich, why would you pay the same price as someone getting lobster? I just think it is completely unreasonable."
Mrs Thompson said she and her husband had sought help from BT but, so far, its advice had made no difference.
Kim Mears, the managing director for infrastructure delivery at BT's Openreach division, told the BBC's Today programme that there was "still more to be done" to improve broadband speeds in some rural areas.
However, she added that 4.5 million rural homes had already benefited from BT's efforts and that the company was "absolutely determined to look at how we go further and faster".
The company has faced criticism for the speed of the rollout and the quality of the broadband coverage.
However, the government and BT said it was a "win-win" in that more households were taking it up, triggering clawback payments that would help other premises access faster broadband speeds.
"We're delighted that the success and efficiency of our delivery will mean hundreds of thousands more homes and business could get faster broadband than originally expected," a BT spokesman said.
The government has not set a timeline for when the 600,000 premises will benefit.
It comes after Chancellor Philip Hammond announced £1.14bn in government funds in last month's Autumn Statement to improve fibre broadband and develop 5G. | Around 600,000 more homes and businesses could be connected to superfast broadband, after the government recouped £440m. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38397304"} | 1,278 | 28 | 0.462953 | 1.163638 | 0.037993 | 1.55 | 58.9 | 0.75 |
Commercial scallop fishing ended at Ceredigion's Cardigan Bay five years ago when it became a special area of conservation.
Opponents claim scallop dredging is "a highly destructive fishing method".
But the Welsh government said a two-year study found limited fishing was possible in specific areas and would have no adverse impact on the area.
Under the new plans, a flexible permit scheme with new guidelines has been introduced to ensure the "careful management of the fishery" to "maximise the fishery and protect the site features at all times".
An advisory board of industry experts will advise on permit conditions and the scheme it will be reviewed annually.
Environment and Rural Affairs Secretary Lesley Griffiths said: "Based on this and the fact no new evidence was produced to suggest this fishery would have an impact on the protected features within the bay, I have decided we should not stand in the way of economic activity.
"I want to reassure everyone this will be a carefully and proactively managed fishery, with the number of fishing boats being monitored.
"I am reassured the proposed new flexible approach is proportionate and will enable us to consider appropriate areas and management mechanisms for the future of this fishery."
Jim Evans, of the Welsh Fishermen's Association, said the decision was a "positive step towards the sustainable management of our fisheries in Wales". | Controversial plans to restart scallop fishing in a protected area have been approved. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37822044"} | 288 | 20 | 0.569496 | 1.315769 | -0.066519 | 0.928571 | 18.928571 | 0.785714 |
Mandoza, 38, took to the stage in recent weeks at a concert at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, despite having lost his sight due to illness.
His friends and family say he was determined to perform until the end.
The musician's hit song Nkalakatha has been praised for unifying black and white South Africans.
Nkalakatha, a Zulu word which loosely means "the big boss", was about celebrating success.
South Africans have taken to social media to send condolences to Mandoza's family, and it has also become a way of honouring and celebrating the star for his contribution to the local music industry, says the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg.
Many are calling him a "legend", and he is being lauded for putting up a brave fight and insisting on performing even when his health was failing, our correspondent says.
Mandoza's friend Kevin Ntaopane, who says the musician died in his arms, spoke to SABC news about his last words.
"He was sick and was under doctor's orders but he said 'I'm going to perform and prove to the people that I'm not dead. I'll die on the stage‚ I'll die singing.
"'I was born to do this. And no sickness is going to stop Mandoza.'"
Kwaito is a South African genre of music which emerged in the 1990s, it is a unique dance and house style often likened to US hip-hop.
With most songs being about street culture, it was the sound of South Africa's new found freedom from white minority rule.
It was a chance for musicians to speak out about equality, poverty, oppression but also hope and overcoming great odds.
His son Tokollo spoke proudly of his father.
"I think I'm just happy that my dad died a proud man because he had everything he wanted in life. Every time he'd tell me that he never got a chance to spend time with his dad‚ so all he ever wanted was to raise his children‚" Tokollo said in an interview with SABC news.
Mandoza was born in 1978 in Zola, a notoriously rough area, in Soweto, a large township in the country's main city Johannesburg.
When he was 16 years old he was arrested for stealing a car and spent over a year in prison. After his release he was determined to make a life for himself and formed the group Chiskop, which went on to win multiple local awards.
He used his music to encourage young people in the township to turn away from crime.
Mandoza had not released a new song in years but his hits, Nkalakatha, Respect Life, Sgelekeqe and Tornado still remain crowd pleasers, transcending race. | Tributes are pouring in from across South Africa for kwaito musician Mduduzi "Mandoza" Tshabalala who died after a year-long battle with cancer. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37407154"} | 652 | 45 | 0.504562 | 1.354911 | -0.240853 | 0.851852 | 19.666667 | 0.703704 |
Lawro's opponents for this week's Premier League fixtures are comedians Bob Mortimer and Andy Dawson, who are behind the Athletico Mince podcast.
Mortimer is a Middlesbrough fan, while Dawson supports Sunderland and they decided on their joint prediction for Sunday's Wear-Tees derby by each of them independently choosing how many goals their team would score.
You can make your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the new BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
On the opening weekend of the season, Lawro got four correct results, including one perfect score, from 10 Premier League matches. That gave him a total of 70 points.
He beat Stockport indie band Blossoms, who got three correct results, with no perfect scores, for a total of 30 points.
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The Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care said lessons of previous reports remained "largely unheard".
It said clinicians and service providers were working "against the odds" to address needs.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford is attending an event in the Senedd on Tuesday to launch the report.
About 1,054 children and young people required palliative care services in Wales in 2014.
Of these, it is estimated 10% died during the year.
One difficulty identified in the report was that children's palliative care services sometimes came under adult palliative care when decisions were made.
The report said much of children's palliative care is not about the final period of life but about helping children and families cope better with a series of conditions which may last many years.
The focus on end-of-life care means services are not sufficiently supporting the 90% of children requiring ongoing help, it said.
The University of South Wales report, commissioned by Welsh children's hospice Ty Hafan, makes recommendations including giving paediatric palliative care the same status as that for adults.
It also calls for a 24/7 telephone advice service for health professionals and to establish child-focused performance measures.
Though "considerable progress" has been made in recent years, the report claims progress now "seems to have stalled and needs new impetus".
Mr Drakeford said he welcomed Ty Hafan's commitment to working in partnership with the Welsh government to drive forward key improvements to palliative care for children and young people in Wales. | Children's palliative care in Wales needs more "strategic attention" by ministers and the NHS, a new report says. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34248968"} | 329 | 33 | 0.668965 | 1.536535 | -0.063425 | 1.347826 | 12.73913 | 0.73913 |
David Hoare said he had been trying to highlight the unacceptably poor performance of schools on the island over many years.
His comments, made at a recent teaching conference, prompted a call for him to resign.
Mr Hoare apologised for any upset or offence he may have caused.
Green Party education spokeswoman Vix Lowthion said Mr Hoare's comments made him "unfit" for his post and called on him to step down.
Isle of Wight council leader Jonathan Bacon said he would contact Education Secretary Justine Greening to seek an explanation from Mr Hoare for his comments.
He said: "David Hoare's comments about 'inbreeding' and 'ghettos' on the Isle of Wight are truly offensive to the people of the Isle of Wight and bear no relation to the facts."
Ofsted said the chairman had been expressing his personal views and they did not reflect those of the inspectorate or its chief inspector.
The controversial comments, made at a teaching conference last week, were highlighted in the Times Educational Supplement.
Mr Hoare, who has a home on the mainland near the island, said education on the Isle of Wight was often a topic of conversation with his dinner party guests.
"They think of it as holiday land. But it is shocking," he said.
"It's a ghetto; there has been inbreeding.
"Seven state schools were all less than good. There is a mass of crime, drug problems, huge unemployment."
But Ms Lowthion, who is a teacher on the island, said: "'I am absolutely appalled that the chairman of Ofsted thinks it helpful, truthful or professional to describe our families and young people in that way.
"I think it reflects more on himself than it does on our hard-working teachers and schools.
"It is well-known that coastal towns need investment and support to improve education standards and participation.
"He has insulted residents of coastal towns across the country and should resign."
Following the outcry, Mr Hoare said: "My intention was to highlight how concerned I am about the unacceptably poor performance of schools on the Isle of Wight over many years and how this is damaging the prospects of young people who live on the island.
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Andrew Dale Iveson, 48, of Anchorage Hill, Richmond, began abusing the girl in 2005 when she was under 10. The abuse continued until 2013.
Iveson had denied nine child sex offences, 11 counts of rape and five other sexual offences.
He was jailed for 20 years and put on the sex offenders register for life at Teesside Crown Court.
Speaking after sentencing Det Insp Shaun Page, of North Yorkshire Police, said it had been the "most horrific" abuse he had dealt with in 19 years as a police officer.
"The ordeal he put his victim through when she should have been enjoying her childhood was downright evil and I can only describe him as a monster.
"I would like to acknowledge the bravery of the victim for coming forward and telling the police what happened to her.
"Her courage has ensured that a vile and dangerous paedophile has been jailed for a long period of time." | A man, described by police as a "vile paedophile", has been jailed for the prolonged sexual abuse of a young girl. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33181102"} | 219 | 35 | 0.562714 | 1.195304 | -0.45939 | 1.346154 | 7.038462 | 0.807692 |
Kathy Chen announced she was leaving following a restructure of the business in Asia.
While Twitter is blocked in China, it lets Chinese advertisers reach a global audience. It is also very popular with Chinese dissidents based in the West.
Ms Chen is the latest in a string of high-profile Twitter executives to depart from the firm.
Chief technology officer Adam Messinger and chief operating officer Adam Bain have both left recently.
Hong Kong-based Ms Chen, who had previously worked for Cisco and Microsoft, was hired as managing director for Twitter's China region in April 2016.
She also used to be in the Chinese military, and her apparent links with the Beijing government meant the appointment prompted concern from some China activists that it had hired somebody who was pro-China.
Since then Twitter has reorganised its Asia division, with country heads in India and Australia also leaving.
"Now that the Twitter APAC [Asia Pacific] team is working directly with Chinese advertisers, this is the right time for me to leave the company," Ms Chen wrote on the site.
Her 12-tweet message also included claims that revenue from Chinese advertising partners had soared 400% in the past two years and that the Hong Kong office - rumoured to be closing - would remain open "for now".
"Working at Twitter has opened my mind, my passion is to connect people to the world through cross-cultural communications & businesses," she added. | The head of Twitter's China operations has left the firm after seven months in charge. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38487180"} | 309 | 19 | 0.601603 | 1.401659 | -0.136751 | 1.117647 | 16.882353 | 0.647059 |
Officials say the attack in the north-western city is over, with all the attackers killed. Seven militants took part in all, according to the army.
Scores of survivors are being treated in hospitals as frantic parents search for news of their children.
The attack - the Taliban's deadliest in Pakistan - has been widely condemned.
Describing the attack from his hospital bed to the BBC's Shaimaa Khalil, Shahrukh Khan, 17, said a gunman had entered his classroom and opened fire at random.
As he hid under a desk, he saw his friends being shot, one in the head and one in the chest. Two teachers were also killed.
A Taliban spokesman told BBC Urdu that the school, which is run by the army, had been targeted in response to military operations.
Hundreds of Taliban fighters are thought to have died in a recent offensive in North Waziristan and the nearby Khyber area.
US President Barack Obama said terrorists had "once again shown their depravity" while UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said it was "an act of horror and rank cowardice".
This brutal attack may well be a watershed for a country long accused by the world of treating terrorists as strategic assets.
Pakistan's policy-makers struggling to come to grips with various shades of militants have often cited a "lack of consensus" and "large pockets of sympathy" for religious militants as a major stumbling-block.
That is probably why, when army chief Gen Raheel Sharif launched what he called an indiscriminate operation earlier in the year against militant groups in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, the political response was lukewarm at best.
We will get them, was his message, be they Pakistani Taliban, Punjabi Taliban, al-Qaeda and affiliates, or most importantly, the dreaded Haqqani network. But the country's political leadership chose to remain largely silent. This is very likely to change now.
Late on Tuesday, military spokesman Asim Bajwa told reporters in Peshawar that 132 children and nine members of staff had been killed.
All seven of the attackers wore suicide bomb vests, he said. Scores of people were also injured.
It appears the militants scaled walls to get into the school and set off a bomb at the start of the assault.
Children who escaped say the militants then went from one classroom to another, shooting indiscriminately.
One boy told reporters he had been with a group of 10 friends who tried to run away and hide. He was the only one to survive.
Others described seeing pupils lying dead in the corridors. One local woman said her friend's daughter had escaped because her clothing was covered in blood from those around her and she had lain pretending to be dead.
16 December 2014: Taliban attack on school in Peshawar leaves at least 141 people dead, 132 of them children
22 September 2013: Militants linked to the Taliban kill at least 80 people at a church in Peshawar, in one of the worst attacks on Christians
10 January 2013: Militant bombers target the Hazara Shia Muslim minority in the city of Quetta, killing 120 at a snooker hall and on a street
28 May 2010: Gunmen attack two mosques of the minority Ahmadi Islamic sect in Lahore, killing more than 80 people
18 October 2007: Twin bomb attack at a rally for Benazir Bhutto in Karachi leaves at least 130 dead. Unclear if Taliban behind attack
A hospital doctor treating injured children said many had head and chest injuries.
Irshadah Bibi, a woman who lost her 12-year-old son, was seen beating her face in grief, throwing herself against an ambulance.
"O God, why did you snatch away my son?" AFP news agency quoted her as saying.
The school is near a military complex in Peshawar. The city, close to the Afghan border, has seen some of the worst of the violence during the Taliban insurgency in recent years.
Many of the students were the children of military personnel. Most of them would have been aged 16 or under.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani said the militants had been "forced" to launch the attack in response to army attacks.
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The Scot confirmed captain Darren Clarke asked him to play in the Wyndham Championship, which began 11 days after he won the Travelers Championship.
He admitted it was a "tough call" but opted to stick to his chosen schedule.
"I decided to take two weeks off to enjoy my win and I will never regret doing that," he told BBC Sportsound.
"If it ended up hurting my [chances of a] place, I am comfortable with that.
"Maybe it did hurt me but my agent got in touch with someone at the European Tour and they ran some statistical analysis of what I needed compared to other people.
"It was still only something like a 5% chance - it wasn't as if I just had to show up to make the team."
Clarke opted for the experienced Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer and the in-form Belgian Thomas Pieters as his three wildcard picks.
Asked if he felt not playing a ranking event which could have seen him qualify automatically sent out the wrong message to Clarke, Knox was adamant his commitment to the European cause should not be questioned.
"It has got nothing to do with the message," said the world number 20. "I joined the European Tour and I was 100% committed to making the Ryder Cup team. I did everything I had to do.
"But I don't see the sense of running round like a headless chicken to try to qualify. We set our schedules and this is an insanely busy month for me with the FedExCup play-offs, which were just as much of a goal as the Ryder Cup at the start of the year.
"I took a week to decide and it was a tough call [not to play the Wyndham]. It probably shouldn't have mattered, and it probably didn't come down to that at all."
Despite his disappointment at missing out on selection for the biennial clash at Hazeltine, Minnesota, starting on 30 September, Knox was magnanimous in hailing Pieters as a future "superstar" of the game.
"I am disappointed but I don't feel angry or let down," the 31-year-old added.
"Let's be honest, it came down to Thomas Pieters or me. He couldn't have picked a wrong one.
"Thomas deserves to be in the team. He has played tremendously well the last couple of months and he is going to be a superstar."
The Belgian won the Made in Denmark title at the weekend, after a fourth-place finish at the Rio Olympics and a runner-up spot at the Czech Masters.
The 2016 event will now be only the third since the Second World War in which no Scot has played, following Nick Faldo's defeated 2008 team and Colin Montgomerie's victorious group in 2010.
"It is a shame for the Scottish game and it is a shame for myself not to make it," Knox added.
"I don't think I could have done a lot more to make the team outright, but it wasn't meant to be this time.
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Abdul Abbasi, from Hull, appeared via videolink and did not enter a plea during the hearing at Hull Crown Court.
The court heard a 65-year-old pedestrian suffered "grievous injuries" when she was hit by a reversing car on Redmire Close in Hull on Sunday.
Mr Abbasi, 32, of Thorndale, was remanded in custody and will appear in court again on 16 December.
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The road markers have been commissioned by organisers to honour some of the event's most successful riders.
So far only two have been unveiled, one for McGuinness, who has 19 TT wins behind him, and the other for Dave Molyneux, winner of 16 side car races.
McGuinness said: "I was nearly in tears when I found out - really emotional."
He added: "It seems unreal, when I am long gone, it is still going to be McGuinness's corner, I am dead proud, my mum and dad are too."
The 40-year-old former bricklayer from Morecambe is the outright lap record holder at the TT races and is the second most successful rider in the event's history.
John McGuinness and Dave Molyneux lie second and third behind Joey Dunlop in the success ratings.
The point of the course now known as McGuinness's is at Shoughlaigue and Molyneux's corner is at the end of Cronk-y-Voddy straight.
In 2002 the 26th Milestone on the TT circuit was renamed "Joey's" in memory of 26 times TT winner Joey Dunlop, who died in a racing accident two years earlier.
The previous road markers for the races have gone up for auction on eBay, in a move to raise funds to run the event and the first, from Ballaugh Bridge, fetched more than £1,000. | Isle of Man TT star John McGuinness said he feels "emotional" about having a corner section of the 38-mile Mountain circuit named after him. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "22092913"} | 333 | 38 | 0.545391 | 1.377721 | -0.332263 | 0.724138 | 9.241379 | 0.586207 |
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Laura Trott has won gold for Great Britain and Sir Bradley Wiggins and the British men's pursuit team have won silver medals.
Double Olympic cycling champion, Victoria Pendleton, retired from the sport after the 2012 Olympics but is now commentating at the event.
She sent Newsround this report from behind the scenes at the competition. | The best cyclists in the world are in London this week competing at the Track Cycling World Championships. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35725775"} | 81 | 22 | 0.526358 | 1.130893 | -0.326976 | 0.473684 | 3.789474 | 0.368421 |
A total of 26.8 billion songs were streamed last year, a rise of 82%, according to trade body BPI.
Vinyl sales jumped 64% to 2.1 million, while retailer HMV says it sold a turntable every minute over Christmas.
Overall, the retail value of UK music rose from £1.03bn in 2014 to £1.06bn, the first increase since 2004.
That figure includes the retail value of physical albums - CD, vinyl, cassette and minidisc - alongside digital downloads and an estimate of revenues from streaming subscriptions.
"Yet again it's UK artists who are driving this growth and inspiring the fans," said BPI chief executive Geoff Taylor, "whether it's global icons such as Adele, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and One Direction, or recent British breakthroughs and newcomers like Jess Glynne, Little Mix and James Bay."
Adele's 25 topped the year-end charts, selling more than 2 million copies in just five weeks. By comparison, her previous album 21 took 13 weeks to reach the same milestone.
The rest of the top 10 presented a mixture of old and new releases, with Ed Sheeran's x (971,000 sales) and Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour (893,000 sales) taking third and fourth position. Both albums, which were released in 2014, have now achieved lifetime sales of more than 2 million.
If I Can Dream, an orchestral reworking of Elvis Presley's biggest hits, was the year's fourth biggest-seller, followed by resurgent teen star Justin Bieber, whose fifth studio album Purpose sold 645,000 copies.
For the first time in four years, pop group One Direction failed to make the top 10. Their fifth album, Made In The AM, was at 14; outsold by girl band Little Mix, whose Get Weird has become the best-selling of their career, shifting 389,000 copies.
The most-streamed track of the year was OMI's ebullient summer anthem Cheerleader, while Ed Sheeran was the most-streamed artist overall.
Adele topped the vinyl charts, where the best-sellers tend to include classic albums such as Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and The Stone Roses' eponymous debut.
CDs are proving to be more resilient than analysts had thought. They remain the dominant format, with 53.6 million discs sold last year, down 3.9% from 2014.
Recent research from the BPI has suggested that people who subscribe to streaming services are beginning to buy CDs and vinyl as permanent mementoes of their favourite tracks.
The video industry has also proved resilient, with a 30% increase in digital video services and 119.6 million DVD and Blu-Ray discs sold last year.
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Lenin Avenue runs like a spine through Zaporizhya, a major city in Ukraine's industrial heartland. At the top of the avenue is Lenin Square, adorned by a giant statue of the Russian revolutionary leader himself.
He points towards a hydropower dam, which bears his name and also has a huge bas relief depicting an Order of Lenin on one of its walls.
Behind the dam is Lake Lenin with Lenin Island in the middle, and all of this is located in the city's Lenin District.
This is the kind of legacy Ukraine's legislators are trying to get rid of.
On 9 April, they passed a bill banning communist propaganda as well as Nazi symbols. The ban applies to monuments, place and street names, which will have to go within six months once the president signs it into law.
Hundreds of statues will have to be removed, millions of street signs replaced and tons of paperwork processed. Clearly this will be an expensive exercise that Ukraine may struggle to afford at a time of war, but supporters argue it is a price worth paying for Ukraine to break with its totalitarian past.
"The issue of renaming was a serious destabilising factor, and by making this decision parliament has removed this factor from our level," Zaporizhya's mayor, Oleksandr Sin, told the BBC.
Critics, however, argue that the ban will worsen the sharp political differences within Ukraine.
"Laws like this only add to the tensions. They aren't what our society needs," political expert Kost Bondarenko told Segodnya, a Kiev-based daily.
After Ukraine gained independence in 1991, many communist names were removed from its map by local councils.
Later, the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych and the subsequent rise in Russia-backed militancy in the east triggered a wave of attacks on statues of Lenin across the country. They were toppled by activists angry at what they saw as the Kremlin's meddling in Ukraine.
But the Soviet legacy lingers, particularly in eastern parts of the country.
Several towns and cities may even have to change their names because of the new law.
Among them is Dnipropetrovsk, which lies about an hour's drive north of Zaporizhya and is partly named after Grigory Petrovsky, a Communist revolutionary and functionary.
Vadym Shebanov, a senior official at the Dnipropetrovsk city council, told the BBC that a commission was already being set up to choose a new name.
Reverting to the city's previous name will hardly work. Until 1926, it was called Ekaterinoslav in honour of Ekaterina (or Catherine) the Great, the 18th-Century Russian ruler who dismantled the Cossack movement, an important pillar of Ukraine's national identity.
The commission will also draw up a list of streets to be renamed. "Many still bear the names of people who tried to obliterate the Ukrainian nation," Mr Shebanov said.
Predictably, the Ukrainian parliament's move to ban communist symbols outraged Russia. Its foreign ministry called the move "sacrilege" and said officials in Kiev had "a perverse idea of good and evil".
"The country's leaders have declared war on their own past by banning communist symbols and turning Hitler's accomplices into heroes," state-run Rossiya-1 TV said at the top of its prime-time news bulletin on 9 April. It made no mention that the Ukrainian parliament had banned Nazi symbols, too.
Russia itself is no stranger to anti-communist measures.
It banned the Soviet Communist Party after the failed coup attempt against reformist President Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991.
The names of many Russian cities reverted to what they were before the 1917 Bolshevik revolution: Leningrad became St Petersburg, Sverdlovsk became Yekaterinburg and Gorky became Nizhny Novgorod.
After the Soviet Union collapsed, many of its former republics and allies banned communist symbols, too.
In Poland, anyone convicted of disseminating them may face a jail term of up to two years. Georgia also removed communist street and place names and outlawed Soviet symbols. Similar bans are in place in Latvia and Lithuania.
Ukraine's journey away from its communist past will be long and arduous, but commentators within the country are hopeful. "Our ship has left the communist harbour," analytical daily Den said. "Fair seas and a following wind!"
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They have published a report saying the results of the IGCSE in English language were flawed and pupils received unfair grades.
The exam board, Cambridge International Exams, said it was "confident" in the accuracy of the results.
Exam regulator Ofqual said the exam results were reliable and pupils had received "appropriate" grades.
The Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and Girls' School Association said an "unprecedented number" of schools had come forward with concerns about the results.
The report said the exam results "cannot be trusted" and there had been a "large-scale award of false grades" for the IGCSE English language paper taken by pupils in May 2015.
The independent schools' groups said there had been problems with the grade boundaries and the results had been "exceptionally out of line" with expectations, with pupils forecast to get top grades receiving U grades.
Leicester Grammar School headmaster Chris King, who chairs the HMC, said they were publishing the report after months of "fruitless formal appeals".
"Yet again, schools have known that students have been graded unfairly but have been unable to gain justice for pupils under the current system," he said.
But the claims about the IGCSE were strongly rejected by the exam board.
Roderic Gillespie, director of assessment at Cambridge International Examinations, said the independent schools' report was "flawed" and had been based on a "small sample of self-selecting schools unhappy with their results".
"There is no evidence in the report to justify re-grading the exam papers," he said.
Ofqual said it had checked the schools' claims but remained unconvinced by the evidence.
"It is unreasonable for any study to make assertions about an entire cohort of students based on the results of an unrepresentative sub-set of schools," said an Ofqual spokesman.
The exam watchdog said it was "satisfied that the grade boundaries were suitable".
Last year saw a record number of grades being changed after pupils appealed against results.
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