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The "severe fire" broke out in Wolverhampton at about 19:55 BST on Friday and six fire engines were sent to the scene.
The flames at the metal recycling yard at Bilston Road in Monmore Green were prevented from spreading to surrounding buildings, West Midlands Fire Service said.
The blaze was under control by 03:30 and the cause is being investigated. | A huge scrapyard blaze involving about 30 cars has been brought under control. | 36062480 |
A 1-1 draw away with South Africa in Nelspruit on Friday night ensured that Mauritania finished runners-up to Cameroon in their group for the 2017 African Nations Cup finals.
They missed out on a place at the tournament in Gabon but Martins said their group, which also included South Africa and The Gambia, was "one of death".
The former France international, whose team had a slim mathematical chance of grabbing a Nations Cup finals berth if they had won the match, said they had always set out their stall to finish second in the group standings.
It's not easy to be a national team coach - you suffer a lot on the bench
"For a country that does not have a lot of experience in international football, we have gone forward and progressed a lot," the ex-Auxerre midfielder said.
"Over the last two years, we have had the opportunity to take on some of the big powers in African football and learnt a lot from the experience. It has been rare for Mauritania to have that kind of chance to play the big teams.
"Doing well against them has given us the necessary confidence. We only lost by a single goal twice to Cameroon, we were narrowly beaten by Tunisia in the World Cup qualifiers and we took four points off South Africa. I think we can continue getting good results."
Mauritania have long been regarded as one of the continent's lightweights but after Friday's draw they are set to climb into the top 100 of the Fifa world rankings for the first time in 20 years.
"We've really been working hard to increase the potential of this team and I think we've progressed very quickly," Martins said.
But the 47-year-old, who started his job with Mauritania in October two years ago, says he does not know whether he will be offered a contract extension when his deal runs out in December.
"I was very happy in the job, people were very good to me and I had good relations with the administrators. Of course, it's not easy to be a national team coach - you suffer a lot on the bench," he joked. "But I don't know what will happen now."
Mauritania lost only two of their six Group M games and finished on eight points.
In previous qualifiers they have usually finished bottom of the table, and they have never qualified for the Nations Cup or the World Cup. | Mauritania coach Corentin Martins is unsure if he will stay on despite leading the team to their best finish in a qualifying competition. | 37276883 |
4 January 2017 Last updated at 12:29 GMT
Five months later, now living in exile in the US, he's been telling the BBC's Julian Keane about the price he has had to pay for speaking out. | Ethiopian athlete Feyisa Lilesa caught the world's attention when he raised his arms in solidarity with the Oromo people as he crossed the finishing line at the Rio Olympic games. | 38509260 |
Andrew Davies nodded against the crossbar as County threatened early in the match.
Another header, by Michael Gardyne, was kept out superbly by Accies goalkeeper Remi Matthews and the save prompted the attack that gave Hamilton the lead.
The hosts countered and Imrie clipped the ball past Scott Fox.
With playmaker Ali Crawford sidelined after suffering a concussion in training on Friday, more pressure was on 33-year-old Dougie Imrie to provide the attacking spark.
And he did that, squeezing in his first goal in the league this season and fourth overall from a few yards out.
Danny Redmond's introduction almost led to more Accies goals as he played in Eamonn Brophy and Imrie again, but County goalkeeper Scott Fox was equal to their efforts.
Hamilton's midfield has been boosted by former Celtic and Bari man Massimo Donati, but there was an equally effective performance by a less glamorous grafter in the shape of ex-Clydebank player Darian MacKinnon.
The 30-year-old is approaching the 150-appearance mark for Accies since joining from the junior ranks in 2012 and excels against teams with Ross County's physicality.
MacKinnon defied any notion that his sole purpose is breaking up the play, though.
On several occasions the midfielder - flanked by impressive youngster Greg Docherty, Gramoz Kurtaj - was a crucial cog in starting or continuing counter attacks.
Each of County's main strikers - Liam Boyce, Craig Curran and Alex Schalk - had scored already this term and manager Jim McIntyre said pre-match that he expected that to continue in South Lanarkshire if the supply was right.
When Davies' header from Martin Woods' corner hit the crossbar after just two minutes, it looked like finding the back of the net would not be a problem.
But the supply line to the strikers appeared to be blocked as County struggled to create chances from that point forward.
Gardyne's header was well saved by Hamilton keeper Matthews in what was the Dingwall men's other clear-cut opportunity.
Accies player-manager Martin Canning: "Today was justification for the players in that if you continue to put that work in and be brave, then you'll win games.
"Greg Docherty and Darian MacKinnon in the middle of the park were excellent - they go through some amount of work. They covered every blade of astro-turf. Massimo Donati was excellent dropping in and helping the two centre-backs as well.
"Every week Dougie Imrie works his socks off and it's nice to see guys like him getting the reward. Guys like him are priceless."
Ross County manager Jim McIntyre: "Our quality just wasn't as good as it normally is on the ball. We didn't handle the surface particularly well.
"It was one of those days when you're scratching your head at times with some poor decision-making from us.
"You always want to go into the international break off the back of a positive result and unfortunately we're going in with a defeat. But we'll use the break to re-group."
Match ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Ross County 0.
Second Half ends, Hamilton Academical 1, Ross County 0.
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Massimo Donati.
Attempt missed. Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical).
Erik Cikos (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Danny Seaborne replaces Greg Docherty.
Attempt missed. Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Paul Quinn (Ross County) is shown the yellow card.
Foul by Darren Lyon (Hamilton Academical).
Tony Dingwall (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Jay McEveley.
Attempt missed. Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the right side of the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Georgios Sarris (Hamilton Academical).
Alex Schalk (Ross County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alex Schalk (Ross County).
Foul by Andrew Davies (Ross County).
Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Liam Boyce (Ross County) because of an injury.
Massimo Donati (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Liam Boyce (Ross County).
Goal! Hamilton Academical 1, Ross County 0. Dougie Imrie (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Darian MacKinnon.
Attempt saved. Michael Gardyne (Ross County) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.
Corner, Hamilton Academical. Conceded by Scott Fox.
Attempt saved. Eamonn Brophy (Hamilton Academical) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Greg Docherty (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card.
Tony Dingwall (Ross County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Darren Lyon (Hamilton Academical).
Substitution, Hamilton Academical. Eamonn Brophy replaces Alejandro D'Acol.
Attempt missed. Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Ross County. Tony Dingwall replaces Jonathan Franks.
Foul by Erik Cikos (Ross County).
Daniel Redmond (Hamilton Academical) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Michael Gardyne (Ross County) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Darren Lyon (Hamilton Academical).
Corner, Ross County. Conceded by Grant Gillespie.
Grant Gillespie (Hamilton Academical) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. | Dougie Imrie's second-half goal gave Hamilton Academical their first Scottish Premiership win of the season against Ross County. | 37139607 |
Wenger has big problems at the back and I really fear for his side if he does not bring Laurent Koscielny back into central defence on Saturday.
The way young duo Calum Chambers and Rob Holding performed there in last week's defeat by Liverpool means there is a massive question mark over them, and Wenger's decision to play them.
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Some Gunners supporters are already unhappy and, if this game also goes the wrong way, they are going to become even more irate.
That is really unhelpful for their players at this stage of the season when they are trying to gain momentum and confidence, so Wenger has a big call to make - and he has to get it right.
Arsenal were the only team to beat Leicester home and away last season but I cannot see them dominating the Foxes this time.
It will be end to end because the Gunners are not capable of shutting up shop. They will have a go at Claudio Ranieri's side, which of course plays into their hands.
On their day, Arsenal's free-flowing football is good enough to destroy anyone and it does not matter who they play at the back.
However, they looked fragile with Chambers and Holding playing together and there was definitely a lack of confidence in their defence, which is why Koscielny has to return this time. I would be amazed if he doesn't.
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Koscielny is not injured, just being rested after returning to training late after Euro 2016 and, even if he is only 80% fit, I would play him.
In his position, he does not have to cover as much ground as other outfield players and he could get through the game.
As a player, if I was in his situation I would be hammering on the manager's door saying, 'you need me, I can play, stick me in'.
But maybe he is saying that, and Wenger is still not picking him because he thinks he is not ready physically. If that is the case Wenger will have to take responsibility if things go wrong again.
Arsenal played a high-pressing game in the first half against Liverpool but they could not sustain that tempo for 90 minutes - it is virtually impossible for any team.
When the Gunners stopped doing it, in the second half at Emirates Stadium, they conceded a flurry of goals but very rarely will they come up against a team that plays so well for such an intense period of a game.
Yes, Arsenal could have defended better, kept their shape better and played more percentage football but Liverpool's performance in that 20-minute spell was pretty sensational and they scored some absolutely brilliant goals.
So I don't think Wenger will be overly concerned that will happen to his team every week, and he certainly will not be worried about it against Leicester. I don't think Arsenal will try to press the Foxes in the same way.
I would imagine he and the Arsenal players believe they can go to the King Power Stadium, dominate the ball and cause more problems than the Foxes can cause them.
They did it last season, when they won 5-2, and they will think that once again they have more quality on the pitch so they will create more chances and be able to win the game playing that way too.
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Leicester also lost last week, going down to a surprise defeat at Hull.
But I did not read too much into the Foxes' poor performance because their defence was missing Robert Huth, whose organisation and presence was absolutely pivotal in their title win.
Huth is back from his ban on Saturday and he might not be the only familiar face back in Ranieri's starting XI.
Against Hull, he left out Marc Albrighton and Shinji Okazaki from the team that played almost every game last season.
I understand why he did it - because he is trying to move his team forward - but it is hard to do that while retaining the same ethos that brought them their success.
They will be desperate for three points from their first home game of the season, and a tried and tested line-up might be the way to get it. They are likely to return to their regular way of playing too.
Leicester only had more possession than their opponents in five of their 38 league games last season, but they had marginally more of the ball than Hull last weekend - 50.3%.
The Tigers sat deep and did not allow them to play to their strengths on the break but against Arsenal the game is far more likely to follow a pattern that suits Ranieri's fast attackers.
I also think Leicester have to be careful not to believe their own hype now they are champions, start to over-play and forget their strengths.
It can easily happen - I played in teams where we did that when we just won a few games in a row, for example at Fulham when we were on a good run and got a bit confident.
We still had Bobby Zamora up top, who we could play long to, get the ball into his chest and play off him but at times he would be screaming at us to give him the ball because we would be passing it around at the back thinking we were a good side.
All of a sudden teams were pressing us, nicking the ball and causing us problems, and we had to rethink, and remember what was getting us results.
Leicester have bright players and a clever manager so I do not see that being a massive issue for them, especially on Saturday. Arsenal will come at them and leave space behind their defence for them to pump it up there for Jamie Vardy to get in the channels and cause havoc.
This is a big game for Vardy, against the team he turned down over the summer.
He was visibly frustrated at missing the chances he got against Hull and, facing Arsenal, he will be determined to prove a point and show them why they wanted him.
There is the chance the circumstances mean he could try a little bit too hard to make things happen instead of just playing naturally but it will be hard to tell because he looks like he gives absolutely everything in every game anyway.
I actually thought he was a bit unlucky not to score against Hull because he was only denied by a tremendous block.
Yes, he also blazed one shot over the bar which is unlike him but he set himself ridiculously high standards last season and it will be very difficult for him to maintain that ratio.
It is the same for any striker, and can happen for a variety of reasons but I do not see it becoming an issue for Vardy because the way he plays and the way his team plays means he is always going to get chances, including against Arsenal.
The occasion is set up for him and, the way he is, it certainly would not surprise me if he goes and bangs in the winner.
Danny Murphy was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan. | Arsenal's trip to defending champions Leicester is a huge game for both teams, but it is especially important for Gunners boss Arsene Wenger. | 37092824 |
A huge leap at the last put Enda Bolger's stable star into contention alongside 5-4 favourite Gitane Du Berlais and 25-1 chance Smashing.
Gilgamboa then held off The Tullow Tank (9-1), who came from nowhere to finish second by just half a length.
Smashing edged out Gitane Du Berlais, with Ruby Walsh riding, for third.
McCoy announced he would be retiring this year after claiming his 200th winner of the season at Newbury in February.
After ruling out riding at the Punchestown Festival, his weekend appearance in County Meath looks set to be his last as a jockey on Irish soil.
On Monday, the 40-year-old will partner Cantlow in his final Irish Grand National.
McCoy said: "Fair play to Enda. I am delighted to ride a big winner for him before I retire."
Bolger was pleased to win for the first time with McCoy on board one of his horses.
He said: "It is great to win a race like this and to have that man on top."
McCoy was similarly brilliant earlier in the afternoon when Sir Scorpion justified 6-4 favouritism in the Gleesons Butchers Novice Handicap Hurdle. | Retiring 19-time champion jockey AP McCoy pulled off a superb victory on 7-1 shot Gilgamboa in a pulsating Ryanair Gold Cup at Fairyhouse. | 32191802 |
The Irishwoman saw off the ex-IBF super-featherweight challenger in Manchester to remain unbeaten in the professional ranks after four fights.
Taylor, 30, had Bulgarian Koleva on the canvas in the seventh round.
"I definitely needed the eight rounds and it was a great contest against a very strong opponent," said Taylor.
The Bray boxer had won two of her first three professional fights inside the distance and always looked in control against Koleva on Saturday night.
The fight was on the undercard of Anthony Crolla's world lightweight title rematch against Jorge Linares.
Taylor's last victory was on 4 March, when she stopped Italian Monica Gentili.
Taylor's promoter Eddie Hearn is hopeful of landing a world title fight by the end of the year.
The London 2012 Olympic champion won six European titles and five world crowns during a distinguished amateur career, before turning professional in October. | Katie Taylor continued her progress towards a world title shot by beating Milena Koleva on points in an eight-round super-featherweight contest. | 39396038 |
Alistair Thompson, 43, left 44-year-old Alexander Powell needing surgery after the attack in Seaton Road last July.
He was charged with attempted murder but admitted a reduced charge of assault to severe injury, permanent disfigurement and danger of life.
At the High Court in Edinburgh, judge Lord Boyd of Duncansby told Thompson a significant sentence was required.
Lord Boyd said a background report on the repeat offender showed that he had no remorse or sympathy for the victim.
The judge ordered that Thompson should be under supervision for a further six-year period after his release for public protection.
Defence counsel Edith Forrest told the court a report prepared on him "details a man who clearly has a chronic alcohol problem which undoubtedly is the root cause of most of his offending". | A man who carried out a stabbing attack in Aberdeen has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years. | 39076884 |
Leicestershire County Council wants to close part of Snibston Discovery Museum to save £9.4m over 25 years.
But consultant Graham Black said the county council was "manipulating" the public by not revealing enough details about the impact of closing the centre.
A council statement said it cannot continue to subsidise the museum.
Mr Black, who has experience advising museums across the UK and lives in Leicestershire, said the attraction would bring £80m to the local economy over the same 25-year period.
"This is an exercise in trying to look as if you are giving choices but is actually manipulating people to agree with your point of view," Mr Black said.
He said the council had a responsibility to "store, care and maintain" the collection, which is located in Coalville, and includes a major quarry extractor, a bus, two aeroplanes, carts and horses.
The cost of removing and storing the materials would cost more than the money saved in closing it, he said.
The county council statement said the authority "needs to save over £110m and cannot afford to keep subsidising Snibston by more than £800,000 per year".
Mr Black suggested forming a charitable trust and applying for a £10m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to save the museum.
The chairman of the Friends of Snibston group Brian Voller said he was "increasingly concerned about the consultation process" and was planning to ask county council leader Nick Ruston to scrap the consultation, which ends on 7 July.
Councillor Rushton said earlier the Conservative-led council had "run out of time" and the only realistic alternative to scaling back the attraction was "complete closure". | A consultation on plans to scale back a Leicestershire museum has been criticised as misleading by an independent museum expert. | 27763432 |
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Skipper Johnnie Jackson also fired home for the Addicks as they saw off a second-half fightback from the visitors courtesy of substitute Tom Hopper's header.
Following early Scunthorpe dominance, it was Charlton who took the lead through a sublime left-foot strike from Lookman as the first-half substitute converted his fourth goal of the season in style.
The hosts doubled their lead six minutes later courtesy of Jackson's fine low finish.
The visitors managed to pull a goal back seven minutes into the second half as Hopper headed home from a Josh Morris corner.
The Iron nearly levelled moments later but defender Charlie Goode saw his shot deflected onto the post before Kevin Van Veen's follow-up was denied by Declan Rudd.
It was the 1947 winners who sealed their place in the next round as Lookman fired past Daniels from close range in the 83rd minute.
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Match ends, Charlton Athletic 3, Scunthorpe United 1.
Second Half ends, Charlton Athletic 3, Scunthorpe United 1.
Foul by Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Lee Novak (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Tom Hopper (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Murray Wallace (Scunthorpe United).
Lee Novak (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United).
Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Jordan Botaka replaces Johnnie Jackson.
Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Goal! Charlton Athletic 3, Scunthorpe United 1. Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Fredrik Ulvestad.
Attempt saved. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt blocked. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Conor Townsend (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Conor Townsend (Scunthorpe United).
Foul by Tom Hopper (Scunthorpe United).
Patrick Bauer (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Scunthorpe United. Conceded by Johnnie Jackson.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Sam Mantom replaces Richard Smallwood.
Attempt missed. Josh Morris (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Substitution, Charlton Athletic. Lee Novak replaces Nicky Ajose.
Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United).
Fredrik Ulvestad (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt saved. Johnnie Jackson (Charlton Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Attempt blocked. Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Stephen Dawson (Scunthorpe United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic).
Attempt missed. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Attempt saved. Luke Williams (Scunthorpe United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Substitution, Scunthorpe United. Luke Williams replaces Duane Holmes.
Hand ball by Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic).
Foul by Kevin van Veen (Scunthorpe United).
Ezri Konsa Ngoyo (Charlton Athletic) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt saved. Josh Magennis (Charlton Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. | Ademola Lookman's double secured Charlton's progression into the second round of the FA Cup after victory over League One rivals Scunthorpe. | 37806929 |
The drones will be able to fly autonomously and "overwhelm an adversary", the US Office of Naval Research said of its Low-cost UAV Swarming Technology (Locust) programme.
Wings unfold once the drones are in the air and then they can fly in formation.
The US Navy plans to demonstrate the launch of 30 Locust drones in 2016.
As the drones and the launcher are relatively compact, the Locust system can be deployed from ships, aircraft or land vehicles, the ONR said.
Missions can be pre-programmed, but there "will always be a human monitoring the mission", it added.
"This level of autonomous swarming flight has never been done before," said Lee Mastroianni, ONR programme manager.
"UAVs that are expendable and reconfigurable will free manned aircraft and traditional weapon systems to do more, and essentially multiply combat power at decreased risk to the warfighter."
US use of military drones has attracted criticism from human rights groups, who say that despite their highly targeted nature, innocent non-combatants are often killed in the process.
The prospect of autonomous swarms of drones carrying out pre-programmed military missions is only likely to increase such concerns. | The US Navy is developing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, that can be launched from a cannon and "swarm" in a co-ordinated attack. | 32334186 |
Data from energy analysts WeatherEnergy indicated wind farms provided 699,684MWh of electricity to the National Grid.
They said the total was enough to power 79% of average Scottish households, equivalent to 1.9 million homes.
The energy output was up by 15% compared with the same time last year.
WeatherEnergy said on eight days in April, wind turbines generated enough electricity to supply 100% of Scottish homes.
Karen Robinson of WeatherEnergy said: "After a relatively slow start to the year, Scotland's wind power output is back on the up thanks to some powerful winds during the month. | Wind turbines produced enough power to meet the needs of more than three-quarters of Scottish households in April, according to new figures. | 36187324 |
Nathan Smith had a header well saved early on, while Shaun Harrad also went close for the Gulls.
Smith broke the deadlock when he headed in Dan Butler's second-half corner.
And substitute Iffy Allen tapped in number two from a Butler cross shortly after coming on.
Torquay are now level on points with Welling, with both sides seven points from safety. | Torquay United claimed back-to-back league wins for the first time this season as they beat fellow strugglers Welling to move off the foot of the National League. | 35306009 |
Its Secretary General Bheki Ntshalintshali said he was no longer the "right person" to lead the country.
Anti-apartheid struggle veterans have also called on the African National Congress (ANC) to recall the president.
Mr Zuma has been under growing pressure following a major cabinet reshuffle which included the sacking of respected Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
That led to South Africa's credit rating being cut to junk status putting more pressure on a troubled economy.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), a key part of the governing alliance, says it has 1.8 million members.
It forms part of what is called the Tripartite Alliance along with the the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).
The SACP has also called on Mr Zuma to go.
Cosatu General Secretary of Bheki Ntshalintshali told a media briefing that the union's decision was driven by Mr Zuma's failure to consult it before making changes to his cabinet.
He termed the president's leadership as "inattentive, negligent... and disruptive".
He added that the organisation was not concerned about Mr Gordhan's sacking because he was, like his predecessors, "not a friend of the workers".
"We will support the new minister where necessary and fight with him where necessary," he added.
Mr Ntshalintshali also criticised ratings agency S&P's decision to downgrade South Africa to junk status saying the union views it as political interference.
ANC veterans, who include former high commissioners, ministers and many respected anti-apartheid activists, also told a media briefing in Johannesburg that the ANC should do "the honourable thing and recall the president", especially after the party's integrity commission advised that he should resign.
President Jacob Zuma is certainly politically weaker today than he was over the weekend. Cosatu's call for him to step down is a crushing blow to the beleaguered head of state.
The workers' union federation had been a reliable backer of Mr Zuma against unrelenting calls for his removal.
Focus now shifts to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the ANC which is currently meeting.
However, regardless of the outcome of that meeting, deep divisions within the body will entrench positions between the pro and anti-Zuma factions.
Mr Zuma is due to step down in 2019 at the end of his second five-year term as president.
Last week, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa called the sacking of Mr Gordhan "totally unacceptable".
Later, in a speech at the weekend, which has been interpreted as a public broadside against Mr Zuma, he called for a renewal of the country and criticised "greedy and corrupt people".
Former President Kgalema Motlanthe also said that it was difficult for Mr Zuma to command respect after the constitutional court found him in breach of the law when he failed to repay government money spent on his private home.
But President Zuma's obituary has been written many times before only for him to rise from the ashes, says the BBC's Milton Nkosi in Johannesburg..
Despite the reported scandals that have dogged his administration, several attempts to remove Mr Zuma have foundered.
Meanwhile, new Finance Minsiter Malusi Gigaba has been working to reassure South Africans about the state of the economy.
Mr Gigaba told a media briefing that Monday's downgrade to junk status by ratings agency S&P was a setback, but that people should not be despondent.
"I'm not saying it's easy to get out of a rating downgrade, yet I remain confident," he added.
He said he would lead a meeting with ratings agencies Fitch and Moody's. | South Africa's powerful trades union federation Cosatu has called for President Jacob Zuma to step down. | 39490050 |
Bennie Hart says the point of the plate is to show the impossibility of disproving anyone's claim to being God.
But transport chiefs in the religiously conservative state ruled that it might distract other drivers and would be in bad taste.
Civil liberties campaigners have taken up Mr Hart's legal case.
He says he had the same number plate when he lived in the state of Ohio for 12 years without any problems.
"I simply want the same opportunity to select a personal message for my licence plate just as any other driver," said Mr Hart, who lives in Kenton County, northern Kentucky.
"There is nothing obscene or vulgar about my view that religious beliefs are subject to individual interpretation."
The American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky (ACLU-KY) and the Freedom From Religion Foundation have filed a lawsuit on Mr Hart's behalf against state transportation secretary Greg Thomas on grounds of free speech.
ACLU-KY Legal Director William Sharp said that under the US First Amendment, government officials "do not have the authority to censor messages simply because they dislike them".
"And in this instance, personalised licence plates are a form of individual speech equally deserving of First Amendment protection," he said.
Kentucky transport authorities declined to comment on the case. | An American atheist is suing officials in the US state of Kentucky after he was refused a personalised car number plate which reads "IM GOD". | 38072149 |
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Australia beat Waqar's side by 25 runs to knock them out of the tournament in India in the group stage on Friday.
"If we think deeply we will see that Pakistan hasn't seen any international cricket for the last seven, eight years and that has hurt us," Younis said.
"Pakistan cricket is in a bit of a decline and we need to control it."
In May 2015 Pakistan played their first home full international fixture since a terror attack in 2009, when gunmen attacked buses carrying the Sri Lanka team in Lahore.
At least six policemen escorting the team bus were killed, along with a driver. Seven cricketers and an assistant coach were injured.
Since the attack Pakistan have been playing the majority of their home matches in the United Arab Emirates, although they travelled to England for a series against Australia in 2010.
They made the semi-finals of the first four World Twenty20s, and won the competition in 2009, but have now been eliminated from the group stage in the last two.
Waqar said he would be discussing his future with the Pakistan Cricket Board soon, "to see what needs to be done".
Meanwhile, captain Shahid Afridi will make a decision on whether to retire only when he returns to Pakistan.
"Whatever is best for the country I'll go with that. When I go back I'll take a decision," said the 36-year-old, who was appointed Pakistan Twenty20 captain for a second time in 2014.
"As a player I am fine but it is hard being captain of Pakistan with the pressure and expectation."
After Steve Smith inspired Australia to 193-4 in Mohali, Afridi's side needed to pull off their highest ever chase in a T20 to have any chance of making the knockout stage.
Khalid Latif led the charge with 46 from 41 balls but James Faulkner took four of his five wickets in six late deliveries as Pakistan came up short at 172-8.
Even a win for Pakistan, who suffered a third defeat in four matches, would have seen them relying on Australia to qualify.
Had they won, a narrow Australia win against India would have sent them through instead of the Aussies by virtue of their superior run-rate.
"I think honestly speaking we were not good enough," Afridi said.
"I think we didn't play good cricket and if you look at the bowlers they've really done well but, later on, in the last four overs, we gave 40 runs so it's not good enough if you're playing against a world-class team." | Pakistan's exit from the World Twenty20 shows how badly they have been affected by having to play home games overseas, says coach Waqar Younis. | 35899689 |
The bank, which is owned by the UK Government, was set up to fund projects which help the environment while turning a profit.
It has invested £668m in clean energy schemes, including large scale offshore wind farms, in the past year
CEO Shaun Kingsbury said all schemes were on time and on budget and would soon see sustained profit.
The GIB, which has its headquarters in Edinburgh, invests in offshore wind, food waste to energy schemes, biomass power plants and other energy efficiency projects.
Investments this year bring the total number of projects the GIB has backed to 28.
The bank said, once the schemes were completed, they should deliver a return for the taxpayer of 8% a year.
Mr Kingsbury spoke to BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday.
He said: "On the financials we've made a loss, but it's because all of the capital we've been investing has been going into construction projects.
"They take 18 months to two years to reach the end of the construction process. Once they're up and running, they'll produce the income we need to turn profitable."
He added: "Time will be our friend on this."
Since it began lending in 2012, the bank has committed £1.3bn to green projects, with £3.5bn committed from private investors, it said.
When completed, the schemes aim to save 3.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, and produce enough clean energy to power three million homes.
The bank has also unveiled plans to raise £1bn for a new fund to invest in offshore wind schemes.
WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said the plans could create up to 28,000 jobs in Scotland.
He said: "Plans for a new billion pound fund to help support the deployment of offshore wind is an excellent initiative that will help create jobs, cut carbon and keep the nation's lights on.
"Studies estimate that, for Scotland, alone the offshore wind industry could create 28,000 jobs by 2020 and contribute over £7bn of investment to the economy." | The UK's Green Investment Bank (GIB) has recorded a loss of £5.7m this year, its annual results for 2013/2014 show. | 27994518 |
The vessel was intercepted by Israeli naval ships off the coast of Gaza and forced to head south, the charity which chartered the ship said.
The charity, headed by Col Muammar Gaddafi's son, said it wanted to reach Gaza, but would not risk violence.
In May, Israeli forces clashed with another convoy, killing nine on board.
On Monday, an Israeli military inquiry said it had found mistakes were made at a senior level during the operation, which sparked international outrage, but the troops had been justified in using force.
The Libyan-chartered Amalthea left Greece on Saturday, carrying food and medical equipment, as well as 15 pro-Palestinian activists and 12 crew members.
Egyptian officials at El-Arish, some 50km (30 miles) to the west of Gaza, said the ship docked at the north Sinai port late on Wednesday.
By Malcolm BrabantBBC News, Athens
According to the ship's owner, Alex Angelopoulos, the Amalthea did not suffer a mechanical breakdown - the story about engine failure was a ploy, invented by the Cuban captain, after the Israelis surrounded the vessel and gave him an ultimatum to change course away from Gaza.
The captain was trying to buy some time for the Libyan charity to muster international diplomatic support to pressure the Israelis to let the vessel through. He restarted the engines around midday local time and is now underway.
Mr Angelopoulos earlier said this expedition was a risky venture, although he prided himself on taking chances.
He said he was motivated by humanitarian reasons, but he is also acting in the tradition of Greek shipowners like Aristotle Onassis, who made fortunes by breaching embargoes.
"As soon as the ship arrives in El-Arish, Egyptian authorities will unload its cargo and hand the aid to the Egyptian Red Crescent, which will deliver it to the Palestinian side," Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said earlier.
The vessel was intercepted by Israeli navy boats some 100km (60 miles) off the coast of Gaza and blocked from heading any further towards the east.
An Al-Jazeera correspondent on board said that Israeli navy boats had formed a "wall" on one side of the Amalthea and forced it towards El-Arish.
Israel's navy began shadowing the vessel overnight, after warning that it would not be allowed to break the naval blockade of Gaza.
The Amalthea resumed its voyage mid-morning on Wednesday after idling for a few hours in international waters.
The Israeli military said the ship had run into engine trouble, but the ship's owner later told the BBC that it was a ploy by the captain to buy time for the Libyan charity to muster international support.
A spokesman for the Gaddafi Foundation said those on board would not resort to violence.
"First and foremost, we want to arrive in Gaza," Yussef Sawani told Al-Jazeera TV. "If this is impossible, we don't want to subject anyone to danger."
Israeli officials denied the group's reports that they were given an ultimatum to change course by midnight or face a forceful takeover.
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The 92m (302ft) Amalthea, renamed Al-Amal (Hope) for the mission, is loaded with 2,000 tonnes of food, cooking oil, medicines and pre-fabricated houses, the group says.
For the past three years, Israel has enforced a tight economic blockade on the Gaza Strip, only allowing in limited humanitarian aid.
It says this is necessary to stop weapons for Palestinian militant groups inside Gaza being smuggled in, and to put pressure on the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the coastal territory.
Egypt has also closed its border with Gaza, only opening it occasionally.
The blockade, maintained by Israel and Egypt, was widely described as "collective punishment" resulting in a humanitarian crisis for Gaza's 1.4 million people.
Last month, Israel announced it would ease restrictions by allowing consumer goods into the territory while banning or restricting trade in weapons and materials that could have a military use.
Meanwhile, Israel's parliament voted on Tuesday to strip an Israeli Arab lawmaker of some key privileges for joining the flotilla of aid ships that tried to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza in May.
The Knesset decided to remove Hanin Zuabi's diplomatic passport and funding for legal defence.
Some MPs complained that by penalising an Arab member, the parliamentarians were endangering democracy, but others said that it was her actions which threatened freedoms and rights in Israel.
Ms Zuabi, an MP with the left-wing Arab nationalist Balad party, said the Knesset was punishing her out of vengeance and was threatening co-existence between Jews and Arabs. | A ship loaded with aid supplies for Gaza has docked in an Egyptian port, ending the latest attempt by activists to break Israel's Gaza blockade. | 10615479 |
Andy Hill was performing aerobatics when the jet crashed on to the A27 in Sussex during the Shoreham Air Show on 22 August 2015.
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report said cockpit footage showed the plane "responding to the pilot's control inputs".
Mr Hill has been the subject of a manslaughter investigation by police.
The pilot was first interviewed by Sussex Police in December 2015.
In a statement, which did not name Mr Hill, Sussex Police said: "A 53-year-old man from Hertfordshire has been re-interviewed by officers from the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team investigating the Shoreham air crash.
"He attended a voluntary interview under caution at a police station in Sussex on Thursday, 1 June."
In its final report on the disaster, the AAIB listed a series of failings including poor risk assessments.
Investigators said the jet crashed in a fireball because it was too low to perform an aerobatic manoeuvre.
A pre-inquest review into the deaths of the 11 men will take place on 20 June at the West Sussex Coroner's Court in Crawley, but no evidence will be heard. | The pilot of the Hawker Hunter jet which crashed killing 11 men has been re-interviewed by police. | 40186667 |
The coin commemorates the Mint's 225th anniversary and shows Liberty with a crown of stars and a toga-like dress.
The 24-carat coin will weigh 28g (1oz) and have a face value of $100 (£80).
The US Mint says it plans to issue further coins depicting Liberty as women from ethnic minorities, such as Asian, Hispanic or Indian Americans.
Rhett Jeppson, the Mint's principal deputy director, told the New York Times newspaper that part of the intention was to "have a conversation about liberty - and we certainly have started that conversation".
A total of 100,000 of the Gold coins will be created, along with 100,000 silver reproductions of the image, called medals, that will sell for about $50, the newspaper reported.
The coins will go on sale on 6 April.
Coins bearing new designs will be issued every two years, the Mint said in a statement. | The US Mint and Treasury will for the first time issue a commemorative coin depicting Lady Liberty as a black woman. | 38622886 |
The 26-year-old Brazil international has signed a five-year deal and will join City on their pre-season tour of the United States.
Danilo can play in both full-back roles as well as in midfield, and is City's fourth major signing of the summer.
"There was interest from other clubs, but it has always been my ambition to play for Pep Guardiola," he said.
His arrival takes City's summer spending to almost £150m, following the recruitment of England international Kyle Walker (£45m), Portugal midfielder Bernardo Silva (£43m) and Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson Moraes (£35m).
The club have also agreed a £52m deal for 23-year-old Monaco defender Benjamin Mendy and sold left-back Aleksandar Kolarov to Serie A club Roma for £4.5m.
Danilo's move is subject to him receiving a work permit, meaning he is unlikely to make his debut when City face Real on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
The former Santos player joined Real in 2015 from Porto but started just 17 La Liga games last season.
In two years at the Bernabeu, he won La Liga, two Champions Leagues, the Uefa Super Cup and the Fifa Club World Cup.
"Danilo is a fine player who offers great versatility," said City director of football Txiki Begiristain.
"He can operate in several different roles in both defence and midfield, increasing Pep's options ahead of the new season." | Manchester City have completed the signing of Real Madrid defender Danilo for a fee believed to be £26.5m. | 40686943 |
Lawro's opponent for the Premier League fixtures on 28 and 29 December is actor Jack O'Connell.
The Derby County fan, who has appeared in TV dramas such as 'This is England' and 'Skins', is the star of the new Coen Brothers film 'Unbroken', which tells the life story of star athlete and World War II hero Louis Zamperini.
O'Connell, 24, is enjoying the Rams' revival under Steve McClaren, but also has happy memories of watching them when Jim Smith was manager in the late 1990s.
"Stefanio Eranio was the first name I had printed on the back of my shirt," O'Connell told BBC Sport.
"But quite a few players from that golden era stand out. People like Paulo Wanchope, Dean Sturridge, Aljosa Asanovic and Igor Stimac - the big Croat who ran our backline and was a fearless leader.
"Since then, we have had to put up with a good decade of being dismal but now things have gone full circle."
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth ONE point. Getting the exact score correct earns THREE points.
From the Boxing Day fixtures, Lawro got six correct results from 10 games, with one perfect score.
His score of eight points beat Match of the Day commentator Guy Mowbray, who picked four correct results, with no perfect scores, to give him a total of four points.
We are keeping a record of the totals for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions were correct (at the bottom of the page).
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated.
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Jack's prediction: 1-1
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Jack's prediction: I reckon Chelsea will get a run for their money but cannot see Saints beating them. 0-2
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Jack's prediction: 1-2
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Jack's prediction: Well, as a Derby fan I am inclined to dislike Leicester and it will be a good Christmas if I am right here! 4-0
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Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Jack's prediction: I like Burnley a lot but it is City all day in this one. 3-1
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Jack's prediction: 0-3
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Jack's prediction: 1-0
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Jack's prediction: 2-1
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Jack's prediction: 1-3
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Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Jack's prediction: 2-2
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Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan
Lawro's best score: 17 points (week seven v Ossie Ardiles)
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The Serb, who won five Premier League titles and the Champions League in his eight-year spell at Old Trafford, says injuries have forced his retirement.
Vidic, 34, left Inter Milan by mutual consent in January after failing to make an appearance for the Serie A side this season.
"The time has come for me to hang up my boots," he told ManUtd.com
"The injuries I have had in the last few years have taken their toll.
"I would like to thank all the players I have played with, all the managers and staff I have worked with, and say a big thank you to the fans for their support over the years."
Vidic joined Inter Milan on a free transfer in July 2014 and made 28 appearances for the Nerazzurri in his first campaign, but did not feature for Roberto Mancini's side this season following surgery on a hernia in August.
He joined Manchester United from Spartak Moscow in a £7m transfer in January 2006, and quickly formed a centre-back pairing with Rio Ferdinand. Sir Alex Ferguson's side secured a hat-trick of Premier League titles between 2007 and 2009, as well as the 2008 Champions League.
Vidic won two further Premier League titles, in 2010-11 and 2012-13, and three League Cups, but his latter years at Old Trafford were badly affected by injuries, including ruptured cruciate knee ligaments against Basel in December 2011. | Former Manchester United captain Nemanja Vidic has announced his retirement from professional football. | 35440903 |
Two clients paid money directly into Jonathan Green's bank accounts thinking they were settling bills with Graham Builders Merchants in Dundee.
The fraud was uncovered when the company noticed the discrepancies and challenged the 45-year-old.
A court was told that Green, from Letham, Angus had repaid the money in full from his pension fund.
Dundee Sheriff Court was told previously that Green worked for the firm as a sales manager for over a year.
Depute fiscal Saima Rasheed said the first client paid £7,763 into Green's bank account.
Miss Rasheed said: "When his employer chased the sum with the client, the accused told them he would 'fix it.'"
The court heard that a second client made three payments totalling £65,622 into Green's bank account.
After Green's employer noticed the discrepancy he wrote a letter of apology and said he had been in "financial difficulties."
Green admitted embezzling £73,386 from Graham Builders Merchants in Dundee between August 2011 and July 2012, while employed there as a contract sales manager.
Ross Bennett, defending, said Green had been sacked by the company when the fraud came to light and the money had been repaid in full.
He said that while £73,000 had been paid into Green's account, he had only kept £23,000 and forwarded the remainder to Graham Builders Merchants
Mr Bennett said: "This is very much a one-off. I would be surprised if Mr Green was ever in court again.
"If he is given a fine it will have to be a significant one."
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC told Green: "You are well-thought-of, a family man, and a first-time offender.
"But I have to look at the amount embezzled, which was over a prolonged period of time.
"The sentence must deter others and a period of custody is inevitable." | A sales manager who embezzled more than £73,000 from his former employer has been jailed for a year. | 37219533 |
The striker, who has confirmed he will be leaving relegated Sunderland, says he has "been blessed" to have been part of the six-year-old's life.
Bradley's parents have said the youngster has just weeks to live.
He suffers from neuroblastoma and is receiving palliative care at home in Blackhall Colliery, County Durham.
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His style influenced a generation of modern singers such as George Strait, Randy Travis, Alan Jackson and Vince Gill to name but a few.
Though he never enjoyed the same pop success as such other country greats as Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard's success in the country charts was staggering.
Only country singers Conway Twitty and George Strait have had more number one hits.
Haggard's songs were the staple of honky-tonk juke boxes in the south. They echoed the aspirations and struggles of the blue-collar worker.
In the words of critic Bob Allen, Haggard, above all, succeeded in "capturing in metaphor the bleary-eyed angst and dark revelations of the soul that lie beyond the second six-pack".
In the 1970s, he was the scourge of liberal America with songs like Okie from Muskogee, which poked fun at hippies and the anti Vietnam war movement, and the deeply patriotic Fightin' Side of Me, a love-America-or leave-it anthem.
Haggard's early life is the stuff of legend. His family migrated from the dust-bowl of Oklahoma to Bakersfield, California where Merle was born in 1937.
His father died when Merle was nine, and his devout Christian mother was unable to control him. The young Merle became a teenage tearaway, hopping freight trains, working in orchards and oil fields, and getting mixed up in petty crime.
He was sent to, and escaped from, a variety of penal institutions. He wound up serving nearly three years in San Quentin for burglary and escape.
He was subsequently pardoned by the then governor of California, Ronald Reagan, whom he later befriended.
Haggard married a waitress, Leona Hobbs, at 17, with whom he had four children over a 10-year period. He was behind bars when the first two were born.
A love of singing and a concert by Johnny Cash, in 1958, inspired him to join the prison band. Songs from his experience inside include Sing Me Back Home, Branded Man and Mama Tried.
His first number one hit came with I'm a Lonesome Fugitive in 1966. He achieved great popularity with an album of love songs recorded with his second wife, Bonnie Owens.
In the late 1960s, Haggard enjoyed success with several country classics, including I Take a Lot of Pride in What I Am, and Silver Wings. His song Today I Started Loving You Again has been recorded by more than 400 singers.
The bleakness of recession-hit America was perfectly expressed in If We Make It Through December which provided Haggard with his only significant pop hit.
Between 1973 and 1976, he achieved nine straight number one country singles. His struggle with alcohol inspired Swinging Doors and The Bottle Let Me Down. It also led to divorce, his second of three.
Haggard's voice, wide-ranging both dynamically and emotionally, lent itself well to interpreting other people's material too.
He recorded tributes to such giants as Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills and Elvis Presley. He was a fine guitarist and even played the fiddle well.
By 1990, Merle Haggard had notched up 95 country hits including 38 number ones. Yet, within three years, he declared himself bankrupt.
He continued to tour, though the venues became smaller as the advent of "new country" saw traditional singers like Haggard become passé.
But his final years saw a renaissance in his popularity, and his recent albums were well reviewed.
In 1996, Merle Haggard was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and in 2010 he was honoured at the White House's 33rd annual national celebration of the arts.
After making a full recovery from lung cancer he released another album, I am what I am in 2011.
His story is one of crime, punishment, alcoholism, and violence mixed with a love of music, religion and America.
He once said "There's the guy I'd love to be and the guy I am. I'm somewhere in between, in deep water, swimming to the other shore." | With his rich baritone voice, and songs that drew from his experience of poverty, heartache and restlessness, Merle Haggard was one of country music's most influential artists. | 13750468 |
Scholars from the Universities of Salford, Huddersfield and Bristol used an American replica of the monument to investigate its audio history.
Salford's Dr Bruno Fazenda said they had found the site reacted to sound "in a way that would have been noticeable to the Neolithic man".
He said the research would allow a "more holistic" view of its past.
The acoustic experiments could not be carried out at Stonehenge, as the derelict state of the site meant only a "few weak echoes and no noticeable reverberation" could be studied.
As a result, the team used a full-sized concrete reconstruction of it in Maryhill, America, which was built in 1929 as a memorial to WWI soldiers.
In February, scientist Steven Waller published a paper suggesting the design of Stonehenge could have been inspired by music.
Dr Fazenda, who has been involved with the acoustic testing of the monument for four years, said his own research had not revealed if this was the case or not.
"Stonehenge is very well known, but people are still trying to find out what it was built for," he said.
"We thought that doing this would bring an element of archaeology that so far hasn't been looked at.
"This type of research is important because now we can not only see ourselves surrounded by the stones using virtual reality, but we can also listen how the stone structure would have enveloped people in a sonic experience.
"It is as if we can travel back in time and experience the space in a more holistic way."
Dr Fazenda said that the data collected did not "unequivocally reveal" if the site was designed with acoustics in mind, like a Roman amphitheatre.
But he added that it did show "the space reacted to acoustic activity in a way that would have been noticeable to the Neolithic man". | A team of academics have revealed the "sonic experience" that early visitors to Stonehenge would have heard. | 17754949 |
Felix, who can also play as a striker, made 32 appearances in all competitions for the National League North club last season, scoring five goals.
The 21-year-old joined Boston in 2014 from Southern Football League Premier Division side St Neots Town.
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The 18-year-old came through the club's academy and made 38 appearances in all competitions this season.
He has been called up to the England Under-20 squad for the first time and could make his debut later this month in the Toulon Tournament.
Vieira is the first player to sign a new contract with the club since they were taken over by Italian businessman Andrea Radrizzani on Tuesday. | Leeds midfielder Ronaldo Vieira has signed a four-year contract extension. | 40035440 |
She also said that lewd comments Donald Trump made about women that were caught on videotape were unacceptable but did not represent the man she knows.
The Republican presidential nominee was guilty of "boy talk" but was "egged on" by TV host Billy Bush, she added.
The tape prompted dozens of Republicans to drop their support for him.
In the video, Mr Trump tells Mr Bush, who was then host of NBC's Access Hollywood, that he can force himself on women because he's a star.
Several women have since come forward and accused Mr Trump of sexual assault, which he denies.
"I know he respects women but he is defending himself because they are lies," Mrs Trump said in an interview with CNN.
"I believe my husband," she said. "My husband is kind and he is a gentleman and he would never do that."
She claimed the scandal had been "organised and put together to hurt his candidacy" by Hillary Clinton's campaign team and the media.
"With the details [the media] have got, did they ever check the backgrounds of these women? They didn't have any facts," she added.
Speaking for the first since the scandal began, Mrs Trump defended her husband's conduct with women, saying he had never behaved inappropriately over the years.
Women commonly approached her husband in front of her to give him their phone numbers and behave inappropriately, she said.
Reflecting on the 2005 Access Hollywood videotape leaked to the media 10 days ago, she said: "I said to my husband that, you know, the language was inappropriate. It's not acceptable.
"And I was surprised, because that is not the man that I know."
After the taped remarks became public, Mrs Trump issued a statement saying she found the words he spoke to be offensive but she accepted his apology.
Now she believes Billy Bush, who was fired by NBC over the tape, was the main culprit.
Mr Trump, she said, "was led on - like, egged on - from the host to say dirty and bad stuff".
She also justified her husband's tactic of appearing with the women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault.
With three weeks to go before Americans cast their vote, polls show Mr Trump with considerable ground to make up on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in key battleground states.
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There was a time here when tribal Tibetans roamed across a vast dramatic landscape with no specific place to call home.
For generation after generation they had lived as nomads, sleeping where they made camp.
They kept their livestock moving, chasing the fresh pastures that became available as the seasons changed.
The limits of their territory were identified by mountains and rivers, and their nomadic existence permeated all aspects of their culture.
In 2016, you might expect this lifestyle to have been fully extinguished, yet it hasn't been. Not quite. However, what's left of it is now coming under considerable pressure.
We set out to visit one Tibetan community in Aba region.
This place came to world attention in recent years as the centre of a wave of self-immolation suicide protests. In Tibetan towns, nearly 150 people, mostly monks and nuns, set fire to themselves in protest at the impact of Beijing's rule - the largest number of them in Aba.
For this reason, security has been tight in the area for years. But, as the self-immolations have slowed, we hoped to be better able to reach remote communities and speak to people.
The central Chinese province of Sichuan - of which Aba is a district - is quintessential China. It's the home of pandas and spicy food.
If you look at a map its virtually in the middle of the country.
Yet if you drive out of the regional capital Chengdu and head west, it's not long before you enter another world. The road heads up and up until you reach the Tibetan Plateau.
When people speak about Tibet they often mean what's called the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). This is the area foreigners are not allowed to enter without special permission, where reporters are rarely granted access and, if they ever are allowed in, must be accompanied by a minder at all times.
However, the massive area where ethnic Tibetans actually live is twice as big as the TAR, spreading out across the plateau and dipping into Yunnan, Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan.
On arrival in what you might call the Tibetan zone we are quickly spotted by police.
The authorities have been expecting us. They know we have been in contact with locals trying to line up interviews and to prepare logistics for the trip. They have already sent messages back to us via these same locals saying we are not welcome, suggesting we go elsewhere.
We have barely unpacked when government officials arrive for a chat.
What are we doing here? What are our plans?
We explain that we are here at this specific time to film the annual movement of herdsmen who will drive their yaks up into the hills where they will live for the summer months.
They listen, appear friendly enough and don't kick us out. But the next day when we speak to those preparing to make the journey, the government will have its people listening in.
We get up before the sun hits the grassland.
There are villages nearby and these days - during the freezing winter months at least - most people here live in fixed dwellings.
Following a deliberate government policy of relocation, Tibetans have moved into the towns. Critics say this has been a control mechanism which allows the authorities to be able to track people more easily. The Communist Party says it was done to improve people's living standards, nothing more.
So, for much of the year, people have televisions, fridges and electrical lights. But when the summer comes they head for the hills - back to the land of their forebears.
"Nomads here are nomads to the bottom of our hearts," Kalsang Gyatso tells us. "We lived like this from ancient times. Actually we don't like being in houses."
We meet him and other family members rounding up their yaks and pushing them into a pen. Soon they, like all their neighbouring herdsmen, will follow the same route as every year and drive their livestock into the mountains where the grass hasn't been touched for months.
"If we don't go to the summer grasslands and just stay in the winter fields there will be no food left for the yaks. When they have new grass to eat, our animals will grow fat and they'll produce enough milk."
He also tells us that the summer pastures have medicinal flowers which the yaks need to eat in order to stay healthy.
The government official who had been standing in the field and listening to our interview suddenly disappears. Perhaps he realised that our story really is about what we said it was about and that it's not hurting anyone to speak about these matters.
Next to Kalsang Gyatso's place runs a recently laid tar road and along it the sound of hundreds of hooves can be heard. The migration is on!
Cars and trucks must part a sea of animals in order to get through. Most drivers just stop and wait for the beasts to pass.
The Tibetans are on horseback, calling and whistling to keep their livestock moving. Some of the yaks carry the bedding they'll need upon arrival as well as other bits and pieces for camping.
One young man speaks to us as he rides past. He says they must move now in order to make the most of new grass and provide for their families and that the dates for the journey are actually fixed by government regulations.
I ask how he feels getting back to the old ways at least for a few months, expecting a description of the rich ancient culture again flowing through his veins. "I'm a little bit tired," he says.
As we follow group after group heading further to the west we reach… a grassland adventure park.
It is being built smack in the middle of the main migration route and has already been opened. Eventually this attraction will be able to handle thousands of tourists on any given day.
We watch as yaks in their hundreds are pushed through the car park, under the main gate, past the turnstiles and soon they are surrounding the tourist buses carrying ethnic Han Chinese travellers in search of an awe-inspiring Tibetan experience.
China's Tibetan areas have been hotbeds of rebellion in the past, with some blaming Beijing for restrictions on Tibetan Buddhism, language and culture.
The government's answer: development.
We board one of the buses and speak to those taking photos of the Tibetans riding along outside.
"Up here it's exactly the eating a mouthful of meat, drinking a mouthful of wine plateau feeling that I wanted," says one woman.
"It feels like another world. I feel stronger about Tibetan culture because Tibetans are purer and lead a more simple life," says another and her friend nods.
They seem to have genuine affection for the people who call this place home and inside the adventure park they will come into contact with the Tibetans who have been employed here.
The herding communities, however, are divided about whether the explosion in tourist numbers is such a good thing.
Even the Tibetans who have opened small guest lodges with areas for camping are worried that their once pristine environment is gradually being overrun.
Tshe Bdag Skyabs has been travelling with his animals for two days.
"On the one hand, people's incomes have increased and transportation is more convenient," he says. "But the environmental harm from development has been huge."
Eventually he, his family and 400 yaks pass the tourist park and the outer limit of modern existence.
They arrive at the untainted expanse of the high mountain grasslands.
Here there are no shops, no roads, no tourists, but there is the space of their ancestors.
"When I make it here my mood is very good, exceptionally good," he tells us. "When city people come here they will also feel happy because of the fresh air and the smell of wildflowers. It's like a fairyland."
They will stay here until September. They will walk with bare feet in order to preserve the flowers that their yaks need to eat. They will milk their animals to make butter tea and cheese. And when the weather starts getting cold, they'll head back down the mountain, to return again next year.
When a traditional way of life collides with a massive influx of tourism it's always going to be good and bad.
You can only hope that the benefits outweigh any pitfalls.
But, when it comes to the grassland Tibetans - if what we have seen is anything to go by - despite everything that the modern world is throwing at them, their culture does appear to remain remarkably resilient.
At least, for these communities. At least, for the time being. | Despite decades of change and development, nomads still migrate to the Tibetan Plateau every summer, from where China Correspondent Stephen McDonell reports. | 36938787 |
The Oxfordshire box, dating from 1901, was reduced to rubble overnight as campaigners watched from a bridge.
One protester said former signalmen would be "turning in their graves", while another described the flattened Banbury North box as a "crime scene".
Network Rail said it was replacing more than 800 remaining signal boxes with 12 Regional Operating Centres (ROCs).
It said the change would deliver savings of up to £250m a year while allowing "greater control" over the network.
The company delayed the demolition of the box to allow railway fans to take farewell tours in 2016.
More than 3,500 visitors came to look at its bells, levers and coal-fired stove, between 10 August and 2 October.
Banbury Civic Society supported plans to convert the box into an education centre but the project failed to raise sufficient funds.
Rob Kinchin-Smith, its acting chair, said the company had demanded that the campaign raise £168,000 in three weeks to save it.
He took to social media to rue the demolition, commenting: "The party's over and the star guest departs... Banbury North, it was great knowing you."
Mr Kinchin-Smith said the interior of the box had been saved with a view to reconstructing it for future public display.
Rails bosses said the stretch of track was now controlled from Rugby ROC, whose wider view of the network and modern traffic management software could help to reduce rail delays. | A century-old signal box has been demolished despite a campaign by railway enthusiasts to save it. | 39398068 |
The Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) said the WannaCry attack took hold because routine software updates were ignored or put off.
The security breach disrupted GP surgeries, dental practices and other primary care centres.
SBRC said the attack was a "wake-up call" for businesses of all sizes.
It has recommended a number of preventative measures it says all firms should follow.
The centre is funded by a range of private and public partners, including the police, Scottish government, major banks and private investors.
SBRC recommendations include:
• Check that all Microsoft updates have been applied. If your IT is managed by external specialists, be sure to ask these questions as soon as possible.
• Microsoft issued a patch to close the vulnerability that allows this virus to spread in mid-March. This update is called Microsoft Bulletin MS17-010.
• All machines running Windows operating systems that have not had the security patch issued in March are vulnerable.
• Make sure any anti-virus software that is being run is kept up-to-date and regular scans are being run on your system.
• If you have an IT supplier, check they are conducting regular backups of all your systems and that these are not connected to your network.
• Check if your network uses the SMBv1 protocol, which helps computers share files and documents across a network. This protocol is outdated and newer versions are available.
SBRC's chief ethical hacker, Gerry Grant, said: "Thousands of computers were infected with the ransomware - and it was able to have such an impact because routine preventative measures had not been taken.
"We can't recommend the practice of habitually updating systems enough, however disruptive or inconvenient at the time - as soon as those updates become available.
"It can be too easy to put this off and click the 'remind me tomorrow' option. Unfortunately it can take a highly publicised attack such as this to affect behaviour.
"We say it so often, but the prospect of a cyber-attack can be incredibly daunting for the less tech-savvy and the temptation can be to bury heads in the sand.
"In reality, the simplest of measures such as those outlined in the Cyber Essentials scheme will put off the vast majority of criminal hackers - who tend to cast a wide net." | A cyber-security body has urged Scottish companies to update their IT systems in the wake of Friday's ransomware attack. | 39926408 |
The Yorkshire left-hander, 27, who played the most recent of his 21 Tests in October, averages 101 in the County Championship this season.
Uncapped Middlesex seamer Toby Roland-Jones and Hampshire spinner Liam Dawson are also in a squad of 12.
The opening match of the four-Test series is Joe Root's first as captain.
Durham pace bowler Mark Wood, who has not played a Test since October 2015 because of an ankle injury, also features alongside James Anderson and Stuart Broad.
Opener Haseeb Hameed, who missed the final Test of last winter's series defeat in India with injury, is overlooked after failing to reach 50 in 12 championship innings for Lancashire this summer.
Keaton Jennings, promoted to open in Hameed's absence in India, retains his place and is set to open alongside former captain Alastair Cook.
South Africa-born Jennings, who made a century on his Test debut, averages 36 in Division Two for Durham this term.
Cook, 32, England's record Test run-scorer with 11,057, stood down as captain in February. He averages 66 in Division One for Essex this season.
Yorkshire skipper Ballance is captaining an England Lions side also featuring Jennings against South Africa in the three-day tour match at New Road which ends on Saturday.
Dropped after making four consecutive single-figure scores in October's drawn Test series in Bangladesh, he has scored 815 runs in 11 championship innings this summer.
"He has been in fantastic touch," national selector James Whitaker said.
"He deserves to be included and we feel that he will add maturity and experience to our middle order."
With Chris Woakes and Jake Ball ruled out by side and knee injuries respectively, Roland-Jones is in line to make his Test debut.
The 29-year-old claimed 1-34 on his one-day international debut against South Africa in May and has taken 76 championship wickets since the start of last season, more than any other seamer.
Whitaker said: "Toby Roland-Jones is a player we have been monitoring for quite some time and deserves his chance after a strong couple of seasons with Middlesex in red-ball cricket."
Wood, who has taken eight wickets at an average of 34 in eight Tests, did not play for England in 2016 because of ankle problems that required three operations.
Bowling in boots specially designed to combat the impact on his heel, he took 4-33 against Australia in the Champions Trophy in June and has eight wickets in three championship matches for Durham this year.
Anderson, England's leading wicket-taker of all time, proved his fitness following a groin problem in two championship matches for Lancashire last month.
Broad has been struggling with a heel injury but will play for Nottinghamshire in the One-Day Cup final against Surrey on Saturday.
Slow left-armer Dawson, who took 1-29 on his debut in the final Test in Chennai last year, has 18 wickets at 30 apiece in Division One this summer.
BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew:
The batting order has yet to be confirmed but Jennings will open with Cook.
This is a change to the plan at the start of the season due to Hameed's loss of form and, while Jennings hasn't been pulling up many trees for Durham, the fact he played in the last Test before Christmas indicates consistency.
Not many would have given much for Ballance's prospects after his tortuous appearances against Bangladesh.
However, as Yorkshire captain, he's enjoyed a tremendous summer, and will probably bat at three with Root returning to his preferred four.
England squad: Joe Root (capt, Yorkshire), Alastair Cook (Essex), Keaton Jennings (Durham), Gary Ballance (Yorkshire), Jonny Bairstow (wkt) (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Liam Dawson (Hampshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Mark Wood (Durham), James Anderson (Lancashire), Toby Roland-Jones (Middlesex). | Batsman Gary Ballance has been recalled to the England squad for the first Test against South Africa at Lord's starting on Thursday. | 40465336 |
That is one of the findings from an opinion poll commissioned by the BBC from ORB International that examines public opinion in both Iraq and Syria.
Some 66% of those questioned in Iraq and 57% in Syria think their country is heading in the wrong direction. Perhaps more shocking is that one quarter of those questioned in Iraq and more than one third in Syria think their country is actually on the right track.
66%
think the country is going in the wrong direction
90%
believe a diplomatic solution to national differences can be found
84% think Islamic State are a "strongly negative" influence
56% Oppose coalition air strikes
But what is fascinating is that it was possible to conduct this opinion poll at all - especially given the continuing violence in Iraq and the chaos in war-torn Syria.
Johnny Heald of ORB International said his company has been polling in Iraq every year since 2005, though he admits that the security situation is challenging in some governorates.
The Iraq poll is not nationally representative, he notes, since it was restricted to 10 of the 18 governorates, with no interviews conducted in the three Kurdish governorates or in some of the smaller Shia governorates.
He argues though that what gives his Syria poll credibility is the geographic distribution of those interviewed.
"In all polling the data is only as good as the sample upon which it is drawn," he told me. "This data from Syria covers opinion throughout all 14 governorates across the country.
"So it includes those people living under the control of the regime, under the control of the so-called Islamic State [IS], [al-Qaeda affiliate] al-Nusrah, the wider opposition and the YPG [Kurdish fighters]."
More than 14 supervisors and 40 interviewers travelled throughout the country to collect data.
"It starts with one week's training in southern Turkey where the supervisors come to Gaziantep and we go through the methodology, the questionnaire and the quality control procedures," Mr Heald said.
"We pilot the questionnaire before it is fielded. We then ensure we have the relative permits/permissions to operate and undertake a risk assessment."
But how do you set about conducting field research in an IS-controlled area?
"In the IS-controlled areas of Raqqa for each survey we visit the head of the town and ask him for permission to randomly interview people," Mr Heald says.
"His response is 'so long as you are not an international media station and pull out video cameras, I don't mind you doing this'."
"Why is this his reaction? Because, as the data verifies, many of those living in Raqqa now are happier since IS took over.
"They welcome the security, they see IS trying to help the people with electricity, with food, with petrol. In many respects it is a story they are keen to tell."
57%
think the country is going in the wrong direction
50%
oppose coalition air strikes
48% said Islamic State are a "strongly negative" influence
21% prefer life now compared to before the war
This perhaps surprising finding is one of the values of this kind of survey.
As Mr Heald said, the survey suggests that "the majority in both countries are opposed to IS but that they also think that IS is a product of foreign countries… which to you and I may seem like some crazy conspiracy theory but to them it is a common perception.
"Widespread opposition to the coalition bombing, should also make policymakers reconsider their strategy. I think the official British government line is that coalition air strikes are 'degrading' IS.
"But while we can accept that it may be slowing them down," he says, "there is little evidence to suggest they are losing the war. People aren't leaving Raqqa now because of IS - they are leaving because of the coalition air strikes."
For Western policymakers there is a lot to be gloomy about here.
More than one quarter of those questioned in Syria still see President Bashar al-Assad as exercising a strongly positive influence over the country. But the ORB survey does find some guarded grounds for optimism.
"Majorities in both Iraq and Syria, oppose the break up of their country," Mr Heald said. "Majorities think that despite doctrinal differences they are stronger together than fighting each other. Self-identifying as an Iraqi or a Syrian is a preferred option to identifying as a Sunni or a Shia."
But what of the broader value of such opinion surveys? Mr Heald is a pollster so he is clearly not going to undermine his own business.
But he surely makes a valid point when he says: "Policymakers need to understand public opinion in these countries. IS have an incredibly well-oiled strategic communication operation. Politicians and military leaders need to track public opinion to see where hearts and minds are and how they are shifting.
"There are also significant operations taking place in country - whether they be aid-related, messaging-related or kinetic (air strikes). Only by tracking public opinion can they measure the performance and effect of these activities and thereby determine which, if any, are successful in changing behaviour." | As a wave of refugees heads north-westwards into Europe from the Middle East it may not be surprising to hear that a majority of Iraqis and Syrians appear to believe their countries are heading in the wrong direction. | 34173549 |
Developers are investigating the possibility of constructing up to 14 turbines on a site between St John's Town of Dalry and Carsphairn.
North Galloway Wind Energy, a subsidiary of West Coast Energy, claims Knocknalling wind farm could generate 44.8MW of energy over its 25-years.
A scoping report for the project has been submitted to Dumfries and Galloway Council.
It has laid out plans to erect the 150m (492ft) tall turbines over a 12-month construction period.
A spokesman for West Coast Energy confirmed that they have begun to survey the area.
He added: "This is a standard procedure that is carried out by the business on a range of sites across the UK to assess the viability or otherwise of developing a project on that site.
"The carrying out of this work in no way constitutes a statement of intent regarding future development.
"Any local people who are affected by the assessment activities are urged to contact West Coast Energy by email at [email protected]." | Plans are being drawn up for a new wind farm in Dumfries and Galloway. | 33541535 |
The men, from Walsall, are alleged to have carried out the offences in 2014.
Nawaz Ahmed, 35, of Hucker Road; Amjad Khan, 35, of Durham Place, and Zahoor Ahmed, 45, of Alexandra Road, Palfrey, are due before Walsall magistrates.
The offences include engaging in sexual activity with a child, inciting a child to engage in such activity and taking an indecent image.
Amjad Khan and Zahoor Ahmed will appear before magistrates on Tuesday.
Nawaz Khan is due to appear on 8 March.
For updates on this and other Birmingham and Black Country stories | Three taxi drivers have been charged with child sex offences against a teenage girl. | 35685195 |
The Grade II listed buildings in the Grangetown area of Cardiff were put on the market 18 months ago.
The council has confirmed its received offers for the Victorian buildings, and is looking for a "viable and sustainable solution" for the site.
Local politicians say arts and culture must play a part in any new development.
A deadline for interest parties has now ended and the council has confirmed bids have been received.
A spokesman said the council was now looking to "see the building fully refurbished in line with its listed status, including potential community uses".
It is understood one of the bids involves a mix of business and living space.
The building at Pendyris Street, which is on the edge of Grangetown, is across the river from a new enterprise zone which is seen as key to the city centre's regeneration.
Conditions of the sale for business use have been to include a community room, with hopes also of potentially developing arts and dance studios, an auditorium or cinema, alongside small businesses and work units.
The building was formerly earmarked as a contemporary art gallery as part of the city's failed European City of Culture bid more than a decade ago.
Over the last year, pop-up photographic exhibitions have been held as part of a city-wide festival, as well as a dance and animation event to showcase the building's potential.
The depot was used to house trams, which ran in the area from the early 1880s, and then trolley buses until they stopped running 60 years ago.
The building had been used for repairing council vehicles over recent years but its redbrick facade with arches is listed.
David Drake, director of Ffotogallery - which is looking for a new Cardiff home - has met with universities, arts organisations and innovations group Nesta, about a partnership to develop the building.
He said it was good news a credible developer had come forward and he was keen to speak to them once negotiations with the council were complete.
"We think it's a fantastic space and we'd love to do something again there with the Diffusion festival next year," he said.
"With the BBC's plans for the front of the station, that whole area will be changing in character and it would bring the Tramsheds back towards what's going on in the city centre.
"It's also a very interesting building with a lively residential community in Grangetown and Riverside nearby and it would be fantastic to develop community and cultural provision for that area."
Local councillor Ashley Govier said he was encouraged there had been interest.
"I still want to see a cultural centre, similar to what you see at Chapter but reflecting the different cultures in this area." | Historic tram and trolley bus sheds could become a new cultural centre for the Welsh capital. | 28440730 |
Luciano Vietto opened the scoring for the hosts in the 25th minute with a low finish and the Argentine striker tapped in a second three minutes later.
Wissam Ben Yedder fired home in the 34th minute and, two minutes later, Vitolo's close-range goal made it 4-0.
Sevilla defender Adil Rami was sent off just after the hour mark before Sandro Ramirez netted Malaga's consolation.
The victory helped Sevilla to close the gap on La Liga leaders Real Madrid, who are away at the Club World Cup in Japan, to four points.
Barcelona will overtake Sevilla with victory over city rivals Espanyol in their clash at the Nou Camp on Sunday.
Elsewhere on Saturday, Saul Niguez scored the only goal of the game as Atletico Madrid clinched a hard-fought 1-0 win over Las Palmas.
Villarreal remain in fourth spot after their 3-1 win over Sporting Gijon. They are ahead of Real Sociedad, who beat Granada 2-0 away from home, on goal difference.
Match ends, Sevilla 4, Málaga 1.
Second Half ends, Sevilla 4, Málaga 1.
Offside, Sevilla. Steven N'Zonzi tries a through ball, but Vitolo is caught offside.
Mikel Villanueva (Málaga) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luciano Vietto (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Mikel Villanueva (Málaga).
Attempt blocked. Pablo Fornals (Málaga) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Javi Ontiveros.
Attempt missed. Gonzalo Castro (Málaga) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Pablo Fornals.
Foul by Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla).
Roberto Rosales (Málaga) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Recio (Málaga).
Foul by Timothée Kolodziejczak (Sevilla).
Pablo Fornals (Málaga) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt missed. Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Luciano Vietto.
Attempt missed. Recio (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Javi Ontiveros.
Attempt missed. Pablo Fornals (Málaga) right footed shot from more than 35 yards misses to the left.
Roberto Rosales (Málaga) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Roberto Rosales (Málaga).
Attempt missed. Javi Ontiveros (Málaga) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Roberto Rosales.
Pablo Sarabia (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Miguel Torres (Málaga).
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Matías Kranevitter.
Offside, Sevilla. Steven N'Zonzi tries a through ball, but Luciano Vietto is caught offside.
Offside, Málaga. Roberto Rosales tries a through ball, but Sandro Ramírez is caught offside.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Vitolo.
Javi Ontiveros (Málaga) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Luciano Vietto (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Javi Ontiveros (Málaga).
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Steven N'Zonzi.
Attempt blocked. Ignacio Camacho (Málaga) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sandro Ramírez with a cross.
Corner, Málaga. Conceded by Diego González.
Attempt missed. Javi Ontiveros (Málaga) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box misses to the left. Assisted by Roberto Rosales with a headed pass.
Offside, Málaga. Ignacio Camacho tries a through ball, but Sandro Ramírez is caught offside.
Attempt saved. Javi Ontiveros (Málaga) right footed shot from long range on the right is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Roberto Rosales.
Substitution, Sevilla. Diego González replaces Wissam Ben Yedder.
Vitolo (Sevilla) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Gonzalo Castro (Málaga).
Substitution, Málaga. Gonzalo Castro replaces Juankar because of an injury. | Sevilla scored four goals in the space of 11 minutes as they beat Malaga and moved up to second in La Liga. | 38338714 |
The Tories claim 94% of working households are better off under the tax and benefit changes coming into effect.
Labour's Ed Balls claimed average families were £1,100 a year worse off since 2010, including Monday's changes.
Both parties say their rivals have secret plans to raise taxes if they win the general election.
The Lib Dems, meanwhile, are angry with the Conservatives for claiming credit for an increase in the personal income tax allowance, which they say they had to force Tory ministers to accept.
The personal allowance - the amount someone can earn before they are taxed - has gone up from £10,000 to £10,600.
The Tories and Lib Dems have both said they want it to go up to £12,500 by 2020, but senior Lib Dem David Laws said his party would implement this "far faster".
In other news:
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, speaking in Leeds, said Britain could not afford five more years of the Tories.
"Families are £1,100 a year worse off on average - that is the true cost of a Tory chancellor," he said, citing independent figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies which he said supported his case.
He said the IFS figures took into account all of the changes David Cameron and his government had introduced since May 2010 up until Monday, including the change to the personal allowance. The IFS "also exposes how families with children have been hit hardest", he added.
"Their damning conclusion is that low-income households with children lose the most as a percentage of their income from changes implemented by the coalition.
"While millions are paying more, we know that millionaires are paying less."
He repeated Labour's claim that a Conservative government would increase VAT to make their sums add up - something denied last month by David Cameron.
The Conservatives claim Labour would be forced to increase National Insurance contributions to pay for their spending plans.
By Carole Walker, BBC Conservative Campaign Correspondent
David Cameron and George Osborne will both be out campaigning in the South West on the day tax changes affecting millions of voters take effect.
Mr Cameron will be meeting some carefully selected voters who will benefit from the changes. The opposing parties are already hurling conflicting statistics over how many of us have gained or lost under the outgoing government.
The apparent contradictions reflect the fact that the opposing parties are choosing different figures. So Mr Cameron will point out that more than 90% of working households will be better off under the changes which come in today, largely due to the rise in the amount we can earn before we pay tax.
Labour has countered that families are on average £1,100 a year worse off because of the tax and welfare changes since 2010; much of this is due to benefit cuts.
David Cameron will say there is not just an economic case but a moral case for low taxes, saying this goes to the heart of what he believes in as a Conservative.
But in an apparent acknowledgement that many people do not yet feel they are benefitting from the upturn in the economy, he will say: "I don't just want people to see Britain's recovery on the TV or hear it on the radio, I want them to feel it in their lives."
He'll claim that today's changes will help that to happen.
Few of us want to hand over more of our earnings in taxes, but as we saw in last week's television debate, some of his political rivals are mounting strong arguments that taxes should be raised for higher earners.
There is another flipside to the commitment to low taxes. The Tories need to save £30bn to eliminate the deficit by 2017/18 and if they won't put up taxes, all the money will have to come from spending cuts.
They have said they will save £5bn by cracking down on tax avoidance, £13bn from departmental spending and £12bn from welfare. But there remain big unanswered questions on which benefits and which government projects will have to be axed.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg blasted Labour's policies as "economically illiterate", but also warned that Chancellor George Osborne was "a very dangerous man" because of his plan to balance the books by spending cuts alone.
One of the biggest changes coming into force on Monday is the relaxation of pension rules, so that those with a defined contribution pension "pot" can take out as much as they like when they reach the age of 55.
Liberal Democrat Pensions Minister Steve Webb said the principle was to trust people with their own money - but he urged people to seek advice and not rush into any decisions.
This election issue includes income tax and national insurance levies and business taxes.
Labour's pensions spokesman Gregg McClymont welcomed the "flexibility" in the new system but voiced concerns the pensions industry was "finding it difficult to adapt so quickly to such a big change".
Other changes coming into effect include a higher limit on ISA savings, the Marriage Tax Allowance, a 2.5% increase in the state pension, the abolition of employer National Insurance on under 21-year-olds and the scrapping of the 10p tax band on savings. Working age benefit increases have also been capped at 1%.
The Conservatives have produced Treasury figures suggesting 94% of households will be better off under the changes, with 92% of pensioner households also gaining. The figures do not include workless households.
In his speech, Prime Minister David Cameron will say: "Today is a big day for our country. It's 'money-back Monday' - a day when, quite simply, hardworking taxpayers get to keep more of their own cash."
He will add that as a result of Conservative action - including raising the personal allowance - "our country becomes a better and fairer place to live… where those who put in, get out; where hard work is rewarded; and people are trusted."
Subscribe to the BBC Election 2015 newsletter to get a round-up of the day's campaign news sent to your inbox every weekday afternoon. | The official start of the new tax year has sparked a fresh battle between Labour and the Conservatives over their respective economic plans. | 32191881 |
Rotterdam tournament director Richard Krajicek released the 21-year-old from his contract so he can take part in the basketball showpiece in New Orleans.
"Kyrgios prefers his passion beyond his profession," said Krajicek.
Kyrgios is suspended for eight weeks from the ATP Tour for not producing his "best effort" in Shanghai last week.
The world number 14, who had won the Japan Open the previous week, patted the ball over the net several times when serving in his 6-3 6-1 second-round defeat by Mischa Zverev in China.
He also began walking back to his chair before a Zverev serve had landed.
Kyrgios subsequently said he was "truly sorry" and would use this time during his suspension "to improve on and off the court".
The sanction, which included a fine of $25,000 (£20,560), will keep him off the tour until 15 January, although he could return by 7 November if he agrees to an ATP plan that he consults a sports psychologist.
Krajicek, the 1996 Wimbledon champion, has added US Open champion Stan Wawrinka to the Rotterdam field in place of Kyrgios.
"We wanted to hold [Kyrgios] to his contract," the Dutchman told the Nederlandse Omroep Stichting.
"You see what can happens when he is tired and [tennis] has little meaning, as in China. We do not want that. So we decided to terminate his contract. We want a top tennis player seen on the court. Kyrgios prefers his passion beyond his profession.
"If every week he is focused on tennis, he might be mentally burned out after six months. He needs an outlet."
Kyrgios represented his country at youth level as a basketball player, and said in an interview in June 2015 that he preferred the sport to tennis.
Asked then if he might have had a career in basketball, Kyrgios said: "I thought I was going to.
"I was trying to get there when I was 14 and every time when I'm playing now, I still think I can for some odd reason, even though I'm playing a completely different sport.
"That's just the way it is and unfortunately I think my basketball career has come to an end."
The NBA celebrity match is part of the organisation's All-Star weekend. It features three matches, culminating in the prestigious All-Star Game on 19 February, involving the NBA's top players.
This year's weekend was originally to have been held in Charlotte, North Carolina, but was moved after state legislators introduced laws that limited anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. | Australian Nick Kyrgios has pulled out of the Rotterdam Open to play in basketball's NBA All-Star Celebrity Game next February. | 37707251 |
Michael Sheill, who runs private clinics across the south east, had his registration erased nine years ago.
An undercover BBC investigation found him breaking medical rules by performing consultations without a registered practitioner being present.
A director of his clinics maintained they were "fully compliant with legal requirements".
Mr Sheill runs clinics in Ashford, Tunbridge Wells, Crawley and Hastings.
The botox drug can only be prescribed by a registered doctor, dentist or nurse - which Mr Sheill is not.
Prescribers must also "undertake a physical examination of patients" before any treatment. But when a BBC reporter met Mr Sheill he was the only person holding the consultations.
When the BBC tried to contact him, the director of the Wells Clinic in Ashford - Paul Sheill - said they are not regulated by the GMC, but their "prescriptions are prescribed according to the law".
The BBC understands at least two doctors - currently registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) - are prescribing the Botox to Mr Sheill without examination. The GMC confirmed if it can establish their identities, it would be their "lawful duty to investigate" and they could also be struck off.
Ashton Collins set up a government approved company, Save Face, to inspect and register cosmetic clinics.
She said the consultations allow the prescriber to determine dosage and check the person's medical history does not put them at risk, adding, "those things are essential to making sure the patients have a safe procedure and what Michael is doing is actually removing those safeguards".
The GMC were shown footage of a consultation between Mr Sheill and a BBC reporter, in which he recommended treatments and bragged "I did 11 people's botox yesterday".
The reported, who visited the clinic after a tip-off, questioned him about his registration and medical licence. He was filmed saying "yes, no problem", despite not having either.
James Ruby-Wicks, a former botox patient of Michael Sheill, said he was also never told a registered prescriber should carry out a face-to-face examinations and added: "I probably went to him about four to five times, I never did see anybody else just Dr Michael. I was definitely naïve."
A GMC spokesman confirmed by misleading patients in this way Mr Sheill has "potentially breached Section 49 of the Medical Act", which is a criminal offence.
The GMC is now urging all patients to check the medical register to ensure that their doctor has a licence. | A doctor who was struck off has been filmed breaking medical rules with botox treatments. | 40172567 |
Corey Price, Alesha O'Connor and Rhodri Miller, all 17, and Margaret Challis, 66, died in a two-car collision on the A470 in the Brecon Beacons in March.
Cardiff City Football Club is hosting the match on Sunday, with teams made up of members of the community.
Corey was part of the club's academy for eight years from the age of nine.
Entry to the match at Cardiff City Stadium is free but there will be bucket collections on the day.
The money will be used to pay for a Corey Price memorial bench at Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg, in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, where he was a pupil.
A second bench is also planned at the Cardiff City Academy training ground and the club hopes the match will become an annual event.
Corey and his two friends, all from Barry, were travelling together when the collision happened near Storey Arms, Brecon on 6 March.
Mrs Challis, 66, from Merthyr Tydfil, was a passenger in the second car involved.
Seven teenage drivers were arrested on suspicion of dangerous driving after the crash have been bailed. | A football match in memory of four people who died in a car crash in Powys will be held in Cardiff. | 33113255 |
Larry Flanagan criticised how some journalists and politicians "portray a problem as a crisis".
He told the EIS annual meeting in Perth a "more considered analysis" would be useful.
Mr Flanagan spoke as delegates confirmed they may take industrial action unless their pay improves.
The union's general secretary said some teachers were fearful that in the run-up to next year's Scottish election, politicians may seek to overplay concerns to score political advantage.
Mr Flanagan said there were also misgivings about the way some popular newspapers covered education, believing they sensationalised problems but did not reflect the reality of the situation in many schools and classrooms.
Addressing delegates, Mr Flanagan said: "It has been interesting to read recently some right-wing commentators having a specific go at the EIS, with one demanding that the first minister should 'take on the EIS'. But on what basis?
"The inference which might be drawn from these comments is that somehow the EIS is the block to 'progress' however that is defined - when the reality is that as Scotland's teachers, we are the vehicle of progress."
Mr Flanagan said no-one was suggesting "that everything in Scottish education is perfect - clearly it isn't".
But he said the union was "well aware of the attainment gap" and was working jointly with the Scottish government on issues regarding child poverty.
A motion calling for a back-dated pay rise was backed overwhelmingly at the conference.
However, any ballot on industrial action is still some way off.
Moving the motion, David Baxter from Dundee said: "A restorative pay rise will boost the economy and is needed to give public sector workers the same spending power they had before austerity and pay freezes and sub-inflation level pay awards."
He added: "Teachers are working, on average, 46.5 hours on a contract that pays them for working 35 hours.
"Teachers are being worked harder, paid less and are being seriously under-valued.
"Teachers have had enough. This is the time to act."
Seconding the motion, Mike Callaghan, from Angus, said: "If we do not take action now, after at least five years of pay erosion, when will we?"
Teachers' pay is negotiated nationally through a joint body which involves unions, councils and the Scottish government. | The head of Scotland's biggest teachers' union has warned that education should not be used as a political football by critics. | 33022143 |
Coastguard and police teams were alerted after the 56-year-old got into difficulties at St Cyrus beach on Thursday evening.
Access difficulties meant an RAF helicopter was needed to get him out.
He was flown to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with suspected rib injuries. His condition is not believed to be life-threatening. | A man has been airlifted to hospital after he fell while walking on the Aberdeenshire coast. | 32084473 |
According to CNN, the former FBI director and his team of crack investigators were caught somewhat flat-footed by the recent email revelations. They were believed to have been focusing their attention on former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign chair Paul Manafort, among others.
As it turns out, the first bit of concrete public evidence that someone in the president's inner circle might be open to Russian assistance in the presidential election involved Mr Trump's eldest son.
The president, Trump Jr and his administration have quickly reformed their defences and are now dismissing the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya last June as a minor event during a hurly-burly political season, largely lost in the fog of time, that led to nothing and which they have been admirably "transparent" in discussing.
Key members of Congress seem to think otherwise, with senators like Republican Susan Collins of Maine calling for Trump Jr to be questioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa eager to bring Manafort before his Senate Judiciary Committee.
But while Congress gears up for more hearings, Mr Mueller operates quietly behind the scenes. Where might he look first? What threads, revealed in Trump Jr's emails, will he and his team tug on, to see what unravels?
Here are a few of the tempting questions he might be tempted to ask.
Nestled toward the end of music publicist Goldstone's explosive first email to Trump Jr about the "official documents and information" the Russian government supposedly had about Hillary Clinton was that this constituted just "part of" Russia's support for his father, "helped along by Aras and Emin" Agalarov, the father-son Moscow-based real estate duo.
It's a rather stunning detail for Goldstone to have offhandedly mentioned - and one that Trump Jr, in his "love it" response, seems to have breezed past with no comment.
That kind of remark, however, would cause anyone looking for evidence of a Trump-Russia campaign collusion to stop dead in their tracks and ask: "What's the rest of the story?"
Why is this British guy emailing Trump Jr?
Even if one takes Veselnitskaya at her word that she is not an agent of the Russian government and did not know or provide any damaging information about Mrs Clinton to the Trump team during the 9 June meeting, her own recent admissions raise some pressing questions.
On Tuesday she told an NBC interviewer that Trump Jr, Manafort and Kushner may have been "longing for" the dirt on their Democratic opponent.
"They wanted it so badly that they could only hear the thought that they wanted," she said.
In other words, Veselnitskaya walked out of that meeting in New York with the belief that Mr Trump's campaign both was desperately seeking damaging information about Mrs Clinton and were open to talking to Russian nationals about what they might have to offer.
Given that Veselnitskaya is at the very least a well-connected figure in Moscow, it doesn't require a great leap of faith to think this information eventually made its way to the Russian government. If the US intelligence community is to be believed, that government soon would acquire a trove of damaging information about Mrs Clinton and the Democrats as a result of hacks it co-ordinated into the Democratic National Committee server and the personal email of a senior member of Mrs Clinton's campaign team.
In the ensuing months, details from those hacks would be made public via Wikileaks at times that were particularly damaging to Mrs Clinton.
Derogatory statements about Mrs Clinton's Democratic opponent Bernie Sanders were produced the week before Democrats gathered for their national convention. Transcripts of Mrs Clinton's paid speeches to Goldman Sachs were published just days before the final presidential debate - and cited during that showdown by Mr Trump himself.
The Trump campaign wanted dirt on Mrs Clinton. The Russian government had it in spades. Mr Mueller might want to see if those dots can be connected.
Another choice tidbit in that first Goldstone email was his suggestion that he might "send this info to your father via Rhona" - a reference to Rhona Graff, the elder Trump's personal assistant.
Graff has served as the gatekeeper to Mr Trump at the Trump organisation - and, according to a profile in Politico, still is the preferred method for the president's business associates to contact him outside of White House channels.
"If I really wanted to whisper something in his ear, I would probably go to Rhona," Trump business associate John Catsimatidis told the publication.
The White House has said that Mr Trump did not know about the meeting with Veselnitskaya - despite the fact that his son, son-in-law and campaign chief were in attendance and it took place in his New York tower.
If this assertion is proven to be inaccurate, Rhona could be the key.
Trump Jr meeting scandal: The key players
The middle portion of the email chain released on Tuesday morning involved Trump Jr and Goldstone trying to set up a phone conversation with Russian pop star/businessman Emin Agalarov.
After a fair bit of wrangling the two apparently spoke, and the very next email was Goldstone informing Trump Jr he was scheduling the meeting with the "Russian government attorney" (Veselnitskaya) for later in the week.
Mr Mueller and congressional investigators may be interested in learning what Agalarov said that convinced Mr Trump to move ahead with the plans for a face-to-face gathering.
And what was the nature of the relationship between Agalarov and the Trump clan, in light of Goldstone's observation that Emin and his father were helping Russia's support of the Trump campaign?
Did Donald Trump Jr break the law?
Four days after the first email from Goldstone to Trump Jr about the incriminating information the Russia government was said to have about Mrs Clinton, candidate Trump promised to give a "major speech" the following week discussing "all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons", including Mrs Clinton's alleged misdeeds while serving as secretary of state.
"I think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting," he added.
That speech, originally announced for the Monday after the Trump camp's New York meeting with Veselnitskaya, never took place.
Was this an indication that the elder Trump may have known about the meeting - which, according to Trump Jr, did not produce the promised dirt on Mrs Clinton?
That's one more question Mr Mueller might be mulling.
Follow Anthony Zurcher on Twitter. | Now that Hurricane Junior has blown through Washington, special counsel Robert Mueller - charged with investigating possible ties between Russia and the Trump presidential campaign - faces the task of sifting through the debris. | 40564245 |
The "birth tourism" hotels hosted mainly Chinese women who paid between $15,000 (£9,756) to $50,000 for the services.
The raids focused on hotels suspected of engaging in visa fraud.
Court records said companies would coach women to falsify records and claims for their visa screening.
Birth tourism is not always illegal and many agencies openly advertise their services as "birthing centres".
The raids represent a rare federal crackdown against the widespread practice of foreign nationals giving birth in the US.
Undercover operation
It is estimated that 40,000 of 300,000 children born to foreign citizens in the US each year are the product of birth tourism, according to figures quoted in court documents filed to obtain search warrants for the schemes.
In one of the investigations into an Irvine "birthing centre", an undercover agent posed as a pregnant mother.
She was helped to provide false proof of income and a college diploma, told to enter through popular US destinations like Hawaii or Las Vegas and make reservations with hotels and tours.
A China-based "trainer" assigned to help put together the visa application asked for full-length frontal and side photo of the undercover agent's belly to see how visible her pregnancy was, according to agents.
Agents were also concerned that the schemes defrauded hospitals. Even though the women were paying birth tourism operators between $15,000 and $50,000 for their service, they paid local hospitals nothing or a reduced sum for uninsured, low-income patients, according to the affidavit.
No arrests were expected on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Times, but authorities said investigators would be seizing evidence and interviewing the mothers to build a criminal case against scheme operators. | Federal agents in California have raided more than a dozen hotels that cater to pregnant foreigners who want their children to be born US citizens. | 31717213 |
Officers have released CCTV of the woman driving her dog around Willingdon Golf Course in Eastbourne, Sussex.
One or more buggies were driven around the course, causing significant damage, police said, while one vehicle sustained up to £1,000-worth of damage.
PC James Gillies said it was "rather strange", not least because the buggies were later returned.
Not only was the dog taken for a spin, he said, but the buggies were driven back to their container about 90 minutes later - and plugged back in to charge up.
"It appears that a key to the container may have been stolen unnoticed from the club prior to Sunday night, but the locks have now been changed," he said.
PC Gillies said the woman was accompanied by another person, thought to be a man, at about 22:35 GMT.
Anyone who recognised the woman or her dog is urged to contact the force. | A woman who took her dog for a late-night joyride around a golf course in a buggy is being hunted by police. | 34861894 |
Kent Police said the attack happened shortly before 09:00 BST when a "substance" was thrown at the victim at Ian's Plaice, off Thanet Way in Whitstable.
The man was taken to hospital with facial injuries following the attack. His condition is not yet known.
No arrests have been made, a police spokesman said.
In a similar incident on Friday, a man was left with injuries to his eyes and face in a reported acid attack in Salford, Greater Manchester. | A man has been injured in a suspected acid attack at a fish and chip shop in a seaside town in Kent. | 40838760 |
The Englishman, appointed earlier this month, said that he was looking for "warriors" for next month's opening Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Nigeria.
Baxter named 25 players for the match in Uyo on 10 June - a tough start for Bafana Bafana in their bid to qualify for the 2019 finals in Cameroon after missing out on this year's tournament in Gabon.
Baxter picked only two players from his own club SuperSport United, who he leaves on June 24.
He is juggling both jobs at the moment, missing on the club's trip to Gabon for their African Confederation Cup assignment on Tuesday so he could concentrate on picking the Bafana Bafana squad.
There are six Europe-based players, including recalls for stylish midfielder Bongani Zungu, who is set to play in the Portuguese Cup final on Sunday for Vitoria Guimaraes, and striker Tokelo Rantie, who scored twice in Uyo in November 2014.
"We have players who have been outstanding in the Premier Soccer League the whole season, and we also have continuity with a number of players that Safa has invested much time in. I believe we have a good mix," said Baxter, who is back as coach for a second time.
He added: "We have also looked at aerial strength and tried to spread that well throughout the team; it means if we can have good preparation before we go, then we have a squad that is capable of giving Nigeria a good game."
South Africa have never beaten the Super Eagles in a competitive international but in the 2015 Nations Cup qualifiers gave away a two-goal lead in a 2-2 draw.
Squad:
Goalkeepers: Darren Keet (Bidvest Wits), Itumeleng Khune (Kaizer Chiefs), Ronwen Williams (SuperSport United)
Defenders: Rivaldo Coetzee (Ajax Cape Town), Lorenzo Gordinho (Kaizer Chiefs), Sifiso Hlanti, Thulani Hlatshwayo (both Bidvest Wits), Tebego Langerman (Mamelodi Sundowns), Mulomowandau Mathoho (Kaizer Chiefs), Abubakar Mobara (Orlando Pirates), Ramahlwe Mphahlele (Kaizer Chiefs)
Midfielders: Keegan Dolly (Montpellier, France), Dean Furman (SuperSport United), Andile Jali (Oostende, Belgium), Hlompho Kekana (Mamelodi Sundowns), Kamohelo Mokotjo (Twente Enschede, Netherlands), Aubrey Ngoma (Cape Town City), Bongani Zungu (Vitoria Guimaraes, Portugal), Themba Zwane (Mamelodi Sundowns)
Forwards: Kermit Erasmus (Racing Lens, France), Thamsanqa Gabuza (Orlando Pirates), Lebogang Manyama (Cape Town City), Tokelo Rantie (Genclerbirligi, Turkey), Percy Tau, Sibusiso Vilakazi (both Mamelodi Sundowns). | New South Africa coach Stuart Baxter did not spring any surprises when he named his first squad in Johannesburg on Thursday. | 40044849 |
An 18-strong team led by the Dundee-based South Georgia Heritage Trust will set off for the British Overseas Territory in January.
They will spend three months laying out 95 tonnes of poisoned bait.
The work is part of a five-year project to eradicate rodents threatening wildlife at the seabird sanctuary.
South Georgia is one of the world's most important breeding sites for birds including penguins, albatrosses, and unique species like the South Georgia Pintail and South Georgia Pipit.
Rats and mice which arrived on whaling and sealing ships have endangered the local bird population since Captain Cook discovered and named the island in 1775.
The rodents prey on nests, eating the eggs and chicks of many native birds, and spread right across the island partly due to glaciers, which previously held them in check, receding.
An international effort known as the Habitat Restoration Project is being led from Dundee, but has support from groups in Norway and the United States.
The bait used to tackle the rats was manufactured in Wisconsin, USA, and the three pilots who fly the project's helicopters are from New Zealand.
A successful test run was completed in March 2011, and the second phase of the project in 2013 succeeded in removing invasive rodents from almost two-thirds of South Georgia.
In the final phase, "Team Rat" will use three helicopters to spread 95 tonnes of bait across an area of 364 square kilometres (140 square miles) to finish off the rats.
The helicopters, all former air ambulances, will be in the air for almost 450 hours, distributing 260 bait pods from seven or eight forward bases to be established on the island.
Project director Prof Tony Martin, from the University of Dundee, will lead the 18-strong team when they set off from the Falklands aboard the RRS Ernest Shackleton in the New Year.
He said: "Once you have experienced the magic of this extraordinary wildlife wilderness, you cannot ignore the fragility of this unique environment and the challenges it faces.
"It is a man-made problem, but we have a solution in our grasp."
With 65% of the island already baited, the South Georgia Heritage Trust said the operation was already five times larger than any other rodent eradication area ever tackled worldwide.
After the final baiting, which takes place during the island's brief sub-Antarctic summer, the South Georgia government and the Heritage Trust will monitor the island for two years for any sign of mice or rats.
If the operation is successful, the island could be rodent-free for the first time in more than 200 years. | A Scottish charity is gearing up for the final phase of a £7.5m project to eradicate invasive rats and mice from a sub-Antarctic island. | 30296116 |
27 November 2015 Last updated at 01:04 GMT
As one of the BBC's 100 Women 2015, she talks to Zeinab Badawi about justice, gender, and race.
She also discusses an institution that is rarely out of the news.
The ICC's critics say it is slow and expensive, and it is also controversial because so far all its cases have come from Africa.
Our 100 Women season showcases two weeks of inspirational stories about the BBC 100 Women and others who defy stereotypes around the world.
Like us on Facebook and follow us on Instagram using the hashtag #100Women. Listen to the programmes here. | Fatou Bensouda, a lawyer from Gambia, is the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. | 34931360 |
Finnish electricity company TVO says the Olkiluoto 3 plant will not be ready by the latest deadline of 2014 and a new timetable has not yet been set.
The plant will be powered by a new generation of nuclear technology called the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR).
China looks set to be the first country to operate an EPR reactor with one due to enter service in 2013.
Olkiluoto 3, originally due to be ready by 2009, is being built by French nuclear company Areva and German engineering giant Siemens.
In a statement, TVO said it was "not pleased with the situation" although solutions to various problems were being found one by one and work was "progressing".
It said it was waiting for a new launch date from Areva and Siemens.
Work on the site in south-west Finland began in 2005 but has been hit by repeated delays and has run way over budget.
Correspondents say that the French designed EPR is the big hope for a so-called third generation of reactors, said to offer increased safety and better economic competitiveness.
However, a similar project in Flamanville in northern France is itself running four years behind schedule.
China is building two such reactors at Taishan in the south-east of the country with the first due to enter service at the end of next year and the second a year later. | The launch of a flagship nuclear power station in Finland has been delayed for a third time, officials say. | 18862422 |
Butchart's time of 13 minutes 13.30 seconds ensured a second Olympic qualifying standard.
He must finish in the top two at the British Championships in Birmingham next month to make the Games in Rio.
"Getting the second Olympic qualifier was the priority," Butchart told Scottish Athletics.
"Now I can go to Birmingham with the pressure off in terms of chasing the time."
Butchart beat Muir's record, which had stood for 36 years, by over four seconds.
"I didn't think about (the record) in California a couple of weeks ago when I went close but my coach and I did say last week that if the race in Holland was as fast as we thought it might be, then there may well be a chance to PB and take the record," added Butchart.
"Others can still spoil the party for me, I guess, but I definitely think that for the likes of myself, we've take away one of the barriers.
"The race was fast and I knew with about 800m to go that I'd get the national record. It wasn't the worst feeling in the world, I must admit!"
Butchart was troubled on the last lap of his race by loose laces in his spikes, eventually kicking one shoe off and completing his record-breaking run.
"Before you ask, I had them tied properly - nice and tight - at the start," he said.
"But it was wet and the rain seemed to loosen them as the race went on. It wasn't quite like running in flip-flops but it was getting to be a problem.
"With 400m to go I looked down and the right shoe was completely loose and my heel was in danger of coming free. I just had to kick that one off and away and get on with it. I was thinking, this isn't the best time for this to be happening.
"But you just get on with things, don't you? Lots of things can happen in athletics and you have to try and stay focused."
Earlier on Sunday, Eilish McColgan ran 15.16.51 in her 5000m race to finish sixth and earn a second Olympic standard. Josephine Moultrie was in the same race and clocked 16.05 for 11th place.
Steph Twell raced in the 1500m and recorded 4.10.90 for seventh place. There were sixth places for Allan Smith and Guy Learmonth in the high jump (2.15m) and 800m (1.47.23).
Meanwhile, in Rabat, Lynsey Sharp went to the top of the British rankings with her first 800m outdoor run of the season, clocking 1.59.51 to finish fifth. | Despite running the final lap in one shoe, Andrew Butchart broke Nat Muir's 5000m Scottish national record at the FBK Games in Holland. | 36361140 |
Frank and Mary Finlay bought Molly in November 2015 thinking she was female.
But they soon discovered she lifted her leg in an unusual way when going to the toilet and asked vets to investigate.
They found that Molly had male testicles, which had not descended, and female genitalia with a poorly-formed "vestigial" penis.
"Some folk would use the term intersex, some would say non-binary, in that she is not male or female, but the correct scientific term is that she is a male pseudohermaphrodite," says vet Ross Allan.
He operated on Molly when it became apparent that the anatomical differences were causing problems.
Mr Allan told BBC Scotland's Kaye Adams Programme: "It is extremely rare.
"In the literature there have been about 15 cases published in total.
"In 15 years of doing this job I have seen this in Molly and in no other dog at all."
The Glasgow vet says his colleagues in the profession had not come across it either.
Mr Finlay told Kaye Adams: "When we got Molly we believed her to be a bitch.
"I noticed in the house she would squat to do her pees and outside she would lift her leg."
He mentioned it to the vet at Mr Allan's Pollokshaws surgery and they raised possibility of Molly being hermaphrodite.
Mr Finlay says: "They did scans and x-rays and eventually she was operated on in May 2016 at six months old."
The vet says they diagnosed Molly quite early but decided not to operate until the dog had grown.
He says: "We did x-rays to establish where Molly's urethra went - the tube from her bladder to the outside world - what route that took.
"What transpired was that although Molly looked to be female, her urethra followed the route as though she was a boy.
"She did not have a properly formed penis.
"She actually had the female external genitalia, as it were, but in the male formation.
"That was the problem. It was not normal anatomy and it was getting inflamed and so on."
The vet says that as time went on Molly "was starting to get interested in soft cushions" and behave more like a male dog.
"But not having the correct anatomy to do that, that was going to cause more problems as well," he said.
"The problem was that if we did not operate this would have exacerbated and got worse over time."
The surgery removed the "vestigial" penis and created a female opening in Molly's groin.
Mrs Finlay says: "It was a worry because it was big operation.
"She was only six months old. She was tiny. When we got her she was only 11in long and six inches high. There wasn't much of her."
Mrs Finlay says: "The surgery was quite nerve-wracking. My daughter Joy was saying 'don't worry mum everything's going to be fine'.
"I was up at night worrying and hoping.
"When she came home with us she was at the bottom of our bed, with her own blanket and she lay there crying."
There was a problem with haemorrhaging but Molly stayed with the vet for a number of days and made a full recovery.
"That was quite frightening but she came through it," says Mrs Finlay.
It has now been almost a year since Molly's operation.
Mrs Finlay says: "She is a fantastic wee dog, great with the grandchildren. Everyone that comes in gets their ears licked. She just runs at people and licks their ears."
Mr Allan says: "Molly is Molly and she is happy and fit and healthy, that is the main thing." | Molly is an "extremely unusual" dog, according to the vet who discovered the Jack Russell terrier puppy was an hermaphrodite. | 39703329 |
He followed his first-innings 108 with 105 not out, including a six and 11 fours, and shared a stand of 114 with Chesney Hughes (50).
Wayne Madsen weighed in with 43 before he was bowled by Ivan Thomas (2-68).
The hosts eventually declared on 234-5 following a rain delay, and Kent progressed to 30-0 by the close.
Godleman's fine knock was only the fifth time a Derbyshire batsman has hit three centuries in successive innings and the first since Kim Barnett in 1990.
His half-century took 80 balls and he moved carefully to three figures with a single off spinner James Tredwell.
The teams were forced to take an early tea at 15.15 BST because of bad light rain and Derbyshire opted to declare when play resumed two and a half hours later, but they were unable to separate Daniel Bell-Drummond (18 not out) and Rob Key (11) before stumps. | Derbyshire batsman Billy Godleman hit a third successive Championship century as they set Kent a target of 329 on day three at the County Ground. | 34033324 |
It has taken just over three years to build the facility in Iskandar, Joho, and will house to about 3,000 students.
The campus is made up of two buildings, centred around an atrium known as the 'Heartspace' - a space where students can relax.
Spokesman Trevor Hawkins said the campus would promote research and economic growth in Malaysia.
It joins the University of Southampton, which opened a campus on the same site in 2013.
The opening ceremony was attended by businessman and co-chairman of Reading F.C, Sir Jon Madjeski. | The University of Reading has officially opened its £25m Malaysia campus. | 35658862 |
It followed an incident on the motorway near Eaglesfield in December 2014 in which Faranza Kousar, of Glasgow, died.
Stephen Clarke, 59, from Wednesbury, was on a petition in private before Sheriff Scott Pattison on a charge involving dangerous driving.
No plea or declaration was made and he was released on bail. | A man has appeared in court in Dumfries after an accident on the A74(M) in southern Scotland in which a 39-year-old woman lost her life. | 36092657 |
It reported a net profit of $44.5m (£26.7m) in the October-to-December period, up from $2.4m a year ago.
The numbers come amid reports that Sina is planning to list Weibo in the US and that it plans to raise nearly $500m by selling Weibo shares.
Weibo claims that it has over 500 million registered users.
China is the world's biggest internet market and social networking sites have become increasingly popular with users.
As a result, many firms have turned to the medium to advertise their products and services in an attempt to attract new customers, helping boost growth of companies such as Sina.
According to the firm's latest numbers, advertising revenues at Weibo rose to $56m during the fourth quarter - a 163% jump from a year earlier.
"The strong performance of Weibo's advertising and value-added services in the fourth quarter allowed us to end 2013 with strong top line and bottom line growth," said Charles Chao, chief executive of Sina.
However, a report published last month indicated that the number of Weibo users declined steeply in 2013.
The China Internet Network Information Center said in its annual report that almost 28 million people abandoned Weibo last year.
The fall marked the site's first drop in usage amid a government crackdown on so-called 'rumour mongers' online.
Weibo's surge in popularity gave users new opportunities for self-expression, but it also attracted the attention of authorities who moved swiftly to silence voices online.
A law was introduced to allow the Chinese government to jail microbloggers and dozens more were arrested.
Web users are believed to have migrated to mobile messaging platforms.
Mr Chao of Sina said the firm "will continue to focus on growing Weibo's user base and user engagement" in the current year. | Profits at Sina Corp, owner of China's largest Twitter-like site Weibo, surged in the fourth quarter, boosted by a jump in advertising revenue. | 26333438 |
Olivia Pinkney, Sussex Police deputy chief constable, said the officers, who are new in service, were working on the cordon some distance from the scene.
She said the video did not show details of the site but a message attached to it was inappropriate and offensive.
She said families of the victims were disappointed to learn of the incident.
Eleven people died when a vintage Hawker Hunter jet crashed on to the A27 during the Shoreham Airshow on 22 August.
Ms Pinkney said the force had apologised to the relatives and had admitted the families had been caused unnecessary distress.
The footage and message were sent on social media to a colleague who reported the pair, she said.
"Those officers have let themselves down, of course, but most importantly they have let down the 11 families of the local men who died that day," Ms Pinkney said.
The police chief said she had thought about suspending the young constables, who are still in their probationary period, but she said she wanted them to "keep their shoulder to the wheel".
The officers, based in Brighton, have been assigned duties away from the public.
Ms Pinkney said the allegation impacted on everyone affected by the crash and detracted from the professionalism of hundreds of colleagues.
She also said she was disappointed and upset by having to investigate two colleagues over the incident. | Two police officers being investigated for gross misconduct after the Shoreham air crash filmed themselves near the scene, it has been revealed. | 34184963 |
Daimler uses the refrigerant, called R-134a, in the air-conditioning units of Mercedes cars.
The Commission says Germany failed to apply an EU directive called MAC, which requires the use of a refrigerant "with less global warming potential".
Daimler says the new chemical, R1234yf, catches fire more easily.
The court case comes as German car firm Volkswagen remains under huge international pressure over its failure to comply with car emission standards.
According to the Commission, Daimler's safety concerns about R1234yf "were not shared by any other car manufacturer and were rejected by Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, KBA) and the [Commission's] Joint Research Centre".
If Germany loses the case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) - the EU's top court - it could be liable for a big fine.
The MAC Directive - short for mobile air-conditioning systems - says fluorinated greenhouse gases with a global warming potential (GPW) higher than 150 must no longer be used.
Since 2011 MAC systems in cars have had to comply with the directive. | The EU Commission is taking Germany to court because the carmaker Daimler is still using a coolant chemical deemed harmful to the environment. | 35069975 |
In March, Gawker was ordered to pay wrestler Hulk Hogan $140m (£97m) for invading his privacy by publishing a sex tape.
Mr Hogan's legal bill was paid by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, who said he wanted to curb Gawker's "bullying".
Mr Thiel clashed with Gawker in 2007 over an article that outed him as gay.
He has been criticised for using his wealth to try to silence the media by giving financial help to Mr Hogan and others that Gawker had written about. Mr Thiel has described his actions as "philanthropic".
Now in an interview with the BBC, Mr Denton has said the venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder should accept that his position means he will be scrutinised in public.
"If you're a billionaire and you have power and access to the media, you should expect now and then to get the occasional critical piece," said Mr Denton.
"A wiser approach to getting angry and trying to sue a media company out of existence is to... develop a thicker skin."
Mr Denton said the 2007 Gawker article was not the only reason Mr Thiel disliked the media.
"My guess is that he has been more upset by the mockery of his political views," he told the BBC. "He is a supporter of Donald Trump, he is a libertarian, he resists the interference by terrestrial governments."
Mr Thiel was among the "most extreme" of tech luminaries, Mr Denton said.
Asked about the $140m judgement against Gawker, he said: "I'm confident that when this case comes before judges in a higher court that people will find again there is a place for critical journalism and it deserves to be protected.
"There are substantial protections for the free press in the United States and there's protection for criticism."
He defended Gawker's journalism saying it had "written a lot of stories, broken a lot of stories and annoyed a lot of powerful people."
There was a "need for critical voices especially in the modern world, especially in the United States", he said. | The boss of Gawker Media, Nick Denton, has said he is "confident" of succeeding in an appeal in a legal case that threatens the group's survival. | 36443950 |
A Kensington Palace statement said they were prompted to take action after the man was spotted near the 14-month-old and his nanny in a central London park.
The couple are not taking legal action at this stage, but may consider it in the future, the statement said.
Lawyers for the photographer, Niraj Tanna, said he had done nothing wrong and would continue with his work.
The statement from the palace said there was "reason to suspect that the individual may have been placing Prince George under surveillance and monitoring his daily routines for a period of time."
BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said palace officials believed the photographer's actions amounted to "stalking" and that lawyers were seeking an assurance he would desist.
"If they do not receive these assurances that this behaviour will stop, they will then consider options of legal action," he said.
Our correspondent added that the man had been warned off last week by royal protection officers and that he had also been spoken to "over a number of years" about his behaviour.
Not for the first time, this is Prince William attempting to define what constitutes his family's private life as he struggles - in the face of intense global media interest - to carve out as near as normal an existence as he can for his toddler son, who will one day be king.
In doing so, he's picked a very public fight with a photographer, Niraj Tanna, who is keen and determined to stand his ground.
Mr Tanna's defence is that he's entitled to take pictures in a public park and he hasn't followed, harassed or intimidated either George or his nanny.
William's next step could be court action.
In recent years, royals and court cases have proved to be uncomfortable bedfellows.
You can read more from Peter Hunt on his BBC royal and diplomatic correspondent page.
However, lawyers for the photographer Niraj Tanna have issued a seven-page letter contesting the claims.
The letter says Mr Tanna strongly objects to what he calls "the groundless allegations".
It says it is "wholly without foundation" to accuse him of following or spying on them.
It goes on to say that press photographers are "fully entitled" to take images in public places such as parks, and that any legal action will be "vigorously contested".
It adds: "He will continue to undertake his work with the concerns of the Prince's parents very much in mind."
Since his birth in July 2013, the royal couple have posed for a number of official photographs with Prince George.
He has also been pictured accompanying his parents on state visits and with the palace's consent at other events.
The statement from the Kensington Palace said: "The duke and duchess understand the particular public role that Prince George will one day inherit but while he is young, he must be permitted to lead as ordinary a life as possible."
It added: "No parent would tolerate the suspicion of someone pursuing and harassing their child and carer."
Maria Teresa Turrion Borrallo was named as the prince's nanny in March when the palace appealed for her privacy to be respected.
The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) editors' code of practice states that young children "must not be interviewed or photographed on issues involving their own or another child's welfare unless a custodial parent or similarly responsible adult consents".
IPSO replaced the defunct Press Complaints Commission last month.
Before the royal couple married, the Middleton family raised privacy concerns about alleged harassment by press agency photographers.
And in 2012, lawyers for the pair also took action against French gossip magazine Closer for publishing topless photos of the duchess. | Lawyers for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have asked a photographer to "cease harassing" Prince George. | 29460858 |
Writing in the Guardian, the PM and former TUC general secretary Brendan Barber said a vote to leave would be a "disaster for working people".
The two men said jobs would be lost and wages hit by the "shock" of a UK exit.
But Employment Minister Priti Patel is to say in a speech that businesses are hampered by EU red tape and leaving would give them "freedom to prosper".
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In her speech to retailers, she will say government attempts to free small business from EU regulations have been "frustrated by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels".
The UK will vote on 23 June on whether to remain part of the EU.
In their article, Mr Cameron and Mr Barber say "very special circumstances" have brought them together, saying they are "united in our conviction that Britain - and Britain's workers - will be better off in a reformed Europe than out on our own".
They claim equal pay for women, paid holidays, maternity rights, equal treatment for part-time workers and protection for agency workers "could all be at risk" if the UK leaves.
Pressure on the pound would also lead to higher prices, they claim, saying this is a "risk working people and the poorest in our country simply cannot afford".
The joint article comes after ministers were accused in the Commons of making concessions in their Trade Union Bill in order to win unions' support for remaining in the EU.
After changes including a review of e-voting in strike ballots were unveiled, former Labour minister Kevan Jones said the "climbdown" on trade unions reflected the PM's "realisation" that he would "have to keep them onside".
Downing Street said the EU referendum was "a separate issue", saying many unions had already set out their views on the subject.
Vote Leave, meanwhile, has produced what it calls a "new dossier" which it says shows how the EU's single market is "failing" small businesses.
In her speech, Ms Patel will tell the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers: "Following a vote to leave the EU, we could strip out EU laws that hold small firms back.
"We could roll back the frontiers of the EU and work with business to replace costly and bureaucratic EU laws with sensible and proportionate British laws.
"We could make sure that businesses can thrive and prosper as we introduce one of the most flexible and liberating regulatory regimes anywhere in the world." | Prime Minister David Cameron has joined forces with a former trade union leader to make his case for staying in the EU. | 36155704 |
Amateur rocket enthusiasts have gathered in Scotland to mark 30 years of aiming for the skies.
International Rocket Week 2016 traces its roots back to the first Scottish Rocket Weekend in 1986.
Rocketeers coming together in Scotland have a base camp near Paisley and launch to heights of up to 16,000 ft (4,876m) from a farm near Largs. | . | 37185211 |
The woman, in her 30s, was approached from behind and struck in the face before being sexually assaulted in Langdale Common, Witney at about 03:00 BST on Saturday.
Police said the offender, who wore a black jacket, fled after possibly being disturbed by other people.
Officers have appealed for information from anyone in the area at the time.
Det Insp Larry Johnson, from Thames Valley Police, said: "I would also like to speak to anyone who was in the area of Witan Way, close to the entrance to Langdale Common and near a kebab van, as they may also have information which could assist our investigation."
"I understand this incident could cause the community some concerns, therefore additional patrols are taking place," he added. | A man is being sought by police after a woman was sexually assaulted on parkland in Oxfordshire. | 36454885 |
Sudanese TV showed the triumphant arrival of the president back home in Khartoum, travelling around the airport in an open-top Landrover, with people chasing the vehicle and singing, "With our blood and souls we shall defend you, Bashir!"
Sudanese papers are painting his return as the final nail in the ICC's coffin after years of failing to have him arrested.
"Large crowds welcome Bashir and bury the ICC" reads a headline in Al-Ra'y al-Amm.
Alwan's editorial says smugly that "His Excellency the President, his advisors and his close circle knew that he would leave and come back without them touching a hair on his head."
Columnist Bashir Hamid Jum'ah sets a general tone of gushing praise in Al-Mijhar al-Siyasi, saying that the president is now a "star".
"Every summit will now want to have him as a participant, because he will give it a standing and a sense of glamour".
Al-Watan's editorial thanks South Africa and the AU for proving they are "strong willed in confronting the new colonialism."
Other Sudanese commentators say that the incident leaves the ICC's reputation in tatters.
Dhia al-Din Balal writes in Al-Sudani: "The fact that most African countries who are signatories to the Rome Statute of the Hague Court received President Bashir means in practical terms that they have left the court's statute; actions always speak louder than words".
However, Al-Maydan newspaper, the mouthpiece of the opposition Sudanese Communist Party, defies the general tone of bravado, insisting that "Dafur crimes will not be dropped due to the passage of time."
South African newspapers are leading with AU chairperson Robert Mugabe's comments that President Zuma had allegedly promised the AU that Bashir would not be arrested. South Africa's Times Live illustrates the story with a picture of the two leaders grinning.
The Mail and Guardian further quotes Mugabe railing against the ICC, saying, "We don't want it in this region at all... The ICC was there to help us try cases, especially cases of violence in any country during an election, but those who signed are now regretting it."
The Cape Times focuses on a call by the governing African National Congress (ANC) for South Africa - and indeed the entire continent - to leave the ICC.
But a commentator in the Cape Argus paper is worried that South Africa's need to win friends and influence others in Africa is trumping its international obligations.
"It is prepared to snub those who believed South Africa was still committed to international justice... The real winner is impunity," writes Jeremy Sarkin.
"Hopefully, the courts remain the beacon of hope and ensure that South Africa is held to its international obligations, and that there are consequences for it not doing so. The world needs an ICC that can hold accountable those who commit international crimes. "
The New York Times points the finger of blame for President Bashir's escape squarely on Pretoria.
"This could not have happened without the complicity of the South African government, which deserves international condemnation," it says in an editorial. "The biggest losers are the innocent victims of Mr Bashir's cruel policies in Darfur who are still being denied justice."
The paper warns that "South Africa cannot help but compromise its leadership position in Africa if it insists on reneging on its international commitments and protecting ruthless leaders accused of war crimes."
The UK's Independent has no illusions that South Africa will be held to account, saying the ICC has no teeth. "Realpolitik usually triumphs over international justice. Like so many other flawed institutions, the ICC is all we have, and we should support it, but it is not much of a threat to anyone."
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Sudanese media are treating President Omar al-Bashir as a hero after he avoided being arrested in South Africa on the orders of the International Criminal Court (ICC), while commentators elsewhere deplore the decline in the court's reputation and clout. | 33148906 |
Alan McBride, from the victims' group Wave, said although police had acted within the law at the time, there was a "moral obligation" to inform relatives.
Mr McBride urged police to contact all of the families affected as quickly as possible to allay fears.
The PSNI has apologised for the distress caused to families.
The body parts and tissue samples were retained as part of police investigations into suspicious and unexplained deaths between 1960 and 2005.
The cases, including 23 related to the Troubles, were revealed as part of a UK-wide audit of all police forces.
Mr McBride told BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme that although he personally did not know any of the 64 families whose loved ones' body parts had been retained, there was fear among many relatives that police would knock on their door.
"For these families to be told all these years later, when perhaps they have buried their loved ones and even gone through the grieving process and moved on - the potential here for re-traumatisation for some families I think is immense," he said.
Mr McBride called on the PSNI to ensure family liaison officers, or police with the "appropriate skillset" carried out personal visits to the relatives.
Meanwhile, the mother of a murdered schoolgirl - who had consented to the retention of part of her daughter's body as part of the police investigation - said it was very important that families were told the truth.
Margaret McAlorum's 16-year-old daughter, Megan, died from head injuries after she was assaulted in 2004.
Mrs McAlorum said the PSNI had kept her family informed "every step of the way" and had fully explained the need to retain the teenager's head as evidence.
The family later held a second burial for Megan.
Her mother said families would understand why body parts had to be kept in certain circumstances to help with investigations, but she said it would be much easier to cope if they were kept informed.
"If someone had rapped my door now, I would be extremely, extremely stressed," she said.
Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton said the PSNI had acted within the law and that all the items had been retained for "police purposes", but he admitted relatives should have been informed.
He explained that until 2006 police were under no legal obligation to inform relatives.
Officers are now visiting affected families to advise them of their options.
ACC Hamilton said families "needs, wishes, trauma and upset" were at the heart of its response, but admitted that the matter could have been better handled.
"We offer an apology for the upset we are causing to families," he said.
"The problem has been that there was no review mechanism in place, there was no monitoring or audit so that decisions could be made... about how we would handle those pieces of human tissue, once the criminal justice element had been fulfilled.
He said police were satisfied that there was a "good reason" for retaining the items, a decision that was largely based on the judgement of pathologists.
ACC Hamilton said most of the samples will be suitable to be handed back or dealt with in accordance with family's wishes.
"Even if it does need to be retained, there still needs to be that important conversation with families to explain that we have these items and why we have it and what we intend to do with it," he said.
State Pathologist for Northern Ireland, Prof Jack Crane explained that material would be kept for two reasons.
"One would be that it would assist or help us determine the precise cause of death, and the other one would be for evidential purposes," he said.
"In many cases we carry out, we don't feel the need to retain material."
Prof Crane said some of these cases had not gone through the criminal justice system and could still possibly come to court.
"We would be failing in our duty if there was something that could possibly have evidential value and we had destroyed or disposed off that might still be required," he said.
"There are a number of old cases being examined by Historical Enquiries Team and on some occasions they have come to us to ask us what material we might have that may be of assistance to them."
Last week, it emerged that two police forces in England - Hampshire and City of London - kept body parts and tissue samples in 89 suspicious and unexplained death cases without notifying relatives.
The legislation was changed in 2006 making the retention of body tissue illegal. | There is fear among victims' families following the revelation that police kept body parts and tissue in 64 death investigations, a campaigner has said. | 18086604 |
Payne, 27, who needed a top-10 finish to qualify for Rio, clocked one hour 58 minutes and 58.53 seconds in Kazan.
Aurelie Muller of France finished 49.3 secs faster to take gold, ahead of Dutchwoman Sharon Van Rouwendaal and Brazil's Ana Chunha, who was third.
"It's not the result I wanted, but it's not the end," Payne told BBC Sport.
The two-time world champion and team-mate Danielle Huskisson, who was 35th, will have a second opportunity to qualify for Rio at the Olympic qualification event in Portugal in June next year.
Fellow Briton Jack Burnell secured his place in Rio by finishing fifth in the men's event on Monday.
Payne, the 2008 Beijing Olympic silver medallist, had been undecided about whether to continue in the sport after finishing fourth at London 2012.
"I've only been back in full-time training for a year and maybe I've raced too much or too little," she told BBC Sport.
"I'm technically old at 27 in the sport, but am still learning and trying out new things all of the time so I think there's a lot to build on from here."
Huskisson will battle Payne for the sole position Britain can now attain for the women's 10km race at the Rio Olympics and believes officials can do more to ensure fairer competition.
"Most of the girls seem to think it's rugby rather than open water swimming," said Huskisson, who received a yellow card whilst trying to maintain position.
"There are definitely favoured swimmers, but there's nothing you can do but go out and swim as hard as you can, which I'll continue to do." | Keri-Anne Payne missed out an automatic place at the 2016 Olympics, finishing 15th in the World Championship 10km marathon swimming event in Russia. | 33693397 |
The nun became pregnant after she was raped by a man carrying out repairs at the convent.
She alleges that, when her fellow sisters found out about her pregnancy, they pressured her to leave the convent and the Church.
Her lawyer says the sisters blamed her for having been raped.
She is suing the Archbishopric of Santiago and the Order of St Clare.
The Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago, Rt Rev Jorge Concha, said that the nun had left the convent "voluntarily" and the Archbishopric had only found out about the rape and subsequent events on 27 March.
The nun told Chilean TV that she had joined the order in 2002 when she was 20 years old.
She said she lived inside a convent in the capital Santiago, with very little contact with the outside world.
But in 2012, a group of men was allowed into the convent to carry out some repairs. They lived and slept in the convent for the duration of the renovations and the nun was assigned to provide them with food.
One of them raped her, a fact she kept secret from her fellow sisters "out of fear and shame, because a sense of shame came over me and didn't let me express myself," she told 24 Horas.
Three months on, the sisters found out that she was pregnant.
"[I got] zero support, they told me I was to blame, that I did it on purpose," the nun told Chilean TV.
"I told them I was innocent, but my fellow sisters were very cruel to me."
She alleges that they pressured her to leave the convent and the Church.
"They wanted me to hand over my habit, but I wasn't going to do that," she said.
While she did eventually leave the convent she says she refused to sign any papers saying she would leave the Church.
She says she sought shelter with a friend and after giving birth, put her child up for adoption.
In 2015, her rapist was found guilty and sentenced to five years in jail.
Her lawyer says it is time for the Archbishopric of Santiago "to own up to its responsibility" in the case.
"She is a nun living in a convent who was raped and instead of being protected she was blamed for what happened," her lawyer Camila Maturana said.
"In a convent, where nuns are kept separate from worldly life, men shouldn't stay overnight," Ms Maturana said.
"All religious institutions in a diocese fall under the aegis of a bishop, in this case it's the Archbishop of Santiago," she added, to explain the decision to sue the Archbishopric as well as the Order of St Clare.
The nun said she felt "abandoned by my only family and my Church, which I have always defended like a lioness".
Bishop Concha said the Archbishopric had been unaware of the nun's plight until 27 March. | A nun in Chile is suing the religious order she belonged to after its members pressured her to leave her convent over her pregnancy. | 39501530 |
Oshoala won both the Golden Boot and Golden Ball - as Player of the Tournament - at last year's Under-20 World Cup Finals, and becomes the first player from Africa to compete in the Women's Super League.
"We beat a number of top American and European clubs to Asisat's signature," said Beard as he welcomed the 20-year-old striker. "Asisat is one of the best young players in the world."
In addition to her star performances in the U20 World Cup, Oshoala also collected the Golden Ball award as the senior Nigeria team qualified for the 2015 World Cup by winning the African Women's Championship.
And she was named 2014's African Women's Player of the Year and Youth Player of the Year after helping her club side Rivers Angels become Nigerian champions.
Beard added: "She's not the finished article yet but she's got pace, power and she certainly knows where the goal is.
"I watched her at the Under-20 World Cup, where she was sensational, and we had early dialogue with her about coming to Liverpool.
"There's been plenty of other interest in her in the last few months, but she chose to join us and I'm absolutely delighted."
Oshoala, nicknamed 'Seedorf' after Dutch legend Clarence, said: "To be able to join the reigning Super League champions is absolutely fantastic.
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"Liverpool Ladies are a massive club with some fantastic players who I believe can help me to develop my game to the next level.
"It was also a big incentive to be able to play in the Women's Champions League, which is a huge competition that I'm confident we can do well in."
Oshoala is Beard's fourth signing of the window after he also added Satara Murray, Ingrid Ryland and Line Krogedal Smorsgard to his squad.
Key players Lucy Bronze and Amanda da Costa have departed, to Manchester City and Washington Spirit respectively.
But the manager reckoned: "With the addition of these four new players I believe this is the best squad I've ever put together.
"We've won the league for the last two years and we'll aim to do it again, although next season is going to be the most competitive ever.
"Clubs like Manchester City and Notts County have recruited really well and I can see four or five teams battling it out for the title.
"We can be one of them, especially if we can avoid the dreadful injury problems we had early on last season." | New Liverpool signing Asisat Oshoala is "one of the best young players in the world", says Reds boss Matt Beard. | 30948874 |
The Devon side, second in the Premiership, stumbled to a bonus-point win over Sale on Saturday.
"I'm kind of pleased that it should be a bit of a kick in the backside, but without us losing any points," he said.
"We haven't had a weekend off since the very first week of the season now, for 30 weekends."
As well as their 18 league games, Baxter's side have competed in the European Champions Cup this term and reached the Anglo-Welsh Cup final.
Leicester are the only other Premiership side not to have had a spare week all season.
"We need a bit of time just relaxing and enjoying ourselves because, although we've had some good results, have the lads really been able to celebrate them? Probably not," Baxter added to BBC Radio Devon.
"Now they genuinely can, and then we can move on.
"If we're not prepared to set ourselves some higher standards [than the Sale match], we're going to have some tough games up ahead." | Exeter Chiefs head coach Rob Baxter says his players deserve their upcoming weekend off to celebrate some of the results they have had this season. | 39410675 |
A report into HMP Dovegate also found high levels of violence, insufficient staffing, unjustified segregation and poor visiting arrangements.
It was, though, praised for good living conditions and resettlement work.
The Category B jail houses about 1,060 male prisoners and is run by the private firm Serco.
Chief Inspector of Prisons, Nick Hardwick said the jail's performance "had dipped" since its last inspection in 2013 under a new management team.
The report said there had been an influx of prisoners convicted of serious violent offences, and a large number of men who had to be separated from the rest for safety reasons, including gang affiliations.
The use of force by staff was higher than average, attendance at activities was poor, and skills provision was inconsistent.
Mr Hardwick said Dovegate had struggled to respond to the "destabilising impact" of new psychoactive substances.
"There remains much to do," he said.
Michael Spurr, from the National Offender Management Service, said: "The prison is working hard to tackle violence, and is working with Ofsted to improve education outcomes for prisoners."
HMP Dovegate houses a 200-bed therapeutic unit, which is subject to a separate inspection report. | The availability of new psychoactive substances has led to debt and bullying inside a Staffordshire prison, a report has found. | 32903337 |
The London businessman has reassured staff that "all payments and wages due to themselves, players and football creditors would be paid in full this week, subject to Conference status".
The Football Conference say they need concrete assurances from the club.
If football creditors are not paid by Saturday's Conference Annual General Meeting, the club risk expulsion.
I want to see the club back in the Football League as soon as possible and I'm confident that we can do that
Conference general manager Dennis Strudwick said they did not want to expel any member club, but had to protect the integrity of the competition.
"We're not here to put clubs out of business, we're here to protect our members," he told BBC Hereford & Worcester.
"We have made it very clear to Hereford what is expected. They have to pay their football creditors and, thereafter, the board will consider its options.
"They have just had a winding-up petition, which has been adjourned, and given them a bit of time, but the debt is still there.
"They then face another winding-up order in a short period of time and have a number of football creditors.
"We need compelling evidence that Hereford United will not only start next season but will finish it."
In the club statement released by Hereford, Agombar, whose son Harry played for both Swindon Town and Macclesfield Town, said: "I'm a football man and I want what is the very best for Hereford United and its supporters.
"They've endured a very hard time in recent months and years. We have to put things in place to avoid that happening again.
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"I want to see the club back in the Football League as soon as possible and I'm confident that we can do that.
"We are currently liaising with the Football Conference regarding the club's current situation."
Bulls chairman David Keyte, whose own future is not yet clear, was reported to have been in talks with three different rival bidders regarding a takeover.
A statement was released last Thursday saying that the consortium of investors involved in trying to take over at Edgar Street had "begun the process of payments" to the Bulls' football creditors.
But the club are also overdue with their latest PAYE tax demand and they remain under a winding-up petition brought by former Hereford manager Martin Foyle, which was adjourned on Monday for 28 days. | Tommy Agombar has taken over as owner of financially struggling Conference Premier side Hereford United. | 27685132 |
The 49-year-old, who was in a Range Rover, suffered head injuries in the incident near junction 6a in Hertfordshire on 16 May.
A Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman said he may have faced prosecution for not wearing a seatbelt.
She added that in relation to the incident "no further action will be taken".
The singer could not be reached for comment.
Michael was airlifted to a specialist trauma centre in London following the accident and spent nearly two weeks in hospital before being discharged.
Hertfordshire Police said officers were unaware of any damage to the Range Rover and confirmed no other vehicles were involved.
The former Wham! star was travelling as a rear seat passenger.
In September 2010, he received an eight-week prison sentence after crashing his Range Rover into a shop in north London.
He was also banned from driving for five years after admitting driving under the influence of drugs and possessing cannabis.
In 2006 he was banned from driving for two years and sentenced to 100 hours of community service after he was convicted of driving while unfit through drugs.
He had been found collapsed in his Mercedes. | Singer George Michael will not face legal action after falling from the rear of a vehicle travelling on the M1. | 22791471 |
A 48-hour walkout was staged by security staff at 11 airports operated by Highlands and Islands Airports (Hial) last week as part of the industrial action, which saw flights cancelled at Dundee airport.
Hial bosses said they would make a formal offer to "resolve this issue as quickly as possible".
The Prospect union welcomed the move.
Hial, which is owned by the Scottish government, operates airports in the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland, Dundee, Argyll, Inverness and Wick.
About 120 staff from security company AMSL took part in industrial action last week as part of a dispute over pay.
Hial managing director Inglis Lyon said he hoped the issue could be swiftly resolved.
He said: "We will submit a formal offer to the union this week which we hope will provide the basis for a meaningful, constructive dialogue.
"It has always been the intention of the company to address the concerns of security staff, but it is impossible to do so under the threat of industrial action.
"It is important that we resolve this issue as quickly as possible. The threat of further industrial action is in no one's interests, particularly as we approach the busy summer season."
Prospect national secretary Alan Denney said he was "pleased" that Hial had "made progress".
He said: "We look forward to receiving a written offer and entering into a constructive dialogue with Hial on the basis of this. We hope this will lead to a swift resolution of our dispute.
"The legal mandate for further strike action remains, but if Hial makes a reasonable offer which addresses our objective of securing equal treatment for AMSL workers, we should not need to exercise that option."
Prospect represents 120 of AMSL's 160 workers at the 11 Hial airports. | Talks are to be held in a bid to prevent further strike action at Scottish local airports. | 32292348 |
The government has introduced two offences, stalking and stalking involving a fear of violence.
Campaigners had long claimed dealing with stalking under existing harassment laws was inadequate. In Scotland stalking was made an offence in 2010.
A parliamentary inquiry earlier this year found that about 120,000 victims, mostly women, were stalked every year.
However only 53,000 incidents are recorded as crimes by police - and only one in 50 of these reports leads to an offender being jailed.
The inquiry called for a new offence to be introduced at once, saying harassment and intimidation could often turn into murder.
After meeting victims and campaigners at Downing Street earlier this year, the prime minister described stalking as "an abhorrent crime" which "makes life a living hell for the victims".
The new law of stalking carries a maximum six-month sentence and stalking involving a fear of violence or serious distress carries a maximum five years in prison.
BBC legal correspondent Clive Coleman said the government hoped that adding specific offences of stalking would provide greater clarity around the offence for the police and others looking to improve the safety of victims and bring perpetrators to justice.
The calls for reform came after a series of cases involving stalkers who went on to kill, including Clifford Mills, 49, who stalked his ex-girlfriend Lorna Smith on Facebook before stabbing her to death at his flat in Brixton, south London, in February last year.
He was jailed in February for life, with a minimum term of 21 years, after being found guilty of murder. | Stalking has become a specific criminal offence in England and Wales in a move to improve victims' safety. | 20482930 |
Stone said he would make a movie in India "if there was a great story".
He said Indian cinema was "very prolific and vital" and that he had used that vitality in his 1994 film Natural Born Killers.
The movie is about two young lovers who commit numerous robberies and murders during a wild three-week spree.
Stone is in the western Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) to receive a lifetime achievement award at a prominent film festival.
"Indian cinema is very prolific. I can't keep up. I used that vitality in Natural Born Killers. I love that the films switch from comedy to romance and then to tragedy. I love that," Stone told reporters.
He said he had studied Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray's works in school.
Asked if he would make a movie in India, Stone said: "If there was a great story. If I had Danny Boyle's luck, I'd make Slumdog Millionaire. There was a good detective story [based in India] written two years ago but..."
Stone shot parts of his film Alexander in the Ladakh region which he described as "beautiful".
Stone said his 10-part documentary mini-series, The Untold History of America, will air sometime next year. | Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone says he loves Indian cinema for "being able to switch between comedy, romance and tragedy at the same time". | 11635754 |
The company made a pre-tax profit of £5.9m for the three months to March following strong sales of its new DB11 model launched late last year.
Revenues more than doubled to £188m in the quarter.
Aston Martin, which has made an annual loss for each of the past six years, was sold by Ford in 2007 to Italian and Kuwaiti investment firms.
The company has gone bankrupt seven times in its history.
Aston Martin sold just 3,687 cars last year, but hopes that its latest models will increase sales by more than 30% in 2017.
"The amount of customers who are buying these cars... has doubled year on year," said Mark Wilson, the chief financial officer.
"We're now in an area and an environment where we are generating demand in excess of supply."
The company said it was still planning to enter the electric car market. Last year, it announced a tie-up with LeEco, the Chinese backer of the electric car start-up Faraday Future. | Aston Martin has posted a first-quarter profit for the first time in a decade, the sports car maker said. | 40029096 |
The 28-year-old American became only the second player in history to average a triple-double for an entire season.
He took the award over Houston Rockets guard James Harden and San Antonio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard.
Golden State forward Draymond Green was named the best defensive player after winning the NBA title.
Westbrook has had a record-breaking season becoming the first player since Oscar Robertson in 1962 to average a triple-double across the season.
He also set the new standard by recording 42 triple-doubles, one better than the former single-season mark set by Robertson.
And he made NBA history scoring the highest ever triple-double with 57 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists against Orlando Magic.
"It was obviously an amazing season for me but without these guys and the rest of our guys that are not here, none of this would be possible," Westbrook said.
"So this award is not for me. This is for all you guys and I am very thankful to have you guys in my corner. You guys are my brothers for life."
A triple-double means a player has recorded a double-digit number in three of five statistical categories - points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks.
Before the season critics had doubted whether Westbrook would continue to thrive following the departure of former MVP Kevin Durant - who left Thunder in the off-season.
Durant went on to secure his first NBA title with Golden State, but despite the loss, Westbrook-led Thunder recorded 47 wins, just eight fewer than the previous campaign.
Among the night's other recipients at the first-ever NBA Awards, Mike D'Antoni was named Coach of the Year after leading Houston to 55 wins in his first season.
Milwaukee Bucks guard Malcolm Brogdon was named Rookie of the Year, while Houston Rockets guard Eric Gordon earned the Sixth Man Award for his work off the bench as a substitute. | Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook has been named the NBA's Most Valuable Player of the 2016-17 season. | 40414719 |
Patricia Connors and her pet died after it ran on to the carriageway near Cardiff Gate services on Friday at about 18:20 BST.
In a statement, her family said they were "heartbroken".
The westbound carriageway was closed for five hours between junctions 29 and 32.
Ms Connors was pronounced dead at the scene.
Her family said they were trying to come to terms with what had happened and described her as a "loving mum, grandmother and great-grandmother". | Tributes have been paid to a 66-year-old woman who died after she was hit by a van while trying to save her dog after it got loose on the M4. | 39537616 |
There did not appear to be any obvious link between them, but the group of five were indeed connected - by a dark, despicable secret.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, they operated an "abhorrent" predatory paedophile ring in the Wrexham area of north Wales.
They targeted and preyed on vulnerable children aged between 10 and 15, in a "systematic and devious manner" before repeatedly abusing them and passing them from one abuser to the next.
"On some occasions, victims were given alcohol before the abuse took place," said Ed Beltrami, chief crown prosecutor for Wales.
"That's the whole nature of a paedophile ring; they pick on people who have vulnerability, they don't necessarily have a very stable home life and people looking after them so they are prey to offenders of this nature.
"Once they're into the ring then they are passed around from one offender to the other. "
The five men - two other defendants; retired teacher Roger Griffiths, 76, from Wrexham, and ex-slaughterman Keith Stokes from Farndon, Cheshire, were cleared of all charges - must have felt confident they would never be held to account for the young lives they had broken.
After all, they remembered a time when sex abuse claims against men, often in positions of influence, were routinely dismissed out of hand and not taken seriously.
But the two-month trial at Mold Crown Court is a reminder of how things have changed.
Now, complaints of abuse - no matter how long ago - are treated differently. They are taken seriously.
Rumours of a paedophile ring in Wrexham were nothing new. They had been circulating for years.
In 2000, the Waterhouse inquiry into physical and sexual abuse in north Wales children's homes acknowledged its existence.
"Twenty-five years ago, when I was first involved in digging this up, there was almost like a wall of silence," said Malcolm King, a Wrexham councillor who has been instrumental in exposing abuse of children in care.
"There was almost a disbelief that this sort of evil could be going on in our midst without us ever knowing about it."
"So breaking that dam of disbelief has been one of the important things that has happened over the past quarter of a century.
"But there's still much more to be done because the evidence is that there are hundreds and hundreds of people who've been abused that have never come forward, often abuse within their own families.
"But nevertheless, people remain silent with the most terrible things having been done to them."
Mr King and officers on the National Crime Agency's Operation Pallial team - set up in 2012 after Home Secretary Theresa May ordered an investigation into claims of previously overlooked child abuse in north Wales - have repeatedly paid tribute to the five victims.
The stress of facing their nightmare past, raking up excruciating memories and of being branded liars by the very men who brutalised them, can only be imagined.
"There is no forensic evidence - it's far too late for that," explains Mr Beltrami.
"No phone evidence, no CCTV, the usual supporting evidence is not available in a case of this nature so it comes down in the end to the oral testimony of the witnesses and of course the defendants have their say and it's for the jury to make up their mind whether they can be sure on the evidence they hear."
The victims told the jury how they had been abused mostly at the home of Gary Cooke - also known as Mark Grainger - who has a string of sex convictions.
At the time, he worked as a professional wrestler and ran a sex shop. He was also the ringleader of the gang of paedophiles.
He had taken in two lodgers - Neil Phoenix and local radio personality Roy Norry - who exploited his local celebrity status to ensnare his victims.
Together with civil servant Edward Huxley, they met former singer David Lightfoot who ran a bar in the town centre called Snowy's.
Here, the gang also gathered young boys to abuse.
The grooming tactics adopted by the abusers have been described as "carefully planned and single minded" and continued over their victims' childhoods.
"They were clearly vulnerable young people," said Ian Mulcahey, senior investigating officer with the National Crime Agency.
"They were targeted because of that reason. They were taken into this network of people and it's been difficult to escape that cycle."
Verdicts
He added: "They accessed their victims in a variety of ways. Some by chance meeting, then they've groomed them and built up levels of trust.
"They've plied them with alcohol, they've given them attention. These were very vulnerable young boys. They've played on that vulnerability."
The men took them on car trips, provided pornography, drugs, drink and sometimes money. Some of the boys would then introduce their friends to the men.
"I think the victims are incredibly brave," Mr Beltrami added.
"They have suffered over a very long period of time.
"It's not easy to come along and give evidence of sexual offences that have been committed against you in your childhood, particularly going through the criminal process with someone else coming along with suggestions that you're making it up. That's a hard process."
"Whilst the criminal justice process cannot put right the wrongs committed by these individuals, we hope that the victims will take some solace in knowing that their abusers have been brought to justice."
So the latest chapter in the scandal of child abuse in north Wales, both inside and outside the care system in the 70s and 80s, comes to a close.
Connections with some of these men can be made with other known paedophiles.
Cooke once worked for notorious paedophile John Allen, who ran children's homes in north Wales and was jailed for life in 2014.
There is evidence that they preyed on the same victims.
As talk of conspiracies and establishment cover-ups continue, and as Operation Pallial presses on with its quest to expose historical child abuse in the region - it is fair to say this is unlikely to be the last we hear of this episode of north Wales's dark and shameful past. | On the surface, their lives appeared to be very different - radio DJ, civil servant and retired police officer, bus driver, cabaret singer and publican and businessman. | 33245830 |
For the Scots and their much talked-about revival, this was perspective. Way, way too much perspective. It wasn't just a slap in the face, it was a kick to the solar plexus and a proper shoeing in the aftermath.
A record hiding. A shellacking to end all shellackings. Swing Low Sweet Chariot rung out around Twickenham in the last minutes, a hymn to a thunderously impressive team as they laid siege to the Scottish line in pursuit of an even bigger victory over Scotland than the one they had - which was already the biggest of all time.
They got over for their seventh try with the last play and they deserved it. Sixty-one points. For the Scots, it was a form of sporting torture.
The surreal thing is that Scotland's unrelenting Kafkaesque nightmare began after just two minutes when Fraser Brown was put in the bin. While he was there, the game was won and lost. Just like that.
English power, English pace, English points. Lots and lots of them. Eddie Jones did his stuff. In this Six Nations there hasn't been much, if any, evidence of frailties in the Scotland midfield but Jones saw some and, Lord, how England executed.
They threw a dummy runner at Alex Dunbar and Huw Jones, a little bit of deception that created a very large hole and the opening try for Jonathan Joseph. Scotland were spooked now. The might of Twickenham closed in on them. Stuart Hogg dropped a high ball and a minute later it was 10-0. Brown came back on to the field, overthrew his first line-out and suddenly it was 13-0.
Then it all got weird as well as woeful. Hogg disappeared for a head injury assessment and wasn't seen again - another colossal blow to Scotland's morale.
Mark Bennett came on, got injured after a few minutes and then went off again. Tommy Seymour was now playing full-back, Ali Price was on the right wing, Henry Pyrgos was scrum-half. Deckchairs. Rearranged. Titanic.
Joseph raced through the Scottish midfield for a second one-phase try after 25 minutes and in that moment a giant jumbo jet appeared in the skies above Twickenham. Metaphorically, the visiting fans were on it. In body they were still there cheering their team. In mind, they were out of there.
Gordon Reid's try wasn't so much of a sign of a comeback as a consolation. After half an hour. And even when the prop blasted over, and Russell converted, Scotland's death-wish kicked in again.
More Scottish indiscipline gave Farrell another shot at goal and the centre knocked over his kick. At 23-7 the Scots were on the canvas. The misery was in seeing them having to get up only to get knocked down again.
Two minutes after Farrell's penalty, Joseph plunged the knife deeper, exposing the midfield defence and teeing-up Anthony Watson. That was just before half-time. Just after, Joseph got his hat-trick. A third single-phase score, a continuation of the catastrophe.
England were an angry and focused team. All the chat about their slow starts to games was dynamited to kingdom come, all the talk about them having not played particularly well in this Six Nations was consigned to the rubbish bin. This was a mighty response. A vicious deconstruction of Scotland's momentum.
Another injury hit them early in the second half. Of course it did. Seymour went off, Duncan Weir came on and he became Scotland's third full-back of the day. Soon after, Farrell's boot brought up the 40 for England.
God help them, but Scotland did their best to fight the inevitable. They tried to play, tried to avoid the concession of the kind of Twickenham points mountain that would have broken records. Jones scored, but England stirred again and Billy Vunipola replied. Jones scored again and like a cat with a mouse England responded, Danny Care bringing up the half-century that put this victory into the history books.
Six tries and it could have been seven had it not been for a Jones try-saver on Watson. Scotland wanted the whistle now - they wanted it from midway through the first half if truth be told - but they didn't hear it.
They were out on their feet, the English substitutes coming on and turning the screw, piling on the grief like the best teams do. No let-up, no throttling down on the power. This is how champions behave - and England are fine, fine champions.
They went for their seventh try and their 60th point as if they needed it like they needed their last breath. They camped themselves on the Scottish line, put them through scrum upon scrum, defence upon defence. For the weary visitors, it was torture. Physical and mental.
Care got that seventh score to complete the jaw-dropping rout. Nobody could see this coming. Nobody. Scotland came here in search of a dream. In the end, it was their worst kind of nightmare. | Had the grim reaper visited Vern Cotter at his bedside in the middle of Friday night into Saturday morning and presented the Scotland coach with a picture of what horrible fate would befall his team at Twickenham, it could not have been any more terrifying than the reality. | 39243601 |
There I was thinking it was turning into a big love-in after Andrew RT Davies and Carwyn Jones were in danger of agreeing with each other on the need for an M4 relief road and the sterling work carried out by retiring assembly members, when Leanne Wood stepped into the fray.
She'd clearly established that this wasn't the time for sentimentality and hit the first minister with a triple whammy by accusing him of five years' worth of evasion, failing to answer questions and a lack of engagement. Ouch.
It was a sharp reminder that we're about to enter an election campaign.
And it was also clear that economic development will play a big part in Labour's campaign, with Aston Martin not only being mentioned twice but a claim that there'll be more jobs announcements in the coming weeks.
Carwyn Jones then attacked Plaid, claiming their policies usually involve the creation of a "national committee of some kind".
Now that the sentimental spell had been broken, Kirsty Williams followed in kind by criticising Labour's record on access to GPs, child poverty and education standards.
Much of it was standard pre-election fare but there was an interesting tone from Carwyn Jones on proposals for the M4 relief road.
He said: "We wish to see the M4 relief road being built. It's true to say that our preferred route is the black route but of course we are willing to examine other options should they prove feasible."
That doesn't sound to me like a man who's preparing to go to battle on the so-called black route and is a marked difference in tone to that used by the outgoing economy minister Edwina Hart.
There are two proposals.
The black route is a new six lane motorway to the south of Newport, while the much cheaper blue route is an upgrade of an existing southern distributor road which would involve removing the roundabouts in what is largely a dual carriageway.
There have been a number of recent developments in relation to the M4.
Last week it emerged that the black route is after all going to cost £1.1bn, despite Carwyn Jones saying it was going to come in way below that figure.
Leanne Wood also told me in an interview at the Plaid spring conference in Llanelli that she would refuse to consider any kind of deal with Labour, whether a formal coalition or an informal arrangement, so long as it was considering an investment of £1bn on the black route.
The Conservatives have given us their pre-election position, which is not to have a position on whether it should be the blue or the black route. Instead they made a commitment to have diggers in the ground within a year.
What's fascinating about the M4 relief road is that it stands in stark contrast to the metro rail scheme, which will form part of the new Cardiff city deal.
The metro, to improve bus and train services in south east Wales, is supported by virtually everyone while the M4 relief road is one of the most divisive subjects in Welsh politics. | The final First Minister's Questions of this assembly term lulled me into a false sense of security. | 35815905 |
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One of the latest drone prototypes on show looks a bit like a helicopter and allows a passenger to sit inside of the drone.
It's controlled by a tablet and the passenger can choose their destination on it.
The drone, which has 8 propellers, takes between 2-4 hours to charge and would last for around 23 minutes flying time. | Tech companies have been unveiling their newest gadgets at a massive tech show called CES in Las Vegas, America. | 35260212 |
Paul Chichester was back in his home city to speak to businesses.
He said cyber security was increasingly relevant regarding personal data and also online banking and shopping.
London-based NCSC, part of intelligence and communications agency GCHQ, was officially opened in February.
Mr Chichester said it dealt with the full spectrum of threats from nations trying to steal secrets and harm the UK's critical infrastructure through to citizens worried about bank accounts and personal identities online.
He said Wales, in terms of geography, was close to GCHQ's base in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, and could exploit its technology base and build on digital skills, offering local business opportunities.
"It's really important everyone invests the time, energy and effort to focus on the topic," he said.
"There are huge economic benefits in cyber security and we really want Wales to be at the heart of exploiting that. I visited Airbus [cyber security centre in Newport] recently and they have some fantastic capabilities there in their cyber arena."
A National Cyber Security Academy has been established in Newport to train the next generation of experts, while the Welsh Government wants to make south east Wales a hub for the industry.
"There are some really good beginnings there but we want to see more. In academia, we want to see the universities going on to be some of our centres of excellence."
He said it was also about underpinning digital knowledge at an early age and he was positive more children were growing up "living and breathing technology", with primary schools developing coding.
NATIONAL CYBER SECURITY CENTRE
Mr Chichester, who met members of Cardiff Business Club, said attacks were happening all the time, and included businesses being held to ransom by cyber-criminals hacking and taking over systems.
"Businesses and citizens are being targeted every day," he said.
"People need to be on their guard all the time and on the look out for suspicious emails or just be conscious that people are trying to get access to their data."
He said businesses also needed to regularly back up their data, especially with "ransomware" a real threat to the business community - when people take over systems and demand money before giving access back. | Wales is well placed to take advantage of the growing industry in tackling online crime, according to the Cardiff-born director of operations at the new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). | 39193924 |
Promising "the hottest bands and artists in the world right now" the series is due to debut in the autumn.
It has yet to receive a title or a timeslot, but will be made by James Corden's company Fulwell 73, whose work includes the wildly-successful Carpool Karaoke series.
An initial run of six episodes has been commissioned.
Top of the Pops was also commissioned for half a dozen episodes in 1964 - but ended up running for 42 years, providing the BBC an unrivalled catalogue of performances by the likes of The Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Beyonce, David Bowie and Madonna.
It registered its highest audience in 1979, when more than 19 million people tuned in to see Dr Hook's When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman topping the chart.
But by 2002, it had lost millions of viewers to 24-hour music channels like MTV. The show was eventually shunted to BBC Two before being cancelled.
Re-runs of old episodes continue to be screened on BBC Four, while the brand is resurrected for Christmas specials every year.
However, the new show is not envisaged as a successor to Top of the Pops and its top 40 format. Instead, it promises "live music performances, sketches and interviews".
BBC Music's Jan Younghusband suggested it would be a successor to one-off specials like Adele at the BBC and Michael Buble at the BBC.
Both shows included live performances and shareable moments, such as Adele auditioning to play her own lookalike.
Speaking to Music Week last year, Fulwell 73's Lou Pearlman described how the company would approach such a show.
"[If Top of the Pops was on now] it would have moments that would have ended up having 20 million views over the course of a few weeks," he said.
"Whether it's a live music show or not, whether it's performances or not, I just think there's something amazing to do in that space.
"There's nothing aimed at that weekend audience, nothing contemporary and relevant. There should be a show like that and we'd love to be the ones to make it."
The new BBC series will have Fulwell 73's Gabe Turner and former TFI Friday producer Suzi Aplin as executive producers, with more details to be announced in the summer.
"The BBC is the biggest music broadcaster in the UK and we are always looking for new ways to bring music to our audiences," said Bob Shennan, director of BBC Radio and Music.
"This series will be a fantastic opportunity to showcase the biggest and best UK and international bands and artists."
Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email [email protected]. | Eleven years after the demise of Top of the Pops, a live, weekly music show is coming back to the BBC. | 40658569 |
A family statement announced the Canadian singer's death "with great sadness... after a prolonged struggle with Alzheimer's disease".
Vickers' career spanned three decades and saw him sing some of opera's most challenging roles.
His distinctive voice was described by one reviewer as holding "100 colours and inflections".
His family paid tribute to "his ringing laughter, warmth, and generous spirit".
Born in rural Saskatchewan in 1926, Vickers was described as "a deeply religious and private man".
At 24, he won a scholarship to the The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, where he studied for five years.
He was invited to audition for London's Royal Opera House in 1956, where he made his debut the following year.
Motivation
In 1958, he debuted at the Bayreuth Festival as Siegmund in Wagner's Die Walkuere (The Valkyrie), which launched his international career and become one of his signature roles.
The same year he starred opposite Maria Callas' Medea at Covent Garden.
He achieved his greatest fame in the 1960s, as part of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with his critically acclaimed performances of Tristan in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde and the eponymous Peter Grimes.
"The meeting of character and singer," critic Leighton Kerner said of Vickers' Grimes, "has proved to be one of the mightiest collisions in 20th century opera".
Vickers claimed that his approach "hung on the music, absolutely - everything I do as an actor I find a motivation for in the music".
His deep faith - he was once dubbed "God's voice" - saw him refuse to perform some roles on moral grounds, specifically, Tannhauser.
A recipient of many honours and awards, including two Grammys and a Companion of the Order of Canada, Vickers announced his retirement in 1988.
He leaves a sister, five children, eleven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. | Tenor Jon Vickers, considered by many to be one of the greatest opera singers of the 20th century, has died aged 88. | 33497596 |
Her surprise appearance was documented by fireman Rob Petty at Chelsea fire station.
Writing on Facebook Mr Petty posted: "Lovely girl, genuinely grounded, interested and humbled. Beautiful."
Station manager Ben King said: "She just turned up at the station and knocked on the window and said she has some cakes for us.
"So we opened the door to her and then she took her sunglasses off and said: 'Hi, I'm Adele'. Everyone was so shocked.
"She came in, came up to the mess and had a cup of tea with the watch and then she joined us for the minute's silence.
"We have had so much support for the local community and we cannot thank everyone enough."
It's not the first time Adele has shown her support for those affected by the blaze which engulfed the tower block in the early hours of last Wednesday.
The singer was spotted comforting locals at a vigil for the victims a day after the fire in which 79 people are now missing presumed dead.
Other high-profile figures have also offered help and support including chef Jamie Oliver, singer Lily Allen, and actor Tom Hardy who started a crowdfunding page to raise money for victims.
Meanwhile, other people have been showing their support for the fire crews through The Fire Fighters Charity.
By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News team | Pop star Adele has paid an unexpected visit to some of the firefighters who tackled the Grenfell Tower blaze in west London last week. | 40339241 |
The women were taken into police custody last week in the run-up to International Women's Day on Sunday.
Activists said that the detainees were planning to hold public campaigns against sexual harassment.
Correspondents say the police appear to be holding at least one of them for an unusually lengthy period, as she was taken into custody on Friday.
Police in China usually release or charge a detainee within three days of their arrest, and Li Tingting, also known as Li Maizi, was detained on 6 March.
Chinese activist Feng Yuan, speaking from New York where she was participating in a UN women's issues events, said lawyers for the five in custody had not been able to reach them since their arrest.
"We're worried that they're still detained," Ms Feng told AP news agency. "We don't understand how this has to do with public safety. And this goes against what the Communist Party and the government says they want to do to build a safer, crime-free society."
This year's International Women's Day coincided with China's top political meetings and observers say Chinese authorities often detain activists before the start of major political or international meetings.
Eight women's rights activists were taken to police stations on Friday and Saturday, and three were released after a few hours.
One of those released told the BBC that the police told her to warn people not to take part in planned events.
Among the activities which the activists had planned were a march in a Beijing park where participants would wear stickers advocating safe sex and action against sexual harassment; and gatherings in Beijing and Guangzhou calling for awareness of sexual harassment on buses.
She added that the five who are still in detention are either members, or founders, of women's rights and gay rights groups in Beijing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou.
The irony is that the activists were detained for trying to promote women's rights to mark International Women's Day. One of the activists - who did not want to be identified - told the BBC the police detained her for two hours over the weekend.
She had planned to take part in a protest at Beijing's Olympic Park to raise awareness about sexual harassment.
The campaigners held similar activities to mark International Women's Day in the past and faced no troubles. But this year's event coincided with China's annual parliamentary session, during which security is tighter than normal.
The police routinely detain people organising protests on vague charges of disturbing the public order.
Women's rights are high on this year's agenda - with the legislative session expected to pass a landmark domestic violence law. But increasingly the authorities are cracking down on non-governmental organisations pursuing their own agendas.
China is currently holding what is informally known as the "two sessions" - the keenly watched annual meetings of its legislature, the National People's Congress, and its advisory group, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
The sessions began last Thursday and are due to end on Sunday.
Over the weekend, female representatives of the congress held a news conference on gender equality and women's rights issues in China.
Official celebrations of International Women's Day were also held last week. | Supporters of five women's rights activists detained in China say they are concerned for their welfare. | 31792608 |
About 3,000 people aged 10-18 debated the issues and came up with 500 clauses they would like to see in such a document.
Now the public can have their say.
The current number one is: "Not let companies pay to control it, and not let governments restrict our right to information."
The voting project, called My Digital Rights, marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and the 25th birthday of the world wide web.
Judging by the current top 10 - voted on by more than 30,000 visitors to the British Library's website - people clearly want the internet to be an impartial source of information for all, free from government censorship and surveillance, and free from commercial control.
However, the issues concerning most young people who took part in the debates and workshops were safety and cyberbullying, in contrast to those concerning the public in general.
"It has been fascinating to see how the public's top clauses have compared to those of the thousands of students who have co-created this 'Magna Carta for the digital age'," says Sarah Shaw, the British Library's project manager of Magna Carta: My Digital Rights.
"The project was conceived to encourage young people to think about issues of privacy, access and freedom, raised by Magna Carta, in the digital age.
"These 'Top 10' clauses we have revealed today show a snapshot of how the public feel at this 800th anniversary moment about our rights and responsibilities on the web."
Magna Carta was granted by King John of England on 15 June 1215, establishing that the king was subject to the law rather than being above it.
The joint project has involved the British Library, the World Wide Web Foundation, Southbank Centre and the British Council.
The voting is still open so the British Library expects the Top 10 to change over time.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has voiced his support for the project.
"It's important for young people to think about the future now, when we are deciding what sort of a future it will be.
"It's going to be a future they will have to live in," he said. | The British Library has revealed the current top 10 clauses people would like to see in a Magna Carta for the digital age. | 33132662 |
The Scottish Sentencing Council will look at crimes committed by young people, death by driving and environmental and wildlife offences.
It will also begin research into the sentencing of sexual offences.
The council was established a year ago in an attempt to improve public confidence in the sentences passed by the courts.
Lord Justice Clerk, Lady Dorrian, who chairs the council, said: "The topics we have selected to begin preparing guidelines on are of importance to local communities and families across Scotland.
"We will take the time to properly research each area and consult widely, not only with our justice partners, but with relevant groups and the wider public.
"We welcome input from those interested and encourage you to have your say in helping to shape Scotland's first sentencing guidelines."
The council will now consider how young people should be sentenced and begin work on its first offence-specific topics.
In a statement, the council said: "Death by driving is a serious matter that affects people across Scotland. The circumstances are often complicated and this can lead to extremely difficult sentencing decisions. Fatalities have a huge impact on families and local communities.
"Environmental and wildlife issues have particular significance in Scotland relevant to tourism, rural industry and the local economy. Guidelines on environmental offences will be particularly helpful in setting down an approach to how corporations should be sentenced."
The council will also look ahead to considering theft, property offences and domestic abuse from 2018-2021. | Judges and sheriffs are to be given new guidelines in an attempt to ensure consistency in the sentences they pass. | 37577457 |
The visitors made a strong start to the game but it was the hosts who opened the scoring courtesy of Ryan Hardie's strike.
Dumbarton levelled when Christian Nade nodded in.
Daniel Harvie gave them the lead before Gregor Buchanan turned the ball in at the back post.
The win ended a three-game losing run for Stevie Aitken's side, but the home side were booed off the pitch as their winless run extended to 12 league and cup matches.
Raith boss Gary Locke made three changes to the side beaten by Hearts in the Scottish Cup in midweek and he saw his team take the lead in controversial fashion.
Mark Stewart looked to have fouled Harvie before crossing for Hardie to score his fifth goal of the season, but referee Mat Northcroft waived away the Dumbarton appeals.
Kevin Curthbert had done well to save efforts from Robert Thomson and Sam Stanton in the first half, but he was well beaten after the break when Nade rose above his marker to head Stanton's cross into the net for an important equaliser.
Referee Northcroft then waived away a strong penalty appeal when Andrew Stirling looked to have been brought down in the box, but the visitors did go in front when Aberdeen loanee Harvie was allowed to run and shoot past Cuthbert from 20 yards.
To compound the home fans' misery, the Raith defence then allowed a Stanton corner to drive right across the box to Buchanan, who made no mistake with an angled shot.
Raith have not won a match since 29 October and they go to Dundee United next week in danger of being dragged towards the relegation zone, while Dumbarton will face St Mirren in confident mood after a thoroughly well deserved win.
Raith Rovers manager Gary Locke: "The second half showed the after effects of the cup ties against Hearts, but we need to look to win our home games and we have to do better than what we produced today.
"Heads went down and there should not have been any reason for that, it was one of those days where we looked tired, but the run is alarming and while we did well against Hearts we have to find the consistency and we cannot go blaming each other.
"It is a tough spell, but at the end of the day you either disappear or come out fighting and we intend to do that."
Dumbarton manager Stevie Aitken: "After 10 minutes [new assistant] Ian [Durrant] turned to me and said 'what am I doing here', but he has made a massive difference in the time he has been at the club and this was a terrific result.
"Ian's presence about the place gives everybody a lift and we are delighted to get somebody with his ability in.
"There is a spell of games coming up that will test us, but if we keep producing performances like that, I am sure we will continue to do well."
Match ends, Raith Rovers 1, Dumbarton 3.
Second Half ends, Raith Rovers 1, Dumbarton 3.
Calum Gallagher (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ross Callachan (Raith Rovers).
Calum Gallagher (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Rudi Skacel (Raith Rovers).
Hand ball by Stuart Carswell (Dumbarton).
Ross McCrorie (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Kyle Benedictus (Raith Rovers).
Substitution, Dumbarton. Tom Lang replaces Andy Stirling.
Attempt saved. Kevin McHattie (Raith Rovers) left footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Rudi Skacel (Raith Rovers) left footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the left.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Ross McCrorie replaces Samuel Stanton.
Attempt missed. Rudi Skacel (Raith Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is too high following a set piece situation.
Ryan Stevenson (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Mark Docherty (Dumbarton).
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Kevin McHattie.
Substitution, Raith Rovers. Rudi Skacel replaces Jason Thomson.
Foul by Samuel Stanton (Dumbarton).
Jason Thomson (Raith Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Raith Rovers. Conceded by Stuart Carswell.
Attempt blocked. Ross Callachan (Raith Rovers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Dumbarton. Calum Gallagher replaces Christian Nade because of an injury.
Substitution, Raith Rovers. Scott Roberts replaces Bobby Barr.
Goal! Raith Rovers 1, Dumbarton 3. Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Andy Stirling with a cross.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Jean-Yves Mvoto.
Attempt blocked. Christian Nade (Dumbarton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Substitution, Raith Rovers. Ryan Stevenson replaces Chris Johnston.
Kevin McHattie (Raith Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Kevin McHattie (Raith Rovers).
Calum Gallagher (Dumbarton) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Goal! Raith Rovers 1, Dumbarton 2. Daniel Harvie (Dumbarton) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom right corner.
Corner, Dumbarton. Conceded by Jean-Yves Mvoto.
Foul by Ryan Hardie (Raith Rovers).
Gregor Buchanan (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jason Thomson (Raith Rovers).
Robert Thomson (Dumbarton) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt saved. Ross Matthews (Raith Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Andy Stirling (Dumbarton) is shown the yellow card.
Goal! Raith Rovers 1, Dumbarton 1. Christian Nade (Dumbarton) header from the centre of the box to the top right corner. | Dumbarton scored three second-half goals as they beat Raith Rovers and boosted their hopes of avoiding relegation. | 38701278 |
Police made the discovery after they were called to a house in Parkgrove Terrace in Clermiston at about 21:30 on Sunday.
Officers have confirmed they are investigating an "unexplained death".
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Inquiries are ongoing and the death is currently being treated as unexplained. A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal." | The body of a 56-year-old woman has been found in a house in Edinburgh. | 34570783 |
Several thousand cannabis plants with an estimated street value of £1m were seized in a raid on RGHQ Chilmark.
Five men and a teenager were arrested on suspicion of cannabis production after the midnight raid on Wednesday.
There are 20 rooms in the building with almost every one converted for the wholesale production of cannabis plants, police said.
The former Ministry of Defence bunker was built in the 1980s to protect local dignitaries and government officials in the event of a nuclear attack.
Described as "almost completely impenetrable", Wiltshire Police had to wait for the suspects to leave the bunker before they could gain access.
Det Insp Paul Franklin, said it was only after getting through the nuclear blast doors, that the "enormous set up" was discovered.
"There are approximately 20 rooms in the building, split over two floors, each 200ft long and 70ft wide," he said.
"Almost every single room had been converted for the wholesale production of cannabis plants, and there was a large amount of evidence of previous crops."
He added that he was convinced it was "one of the largest crops ever discovered" in the county.
A teenager and two men, aged 15, 19, and 37, all of no fixed abode, were arrested on suspicion of cannabis production.
A further three men, aged 27, 30 and 45, all from Somerset, were arrested on suspicion of cannabis production and human trafficking offences. | A large-scale cannabis factory has been found in an underground former nuclear bunker, Wiltshire police have said. | 39064526 |
If confirmed, the "exomoon" is likely to be about the size and mass of Neptune, and circles a planet the size of Jupiter but with 10 times the mass.
The signal was detected by Nasa's Kepler Space Telescope; astronomers now plan to carry out follow-up observations with Hubble in October.
A paper about the candidate moon is published on the Arxiv pre-print site.
To date, astronomers have discovered more than 3,000 exoplanets - worlds orbiting stars other than the Sun.
A hunt for exomoons - objects in orbit around those distant planets - has proceeded in parallel. But so far, these extrasolar satellites have lingered at the limits of detection with current techniques.
Dr David Kipping, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University in New York, says he has spent "most of his adult life" looking for exomoons.
For the time being, however, he urged caution, saying: "We would merely describe it at this point as something consistent with a moon, but, who knows, it could be something else."
The Kepler telescope hunts for planets by looking for tiny dips in the brightness of a star when a planet crosses in front - known as a transit. To search for exomoons, researchers are looking for a dimming of starlight before and after the planet causes its dip in light.
The promising signal was observed during three transits - fewer than the astronomers would like to have in order to confidently announce a discovery.
The work by Dr Kipping, his Columbia colleague Alex Teachey and citizen scientist Allan R Schmitt, assigns a confidence level of four sigma to the signal from the distant planetary system. The confidence level describes how unlikely it is that an experimental result is simply down to chance. If you express it in terms of tossing a coin, it's equivalent to tossing 15 heads in row.
But Dr Kipping said this is not the best way to gauge the potential detection.
He told BBC News: "We're excited about it... statistically, formally, it's a very high probability. But do we really trust the statistics? That's something unquantifiable. Until we get the measurements from Hubble, it may as well be 50-50 in my mind."
The candidate moon is known as Kepler-1625b I and is observed around a star that lies some 4,000 light-years from Earth. On account of its large size, team members have dubbed it a "Nept-moon".
A current theory of planetary formation suggests such an object is unlikely to have formed in place with its Jupiter-mass planet, but would instead be an object captured by the gravity of the planet later on in the evolution of this planetary system.
The researchers could find no predictions of a Neptune-sized moon in the literature, but Dr Kipping notes that nothing in physics prevents one.
A handful of possible candidates have come to light in the past, but none as yet has been confirmed.
"I'd say it's the best [candidate] we've had," Dr Kipping told me.
"Almost every time we hit a candidate, and it passes our tests, we invent more tests until it finally dies - until it fails one of the tests... in this case we've applied everything we've ever done and it's passed all of those tests. On the other hand, we only have three events."
The work by Dr Kipping and colleagues forms part of the Hunt for Exomooons with Kepler (HEK) collaboration.
Follow Paul on Twitter. | A team of astronomers has potentially discovered the first known moon beyond the Solar System. | 40741545 |
Jacob Murphy fired in a 25-yard shot, his first goal for the club, to set the Canaries on their way on 12 minutes.
Further goals from Wes Hoolahan and Cameron Jerome then put Alex Neil's men three up inside 25 minutes.
Steven Naismith added a fourth before Rovers half-time substitute Anthony Stokes headed a debut Ewood Park goal.
Norwich failed to score in five of their last six games in the Premier League - but Alex Neil's side wasted no time in putting that right as they enjoyed their first opening-day victory in 14 years.
In new Blackburn boss Coyle's first game in charge since succeeding former Norwich manager Paul Lambert, his outclassed side were fighting a massive uphill battle before the new season was even half an hour old.
After scoring 10 times last season on loan at Coventry, 21-year-old Murphy netted just 12 minutes into his Canaries debut when he wriggled clear from Adam Henley and was allowed to turn before blasting home a fabulous strike from well outside the box.
Five minutes later, Hoolahan's left-foot shot found the bottom left corner before Jerome found the net for number three. And, on 57 minutes, Naismith's left-foot shot found the bottom right corner.
Stokes' late consolation could not prevent Norwich's third win at Blackburn in 19 visits, and their second in a row, having won 2-1 on their last trip to Ewood in February 2015.
Blackburn Rovers manager Owen Coyle: "I don't think it's one that we wanted, envisaged or anticipated. We started the first 10 minutes very well, on the front foot, and for all intents and purposes, we looked fine.
"Then the lad scores a wonder goal. I'm not sure he'll score too many goals as good as that in his career, but that's the quality Norwich City have.
"They've been clinical and ruthless and punished us for every mistake we've made. Having said that, it's important that in those areas where the Hoolahans and Naismiths are popping the ball off, that we get pressure on the ball and get that tackle in.
"With all due respect, with the first three goals and even the fourth one, we allowed them time to play and, when good players pass and move at pace, it causes anybody problems."
Norwich City boss Alex Neil: "Jacob Murphy earned his start. I played him against Hannover last week. I took him off because I had to solidify the middle of the pitch.
"I spoke to him throughout the week and said 'I'm not now fixing Hannover, I'm preparing to beat Blackburn.' He's responded. It's a fantastic strike.
"He's got the pace to terrify defenders, as he showed with his goal. He's got something in his locker where he can win a game with his quality.
"We wanted to play in a manner which people are going to sit up and take notice of us and know that we mean business this season, and we did all that, which was really pleasing."
Match ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Norwich City 4.
Second Half ends, Blackburn Rovers 1, Norwich City 4.
Attempt missed. Timm Klose (Norwich City) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alex Pritchard with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Gordon Greer.
Corner, Norwich City. Conceded by Gordon Greer.
Attempt blocked. Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is blocked. Assisted by Steven Naismith.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Adam Henley tries a through ball, but Danny Graham is caught offside.
Offside, Blackburn Rovers. Danny Graham tries a through ball, but Liam Feeney is caught offside.
Foul by Ivo Pinto (Norwich City).
Ben Marshall (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by John Ruddy.
Foul by Ivo Pinto (Norwich City).
Adam Henley (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Cameron Jerome (Norwich City).
Shane Duffy (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Liam Feeney with a cross following a corner.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Cameron Jerome.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Cameron Jerome.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Alexander Tettey.
Foul by Alex Pritchard (Norwich City).
Anthony Stokes (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Blackburn Rovers. Conceded by Alex Pritchard.
Attempt saved. Anthony Stokes (Blackburn Rovers) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Youssouf Mulumbu (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.
Hand ball by Youssouf Mulumbu (Norwich City).
Substitution, Norwich City. Alex Pritchard replaces Wes Hoolahan.
Attempt missed. Jacob Murphy (Norwich City) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Substitution, Norwich City. Youssouf Mulumbu replaces Jonny Howson.
Gordon Greer (Blackburn Rovers) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Jacob Murphy (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gordon Greer (Blackburn Rovers).
Steven Naismith (Norwich City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Shane Duffy (Blackburn Rovers).
Foul by Jonny Howson (Norwich City).
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Adam Henley (Blackburn Rovers) because of an injury.
Cameron Jerome (Norwich City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Cameron Jerome (Norwich City).
Darragh Lenihan (Blackburn Rovers) wins a free kick on the left wing. | Norwich City made a great start to life back in the Championship following relegation as they battered Owen Coyle's Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park. | 36929751 |
Speaking to reporters at the G20 summit, the unnamed official said "no-one pays any attention" to Britain.
Mr Cameron said Russia had "absolutely denied" the remarks.
But he used the opportunity to champion Britain, saying few other nations had "a prouder history, a bigger heart or greater resilience".
British relations with Russia have been strained in recent years following the murder of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2007.
The two countries disagree over what to do about the war in Syria, which is dominating discussions at the two-day summit.
Downing Street has sought "clarification" about the remark, which was made by a Russian official to a group of journalists including the BBC earlier this week and subsequently reported by BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said he did not know the source of the remark but stressed that it did not come from him.
Mr Cameron said he had not heard the remark but he had little doubt about Britain's standing in the world and its outstanding contribution in a wide range of fields.
"Let me be clear - Britain may be a small island but I would challenge anyone to find a country with a prouder history, a bigger heart or greater resilience," he told reporters.
"Britain is an island that has helped to clear the European continent of fascism and was resolute in doing that throughout World War II.
"Britain is an island that helped to abolish slavery, that has invented most of the things worth inventing, including every sport currently played around the world, that still today is responsible for art, literature and music that delights the entire world.
"We are very proud of everything we do as a small island - a small island that has the sixth-largest economy, the fourth best-funded military, some of the most effective diplomats, the proudest history, one of the best records for art and literature and contribution to philosophy and world civilisation."
He added: "For the people who live in Northern Ireland, I should say we are not just an island, we are a collection of islands. I don't want anyone in Shetland or Orkney to feel left out by this."
He repeated the speech at a press conference at the close of the two-day summit, adding in references to The Beatles, Shakespeare, Elgar and latest pop sensations One Direction.
"If I go on too long about our literature, our art, our philosophy, our contribution, including of course the world's language... if I start talking about this 'blessed plot, this sceptred isle, this England' I might have to put it to music, so I think I'll leave it there," he said.
Mr Peskov told reporters he didn't know the origin of the "small island" remark.
"I simply can't explain the source of that claim. Definitely it is nothing to do with reality. It is definitely not something I have said. I don't know whose views it reflects - it's nothing to do with us.
"We have very positive dynamics in our relationship between Britain and Russia. We have very good contacts between our two leaders, Mr Putin and Mr Cameron."
But a Conservative MP has waded into the row by saying on Twitter that President Putin "really is a tosser".
Confirming his views to the BBC, Crawley MP Henry Smith added: "I would say in other forums he's an absurd character. I think it's appalling and shameful what he did in protecting the Assad regime."
But the MP was slapped down by Mr Cameron, who told reporters in St Petersburg: "I'm not a regular follower of Twitter, but insulting people should never have a part in foreign policy." | David Cameron has made an impassioned defence of Britain's history and achievements after a Russian official dismissed it as "just a small island". | 23984730 |
The Swans are up to 12th in the table, 13 points clear of the relegation zone.
Having reached the 40-point mark widely regarded as a guarantee of top-flight safety, Guidolin thinks Swansea can start planning for next season.
"Yes, I think so. It is virtual safety. It's not real yet but now we can see forward, not behind," he said.
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"This is an important message for us, for my players, for our fans, for the club."
Swansea's win was their first in the Premier League against Chelsea since returning to the top flight in 2011.
Gylfi Sigurdsson's volley capped a dominant first-half display from the Swans, who have now won four out of their last six league games.
Guidolin, who succeeded Garry Monk in January, ranks the victory against Chelsea as the finest display of his tenure.
"This is the best performance," he said.
"I remember the first performance at Everton, the first half was very good, and we played well against Crystal Palace at home, but this is the best.
"I'm very happy because it's my team, this is my team.
"My opinion is we can play in this way since a long time but I am a new manager and I needed to know my players, all my players.
"Today I saw my team play very well, with aggression, with quality."
Prior to the match, Guidolin said he planned to discuss a new contract with chairman Huw Jenkins once Swansea had guaranteed their Premier League survival.
Guidolin's current deal expires at the end of this season.
Although that objective appears to have been achieved, the Italian said after the win against Chelsea: "This is not important now. I don't want to speak about this because I spoke enough.
"My position is clear and now I am very happy because, three months ago when I arrived, the situation was not very good. Now it is a little bit better." | Swansea City head coach Francesco Guidolin believes his team have secured their Premier League survival after beating Chelsea. | 36007415 |
She suffered severe burns and was taken to hospital for treatment to her injuries but died later that evening.
The fire happened at a flat in Ardnaclowney House, a sheltered housing complex, off Beechmount Avenue.
Police and the fire service attended the scene about 16:00 GMT after the fire broke out in the woman's top-floor flat.
The fire service said that the fire was "accidental" and was discovered in the flat's kitchen.
Three other residents were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
The flat has been cordoned off while an investigation takes place. | A woman in her 60s has died following a fire at her home in west Belfast on Sunday afternoon. | 38875041 |