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People are using social media to not only express their grief, but in some cases, to extend their help.
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Porte Ouverte, or Open Door, has been used by many Twitter users in Nice offering their homes to those needing somewhere to shelter.
Users encouraged each other not to share their addresses online, but to privately send them through direct messages.
This post used the hashtag #Nice06, a reference to the postcode of the district where the tragedy occurred, which has also been trending on social media.
According to Twitter users, taxi drivers were also offering free rides to those in the area.
Thousands have also posted under the hashtag #RechercheNice, or "search Nice", in the hope of finding their friends and loved ones.
Pictures of those missing have flooded social media, with brief descriptions of each individual. An account called @NiceFindPeople was quickly set up, which circulated a note bearing the names of all those reported lost. It has since been retweeted almost 500 times.
A story from a Facebook user named Tiava Banner who lost her baby has also been widely shared.
"We've lost our 8-month-old baby. Friends in Nice, if you've seen him, if you were there, if you've picked him up please contact me," said Tiava on Facebook.
The post was later updated to say the baby had been found, and thanked a woman named Joy Ruez.
"Thank you Facebook to all those who helped and sent messages of support," Tiava Banner wrote, also adding hashtags associated with the Nice attacks.
The BBC has not been able to independently verify this story, but its spread shows perhaps how much people want to hear of a happy ending in the midst of the tragedy.
The #JeSuis hashtag first emerged during France's Charlie Hebdo attacks, and has since been used routinely to show solidarity with terror victims around the world.
As news of the attacks spread, #JeSuisNice quickly emerged online. However, many have taken to twitter to express their cynicism.
#PrayForNice also quickly made the rounds on Twitter, with many expressing their sentiment and disgust at the attacks.
Here are some of the celebrities and political figures who used the hashtag to extend their thoughts and sympathy.
Facebook quickly activated its safety check feature, which automatically sent users in the affected area a message to ask if they were safe.
The feature acts as a way of letting friends and family know if the user is alright.
France had been on high alert following last November's attacks in Paris in which 130 people died and hundreds were wounded.
The state of emergency had been due to end on 26 July but will now be extended. | First there was #JeSuisCharlie, then #JeSuisParis and now #JeSuisNice has emerged on social media in response to an attack in the southern French city of Nice that has left at least 80 people dead and many injured. |
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Rail, Maritime and Transport union members will vote in the coming weeks amid claims that industrial relations have "comprehensively broken down".
The union is also seeking a four-hour cut in the working week to 35 hours.
A Southern spokesman said the rail operator was aware of the issues and "dialogue with the union is ongoing".
He added that it had received no formal notification from the RMT union that it intended to ballot its members.
RMT general secretary Mick Cash said the union would not stand by while "agreed policies, procedures and agreements are unilaterally ripped up by Southern".
"Southern is a company intensively under the spotlight over its performance at the moment and RMT will not have our members scapegoated for failures at the top by outrageous and intimidatory demands to meet impossible work targets and through attacks on working conditions.
"The union is in no doubt that the pressure on these staff to deliver impossible targets compromises safety in what is clearly a safety-critical environment," he said.
Southern runs services between London, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and Kent. | More than 200 engineers at Southern rail are to be balloted for industrial action over issues including new rosters and "impossible work targets". |
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The company said Glass Enterprise Edition had improved battery life and felt more comfortable during long-term wear than before.
However, it still resembles the original model, with a small see-through display and built-in camera.
It will face competition from Microsoft's HoloLens among others.
Many had assumed the project had been cancelled after the executive in charge, Tony Fadell, resigned last year.
However, parent company Alphabet's X division continued to develop the technology and has now revealed its efforts in a post on the news site Medium.
"Workers in many fields, like manufacturing, logistics, field services, and healthcare find it useful to consult a wearable device for information and other resources while their hands are busy," wrote project lead Jay Kothari.
"That's why we've spent the last two years working closely with a network of more than 30 expert partners to build customised software and business solutions for Glass for people in these fields."
Mr Koathri revealed that logistics workers at the delivery company DHL, engineers at General Electric and medics at Dignity Health had been among those secretly using the eyewear over recent months.
Wired magazine added that those involved had had to promise not to reveal the existence of Glass Enterprise Edition and pose with the old version in any photos showing them using the eyewear at work.
Improvements over the earlier Explorer Edition include:
Google sold the original prototype edition for £1,000.
This time, the product will be sold via a range of specialised software companies, which are bundling it with their respective services.
Germany-based Ubimax - which makes software for logistics and manufacturing workers - told the BBC it would charge about 1,500 euros ($1,735; £1,335) per unit on top of rolling fees for its own solutions.
"It makes perfect sense to target businesses," said Chris Green from the technology consultancy Lewis.
"While the original iteration of Google Glass had questionable consumer applications, we are already seeing that there is huge potential for augmented reality particularly in things like manufacturing.
"For example, a floor worker can get a single view of all the sensor data across a production line, from data about output and wear and tear of components, to where the bottlenecks are, all in a way they wouldn't be able to do just by wandering the line normally."
But in the period Google left the market, other companies, including Vuzix, Meta and Epson, have developed their own augmented reality eyewear targeted at businesses.
And Microsoft began selling a "developer edition" of its more advanced - and more expensive - HoloLens augmented reality headset last year.
It benefits from superimposing graphics over both eyes and can run more complex apps, since it is powered by a Windows 10 PC rather than a smartphone.
However, at present, HoloLens offers only two to three hours of active use.
Somewhere in a drawer at home is one of the most exciting - yet frustrating - pieces of technology I have ever used.
I wore Google Glass for something like six weeks as a journalistic experiment.
It flashed up news alerts and social media messages, it helped me navigate, but mostly it was a very handy wearable camera - capturing everything from my dentist leaning over me to a pitch invasion as Brentford won promotion.
But when I stopped wearing the device, it was a relief - from the constant abuse from friends, family and colleagues who thought, correctly, that I looked like a fool.
A few also thought it an invasion of their privacy, though the flashing red light made taking pictures a less covert activity than shooting with a smartphone.
In retrospect, Google's decision to launch Glass as a consumer product was a clumsy error, driven by a desire for positive PR rather than any business case.
In the enterprise world, where Microsoft has been quietly developing its HoloLens headset, this kind of device makes far more sense.
Somehow, the aesthetics of putting something hi-tech on your face in a work setting are completely different.
But I am wondering whether it is time to retrieve the Glass from my drawer and have another go. | Google is to sell a revamped version of its smart glasses to businesses, more than two years after the original version of the product was cancelled. |
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You wanted to know how to track down a family in Stoke-on-Trent?
We were also asked what good or charitable things were happening in Shropshire?
And you were curious about how faggots became a Black Country delicacy? Here is a look at how we got on answering your questions.
Outside of the phone directory for current names, the other way would be via the local archive services.
In Stoke-on-Trent they suggest using online services such as The Staffordshire Collection on Findmypast which contains parish registers, marriage bonds and more.
The Staffordshire archive service also suggest, apart from their online services, planning a visit to the record office to track down more details.
We went to the Charity Commission, to ask how many charities it has registered in the county and found they have 1,655 registered in the Shropshire local authority area and another 368 in the Telford area.
That list contains a number of charities which aren't based in Shropshire, but still operate in the county and some are more active than others - but there are a wide range of causes listed there.
Faggots were developed as a way of using up all the bits of pig that would otherwise be discarded and have been on sale in the Black Country for more than a century.
The meat balls made of minced offal are traditionally served with mashed potato, peas and gravy. Here is a BBC Good Food recipe you can try.
Eve Billingham founded The Cook Shop in Old Hill, near Halesowen in 1889.
She started out by used the front room of her home in Old Hill High Street, now Highgate Street, as a shop selling Black Country food, such as faggots she cooked herself.
Her recipe for Black Country favourites including faggots have been handed down for generations up until recently, the shop was still being run by her great-grandson.
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The German, punched by Ukrainian Andriy Grivko on stage three, outsprinted Team Sky's Italian Elia Viviani, while Britain's Mark Cavendish was fourth.
Cavendish gesticulated with frustration after failing to come round Kittel, who he had been following in the sprint.
"I'm super proud. It's a nice start to the season," said Quick-Step Floors rider Kittel, who won three stages.
"The final sprint didn't go according to plan because the chain of my lead-out man fell off so I had to go on my own."
Kittel's defence was expected to come under most pressure on Friday's hilly stage four, but it was cancelled because of high winds.
He ended up 18 seconds clear of Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen in the overall standings with German John Degenkolb in third.
Team Dimension Data's Cavendish, who won the race in 2015, finished eighth overall, two places behind One Pro Cycling's Thomas Stewart, who was the highest-ranked Briton on general classification.
Stage 5 result:
1. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Quick-Step Floors) 2hrs 34mins 12secs
2. Elia Viviani (Ita/Team Sky) Same time
3. Riccardo Minali (Ita/Astana)
4. Mark Cavendish (GB/Team Dimension Data)
5. John Degenkolb (Ger/Trek-Segafredo)
General classification:
1. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Quick-Step Floors) 15hrs 8mins 56secs
2. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/Lotto Jumbo) +18secs
3. John Degenkolb (Ger/Trek-Segafredo) +24secs
4. Jean-Pierre Drucker (Lux/BMC Racing) Same time
5. Elia Viviani (Ita/Team Sky)
Selected:
6. Thomas Stewart (GB/One Pro Cycling) +24secs
8. Mark Cavendish (GB/Team Dimension Data) +26secs
10. Alex Dowsett (GB/Movistar) +27secs | Defending champion Marcel Kittel wrapped up victory in the Dubai Tour by winning the fifth and final stage. |
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Danni Jordan put the home side up 2-0 at half time after Sian French opened the scoring with a fine strike. Poland replied through Amelia Kateria.
Wales beat Poland 2-0 on Saturday and 3-0 on Friday.
The series is preparation for the group stages of the Euro Hockey Championships being held in Cardiff from 6-12 August.
"It took us some time to get going in the series but we're delighted to continue the momentum that we've been building for a while now and it's nice that we're putting in consistent performances," head coach Kevin Johnson said.
"I'm pleased this weekend that as the games moved on we became more creative and I think we opened Poland up in a number of areas.
"The atmosphere and everything around it will be completely different but I think the belief that we will gain from these results is obviously key.
"We would much rather be in our camp having the momentum of having three wins against Poland but we are acutely aware that one match in August against them is going to be a different scenario to deal with."
Wales beat Poland 2-0 for a second victory thanks to goals from Eloise Laity and Sophie Clayton.
Captain Abi Welsford and vice captain Leah Wilkinson - a scorer in Friday's 3-0 win - each earned their 135th international cap in that match.
That left Welsford and Wilkinson three caps shy of equalling Anne Ellis' record 138 Wales appearances.
Jo Westwood and Sarah Jones joined Wilkinson in scoring the home goals on Friday.
Find out how to get into hockey with our special guide. | Wales wrapped up a series sweep over Poland with a 2-1 victory on Sunday in Cardiff as they prepare for the Euro Hockey Championships. |
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Malachi Halstead, 35, from Newport, attacked Teerath Mann in August 2016 because he thought he was stealing from him.
Halstead, known as DJ Madskie, put the picture on the messaging app saying: "See that? I chopped that off."
He was found guilty of wounding with intent at Cardiff Crown Court.
His partner Nicole Seaborne, also from Newport, was cleared of providing him with the weapon.
The court heard Mr Mann, 23, was selling drugs for Halstead but the DJ suspected money had gone missing.
Heath Edwards, prosecuting, said Halstead lured Mr Mann into his car before telling him, "Tonight you're losing something".
"Halstead drove to a nearby place and parked up, and both got out of the vehicle," Mr Edwards said.
"Mr Mann was made to place his finger on a wooden pole, and when he did, Halstead chopped off a large part of that finger."
The court was shown the Snapchat recording showing Mr Mann's severed finger and Halstead himself.
Halstead denied the attack, claiming a man called Mr Biggs had ambushed Mr Mann.
But Mr Edwards said Mr Biggs was "a figment of Halstead's imagination".
Halstead also admitted escaping police custody, after running away from officers when he was initially being arrested.
Sentencing, Recorder Christopher Clee called the attack "utterly barbaric" and said the footage was "chilling."
Halstead would have to serve two thirds of his sentence before being considered for release, he said.
After the case, Det Con Eirian Williams, of Gwent Police, said: "Malachi Halstead enacted a terrible, life-changing injury on the victim on what was effectively a vendetta crime.
"We are delighted that this particularly violent individual has been convicted and we hope this lengthy sentence serves as a warning to others involved in organised crime." | A DJ has been jailed for 14 years for chopping off a man's finger with a meat cleaver and posting a picture of it on Snapchat. |
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The victim, believed to be 22-year-old Joseph Hunt from Rugeley, was found with serious head injuries on Western Springs Road in the town in the early hours of Saturday, police said.
An 18-year-old man has been arrested and police have seized a Skoda Fabia for detailed forensic examination.
A member of the public contacted officers and subsequent inquiries led them to an address in Rugeley.
A police spokesman said officers have not formally identified the victim but specialist officers are supporting Mr Hunt's family. | A man has been arrested over a suspected hit-and-run in Staffordshire. |
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People on the Smiler ride were trapped 25ft (7.6m) up at an angle of 45 degrees for up to four-and-a-half hours when two carriages collided on Tuesday.
It was 11 minutes before emergency services were called.
The theme park is estimated to be losing up to £500,000 every day since closing.
The worst injured were textile design student Joe Pugh, 18, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire; his girlfriend, Leah Washington, 17; Daniel Thorpe, 27, a hotel assistant manager from Buxton, Derbyshire; and Vicky Balch, 19, of Leyland, Lancashire.
Mr Thorpe is being treated at University Hospital Coventry and the other three are being treated at Royal Stoke University Hospital.
Alton Towers said it was reviewing its closure decisions on a daily basis.
Theme park bosses were informed of the accident on Tuesday at 13:57 BST, but ambulance crews said a 999 call was not made until 14:08 BST.
Alton Towers said one of its first responders was soon on the scene and security staff would have called 999 as soon as an assessment had been made.
Crews from West Midlands Ambulance Service arrived on the scene at 14:35 BST and they called the fire service at 14:41 BST.
Fire crews were not initially requested by Alton Towers but the park's staff did put their own call in requesting their assistance at 14:45 BST, the fire service said.
Since opening two years ago the £18m Smiler rollercoaster, which boasts a world-record 14 loops, has been closed twice because of safety concerns.
An Alton Towers spokeswoman said two hotels, including an indoor water park in one of them, and woodland lodges, remained open, but the theme park was closed.
The park said that anyone with pre-booked tickets would be able to visit Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures, Warwick Castle or Legoland Windsor as an alternative. | Alton Towers is closed for a third full day as investigators assess the cause of a rollercoaster crash in which 16 people were injured, four seriously. |
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Britain won the Davis Cup for the first time in 79 years with victory over Belgium in Ghent over the weekend.
Smith said the sport's governing body, the Lawn Tennis Association, needed to quickly create a long-term strategy.
In praising Judy Murray's tennis programmes, Smith said: "She can't keep doing it on her own."
Smith said Judy Murray, the mother of British number one Andy and doubles specialist Jamie, "needs a lot of help".
Murray leads the LTA's Miss-Hits programme - an introductory course for girls aged between five and eight - and a Scottish-based scheme, Tennis on the Road.
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Smith, who became Davis Cup captain five years ago with the team a play-off away from relegation to the event's lowest tier, added: "At the end of the day, we all care about British tennis a lot.
"What we want to see is more people playing, so there should be a bigger talent pool in years to come.
"It really is an important time to get strategies rolled out as quickly as possible, not only to get people on the court but to keep them on the court. We need to offer them good clubs and good coaches that turn up in all weather and bang out great sessions. Let's hope it has a positive influence, because it should do."
The LTA was criticised for failing to capitalise on Andy Murray's Wimbledon victory in 2013 with participation levels remaining an issue.
But LTA chief Michael Downey described the successful weekend in Belgium as "very, very special and emotional moments that can drive interest in our sport".
World number two Andy Murray was the dominant force for the fourth Davis Cup tie running as he became only the third man after John McEnroe and Mats Wilander to end a campaign with an 8-0 singles record.
He also matched American great Pete Sampras 20 years ago, the last man to win three live rubbers in a final.
The former Wimbledon and US Open champion said winning the Davis Cup was a more emotional experience than winning Grand Slam titles or Olympic gold.
The Scot also said the Davis Cup campaign had affected him physically, adding: "I'm 28 but my body feels a lot older right now. I still hope to play for the next five or six years." | Victorious Davis Cup captain Leon Smith says Britain needs to capitalise on his team's historic triumph to inspire a future generation of tennis players. |
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But, the BBC's Our World programme asks, what will the arrival of air access really mean for the 4,000 people living in Saint Helena?
Two-hundred years ago this October, the British warship HMS Northumberland anchored off a tiny island to disembark its most famous prize, Napoleon Bonaparte, who had recently been defeated at the battle of Waterloo.
The former emperor had thought he was to be exiled to America. Instead, the man who had once ruled vast tracts of Europe, found himself on the tiny and remote British-ruled island of St Helena.
There, in the first days of captivity - which would end with his death in 1821 - he snarled at those who had defeated him.
"How can the monarchs of Europe permit the sacred character of sovereignty to be violated in my person? Do they not see that they are, with their own hands, working their own destruction at St Helena?"
Situated in the middle of the South Atlantic, St Helena is 1,200 miles from the coast of West Africa. It is just ten miles (16km) long and six miles (10km) wide.
Discovered by Portuguese mariners in 1502, St Helena - whose inhabitants call themselves "Saints" - was originally a Dutch possession before it passed to British control - initially under the East India Company, before becoming a British colony, now called a British Overseas Territory,
The Saints, now numbering around 4,000, are the descendents of sailors, settlers and slaves.
This tightly-knit community is currently linked to the outside world by a Royal Mail ship, the St Helena, which makes a five-day journey from Cape Town in South Africa, every three weeks. It carries passengers, mail and everything the island needs to survive, apart from petrol.
But all that is set to change with the building of St Helena Airport - scheduled to open in February 2016.
In November 2011, the UK government announced it was to invest around £250m in the building of an airport on the island's east coast.
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Whitehall said this would boost St Helena's links to the outside world and increase the island's self-sufficiency, "with the ultimate aim of eliminating the island's reliance on aid".
Each year the island receives, on average, $37m (£25m) from the United Kingdom. There is full employment, but 70% of the population works for the government and wages are low - while the cost of goods is high.
Father Dale Bowers, one the island's Anglican priests, believes that history has a harsh lesson for the Saints. "The island lost all of its money from the East India Company and there was real poverty. The more educated, business-minded people all emigrated to South Africa and left behind were just the poor people - the ones who couldn't go any further."
And, even today, many young Saints leave in search of a better life overseas.
This growing trend in offshore employment is a major contributor to the breakdown of family life on the island, according to Fr Dale. And although he is reluctant to see the island undergo such a major overhaul, he is unsure it can carry on the way it is.
Ivy Ellick, a retired civil servant whose late husband was in charge of customs and income tax on the island, looks at the airport as not only a way for Saints to leave the island, but also facilitate their return.
"I am very pro-airport and I'm very pleased with what's going on," she said.
"This was the only development that I thought would actually quench that thirst to leave the island... and will hopefully bring our Saints back."
But not all the islanders are so optimistic. Many fear opening up to the outside world will create even more problems.
Before his death, local fisherman Trevor Thomas outlined his concerns about the airport.
"Britain is not going to put an airport here for £400m and then we live the same old way we did 20 or 30 years ago. They will want changes. It's coming."
"People feel as though they are not being listened to and it makes you angry… and then when you say something that is contrary to what is being presented to you, you are being negative."
While the British government says it does not wish to damage the island's sense of community or the environment, tourism is both a natural consequence of better transport links and a source of economic growth.
The island's lush vegetation, rare plants and the relatively untouched sea surrounding it, could prove a draw, as could the Georgian architecture of the capital, Jamestown and Napoleon's former residence Longwood House.
There is also a project in the works to build an eco-hotel on St Helena, and the aviation company Comair Limited has just been appointed as the preferred bidder to transport visitors from Johannesburg to the island in just four-and-a-half hours.
But extra traffic to and from the island will not benefit the islanders directly, argued Mr Thomas.
"They think that the airport is going to create a lot of opportunity and the young people are going to want to stay but for what? Make the beds, drive the taxis, sweep the floors? We can't all be chiefs.
"There are other people out there who also believe there is a potential here - people with big money - and we may not be able to compete," he added.
The threat to St Helena's strong sense of community is at the heart of much anxiety about the airport.
Filmmaker Dieter Deswarte, who has visited the island on a number of occasions, says a lot of people see St Helena as a special place because it is protected from the outside world.
He believes it's important for the Saints to make sure that change happens in a way they are comfortable with.
"It's really the people there who need to take it in their hands and have the confidence to set things up."
Also convinced that the Saints' own mindset has a crucial part to play in securing the future of St Helena is Ivy Ellick.
"We have to be able to be more confident and believe in ourselves," says Mrs Ellick. "Who would know what is best for St Helena other than the people themselves?"
All images courtesy of Dieter Deswarte.
The full documentary St Helena: An End to Isolation will be broadcast on the BBC World News Our World programme on Friday 20 March at 20:30 GMT, Saturday 11:30 GMT, Sunday 17:30 GMT and 22:30 GMT.
And in the UK on the BBC News Channel at 21:30 GMT on Saturday and Sunday and on the BBC iPlayer. | The coming of an airport presents new opportunities and challenges to one of Britain's most remote outposts, ending 350 years of isolation. |
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The A453, which runs from Nottingham into Leicestershire, is set to fully reopen this year.
It bears the same number as that of the total of British military losses in Afghanistan.
The favoured name is Remembrance Way, honouring those killed in all conflicts.
The idea was suggested by the family of Warrant Officer Sean Upton, a Nottinghamshire soldier killed by an explosion while on patrol in 2009 in Afghanistan after first hearing about it on BBC Radio Nottingham.
It was put out to two-week consultation with 1,630 responses. The leading suggestions were Heroes' Way, 453 Remembrance Way, Bastion Way, Hope Way and Helmand Way. Heroes' Way was the overwhelming favourite.
Councillor Richard Butler, cabinet member for sustainability at Rushcliffe Borough Council, said: "We do have to be very careful we get it right; the last thing we want to do is cause offence.
"[The preferred option] is Remembrance Way... because of course that will have memories for other people from other wars and conflicts." | A dual carriageway will be named in honour of British service personnel killed in combat, with more than 90% of people surveyed in favour of the idea. |
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The US Treasury will now be able to target those attempting cyber attacks on US assets and infrastructure.
Mr Obama said cyber-threats are "one of the most serious economic and national security challenges" that the US faces.
The White House did not announce any new sanctions, only the authority to impose them when it deems necessary.
In January, the US imposed new sanctions on North Korea in response to a cyber-attack against Sony Pictures.
The new programme is the product of an executive order issued by the president on Wednesday.
The authorisation gives the US Treasury Secretary - in coordination with the Attorney General and Secretary of State - the ability to sanction "individuals or entities" that pose a cyber threat to the "national security, foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the United States," Mr Obama said in a statement issued by the White House.
Mr Obama created the new authorisations because of the "unusual and extraordinary threat" from cyber-attacks that the US faces from beyond its borders, the White House said.
"Today's Executive Order allows us to expose and financially isolate those who hide in the shadows of the Internet to conduct malicious cyber activities," US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said.
Officials at the White House and the Treasury Department stress that the tool will not be used to target free speech on the internet or to curtail digital innovation.
They also say that this new authority will not replace traditional law enforcement responses to cyber threats. Instead, it is another tool for combating the threats when they originate from places with weak cyber security laws, or that have otherwise eluded traditional responses.
Mr Obama's Special Assistant and Cyber Security Coordinator Michael Daniel said the tool is "not one that we are expecting to use every day, in most cases our diplomatic and law enforcements tools will be the ones we turn to first."
US officials are particularly concerned with cyber threats originating from China and a select few other countries, that they say are capable of mounting large-scale cyber attacks. They fear that these attacks could shut down the electrical grid or other critical systems.
In recent years, several major US retailers have been victims of data breaches that compromised the financial data of customers.
In December, Sony Pictures was initially forced to pull its comedy The Interview from theatres after hackers released the personal data of its employees and embarrassing emails written by executives. The hackers also threatened violence at cinemas. Sony eventually decided to release the film in theatres and online.
The White House blamed North Korea for the attacks on the movie studio and later imposed sanctions on the reclusive country. | US President Barack Obama has ordered the creation of a programme that would allow the government to sanction foreign hackers. |
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Speaking to BBC Scotland, Mr Corbyn reaffirmed his long-standing opposition to Trident and said he would vote with the SNP at Westminster on the issue.
Mr Corbyn said he would like to see jobs associated with nuclear defence in Scotland transferred to other forms of high-value engineering.
The new party leader will be travelling to Scotland next week.
Mr Corbyn won a decisive victory over his three rivals in the UK Labour leadership contest earlier this month, taking 59.5% of the votes cast.
In his victory speech he promised to campaign in Scotland for those "great Labour traditions".
Making his first in-depth comments on Scottish issues since being elected, the Labour leader acknowledged that Trident was a controversial matter and said it would be debated at the party's conference in Brighton next week.
"My position on Trident has been very clear all of my life," he said.
"I think Trident should go. I do not believe that it is a form of defence. I do not believe it is something that anyone in their proper mind would ever want to use, so I ask the question is it really sensible to commit such a vast proportion of our assets - £100bn over 25 years - to this when we could be spending it on developing our industrial infrastructure?"
Asked if it was an issue he could work with the SNP on, Mr Corbyn said: "In the House of Commons I was chair of the CND group and one of the vice chairs is from the SNP and yes we will be voting with them on this, or they will be voting with us, whichever way you want to put it."
The SNP's deputy leader Stewart Hosie said he was "very pleased, but not surprised" by Mr Corbyn's stance on Trident.
"His big challenge comes in persuading his party conference that it is the right thing to do and of course his shadow cabinet, including his shadow defence secretary, who of course has previously voted for Trident renewal," Mr Hosie said.
"This a welcome sign that he is prepared to stick to his own principles, and if we can work with the Labour party, if they are prepared to vote with us to remove Trident, then that would be a great result for the people of the UK."
In August, Chancellor George Osborne was accused of pre-empting parliament's decision on the replacement of Trident by announcing more than £500m of contracts for the Royal Navy's submarine base at Faslane on the Clyde.
Writing in the Sun newspaper then, Mr Osborne said the political consensus that Britain needed a nuclear deterrent "risks being shattered again by an unholy alliance of Labour's left-wing insurgents and the Scottish nationalists".
In the BBC interview, Mr Corbyn also said his priority was to rebuild Labour support in Scotland.
"I will be in Scotland next week campaigning on issues of jobs, issues of security, issues of welfare and issues that affect ordinary people in Scotland, particularly health inequalities," he said.
"For the moment what we are doing is building Labour support in Scotland and it is going very well. We have recruited a lot of members to the party in Scotland." | Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he is willing to work with the SNP to remove nuclear weapons from Scotland. |
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The Newcastle-born sculptor, known for her large installations, was recently made a CBE for services to art.
She will present a major solo show in the British Pavilion at what is seen as the most important contemporary art festival in the world from 13 May to 26 November 2017.
Barlow said it was "an extraordinary privilege and honour".
"I am astonished, thrilled and of course hugely excited. It is going to be a remarkable experience to begin to consider the work for the imposing architecture of the British pavilion.
"I cannot imagine a more invigorating and wonderful challenge. The international diversity for which the Biennale is so renowned within the particular context of Venice is a unique and stimulating creative opportunity beyond my wildest dreams."
The BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz called the 71-year old sculptor "an enlightened choice".
Barlow's colossal sculptural projects are made of everyday household or DIY materials including plywood, cardboard, plaster, cement, fabric and paint.
Her career has spanned over four decades and her work has been presented in solo exhibitions around the world.
Her latest exhibition is the recently opened Artist Rooms at Tate Modern.
British Council director Emma Dexter, who is chair of the Venice Biennale Selection Committee, said she was "truly delighted" at the choice.
"Barlow's imposing sculptures and installations have enthralled and intrigued audiences around the globe in recent years.
"Her work combines physical impressiveness with intricate and highly considered details with regard to materials and techniques, allowing questions of making and experimentation to be at the core of her work.
"Barlow transforms and dynamically alters every exhibition space she encounters. I am hugely excited at the prospect of seeing what she will bring to the neo-classicism of the British Pavilion."
Rickety and ramshackle, often colossal, Phyllida Barlow's sculptures are made out of what looks like frankly bric-a-brac - plywood, cardboard, plaster and cement.
I'd maybe call her the Steptoe and Son of arts - a scavenger who makes sculptures that look like a village bonfire the day before fireworks night.
She uses the destroyed and the discarded, the fragile and the overlooked, to make works that are often displayed in the marbled halls of the art establishment.
I think she is an enlightened choice whose rag-and-bone sculptures will come to glorious life in the neoclassical British pavilion in Venice. | Sculptor Phyllida Barlow has been selected to represent Britain at the 57th Venice International Art Biennale. |
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The current deferral period means that men cannot give blood within 12 months of having sex with another man.
However, this will be reduced to three months under the change, ordered by Public Health Minister Aileen Campbell.
LGBTI campaigners have welcomed the measure but said it does not completely eliminate "discrimination in blood donation".
The change will be implemented by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS).
It follows recommendations from the UK's Advisory Committee on the Safety of Blood, Tissues and Organs (SaBTO).
The new rules, which also apply to commercial sex workers and people who have sex with partners classed as high-risk, are being introduced in England as well.
They are likely to come into affect in Scotland this November.
Ms Campbell said: "The safety of blood supplies is paramount, and we have one of the safest supplies in the world.
"After carefully examining the latest scientific evidence, SaBTO has concluded that shortening the current 12-month deferral period for men who have had sex with another man to three months since they last had sex with a man can be implemented safely.
"That, along with the other changes proposed by SaBTO, will allow more people to give blood."
Fears over infections being passed on through donations from gay men led to an outright ban at the height of the Aids epidemic, but that was cut to 12 months in 2011.
Ms Campbell said she sympathised with the strength of feeling on the part of gay and bisexual men about the current deferral policies and said the SNBTS has been asked to look into the possibility of individualised risk assessments.
Scott Cuthbertson, from LGBTI charity Equality Network, said the rule changes were a "significant step forward" and would allow more gay and bisexual men to donate blood.
"We remain concerned, however, that many low risk gay and bisexual men, for example those in monogamous relationships, will still not be allowed to donate under this new policy," he said.
"Crucially as part of these rule changes SNBTS have committed to explore ways in which a more personalised risk assessment could be introduced.
"I'm pleased to have been asked by SNBTS to be a member of a new sub-group which will look at how an individual risk assessment, rather than a blanket deferment, could be made a reality."
Changes have also been proposed for people who have undergone acupuncture, piercing, tattooing and an endoscopy - and for those with a history of non-prescribed injecting drug use.
These will have to be implemented at a later date as they will require changes in UK legislation, officials said.
Moira Carter, from the SNBTS, said: "We welcome the review by SaBTO and the recommendations - the updates for donor eligibility will allow more people the opportunity to give blood.
"The changes take into account the latest available medical and scientific evidence about the risk of acquiring infections that can be passed on in blood, along with evidence supporting the reliability of the blood screening tests we use." | Changes making it easier for gay and bisexual men to give blood have been announced by the Scottish government. |
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The RMT union said it was balloting members over a block on career progression, which it said had been imposed by London Underground.
It said Night Tube drivers had been prevented from moving into vacant full-time jobs. | Drivers on the Night Tube are to be balloted over strike action as part of a long-running dispute over pay and jobs. |
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No heat wave - that's for sure - but there have been plenty of showers.
The result of showers will often mean pretty rainbows to look at.
So how does a rainbow form?
A rainbow is an arc-shaped spectrum of light caused by the reflection of sunlight in water droplets. The sun's rays hit the water droplet which reflects some of the light back.
The water droplets are usually rain drops, but could also be spray from a waterfall, a fountain, or even fog.
To see a rainbow, you must have the sun shining behind you and the water droplets in front of you.
Sunlight is made up of a spectrum of different colours that look white when we see them all mixed together.
These colours get reflected by slightly different angles inside the raindrop, so they get spread out.
This is why we see the familiar colours of the rainbow which of course we all remember from school science classes ROYGBIV - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
Sometimes we can see a second, larger, rainbow outside the main one. This is called a secondary rainbow. It is formed by rays of light that are reflected inside the raindrop twice.
If you look carefully, you will see that the extra reflection means that the colours in the secondary rainbow are in the opposite order to the first, or primary, rainbow.
The secondary rainbow is also less bright because the light is being spread over a larger area of the sky.
Although quite rare, it is possible to see a rainbow at night.
If the moon is shining brightly enough, light can be reflected through water droplets in the same way that a rainbow is created.
As the moon is much less bright than the sun, moon bows are much fainter than day-time rainbows. | It's the last day of summer and what a summer it has been. |
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The remains of L/Cpl Donald Noble and Pte Harold Lewis were discovered in 2013 during excavation works.
The men belonged to the Wiltshire Regiment and were killed in October 1944.
Former soldiers from the regiment attended the ceremony in which the men were given full military honours.
Pallbearers from 5th Battalion The Rifles carried the coffins, and the service was delivered by Father Philip Smith of The Rifles Regiment.
Ministry of Defence Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC) experts were unable to trace any surviving members of the Noble or Lewis families before the service.
Louise Dorr, from the JCCC said: "Today has brought a mixture of joy and sadness; happiness that we have now been able to name these two brave soldiers and lay them to rest with dignity and honour, but sadness that they died so young and have no family here to share this occasion."
Donald Noble was born on 22 March 1923. He joined the army straight from school, aged 16.
He served in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, the Royal Berkshire Regiment and the Wiltshire Regiment, and was 21-years-old when he died.
Harold Lewis was born on 30 March 1925. He joined the General Service Corps in 1943, aged 18 and subsequently served in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshires and the Somerset Light Infantry before he transferred to the Wiltshire Regiment.
He was aged just 19-years-old when he lost his life. | Two World War Two soldiers who were killed in action in the Netherlands more than 70 years ago have been laid to rest at a military cemetery. |
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Clubs agreed to the decision on Thursday and it will be presented at the EFL annual general meeting in June.
The Premier League started using Hawk-Eye technology in 2013 and it is already used in the play-offs.
"This decision is about providing officials with as much support as possible," EFL chief executive Shaun Harvey said.
The system notifies the referee if the ball has crossed the goalline via a vibration and optical signal sent to the officials' watches within one second.
Goalline technology is currently used in the Premier League, Serie A, Ligue 1, the Champions League, the World Cup and the European Championship.
Queens Park Rangers boss Ian Holloway called for the Championship to start using the technology after his side were denied a goal at Blackburn earlier this month when replays showed the ball had crossed the line. The R's went on to lose the match 1-0. | Championship clubs have agreed "in principle" to use goalline technology from the start of next season. |
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The ENO is shortlisted in the opera and music theatre category.
It comes after the ENO was placed under "special funding arrangements" by Arts Council England.
In other categories, there are double nods for the Oxford Lieder Festival, the Royal Opera House and the Arditti Quartet, in its 40th anniversary year.
The winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on May.
Competing with the ENO in the opera and music theatre category is the Royal Opera House's production of Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten and John Metcalf's opera based on Dylan Thomas's radio play Under Milk Wood.
In February, Arts Council England said the ENO must improve its business model or face funding cuts.
It had already cut the ENO's funding by 29%, which prompted some of world's most prestigious opera companies to sign a public letter condemning the cuts.
There is a strong showing in the RPS awards for younger artists with all the solo instrumentalists and three quarters of the conductors nominated being under 40.
Percussionist Colin Currie, violist James Ehnes and violinist Lawrence Power are competing in the instrumentalist category.
While in the conductor category John Eliot Gardiner, Andri Nelsons and Vasily Petrenko are nominated.
In the singer category Swedish soprano Nina Stemme is up against English tenor Mark Padmore and German baritone Christian Gerhaher.
A programme dedicated to the awards will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 11 May at 19:30 BST.
Audiences and Engagement
Chamber Music and Song
Chamber-Scale Composition
Concert Series and Festivals
Conductor
Creative Communication
Ensemble
Instrumentalist
Large-Scale Composition
Learning and Participation
Opera and Music Theatre
Singer
Young Artists | The English National Opera (ENO) is among the nominees for this year's Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) awards. |
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Pte Cheryl James, 18, was found dead with a bullet wound to the head in 1995. She was one of four recruits to die at the base in seven years.
Coroner Brian Barker QC said the wound was "self-inflicted" and Pte James fired the gun intentionally.
Her father said the family did not believe evidence led to verdict.
Des James said they were "deeply saddened" by the conclusions of the inquest.
"The evidence has revealed serious and profound failures in the care and supervision that ought to have been provided to her, and to all of the other young people who joined the British army with her," he said.
"Deepcut was a toxic and horrible environment for a young woman and we have no doubt that this would have had a terrible impact on those that were required to live there."
Brig John Donnelly said the army was "truly sorry" for the low levels of supervision that provided for the trainees at Deepcut in 1995, and for using trainees for guard duties.
"The army has made many profound changes since 1995, which the coroner has acknowledged, but we do recognise that change is a continuous process," he said.
Pte James, from north Wales, had been carrying out lone guard duty at the barracks when she was found dead, something the coroner said was contrary to army policy.
The risk of self-harm to trainees during lone armed guard duty had not been adequately recognised, nor had adequate steps been taken to reduce the risk, he added.
Mr Barker said Pte James had a "short, shining life" and had left a legacy of a complete re-evaluation of how the army trains its soldiers.
The coroner said Pte James had a "preoccupation with death" and would sometimes talk to her friends about what guests she would want at her funeral.
He said she was disillusioned with the army and had a troubled adolescence, which included taking an overdose.
Mr Barker praised Pte James's parents, Des and Doreen, for fighting to discover the truth behind their daughter's death.
"We have explored as best we can what could be unearthed at this late stage within the legal constraints I am bound by," he said.
"Clear answers as to why are just not there to be seen."
Earlier the coroner said there was a "sexualised" atmosphere at the barracks in Surrey.
Mr Barker said there were far too few officers to train and look after the young squaddies, who were left bored and indisciplined.
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"While some intermittent training was provided, there were too few permanent staff to deliver it and put into place a structured regime to occupy and meet a duty of care to those young men and women."
Given the "dearth" of a structured life, he said it was "unsurprising that trainees turned to each other for stimulation".
He also found that there was evidence of inappropriate sexual relationships between commanding officers or instructors and trainees.
Pte James was in relationships with two men at the time of her death - Royal Engineer Simeon Carr-Minns and another soldier Paul Wilkinson.
On the day of her death, Pte Wilkinson went to see Pte James while she was on guard duty to give her an "ultimatum" to choose between them.
The inquest heard Pte James told him she wanted to be with him and he left believing she was fine.
The coroner ruled that he did not consider Pte Wilkinson a suspect in Pte James's death.
The inquest heard that non-commissioned officers (NCOs) meted out guard duty to trainees as punishment, which was also against army rules.
The coroner also attacked the "haphazard" and "insufficient" provision of welfare support at Deepcut and criticised the lack of female officers.
The inquest heard Pte James had mixed feelings about being in the Army and spoke about leaving.
Five months before her death, Pte Sean Benton, from Hastings in Sussex, died from a gunshot wound at the barracks.
Pte James chatted to a friend about this and said it would be "really easy to shoot yourself".
On another occasion, she told an electrician that the only way to get out of the Army would be to "put a gun to your head", but those with her took this as a joke.
Mr Barker said it was regrettable there had not been a more thorough investigation at the time of Pte James's death, adding the inquest had been "a long and a difficult exercise".
Paramedics, civilian and military police and investigators were called to the scene, but Mr Barker said that almost from the outset it was assumed that Pte James had died from a self-inflicted injury.
"Although some steps were taken to limit disturbance at the scene, it was not treated as a scene of crime might be. It was not preserved," said Mr Barker.
The inquest also heard that the post-mortem could have been more thorough and that the bullet fragments were disposed of.
The inquest, which is the second into Pte James's death, began in February and heard from more than 100 witnesses.
A first inquest into Pte James's death in December 1995 recorded an open verdict which was quashed by the High Court.
The mother of another soldier who died, Pte Geoff Gray, said she was also applying for the open verdict on her own son's death to be overturned.
Pte Gray, from Seaham, County Durham, was 17 when he was found dead from two gunshot wounds at the base in September 2001.
Det Sup Adam Hibbert of Surrey Police said the force "has long accepted mistakes were made during the initial investigation", and reiterated an apology to the family.
He added: "The evidence has now been thoroughly examined and our thoughts are with the family and friends of Miss James as they reflect on the coroner's verdict."
20-year-old Pte Sean Benton, from Hastings, was the first to be found dead in June 1995
18-year-old Pte Cheryl James, from Llangollen was found with a bullet wound to her forehead in November 1995
17-year-old Pte Geoff Gray, from Seaham, was found with two gunshot wounds to his head in 2001
17-year-old Pte James Collinson, from Perth, was found with a single gunshot wound through his chin while on guard duty in 2002
Who were the Deepcut four? Background to the deaths and timeline of events. | The death of an army recruit from a gunshot wound to the head at Deepcut barracks was suicide, a coroner has ruled. |
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Along with key defender Ben Davies, Ramsey is suspended for the historic semi-final after being booked for handball in the 3-1 win over Belgium.
"It was a sort of natural reaction and I knew straight away it was a yellow," said the 25-year-old midfielder.
"I'm really gutted. I'm confident in the players we have to step in and get us to the final."
Ramsey made two of Wales' goals as part of a sparkling individual display that helped them reach the last four of a major tournament for the first time.
The influential Arsenal player now has four assists in five games in France, the joint-highest in the finals along with Belgium forward Eden Hazard.
Ramsey, whose other booking came in stoppage-time during the last-16 win over Northern Ireland, added: "It was up there with the best performances of my career, especially on the stage that it was.
"I wanted to stand up and be counted, so I am delighted I was able to help my team and grab a couple of assists that meant we won quite comfortably in the end.
"Now we have to beat Portugal. I am sure it will sink in before then that I will not be playing - but I will be right behind my team, cheering them on and kicking every ball. I will be right in the mix of it, so hopefully they can do it."
Davies, who plays on the left-hand side of three centre-backs, will also miss the biggest night in Welsh football history after his caution for a first-half foul on Kevin de Bruyne.
Like Ramsey, the Tottenham defender has played in every Wales game in France, but is suspended after picking up two bookings - his other came for a foul on Adam Lallana during the 2-1 defeat by England in the group stage.
West Ham's James Collins is likely to replace Davies against Portugal, while Jonny Williams could come into midfield for Ramsey.
"Obviously it is a blow because Ben and Aaron have started every game for us," said fellow defender James Chester.
"Aaron has undoubtedly got amazing ability, but the amount of work he puts in sometimes gets overlooked, while I think Ben has been our stand-out defender in the tournament.
"The biggest thing we have in our squad now is strength in depth and players who are playing at the top level - so hopefully it will not hamper us too much."
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Other Wales players talked about how emotional the dressing room was after the Belgium game, and manager Chris Coleman spoke of his sympathy for the suspended duo.
When he stopped to face the media in the early hours of Saturday, Ramsey was clearly torn between immense pride at his part in a memorable victory and the knowledge he will only feature again at Euro 2016 if Wales reach the final at Paris' Stade de France on 10 July.
"It was a very special night for us," Ramsey added. "We have a great team, great staff and great fans - and when you have the right balance then special nights like this can happen.
"Of course everyone is ready to step in for myself and Ben. Everyone wants to achieve something special for each other. We are a team and we showed it against Belgium.
"The fact it is Gareth Bale versus [Real Madrid team-mate] Cristiano Ronaldo on Wednesday is going to be mentioned - but Gareth will tell you himself that it is not about that.
"It is about this team showing what we are capable of doing and getting to the final." | Wales' Aaron Ramsey says his team can beat Portugal without him on Wednesday and reach the Euro 2016 final. |
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Swimmers have been warned by Brighton and Hove City Council to stay away from the sea over the winter.
The beach around Brighton Pier will be closed in a bid to stop swimmers entering the water on Christmas Day, the council said.
Chris Ingall said inexperienced swimmers entering the water were "an accident waiting to happen".
Mr Ingall, the seafront manager, said: "Sea swimming takes skill, stamina and knowledge of the physical dangers and should only be for the very experienced, using suitable wetsuits, in very calm conditions.
"The combination of the amount of people and their inexperience, and some of the drinking as well, it's an accident waiting to happen, and accidents have happened."
Brighton Swimming Club has been organising the swim on 25 December since 1860.
Dozens normally take part in the event in the English Channel at 11:00 GMT near Brighton Pier.
Fiona Southwell, from the club, said those entering the water were risking their lives.
She said: "Those people jumping in on Christmas morning are totally unaware of the environment they're jumping into, as well as the sea temperature." | Brighton Swimming Club has cancelled its annual Christmas Day swim over safety fears. |
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Police are investigating the activities of the Military Reaction Force (MRF), an undercover Army unit.
They are looking at 18 shooting incidents, two of them fatal.
Det Ch Insp Peter Montgomery said a witness had given the investigation team significant new information.
As a result, he said, there is a new line of inquiry.
Earlier, detectives appealed for information about 18 shooting incidents that took place in Belfast between April and September 1972.
Two years ago, the BBC's Panorama programme broadcast claims by former MRF soldiers that their unit had killed unarmed people while hunting "the IRA".
They claimed MRF actions "saved lives".
However, seven months after their interviews were broadcast, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said it had begun an investigation into the allegations.
The inquiry is being carried by detectives from the PSNI's Legacy Investigation Branch, a special police unit that investigates historical cases, many of them killings that took place during the Troubles.
The incidents under investigation are:
In total, 17 people were injured, two of whom died.
More than half of those who were shot were teenagers, the youngest person to be wounded was a 15-year-old boy.
Earlier, Det Ch Insp Montgomery, said: "We are looking at these incidents as part of an overall investigation into the activities of the Military Reaction Force at the time.
"We know these events took place a long time ago and we know they took place during one of the worst years of the Troubles when many shootings occurred but we believe there are people out there who can help us progress this investigation and we are appealing to them to contact us."
The MRF was a small, secretive unit within the Army and consisted of about 40 undercover soldiers who patrolled west Belfast in unmarked cars.
It operated for about 18 months before it was disbanded in 1973. | The detective leading an investigation into allegations that undercover soldiers shot unarmed civilians in Belfast in the 1970s has said there has been a potential breakthrough. |
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Spain international Llorente scored twice and Icelander Sigurdsson claimed the winner as they beat Liverpool 3-2.
Both have been linked with other clubs, but say they are not looking to move.
"I'm really happy here and I only want to play and score more goals," Llorente commented, while Sigurdsson said he paid no attention to media speculation about his future.
Asked if he would still be at Swansea after the January transfer window, Iceland international Sigurdsson said: "Yeah, unless something unbelievable changes which is not down to me.
"Of course I'm really happy here and I don't want to get relegated so I'll do my best to help the team.
"There's things written in the papers but I don't pay too much attention to it if I'm going or staying. As long as I'm here I'll do my best for the team and that's what I've always tried to do."
Swansea's first ever win at Anfield lifted them out of the Premier League relegation zone, having started the day bottom of the table.
It was the team's first victory since head coach Paul Clement took over on 3 January following the sacking of Bob Bradley.
Llorente has scored eight Premier League goals since joining Swansea in the summer of 2016 - with seven of those coming in his past 11 appearances.
He had been linked with league leaders Chelsea, having played under Blues boss Antonio Conte at Juventus.
Sigurdsson has contributed seven goals from midfield this season and has previously been linked with Everton, though it is not thought the Toffees are bidding for him in the current transfer window.
"At the moment I'm just here to do my job and that's to help the team to win games, and that's all I've been doing for the last few months," added Sigurdsson. | Swansea City's goalscorers at Anfield Gylfi Sigurdsson and Fernando Llorente say they expect to stay at the club. |
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He won 50.07% of the vote, officials said, narrowly avoiding a run-off.
But his main challenger, Raila Odinga, alleged massive fraud and said he would challenge the results of the "tainted election" in the Supreme Court.
Mr Kenyatta is set to face trial at the International Criminal Court over violence that followed the 2007 polls.
By Karen AllenBBC News, Kibera, Nairobi
Kibera slum is not normally considered friendly turf for Uhuru Kenyatta. Yet residents remained calm after the election of Kenya's richest man as their next leader. People are placing their faith in the new constitution and recent judicial reforms.
Raila Odinga is challenging the results in the Supreme Court and people say they will wait for the legal process to run its course.
Some point to the reforms as a reason for the relative calm compared with five years ago, when Kibera was a flashpoint. "Our behaviour is being shaped by the new constitution," said Steve, a Kibera resident.
But there are worries about the future. Many hope Mr Kenyatta will uphold the new constitution and continue to co-operate with the International Criminal Court, where he is fighting charges of crimes against humanity.
While the mantra across Kenya is "amani" (peace), some campaigners are warning against a "peace coma" - a failure to address past injustices which would prevent Kenya from moving on.
He is accused of fuelling the communal violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed and 600,000 forced from their homes.
After the results were announced, Mr Kenyatta told cheering supporters he would serve all Kenyans "without fear or favour".
Speaking at the Catholic University in Nairobi, he called on Mr Odinga and other leaders to "join us in moving our nation forward."
Earlier, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said the latest elections had been complex, but also credible and transparent.
It said the turnout, at 86%, was the largest ever
IEBC chairman Issack Hassan praised the candidates who had already conceded victory and urged others to follow suit.
However, Mr Odinga, the current prime minister, said the electoral commission had "failed Kenyans" and that democracy itself was "on trial".
But after announcing his Supreme Court challenge, he also appealed for calm, saying: "Any violence could destroy this nation forever."
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The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse in Nairobi says this was the tightest of races with the narrowest of margins.
He says that how Mr Odinga now handles his supporters will determine whether his dispute stays in the courts or spills out on the streets.
Mr Kenyatta's Jubilee Coalition party said it was "proud and honoured for the trust" bestowed on it, adding that it had taken a message to the people and that "we are grateful to the people of Kenya for accepting this message".
Early on Saturday, small groups of Kenyatta supporters celebrated in Nairobi, hooting car horns and singing.
But the newly confirmed president could face difficult relations with Western countries.
In July, he is due to go on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for alleged crimes against humanity.
Mr Kenyatta's running mate, William Ruto, also faces similar charges. Both men deny the accusations.
In his victory speech, Mr Kenyatta restated his promise to co-operate "with all nations and international institutions".
The ICC has agreed to postpone Mr Ruto's trial by a month until May after his lawyers complained of not having enough time to prepare his defence.
Countries including the US and UK have hinted that Mr Kenyatta's election as president would have consequences for their relations with Kenya. The comments have been dismissed in Nairobi as foreign interference.
A new electronic system for transmitting vote results was designed to eliminate the risk of fraud, and thus avoid a repeat of the post-poll violence of 2007.
But the count has been plagued with technical glitches, including a programming error that led to the number of rejected votes being multiplied by a factor of eight.
Mr Odinga's Cord alliance had earlier complained that votes from 11 constituencies were missing, in effect leaving him more than 250,000 votes short. | Kenya's Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta has been confirmed as the winner of the presidential election, and vowed to work with his rivals. |
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The 26-year-old joined the Cherries from non-league Woking in June 2010 and has been part of two promotions.
He made 21 appearances in the top flight last season and was unfortunate to be ruled out of the Republic of Ireland's Euro 2016 squad with injury.
Arter follows team-mates Adam Federici, Adam Smith and Steve Cook in signing new deals at Bournemouth. | Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter has agreed a new three-year contract with the Premier League club. |
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The 20-year-old is yet to make his debut for the Owls, but played four times on loan at Bury last season.
"I'm really excited about this new challenge. This is the next step for my career," he told the club website.
"Coming somewhere like here is what I need in order to improve and show what I can do."
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | League Two side Accrington Stanley have signed Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Sean Clare on loan until the end of the season. |
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We also use our phones for dating, booking restaurants or playing games.
But how much can technology and apps help to improve people's health?
That question is being posed at a seminar in Belfast involving health and IT experts from EU cities, including Belfast.
They are all part of the World Health Organisation Network.
Those involved believe technology can be the driving force behind tackling some serious health problems, like Alzheimer's.
It is thought that a new smartphone app, developed by scientists at Ulster University in collaboration with Utah State University in the US, could hold the key to preventing the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
Unveiled last year at the world's largest convention for Alzheimer's research in Washington DC, the Gray Matters smartphone app encourages individuals to set lifestyle goals in areas like exercise and nutrition to stress management and brain stimulation - all of which are known to have an impact on the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease.
The event is expected to tackle health inequalities across the cities.
Joan Devlin is from Belfast Healthy Cities.
"This seminar is all about sharing knowledge, ideas and experience.
"Digital technology can play a very positive role in making the delivery of healthcare more efficient and user friendly," she said.
Also up for discussion is an app to help junior doctors hone their skills in reading X-rays.
Dr Tom Lynch, head of Nuclear Medicine, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, launched Experior two years ago, an app developed with local IT company Salt DNA.
Experior helps junior doctors hone their skills in reading X-rays and the platform is proving to be a hit with medics here and across the UK.
Speaking ahead of the event, Dr Lynch told the BBC that the app was now on the international medical map.
"The application trails a doctor's inputs and tailors training to meet their specific needs," he said.
"Since launching in 2014, the platform is now being trialled, not only in Northern Ireland, but in trusts in Great Britain too and in fact there is interest in using the same technology in other medical disciplines including obstetrics and gynaecology."
Northern Ireland is slowly getting to grips with e-health and telemedicine.
An e-health expert from Finland is expected to advise the local health industry that innovation technology in his home is revolutionising how health is being delivered, particularly through life course approaches.
While local IT experts hope to learn from their colleagues in Finland and Wales, it is hoped visitors will pick up a thing or two from Northern Ireland innovators as well. | Lots of us are familiar with music apps. |
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The Grade A-listed art nouveau Mackintosh building was badly damaged in the blaze on 23 May.
The majority of the paper artworks in the library, including 100 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, were unharmed.
Two of his oil paintings were among 90 works by artists including Newbery and Joan Eardley that were lost.
The art school confirmed that the majority of intricate pieces that made up the library's central light fitting had been found.
The three-month sifting operation also recovered parts of the original library chairs and periodicals desk.
About 8,000 rare books and journals were destroyed when flames engulfed the library.
However, the bulk of the rare book collection is housed in another building and was undamaged.
All of the salvaged material will now be carefully stored and reviewed by expert conservators as part of a recovery programme over the next three years.
An investigation by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service concluded the blaze was caused by flammable gases from a canister of expanding foam.
The report, released in November, said the gases ignited as they came into contact with the hot surface of a projector in Studio 19.
Glasgow School of Art is continuing with efforts to raise £20m towards the eventual cost of restoring the Mackintosh building and its contents. | An inventory of items which survived last year's fire at Glasgow School of Art has been produced following work by a team of forensic archaeologists. |
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Well spare a thought for Mpumalanga batter Shania-Lee Swart, who was the only player to score a run as she hit 160 from 86 balls in a 42-run victory over Easterns during Cricket South Africa's Under-19s week in Pretoria on Monday.
Swart's remarkable innings included 18 fours and 12 sixes. Eight of her team-mates came and went for a grand total of no runs as her side racked up 169-8 in 20 overs. (The other nine runs were extras.)
Easterns bowler Tumi Sekukune took an impressive five wickets for 15 runs - but it wasn't enough to overcome 'Team Swart'.
For good measure, Swart then chipped in with 2-21 as Eastern were restricted for 127-6 in reply. | Have you ever played in one those games where you wonder why the rest of your team-mates bothered turning up at all? |
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Russian Tatyana Chernova has been stripped of the heptathlon bronze she won at Beijing in 2008 after testing positive for a steroid.
Sotherton won heptathlon bronze in 2004 and had already been moved to third in the Beijing 4x400m relay after Belarus and Russia's disqualification.
She was fifth in the 2008 heptathlon.
However, the 40-year-old has now climbed to third after the previously announced doping ban of Ukrainian Lyudmila Blonska and now Chernova.
Sotherton retired five years ago after failing to recover from a back problem in time to qualify for the heptathlon at London 2012.
After finding out she was to become a three-time Olympic medallist, Sotherton posted an emotional video on social media showing her reaction.
"Yes I had tears. Happy ones this time," she said.
Sotherton's compatriot, Jessica Ennis-Hill, belatedly won the 2011 World heptathlon title last year when Chernova was similarly stripped of gold for doping.
Former UK Athletics performance director Dave Collins, who oversaw the 2008 Games, said that British athletes receiving their medals was an "essential step for the sport".
Collins' contract was not renewed after Britain fell one short of their medal target in Beijing.
"It's great to see but clearly it's a disappointment they didn't get their day in the sun," he said.
"It's great to see the teams getting recognition late, because it's better late than never. But by gosh, it would have been a lot better at the time." | Britain's Kelly Sotherton is set to be upgraded to an Olympic bronze medal for the second time in five months after retrospective drug tests. |
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Also added to Historic England's latest Heritage at Risk Register are Brighton Old Town and a church dubbed "the birthplace of feminism".
The sites are considered to be at risk of being lost through neglect or decay.
But Historic England said there are fewer entries on the register than last year.
Sites including the Grade-I listed grounds at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire and the world's oldest "pub music hall", Wilton's Music Hall in London, have come off the register after being restored and saved.
See more historic and quirky buildings on BBC England's Pinterest board
Experts warned that the gap between the cost of repairs and the value of restored properties was growing, driven partly by a skills shortage and a lack of scaffolding in some areas which pushed up costs.
Duncan Wilson, chief executive of the government heritage agency, said "thousands of historic sites" were at risk of being lost across the country.
"Many lie decaying and neglected and the gap between the cost of repair and their end value is growing," he said.
"The good news is this year there are fewer entries on the Heritage at Risk Register than last year.
"But as some places are rescued, others fall into disrepair."
London Zoo's aviary, designed by Lord Snowdon and built in 1965, is in need of repair but has secured Heritage Lottery funding to turn it into a new space for animals and visitors.
A 16th Century shipwreck in Dunwich, Suffolk, thought to be that of an armed merchant vessel, has been added to the list after a bronze gun was stolen from the site. | A 16th Century shipwreck and London Zoo's aviary are among English heritage sites now considered to be at risk. |
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The fly-half suffered a head injury in Leinster's Champions Cup defeat by Wasps on Saturday but has joined up with the Ireland squad at Carton House.
Sexton, 30, has passed two of the three return-to-play protocols and is set to complete the third on Tuesday.
Leinster prop Marty Moore has been ruled out of the Six Nations after sustaining a grade 2 hamstring tear.
The front row limped out of the fray against Wasps at the Ricoh Arena just after the hour mark and will be out of action for six to eight weeks.
With first-choice prop Mike Ross in a fitness battle and likely to miss the start of the tournament due to his own hamstring injury, Connacht's Finlay Bealham has been drafted in as cover.
Ross and Cian Healy are being monitored by the Leinster medical staff, but are thought to be a couple of weeks away from a return.
Robbie Henshaw suffered no ill-effects after starring for Connacht at the weekend, the centre having not played since breaking his hand in November.
Sexton was forced to come off after eight minutes of Leinster's record 51-10 reverse at the hands of quarter-finalists Wasps after a clash of heads with former Leinster team-mate Brendan Macken.
He subsequently passed two head injury assessments.
The ex-Racing Metro number 10 is regarded as a pivotal figure in the Ireland team as they attempt to win a third consecutive Six Nations crown.
They begin their campaign against Wales in Dublin on 7 February.
Sexton missed Ireland's Six Nations opener against Italy last year after being stood down from all rugby for 12 weeks after a series of concussions in a short space of time.
His World Cup campaign was cut short with an adductor muscle injury sustained in the pool win over France, which led him to miss the quarter-final defeat by Argentina. | Jonathan Sexton's prospects of being fit for Ireland's Six Nations opener against Wales appear to have improved. |
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The 28-year-old Israel international, who is recovering from surgery on an ankle injury, will remain at the Amex Stadium until the summer of 2019.
Kayal has scored three goals in 72 appearances for the Seagulls since joining from Celtic in January 2015.
"It is important to us that we keep hold of our key players," Albion boss Chris Hughton said. | Brighton midfielder Beram Kayal has signed a new two-and-a-half-year contract with the Championship club. |
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The 24-year-old scored 12 goals in 38 appearances as Metz won promotion back to the French top flight last season.
"It is a club with great history and tradition and I am excited about coming to play here," he told the club website.
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's side start their Championship campaign against Leeds on Sunday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Queens Park Rangers have signed French forward Yeni Ngbakoto from Metz for an undisclosed fee. |
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About 300,000 passengers usually travel on 2,242 Southern services every weekday.
Many people have been forced to stay at home but some have tried to find alternative routes into work.
Frustrated by the continuing disruption, four passengers agreed to video blog their mornings.
'Thank you very much Southern'
Phil Horton, 37, is from Caterham in Surrey. He works as a teacher in south London. Phil decided to drive through hours of traffic.
'Mobility scooter across London'
Cori Burns, 63, is a singer, songwriter and a mobility scooter user. She was travelling to Nottingham but couldn't take her normal route to Kings Cross and had to drive her scooter across London.
'Need a coffee'
John normally travels from Reigate, in Surrey, to work in central London. He has had to drive for half an hour to find another rail service.
'Six hour journey last night'
Doug Craib works for a small record label in Camden, north London. He normally travels in from Hove, on the Sussex coast, but has decided to try to work from home. | Rail passengers are facing travel chaos as striking train drivers have caused the Southern network to stop all services. |
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The 22-year-old Scot won the first game against Pai Yu-Po but her Taipei opponent came back to win 18-21 21-15 21-15.
Gilmour is the clear leader in the race for the women's singles place in the GB squad for Rio 2016.
England number one Rajiv Ouseph lost 21-19 21-12 to South Korea's Lee Hyun-il in the men's final.
Commonwealth silver medallist Gilmour was runner-up at November's Scottish Open in Glasgow.
Gilmour, who enjoyed a successful autumn with wins at the Prague Open and a first Grand Prix title at the Dutch Open, will now aim to end the year on a high when she moves on to this week's Mexico City Grand Prix, where she is eighth seed. | Kirsty Gilmour lost her second Grand Prix final in three weeks, coming up short in Orange County, California. |
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About 20 firefighters tackled the blaze on Piccadilly, which started at 22:55 BST on Wednesday.
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said nearby buildings were evacuated but there were no injuries or arrests.
It comes as figures reveal the number of pavement explosions have increased from 49 in 2013 to 64 so far this year.
In 2011, there were nine pavement explosions, but this more than tripled to 31 in 2012, according to figures obtained by BBC London from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
A spokesman for UK Power Networks said it was carrying out an investigation into "a fire from a cable pit".
Restaurant manager Georgina Pectu, who saw the blaze on Wednesday night, said: "It was very, very scary because we could hear the explosion down there and we were afraid that any moment there could be a big huge explosion."
In February, 50 people were evacuated from Caledonian Road, Islington, north London, after a pavement burst into flames.
In April last year, a pavement exploded on Pimlico Road, in central London, narrowly missing a passer-by standing just yards away.
In 2012, a woman was injured in Shepherd's Bush, west London, when an explosion in a manhole knocked her off her bicycle.
The HSE said it has told the company which delivers electricity through London to do more to protect people.
John Steed, the principal specialist inspector for the HSE, said: "We called UK Power Network directors in and we've had a couple of meetings for them and we made it very clear that it's up to them to manage their assets a lot better and to carry out more inspections.
"As a result of that, they have got a couple of dedicated teams working in London on these link boxes and inspecting them."
The company has to check all 100,000 electrical link boxes under the capital's pavements.
UK Power Networks says it is investing £10m a year for the next eight years and that the safety of Londoners of its top priority. | A street in central London was closed for several hours after a manhole explosion set a lorry on fire near Fortnum and Mason department store. |
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Secretary of State James Brokenshire made the announcement after meeting the main parties and Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan.
Mr Brokenshire, who extended the talks deadline until 29 June last week, said some progress had been made.
However, he added there were still a number of outstanding issues.
"All the parties involved recognise it is vital devolved government, and all of the institutions established under the Belfast Agreement and its successors, resumes in Northern Ireland as soon as possible," he said.
"Although formal roundtable talks are paused until after the general election, a range of bilateral discussions will continue, with a view to building on progress."
Sinn Féin leader Michelle O'Neill said it had been "a realistic decision" to pause the talks.
She said she welcomed DUP leader Arlene Foster's meetings with representatives of the Irish language-speaking community, which "could bode well for the future".
UUP leader Robin Swann said he was "both disappointed and frustrated" by the decision.
However, he said: "We'd rather see the progress that has been made 'banked' so we can come back to it after the general election".
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the parties had "sensibly" paused the talks process.
He said negotiators were "absolutely up against it", and that there had been "lots of talking around the houses and plenty of shadow-boxing".
Alliance leader Naomi Long said the parties had been able to park the process "but we cannot stop the juggernaut of chaos and cuts".
She said they must remember that "after the election we have a very small window to come back and agree to restore devolution".
Meanwhile, former Ulster Unionist Party leader and First Minister Lord Trimble has said devolved government in Northern Ireland could function without an executive and should consider continuing as just an assembly.
Speaking in the House of Lords on Wednesday, he said Stormont could operate in the same way the Welsh assembly did when it was first formed.
Lord Trimble said this system operated for six or seven years before the assembly decided to move to an executive.
"That assembly could continue to function and it would be able to move to having an executive the moment that the parties that presently won't nominate for an executive shows a willingness to do so," he added.
The political deadlock in Northern Ireland came after a snap election on 2 March brought an end to Stormont's unionist majority and the Democrat Unionist Party's lead over Sinn Féin was cut from 10 seats to one.
Under Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, the executive must be jointly run by unionists and nationalists, with the largest party putting forward a candidate for first minister.
The late Martin McGuinness quit as deputy first minister in January in protest against the DUP's handling of a botched green energy scheme.
Sinn Féin has said it will not share power with DUP leader Arlene Foster as first minister until the conclusion of a public inquiry into the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
Northern Ireland's two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, have blamed each other for the failure of talks to date. | Talks aimed at restoring the power-sharing executive have been put on hold until the general election is over. |
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McIlroy bogeyed five of his first six holes and needed to hole a 20-foot putt on eight to avoid another dropped shot.
But McIlroy, 28, had four birdies on his back nine as he came home in 32.
The 2014 champion, who has missed the cut in three of his last four events, is six behind US trio Jordan Spieth, Brooks Koepka and Matt Kuchar.
World number four McIlroy was fortunate to only bogey the opening hole as he holed a 25-foot putt from just off the green after a wild second shot had put him in trouble.
Further missed greens saw the Northern Irishman drop further shots at the third and fourth and a four-foot par putt failed to drop at the next after an indifferent approach.
A horrible horseshoe out of the hole left him five over after six and he needed an up-and-down from a bunker to par the short seventh before rescuing par again at the eighth after another errant tee shot.
However, McIlroy was much improved on his back nine as a fine approach to six feet set up a birdie at the 11th after getting a good bounce to avoid a bunker from his tee shot.
As he finally began to find the fairway off the tee, McIlroy birdied the two par fives, the 15th and 17th, while a brave six-foot par putt at the 16th helped to maintain his back-nine improvement.
McIlroy went close with his eagle attempt on the 15th from 30 feet and left his putt short on 17 before rolling in a 15-foot birdie chance at the last.
After his stunning back nine, McIlroy is convinced that he remains in position to challenge for the fifth major win of his career.
"I don't think tomorrow is going to be good at all (weather wise) but we might get the better of it maybe (in the morning)," the Holywood man told Sky Sports.
"If I can go out there tomorrow and try and keep these good feelings I have (after today), I feel like I am still right in this golf tournament."
McIlroy, who will tee off at 9:47 BST on Friday morning with Dustin Johnston and Charl Schwartzel, said caddie JP Fitzgerald had played a big role in keeping his spirits up after his horrible start.
"I didn't know where I was after six holes. JP tried to keep me as positive as I could be out there."
The former world number one acknowledged that his 20-foot putt for par at the par-five eighth had been "huge".
"Getting up and down from about 95 yards to get a par there was big - especially on the eighth which was probably one of the easiest holes.
"From the seventh hole on, I had to have 100% trust in myself and not be in two minds what I was doing, which was what I did on the first six holes."
2011 winner Darren Clarke finished well with birdies at the 17th and 18th but his 75 left him facing a huge task to make his first cut since last year's Open.
After four opening pars, Clarke, 48, had three straight bogeys and he carded two more bogeys and a double bogey.
"I hit the ball nicely but didn't putt very well," said Clarke after his round.
Two-time Open winner Padraig Harrington carded a 73 while Offaly man Shane Lowry was one better.
Harrington, champion when the major was last played at Royal Birkdale in 2008, failed to card a birdie as he dropped a shot on the seventh and then double bogeyed the 11th.
Twice major winner Spieth didn't drop a shot in his 65 and was later joined on five under by US Open champion Koepka and world number 18 Kuchar. | Rory McIlroy is six off the pace at The Open after battling back from an awful start to card an opening one-over-par 71 at Royal Birkdale. |
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Peter Bellett, 69, of Garnant, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
Michael Irons was treated in hospital after the attack at Garnant Pharmacy near Ammanford on 5 December, 2016.
Bellett was due to stand trial at Swansea Crown Court but pleaded guilty on the first day of the hearing. | A man has admitted stabbing a pharmacist at a practice in Carmarthenshire. |
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Anderson hit 109 with Dom Joyce contributing 67 as Merrion notched a formidable 252-9 at Castle Avenue.
Waringstown were only able to post 196 in reply with Lee Nelson top-scoring with 48.
Anderson and Joyce put on 108 for the second wicket in Merrion's innings in the game's pivotal partnership.
Joyce and Anderson safely negotiated probing opening spells from former Irish international Phil Eaglestone (3-57) and South African professional Cobus Pienaar (2-39), to build the platform for what would be a match-winning total.
"We were a bit slow at the start but I just knew I had to bat for 50 overs and we'd have a decent score as I would be able to accelerate as the innings went on," said Anderson.
"The margin of the win was more comfortable than I expected but the bowlers did a super job and were backed up by the fielding throughout."
Waringstown's run chase never really got going, getting bogged down for long periods by a Merrion attack which never relinquished their stranglehold on the game.
Skipper Lee Nelson (48) and Greg Thompson (20) threatened briefly with a stand of 52, but with the required run rate steadily increasing, Merrion always held the upper hand.
Fifteen-year-old Max Neville set the tone with a magnificent opening spell, conceding just 12 runs in his seven over spell - as well as taking the crucial wicket of Pienaar - while former Ireland star Dave Langford-Smith crucially dismissed both Nelson and Thompson.
SATURDAY'S CRICKET RESULTS
Irish Senior Cup Final
Merrion 252-9 J Anderson 109, D Joyce 67
Waringstown 196 L Nelson 48 W van Bohr 3-38
Merrion won by 51 runs
Ulster Bank Premier League
Derriaghy v Carrickfergus
Derriaghy 218-9 R Bailie 40, A Haggan 5-49
Carrickfergus 221-3 P Botha 65 no, I Parkhill 64 no
Carrickfergus won by 7 wickets and Derriaghy relegated
Instonians v CIYMS
Instonians 162 R Theron 88
CIYMS 100 N Jones 32, J Thompson 5-27
North Down v CSNI
North Down 127 J Muller 50
CSNI 128-3
CSNI won by 7 wickets
Long's SuperValu Premier League
Ardmore v Coleraine
Ardmore 202-4 D Curry 102 no, R Brolly 45
Coleraine 203-4 (48.2 overs) S Randiv 81, R. Chopra 69, S Dunn 3-28
Coleraine win by 6 wickets
Bready v Drummond
Drummond 197
Bready 198-6
Bready won by 4 wickets
Eglinton v Brigade
Eglinton 207 O Williams 91 no
Brigade 208-8
Brigade won by 2 wickets | John Anderson's century helped Merrion earn revenge for last year's final defeat as they beat Waringstown by 51 runs in the Irish Senior Cup decider. |
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27 February 2017 Last updated at 12:11 GMT
No it's not a joke - it's a mission that Mexican lovers of the dog breed set out to achieve: a record Bulldog walk.
They got together almost 1,000 of the chunky dogs and marched around Mexico City. The organizer, Erick Hernandez, said that he'd never seen such a large gathering of this specific breed. They've got their tails crossed they'll get the seal of approval.
It's pretty hot in Mexico but don't worry - the owners fussed over their pets, rubbing them down with water and holding umbrellas over them to protect their delicate skin from the sun.
Check out our pant-tastic video! | How many English Bulldogs does it take to set a world record? |
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Gary McClean was not appointed to the post with Waterside Neighbourhood Partnership, despite scoring the highest at an interview.
A fair employment tribunal found he was unlawfully discriminated against on the grounds of his political opinion.
The partnership said it was disappointed with the decision.
In a statement, it said: "Waterside Neighbourhood Partnership believe that that we did not discriminate based on the grounds of political opinion.
"But we have since reviewed our recruitment policies and procedures internally".
Mr McClean was supported by the Equality Commission in taking the case.
The tribunal stated: "This is a highly unusual case where the highest marked candidate in an interview process, who had exceeded the threshold marking, and who had been identified as the person to be appointed, was not appointed."
A score sheet considered by the tribunal recorded the individual marks of each panel member and showed that Mr McClean was scored highest by all three.
In a line on the sheet marked "person appointed", the claimant's name was written and this was followed by the three signatures of the panel members.
The tribunal found that "two members of the interview panel believed he should not have been appointed to the post. The chairman of the interview panel believed he should have been appointed."
The tribunal also stated that, given the nature of the evidence, "it seems highly unlikely there can be any innocent explanation of the extraordinary result of this interview process.
"If there had been such an innocent explanation, it would have been put forward from the start and maintained consistently thereafter."
It said that Mr McClean believed the control and funding of community activities should be a matter for communities themselves and not for main political parties.
Speaking after the ruling, Mr McClean, said: "I have always believed that that the only reason I was considered unacceptable for this post was because my political stance did not fit in with the approach of Sinn Féin and the DUP towards community services and funding.
"The tribunal decision has clearly shown that the Waterside Community Partnership Ltd. cannot give any credible explanation for refusing to appoint me after I had come top in the interview and met the threshold they had set as the standard.
"I didn't take this case for financial reward, but because I hope that, by successfully challenging this process, I can shine a light on the need for greater transparency and accountability in appointments within the community sector."
Dr Michael Wardlow, chief commissioner of the Equality Commission, said: "All appointments, including those in the community sector, must be made without reference to a person's political opinions, or to any other protected ground.
"It is also important that the procedures for such appointments meet basic standards of fairness and transparency and that they are accountable to scrutiny."
McClean did not re-apply, and the post was awarded to another person.
He was awarded £10,734 in compensation by the tribunal. | A Londonderry community worker has been awarded more than £10,000 after a tribunal found he had not been given a job because of his political opinion. |
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There were early claims of rapid advances being made as government forces pushed towards Tikrit from several directions.
But previous assaults on the militants there have been beaten back despite claims of victory by the state forces, so it will be some time before the fate of this latest offensive becomes clear.
It is a battle of great importance. Both the Iraqi prime minister and the Americans have been heralding an even more significant push in the coming months to recapture the biggest city in northern Iraq, Mosul, which also fell to IS last June.
That campaign would be thrown into doubt if the government fails at Tikrit, which controls the strategic highway linking the south with the north.
The attack on Tikrit was inaugurated by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi who addressed his top officers on the eve of battle.
"Today we are launching a major and important campaign to liberate the citizens of Salahuddin province, which includes Tikrit and other areas, from the Islamic State terrorists," he said.
"So, I call upon you and all other commanders to deal with citizens well. We should protect the citizens and their properties."
That underlined one of the concerns raised by this thrust into mainly Sunni terrain.
Because the Iraqi army collapsed last June and is still shaky, much of the fighting is being done by Shia militias, backed by Iran.
They are thirsting for revenge for atrocities carried out by IS in June, when hundreds of Shia recruits were massacred.
In a neighbouring province where Sunni areas have been overrun by a similar combination of pro-government forces, there have been accusations of revenge killings and abuses inflicted on the Sunni population by the Shia militias.
The prime minister may be urging restraint but there is a question mark over how much control he has over the forces on the ground.
Their behaviour in Tikrit, if they win, will have major implications for what happens in Mosul and other mainly Sunni areas occupied by IS. | The offensive to recapture Tikrit was announced with some fanfare by the Iraqi authorities, and state television carried footage of rockets being fired as the campaign got under way. |
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It is understood the man was from Northern Ireland.
The crash happened on the M1 southbound close to Junction 11 near Monasterboice in Drogheda, County Louth at 12:45 local time on Thursday.
The man died after the truck he was driving struck a van before overturning on the roadside embankment.
A section of the road remains closed while forensic investigations are carried out.
Police have appealed for witnesses.
The mayor of Drogheda, Kevin Callan, said about 50 emergency services personnel attended the scene to deal with the crash.
"Everybody in the town is quite shocked to hear the news," he said.
"Number one that there was a crash of this size, but also the fact that somebody has lost their life.
"I think I speak on behalf of everyone in Drogheda when we extend our sympathies, and our thoughts and prayers are with the family of that person." | A man in his 40s has died after a crash involving a van and a truck on a motorway in the Republic of Ireland. |
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The man, identified as Syed Sharif Khan, was stripped naked, beaten and dragged through Dimapur, Nagaland state's main city, before being hanged.
Hundreds of policemen have been patrolling the streets of Dimapur since the incident amid increasing tension.
A curfew was also imposed in the city on Sunday to maintain law and order.
In earlier reports, police named the dead man as Farid Khan, but his family told the BBC his name was Syed Sharif Khan.
Police said Mr Khan was a Bengali-speaking Muslim trader from the neighbouring state of Assam. He was arrested in February on charges of raping a 19-year-old tribal woman three times.
Mr Khan's brother said he was picked on because of ethnic reasons. According to reports, the woman was related to Mr Khan by marriage.
After Mr Khan was taken from prison on Thursday, he was dragged through the streets by thousands of people. Police opened fire to try to stop the mob, wounding several people.
On Monday, police said the arrested men had been charged with rioting, arson and unlawful assembly.
"Some of these 42 arrested men were also directly involved in the lynching, and will face additional charges," news agency AFP quoted Inspector General of Police Wabang Jamir as saying.
There are conflicting versions of how a large mob entered the prison and then removed - and killed - one selected inmate.
One version is that initially a small group of men went to the prison, and demanded to take out Mr Khan, and that some prison officials complied and led them to him.
Only later, several thousand people collected outside the jail, demanding that the prisoner be handed over to them.
The lynching happened in the midst of a controversy in India over the government's decision to ban India's Daughter, a documentary about the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi.
But correspondents say the killing is also linked to rising ethnic tensions in Nagaland, whose indigenous tribespeople have blamed migrants from Assam state and Bangladesh for settling on their land.
Vigilante justice is not unheard of in India but it is rarely seen on this scale.
The lynching points to rising anxiety among locals in Nagaland about Muslim Bangladeshi migrants who, they say, have illegally settled on their land and are encroaching on their resources.
Many say it also proves how easily mass hysteria can be whipped up among local people to brand any Muslim migrant as Bangladeshi.
The defendant in this case was not a Bangladeshi but a Bengali-speaker from the neighbouring state of Assam. His father served in the Indian air force, and two of his brothers are in the army.
The incident points to a complete breakdown of law and order in Nagaland, which is wracked by a tribal insurgency.
Chances of a settlement to the 58-year-old conflict continue to look dim after 17 years of negotiations because rebel factions who cannot agree on the territorial limits of a future Naga homeland or state. | Police in north-eastern India say they have charged 42 people in connection with the lynching of a suspected rapist who was taken from prison by a mob. |
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The 30-year-old has agreed a one-year deal at Huish Park.
Formerly with Plymouth, Bury, Port Vale and York City player, the Guadeloupe international most recently played for non-league side Weymouth.
He started his senior club career with French side Caen, before moving to England in 2010 to join Argyle, for whom he started 33 league games.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | League Two club Yeovil Town have signed former Bournemouth defender Stephane Zubar on a free transfer. |
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The platform, popular with emerging artists, faced closure if the new funding was not approved by Friday.
"Soundcloud is here to stay,” wrote Alexander Ljung, the company’s chairman, who as part of the deal is stepping down as the firm's chief executive.
Concerned users had been backing up their Soundcloud uploads, worried the site would go offline.
Its highest profile user, Chance the Rapper, has been vocal in supporting the site.
In July, the Berlin-based company laid off 40% of its workforce, a total of 173 people. In a note circulated to shareholders earlier this week (obtained by Axios) Mr Ljung said without the money Soundcloud would not be able “to continue as a going concern”.
By Friday, things were looking up.
"This financing means Soundcloud remains strong and independent,” Mr Ljung wrote in a blog post.
"Over the last few weeks, I’ve been moved by the outpouring of commentary around Soundcloud’s unique and crucial role in driving what global culture is today (and what it will become tomorrow).
"You’ve told me how, without Soundcloud, there would be a giant gaping void in today’s world of music. We can’t have that, and I’m happy to once again say that won’t be happening.”
The company will see considerable changes in leadership. Mr Ljung will be replaced as chief executive by Kerry Trainor, the former boss of video-sharing site Vimeo. Mike Weissman, also formerly at Vimeo, will become Soundcloud’s chief operating officer.
Soundcloud will now need to look at reducing costs and doing more to monetise the service which, according to the firms latest publicly available figures, has more than 40 million users.
The firm’s money problems have been well-documented - with its valuation dropping considerable from a high of $700m in 2014. In September, acquisition talks with Spotify failed to materialise.
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The item was found near Fakenham and is possibly from a sword grip, but experts say it has differences to similar finds.
Dr Andrew Rogerson, county archaeologist, said: "It's a fragment, but there's no context for it."
No evidence of dwellings has ever been found in the village.
6th Century
Kingdom of East Anglia formed (modern-day Norfolk and Suffolk)
AD624 King Raedwald, who is believed to have been buried at Sutton Hoo, died
AD869 King Edmund, later known as St Edmund, was killed by the Vikings
AD869-918 The kingdom becomes part of the larger Viking Danelaw
The Portable Antiquities Scheme, which is in the process of valuing the item, said it was "similar to sword-grip mounts from the Sutton Hoo ship burial and the Staffordshire Hoard".
But because the mount, which dates back to the late 6th or early 7th Centuries, lacks "small perforations for attachment", its "precise function... is not clear".
The Norfolk coroner will hold an inquest in March to decide if it should be recorded as a treasure find.
Dr Rogerson, who works at the county's Historic Environment Service in Gressenhall, said four other items, including a brooch and a belt mount, had been discovered in the area in recent years.
"The new mount may have come from a sword clasp, but it's a bit of a mystery," he said.
"This is a high-status item, not unlike pieces found at the Staffordshire Hoard, and it's another piece of the jigsaw as we slowly find out more about settlements across East Anglia.
"The chances of there not being people living there and working the land are remote, but there would need to be a huge survey looking for a settlement to fully understand the land-use in the area."
The mount was found by Barrie Plasom, 70, last year, during a charity search aimed at raising money from any finds for the East Anglian Air Ambulance.
He said: "I thought I'd found a bottle top, put it in my pocket and didn't bother looking at it again until later." | A "mystery" gold mount found in a Norfolk field has provided "another piece of the jigsaw" for historians looking for Anglo-Saxon settlements. |
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The e-brochure features an interactive map of Wales split into areas.
Visitors can click on one to see what kind of wildlife is there in different seasons, for example puffins on Skomer Island or dormice in north Wales.
Mr Skates said it was "astonishing" what had been achieved using a small amount of money and described it as a "very precious resource".
Speaking at the launch in Llanelwedd, he said: "We have record levels in terms of visitors but what we want to do is build on those successes, making sure people come and return time and time again.
"I'm particularly impressed by what you have done with the online resources, not just including top 10 visitor suggestions for each area but for each of the seasons. We have to ensure there's something all year round to offer tourists."
The e-brochure is available online from Monday. | A wildlife e-brochure has been launched at the Royal Welsh Show by the economy secretary Ken Skates. |
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The Hinkley Point C party had been cancelled at the very last minute by a nervous UK government.
After years of delay, EDF management had finally managed to convince its own board (just) that constructing the world's biggest nuclear power station wouldn't bankrupt the company.
It was now Theresa May's turn to waver.
There was plenty to think about. A contract that locked in an electricity price more than double the current cost. The commitment to growing Chinese involvement in the UK's nuclear industry, and the voices pointing out that other options for low carbon electricity were getting cheaper all the time.
All good reasons to hit the pause button. There seemed little chance of renegotiating the price (after EDF's struggle with its own board) or the participants in the project (without mortally offending the Chinese) so many thought the deal looked dead.
Nothing has changed in the six weeks since - so why is it almost certain this deal will now get the green light?
First, there has been the lack of anti-Hinkley spinning from the new brooms at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Last week, the Secretary of State, Greg Clark, and senior civil servants hosted journalists for a get-to-know-you session.
If Hinkley was dead you can be sure that the subliminal chat would have been how the energy market had changed, new options were available, delays at other EDF sites were a big worry etc. There was none of that.
In the Commons today, Greg Clark reiterated that new nuclear was a vital part of the UK's energy mix.
If that's true and the government acknowledges our power generation capacity is creaking, that means it thinks it still needs Hinkley.
Secondly, EDF has already spent £2.5bn on developing the project. Clearing earth, building a concrete factory and providing top-notch bat and hedgehog facilities doesn't come cheap.
Does the government really want to face a compensation claim from EDF? If so, that could mean spending £2.5bn on NOT building infrastructure.
Third, Theresa May has had a chance to deal with China's top brass directly. Meekly nodding through a project developed by two previous governments without acknowledging the parties had changed would arguably show weakness.
With China now added to the project, it seems reasonable to want a personal chat with Mr Xi to remind him who the customer is.
After G20 she has now done that and will no doubt tell us that she has received all sorts of assurances that China does not present a security risk.
Fourth, EDF went to the trouble of announcing a Welsh steelmaker as the preferred bidder on a £100m steel order for Hinkley just last week.
Granted, that may have been another nudge from EDF and the subcontractors to the government to highlight the benefits to a particularly beleaguered industry of Hinkley.
BUT after the embarrassment last time, one feels that it wouldn't be worth going through the motions unless they were fairly confident.
Theresa May will still be under some pressure to justify her spanner-throwing antics of late July. So we can expect a series of reasons why the delay was necessary and unexpected benefits of going ahead.
We may hear of an unexpectedly high level of involvement for British contractors (as in the Welsh steel example above) and a mechanism to return excess EDF profits to UK consumers.
Although there is anecdotal evidence of the first being true, there is already a mechanism in the existing deal to achieve the second.
None of that will appease the project's many critics who say that this is a project from a bygone age - a dinosaur in a digital, dynamic and decentralised age of power.
Those voices will continue to be heard at their loudest when the inevitable hiccups delays and controversies emerge in the future.
When they do, it's not clear how much it will help Theresa May to be able to say she gave the tyres a jolly good kick. | On 28 July, stunned EDF employees in Somerset started taking down a marquee and throwing away unused visitor badges for UK, French and Chinese officials. |
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The move focuses on those using Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights to argue their right to a family life would be breached by deportation.
Home Secretary Theresa May said this right was not "absolute" and could be overridden in the national interest.
Parliament will hold a debate and vote later in June on whether the guidelines should apply, Mrs May told MPs.
Several leading barristers have questioned the need for new guidance, saying the meaning of Article 8 is already clear and judges understand it.
Deportation should become routine for any foreign criminals jailed for at least 12 months, the government has said, and those sentenced to more than four years should only be allowed to remain in the "most exceptional circumstances".
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The home secretary first signalled that the government wanted to alter the way courts interpret Article 8 - the right to a family life - at last year's Conservative Party conference.
She said the meaning of Article 8 had been "perverted" and used to prevent the removal of foreign national prisoners and illegal immigrants.
However, the example she used in her speech, of a Bolivian man who she claimed had been allowed to stay in Britain because he had a pet cat, was widely criticised for being inaccurate.
In the past, judges have interpreted Article 8 through the development of case law.
Speaking on Sunday, Mrs May said the UK was "entitled" to set out its views on the subject and to make clear its belief that all aspects of Article 8 - including when other considerations could take precedence - should be taken into account in rulings.
"This is not an absolute right [to family life]," she told BBC One's Andrew Marr show. "In the interests of the economy, or controlling migration or public order, those sort of issues, the state has a right to qualify the right to a family life."
Mrs May said she wanted MPs to set out "very clearly" their view on what "constituted the right to family life" and how "we balance the public interest against the individual's interest".
She said she would expect judges to "follow and take into account" the views of Parliament, adding "if they don't we will have to look at other measures and that could include primary legislation".
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants said that in 2010 only between 2% and 8% of foreign prisoners facing deportation won appeals on Article 8 grounds.
And civil rights group Liberty said the right to family life was already qualified, allowing "considerable latitude over immigration control and the economic well-being of the nation".
"The home secretary is far better reviewing immigration rules than bashing the human rights act or the judiciary," said its director Shami Chakrabarti.
For Labour, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said the number of foreign criminals being deported had fallen since 2010 and new guidelines, while a "sensible" move, were no alternative to "serious action" on enforcement.
"The Borders Inspector's report has made clear that failings in administration and enforcement within the Border Agency are preventing hundreds of foreign criminals being deported," she said.
Separately, the home secretary also outlined plans to introduce minimum income requirements for people seeking to bring foreign spouses or children into the country.
From next year, an immigrant from outside the European Union will have to earn at least £18,600 a year to enable their spouse to join them. For those with one child, the level will be £22,400, rising by £2,400 for each additional child.
Migrants seeking to settle will also have to be able to speak and understand English and pass a "Britishness" test, demonstrating an understanding of life in the UK.
Mrs May also announced there will be a minimum probationary period of five years for settlement to deter sham marriages. | Judges are to be given new guidelines aimed at ensuring fewer foreign criminals avoid being deported. |
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Appearing at Carlisle Crown Court, Phillipa Hodgson, 21, of John Street, Maryport, pleaded not guilty to two charges of mistreating or wilfully neglecting the resident at Workington's Rosecroft Residential Home.
A trial, to be held at the same court, has been scheduled to begin on 27 January.
Ms Hodgson was granted conditional bail. | A woman has denied mistreating an 81-year-old Cumbrian care home resident. |
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The triptych, Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969), is considered one of Bacon's greatest masterpieces.
It was sold after six minutes of fierce bidding, Christie's auction house said.
The price eclipsed the $119.9m (£74m) paid for Edvard Munch's The Scream last year.
At the same auction, Jeff Koons broke the world record for a price paid for a single artwork by a living artist.
His sculpture Balloon Dog (Orange) - one of a series of five stainless steel sculptures in varying colours - fetched $58,4m (£36.7m).
The previous record for a living artist was set by a Gerhard Richter painting depicting an Italian city square, which sold in May for $37.1 million (£23.3m).
It was the first time Three Studies of Lucian Freud had been offered at auction and bidding opened at $80m (£50m, 60m euros). Its presale estimate was $85m (£53m, 64m euros).
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In a world of supply and demand, it is not surprising that Bacon's huge triptych should sell for such an amount. It's unique, it's very high quality, and from an extremely famous period in the artist's life.
The subject, and Bacon's remarkable use of colour, captures a moment in art history where his friendship with Freud was at its closest. It represents a relationship that has already moved into legend.
What would be wonderful is if Freud's portrait of Bacon (painted around the same time but stolen from Berlin's National Gallery in 1988) was to be recovered and put back on public display, completing the story of these modern masters' mutual admiration.
A telephone bidder won with an offer of $127 million (£80m), which, after commission, means they will pay a total of $142m.
The auction house did not disclose the identity of the buyer.
Bacon, known for his triptychs, painted Three Studies of Lucian Freud in 1969 at London's Royal College of Art, after his studio was destroyed in a fire.
Francis Outred, head of Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie's Europe, said the work was "a true masterpiece and one of the greatest paintings to come up for auction in a current generation".
"It marks Bacon and Freud's relationship, paying tribute to the creative and emotional kinship between the two artists," he added.
The pair met in 1945 and became close companions, painting each other on a number of occasions, before their relationship cooled during the 1970s.
Exhibited in Bacon's renowned retrospective at the Grand Palais, Paris in 1971-1972, the three panels that form the painting were separated in the mid-1970s.
One panel was shown at the Tate in 1985 before the three sections were reassembled.
The complete work was displayed in New Haven, Connecticut in 1999.
It got its first ever UK public viewing at Christie's in London in October this year. | A painting by Francis Bacon of his friend and fellow artist Lucian Freud has become the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction after it fetched $142m (£89m, 106m euros) in New York. |
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The arrests were made in a joint operation between the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the PSNI. Those arrested are suspected of accessing indecent images of children.
On top of the arrests, steps were taken to protect a number of children deemed to be at risk.
Items were also seized for further forensic examination.
The people who were arrested have been released on bail pending further enquiries.
Last September, 25 people were arrested in a similar investigation. | Nine people have been arrested in Northern Ireland as part of an investigation into online child abuse. |
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The top division of women's football saw an overall 48% rise, with the average league attendance being 1,076 compared to 728 in 2014.
Newly-crowned champions Chelsea Ladies enjoyed the biggest gain with a 164% increase, while Sunderland were second with a 123% rise.
Manchester City had the highest average attendance of 1,500.
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They also claimed the season's single highest attendance with 3,180 supporters at the Academy Stadium on Sunday, as City beat Notts County on the final day of the 2015 WSL 1 campaign.
England's success at this summer's World Cup appears to have had a major impact on women's football, with attendances up by 29% compared to matches before the tournament.
FA director of football participation and development Kelly Simmons said: "The sheer increase in attendances we've seen this season shows just what appetite there is for the women's game in this country.
"2015 has been a landmark year for women's football, with the success of the England team at the World Cup and the first-ever SSE Women's FA Cup Final at Wembley, and this is another marker of just how far the game has come." | Women's Super League One crowds have seen a major increase from last season, the Football Association has announced. |
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Joel Richards, from Wednesbury, was killed alongside uncle Adrian Evans, grandfather Patrick Evans and 35 others in the terrorist attacks near Sousse, Tunisia, this year.
Now the 19-year-old Walsall fan's family is to be presented with a posthumous award.
Friends and colleagues praised Mr Richards and his dedication to sport.
Suzanne, his mother, said: "The community, as well as his friends and family, have lost so much.
"In 19 years he did more for the sports community than most will ever do."
Rebecca Foster, who led Mr Richards on his PE course at Worcester University, said he was "an exceptional student" and natural role model whose "infectious personality" made him popular throughout the university.
"He was very hard-working, he was conscientious, and he motivated those other students around him," she said.
"Should he [have] wanted to go into teaching he would have had his hand snapped off to be a PGCE applicant at any university, but equally he was a very talented referee, and I know that the FA probably would have headhunted him too.
"I think really the world was his oyster."
Jeremy Kamp lived with Mr Richards as they studied together in Worcester, and said his friend's passion for sport would never be forgotten.
"He'd literally try anything, that was what was so good about Joel," he said. | A young referee killed in a terror attack has been recognised with a BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero Special Award. |
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Several thousand protested outside the main public TV station in Warsaw.
The new laws give the government power to appoint heads of public TV and radio, as well as the civil service.
European media watchdogs and the EU have condemned the move. But the government says some of Poland's state-controlled bodies need reform.
"Free media" protests were held in the cities of Poznan, Wrocław and Krakow, Radio Poland reported.
"We want to express our solidarity with the independent media and our opposition to the attack being currently being carried out against it," the station quoted Mateusz Kijowski - head of the newly-created Committee for the Defence of Democracy - as saying.
The committee also opposes the introduction of a constitutional court - which it says undermines the court's responsibility for holding the government to account.
The government's media reforms give the treasury minister the power to hire and fire broadcasting chiefs - a role currently in the hands of a media supervisory committee.
On Friday it dismissed state media management teams and installed replacements.
The EU Commission has warned that Poland may be jeopardising EU values by introducing the new laws and could face punitive measures. It will hold a debate on the reforms on 13 January.
Polish presidential spokeswoman Malgorzata Sadurska said earlier this week that President Andrzej Duda signed the laws because he wanted the state media to be "impartial, objective and reliable".
The Eurosceptic Law and Justice Party (PiS) won a clear majority in October elections and argues that journalists on public service channels are biased against it in their coverage.
Most Poles tune in to the public TVP channels, as well as public radio - which includes many regional stations.
Correspondents say that incoming governments in Poland tend to put their own people in to run large state companies, institutions, and the public media - but the PiS has gone faster and further this time. | Protests have take place across Poland against new laws which demonstrators say gives the newly-elected government power to restrict media freedoms. |
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The project, known locally as Surfbury, will be based east of Newquay's town centre and is similar to the duchy's Poundbury development in Dorset.
The plans were approved by Cornwall Council's strategic planning committee.
However, some councillors are unhappy the development has not been able to deliver more affordable homes.
The Duchy of Cornwall - a major landowner in the south-west of England - owns most of the 218 hectare (538 acre) site, known as Nansledan.
The duchy is a private estate that funds both the charitable and private activities of Prince Charles, who holds the title of Duke of Cornwall.
Tim Gray, estate surveyor to the Duchy of Cornwall, said: "These latest applications are the heart and backbone of the scheme and will secure its future delivery and the wide range of community benefits that will flow from it."
Councillor Geoff Brown said the plans had received some local criticism over the amount of affordable housing.
"That is certainly one of the concerns that local councillors have got," he added.
"I think we are looking somewhere in the region of 27-30% which is significantly less than we would like."
A Duchy of Cornwall spokeswoman said: "The level of affordable housing provision has been agreed by the council, and the development also incorporates a wide range of community benefits.
"The project aims to boost the employment provision in the local area by delivering one job per household throughout the development." | The Duchy of Cornwall's plans for 800 homes, shops, a supermarket and a primary school have been given the go-ahead. |
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Andrew Houston, 48, had denied driving carelessly on the A9 between Newtonmore and Kingussie on 9 July 2013.
His wife, Abigail, and seven year-old daughter, Mia, died along with German tourist Dr Mohammad Hayajneh.
Houston was convicted of a reduced charge of careless driving. He was fined £1,000 and disqualified from driving for a year.
The trial at Inverness Sheriff Court began on Monday.
Outside the court the family of Dr Hayajneh said they had not wanted Houston jailed but did not feel justice had been served.
Mr Hayajneh's son Jonas said: "We are sad at this verdict and believe that justice has not been done for our father and husband.
"We don't feel hatred towards Mr Houston and at no point we wanted him to go to prison, but we wanted him to be found guilty since all the evidence suggested he was and we are convinced that this tragedy could have been avoided.
"We now face the prospect of not gaining proper closure."
Dr Hayajneh's wife, Ursula, praised the actions of the police and medical staff in the aftermath of the accident.
She said: "After the accident I learned that Scottish people are very helpful, they have a great heart and so friendly and at this horrible time I would say 'thank you' to the police and to everybody who were so helpful to me."
Houston is a senior partner at McSporrans defence Solicitors in Edinburgh.
Now the family will pursue a civil action against Houston.
He made no comment as he left the court with the mother of his late wife and her sister.
However, his defence counsel, Frances McMenamin said: "His mother and sister in law have been fully supportive of my client since the tragedy and it hardly needs saying that Mr Houston will always carry the burden of the loss of all those lives and knows the grief and loss to others.
"It has taken its toll on him both emotionally and physically and he has found it psychologically difficult to cope with.
"He expresses his inevitable sadness for what this loss has meant to others."
It was five months before the solicitor advocate was fit enough to be interviewed by police about the tragedy.
But he could not remember how it happened, only a loud bang "and the horrid aftermath" he told officers. | An Edinburgh lawyer has been cleared of causing the deaths of three people by careless driving. |
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The 27-year-old's body was found after officers were called to his Isle of Man home on 30 July.
Insp Iain MacMillan said: "Mr Baggs had suffered from asthma for many years and died as a result of his condition."
Police have informed the coroner that the Plymouth-born entrepreneur died from "natural causes".
Insp McKillop said: "From the reaction we have encountered during our enquiries, it is clear that this is a tragic and premature loss of such a hardworking and visionary young man.
"We extend our thoughts to the family at this sad time and on their behalf I would request that they are now left in peace to grieve."
Baggs lived in the Isle of Man for most of his life and ran a telecommunications company.
When he was aged 21 in 2010, he became the youngest ever candidate to appear on the BBC One show The Apprentice.
Baggs, who was fired in the semi-final, became famous for his one-liners which included "Everything I touch turns to sold" and "I'm Stuart Baggs the brand".
He was found dead by police after they were called to his home on Central Promenade in Douglas, at 09:00 BST last Thursday.
Source:NHS website | The sudden death of former Apprentice star Stuart Baggs was caused by an asthma attack, police have said. |
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Private ambulances were used 9,242 times last year compared with 1,248 in 2012-13, according to details released after a request by Plaid Cymru.
The Welsh Ambulance Service said it was due to a rise in demand and a change in the way the service was delivered.
But Plaid said the ambulance service needs a long-term plan to meet demand.
Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust executive director Patsy Roseblade said: "All businesses use a range of providers to cope with peaks in demand and this is neither unusual nor necessarily a bad thing.
"That's why we've been using a range of providers in recent months, including private and third sector providers to bolster our capacity while we realign our own resources in a more efficient and effective way."
The ambulance service said private providers, including St John Ambulance crews, carry the same life-saving equipment and staff have the same level of skills.
Additional providers have been operating mainly in south east Wales covering health board areas for Cwm Taf, Aneurin Bevan and Cardiff and Vale.
Since 2013/14 the ambulance service started using private providers to support transfers to hospital for patients referred by GPs.
And it said more recently it has "made a conscious decision to support internal capacity with the use of private providers for responses to emergency calls" which are more expensive due to the equipment and skill level required by crews.
The use of taxis by the service has also increased from 682 times three years ago to 868 times in the last financial year, costing £10,000.
Ms Roseblade said: "Using taxis where clinically appropriate means more ambulance resources are available to respond to life-threatening calls and therefore represents more effective use of the finite pool of specialist skills and equipment available to us.
"Too often we get calls that do not need an ambulance service response. Lots of people who call 999 simply need to see a pharmacist or GP."
Plaid health spokeswoman Elin Jones said: "The dramatic rise in the use of private ambulances for emergency transport indicates a desperate need for a long term plan to meet demand in-house.
"Plaid Cymru has made it clear that we want to see an increase in the number of ambulances and staffing to ensure there is sufficient emergency care available to treat people at the scene as well integrating health and social care to improve patient flow and reviewing GP out-of-hours care." | Ambulance bosses have defended a rise in the use of non-NHS crews and vehicles with costs increasing from £172,000 to over £2m since 2012. |
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Would-be referendum voters have until midnight on Tuesday 7 June to sign up to the electoral register.
Prime Minister David Cameron says more than a million people have done so since the referendum campaign began.
But figures suggest many people will leave it too late to register and will be turned away at polling stations.
Lib Dem peer Lord Rennard, chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Democratic Participation, said: "Many millions of people will not be on the register, and won't be able to take part in the referendum. Some, unaware of the deadline, will register too late.
"Before the last general election, 186,000 applied after the deadline. Despite the efforts of Bite The Ballot's #TurnUp campaign, this may happen again, and many people may think that they're already registered and turn up at the polls anyway."
An APPG report published in April, Missing Millions points to 2014 research which shows 7.1 million people have gone missing from the electoral roll and that the gap between the voting age population and registered voters is growing.
British, Irish and Commonwealth citizens resident in the UK and many British citizens living abroad are entitled to vote in the referendum.
You can check with your local authority's electoral services team if you are worried that you are not on the register.
If you are not on the register you have until midnight on Tuesday, 7 June to submit an application for a vote. The deadlines for applying for a postal vote at the referendum are:
In England, Scotland or Wales, you can register to vote online anytime at gov.uk/register-to-vote. If you are a British citizen living abroad, you can register to vote online in the same way.
In Northern Ireland, visit the government's Register to vote in Northern Ireland page to download a registration form. If you are an Irish citizen living abroad who was born in Northern Ireland, visit the Electoral Office for Northern Ireland website to download the correct form.
Research by Dr Toby James, of the University of East Anglia, shows that many citizens think that they are on the register because they pay their council tax and therefore expect those running the election to "know about them".
The Missing Millions report shows that two thirds of polling stations turned away voters in 2015 who thought that they were on the electoral register, but were not.
An Electoral Commission spokesman said: "There's only one way to ensure you're able to have your say at this historic referendum and that's to be registered to vote by 7 June.
"Anyone who was already registered to vote for the elections in May will be registered for the EU Referendum.
"If your circumstances have changed since May, for example if you've moved home, then you need to re-register at your new property."
Government figures show more than a million people have signed up to the electoral register since 1 March, with 25 to 34-year-olds leading the way. More than 25,000 people in that age group registered on Monday alone, out of a total for that day of 83,000. The next biggest group was the under-25s.
The figures show a big spike in applications for a vote on the deadline for registrations for May's elections in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and English local authorities.
But there was another, smaller spike on polling day itself, suggesting many people only discovered they were not on the register when they tried to vote and were turned away.
Campaign group Hope Not Hate and Bite the Ballot have launched a voter registration drive called #TurnUp with the aim of registering 500,000 young people by 7 June.
The campaigners are targeting universities, further education colleges, local neighbourhoods and faith communities and claim support from Facebook, Twitter and Tinder.
Bite the Ballot has also joined forces with Starbucks to hold voter registration and EU debate events at 50 coffee shops around the country, starting next Wednesday.
David Cameron highlighted the efforts being made to sign up younger voters at an event at Easyjet headquarters in Luton earlier on Tuesday.
"We are obviously doing a lot, encouraging companies and others to say this is a very big vote - it affects your future, it's not just about the next five years, it's about the next 50 years and I think over a million people have registered since this campaign started, which is very encouraging," said the prime minister.
Voters now have to register to vote as individuals rather than by household, as part of an attempt to cut down in electoral fraud.
Estimates vary as to how many people have "gone missing" from the electoral roll since a new system was introduced.
Millions of people were transferred automatically on to the new register after having their identity confirmed by checking social security and council tax records.
Names that could not be verified in this way were kept on the register until 1 December last year but have now been removed - a total of 770,000 entries. A total of 1.5 million people have been deleted since 2014, when the new system began to be rolled out but many could have signed up again since the figures were released earlier this year.
Labour's shadow minister for young people and voter registration, Gloria De Piero, said: "This referendum takes place at a time when we know 1.5 million people have been taken off the electoral register since the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration.
"You only have until 7 June to get on that register and have your voice heard.
"I hope everyone will think about where they will be on 23 June, so they can make sure they are registered at the right address.
"It might be easier to arrange a postal or proxy vote if you are going on holiday, to Glastonbury, or even if you will be studying hard for exams.
"We need everyone to play their part in the biggest decision of a generation." | Millions entitled to a vote in the EU referendum could miss out because they are not on the electoral register, campaigners have warned. |
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Warburton suffered a knee injury in Cardiff Blues' 24-24 draw at Ulster in April, ruling him out for six weeks.
Blues head coach Danny Wilson said the 28-year-old may return for a possible European Champions Cup play-off final - a week before the tour's first game.
"I spoke to Sam and he feels that he could play now," Gatland said.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Gatland continued: "He's made some really good progress and really happy with how he's responded to treatment over the last few weeks.
"I expect him to play before he goes to New Zealand. I think he's looking to play for the Blues and if potentially they are involved in one of the play-off games to get into Europe, he's hoping to be selected for that."
Meanwhile, Gatland also said scrum-half Conor Murray and lock Alun Wyn Jones were progressing in their own recoveries from injury.
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Murray sustained up a shoulder injury in Ireland's Six Nations defeat by Wales in March while Jones also injured his shoulder in Wales' defeat by France on 18 March.
"[Jones] is making good progress. [Lions forward coach] Steve Borthwick went down and saw him last week and he's confident that he's going to be okay as well," Gatland said.
"It looks like the Ospreys are going to be involved in the semi-finals of the Pro12 and that would give him [Jones] an opportunity to get some rugby under his belt.
"Conor Murray, the prognosis with him looks pretty positive in terms of hopefully getting back and getting a game for Munster as well, and that'll be good for him over the next few weeks if he can get a game.
"The ideal scenario is that, and it's not for everyone, but depending on how long ago you've picked up an injury, you want some players to get back on the field and get a game under their belt before we go on tour." | British and Irish Lions head coach Warren Gatland expects injured captain Sam Warburton to play before the tour of New Zealand begins in June. |
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Adrian Vasquez has filed a lawsuit in Florida alleging negligence by Princess Cruises, his lawyer said.
The American cruise company has said it deeply regrets that one of its ships sailed past the dying men.
Passengers said they spotted the castaways and alerted staff, but the firm said the captain was not informed.
Mr Vasquez's lawyer, Edna Ramos, said the lawsuit includes testimony from two cruise ship passengers who said they saw the boat and reported it to a member of staff.
One passenger, Judy Meredith, earlier told reporters she had informed a sales representative about the boat and had shown him it through a spotting telescope.
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She said she had been assured the information had been passed on to the crew.
Mr Vasquez and his friends set out in their three-metre-long open fishing boat the Fifty Cents from the port of Rio Hato in February, and were on their way back after their catch when the engine failed.
After 16 days adrift, he says, they saw a cruise ship sailing past, and had made attempts to flag it down with a red sweater.
"We felt happy, because we thought they were coming to rescue us," he said.
Mr Vasquez was eventually rescued 1,000km (620 miles) off the mainland, near the Galapagos Islands. His friends had already died of thirst.
He said he survived thanks to a sudden rainstorm that replenished his drinking water supplies.
Princess Cruises said there appeared to have been a "breakdown in communication".
It said the captain - Edward Perrin - and the officer of the watch were not notified.
Princess Cruises said it understood its responsibility under the law of the sea to help any vessel in distress, and said its ships had been involved in more than 30 rescues over the past decade. | A Panamanian fisherman who survived 28 days adrift in the Pacific and watched two companions die is suing the owners of a cruise ship that sailed past. |
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Joseph Muscat, whose country assumes the EU's presidency in January, told the BBC "this is really and truly our position and I don't see it changing".
Theresa May says the UK will begin the legal process to leave the EU by March.
Mr Muscat said talks on the details of a "new relationship" could be delayed.
Much political debate has focused on the possibility of a "soft" Brexit - the UK retaining some form of membership of the single market in exchange for conceding some control over immigration - and "hard Brexit" - leaving the single market but having fuller control over migration.
But Mr Muscat said the UK and EU needed to first reach agreement on a range of other details once Mrs May triggers Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty.
He said these included the bill the UK must pay before leaving, establishing what will happen to the UK-Republic of Ireland border and working out interim arrangements on issues like security.
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Asked about a suggestion from Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that the UK could in theory stay in single market and place limits on the freedom of movement of EU citizens, Mr Muscat told the BBC "it's just not happening".
He added: "All of us have been pretty clear in our approach that we want a fair deal for the UK but that kind of fair deal can't translate itself into a superior deal.
"I know that there is absolutely no bluffing from the European side, at least in the council meetings I have attended, saying 'we will start in this position and then we will soften up'.
"No, this is really and truly our position."
He acknowledged the talks could get "complicated" and amount to a "bit of a Catch 22 - it won't be a situation when one side gains and the other side loses.
"We are going to lose something but there will not be a situation when the UK has a better deal than it has today".
Mr Muscat also reiterated the view that even when a final or interim deal is struck between EU leaders and Britain, the European Parliament may decide to veto it in 2019.
His comments come days after the UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis described his meeting with the European Parliament's chief negotiator Guy Verhofstadt as a "good start".
Mr Davis said their pre-negotiations discussion had been able to cover structures and how both sides propose to approach the Brexit talks, adding a deal was possible that was in the interests of the EU and the UK.
The UK government has said it does not want to reveal its negotiating hand on Brexit before the talks take place. | EU leaders are not "bluffing" when they say the UK will be left without access to the single market when it leaves the bloc if there is no free movement of people, Malta's prime minister says. |
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In what were described as the biggest ever military exercises to have taken place on Venezuelan soil, President Maduro proudly declared that more than 500,000 troops from the armed forces and civilian militias loyal to the government participated in "Operation Independence 2016" over the weekend.
"We have never been more prepared than this," barked the president in a speech evoking Venezuela's military heroes of the past, none more important than Mr Maduro's predecessor in office, Hugo Chavez.
Prepared for what exactly? There is no threat of invasion from Venezuela's neighbours and, while clearly keeping a close eye on developments, Washington is highly unlikely to make any direct intervention.
Appearing alongside President Maduro, Minister of Defence Gen Vladimir Padrino Lopez said US "spy planes" had been detected violating Venezuelan airspace on two occasions this month.
Proof, suggested the general, that Washington was planning an invasion and that Venezuela's armed forces should be placed on full alert.
President Maduro frequently blames the country's many crises on "economic warfare" promulgated by internal business elites and hostile foreign governments.
But by raising the spectre of a foreign invasion, many commentators suggest, the embattled president is showing signs of desperation, using an old but tired tactic to divert attention from what is really happening.
One might respectfully counter that the root cause for Venezuela's many problems lies much closer to President Maduro's front door.
Venezuelans are certainly suffering, as I saw in a large regional hospital in the provincial city of Maracay, to the west of Caracas.
Concerned doctors, at the end of their tether, told me how the healthcare system is on the verge of breakdown.
They showed me wards, crammed full of patients but without basic medical equipment. I spoke to patient after patient whose operations could only proceed after they themselves had bought the appropriate medical supplies - splints, dressings, antibiotics etc.
With wards full, many people were forced to lie on gurneys or on the floor in filthy, dark corridors as the daily national blackout affected the most critically important sectors of society.
I spoke to the parents of a baby, severely ill with acute respiratory complications. They had to dig deep into their own pockets for an ill-fitting mask and respirator to keep her alive.
In another makeshift emergency room, as a young girl was undergoing an operation for a broken arm, there was an open drain full of filthy waste water with flies and mosquitoes everywhere.
Most doctors are fearful of speaking on the record because of potential reprisals by loyal pro-government officials attempting to conceal the chronic crisis in Venezuela's health system.
But one junior doctor who did not mind speaking out was Emmanuel Torres.
"Patients are dying because they can't get basic drugs," he told me, having just had to refuse a desperate mother ventilation treatment for her acutely asthmatic child because of an extended power cut.
"I've even had to pay for supplies myself to ensure that routine medical procedures can take place." added Dr Torres.
Reluctantly, he is contemplating a move abroad to work, along with as many as 40% of the country's doctors.
But the shortages go much further than medicines. Venezuela has become a nation of queues.
Food, basic ingredients and household goods are all scarce in a country that became so dependent on oil revenues, it could not cope when the price crashed.
Outside supermarkets and pharmacies across Venezuela, people queue for hours on end, often not even knowing if they will get what they need once inside.
Babies' nappies, flour, sugar, milk and shampoo were just some of the items I heard being repeatedly listed by desperate but stoical shoppers.
You have to admire the resilience and patience of Venezuelans. This situation has persisted, indeed worsened, for the last two years.
Many of those I spoke to in a long queue near the sprawling Petare shantytown would have once regarded themselves as "Chavistas", supporters of the revolution promoted by the late President Chavez.
These are the people who, in last December's Congressional elections switched their allegiance to the opposition coalition.
Emboldened by that victory, opposition supporters have repeatedly challenged the government of Nicolas Maduro.
Their aim is to gather enough signatures to force a recall referendum against the increasingly unpopular leader.
Mr Maduro, in turn, appears more autocratic and entrenched.
He recently declared a state of "economic emergency" and extended, for 90 days, his powers of decree.
He has also publically contemplated using those powers to dissolve a Congress which he regards as hostile and a threat to Hugo Chavez's socialist revolution.
Thus far, President Maduro has been able to count on the support and loyalty of the Venezuelan armed forces that he has vowed to use against opposition protesters "in defence of the revolution".
Perhaps, say observers, that is the real reason behind all the talk of "imminent invasion" and "foreign aggression": to create the emergency conditions that would enable the armed forces to deal with internal dissent.
These are dangerous days in Latin America's most unstable nation. Both government and opposition leaders have recklessly hinted at military intervention in the crisis.
International mediators have urged dialogue before it is too late but it is an appeal that has thus far fallen on deaf ears. | Either President Nicolas Maduro genuinely believes there is a credible threat to Venezuela's national security from an unspecified foreign power, or he is delusional. |
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Twenty-year-old Smith trailed Breeze after lifting 92kg in the snatch, but managed 118kg in the clean and jerk to set a Games record of 210kg.
Two-time champion Breeze, 35, who came out of retirement last December, lifted 202kg in total as Nigeria's Ndidi Winifred took silver with 206kg.
"This is what I've been dreaming of for months and it's happened," said Smith.
"There was a time when I considered quitting the sport.
"I had problems with a back injury and I just wasn't getting any better but, sitting here with a gold medal round my neck, I know exactly why I love this sport."
The Londoner, who won bronze in the same event four years ago in Delhi, celebrated victory with a back flip.
She admitted she struggled to make the weight for the competition.
"I had a bit of a scare a couple of days ago because I still had a good two-and-a-half kilos to come down, so I cut out the carbs and I didn't drink for the majority of Friday," she said.
"I was suffering a little bit so, post-weight, that first bite of chocolate was the best thing I've ever tasted."
Breeze, who moved into coaching after retiring in 2010, said: "It's been one heck of a comeback. I never for one minute thought I'd be back competing.
"My sole intention when I started playing around again last year was to try and motivate and push my athletes to qualify themselves."
England's Christopher Freebury, 25, finished eighth in the men's -69kg after lifting a total of 280kg. That was some way behind Malaysian gold medallist Mohd Hafifi Mansor's total of 305kg. | England weightlifter Zoe Smith won the Commonwealth Games -58kg title as Wales' Michaela Breeze took bronze. |
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Tyrone Henry, 31, of Phoenix Close, Hackney, has also been charged with possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm.
The detective was shot in the shoulder on Thursday afternoon in Hackney.
Mr Henry is due to appear at Thames Magistrates' Court on Saturday morning.
Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe paid tribute to the officer saying he had shown "great bravery" and that colleagues had described him as "exceptional".
He remains in a stable condition in hospital. | A man has been charged with the attempted murder of a Metropolitan Police detective during an undercover operation in east London. |
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At least 50 people are reported to have been wounded or killed after being shot in areas of Cape Town's Manenberg suburb in recent weeks.
Provincial Premier Helen Zille has asked the national government to send in the army to help overwhelmed police.
A caretaker at one of the schools died after being shot a number of weeks ago.
A stray bullet from gang violence hit a primary school at about that time as well.
The decision to close the schools was made after teachers said they fear for their safety, Western Cape Province Education Ministry spokeswoman Bronagh Casey told the Associated Press news agency.
Aysha Ismail, mother of one of the victims, called for a greater police presence in Manenberg, to try to bring down the levels of violence.
Ms Ismail said her son was shot in an area where children play every day. Fellow members said he was a part of the gang called the Americans. | A surge in gang violence has prompted education officials in South Africa's Western Cape Province to close 16 schools for two days. |
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The NHS England review looked at how all 209 local health boards - called clinical commissioning groups - were performing on waiting times, cancer survival, patient surveys and early diagnosis.
Only 29 were classed as performing well enough to meet the ambitions set out in the 2015 cancer plan.
That called for improvements in care so that by 2020 another 30,000 lives per year could be saved.
Dr Fran Woodard, of Macmillan Cancer Support, said the review was "very concerning".
"It highlights just how much the NHS is struggling to meet the challenge of delivering cancer services which meet all the critical needs of people with cancer."
The findings show that two-thirds of areas are failing to achieve the target of ensuring 85% of cancer patients start treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral.
More than half are not seeing 70% of cancer patients survive for a year - another stated ambition.
But a spokeswoman for NHS England defended the performance of the local health groups.
"Cancer care is now the best it's ever been, but we've set stretching goals to save thousands more lives by 2020.
"Measured against this ambition it's not surprising that most local services need to make further improvements, but we're going to track progress transparently so everyone can see how we are improving care and outcomes for patients."
The data will now be used by cancer alliances which will work across regions to help drive up performance between now and 2020.
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Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Ian Henderson, Callum Camps and Peter Vincenti scored to give Dale a 4-1 win over Gillingham and end a 11-game winless run.
Saturday's victory moved the side into 10th place, easing pressure on Hill.
"They see the infrastructure that we've put in place and the processes to be even more successful," 47-year-old Hill told BBC Radio Manchester.
"I'm fortunate enough that I've got very intelligent owners who can see through not winning a game since early January."
Rochdale's win was their first in the league since 2 January, when they beat Walsall 2-0, and although Hill was pleased with the three points he believes he has nothing to prove.
"I'm the most successful manager this club has ever had and there are plenty of clubs up and down the country who'd take me tomorrow," he said.
Hill's side are seven points outside the League One play-off places, but with games in hand on many rivals, and he is looking forward to the remaining 10 matches.
"We play a lot of teams below us and I think that could give us some impetus going into the next stage of the season," he added. | Rochdale boss Keith Hill thanked the club's "very intelligent owners" after his side ended a poor run of form. |
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The Peatland Code, say its developers, has been designed to link potential private funders with accredited restoration projects.
The habitat has been calculated to store three billion tonnes of carbon, more than 20 times the amount locked away in the UK's forests.
The code was launched at the World Forum on Natural Capital in Edinburgh.
The initiative has been developed by the IUCN UK Peatland Programme, which promotes the restoration of the UK's peatlands, and is overseen by a number of environmental bodies including: Scottish Wildlife Trust, the RSPB, the John Muir Trust and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust.
"Peatlands are arguably the UK's greatest reserve of natural capital," said Peatland Code Chairman Paul Vaight.
Speaking at the code's launch, Mr Vaight said that the majority of the nation's peatland habitat were in a poor state of repair.
However, he added that they were relatively cheap and easy to restore. Once the dominant vegetation, sphagnum moss, had returned, the peatland began absorbing carbon once again.
"Not only that but a healthy bog acts as an excellent filter for water. This is very important in the UK since about 75% of our water catchment is in peatland areas," he observed.
"It also acts as a break on flash floods, delays water run-off and reduces the scale of water in the rivers."
Peatlands account for about 10% of the UK's land area and stores about three billion tonnes of carbon, more than 20 times the volume stored by the nation's forests.
The code is based on research carried out by teams from Birmingham City and Leeds universities.
Prof Mark Reed, who led the research team at Birmingham City University, said: "Whilst providing valued homes for some of our rare and endangered wildlife, our peatlands act as a huge store of carbon, locking up as half as much as half that found in the Amazon rainforest despite being a hundredth of its size."
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) UK Peatland Programme director Clifton Bain said the new code provided an opportunity for business leaders to show that they were serious about protecting the UK's natural capital.
The code, its developers say, firstly quantifies the carbon savings made as a result of restoring a peatland. It secondly gives those providing the funds confidence the carbon savings will be made, and deliver wider benefits to the area's wildlife and communities.
The World Forum on Natural Capital also saw the launch of a consultation on a framework that would standardise the way business measure its impacts and dependencies on natural capital.
The Natural Capital Protocol, developed by the Natural Capital Coalition, plans to create a system that allows the value of natural assets into organisations' decision-making processes.
The consultation runs until the end of February 2016, with the first version of the protocol being launched in the summer of 2016.
To date, there are an array of systems to measure and place a financial value on natural capital.
One such system has been developed by US-based organisation Aecom.
"I am an environmental economist and we have these economic notions of capital, such as financial capital and manufactured capital. These are common parlance within business," explained Aecom's Chris White.
"Then you have concepts such as sustainability and CSR (corporate social responsibility), which is generally seen as a separate area and is not viewed as a main issue within the boardroom.
"The idea of a natural capital approach is to try and bring them together. It is to talk about and view the environment as an asset. The idea is that you have a piece of natural capital like a forest and it provides something that is of value to a business over time," Mr White told BBC News.
One company to have worked with Aecom's natural capital valuation system is National Grid.
"We have more than 600 legacy sites, which are things like gas holder sites and industrial sites that we have inherited from previous activities," explained Stuart Bailey, National Grid's head of sustainability and climate change.
"What we do with these is of interest to us and to our board," he told BBC News. "What we do and what we build has an impact on communities and they have an impact on the environment."
He explained that the challenge within National Grid was establishing a way to convert the environmental costs and benefits of these legacy sites into a "monetary value that our finance people and stakeholders understood".
Using the system developed by Aecom, Mr Bailey said it was possible to get natural capital onto the company's decision-making process.
He used the "negative asset" of an old gas holder site in Burnley, Lancashire, as an example.
"There is no commercial value to that piece of land. Gas holder sites in London have brownfield redevelopment value but in Burnley there is not the demand and it is actually a liability for us.
"We have problems with that site. We have problems with trespass and we have problems with fly tipping.
He explained that a consultation with the local community revealed that residents wanted an open green space that could be used for recreation.
"We have worked with the local authority and the forestry commission on a plan for a community woodland.
"This particular project is not costing us anything to do. It is a site that goes from a value of near zero to a site (using the tool developed by Aecom) with a value of £300,000.
Mr Bailey added: "We also get a few benefits, such as hopefully remove the fly-tipping issue, we get the security sorted and, hopefully, the local community gets some benefits too." | Private investors are being invited to help fund the restoration of about one half of the UK's peatlands. |
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He said he had agreed to suspending the right-to-buy scheme "to ensure homes are available to those who need them".
Swansea and Carmarthenshire have already been granted the power to halt sales to protect their housing stock.
Ministers are planning to introduce a law to abolish right-to-buy across Wales over the next year.
Ending the flagship policy of former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was one of the most eye catching pledges in Welsh Labour's assembly election manifesto.
Since 1980, more than 130,000 houses in Wales have been bought under right-to-buy, for council tenants, and right-to-acquire, for housing association tenants.
Anglesey council says nearly half its housing stock has been sold under the scheme - leaving it with fewer than 4,000 properties.
Mr Sargeant said he had agreed to the council's application to suspend right-to-buy to "help them deal with the pressure their social housing is facing and to ensure that homes are available to those who need them".
He said the Welsh Government was also abolishing right-to-buy altogether, because the scheme was "further increasing the pressure on our social housing supply and is forcing many vulnerable people to wait longer for a home".
"Legislating to end the right-to-buy is the only sure way to prevent this and give social landlords the confidence to invest in building more of the affordable homes Wales needs," Mr Sargeant added. | Anglesey has become the latest Welsh local authority to stop tenants buying their own council houses, Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant has confirmed. |
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Letters from the EA to their parents were not delivered as planned on Saturday 20 May.
The authority said the letters would now be sent by recorded delivery on Tuesday.
"We are currently investigating the cause of the delay," an EA spokesperson said.
The EA also apologised to parents who could not contact a helpline to get information about the process.
"The EA helpline received a high volume of calls on Saturday," the spokesperson continued.
"We apologise to anyone who was not able to get through."
On Saturday, about 21,000 P7 pupils were contacted by post-primary schools to confirm their year 8 places for September 2017.
The EA delay affected some of the 120 pupils who have not yet been placed in a post-primary school.
On Monday, Michael Holden, whose son attends Killinchy Primary School, told the BBC his family have been left in limbo after they did not receive a letter over the weekend.
He said he and his wife made about 300 attempts to get through to the emergency hotline, but that it was constantly engaged.
"When we eventually did get through, it said the mailbox was full and simply disconnected the line," he said.
"No principal in our area was given the result either, so the primary schools weren't given the information so they weren't able to assist any parent."
He added: "The whole thing is just absolutely shocking and in the day of technology - why they can't offer alternatives that we could log into a system and view the result?
"It's ridiculous." | The Education Authority (EA) has apologised after a number of P7 pupils were not told that they had not been placed in a post-primary school. |
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Guo, 24, ran gambling operations out of private flats she rented in the capital, a Beijing court said.
She made headlines in 2011 after she claimed to work for a company linked to the Chinese Red Cross, while also boasting about luxury cars she owned.
The scandal led to a large drop in donations, despite the charity denying any links to her.
On Thursday, the Beijing Dongcheng People's Court said (in Chinese) that Guo was also fined 50,000 yuan ($7,800; £5,000), while associate Zhao Xiaolai was jailed for two years and fined 20,000 yuan.
Guo had admitted to illegal gambling, but denied running a casino.
Gambling is mostly illegal in mainland China, although it is allowed in Macau and, to a lesser extent, Hong Kong.
Guo's high profile meant that her case attracted significant attention in China, with the Beijing Dongcheng People's Court posting live updates of most of the proceedings on its Twitter-like weibo microblog.
The hashtag "Guo Meimei Zhao Xiaolai casino trial" was viewed more than six million times on Thursday.
Guo first became notorious in 2011 after posting photos of herself posing with luxury cars and designer handbags while claiming to be "general manager" of the China Red Cross Commerce Department - a company linked to the Chinese Red Cross.
The Chinese Red Cross - which was already facing accusations of misusing donations - denied any connection to Guo, but the charity still experienced a 60% drop in donations that year. | Chinese internet personality Guo Meimei has been jailed for five years for running an illegal casino. |
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Smith, 28, won a controversial fight in April after Williams was withdrawn by his corner at the start of the 10th round because of a badly cut eye.
The Welshman, 25, said the injury, which required plastic surgery, was a result of a "blatant" Smith headbutt.
Williams led on all three judges' scorecards at the time.
Victory for Smith extended his record to 25-1-1, while defeat was Williams' first in an 18-fight career.
Despite winning, Liverpool's Smith was not crowned WBO interim champion because of his failure to make the weight before the bout.
Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto will fight Japan's Yoshihiro Kamegai for the vacant WBO title in August, with the winner facing a mandatory defence against the winner of Smith v Williams.
The title has been vacant since Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez relinquished the belt to move up to middleweight, and he will challenge Gennady Golovkin for the WBC, IBF, IBO and WBA Super world titles in September.
The rematch had been expected to be staged in Manchester.
"I'm delighted to bring this huge rematch to Newcastle which is a city with a rich tradition of big fight nights. In the past I have bought shows with Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, Nigel Benn and Prince Naseem Hamed to Newcastle and I'm sure this is set to rival the very best that we've done there," promoter Frank Warren said.
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Find out how to get into boxing with our special guide. | Liam Smith will face Liam Williams in a rematch in Newcastle on 28 October, which will be an eliminator for the WBO light-middleweight title. |
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The victims, in their 20s and from Canvey, Essex, are in hospital with injuries to their upper body. They are are not thought to be life-threatening.
Officers were called to a "firearms incident" in Somnes Avenues, Canvey, at about 03:30 BST on Saturday.
The suspect, 22, from the town, is being questioned by police. The scene has been sealed off and inquiries are continuing.
Police are appealing for any witnesses to contact them. | A man has been arrested after two men were shot, police have said. |
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Owen Mort, 28, spends 40 hours a week fashioning intricate metalwork for heritage projects.
He was always interested in working with metal - but having trained as a mechanical engineer he ended up working as a shipyard welder in Belfast.
Owen from Clogher, County Tyrone, had finished a 24 hour shift welding wind farms when he saw an advertisement that would change his life.
Thanks to a £15,000 heritage lottery fund grant, he was able to retrain as a blacksmith.
Now his work graces heritage projects around Northern Ireland.
They include Dunluce and Carrickfergus castle as well as Scrabo Tower in Newtownards.
He also made handrails for the Bellaghy Bawn - the area that was home to poet Seamus Heaney who composed a famous poem about a forge.
"I love the thought of bringing metal alive," Owen said.
"You're taking a raw material and turning it into something functional or beautiful."
He uses modern equipment like an electric fan instead of bellows, but the techniques are the same as those used hundreds of years ago.
Owen also sports a beard as a health and safety precaution.
If the molten metal hits his face it singes the beard and drops off rather than sticking to his face.
He is now one of the few blacksmiths in Northern Ireland qualified to do heritage work. | He describes it as a passion not a job. |
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The Riders, who have already won the BBL league title and BBL Trophy reached the play-off final with a 162-126 aggregate semi-final win over London.
Paternostro told BBC Radio Leicester: "You don't win 35 games if you don't know how to win important games.
"It is an incredible team. I think Riders fans and Leicester fans should be really proud of this team."
Leicester will now face Newcastle in Sunday's BBL play-off final in the O2 Arena in London, having beaten Plymouth in the Trophy final back in March..
Paternostro, who was named as BBL coach of the year for the fourth time earlier this month, continued: "Not only is this side successful, but they play the game the right way and play for their team-mates.
"The BBL hasn't seen too many teams like this who are so unselfish. I am proud of these guys." | Coach Rob Paternostro says everyone in the city should be proud of Leicester as they remain on course for a treble. |
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Dozens of Democrats joined Republicans as the House passed the measure 289-137, in a rebuke to the White House.
President Barack Obama has said he will veto the legislation.
The bill follows the attacks in Paris that left 129 people dead, claiming to the be the work of Islamic State.
Seven of the perpetrators died in the attacks, and one of them is thought to have been a Syrian who entered Europe via Greece with migrants.
It still needs to pass the Senate before hitting Mr Obama's desk.
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The bill would require the head of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence to sign off on each refugee as being "not a threat to the security of the United States," following an FBI background check.
Calling the Paris attacks "a game changer", Rep Brad Ashford, a Democrat from Nebraska, said: "I cannot sit back and ignore the concerns of my constituents and the American public."
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said he supported the bill because "it is against the values of our nation and the values of a free society to give terrorists the opening they are looking for".
Others urged compassion for those fleeing the war-torn regions.
"Defeating terrorism should not mean slamming the door in the faces of those fleeing the terrorists," said Rep Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat from New York. "We might as well take down the Statue of Liberty".
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Republicans do not have the votes to override Mr Obama's veto, but say that their affirmative vote is symbolic.
Rand Paul, a senator from Kentucky who is currently running for president, has highlighted a 2011 case in his home state of two Iraqi refugees who schemed to send rifles, missiles and money to al-Qaeda against US troops in Iraqi. They are now imprisoned.
The White House has said that 2,174 Syrians have been admitted to the US since the attacks in September 2001, and noted that none of them has been arrested or deported for terror offences.
Millions of Syrians have fled to neighbouring countries and to Europe since the Syrian conflict began about four years ago.
The Obama administration announced in September that it wanted to resettle about 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US by the same time next year. | The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that tightens restrictions on the resettlement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees, amid security concerns. |
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Susan Bro said she refuses to speak to Mr Trump after hearing him equate counter-demonstrators, like her daughter, with white supremacists.
Her daughter, Heather Heyer, was killed on Saturday after a car ploughed through a crowd in Charlottesville.
She said she did not "want to be used for political agendas".
Mrs Bro told ABC New's Good Morning America television programme she missed a call from the White House, which appeared to have been made during her daughter's public memorial on Wednesday.
She added that she received three more "frantic messages" from Mr Trump's press team later in the day but was too exhausted from the funeral to talk.
It was when she saw a news clip of Mr Trump again blaming both sides for the violence that she changed her mind about speaking to the president.
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"It's not that I saw somebody else's tweets about him, I saw an actual clip of him at a press conference equating the protesters... with the [Ku Klux Klan] and the white supremacists," she said on Friday.
"You can't wash this one away by shaking my hand and saying, 'I'm sorry.' I'm not forgiving that."
A day earlier Mrs Bro told MSNBC she had received death threats after speaking out about her daughter's death and the president's comments.
Also on Friday, the mayor of Charlottesville, Mike Signer, called for Confederate statues to be removed from the city in order "to repudiate the pure evil that visited us here".
He called upon the state General Assembly to pass laws restricting openly carrying firearms during events, and upon the city to create a memorial to Ms Heyer.
Mr Trump drew outrage this week after reversing his condemnation of Saturday's far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which was supported by white supremacists and neo-Nazis protesting against the removal of a statue of Robert E Lee, a general who had fought for the pro-slavery Confederacy during the US Civil War.
Violent clashes between the rally's supporters and counter-protesters escalated when a car rammed into a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators, killing Ms Heyer and injuring nearly 20 others.
Mr Trump bowed to pressure on Monday to denounce far-right elements at the rally, but appeared to defend its organisers on Tuesday.
He condemned the suspect in the car-ramming incident, but said those who marched in defence of the statue had included "many fine people".
Mrs Bro said her daughter, a paralegal and Charlottesville resident, did not belong to any organised faction of demonstrators, but was "part of a group of human beings who cared to protest".
The president appeared to further his support for the organisers on Thursday when he weighed into a national debate about the removal of controversial statues, including some to leaders of the pro-slavery rebellion defeated in the US Civil War.
Critics say monuments to the Confederacy are racially offensive, but supporters say they are important symbols preserving Southern heritage.
In a series of tweets, Mr Trump said the "history and culture of our great country" was being "ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments".
Cities across the country have accelerated planned removals of controversial statues in the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville.
A statue of Roger B Taney, the US Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans, was quietly removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House early on Friday. | The mother of a woman fatally run over by a car at a far-right rally in Virginia says she has "no interest" in speaking with President Donald Trump. |
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A New York appeals court unanimously rejected every Argentine argument against the payout.
The decision is the latest twist in the long-running legal saga.
Argentina refuses to pay anything to investors who declined to participate in a previous debt reduction deal involving most of the nation's lenders.
"What the consequences predicted by Argentina have in common is that they are speculative, hyperbolic and almost entirely of the Republic's own making," the judges said in their decision.
But the appeals court held off forcing Argentina to pay pending an appeal to the Supreme Court - which is considered unlikely to hear the case, but puts off any decision to 2014, well after Argentina's congressional elections in October.
The appeal came after a Manhattan court ruled last February that Argentina had violated its contractual obligation to treat all creditors equally. That meant the country would have to pay the bondholders, led by NML Capital and Aurelius Capital Management.
Argentina defaulted on some $100bn of debts in 2002, and has since restructured its debt twice, cancelling around 75% of the nominal value of the bonds.
Almost 92% of the country's bondholders agreed to write off most of the amount owed to them.
NML Capital and Aurelius are demanding 100% repayment of the $1.3bn, plus interest.
The investors were so determined to get their money that they went to court to have an Argentinean ship, the Libertad, impounded in Ghana last year. After several weeks, the ship returned home. | Argentina has been told again it must pay back more than $1.3bn (£830m) to a group of investors - 11 years after its record debt default. |
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The England midfielder opened the scoring when he skipped into the box and drilled into the bottom corner.
Reading almost equalised when Callum Harriott's deflected shot landed on top of Emiliano Martinez's goal.
Arsenal dominated after half-time, with Oxlade-Chamberlain's deflected shot completing a 14th game without defeat.
Oxlade-Chamberlain, 23, has struggled to hold down a regular starting place in Arsene Wenger's first-choice side during their fine start to the campaign.
He has completed 90 minutes on just two occasions this season, but staked his claim for a bigger role with the standout performance in a much-changed Arsenal team.
While there was little to remind the Emirates Stadium crowd of Arsenal's memorable 7-5 win when the teams met in this competition in 2012, it maintains the Gunners' hopes of winning the League Cup for the first time since 1993.
Reading acquitted themselves well for the most of the contest, but were put on the back foot when a sloppy pass from keeper Ali Al-Habsi allowed Oxlade-Chamberlain to win back possession high up the field and then open the scoring.
Al-Habsi partially redeemed himself with several saves after the break, but was powerless to stop the second which deflected off Royals defender Jordan Obita to seal victory.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger:
"Alex has looked nervous in front of goal and now we hope this will build his confidence.
"He has been working really hard in training. That is now showing on the pitch.
"His concentration and his focus have improved, he is much sharper and he will continue to do well.
"(To start games in the Premier League) he needs to keep playing like that."
Reading boss Jaap Stam:
"I think we tried to get the result but, playing Arsenal, they have quality in a very big squad.
"They can make it very hard and that is what they have done today.
"We wanted to push them up and make chances. We have done it a couple of times but then sometimes we gave the ball away as well.
"It is a very good team, we knew it wasn't going to be easy.
"We wanted to win but I think the players need to learn from (that game) to improve their chances going forward."
Match ends, Arsenal 2, Reading 0.
Second Half ends, Arsenal 2, Reading 0.
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam Kelly (Reading).
Attempt missed. Mohamed Elneny (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Carl Jenkinson (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Stephen Quinn (Reading).
Attempt missed. Stephen Quinn (Reading) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Kieran Gibbs.
Attempt blocked. Dominic Samuel (Reading) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Yann Kermorgant (Reading) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Foul by Gabriel (Arsenal).
Dominic Samuel (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Rob Holding (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Garath McCleary (Reading).
Substitution, Arsenal. Gedion Zelalem replaces Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Substitution, Reading. Stephen Quinn replaces Joey van den Berg.
Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Liam Moore (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Liam Moore (Reading).
Goal! Arsenal 2, Reading 0. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Olivier Giroud following a corner.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Ali Al Habsi.
Attempt saved. Alex Iwobi (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Danzell Gravenberch (Reading) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gabriel (Arsenal).
Garath McCleary (Reading) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Garath McCleary (Reading).
Attempt saved. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, Arsenal. Chris Willock replaces Lucas Pérez because of an injury.
Delay in match Lucas Pérez (Arsenal) because of an injury.
Attempt saved. Olivier Giroud (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Corner, Arsenal. Conceded by Jordan Obita.
Lucas Pérez (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danzell Gravenberch (Reading).
Substitution, Reading. Danzell Gravenberch replaces Tennai Watson.
Foul by Carl Jenkinson (Arsenal).
Jordan Obita (Reading) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Arsenal. Olivier Giroud replaces Jeff Reine-Adelaide.
Corner, Reading. Conceded by Jeff Reine-Adelaide. | Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored twice as Arsenal extended their unbeaten run with a hard-fought EFL Cup win against Championship side Reading. |
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Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman has been taken to the Election Court by local voters who want his 2014 election to be declared void and re-run.
Lawyers said Mr Rahman lied in court and "over the years".
The mayor said such allegations were "not true" as his "future is right here in this courtroom".
"Why would I lie?" he asked.
Mr Rahman has been accused of lying about his involvement in several events leading up to his 2014 election.
He was questioned about his involvement in distributing propaganda containing lots of "abusive phrases" about his predecessor John Biggs.
But the mayor said he had "never seen" the leaflet, which also linked Mr Biggs to the British National Party and National Front.
Francis Hoar, who represents the voters bringing the case against the mayor, outlined a £35,000 overpayment to media advisers.
One adviser was also a star correspondent for local TV station Channel S, the court heard, which Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey, sitting as judge, said was like a political editor at the BBC being paid by the prime minister.
Mr Rahman also came under fire for TV adverts in Bangladeshi media that promoted himself and Tower Hamlets, the subject of multiple complaints to Ofcom.
The mayor hit back, saying the appointment of a correspondent as an advisor was "apolitical" and the council "has no control" over the adverts.
Earlier in the day, claimants accused Mr Rahman of dominating the local paper East End Life, claiming 97% of its quotes came from him or members of his cabinet.
But, the independent mayor said the paper was "not a propaganda machine", adding opposition members also featured in the paper.
Four voters have mounted a legal challenge under the provisions of the Representation Of The People Act.
Lawyers for the group have made a series of allegations, including "personation" in postal voting and at polling stations, and ballot paper tampering.
The hearing continues. | The mayor of an east London borough who is accused of electoral fraud was told in High Court he "would not know the truth" if it slapped him. |
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13 August 2016 Last updated at 14:35 BST
That makes them the world's longest-living vertebrates - or animals with spines.
So we've been taking a look at some of the other ancient living things that we share the planet with. | Scientists studying Greenland sharks reckon the fish can live for up to 400 years! |
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Dianne Ngoza was due to be removed from the UK at 17:00 GMT after losing an immigration battle.
Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell said she had "received assurances" from immigration minister Robert Goodwill that the case had been put on hold.
She is now calling for Ms Ngoza to be freed from detention at Yarl's Wood.
Ms Ngoza left Zambia 22 years ago and has "no network of social, family or work with anyone back in Africa," and considers herself British, her campaign website says.
However, she was ordered to leave after her visa renewal was turned down.
More than 2,000 people have since signed a petition to keep her in Greater Manchester.
Campaigners say she has been involved in a range of community organisations and human rights groups, and had recently been nominated for a Spirit of Manchester 2016 award.
Ms Powell said people's "overwhelming support" had been a "great comfort" to Ms Ngoza.
"I am pleased that the minister has listened to the concerns raised about Dianne's case and I will continue to put pressure on the minister until all avenues have been exhausted," she said.
Ms Powell added that Ms Ngoza should now be released from Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal centre in Bedfordshire and given the right to appeal against her deportation from within the UK.
Meanwhile, solicitors have launched an appeal for Ms Ngoza to be able to stay under human rights legislation, but that application has not yet been heard.
Mervyn Cross, of law firm Duncan Lewis, said he was yet to receive correspondence from the Home Office confirming the latest developments.
The firm would therefore still submit an application challenging Ms Ngoza's removal, he added.
A Home Office spokesman said: "We expect people with no legal basis to remain in the UK to leave the country voluntarily, and we provide support to help people return to their home country.
"Where they refuse to do so we will seek to enforce their removal." | The deportation of a Zambian-born nurse who has lived and worked in Greater Manchester for 14 years has been postponed. |
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Smith suffered the injury against Edinburgh in September 2013 and had six operations in the following 12 months.
He will now concentrate on his role as an Ospreys coach, which he had been combining with his playing duties.
"It's been a tough three years for me physically. I've given it everything I can but it's the only decision available to me now," said Smith.
"I've worked hard over the last two years or so trying to get my fitness back to where it needs to be as a pro rugby player, and it's been a long road."
Smith made his Ospreys debut against Connacht in February 2007 and made 94 appearances, scoring three tries.
The former Wales youth international took over as Ospreys' elite youth performance manager in December 2014. | Ospreys back-row Tom Smith has been forced to retire at the age of 29 because of a knee injury. |
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Pakistan moved to within 30 runs of Zimbabwe's total of 172 without losing a wicket, before a batting collapse almost cost them the Twenty20 match.
Skipper Shahid Afridi hit his first ball for four to give his side victory with three balls to spare in Lahore.
Gunmen attacked buses carrying the Sri Lanka team in the city six years ago.
Beforehand, fans waited at the Gaddafi Stadium in temperatures of 43 degrees Celsius and faced frequent security checks.
Both teams arrived at the stadium in a fleet of vans carrying armed guards.
Dozens of CCTV cameras were installed in the surroundings of Nishtar Park, where the Gaddafi Stadium is located.
Tickets for both Friday's and Sunday's T20s in Lahore were sold out within two days, and the teams will also play three one-day internationals at the venue next week. | Thousands of police and paramilitaries were on hand for Pakistan's nervy win in their first home full international fixture since a terror attack in 2009. |
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The Vauxhall Zafira was left on Woodland Terrace in Charlton by Ghazi Hassan, who was visiting his brother on Wednesday night.
He said this "wasn't a good day" but was "thankful" his family were not hurt and no-one else was injured in the incident.
BBC Radio London has reported speculation that the collapse could be due to recent heavy rain.
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The blue people carrier has since been lifted out of the hole by a crane, and was first discovered by police outside St Thomas' Church at about 03:20 BST.
Mr Hassan said: "In life you have good days and bad days. This morning wasn't a good day.
"But I'm thankful me or my family wasn't in the car.
"I've told the insurance. They are coming to pick it up and repair it so that's the positive side, and that no-one was injured."
Mr Ghazi's brother, Abdul Ahmadzai, said: "I woke up very surprised. The police were here about 4am so I came outside and saw the car - they said it was in a hole.
"I thought: 'There's nothing I can do' and went back to sleep. I just woke up again now."
The Reverend Erica Wooff, the rector of Charlton, who lives next door to the church, said her initial reaction was: "Oh my goodness, there's a hole in the road".
"There was a massive storm last night. It has been raining constantly for the past two days but I didn't hear tarmac rip open," she said.
Resident Cleo O'Kane, 25, said she heard a loud bang during the night.
"It was raining so much I thought it was thunder," she said.
"I woke up and then just went back to sleep - my window was open - then woke up at six this morning, came outside and there was a car in a hole."
She added: "All the car is resting on apparently is a pipe, otherwise it would have disappeared."
The road has been closed near the church due to "subsidence problems", London Buses said.
A council spokesperson said it was expected the road would remain closed for several days but the hole is "stable".
The spokesperson said: "It has been confirmed the car is not resting on a gas main and can safely be removed. Once the car has been removed this will facilitate the investigations into the causes of the incident.
"The geology in the area is sand/gravel and there is nothing to indicate that the collapse is related to old mine workings."
Thames Water said there were engineers at the scene checking whether there is any damage to clean water or sewer pipes.
A diversion is in place for bus route 380. | A car has fallen down a huge hole in a street in south-east London. |
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Craig Preston, 34, was allegedly attacked by Shiraz Bashir, Leonie Mason and the teenagers in a lay-by near Rotherham before being dumped close to the Woodhead Tunnel in August.
The prosecution say Mr Preston was tied up and then kicked, punched and stamped on during the attack.
All five defendants deny murder.
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Sheffield Crown Court heard Mr Preston, also known as Craig Nelson, had been in a relationship with Leonie Mason, 23, for about seven years but in early 2016 she began a relationship with Shiraz Bashir, 43.
Prosecutor Dafydd Enoch QC said Ms Mason, who changed her name to Alina Shiraz in March 2016, and Mr Bashir saw Mr Preston as an "annoyance" and plotted to kill him.
In the weeks before the killing Mr Bashir told Ms Mason via Skype: "Just get [him] out and I promise on our true love he won't be living."
The court was told that on the night of 21 August Ms Mason and two of the teenage boys, who cannot be named because of their age, had driven Mr Preston to a lay-by in Town Lane, Rotherham.
There they met with Mr Bashir and the third teenager at about midnight, the jury heard.
Mr Enoch said the five defendants then attacked Mr Preston before he was "trussed up" with cable ties and bundled into the boot of a silver Vauxhall Astra. His body was later dumped by the Woodhead Tunnel.
He said: "In that lay-by, all five defendants beat Mr Preston effectively to death.
"He has been kicked, punched, hit and stamped upon with fists, feet and bits of wood and possibly other implements.
"The injuries which he suffered in the lay-by caused him to die."
The trial of Mr Bashir and Ms Mason, both of Holme Park Court, Huddersfield, and the three teenagers, two aged 15 and one aged 16, continues. | A man was beaten to death in a "brutal and senseless" killing by a love rival, his ex-partner and three teenage boys, a court has heard. |
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Called Desert Trip, the three-day event will take place at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California - the site of the Coachella music festival.
Tickets start at $200 (£137) per day, rising to $1,599 (£1,097) for a three-day pass for the area near the stage.
The Who, Roger Waters and Neil Young are also on the bill.
Performances will start after sunset, with each artist playing a full set.
Rumours about the show began to circulate last month, after the first weekend of Coachella.
The Who's Roger Daltrey later confirmed to BBC 6 Music that the festival was likely to go ahead, describing it as a once-in-a-lifetime line-up.
"We have to face it, we are [at] the end of an era," the singer told 6 Music's Matt Everitt. "We're the last of our generation."
"You can see from reading the obituaries lately that we [rock stars] don't make old bones very well, do we?"
The LA Times said Dylan and the Stones were expected to open the festival with back-to-back performances on Friday, 7 October, with McCartney and Young playing the following night, and Waters and the Who concluding proceedings on 9 October.
"I don't think any of us cares who goes on first," said Daltrey. "We've never worried about that. The music is all so different, that's not going to matter at all."
The gigs will be scheduled as follows: | Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan have been confirmed for the line-up of a US "mega-festival" this October. |
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The 70-year-old Spaniard won 13 titles and 90 grands prix in a 22-year career between 1964 and 1986.
MotoGP described Nieto "as a true giant of motorcycling history who will be greatly missed".
Nieto was taken to hospital after the quad bike he was riding collided with a car on 26 July.
MotoGP said he had remained in intensive care for a week after the accident, before his condition deteriorated.
Nieto was an expert on smaller machines, winning titles in both the 50cc and 125cc classes. | Thirteen-time world champion Angel Nieto has died, one week after he was involved a quad-biking crash, MotoGP has confirmed. |
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The footage posted online on Monday was said to be filmed in a school in Columbia, South Carolina.
US media said the pupil had refused to leave the classroom when asked. The school "resource officer" was called.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said there was "no justification" for the incident.
The officer is white and the female student, who was unharmed, is black, the sheriff's office said.
The incident comes at a time of increased scrutiny of police and their use of force against African Americans.
"It's very disturbing what happened today," said Richard County Sheriff Leon Lott, who has requested a federal investigation on the incident.
In a video obtained by South Carolina's WIS network, the officer, Ben Fields, is seen confronting the pupil, who is sitting at her desk. They then exchange words.
Mr Fields had been assigned to the school and was meant to protect students and faculty and promote anti-crime and anti-drug initiatives.
He then appears to restrain her around the neck, before quickly pulling her and her desk backwards to the floor.
The video shows him throwing the pupil a few metres across the classroom. She is then restrained.
Throughout the incident, other pupils remain seated, but some stand up and comment when the pupil is on the floor.
The video does not show what happened before the officer arrived.
source: Richland County Sheriff's Department
The footage has been widely shared internationally on social media, with the term #AssaultatSpringValleyHigh used by many on Twitter.
The State newspaper in Columbia reported that the pupil and a male student were detained for breaching the peace.
Sheriff's spokesman Curtis Wilson told a press conference the girl had been asked to leave the classroom "several times" before the officer was called.
The officer has been taken off front-line policing while a sheriff's department investigation takes place, Mr Wilson said.
Debbie Hamm, the district's school superintendent, said in a statement that authorities were "deeply concerned" over the incident.
The state's ACLU said such "egregious use of force" against young people in class was "outrageous".
One group called the Richland Black Parents Association said the video "revealed what many African American parents have experienced in this district for a very long time." | A US sheriff's department says it is investigating after a video emerged showing an officer throwing a female pupil across a classroom. |
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The Lotto Soudal rider dropped France's Axel Domont (AG2R) on the final climb of the 170.5km stage to win by 44 seconds in Saint-Etienne.
Britain's Chris Froome finished 15th in a group 59 seconds behind De Gendt.
The Team Sky rider is bidding to win a fourth Dauphine title.
The Dauphine is the traditional warm-up event for the Tour de France, which runs from 1-23 July this year.
Froome, 32, went on to win the Tour after each of his previous Dauphine victories in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
De Gendt, 30, and Domont, 26, were part of a seven-rider breakaway earlier in the stage, before the pair move cleared with two laps of the finishing circuit to go.
After De Gendt's decisive attack, Domont held on to claim second place in front of the chasing Diego Ulissi, Pierre Roger Latour and Emanuel Buchmann.
Britain's Ben Swift (Team UAE Emirates) was ninth, 59 seconds behind De Gendt.
Britons Simon Yates (Orica) and Peter Kennaugh (Team Sky) finished in the same group as Froome and are all one minute nine seconds behind De Gendt, who took 10 bonus seconds for winning the stage.
Monday's 171km stage two is another hilly route from Saint-Chamond to Arlanc, while the race concludes on Sunday, 11 June.
1. Thomas de Gendt (Bel/Lotto Soudal) 4hrs 17mins 04secs
2. Axel Domont (Fra/AG2R) +44secs
3. Diego Ulissi (Ita/Team UAE Emirates) +57secs
4. Pierre Roger Latour (Fra/AG2R) Same time
5. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger/Bora) Same time
6. Sonny Colbrelli (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) +59secs
7. Julien Simon (Fra/Cofidis) Same time
8. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) Same time
9. Ben Swift (GB/Team UAE Emirates) Same time
10. Michael Valgren (Den/Astana) Same time
Selected others:
15. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +59secs
44. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) Same time
45. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) Same time
1. Thomas de Gendt (Bel/Lotto Soudal) 4hrs 16mins 54secs
2. Axel Domont (Fra/AG2R) +48secs
3. Diego Ulissi (Ita/Team UAE Emirates) +1min 3secs
4. Pierre Roger Latour (Fra/AG2R) +1min 07secs
5. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger/Bora) Same time
6. Sonny Colbrelli (Ita/Bahrain-Merida) +1min 9secs
7. Julien Simon (Fra/Cofidis) Same time
8. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) Same time
9. Ben Swift (GB/Team UAE Emirates) Same time
10. Michael Valgren (Den/Astana) Same time
Selected others:
15. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +1min 9secs
44. Simon Yates (GB/Orica) Same time
45. Peter Kennaugh (GB/Team Sky) Same time | Belgium's Thomas de Gendt took an impressive solo victory on the opening stage of the Criterium du Dauphine. |
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Paying tribute to Mr Cameron during his final Prime Minister's Questions, the MP suggested a complete career change.
He said leadership roles were available as manager of the English football team, presenter of Top Gear or as the next occupant of the White House.
Mr Cameron laughed but said the posts sounded "even harder" than his own job.
The prime minister was given a standing ovation by Conservative MPs in the House of Commons, as he prepared to hand over power to Theresa May on Wednesday.
Mr Kinahan commended Mr Cameron's record in office, saying: "May we thank the prime minister for all his hard work and his leadership and particularly his commitment to the union and to Northern Ireland."
The South Antrim MP said his party was looking forward to working with the next prime minister but also offered the incumbent some career advice.
"I'm told that there are lots of leadership roles out there at the moment," Mr Kinahan said.
"There's the England football team, there's Top Gear, there's even across the big pond a role that needs filling."
Mr Cameron thanked the UUP member for his "kind remarks and fascinating suggestions for future jobs."
He added that most of them "sound even harder than this one, so I think I'll pass".
During his tribute, Mr Kinahan said the prime minister had visited Northern Ireland "often" during his six-year tenure.
He reminded him of the time he went for an early morning dip in Lough Erne, when County Fermanagh hosted the 2013 G8 summit and he invited Mr Cameron back to swim in Lough Neagh.
In response to Mr Kinahan's final question - about the threat to the UK posed by its decision to leave the European Union - Mr Cameron said Northern Ireland was stronger now than when he came to power six years ago. | If David Cameron is looking for a new job as he steps down as prime minister, he was given plenty of ideas by Ulster Unionist MP Danny Kinahan. |
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Police located the vehicle crashed on the Marble Arch Road, Florence Court, after 21:00 BST on Thursday.
Inside, they found what could be up to eight kilos of cocaine.
No-one was in the van. Det Insp Alan Pyper said the suspected drugs were being analysed.
"We are delighted to have recovered this quantity of illegal drugs and our inquiries are continuing to establish a quantity and value," he said.
"I would appeal to anyone who saw a red van in the vicinity of the Marble Arch Road between 21:00 and 22:00 BST last night to contact detectives on the non-emergency number 101." | A "substantial" quantity of suspected cocaine has been found in an abandoned van in County Fermanagh. |