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Without naming Khan, Rajnath Singh told the parliament that despite insults, iconic Dalit leader "BR Ambedkar never said he would leave India".
On Wednesday, the actor clarified that he had no intention of leaving India.
But several leaders of Mr Singh's BJP party have criticised him.
On the opening day of the winter session of the parliament, MPs began by paying tribute to Ambedkar - the independence hero who wrote India's constitution.
Ambedkar was a Dalit - formerly untouchables - who were socially discriminated against by India's higher castes.
"Dr BR Ambedkar had to put up with insults and derision. Yet, he controlled his emotion and put forward an objective point of view for India. He never said how he was being ignored and insulted in India," Mr Singh said in his remarks in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the parliament.
"He said I will stay in India and keeping the Indian values and culture in mind, I will strengthen the country," Mr Singh added.
On Monday, actor, director and producer Khan told a journalism awards ceremony organised by The Indian Express newspaper that a sense of "insecurity" and "fear" had been growing in India.
He said he was "alarmed" over rising intolerance and his wife had even suggested leaving the country.
Following criticism from BJP politicians and several of his Bollywood colleagues, Khan on Wednesday put out a statement on his Facebook page saying he had never intended to leave India.
"Let me state categorically that neither I, nor my wife Kiran, have any intention of leaving the country. We never did, and nor would we like to in the future."
Despite his clarification, the controversy refuses to die down and the home minister's comments are seen as the latest salvo fired at him by BJP politicians.
Mr Singh's comments are also important as they were spoken in the parliament, where the government will later seek to push a key bill on a uniform countrywide goods and services tax.
The government wants to implement one of India's most significant tax reforms since Independence by April 2016.
However, the session is likely to be a stormy one, with opposition parties demanding a debate on "growing intolerance" in the country.
BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu said the government was "willing to discuss all issues, including the so-called issue of rising intolerance even though the incidents that happened were in the domain of states… We do not support or condone such incidents". | India's home minister has made remarks that are being seen as a jibe against Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan, for saying that his wife had suggested they leave India over growing "intolerance". | 34929538 |
Flammable liquid was poured through the letterbox of a house on Ormeau Embankment about 06:20 BST on Saturday but details have only just been released by police.
Damage was caused to the inside and outside of the front door.
Police have appealed for anyone with any information to contact them. | A woman in her 30s and three children have escaped injury but been left shocked after an arson attack in south Belfast. | 37076926 |
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Monday called for revised security procedures in airports across the US.
In one test, a screener failed to find a fake bomb taped to an agent's back despite patting the man down.
The acting head of the agency responsible has been moved elsewhere.
Transportation Security Administration's Melvin Carraway has been reassigned to a different job in the Department of Homeland Security.
Acting Deputy Director Mark Hatfield will now lead the agency until a new boss comes in.
The results of tests were first reported by ABC News, which said the tests were carried out at 70 US airports but only three were able detect the banned weapons.
Mr Johnson said security officers should be retrained and scanning equipment should be retested. He said he was taking the results of tests "very seriously".
"The numbers in these reports never look good out of context but they are a critical element in the continual evolution of our aviation security," he said.
"We take these findings very seriously in our continued effort to test, measure and enhance our capabilities and techniques as threats evolve."
Mr Johnson said the results of the report were classified, but he said there would be more random covert testing at checkpoints. | A top US official has pledged reforms after tests found that airport screeners allowed mock explosives and weapons through security checkpoints 95% of the time. | 32970342 |
An Essex University study, presented at the European Congress on Obesity and involving 10,000 children aged nine to 16, found one in 17 was too thin.
Researcher Dr Gavin Sandercock said weighing too little was more damaging to health than weighing too much.
He warned that society was focused almost exclusively on obesity.
The research team looked at nearly 10,000 children aged nine to 16 in the east of England.
The height, weight, age and gender of the pupils was used to work out how many were too thin.
They showed 6% of all children were underweight, but it was more common in girls (6.4%) than boys (5.5%).
There were also large differences between ethnic groups. Asian backgrounds had the highest prevalence of being underweight at 8.7%.
It can lead to a lack of energy, weakened immune systems and delayed periods.
The problem of underweight children "may be more prevalent than we thought in the UK", said the scientists.
They said the fear of becoming obese, rising food prices, poor diets and a lack of muscle from low levels of exercise may all be playing a role.
"The fact is the UK is obsessed with overweight and obesity - yet it is now accepted that underweight may pose a much greater risk to health."
Dr Sandercock said attention had "absolutely" swung too far towards tackling obesity and warned children who were underweight could be being "missed".
He called for better training for GPs to spot the problem and new ways of helping parents.
Research published earlier this year showed that doctors may be missing the problem. University College London academics interviewed paediatricians at 177 hospitals in England and Wales and found a lack of knowledge about the warning signs of children being underweight.
Dr Hilary Cass, the president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: "Dietary related problems in children are not uncommon, and it's been well documented that childhood obesity is prevalent amongst the UK population.
"Of course we also have to take seriously the fact that there are some children who are under-nourished or struggle with eating disorders."
The Royal College has developed growth charts for children between two and 18 which helps doctors tell if a child has a problem.
Dr Cass said: "Where children are severely underweight, it's often due to an underlying illness for which they'll need specialist medical help.
"But for the majority of cases, if we can get our children eating, choosing and ultimately cooking nutritious food, then we have a much better chance of preventing all sorts of dietary related problems - whether that's being over or underweight." | The issue of underweight school children is being missed because of an "obsession" with tackling obesity, a group of researchers has claimed. | 22479045 |
The case was adjourned a week ago amid confusion over whether the Wrexham-based club had paid its tax debts.
That hearing was told the debts which led to the petition order had since been paid.
The club went into administration on 12 November, claiming inherited debt had "made the business untenable".
Registrar Jaques was told by Cathryn Addy, counsel for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs that the club went into administration under a court order.
The registrar formally dismissed the winding up petition, with costs to be paid as part of the administration.
Joint administrators Peter O'Hara and Simon Weir were appointed to handle the club's affairs last week.
Mr O'Hara said: "We are currently pursuing a number of options and are talking to interested parties and the RFL [Rugby Football League] in the hope that a solution can be found to the club's current difficulties which would enable it to go forward and maintain rugby league in Wales." | A winding-up petition against rugby league club Crusaders has been dismissed at London's High Court, after the club went into administration. | 11766553 |
The 10-year-old Special Tiara (11-1) finished a head clear of Fox Norton (7-1) with Sir Valentino (33-1) third.
It was jockey Noel Fehily's second big-race victory of the Festival following Tuesday's Champion Hurdle success.
Douvan, ridden by Ruby Walsh, jumped poorly and was never in contention, finishing seventh.
A post-race examination by a veterinary officer found Douvan to be lame behind.
Fehily told BBC Radio 5 live: "[Special Tiara] felt great and never missed a beat. I have been second in this race a few times so to win one is brilliant."
Unbeaten in 13 previous starts for trainer Willie Mullins, Douvan's defeat was described by BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght as "one of the biggest upsets in Cheltenham Festival history".
Douvan, who was the subject of a £500,000 bet at odds of 1-5, which would have produced winnings of £100,000, had never looked himself, and afterwards Mullins suggested the seven-year-old may have pulled something during the race.
"We are all a bit gobsmacked I think, he didn't jump as well as we had hoped with his usual fluency," Mullins told 5 live. "Usually you find something wrong when that happens.
"He probably pulled something, a muscle, a ligament, hopefully something that will come right straight away.
"Over the first two fences, I thought he would have to be a super horse to win this, you don't get away with that in the Champion Chase.
"I'm hoping he could be one of the best horses I have ever trained. Today clearly was not his day. That's the way it is.
"We are all disappointed that this happened, now my main job is to find out what is wrong and how long it will take to fix."
Cornelius Lysaght, BBC horse racing correspondent
The defeat of Douvan has to rate as among the biggest shocks in Cheltenham Festival history.
It's not just the odds, but since joining Willie Mullins this horse has been winning with an authoritative flamboyance that meant that practically everyone thought his opponents had the proverbial Everest to climb to beat him.
And Douvan's defeat continued a challenging time for the normally rampant Ricci-Mullins-Walsh team and their expensively assembled string.
But good for Special Tiara, a real trooper, in the race for the fourth time and just holding on to make the ever-reliable Noel Fehily a double championship-winning jockey this week. And he's on the favourite in Thursday's feature race too.
Special Tiara's trainer Trainer Henry de Bromhead said: "He seemed in great form coming into it, but it was hard to believe we could win with Douvan and everything else - Douvan had looked so good.
"For our lad, he just tries his heart out and no-one deserves it more."
Fehily, 41, added: "I didn't think we'd beat Douvan, but I thought I had a great chance of being second. I got over the last and was surprised something hadn't come to me, but I knew he wasn't stopping."
After three wins on the opening day, trainer Gordon Elliott claimed another double when Cause of Causes (4-1) won the Cross Country Chase before the fast-finishing Fayonagh (7-1) took the closing Champion Bumper
Both were ridden by experienced Irish amateur Jamie Codd, who also had a Festival double in 2015, and who was full of praise for Cause of Causes.
"He's run at four Festivals now, been second once and won three times," he said. "He's a great little horse and he's been marvellous for my career.
"He's an idle little horse but quick when you need him to be."
The most dramatic finish of the day saw the 7-2 favourite Might Bite beat his Nicky Henderson-trained stablemate Whisper (9-2) by a nose in the RSA Chase.
Might Bite, ridden by Nico de Boinville, was comfortably ahead but made a mess of the last fence and then started to hang badly to his right.
Whisper and Davy Russell saw an opportunity and got past the struggling Might Bite on the run-in, but de Boinville managed to correct his path with the aid of a loose horse and after the pair went past the post together, Might Bite was announced the winner.
There were also first festival winners for trainers Ben Pauling, after Willoughby House (14-1) beat Neon Wolf in the opening Neptune Investment Management Novices Hurdle, and for Nick Williams after the 33-1 chance Flying Tiger took the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle under champion jockey Richard Johnson.
And on Ladies Day, Jessica Harrington claimed her ninth Festival winner when Supasundae (16-1) took the Coral Cup.
However, there was some sad news from the day's racing after Consul De Thaix suffered a fatal fall during the Novices Hurdle.
His jockey Mark Walsh was treated for what was described as a "concussive head injury" and has been ruled out for the remainder of the Festival.
After his wins in the Champion Hurdle (Buveur D'Air,) and the Queen Mother Champion Chase (Special Tiara), Unowhatimeanharry could give Noel Fehily a third big-race win in the Stayers' Hurdle, the feature race on day three.
The nine-year-old is unbeaten in his last eight starts, including in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle 12 months ago, and is likely to be sent on his way at very short odds - but he likes very testing ground and the drying conditions may not be to his liking
Cole Harden won the race two years ago and is back again for the Warren Greatrex team.
The Jessica Harrington-trained Jezki is one of six Irish declarations, with Willie Mullins responsible for Clondaw Warrior, Nichols Canyon and Shaneshill.
Snow Falcon (Noel Meade) and Dedigout (Gordon Elliott) have also made the journey across the Irish Sea. | Special Tiara won the Queen Mother Champion Chase but 2-9 favourite Douvan struggled in a major shock on day two of the Cheltenham Festival. | 39279372 |
Mr Trump's belief in American traditionalism and dislike of scrutiny echo the Kremlin's tune: nation, power and aversion to criticism are the new (and very Russian) world order.
You could call this mindset Trumputinism.
The echo between the Kremlin and Trump Tower is strong, getting louder and very, very good news for Mr Putin.
As Trump signalled to Michael Gove on Monday, a new nuclear arms reduction deal seems to be in the offing linked to a review of sanctions against Russia.
The dog that did not bark in the night is Mr Trump's peculiar absence of criticism of Mr Putin, for example, on the Russian hacking of American democracy, his land-grab of Crimea and his role in the continuing war in Eastern Ukraine.
What is odd is that Mr Trump, in his tweets, favours the Russia line over, say, the CIA and the rest of the American intelligence community.
But why on earth criticise the world leader with whom you most agree?
Three men have egged along Trumputinism: Nigel Farage, who is clear that the European Union is a far bigger danger to world peace than Russia; his friend, Steve Bannon, who is now Mr Trump's chief strategist; and a Russian "penseur", Alexander Dugin.
With his long hair and iconic Slavic looks, Mr Dugin is variously described as "Putin's Brain" or "Putin's Rasputin".
He has his own pro-Kremlin TV show which pumps out Russian Orthodox supremacy in a curious mixture of Goebbels-style rhetoric and Songs of Praise.
Mr Dugin is widely believed to have the ear of the Kremlin.
He is also under Western sanctions for the ferocity of his statements in favour of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has cost 10,000 lives to date.
Messrs Farage, Bannon and Dugin are all united that the greatest danger for Western civilisation lies in Islamist extremism.
Mr Bannon aired his views in a right-wing mindfest on the fringes of the Vatican in 2014.
He claimed that so-called Islamic State has a Twitter account "about turning the United States into a 'river of blood'".
"Trust me, that is going to come to Europe," he added. "On top of that we're now, I believe, at the beginning stages of a global war against Islamic fascism."
The danger is that in allying yourself with the Kremlin in the way they fight "Islamist fascism" in say, Aleppo, you end up siding with what some have called "Russian fascism" or, at least, abandoning democratic values and the rules of war and, in so doing, become a recruiting sergeant for ISIS.
It is a risk on which Mr Dugin does not seem willing to reflect. My interview with him in Moscow did not end well.
First, he dismissed the chances that the Russians hacked American democracy as "strictly zero".
I asked him about the depth of Mr Putin's commitment to democracy.
"Please be careful," he responded. "You could not teach us democracy because you try to impose to every people, every state, every society, their Western, American or so-called American system of values without asking…and it is absolutely racist; you are racist."
Too many of Mr Putin's critics end up dead - around 20 since he took power in 2000.
I have met and admired three: Anna Politkovskaya, Natasha Estemirova and Boris Nemtsov.
Mr Nemtsov was shot just outside the Kremlin's walls.
I asked Mr Dugin what his death told us about Russian democracy.
"If you are engaged in Wikileaks you can be murdered," he countered.
I then invited Mr Dugin to list the American journalists who have died under Barack Obama.
Mr Dugin did not oblige but told me that ours was a "completely stupid kind of conversation" and walked out of the interview.
Later, he posted a blog to his 20,000 followers, illustrated with my photograph and accusing me of manufacturing "fake news" and calling me "an utter cretin... a globalist swine".
Such is the language of the new world order.
A few days later I watched the press conference when Mr Trump closed down a question from a CNN reporter by accusing him of manufacturing "fake news".
Under Trumputinism, the echo between Russia and America is getting louder by the day.
Panorama: The Kremlin Candidate? BBC One, 8.30pm, Monday, January 16. If you miss it, you can catch up later online. | The question of whether Russia's leader Vladimir Putin has got material with which he could blackmail Donald Trump is for now unknowable and misses the point by a country mile: the two men think alike. | 38639327 |
Viktoria Tautz, 34, was caring for Joshua Paul at his home in Haringey, north London, when he suffered "catastrophic brain and spinal injuries".
Joshua was rushed to hospital but died three days later.
Tautz had denied prosecution claims she "snapped". and shook Joshua in a "dangerous and excessive" manner.
The court heard Joshua, who was born 10 weeks early, had a large head for his age and was being monitored.
At about 08:40 BST on August 29, 2014, Joshua's mum Pearl Paul left her son "happy and playing" with Tautz in the one-bedroom flat, the court heard.
But at 09:07, a neighbour called 999 after Tautz dashed from the flat shouting for help, holding Joshua who was unconscious and not breathing.
On her arrest, Tautz told police she had played a horse-riding game with Joshua but he had not had any accidents that morning.
Zoe Johnson QC rejected the defence's suggestion he was hurt in a "horsey game", as head wobbling involved would have been "nowhere near enough" to kill.
Tautz collapsed in tears in the dock as she was sentenced by Mrs Justice McGowan.
Jailing her, the judge said: "You were not in the same position as a teenage mother in the middle of the night on her own trapped in a flat without anyone to help her."
Mitigating, Bernard Richmond QC highlighted "worrying features" of the case which led to a "moment of madness".
He said: "She was a young woman with a very limited amount of training with a baby who had obviously very difficult needs."
He told the court the defendant, who was paid £3.60 an hour, also lacked "resilience".
Tautz, of Holly Park Road, Barnet, had denied manslaughter and said she never got "angry" or "frustrated" with the baby.
The Old Bailey jury convicted her with a majority verdict of 10 to 2 after deliberating for nearly seven hours. | A nanny who shook a 10-month-old boy to death "in a fit of anger" has been jailed for four years. | 40119784 |
Caledonian MacBrayne, Pentland Ferries and Northlink Ferries said high winds could affect services for the remainder of the day.
A yellow "be aware" warning for wind in the north and west of Scotland has been issued by the Met Office.
It has also warned of icy conditions across the country overnight.
Forecasters said the Highlands and Strathclyde could expect of gusts of up to 60mph between 11:00 and 22:00.
They could reach speeds of 75mph in the Western Isles.
The Met Office said it could lead to disruption to road, air and ferry transport and power cuts were possible.
Its chief forecaster said "severe gales" would affect the west of Scotland in the early evening.
They added: "The strongest wind gusts are likely over and to the north of high ground, and in coastal areas exposed to this wind direction."
Caledonian MacBrayne said 23 of its 26 routes were likely to be disrupted or cancelled.
There was a "probability of weather disruption and possible cancellation" on Northlink Ferries' services between Orkney, Shetland and the mainland.
Pentland Ferries' sailings from St Margarets Hope and Gills Bay in Orkney have also been affected.
And flights due to land at Barra airport were cancelled, according to its Twitter feed.
A Met Office yellow warning for ice overnight and into Tuesday morning has also been issued.
It will lead to hazardous conditions on untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths across large parts of Scotland, forecasters warned.
Up to 5cm (2in) of snow is also likely to fall on high ground, above 300m, in the southern and eastern Highlands, which may affect transport routes, they added.
They warned that the very highest routes could be hit by 10cm (4in) of snow, as well as wind, which could lead to drifting.
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Below are a number of other traffic information sources. | Ferry passengers are being warned to expect serious disruption as severe gales are forecast in parts of western and northern Scotland. | 38879451 |
The 28-year-old midfielder, who left Saints for Easter Road in 2013, has signed a one-year contract with the Perth club.
St Johnstone manager Tommy Wright told his club website: "When a manager makes any signing he's pleased.
"But the thing about Liam is that I didn't want him to leave in the first place."
Craig first joined Saints in 2007 on loan from Falkirk but signed a pre-contract agreement to join Hibs shortly before Wright stepped up from his assistant role to take over from the departing Steve Lomas.
"His experience and knowledge of the club is vital and that came into my thinking," said Wright.
"He has a wealth of experience but is still a good age and he has shown in training and in the (friendly) game against Real Sociedad that he is as good as ever.
"Also, he chips in with goals from midfield and that is something any team needs."
Craig suffered relegation with Hibs and played 32 times for the Edinburgh side in the Scottish Championship last term.
He said: "It goes without saying that I'm delighted to come back.
"I have a lot of great memories from the last time and I want to play my part in creating new ones and helping the club continue its successes in recent years, particularly the last two.
"Sometimes you just get the 'right fit' and in the time I've been back training it's almost like I've never been away." | Liam Craig has returned for a second stint with St Johnstone after his summer release by Hibernian. | 33556380 |
Adams, 39, made just three first-class appearances for Hampshire after joining on a short-term contract in September.
Capped once at Test level, the former Essex and Nottinghamshire overseas player also featured in 42 one-dayers.
"There's a lot of scar tissue there and a really high chance of reoccurrence," he told BBC Radio Solent.
"For someone who didn't expect to play first-team cricket for his club, I've done OK.
"It's a nice time to retire. I'm still able to walk and that's important at the end of your career when you've got a family.
"I got a calf tear a week ago and we wanted to see what it looked like on the scan. It's in an area which means I can no longer play basically.
"No matter how fit and strong I get, it's one of those things where it will always be a problem."
Adams's intention was to play for three months at Hampshire before taking up a coaching role in Auckland.
But he admitted his disappointment at not being able to make more appearances for the county alongside a "promising" squad.
"I came here to play and I've had a really enjoyable time doing so," he added. "It's a fantastic county with some great guys and a huge amount of talent."
Adams helped Nottinghamshire to win the County Championship in 2010 and retires with 692 first-class wickets at an average of 23.95. | Hampshire and former New Zealand all-rounder Andre Adams says the risk of persistent calf injuries have forced his decision to retire. | 33051666 |
My Autism and Me looks at what it's like to live with autism, a condition that affects the way you live your life and see the world around you.
Rosie, the film's presenter, was at the awards party to pick up the trophy.
Rosie was born with autism, and says even though living with it is hard, it makes her unique and who she is.
You can watch the whole programme using the player above, and follow the links on the left of the page to find out more about autism.
Other winners on the night were Tracy Beaker Returns for best children's drama, and Ant and Dec for best entertainment performance, for ITV1's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here, Red Or Black, Push The Button and Britain's Got Talent. | Newsround's special programme about living with autism has won Best Children's Programme at the 2012 Royal Television Society awards. | 17461486 |
The agreement of AIB is needed before the funds are transferred.
The move has been approved under the Credit Institutions Stabilisation Bill and by the European Commission.
Once finalised, AIB will join Anglo Irish Bank, EBS and Irish Nationwide as the fourth financial institution brought under the control of the state.
The funds are to be transferred from the Republic's National Pension Reserve Fund.
Allied Irish Bank put its UK operations up for sale in March. First Trust is the bank's Northern Ireland business.
Although AIB has sold its operations in the US and Poland in a bid to raise capital, continuing losses have more than doubled the bank's capital requirement to 15bn euro (£12.8bn).
AIB received a 3.5bn euro (£2.97bn) bailout from the Irish government in 2009. | AIB, one of Ireland's "big four" banks, is set to be taken into state control after the high court approved a 3.7bn euro (£3.15bn) capital injection. | 12067615 |
Munir Hassan Mohammed, 36, and Rowaida El-Hassan, 32, denied at the Old Bailey of planning to make a bomb or poison to use against British citizens.
Mr Mohammed denied a total of three terrorism offences, while Ms El-Hassan pleaded not guilty to two charges.
The pair, who were arrested during anti-terrorism raids, were remanded in custody and await trial in June.
Mr Mohammed, an Eritrean national seeking asylum in the UK, and Ms El-Hassan were arrested on 12 December.
They are jointly charged with preparing an act of terrorism between 7 July 2016 and their arrest last year.
The pair both pleaded not guilty to researching, planning and obtaining materials to produce an "improvised explosive device or poison" with a view to committing an attack in the UK.
Mr Mohammed, of Leopold Street, Derby, is further charged with being a member of Islamic State (IS).
He faces one other charge relating to the possession of information useful to terrorism and dissemination of terrorist publications.
Ms El-Hassan, of Willesden Lane, London, is further charged with possessing instructions on how to build an explosive device inside a mobile phone.
The pair were among six people arrested across the country, the rest of whom were released without charge. | A man and woman have pleaded not guilty to making preparations for a terrorism attack in the UK. | 39700102 |
A serious case review found Daniel Pelka, four, was "invisible" at times and "no professional tried sufficiently hard enough" to talk to him.
He was starved and beaten for months before he died in March 2012, at his Coventry home.
The review said "critical lessons" must be "translated into action".
Magdelena Luczak, 27, and Mariusz Krezolek, 34, were told they must serve at least 30 years in jail, after being found guilty of murder at Birmingham Crown Court in July.
The court heard Daniel saw a doctor in hospital for a broken arm, arrived at school with bruises and facial injuries, and was seen scavenging for food.
A teaching assistant described him as a "bag of bones" and the trial heard he was "wasting away". At the time of his death the schoolboy weighed just over a stone-and-a-half (10kg).
By Mark EastonHome editor
Those professionals with a responsibility to keep Daniel Pelka safe are said to have fallen victim to that same "professional optimism".
Today's review talks of their naivety, of how the manipulation and deceit of Daniel's mother "were not recognised for what they were and her presenting image was too readily accepted".
"The 'rule of optimism' appeared to have prevailed," the review concludes.
Much of the detail that emerged in the trial about the level of abuse Daniel suffered was "completely unknown" to the professionals involved, the review found.
No-one has been disciplined as a direct result of Daniel's death.
The report by Ron Lock did not blame or identify any individual agency but he said the professionals involved were "too optimistic" about what they saw.
"Workload was a potential issue - child protection is a very complex matter - and perhaps when they felt reassured they moved on to the next case," Mr Lock told BBC News.
"But they need to be stronger and have a much more inquiring mind. They needed to act on what was in front of them."
The review's key findings include:
In March 2008, when Daniel was eight months old, he was treated for a minor head wound. In January 2011, when he was three-and-a-half, he was taken to A&E with a fractured arm.
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The review said the hospital "rightly raised immediate concerns about the [fractured arm]" and a meeting was held to decide if it was caused by a fall from a settee, as Daniel's mother claimed, or was the result of abuse.
The meeting decided Luczak's explanation was "plausible".
But the review said the reasons for other bruises found on Daniel at the time, which his mother claimed came from bicycle accidents, were not "fully explored".
The Children and Families Minister Edward Timpson said the report made "shocking reading" and "laid bare" the lack of intervention by professionals.
Mr Timpson said he had written to the Coventry Safeguarding Children Board asking for a clearer analysis as to why the mistakes occurred.
Amy Weir, the board's chair, said she found the report "disheartening, disappointing and generally worrying".
Ms Weir said the idea of Daniel being "invisible" was "at the heart of this case".
"I think for Daniel there's something which we've never fully been able to get to grips with," she said.
"The issue about Daniel mainly being Polish speaking" should have been overcome and there were "significant issues" about his mother and her ability to try to "hoodwink the professionals", she added.
Assistant Chief Constable Garry Forsyth, of West Midlands Police, said: "We accept that Daniel was not 'given a voice'."
He said the report "raised the lack of consistency" in officers dealing with separate domestic abuse reports and the force needed "a more holistic approach".
The report said that due to such inconsistency, Daniel's lack of language and low confidence was not picked up and would have made it "almost impossible for him to reveal the abuse he was suffering".
"Overall, the 'rule of optimism' appeared to have prevailed," it said.
The review said Daniel could have been offered greater protection if the professionals involved had applied a "much more enquiring mind".
It also identified school staff did not link Daniel's physical injuries with their concerns about his apparent obsession with food, which his mother claimed was caused by a medical condition.
Gill Mulhall, Daniel's head teacher at Little Heath Primary in Coventry, said: "His mother was a convincing manipulator.
"If we were aware of the bigger picture of his life or had doubts about her, we would of course have acted differently.
"We want to see changes where schools are aware of concerns from other agencies which affect our pupils."
Sharon Binyon, medical director of the Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, believes the service as a whole did not do enough.
"Coventry has one of the lowest numbers of health visitors per child in the country. That was recognised and we're working with NHS England," she said.
"Since the time of Daniel's death the number of health visitors has now doubled and we expect to see it trebled by 2015."
Peter Wanless, the NSPCC's chief executive officer, said ultimately Daniel's mother and her partner were responsible for his death but it was right to look at what could have been done differently.
"Processes were followed correctly much of the time but processes alone do not save children," he said.
Geoffrey Robinson, MP for Coventry North West, described Daniel Pelka's death as "a great disgrace" for the city and called on the council's chief executive, Martin Reeves, to consider his position.
Mr Reeves, said the city had "never faced such a tragic case" and staff needed to "learn quickly" from the review.
"The best legacy for Daniel is to make sure we move forward and I want to have a part to play in that future," he said.
"This can't be about a witch hunt or vilification of professionals." | Chances were missed to help a child who was murdered by his mother and her partner after suffering "terrifying and dreadful" abuse, a report has found. | 24106823 |
Barnsley loanee Mike Phenix's header put Southport ahead, while home goalkeeper Max Crocombe saved Scott Kashket's penalty.
Josh Thompson and Mark O'Brien made it 3-0 before Welling's Michael Bakare scored from 12 yards.
Welling completed the comeback with headers from Sahr Kabba and Ian Gayle and are eight points from safety.
Southport sit 17th, eight points clear of the relegation zone. | Welling came from 3-0 down and scored twice in in the last 10 minutes to secure a point at Southport. | 35733500 |
Each volume will include three novellas written by a variety of authors. Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker will edit them.
The novellas will all be original stories, with the first volume due to come out in February 2018.
Brooker announced the "all-new" works would appear in a "high-tech 'paper' format".
The satirical TV drama series began life on Channel 4 before moving to Netflix last year for its third series.
He said: "All-new Black Mirror stories from exciting authors - that's a joyous prospect. And they're appearing in a high-tech new format known as a book.
"Apparently, you just have to glance at some sort of ink code printed on paper and images and sounds magically appear in your head, enacting the story. Sounds far-fetched to me, but we'll see."
The authors of the book series have not yet been announced but will be "leading names in the literary world", according to The Bookseller. The books will be published in hardback and ebook form.
The next TV series of Black Mirror is due to drop on Netflix in October, with one of the episodes directed by Jodie Foster.
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | Three books inspired by Netflix series Black Mirror are to be published from next year. | 40261243 |
Once a symbol of US industrial power, Detroit declared itself broke in July 2013, with $18bn (£11bn) worth of debt.
In a letter to to Michigan governor Rick Snyder, the city's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, said Detroit's financial crisis had been "rectified".
Mr Orr, who resigned from his post, said the city was "poised to grow".
He said ending the bankruptcy proceedings was a "milestone", but cautioned that more work remained.
"If the city takes advantage of this unique opportunity to shed the problems of the past and stays on the path that has been blazed in restructuring, Detroit is poised to grow and thrive for the benefit of its residents and this state for many years to come," he wrote.
On 7 November, US judge Stephen Rhodes approved Mr Orr's plan for restructuring the city's finances, which involved shedding around $7bn of its $18bn in debt and other obligations.
In a letter approving Mr Orr's determination that Detroit should be removed from receivership, Mr Snyder said he agreed that unlike 16 months ago, the city can now meet the basic needs of its citizens.
He highlighted the fact that before bankruptcy proceedings began, Detroit's citizens had to wait, on average, 58 minutes for police to respond to their calls. Now the wait time is 18 minutes.
Furthermore, only 40% of the city's streetlights functioned - and now there are plans underway to replace and relight the city, with "hundreds of new, brighter and cheaper lights installed every week".
However, the city still has a long way to go - and many of the city's pensioners were forced to accept cuts to their future benefits in order to appease creditors.
While the Detroit Institute of Art's famed collection was preserved, other parts of the city - such as a hockey stadium - were turned over to investors.
A news conference is scheduled for 11:00 EST on Wednesday morning in Detroit to discuss further details of the city's exit. | The city of Detroit will start the process of paying off its creditors on Wednesday, as it officially exits the largest civic bankruptcy in US history. | 30402223 |
Hall, 36, was disappointed by the unanimous points decision loss, which saw Haskins retain his belt.
The one-time champion was bidding to regain his crown after June 2014's defeat by Paul Butler.
"Retirement has crossed my mind," Hall told BBC Tees.
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"I'm just going to see what happens and I don't think I can leave on this note."
His fight of choice would be a return fight with Bristolian Haskins, who won the title against Ivan Morales in May.
"I should be world champion now, but we'll see what happens and if we can get a rematch that will be great," Hall added. "If there are no big fights, then I don't think I will be continuing." | Darlington fighter Stu Hall says he will consider his boxing future once he has taken a break with family, after Saturday's IBF world bantamweight title defeat by Lee Haskins. | 37378773 |
Lauren Weisberger's new story, titled Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns, will continue the adventures of former magazine assistant Andy Sachs.
Set eight years after the first book, the story will see Andy - now a bridal magazine editor - crossing paths with her old boss, Miranda Priestly, again.
The book will be published by HarperCollins in the UK next April.
It had been under contract as part of a multi-book deal, but it was not known if Weisberger would ever write a sequel.
The sequel will also see the return of Andy's Runway magazine catty rival Emily, who now works alongside her at The Plunge and has become her best friend.
HarperFiction publishing director Lynne Drew said: "I'm thrilled to be once more encountering the world of glossy mags, Miranda Priestly and our favourite heroine, with a novel set to be one of the big summer reads of 2013."
The Devil Wears Prada was a hit when it was first released and spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list.
It was adapted into a Hollywood film in 2006 starring Anne Hathaway as aspiring journalist Andy and grossed more than $300m (£196m) worldwide.
Meryl Streep was Oscar-nominated for her role as the overbearing Miranda - widely considered to be a fictionalised version of Anna Wintour, Vogue's editor-in-chief, where Weisberger was once a former assistant. | The author of The Devil Wears Prada has confirmed she is writing a sequel to the best-selling 2003 book. | 18292952 |
We know all about the likes of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Sadio Mane - two of the highest-profile deals so far - but what of the lesser-known imports to the English game?
Who, for example, comes from the land of 'the great chess players?' Who has become the fourth most expensive Nigerian player of all time?
And who used to work as a butcher for 30 euros a week? This is your essential guide to what we can expect from the Premier League's lower-profile additions this summer.
Granit Xhaka, Borussia Monchengladbach to Arsenal
Age: 23 Cost: £35m Position: Midfielder
Career so far: Made his professional debut with Basel in his native Switzerland and won two league titles and one domestic cup before moving to Monchengladbach in 2012. During four years with the German club he picked up 23 yellow cards and five reds, and captained the side to fourth place in the Bundesliga.
What type of player is he? A combative yet creative midfielder known for his vision, accurate passing and hard tackling. He was second only to Xabi Alonso for completed passes in last season's Bundesliga, yet he also managed to get sent off three times for his club last term.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Arsenal and Arsene Wenger certainly think so. Could be a star of the 2016-17 campaign.
What has been said about him? Ottmar Hitzfeld, the former Switzerland manager, called him the 'young Bastian Schweinsteiger'.
Age: 23 Cost: £4.7m Position: Goalkeeper
Career so far: Made his Bundesliga debut with Mainz aged 19 and by the following season had become first-choice goalkeeper. Played every league game last season, saving two penalties and keeping nine clean sheets.
What type of player is he? Describes himself as "a modern, offensive goalkeeper", who is "willing to take risks".
Will he cut it in the Premier League? He cost almost exactly half the fee Liverpool paid for Simon Mignolet in 2013, but after a mixed three seasons at Anfield, Karius could well usurp his more experienced, more expensive rival and start the season as first choice.
What has been said about him? Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp: "He has developed into a very good goalkeeper since his return to Germany. I know he will add to the quality we have in this position."
Age: 26 Cost: Free Position: Defensive midfielder
Career so far: After reaching the Norwegian Cup final with FK Haugesund at the end of his debut season he was signed by Arsenal aged 17. But in four years with the north London club he did not play a single game and left for Monchengladbach after a series of loan spells in Spain, Germany and his homeland. He missed just three league matches last season as Monchengladbach came fourth, and played in all six of the side's games in the Champions League group stage.
What type of player is he? He began his career as a defender but Nordtveit played the majority of last season as a defensive midfielder - alongside new Arsenal signing Xhaka - although he can also feature at centre-back and right-back.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Nordtveit will feel he has something to prove having missed out on a chance to play in the English top flight during his years at Arsenal, and his consistently impressive performances in Germany and in Europe suggest he is well placed to do just that.
What has been said about him? Monchengladbach boss Andre Schubert: "He has a great strength of will and there's a lot of power and energy in his game. He has a brilliant mentality and takes on every challenge, regardless of which position he's in and where he's needed."
Age: 26 Cost: Free Position: Attacking midfielder/winger
Career so far: Plays for Algeria but was born in France and began his career with Grenoble before moving to Valencia in 2010. He made 202 appearances during six years with the Spanish club, scoring 31 goals and providing 40 assists. He was a key part of Algeria's run to the last 16 of the World Cup in 2014.
What type of player is he? His lightning pace and quick feet have been key for Valencia in recent years, but he was one of many who struggled in a campaign last season that saw Gary Neville fired from his first attempt in management. Missed the end of last season after being suspended by the club amid reports he refused to take part in a warm-down.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? The Hammers will be hoping Feghouli can bring the best of his creative flair into the English top flight, much in the same way as Dimitri Payet did in his debut season after joining from Marseille last year. Like Payet, he has undoubted ability, but there are question marks over his consistency after a disappointing 2015-16.
What has been said about him? West Ham co-chairman David Gold: "The arrival of Feghouli shows the ambition we have got and this is a steady progress. We all saw what Riyad Mahrez did for Leicester last season and we hope that Sofiane can have a similar impact."
Age: 22 Cost: £30m Position: Defender
Career so far: Began his professional career with Spanish club Espanyol before moving to Villarreal for a reported £4.8m in January 2015 as a replacement for Gabriel Paulista, who had joined Arsenal. He has played 15 times for Ivory Coast, with whom he won the Africa Cup of Nations in 2015.
What type of player is he? Aggressive, quick, strong, good in the air and with his feet, Bailly was sorely missed as Villarreal were beaten 3-0 away by Liverpool in last season's Europa League semi-final second leg.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? All the signs suggest he will. Bailly caught the eye with some really strong displays against Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar and Karim Benzema as Villarreal finished fourth in La Liga last year. He has the physical attributes to succeed and the hope will be that, under Jose Mourinho, the finer sides of his defensive game continue to develop at Old Trafford.
What has been said about him? United manager Jose Mourinho: "Eric is a young central defender with great natural talent. He has progressed well to date and has the potential to become one of the best around."
Age: 25 Cost: Reported £20m Position: Midfielder
Career so far: Began his career with Bochum's reserve side before moving to Nurnberg in 2009 and on to Borussia Dortmund for a reported £3.4m in 2011. There, under manager Jurgen Klopp, he won the German league and cup double in 2012 and was a Champions League finalist in 2013. He has had injury problems since though, missing all but the first game of the 2013-14 season with a back problem. He is currently recovering from a dislocated knee.
What type of player is he? A deep-lying Germany midfielder with a Turkish background, Gundogan is admired for his close control, vision and passing range. In 157 games for Dortmund he scored 15 goals and provided 21 assists.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Gundogan has already proved he has the ability to compete at the highest level, both with Dortmund in the German top flight and with the national team.
What has been said about him? City director of football Txiki Begiristain: "He is an intelligent and versatile midfielder who can operate in a number of different roles. He will be a very important player for us in the coming years."
Age: 27 Cost: Free Position: Defender
Career so far: Graduated from Real Madrid's youth system but never played for the Spanish giants. Instead his breakthrough came at Sporting Gijon, where he spent two years in the reserves before being promoted to the first team in 2012.
What type of player is he? A ball-playing centre-back who is used to being busy - his side only just stayed up last season.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Difficult to be definitive about this because last season was Hernandez's first and only top-flight campaign - and Gijon escaped relegation only by a point thanks to a 2-0 win on the final day.
In his own words: "Yesterday I took off [the shirt] for the last time and I feel that these red and white stripes will be stuck to me forever," on his final game for Sporting.
Age: 23 Cost: Reported £2m Position: Defender
Career so far: Made his professional debut with FC Utrecht at the age of 18 and was named their player of the year in his third and final season before joining Ajax in 2013 for a reported £3.2m. Spent the first half of last season on the bench but was a regular in the run-in as Ajax narrowly missed out on the Dutch title. Has made 13 appearances for the Netherlands Under-21 side, scoring once.
What type of player is he? A 6ft 2in centre-back who has scored 10 goals in 90 games in Dutch club football.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Remains to be seen if he plays regularly. Only got 15 Eredivisie games for Ajax last season but will have Ashley Williams alongside him to guide his development.
In his own words: "I hope to improve and bring competition to the defensive position. Ashley Williams is a really good defender. Hopefully I can learn from him."
Age: 27 Cost: £26m (reported) Position: Attacking midfielder
Career so far: Started in his homeland of Armenia with Pyunik, before spells with Metalurh and Shakhtar Donetsk. Joined Dortmund three years ago, scoring 23 goals in 88 Bundesliga appearances. Had a hand in 49 goals (23 goals, 26 assists) in 52 games for Dortmund last season.
What type of player is he? Plays most of his football as an attacking midfielder, but can also play in a deeper midfield role, on the wing or just off a striker. An expert passer and finisher, as his stats for last season show.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Has all the characteristics needed to be one of the stars of the Premier League. However, a word of caution - the last Dortmund playmaker that United signed was Shinji Kagawa, who only lasted two years at Old Trafford.
What has been said about him? "He is one of the most talented players in the world. He possesses an incredible combination of speed and technique. There's very, very few you can say that about. There's a reason why the world's best chess players come from Armenia like Mkhitaryan. They're thinkers, they're hard workers, they graft," Jurgen Klopp in 2015.
Age: 25 Cost: £12m (reported) Position: Midfielder
Career so far: Has spent most of his career in the Netherlands, with Sparta Rotterdam and Heerenveen. Joined Atalanta for a reported £1m last summer and leaves after one goal in 36 Serie A appearances.
What type of player is he? A defensive midfielder who loves a tackle - illustrated by nine bookings last season. He was top of Serie A's rankings for tackles - and second for interceptions - last season. Don't expect many goals, he's only ever notched 11.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? This type of disciplined, defensive midfielder often shines in the Premier League, so he could be key for Boro - but there is a long list of Serie A players who never adapted to English football.
In his own words: "On the pitch, something clicks and I become a different person. I enjoy standing on someone's toes every now and then or whispering in someone's ear if they do something wrong or miss a chance," he said in a Youtube video this year.
Age: 19 Cost: £1.7m (reported) Position: Attacking midfielder
Career so far: Came through the youth team at Shakhtar Donetsk before moving to Ufa in Russia, scoring twice in 31 league games. Was added to Ukraine's Euro 2016 squad after reportedly being offered Russian citizenship, and played all three games in France.
What type of player is he? The talented youngster can play in any midfield position, and has also featured at left-back. A Ukrainian James Milner?
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Maybe in the future, but City fans should perhaps not expect to see him near the first team soon as he has been linked with a loan switch to PSV Eindhoven.
What has been said about him? "Zinchenko is talented, but he must be realistic. He must get experience and game practice. He can only play for Manchester City on PlayStation," said former Ukraine and Liverpool striker Andriy Voronin last month.
Age: 22 Cost: £33m (reported) Position: Striker
Career so far: Was released by Anderlecht in 2007 for being too hard to handle. Two and a half seasons as a regular at Standard Liege got him a £4.5m move to Marseille in 2014. Was fourth top scorer in Ligue 1 last season with 17 goals, despite being back-up to Steven Fletcher at one stage, angering - among others - Basile Boli.
What type of player is he? A proper striker, who has pace and power, can finish well and is decent in the air despite his relative lack of height at 5ft 11in. His attitude has been questioned in the past and he doesn't consider passing to a team-mate if going alone is on the cards.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Has all the qualities one looks for in a Premier League striker. Will surely get more of a chance than Chelsea's last Belgium striker, Romelu Lukaku, although if he does half as well as another signing from Marseille, Didier Drogba, then he will be a Blues hero.
What has been said about him? "I think his move is absolutely brilliant. Michy is being rewarded for his great form and the work he has done out here and over the past season," said Belgium boss Marc Wilmots during Euro 2016.
Age: 24 Cost: £13m (reported) Position: Midfielder
Career so far: Helped Monaco win promotion from Ligue 2 in 2012-13 under now Leicester boss Claudio Ranieri, but annoyed his manager by then leaving for Nice - where he spent three seasons before moving to the Foxes. Has only ever scored once in 201 games.
What type of player is he? The fact he gets compared to Claude Makelele is a good clue that he's a defensive midfielder who likes tackles and simple passes. Despite his love of a tackle, he has only been sent off twice in over 200 appearances, so shouldn't be a liability.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? From the scouting team who brought in N'Golo Kante from Ligue 1 a year ago, you have to back Leicester to know a potential Premier League midfielder when they see one.
What has been said about him? "I do not understand his attitude. As soon as I saw him play, I said here is our Claude Makelele. I trusted him and I played him," Ranieri told L'Equipe when Mendy left Monaco in 2013.
Age: 20 Cost: £12.5m (reported) Position: Forward
Career so far: Still only 20, all of Success' first-team football has come for Granada, for whom he scored seven goals in 49 La Liga games.
What type of player is he? Can play on either wing or as a striker. Has pace to burn and plenty of strength. Scored six La Liga goals and assisted another five last season, and that was from out wide in a struggling team.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? There's no reason why not, but if Watford keep hold of Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo, Success may have to play deeper or be an impact substitute unless new coach Walter Mazzarri plays a three-man front line.
What has been said about him? "Success is a very good player, he has power, he has the physical characteristics to play in England, but he's younger and we need to think about the future of this player," said Quique Sanches Flores, then the Watford manager, speaking in February.
Age: 31 Cost: £1.5m (reported) Position: Goalkeeper
Career so far: Started off at Le Havre before joining Marseille in 2007, going on to make 439 appearances. Won the French title with the club in 2010 and has been named Ligue 1 goalkeeper of the year four times, including each of the past two seasons. Had been their captain since 2010.
What type of player is he? An excellent goalkeeper as well as a leader of men. A great shot stopper, who is confident at dealing with crosses. Has saved three Ligue 1 penalties in the last three seasons.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Almost certainly, if he is Palace's number one ahead of Wayne Hennessey. Only missed two Ligue 1 games in his last six years for Marseille and is entering his peak years as a keeper.
What has been said about him? "He'd be France's number one if it wasn't for Hugo Lloris. You just have to look at his record to see he's a top keeper - he brings experience into that position as well," said Palace assistant boss Keith Millen.
Age: 29 Cost: £13.8m Position: Forward
Career so far: Joined Barcelona's B team at the age of 22 after starting his career in the lower leagues. After two La Liga appearances for Barca's first team, he went on to play for Benfica, Granada and Celta Vigo. He was the second-most prolific Spaniard in La Liga over the last three seasons with 39 goals and Barca tried to re-sign him in January.
What type of player is he? Plays out wide on the left, with plenty of pace and tricks - and likes to cut inside onto his right foot and get a shot in - he scored 12 in La Liga last season.
Will he cut it in the Premier League? Pep Guardiola managed the Spaniard at Barcelona so if he thinks he can, he must have something to offer. Was one of Spain's sharpest players at Euro 2016, but might be involved in some rotation among City's star-studded squad and is unlikely to start every game.
What has been said about him? "We've brought him because of the season he's had and because he's a specialist on the wing - there aren't many players like him. Defensively speaking he also helps out his full-back and he was one of our best options for the wide positions," then-Spain boss Vicente del Bosque told Marca about his decision to bring him to Euro 2016.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | The new Premier League season is just over a month away and the 20 top-flight clubs have been predictably busy, amassing over 30 new signings already. | 36729248 |
He was elected to the House of Commons in 1964 and served as MP for Swansea West for 46 years, including when Swansea achieved city status in 1969.
Mr Williams stood down at the 2010 election. At the time he was the MP with the longest continuous service in the House of Commons, earning him the title of Father of the House.
Ed Miliband has led tributes to a "great Parliamentarian".
The Labour leader said Mr Williams had been a "dedicated servant of the people of Swansea".
"Throughout his career - culminating in becoming Father of the House of Commons - he commanded respect from across the political spectrum," Mr Miliband added.
"He will be missed by his many friends in the Labour Party. My thoughts today are with his family."
Fellow Labour MP Geraint Davies, who succeeded Mr Williams in Swansea West, said he died on Sunday night.
He said the former MP would be "dearly missed" by friends, family and the "countless people he helped over many years in Swansea".
"Alan Williams was a good friend for 18 years - a wise counsel and strong champion for Swansea for nearly half a century," Mr Davies said.
"He was a great Parliamentarian who knew where all the skeletons lay and was a great cross-examiner. He was particularly ferocious in select committees but also a kindly and private man."
David Cornock, BBC Wales' parliamentary correspondent
Alan Williams was the sort of politician who enjoyed asking awkward questions.
The recipients were usually those in authority - and sometimes in his own party.
After Tony Blair's landslide election victory in 1997, he was one of the few Labour MPs to speak openly against the Labour government's devolution plans.
Four years later, he was elected chair of the liaison committee, a group of senior MPs whose job it is to question the prime minister directly.
Before then, he had made his name with tough questioning on the watchdog public accounts committee. Whether it was the Royal Household or the Welsh Development Agency spending public cash, the Swansea West MP was forensic in trying to get to the bottom of the story.
He had been a minister under both Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan in the 1960s and 1970s - in industrial, consumer protection and economic roles.
In his role as Father of the House of Commons he presided over the election of the current Speaker, John Bercow in 2009.
He is also unusual among MPs in having an international footballer for a daughter. Sian Williams played for both Wales and England, before going on to manage the Welsh women's team.
Mr Williams was the longest serving Welsh MP after former prime minister David Lloyd George - with a continuous 45 years, five months, 29 days before he stepped down in 2010.
When he became Father of the House in 2005 he said: "It sounds twee but every day I walk into the House of Commons, I get a kick out of it and I hope all new MPs feel the same."
Swansea East AM and former leader of Swansea council, Mike Hedges, also paid tribute to Mr Williams, a married father of three.
He said: "Alan Williams was an excellent and very hard working constituency MP who always put Swansea first.
"He will be sadly missed by the people of the city".
Neath MP Peter Hain said: "Alan was a supreme House of Commons man, diligent, questioning, challenging, always on top of the issues.
"He was highly respected across all political parties and I was indebted to him for his wise counsel even when we did not agree - for instance he was a critic of devolution where I was a big advocate."
The son of a coal miner, Mr Williams was born in Caerphilly in 1930 and attended Cardiff High School for Boys before later studying at the Cardiff College of Technology and Commerce and University College, Oxford.
He was a lecturer and journalist before entering politics, where he held numerous roles, including shadow Welsh secretary. | The former Swansea Labour MP Alan Williams has died at the age of 84. | 30578603 |
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Helen Wilson was struck by the vehicle on Tuesday, just moments after stepping out of her own car, but escaped with a few minor bruises and a rip in her jeans.
Mrs Wilson said: "It's frightening to think about what could have happened but I try to focus on the good side that I'm still here.
"It was a very lucky escape. People keep telling me to buy a lottery ticket." | This is the moment a woman had a remarkable escape as she was knocked over by a car when it lost control on an icy road in Bradford. | 38762827 |
Women in some communities are denied "even their basic rights as British residents", the Casey Review said.
Dame Louise Casey accused public bodies of ignoring or condoning divisive or harmful religious practices for fear of being called racist.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said he would study the findings "closely".
Dame Louise's review into the integration of minorities was commissioned by former Prime Minister David Cameron as part of the government's efforts to tackle extremism.
Among her recommendations were that immigrants could take "an oath of integration with British values and society" and schoolchildren be taught British values.
Her review said there was a sense that people from different backgrounds got on well together at a general level, but community cohesion "did not feel universally strong across the country".
She found "high levels of social and economic isolation in some places, and cultural and religious practices in communities that are not only holding some of our citizens back, but run contrary to British values and sometimes our laws".
Her report highlighted the plight of women in some Muslim communities, who she said were less likely to speak English and more likely to be kept at home.
"Misogyny and patriarchy has to come to an end," Dame Louise said, adding that public institutions must not fear being branded racist or Islamophobic.
Faeeza Vaid, from the Muslim Women's Network, said migrant communities should not be blamed for failing to integrate.
"We also see segregated white communities," she told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
"Integration is everyone's responsibility."
Halima Begum, a Muslim woman from London, said she was "worried" that the report singled out Muslim men.
"There is a problem with men and I see it," she told the BBC's Asian Network. "We need to have an open debate without placing too much blame on communities."
Afraid of being dubbed racist, afraid of losing support, afraid of challenging minority communities - that is Dame Louise Casey's view of Britain's decision-makers.
Criticising politicians and officials is the easy bit. The significance of this report is that it targets individual communities and faiths.
It contrasts with the language of people living "parallel lives" - a term used in an earlier report and designed to be neutral, placing no more blame on one community than another.
Dame Louise makes clear her outrage at what she calls "regressive practices" targeting women and girls. She accepts she is putting Muslim areas under the spotlight.
The question for Dame Louise - an official not immune to criticism herself - is how would she achieve change? What if an elected politician refused to take her oath? What if some people - of whatever community - simply prefer to live and educate their children separately?
Iqbal Bhana, a government adviser on anti-Muslim hate crime, rejected the report's claim that Britain was becoming more segregated.
"I don't think we are divided," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
"If you go to places like Bradford or Leicester you see second and third-generation people moving out of some of these communities."
During her research, Dame Louise spoke to women in areas of Birmingham and Manchester that she said could not leave their homes without their husband's permission.
She blamed those in authority for "ducking the issue" of women's inequality out of a wish to respect different cultures.
4.1m
population increase 2001-11
50%+
of the increase is due to immigration
2.8m people in Britain are Muslim - the biggest religious group after Christians
70-85% of the populations in some wards in Blackburn, Birmingham, Burnley and Bradford are Muslim
511 schools in 43 areas take more than 50% pupils from Pakistani or Bangladeshi backgrounds
27% of births in 2014 were to mothers born outside the UK
"If [the women] were white and living in Surrey, we would all be up in arms about it," she said.
She said not talking about these issues would only "give ammunition to the extreme far-right and Islamic extremists", who are the people "who set out to divide us".
Labour MP Chuka Umunna, who chairs the all-party parliamentary group on social integration, agreed that division had bred extremism and was "sapping our communities of trust".
Immigration was another theme in the report, in which Dame Louise said some towns and cities were "struggling to adjust" to an influx of foreign nationals.
On a visit to Sheffield, she said, she had found some schools were coping with an increase in Eastern European children from 150 to nearly 2,500 over a five-year period.
The report also highlighted a "persistent disadvantage" facing black men in the workplace, as well as white working class children on free meals who underperformed at school.
The report made 12 recommendations, including:
Mr Javid said Britain had "long been home to lots of different cultures and communities", but added that "all of us have to be part of one society".
While it was right to celebrate the "positive contribution" diverse groups make to British life, nobody should be excluded from it or left behind, he said.
"We need to take a serious look at the facts and must not shy away from the challenges we face.
"Dame Louise's report is a valuable contribution, and I will be studying her findings closely."
He said he would be reporting back in the New Year. | Segregation and social exclusion are at "worrying levels" and are fuelling inequality in some areas of Britain, a report has found. | 38200989 |
He won 50 of the 77 votes cast, to beat out his only rival Ambrose Rachier, the chairman of top Kenyan side Gor Mahia.
Mwendwa is the chairman at a a lower league side, Kariobangi Sharks.
Incumbent Sam Nyamweya withdrew from the elections just before the voting began, three other candidates withdrew in the days before the polls.
"I've made this decision [to withdraw from the elections] out of love for the game, passion and appreciation and that no good leader should be pushed to give up power," Nyamweya explained.
Investigations are still being made into allegations of corruption against Nyamweya, charges he has denied.
He and two other officials are being investigated for "conspiracy to defraud".
Kenya's Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions began looking into the case in December following a recommendation from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
The case centres on how almost US$170,000, set aside for Kenya's trip to Cape Verde for a 2018 World Cup qualifier in November, was actually used. | Nick Mwendwa has been voted in as the new president of the Football Kenya Federation. | 35540532 |
Tye took 18 wickets for Gloucestershire in 14 T20 matches in his first spell with the club last season.
The 30-year-old has won three caps for Australia in 20-over cricket, with his last international appearance coming in a defeat by South Africa in March.
He has played for Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League for the past two seasons, winning the 2014-15 title. | Gloucestershire have re-signed Australia seam bowler Andrew Tye for the 2017 T20 Blast competition. | 38315372 |
Jermaine Grant, from London, was jailed for nine charges related to trying to illegally obtain Kenyan citizenship.
He faces separate charges of "conspiring to improvise an explosive device" and a trial in Mombasa is ongoing. He denies the terror charges.
Grant was arrested in 2011 when batteries and chemicals were discovered in his apartment in Mombasa.
UK police - who have provided forensic assistance to Kenyan authorities - allege they were "precursors for making highly volatile explosive substances".
Samantha Lewthwaite, known as the "White Widow" and wanted in connection with the 7/7 bombings in London in 2005, is also suspected of being involved in the alleged plot.
She escaped arrest in Kenya in 2011 and has been missing since then.
The sentencing of Grant comes after Mombasa High Court judge Martin Muya overturned an earlier acquittal on the Kenyan citizenship charges.
He sentenced him to one year in prison for each of the charges. | A British man accused of plotting terror attacks on the Kenyan coast has been jailed for nine years in Mombasa. | 34982045 |
A five-year strategic plan for the health service's future says growth in cash funding has been one-third lower than that for NHS England.
The assembly government said the gap was a legacy of underfunding of Wales as a whole.
The Lib Dems called it "shocking". The Tories blamed ministerial management.
The strategic plan warns that NHS organisations in Wales "enter this more challenging economic period from a less financially secure platform" than England.
By Hywel GriffithBBC Wales Health correspondent
Few cross-border comparisons between England and Wales paint the Welsh NHS in a positive light. Waiting lists in England are shorter, ambulance response times are faster.
But for the Welsh Assembly Government to openly admit they've not been as generous with their NHS funding is extraordinary.
It is perhaps at least a pragmatic way of preparing people for the pain that lies ahead. Massive savings must be made if the Welsh NHS is to survive the squeeze on public spending over the next five years.
To justify some of the changes planned, this report sets the scene with a fairly hefty dose of reality.
However, the assembly government said that health spending was a "priority".
Health Minister Edwina Hart has already warned that without radical reform and cost savings, the health service faces a potential deficit of nearly £2bn a year in five years' time.
The five-year strategic plan said: "NHS Wales faces significant and increasing financial challenges.
"The state of public finances means that funding growth will be much smaller over the coming years than it has been in the recent past, while cost pressures are likely to continue to increase.
"In addition, the total growth in [cash] funding provided to NHS Wales over the last six years has been a third lower than that provided to NHS organisations in England, while operating cost pressures and the targets set for improving service quality and service access have been very similar in the two countries."
The admission has been seized on by the Welsh Liberal Democrats, who said the report should be a source of concern for patients.
'Very fragile'
Veronica German AM, Welsh Liberal Democrat health spokesperson, said the NHS in Wales was in a "very fragile position".
She said: "The shocking report reveals for the first time that the momentum of improvements to the funding of our health service has stalled significantly compared to England.
"If this has been the case for the past six years, there will be deep concern about the very financial future of the NHS as public spending tightens."
Ms German said it was "scandalous that the health minister has repeatedly refused to ensure that money is being spent effectively within the NHS".
She added: "She has spent millions of pounds on costly reorganisations, refused to look at claims that a fifth of her budget is spent ineffectively and refused to cut the number of senior management posts.
"At the same time we have lagged behind England in waiting list performance, ambulance response times, stroke services and cancer survival rates."
The Welsh Conservatives said the assembly government had inadequately managed the NHS in Wales and they want claims of misspending of funds fully investigated.
Shadow Health Minister Andrew RT Davies AM said: "This report shatters the cosmetic front of the assembly government and their claims that the NHS is a true priority."
The plan reveals the scale of cutbacks the Welsh NHS will have to undertake if it is to break even over the coming years.
Unlike in England, the assembly government has ruled out ring-fencing spending on health, as this would have a disproportionate effect on other devolved budgets.
An assembly government spokesperson said: "The Holtham Commission presented compelling evidence that Wales was underfunded by some £300m per year and the total level of resources will clearly have an impact on our investment decisions.
"The NHS has, and always will be, a priority for the assembly government - demonstrated by 40% of our budget being invested in health and social services.
"This has increased significantly since 1999 and now stands at £6.3bn.
"With that significant investment, we now have more staff, new buildings and equipment, and waiting times have fallen and patient care has improved."
However, Tina Donnelly from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said she still remained surprised to discover the level of the NHS funding deficit.
"Looking at the early 1990s where we had a huge deficit in the numbers of professional workers working in the NHS and long waiting lists, we have seen in fairness, an increase in nursing numbers and in medical staff numbers," she remarked.
"But in the last year or so we know that there is increasing pressure on the NHS to curtail cost."
She said it was now time for the all parties to come together to address the issue.
"I'd be asking if the Lib Dems and the Conservatives in central government now, isn't it the opportunistic time for the whole of the polictical parties in Wales to push for an increase in the Barnett formula and recover that £300m underfunding for Wales," she added. | The NHS in Wales has been underfunded compared with the health service in England for the last six years, the Welsh Assembly Government has admitted. | 10621931 |
President Jacob Zuma is already facing an official investigation over the multi-million dollar renovation of his homestead in KwaZulu Natal.
It and a proposed building of a nearby town has been dubbed "Zumaville".
Provincial authorities have said the road development plan preceded Mr Zuma's presidency.
But the Democratic Alliance has questioned why so much emphasis is being placed on this area of South Africa.
The BBC's Pumza Fihlani, in Johannesburg, says many development plans and road upgrades across the country, some of which are urgently needed, never get off the ground often because of lack of finance or corrupt tenders.
On Sunday, it was revealed that South Africa's Public Protector Thuli Madonsela had opened an investigation into the publicly funded construction of Mr Zuma's private residence in the district of Nkandla.
The chalets and state of the art security are said to have cost $27m (£17m).
The unveiling by the KwaZulu Natal government of two new nearby road networks, costing $67m, happened two days later.
The Democratic Alliance's Ian Ollis said that he would request that Ms Madonsela extend her investigation to include the road upgrades leading to Mr Zuma's homestead.
"KwaZulu Natal certainly has enough road and transport infrastructure projects which could have been considered as alternatives to the Nkandla projects," Mr Ollis said.
But KwaZulu Natal's Transport Minister Willies Mchunu said the road project was above board and various villages had been marked for development before Mr Zuma came to power in 2009.
"In fact, former President Thabo Mbeki identified Nkandla and Msinga as priority areas needing development. This has nothing to do with President Zuma," South Africa's Mercury newspaper quoted him as saying.
In recent months, there has also been controversy over proposals for a town to be built about 3km (two miles) from Mr Zuma's Nkandla homestead.
"Public funds should not be spent to service the home and the hometown of the president to the detriment of other projects that are meant to improve the lives of ordinary South Africans," Mr Ollis said.
The public works minister has defended the expenditure on Mr Zuma's residence, arguing that the ministerial handbook on spending of public funds does not apply to the president.
Mr Zuma is gearing up for a difficult leadership battle at the governing African National Congress (ANC) conference in December.
Our reporter says his government has been plagued with reports of corruption and wasteful spending despite electoral promises to improve the lives of the poor. | The spending of taxpayers' money on the upgrade of roads near the rural home of South Africa's president should be investigated, the opposition says. | 19902946 |
The 18-year-old centre-back, who began his career with Southampton, joins the National League Spitfires, after being on trial during pre-season.
"I like the look of what I see," boss Richard Hill said. "I'm delighted to sign someone of his talent. especially with a number of league clubs looking to acquire his services."
Read represented Stoke's under-18 side in the Premier League competition.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Eastleigh have signed teenage defender Harvey Read from Stoke City. | 40726672 |
Defender Van Dijk has an ankle injury, while midfielder Ward-Prowse and forward Rodriguez picked up knocks in Wednesday's EFL Cup win at Liverpool.
Midfielder Granit Xhaka is suspended for Arsenal following his red card against Burnley last Sunday.
Forward Theo Walcott is back in the squad following a calf injury. | Southampton will be without Virgil van Dijk, James Ward-Prowse and Jay Rodriguez for Saturday's FA Cup fourth round tie against Arsenal. | 38700749 |
The 37-year-old's five catches in Nottinghamshire's Championship win over Warwickshire took him to 998.
When Read reaches the target, he will be the first player to do so since Jack Russell in 1997.
"It's close isn't it? I am maybe thinking about it more now and willing people to find the edge," Read said.
"I probably won't do a lot. I will probably throw the ball up a little bit higher than I might normally do," he told BBC Radio Nottingham.
"But, at the same time, I am so excited by this group of bowlers. The way Jake Ball bowled against Warwickshire was brilliant.
"If he keeps that up I am sure there will be more edges coming my way."
Read's chance to become the 26th player in history to reach 1,000 dismissals will come when Notts start a Championship game against Durham at Trent Bridge on 9 September.
The former England keeper, who missed part of the season with a hamstring injury, is currently leading Nottinghamshire's batting averages, with 762 runs in 16 innings at an average of 63.50.
And he reached a milestone with the bat this week, when his 69 against Warwickshire saw him pass 15,000 first-class runs.
Read, who has three centuries this season, added: "I didn't feel it was a big thing but everyone was 'yeah, that's a lot of runs'.
"For me, we talk about landmarks, but that wasn't one I was eyeing up at all.
"I am in really good form at the moment and I have always said that when you are in form, you need to make it pay.
"There are times in your career when you have lows, you don't know where your next run is coming from, so you really need to make those times count." | Nottinghamshire captain Chris Read is preparing to become the first wicketkeeper in more than a decade to claim 1,000 first-class dismissals. | 34050997 |
Flights to Majorca from Inverness Airport are to be offered for six weeks from 16 June 2016.
The first direct flights from Scotland to Jamaica will also be offered next summer, for three weeks from Glasgow Airport.
Holiday companies Thomson and First Choice will operate the links.
Graeme Bell, general manager at Inverness Airport, said the flights to Majorca would be a "fantastic addition" to the airport's holiday route network.
The flights would connect holidaymakers to several resorts, including Sa Coma on the east coast of Majorca.
Services from Glasgow to Montego Bay are to be offered for three weeks from June 2017.
Thomson and First Choice are also introducing new flights from Glasgow to Sal in Cape Verde this winter and again next summer.
The companies said the Jamaica flights would serve popular resorts including Lucea, Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios and Trelawny.
Glasgow Airport has welcomed the announcement. | New flights connecting Scottish airports with popular holiday destinations abroad have been announced. | 36100154 |
The 53-year-old driver of a Mercedes car died at the scene of the crash on the A78, near Hunterston Roundabout, at about 10:10 on Saturday.
The 60-year-old male driver of the bus and a 69-year-old female passenger suffered head injuries.
A further 57-year-old male passenger was said to be serious but stable.
The other seven bus passengers have left hospital after treatment.
Police said the name of the car driver would not be released.
Sgt Iain Pittams said: "Enquiries into the incident are continuing and we are asking that anyone who saw the crash or who has any information about it to contact police." | The driver of a bus and two passengers injured in a collision with a car in Ayrshire remain in a serious condition in hospital, police have said. | 34692480 |
The Wales judoka won by an ippon to secure Britain's second medal of the championships after Colin Oates took silver in the -66kg on Thursday.
She said: "My aim was to win the Europeans, but I am happy with bronze."
Only one of the -78kg judoka can be selected for the Rio Olympics, with Commonwealth champion Powell leading the race.
There are potentially three further competitions after the Euros for either athlete to take an advantage before the Olympic qualification period finishes at the end of May.
When Powell and Gibbons had last fought at the Paris Grand Slam, Powell had won on shidos, however this time she pulled off a big throw to take the contest.
The world number nine had earlier beaten Slovakia's Anamari Velensek with a waza-ari to take her to a semi-final contest with the Netherlands' Guusje Steenhuis where another waza-ari set up victory.
The European Championships in Kazan are the last major championships before the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in August with up to 400 qualifying points on offer.
Powell and Gibbons are part of a 13-strong GB squad in Russia. | Natalie Powell beat fellow Briton Gemma Gibbons in the -78kg to claim bronze at the European Championships in Russia. | 36121473 |
Apedelrazak Badram, 32, has been charged with three sexual offences and two counts of impersonating a police officer, Scotland Yard said.
The girl was raped near Sandhurst Road in Edmonton, north London, on Wednesday.
Detectives said it was linked to a second attempted assault on another 12-year-old girl the same day.
The girl attacked in nearby Shirley Grove managed to escape.
Mr Badram, of Enfield, north London, is also charged with false imprisonment, two counts of breaching a sexual offences prevention order, possession of class B drugs and theft.
He appeared in custody at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Saturday and will return to court next week. | A man has appeared in court accused of raping a 12-year-old girl at knifepoint and claiming to be a police officer. | 35449524 |
They quote a person familiar with SNL's plans as saying Katie Rich was suspended indefinitely. The programme's network, NBC, is yet to comment.
On Friday, Ms Rich posted a now-deleted tweet, saying "Barron will be this country's first home-school shooter".
An avalanche of criticism on social media followed.
Ms Rich later deleted her tweet, suspending her Twitter account.
However, on Monday she was back online to issue an apology.
One Facebook post in reaction to her previous tweet has been shared nearly three million times.
The post read: "NO child deserves to be talked to in such a manner... He is a child, he is to be respected and he is off limits".
Chelsea Clinton, a former first child, joined the support for Barron.
SNL has made a number of shows in recent months, parodying President Trump.
Mr Trump, who took office on 20 January, has described the programme as "not funny" and with "terrible" cast. | A Saturday Night Live writer has been suspended after posting a tweet mocking US President Donald Trump's son Barron, US media reports say. | 38726766 |
Harriott presented the BBC One cookery show Ready Steady Cook for 16 years, while Bright is best known for playing Linda Carter on the BBC One soap.
They will join Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine, who was revealed as the first contestant on Monday.
The 13th season of BBC One's Strictly starts in September.
Harriott, 58, said: "I must admit that I do love to dance, but doing it in front of the nation is a whole different matter.
"In my day job the only type of salsa I know about is the one in my recipes, so I am looking forward to rising to the challenge. Bring it on!"
Speaking about his rival, Harriott said Jeremy Vine had a "wonderful discipline about him".
He added: "When it comes to dancing it is about the discipline and how much effort you put in. If you put the time in then you can be a bit more expressive."
Bright said: "One reason I wanted to do it is because I'm going to be 40 next year. I thought well actually at this point in my life to be the fittest I've ever been, or to certainly give it a good go, is a great thing and it will be challenging.
"I just want to see what my body can still do, you know what I mean, before it all goes kaput."
The other contestants taking part will be announced over the next few weeks. Last year's competition was won by X Factor presenter Caroline Flack. | Celebrity chef Ainsley Harriott and EastEnders actress Kellie Bright have joined the line-up for the next series of Strictly Come Dancing. | 33868691 |
France will fully refund Russia for the two helicopter carriers. The deal was worth €1.2bn (£838m; $1.3bn) and Russia made an advance payment of about €840m.
The Kremlin says that it now considers the dispute to be fully resolved.
French President Francois Hollande's office said that Russia will be "fully reimbursed" for the two warships.
It said that France will keep both vessels.
France stopped the planned sale after the outbreak of the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin said that France has agreed to pay back money Russia paid under the contract.
"France has already transferred these funds and, after the return of equipment, will acquire ownership and be able to take charge of both ships," it said in a statement.
The Elysee Palace statement said that all Russian equipment installed on the ships will be removed and handed back to Russia.
The deal was described last year as the biggest arms sale made by a Nato country to Russia.
The Mistral-class vessels carry about 700 troops, 16 helicopter gunships and up to 50 armoured vehicles.
Last month President Hollande denied claims that a deal had been reached. At that time it was suggested that France would compensate Russia to the tune of €1.16bn.
That sum included the amount that Russia has already spent on special training for 400 sailors, on port infrastructure in Vladivostok for the two warships and on developing four prototype Ка-52К helicopters.
Western sanctions have been ratcheted up against Russia since March 2014, when Russia annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea.
Russia denies backing pro-Russian separatist rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine. | A deal has been agreed in which Russia will receive compensation for France's decision last year to cancel the sale of two warships, both countries say. | 33798102 |
Eubank, 27, defends his IBO world title against the 37-year-old German at Wembley Arena on 15 July.
WBA champion George Groves and Britons Callum Smith and Jamie Cox are among eight super-middleweights already entered in the Super Series tournament.
Smith sacrificed a WBC world title shot against Anthony Dirrell to take part.
The winner of the knockout event will earn a share of $50m (£38m) and take the Muhammad Ali trophy.
But they will have to negotiate quarter-finals in September, semi-finals in January and a May final in a tournament which organisers say will "change the world of boxing."
If contestants meet a current world title holder during the tournament, belts will also be on the line.
"It would be great to fight George Groves and to take his title away from him but let´s see what the draw in Monaco brings," said Eubank.
A cruiserweight tournament will run alongside the super-middleweight competition and as all four cruiserweight world champions are taking part, the division should have an undisputed champion by May.
Abraham believes the Super Series represents "the Champions League of boxing". He holds a record of 46 wins from 51 fights and is a former two-weight world champion, while Eubank has just one defeat in 24 bouts.
Both will know their potential Super Series quarter-final opponent on Saturday when the draw takes place in Monte Carlo. | The winner of Chris Eubank Jr's super-middleweight bout with Arthur Abraham will earn a place in the inaugural World Boxing Super Series. | 40518439 |
Chipolopolo surprised many by beating Ivory Coast on penalties in Gabon but then failed to get past the group stage at the next two editions.
"Some of the players thought they were untouchable," he told BBC Sport.
"Our players were big-headed, that's no secret. Club coaches were nothing to most of the players who won that cup."
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The 47-year-old coach insisted that his comments will not affect his relationship with the players in his current squad that also played in 2012.
"It is not all of them that were so big-headed and it is all about recent performance and discipline," he explained.
"The process is still going on and we are going in the right direction."
Niyrenda says the attitude of all his players is now the key to success.
"So it is all about attitude - the hard work was no longer there," he continued.
"How can other nations win it back-to-back like Egypt? It is because they have been disciplined.
"Our biggest problem here is the satisfaction levels - most of our players win four games in a row and are happy, they are too satisfied with very little things.
"This is where we need to start managing our players."
Zambia failed to qualify for the 2017 Nations Cup finals in Gabon and are in a group alongside Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Namibia to decide who advances to the 2019 edition in Cameroon.
They are currently third in their group for 2018 World Cup qualifying with a single point.
Nigeria are top of Group B with six points, Cameroon second with two while Algeria are level with Zambia after two matches with only the group winners earning a place in Russia. | Zambia coach Wedson Niyrenda says some players became too "big-headed" following their 2012 Africa Cup of Nations victory. | 39445954 |
That is probably an understatement. One of his very first acts in charge was to face the media one morning in September 2014 to reveal Tesco executives had overstated profits by about £250m - a figure later revised up to £326m. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been parked in Tesco's offices ever since.
Dave Lewis will be hoping that today's announcement that Tesco will pay a £129m fine and set up an £85m compensation fund for investors who bought after Tesco knew something was wrong but before it told anyone will draw a line under the whole sorry episode.
A Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) - which still has to be approved by the High Court - is a fairly new way (introduced in February 2014) of punishing a company for criminal behaviour without the collateral damage of a conviction (for example, sanctions or reputational damage that could put the company out of business and destroy the jobs and investments of innocent people).
This potential DPA with Tesco Stores Limited does not address whether liability of any sort attaches to Tesco PLC or any employee or agent of Tesco PLC or Tesco Stores Ltd.
DPAs may be fairly new, but they are instruments the SFO is warming to. Just last month it announced a DPA with Rolls-Royce which saw the company pay a UK fine of £500m. In that case, the judge agreed that a criminal conviction for the company could disbar it from securing contracts - particularly in the US - which in turn could threaten the jobs of thousands of UK workers.
A DPA also avoids lengthy and costly trials and puts the offending company on probation to ensure full co-operation in the future.
It also does NOT mean that individuals escape scot free while shareholders pay the price for their conduct. Three former executives from Tesco face criminal proceedings. The SFO also quizzed the former chief executive Phil Clarke, before dropping any further action against him.
In the Rolls-Royce case, the SFO has also turned its attentions from the company to former senior executives to establish who knew what and when about bribery allegations spanning 24 years.
All in all, it looks like an elegant solution to a difficult problem. The head of the SFO, David Green, will chalk this up as another victory for pragmatic regulation and enforcement. It will be interesting to see whether its decade long probe into the Qatari government's £7bn investment in Barclays at the height of the financial crisis will end in a similar outcome.
One reason it might not is that DPAs are supposedly reserved for companies that co-operate fully. Barclays withheld vital documents for many years on the basis of legal privilege.
One reason it might is the £5bn investment in the UK announced by self same Qatari government just yesterday. Would pursuing an action involving a foreign investor, who arguably was trying to prevent a UK bank being nationalised back in 2009, be the best way to say the UK welcomed overseas investment?
As I said at the time of the Rolls-Royce agreement, when it comes to ethics versus jobs and money, jobs and money usually come out on top. | Hugely regrettable - that's how the chief executive of Tesco, Dave Lewis, described the two-and-a-half-year scandal that has spanned his entire time at the helm of the UK's largest retailer. | 39419564 |
The 41-year-old was attacked in Sunderland's Mowbray Park on Wednesday between 01:00 BST and 02:00 BST.
Northumbria Police said officers were trying to trace a man who was with the victim beforehand.
He is described as 5ft 8ins tall, of medium build with short, dark receding hair. He was wearing a Miami skyline printed T-shirt, dark jeans and trainers.
He had a tattoo on his left forearm and upper arm. | A woman has been raped in a Wearside park, police say. | 34226066 |
Malcolm Beer made his comments ahead of a Windsor council aviation forum later.
He said a third runway north-west of the airport could create the need to use greenbelt land for housing.
A Heathrow spokesman said: "There will be little or no need for additional house-building over and above current local authority plans."
The housing concern comes after a recent report by the Airport Commission, which stated the Heathrow expansion would create between 47,400 and 112,400 jobs by 2030, which in turn would require an extra 29,800 to 70,800 homes to be created in the surrounding area, including Windsor, Slough and London boroughs.
Mr Beer said "anxious" Windsor residents associations would be organising a public meeting in the next 10 days ahead of the commission's public consultation deadline on 3 February.
Mr Beer, who is on the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Borough aviation forum committee, said: "We have an enormous housing problem in the area.
"We are having a real problem considering if we have to release greenbelt land for housing, which is an unpopular suggestion.
"Apart from the noise, the whole area will be urbanised - that's what a lot of people don't realise.
"The impact will be felt across the Thames Valley - it's commercial greed gone mad."
The borough council forum will present its own residents' poll plans after a Heathrow report stated most residents were in favour of expansion.
The Heathrow spokesman said the expansion plans would benefit 700,000 existing residents in the area "who are unemployed, under-employed or are commuting out of the area at present".
The aviation forum takes place at 19:00 GMT at The Guildhall Chamber, Windsor. | Creating up to 70,800 homes if Heathrow expansion plans go ahead would cause "absolute turmoil", a Windsor councillor has said. | 30726088 |
Dzsenifer Marozsan put Germany ahead at the Maracana with a curling finish, and Sweden's Linda Sembrant gifted them a second by scoring an own goal after Marozsan's free-kick hit a post.
Stina Blackstenius pulled a goal back from Kosovare Asslani's low cross.
Germany face Brazil in the men's final on Saturday at 21:30 BST.
Canada secured women's bronze by beating Brazil 2-1 in Sao Paulo.
The women's football event has been held at only six Olympics, and this was Germany's fourth medal after they won bronze in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
Sweden reached the final after penalty shootout victories over the United States and Brazil in the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively.
Described as a "bunch of cowards" by USA goalkeeper Hope Solo, Sweden's silver was their first Olympic women's football medal.
Success for Germany comes a year after they finished fourth in the 2015 World Cup, when they lost 1-0 to England in the third-place play-off.
England head coach Mark Sampson, whose side also beat Canada, this week said Great Britain could have won Olympic gold if they had been able to compete in Rio.
They earned a qualification place as England finished third - the highest-ranked European team - in the World Cup.
However, the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football associations could not agree on sending a combined British team, with Sweden winning a qualifying tournament to replace them.
Great Britain reached the quarter-finals at London 2012. | Germany won women's Olympic football gold for the first time with a 2-1 victory over Sweden in the final in Rio. | 36691178 |
King Felipe VI signed a decree on Tuesday to dissolve parliament, bringing to an end months of stalemate between the four main parties.
Spain has never had a repeat election since it returned to democracy in 1975,
The parliament speaker expressed her hope that the parties had learned from their failure to produce a government.
"I hope we have all learned our lesson and that the next parliament reaches an agreement as soon as possible," Patxi Lopez told reporters.
However, opinion polls suggest little change in support for the four parties since the 20 December poll.
The nightmare scenario is that the same devilish parliamentary mathematics is produced by the repeat poll.
Will the politicians sweat out a deal through Spain's hot summer weeks, or will autumn roll around with no proper mandate for a government in place?
There is a danger that 2016 will be remembered as a lost year in Spanish politics, unless the country's political leaders find their sense of duty.
Spain's leaders line up for re-election
The last election marked an end to the traditional dominance of Spanish politics by the centre-right Popular Party (PP) and Socialist PSOE which lost votes to the left-wing anti-austerity Podemos movement and centrist Ciudadanos (Citizens) party.
Although the PP won the vote, they lost their majority and leader Mariano Rajoy has been caretaker prime minister ever since.
After his attempt to form a government failed, PSOE leader Pedro Sanchez reached a coalition deal with Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera but was unable to reach a majority in the 350-seat parliament.
Podemos refused to serve in a coalition with the centrists.
The party is now considering whether to team up with the former communist Izquierda Unida (United Left), which might increase their power in parliament. | Spanish voters will return to the polls on 26 June, six months after a general election failed to produce a clear-cut result. | 36193789 |
Blake Ross, who was in care, was reported missing from Howdenhall at 15:15 on Saturday.
After being found unwell 48 hours later on the number four bus at Leopold Place he was taken to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children where he died.
An investigation is now being carried out into the actions the police took in relation to the case.
It has been confirmed that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal had instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC) to conduct an independent investigation.
Edinburgh Council will also conduct a multi-agency significant case review into Blake's death.
When a child in care dies, such reviews are standard practice.
Lothian Buses said the driver of the bus radioed his control room to report that Blake was unwell.
A supervisor attended and police were also called before the teenager, who was thought to be one of triplet brothers, was taken to hospital.
The youngster's death, which is understood to have been related to his diabetes, is currently being treated as unexplained and police inquiries are continuing.
Blake had recently featured in a short film produced by Edinburgh Leisure about children in care.
Tommy George, community development manager at Edinburgh Leisure said: "It [the film] showed how physical activity and sports impacts positively on the lives of young people in care.
"Everyone who came into contact with Blake is deeply saddened to hear this news and we send our condolences."
Supt Lesley Clark, of Police Scotland, said: "The matter has now been referred to the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner.
"As in all matters concerning police contact before death, we will provide any necessary assistance to the PIRC as they conduct their investigation and we await the outcome of their report.
"This is a tragic set of circumstances and thoughts and condolences are with Blake's family and friends."
A City of Edinburgh Council spokesperson said: "We are deeply shocked at Blake's sudden death and our thoughts are with his family.
"We will continue to liaise closely with Police Scotland as they carry out their inquiries." | A 13-year-old boy who fell ill after going missing in Edinburgh without his diabetes medication has died. | 38969585 |
The speaker of the assembly said work on a new constitution and electoral law would resume once "dialogue commences".
There have been daily protests calling for the body to be dissolved since one of its members was assassinated.
Mohamed Brahmi was shot on 25 July, almost six months after fellow leftist politician Chokri Belaid was killed.
About 60 members of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC) withdrew in protest at the killings and organised a sit-in outside its headquarters in the capital, Tunis.
Later on Tuesday, tens of thousands of people participated in a protest in central Tunis called by the opposition to demand the assembly's dissolution and the government to resign, and to mark the six-month anniversary of the assassination of Chokri Belaid.
The powerful Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) called on its 600,000 members to join the rally.
On Tuesday morning, the ANC was convened despite the absences. An empty chair where Mr Brahmi used to sit was draped in a Tunisian flag and covered in flowers and a picture of him.
Prime Minister Ali Larayedh urged the assembly to "hurry and finish the constitution quickly" so that fresh elections could be held in December. The body has already gone eight months beyond its promised deadline.
However, on Tuesday evening ANC Speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar announced on television that it would "suspend its work until dialogue commences, in the service of Tunisia".
Mr Ben Jaafar, whose Ettakatol party is part of the cabinet, condemned the failure of politicians to resolve the political crisis.
"Despite the gravity of the situation and instead of working towards unity, party leaders have unfortunately gone in the opposite direction - towards division," he said. "The people are fed up with this situation and can no longer tolerate this wait."
Mr Larayedh has refused to step down and appealed for "national unity".
The political unrest is the worst seen in Tunisia since President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown by a popular uprising in January 2011.
In a separate development on Tuesday, police shot dead an Islamist militant in the Tunis suburb of Rawad, interior ministry officials said. | Tunisia's constituent assembly has been suspended until the Islamist-led government and secular opposition begin talks to resolve a political crisis. | 23596640 |
They said the higher end of the market was stalling because of the new land and buildings transaction tax (LBTT).
The rate change has resulted in a tax cut on sales under £325,000, but they have increased above that sum.
Representatives from the property sector made their views known in evidence to MSPs at Holyrood.
Members of the finance committee have been examining the LBTT changes which came into being in April this year.
In a paper submitted by the Scottish Fiscal Commission to the committee estimated revenues under the new tax of between £203.9m to £243.9m, once the effect of forestalling - people bringing transactions forward to avoid the new tax - was taken into account.
That compares with the Scottish government's forecast for LBTT revenues of £235m for the year 2015-16, which did not include forestalling.
Under LBTT a rate of 5% is levied on the proportion of a property's price between £250,000 and £325,000, with a 10% rate applying between £325,000 and £750,000 and 12% above £750,000.
The Scottish Property Federation (SPF) wanted the 5% rate threshold to be raised to £500,000 and for the 12% rate to be abolished.
Chairman Chris Stewart said the federation's figures showed a 22.5% decline in sales of properties over £400,000 between May to September 2014 and the same period in 2015, with a 54% reduction in sales of homes costing more than £1m.
Sales to international buyers in the highest bracket were also down from 27% last year to 18% in 2015.
Mr Stewart told the committee: "This is not about feeling sorry for people in that part of the market, it's about allowing the market to function properly.
"Clearly the tax structure, that 12%, is putting people off... it's stopping people from investing in Scotland."
Similar concerns were raised by Philip Hogg, chief executive of Homes for Scotland, which represents the home building industry.
He said: "The impact of the tax at the top tier levels, the ones where the higher tax bands come in, has been quite significant and we're hearing anecdotally a number of our members stating that sales have either been stalled or have not gone through."
Mr Hogg pointed to evidence that buyers at the top end of the market were opting to "spruce up" their homes instead of moving.
Homes for Scotland was not calling for immediate change to the regime but wanted it kept under "close review" with a view to adjusting or tweaking the system if current trends continued.
Kennedy Foster, policy consultant at the Council of Mortgage Lenders, pointed to growth in the mortgage lending market in Scotland, particularly for first-time buyers, but cautioned this could be due to other factors such as low interest rates and a competitive mortgage market.
He said figures for the quarter ending September show first-time buyer numbers up to 8,500 with the value of loans granted for house purchase at £920m.
Prof Campbell Leith, from the Scottish Fiscal Commission, told MSPs: "The out-turn data is significantly below what you would expect given the seasonality you would normally expect in the data.
"This may be because of a temporary forestalling effect or it may be that the change in the tax regime has permanently subdued certain parts of the market and this will continue indefinitely." | Property experts want a review of Scotland's stamp duty replacement as analysis shows it could be down by more than £30m in its first year. | 34919366 |
Gloucestershire Police said it happened at about 05:25 GMT on the southbound carriageway, just north of junction 13.
The 21-year-old driver of a BMW was killed, a spokesman said. The driver of the articulated lorry was unharmed.
A police spokesman said the southbound carriageway of the motorway remained closed between junctions 12 and 13 until after 13:00 GMT.
Long queues of traffic were reported on surrounding roads as drivers followed diversions.
The coroner and the victim's next of kin have been informed, but formal identification of the man who was killed has not yet been carried out, police said. | A man from Gloucester has been killed in a crash involving a lorry and a car on the M5 near Stroud. | 34795979 |
Broadcasting Minister Venkaiah Naidu took the decision, the channel said.
The 24-hour suspension was imposed as a penalty for NDTV's coverage of an attack on the Pathankot air force base.
The broadcasting ministry said the channel had divulged "strategically-sensitive details" while covering the attack which took place in January.
It said that among the information revealed were details on ammunition and the locations of military planes.
Monday's decision - reported on the channel's website - to suspend the ban was announced after the Supreme Court agreed to hear NDTV's appeal on Tuesday against it.
Mr Naidu earlier argued that the suspension was necessary for security reasons and that it was responsible for generating a storm of criticism against the government which appeared to be "politically inspired".
NDTV rejected the criticism, saying its coverage of the attack - in which seven Indian soldiers and six militants were killed - was "particularly balanced".
It argued that other channels and newspapers reported the same details.
India has accused Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammad of carrying out the assault.
The ban was believed to have been the first order against an Indian broadcaster over its coverage of militant attacks.
The Press Club of India described the government's action as "uncalled-for censorship" at a time when "press freedom is already under increasing threat in the country".
NDTV said after the announcement of the ban that it was looking at "all possible options" in response to the "extraordinary order".
The channel also received support from the Editors Guild of India, an organisation of the country's top editors which condemned the "unprecedented decision".
News of the ban and its suspension has also trended on Twitter under the #NDTVBanned hashtag. | The Indian government has suspended a one-day ban on NDTV's Hindi channel due on Wednesday, which had been widely condemned by other news outlets. | 37900352 |
One of the patients is from the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area while the other is from the NHS Lanarkshire area.
The two health boards, along with Health Protection Scotland, said they were investigating two suspected cases of wound botulism.
The investigation is focusing on injecting heroin users.
Dr Gillian Penrice, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde consultant in public heath medicine, said: "I urge all drug injecting heroin users to be extremely alert.
"They should seek urgent medical attention from accident and emergency if they experience any early symptoms such as blurred or double vision, difficulty in swallowing and speaking and/or inflammation at the injection site.
"It is important for injecting drug users to engage with the wide range of services we offer designed to help them tackle their addictions. However for those who continue to inject, it is extremely important that they seek urgent medical help if they show these early symptoms."
She added: "Heroin users should avoid injecting heroin into their muscles. Injecting heroin into a vein or smoking can reduce the risk of botulism, although not using heroin at all is by far the best course of action." | Two injecting drug users are being treated in hospital for suspected botulism, it has been confirmed. | 34485625 |
Carroll, 28, last played for England in October 2012 but has scored four goals in his last four games for the Hammers.
"Every manager would like to have him in his team or squad," said Bilic.
"Andy would help any team. Andy would help the German team, Andy would help the Croatian team, the Spanish team, because he is a top player."
Carroll has scored twice for England - including a fine header in a Euro 2012 win against Sweden - but has suffered with multiple injuries since joining West Ham originally on loan in 2012.
He has made 68 Premier League starts from a possible 176 for the Hammers, and is a doubt to face West Brom this weekend with a groin injury.
Bilic said: "He is a top player. He brings you everything, everything that you could ask from a centre-forward.
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"We didn't want to take any risk with him, we will see on Friday if he is going to be available for Saturday.
"It is not something that is major. If it was bigger we would rule him out."
England are in action against Germany in a friendly on 22 March before hosting Lithuania four days later. | West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has backed striker Andy Carroll for an England recall, saying he would "help any team" in world football. | 38926305 |
The emergency services were called to Poddle Park in Kimmage shortly after 19:00 local time.
The boy was stabbed in the upper chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.
His mother, who is in her 40s and originally from the Middle East, sustained knife wounds during the incident and is in hospital.
Her injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Irish national broadcaster RTE has said that the Garda (Irish police) are treating the case as a personal tragedy at this stage.
They have appealed for any witnesses to contact them.
BBC News NI Ireland correspondent Shane Harrison told Good Morning Ulster: "Local people raised the alarm after reportedly hearing what sounded like a distressed woman.
"There were reportedly no signs, or no apparent signs of a break-in at the apartment.
"The woman is described as a medic of Iranian decent and is believed to be in her 40s."
The woman is separated from her husband who is also believed to be Iranian.
It is understood that police are seeking to interview all family members, neighbours and friends. | Police in Dublin are waiting to interview the mother of a three-year-old boy found stabbed to death in his home in the city on Monday. | 40566406 |
The seventh instalment of the sci-fi saga is set about 30 years after the events of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi.
The film sees a new cast including Daisy Ridley and John Boyega joining original cast members Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher.
The announcement was made on the movie's final day of production at Pinewood Studios, just outside London.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens has been directed by J J Abrams, who successfully reinvigorated the Star Trek movie franchise in 2009, and is due to be released on 18 December 2015. | The title of the new Star Wars movie has been revealed as The Force Awakens. | 29933328 |
Chris Coleman's team will play Belgium at the Stade Pierre Mauroy on Friday.
The stadium is less than 10 miles (16km) from the border, with reports suggesting more than 100,000 Belgians could descend on Lille.
But Wales fans in France believe the "away-game" atmosphere could suit the team.
Karen Crocker, a Wales fan from Cardiff, said: "There's going to be far more Belgian fans than Welsh.
"There's lots of Welsh coming over to go in the fan zone but in the stadium we're going to be outnumbered."
But Mark Watkins, 50, also of Cardiff, said it would "definitely" suit Wales having to play like an away team.
"The way we play, we're going to need to ride our luck a bit, but we've got a chance."
He added: "I think we will have a fair chunk of support [in Lille].
"We'll make plenty of noise. I think it will be a fantastic atmosphere.
"We'll try and be the 12th man in this game."
On Tuesday, Belgium midfielder Kevin de Bruyne said: "I can't wait for this match, which will be like a home match for us because it's right on the Belgian border."
And residents of the French city are also keen to back the Belgians.
Solange Baillon, 27, said: "Here in the north of France, we were really part of the same country in the past so we just cheer for each other, every time."
She said people in the city had found Wales fans "more discreet" than England fans when the two sets of supporters were in town for England's 2-1 win in Lens.
Ms Baillon said the people of Lille had been "very happy" to be part of the tournament.
Fellow Lille resident Vincent Houttelitu, 29, said he believed most of France would cheer on Belgium, saying: "We are very close."
Wales fans have begun arriving in the town and collecting their tickets from the voucher exchange at Grand Palais.
Some 4,500 of the tickets at the 50,000 capacity stadium have been allocated to Wales fans with Follow My Team vouchers.
And while many fans in France for the earlier stages have returned home, the Football Supporters' Federation Cymru is expecting tens of thousands of Wales fans to make it to Lille on day trips.
For those without a ticket, the city's fan zone can hold 30,000 people.
Wales will go into the game with a measure of confidence after beating and drawing with Belgium during their qualifying campaign.
Should they win on Friday, the team would face a potential semi-final against either Portugal or Poland in Lyon on 6 July. | Wales fans will be heavily outnumbered in their Euro 2016 quarter-final with Belgium in Lille - with most French fans cheering for the opposition. | 36665395 |
Unsubstantiated allegations say Russia has embarrassing information about him.
Without referring to the stories, the president-elect tweeted: "FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!"
Mr Trump is due to hold a news conference on Wednesday, nine days before he takes office.
It was meant to be about his attempts to separate himself from his business commitments, to address concerns about conflicts of interest.
But it now comes at an awkward time for the Republican president-elect.
As well as the allegations of a personal nature, the media reports also allege secret communications between the Trump presidential campaign and Moscow.
The US intelligence agencies reportedly presented the information to the president-elect and his predecessor at the White House, President Barack Obama.
They were said to be attached to a wider classified report into alleged interference by Russia into the US election.
But there has been nothing said publicly by the US intelligence community to support these unsubstantiated claims.
In recent weeks, Mr Trump has been under pressure to concur with the findings of US spy agencies who say Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic Party emails during the presidential campaign.
They say the order came from the Kremlin to sway the election for Mr Trump and away from his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.
But so far he has failed to explicitly agree with the conclusions of the intelligence services.
And he has condemned those who oppose good relations with Russia as "fools".
Russia has denied any involvement in the hacks and accused the US of conducting a witch hunt.
Sources: New York Times, CNN | Donald Trump has decried as a "political witch hunt" US media reports that Russian intelligence agencies have obtained personally compromising material related to him. | 38579126 |
It has now more than halved the number of treatments it covers since the beginning of the year after being repeatedly overspent.
The latest drugs being axed include those for breast, pancreatic and blood cancers.
The Rarer Cancers Foundation said the news was a "hammer blow" and estimated that 5,500 patients would miss out.
All the drugs on the Cancer Drugs Fund list have been rejected by the NHS as a whole because they do not provide enough benefit for the amount they cost.
The fund was set up by Prime Minister David Cameron to provide access to such medication.
However, NHS England announced that the fund was due to go £100m over budget in 2014-15.
At the beginning of 2015, there were 84 funded therapies, but after a series of culls there are now just 41.
In the latest reduction, 23 course of treatment have been removed.
Prof Peter Clark, the chairman of the Fund, said: "There is no escaping the fact that we face a difficult set of choices, but it is our duty to ensure we get maximum value from every penny available on behalf of patients.
"We must ensure we invest in those treatments that offer the most benefit, based on rigorous evidence-based clinical analysis and an assessment of the cost of those treatments."
NHS England said current projections suggest that without de-listing, spend on the fund would rise to around £410m this year.
The drugs will be formally removed on 4 November and the announcement will not affect patients currently receiving treatment through the fund.
Source: Rarer Cancers Foundation figures bases on usage figures for 2014-15
Andrew Wilson, chief executive of the Rarer Cancers Foundation which is supported by pharmaceutical companies, said: "These cuts will be a hammer blow to many thousands of desperately ill cancer patients and their families.
"Ministers told us they wanted to work with charities to develop a solution, but now the NHS has announced big reductions in access to existing life-extending treatment, with no action to make available the newest game-changing drugs."
The charity Breast Cancer Now said it was a "dreadful day" for patients.
Its chief executive, Baroness Delyth Morgan, said there had been a lack of leadership: "Kadcyla is a one-of-a-kind drug proven to extend life, and the fact is that because government, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry have failed to agree realistic prices for new drugs, some women will die sooner."
The chief executive of Myeloma UK, Eric Low, said: "The government has been far too slow to see and address the critical flaws of the Fund.
"It has let things develop to the stage where effective and life-prolonging drugs are being brutally delisted from the Fund to cut costs." | The Cancer Drugs Fund in England will no longer pay for 16 medicines, used in 23 separate cancer treatments. | 34153136 |
Paul Gregory, 51, from Bedford, who is also a member of the town's mountaineering club, claimed he could only walk 200 metres.
Luton magistrates heard he applied to renew his disabled person's badge saying short walks left him breathless.
He is due to be sentenced later.
The court heard Gregory, of College Road, pleaded guilty to two counts of dishonestly obtaining a blue badge by "misrepresenting [his] physical abilities" - falsely claiming he could not walk for more than a few minutes.
But investigators found he had been on numerous walking trips with the Bedford Mountaineering Club whilst he both held, and was applying to renew, his badge, Bedford Borough Council said.
Officers found a press article featured in the West Moorland Gazette in 2012, which stated the "experienced walker" had been on the third day of a 191-mile walk from Cumbria to North Yorkshire when he was "knocked over by four cows in a field at the edge of Shap" in Cumbria.
The council also found he spent a weekend walking in Capel Curig in Wales days before making an application.
A spokesman said it was one of the "most outrageous cases" of blue badge fraud it had investigated.
"He was taking part in national walking trips that many able-bodied adults would find difficult," he said.
"Mr Gregory's abuse of the scheme is completely unacceptable and we will continue to investigate all reports of blue badge fraud thoroughly." | A man has admitted illegally using a blue badge after council officers spotted a newspaper report detailing how he was attacked by cows while on a 191-mile walk. | 32426786 |
Dan y Wenallt, starring Rhys Ifans and Charlotte Church, was chosen by Bafta as the UK's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film award.
Submissions will be shortlisted in December, with the final five nominees announced in January 2016, ahead of the ceremony in February.
Director Kevin Allen said he was "absolutely thrilled".
"It's a shot in the arm for both versions of our back-to-back Under Milk Wood productions," he said.
A partnership between fFatti fFilms, Tinopolis, Ffilm Cymru Wales, Goldfinch Pictures and S4C, it was the first film adaptation of the play since 1972, with both Welsh and English language versions filmed at the same time.
Two previous S4C foreign language film submissions have led to nominations - Hedd Wyn in 1994 and Solomon a Gaenor in 2000. | The Welsh film adaptation of poet Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood will be submitted for the Oscars. | 34505937 |
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The Wales and British and Irish Lions flanker scored a try in each half as Ospreys ran out 39-22 winners to claim their third successive Pro12 win.
Tipuric, who was captain for the day, also had a hand in two more tries in a fine all-round display.
"Justin is a class act. When he plays like that he can be pretty much unplayable," said Tandy.
"He leads from the front and the way in which he plays the game - he doesn't say a lot when he does speak everyone listens."
Tipuric took advantage of a defensive slip by Zebre wing Kayle van Zyl to score his first try, which came two minutes after his pin-point pass had put Eli Walker over for a score.
And in the second half Tipuric dummied and side-stepped his way over from 40 metres before again splitting the defence to set up a try for Jonathan Spratt.
After winning once in their opening six Pro12 games this season, the Swansea-based region have now won three consecutive league matches.
Ospreys top their qualifying pool in the European Champions Cup after a win against Exeter and gaining two bonus points in their defeat at Clermont Auvergne.
And Tandy believes Ospreys are in good shape for their match against Bordeaux-Begles in Swansea on 12 December.
"It's a six day turnaround but we were able to rest some of the players who played in the World Cup so we should be in good shape for that," he added. | Head coach Steve Tandy praised "unplayable" Justin Tipuric after Ospreys' five-try win over Zebre. | 35020886 |
The report from the Royal Academy of Engineering says that making fuel from crops like wheat should be restricted.
Incentives should be given to farmers to increase production of fuel crops like Miscanthus on marginal land.
Even with electric vehicles, biofuels will still be needed for aviation and heavy goods say the authors.
While the European Union has mandated that 10% of transport fuels should come from sustainable sources by 2020, these biofuels have been a slow burner in the UK.
Suppliers are already blending up to 4.75% of diesel and petrol with greener fuel, but doubling this amount will take up to 10 years say the authors of this new report, that was commissioned by the government.
To get to this point, the authors argue that several important changes will need to take place.
While in countries like the US and Brazil biofuels are mainly made from maize or sugar cane, the main sources in the UK are wheat and used cooking oil.
To boost production there will need to be restrictions on crops grown for fuel, say the authors.
Last year according to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), almost half the land in the UK used for biofuels was used to grow wheat.
When the authors of this study reviewed the global scientific literature, they found that if all the extra emissions involved in changing land use to grow wheat were added in, fuel based on this grain was worse for the environment than regular petrol or diesel.
"Generally, we know if land use change is involved, do not use wheat to make biofuels, it is higher than petrol in terms of carbon footprint," said Prof Adisa Azapagic from the University of Manchester who chaired the panel that produced the report.
"What we need to understand about agriculture, is that it is different from farm to farm. This is what we have found across the world, how people farm wheat in different ways and the emissions would be different depending on soil, previous carbon stocks and so on, it really is a very complex science."
The study recommends that the government set a cap for all crop-based biofuels to reduce the risk of indirect land use change.
"We would be concerned if we went up to 10% and allowed all of that 10% to come from food based crops, then we would say no, that's not what we're recommending," said Prof Nilay Shah from Imperial College London.
Instead, the report suggests that renewed emphasis be placed on developing waste. In the UK we produce 16 million tonnes every year, enough to double our current biofuel supplies. A third of that waste is called green waste, a quarter of it is agricultural straw.
The authors believe there is great scope for expansion in the use of unavoidable waste, such as used cooking oil, forest and sawmill residues, the dregs from whisky manufacture, even so-called "fatbergs" from sewers could play a role.
However the study warns that care must be taken to avoid giving people perverse incentives to create waste just to cash in on biofuels.
"There have been some examples where people have used virgin cooking oil as a source of biofuel because it was cheaper than used cooking oil so we need to make sure we avoid these market distortions that unfortunately do happen," said Prof Azapagic.
The government should also aim to remove any incentives for the use of materials in biofuels that involve deforestation or the drainage of peat land. Incentives should be put in place to encourage farmers to grow crops like Miscanthus and short rotation coppice wood on marginal land.
If we want to double the amount of biofuel we are using over the next decade, say the authors, the government will have to stump up some cash.
"If you've got a ready supply of used cooking oil it is not very challenging or expensive, if your alternative is to go clear some land and plant Miscanthus and all the processing that goes with that, then the prices are going to be different," said Prof Roger Kemp, a professorial fellow from Lancaster University.
"We wouldn't be getting up to anything like 10% if it was purely a market based thing."
Follow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook | The UK should focus on using waste products like chip fat if it wants to double production of biofuels according a new study. | 40599491 |
The Labour mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan, says keeping fares increases at 0% will cost £450m over four years, but TfL says the real cost will be £1.9bn, because Crossrail will bring in more passengers - and freezing fares means it won't benefit from inflation-linked fare rises.
In a briefing document, seen by BBC London, TfL says its £1.9bn figure "takes into account increasing ridership over the Business Plan (passenger numbers are rising by 5 per cent every year) and there will be new fares revenue from Crossrail when it opens in 2018/19".
An official said the Labour calculation did not include those factors.
TfL has an annual turnover of £11.5bn. It will lose £2.8bn in government revenue by 2020/21.
It is planning to raise £3.4bn by 2020/21 through being more commercial - that means selling and renting property and having more advertising.
And on top of that, it's planning to find £16bn in efficiencies by 2020/21. £4bn has been earmarked so far.
So as a would-be mayor who wants to freeze fares, your options are limited.
You can make efficiency savings, raise more commercial revenue, or opt for the far more politically unsavoury options of reducing the services TfL is running. Or you could reduce the investment in new infrastructure. Or you could go to central government and ask for money.
On top of that, TfL always lobbies extremely hard to keep control of its budget and its autonomy.
Fares policy isn't just about how much it'll cost commuters to get to work.
It suggests to voters how you'll handle finance.
It sets the tone on how you'll deal with TfL, and arguably it gives voters an insight into how you will run the administration.
To pay for the freeze, Sadiq Khan says that as mayor he would:
Speaking on the Sunday Politics, Sadiq Khan said: "Unlike any other candidate, I've actually got experience of being a minister in transport, and was the minister for Crossrail.
"My fares freeze is fully funded. We're going to make sure we make the savings this mayor hasn't made, but we're also going to increase revenue streams."
Tony Travers from the London School of Economics said: "The truth is that TfL has never felt austerity like much of the public sector - certainly nothing like the London boroughs. They have very substantial reserves that have been very substantial for years now.
"So if you ask the simple question 'could they stand a fares freeze?', the answer is yes. Would that mean, on the other hand, there was less money going into the system against which TfL could have borrowed in order for example to build the Bakerloo line extension? Well, that money wouldn't be there. So there will be less money in the system. And of course more crowding if fares don't go up."
The Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith has not yet said what he intends to do with fares. | Transport for London (TfL) says Labour's costing of its fares freeze is wrong and doesn't take into account the impact Crossrail will have on passenger numbers. | 35443206 |
The party's leader is addressing the Scottish Trades Union Congress in Aviemore.
Labour has only one MP in Scotland, having lost 40 seats to the SNP at the last general election.
One recent poll put the party 20 percentage points behind the Conservatives in Scotland, and further behind the SNP.
Mr Corbyn said: "Labour will never, ever apologise for the closeness of our relationship with the trade union movement, you are our family.
"That is why one of the very first things we will do when forming our Labour government will be to repeal the vicious Tory Trade Union Act, giving working people the rights to collectively organise and make their lives better, safer and more content."
Introduced by former PM David Cameron, the act introduced a threshold for workers voting in strike ballots for action to be legal.
The government said it "protects millions of people from the effects of undemocratic strike action".
The SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will also address the congress in Aviemore.
She will say the general election is "a two-horse race between the SNP and hard-line Tories".
According to a Panelbase poll for the Sunday Times in Scotland, Labour's support there stands at 13%, compared with 33% for the Conservatives and 44% for the SNP.
Scottish Conservative deputy leader Jackson Carlaw said Mr Corbyn represented a "clear and present danger to the Union".
He said: "Nicola Sturgeon is trying to use this election to push ever harder for a second referendum on independence.
"Under Jeremy Corbyn, Labour would simply roll over and let her do so."
Get news from the BBC in your inbox, each weekday morning | Labour will "never, ever apologise" for the closeness of its ties with the trade unions, Jeremy Corbyn has said. | 39689349 |
The items, worth a collective £29m, include a Benjamin Britten draft score, two Italian console tables and a sculpture by John Nost the Elder.
The public will now have access to the works, according to a new report.
They were bought for a combined £9.3m, after the secretary of state enforced an export ban giving museums and galleries more time to raise funds.
If an object is more than 50 years old and requires a licence for export out of the UK, the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, managed by Arts Council England, can decide whether the object is of national importance.
Its latest report said between 1 May 2011 and 30 April 2012 eleven items were considered, seven of which were referred to the secretary of state..
Manet's portrait of Mademoiselle Claus, a major work in the development of impressionist art by the 19th Century French painter, is worth an estimated £28.4m but was purchased for £7.8m by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in April.
Following an eight-month campaign with more than 1000 public donations, 11 year-old Mara Talbot gave the last £30.
Chairman of the Reviewing Committee, Lord Inglewood, said: "This shows the benefits that can arise from the workings of a tax system which encourages the retention of treasures like these in this country.
"I would encourage the Treasury to look sympathetically and constructively at how the nation in the future can benefit even more from such schemes."
The complete draft score of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra by English composer and pianist Benjamin Britten was bought by the British Library for £201,660, almost £19,000 less than it cost originally.
The pair of Italian console tables were purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum and National Museums Scotland for £367,950 each.
The V&A also raised funds to buy The Crouching Venus, a work by Flemish sculptor John Nost, for £485,000.
Alan Davey, chief executive of Arts Council England, said it is "wonderful" that these rare objects have been saved for the nation.
"That so many individuals made donations shows the value that people in this country place on art and culture," he said.
Culture minister Ed Vaizey added: "The export licensing system is a valuable tool in preventing items like these from disappearing abroad and ensuring they will be enjoyed for generations to come."
Funds could not be raised for paintings by French artist Antoine Watteau, Venetian painter Francesco Guardi and an early 19th Century Italian classical tripod. | An Edouard Manet portrait is among four treasures which have been prevented from leaving the UK in the last year. | 20766744 |
No-one disputed the seriousness of the issues at stake, but that did not stop the participants - including the judge - indulging in some humour.
At the start of the trial, people in the public gallery were struggling to hear the defence barrister Philip Mateer QC.
Judge Liam McNally asked him to speak up a little, saying: "Pretend you're a preacher."
When Mr Mateer briefly made reference to the Ashers bakery 'gay cake' case, the judge interrupted him immediately.
"I think I've enough on my plate in this case," he said with a smile, and politely asked the barrister to change the subject.
The case centred on a 39-minute long sermon Pastor McConnell delivered at Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle on Sunday, 18 May last year, which was broadcast live on the internet.
As well as criticising Islam, the veteran pastor ventured back into history and attacked King Henry VIII, calling him an "auld reprobate".
Defending the sermon, Pastor McConnell's legal team insisted he had not set out to offend anyone.
The judge raised his eyebrows and muttered: "He didn't miss out on Henry VIII."
Everyone laughed, including the 120 supporters of the pastor who were packed into Court 12 of the Laganside courts complex in Belfast.
They filled the public gallery, as well as extra seating on the side of the courtroom which is usually reserved for police officers.
Pastor McConnell sat in front of them, beside his wife Margaret, son-in-law Norman and his two daughters Julie and Linda.
Aged 78, with no criminal record, his legal team said that rather than facing a possible conviction, he should be rewarded by the state for his Christian service and work with vulnerable people in society, like drug and alcohol addicts.
However, the prosecution barrister David Russell said the defence team were missing the point.
"He is not on trial for his beliefs," said Mr Russell.
The issue was the words he used about Islam in that controversial sermon.
Significantly, the key words in the case were not the ones which grabbed the headlines, when he described Islam as "satanic, heathen and spawned in hell".
Instead, the prosecution focused on this line from the sermon: "People say there are good Muslims in Britain - that may be so - but I don't trust them."
Mr Russell argued that the sentence was "grossly offensive" and that it breached the Communications Act for a man of influence to broadcast such a message through the internet.
Pastor McConnell insisted repeatedly he did not mean to offend anyone.
"I was completely unaware that I'd caused offence until Mr (Stephen) Nolan rang me (from the BBC)," he said.
It is now up to the judge to decide whether the sermon broke the law or not.
He will deliver his verdict on Tuesday 5 January.
Before leaving court, Judge McNally thanked everyone involved in the trial.
He added: "I want to wish you all a happy - and holy - Christmas." | The three-day trial of Pastor James McConnell was filled with moments of theology, ideology and comedy. | 35115471 |
PhonepayPlus is the UK's regulator of premium rate services including some apps, voting on TV talent shows, directory inquiries and more.
It told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours that there were "problems" with some subscription services.
It is working on proposals to tighten the rules.
You and Yours has heard from listeners who said they had been signed up for these services without their knowledge.
One of those - Jim - found out his 12-year-old son was receiving premium rate texts which contained adult content, at a total cost of more than £340. The texts were sent weekly, and each one cost a couple of pounds.
"In August 2015, my son who was aged 12 at the time, was sent a random text from a company, and he was inquisitive and he clicked on the link, didn't know what it was, and by clicking on this link, he subscribed to an adult content site, which were then going to send him four texts every month for the foreseeable future," said Jim.
"Unfortunately, I only found this out a year later when I went to renew his contract at Vodafone.
"I was absolutely appalled as a dad and shocked that this could happen. I should have checked my bills, but it was cleverly done. The way these companies had sent these text messages was like a drip-feed into the account, so there was no sudden spike and I had not picked it up."
Jim said he was appalled at the lack of regulation in the industry.
Simon Towler, director of policy and external relations at PhonepayPlus, said strict rules were in place for the way these services should be operating.
"In the particular case of adult services, in addition to our code of practice, we have special conditions and they should not be sent to 12-year-olds," he said in response to Jim's case.
"A phone is a dumb piece of technology. The service provider does not know that the person at the end of it is a 12-year-old.
"There is age verification when people sign up for a contract, so in this particular instance, it is very likely, particularly with a 12-year-old, that the person who was down as the bill payer, the person owning the phone, was in fact over 18."
Jim was paying the bill, but the phone was registered in his son's name.
A spokesman for Vodafone said: "We are sorry that the customer has had this experience. We are contacting the third-party companies selling premium-rate content to ensure that the customer's number is no longer subscribed and we will be refunding the customer in full."
PhonepayPlus regularly monitors companies to ensure they are keeping to its code of practice.
"There is clearly a problem with some of these subscription services," Mr Towler said.
"The vast majority of services are operated in a compliant way, people do like to enter these competitions, and things like that.
"We are in the process of discussions with the industry, and we are going to be issuing a consultation later this month about some possible additional protections, specifically relating to these types of services."
Anyone charged for a premium rate text which they do not remember signing up for, can usually text STOP to the number to end the subscription. The advice is also to contact the service provider and report it to the regulator PhonepayPlus. | Rules should be strengthened to avoid mobile users being hit by unexpected charges on premium rate texts, a regulator has said. | 36977781 |
Steve Stannard, 37, died after being stabbed at his flat at Bowers Avenue in Norwich on 5 November 2016.
Norwich Crown Court heard a knife found nearby had his blood on it.
Hassiem Baqir, 19, of Howberry Road, Thornton Heath, south London, denies murder.
Andrew Shaw, prosecuting, said a sample of DNA taken from the handle of the knife matched Mr Baqir.
Mr Shaw said Mr Stannard was a drug user and low level drug dealer who had allowed his home to be used as a base by Mr Baqir to sell drugs in Norwich.
He told the court another user went to the property and saw Mr Baqir with the knife. When she asked why he had it, he replied: "It's not a game, it's just in case."
The court heard Mr Stannard was stabbed twice in the back and three times in the front at his home. The wounds perforated his lung and his heart.
Mr Stannard's dog, a border collie called Trixy, was also stabbed - probably defending her master, Mr Shaw said.
Mr Baqir has admitted supplying heroin and cocaine
He is on trial with two other men, Veron Antonio, 24, of Green Lane, Morden, south London, who has denied supplying heroin and cocaine and assisting an offender by failing to comply with an order to reveal his phone PIN code to police.
A third person, Jamil Theo Carrol, 28, of no fixed address, denies assisting an offender.
The trial continues. | DNA found on the handle of a knife after a man was stabbed to death matches that of the man accused of his murder, a court has heard. | 39635542 |
The 29-year-old, who can also play right-back, scored one goal in 23 appearances after joining the Devon club from Kidderminster in November.
"He's an athlete that can play anywhere and I'm delighted to have him back on board," said manager Kevin Nicholson.
"Aman was a valuable asset for us last season and is a fantastic guy to have on and off the pitch."
Verma will remain at Plainmoor alongside striker Nathan Blissett, who signed a deal on Wednesday. | Torquay United midfielder Aman Verma has agreed terms on a new contract with the National League side. | 36435281 |
The Minstermen dominated from start to finish at Bootham Crescent, with Jon Parkin and Rhys Murphy both troubling visiting goalkeeper Brendan Moore on numerous occasions.
Parkin lobbed Moore - and the crossbar - before stabbing wide in the first half, while Murphy came closest with an attempt at the near post in the 78th minute.
Torquay's best opportunity came in the third minute, Kyle Letheren forced into a smart one-handed save to deny Ben Gerring from close range.
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Match ends, York City 0, Torquay United 0.
Second Half ends, York City 0, Torquay United 0.
Sean Newton (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Torquay United. Paul Rooney replaces David Fitzpatrick.
Ben Gerring (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, York City. Callum Rzonca replaces Daniel Nti.
Substitution, Torquay United. Brett Williams replaces Jamie Reid.
Second Half begins York City 0, Torquay United 0.
First Half ends, York City 0, Torquay United 0.
Rhys Murphy (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jon Parkin (York City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Courtney Richards (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up. | Bottom-of-the-table York came close to securing their first National League victory since September but Torquay forced a goalless draw. | 38273127 |
It announced that its retail arm saw a rise in operating profit to £456.8m in the 12 months to the end of March.
This included a 50% rise in profits from retail energy supply. It made an average profit of £69 from each dual fuel customer, it said.
This, it said, returned profit to a similar level seen in 2012-13.
However, its profit margin in energy supply was 4.6% in 2014-15, compared with 2.9% in 2013-14 and 4.2% in 2012-13. The energy supply profit margin had averaged 3.9% over both the past five and three years, it said.
Gas and electricity prices have been frozen for SSE customers until 2016 and the company said it had cut prices twice in recent times.
"SSE would like to extend its price freeze again, or even cut prices if further costs can be taken out of energy supply, and will work with the new UK government or indeed any stakeholder to find such solutions," it said.
It has seen customer numbers fall despite the price freeze, blaming "increasingly challenging and highly competitive market conditions" for the decline to 8.5 million accounts.
Some of this extra competition has come from smaller providers taking on the big six companies in the UK.
Across the whole business, SEE reported an adjusted pre-tax profit for the 12 months to the end of March of £1.56bn, compared with £1.55bn the year before.
It also said it would shut the Ferrybridge power station on the West and North Yorkshire border by March 2016.
The company said the plant's 172 employees would be redeployed "where possible". | Energy company SSE has reported a 40% rise in profits from its retail arm, despite losing more than 500,000 customers over a year. | 32809908 |
About 40 heads of state and government will reportedly attend President Robert Mugabe's inauguration, but the hype that normally pre-empts such ceremonies is hardly discernible in the streets.
The mood around the city - a stronghold of the defeated Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party - will be a striking contrast to the rehearsed colourful celebrations inside a packed National Stadium, where each of the country's 10 provinces is sending in buses loaded with members of Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.
The inauguration organisers have roped in several international performing artists, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa and Jamaica.
However, the MDC and its leader, outgoing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, will not be attending, bitter about what they say was a "stolen, and rigged election".
The official word from MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti is that "we weren't invited for the ceremony and we are not attending".
"Even if we were invited, we weren't attending, it would be akin to legitimising an illegitimate process. No-one ever told us such an event was happening, and we don't know about it," he adds.
Post-election rancour is not dying away. Both party leaders have been trading insults. It is likely to cascade down, polarising supporters and the nation alike.
Zanu-PF insiders are talking of the 89-year-old president working on a lasting legacy.
There seems to be an underlying feeling this could be his last term.
There is also talk of him reaching out to Mr Tsvangirai by offering a seat in a possible unity government - to build on the progress created by the coalition that governed Zimbabwe from 2009 until last month's disputed elections.
But the MDC has indicated it is unwilling to continue its partnership with Zanu-PF.
"We will not do that," Mr Biti says.
President Mugabe has kept silent on the possibility of a new unity government, keeping everyone guessing about his strategic plans.
Analysts say he may offer an olive branch to the MDC to avoid political ructions.
"He has to reach out as much as possible," says Shakespeare Hamauswa, a political science lecturer at University of Zimbabwe.
"But he is not, however, obliged. Another unity government can work out if the MDC is willing, but from the look of things, it's not happening," he adds.
Mr Mugabe's legacy, it appears, will now have to anchor on him leaving a peaceful country, while empowering his people and safeguarding Zimbabwe from perceived foreign threats.
"He can still do what he wants, he has a clear two-thirds majority, controls local authorities, and he doesn't care," Mr Hamauswa says.
Zanu-PF spokesman Rugare Gumbo says it is premature to discuss the nature and policy direction of the next government, but notes that it "will be different".
"We have graduated from a power-sharing government, we need to come up with new policies, certainly," he says.
Business, industry, and ordinary citizens are watching, gripped by anxiety, and foreign investors are concerned about the potential policy direction.
John, 38, a taxi driver, who plies his trade opposite parliament, has seen his business go up and down.
"We are not expecting much in the next five years," he says.
"Clients I pick from the airport from outside the country are anxious about the business climate, whether it's going to change or not. But they don't seem to trust Mr Mugabe," he says.
"During the World Cup (in 2010), business went up. But over the past years it was getting quiet. Given the concerns of people about the election, we are not going to see much changing in the business patterns," he adds.
John isn't attending the inauguration. "I'm not really into politics or even excited about the event. But if you want me to take you there, we can go. But I don't think there is much in it," he says.
The business community is keeping an eagle eye on the policy direction. Of particular interest, will be the inauguration speech itself.
"Does it carry the nation forward or back, that is the question," says Professor Tony Hawkins, of the University of Zimbabwe Business School.
He believes the business community is particularly concerned about the "policy direction the new cabinet is going to take because a lot of people are still sceptical".
"Even in the United States and the United Kingdom, President Mugabe remains a hard sell. We are wondering how he is going to implement most of his things he said during the campaign because there is no money," he adds.
Hours after President Mugabe controversial election victory was announced, Zimbabwe's stock exchange plunged, shedding 11% of its value.
The policies of indigenisation, which allows foreign investors to relinquish 51% of their stake to locals, is "of major concern to many investors", Prof Hawkins says.
The bourse reacted because most counters there were foreign-owned. And there are indications it will remain subdued for a long time.
But one significant issue arising from the election is the lack of ambiguity.
"We now have clarity on who is leading the country for the next term," says Farayi Dyirakumunda of African Investment Market.
"The indigenisation policy will take centre stage and this will present an opportunity for some foreign investors looking at Zimbabwean assets to price in appropriate risk premiums in their capital budgeting or investment appraisal models," he says.
"Such investors will participate if their return objectives can be met within the risk parameters they would have set. But another noteworthy aspect is that the economy will maintain a multi-currency regime, possibly during the entire term."
Another key factor is the nature of the cabinet, which Mr Mugabe is expected to appoint a few days after his inauguration.
That will, perhaps, give a hint of the policy direction his government will take for the next half-a-decade.
He has five people from outside parliament whom he can bring into the government as non-constituency legislators. | Hotels in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, are filling up with foreign dignitaries and the heavy security betrays the nature of the guests booked in. | 23788313 |
The Royal Academy said the work will be part of an exhibition on Depression era art.
It shows an Iowa farmer holding a pitchfork with his daughter by his side and a house in the background.
America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s opens on 25 February 2017 and will run until 4 June.
American Gothic was part of the American Regionalism movement which saw artists attempt to reflect the regions affected by the Great Depression, triggered by the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Tim Marlow, director of artistic programmes at the Royal Academy, said it had "never left American soil" before and is "metaphorically embedded in the American soil in the Midwest".
"From the beginning, it has been seen as an icon because it's emblematic of American regionalism, a kind of quiet, understated power," he said.
Marlow said American Gothic was "slightly sidelined as a mere populist painting" but was now seen as "something that is both popular but also deeply profound".
The painting has a newfound "resonance" as the US gears up for the forthcoming presidential election, he said.
"I think it will be wonderful to see it decontextualised out of America and recontextualised in London," Marlow added.
The painting is one of 45 from the period that will be displayed.
Works by Thomas Hart Benton, Jackson Pollock, Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keefe will also be included.
Other highlights among the Royal Academy's 2017 programme include an exhibition of the work of Jasper Johns.
The RA said the exhibition from 23 September to 10 December, which will include his paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, would "give focus to different chapters of Johns' career".
Johns, who is 86 years old, is widely seen as one of the greatest living painters.
Another exhibition, Matisse in the Studio, will run between 5 August and 12 November and show how Henri Matisse's personal collection of treasured objects influenced his work.
Other exhibitions to be announced for next year include Revolution: Russian Art 1917 - 1932 and Dali/Duchamp, which will focus on the friendship and works of Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali.
Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. | American Gothic, the iconic painting by Grant Wood, is coming to London next year - the first time it will have been seen outside of North America. | 37248237 |
David Cumming, head of equities at Standard Life, said his firm "could not justify" pay going any higher.
Investors must do more to signal their unhappiness, he told the BBC.
It comes after Theresa May said corporate pay was excessive, and issued a green paper with ideas to curb it.
Mr Cumming told the BBC's Today programme: "We continue to see too many proposals that would bring a substantial increase [in pay], and we have to signal that we are not happy with that."
Blackrock, the giant American investment fund, has already written to public company bosses saying it would vote down proposals for excessive pay or pension perks.
Fund manager fires fat cat warning shot
Top pay under fire on 'Fat Cat Wednesday'
The BBC understands that, last month, 13 of the City's top fund managers met to discuss the issue.
Previous attempts to enforce boardroom restraint have foundered because shareholders have not been able to speak with a single voice.
But Mr Cumming said that this time round there was likely to be a more united front.
"We do speak to each other, and there is a general view that there are too many chairman who take too obsequious a view of their chief executive and their pay," he said.
Mr Cumming also hinted that the City was fearful of what might happen if it did not succeed in bringing pay to heel.
"If we don't succeed, then we might have much more draconian action from the government, which would be much less flexible and worse overall for shareholders," he said.
His warning was echoed by another fund manager, Colin McLean, managing director of SVM Asset Management.
He said that anger over large financial rewards could come to a head this year, with nearly half of FTSE 100 companies facing binding votes on pay.
"2017 could finally be a year for change in executive pay, with both investors and politicians ready for a fight," Mr McLean said.
He added: "Some long-term incentives were put in place before the 2012 reforms, with binding shareholder votes only required every three years.
"This year almost half the FTSE 100 face binding votes on pay, and we will see changes bite. The shareholder revolt seems less likely to fizzle out this time." | Executive pay is already "too high" and investors are ready to take a tough line with firms that present plans to boost bosses' remuneration, one of the City's top fund managers has warned. | 38879259 |
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Jones' side had already retained the Six Nations title before their campaign ended with a 13-9 defeat in Dublin.
The Australian said England are "14 months into a four-year project".
"It would have been great to be Grand Slam champions and world record holders but it wasn't our day," he added.
The defeat means England's winning run ends on 18 Tests, level with New Zealand, who saw their series of victories also ended by the Irish, in Chicago in November.
"To win the World Cup you've got to win seven in a row, you've got to cope with that pressure," added Jones.
"How many teams average a 90% win rate? Not many, only the All Blacks."
Jones said the hosts used the conditions "superbly", adding: "Full credit to Ireland, they were brilliantly coached and executed their plan well."
But he said England did not play to their potential and that he would take full responsibility for the defeat.
"We knew it was going to be a tough, physical game, we just weren't good enough today. I didn't prepare the team well," he said.
"We're all human beings, we're not perfect, and that's why world records finish at 18 games because it's hard to keep [winning].
"The next Test we play I'll prepare them better. I'm human like everyone else, I make mistakes. Even [legendary Australia batsman] Don Bradman got a zero in his last Test."
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England captain Dylan Hartley said his team had "big lessons to learn" from the defeat.
"We set out to win the tournament and we've done that. Obviously we're disappointed not to win this final game because we had high hopes, we had high expectations of ourselves," added the hooker.
"Credit to Ireland. We seemed to back up every error with another error. We are not the finished article. This will keep us grounded."
The British and Irish Lions will travel to New Zealand in June looking for a first Test series win there since 1971.
England are not due to face the All Blacks until 2018, but Jones hopes the Rugby Football Union (RFU) can secure a fixture against the world champions in November.
"I expect at least 15 of our guys to go on the Lions tour, I'd be disappointed if we don't have that many guys in," said Jones. "And I think they'll have a massive shout [of winning the Test series].
"New Zealand, as Ireland have shown, are there for the taking.
"I can't wait for us to play them either. We're very keen to play them, I've had a discussion with Ian [Ritchie, RFU chief executive] and we're raring to go.
"There's a lot of discussions to go. A lot of discussions with New Zealand and within the rugby community, there's still a lot to go."
This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser | Eddie Jones said England will "have more setbacks" after his side's hopes of a second straight Grand Slam and a world-record 19th Test win were ended by Ireland on Saturday. | 39318171 |
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Maldonado, who is in only his second season in Formula 1, won the Spanish Grand Prix after his team outsmarted Ferrari with pit-stop timing.
Alonso survived a late charge from Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen, who took third.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fought up from the back of the grid to eighth, with team-mate Jenson Button taking ninth.
Alonso's second place moves him into a tie on points at the head of the championship with Sebastian Vettel, who was sixth in his Red Bull, passing Button, then Hamilton and finally Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in quick succession in the closing laps.
Vettel is classified as the leader on results countback.
Alonso and Ferrari may well privately regret the decision to delay their second pit stop until two laps after Maldonado made his on the 24th of 66 laps.
Alonso, who started second, beat pole-sitter Maldonado into the first corner and led through the first pit-stop period, after which he had a 3.4-second lead on lap 12.
But Maldonado closed that advantage to 1.5 seconds by lap 21 and when he could not get any closer Williams decided to try to 'undercut' Alonso with an earlier pit stop.
It worked to perfection. Ferrari's decision not to stop on the next lap simply made life easier, especially when Alonso was held up by Marussia's Charles Pic during that period - for which the Frenchman earned a drive-through penalty.
BBC F1 technical analyst Gary Anderson said: "I think Alonso was a lap too late and that has cost them."
That left Maldonado with a 6.2-second lead. Alonso closed in throughout their third stints, getting the gap down to 4.2 seconds before Maldonado stopped for the final time on lap 41.
Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso was only 3.1 seconds adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.
The double world champion quickly closed on to the rear of the Williams, but Maldonado drove cleverly to ensure he was always far enough ahead at the start of the pit straight to ensure Alonso could not pass him.
It concludes a remarkable recovery from Williams, who had slumped in recent years to their worst season in their history last year.
But changes to the way the team operates, and key personnel at the top, have produced a turnaround in fortunes.
"It's a wonderful day for the team which has been pushing so hard," Maldonado said.
"We have been trying to improve so much. It was a tough race with the strategy and the tyres after a couple of laps we were struggling after as couple of laps with the rear grip, Fernando did a better start than me, I was just following the pace.
"It was my first podium and my first victory. You can imagine what I feel."
Alonso began to drop away in the final eight laps - he suspected his car had lost an aerodynamic part - and measured his pace to the charging Raikkonen, who was only 0.6secs adrift at the flag.
Alonso said: "We were a little bit unlucky maybe, but they did a great job and they had the pace.
"If we were faster than the Williams we would have had the opportunity to overtake but they were quicker.
"It's a step forward in terms of championship possibilities."
Raikkonen said he was "a bit disappointed", adding: "I expected to be a bit stronger in the race, especially in the beginning. In the end we were quite quick but it was too late."
The Finn's team-mate Romain Grosjean was fourth, ahead of Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi.
Behind Vettel, Nico Rosberg held off a late charge from Hamilton to take seventh, ahead of Button and Force India's Nico Hulkenberg.
Hamilton drove a superb, attacking yet measured race to recover from the penalty that demoted him from pole to the back of the grid.
The 2008 world champion stopped only twice when almost all other drivers opted for three stops, and judged perfectly the tactical demands of needing to look after his tyres while also gaining places quickly. | Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado took his maiden victory and Williams's first since 2004 in a strategic battle with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso. | 18050312 |
Timothy Storey, 35, formerly of Peckham, south London, groomed the girls at a religious summer camp where he was working, jurors were told.
He was found guilty of three counts of rape and one count of assault by penetration, following a trial at Woolwich Crown Court.
The former trainee vicar was remanded in custody to be sentenced at the same court on 15 April.
He was previously convicted in 2014 of grooming girls aged 10-16, but the offences for which he was most recently tried were committed in 2008 and 2009 and relate two women who are now in their 20s.
Storey befriended the girls "from an early age", the court heard, and sent them sexual texts and messages on social media. He sexually assaulted one girl on two separate occasions in 2008 and 2009 and assaulted the other girl at his home after taking her to a concert.
The victims contacted police about their ordeal following Storey's conviction in May 2014, for which he was ordered to serve three years in prison.
A spokeswoman for the Diocese of London said: "Timothy Storey has today been convicted of a series of appalling crimes and we are profoundly sorry for what his victims endured."
She said the diocese first received complaints about Storey in early 2009 and spoke to police before withdrawing him from ordination training.
Det Con Paul Hill, speaking after the conclusion of the trial on Thursday, said: "In his position as a youth leader he manipulated the victims and forced them to engage in sexual acts that they did not want to do.
"Storey thought he had got away with it, but the victims in this case were determined to see him brought to justice."
Police have urged any other victims of Storey to contact them with information. | A former church youth leader has been convicted of raping two teenagers. | 35609805 |
Rose Gentle said she wanted to look the former prime minister in the eye and ask: "Why did you send my son to be killed?"
Ms Gentle said she held Mr Blair responsible for the "murder" of her son, Gordon, in Basra in June 2004.
Mr Blair said he made the decision to go to war in 2003 "in good faith".
The report found that the invasion of Iraq was based on "flawed evidence".
It said the UK went to war before peaceful solutions were exhausted and military action was "not the last resort".
In a press conference after Sir John Chilcot unveiled his report, Ms Gentle said they had asked to meet Mr Blair "years ago" but he did not do so.
"This is his opportunity to come and speak to the families now", she added.
"We've proved him wrong because everything that we've said from the start has actually came out today, and I think he thought 'they're going to give up and walk away'."
In a separate media briefing, Mr Blair was asked if could look bereaved families in the eye and say he would make the same decision to go to war again.
"I look not only families in the eye, but the nation - I did not mislead, I made the decision in good faith," he said.
"But I cannot say we took the wrong decision. I took the right decision and the world is a better place for it."
Earlier, he said: "I will take full responsibility for any mistakes without exception or excuse."
Ms Gentle and other bereaved families were given three hours to go through the 2.6 million word report ahead of its official publication.
She said: "Today, what we've been hearing and what we've been reading has been really hard and I think that's why there's a lot of mothers and fathers that's been in tears today.
"A lot of us have held it back for weeks and what's been confirmed today has really gut-wrenched a lot of us."
It is 13 years since British troops crossed into Iraq on 20 March 2003, and seven years after the inquiry began its work.
The UK lost 179 servicemen and women during the campaign that followed the invasion, with 19 of them from Scotland.
The inquiry was set up in 2009 by then prime minister Gordon Brown to examine the lead-up to the invasion, from the summer of 2001, up until the withdrawal of the main body of British troops.
The report's long-awaited publication follows 130 sessions of oral evidence, with the testimony of more than 150 witnesses.
But Sir John has said from the outset he would not rule on whether the invasion in 2003 was legal in terms of international law, pledging to provide a "full and insightful" account of the decision-making process.
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC the Chilcot report was "damning" of Mr Blair and the decision-making process that led to the war in Iraq.
She added: "What I think is absolutely clear at this stage is there has to be some sense of accountability… given the consequences of the Iraqi war are still being felt by Iraq and the Middle East."
Her predecessor, Alex Salmond, said the conclusions of the report were "excoriating" of Tony Blair.
He added: "In the days, weeks and months ahead, the intimate detail of this report will only implicate further a former prime minister who recklessly committed the country to war without collective judgement, and personally failed to ensure there was a plan for delivering a future for the people of Iraq.
"After such carnage, people will ask inevitable questions of was conflict inevitable and worthwhile? The answer from Chilcot is undoubtedly no. And who is responsible? The answer is undoubtedly Tony Blair. There must now be a consideration of what political or legal consequences are appropriate for those responsible."
Prime Minister David Cameron said the government needed to learn the lessons from what went wrong in the build-up to Britain joining the invasion of Iraq.
Ahead of publication, the families of many of those who died predicted the inquiry as a whitewash.
They included Diane Douglas, the mother of Lance Corporal Allan Douglas, from Aberdeen, who was shot while on a routine patrol in 2006 at the age of 22.
She told BBC Scotland: "I'd like to see Blair and [US President George W] Bush accused of putting us in to an illegal war. And for Blair to actually apologise for our families being destroyed.
"One hundred and seventy nine families have been destroyed because they went to Iraq. And to this day, Iraq is actually worse than it was 10 years ago."
Sir John had originally hoped the report would be ready within two years of starting work in 2009, but it was hit by a series of delays.
The most serious has been wrangling between the inquiry and the Cabinet Office over the de-classification of hundreds of official documents - most notably communications between Mr Blair and President Bush.
That was followed by a further period of delay while the inquiry carried out the so-called Maxwellisation process - allowing individuals facing criticism the chance to comment before the report was finalised. | The mother of a Scottish serviceman killed in Iraq has condemned Tony Blair following the publication of the Chilcot report. | 36714217 |
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has been mired in corruption allegations and losing money for many years.
Despite pressure to sell it off, the government says that it can transform the NNPC into a profitable enterprise.
Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer, but the economy has suffered because of the declining oil price.
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Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu said that the NNPC's monthly losses have rapidly declined and now stand at $15m (£11m).
He told an audience in the capital, Abuja, that it would soon be in profit, an NNPC statement says.
Mr Kachikwu, a former top official at ExxonMobil, was appointed to head the NNPC last year after President Muhammadu Buhari won elections and was then also named junior oil minister.
Mr Buhari has vowed to tackle corruption in the country.
In 2013, then central bank governor Lamido Sanusi said that the NNPC had failed to account for billions of dollars of earnings.
Nigeria's government benefits from revenues from the sale of the country's oil by several private oil companies which also operate in the country.
Mr Kachikwu also announced that some oil producing countries will be meeting on 20 March to see if they can work together to end the instability in the oil price.
Nigeria has introduced foreign exchange controls and import bans in an effort to maintain the value of the currency, the naira, in the face of pressure over the declining oil price. | Nigeria's loss-making state oil giant is to be broken up into 30 "profit-making" companies, the government says. | 35721693 |
The 65-year-old is also widely reported to have been the country's first female Muslim judge.
New York police said they pulled her from the water and pronounced her dead on Wednesday after being alerted by an emergency call.
Her husband had reported her missing, police said.
Judge Abdus-Salaam's family identified her and a post-mortem examination will determine the cause of death, New York police say.
According to local media reports, police are treating the death as a possible suicide but an investigation is ongoing.
The body was fully clothed and showed no signs of trauma or criminality, police said.
Judge Abdus-Salaam's brother took his own life three years ago and she had been battling depression, according to reports.
Her husband told police she had not been heard from since Tuesday morning.
Justice Abdus-Salaam, born in 1952 in Washington DC, was appointed to the New York Court of Appeals by Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2013.
"Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam was a trailblazing jurist whose life in public service was in pursuit of a more fair and more just New York for all," Mr Cuomo said in a statement.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called her death "an enormous loss for New York, our judiciary, and all who knew, respected and loved her".
He described her in a statement as a "thoughtful, thorough and fair jurist".
A graduate of New York's Columbia Law School, she started her legal career working for low-income people in Brooklyn and later served as a New York state assistant attorney general.
Justice Abdus-Salaam is identified in the Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History as the first female Muslim to serve as a US judge. | US judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the first black woman to serve in New York's highest court, has been found dead in the city's Hudson River. | 39588099 |
Lee Gregory's penalty after Jake Cooper was fouled put Millwall ahead and Gregory then set up Aiden O'Brien.
But Rochdale were level before the break as Nathaniel Mendez-Laing's volley into the corner was followed by Ian Henderson scoring from close range.
Callum Camps swept in to put the hosts ahead, before Jed Wallace blasted into the roof of the net to equalise.
The draw sees Millwall move level on points with sixth-placed Southend, while Rochdale remain 10th, six points adrift of the play-offs.
After Dale's Mendez-Laing was denied by the legs of Jordan Archer in the first minute, Millwall scored two goals within 11 minutes of each other, before Steve Morison missed a great opportunity for a third as he put his close-range shot wide.
Mendez-Laing's low drive into the corner reduced the arrears and Henderson equalised shortly after seeing his overhead shot shave the post, while Camps put the home side in front when the visitors failed to deal with a corner.
Millwall pushed for an equaliser and O'Brien's volley was spectacularly saved by Rochdale keeper Conrad Logan, before Wallace drew his side level scoring at the back post.
Match ends, Rochdale 3, Millwall 3.
Second Half ends, Rochdale 3, Millwall 3.
Attempt saved. Lee Gregory (Millwall) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Tony Craig (Millwall) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Joe Bunney.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Joe Bunney.
Substitution, Millwall. Fred Onyedinma replaces Aiden O'Brien.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Joe Bunney.
Attempt saved. Jed Wallace (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Substitution, Rochdale. Oliver Rathbone replaces Callum Camps.
Foul by Ian Henderson (Rochdale).
Byron Webster (Millwall) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Callum Butcher (Millwall) right footed shot from very close range is saved in the centre of the goal.
Foul by Callum Camps (Rochdale).
Shaun Williams (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Steve Morison (Millwall) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Callum Camps.
Substitution, Rochdale. Joseph Rafferty replaces Peter Vincenti.
Jamie Allen (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Goal! Rochdale 3, Millwall 3. Jed Wallace (Millwall) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal.
Foul by Callum Butcher (Millwall).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Calvin Andrew.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Conrad Logan.
Attempt saved. Aiden O'Brien (Millwall) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Jimmy McNulty (Rochdale) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum Butcher (Millwall) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jimmy McNulty (Rochdale).
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Peter Vincenti.
Corner, Millwall. Conceded by Joe Bunney.
Substitution, Millwall. Mahlon Romeo replaces Shaun Cummings.
Attempt missed. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Attempt missed. Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Nathaniel Mendez-Laing (Rochdale) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Calvin Andrew (Rochdale) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shaun Williams (Millwall).
Goal! Rochdale 3, Millwall 2. Callum Camps (Rochdale) right footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner following a corner.
Corner, Rochdale. Conceded by Jed Wallace.
Tony Craig (Millwall) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ian Henderson (Rochdale) wins a free kick on the left wing. | League One promotion chasers Rochdale and Millwall took a point each in a six-goal thriller at Spotland. | 39262881 |
Portraits are central to what makes photography so compelling, offering us a glimpse of our own past, drawing up long-forgotten moments or a glance at the lives of others.
Whatever the limits of the camera are, for the most part, you can say that a picture shows something that once was.
Mix that with our need to interpret the faces and poses we see in pictures, and good portraits come alive.
That's the magic of photography, whereby a still and silent image can evoke far more than any moving pictures with sound ever will.
A competition that focuses on this is, as the name suggests, the Portrait Salon and on Thursday, 29 November 2012, it is holding simultaneous projections at four venues across the country.
The judges, Karen Newman from Open Eye Gallery, Hat Margolies from Lucid Rep, and photographer Dan Burn-Forti, selected the pictures to be shown from 1,110 entries.
As you would expect, there are some cracking pictures on show.
Portrait Salon was formed last year and describes itself as a form of Salon des Refuses - an exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show - that aims to showcase the best of the rejected images from the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, which is organised annually by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG).
As the founders of Portrait Salon, Carole Evans and James O Jenkins write in the newspaper-style catalogue that accompanies the show, the idea began as an experiment and was not intended to upset or disrupt the Taylor Wessing, but to allow those whose work did not make the walls of the NPG another outlet.
They write: "We want to give exposure to those great images that for one reason or another don't make the cut but still deserve recognition."
Add to this judge Karen Newman's remarks about the subjective process the act of judging is, and you get a truly delightful mix of pictures on show.
You can see a few of them below and if you'd like to see the projection, details can be found on the Portrait Salon website or follow them on Twitter. | A photographic portrait is what draws many of us to photography, be it a family snapshot or a heavily constructed picture taken in a studio with all the trimmings. | 20539566 |
The conditions at Glencoe Mountain Resort, which are highly sought after by skiers and snowboarders, followed heavy snowfalls over the last few days.
Snowaction magazine has rated the centre as having the best powder snow of any of the world's ski resorts at the moment.
The last day of skiing at Glencoe for the 2014-15 season is 4 May.
A spokesperson for Glencoe Mountain said: "Conditions for this time of year are truly exceptional.
"The conditions are more like what you would expect on a midwinter.
"Normally by the May weekend we are skiing on large patches of snow." | A snowsports centre in Scotland has been described as having the "best powder snow on the planet". | 32512716 |
The international art event takes place in the Italian city every other year, and attracts the world's best artists, curators and agents.
James Richards is already well-known on the UK art scene, having been nominated for the Turner Prize in 2014.
He told BBC Wales it was "a real honour" to be selected to represent Wales in Venice.
Richards will work with Cardiff's Chapter arts centre to create an installation in a former convent on the banks of one of Venice's famous canals.
"It's really exciting, it's a real honour. It's always touching when people nominate you for something, particularly this.
"I grew up around the corner from Chapter so a lot of my first experiences with art were there, so it was a very exciting invitation."
Born and brought up in Cardiff, Richards now lives in Berlin where his work focuses on archive video, sound and still images.
It includes fragments of cinema, stray camcorder footage and murky late night TV shows.
Richards said exhibiting in Venice was "a really big deal".
"People who like art, for the seven months or so that it's on will flock to see it. It's a presentation of work that so many people see.
"Curators, museum directors, gallery staff and writers all attend, so it's a very important thing that happens every two years in the global art calendar."
Since 2003 Wales has been making its own submission to the Biennale. It costs around £400,000 to stage the Welsh exhibition, which will run from May to November next year.
Previous artists to represent Wales in Venice include Helen Sear, Bedwyr Williams and John Cale.
Richards said he will shortly make his first visit to the exhibition space in Venice.
"We are going next week to visit the building that we will use for the exhibition," he said.
"It's a multi-room venue, so I am really excited about creating a number of works that will sit together like a musical suite, in harmony, and people can move between them.
"The building itself becomes a starting point, and then I will start experimenting in the studio and gathering footage."
Richards added: "I am working with some musicians and composers on some new musical material which is a process I am really excited to start, and to find a way of including the music I am composing in collaboration with the musicians into the piece. And then I will start doing archival research and really build the show from there. "
Phil George, Arts Council Wales chairman, called Richards "an exciting and significant Welsh artist".
''His installation will bring a distinctive and remarkable talent to the attention of galleries and curators worldwide and show the contemporary edge of Welsh creativity to the thousands of visitors to the Biennale," he said.
The exact details of Richards's exhibition will remain secret until the Venice Biennale opens in May 2017. | The video artist James Richards from Cardiff will represent Wales at the Venice Biennale 2017. | 36379696 |
Conservative Matthew Grove defeated the Labour veteran in the battle for the Humberside Police role.
The vote went to a second round of counting with Mr Grove getting 42,164 votes and Lord Prescott 39,933.
Mr Grove said Lord Prescott was an "utter gentleman".
Both candidates had failed to get 50% of first preference votes.
Lord Prescott secured 33,282 votes, the most in the first round, with Mr Grove polling 29,440 votes.
The turnout in the election was 133,762 (19.15% of the electorate)
Speaking after the result had been declared, Lord Prescott said: "I said at the beginning, this a Tory marginal seat. It's not a safe Labour seat. It's not even a Labour seat."
Asked if he will be putting himself up for election again, he said: "I've always been in public service rather than anywhere else. And I don't think I'll be standing for election, no.
"But this was one occasion where you were required to have lived in the actual constituency, I was one of the constituency, I always wanted to make service so I put my name forward and you have the results today.
"I nearly got it, didn't I?
"It would have been nice but it wasn't so. The people have spoken."
"It's nothing to be defeated in a democracy, is it?"
He laughed when asked if his wife, Pauline, wanted him to retire.
Mr Grove paid tribute to Lord Prescott, saying: "I've enjoyed his company, and it's with slight sadness I feel I've beaten him.
"In some ways he's given such long and dedicated service to this area, it's a shame I had to beat him, but it had to be done."
The new PCCs, who are set to replace police authorities, will set spending plans and have the power to "hire and fire" chief constables.
The Humberside police commissioner will receive a salary of £70,000.
The East Riding of Yorkshire council area saw the highest turnout in the region with 23.19%, while 15.65% of the electorate voted in Kingston upon Hull.
The other candidates vying for the Humberside police post were Godfrey Bloom of UKIP, Simone Butterworth from the Liberal Democrats, and independents Paul Davison, Neil Eyre and Walter Sweeney.
Turnout does not include spoiled ballots | Former deputy prime minister John Prescott says he will not stand for an election again after failing in his bid to become a police and crime commissioner. | 20346472 |
The party came third in all but two of the 11 constituencies in Bristol and south Gloucestershire in 2015.
The decision may boost the Conservative vote in marginal seats like the Thornbury and Yate constituency.
Conservative candidate Luke Hall is defending a 1,500 majority, where UKIP won more than 5,000 votes in the previous election.
UKIP's Russ Martin stood in the 2015 election for Thornbury and Yate. He was also re-elected as the prospect ive parliamentary candidate.
"This is tactical strategic decision, I'm looking at the bigger picture for Brexit and I don't want to jeopardise the outcome," he said.
Thornbury and Yate was held by the Liberal Democrat pensions minister Steve Webb before he lost his seat to the Conservatives in 2015.
Lib Dem candidate Claire Young said: "Two years of Conservative government has shown people what we actually did in coalition because they've seen, without us as a restraining influence, what they are doing."
Conservative candidate Luke Hall said: "This is a vital seat for the Conservatives nationally.
"There has never been a Conservative majority government without this seat."
Other candidates standing in Thornbury and Yate are Green Party candidate Iain Hamilton and Brian Peter Mead for Labour.
Speaking of UKIP's decision, Mr Hamilton said it was "not surprising" as UKIP "completely collapsed".
He added: "I know a lot of people say where will UKIP's votes go, but there are lot of people who don't like either of the main parties, and they're happy I'm standing, as it gives them other options."
Mr Mead said: "I'm standing to give people the opportunity to vote in favour of Labour policies of investment in public services run for the many and not the few and against the austerity agenda." | UKIP has confirmed it will not field any candidates across south Gloucestershire in the snap election. | 39880984 |
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A much-changed Bournemouth were beaten 3-0 by League One Millwall, while Stoke lost 2-0 at home to Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers.
West Brom lost 2-1 at home to Championship promotion hopefuls Derby.
Everton were beaten by Leicester and Hull knocked out Swansea in two all-Premier League ties.
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Two non-league sides will be in Monday's fourth-round draw after securing replays.
National League leaders Lincoln City came close to causing an FA Cup upset as two goals from former Derby striker Theo Robinson saw them 2-1 up at Ipswich before Tom Lawrence equalised late on.
Lincoln's league rivals Sutton also earned a replay as they draw 0-0 at home to League One AFC Wimbledon.
FA Cup holders Manchester United beat Reading 4-0 in the early game to progress, while 2013-15 and 2014-15 winners Arsenal came from behind to win 2-1 at Preston in the late game.
They were joined in the fourth round by Premier League champions Leicester, who won 2-1 at Everton thanks to an Ahmed Musa double.
New Hull City head coach Marco Silva watched his side beat Swansea 2-0, a result which meant defeat for Swans boss Paul Clement in his first official match in charge.
Watford avoided an upset by overcoming Championship side Burton Albion 2-0.
Brentford came out on top of Saturday's highest-scoring game as the Championship outfit beat non-league Eastleigh 5-1.
A number of games featuring Premier League sides had low attendances as the top-tier clubs entered the competition.
A crowd of 6,608 watched Hull City versus Swansea at the KCOM Stadium, with 210 supporters making the trip from Wales.
At Norwich, who average 26,000 in the Championship, just over 12,000 watched the draw with Premier League side Southampton.
And Sunderland, usually watched by more than 40,000 fans at the Stadium of Light, drew a crowd of just 17,632 for the 0-0 draw against Burnley.
However, non-league fans eager to witness an FA Cup upset travelled in big numbers to games.
Seventh-tier Stourbridge went into the third round as the lowest-ranked side left in competition and took more than 2,000 supporters to Wycombe, where an Adebayo Akinfenwa late winner sent the League Two side through.
"The FA Cup win will make a difference," said Stourbridge manager Gary Hackett. "Financially, it will put the club in a very strong position, and I think people will remember this day for a long, long time - albeit in defeat."
Eastleigh, meanwhile, had more than 1,500 supporters at Brentford - just 500 fewer than the National League side averages for home games.
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The draw for the FA Cup fourth round takes place on Monday, 9 January at 19:10 GMT.
It will be live on BBC Two and there will also be live text commentary on the BBC Sport website plus BBC Radio 5 live coverage.
The fourth-round ties will take place on the weekend beginning 28 January.
FA Cup third-round results:
West Ham United 0-5 Manchester City
Manchester United 4-0 Reading
Accrington Stanley 2-1 Luton Town
Barrow 0-2 Rochdale
Birmingham City 1-1 Newcastle United
Blackpool 0-0 Barnsley
Bolton Wanderers 0-0 Crystal Palace
Brentford 5-1 Eastleigh
Brighton & Hove Albion 2-0 Milton Keynes Dons
Bristol City 0-0 Fleetwood Town
Everton 1-2 Leicester City
Huddersfield Town 4-0 Port Vale
Hull City 2-0 Swansea City
Ipswich Town 2-2 Lincoln City
Millwall 3-0 Bournemouth
Norwich City 2-2 Southampton
Queens Park Rangers 1-2 Blackburn Rovers
Rotherham United 2-3 Oxford United
Stoke City 0-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Sunderland 0-0 Burnley
Sutton United 0-0 AFC Wimbledon
Watford 2-0 Burton Albion
West Bromwich Albion 1-2 Derby County
Wigan Athletic 2-0 Nottingham Forest (15:00)
Wycombe Wanderers 2-1 Stourbridge
Preston North End 1-2 Arsenal | Premier League sides Bournemouth, Stoke City and West Bromwich Albion were knocked out of the FA Cup by lower league opposition in the third round. | 38544536 |
Official figures for the year to September 2014 showed spending rose by 3% to £756m with trip numbers up 2% to 4.3m.
However, when trips and spending by NI residents were stripped out there was no significant growth.
Spending by non-NI residents actually slipped slightly from £521m to £519m over the year.
The Stormont Executive has targeted tourism as a growth industry that should be delivering £1bn a year to the economy by 2020.
The numbers of trips and spending has been on an upward trend since 2011.
The overall rise in the year to September was driven by a 21% increase in the number of people taking holidays in Northern Ireland, rather than visiting relatives or making business trips.
The figures also showed a continuing trend of a growing number of visitors from outside the UK, but a steep fall in total visitors from the Republic of Ireland.
Total overnight trips from Great Britain and other countries was up 3% but overnight trips from the Republic of Ireland were down by 13%. | Northern Ireland's tourism industry saw a rise in visitors and spending during the period that covered last summer. | 30936764 |
The "brutalist" style building, earmarked for demolition, is one of seven monuments being placed on an "at risk" list by the World Monuments Fund (WMF).
Its 2012 World Monuments Watch list also includes The Hayward Gallery and Coventry Cathedral.
These latest entries mean the UK now has 30 sites on the WMF's list.
Others include Birmingham Central Library, Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight and the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena.
Launched in 1996, the list of monuments at risk is issued every two years and has identified 67 monuments from around the world in its latest report.
The WMF has included 688 sites in 132 countries and territories on its nine watch lists so far.
The WMF says its list "seeks to draw international attention as well as local community support for some of the world's most treasured locations".
It also says that a monument or building's inclusion on its watch list can be crucial in raising awareness and funds for its preservation.
British monuments deemed at risk
Coventry Cathedral - the only English cathedral to be destroyed as an act of war - was gutted by incendiary bombs during World War II. A new cathedral was built, but the ruins were also preserved.
The WMF says that "exposure to the elements over time has eroded the ruins, and significant water infiltration problems and structural deterioration require immediate action".
Newstead Abbey is best known as the ancestral home of Lord Byron, but the watch list says it has "suffered significant deterioration, and a strategy for its conservation and long-term maintenance is greatly needed".
It also adds that the building's "restoration... would benefit the local community".
The watch list has included three buildings - the Hayward Gallery, Birmingham City Library and Preston Bus Station - under the heading of British Brutalism.
Preston Bus Station - once the largest bus station in the world - is scheduled to be pulled down as part of a redevelopment plan for the city centre.
Birmingham Central Library, the largest non-national library in Europe, is also threatened with demolition for redevelopment purposes.
The buildings were all were designed "in what is commonly referred to as the brutalist style... characterised by bold geometries, the exposure of structural materials, and functional spatial design", says the report..
The Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre was, according to the WMF, once deemed "a visionary combination of performance spaces and an art gallery, but it continues to be denied heritage status".
The ancient, now-ruined Cistercian Abbey of St Mary's at Quarr was founded in 1132 on the Isle of Wight. The watch list says that these medieval ruins are in need of repair, as are the monastic buildings and surrounding infrastructure.
The report also lists the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena, once home to the French Emperor Napoleon in exile.
The WMF notes the island "is not eligible for most conservation funding available in the United Kingdom, even though it is a British Territory".
The watch list adds: "If more resources were made available to the island, the conserved built heritage could be used to bolster the economy through tourism development, especially after the construction of a planned airport."
WMF chief executive Jonathan Foyle said: "For a decade and a half, the Watch has reminded us that no country is immune to man-made and natural disasters, and the casual degradations of its built environment.
"We can never afford to take for granted our irreplaceable and enriching cultural inheritance, but in an age of greater austerity this Watch further reminds to be vigilant, look after and enjoy historic places, many of which we could not afford to build today." | Preston Bus Station has been listed as one of the world's "most treasured locations". | 15180978 |
Police were called to Glanmor Crescent, Barry, at about 21:15 BST on Thursday.
A 54-year-old woman was taken to hospital with burns where she remains in a serious condition.
A South Wales Police spokesman said the arrested man from Penarth was believed to be known to the victim.
"A crime scene is being preserved at the address and a police cordon has been set up," he added.
The investigation is ongoing and an appeal has been made for witnesses.
A fire crew from Barry and an ambulance were also in attendance.
A Welsh Ambulance Service spokesperson said: "We were called at about 21:35 BST on Thursday, 4 August to reports of a fire at an address in Barry.
"A crew in an emergency ambulance attended the scene and a woman was taken to the University Hospital of Wales."
She was later transferred to Morrison Hospital. | A 63-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a serious assault in the Vale of Glamorgan which left a woman with severe burns. | 36984210 |
Sam Spaven drove his Audi into 44-year-old Richard Pencott as he was riding along Blyth Road in Harworth, Nottinghamshire, on 24 June.
The 26-year-old, of Norfolk Road, Bircotes, admitted murder at Nottingham Crown Court earlier.
Spaven will be sentenced on Tuesday morning, when more details of the case will be heard.
Mr Pencott, who died at the scene of the crash, also lived in Bircotes.
Updates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire | A motorist who deliberately crashed his car into a cyclist has pleaded guilty to murder. | 35094901 |
The Harris Tweed Authority revealed the figure following an event promoting the hand-woven cloth in London.
The figure is almost four times the amount of tweed sold when the Western Isles-based industry was having difficulties less than a decade ago.
Seven years ago, sales of the product had dropped to 450,000 metres.
The textile is hand-woven at home by the islanders of Lewis, Harris, Uist and Barra using wool that has been dyed and spun in the islands.
Harris Tweed Hebrides, the main producer of the fabric, exports to 60 countries. | Sales of Harris Tweed last year amounted to 1.7 million metres, the industry's governing body has said. | 35641521 |
The man was found in Thorp Street, in the city's Chinese Quarter and near the Hippodrome Theatre, at about 04:10 BST on Monday.
West Midlands Police said the injuries were not life-threatening and the victim was in a stable condition.
Insp Chris Wilkins said the shooting was being treated as "a targeted attack". | An 18-year-old was taken to hospital after being shot in the leg in Birmingham city centre. | 37213148 |
Built by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), the Tejas - meaning radiant - is expected to replace the ageing fleet of Russian MIG-21s.
The company handed over two of the aircraft to the air force on Friday.
It is not the first Indian-made fighter jet - that was the HF-24 Marut, which was also built by HAL, in 1961.
The Tejas was designed and manufactured in India, although some technologies, such as its engine and radar, have been imported.
It was declared fit to fly in 2011.
The two aircraft will be part of a squadron named 'Flying Daggers' 45, the PTI news agency reported.
The air force aims to induct a total of six Tejas aircraft this financial year and eight in the next, the report added.
The Tejas is touted by Indian defence officials as the smallest lightweight, single-engine, tactical fighter aircraft in the world.
The fighter - which can carry air-to-air and air-to-surface weapons - has been long delayed by technological hurdles.
US sanctions imposed after India carried out nuclear tests in 1998 further stalled development of the jet. | The first Indian-designed fighter jet, the Tejas, has been inducted into the country's air force, 31 years after it was first conceived. | 36681110 |
The men, who were in their 20s and 50s, were diving with a group close to the city's breakwater when they failed to surface at about 11:30 GMT.
Two Plymouth lifeboats and a rescue helicopter from RMB Chivenor were called to search for them. A lifeboat later found the divers uninjured.
A UK Coastguard spokeswoman said it was not clear what had caused the delay.
She said the person in charge was concerned for their welfare when the men failed to surface after 15 minutes.
She added that once the men were found they were passed to South Western Ambulance Service for a check up. | Two divers who were delayed in surfacing off Plymouth sparked a major search operation. | 31787830 |
The 33-year-old Australian had been playing at the top level of French rugby league after two seasons in Super League with Catalans Dragons.
He has also played in the NRL for Cronulla Sharks and Penrith Panthers.
"He's a whole-hearted player and puts his body on the line," head coach Tony Smith told the club website.
Pomeroy added: "I have been playing in the French competition but I was always keen to play in Super League again.
"This opportunity at Warrington came up and I think is perfect for me. I'm excited, it feels like I'm making my debut again." | Super League side Warrington Wolves have signed Lezignan Sangliers centre Ben Pomeroy on a deal until the end of the season. | 40303614 |
"Indies" will be able to create their own games, publish to the Xbox when they like, and set their own pricing, the computer giant has confirmed.
Microsoft had previously said it would only allow games from recognised publishers on the new console.
The Xbox One, the successor to the Xbox 360, is to be launched in November.
Announcing the policy change Marc Whiten, corporate vice president of Xbox, said: "Our vision is that every person can be a creator. That every Xbox One can be used for development. That every game and experience can take advantage of all of the features of Xbox One and Xbox Live. This means self-publishing."
Microsoft plans to make further announcements about self-publishing in August at the Gamescom conference in Cologne, Germany.
The self-publishing U-turn is the first major announcement since Don Mattrick, former boss of the Xbox division, left to be head of games maker Zynga in July.
Reacting to the announcement, Will Freeman, editor of Develop, a magazine for the games developer industry, told the BBC: "This is certainly an exciting move by Microsoft and will help democratise games development.
"But making a game is one thing, getting it played by lots of people is another. What really matters is Microsoft's policy towards distribution."
Barry Meade, commercial director of Fireproof Studios, a British Bafta-award-winning games maker, said: "This will be great for diversity, good for Microsoft and good for consoles in general.
"There hasn't been enough innovation in the console sector because of the high costs of development."
Fireproof has been highly critical of console makers in the past, principally because of the high costs and bureaucracy involved in creating games for them, preferring to focus on the cheaper mobile and browser platforms.
Creating a blockbuster console game from scratch and getting it promoted in stores and online can cost tens of millions of dollars, whereas Fireproof's popular mobile game, The Room, cost up to £80,000, says Mr Meade.
Microsoft's original policy contrasted with that of console rival, Sony, which is seen by many developers as more "indie-friendly".
In May, Sony announced that it would introduce an indie game section in its PlayStation Store and allow self-publishing on the Playstation 4 console, also due for its UK launch in November.
In June, Microsoft stopped charging developers for updating their games on the Xbox 360 in a sign that it was responding to criticism from the indie community. | Microsoft is to allow independent games developers to self-publish on its Xbox One games console, in a reversal of its previous policy. | 23448632 |
Voting began at 07:00 BST and ended at 22:00.
Foyle was the first local constituency to declare a result, with 78.3% voting to Remain in the European Union out of a 57% turnout.
The outcome of the Northern Ireland poll will be announced at the Titanic centre in Belfast.
The ballot paper asked voters: "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?"
Electoral staff in Northern Ireland are spread across eight different count centres and have the task of counting the votes in more than 1,300 ballot boxes.
There were 619 polling stations across Northern Ireland and more than 1.25m people were registered to vote.
Declarations for parliamentary constituencies will be made throughout the night, with the final Northern Ireland and UK-wide result due by breakfast time on Friday.
The official declaration will be made at Manchester Town Hall.
There will be comprehensive coverage online, with live updates throughout polling day and overnight, as well as up-to-the minute results.
And from 06:00 BST on Friday, BBC News NI will have a live page dedicated to the outcome and reaction.
BBC One, the BBC News Channel and BBC Parliament are broadcasting a results show hosted by David Dimbleby alongside BBC experts and special guests.
Coverage continues throughout the night and Sophie Raworth, Andrew Neil and Victoria Derbyshire pick up the coverage on Friday morning. | The polls have closed in the EU referendum in Northern Ireland with counting under way. | 36597179 |
But what will the business mogul do when he takes office in January, and what will be the impact of his economic policies on the UK economy and British businesses?
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Effectively a second Brexit that leaves many very surprised, including the markets and me.
It's going to take a significant amount of time to assess the implications beyond the short term.
Increased levels of uncertainty will mean more hesitation to make important decisions in the short term, both by people and governments. But it may accelerate implementation of helpful reforms in the medium term to reduce uncertainty and stimulate investment as a result.
Clearly immigration, trade and terrorism were key issues that swayed electoral opinion in a very significant way, just as they did in the UK, and probably will in the European referendums and elections to come.
There will now be a lot of reassessment, including of polling techniques. Electorates at times like these clearly don't like to be told how they're going to vote, especially by the media and other elites.
What is clear from this vote, and similarly the Brexit vote last June, is that while globalisation may have been on average good for the world, it has also left many people behind.
We have to listen to this, and business, government and civil society will need to map a path forward together.
The subject of social inequality is one shared by the UK and the US, and perhaps should be part of the agenda for the special relationship between our two countries.
Given the importance of the United States as a market, taking around 12% of UK goods exports, British manufacturers have a keen interest in the health of the US economy.
In the light of uncertainty around Brexit it is important that we avoid further economic fallout and I hope the new administration will move quickly to reassure and work with its traditional allies to re-affirm longstanding and positive relationships.
Britain has always enjoyed a close political, economic and military relationship with the United States and it is vital that this continues.
Given the United States' traditional role as a pioneer of free and fair trade, I hope the new President will ensure that he continues to champion this ethos."
British business has been keeping a close eye on the race for the White House, and congratulates the President-elect.
The UK is the largest foreign investor in America, and British companies support over a million jobs in the US, stretching from Alaska to New York.
As the UK and the USA's economic special relationship continues to go from strength to strength, we hope that the President-elect is committed to building on, and developing, this unique political and trading partnership.
Firms are keen to understand more about Mr Trump's trade policies. Following the UK's decision to leave the European Union, we need to do everything we can to make it easier to trade, invest and drive prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic.
Donald Trump, and the Republicans controlling both the House and Senate, is the result that markets least expected. What we do know is that his policies will be broadly inflationary. Whether it is his protectionist policies, controlling immigration or investment in infrastructure, all point to a more inflationary tendency.
Demand is likely to be higher for natural resources as a consequence of the infrastructure spend he is likely to make, although we doubt he will be building a wall between the US and Mexico.
If he manages to introduce tariffs on certain imports, this will also lead to higher prices in the US. That said, it's not clear whether he will be able to implement such policies as the rest of his party are very pro-business and vested interests will be strongly against anything that damages US business interests.
He also wants to control immigration, particularly illegal immigration. Clearly, the effect of immigration is to put downward pressure on wages, so it is also inflationary at the margin and in the longer term.
As a populist he is certain to favour policies, in whatever area, that benefit the masses or at least are perceived to do so. While we doubt he is likely to be as populist as certain southern European or Latin American leaders of the past, we expect the tone to move in that direction.
Follow Tim Bowler on Twitter@timbowlerbbc | Donald Trump's unexpected election victory over his rival Hillary Clinton came at the end of one of the most bruising US presidential election campaigns of recent years. | 37925230 |
Sylvia Woosley, who first met Freud when she was 10 and later went to live with him, told the ITV Exposure programme that he abused her for years.
A second woman, who wants to remain anonymous, claimed he abused her as a child and raped her when she was 18.
His widow Jill Freud, 89, said she was "deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women".
In the documentary, Exposure: Abused and Betrayed - A Life Sentence, due to be broadcast on Wednesday, Ms Woosley, now in her late 70s, said: "I just want to clear things up before I die...I want to die clean.
"Having been so hard on myself, trying to destroy myself so many times, you can't bury the truth forever, it needs to be heard.
"I don't want to take this to my tomb.
"I would like to just return to the child I was before I was molested physically, before I was introduced to that side of life too early."
She told the programme she first met Freud, known as Clay, when he was aged 24 and worked at a hotel in Cannes in the late 1940s. She was 10 and her family was living in the south of France.
Ms Woosley claims that he kissed her on the mouth during a bus trip.
She said: "I was disgusted and helpless. I just didn't react in any way because I couldn't. I didn't know what to do."
She said he frequently molested her during the five years she lived with Freud and his wife in London, where she had been sent to live at 14 years old following the breakdown of her mother's marriage.
Later, aged in her early 40s, Ms Woosley said she confronted Freud at the House of Commons and asked why he had abused her.
She says he replied: "Because I loved you. You were a very sensual little girl."
The second woman said that she first met the Liberal politician in 1971 at her family home as a "lonely, neglected and socially isolated" 11-year-old.
Two years later, after he was elected as an MP, he would take her on trips to Parliament and his home, and would kiss her on the mouth and hug her.
She said: "I felt sick but grateful at the same time. Frightened and unable to move or react in any way."
When she was 14, she claims Freud asked her and another friend of the same age: "Would you like to get naked and have some fun?"
Four years later in June 1978 when she was 18, the woman alleges that Freud came over to her parents' flat and "brutally and perfunctorily" raped her.
She told the programme: "I live in constant terror that I'll be found out, exposed.
"I've already suffered across nearly 40 years. It's not simply to be labelled as depression or mental illness, this is disempowerment, self-destructiveness and grief.
"This is what real suffering looks like."
ITV said two of Freud's children had viewed the documentary before broadcast on their mother's behalf.
In a statement, Mrs Freud said: "This is a very sad day for me.
"I was married to Clement for 58 years and loved him dearly.
"I am shocked, deeply saddened and profoundly sorry for what has happened to these women. I sincerely hope they will now have some peace."
Born in Vienna in April 1924, Clement Freud was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. Another grandson was Clement's elder brother, the artist Lucian Freud.
His idiosyncratic pet food commercials with Henry the dog launched him on a long career as a television and radio personality.
He contributed to BBC Radio 4's Just A Minute for more than 30 years and featured on shows including Have I Got News For You.
A Liberal MP from 1973 to 1987, he was knighted in 1987.
He had five children, including the television personality, Emma, and the PR guru, Matthew.
Freud died at his desk aged 84 in 2009.
A statement from the Liberal Democrats called the allegations "horrific".
It said: "We are desperately sorry to learn that lives have been ruined by a man whose public face was so greatly at odds to his true character.
"Clement Freud was a senior figure in the Liberals, our party's predecessor, and we are deeply shocked and horrified by this news.
"Our party was never aware of what happened, and our hearts go out to the women who were affected." | The late broadcaster and MP Sir Clement Freud has been accused of abusing two girls between the late 1940s and 1970s. | 36535263 |