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According to writer Steven Knight, the singer's "people" had told him "he was a big, big fan" of the period drama.
Knight said he had been played a copy of Bowie's Blackstar album shortly before the singer's death in January.
"It seems that his people were keen to establish that we could use it before he died," he told the Radio Times.
Knight said he learned of Bowie's interest in the show after the singer sent a photo of himself to the show's lead actor.
"[Bowie] sent a photo of himself with razor blades in his cap to Cillian [Murphy] about a year ago," the writer disclosed.
The drama takes its name from gang members who sewed razor blades into the peaks of their flat caps in 1920s Birmingham.
The Bowie connection has come to light just as the third series of Peaky Blinders begins on BBC Two.
Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Steven Spielberg are also fans of the show, this week's Radio Times reveals. | David Bowie liked Peaky Blinders so much he was apparently keen to have his music featured on the BBC Two crime series, its creator has revealed. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36132905"} | 233 | 33 | 0.607132 | 1.467064 | 0.653625 | 0.892857 | 7.321429 | 0.607143 |
Fe wnaeth 8.3% o'r graddau gyrraedd y safon uchaf, gyda 25% o raddau hefyd yn cael eu dyfarnu'n A neu A*.
Roedd canran y disgyblion wnaeth lwyddo i gael gradd A*-E yn 97.7%, yr uchaf mewn degawd.
Dywedodd yr Ysgrifennydd Addysg, Kirsty Williams fod y canlyniadau yn dangos "cynnydd calonogol".
Cyn eleni doedd canran y myfyrwyr oedd wedi cael gradd A* yn eu harholiadau Safon Uwch ddim wedi bod yn uwch na 7.3% - llynedd roedd yn 6.6%.
Fe wnaeth y canran oedd yn cael A* neu A hefyd gyrraedd y lefel uchaf erioed, gan godi o 22.7% i 25% mewn blwyddyn.
Mae Cymru hefyd wedi cau'r bwlch ar weddill y DU o ran y canran sy'n cael y graddau uchaf, ond maen nhw'n parhau y tu ôl i bob rhanbarth yn Lloegr oni bai am orllewin y canolbarth a dwyrain y canolbarth o ran graddau A* i C.
Ond mae nifer y myfyrwyr wnaeth sefyll arholiadau Safon Uwch eleni wedi gostwng o'i gymharu â llynedd.
Mae nifer y Cymry sydd wedi gwneud cais i fynd i'r brifysgol, a'r nifer sydd wedi gwneud cais i brifysgolion Cymru, hefyd wedi gostwng.
Mathemateg oedd y pwnc ble cafodd y canran uchaf o ddisgyblion radd A neu A*, gyda 41.9% yn llwyddo i gyrraedd y safon a 63.3% yn llwyddo gyda Mathemateg Bellach.
Ymhlith y pynciau eraill ble wnaeth dros chwarter y myfyrwyr sicrhau'r graddau uchaf oedd Almaeneg, Cemeg, Economeg, Ffiseg, Ffrangeg, Bioleg, Cymraeg Iaith Gyntaf, a Chelf a Dylunio.
Fe wnaeth bechgyn wneud yn well na merched wrth gael graddau A ac A* (25.1% i 24.9%), ond ymysg graddau A* i E fe wnaeth merched barhau i wneud yn well (98.2% i 97%).
Dywedodd y Cyd-gyngor Cymwysterau (JCQ) fod y gwahaniaethau mawr o ran dewis pynciau yn golygu ei bod hi ond yn bosib cymharu canlyniadau merched a bechgyn o fewn yr un pwnc.
Ar Lefel AS, gwelwyd cynnydd yn nifer y disgyblion lwyddodd i gael gradd A, gyda'r canran yn codi o 18% y llynedd i 19.1% eleni.
Roedd y canran gafodd radd A-E hefyd wedi codi o 88.3% i 88.9%.
Wrth longyfarch myfyrywr ar eu canlyniadau dywedodd yr Ysgrifennydd Addysg, Kirsty Williams eu bod yn dangos "cynnydd calonogol yn y nifer sy'n ennill y graddau uchaf, a chanlyniadau gwell ar draws Mathemateg, Bioleg, Cemeg a Ffiseg".
Ychwanegodd ei bod am "adeiladu" ar y canlyniadau, a bod y llywodraeth "wedi ymrwymo i sicrhau bod ein system addysg yn darparu'r sgiliau a'r wybodaeth sydd eu hangen ar ddisgyblion yn y byd modern".
Eleni oedd y flwyddyn gyntaf ers newidiadau i drefn rhai o'r pynciau Safon Uwch, a bellach dim ond unwaith y bydd myfyrwyr yng Nghymru yn gallu ailsefyll unedau UG.
Ond mae prif weithredwr Cymwysterau Cymru yn dweud ei fod yn hyderus fod "safonau'n cael eu diogelu".
"Mae'r ffordd y mae ffiniau gradd wedi'u gosod ar gyfer arholiadau Safon Uwch newydd yr haf hwn yn sicrhau bod myfyrwyr yn cael eu trin yn deg," meddai Philip Blaker.
"Ni roddwyd mantais nac anfantais iddynt oherwydd y ffaith mai nhw oedd y myfyrwyr cyntaf i sefyll y cymwysterau hyn." | Mae mwy o fyfyrwyr wedi cael gradd A* yn eu harholiadau Safon Uwch nag erioed o'r blaen, yn ôl y canlyniadau sydd wedi eu cyhoeddi ddydd Iau. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40959293"} | 1,865 | 106 | 0.724567 | 1.637684 | 0.254933 | 3.9 | 20.9 | 0.766667 |
The focus of spending is on building a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - a network of roads, railway and pipelines between the long-time allies.
They will run some 3,000km (1,800 miles) from Gwadar in Pakistan to China's western Xinjiang region.
The projects will give China direct access to the Indian Ocean and beyond.
This marks a major advance in China's plans to boost its influence in Central and South Asia, correspondents say, and far exceeds US spending in Pakistan.
"Pakistan, for China, is now of pivotal importance. This has to succeed and be seen to succeed," Reuters quoted Mushahid Hussain Sayed, chairman of the Pakistani parliament's defence committee, as saying.
Pakistan, for its part, hopes the investment will strengthen its struggling economy and help end chronic power shortages.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said ties with China had "remained robust" despite political changes and "major regional developments" over four generations.
"Our relations are based on the shared ideals and principles of mutual trust, mutual benefit and mutual respect," he said.
Is Pakistan on the verge of becoming the Asian Tiger Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said it would become when he was last in power in 1997?
China plans to inject some $46bn - almost three times the entire foreign direct investment Pakistan has received since 2008. Many say Mr Sharif's penchant for "thinking big" and China's increasing need to control maritime trade routes may well combine to pull off an economic miracle in Pakistan.
But there are questions over Pakistan's ability to absorb this investment given its chronic problems with militancy, separatism, political volatility and official corruption.
China is worried about violence from ethnic Uighurs in its mostly Muslim north-western Xinjiang region and fears hard-line separatists could team up with Uighur militants fighting alongside members of Pakistan's Taliban.
In Pakistan, a decade-old separatist insurgency in Balochistan province, where the economic corridor starts, makes that area extremely volatile. Many observers believe however that the incentive of an economic miracle may make Islamabad work harder to stabilise the situation.
China prestige projects around the world
Mr Xi will spend two days holding talks with his counterpart Mamnoon Hussain, Mr Sharif and other ministers.
He was expected to discuss security issues with Mr Sharif, including China's concerns that Muslim separatists from Xinjiang are linking up with Pakistani militants.
"China and Pakistan need to align security concerns more closely to strengthen security co-operation," Mr Xi said on Sunday.
Under the CPEC plan, China's government and banks will lend to Chinese companies, so they can invest in projects as commercial ventures.
Some $15.5bn worth of coal, wind, solar and hydro energy projects will come online by 2017 and add 10,400 megawatts of energy to Pakistan's national grid, according to officials.
A $44m optical fibre cable between the two countries is also due to be built.
Pakistan, meanwhile, hopes the investment will enable it to transform itself into a regional economic hub.
Ahsan Iqbal, the Pakistani minister overseeing the plan, told AFP news agency that these were "very substantial and tangible projects which will have a significant transformative effect".
Pakistan's neighbour and rival, India, will be watching developments closely. Delhi is wary of China's regional ambitions, despite relations improving markedly in recent years.
President Xi visited Delhi last year, after postponing his visit to Islamabad because of anti-government protests. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is due in China next month. | China's President Xi Jinping has signed agreements with Pakistan promising investment of $46bn (£30.7bn). | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32377088"} | 822 | 29 | 0.510031 | 1.226125 | 0.114723 | 1 | 34.9 | 0.7 |
PwC had taken responsibility for the "unacceptable" mistake which saw La La Land wrongly announced as the winner instead of Moonlight, the Academy said.
Its president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, wrote in a letter to members that new rules will also mean electronic devices are banned backstage.
PwC's Brian Cullinan was caught posting Twitter photos just before the mix-up.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers counts the votes and organises the envelopes being handed out at the ceremony. Mr Cullinan was the accountant who gave the wrong envelope to actor Warren Beatty, resulting in the blunder at last month's ceremony.
Ms Boone Isaacs said: "From the night of the ceremony through today, PwC has taken full responsibility for the mistake.
"After a thorough review, including an extensive presentation of revised protocols and ambitious controls, the board has decided to continue working with PwC."
The firm's US chairman and senior partner Tim Ryan will now take a "greater oversight role" at future ceremonies.
A third person will also become part of PwC's on-site team at the Oscars. This individual will have knowledge of the award winners and will sit in the control room with the show's director throughout the event, she added.
Just before the best picture announcement, Mr Cullinan tweeted a backstage photo of La La Land's best actress winner Emma Stone, minutes before handing presenters Beatty and Faye Dunaway the envelope for best actress in a leading role, rather than best picture.
Ms Boone Isaacs said Mr Cullinan's distraction caused the error.
Mr Cullinan and his fellow PwC accountant Martha Ruiz were told they would never work at the Oscars again. It was the awards' most high-profile error since they began in 1929.
PwC said the accountants made "a series of mistakes" and failed to follow established backstage protocols.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Oscars organisers are to continue using accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) despite the best film mix-up. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39441595"} | 474 | 33 | 0.557392 | 1.556034 | -0.075939 | 1.45 | 18.95 | 0.65 |
The figure is eight times as big as the previous best guess, which counted perhaps 400 billion at most.
The new total of 3,040,000,000,000 trees represents roughly 420 trees for every person on the planet.
A team from Yale University in America carried out the research and collected information from over 400,000 forest plots around the world.
The new number will now help with a wide range of research - everything from studies that look at animal and plant habitats to climate issues.
What is clear from the study is the influence humans now have on the number of trees on Earth.
The team estimates we are removing about 15 billion trees a year, with roughly only five billion being planted back. | There are just over three trillion trees on Earth, according to a new report. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34136790"} | 144 | 18 | 0.623964 | 1.375799 | -1.036481 | 1 | 8.4375 | 0.625 |
Speaking to the former prime minister for Thursday's BBC News at Ten, I asked him why we need it, given the criminal trials that followed the first part and high cost to the public.
"There are so many unanswered questions about what the Murdoch News International group did… blagging, impersonation, email interception, breaches under the law itself... that unless there is a full and proper inquiry we'll never be able to clear the air," he said.
"And we'll always have suspicions about how the media was acting for a whole decade at the start of the 21st century."
Leveson Inquiry findings: At-a-glance
Q&A: Leveson Inquiry
Labour demands Leveson part two goes ahead
As things stand, there is a judicial review into the terms of a government consultation into both whether the second part of Leveson should happen and also if Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (which imposes costs of legal actions against publishers on to those publishers if they don't sign up to an approved regulator) should be implemented.
The second Leveson Inquiry was to look specifically at allegations of unlawful or improper conduct within News International, other newspaper organisations and, as appropriate, other organisations within the media,
Most of the people I speak to in Westminster think it is unlikely that a government so focused on leaving the European Union will want the distraction of another inquiry.
For Brown, that is not good enough - and the fact that David Cameron promised it would happen counts for plenty.
"Leveson himself said this was only the first part of his inquiry, Mr Cameron when prime minister said there had to be a Leveson Two, the House of Lords has looked at this and agreed there has to be a second inquiry," he said.
"Mr Cameron said that was to happen when he was prime minister. It does seem strange that we're now not going to have it unless we keep pushing for it.
"Leveson One could only deal with part of the problem. The whole of the problem has to be dealt with, including the way Murdoch newspapers impersonated people, including the way there were breaches of the law, including also how email interception might have happened, as well as telephone interception. And the media itself should want an inquiry to clear the air."
Brown believes there is fresh evidence that has not been sufficiently raked over. And it was clear in speaking to him how personally he was affected by press intrusion.
"There is fresh evidence. We have the Daniel Morgan murder inquiry and that is revealing fresh evidence almost every month. We have the statements made by people who were in police at the time that have been sent to [Culture Secretary] Karen Bradley as a reason for taking action.
"We have the evidence that people like me have that I was impersonated, that my bank account was broken into, that my lawyer's office was besieged by calls impersonating me from the Murdoch newspapers.
"These are all things that happened and have not been properly accounted for by the Murdoch empire."
I asked Brown whether, as many of his critics contend, this was really the vendetta of a wronged man.
His response was: "I can only explain what happened to me. I know I was impersonated. My lawyer's office received questions by impersonation. My bank accounts and mortgage accounts were broken into.
"I am in a position to defend myself. There are thousands who don't know what happened to them. People who have less power to defend themselves than me deserve this inquiry."
Murdoch, with whom Brown was thought at one point to have developed a trustful relationship, deserted Labour at the 2010 election, endorsing the Conservatives in a manner timed to inflict maximum damage on Brown's ambitions.
The bid by 21st Century Fox for the 61% of Sky it does not already own is imminent. It is currently being bounced between Fox and the European Commission as part of what are known as "pre-notification talks". They are a formality.
Very soon, Fox will formally notify Karen Bradley of their bid and she will have 10 days to decide whether to refer the bid to telecoms regulator Ofcom.
I asked Brown specifically whether he thought that the Murdochs, and James Murdoch, were fit and proper to hold a broadcasting licence.
"Before you make a decision about the ownership of a very important media organisation, you should know all the facts.
"Because we haven't had Leveson Two there is always going to be doubt as to whether we know what is happening in this organisation, whether we know whether there are fit and proper people governing this organisation."
I asked him finally why he seemed to be targeting Murdoch particularly. After all, it was not just the Murdoch press that did wrong. But that is not really how Brown sees it.
"All the major instances of abuse that merit inquiry in recent years have come out of the Murdoch press. We have the fake Sheikh, we have the telephone hacking, we have issues about email hacking.
"Most of them resolve at least in the main around the Murdoch media and that's where the inquiry has got to start."
News UK declined to comment on these assertions. Their position is simple and has been made publicly many times: there have been extensive criminal trials into many of these accusations, with several journalists in the dock.
We don't need yet more flagellation of the press.
Watch the interview on BBC News at Ten at 22:00 GMT on BBC One on Thursday or on iPlayer for 24 hours afterwards. | Gordon Brown has called for the second part of the Leveson Inquiry to go ahead - and said the majority of press abuses in recent years were from the Murdoch press. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39145261"} | 1,229 | 40 | 0.533871 | 1.418553 | 0.295522 | 1.65625 | 34.53125 | 0.84375 |
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It was tight, tense and seemingly destined for a draw until Gareth Bale rose to the occasion to head in their Euro 2016 qualifier winner against Cyprus. It means the men in red are on the verge of qualifying for Wales' first major tournament since 1958 and a win against Israel on Sunday will do that.
Here are the thoughts of some of those who battled alongside Bale to put them on the cusp of reaching Euro 2016 in France.
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So says captain and defender Ashley Williams: "He didn't have his best game, you know, to his standard - a lot of things didn't go for him and he can't be perfect all the time.
"But [it was] an unbelievable goal. I don't think anyone else in the squad would have scored that. He jumped so high.
"When he's on the pitch, he can always do that for you."
Tottenham Hotspur defender Ben Davies: "It was a great header, but it's nothing we as players haven't come to expect from him, really."
Swansea skipper Williams: "We would like to do it at home [for the fans].
"I thought they were unbelievable with their support again… they made a lot of noise and they really backed us and we needed it again at times.
"I even heard my name being sung!"
Williams' fellow defender BenDavies: "It was unbelievable to see that many Welsh fans over here (Cyprus)."
Reading's ex-Cardiff City defender Chris Gunter: "Hopefully if we do our jobs, then we can join in with everyone [celebrating] on Sunday."
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Ashley Williams: "Hopefully. That's what we've worked so hard for over the last few years.
"It isn't done yet, so until it is done - that's when we'll celebrate.
"I've said it before, it would be my proudest achievement to lead this unbelievable group of lads to France and it's still the same.
"You can't help but think about the final whistle going and winning - that'll drive us on a little bit more and I'm sure we'll enjoy it if and when that happens."
Arsenal's midfielder Aaron Ramsey: "We know what's on the line for Sunday so hopefully we can have that opportunity and put on a bit of a show to gather the three points.
"It would mean the world to me to qualify.
"Hopefully [we'll] be a bit better with the ball than we were tonight… we're in a great position to do it."
Ex-Swansea player Ben Davies: "Sometimes we have to grind results out and that's what we did.
"As a back five we wanted to keep a clean sheet and we did. Luckily we've got the quality up top to get us games.
"We've been in situations, all of us really, where we've had games where we have to win, but never really to take us to that promised land.
"It's going to be tough. It's going to be nerve-wracking, but we can't wait."
Former Cardiff defender Chris Gunter: "We've never been in this position of being one game away from qualifying.
"I think every game as we've gone through the group has been bigger and bigger and I think we've dealt with it really well.
"Believe it or not through the week, we haven't once talked about the points we need or what's to come.
"We have just focused on performing. If we perform well, then we feel that the results will come and that's been the case so far." | It was a night on which Welsh sporting dreams began to be realised. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34151271"} | 859 | 17 | 0.325233 | 0.853374 | -0.95508 | 1.142857 | 55.142857 | 0.571429 |
The 2011 result was confirmed on Tuesday after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) dismissed Tatyana Chernova's blood doping ban appeal.
Chernova beat the Briton to gold in Daegu but her results are now annulled.
The Russian also won bronze medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.
The 29-year-old has been told she must give up all three medals after twice testing positive when her anti-doping samples were later re-analysed. Her biological passport has also revealed years of blood doping.
World governing body the IAAF first stripped Chernova of her Daegu gold in November 2016 but the medal could not be reallocated until the appeal to Cas had been heard.
Several ceremonies to reallocate medals are expected to be held at the London World Championships, which runs from August 4-13.
Ennis-Hill, 31, announced her retirement from athletics in October but will now be able to celebrate her third world heptathlon title in front of a home crowd. | Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill will receive her record-equalling third world heptathlon gold medal in a ceremony at the World Championships in London - six years after the event in Daegu. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40650500"} | 225 | 49 | 0.626395 | 1.356691 | 0.50794 | 1.352941 | 5.588235 | 0.764706 |
After Elias Kachunga struck the outside of the post for the Terriers, striker Nakhi Wells turned Rajiv van La Parra's cross into the bottom corner.
Mark Hudson's handball gave the hosts a penalty, and Dwight Gayle's effort was saved but he headed in the rebound.
Payne drilled home in the 82nd minute as Huddersfield won at Newcastle for the first time since 1953.
It was his first goal for Huddersfield since joining in the summer from Southend, as Championship title favourites Newcastle were booed off by their fans at the end.
Huddersfield's German boss David Wagner, who is in his first full season in charge, has guided his side to two wins from two to sit in second place, level on points with early leaders Bristol City.
Former Liverpool and Real Madrid manager Rafael Benitez, who has signed eight players so far this summer, handed Mo Diame his debut behind Gayle, and although his side created early chances, they were never totally dominant.
Moussa Sissoko was not included in the matchday squad in a week when the France midfielder spoke out about his wish to move to Real Madrid.
The Terriers - who lost 2-1 to League One side Shrewsbury in the EFL Cup in midweek - were at St James' Park for a league fixture for the first time in 33 years.
Newcastle United manager Rafael Benitez:
"We weren't expecting this kind of performance, we knew Huddersfield would be difficult to break down but we didn't play at the level we wanted to.
"We improved a lot in the second half but it's really disappointing. I've seen the team doing well in training but we have to show the same things in the match, the quality, the personality and the character.
"We've not seen that today. We made too many mistakes and we need to show that character and quality to improve things. The players on the pitch they were trying, they are good players.
"The players can do much better but we didn't play at the level we were expecting. The only positive today was the fans, they were behind the fans."
Huddersfield Town boss David Wagner:
"My first feeling is that I am proud for my players. It was an outstanding performance, in terms of togetherness. We were brave and we stuck to our match plan which was a lot different to what we played before.
"We scored with a transition twice and everyone helped each other. In the first half it was very good. In the second half, if we want to win against Newcastle away - like all teams here - then you need a bit of luck and we had that in the second half. It was a great moment for my players to celebrate with the away fans.
"The supporters will be a big help for us if we want to take a step forward as a team and club, they showed that. They have to help us and we have to deliver also. At the moment there is a great togetherness within the squad and it was great for me to see them celebrate with the supporters.
"All 24 teams can challenge in this division. We don't have any reason to dream. We have every reason to work and this is what we do. I was never a dreamer and I was always a worker which is why I am here at this club, this is a working club. We start again tomorrow."
Match ends, Newcastle United 1, Huddersfield Town 2.
Second Half ends, Newcastle United 1, Huddersfield Town 2.
Attempt missed. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez.
Foul by Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United).
Jonathan Hogg (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Hand ball by Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town).
Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town).
Attempt missed. Isaac Hayden (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross following a set piece situation.
Chancel Mbemba (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Elias Kachunga (Huddersfield Town).
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Christopher Schindler.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Adam Armstrong replaces Daryl Janmaat.
Goal! Newcastle United 1, Huddersfield Town 2. Jack Payne (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kasey Palmer with a through ball.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Jack Payne replaces Joe Lolley.
Foul by Jamaal Lascelles (Newcastle United).
Elias Kachunga (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Ayoze Pérez replaces Mohamed Diamé.
Attempt missed. Daryl Janmaat (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Mohamed Diamé.
Foul by Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United).
Tommy Smith (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Sean Scannell replaces Rajiv van La Parra.
Attempt missed. Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Paul Dummett with a cross.
Attempt missed. Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Matt Ritchie with a cross.
Attempt missed. Paul Dummett (Newcastle United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left following a corner.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Jonathan Hogg.
Substitution, Huddersfield Town. Kasey Palmer replaces Nahki Wells.
Attempt missed. Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Elias Kachunga.
Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United).
Danny Ward (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town) is shown the yellow card.
Hand ball by Chris Löwe (Huddersfield Town).
Goal! Newcastle United 1, Huddersfield Town 1. Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal following a set piece situation.
Penalty saved! Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) fails to capitalise on this great opportunity, right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by Mark Hudson (Huddersfield Town) with a hand ball in the penalty area.
Foul by Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United).
Tommy Smith (Huddersfield Town) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Newcastle United. Conceded by Chris Löwe. | Jack Payne grabbed a late winner as Huddersfield maintained Newcastle's losing start to the new season. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36993966"} | 1,709 | 26 | 0.336397 | 0.877004 | -0.695396 | 1 | 77.722222 | 0.666667 |
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If the Royal and Ancient and United States Golf Association plans are adopted, golfers will see significant shifts in how the sport is played.
The two governing bodies want to make golf quicker and played under more simple, consistent and fair rules.
Their ideas have been made public for a period of consultation and are scheduled to be implemented from 2019.
The new rulebook will be drawn up in "a modern, plain style" that will be written from a "player's perspective".
Among the changes under consideration are plans to:
The proposals follow four years of detailed examination of the current set-up by officials from the R&A and USGA, as well as professional tours.
The game is governed by a rulebook that contains hundreds of regulations and sub-rules. There is also a 500-page 'Decisions book' filled with precedents and "hidden rules" dealing with the myriad eventualities that can be occur during a game of golf.
"This is the biggest set of changes in a generation," David Rickman, R&A executive director of governance, told BBC Sport.
"In recent history we had big changes in 1952 and then again in 1984 so we have done this sort of thing before.
"It seems in that in the 30-odd-year range we need to step back and think on a broader perspective and bring the rules up to date."
Rickman says the rulebook is difficult to understand and accepts that players need to be something of a "golfing lawyer" to understand them.
"I think that is a justifiable criticism," he said. "I think the rulebook is very cleverly constructed - perhaps I would say that - I've been doing this a while.
"But if it is not readily understandable to golfers then we've failed.
"We've ended up with a technical and complicated code, and that's not what we want, particularly as golf is largely self-regulating.
"So we needed to reduce that complexity and one of the ways we can do that is by putting a greater emphasis on player integrity.
"Golfers are expected to abide by the rules and by following through on all respects of that we can set the rules more simply and give greater guidance and make the game better to play."
The working party examined every regulation in the book before drawing up its proposals. "We've not been afraid to consider fundamental change," Rickman added.
Proposals on repairing spike marks and allowing the choice of leaving the flag in the hole for putts on the green would appear to fall into that category.
"Actually that one harks back to a rule that existed in the 1960s," Rickman said. "So as part of this extensive effort we have looked at the history of the rules."
Perhaps the most contentious proposal surrounds how penalty or free drops will be executed. The plan to abolish releasing the ball from shoulder height will cause many an eyebrow to be raised.
"I suspect this will be an area of the rules that we will talk about for sometime," Rickman said. "We really want to get the ball back into play more quickly and we wanted to move away from a procedural situation."
Hence allowing a drop from just an inch off the ground.
The entire package is aimed at speeding up the game and banning caddies from lining up players ahead of shots would surely help, especially on women's tours where this is common practice.
Now the proposals have been published there will be a six-month period when all golfers can provide their feedback.
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Ch Supt Lee Bruckshaw was accused of trying to intervene in the case of a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) sergeant accused of shoplifting.
He eventually received "management advice" after a charge of perverting the course of justice was dropped.
GMP said its inquiry "took too long".
In an email to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Mr Bruckshaw said the colleague accused, but subsequently cleared, of shoplifting in September 2014 had a terminally ill child.
The resulting disciplinary action - carried out by GMP but managed by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) - was initially for gross misconduct.
The chief superintendent, who denied trying to influence the CPS's decision, eventually received "management advice" - the lowest form of sanction.
"I stand by what I did," Mr Bruckshaw, a police officer for 31 years, told the BBC.
"My barrister said a lot of judges would commend me for doing what I did because, as we saw a month later, he was acquitted of these offences."
Mr Bruckshaw questioned whether it was appropriate that the officer investigating him had a "previous grievance" after being removed by him from CID.
The chief superintendent said he raised this point in May 2015 with then Deputy Chief Constable Ian Hopkins, who "didn't see it as a problem".
Mr Hopkins succeeded Sir Peter Fahy as chief constable in September 2015.
"Appointing the investigating officer was a decision by GMP and supported by the IPCC," a GMP spokesman told the BBC.
When asked if police should be "absolutely squeaky clean", Mr Bruckshaw replied: "I agree that if an allegation is made an officer should be investigated and I do not have any problem with that."
But he said the investigation should have ended in May 2015 "when I had answered every single question" and added: "Why didn't it stop there, instead of dragging my name through the mud?"
Mr Bruckshaw, who said he now wants to retire from the force, said the overall estimated cost of the process, including the investigations, wages and legal fees, was about £500,000 - a figure not disputed by GMP.
He said this was a "waste of public money".
In a statement, GMP said it "accepts this investigation was not carried out in the effective manner that we always aspire to and that it took too long to reach the eventual conclusion.
"We are always working to ensure we can take learning from situations when things do not go as well as we would want and as such a full review will take place. We will be asking the Superintendents Association for its support with this work.
"Any recommendations identified will be acted on to ensure that future cases are managed in an effective manner."
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The 26-year-old South Korea international has featured just three times for the R's this season, with his last appearance coming on 28 November.
"Yun is a player that will bring us some of the experience that we need in our situation," Addicks boss Jose Riga told the club website.
"He knows the Championship and has a good knowledge of English football."
Suk-Young has scored one goal in 37 appearances for Rangers since joining from Chunnam Dragons in January 2013.
The Addicks, who are 23rd in the Championship and six points from safety, signed former Watford defender Marco Motta on Friday.
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Official Scottish government statistics showed the country spent £14.8bn more than it raised in taxes in 2015/16, including a share of North Sea revenue.
That figure represented a 9.5% share of GDP, the report said - more than double the 4% figure for the UK as a whole.
Revised figures for the previous year put the Scottish deficit at £14.3bn.
The UK's spending deficit is £75.3bn.
The Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (Gers) figures estimated that Scotland's share of North Sea revenues fell by about 97% from £1.8bn in 2014/15 to £60m last year, reflecting a decline in total UK North Sea revenue.
But this fall was offset by Scotland's onshore revenues growing by £1.9bn.
Overall, Scottish public sector revenue was estimated as £53.7bn - the equivalent of £10,000 per person, and about £400 per person lower than for the UK as a whole.
£68.6bn
Total spend
£23.6bn Social protection
£12.2bn Health
£7.9bn Education
£2.8bn Policing
Meanwhile, total expenditure by the public sector was £68.6bn.
This was equivalent to 9.1% of total UK public sector expenditure, and £12,800 per person - which is £1,200 per person greater than the UK average.
The Gers figures for the 2014/15 financial year, which were published in March, estimated the Scottish deficit at £14.9bn, or 9.7% of GDP, including a geographic share of offshore tax revenue.
But the latest report revised that figure down to £14.3bn, or 9.1% of Scottish GDP.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted the "foundations of the Scottish economy remain strong".
She added: "The lower oil price has, of course, reduced offshore revenues, with a corresponding impact on our fiscal position - this underlines the fact that Scotland's challenge is to continue to grow our onshore economy.
"However, Scotland's long-term economic success is now being directly threatened by the likely impact of Brexit."
The UK's government's Scottish secretary, David Mundell, said the figures "show how being part of the UK protects living standards in Scotland".
Mr Mundell said: "Scotland weathered a dramatic slump in oil revenues last year because we are part of a United Kingdom that has at its heart a system for pooling and sharing resources across the country as a whole.
"It is important that continues and the financial deal between the UK and Scottish governments, struck last year as part of the transfer of new tax and welfare powers to Holyrood, means real security for Scotland."
Douglas Fraser: What do the GERS figures tell us about Scotland's finances?
This approach to estimating how much Scots pay in tax, and how much they benefit from spending at all levels of government, goes back to the early 90s.
Conservative ministers in the Scottish Office thought it would help inform the debate on devolution, or at least it would help them make their case against a Scottish Parliament.
The numbers would show, they thought, how much more Scotland gained from the Treasury than it sent south in tax revenues.
That was one of those times when the oil price was low.
Seven years earlier, it was very high and oil revenues were like a gusher.
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GERS: Extracts from Table E.2 (figures rounded to the nearest £100). The numbers listed refer to the difference compared with the rest of the UK.
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The London-born actress told BBC Radio 5 live UK television "doesn't represent the country we live in".
She added the US has "huge race problems", but said she could find more work there because there were "more options for you to try".
"I would jump at the chance for there to be more parts for me here," she said, referring to the UK.
"It's not that I think [producers and casting directors] are racist or don't like me," she said.
"It's that we have an idea in our heads here of representation on TV, and it doesn't represent the country we live in, and it should."
The 30-year old revealed she had been told her mixed race background made her unsuitable for several roles she had auditioned for on British TV shows.
She said: "You get feedback from auditions - and they might say something along the lines of, 'We're only casting fully black or fully white people for this particular project, and because you're mixed [race] that doesn't work.'
"Or I've had, 'You were the absolute best person for the part but you don't fit with the family shade-wise.'"
The actress, whose mother is British and father Nigerian, is well known for her portrayal of lawyer Lucca Quinn in US drama The Good Wife.
She called for change in the UK television industry and referred to the "Oscars So White" movement, which saw several actors boycott the Academy Awards earlier this year in protest over the lack of nominees from ethnic minorities.
"I think we have to start from the top down," Jumbo said.
"If our producers and the people sitting on our boards and trusts and the people writing don't have different experiences, then of course the work that drips down is just of one or two or three experiences... not the experience of anybody else.
"It's a little bit like what happened with the Oscars where they made some huge changes very quickly because they realised they had to."
Nearly 700 entertainment figures have now been invited to become Academy members, with a focus on women and ethnic minorities.
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Ashton Tuckey, who had Down's syndrome, was found by his mother who initially thought he was looking out of the window at their Isle of Wight home.
He died as a result of "compression to the neck" following the incident in Binstead on 7 December 2014.
His grandmother described him as a "lovely child".
The two-day inquest in Newport was told Jodie Tuckey had called for help after bringing her son outside but despite the efforts of neighbours and paramedics, he died in hospital.
The boy's grandmother, Kathleen Tuckey, told the court Ashton had a "very high pain threshold" and "no ability to call out" for help.
She said the duvet cover had been attached to the window because Ashton would pull at the old black-out blinds, which they felt were unsafe. | The death of a 10-year-old boy who became tangled in a duvet cover which was being used as a curtain was an accident, a coroner has ruled. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40121406"} | 193 | 44 | 0.496872 | 1.191431 | -0.766359 | 0.727273 | 4.939394 | 0.606061 |
Resuming on 363-4 on day three of the second and final Test, Australia posted 505, a lead of 135 despite Neil Wagner's 6-106 at the Hagley Oval.
New Zealand reached 121-4 by the close as James Pattinson took 3-29.
Kane Williamson, unbeaten on 45, is the hosts' best hope of salvaging anything other than defeat.
Australia, who lead 1-0, need only draw this match to regain the number one Test ranking.
McCullum, who scored the fastest Test century in the first innings, was superbly caught by a diving David Warner at mid-wicket as he charged at Josh Hazlewood.
The 34-year-old's last Test runs came from a characteristic six - the 107th of his career, more than anyone else in the format.
He received a standing ovation from the crowd at the start of his innings and again after he was dismissed.
McCullum, who made his debut in 2004, will retire with 6,453 Test runs at an average of 38.64 from 101 matches, a tally bettered only by Stephen Fleming.
Earlier, left-arm seamer Wagner claimed his second Test five-wicket haul as Australia lost their last five wickets for 39 runs.
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The four-floor construction would replace the institution's engineering block which is set to be demolished.
It will house the health and life sciences department and become the new site of the Cole Museum of Zoology.
The building planned for the Whiteknights campus is expected to be completed by summer 2019 subject to planning permission.
The university released an image of the plan on Tuesday ahead of submitting a formal application to Wokingham Borough Council.
It said the "world class" facility would contain 24,793 sq ft (7,557 sq m) of laboratory and teaching space.
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Former Moderator Dr Sheilagh Kesting, received the award in recognition of her work to improve relations between the two churches.
Dr Kesting, was invested as a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great, only the second time it has been awarded to a non-Catholic in the UK.
The award was granted personally by Pope Francis.
Before becoming Moderator of the Kirk's General Assembly in 2007, Dr Kesting worked for 23 years as its Ecumenical Officer.
She said when she received the award at a private dinner given by the Archbishop of St Andrew's and Edinburgh, Leo Cushley, to celebrate her retirement from the ministry, she was initially speechless.
"I am delighted that the relationship between our two churches has become strong enough that this kind of acknowledgement can be given from one to the other, and it means so much that it comes from Pope Francis," she said.
"We have been watching this new Pope with tremendous interest and excitement about the things that he is saying and the encouragement that he is giving to ecumenical relations.
"So to have this honour from Pope Francis just adds to its significance. It is wonderful."
Presenting her with the award, Archbishop Cushley said: "A few months ago when we learned of your retirement we thought we ought to mark it and we thought this would be a nice thing to do.
"So we wrote to the Pope and we asked him if we could have a papal decoration for you and he said yes. So this is from Pope Francis and it is a declaration making you a Dame of the Order of St Gregory the Great."
He added: "We thank you for all you have done to promote better relations among the churches, especially with ourselves."
David Waterton-Anderson of the UK Association of Papal Honours said the Order of St Gregory was not a political award.
He said: "It is a very, very high honour and a very rare thing for a non-Catholic to receive the Order of St Gregory the Great.
"And this honour is something she can be really proud of because it is not political, but only given for good works."
Established in 1831 by Pope Gregory XVI, it is given to recipients "in recognition of their personal service to the Holy See and to the Roman Catholic Church, through their unusual labours, their support of the Holy See, and their excellent examples set forth in their communities and their countries".
It is thought Lady Hazel Sternberg, who died in 2014, is the only other non-Catholic woman in the UK to have been invested as a Dame of the Order of St Gregory. | A leading Church of Scotland minister has been awarded one of the highest honours of the Roman Catholic church. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37950557"} | 569 | 22 | 0.410583 | 1.07158 | -0.0535 | 1.6 | 26.35 | 0.8 |
Cook hit 127 as Essex sealed a third straight win against Gloucestershire.
Glamorgan choose from an unchanged 14-man squad despite losing a third consecutive game against Somerset.
Essex rest Kiwi pace bowler Matt Quinn with Paul Walter coming into their squad.
Glamorgan batsman Colin Ingram has hit centuries in the teams' last two meetings, with Glamorgan victorious by 146 runs in Cardiff in 2015 while Essex won a high-scoring affair in Chelmsford in 2016.
Cook, who opened the batting for England in the first Test in Cardiff in 2009, is available for his county for the first half of the summer.
Glamorgan (from): Jacques Rudolph (capt), David Lloyd, Will Bragg, Colin Ingram, Kiran Carlson, Aneurin Donald, Chris Cooke, Owen Morgan, Andrew Salter, Craig Meschede, Marchant de Lange, Timm van der Gugten, Lukas Carey, Michael Hogan.
Essex (from): Nick Browne, Alastair Cook, Tom Westley, Varun Chopra, Dan Lawrence, Ravi Bopara, Ryan ten Doeschate (capt), Callum Taylor, Ashar Zaidi, Adam Wheater, Simon Harmer, Neil Wagner, Jamie Porter, Paul Walter. | Glamorgan will be up against former England captain Alastair Cook in prime form as they try to turn round their One-Day Cup campaign against unbeaten Essex. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39830475"} | 283 | 35 | 0.569608 | 1.336344 | 0.357655 | 0.517241 | 7.655172 | 0.448276 |
With more than 70% of votes counted in Sunday's referendum, 99.8% supported the holiday, authorities said.
The court ruled the date discriminated against Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats and should be changed.
Serbs declared the creation of their own state within Bosnia on 9 January 1992, fuelling an ethnic conflict in which about 100,000 people died.
Bosnia is still split along ethnic lines between the mainly-Serb entity and a Muslim-Croat federation.
The Constitutional Court, based in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, banned the referendum.
About 1.2 million people were eligible to vote and authorities said turnout was more than 56%.
Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik said the referendum would go down in history as the "day of Serb determination".
"I am proud of the people of Republika Srpska, of all those who came out and voted," he said in the town of Pale.
Regardless of the result, the referendum has already damaged ethnic relations in Bosnia and, arguably, the credibility of the international officials who still oversee the country.
Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik has challenged the authority of the national court, which ruled the 9 January holiday unconstitutional and banned the referendum. He also ignored pressure from the European Union, the international high representative and Serbia.
This defiance has increased fears that Mr Dodik might follow through with his threat to hold a secession referendum.
The high representative has the ability to remove politicians from office if they threaten the terms of the Dayton Peace Agreement. But in recent years those powers have been used only rarely.
Referendum challenges peace terms
As well as being the anniversary of the declaration of a Bosnian Serb state, 9 January is an Orthodox Christian holiday.
The International High Representative to Bosnia-Hercegovina, Valentin Inzko, told the BBC that the vote was "illegal and unconstitutional".
"No mistake, decisions of the constitutional court are final and binding..., and the constitutional court was very, very explicit..., it suspended this referendum," he said.
Bosniak leader Bakir Izetbegovic, meanwhile, has accused Mr Dodik of "playing with fire".
The BBC's Guy Delauney in neighbouring Serbia says that the Bosnian Serb leader has been deliberately provocative by insisting on celebrating the national holiday on 9 January.
Analysts say by flouting the court, one of the federal institutions set up at the end of the war in 1995, Mr Dodik is threatening the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the conflict. | Bosnian Serbs have voted overwhelmingly to keep 9 January as a national holiday in defiance of Bosnia's highest court. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37465653"} | 566 | 30 | 0.584566 | 1.422622 | 0.378727 | 1.047619 | 23.095238 | 0.857143 |
Dywedodd Mr Drakeford bod gan llywodraethau Cymru a gwledydd eraill "bryderon" am fforwm gafodd ei chreu i drafod Brexit.
Fe wnaeth y fforwm yma, Y Cyd-bwyllgor Gweinidogion - sy'n cynnwys llywodraethau'r DU a'r gwledydd datganoledig - gynnal cyfarfod "cadarn" yn Whitehall ddydd Iau, meddai Mr Drakeford.
Yn ôl Ysgrifennydd Cymru, Alun Cairns, roedd yn gyfarfod "adeiladol": "Fe wnaeth hyd yn oed Llywodraeth Cymru dderbyn heddiw nad yw'r iaith gafodd ei ddefnyddio gan y prif weinidog yn gynharach yn yr wythnos am gytundeb masnach rydd yn anhebyg i'r iaith maen nhw wedi ei drafod.
"Mae hyn yn profi bod llawer o dir cyffredin ond dydw i ddim yn tanbrisio'r heriau sydd yma."
Yn y cyfarfod, fe wnaeth aelodau drafod adroddiadau gan lywodraethau'r Alban a Gogledd Iwerddon, a dywedodd Mr Drakeford y byddai adroddiad gan Lywodraeth Cymru yn cael ei gyhoeddi ddydd Llun, a'i drafod fis nesaf.
Dywedodd bod y llywodraethau datganoledig angen sicrwydd bod y fforwm yn "cael effaith ar y ffordd mae Llywodraeth y DU yn paratoi ac yn mynd i mewn i'r trafodaethau ar ôl Mawrth".
Ychwanegodd bod angen cadarnhad gan weinidogion San Steffan "nad ydyn ni yma i roi ein barn yn unig, ond bod y farn yna yn mynd ymlaen i wneud gwahaniaeth".
Dywedodd ysgrifennydd Brexit y DU bod angen cydweithio i "fanteisio ar y cyfleoedd mae gadael [yr UE] yn ei gynnig".
Ychwanegodd David Davies: "Byddwn yn defnyddio'r syniadau a dadansoddiad o gyfarfod heddiw i baratoi ein gwaith i sicrhau cynllun i adael [yr UE] sy'n gweithio i'r DU gyfan."
Er i Sinn Fein ddweud y gallai aelodau adael y broses, dywedodd Mr Drakeford y byddai Llywodraeth Cymru yn parhau. | Mae angen i Lywodraeth y DU roi sicrwydd i weinidogion Cymru bod eu barn am Brexit yn gwneud gwahaniaeth, yn ôl Ysgrifennydd Cyllid Cymru, Mark Drakeford. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38681403"} | 1,089 | 91 | 0.622413 | 1.605789 | 0.299181 | 1.275862 | 11.275862 | 0.862069 |
He is being questioned by police.
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The poster depicts the reality star wearing a leotard alongside the text: "Can you keep up with a Kardashian?"
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) received 14 complaints about Protein World's "socially irresponsible" promotion.
But it ruled the campaign did not "encourage harmful dieting behaviour".
The firm told the ASA the overall response to the advert was that it was motivating and empowering, and it did not believe it was socially irresponsible.
It added that Transport for London had approved the poster.
The watchdog decided the poster "promoted Khloe Kardashian's body image as desirable and aspirational; this was supported by her pose and the airbrushed style".
"We did not consider that she appeared to be out of proportion or unhealthy."
The firm's 2015 ad campaign, which asked "are you beach body ready?", drew 380 complaints amid widespread social media outrage.
Then, the ASA had already ruled the advert could not appear again in its current form due to problems with its health and weight loss claims, but it concluded it was "unlikely to cause serious or widespread offence".
A spokesman for eating disorder charity Beat, said: "Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses with very complex causes.
"While we wouldn't say they are likely to be the sole and direct cause of eating disorders, adverts that do not promote healthy body image or encourage restrictive eating habits can exacerbate the problem in people who are suffering." | A London Underground advert featuring Khloe Kardashian, by the company behind the controversial "beach body ready" campaign, has been cleared for use. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39861092"} | 329 | 32 | 0.53443 | 1.375631 | 0.237231 | 1.037037 | 10.703704 | 0.666667 |
Although the athlete represents the peak of human athletic prowess, he still can only swim at a top speed of 5-6mph (8-10km/h) an hour, slower than the shark.
To even things up, the US swimmer wore a "monofin" for the open water race in South Africa, increasing his speed significantly but still not taking it anywhere close to the at least 25mph a Great White is capable of in short bursts.
And - spoiler alert - the athlete has revealed they were not in the water "at the exact same time" for safety reasons.
But humans have long pitted themselves against dangerous animals, often ones they know are much faster.
They have done this for money, to draw attention to a cause, to create a spectacle, and perhaps also out of an inflated sense of what humans are capable of.
Here are four other times man has raced beast.
Bryan Habana, one of the fastest players in international rugby, decided to take on the world's fastest land animal in 2007 as part of an event sponsored by a conservation group.
Habana is quick, but not Usain Bolt quick - running the 100m in 10.4 seconds at his best (compared with Bolt's 9.58 world record).
Still, the then 23-year-old, keen to raise awareness about the decline of the cheetah, fancied himself in with a chance.
But tempting the cheetah was a dangling leg of lamb, which it chased during the race as Habana, who was given a significant headstart, gave it all he had.
The end was close - but the cheetah just got over the line first. Habana asked for a re-run and was soundly beaten.
Filippo Magnini, a former world champ in the 100m freestyle, took on two dolphins in a pool near Rome in 2011.
Given the animals' clear advantage, the Italian only had to swim one length of the pool, while they had to swim two.
But that didn't make a difference and the man nicknamed 'Superpippo' was pipped at the post.
He said later that he fell "a bit in love" with Leah, one of the dolphins.
The black US track and field athlete won a string of victories at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in front of Adolf Hitler, who had been hoping for a games that would demonstrate the Aryan superiority he believed existed.
Owens later struggled financially back home in a country where racism remained rife and his sport was not professional.
To make money, he competed against racehorses in front of dazzled crowds.
He is said to have had the starting gun go off close to the horse, stunning it and allowing him to get away ahead (he also had a head start). Though this strategy worked most of the time, he didn't always win.
Later, more opportunities became available to Jesse Owens and, among other roles, he served as Ambassador of Sports under President Eisenhower.
NFL wide receiver Dennis Northcutt easily beat an ostrich named Thelma in 2009 for a TV show called Sport Science.
But in that initial race, a fence separated the pair, and it was obvious the animal wasn't giving it her best.
In a second race, this time inside the ostrich's enclosure, Dennis was soundly beaten, as the ostrich leapt away and he was left chasing it through the dust. | Michael Phelps, the world's most decorated Olympian and a swimmer nicknamed the "Flying Fish", has gone head-to-head against a Great White Shark in a 100m race set to be broadcast by the Discovery network. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40680346"} | 788 | 55 | 0.341347 | 0.903948 | 0.217293 | 1.044444 | 14.888889 | 0.733333 |
Mr Justice Mostyn made a written order stating efforts should be made to find the boy, whom he said was Polish and could be in Poland with his parents.
He granted an application, made by an NHS trust, allowing doctors to perform surgery on the boy to remove a tumour.
A doctor said the child - who was not named - will die a "brutal and agonising death" without surgery.
Details of the hearing emerged in a ruling following hearings in the Family Division of the High Court in London.
Mr Justice Mostyn said doctors believed the boy, who had lived in England with his parents for two years, was at risk of "serious harm" and the risk was growing each day.
He said there was evidence the boy had left his home with his mother two weeks ago, and that the boy's father had boarded a ferry bound for France in the past few days.
One doctor said the prospect of him growing up was "completely impossible" without surgery.
The paediatric oncologist said the boy's parents were "very frightened and fearful", worrying that he would be disfigured by surgery and preferring to treat him with "Chinese medicine".
Surgery could last as long as 12 hours and would require skin and bone from the boy's leg to rebuild his jaw bone, the judge said in his ruling.
It could result in "lameness", would leave the boy needing false teeth, and he could develop a "lopsided appearance", he added.
Mr Justice Mostyn stated: "I give full weight to the wishes of (the boy) as well as those of his parents.
"It is a strong thing for me, a stranger, to disagree with and override the wishes of (the boy) and his parents.
"But I have absolutely no doubt that (the boy) must be given the chance, a very good chance, of a long and fulfilling life rather than suffering, quite soon, a ghastly, agonising, death."
Mr Justice Mostyn said the Polish embassy in London was being alerted of the need to find the boy.
The judge referred to the boy and his parents by initials only and did not name the NHS trust. | A 10-year-old boy who has jaw cancer and needs urgent surgery has vanished, a High Court judge has said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34469322"} | 489 | 27 | 0.464575 | 1.26337 | 0.174879 | 0.76 | 17.52 | 0.6 |
Sunday's fixture was called off 64 minutes before the scheduled throw-in because of a waterlogged pitch.
Tyrone's hurling match with Donegal was also postponed - it will now be played at Healy Park on Sunday. 19 March.
Meanwhile, there is a 17:00 GMT throw-in for the All-Ireland club football final between Slaughtneil and Dr Crokes at Croke Park on 17 March.
The NHL Division 3A tie between Tyrone and Donegal, which was to have been the Healy Park curtain-raiser, was switched to Carrickmore but that too fell victim to the weather. | The postponed Division One game between Tyrone and Cavan has been rearranged for Sunday, 12 March at Healy Park. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39107087"} | 146 | 31 | 0.704665 | 1.561782 | -0.541419 | 1.285714 | 5.333333 | 0.714286 |
The pilots' union, Vereinigung Cockpit, said the walkout would affect short-haul flights on Tuesday, and both short and long-haul flights on Wednesday.
It is the 15th strike since April. with 2,800 flights cancelled last week due to a four-day walkout by pilots.
Lufthansa spokeswoman Bettina Volkens said: "We have to talk."
She added "I hope very much that [Vereinigung Cockpit] finally changes its uncompromising stance. This cannot be forced via strikes."
Joerg Handwerg, board member at Vereinigung Cockpit, said: "Unfortunately, high-level talks held today at short notice failed to lead to an agreement on the wage contract.
"It is completely incomprehensible that (Lufthansa) has refused to put forward an offer that can at least form the basis of a negotiation."
Vereinigung Cockpit wants an average annual pay rise of 3.7% for its 5,400 members in Germany, backdated to 2012.
On Friday, Lufthansa offered to increase wages by 2.4% in 2016, with an additional 2% rise in 2017. It said it would also provide a one-off payment of 1.8 months' pay. The airline had previously offered a 2.5% pay rise.
But the union rejected the offer.
More than 350,000 passengers were affected by last week's action. The airline has estimated that the strike is costing it about 10m euros (£8.5m) a day.
Carsten Spohr, chief executive of Lufthansa, has said that the future of the airline would be threatened if it met the pilots' demands because it would make many routes unprofitable.
"We stand no chance to survive," he said. "There is no more leeway for even better offers when escalation is what is wanted, as opposed to a solution."
Despite a record profit last year, the company said it was forced to cut costs to compete with budget rivals such as Ryanair in Europe and the likes of Emirates on long-haul routes. | Lufthansa pilots have warned they will strike again on Tuesday and Wednesday after weekend talks failed to resolve a long-running row over pay. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38125620"} | 454 | 32 | 0.547696 | 1.42399 | 0.489255 | 0.923077 | 15.038462 | 0.615385 |
Kenya's military has not yet said how many of its soldiers died at the el-Ade base in southern Somalia but it could be one of the biggest ever suffered by the AU force, known as Amisom.
That attack, and the more recent fight for control of the port town of Merca, have confirmed that the militant Islamists are not a spent force despite Amisom being on the ground since 2007.
According to its mandate, it was set up with United Nations backing to "reduce the threat posed by al-Shabab" and support the Somali government in regaining control over the country.
But there is still some way to go.
In the wake of the el-Ade attack Amisom troops withdrew from several towns in southern Somalia in what officials called a tactical move.
The region is where al-Shabab is believed to be concentrated and it appears to be filling the void.
The attacks on the force that should be protecting the fragile Somali state are a cause for concern for the AU's decision makers.
The losses suffered by the Kenyan contingent follow similar attacks on Amisom's Ugandan and Burundian troops last year.
At the recent AU summit in Addis Ababa, Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta called for "more resources for the forces in Somalia".
The military men on the ground would no doubt welcome more support but do not shy away from what they are there for.
Visiting the scene of the el-Ade attack, acting force commander Maj Gen Nakibus Lakara emphasised the nature of the campaign.
"Amisom is not a peacekeeping mission [but] a war-fighting mission," he said.
"In a fight of course there are casualties, but what is important for Amisom is that those casualties are kept to the minimum acceptable."
But the bigger picture is for the politicians to worry about.
Despite the losses, President Kenyatta insists that his nation remains "unbowed" and will continue its mission in Somalia.
There are some voices in Kenya calling for a withdrawal from Somalia, but the president wants to avoid leaving behind a vacuum in which the jihadists could thrive and pose a greater threat to the region.
"This is not the time to waiver or to listen to the voices of defeat and despair," he recently said.
Some observers say it is not viable to base your foreign policy on trying not to look like a coward.
And there are questions about what the mission in Somalia will look like in the long term.
In its nine years, Amisom has been successful in winning territory by pushing the insurgents out of some regions, providing support for the government and creating an environment suitable for the resurgence of the local economy, but this has not stopped the violence.
"There needs to be a yardstick for measuring success in Somalia," argues Abdullahi Boru, a Horn of Africa security and policy analyst.
"Military might is not enough," he says, there also needs to be an effort to "win over the Somali population", if not then "this fight will be counterproductive".
The challenge is that not only does Amisom need to convince ordinary Somalis that it serves their interests, but that it is worth them cooperating even if it could make them potential targets for al-Shabab reprisals.
The mission also needs to enable the Somali government forces to fight al-Shabab on their own and that is "something it currently lacks the capacity to do", says David Wagacha from the Paradec research consultancy.
But apparent disagreements within Amisom also need to be addressed.
At the moment, Somalia is divided into different sectors - each the responsibility of a different country making up the intervention force.
This has led to some suggestions of there being a lack of harmony.
Mr Wagacha says "in spite of the gains made in liberating some towns from al-Shabab, there appears to be some kind of disconnect between some Amisom members, as well as mistrust and egotism.
"This will hinder a cohesive and effective fight against the common enemy."
There needs to be a thorough review ahead of the UN Security Council's discussion on extending Amisom's mandate, with the changes spurred by the deadly January attack. | The African Union force in Somalia is facing new questions following last month's attack on a Kenyan military base, which al-Shabab says killed more than 100 soldiers. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35521290"} | 950 | 39 | 0.477859 | 1.162135 | 0.159928 | 0.96875 | 25.875 | 0.71875 |
Havering's councillors recently voted by 30 to 15 that the UK would be better off out of the EU.
The 10 most Eurosceptic areas are all in England, with Peterborough and Bracknell Forest second and third.
Ceredigion, Aberdeen and Stirling are the most enthusiastic about the EU, followed by two inner London boroughs, Lambeth and Camden.
Havering has seven Ukip councillors, the highest number of any London borough.
Bromley councillors also voted in favour of leaving the EU last week.
The referendum on EU membership will be held on 23 June.
Matthew Goodwin, co-author of a book about Ukip and a professor of politics at the University of Kent, said coastal towns and eastern England - which Havering borders - were more Eurosceptic than average.
"You tend to have high numbers of working class residents," he said.
"Of all indicators of Euroscepticism, education is the strongest predictor, so if you leave school at 16 you tend to be far more Eurosceptic than people who went to university."
"Euroscepticism also has strongholds in the more wealthy, Tory shires," said YouGov.
"Apart from in Scotland (all Europhile and one mixed), parts of Wales and London many of the Europhile areas are university towns with lower median ages - Liverpool, Manchester, York and Bristol." | The London borough of Havering is the most Eurosceptic in Britain, according to a YouGov survey. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35688060"} | 315 | 27 | 0.622257 | 1.559599 | -0.189805 | 1.166667 | 14.444444 | 0.833333 |
The 10ft (3m) deep "apocalyptic bunker" created by Colin Furze measures 16ft by 20ft (4.9m by 6m) and is accessed via a hidden hatch in his shed.
Mr Furze, a 36-year-old former plumber from Stamford in Lincolnshire, has kitted out the concrete-covered den with a flat-screen TV, drum-kit and several video consoles.
He said the "ultimate man cave" had been a childhood ambition.
The bunker, which is covered in 16 cubic metres of concrete, is a "fully functional" room complete with a kitchen and "party area".
It took Mr Furze two months to construct with the help of a friend and three-year-old son Jake.
"It's a metal box in a hole - if you can weld and cut bits of metal then you can make one - the actual mechanics of it is quite simple, but it's a huge project," Mr Furze said.
The inventor, who has almost 1.7 million YouTube subscribers for his videos, is the brains behind a variety of unusual creations, including an ejector bed, vacuum-cleaner shoes and "the world's fastest pram".
"This bunker is like my adult version of what I used to do as a child in a quarry near where I lived," he said.
"This has been a proper dream to build."
The plumber-turned-filmmaker said he had threatened his partner, who is expecting their second child, that "I'm in the bunker" if their baby does not sleep through the night.
"People have ideas, but don't have time to make them and that's where I come in," added Mr Furze, who describes himself as the "most famous inventor you've never heard of".
"I'm dedicating my life to making stuff we all want to see."
Speaking about his latest creation, which in the event of an apocalypse is kitted out with a variety of "weird self-defence" gadgets, he said: "If I do turn into an internet super-villain, it's my hideout and lair.
"If there's a massive disaster, it's there to be used, but in the meantime it's a set for more videos." | A madcap inventor has built an underground lair in his back garden. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34846264"} | 532 | 17 | 0.366916 | 1.064253 | -0.101424 | 0.769231 | 35.461538 | 0.615385 |
And it's not just gamers who are benefiting from the immersive possibilities it offers.
Four experts, including Mark Bolas - former tutor of Palmer Luckey, who recently hand-delivered the first VR handset made by his company Oculus Rift - talked to the BBC World Service Inquiry programme about the future of VR.
Mark Bolas is a professor at USC School of Cinematic Arts and a researcher at the Institute for Creative Technologies. He has been working in virtual reality since 1988.
VR hits on so many levels. It's a real out-of-body experience, and yet completely grounded in your body.
People have always wanted to master their environment, to extend our agency. We want our hands to be able to do more; that's why we have hammers.
VR allows us to go beyond the limitations of physical tools to do anything that can be computed. If you want to create a two-mile high tower made out of toothpicks, you can do it.
I did a series of 14 different environments; one where you felt like you were very high and had to look down: that was the first time people found this sense of vertigo within a virtual environment. I did a world where you look up towards the sky and see fireworks exploding; that's just magical.
I wanted to build a tool so people could use it. The best way to do that was to stay away from the consumer market because it really wasn't ready, and to go after industrial uses.
So my company created a viewing system that actually meets the specs of modern VR.
Because it had such high resolution, commercial users could use it to solve real problems.
Automobile companies used it for car design. Oil and gas industry used it to visualise data to figure out the right place to sink a well.
The next step was to make these cheap. Consumer VR up until then had a really narrow field of view; it was like looking through a tube of paper. Peripheral vision is really important for a visceral sense, and that's what people really react to.
To find a way to make it low cost and still retain that field of view, we harnessed the power of mobile phones - the screens, tracking and processing - and we figured out a lens design that was extremely inexpensive.
It's been really fun playing all these years, but there's something more important now, which is making it a space that allows us to harness our emotions, our desire to connect with people.
I'm worried by our current computer interfaces. I watch people walking around like zombies with cell phones in their hands, and I have to manoeuvre a mouse to fill out little boxes on web forms in a horribly frustrating way. I think VR will allow us to transcend this.
I don't worry so much about where VR is going, I worry about where we currently are.
Maria Korolov is a technology journalist who has devoted her career to writing about virtual reality.
The biggest way [VR is changing the workplace] is training and simulations. If you have to train somebody on a very expensive piece of machinery, you want to do it in a simulator. The Army, for example, has been an extremely early adopter, as has the air force.
One recent example was a doctor [who] practised surgery on a tiny baby's heart. He took scans of the heart, uploaded them to the computer and toured it with this little virtual reality headset, was able to plan out his surgery ahead of time, and saved the baby.
In education, the biggest change has been Google Expeditions. Google has been seeding elementary schools with over 100,000 virtual reality headsets and lesson plans. Kids are able to go on a virtual reality field trip to, say, the surface of the moon.
Gamers want something visceral. When you're riding a roller-coaster and you go down a hill, your stomach drops out: even though you know it's not real, your body reacts as if it's there. When I showed a shark simulation to people and they screamed, I laughed because, "Ha ha, they're not real." Then I put it on and the shark came at me and I screamed, because it's a physical reaction.
The adult industry is jumping into this with everything they've got because it is so compelling. I have sampled it purely from a reviewer perspective, and it felt like you were in a locker room, and you don't know where to look because everyone's naked, and the lights are too bright, and they're interacting with you. This is going to be big.
The way the internet has changed the way we communicate information, virtual reality will change the way we communicate experiences.
If I wanted to show you what it's like to cook a meal, I could invite you to my virtual apartment and take you through a virtual cooking class. If I wanted to experience a walk in the woods with you, I could take you to my favourite virtual woods.
It will make the world even smaller than it is now. It will increase the ability of people to telecommute and work together across national boundaries dramatically. It's definitely going to bring us closer together.
Psychologist Skip Rizzo is director for medical virtual reality at the University of Southern California. He has been using VR since the 1990s when he became frustrated with the tools available to help rehabilitate people with brain injuries.
I noticed many of my clients were engaged in video games, and people that were very challenged in maintaining attention and focus in everyday activities could focus on those tasks and actually get better.
That was the first light bulb. Could we build virtual environments that represent everyday challenges that would help cognitive rehab?
We started off building virtual environments from video imagery that we had of Iraq and Afghanistan, and talked to a lot of veterans. The environments we created involved riding in a Humvee in a mountainous area, or a desert roadway.
We put somebody in a simulation that is reminiscent of what they were traumatised in, but at a very gradual level so they can handle it. The clinician can control the time of day, the lighting conditions, the ambient sounds.
The therapist tries to mimic what the patient is talking about in their trauma narrative. And eventually by confronting it with therapists, you start to see post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms start to diminish.
We've used VR to help people with high-functioning autism be more effective at job interviews. This involves having them practise their interviews with a wide range of interviewers - different age, gender, ethnic background, and different levels of provocativeness.
We know that the brain is quite good at suspending disbelief, so even though people know these aren't real people, they relate to them as if they are.
This is why VR is so compelling, because whatever is learned in those worlds hopefully will benefit how the person translates their behaviour in the real world.
Nick Yee is a social scientist who studies how people behave and interact in virtual worlds and online games.
We weren't interested in the technology for the technology's sake; the bigger question was using VR as a new platform to study human psychology.
Studies show when we step into virtual bodies, we conform to the expectations of how those bodies appear.
When we're in a more attractive body, we leverage stereotypes we have about how attractive people behave.
People perceive taller individuals as being more confident, and we adopt those norms when we too are given a slightly taller body in virtual reality.
You're more likely to be persuaded by and like a person if you share similar traits, even cues as arbitrary as having the same birthday, the same first name.
Our brains are wired with all these heuristics for who we like, how easily we're persuaded.
VR is uniquely powerful in terms of its ability to manipulate bodies and faces, and hijack a lot of the soft-wiring of how our brain makes sense of the world.
We ran another study where we had a virtual presenter mimic a participant's head movements at a four second delay, while the presenter was giving a persuasive argument, and we found that people are more likely to be persuaded when they are being mimicked.
You can imagine running into a computer agent in the virtual world that sort of looks like you, and has a bit of your mannerisms, and you can imagine how much more persuasive that computer agent could be.
This ability in VR to use algorithms to make [computer agents] more likeable, or their message more persuasive, that's definitely an interesting potential use of virtual worlds.
It absolutely does worry me. We thought about this a lot at the lab. Can people inoculate themselves against these strategies? We were pessimistic. We knew from our own studies that a lot of these manipulations can be subtle to the point of being undetectable, yet still have a measurable impact. It's hard to guard against them.
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Leigh Halfpenny - who landed 20 points in all - kicked them into a 15-10 half-time lead, with Liam Messam crossing for the hosts' try.
The Lions forwards dominated the second half and they earned a penalty try when they took the Maori apart at a scrum.
Maro Itoje crossed four minutes later as the Lions laid down a Test marker.
Warren Gatland's side came into the game with two wins from four games, following Wednesday's 23-22 defeat by the Highlanders.
That made this a must-win game and Gatland went with power in a bid to neutralise the dangerous Maori attack.
And the tourists did just that with a combination of smothering defence and precise kicking pinning the Maori back.
A tight first half saw Messam pounce to score an opportunist try after George North had fumbled Nehe Milner-Skudder's grubber kick.
But that was a rare foray into the 22 for the Maori and the hosts barely got out of their own half after the break as the visitors' power up front told.
They scored in the 10 minutes the Maori were without Tawera Kerr-Barlow after the scrum-half was yellow carded for a dangerous tackle on Halfpenny.
Many of the Lions team that started the game in Rotorua played themselves into contention to start the first Test against the All Blacks on Saturday, 24 June.
It was no surprise that the Lions' two tries came from the pack.
They were imperious throughout the match, winning all of their scrums and line-outs.
The scrum brought the first try on 51 minutes as the Maori forwards, defending their 5m line, were forced to turn it illegally by the power of the Lions, with referee Jaco Peyper given no choice but to give the score.
Minutes later and it was another scrum, another score. This time Taulupe Faletau drove from the base but was held up just short of the line and lock Itoje, who had been outstanding all game, picked up and dived over from close range.
With his forwards excelling in the wet conditions, albeit against a disappointing Maori side, Gatland might be praying for rain in Auckland in a week's time.
Peter O'Mahony, who started as captain, was excellent in the back row alongside Faletau and Sean O'Brien and tour captain Sam Warburton will not be an automatic starter in Auckland.
With Owen Farrell an injury doubt for the first Test, England centre Ben Te'o produced the perfect audition to nail down the number 12 jersey.
The Worcester back was the visitors' most dangerous attacking threat, running for 70m in total and being able to break the gainline against a big, physical side.
His centre partner Jonathan Davies was another who excelled in the tricky conditions and both could start in midfield against the All Blacks.
Ireland half-backs Conor Murray and Johnny Sexton looked nailed on for the nine and 10 jerseys, while Halfpenny, with his metronomic kicking, will be hard to dislodge at 15.
While George Kruis looked one-dimensional in attack, his leadership of the line-out will be invaluable to Gatland, and Itoje's all-action game means he will surely start at lock.
Anthony Watson, despite being starved of possession, did enough to suggest he could start against the All Blacks, but doubts remain over North's form on the opposite wing.
Lions boss Warren Gatland: "It was pretty good. If you look at territory and possession we dominated things. A couple of stupid penalties in the first half but we managed the game well and squeezed the life out of them.
"We've been guilty of putting ourselves under pressure but we got some going forward - even the try they scored was a lucky, speculative kick through.
"We're benefiting from the experience of playing the quality of sides we are."
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Former Lions and England winger Ugo Monye
The Saturday team is unbeaten on tour and today's performance will have given them a huge shot of belief a week before the first Test. The fundamentals and foundations of the gameplan for the Lions were there for everyone to see, namely All Blacks boss Steve Hansen, who was an interested spectator in the stands.
Physicality, set-piece, line speed, work-rate and a top-notch kicking game are the hallmarks of a strong Gatland team, and these Lions are not going to deviate from what has brought him plenty of success before.
In saying all that, as impressive as tonight's victory was, you just know they'll have to be 10 or 20% better next weekend at least in order to win. Roll on next Saturday.
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Maori All Blacks: J Lowe; N Milner-Skudder, M Proctor, C Ngatai, R Ioane; D McKenzie, T Kerr-Barlow; K Hames, A Dixon (capt), B May, J Wheeler, T Franklin, A Ioane, E Dixon, L Messam.
Replacements: H Elliot, C Eves, M Renata, L Price, K Pryor, B Hall, I West, R Thompson.
Lions: L Halfpenny (Wales); A Watson (England), J Davies (Wales), B Te'o (England), G North (Wales); Sexton, C Murray (both Ireland); M Vunipola, J George (both England), T Furlong (Ireland), M Itoje, G Kruis (both England), P O'Mahony (capt), S O'Brien (both Ireland), T Faletau (Wales).
Replacements: K Owens (Wales), J McGrath (Ireland), K Sinckler (England), I Henderson (Ireland), S Warburton (Wales), G Laidlaw (Scotland), D Biggar (Wales), E Daly (England). | The British and Irish Lions gained a confidence-boosting win as their power told against the Maori All Blacks in wet conditions in Rotorua. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40299129"} | 1,422 | 35 | 0.510076 | 1.270574 | 0.473038 | 1.269231 | 44.653846 | 0.807692 |
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The pair, from Sutton Coldfield, were found clinging to derelict Birnbeck Pier near Weston-super-Mare on Tuesday.
Helmsman Terry Wells said the "very rapidly" flowing water could have put them in "serious danger" and advised the public not to swim in the channel. | The RNLI has warned of the danger of swimming in sea after two people were rescued from the Bristol Channel. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33341648"} | 92 | 25 | 0.586206 | 1.238795 | -0.673333 | 0.52381 | 3.428571 | 0.428571 |
"Vengeance can wipe out an entire generation," he said, in an address to the nation on Sunday, urging calm.
A presidential spokesman told the BBC it was too early to blame anyone for the killing of Gen Adolphe Nshimirimana in a rocket and gun attack on his car.
Mr Nkurunziza won a third term last month, amid deadly protests over his decision to run for office again.
Opponents argued this contravened the constitution and there was a failed coup attempt in May.
"Adolphe Nshimirimana was the regime's number two, not officially, but unofficially. This assassination is a very serious blow to Burundi's government," International Crisis Group analyst Thierry Vircoulon told BBC Afrique.
The attackers reportedly targeted the general's car with machine guns and rocket launchers in the Kamenge district of the capital Bujumbura.
Presidential spokesperson Gerve Abehayo rejected suggestions that the attack could have been carried out by elements within Burundi's own security apparatus, after witnesses reported four men in military uniform spraying the general's car with bullets.
"The government is not losing support... the army remains strong and united... one general was killed, but this does not mean the whole military has been wiped out of this country," he told the BBC's Newsday programme.
President Nkurunziza has called for an investigation into the general's killing to be concluded within a week.
The African Union, European Union and the US have all condemned the attack, with AU chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma describing it as a "barbaric act that is likely to further destabilise the country".
Prominent Burundian journalist Esdras Ndikumana, who works for AFP news agency and Radio France Internationale (RFI), says he was detained by intelligence officers and badly beaten after trying to take photos at the scene of the attack.
More than 70 people have been killed since the unrest began in April, and 180,000 have fled the country, according to the UN refugee agency.
Mr Nkurunziza came to power in 2005, after 300,000 were killed in a 12-year conflict between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis. | Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has warned against vengeance following the assassination of a senior general. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33758293"} | 512 | 33 | 0.561345 | 1.403561 | -0.080188 | 0.941176 | 23.647059 | 0.705882 |
Nicola Sturgeon has repeatedly warned a fresh vote is "highly likely".
But Scottish Labour Kezia Dugdale has said her party would oppose any attempt to hold a referendum.
However, Mr Corbyn told the Press Association it was not the job of Labour "to prevent people holding referenda".
Senior Scottish Labour figures have strongly condemned Mr Corbyn - with the party's justice spokeswoman, Jackie Baillie, describing his comments as "misguided and irresponsible".
She added: "They are an insult to the dedicated work of Scottish Labour MSPs, councillors, and thousands of activists who have campaigned against a divisive second referendum."
Labour's only MP in Scotland, Ian Murray, tweeted that Mr Corbyn was "destroying the party" - but Ms Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister and SNP leader, tweeted that it was "always a pleasure to have Jeremy Corbyn campaigning in Scotland".
Mr Corbyn's remarks come amid speculation that Ms Sturgeon is about to demand a Section 30 order from Westminster, allowing another legally binding vote on Scotland's place in the UK to be held.
Prime Minister Theresa May has so far avoided saying whether or not she would grant permission - instead saying only that she does not believe a second referendum should be held.
Mr Corbyn suggested he did not think Westminster should seek to block a referendum, and was quoted by PA as saying that Labour "wouldn't block it".
He added: "If a referendum is held then it is absolutely fine, it should be held. I don't think it's the job of Westminster or the Labour Party to prevent people holding referenda."
He also stressed the importance of the economic ties between Scotland and the rest of the UK, and on the issue of further devolution stressed any new powers transferred north as a result of Brexit should go further than just Holyrood.
Mr Corbyn said: "I do think we should set it within the context of the economic relationship with the rest of the UK and the question of devolution of EU to English regions and to Scotland, and to parts of Scotland rather than just to the government in Holyrood.
"The principle of regionalism is it goes to everybody within a region, not just to the central powers and the SNP have a bit of a tendency to centralise things around themselves."
A spokesman for Mr Corbyn later told the BBC: "Jeremy reaffirmed our position today that if the Scottish Parliament votes for a referendum, it would be wrong for Westminster to block it.
"Labour continues to oppose a further referendum in the Scottish Parliament and would campaign against independence if one were held."
Mr Corbyn was speaking ahead of a speech to Labour's economic conference in Glasgow.
His comments appeared to echo those of former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, who told the Herald newspaper that it would be "very difficult for any government of any composition in London to try and impose a fatwa on any move towards a referendum, if that was something which was being pushed, however unwelcome that is."
However, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie told ITV Borders that the party would vote against a referendum in both Holyrood and Westminster.
SNP MSP Stuart McMillan said Mr Clegg and Mr Corbyn had "both recognised the Scottish government's cast-iron democratic mandate for a second independence referendum if that is the chosen route to protect our national interests."
He added: "This was a specific manifesto commitment on which the SNP was re-elected just 10 months ago.
"Scotland voted clearly and decisively to remain in the EU: not for an economically disastrous Tory hard Brexit outside the Single Market, and yet Lib Dem and Labour MSPs will happily sit on their hands and let that happen.
"It's embarrassing that Lib Dem and Labour in Holyrood want to deny Scotland the opportunity to avoid a damaging hard Tory Brexit while Corbyn and Clegg agree that it would be wrong to block Scotland having a choice on our future if that is what is needed."
Scottish Conservative chief whip John Lamont said: "Jeremy Corbyn clearly doesn't understand that most people in Scotland don't want another divisive referendum.
"A second referendum on independence should not take take place and, unlike Mr Corbyn, the Scottish Conservatives will not support the SNP in making it any easier to take place.
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As one of the dance house's associate choreographers, and a local north London resident, Bourne is a familiar face at the leading venue. But at Christmas, he is the star of the show.
From Cinderella to Edward Scissorhands, a Bourne ballet has been the highlight of the Sadler's Wells Christmas bill for more than a decade - so much so he's been dubbed "Mr Christmas" by some.
This year he is presenting Sleeping Beauty. Despite Bourne's Santa pseudonym, though, there is very little that is Christmassy about his work.
He's made the well-known Tchaikovsky classic feel contemporary with his trademark fast-paced choreography - and completely new with the "shock" element of a gothic vampire twist.
Here the crowd-pleaser tells us about the importance of the audience, his love of a great story and his future plans.
How do you feel about being called "Mr Christmas"?
I've never seen myself as a Father Christmas figure, but I understand it sounds good although we're only in London over Christmas. We do 26 to 28 other venues in the rest of the year.
There are certain shows you can do at Christmas and others you can't, including at least half my repertoire. But anything with a fairy-tale background tends to work.
Do you feel the epithet encourages accusations from purists and the press of "dumbing down" for the sake of ticket sales?
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the audiences that keep coming. Over the years their loyalty around the country has been brilliant.
There is a sense the critics want to take me down a peg or two because we are so much more successful than any other dance company in this country, in terms of numbers and the amount of shows. But they have come along with me over the years, so a lot of them accept me more now.
How have you experienced the effect of your work?
The other night I met a couple who hadn't seen much dance but had seen my Swan Lake and loved it so come back to see Sleeping Beauty. They said they'd been in tears 10 minutes in. It's lovely to hear. There's a level at which the public experience a piece that a critic just can't.
Is there also a freedom that comes from your status as a dance "maverick"?
Every company wants to please the public, but we can do it on a much wider scale as we are not tied to tradition. I do want the balletomanes and the critics to be happy and to understand how much I love these pieces and that I am telling the story in a different way.
Over the years, the standard of dancing in my company has gone up considerably. All our production standards are high, so if there is any criticism it can't be made on that level.
A lot of those you've worked with have described you as "generous".
I love audiences and in my own world of dance, where I've been now for a long time, I love promoting young dancers and choreographers so that's where I am generous. I don't see the point of making work if you're not thinking about the audience and if they are not reacting to it, I will keep on until they do.
I want my dancers to be generous with the audience. Curtain calls are very important. They smile and look genuine and are saying "thank you for coming". I want people to love the company and want to come back.
Do you tinker with productions for each new performance?
A lot, sometimes every day. We've done this show almost 330 times, but even earlier this month we put new things in. There are always new ideas. Fans of the company, who book for two shows over the weekend - yes, they really do that - know they are going to get something different.
What's different about your choreography and your overall production style?
My choreography always serves the show, the period I've set it in and the style. It's always about narrative, character and stories and it's acrobatic. Costumes look like they come from film rather than being dance-adapted because we want the audience to relate to the scene.
We'll sometimes use normal shoes or even bare feet to make it look appropriate to the period and the choice of dancers is important too. They need to be faces you can relate to.
People expect to see something spectacular and that's also what I enjoy; I want people to go "wow". On stage, even simple things people love, like just dropping confetti. It's delightful.
Aren't you tempted to do a show that is pared-down and simple?
I do think about it from time to time. I love the simplicity of things sometimes. I'd like to do something that is completely dancer-led about space and light.
It would have to be an experiment as I don't want to lose the audience. My job is to make pieces work and make them accessible for a modern audience, not just a ballet audience.
You love a great story but you always want to change a classic. Why?
If the audience didn't know the story, as of course they do with Sleeping Beauty, I'd have to spell it out but this way allows me to be creative within the existing structure. Everyone gets it but then you can surprise them.
I set Cinderella within the Blitz of World War Two to make it completely new and exciting, but the basic premise of the bad relations and out-of-reach love is infinitely transferable. With Sleeping Beauty, it just wasn't a very good story - Tchaikovsky's music is the attraction.
You've clearly got a vivid imagination so why don't you write your own original stories - or even a book?
It comes from years of watching lots of movies and plays; my head is full of imagery. But I feel I do write my own stories already. I write my scenarios like stories because it has to make sense to me and marry well to the music. You have to justify going off on a tangent. Every story ever written is based on previous stories.
Do you have a favourite among the work you've produced?
You need to love them all and want to do them again. Swan Lake changed my life and I am grateful: it made me well-known around the world, it was a news story rather than just an arts story. It wasn't my intention at all, though, and I was completely taken aback.
I believed in the idea - bringing in male swans since they do naturally exist but everyone assumes they should be female. It took a while to get used to, the success, the awards, the long run in the West End. It did huge things for us but put us back at first.
How did your upbringing influence you?
I grew up in north London and there was nothing in our household that you would call high-brow entertainment. I had to find a way to see a lot of things. I went to see an opera and ballet in my late teens as self-education.
My parents and I went to a lot of West End musicals and I loved it, but they didn't know ballet so when I got into it, they did too. So I reciprocated the education.
They were incredibly supportive and luckily lived long enough to see great things happen to me, such as going to Broadway and Los Angeles - they met lots of old movie stars and had a great time.
Your productions are performed all over the world. How is the reception different from country to country?
It varies a lot and that fascinates me, but that also applies from town to town in this country. Outside the UK, there are a lot of differences: humour and some themes can be a problem.
In Russia homosexuality is a problem, especially when it comes to keeping backers on side. We have done Swan Lake but they were worried about the gay element in The Car Man. They were okay with Dorian Gray as they said it was literature, which was odd to me.
Some audiences are very vocal, some very quiet. In Japan they are very silent but at the end you have to bow a lot - to the point of being embarrassing.
What's next?
I'm working on a new show for next year, brand new. I'm sworn to secrecy at the moment. But it will be opening in Plymouth and then Manchester. It's a fairly well-known story, I can say that, but I'm running out of titles.
Sleeping Beauty is at Sadler's Wells in London until 24 January. | Choreographer Matthew Bourne - known for his modern takes on such ballet classics as Swan Lake - is where we've come to expect him at this time of year: ensconced within the walls of London's Sadler's Wells. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35100977"} | 1,941 | 59 | 0.403464 | 1.126507 | 0.721418 | 1.166667 | 41.571429 | 0.833333 |
The men were travelling by bus from Iran when they were seized in Zabul province, on the road to Kabul.
No group has said it carried out the abductions. Kidnappings for ransom are common in Afghanistan.
Unlike in Pakistan, Afghan Hazaras, who are mostly Shia Muslims, have been largely spared attacks by Sunni militants operating in both countries.
Eyewitnesses say gunmen wearing masks and black clothes forced a convoy of two buses to stop in Zabul, on the road between Kandahar and the capital, on Monday night.
The gunmen took money and phones from the Hazara men before driving them away, one bus passenger told BBC Persian.
"Their faces were covered and they were wearing military clothes."
He said he and another man had been left behind because the gunmen had no room for them in their vehicles.
"After five minutes police arrived. We could still see [the kidnappers]. We told the police and showed them to the police - they said they would find them but didn't chase them."
The gunmen took 30 men away but left behind women and children.
The passengers had travelled from Iran, via the western Afghan city of Herat.
District Governor Abdul Khaliq Ayoubi blamed the Taliban for the attack, Afghanistan's Tolo News reported.
Interior ministry spokesman Sediq Seddiqi said police were "doing everything to ensure their safe release".
Though tensions exist between Afghanistan's Sunni and minority Shia Muslims, most attacks in Afghanistan in recent years have targeted government officials or international forces, correspondents say.
An exception to this was an attack on a Shia mosque in Kabul in 2011 which killed 55 people.
Foreign troops ended their combat role in Afghanistan in December but some have remained in the country to support the Afghan military.
The nation still faces a bloody Taliban insurgency and US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Saturday that Washington was considering slowing its troop withdrawal as a result.
There are also fears that the influence of IS could be growing in Afghanistan, though Mr Carter said "the reports I've seen still have them in small numbers". | Masked gunmen in southern Afghanistan have abducted 30 men from the Hazara ethnic minority, officials say. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "31600476"} | 477 | 24 | 0.496285 | 1.243229 | 0.515187 | 1.333333 | 22.777778 | 0.777778 |
The end of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro marked the closing chapter in the history of the separation of the six republics of the old Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia which was proclaimed in 1945 and comprised Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Macedonia.
Under Yugoslavia's authoritarian communist leader, Josip Broz Tito, the lid was kept on ethnic tensions. The federation lasted for over 10 years after his death in 1980, but under Serbian nationalist leader Slobodan Milosevic it fell apart through the 1990s.
The secession of Slovenia and Macedonia came relatively peacefully, but there were devastating wars in Croatia and Bosnia. Serbia and Montenegro together formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia between 1992 and 2003.
Population 9.8 million (UN, 2012, includes Kosovo; UN mission estimates Kosovo population as circa 2 million)
Area 88,361 sq km (34,116 sq miles) (includes Kosovo)
Major language Serbian
Major religion Christianity
Life expectancy 72 years (men), 77 years (women)
Currency Dinar
President: Tomislav Nikolic
Pro-EU nationalist Tomislav Nikolic beat the liberal Democratic Party incumbent Boris Tadic in the second round of the presidential election of 2012, confounding expectations.
Mr Nikolic founded the Progressive Party in 2008 as a break-away from the hard-line nationalist and anti-Nato Radical Party, in order to move closer to the centre ground, adopt a pro-EU course and distance nationalists from associations with the Milosevic era of war crimes and xenophobia.
The new party campaigned against unemployment, inflation and corruption to become the largest party at parliamentary elections in May 2012, building on this to achieve Mr Nikolic's win in the presidential vote a few weeks later.
Prime minister: Aleksandar Vucic
Aleksandar Vucic became prime minister after his pro-EU nationalist Progressive Party won a landslide victory in early parliamentary elections in March 2014.
On coming to power, Mr Vucic pledged a radical overhaul of Serbia's ailing economy and an accelerated drive towards EU membership.
The reforms would include squeezing the public sector, reforming the budget, privatising state-owned companies and expanding the private sector.
The new prime minister won popularity by promising to combat endemic corruption and widespread hardship.
He called early elections in April 2016, seeking a renewed mandate to push through the reforms required to join the EU, and again won a comfortable majority.
Television is, by far, the main source of news and information. The flagship public network, RTS1, is among a handful of outlets that dominate the market.
There are more than 90 TV channels and the average viewer spends more than five hours a day watching television, the highest figure in Europe.
Six TV stations are licensed to broadcast nationally; 30 have regional licences. The national TV broadcasters attract around 70 per cent of the audience.
RTS1 is the most popular channel in Serbia, attracting up to a quarter of the audience and providing strong competition for commercial stations, including leading commercial network TV Pink.
Some key dates in Serbia's history:
1389 - Serb nobility decimated in battle of Kosovo Polje as Ottoman Empire expands.
15th - 18th centuries - Serbia absorbed by Ottoman Empire.
1817 - Serbia becomes autonomous principality.
1878 - Serbian independence recognised by international treaties.
1918 - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formed after World War I.
1929 - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1945 - Together with Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro, Serbia becomes one of republics in new Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia under Josip Broz Tito.
1980 - Tito dies.
1989 - Slobodan Milosevic becomes President of Serbia.
1991 - Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia and Bosnia break away from Yugoslavia.
1992 - Montenegro and Serbia form Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Rising nationalist and independence aspirations bring bloody conflict with Croats and Bosnian Muslims. UN imposes sanctions.
1995 - Dayton accords bring end to Bosnian war. Sanctions lifted.
1997 - Milosevic becomes Yugoslav president.
1998-99 - Kosovo crisis. Serb crackdown on separatists in Kosovo prompts thousands of ethnic Albanians to flee and Nato to intervene militarily. President Milosevic agrees to withdraw forces from Kosovo, which becomes UN protectorate but remains de jure part of Serbia.
2002 - Trial of Slobodan Milosevic on charges of genocide and war crimes begins in The Hague.
2006 - Milosevic found dead in his cell in The Hague.
2006 - Montenegro votes in a referendum to separate from Serbia and declares independence.
2013 - Serbia and Kosovo sign landmark agreement on normalising relations.
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Richard Spencer's removal from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) came as one of the organisers attacked his views.
Dan Schneider called the alt-right "a sinister organisation that is trying to worm its way into our ranks".
"They are anti-Semites. They are racists," he said.
"They are not an extension of conservatism. They are nothing but garden-variety, left-wing fascists," Mr Schneider continued in Thursday's speech, titled The Alt Right Ain't Right At All.
As he was speaking, Mr Spencer got up from his seat and left the conference hall.
"They are not a part of us," said Mr Schneider, of the American Conservative Union.
Afterwards, during a nearly hour-long briefing with reporters in the hallway, Mr Spencer said he had paid money to attend the annual gathering outside Washington, and that his anti-minority views are "clearly resonating with people".
He condemned Mr Schneider's speech as "totally stupid", and in a tweet paraphrased a Mahatma Gandhi quote: "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
As he was talking to reporters, a security guard approached to escort him from the conference.
Shortly after the election of Donald Trump, who Mr Spencer supports, he came to Washington where he led an alt-right gathering in making Nazi salutes while chanting: "Heil Trump!"
He was also punched in the face during protests that shook the US capital in the days after Mr Trump's inauguration as US president. | The leader of the so-called alt-right movement, a movement accused of racism and anti-Semitism, has been asked to leave a conservative event. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39059988"} | 369 | 38 | 0.443493 | 1.179704 | 0.009334 | 1 | 10.322581 | 0.612903 |
He told me when Mr Hammond was shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, the MP for Runnymede and Weybridge did "a lot of the heavy lifting" when it came to working out the Conservative plan for tackling the UK's economic challenges.
Cut the deficit and shrink public sector expenditure was the route alighted upon.
At the time a fiscal hawk of the George Osborne variety - and a big fan of the European Union single market to boot - Mr Hammond is going to have to find a new tone.
Theresa May has signalled a looser approach to borrowing to mitigate any effects of a post-Brexit economic downturn.
And membership of the single market versus a clampdown on free movement of people will be the defining battle of Britain's departure from the EU.
Mr Hammond will be a pivotal player.
As he will on whether Heathrow or Gatwick - or anywhere - gets the go-ahead for a new runway.
Or if the planned new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point continues to receive the government's support.
All eyes will be on his first big Parliamentary outing - the Autumn Statement later in the year.
By then he will have seen the first forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility on the state of the public finances post the referendum.
What will his approach be to tax and spending given many economists believe the next few months will be challenging?
And how will the former Foreign Secretary signal that he is not Mr Osborne Mark II?
Mrs May clearly wants some fresh thinking. | Speaking to a senior figure in the banking world this morning, he had nothing but praise for Philip Hammond, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36789688"} | 346 | 36 | 0.44846 | 1.060991 | -0.856181 | 0.714286 | 10.642857 | 0.5 |
A 12th person arrested - a Christian - would be tried under secular law, a BBC reporter says.
Under Islamic law, a person can be sentenced to death by stoning if convicted of homosexuality.
It is also illegal to have gay sex in Nigeria, according to its secular laws.
Earlier this month, President Goodluck Jonathan signed a parliamentary bill which tightens laws against homosexuals, banning same-sex marriages, gay groups and shows of same-sex public affection.
The new legislation applies across Nigeria, affecting all citizens.
Most states in the predominantly Muslim north of Nigeria have adopted Islamic law, known as Sharia, since the end of military rule in 1999.
Nigeria is a deeply conservative country, with an influential Christian evangelical movement in the south and strong support for Islamic law among many Muslims in the north.
Hostility towards gay people has escalated since parliament debated the Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act last year, Dorothy Aken'Ova, a rights activist with the Nigeria-based International Centre for Reproductive Health and Sexual Rights, told the BBC.
She said that she was aware of 38 people being arrested in Bauchi state last month, and was trying to confirm reports of more arrests in both the north and south of Nigeria since the new law was approved.
"What this act is saying is that they [gay people] do not deserve to exist," she told the BBC's Focus on Africa radio programme.
"It is heartbreaking that we have come to this point in Nigeria."
Jibrin Danlami Hassan, the commissioner of Bauchi state's Sharia Commission, said the alleged homosexuals were arrested by residents of Bauchi city.
They were handed to the Islamic police force, which interrogated them, he said.
"They accept that they are doing that dirty game," Mr Hassan said.
Ms Aken'Ova said some of those arrested had been beaten up and tortured, but Mr Hassan denied this.
The BBC's Ishaq Khalid in Bauchi says the Sharia Commission confirmed to him that a Christian had been arrested with the 11 Muslims, and would be tried in a "conventional court".
The Muslims could be sentenced to death by stoning if they are convicted, but the court would decide, Mr Hassan said.
Several stoning sentences have been handed down by Sharia courts in northern Nigeria since 1999; however, none have so far been carried out.
The UK, US and UN human rights chief Navi Pillay have condemned Nigeria's Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act as discriminatory and draconian.
Mr Hassan said told the BBC he was "happy" that Mr Jonathan had signed it into law, despite threats by Western powers to cut aid to Nigeria.
"The threat they are doing cannot make us change our religion," he said. | An Islamic court in Nigeria's northern state of Bauchi has put on trial 11 Muslim men accused of being homosexuals in violation of their religion, a religious leader has told the BBC. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "25749308"} | 636 | 40 | 0.570451 | 1.421156 | 0.263998 | 1.285714 | 15.542857 | 0.771429 |
But Social Services Minister Rebecca Evans said it was important to first give other policies the "chance to bed in and have an impact".
Campaigners and charities have called on the government to introduce an Autism Bill in the assembly.
Similar legislation has been passed in England and Northern Ireland.
With the exception of Labour, every major party included a commitment to introduce such a law in their manifesto for May's assembly election.
Speaking to Sunday Politics, Social Services and Public Health Minister Rebecca Evans, said: "We are keeping an open mind as to whether there's a need for a specific piece of legislation for autism in future.
"But at the moment it's actually a really exciting time in terms of the services and support that we offer people with autism in Wales because we have the Social Service and Wellbeing Act, just six months old, and that's intended to transform the way that we deliver services and support for people who have care and support needs, whatever their condition might be."
She pointed to the government's integrated autism service, which she said would look at whether any "gaps" might require new legislation, and the "door is open to it".
However, she added: "We don't see the need to introduce a specific piece of legislation at this time."
Louise Quinn-Flipping, from Swansea, whose sons Mason, four, and Logan, six have autism, supports the proposal for an Autism Bill.
She said: "In the beginning it was really hard, you literally get a diagnosis and you get handed a book - "This is autism" - and sent on your way with nothing. You're on your own.
"It's really isolating and it was actually quite depressing. You see all the differences in your child and then you see other people's children and you think 'my children should be doing that' and 'my kid's not'.
"In Wales, at the moment, it's currently a postcode lottery really. It depends where you live as what services you can access and how good those services are."
Source: National Autistic Society Cymru
Ms Quinn-Flipping was in the Senedd earlier this month to listen to a debate brought forward by the Welsh Conservatives calling on the government to introduce an Autism Bill.
However, the motion was defeated because Labour AMs and Liberal Democrat Kirsty Williams voted against it.
BBC Wales understands Education Secretary Ms Williams is due to meet local autism campaigners to discuss the issue on Monday.
Wales was the first country in the world to introduce an autism strategy back in 2008.
Earlier this year, a new national autism service was launched in an attempt to improve the lives of autistic people in Wales.
But the National Autistic Society Cymru thinks an Autism Act is still needed.
Meleri Thomas, the charity's external affairs manager, said: "Ultimately we've had the strategy since 2008. People are still not getting the right services, they're not getting the right diagnosis, or a timely diagnosis, so I think there's only one way to go." | The "door is very much open" for the introduction of a law to guarantee the rights of autistic people in Wales, the Welsh Government has said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37804844"} | 677 | 34 | 0.502207 | 1.376469 | 0.24385 | 2.033333 | 20.533333 | 0.833333 |
People were delighted when online access was restored in both regions on Thursday at around 19:00 GMT, a BBC correspondent in Bamenda reports.
Before the ban, authorities had warned mobile phone users they faced jail for spreading false information.
Communications and the economy were badly affected by the shutdown.
Anglophone Cameroonians make up about 20% of the country's 23 million people. The other regions of the country are predominately French-speaking.
Excited groups gathered in the city centre to share the news with each other on Thursday night, as passing cars honked their horns in celebration.
Students, those working in the financial sector, and businesses who sell products online say they suffered hugely during the ban.
Cyber-cafes which were forced to close are now reopening.
My own work and family life were affected.
I had to make a four-hour round trip to a neighbouring region every time I wanted to send radio reports to my editors.
There are those who see this as the first step towards resolving tensions between the government and the Anglophone community.
Some are encouraging their friends to be less outspoken on social media to avoid another shutdown.
But others are still angry and say the release of three leaders of the Anglophone protests and 30 others who are still detained should be the priority.
Prominent Cameroonian entrepreneur Rebecca Enonchong welcomed the news on Twitter, using the #BringBackOurInternet hashtag, which had been employed by many to pressure the government to lift the ban.
Others celebrated being able to use social media once more:
Workers in Cameroon's tech hub, known as Silicon Mountain, had to relocate to areas where the internet was still available.
Anglophone Cameroonians in the North-West and South-West regions had been protesting over marginalisation and the imposition of French in their schools and courts.
Announcing the lifting of the ban, the government said it reserved the right to "take measures to stop the internet once again becoming a tool to stoke hatred and division among Cameroonians". | Internet services in Cameroon's English-speaking regions have been turned back on three months after they were cut off following protests. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39665244"} | 455 | 30 | 0.475817 | 1.263434 | -0.066214 | 0.916667 | 16.291667 | 0.583333 |
The group says new findings about the virus make it "unethical" for the games to go ahead in an open letter to the World Health Organization.
They call on the WHO to revisit its guidance on Zika, which is linked to serious birth defects.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in May it sees no reason to delay or move the games due to Zika.
The outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease began in Brazil a year ago, but now more than 60 countries and territories have continuing transmission.
While Zika's symptoms are mild, in the letter the experts say it causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and may also cause a rare and sometimes fatal neurological syndrome in adults.
The letter is signed by 150 international scientists, doctors and medical ethicists from such institutions as Oxford University and Harvard and Yale universities in the United States.
They cite the failure of a mosquito-eradication programme in Brazil, and the country's "weakened" health system as reasons to postpone or move the Olympics in "the name of public health".
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"An unnecessary risk is posed when 500,000 foreign tourists from all countries attend the Games, potentially acquire that strain, and return home to places where it can become endemic," the letter says.
The biggest risk, it adds, is if athletes contracted the virus and returned home to poor countries that had not yet suffered a Zika outbreak.
They also express concern the WHO has a conflict of interest through its partnership with the IOC.
The Rio Olympics take place between 5-21 August.
The WHO, which has declared the Zika virus a global public health emergency, is yet to comment on the letter.
Several public health experts had previously warned that having hundreds of thousands of people arriving in Rio will speed up Zika's spread and lead to the births of brain-damaged babies.
But on Thursday, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose advice is quoted approvingly in the letter, said the threat did not warrant halting the games.
"There is no public health reason to cancel or delay the Olympics," Dr Tom Frieden said.
He however urged the US to act more quickly to prevent pregnant women contracting Zika, amid congressional deadlock over the release of $1.9bn (£1.3bn) in funding. | More than 100 leading scientists say the Rio Olympics should be moved or postponed over the Zika outbreak. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36401150"} | 555 | 24 | 0.474244 | 1.167436 | 0.335838 | 1.631579 | 27.263158 | 0.789474 |
Future reefs will be defined by corals able to adapt to rapidly changing ecosystems, according to a paper published in the journal Nature.
In April, surveys showed two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef had been severely bleached within two years.
Governments can sustain reefs with immediate action, the researchers said.
Lead author Prof Terry Hughes, from James Cook University, said he was optimistic that reefs would exist into the next century.
"But the reefs of the future are going to look quite different," he told the BBC.
"Restoring things to what they used to be is no longer tenable. There will be a different mix of species."
However, annual bleaching in many locations by 2050 was likely if emissions continued on their current trajectory, the scientists said.
Future sustainability would rely on significant shifts in how reefs were managed.
This would involve international co-operation, such as with the Paris climate deal, but also policy co-ordination at a national level.
The researchers said coral species had shown capacity to adapt rapidly on a huge scale, something they described as "an asset".
"When bleaching happens it changes the mix of species," Prof Hughes said.
"There are so-called winners and losers."
If normal conditions return, then corals could recover, but it may take decades.
"If you tell somebody that something is doomed, they are likely to give up on it," Prof Hughes said.
"There is hope for reefs, but there is a narrow window of opportunity to deal with global warming. The sooner we enact the transition to zero net carbon emissions, the better." | The world's coral reefs can be saved by addressing climate change but they will not resemble those of the past, a new study has said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40115716"} | 349 | 34 | 0.581645 | 1.324921 | -0.232297 | 0.75 | 11.892857 | 0.607143 |
A new city-based eight-team tournament has been given the go-ahead to start in 2020.
Glamorgan was one of 15 first-class counties that voted in support of staging the proposed competition.
"We firmly believe that it is the only way in which we're going to generate a new audience," said O'Brien.
He continued: "The reality is that [cricket's] audience is getting smaller and smaller and more and more elderly by the day
"Unless we can engage a new generation of cricket lovers of any form of the game, cricket will simply disappear."
The proposals were approved by 38 of the 41 England and Wales Cricket Board members, with Essex and Middlesex were the only two counties to vote against the proposals, while Kent abstained.
O'Brien thinks the new tournament would be successful in attracting new fans to the sport.
"You're going to get best versus the best. I mean, you will be getting three overseas players per team and they are going to be the best overseas players," O'Brien added.
"If you see [Chris] Gayle and {AB} de Villiers performing the way they're performing at the moment in the Big Bash and IPL when you could turn up to the Swalec Stadium you are going to turn up.
"It's the equivalent of going to watch [Lionel] Messi or Gareth Bale. That is going to be an important part of it."
O'Brien said he recognises the "traditionalists' point of view" and that those who enjoy the longer form of the game "feel threatened by T20."
But he added that a city-based Twenty20 tournament "could rescue the game in the long form."
"If we can engage this new generation of kids that pick up the cricket bat and ball, some of them will be told that they are white ball, short-form cricketers and others are going to be told you're actually better off in the longer form of the game," O'Brien said.
O'Brien, Glamorgan chairman since 2011, believes Cardiff would be an ideal host for one of the teams if the tournament goes ahead.
"I think we're ready, we're set up, we have the facilities, we are a city centre, we are a capital city and we've got a great track record.
"We will be pressing the ECB very hard that we should be one of the venues."
"There are various meetings taking place at the ECB over the next couple of months to get stuck into the detail so there's a long way to go before we have the final terms of the tournament." | Glamorgan chairman Barry O'Brien believes a city-based Twenty20 tournament is "the only way" to stop domestic cricket from disappearing. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39726171"} | 584 | 33 | 0.540283 | 1.450785 | 0.685863 | 2.291667 | 21.916667 | 0.791667 |
The 41-year-old victim died in hospital after the crash, which happened near Windermere Avenue, Burnley, at about 14:23 GMT on Friday.
The collision occurred after a BMW 335 turned into Blacker Street, where a Yamaha 600cc motorcycle was travelling in the opposite direction, police said.
Lancashire Police is appealing for anyone who may have seen either vehicle before the collision to contact them. | A motorcyclist has died after a collision with a car in Lancashire. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35793622"} | 90 | 20 | 0.673057 | 1.193227 | -0.854919 | 0.846154 | 5.923077 | 0.692308 |
A gold medal in the race gives an athlete global recognition. Breaking the world record over the distance ensures sporting immortality.
American Donald Lippincott and Czech Marie Mejzlikova were the first, with Jamaica's Usain Bolt and Florence Griffith-Joyner of the United States the current holders of the crown.
Before the 2016 Games in Rio, at which Bolt and compatriot Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will defend the 100m titles they won in London four years ago, BBC Sport presents a chronological history of world records in the event, showing each time it has been broken and when.
Subscribe to the BBC Sport newsletter to get our pick of news, features and video sent to your inbox. | The 100m is arguably the Olympic Games' most iconic event. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36968962"} | 156 | 15 | 0.508161 | 1.108878 | -1.025705 | 1 | 10.307692 | 0.538462 |
Conley Thompson died after entering a vertical pipe on the construction site near his home in Worsbrough on 26 July.
His body was found the following day after a search involving 50 police officers. His death is not being treated as suspicious.
Hundreds of mourners lined the streets around St Thomas and St James' Church, Worsbrough to pay their respects.
They were asked to wear bright colours and superhero t-shirts in Conley's memory.
The youngster's coffin arrived at the church in a white horse drawn carriage and a dove was released at the end of the service.
An appeal launched to help pay for the funeral raised £2,890.
A little boy arrived at church in a white coffin, emblazoned with superheroes. A large green fist of the Hulk on the coffin stood out, its impact never more strong as it was today.
Carrying the coffin was a white carriage drawn by two white horses - on any other day it would have seemed bizarre to see Spider Man sitting next to the driver, but today it was perfect.
The superhero theme of the funeral was adopted by many of the hundreds of people who turned out to line the streets.
His family said they have to somehow come to terms with his loss. Unthinkable for anyone, and given his age, all the more laden will their hearts be.
Conley was reported missing about four hours after leaving his home in Underwood Avenue.
South Yorkshire Police is continuing to piece together his last known movements.
His family said: "To describe Conley you would have to say he was cheeky, mischievous and loud, but also loving and caring, with a heart of gold.
"As with most boys his age, Conley lived life large and loud, with a zest for adventure and curiosity." | The funeral of a seven-year-old boy who died on a building site near Barnsley has been held. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33862449"} | 395 | 26 | 0.413715 | 1.110569 | -1.158326 | 0.818182 | 15.909091 | 0.636364 |
Colombian officials said there was no technical failure and blamed the pilot, the airline and Bolivian regulators.
A recording had already indicated the aircraft had run out of fuel.
The plane, operated by Bolivian company LaMia, plunged into a mountainside near Medellin. Only six people survived.
Preliminary results of the Colombian investigation said the pilot failed to refuel en route and was too late in reporting engine failures caused by the lack of fuel.
Colombia's Secretary for Air Safety, Col Freddy Bonilla, also said that aviation authorities in Bolivia and the airline accepted conditions presented in the flight plan that were "unacceptable".
"No technical factor was part of the accident, everything involved human error, added to a management factor in the company's administration and the management and organisation of the flight plans by the authorities in Bolivia," he told journalists.
The plane was also over its weight limit by nearly 400kg (62 stone) and was not certified to fly at the altitude at which the trip took place, Col Bonilla added.
The conclusion, officials said, came from the plane's flight recorders and other evidence. A Bolivian investigation had already blamed the pilot and the airline for the accident.
LaMia's chief executive, Gustavo Vargas Gamboa, and his son, Gustavo Vargas Villegas, a former official with Bolivia's aviation authority, had already been detained pending trial. They deny any wrongdoing.
The pilot, Miguel Quiroga, who was also a co-owner of the airline, died in the crash. In a leaked tape, he can be heard warning of a "total electric failure" and "lack of fuel".
The aircraft had been transporting Chapecoense to the biggest game in their history, the final of the Copa Sudamericana. | The plane crash that killed 71 people in Colombia last month, including dozens of players from Brazil's Chapecoense football team, was caused by human error, an investigation says. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38440283"} | 405 | 40 | 0.519197 | 1.221088 | 0.457677 | 0.939394 | 10.424242 | 0.636364 |
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The WRU has confirmed it intends to take control of the region and buy Rodney Parade by 1 July.
But the deal has to be ratified by 75% Newport RFC shareholders, and Hazell is calling for them to back the plan.
"I am hopeful people see common sense. I would urge them to vote for the proposal," he told BBC Wales Sport.
The deal has been ratified by the boards of the WRU, Newport rugby club and the Dragons.
But without the backing of three quarters of the more than 1,000 rugby club shareholders, the deal cannot go ahead.
There is set to be an extraordinary general meeting in April and Hazell has warned of the dangers of the deal not going through.
"The details have to be explained to the supporters exactly how things are," he added.
"The ones I have spoken to don't like the thought of it but realise there is no alternative and will support it.
"The alternative is financial disaster and receivership. If you haven't got the money to pay the wages that would be that.
"It would be the end of 150 years of rugby at Rodney Parade. That would be a disaster."
The Dragons have been negotiating with the WRU over the takeover for the last six months.
"I find this a good deal after months of negotiations," said Hazell.
"We have handed over Rodney Parade and the Newport Gwent Dragons to the Welsh Rugby Union.
"They are going to put some money into the pitch, take over the running of the Dragons and give Newport the chance of staying at Rodney Parade.
"Regional rugby has not really worked for the last 14 years, but this is giving it a chance."
Hazell says he and fellow benefactor Tony Brown have kept the Dragons afloat over the last decade.
"Myself and Tony have given millions in some ways to try and keep rugby going at Rodney Parade," he added.
"Without us there wouldn't be any rugby here now, but we can't keep it going any longer, we are getting on in years.
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"When people decry what we are doing I think that's disgraceful."
Hazell insisted the duo would not be able to recoup their overall debts from the new deal.
"The money the union are paying would just about cover the Dragons debts, it would not cover mine and Tony's debts," said Hazell.
"We have to keep it running until 1 July which is going to be difficult." | Newport Gwent Dragons chairman Martyn Hazell has warned there is no alternative to the Welsh Rugby Union's proposed takeover of the region. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39378305"} | 556 | 33 | 0.548389 | 1.424166 | 0.751283 | 2.958333 | 21.375 | 0.875 |
Bassett Green Primary School in Honeysuckle Road is due to reopen after the Christmas holidays on 6 January.
In a letter to parents, headteacher Deb Sutton said the decision to close 380-pupil school was "not taken lightly" and that it was a "disappointing end to the Christmas festivities".
"We have had a very infectious sickness bug in school for the last two days," she said.
"Unfortunately, levels of sickness are now so high, that we need to close the school."
She said there will be a "deep clean of all affected areas" to "ensure that the building is safe" before pupils return. | A sickness bug has closed a primary school in Southampton. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "30547245"} | 145 | 13 | 0.573936 | 1.242898 | -0.645105 | 1.454545 | 11.727273 | 0.727273 |
Glen Scobbie also wrote a threat on the social media account of Mr Sheppard, who was a sitting MP at the time.
Scobbie's comment was posted on 21 September 2016 beneath a video of a speech by Mr Sheppard.
The 26-year-old, of Falkirk, will be sentenced later in June.
Falkirk Sheriff Court was told that Scobbie wrote "shoot the bastard" beside the pistol emojis.
The court heard that the speech had been "promoting the MP's political work".
Scobbie's post was noticed by an aide some time later, and drawn to Mr Sheppard's attention.
Depute fiscal Graham McLachlan said Mr Sheppard was "concerned" about the post and decided to report the matter to police.
Scobbie pleaded guilty by letter to making a "menacing" post, abusive in nature, and uttering a threat of violence, contrary to the 2003 Communications Act.
Sheriff Derek Livingston deferred sentence and ordained Scobbie to appear before him in person. | A man has admitted posting pistol emojis on SNP politician Tommy Sheppard's Facebook page three months after the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40160612"} | 247 | 36 | 0.573544 | 1.388411 | -0.264407 | 0.538462 | 7.384615 | 0.384615 |
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"No, no, no," Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher defiantly declared in the House of Commons amid calls for greater central control in Europe.
She was responding to a call by European Commission president Jacques Delors' for the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the European Community, the commission to be the executive and the Council of Ministers to be the senate.
The now infamous soundbite by the Conservative premier came during a time of increasing divisions within her party over the issue of Europe.
And it proved too much for Sir Geoffrey Howe who resigned from government two days later. Mrs Thatcher herself was ousted from Downing Street by her party a few days later. | This is part of a series of clips from the BBC archives on the subject of the UK and the EU - this clip taken from BBC News, was first broadcast on 30 October 1990. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "27053536"} | 176 | 40 | 0.376606 | 0.96364 | -0.912077 | 0.567568 | 4 | 0.459459 |
So it comes as a surprise to discover that Ministers have quietly abandoned the idea of a formal consultation process in advance of a new drugs strategy later this month.
Traditionally, these five-year plans are put together after weeks of discussions and submissions from experts and the general public.
In 2010 there were 1,850 responses to the drug strategy consultation, including from health professionals, charities, lobby groups, local authorities, government advisors, police and service providers.
Individuals with a close interest in drug policy, often because of the death of a close relative, were also encouraged to participate.
But not this time.
The new five-year strategy has been written with hardly any public discussion at all. You won't find any details on the Home Office website. Nothing.
It is almost as though the department doesn't want to consider alternative options - which is odd because next month UK ministers will be attending the most important United Nations meeting on global drug strategy for decades.
The UN General Assembly will gather in New York to try and agree a new global drug policy.
It will decide whether the "war on drugs" should be consigned to history and a new people-centred approach adopted. In short, it is reviewing the international treaty obligations that will frame everything this country does on drugs.
So one might have thought ministers would be keen to get the views of everyone touched by drugs policy in Britain as they prepare for this historic United Nations meeting.
I understand that just two meetings specifically about the new UK drugs strategy have been held by the Home Office. They were behind closed doors and there were no votes, no reports and no minutes published.
Around the table were representatives of some of the large organisations that get paid by the government to provide drug treatment. But what about everyone else? Where were the other agencies? Where were the campaigners? Where were the victims?
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs has been sent a draft of the new strategy and a response will be published. But members are doubtful as to whether the council's concerns at record levels of drug deaths and "disinvestment" in treatment services will have much effect on minister's minds.
The Cabinet Office recently published its "consultation principles", guidance for Whitehall on what kind of consultation process they should conduct ahead of introducing policy or legislation.
The "governing principle" is that the type and scale of the consultation should be in proportion to the potential impact of the proposal.
One must assume that in having no formal consultation process, the Home Office has decided the new drugs strategy will have little or no impact. Given record numbers of drug-related deaths in England, with many more people now dying from illicit drug use than in road traffic accidents, this might seem unfortunate. Interestingly, in Wales where they have a different strategy, deaths have been falling.
When I asked the Home Office about all this, their response suggested ministers don't think there is anything to be gained from listening to alternative voices.
"Drugs are illegal where they are harmful to health and society. The UK's approach on drugs remains clear: we must prevent drug use in our communities, help dependent individuals recover, while ensuring our drugs laws are enforced."
"We are currently developing a refreshed drug strategy in line with this approach - working across government and with our external partners. This includes treatment providers, commissioners, service users and our independent experts, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs."
There you have it. Britain doesn't need a "new" drugs strategy. It just needs to "refresh" the old one - presumably because ministers believe the current approach is operating well.
The Home Office puts out the same line whenever asked about alternative approaches: "Our drugs strategy is working and there is a long-term downward trend in drug misuse in the UK".
But while the second half of the sentence is true, there must be questions about the first half. On an average day, coroners now examine six corpses where cause of death could be described as the failure of the UK's drugs strategy. | With deaths from illegal drugs in England and Wales at the highest rate ever recorded one might imagine the Home Office would be desperate to ensure it had a robust and effective strategy for dealing with this current crisis. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "35696804"} | 856 | 42 | 0.359963 | 0.978346 | 0.326137 | 1.1 | 20.45 | 0.7 |
There was a giant papier mache version of the prime minister waving a "be afraid" sign, a group of placard-carrying Marxists and a small band of folk singers led by Tony Turner, who performed a song he penned for the election.
"Harperman, it's time for you to go," was the refrain.
Mr Harper, Turner says, "has undermined government in so many different ways".
And if the prime minister's Conservative party loses on Monday night?
"I'll crack open a bottle of champagne," Turner laughs.
But Mr Harper isn't going to go down without a fight. On Saturday night, he and fellow Conservatives offered some of the most pointed attacks on Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau and his plan to run a budget deficit and raise taxes on the wealthy to fund new spending.
Mr Trudeau and his fellow Liberals "will absolutely destroy this country," said Doug Ford, the former Toronto city councillor who hosted the Harper rally. He was joined by his his controversial brother, former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who infamously admitted to smoking crack cocaine in 2013.
Although Mr Harper had distanced himself from the Ford brothers in the past, their support in the final days of the campaign could be the key to winning closely contested parliamentary races in the suburbs of Toronto.
A black-track-suit-clad Rob Ford watched from the crowd as Mr Harper took the stage and wasted little time continuing the attack, explaining what he saw as the Liberal philosophy: "You make it, they'll take it, and they'll spend it".
He then brought out Sanjib Bhattacharya, who made headlines after mocking Mr Trudeau for having "nice hair" in a Conservative campaign commercial.
While Mr Harper detailed what he said were the high costs of Mr Trudeau's tax proposals, Bhattacharya handed over piles of money to the sound of a cash register clanging.
Mr Harper's sketch-comedy criticisms of Liberal economic policy go fist in glove with the closing theme of his campaign - that Mr Trudeau is "just not ready" to be prime minster, as Bhattacharya's television advert bluntly put it.
After the rally, Conservative supporters in attendance echoed that line of attack - although they did confess some unease.
"You hear the polls, and you hope they're all wrong," says Eli Kantor. "We can't have a Liberal government. Trudeau is just not ready."
Nelly Eiven says Mr Trudeau is a good drama teacher, referring to the Liberal leader's career before he followed in the political footsteps of his father, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. "But to run the country? I don't think so."
"I hope we win, but I feel that there were some mistakes made in the campaign and some of these things that they're bringing up now should have been brought up a little earlier," she continues.
And how are these themes playing out among a broader Canadian public that is less involved in the political process?
Earlier on Saturday, a crowd gathered in Toronto for a different reason - to watch a play-off baseball game between the home town Blue Jays and the Kansas City Royals on a jumbo television screen set up in front of city hall.
Some attendees said they were more emotionally invested in who won the game than which political party triumphed in Monday's general election - but among those who cared, their allegiances were split.
"I think this election is more about change than who is ready," says Bryan Loubert of London, Ontario. "Maybe the real question should be; is Stephen Harper ready to continue for another four years?" Mr Loubert says he's voting for change.
Lisa Tiqui of Whitbey, Ontario says that while she thinks Mr Trudeau is ready to lead and she likes him personally, she's still leaning toward Mr Harper and the economic leadership he displayed during the 2008 global recession.
"I can't seem to get that out of my mind that Canada did so well during the bad times," she says.
Despite challenging poll numbers, could the Conservatives pull out an upset on Monday night? Eric Grenier, founder of the polling analysis website ThreeHundredEight.com, writes for CBC News that Mr Harper's closing gambit may still pay off.
Opinion surveys could be under-representing the prime minister's vote due to a "shy Tory" effect - where those polled are unwilling to express their true Conservative allegiances. John Major's surprising win in the 1992 UK general election is cited as a prime example of this phenomenon.
A well-funded Harper-backed get-out-the-vote campaign and Conservative-backing elderly voters who cast ballots in disproportionately high numbers could also prove decisive, he writes.
But if Mr Harper does accrue enough votes to win a plurality, he'll still likely have to confront a parliament where Liberal and left-leaning New Democratic Party MPs could unite to topple his government.
As Mr Harper left the stage on Saturday night, Collective Soul's song Better Now blared over the loudspeakers - an interesting choice that could be viewed as revealing a bit too much about the Conservative prime minister's closing strategy.
"Oh, I'm newly calibrated," the lyrics go. "All shiny and clean. I'm your recent adaptation. Time to redefine me."
But after nine years of Harper rule, it may be too late for redefinitions.
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Krul, 28, was contracted to stay with the Amsterdammers until the end of the season but that move was cut short after just six games.
The Netherlands keeper has now moved to Alkmaar until the end of the season.
"It's fantastic we can get a keeper of Tim's qualities," AZ director of football affairs Max Huiberts said.
Krul's initial move to his native Netherlands was prompted by his recovery from a cruciate ligament injury to gain first-team football at top-tier level following Newcastle's relegation to the Championship.
Since making his debut in the Uefa Cup in 2006, the former Den Haag keeper has made 184 appearances in all competitions for Newcastle.
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He began his shooting spree at 05:20 local time (04:20 GMT) at a police station in north-western Kenya.
Earlier, Kenya's police chief had said the gunman was a suspected recruiter for al-Shabab Islamist militants.
An officer who was part of a police special unit sent to retake the station in Kapenguria town was also killed.
A police source has told the BBC that the gunman was unhappy that his request to resign from the police had been denied as he had not served the requisite 10 years of service after his graduation in 2013. | A disgruntled Kenyan policeman who shot dead six of his colleagues has been killed in a shootout after an eight-hour siege. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "36793561"} | 133 | 34 | 0.546272 | 1.15074 | -0.220723 | 0.541667 | 4.541667 | 0.541667 |
Olly Martins told the Home Affairs Select Committee the force's "desperate financial plight" left him "no option".
The Bedfordshire commissioner said he was "actively looking" at ways to generate more money.
The Alliance of British Drivers called his comments "utterly obnoxious".
Mr Martins said the county's force was "stretched to the limit" with 169 officers per 100,000 population against a national average of 232 and 388 in London.
The county has the fourth highest level of gun crime per head, fifth highest level of burglary, robbery and vehicle crime, seventh highest level of knife crime, and a high terror threat, he said.
The commissioner has already lost in a council tax referendum asking for the public's permission to increase the police precept and launched a petition calling on the government to ensure the force is adequately funded.
He told the committee that unless the force's grant funding was "realigned to the reality of the county's policing challenges" he would have to use his powers to permanently turn on the cameras between junctions 10 and 13, one of the busiest stretches of the motorway.
Asked whether easyJet could sponsor the county's "panda cars", Mr Martins said: "I'd welcome it because that's an alternative to reducing our police numbers below a level that I think is already putting our force in a position of not being viable."
The speed cameras are linked to variable limits, which can be reduced to below 70mph when there is congestion, a crash or bad weather.
The majority of speed fine revenue goes to the government, but Mr Martin's office said a proportion goes to the local force.
"Strict enforcement of the speed limit could raise £1m and to me that's better than losing 25 more police officers," Mr Martins said.
"I am running out of levers to pull to keep Bedfordshire Police financially viable," he said.
Hugh Bladon, from voluntary lobby group group the Alliance of British Drivers, criticised the idea of making money from speed cameras.
"These cameras are alleged to make roads safer, they are not to make money for the police or government or anyone and to suggest that it is... I'm lost for words," he said.
"It is completely contrary to anything to do with road safety and utterly obnoxious." | Turning on M1 speed cameras permanently and having sponsored uniforms and cars could help bolster a cash-strapped force's coffers, a police and crime commissioner has said. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34719997"} | 530 | 43 | 0.461799 | 1.303893 | 0.795786 | 0.967742 | 14.903226 | 0.645161 |
A US embassy statement said non-immigrant visas would no longer be issued at the three US consulates in Russia - only at the Moscow embassy.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said it was an attempt to provoke discontent among Russians towards their own government.
Last month Moscow told the US to cut 755 of its diplomatic staff in Russia.
The US embassy said that, in connection with Russia's instruction to cut staff at US diplomatic missions to 455, US consulates in Russia would stop issuing non-immigrant visas for an indefinite period, from 23 August.
The US has consulates in St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok.
Most of the 755 US staff slated to go are "local hires", so they will not have to leave Russia. The Kremlin says it is merely telling the US to have the same staff level as Russia's in the US.
There has been a diplomatic freeze between Russia and the US since Russia's 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
While condemning the visa move, Mr Lavrov said Russia would not retaliate against Americans requesting Russian visas.
"Their logic is well known - the logic of those who organise 'colour revolutions' - and it is the inertia of the Obama administration, pure and simple," he said.
President Donald Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, declared 35 Russian diplomats persona non grata in December. That was linked to allegations of Russian collusion with the Trump team, seen to have helped swing the presidential election in Mr Trump's favour.
Mr Trump and his aides have shrugged off their contacts with Russians, denying the claims of political collusion.
Mr Lavrov's reference to "colour revolutions" expressed the Kremlin's belief that US meddling fuelled Georgia's Rose Revolution in 2003 and Ukraine's Orange Revolution in 2004. Both movements swept pro-Western leaders into power, in ex-Soviet republics. | Russia has condemned a US decision to make Russians go to Moscow if they want a visa for the United States. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40998655"} | 453 | 27 | 0.514049 | 1.268457 | -0.297717 | 0.772727 | 16.636364 | 0.681818 |
Aberdeen confirmed there would be no victory parade on Sunday should they lift the Cup on Saturday.
And Celtic also said, in the event of winning, the team would not be able to parade the trophy back at Celtic Park.
The planned Heroes and Legends bus parade at Celtic Park on Sunday has also been cancelled.
Both teams said the decisions had been made after discussions with Police Scotland.
A total of 22 people were killed in the attack at Manchester Arena, some of them children.
In 2014, tens of thousands of Aberdeen fans lined Union Street after the club won the Scottish League Cup.
Celtic fans traditionally gather at the club's Parkhead stadium to greet the players after a cup final victory. | Neither Aberdeen or Celtic will hold Scottish Cup Final trophy events, whoever wins at Hampden Park, in the wake of the Manchester bombing. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40047573"} | 143 | 32 | 0.64403 | 1.497962 | 0.109425 | 0.923077 | 5.423077 | 0.615385 |
The reason? The speed is faster than what one would expect from measurements of the cosmos shortly after the Big Bang.
Some other telescopes have found this same problem, too.
But Gaia’s contribution is particularly significant because the precision of its observations is unprecedented.
“It certainly ups the ante,” says Adam Riess from the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and the Johns Hopkins University, both in Baltimore, Maryland, US.
The inability to lock down a value for the expansion rate has far-reaching consequences - not least in how we gauge the cosmic timescale.
If the Gaia speedometer is correct, it would mean having to reduce the estimated 13.88-billion-year age of the Universe by perhaps a few hundred million years.
The European Space Agency (Esa) mission, launched in 2013, is making the definitive map of our Milky Way Galaxy, logging extremely accurate distances to a billion nearby stars.
Just last week, it issued the first tranche of separations to two million objects, and this information was immediately seized upon by thousands of astronomers worldwide - Prof Riess and his team among them.
The Nobel Laureate was interested in a specific subset of stars in the data dump known as cepheid variables.
These are pulsating stars that puff up and deflate in a very regular fashion and shine with a known power output.
They are a lower rung on the “ladder” that astronomers use to plot the separation between our galaxy and the positions of galaxies that lie billions of light-years away.
Once you know the cepheids’ exact distance, you can use their behaviour to calibrate higher rungs on the ladder - specifically, a class of supernovae, or exploded stars, that also shine in a standard way.
And by probing a sufficiently deep volume of space, it is then possible to trace the rate at which the modern cosmos is expanding.
Gaia's imperative - To work out how far it is to the nearest stars
The tell-tale is the way the light from progressively more distant galaxies becomes stretched to longer wavelengths.
This relationship is known as the Hubble Constant and tying down its value is one of the great quests in astronomy.
Working with a clutch of 212 Gaia cepheids, Prof Riess’s team gets a Hubble Constant for today’s Universe of 73.0 kilometres per second per megaparsec (a megaparsec is 3.26 million light-years).
Or put another way - the expansion increases by 73.0km/second for every 3.26 million light-years we look further out into space.
The number is almost exactly the same as the value the Riess group has produced using cepheids observed by the mighty Hubble telescope (73.2km/s per megaparsec). Both values have an uncertainty of just over 2%.
The problem is that these calculations come out quite a bit bigger than the one that has been determined using a very different method.
This alternative focuses on the Universe as it was just after the Big Bang and relies on what we know about the contents and the physics at work in the cosmos to predict a modern value of the expansion.
It has been done most recently using data from Esa’s Planck space telescope, which produced the most detailed description of the “oldest light” in the sky - a remnant glow of microwave radiation from the Big Bang itself.
Going with this method gives a Hubble Constant of 66.9km/s per megaparsec.
As Gaia repeats and extends its cepheid measurements in the years ahead (and it is expected to plot precise distances to at least 7,000), the confidence in its Hubble Constant calculation is likely only to increase.
This would put pressure on scientists to revise some of the components they plug into the Planck side to remove the tension that exists between the two approaches. And it is a fair bet that any such revisions are almost certainly rooted in what we know - or rather do not know - about the “dark Universe”.
This includes the unseen matter in galaxies (dark matter), the vacuum energy (dark energy) postulated to be driving an acceleration in cosmic expansion, and even as yet unidentified massive particles.
“Gaia is going to be a very important, really revolutionary, way to measure distances,” said Prof Riess.
“Ultimately, when Gaia is done, we ought to be able to measure the Hubble Constant to 1% precision. That’s the same precision that is predicted by the Cosmic Microwave Background. That will be really powerful.
"And if there is a discrepancy, if there's something interesting going on in the dark sector of the Universe, it should give us much better evidence of what that is,” he told BBC News.
Prof Gerry Gilmore was a proposer of the Gaia mission and is one of its senior researchers.
He said members of the Gaia science team had also run the cepheid numbers and produced a value very similar to Prof Riess’s.
Asked to list possible reasons for the discrepancy, the Cambridge University scientist raised the possibility that dark energy was time-dependent - that its influence evolves through the history of the Universe.
“Another idea that people have become quite keen on in the past year is that we actually live, by chance, in a low-density part of the Universe,” he explained.
“It’s still quite a big part of the cosmos, perhaps 1-2%, but because it’s a low-density part it’s accelerating faster than the average.” | Europe’s Gaia space telescope has been used to clock the expansion rate of the Universe and - once again - it has produced some head-scratching. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37438458"} | 1,292 | 38 | 0.437076 | 1.144723 | 0.056585 | 1.413793 | 37 | 0.793103 |
Tracey Fidler, from Reading, had been taken to court by Reading Borough Council for the non-attendance of her now 11-year-old son.
Ms Fidler said her son Adam, aged nine at the time his father was killed, was "grieving" and "in a state".
The council said it had dropped the action after a meeting with her.
Tony Jones, the council's lead member for education, said the authority would "work with the family to provide support they need".
Mother-of-five Ms Fidler, who was planning to represent herself in the civil case, denied the offence.
She could potentially have faced a fine of up to £2,500, been given a community order or jailed for up to three months.
She previously said being in court for her son not attending Battle Primary Academy enough times was "unbelievable".
She said: "He wasn't going to school basically because he was grieving for his dad. Since the incident he's been suffering big time.
"He wasn't off school because he was truanting, he was off because he was grieving."
Her fiance, Kris Jarvis, 39, who worked for Reading council, died on 13 February 2014 when he and his friend John Morland were hit by Alexander Walters, 31, from Purley-on-Thames.
A petition set up by Mr Jarvis's sister-in-law Amy Parks asking for proceedings to be dropped attracted more than 6,500 signatures. | The partner of a cyclist killed by a drink-driver has been told she will not face legal charges over her son missing school following the death. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "34412120"} | 330 | 33 | 0.39797 | 0.949693 | -0.660262 | 0.586207 | 10.172414 | 0.517241 |
Ajax were beaten by Manchester United in May's final but have since lost manager Peter Bosz to Borussia Dortmund and captain Davy Klaassen to Everton.
Nicklas Bendtner's flick on was missed by Ajax captain Joel Veltman and Samuel Adegbenro ran on to score.
The Dutch side's new boss Marcel Keizer is still looking for his first win.
Ajax were knocked out of the Champions League qualifiers by Nice and lost 2-1 to Heracles Almelo in the opening Eredivisie game of the season. | Last season's losing finalists Ajax face a challenge to reach the Europa League group stage after a 1-0 home defeat by Norwegian side Rosenborg. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40967685"} | 133 | 35 | 0.647769 | 1.365107 | 0.116265 | 0.392857 | 3.357143 | 0.392857 |
A congressman said the US wanted to renegotiate the Wassenaar Arrangement.
The deal restricts the flow of arms - including "intrusion software" - to oppressive regimes. But some have said it also covers tools that can improve cybersecurity.
The move was praised by online freedom campaigners.
The proposal to amend the deal "represents a major victory for cybersecurity here and around the world," said US congressman Jim Langevin in a statement announcing the news.
"While well-intentioned, the Wassenaar Arrangement's 'intrusion software' control was imprecisely drafted, and it has become evident that there is simply no way to interpret the plain language of the text in a way that does not sweep up a multitude of important security products."
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which has also campaigned on the issue, agreed the deal had been reached with the best of intentions but its wording was too vague.
While the EFF was happy changes were to be considered, it remained concerned the amended arrangement would continue to have "serious chilling effects on security research".
Last year, the US authorities faced calls from Google to step back from restricting the flow of software as part of the 41-nation arms-control deal.
At the time, Google said the definition of "intrusion software" was "dangerously broad and vague" and included information about bugs and vulnerabilities that could be vital to protect systems.
Google's lawyer Neil Martin said the Wassenaar Arrangement would "hamper our ability to defend ourselves, our users, and make the web safer".
But the US authorities insisted it balanced computer security with foreign policy concerns.
Now, though, the US administration has said it supports making cyber-intrusion tools available overseas for legitimate cybersecurity activities.
The EFF said: "Human rights advocates have recognised that surveillance software designed and sold by companies in Western countries has been responsible for serious abuses around the world.
"We at EFF have long fought such abuses in court.
"We believe strongly that this is a fight worth having, but export controls are simply the wrong tool for the job."
Efforts to come up with a workable US rule have highlighted the difficulty of applying the export controls restricting physical items to a virtual world that relies on the free flow of information for network security.
Many companies operate in multiple countries and routinely employ foreign nationals who test their own corporate networks across borders.
In May, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security proposed denying the transfer of offensive tools, defined as software that uses "zero-day" exploits, or unpatched new vulnerabilities, and "rootkit" abilities that allow a person administrator-level access to a system.
But in the cyber-world, testing a network often requires determining first how to exploit it and then attempting to do so.
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The Black Cats finished bottom of the Premier League last season to end a 10-year stay in the top flight and fell behind when Bradley Johnson fired home.
Summer signing Lewis Grabban equalised from the penalty spot just before half-time after Jacob Butterfield handled.
Both sides could have won it, with Grabban hitting the post from 18 yards while Derby's Chris Martin fired over.
Substitute David Nugent also had a late chance to earn the Rams all three points but could not connect cleanly with a volley.
A point means Sunderland remain without a league win in August for seven years.
But after winning only six Premier League games last season, new boss Simon Grayson would have been encouraged by their start.
The Black Cats, who included six new signings in their starting line-up and midfielder Darron Gibson on the bench after he was filmed appearing to criticise his team-mates last weekend, were on top early on but fell behind to Derby's first attack when Johnson converted Johnny Russell's low cross from three yards.
But Sunderland hit back and saw Scott Carson brilliantly tip over Lee Cattermole's fiercely-hit half-volley before Grabban coolly beat the Rams keeper from the spot.
Derby, who gave starts to summer signings Curtis Davies, Andre Wisdom and Tom Huddlestone on his return to the club from Hull, controlled much of the second half but neither side could find a winner.
Sunderland boss Simon Grayson:
"It is going to be a slow process but we've got to take positive steps and tonight we gave ourselves the platform to build up.
"I haven't got a magic wand, I can't suddenly turn this club into a real positive, happy-go-lucky club playing free-flowing football - they've got to earn the right but it's about taking those small steps.
"I am disappointed we conceded the goal but the biggest thing was we didn't crumble. Maybe this time last year the team might have gone under but they got back on the front foot and asked lots of questions."
Derby manager Gary Rowett:
"We just couldn't find that final finish. Chris Martin missed one when you'd perhaps have expected him to do better, and David Nugent also missed a great chance.
"I just felt we needed to be braver in the first half - we weren't brave enough and we looked a little nervy. But in the second half we showed a bit more composure.
"I can't really argue with the penalty. I'm not going to stand here and say it wasn't a penalty, but it certainly wasn't intentional. He'd moved his arm towards the ball so I can understand why it was given."
Match ends, Sunderland 1, Derby County 1.
Second Half ends, Sunderland 1, Derby County 1.
Attempt missed. Bradley Johnson (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Offside, Derby County. Bradley Johnson tries a through ball, but David Nugent is caught offside.
Substitution, Derby County. Craig Bryson replaces Johnny Russell.
James Vaughan (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Richard Keogh (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Vaughan (Sunderland).
Attempt missed. Tyias Browning (Sunderland) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by George Honeyman following a set piece situation.
Foul by Matej Vydra (Derby County).
Brendan Galloway (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by David Nugent (Derby County).
Brendan Galloway (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Attempt blocked. Lee Cattermole (Sunderland) right footed shot from very close range is blocked. Assisted by Aiden McGeady with a cross.
Attempt missed. Billy Jones (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Lewis Grabban.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Richard Keogh.
Attempt missed. Aiden McGeady (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by James Vaughan.
Corner, Derby County. Conceded by Aiden McGeady.
Attempt blocked. Matej Vydra (Derby County) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Matej Vydra (Derby County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Didier Ndong (Sunderland).
Substitution, Derby County. David Nugent replaces Chris Martin.
Attempt blocked. Aiden McGeady (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Foul by Bradley Johnson (Derby County).
Billy Jones (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Chris Martin (Derby County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matej Vydra.
Attempt blocked. Johnny Russell (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Bradley Johnson.
Johnny Russell (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Brendan Galloway (Sunderland).
Jacob Butterfield (Derby County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aiden McGeady (Sunderland).
Corner, Derby County. Conceded by Lee Cattermole.
Chris Martin (Derby County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Tyias Browning (Sunderland).
Substitution, Derby County. Matej Vydra replaces Andreas Weimann.
Attempt saved. Johnny Russell (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Jacob Butterfield.
Attempt missed. Bradley Johnson (Derby County) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Curtis Davies.
Lewis Grabban (Sunderland) hits the right post with a right footed shot from the centre of the box. Assisted by Lee Cattermole.
Corner, Derby County. Conceded by Brendan Galloway.
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They were angry at a Supreme Court ruling ordering Karnataka to share more water with neighbouring Tamil Nadu.
Karnataka must release 12,000 cubic feet of water per second from the Cauvery river until 20 September.
Both states say they urgently need the water for irrigation and a battle about access to it has raged for decades.
The violence in the technology hub closed many offices and much of the public transport system.
Police have imposed an emergency law that prohibits public gatherings, and more than 15,000 officers have been deployed.
Reuters reported that Tamil Nadu registered vehicles were being singled out by protesters and pelted with stones. | Protesters in the southern Indian city of Bangalore in Karnataka state have attacked shops and set fire to vehicles in a long-running dispute about water. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37338613"} | 140 | 35 | 0.639417 | 1.305488 | 0.200635 | 0.607143 | 4.25 | 0.535714 |
Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson accused Nicola Sturgeon and SNP MPs of inconsistency on the EU's Common Fisheries Policy.
Ms Sturgeon said that Ms Davidson was "flip-flopping" on Brexit like a "landed fish" and the Tories were preparing to "sell out" the fishermen.
The dominant view of the fishing industry is for leaving the EU.
The European Union's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) sets quotas for fishing catches and seeks to give all European fleets equal access to fishing grounds.
Ms Davidson said SNP MPs such as Angus Robertson had claimed that if Scotland were to vote for independence then it would re-enter the EU and the "hated" CFP.
However, SNP MPs in fishing communities, including Banff and Buchan's Eilidh Whiteford, have signed a pledge to support the UK regaining control of its coastal waters after the country quits the European Union and the CFP.
The Tory leader said the SNP's positions were "absurd".
The first minister said the SNP had been consistent over many years in its criticisms of the Common Fisheries Policy, saying it should be "fundamentally reformed".
Ms Sturgeon said the White Paper for 2014's Independence referendum said it would give Scotland the opportunity to take a lead role in reforming the CFP.
She said: "The uncomfortable truth for Ruth Davidson is that it is successive Tory governments who have sold out the fishing industry."
Ms Sturgeon referred to an internal Scottish Office memo from 1970, when negotiations on entering the EU were being conducted by the then Conservative UK government.
It said: "In the wider UK context, they [the fishermen] must be regarded as expendable."
The first minister said: "We know the Tories are lining up to sell out fishing again because the Brexit White Paper makes it clear that fishing will just be a negotiating chip in the Brexit talks."
She referred to a line in the Brexit White Paper that says the UK government wants a deal that works for Scotland's and the EU's fishing communities.
Ms Sturgeon claimed that Ruth Davidson, who was against Brexit in the run-up to the EU referendum, had fallen into line with Prime Minister Theresa May and now "Brexit was the greatest thing since sliced bread".
Ms Davidson said the Scottish government's Brexit minister Mike Russell had said that after independence Scotland would go back into EU but not the CFP.
She told the chamber "This is utter nonsense.
"Right now we have SNP MPs in fishing communities saying the CFP is terrible and Scotland would pull out - and at the same time we have Nicola Sturgeon standing up in Edinburgh trying to win the vote of Remainers, saying they would go straight back in." | The future of Scotland's fishing industry dominated first minister's questions at Holyrood. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39734128"} | 628 | 23 | 0.469109 | 1.21189 | 0.063478 | 1.133333 | 35.733333 | 0.733333 |
Mukesh Singh, Vinay Sharma, Akshay Thakur and Pawan Gupta were found guilty last September.
A fifth adult suspect was found dead in his prison cell before he was tried.
The sixth member of the group, a juvenile at the time of the crime, is serving a three-year sentence.
On Thursday, Judges Reva Khetrapal and Pratibha Rani of the Delhi High Court upheld the four men's sentences, saying that the case fell in the "rarest of rare category".
"Death reference is accepted. Death sentence awarded by the trial court is affirmed. The appeals of the convicts are dismissed," the Press Trust of Indian news agency quoted the judges as saying.
Defence lawyers said earlier they would appeal to the Supreme Court if the death sentences remained in force.
The 23-year-old medical student was attacked on a moving bus in December 2012 while she was returning home after watching a film. The male friend she was with was also beaten up.
The rape shocked Indians and prompted protests across the country.
Although India has tightened its anti-rape laws and society is more openly discussing cases of violence against women, correspondents say women across India still live with the daily fear of sexual assault and victims still often have to deal with police apathy. | A court in India has upheld the death sentence given to four men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a student in the capital Delhi, a case which led to protests and new anti-rape laws. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "26557288"} | 293 | 51 | 0.567288 | 1.321459 | 0.557702 | 1.439024 | 6.146341 | 0.804878 |
Workers at a finance firm in Henan province were said to have been told they must apply for a "place on the birth-planning schedule" - and only if they had been employed for over a year.
Those who became pregnant without approval may be penalised.
The plan has been heavily criticised on social networks and in the media.
A commentator in the state-run China Youth Daily said the company regarded its workers as "tools on the production line" rather than human beings, the AFP news agency reports.
Employees are also unhappy, with one complaining that it was impossible to guarantee that a pregnancy would follow the schedule set by the company.
The firm, in Jiaozuo, in the central province of Henan, has recently hired a lot of young women and is said to have been concerned that they would all go on maternity leave at the same time.
A representative of the firm admitted that it had circulated the plan to staff, according to news portal The Paper, quoted by the AFP news agency.
However, the representative reportedly said the plan was only a draft that was intended to invite comment from employees.
The plan distributed by the firm suggested that only married female workers who had been with the company for more than a year would be allowed to conceive - and only within a specific period.
"The employee must strictly stick to the birth plan once it is approved," the statement said.
Employees who became pregnant in violation of the plan, and in a way that affected their work, risked a fine of 1,000 yuan (£102; $161), the statement said. They may also have to forfeit year-end bonuses and promotion or awards.
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Hamilton's win over Dundee meant Caley Thistle could not leapfrog the Accies into second-bottom place, regardless of their result against the Steelmen.
After a drab first period, Greg Tansey and Alex Fisher - twice - struck for the hosts in four second-half minutes.
But Accies' triumph rendered the goals moot, as Caley exit the top flight for the first time since returning in 2010.
Veteran striker James McFadden came off the bench to nod home a consolation for Motherwell, before Ryan Bowman netted a stoppage-time penalty to add gloss to the scoreline.
For Inverness, the damage had been done long before Saturday, with the midweek victory over Dundee - the second of three post-split wins - simply prolonging the agony.
It will perhaps be the decisions to be taken off the field that will matter most in the immediate future.
Just two years ago, the club lifted the Scottish Cup and played European football. It has been a dramatic descent over the course of this season.
Come the final day, Hamilton's early goals in Lanarkshire clearly had an impact on this match.
Inverness opened brightly with Louis Laing testing Motherwell goalkeeper Russell Griffiths from long distance.
Liam Polworth screwed a great chance wide, then Ross Draper curled over from a fabulous position when it seemed an opener was imminent.
Some of the pressure might have been transferred to Hamilton had Richie Foran's men taken the lead first, but the atmosphere changed in the stadium when news of Accies' two-goal first-half lead filtered through.
Inverness at least got the win they needed to have a chance of survival thanks to three quick-fire goals.
Midfielder Tansey, in his final game for the club before departing for Aberdeen, netted a powerful drive before striker Fisher fired two in quick succession.
As Accies scored a third, then a fourth goal at New Douglas Park, it became brutally apparent that, yet again this season, it was not to be Caley Thistle's day.
The match meant little to Motherwell beyond professional pride, and managing as high a final league position as possible - their Premiership status was secured before this final fixture.
The travelling support had a moment to cheer when McFadden converted after Elliot Frear struck the bar, before Bowman scored from the spot to reduce the deficit further.
For manager Stephen Robinson, the real test follows in assembling a squad to improve on this season.
For Inverness, the coming days and weeks will be instrumental in their short-term future, which now lies as a Scottish Championship club.
Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson: "I thought first half we were very good, controlled the game. We made changes second half, brought a young boy [Adam Livingstone] on and he made a couple of mistakes, but he'll get better and better.
"That's what we do at this club - we give young kids a chance, and unfortunately they make some mistakes, but he'll learn from that and he's one for the future.
"We've got 14 contracted players at this moment. We might have to do a little bit of wheeling and dealing to get some people out, and get better players in, if we're being honest.
"We're down there this season for a reason. We weren't good enough, and we have to be prudent with what we do to make sure we're not down there again next season.
"The league's going to get stronger next year, so our first and foremost is always to get survival. Within the confines of our dressing room we aim a lot higher, but first and foremost is to stay up and build from there."
Match ends, Inverness CT 3, Motherwell 2.
Second Half ends, Inverness CT 3, Motherwell 2.
Goal! Inverness CT 3, Motherwell 2. Ryan Bowman (Motherwell) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom left corner.
Penalty conceded by David Raven (Inverness CT) after a foul in the penalty area.
Penalty Motherwell. Craig Clay draws a foul in the penalty area.
Foul by Greg Tansey (Inverness CT).
Craig Clay (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Steven Hammell (Motherwell) left footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Foul by Ross Draper (Inverness CT).
Craig Clay (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Inverness CT. Jamie McCart replaces Iain Vigurs because of an injury.
Jake Mulraney (Inverness CT) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Steven Hammell (Motherwell).
Substitution, Inverness CT. Jake Mulraney replaces Liam Polworth.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Ben Heneghan.
Iain Vigurs (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ryan Bowman (Motherwell).
Attempt missed. Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Elliott Frear (Motherwell) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Goal! Inverness CT 3, Motherwell 1. James McFadden (Motherwell) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Motherwell. James McFadden replaces Louis Moult.
Foul by David Raven (Inverness CT).
Louis Moult (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Inverness CT. Conceded by Chris Cadden.
Attempt blocked. Billy McKay (Inverness CT) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt missed. Craig Clay (Motherwell) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses the top left corner.
Goal! Inverness CT 3, Motherwell 0. Alex Fisher (Inverness CT) right footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ross Draper.
Substitution, Motherwell. Ryan Bowman replaces Shea Gordon.
Goal! Inverness CT 2, Motherwell 0. Alex Fisher (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the left side of the six yard box to the top left corner. Assisted by Ross Draper.
Goal! Inverness CT 1, Motherwell 0. Greg Tansey (Inverness CT) right footed shot from the right side of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Liam Polworth.
Brad McKay (Inverness CT) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Adam Livingstone (Motherwell).
Attempt saved. Iain Vigurs (Inverness CT) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Billy McKay (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Adam Livingstone (Motherwell).
Ross Draper (Inverness CT) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Louis Moult (Motherwell).
Substitution, Motherwell. Adam Livingstone replaces Lionel Ainsworth.
Attempt missed. Gary Warren (Inverness CT) header from the right side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the right.
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Hawkins, the pre-race favourite over the 10km course at Falkirk's Callendar Park, broke away on the first of three laps to win very comfortably.
Chris Jones of Dundee Hawkhill was second ahead of Shettleston's Lachlan Oates.
It was Hawkins' second success at an event that has also been won by big brother Derek. Both are coached by father Robert, and the younger sibling, still spattered in mud as he signed autographs for fans waiting at the finish-line, reflected on the overall feel-good factor in Scotland.
"We had 15 Scots at the Olympics. And that, at least in my lifetime, is unheard of. And now Laura Muir, Andrew Butchart and myself - running the kind of times we are - it's just a snowball.
"Everyone is just bouncing off each other and it's just great for the sport in Scotland."
The next target for Hawkins is the New York half-marathon on 19 March, then the focus switches to London in August.
"Hopefully I can improve on what I did in Rio," he said.
Hawkins' win was the final act in a frenetic day in Falkirk, where well over 2,000 athletes splashed their way around a sometimes sodden track in all the various age-group races.
There was a fine victory in the main women's event for Morag MacLarty, who says making it into next year's Scottish Commonwealth Games team could be tougher than the trials for Rio.
It was a first senior cross-country title for the 31-year-old Central AC athlete, who won with a fine piece of front running to see off the defending champion, and Rio Olympian, Beth Potter. Lothian's Sarah Inglis took the bronze medal.
"I'm very injury-prone," said MacLarty. "My physio just identified a leg-length difference and she's been amazing. She's keeping me in one piece so I've been able to get a few months' consistent training which I've never had for as long as I can remember so I'm excited to see what I can do if I keep myself in one piece.
"Getting in the Scottish team for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast is going be crazy. The Scottish team is so strong, if you're looking at the 5,000m for women. So I don't know; I'm going to have to see what event I'm going to go for first . It will be a bit of a tall order." | National cross-country champion Callum Hawkins says athletics in Scotland has come on "leaps and bounds" and aims to improve on his ninth place finish in the Rio Olympics marathon at this summer's World Championships in London. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39092921"} | 582 | 54 | 0.466845 | 1.150292 | 0.991777 | 0.952381 | 11.809524 | 0.666667 |
Inspectors found not enough learners achieved the skills and qualifications to progress in work and education.
It also found teaching performance was not managed well by the firm, which has more than 70,000 trainees in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Learndirect, which had tried to block the report's release, said it did not accurately reflect its performance.
The company, which is one of the UK's largest adult training providers, had obtained an injunction against the publication of the report, but this was lifted by the High Court on Monday.
On Wednesday the government announced it would gradually wind down its contract with the firm, ending in July next year, over concerns about standards.
Ofsted rated the company as "requiring improvement" in five areas - including the quality of teaching, learning and assessment - and "inadequate" in two areas - its apprenticeships and outcomes for learners.
Its inspection in March judged Learndirect to be "inadequate" overall.
Ofsted found that the performance of Learndirect's subcontractors was not managed rigorously enough, with the result that apprentices who trained with them achieved "significantly less well" than those who were trained by Learndirect.
Too many 16 to 19-year-olds failed to complete their programmes and too few adults secured employment when they left Learndirect, Ofsted found.
The quality of teaching at the company, which employs more than 1,600 staff, was also criticised in the report.
Tutors and assessors failed to develop learners' and apprentices' English and mathematical skills well enough, the report said.
It also found they failed to use the assessment results of learners' prior skills to plan learning effectively.
The teachers did not provide helpful feedback at reviews to enable learners to improve their work and skills, Ofsted said.
However, tutors were judged to have provided good support for adult learners.
Ofsted also said new senior management had begun to tackle weaknesses and there were "early signs of improvement".
Learndirect said it was "financially stable" and would continue to meet its contractual obligations and the needs of learners.
The company said it had made improvements since the inspection and had rising learner satisfaction scores and success rates.
A spokesman added: "We maintain that the process behind Ofsted's report did not provide an accurate reflection of the current quality of Learndirect Limited's training and performance due to the unrepresentative sample size and the use of legacy data." | Training company Learndirect has been branded by Ofsted as "inadequate" - the worst rating the watchdog can give. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "40961683"} | 515 | 30 | 0.568893 | 1.450949 | -0.038134 | 0.857143 | 22.428571 | 0.666667 |
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Behind a superlative US performance for gold, the British quartet of Zoey Clark, Laviai Nielsen, Eilidh Doyle and Emily Diamond made it seven world medals in seven championships as they held off Poland.
A few minutes later Matthew Hudson-Smith, Dwayne Cowan, Rabah Yousif and Martyn Rooney ran a superb race to take the British medal tally to six, bang on the target set before the championships.
Earlier Laura Muir had finished outside the medals in the 5,000m but, as on Saturday night when the sprint teams landed gold and silver, the relay squads came storming to the rescue.
Only Mo Farah won an individual medal from the biggest team Britain has ever taken to a Worlds.
But the medal rush on this final weekend casts a different light on the squad's performance, its five fourth places also a promise of what might be to come.
British team skipper Doyle said: "If you look at the team as a whole, we've performed really well. We might have just made the medal target but sometimes that's irrelevant.
"Look at the bigger picture and I'm super proud of this team."
The US women's team of Quanera Hayes, Allyson Felix, Shakima Wimbley and individual 400m champion Phyllis Francis were dominant winners, their 3 minutes 19.02 seconds the fastest time in the world in five years.
Felix now has 11 world gold medals, the same as Usain Bolt, her leg once again the fastest as she and her team-mates almost made it two distinct races.
With reigning champions Jamaica failing to finish after injury struck on the second leg, there was an opening for one of the teams.
The British quartet took it in style, once again the bankers for a nation that has always relished relay success.
The US men's team had won gold at the last six Worlds, but this team lacks the stars of old and was overhauled by Trinidad and Tobago in the final few strides.
Behind them came bedlam as a capacity crowd roared home one last medal.
The British team had not been among the fastest qualifiers, yet inspired by 32-year-old Cowan on the second leg and a fine anchor leg from Rooney they came good when it mattered most.
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Kenya's Hellen Obiri upset defending world champion Almaz Ayana to win 5,000m gold as Laura Muir finished a creditable sixth.
Ethiopian Ayana had added world 10,000m gold to her Olympic title on the previous weekend and took the pace out hard after a slow first two laps.
Only Obiri, silver medallist in Rio last summer, could go with her as the pair ran the second kilometre in 2 minutes 28 seconds and threw in a 5 mins 40 secs two-kilometre section as the field splintered.
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Ayana could not shake her shadow and with 300m to go Obiri exploded away for gold in 14 mins 34.86 secs, Ayana five and a half seconds adrift and the Netherlands' Sifan Hassan closing fast for bronze.
Sixth in 14:52.07 represents a worthy result for Muir in her first major 5,000m final, having also finished fourth in her preferred 1500m.
"Fourth and sixth, five races in 10 days, I think I can take so many positives from this," said Muir.
"I've showed I'm a contender in both events so I'm happy with that."
Her compatriot Eilish McColgan was 10th in 15:00.43, one of many unable to follow the extraordinary pace of the front two.
Obiri covered the last kilometre in 2 mins 45 seconds and the last lap in just 60 seconds, a remarkable display of distance running dominance.
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South Africa's double Olympic champion Caster Semenya won the women's 800m in a personal best and 2017 world leading time of one minute 55.16 seconds.
Francine Niyonsaba of Burindi took silver and Ajee Wilson bronze for the United States, both blown away by Semenya's astonishing acceleration in the final 50 metres.
Britain's Lynsey Sharp, 27, was eighth.
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Kenya added a one-two in the men's 1500m as Elijah Manangoi held off Timothy Cheruiyot as world champion Asbel Kiprop faded into the also rans.
Norway's European champion Filip Ingebrigtsen held off Spain's Adel Mechaal for bronze, as Britain's Chris O'Hare finished a disappointing 12th and last after paying for trying to go with the early pace.
Mutaz Barshim, Qatar's Olympic silver medallist, won gold with a jump of 2.35m as Russia's Danil Lysenko, competing as a neutral athlete, took silver ahead of Syria's Majd Eddin Ghazal in third.
Great Britain's Robbie Grabarz, who won bronze at the 2012 Olympics, finished sixth after failing to jump 2.29m - the height he cleared for third in London.
Barshim told BBC Sport: "London is a special place for me. It's where I had my first Olympic medal and the crowd was amazing. I really wanted it.
"I love the pressure. That's when I perform the best. I expect from myself much more than everybody. It's motivation."
Double Olympic champion Sandra Perkovic of Croatia won gold with a throw of 70.28m as Australia's Dani Stevens won silver and France's Melina Robert-Michon took the bronze.
Eight-time world champion Michael Johnson on BBC One
I am not British so I can say with no bias that this championships have been amazing.
You won't see crowds like this in Doha, and you wouldn't see this anywhere in the United States.
There is not the appetite for this sport anywhere else in the world.
Olympic medallist and BBC commentator Brendan Foster
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George Osborne said departmental budgets would fall by £3bn in 2015/16.
However, Scotland's Finance Secretary John Swinney said that the cut was an "unexpected and unwarranted" imposition of further austerity.
Mr Osborne made the announcement ahead of his emergency budget which will take place on 8 July.
The Tory minister believed it was vital to tackle UK debt "as quickly as possible".
During a debate in the House of Commons the Chancellor also confirmed that the government's remaining stake in Royal Mail - currently valued at £1.5bn - would be sold when ministers could be sure they would get value for money.
Mr Swinney, who is due to meet Mr Osborne in London on Monday, said that the people of Scotland had clearly voted against austerity in the recent general election.
He explained that the billions the Chancellor planned to take from departmental budgets in the 2015/16 financial year would have a knock-on consequence of £176.8m in Scotland.
Mr Swinney said there had been no prior discussion with the Scottish government over the cuts.
He added: "The Scottish Parliament has already agreed our budget for this year and that should be respected, not slashed as part of George Osborne and David Cameron's ideological obsession with austerity.
"Scotland has already seen our overall budget cut by 9% and our capital budget cut by 25% since 2010.
"Further cuts risk more damage to public services and will hold back economic growth, as underlined in the latest report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)."
By Brian Taylor, BBC Scotland political editor
Why now? Why cut now rather than wait for the coming Budget in a few weeks time? A range of motivations suggest themselves with, perhaps, two to the fore.
Getting out the bad news about spending now allows Mr Osborne, perhaps, to offer a few goodies to those who voted for the UK government and its policy programme.
Secondly, it is possible that the Chancellor anticipates that it might be even more difficult than previously thought to find the promised £12bn of savings in the welfare budget - particularly as the PM keeps denoting areas which he regards as sacrosanct, such as child benefit.
However, the Treasury insists that today's announcement is not designed to offset decisions on welfare.
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The UK government has pledged to clear the deficit by 2018/19.
Mr Osborne must find a further £30bn of savings over the next three years, including £12bn from welfare spending and £13bn from government departments.
He told MPs: "We set out two weeks ago that we were going to find further efficiencies and savings in government. That is what we deliver today.
"Further savings in departments this year, selling our stake in the Royal Mail, getting on with what we promised, reducing the deficit, that is how you deliver lasting economic security for working people.
"As everyone knows, when it comes to living within your means, the sooner you start the smoother the ride.
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The county's fire authority has put seven options to the public as it seeks to save an initial £1.4m.
They include proposals to permanently close Pangbourne and Wargrave stations, and to keep Windsor station shut overnight.
A decision will be announced on 18 April.
More than 70% of respondents supported options that would keep both Pangbourne and Wargrave stations open.
The fire authority also received a 245-signature petition specifically opposing the closure of Wargrave station.
Councillor Emma Webster, West Berkshire Council's lead member for integrated risk management, told the BBC that Berkshire "will remain safe" despite the possible cuts.
She said: "When [residents] pick up the phone to dial 999 they will get the service they expect in a prompt and timely manner."
The consultation was launched last year after the fire authority revealed it needed to save £2.4m by 2020, from its current budget of £33m. | A consultation on plans to cut the number of fire stations in Berkshire has attracted more than 1,000 responses. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39527116"} | 203 | 24 | 0.655287 | 1.409664 | -0.303372 | 0.8 | 9.1 | 0.7 |
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McIlroy was among the high profile absentees from the men's event, along with world number one Jason Day, US Open champion Dustin Johnson and two times major winner Jordan Spieth.
Given the overwhelming success of the tournament, there is a consensus among those competing in Rio that the leading players who stayed away are now probably regretting their decisions.
Rose believes the scenes generated by the Olympic tournament will play to their competitive instincts and ensure they will want to be a part of it at the Tokyo Games in 2020.
"But they have to wait four years, that's the big thing about the Olympics," added golf's first men's champion since 1904.
After all the negativity and apathy that split the sport in the build up, golf's return to the Games is being viewed as a huge and unexpected success.
The inspired decision to make tickets available in the cheapest price bracket ensured excellent crowds, culminating in a 15,000 sell out on the final day.
They generated a unique atmosphere. No one seemed to mind play being frequently interrupted by fans not well versed in the protocols of sharing the stage with the players.
Rogue camera clicks went with the territory and were, in many respects, welcome because they were coming from people witnessing golf for the first time. This encapsulates the reasoning behind the game's Olympic inclusion.
"It was quite rowdy at times out there," International Golf Federation President Peter Dawson told BBC Sport.
"But it added to the atmosphere and there is nothing wrong with that. That's just what we wanted.
"It was a very different atmosphere from a normal golf event. There was a very international crowd, not all of them accustomed to golf tournaments."
It is not a parochially British observation to say that Rose was the perfect winner because no one embraced the Olympic project more enthusiastically.
The English star prioritised Rio in his schedule while GB Team Leader Jamie Spence commissioned green contour maps to ensure his players were the best prepared.
Caddie Mark Fulcher scouted the course at first light every morning and Rose's emphatic celebrations showed how much it meant.
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After completing victory, the champion shared a special phone call with his seven year old son, Leo, who shed tears of joy over his dad's triumph.
"That's never happened before," Rose revealed. His young son could grasp how special was this moment because the Games provide clarity to the scale of his father's sporting achievement.
"This has resonated far wider than my US Open win," admitted Rose who landed his sole major to date at Merion in 2013. The golfer says he has received congratulatory messages from "the darkest recesses" of his phone's contacts book.
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Dawson, who as R and A Chief Executive was one of the leading figures who pushed for golf's inclusion, has been going through a similar experience.
"I've actually had more messages after the men's Olympic golf event than I've had after Open Championships," he said. "The reaction has been terrific.
"These smaller countries that asked us, begged us, to get golf into the Olympics were dead right.
"It is going to increase exposure in their countries, get more government recognition and funding to the game, which - apart from expanding our competitive landscape - is why we did this."
Ahead of the tournament there was much criticism of the choice of 72 hole strokeplay and a failure to implement a more imaginative format. Nevertheless it yielded a memorable Rio rumble between Rose and Sweden's silver medallist Henrik Stenson.
Changes, though, may be put in place in for the next Games in Japan. "We will be putting our heads together, really quite soon," Dawson said.
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"We need to do that much quicker than people think because although Tokyo is four years away we need to determine these things a long way in advance.
"It is a necessary conversation. I've no doubt that the 72 hole strokeplay format is golf's way of determining a champion and I'm sure that will continue to have a place in the Olympic Games.
"It would be crazy to have a format at the Olympics that wasn't one that chose champions in the wider game.
"So it is a question of can we add to it, can we modify? Not can we totally change."
Something that provides a genuine team element and perhaps draws together the men's and women's games would surely enhance golf's Olympic experience.
In the meantime, all of the leading women are here to ready themselves for their tournament which begins on Wednesday. It is a wonderful opportunity for an often overlooked constituency to bask in the sporting limelight.
Nineteen-year-old world number one Lydia Ko leads the field and is fully embracing the Rio spirit. "The Olympics was probably the biggest goal of mine this year," Ko said as she began her preparations.
"Firstly, to represent New Zealand and obviously to compete in it.
"If I end up holding a gold medal at the end of Saturday, and standing on the podium, I think it will be extra special. I don't know if I would ever take that medal off."
And regarding the leading men who stayed away, Ko is of a similar mind to those who have enjoyed the first four days of Olympic golf.
"A lot of them would have said, hey, that's such a great vibe, I wish I was there, too," Ko observed.
And for Team GB 20-year-old Charley Hull and Catriona Matthew, 46, might be of contrasting ages, but they are united in their desire to emulate Rose's heroics. | "So I guess he watched," Justin Rose laughed as he revealed Rory McIlroy had texted congratulations on the Briton's Olympic gold medal performance. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "37089718"} | 1,280 | 37 | 0.438815 | 1.220958 | -0.085186 | 1.035714 | 41.75 | 0.678571 |
It is the seventh time the former Corah factory in Leicester has been targeted in the last two years, according to the fire service.
A spokesman said if action was not taken soon someone could be killed.
About 45 firefighters fought the flames, which was of "such intensity" it spread to another building and caused damage to a dealership.
Roads near St John Street were closed for several hours after the fire started at 02:40 GMT
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About 60 cars in the compound were saved despite "severe" damage to another 35.
A spokesman said repeated incidents at the site were a serious problem.
"This is despite attending this site on eight occasions in the past six months as part of our preventative strategy to reduce the risk of further fires occurring.
"Our main fear is that it is only a matter of time before we are reporting the death or serious injury of a firefighter or a member of public."
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Stopping smoking or reducing excess drinking will be on the wish list for many, but you are unlikely to hear friends and family announce they have decided to quit a gambling habit.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the average household in the UK spent £166 last year on having a flutter, a fairly large sum when budgets are squeezed.
That is up 50 pence on the previous year. It is 60 pence more a week than the average household spent on going to the cinema, theatre or museums combined (but still £1.40 a week less than they spent on their pets).
The vast majority of betting is well within the limits of the amount people can afford to lose, and the thrill of the game is sufficient reward. So when does this financial fun become expensive excess?
About two-thirds of adults will have a bet in the course of the year.
Sources: Health and Social Care Information Centre; ONS
That includes 68% of men and 61% of women, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre's (HSCIC) 2012 Health Survey for England.
If that seems quite high, the explanation is a gambling game that was launched in the UK 20 years ago.
For a stake of £1, the main National Lottery draw gave players a long-shot chance of becoming a millionaire. The price of a ticket has recently risen to £2.
This is by far the most popular form of gambling in the country, ahead of scratch cards and betting on horse racing, according to the HSCIC report.
Excluding those who only played the lottery, 46% of men and 40% of women had gambled in the previous 12 months, the survey suggested.
Two other developments, in addition to the lottery, have arguably brought gambling further into the mainstream.
The first is the opportunity for operators of casinos and bookmakers to advertise on television and radio since the market was liberalised in 2007.
Research for communications regulator Ofcom found that the total number of gambling advertisement spots shown on television increased from 152,000 in 2006 to 1.39 million in 2012.
The largest number of adverts were about bingo, which research suggests is more popular among women than many other forms of gambling.
The second development is the advance of online gambling. Smartphones and tablet computers have allowed people to gamble at any time of day without having to leave their own homes.
Many of these websites and apps have also developed chat rooms or communities to allow players to interact, with some listing the acronyms for players to use in text-message-style language.
"Younger people are trying out new things. They are comfortable with the technology, but they do not understand the risks," says Dirk Hansen, chief executive of GamCare, which runs a helpline and forums for those who are getting into difficulty.
Fewer than one in 100 people in England are "problem gamblers", according to the HSCIC survey.
Problem gambling is defined as "gambling to a degree which compromises, disrupts or damages family, personal or recreational pursuits". Among the symptoms they can face are insomnia and depression.
GamCare, which receives 35,000 calls and messages a year from gamblers, says the effects impact on the lives of those around problem gamblers, at home and at work.
That was certainly the case for Justyn Larcombe, 44, a former major in the Army, who seemed to have it all, then lost it.
"I was at the peak of my career [in financial services]. I had a lovely house, I drove a Porsche, we had lovely holidays with our two young children. We had everything we wanted," he says.
His first bet was a £5 wager on the outcome of a rugby match he was watching at home, "which unfortunately I won", he says.
It did not take long for him to become a compulsive gambler, first on sports bets and later on online roulette. He admits he had the personality that meant he hated to lose, so he started to chase his losses, but he also had time to fill.
He found he did not have money for the grocery bills, he was juggling 12 payday loans and had heavy borrowing on credit cards.
That meant a rush on payday to transfer funds before they disappeared on repaying debts.
"I would be standing outside in the freezing cold in my dressing gown at two o'clock in the morning ringing my bank asking them to transfer money into my betting account, rather than payday lenders getting it, or it going out on direct debits," he says.
The only release when he was in that emotional spiral, he says, was another bet.
His lowest point came when his wife left having found his bank statement. He owed five months' rent and was about to be evicted. He sold wedding gifts and the rings she left and blew it almost instantly.
"I just had a black bin liner of clothes left to my name after 43 years of my life. Over the course of three years, I probably lost £750,000, I lost my house, my job, but most of all I had lost the trust my wife had in me," he says.
He turned his life around after feeling humiliated in front of his mother, whom he went to stay with.
GamCare says that those at risk of developing a problem are those who have a history of gambling in the family or those who start at a young age.
One in 20 men aged between 16 and 24 are at moderate risk or are already considered to be problem gamblers, according to the HSCIC report.
Mr Larcombe believes that the abundance of advertising is one of the reasons that people get drawn into a gambling problem, as well as the access to online websites day and night. However, the industry says advertising is still regulated carefully.
GamCare suggests that anyone who finds themselves in trouble should always talk to somebody.
Each website has a page about gambling responsibly and, when registering, players can set limits on the amount of time and money they spend on the site.
For those going into bookmakers, staff are trained to spot and assist anyone who is showing signs of going over the top, according to Peter Craske, of the Association of British Bookmakers.
He says the industry is also introducing a new code of practice to ensure people are betting responsibly.
"We can do more and we will do more," he says.
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The entertainer and former husband of Liza Minelli died earlier this month aged 62.
Cleo Rocos, Kerry Katona, Denise Welch, Christopher Maloney, Vanessa Feltz and Kym Marsh were among those paying their respects.
The funeral took place as it was confirmed a tour announced by Gest before his death will go ahead in July.
The lyrics to Nat King Cole's Unforgettable were seen as part of a white floral display on his coffin with a musical note and a butterfly.
Dean Gaffney, Kristina Rihanoff and Danniella Westbrook were also among those who attended the funeral.
Organisers of Gest's tour, which was called David Gest is not Dead but Alive With Soul, said its title would be retained in keeping with David's "mischievous sense of humour".
Guest performers on the live dates will include Dina Carroll, Melba Moore, Russell Thompkins Jr and Peabo Bryson.
The tour was named after a mix-up on this year's Celebrity Big Brother, on which Gest was a contestant.
Angie Bowie informed fellow housemate Tiffany Pollard that David - referring to her ex-husband David Bowie - had died.
Pollard broke down in tears believing Gest, who was ill in bed at the time, had died.
'Remember David'
The Alive With Soul tour includes nine dates, beginning on 1 July at York's Barbican Centre and wrapping up in Nottingham on 13 July.
Gest's friend Imad Handi, who has co-produced Gest's tours for several years, said: "He may sadly be gone but his spirit is alive in the music he loved."
Tributes will also be paid on the tour to singer Billy Paul, who was originally due to perform on the bill but died earlier this week.
Band of Gold singer Freda Payne will compere the concerts, which Mr Handi said would be a chance for fans pay their respects and celebrate Gest's life.
"Just like myself, all the artists were devastated when they learned David had died," he said.
"Over the years they had become like a family together due to their close working relationship and the musicians were determined to go ahead with the tour to remember David with their music."
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Well, whatever your view, you might be watching them in the 2020 Olympics.
The genteel pursuits are among 26 sports to apply for inclusion in the Tokyo Games.
Air sports, floorball, flying disc, tug of war, sumo, polo, orienteering, korfball, dance sport, racquetball, roller sports, wakeboard and wushu have also put in a formal request to be part of the programme.
Floorball is a type of floor hockey featuring six players, while wushu is derived from traditional Chinese martial arts.
More mainstream sports to apply include American football, karate, squash, netball and bowls, which proved so popular at last year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
The inclusion of bridge or chess would pave the way for people of more advanced years to compete at the Olympics.
The oldest Olympian is Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn, who was 72 when he won silver in the double shot running deer contest at the 1920 Games in Antwerp.
Tug of war was part of the Olympic programme between 1908 and 1920 with Great Britain winning five medals, including two golds.
The combined bid from baseball and softball, dropped after the 2008 Beijing Games, is considered a favourite because of the popularity of those sports in Japan.
A shortlist will be announced on 22 June with finalists making a presentation in Tokyo in August, before organisers make recommendations to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) by 30 September.
The IOC will make a final decision in August 2016, when it meets ahead of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Toshiro Muto, chief executive officer of the Tokyo organising committee, said that sports "must be popular with young people, give momentum to Tokyo 2020 and meet IOC standards" to be considered for inclusion.
Under the IOC's 'Olympic Agenda 2020' reforms, host cities can propose the addition of one or more sports for their Games.
The 28-sport cap for future summer Olympics has been dropped but they will be restricted to 10,500 athletes and 310 events.
The full list of 26 sports to apply is: Air Sports, American football, baseball-softball, bowls, bowling, bridge, chess, dance sport, floorball, flying disc, karate, korfball, netball, orienteering, polo, racquetball, roller sports, sport climbing, squash, sumo, surfing, tug of war, underwater sports, waterski and wakeboard and wushu. | Would you consider chess and bridge to be sports? | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "33109003"} | 558 | 13 | 0.36008 | 0.969516 | -0.435996 | 1 | 46.6 | 0.8 |
The company made a net profit of $214m (£142m) for the last three months of 2014, which is a drop of $25m on the same period in 2013.
However, it was an improvement on the previous quarter, in which Amazon made a net loss of $437m.
The company's shares rose by nearly 8% in after-hours trading.
But despite net sales of $89bn, Amazon made a loss of $241m for 2014 as a whole.
The firm also warned that its finances were "inherently unpredictable".
It sounded a note of caution for the next few months, saying it could make an operating loss of up to $450m.
The web giant added that profits may be "materially affected by many factors, such as fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, changes in global economic conditions and consumer spending, world events, the rate of growth of the Internet and online commerce".
Amazon has become notorious for its lacklustre earnings, and has tended to focus on expanding its business rather than increasing its profitability.
True to form, Amazon's boss, Jeff Bezos, emphasised the success of a new service in the company's results, rather than addressing the firm's figures.
He referred to Amazon's membership scheme, Amazon Prime, as a "one-of-a-kind, all-you-can-eat, physical-digital hybrid", adding that its user base grew by 53% last year.
However other recent projects have not been quite as successful.
Amazon's foray into the smartphone market, with the shopping-focused Fire phone, has hardly been a bestseller, and there have been reports that the tech firm is winding up its mobile payments service.
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The "exceptionally diverse" shortlist - whittled down from more than 60 entries - includes a gothic mystery and a teenage romance.
The award recognises both author and editor of a debut novel for children aged seven and over.
The winning author will receive a cheque for £1,000 at a ceremony in London on 10 July.
The shortlist includes Winter Damage by Natasha Carthew (edited by Rebecca McNally), CJ Flood's Infinite Sky (Venetia Gosling) and Wild Boy by Rob Lloyd Jones (Mara Bergman).
Other contenders include Julie Mayhew's Red Ink (Emily Thomas), Alex the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Montgomery Ross (Rebecca Lee & Susila Baybars), Fletcher Moss' The Poison Boy (Imogen Cooper and Barry Cunningham) and Geek Girl by Holly Smale (Lizzie Clifford).
The winner will be decided by a judging panel led by Julia Eccleshare, children's books editor of The Guardian.
"This year's shortlist is exceptionally diverse," said Eccleshare.
"Here are seven very different books. But, not only are they all very well written, they all feel exceptionally fresh and original: these are stories we haven't read before, and that is very exciting."
Judges include Wendy Cooling, Tamara Macfarlane, author and owner of Tales on Moon Lane bookshop, former librarian Alec Williams, and last year's winning author Dave Shelton.
Shelton won for his enigmatic tale A Boy and A Bear in a Boat. Previous winners include 2012's Annabel Pitcher for My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece and 2001's Marcus Sedgwick, for Floodland.
The award is unique in honouring the editor of the winning title, highlighting their role in bringing new work to the fore.
The award was set up in memory of the prize-winning author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase - who both died of cancer in 1999. | Seven books by new children's authors have been shortlisted for the annual Branford Boase Award. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "27234367"} | 468 | 22 | 0.497751 | 1.320221 | -0.247878 | 0.882353 | 21.352941 | 0.764706 |
The attack happened at Haverfordwest's Withybush Woods on Tuesday or Wednesday, leaving a female and a cygnet dead, according to Tinker's Hill Bird of Prey and Swan Rescue Centre.
Maria Evans, of the centre, said a male and another cygnet were unhurt but "very traumatised".
She said it would be reported to the police.
"The [local] people I have spoken to are horrified," she added.
"Last year, we had major problems with fishing tackle and that's just a bit of carelessness and neglect in not clearing up your fishing tackle, but this is just wanton, out and out cruelty."
Ms Evans said the female had been found dead and the cygnet had to be put down, with signs of air gun pellets found in its shattered wing.
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And this "always on" culture - exacerbated by the smartphone - is actually making us more stressed and less productive, according to some reports.
"Something like 40% of people wake up, and the first thing they do is check their email," says Professor Sir Cary Cooper of Manchester Business School, who has studied e-mail and workplace stress.
"For another 40%, it's the last thing they do at night."
The Quality of Working Life 2016 report from the Chartered Management Institute earlier this year found that this obsession with checking emails outside of work hours is making it difficult for many of us to switch off.
And this is increasing our stress levels.
So what can we do about it?
The more enlightened firms have been stepping in to help. In 2012, Volkswagen began shutting off employees' email when they are off shift.
Daimler has allowed its workers to have all the work emails they receive while on holiday automatically erased. And France's new labour law, enacted a few weeks ago, encourages all companies to take similar measures.
Dave Coplin, Microsoft UK's chief envisioning officer, believes artificial intelligence tools will learn when we are busy and block alerts, waiting until we're less busy before bringing us the most relevant or interesting messages.
"The idea is to develop tools that help us knife and fork our way through deluges of information," he says.
Much of Microsoft's work centres on its personal assistant, Cortana.
Other firms are experimenting with social media-style messaging in an attempt to escape the tyranny of email.
Some tech firms believe monitoring our computer behaviour is a first step in seizing back control of our work-life balance.
Robby Macdonell from Nashville Tennessee, founded tech start-up RescueTime because he was so frustrated not knowing where his days were going. He was being distracted too easily.
"These alerts are very well designed to capture your attention and stimulate the parts of your brain that say, 'I have to react to this right now'," he says.
He developed a program to monitor how much time we spend on each application and give users the ability to block certain programs for set periods of time.
Similarly, Dajia Zhu from Hangzhou in eastern China, wrote the StayFocused app to help himself and others be honest about how much time they were devoting to work tasks, as opposed to web browsing or messing about on social media.
"I started to write the app since I needed to overcome my procrastination," he says.
And if you find working in an open-plan office distracting, you can always try ChatterBlocker, an app that plays sounds to neutralise office ambient noise.
"Personally, I'm easily distracted if other people are talking while I'm trying to focus," says the app's developer, Earl Vickers.
Wearable technology offers another way to help us manage our stress at work, according to some people.
Since January, Professor Michael Segalla has offered an iHealth activity and cardiac tracker to every MBA student at the HEC Paris management school.
The gadgets gather data every 10 minutes from each student - heart rate, blood oxygen levels, sleeping patterns - which can then be viewed on a dashboard.
Along with the biometric data, students are being asked online how stressed and happy they feel. The idea is to see how perceived wellbeing and biotracking data affect academic performance.
"It is a sad fact that firms are probably spending more money on monitoring the physical state of machines than they are on monitoring the physical health and wellbeing of employees," says Prof Segalla.
He admits that making this type of physical information available to instructors and supervisors is an invasion of privacy. But he says in the era of Google, Bing, and social networks, "privacy is virtually gone" anyway.
In a similar vein, Irish start-up Galvanic has come up with Pip, a small, white device that measures skin perspiration - an indicator of stress according to many researchers.
A tiny electric current passed along your skin varies depending on your levels of perspiration. So if Pip detects an increase in sweaty-palmed stress levels, you can connect it wirelessly to your smartphone and play a short game. To win, you have to relax.
The idea is that by learning to relax, you'll be able to do so more quickly in future.
Biofeedback devices like these give people "a window into their physical response to stress, helping them learn to control it," says Ian Robertson, professor of psychology at Trinity College Dublin and chair of Pip's scientific advisory board.
In the US, "mindfulness" is all the rage as a way of coping with our stressful digital world.
Google, Target, and the Marine Corps have all recently introduced meditation sessions in the workplace. Insurer Aetna found that just an hour a week of such activity reduced employees' stress levels by a third - and their healthcare costs by $2,000 (£1,400) a year.
And the technology causing us all this "always on" grief - the smartphone - can be used effectively to deliver such courses, says Michael Acton Smith, co-founder of Calm.com, a meditation course provider.
"The irony wasn't lost on us," he says.
The man behind the Moshi Monsters kids' game says his seven-day mindfulness course, created with San Francisco-based practitioner, Tamara Levitt, now has five million users.
He hopes we'll use our smartphones in queues or on public transport to practise breathing and concentration techniques, rather than checking emails and social media.
Perhaps we just have to learn to switch the damned things off.
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Conlan made a one-fingered gesture to the judges after he lost to Russia's Vladimir Nikitin and gave a profanity-laced post-fight TV interview.
The fine was expected and Conlan has said he will not be paying it.
The Belfast boxer, 25, has turned professional since the Games.
The fine was the maximum amount that the International Boxing Association (AIBA) could impose under their own rules.
An AIBA statement accepted that Conlan was "extremely distraught" following his controversial defeat but still opted to sanction him under Article 6.4 of their disciplinary code.
After winning a flyweight bronze medal at London 2012, Conlan went into the Rio Games as one of the favourites in the bantamweight division following his World Championship gold medal last year.
Conlan swore live on Irish television when interviewed immediately after his Rio defeat and claimed he had been "robbed" and "cheated" as he accused the AIBA of being a corrupt governing body.
The Rio Olympics' boxing competitions were beset by judging controversies which included the defeat of Kazakhstan's Vassiliy Levit by another Russian, Evgeny Tishchenko, in the heavyweight final.
The AIBA sent home several referees and judges in the latter stages of the Games and the fall-out is set to result in a change to the scoring system at the 2020 Tokyo Games. | Northern Ireland's Michael Conlan has been fined 10,000 Swiss francs (£7,863) by amateur boxing's world governing body for his angry reaction to his controversial Rio Olympics defeat. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "38369458"} | 314 | 45 | 0.644195 | 1.537843 | 0.230549 | 0.848485 | 7.757576 | 0.606061 |
Police received a report at about 22.35 BST on Monday that a man had been shot in both ankles at Culdaff Gardens in the Creggan area of the city.
It is believed that four masked men were involved in the paramilitary-style attack.
The victim was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital for treatment. His injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
A woman, who lives in the area, heard the shots.
The witness, who did not want to be named, told BBC Radio Foyle she saw the man crying for help.
"I just heard a car pulling up really fast and people getting out of the car and gunshots. Then they got back into the car and took off speeding.
"When I looked out the window I seen the fella coming crawling, on his hands and knees crying out for help.
"I just can't get over it really, the kids on the street could have been out playing or anything," she said.
The shooting was condemned as "wrong" by Sinn Féin councillor Colly Kelly.
"There can be no place for these type of incidents in our society," he said.
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The marked police car and a red Renault Clio collided on Aikenhead Road in Glasgow near Cathcart Police Office.
Both cars then hit a streetlight and bollard in the accident at about 11:25 on Sunday.
A Police Scotland spokesman said the two male police officers were taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment.
He added that neither were thought to have sustained any serious injury.
"The 59-year-old female driver of the red Renault Clio and her 35-year-old female passenger were also taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital as a precaution," he said.
"The two male children in the car, aged 14 and three years, were not injured."
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He addressed a rally in Istanbul as the count neared completion. With more than 99% of ballots counted, "Yes" was on 51.35% and "No" on 48.65%.
Erdogan supporters say replacing the parliamentary system with an executive presidency will modernise the country.
The two main opposition parties are challenging the results.
The "Yes" vote, if confirmed, could also see Mr Erdogan remain in office until 2029.
Three people were shot dead near a polling station in the south-eastern province of Diyarbakir, reportedly during a dispute over how they were voting.
Supporters are streaming into the governing AK party's headquarters here in Ankara, car horns and campaign songs blaring - they are convinced the "Yes" side has won and that President Erdogan now has a mandate for the biggest political reform in Turkey's modern history.
The president has claimed victory but the opposition disputes it, complaining of massive irregularities with the voting, suggesting the state news agency manipulated results and vowing to challenge them with the supreme election board.
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They would represent the most sweeping programme of constitutional changes since Turkey became a republic almost a century ago.
The president would be given vastly enhanced powers to appoint cabinet ministers, issue decrees, choose senior judges and dissolve parliament.
The new system would scrap the role of prime minister and concentrate power in the hands of the president, placing all state bureaucracy under his control.
Mr Erdogan said the changes were needed to address Turkey's security challenges nine months after an attempted coup, and to avoid the fragile coalition governments of the past.
"This public vote is [about] a new governing system in Turkey, a choice about change and transition," he said after casting his vote in Istanbul.
The new system, he argued, would resemble those in France and the US and would bring calm in a time of turmoil marked by a Kurdish insurgency, Islamist militancy and conflict in neighbouring Syria, which has led to a huge refugee influx.
The referendum, the BBC's Mark Lowen reports, was effectively one on Mr Erdogan and the Turkey he has moulded in his image: fiercely nationalist and conservative.
The Republican People's Party (CHP) has demanded a recount of 60% of the votes.
Critics of the proposed changes fear the move would make the president's position too powerful, arguing that it would amount to one-man rule, without the checks and balances of other presidential systems.
They say his ability to retain ties to a political party - Mr Erdogan could resume leadership of the AK Party - would end any chance of impartiality.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leader of the CHP, told a rally in Ankara a "Yes" vote would endanger the country.
"We will put 80 million people... on a bus with no brakes," he said.
"No" supporters have complained of intimidation during the referendum campaign and that Turkey's highly regulated media has given them little coverage.
Many Turks already fear growing authoritarianism in their country, where tens of thousands of people have been arrested, and at least 100,000 sacked or suspended from their jobs, since a coup attempt last July.
The campaign unfolded under a state of emergency imposed in the wake of the failed putsch.
Mr Erdogan assumed the presidency, meant to be a largely ceremonial position, in 2014 after more than a decade as prime minister.
This once stable corner of the region has in recent years been convulsed by terror attacks and millions of refugees, mostly from Syria, have arrived.
At the same time, the middle class has ballooned and infrastructure has been modernised. Under Mr Erdogan, religious Turks have been empowered.
Relations with the EU, meanwhile, have deteriorated. Mr Erdogan sparred bitterly with European governments who banned rallies by his ministers in their countries during the referendum campaign. He called the bans "Nazi acts".
In one of his final rallies, he said a strong "Yes" vote would "be a lesson to the West".
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The draft states that the next presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on 3 November 2019.
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The Conservative group of eight councillors is to join forces with six of the independent members.
The proposal will be put to a full council meeting of the council on Wednesday.
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Saulat Mirza was put to death at a jail in Balochistan province on Tuesday.
He was convicted in 1999 of the killing two years earlier of Karachi's power utility service head Shahid Hamid.
Mirza was due to be hanged on 19 March but the execution was delayed after he released a video alleging the killing was ordered by MQM chief Altaf Hussain.
The video came just a week after the authorities carried out a high-profile raid on Nine-Zero, the Karachi headquarters of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), a powerful regional party.
Paramilitary Rangers claimed they captured a number of wanted criminals and recovered a big cache of arms in the raid.
Mr Hussain, who lives in self-imposed exile in London, has strenuously denied any involvement in the killing of Mr Hamid.
Officials at the maximum security Machh jail said Mirza had sought forgiveness from his guards for any hurt he may have caused them, and had farewell meetings with some of his fellow prisoners before he went to the gallows.
Mirza's execution had been put on hold in March following the release of the video and he was questioned by government investigators in jail.
Last week Mirza's wife filed an application in the Sindh High Court requesting a delay in the execution until "investigations reopened in the Shahid Hamid murder case" were concluded.
But the court turned down the request.
Mirza's video had fuelled speculation that intelligence agents were using him to implicate the MQM and its leadership.
The MQM has long been accused of using violence and intimidation to control Karachi - claims it denies.
It was not clear who made the Mirza video, or how it was leaked.
Legal experts doubted his new evidence would stand up in a court of law.
Pakistan has executed more than 100 people since a moratorium on capital punishment was lifted after the Taliban massacred school pupils in the country's bloodiest militant attack in December.
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They took time to soak up the panoramic views surrounding the 17th century monastery, formally known as Paro Taktsang, during a three-hour walk.
Situated about 10,000ft (3,000m) above sea level and on a cliff face, the monastery is considered to be one of the holiest for the Bhutanese people.
The royal pair are taking part in a seven-day tour of India and Bhutan.
Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge walked hand in hand for part of the hike.
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"It was quite tough on the way up," Prince William said after completing the challenge, while the duchess added the journey was a "great way to burn off the curry".
The couple, who arrived in the kingdom on a flight from India on Thursday, in the evening attended a reception for British nationals in Bhutan and Bhutanese people with strong links to the UK.
The duchess wore a full-length red chiffon gown featuring a poppy pattern - a nod to the Himalayan blue poppy which is Bhutan's national symbol - by British fashion house Beulah, one of the her favourite designers.
William and Kate's route up to the Tiger's Nest trailed through a pine forest on the slopes of the hill.
The duchess was dressed in a white blouse, leather jerkin, leggings and calf-length boots, while Prince William wore chinos and a blue shirt and walking boots.
The hike to the monastery, which was built in 1692, was one which the Prince of Wales half completed in 1998, but hampered by a polo injury he decided to sketch the scenery rather than continue to the top.
On arriving at the summit the duchess said: "Wow, that's amazing", while Prince William, admiring the architecture, said: "Look at the roof, it's cool. What a great view."
Sonam Penjor, 34, who works in the Bhutan information department, said: "Prince Charles came here before in 1998, but he only made it to the cafeteria, the halfway point. So he took some nice shots but he was not able to come to this point.
"Maybe the altitude affected him. I think his son and daughter-in-law wanted to beat him.
"They wanted to recapture his father's memories but go further. And maybe later George and Charlotte will come to follow in their parents' footsteps."
The monastery is near the cave where Guru Padmasambhava - who is credited with introducing Buddhism to Bhutan - is said to have meditated for three years, three months, three weeks, and three days in the 8th Century.
The monastery partially burnt down in 2008 and took two years to rebuild.
On Thursday evening, they had a private dinner on Thursday with Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema.
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The tweet, which criticised the waste of plastic, was posted on Thursday and has since been retweeted 60,000 times.
The mandarins, an easy-peel variety called Sumos, were available in some shops in Northern California.
Whole Foods subsequently tweeted back: "Definitely our mistake. These have been pulled."
Twitter user Nathalie Gordon posted the image and wrote: "If only nature could find a way to cover these oranges so we didn't need to waste so much plastic on them."
Underneath she posted a photograph of the Sumo mandarins.
In a press statement Whole Foods Market said: "Many of our customers love the convenience that our cut produce offers, and this was a simple case where a handful of stores experimented with a seasonal product.
"Orange and tangerine slices have long been a staple favourite in our stores. We're glad some customers pointed it out so we could take a closer look and leave Sumos in their natural packaging - the peel."
The retailer told the BBC that the packed slices of oranges and tangerines would remain on the shelves.
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The Qatari support for Islamists throughout the Middle East as a strategy to establish itself as a regional powerbroker now looks increasingly threadbare.
In Syria, President Bashar al-Assad is slowly but surely gaining the upper hand on rebel forces that have had substantial backing from Qatar but it is Egypt where the young Emir may be left holding onto a policy that has cost the Qataris billions while backing the Morsi government.
The strategy of support for Mr Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood looked a shrewd one just a year ago. Egypt had emerged from its Arab spring revolution to hold its first fair and open presidential election. Mr Morsi won a slight majority.
Key to his election victory was the promise to revitalise Egypt's moribund economy. The Qataris positioned themselves to prime the pump with massive transfers of cash, some $10 billion (£6.5bn) since Mr Morsi came to power.
But this was not a charitable giveaway. It was in the nature of an investment. A Qatari economist told the BBC: "We couldn't stand by and let Egypt collapse", but the billions came with an expectation - "I'll give you the money, show me the outcome," he said.
The Qataris had already secured a lucrative deal to sell their gas to the Egyptians and they were proposing to heavily invest in the redevelopment of the Suez Canal.
The thinking was that with a functioning economy and a grateful nation, Qatar would be in pole position to capitalise on a resurgent Egypt.
But as Mr Morsi stumbled from one failure to another, the promised economic recovery never got off the ground.
On Wednesday that cost Mr Morsi his job and left the Qataris busy attempting damage control. Al Jazeera, based in the Qatari capital, Doha, and funded heavily by the royal family, carried a statement from what it called a foreign ministry source that said in part "Qatar will remain a supporter of brotherly Egypt".
And the new Emir Tamim sent best wishes to the interim Egyptian President Adly Mansour.
Michael Stephens, a Gulf analyst with Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) Doha agrees that damage limitation is the order of the day for Qatar.
"The Qataris got into bed with one side and now that side is out," he said.
Mr Stephens said that a senior Qatari businessman had told him "it's like we've dumped our girlfriend", but Mr Stephens said it is not quite as simple as that.
"The Muslim Brotherhood is out for now but in a fair and free election they could be voted back in."
Even so, Sheikh Tamim and his advisors will be scrambling to establish a new position on Egypt, one that for the time being at least extricates them from their close relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood while striving to protect the billions they have already invested.
And his task is made all the more difficult with the departure of the long-serving Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim al Thani.
He was seen as the architect of an assertive Middle East foreign policy that saw Qatar backing Islamist rebels in Libya and securing American agreement to arm Syrian rebels, Islamist and non-Islamist alike (though the suspicion was that the Qataris were directing weapons to hardcore Islamist factions like the al-Nusra front rather than to secular rebels).
And of course the unwavering support - until the events of Wednesday - for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
The prime minister left his twin posts at the same time that Sheikh Tamim took over. HBJ as he is known has been replaced as foreign minister by Khalid al-Atiyya.
Mr Atiyya will need all of his reputedly formidable intellect in assisting the new Emir to devise a foreign policy shorn of an Islamist agenda.
It was the aggressive pursuit of that agenda that annoyed Qatar's Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) allies, neighbouring Saudi Arabia being the most important of those, but certainly the United Arab Emirates, which is in the midst of a harsh crackdown on a Muslim Brotherhood associated religious society al-Islah, may be forgiven for a bit of a gloat at the expense of the Qataris.
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Robbie Henshaw and Josh van der Flier came close to scoring late tries against an English side who were down to 14 men for the last nine minutes.
"The ball just slipped out of Robbie's hand and Josh's was a pretty tough call but we didn't get it," said Schmidt.
"If we had managed one of those we would have been in it to the end."
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Centre Henshaw was thwarted by a fine cover tackle by Jack Nowell as he prepared to touch down in the corner.
And referee Romain Poite ruled that there was no clear evidence that debutant flanker Van der Flier had grounded the ball after consulting with TMO Shaun Veldsman.
"There was a bit of darkness in the patch where they were looking to see if the try was scored - sometimes it goes like that," said Schmidt, whose side were champions in 2014 and 2015.
"We are frustrated not to be in the mix for the title - this defeat ended our opportunity - but the players responded well to being written off prior to the game.
"The 11-point margin probably doesn't reflect the game given the try-scoring opportunities we had. Once you get in front, you have to hold on to your lead."
The Ireland coach praised the efforts of both sides' defences but added that his team's efforts were "a bit fragmented at times".
"We hung in really well in the first half and did well defensively, keeping them off the line.
"At 6-3 down at half-time, there was a bit of fatigue among our lads but we charged into the second half. We needed to build on that but they came back at us and didn't need any invitation to take their chances.
"They are hard to stop with the athletes they have got and Billy Vunipola gave them great go-forward.
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Both sides were relegated last season but Villa have struggled to find form, while Newcastle are top.
"They have proved it's a difficult division," Benitez told BBC Radio Newcastle.
"It is not easy to go down and go up first time. It is important to have everyone working together," he added.
Newcastle host Aston Villa on Monday night, with the two sides meeting at St James' Park for the first time out of the top flight since 1938.
"They know what they have to do in this division - some young players may not be ready for the Premier League but they can be good in this division," Benitez said.
"Teams who have been in the Championship a while only have to add two or three players per season to their squads. When teams are relegated they have to change half the squad, and it's difficult to settle down."
"You can understand how it can happen, statistics show it can happen."
Newcastle will be without Isaac Hayden for the match against Aston Villa with an ankle injury, which could keep him out for four weeks. But the Magpies could welcome back Vurnon Anita, who has returned to training.
Newcastle had Jonjo Shelvey and Dwight Gayle on the pitch together for the first time since Christmas in their 2-2 draw with Norwich on Tuesday.
"When they are together on the pitch it's important for the team. But we were winning without those two. We can win using different players. The main thing is the team," Benitez added.
"It was a Premier League fixture for a lot of years, it will have the feel of a big game."
"The stature of both clubs means it is an important game for everyone, and people will enjoy it." | Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez believes Aston Villa's struggles prove Championship life can be difficult for former Premier League clubs. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "39007570"} | 382 | 26 | 0.53849 | 1.263268 | 0.613292 | 0.952381 | 17 | 0.666667 |
Say the phrase "the party of crooks and thieves", and almost everyone knows who you are talking about - the ruling party, Vladimir Putin's United Russia.
Although United Russia looks likely to win again in parliamentary elections on Sunday, there is growing dissatisfaction in the country.
Over the past few years, people have seen bureaucrats and politicians buying mansions and luxury cars, way beyond anything their official salaries could pay for.
The word "korruptsiya" (corruption) is on the lips of businessmen and pensioners - and even Kremlin spin-doctors.
The most infamous recent case of alleged corruption centres on the death of Sergei Magnitsky.
He was a young corporate lawyer working on behalf of Hermitage Capital, a British investment fund specialising in Russia.
Sergei Magnitsky discovered what he thought was a massive tax fraud. He believed that officials had wrongly awarded a $230m (£145m) tax refund, which had ended up in criminal hands.
But the bureaucrats and policemen he accused turned the tables on him. He was arrested, and a year later he died in prison after a severe beating and months of medical neglect.
His fate contrasts with that of Olga Stepanova, the woman who authorised the tax refund. She is one of a group of officials who suddenly became very rich.
Her mother-in-law is now the registered owner of an ultra-modern country house outside Moscow worth an estimated $20m, and her husband owns luxury villas in Montenegro and Dubai.
She says the money came from her husband's business, but their annual joint tax returns show an income of around $38,000.
It is two years since Sergei Magnitsky died, but none of those he accused of the tax fraud has been brought to justice.
"It's terrible. I don't know how these people live with themselves," his mother Natalya Magnitskaya said. "They have no conscience. And I find it very difficult to come to terms with that."
For many observers the case of Sergei Magnitsky has come to symbolise much of what is wrong with modern Russia.
It exemplifies a system which seems to allow some officials to become very rich without any comeback. The era of the oligarchs was the 1990s; this is the age of the millionaire Russian bureaucrat.
Drive along Rublyovo-Uspyenskoye Shosse into the countryside to the west of Moscow, and the scale of the enrichment of officials becomes clear.
It looks like the sort of place where only millionaires would live, but here Russia's new rich reside - the ministers and officials.
Some of the money comes from legitimate businesses. But much comes from bribes, from government contracts given to friends and relatives, and from seats on boards with a clear conflict of interest.
Giorgy Dzagurov is the owner of Penny Lane Realty, one of Moscow's biggest real estate agents.
"I would say that 40% to 60% of buyers of top-end housing in Russia are Russian governmental employees," he said. "That does not necessarily mean it comes from corruption, but some properties are directly purchased from bribes."
The mansions on the Nikolino Elite Settlement are worth $20m or more, but among the residents is Boris Gromov, the governor of the Moscow Region.
He owns no businesses, and the only jobs he has ever done are soldier and politician. His official salary is around $125,000.
Then there are the luxury cars.
Gennady Gudkov, who is a member of opposition party Just Russia in parliament, carried out an investigation into expensive cars being bought with state funds.
He found that even small departments and universities were buying top-of-the-range Audis, BMWs and Mercedes Benzes.
"Our bureaucrats did not save any money. They spent a lot just for their luxury. Just for their pleasure. Taking no attention to the needs of the people, of common people," he complained.
"They do what they want, paying no attention to the needs of common people. That's the result of a lack of control and impunity.
"It's very dangerous when people start to hate those who must serve them. They see them using these luxury cars when salaries go down, and all other benefits go down."
In most democracies it is the parliament that gives the population an official voice, providing a check on the executive.
But Russia's parliament, the Duma, has had its wings badly clipped during the Putin years.
At a recent debate on corruption none of the deputies appeared to be listening to the speeches.
The voting was a bizarre charade in which deputies ran around pressing the voting buttons on behalf of absent colleagues - even the parliamentary procedures were a fraud.
Vladimir Pligin is one of the better-respected members of the ruling United Russia party. He says he knows the problems but asks people to be patient
"We have not achieved the proper balance between the executive, legislative power and also our court system. We are in the process of the construction of this balance," he explained.
He said that the process had been going on for "only 20 years - not a big period of time from the historical point of view".
The problem is that the system of corruption is becoming entrenched.
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Transport in the city was discussed by four candidates in a live election debate on BBC Bristol on Tuesday.
Candidates also debated the creation of an integrated transport authority and boosting cycling and walking levels.
The city council was criticised over resident parking zones and 20mph speed limits across the city.
All candidates backed the inner city train service known as the Henbury Loop.
The Henbury Loop service between Filton and Avonmouth was closed off in 1964 but despite public support it has yet to reopen. Local councils, though, have begun preparatory work to achieve this.
Labour's Darren Jones said there was a "bus monopoly" in Bristol that needed to be "broken down".
He added: "We need new powers in Bristol City Council to make sure bus routes aren't just closed without any consultation and ensure passenger power is heard."
Conservative Charlotte Leslie said the Henbury Loop would be the "bedrock of the solution", as well as an integrated transport authority.
UKIP candidate Michael Frost said: "The A38 is a gridlocked nightmare - we need to make it easier to drive around the city because people want to use their cars.
"The 20mph limit on main arteries is quite ridiculous... it increases pollution because your car is pootling along, it's a nonsense."
Clare Campion-Smith, the Liberal Democrat candidate, believed the Metrobus scheme would relieve congestion.
She also said future housing developments such as in Filton needed transport issues solved in the early stages.
Ms Campion-Smith said: "If you can persuade people to use buses and to walk or cycle, right from the beginning you have got a big gain rather than relying on market forces."
The candidates for the constituency are:
Clare Campion-Smith - Liberal Democrat
Michael Frost - UKIP
Darren Jones - Labour
Anne Lemon - Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC)
Charlotte Leslie - Conservative
Justin Quinnell - Green | Breaking up the bus "monopoly" and extra inner city train services have been backed by Bristol North West candidates. | {"src": "xsum-1.2.1_train", "id": "32600939"} | 432 | 26 | 0.569119 | 1.555314 | 0.21217 | 1.045455 | 17.363636 | 0.681818 |
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