Four women’s-rights organizations based in Germany and Poland are planning to deliver WHO-approved abortion pills by drone from Germany to a Polish border town.

The drone will carry the drugs from Frankfurt an der Oder to women across the river in the Polish town of Slubice, in a bid to get around Poland’s restrictive abortion laws

The delivery will also hopefully bring attention to the discrepancy between Poland’s abortion laws and those of other European countries, says one of the organizations involved, Women on Waves.

Poland, a staunchly Roman Catholic country, is one of the few places in Europe where women can only get a legal abortion if there is proof of rape or incest, if the mother’s life is endangered, or if the fetus is severely malformed.

The drugs scheduled for delivery on June 27 are mifepristone and misoprostol. They can be taken without medical supervision for pregnancies of less than nine weeks, Women on Waves says. Inducing miscarriage is not an offense under Polish law.

Women on Waves adds that, since the drone won’t be flying through controlled air space and weighs less than 5 kg, it does not require authorization from the Polish or the German government.

Summary: The move is designed to circumvent strict Polish laws on abortion


As the market for traditional digital advertising continues to decline, many media companies have turned to “native advertising” or sponsored content—and not just digital-native outlets like BuzzFeed but traditional players such as the New York Times. But those desires are running into some headwinds from regulators.

The British advertising regulator, for example, has reprimanded BuzzFeed UK for running a “listicle” sponsored by Dylon—a maker of color dye for clothing, and a subsidiary of German’s Henkel AG—that the agency said was not properly identified as advertising.

The post was entitled “14 Laundry Fails We’ve All Experienced,” and consisted of posts and photos taken from various social-media platforms that showed mistakes involving laundry. Where the byline of a reporter would normally appear, it said “Dylon, brand publisher.”

According to the regulator, the article (which has since been removed) also included a live feed from Dylon’s Facebook page, as well as a sentence at the end that said “It’s at times like these we are thankful that Dylon Colour Catcher is there to save us.”

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The Advertising Standards Authority said that where the article appeared on BuzzFeed’s home page and other pages, it was sufficient that it was identified as “promoted content” and Dylon was credited as the publisher. But on the actual article page itself, the agency said it wasn’t clear enough that it was promoted or sponsored content.

“[The labelling] was not sufficient to make clear that the main content of the web page was an advertorial,” the ASA ruling says. “We further noted that the web page was very long and visitors to it would therefore not see the reference to Dylon Colour Catcher at the bottom of the page until they had already engaged with the content.”

The agency also ruled that the term “brand publisher” was not sufficient to convey the commercial nature of the content to consumers, and said the ad “must not appear again in its current form.”

In addition to BuzzFeed, the British regulator also recently reprimanded The Telegraph for what it said was a misleading advertorial for tires, and last year it ordered Instagram to remove a post from Kim Kardashian that promoted a morning-sickness medicine.

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A BuzzFeed UK spokesman told the Guardian that the company would be reviewing its practices in light of the decision. The publisher also said in a comment to the regulator that since the British agency had not made very many decisions related to native advertising, the company was forced to rely on the standards of its U.S.-based parent.

The U.S. regulator, meanwhile, has also been cracking down on sponsored content. The Federal Trade Commission, which handles advertising standards, recently released new rules for how such ads are identified.

Among other things, the new standards say that simply using terms such as “promoted by” isn’t enough to identify native advertising. When it comes to labelling, the FTC said, advertisers shouldn’t use terms such as “promoted” because “they are at best ambiguous and potentially could mislead consumers that advertising content is endorsed by a publisher.”

Summary: British agency says the site's sponsored listicle on laundry disasters was not properly identified as advertising.


Make room for a side of tater tots with your cereal.

Post Holdings, which makes popular cereals such as Raisin Bran and Fruity Pebbles, reportedly held recent deal talks with packaged foods giant ConAgra Foods regarding the latter’s frozen-potato business. According to the Wall Street Journal, those talks—which sputtered out but could still be revived—revolved around the prospect of Post combining with the ConAgra subsidiary Lamb Weston, which makes a range of frozen potato products—from fries to tots—as well as various frozen appetizers.

The Journal reports that the deal—which would be structured as something called a Reverse Morris Trust, where a company carves out one of its subsidiaries and then merges it with another company—would value Lamb Weston at roughly $6 billion. Shares of Post rose slightly Tuesday following the report, pushing the cereal-maker’s market value over $5 billion.

Fortune reached out to both Post and ConAgra for comment and will update this article with any response.

It was only five years ago that ConAgra had Post in its sights as part of its proposed deal to acquire Ralcorp, which was Post’s parent company at the time. Instead, Ralcorp spun off Post to its shareholders a year before ConAgra eventually did acquire Ralcorp in a 2012 deal worth almost $5 billion.

However, ConAgra’s new CEO, Sean Connolly, has been busy cutting costs in what analysts assume is preparation for a sale of the packaged foods company. Last summer, ConAgra sold off the struggling private label business it acquired in the Ralcorp deal and Connolly has also reportedly been considering a spin-off of Lamb Weston for months.

Meanwhile, Post has been expanding its business through acquisitions such as last year’s $1 billion deal for MOM Brands, which makes bagged and hot cereals, as well as a 2014 deal to acquire Michael Foods for $2.45 billion.

Summary: If a deal between Post and ConAgra Foods comes to fruition.


No sign of Becky with the good hair.

Beyoncé released a stand-alone video for “Sorry,” the fourth track from her visual album “Lemonade.”

Since the release of the provocative album on April 23, this is the second video after the world caught a glimpse of “Formation” which premiered the day before Beyonce’s halftime show at Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7.

Scenes from the black and white short, extracted from the original film, alternate between Queen B and her body painted accomplices dancing on a school bus to Bey sitting on a throne in an old southern manor alongside a twerking tennis icon Serena Williams.

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The video ends with Beyoncé dancing in front of her clique and delivering the now infamous line, “He better call Becky with the good hair.”

The last line of the implicative track dominated headlines back in April when the internet went crazy amid rumors of marital problems between Bey and Jay Z — ensuing in a witch hunt for the mysterious “Becky.”

Beyoncé’s loyal fans, the Beyhive, swarmed around fashion designer Rachel Roy after she cryptically tweeted, “Good hair don't care, but we will take good lighting, for selfies, or self truths, always,” hours after the album dropped.

Roy, whose close relationship with Jay Z was rumored to be the reason behind Solange’s elevator onslaught on the rapper at the Met Gala afterparty in May 2014, denied any involvement.

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"I respect love, marriages, families and strength. What shouldn't be tolerated by anyone, no matter what, is bullying, of any kind,” she tweeted.

Summary: Still no sign of Becky with the good hair.


This is the first post for Re-Tooled, a regular series by Fortune Senior Writer Phil Wahba that looks at how once-struggling brands have rejuvenated themselves.

A brand never succeeds by trying to be all things to all people. Just ask the people who run Timberland.

The brand of high-performance outdoor footwear and apparel is booming again. The company, owned by VF Corp VFC , saw revenue rise more than 15% to $1.8 billion last year, and its operating profit rate climbed for the fourth year in a row, to 13%. And Timberland has ambitious plans to reach $3.1 billion in revenues and 18% margins in 2019, fueled by a bigger emphasis on higher-income city dwellers around the globe who love the outdoors, and perhaps more importantly, the outdoors look.

Not that long ago, the brand was in a rut: When VF bought New Hampshire-based Timberland for $2 billion in 2011, the brand’s sales were stuck at the same levels as in 2006, and its operating margin at about 8%. What’s more, Timberland didn’t seem to know what it stood for. Enter VF, which also owns brands like The North Face and Vans. VF, the world’s largest apparel maker, gave Timberland tools it didn’t have before, and prompted it to zero in on what it did best and aim to reach a more targeted set of customers.

Timberland’s brand president, Stewart Whitney, recently hosted Fortune at its store in New York’s SoHo district. Whitney, a 15-year Timberland veteran who became its head last year after overseeing its Asia expansion for six years, explained how Timberland got back on track, and how it plans to achieve its ambitious 2019 goals.

Timberland had fallen into the trap that ensnares countless brands: trying to cater to practically everyone. The company, which started life in 1955 as the Abington Shoe Company before becoming Timberland in 1978, sent signals to consumers that by turns indicated it was a boot brand, or a casual apparel brand, or an outdoor outerwear brand for hardcore adventurers. The marketing identity crisis ultimately confused consumers, failing to make clear enough what set Timberland apart.

“The fact that we didn’t stand for anything distinctly meant we didn’t really resonate,” says Whitney.

Just compare these three ads from a few years ago, before VF came in: they splinter the message, not making it clear whether Timberland is about technical and outdoor performance, green virtues, or outdoor fashion.

In contrast, look at this ad from its current campaign, focusing on stylish urbanites:

VF, a $13 billion apparel behemoth, gave Timberland the resources the small New Hamphire-based company didn’t have: firepower to conduct well-funded, deep dive market research. Armed with that muscle, Timberland undertook a three-year study, conducting long interviews with 18,000 consumers in eight countries.

Its conclusion: Timberland’s target customers should be what it calls “outdoor lifestylers,” or city dwellers who like the outdoors but want footwear and clothes that have more style than purely outdoor brands. (This also helps Timberland avoid competing too directly with sister-brand The North Face.)

Timberland customers made it clear they wanted shoes, boots and clothes that were more versatile–in other words, attire that they could wear in town without looking like they were about to climb Mount Everest.

That led the company to build up its men’s casual wear assortment, to add more style so Timberland wares could be worn in cities and suburbs as well as out in the country, and to start to build a women’s casual footwear business. All that was through the lens of that “outdoor lifestyle” enthusiast, which Whitney says makes up about 20% of people in any market.

“When you go after lots of consumers, with lots of messages, the odds are higher for a misfire,” he says.

By repositioning itself at a higher end and being more focused, Timberland was able to shift away from promotions, meaning fewer items ending up in a clearance bin or in an outlet mall; the strategy also won the brand more pricing power.

Timberland in 2013 relaunched its North American apparel business, armed with VF’s enormous production, distribution and sourcing firepower. Prior to that, Timberland had been outsourcing clothing production to VF rival PVH PVH , owner of the Izod, Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein brands, among others.

Timberland still gets about 80% of its sales from footwear. But with its push to add more style to its clothing, as evidenced by its Black Forest line (featured in the ad above), it needs more control over production–something it now has–so it can add or remove products from its assortment more quickly.

Even as Timberland plans a big push abroad, it won’t try to pepper target markets with stores everywhere. (Most of its sales are via wholesale to other stores rather than through its own stores.) Rather, the focus is on what Whitney calls “fortress markets,” or larger urban markets across key regions. What’s more, Timberland has eliminated many products in its assortment to focus on the specific items that sell well.

“That helps you elevate the brand, and when you elevate the brand, you elevate your selling prices, your margins and your profile,” Whitney says.

Summary: The footwear brand is on a tear again, thanks to a tighter focus on its target customers. Here's how Timberland revived its fortunes.


Marcus Willis, a 25-year-old tennis teacher, won six qualifying matches to reach Wimbledon. The No. 772-ranked Englishman kept his momentum with an upset of No. 54 Ricardas Berankis to steal the heart of the world. The victory also set up a date with seven-time Wimbledon champ and world No. 3 Roger Federer on Centre Court.

Federer took care of business, cruising to a 6-0, 6-3, 6-4 win. But Willis was all smiles, enjoying his feel-good moment against possibly the greatest of all-time.

Willis, who would have spent Wednesday giving lessons to 5-to-10-year-olds had he lost Monday, did not enter the tournament with major endorsements. So, for round two, Willis sported the gear of one of his favorite players.

Marcus Willis has some famous initials on his left sleeve... #Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/shZiwnxLO6

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 29, 2016

Yeah, that is Roger Federer gear. But on this day, the 17-time Grand Slam champion wasn't the fan favorite. It was the underdog from Slough.

Just the world No.3 and the world No.772 sharing a joke at the net...#Wimbledon https://t.co/1ByQj92NvR

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 29, 2016

Federer had to cope with rambunctious support for the Great Britain native.

Warning: Roger Federer v Marcus Willis may contain a lot of this...#Wimbledon https://t.co/rVeoTXYbdr

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 29, 2016

The moment of the match came early in the first set when Willis lobbed Federer to cap off a spectacular point. The British commentators did their best to will Willis to victory.

Marcus Willis may have lost, but he'll always be able to say he lobbed @rogerfederer...#Wimbledon https://t.co/vwIqeEKsVQ

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 29, 2016

Willis celebrated taking his first game off Federer as if he won the entire tournament. The crowd echoed his joy.

That feeling when you win your first ever game on Centre Court...#Wimbledon https://t.co/UbqLdkS9E2

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 29, 2016

After the match, the ever-classy Federer allowed Willis to have one final embrace with the adoring English crowd.

Classy.Roger Federer hangs back to let Marcus Willis soak up the crowd's applause.#Wimbledon https://t.co/Wby6YU4bIz

— Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) June 29, 2016

"I thought Marcus brought some unbelievable energy to the court," Federer said in his post-match presser. "It was very refreshing."

Willis had a couple cold beers waiting for him in the locker room:

You know you're popular when the beers are waiting for you when you get back to the locker room. #peopleschamp pic.twitter.com/XlrbSKAWcJ

— Matt Smith (@smithy_red) June 29, 2016

The U.S. Open kicks off in 57 days. If Willis can qualify, he will be back at a major on the hard courts of New York City.

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Summary: Marcus Willis' magic ran out against Roger Federer, but he had a blast and topped the match off with a beer.


Ivy League universities are synonymous with well-paid, career-track jobs, but a new report suggests they may not yield the best starting salaries.

Breaking down the closely watched U.S. News and World Report's college ranking guide, The Washington Post reports that if beginning pay scales were the sole indicator, none the country's four top universities—Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia—would even crack the top 10 or 20 schools. Instead, the highest starting salaries belong to top military and tech schools that churn out graduates that major in math and science.

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According to the data from PayScale, the schools with the highest median beginning salary belongs to the U.S. Naval Academy, where alumni earn $80,000 right out of college, followed by Harvey Mudd College, a liberal arts school that specializes in math and physical sciences ($76,000), and West Point ($75,000).

California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both considered elite institutions though not Ivy League, round out the top five.

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Summary: Ivy League degrees may be prestigious, but a new analysis suggests they may not get you the best starting salary. The Washington Post reports.


The first painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer to come to auction in more than 80 years -- and one that for decades has been suspected of being fake -- sold for $30 million Wednesday night at Sotheby's here.

The overflowing salesroom burst into applause when George Gordon, an expert in the Sotheby's old-master paintings department, took the winning bid by telephone. While the auction house is not saying who the buyer was, it is believed to be Stephen A. Wynn, the Las Vegas casino owner.

For years Mr. Wynn has acquired trophy paintings by the great masters: Rembrandt, Rubens, Cézanne, Renoir, Picasso and Sargent. He hangs them in galleries that are part of his establishments.

Other possible buyers, experts say, could have been the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. (Scott J. Schaefer, its chief curator, was in the audience) and Lord Thomson of Fleet, one of the richest men in Canada.

Still, most experts in the room thought the buyer was Mr. Wynn. If it was, he was one of seven determined bidders. Robert Noortman, an old-master paintings dealer based in Maastricht, the Netherlands, also tried hard to buy the painting. He stopped bidding at $25.7 million. Mr. Noortman, who was sitting in the front row, said before the auction that he wanted to buy it for his inventory.

''Whoever bought the picture outbid one of the most experienced dealers in the business,'' said Rachel Mauro, a Manhattan art dealer who was at the sale. ''As a Vermeer -- and I happen to believe it really is a Vermeer -- the price isn't that crazy. If it did go to Las Vegas, it would certainly look good there.''

The sale price of the painting includes Sotheby's commission: 20 percent of the first $100,000 and 12 percent of the rest.

''We were extremely pleased,'' said Alexander Bell, head of Sotheby's old-master paintings department in London. ''It is unlikely that a painting by Vermeer will ever come to the market again.''

When Sotheby's first announced the sale in March, auction house officials estimated it would bring $5.4 million, a price far lower than what a second-rate Impressionist painting might fetch at auction.

They were obviously nervous. For decades the authenticity of the painting, ''Young Woman Seated at the Virginal,'' has been in dispute. But after 10 years of study and testing by a group of scholars, museum curators, painting conservators, costume experts, paint analysts and auction house experts, Sotheby's said it was confident it was genuine.

Sotheby's promoted the auction vigorously with advertising, hoping to attract collectors from around the world. Vermeer's popularity has been fueled in recent months by the best-selling novel ''Girl With a Pearl Earring'' and the 2003 movie based on it.

The painting, which served as the cover image on the old-master sales catalog this year, has an entry that is 22 pages long and includes an extensive history as well as pictures of color pigment tests.

The canvas is small -- 10 by 8 inches -- and dates from around 1670. It shows an intimate scene of a young woman seated at a virginal, a type of harpsichord, with her eyes gazing directly at the viewer. It is the last genre scene by this artist in private hands apart from one owned by Queen Elizabeth II. The last Vermeer to appear at auction was ''The Little Street'' (1658-1660), which was included in a sale in Amsterdam in 1921. It failed to sell and was later bought by a collector who donated it to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

While technical evidence had supported the theory that ''Young Woman Seated at the Virginal'' was by Vermeer, it was not until the process of cleaning the canvas was completed about six months ago in the Netherlands by Martin Bijl, the former head of painting conservation at the Rijksmuseum, that the majority of experts and scholars endorsed the painting.

Until now only 34 paintings have been fully accepted as by Vermeer, who was not a prolific artist and who died young, at 43, in 1675.

Nobody had disagreed with the attribution until Han van Meegeren, a master forger, revealed a half-century ago that between 1927 and 1943 he had sold fake Vermeers to unsuspecting museums and collectors. The art scholar A. B. de Vries then excluded this painting from an important monograph.

For much of the 20th century the painting languished in near obscurity. From the description in a 17th-century sales catalog, the painting once belonged to Pieter van Ruijven, Vermeer's most important patron. By the early 19th century, it was owned by Wessel Ryers, a Dutch collector. By 1904 it was documented as a Vermeer in the collection of Sir Alfred Beit, a collector in Ireland, who also owned the artist's famous ''Lady Writing a Letter to Her Maid.'' In 1960 the painting was sold to Baron Freddy Rolin, a Belgian dealer, who died in 2001. It is his family who sold the painting now.

Experts at Sotheby's compared it to two larger Vermeers at the National Gallery in London, ''A Lady Standing at the Virginal'' and another portrait of a lady seated at a virginal, both also late paintings by the artist.

The auction house and Baron Rolin also consulted Libby Sheldon, who runs the paintings analysis unit at University College in London. She analyzed the pigments and was able to find corresponding ones used by the artist in authenticated works.

Ms. Sheldon also studied the painting's canvas and discovered that it matched the one used in ''The Lacemaker,'' which is in the Louvre. ''The two are so similar,'' Ms. Sheldon said, ''they could have been cut from the same bolt of cloth.''

Summary: Young Woman Seated at the Virginal, first painting by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer to come to auction in more than 80 years, is sold for $30 million at Sotheby's in London; painting, for decades suspected of being fake, may have been purchased by Las Vegas casino owner Stephen Wynn; photo (M)


Snapchat is in hot water for flirting with… well, flirting. Or in the words of some parents: sexually explicit content.

The ephemeral messaging app has been sued for displaying sexually explicit ads and content through Discover, its media hub where publishers serve up news and videos, according to a court filing published by The Verge. The suit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles by an unnamed 14 year-old boy and his mother this week, accuses Snapchat of regularly showing inappropriate content to minors without properly warning parents, thus violating the Communications Decency Act.

“Millions of parents in the United States today are unaware that Snapchat is curating and publishing this profoundly sexual and offensive content to their children,” says the lawsuit, adding that such content then encourages its young users to send sexually explicit messages to each other.

Ironically, the company unveiled a new feature this week that lets users permanently save photos and videos they send each other. The feature’s demo video included a young man grabbing his girlfriend’s butt as an example of content users may want to save.

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Apple’s App Store rates Snapchat’s app as appropriate for users age 12 and up, though Snapchat’s terms of service restrict its use to those at least 13 years old, as The Verge points out.

While Snapchat has a fair amount of influence over the look and feel of content that its partner publishers create for the app’s Discover section, the company maintains that publishers ultimately retain editorial independence over what they publish.

Some of the offensive content cited in the lawsuit includes “10 Things He Thinks When He Can’t Make You Orgasm,” “I Got High, Blown, and Robbed When I Was A Pizza Delivery Guy,” and “People Share Their Secret Rules for Sex.”

The lawsuit seeks civil penalties and that the company add an in-app warning about the app’s sexual content. The lawsuit also seeks class action status.

Fortune has contacted Snapchat and will update this story if we hear back.

Summary: Plaintiffs allege the app fails to warn parents.


About a third of all Internet transactions are returned by shoppers, according to the Wall Street Journal, so retailers are pushing clever tactics to help shoppers make choices that they will keep.

Thayer Meicler, co-founder of the free location-based app SaleSorter, says shopper behavior differs in an actual store compared with online. The National Retail Federation estimates that online sales will increase 13 to 15 percent this year.

"I would imagine the rate of in-store returns is much smaller than online because consumers know exactly what they are buying when they pick something out in stores so there are far fewer surprises," Meicler said.

The National Retail Federation said $58 billion in goods are expected to be returned this holiday season but it does not have data that shows the rate or dollar amount specifically of online shopping returns.

Meicler points to quarterly data from the Commerce Department that reported about 94 percent of retail sales occur offline, which she said may be driven by the desire to try on items, see and understand the quality and materials of items, to compare potential purchases and more.

"Given this, it is not surprising that online returns are rising, as consumers don't always have clarity as to what they are buying and expectations of what the item is may be made of," she said.

Fashion retail site Rue La La is trying to tackle the high rate of returns with a test program that allows customers to see their order history with sizing information, to help make sure they want to make a purchase.

Through Rue La La's service, a customer who has repeatedly bought the same brand of dress shirts in both a small and a medium could see a notice asking, "Are you sure you want to order the small? The last five times you ordered both sizes, you only kept the medium," Chief Executive Steve Davis told the Wall Street Journal.

The website, which also offers a mobile shopping app, has tried to make shipping and returns easier, by charging a flat $9.95 for a customer's first purchase, which then provides free standard shipping for every order you place for 30 days.

If you return an item for merchandise credit, you get free return shipping. But if you want a traditional refund you have to pay the return shipping costs.

Though shoppers are in the last day of Christmas gift shopping, it may be worthwhile to delay shopping for yourself until after the holidays, says Meicler. She said she expects to see discounts in stores to continue after Christmas, which consumers can track with SaleSorter.

"Consumers should shop early in the day to get the best sale items before they are picked over and to take advantage of door buster offers at many big-box retailers," Meicler said.

Summary: About a third of all Internet transactions are returned by shoppers, according to the Wall Street Journal, so retailers are pushing clever tactics to help shoppers make choices that they will stick to and keeps them happy.


updated 01/31/2007 AT 01:00 PM EST

•originally published 01/31/2007 AT 11:25 AM EST

Mandy Moore has been spotted

– but that doesn't mean that she has it easy in the romance department.

"I don't enjoy dating in the public eye. I don't even really enjoy dating," the actress, 22, told PEOPLE at Tuesday's Hollywood premiere of her new romantic comedy

When it comes to the romantic side of things, I would rather be a girl in a relationship than dating."

Asked if she is dating Nicole Richie's ex, she smiled, shrugged and said, "I don't know."

Later in the evening, Moore was spotted with DJ AM attending the

after-party at Hollywood hotspot Boulevard 3. "DJ AM's arm was wrapped around Mandy as she spoke to suits, cast members and guests," an onlooker tells PEOPLE. "The pair still found time to break away to be alone and kiss."

director Michael Lehman also weighed in on Moore's love life, telling PEOPLE: "In my dealings with her where I'd ask her about her relationships and stuff, she was very up front and out there. At the time we were making this, she was dating Zach Braff. He came to the set a few times. They seemed to have a very solid relationship. ... So I never asked her about the turmoil."

Earlier this month Moore revealed that she recently went through a period of

and attributed part of it to her split from Braff.

"A few months ago I felt really low, really sad – depressed for no reason," she told

magazine for its February issue. "The breakup added to what I was going through, but it's not the complete reason."

Summary: "I would rather be a girl in a relationship," the actress, who's been linked to DJ AM, tells PEOPLE


Richard Leibert, chief organist of the Radio City Music Hall from its opening in 1932 until his retirement five years ago, died Friday at Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 73 years old and had lived in Cape Coral, Fla., since 1971.

Music had been the moving spirit in Mr. Leibert's life since early childhood when he amazed his parents by pecking out notes on the family piano in their home in Bethlehem, Pa., and playing from memory a simple tune that had caught his fancy.

“I couldn't understand why they were surprised,” he used to say. “It all seemed so natural to me.”

Mr. Leibert's parents were members of the choir in the Moravian Church in Bethlehem and they rejoiced in their son's accomplishments.

To please his father, young Richard tried to master the trombone, but finally gave that up and turned again to the piano. He later took up the organ, studying for a time on a scholarsip at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore.

While at Peabody he played at the Palace Theater in Washington in the afternoon and evening and struggled with academic subjects at George Washington University.

He briefly turned his hack on the organ to conduct a band of college youths on barnstorming tours from Washington to Brooklyn, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, where he returned to the console in a theater.

Best known as Dick, Mr. Leihert was in Pittsburgh when the Loew interests sent him to play at the openings of socalled “atmosphere” theaters across the country. He wound up as organist at the ??rooklyn Paramount and entered a competition for organist at the Music Hall. le won it handily and began his long career there in 1932.

Mr. Leibert was well‐known to early morning radio listeners. While at the Music Hall he played the organ daily at 9 A.M., except Sunday and Monday, over the NBC network.

He leaves his wife, the former Rosemarie Brun; three daughters, Marlette Beers, Joan Adams and Linda Leibert, and two Richard 3d and David.

A funeral service will be held at 10 A.M. tomorrow at the First Baptist Church in Cape Coral.

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Summary: Leibert, Richard


ROBOTS_0158_fl.jpg Shelby Ryan (9) (far left) of Denver enjoy playing with all the Robots ath the Robonexus trade show in San Jose. Crowds of people played with the crawlers used for search and rescue in New Orleans, humanoid robots, robot soccer, "the Japanese Pavillion" featuring robots never before seen in the U.S., the robotic arm that NASA used to fix the Hubbell. Story will just overview the different kinds of robots on display. 10/7/05 San Jose CA Frederic Larson The San Francisco Chronicle

ROBOTS_0158_fl.jpg Shelby Ryan (9) (far left) of Denver enjoy playing with all the Robots ath the Robonexus trade show in San Jose. Crowds of people played with the crawlers used for search and rescue in New

ROBOTS_0313_fl.jpg Robonexus trade show in San Jose featuring robots: crawlers used for search like the Xtreme VGTV (type in photograph) used for rescue in New Orleans and Mississippi, humanoid robots, robot soccer, "the Japanese Pavillion" featuring robots never before seen in the U.S., the robotic arm that NASA used to fix the Hubbell. Story will just overview the different kinds of robots on display. 10/7/05 San Jose CA Frederic Larson The San Francisco Chronicle

ROBOTS_0313_fl.jpg Robonexus trade show in San Jose featuring robots: crawlers used for search like the Xtreme VGTV (type in photograph) used for rescue in New Orleans and Mississippi, humanoid robots, robot

ROBOTS_0228_fl.jpg Crowds watched as the Robonova-1 robot did a ballet for the audience. Robonexus trade show in San Jose featuring robots: crawlers used for search and rescue in New Orleans, humanoid robots, robot soccer, "the Japanese Pavillion" featuring robots never before seen in the U.S., the robotic arm that NASA used to fix the Hubbell. Story will just overview the different kinds of robots on display. 10/7/05 San Jose CA Frederic Larson The San Francisco Chronicle

ROBOTS_0228_fl.jpg Crowds watched as the Robonova-1 robot did a ballet for the audience. Robonexus trade show in San Jose featuring robots: crawlers used for search and rescue in New Orleans, humanoid robots,

Not-so-remote control / Ever wanted to cross-breed a vacuum cleaner? Latest robots take the floor in San Jose show

If you're not a techie, you might think the Roomba is pretty neat as it comes out of the box. It's a robot vacuum cleaner that zips around the carpet on its own. An upcoming variation will even scrub the kitchen floor.

But that's not good enough for Phillip Torrone, an associate editor at Make magazine. Today, he'll be demonstrating how to combine the Roomba, which starts at $150, with other devices to create cross-bred robots that can do more than just clean house.

Where do you find crowds eager to learn how to convert a vacuum cleaner into something less useful but more interesting? At RoboNexus, the all-dancing, all-wrestling, all-floor-cleaning robot trade show at the San Jose Convention Center through the weekend.

The show, billed as the largest robotics event in the Western Hemisphere, is in its second year in Silicon Valley. More than 10,000 guests are expected over its three-day run.

On Friday, the show floor was mobbed with local grade-school and middle-school kids crowding around displays, eating free Twizzlers and Tootsie Pops, and venturing to touch some of the cutest products the technology industry has to offer.

"Look, he's a baby spider!" said Raena Gountang, 9, snapping a photo of a low-to-the-ground robot that skittered around on four slender legs. Gountang was with one of several classes from Toyon Elementary School in San Jose whose teachers took them to see the show Friday.

Other Toyon kids gravitated toward the cuddly Paro, an animatronic white seal that interacts with patients in Japanese nursing homes and hospitals. But Leandro Ruvalcava, 10, said he preferred the Roboraptor, a remote-control dinosaur display by the toy company WowWee, because "It can bite you."

A Chronicle test confirmed that the robotic dinosaur, made by the company that last year had a holiday hit with the Robosapien robot, will indeed gently gnaw on a finger placed in its mouth.

Many of the robots on display were designed as educational tools. A small squadron of $800-to-$1,000 robots that danced a synchronized ballet on a table, turned cartwheels and did kung fu moves were designed by San Diego's Hitech Robotics to teach high school and university students to program.

The Botball Robotics Program achieves a similar goal using robots crafted out of Lego bricks and Nintendo GameBoy Advance handheld video game players.

And Lego itself, the Danish maker of the interlocking blocks that played a central role in so many engineers' childhoods, touted its own educational initiatives.

Then there were the more brutish bots: machines that work for NASA, the military and the Department of Homeland Security, and wrestling robots brought by the Robotics Society of America to promote upcoming San Francisco competitions where robotic arms pull no punches.

Just as designer Jin Sato showed off his wrestling robot, a bolt flew off the machine, and one of the watching kids caught it.

What if that happens in competition?

"I will lose," Sato acknowledged with a sheepish grin.

Hard-core robot carnage from fighters like this can be seen the second weekend of November at Fort Mason at the ComBots Cup and National Championship.

In March, a competition called RoboGames in San Francisco will feature robot wrestling as well as other challenges such as firefighting, bartending and stair climbing.

Stair climbing is actually one of the toughest of all challenges faced by robot-kind, said David Calkins, president of the Robotics Society.

"You never see robots going upstairs in movies. It's very difficult," he said.

A company on the other side of the show floor was showing off its plans to control an arm that NASA will use to repair the aging Hubbell Space Telescope. This work by Innova Holdings of Fort Myers Beach, Fla., could enable the telescope to stay in space until as late as 2020, said Walter Weisel, chief executive.

And American Standard Robotics showed off a squat, rolling bot designed to save lives. The Disaster Crawler, which looks like a toy tank tethered to a long electrical cord, was used to explore collapsed apartment buildings in Biloxi after Hurricane Katrina, searching for survivors. It carried out the same mission in the rubble of the World Trade Center after Sept. 11, 2001.

The same robots could be used as first responders in a gas attack on a subway system, said the company's president and CEO Mark Micire, something much on Americans' minds with the reported threat to New York City subways.

Less practical, more esoteric robot pursuits will also be explored. Several sessions over the weekend will delve into robot art, as in art created by robots on their own or via commands from remote human beings.

This afternoon, Joanne Pransky, a marketer and public speaker who bills herself as the world's first robotic psychiatrist, will expound on the social issues involved in robotics, such as mankind's responsibility for its robotic "children" and the human fear of technology going awry that science fiction writer Isaac Asimov called the "Frankenstein complex."

"There's always going to be that fear, that robots will take control," said Pransky, who raises examples of robots that become positive contributors to society, like the mechanical pets gaining popularity in Japan.

Entry to RoboNexus is $20 for adults, $15 for kids over 5, and free for younger children.

Where: San Jose Convention Center

How much: $20 for adults, $15 for kids over 5, and free for younger children.

Summary: On Friday, the show floor was mobbed with local grade-school and middle-school kids crowding around displays, eating free Twizzlers and Tootsie Pops, and venturing to touch some of the cutest products the technology industry has to offer.  A small squadron of $800-to-$1,000 robots that danced a synchronized ballet on a table, turned cartwheels and did kung fu moves were designed by San Diego's Hitech Robotics to teach high school and university students to program.  The Botball Robotics Program achieves a similar goal using robots crafted out of Lego bricks and Nintendo GameBoy Advance handheld video game players.  [...] Lego itself, the Danish maker of the interlocking blocks that played a central role in so many engineers' childhoods, touted its own educational initiatives.  [...] there were the more brutish bots: machines that work for NASA, the military and the Department of Homeland Security, and wrestling robots brought by the Robotics Society of America to promote upcoming San Francisco competitions where robotic arms pull no punches.  In March, a competition called RoboGames in San Francisco will feature robot wrestling as well as other challenges such as firefighting, bartending and stair climbing.  The Disaster Crawler, which looks like a toy tank tethered to a long electrical cord, was used to explore collapsed apartment buildings in Biloxi after Hurricane Katrina, searching for survivors.  The same robots could be used as first responders in a gas attack on a subway system, said the company's president and CEO Mark Micire, something much on Americans' minds with the reported threat to New York City subways.


By Maya Anderman and Jazmine Polk

07/21/2016 AT 12:30 PM EDT

, they definitely didn't have a 'Bad Romance.'

The engaged couple, who announced they were

earlier this week, went all out when it came to giving each other gifts. From jewelry to footwear and even some furry friends in between, the two definitely did not hold back on the extravagance.

Read on for some of the most over-the-top presents the pair purchased for each other over the course of their five-year relationship.

on Valentine's Day in 2015. The six-carat heart-shaped engagement ring designed by Lorraine Schwartz is estimated to be worth approximately

Kinney wanted to make sure his wife-to-be's footwear was on point, so he invested almost

in three pairs of Alexander McQueen Armadillo boots which Gaga, 30, showed off on her Instagram.

Backpack designed by Damien Hirst

Gaga also wanted to make sure her hubby was in style. The singer purchased a

Damien Hirst backpack for his birthday in 2013.

A photo posted by Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) on May 6, 2014 at 11:30pm PDT

Kinney brought a furry friend into the family when he bought Gaga a French Bulldog puppy they named Asia. You might recognize her from her very own certified

. Frenchies are a pricey breed of dog, with purebreds going for upwards of $3,000. Gaga reportedly returned the favor by getting her beau a cat,

Summary: Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney showered each other with elaborate gifts over the course of their 5-year relationship


Project Greenlight, an HBO series produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adaptive Studios, won’t be getting a fifth season on HBO.

According to the Associated Press, Project Greenlight was given the red light by the network, leaving Damon in shock that HBO didn’t pick up the show, which chronicles the production of an independent film.

“I really liked it and thought that the show went great,” Damon said while promoting the latest Jason Bourne film, according to AP. “I’m not one to question (their programming). They do such a great job. But we have to take it out again.”

Damon and his fellow producers will be looking for a new network to host their show, mentioning that Netflix of Amazon amzn might be a good fit.

A potential switch to Netflix could possibly benefit the show. Netflix nflx was rated No. 1 for best original programming in a survey released in April, beating out HBO from the previous year.

Project Greenlight aired on HBO for its first two seasons from 2001 to 2003, before moving to Bravo for season three in 2005, the AP reports.

When the show came back to HBO in 2015 for a fourth season, Matt Damon was met with a lot of flack for interrupting Effie Brown, the one African-American female producer on the show, to say that selecting a diverse directing team isn’t the solution to getting better representation of women and minorities on screen. Damon later apologized for his comment.

A representative from HBO told Fortune that the fourth season of Project Greenlight fell to 1.3 million viewers, and that it was was initially imagined as a one-season revival, deciding in early 2016 that another season “did not make sense for us.”

“We are proud of the show and were pleased with its run throughout the years,” said HBO in a statement.

Summary: Red-lighting the show for a fifth season.


The Big One is looking a little more likely these days. Since the California earthquake of 1857, tectonic plates along the San Andreas Fault are thought to have shifted by as much as 26 feet. Only last year, scientists raised the chances of a quake in California of magnitude 8.0 or greater in the next 30 years to 7% from 4.7%. Unfortunately, for all the sophisticated science behind this prediction, nobody knows whether this means devastation tomorrow or many decades from now.

The mystery surrounding earthquakes—the fact...

Summary: Recently, scientists raised the chances for a devastating California earthquake. Amanda Foreman looks at how quakes topple rulers, styles of building and ways of thinking.


Charles Koch, the industrialist billionaire, told allies Sunday that rumors that he would support Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton were “a blood libel.” The patron of a network of political and philanthropic groups, however, added that he could not support Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Koch opened his twice-a-year keynote speech to his political allies with a dire assessment of the White House contenders. In an afternoon address at the grand Broadmoor Resort, to 400 guests who donated at least $100,000 to the Koch network, he said the priority of his groups would be the keep Republican majorities in the Senate and the House to block bad proposals from either White House winner.

“The first thing I want to do is to correct a rumor that the media keeps stimulating and that is that I am probably going to support Hillary. That is a blood libel,” Koch said to applause. “At this point, I can’t support either candidate. But I’m certainly not going to support Hillary.”

A day earlier, in welcoming his guests, Koch mentioned neither Trump nor Clinton. He had previously seemed to hint he’d be open to Clinton.

The Koch network, formally known as Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, plans to spend roughly $250 million to shape electoral outcomes this year. Overall spending is expected to be around $750 million. That level of spending makes it one of the biggest players in politics, so it’s all the more remarkable that the network is staying on the sidelines when it comes to the White House race.

Having soured on the 2016 campaign, Koch told his allies that his groups would focus on shaping the country’s culture by funding efforts on college campuses and with social groups.

“This network is accelerating its efforts to move key institutions to support a system that maximizes peace, mutual respect and wellbeing for everyone,” Koch said. “Unless we make progress here in our culture, we are doomed to lurch from one political crisis to another. We’ll likely degenerate into socialism or corporatism.”

The Koch groups plan to leverage their massive checking accounts to boost other projects as well. “We’ve got our work cut out for us. But this is the only credible path I see for changing the trajectory of this country,” said Koch, one of the richest Americans and the head of the ubiquitous Koch Industries.

The Koch retreats are typically private affairs, but a handful of reporters were invited to some sessions. In exchange, journalists agreed not to identify donors without their permission. Before going into the session, staff asked that any electronic device that could record remarks be handed over.

Summary: "At this point, I can’t support either candidate"


Aberdeen North - SNP GAIN

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Birmingham, Perry Barr LABOUR HOLD

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Boston and Skegness - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

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Cardiff South and Penarth - LABOUR HOLD

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Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Carshalton and Wallington LIB DEM HOLD

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Central Suffolk and North Ipswich CONSERVATIVE HOLD

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Cities of London and Westminster CONSERVATIVE HOLD

City of Chester LABOUR HOLD

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Clwyd West - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill - SNP GAIN

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Crewe and Nantwich CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East SNP GAIN

Cynon Valley - LABOUR HOLD

Dagenham and Rainham - LABOUR HOLD

Denton and Reddish - LABOUR HOLD

Doncaster North - LABOUR HOLD

Dudley North - LABOUR HOLD

Dudley South - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Dulwich and West Norwood - LABOUR HOLD

Dumfries and Galloway - SNP GAIN

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Dundee West - SNP GAIN

Dunfermline and West Fife - SNP GAIN

Dwyfor Meirionnydd - PLAID CYMRU HOLD

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East Worthing and Shoreham CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Edinburgh North and Leith SNP GAIN

Edinburgh South - LABOUR HOLD

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Edinburgh West - SNP GAIN

Ellesmere Port and Neston LABOUR HOLD

Elmet and Rothwell CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Enfield Southgate - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Epping Forest - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Epsom and Ewell CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Erith and Thamesmead LABOUR HOLD

Esher and Walton CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Faversham and Mid Kent CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Feltham and Heston - LABOUR HOLD

Fermanagh and South Tyrone - UUP

Filton and Bradley Stoke CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Finchley and Golders Green - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Folkestone and Hythe - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Forest of Dean CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Garston and Halewood - LABOUR HOLD

Gillingham and Rainham CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Glasgow Central - SNP GAIN

Glasgow East - SNP GAIN

Glasgow North - SNP GAIN

Glasgow North East - SNP GAIN

Glasgow North West - SNP GAIN

Glasgow South - SNP GAIN

Glasgow South West - SNP GAIN

Grantham and Stamford CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Great Grimsby - LABOUR HOLD

Greenwich and Woolwich LABOUR HOLD

Hackney North and Stoke Newington LABOUR HOLD

Hackney South and Shoreditch - LABOUR HOLD

Halesowen and Rowley Regis CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Haltemprice and Howden CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Hampstead and Kilburn - LABOUR HOLD

Harrogate and Knaresborough CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Harrow East - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Harwich and North Essex CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Hastings and Rye - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Hayes and Harlington - LABOUR HOLD

Hazel Grove - CONSERVATIVE GAIN

Hemel Hempstead - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Hereford and South Herefordshire - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Hertford and Stortford CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Heywood and Middleton - LABOUR HOLD

High Peak - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Hitchin and Harpenden - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Holborn and St Pancras - LABOUR HOLD

Hornchurch and Upminster - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Hornsey and Wood Green - LABOUR GAIN

Houghton and Sunderland South - LABOUR HOLD

Ilford North - LABOUR GAIN

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Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey SNP GAIN

Isle of Wight - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Islington North - LABOUR HOLD

Islington South and Finsbury - LABOUR HOLD

Kenilworth and Southam CONSERVATIVE HOLD

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Kingston upon Hull North LABOUR HOLD

Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle - LABOUR HOLD

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath - SNP GAIN

Lanark and Hamilton East - SNP GAIN

Lancaster and Fleetwood - LABOUR GAIN

Leeds North East - LABOUR HOLD

Leeds North West - LIBERAL DEMOCRAT HOLD

Leicester East - LABOUR HOLD

Leicester South - LABOUR HOLD

Leicester West - LABOUR HOLD

Lewisham East - LABOUR HOLD

Lewisham West and Penge - LABOUR HOLD

Leyton and Wanstead LABOUR HOLD

Linlithgow and East Falkirk - SNP GAIN

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Liverpool Wavertree - LABOUR HOLD

Liverpool West Derby - LABOUR HOLD

Louth and Horncastle - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

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Luton South - LABOUR HOLD

Maidstone and The Weald CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Manchester Gorton - LABOUR HOLD

Manchester Withington - LABOUR GAIN

Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney - LABOUR HOLD

Mid Dorset and North Poole CONSERVATIVE GAIN

Mid Ulster - Sinn Féin

Middlesbrough South and Cleveland East LABOUR HOLD

Milton Keynes North CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Milton Keynes South CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Mitcham and Morden - LABOUR HOLD

Morecambe and Lunesdale CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Morley and Outwood - CONSERVATIVE GAIN

Motherwell and Wishaw - SNP GAIN

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New Forest West - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Newcastle upon Tyne Central - LABOUR HOLD

Newcastle upon Tyne East - LABOUR HOLD

Newcastle upon Tyne North - LABOUR HOLD

Newport East - LABOUR HOLD

Newport West - LABOUR HOLD

Newry and Armagh - Sinn Féin

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North Ayrshire and Arran - SNP GAIN

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North East Cambridgeshire CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North East Derbyshire LABOUR HOLD

North East Fife - SNP GAIN

North East Hampshire CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North East Hertfordshire CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North East Somerset -CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North Norfolk - LIB DEM HOLD

North Shropshire - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North Somerset - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North Swindon - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North Tyneside - LABOUR HOLD

North Warwickshire - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North West Cambridgeshire - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North West Durham - LABOUR HOLD

North West Hampshire - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North West Leicestershire CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North West Norfolk - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

North Wiltshire - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Northampton South - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Norwich South - LABOUR GAIN

Ochil and South Perthshire - SNP GAIN

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Oldham East and Saddleworth - LABOUR HOLD

Oldham West and Royton LABOUR HOLD

Orkney and Shetland - LIBERAL DEMOCRAT HOLD

Oxford East - LABOUR HOLD

Oxford West and Abingdon CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Paisley and Renfrewshire North - SNP GAIN

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Penistone and Stocksbridge LABOUR HOLD

Penrith and The Border CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Perth and North Perthshire - SNP HOLD

Plymouth Moor View - CONSERVATIVE GAIN

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Poplar and Limehouse LABOUR HOLD

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Rayleigh and Wickford CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Reading West - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Ribble Valley - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Rochester and Strood CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Rochford and Southend East CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Romsey and Southampton North CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Ross, Skye and Lochaber - SNP GAIN

Rossendale and Darwen - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Rother Valley - LABOUR HOLD

Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Runnymede and Weybridge CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Rutherglen and Hamilton West - SNP GAIN

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Salford and Eccles - LABOUR HOLD

Scarborough and Whitby CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Sefton Central - LABOUR HOLD

Selby and Ainsty CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough LABOUR HOLD

Sheffield Central - LABOUR HOLD

Sheffield Hallam - LIB DEM HOLD

Sheffield Heeley - LABOUR HOLD

Sheffield South East - LABOUR HOLD

Shrewsbury and Atcham - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Sittingbourne and Sheppey - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Skipton and Ripon CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Sleaford and North Hykeham CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Somerton and Frome CONSERVATIVE GAIN

South Basildon and East Thurrock - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South East Cambridgeshire CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South East Cornwall CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South Holland and The Deepings CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South Suffolk - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South Swindon - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South Thanet - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South West Bedfordshire CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South West Devon CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South West Hertfordshire CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South West Norfolk CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South West Surrey CONSERVATIVE HOLD

South West Wiltshire - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Southampton Test - LABOUR HOLD

Southend West - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

St Austell and Newquay - CONSERVATIVE GAIN

St Helens North LABOUR HOLD

St Helens South and Whiston - LABOUR HOLD

Stalybridge and Hyde LABOUR HOLD

Stockton North - LABOUR HOLD

Stockton South - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Stretford and Urmston LABOUR HOLD

Sunderland Central - LABOUR HOLD

Surrey Heath - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Sutton and Cheam - CONSERVATIVE GAIN

Sutton Coldfield - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Swansea East - LABOUR HOLD

Swansea West - LABOUR HOLD

Thirsk and Malton - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Thornbury and Yate CONSERVATIVE GAIN

Tiverton and Honiton - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Tonbridge and Malling CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Torridge and West Devon - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Truro and Falmouth - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Tunbridge Wells - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Uxbridge and South Ruislip CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Vale of Clwyd CONSERVATIVE GAIN

Vale of Glamorgan CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Warrington South - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Warwick and Leamington - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Washington and Sunderland West - LABOUR HOLD

Wentworth and Dearne - LABOUR HOLD

West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine SNP GAIN

West Belfast - Sinn Féin

West Bromwich East - LABOUR HOLD

West Bromwich West - LABOUR HOLD

West Dorset - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

West Dunbartonshire - SNP GAIN

West Ham - LABOUR HOLD

West Lancashire - LABOUR HOLD

West Suffolk - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

West Tyrone - Sinn Féin

West Worcestershire - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Westminster North - LABOUR HOLD

Westmorland and Lonsdale - LIBERAL DEMOCRAT HOLD

Wirral South - LABOUR HOLD

Wolverhampton North East - LABOUR HOLD

Wolverhampton South East - LABOUR HOLD

Wolverhampton South West - LABOUR GAIN

Worsley and Eccles South - LABOUR HOLD

Worthing West - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Wyre and Preston North - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Wyre Forest - CONSERVATIVE HOLD

Wythenshawe and Sale East - LABOUR HOLD

Ynys Mon - LABOUR HOLD

York Central - LABOUR HOLD

Summary: Just the facts: find out who your MP is with our easy to read list of results   of the 2015 UK general election by constituency


Lasering is a lengthy, expensive procedure - costs vary but the average is about £200 a session, with the number of sessions needed depending on the size and colour. Nor is it ever guaranteed to totally remove a tattoo.

Explains Danielle Young, aesthetic manager at the private Epsom Skin Clinics where Rebecca was treated: ''Historically, the only way to get rid of a tattoo was to cover it with skin-coloured ink, or cut it out. But we can now offer laser techniques with differing degrees of intensity.’’ While conventional laser is passed over a tattoo just once on each appointment, the latest technique, called the R20, enables the beam to pass over the skin four times a session, with a 20 minute gap between each pass for the skin to cool.

Although it is hot enough to cause blisters and pain, the laser doesn’t cause long term surface damage. “Most people feel it as a hot, sharp and fast sensation,” says Danielle. “It is more uncomfortable than having a tattoo, but not so uncomfortable that clients don’t want to come back for their next session.’’

Most people need a course of treatments, which have to be staggered up to eight weeks apart to allow complete healing in between, although for those who have the R20 laser, the treatment works more rapidly. So is it worth it? Rebecca who began her treatment last autumn says: ''I have had eight sessions of R20 now, and frustratingly there is little change. I am disappointed as I felt sure it would have begun to go. The clinic think that brown ink must have been mixed with the black originally, and that we will now have to switch to a more suitable laser. So I guess I will just have to carry on.”

She adds: ''I will have spent about £1,000 in the end. I just want it gone now.’’

Danielle warns that some people will always be left with ''ghosting’’ - a shadowy outline - depending on the size and colour of the original design; and that lasers do not yet exist (although they are in development) which will remove certain blues or light greens, or pale colours like yellow or pink.

Nor are lasers recommended for darker skins, as there is a risk the laser will strip out natural pigmentation and leave white scarring. Some tattoos may have caused skin scarring during the initial ink tattooing process, which can be revealed after the colour is stripped out.

Claims are also being made for an alternative therapy in which special liquid is injected into the tattoo, just as the ink was initially. The liquid is said to bond with the colour pigments, and both are then broken down and excreted by the body, leaving a scab behind which should heal normally.

The treatment is cheaper than laser but Stuart Harrison, the director of Oxford Skin Clinics, which offers this treatment, admits that it isn’t suitable for old, deep or overly large tattoos. “It would end up being very expensive and removal could take years,” he says.

Tattoo removal is rarely carried out on the NHS. Prof Harry Moseley, head of the Department of Plastic Surgery at Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee and head of the British Medical Laser Association, says: ''At our NHS clinic we do carry out tattoo removal but only in a small number of cases where the patient is severely distressed.’

The side effects of laser removal can include not only pain but ongoing skin sensitivity and infection; which is why, according to Prof Moseley, it is vital that therapists are properly trained. He would like to see all laser operators required to “demonstrate necessary knowledge and skill” and belong to a registered profession, so they “could be struck off if they were negligent.’’

Not everyone agrees with the claim that laser is just ''uncomfortable’’. Like Rebecca, Charley Monroe, a 24-year-old receptionist from Croydon, had a tattoo on impulse five years ago. ''I instantly regretted it - my 'design’, a small piece of tribal style art, on my forearm, looked awful straight away.’’ However she gave up on laser treatment after one session. ''I had never felt anything so sickeningly and excruciatingly painful as those 10 minutes the skin was under the laser; I couldn’t imagine doing that again one more time, let alone 10 more times. “

Charley went to consultant plastic surgeon Paul Banwell, whose private cosmetic surgery clinic in East Grinstead offers surgical removal of tattoos.

Surgical excision is not new, is no cheaper than laser therapy (an average tattoo might cost between £850-£1,400 to remove), and ultimately takes as long. However, being carried out under local anaesthetic, it is painless and the tattoo is guaranteed to be removed completely.

In late 2010, Mr Banwell removed Charley’s tattoo in a ''serial excision’’ procedure comprising four different surgeries spaced out over the next two and a half years; the gaps in between the surgeries allowed for healing and skin to stretch again. The excision literally involved cutting out the pieces of ink-stained skin in stages and stitching the area back, to leave minimal scaring.

Mr Banwell says: ''There are limitations to surgical removal; it wouldn’t work for large tattoos or where the skin is naturally taut, or where the whole of a limb is affected such as a tattoo 'sleeve’ on the arm. The only way to get rid of a large tattoo by excision would be to treat it like a tumour removal or burn treatment, so that means cutting out all the affected skin, and then using a graft to repair the hole.

''It would leave significant scarring, but there are patients who are so traumatised by their tattoos they will go to those lengths.’’ In the future, it is possible the high-tech skin substitutes used in burns units may be used to build new skin.

Charley Monroe says now she is immensely relieved that her “ hideous black blotch” has gone forever. “ I can forget all about that mistake – I feel liberated.’’

* For more information, visit http://www.banwellclinic.com/ and http://www.epsomskinclinics.com See Charley Monroe’s blog at http://everythingtattooremoval.tumblr.com/

Summary: Ridding yourself of a tattoo is now possible with laser and injectable   therapies or even surgery.


The tech savvy among us have been using encryption to protect their information from prying eyes for years. Apple is simply democratizing this tool, making it easier for the rest of us to shield the minutiae of our personal lives stored on our phones.

The F.B.I. director has complained that this will allow people to place themselves “beyond the law” because agents won’t be able to get at information on an iPhone, even with a warrant. There is a certain irony in the F.B.I.’s newfound emphasis on warrants. Just months ago the Justice Department was arguing that police officers did not need a warrant to delve into the phones of people they arrest. (A unanimous Supreme Court swatted that argument down). In any event, law enforcement has always needed to figure out how to break encryption on home computers and laptops, even with a warrant. The new Apple software, and its Android analogue, provides a similar level of security for mobile devices that now store comparable information.

Compared with the sea of information the government can obtain through various means, the information that’s saved directly on our iPhones is but a crumb. That material is often stored elsewhere too. Having received multiple prompts to back up our information to the cloud, most of us have succumbed. Even if we haven’t, it’s likely that Internet companies have a copy somewhere on their servers. These emails, photographs and text messages are available to the government with a court order. Moreover, the F.B.I. can obtain a pretty good idea of where we go and our associations. They can get this information through cellphone towers that track the location of users and license plate readers that are sprouting up across the country, to name just a couple.

Encryption on iPhones may mean that a limited amount of information eludes the government’s immediate grasp. But that’s not so unusual: a drug dealer may dispose of contraband in the toilet upon hearing the police at the door, but we don’t have a ban on flush toilets.

Summary: Compared with the sea of information the government can obtain through various means, what's saved directly on our iPhones is but a crumb.


NT Chief Minster Adam Giles. (AAP)

The ABC's 4 Corners program on abuse within Darwin's youth detention centre put a target on the chief minister's back and was orchestrated to do his government damage during an election campaign, he says.

Adam Giles accused the ABC of deliberately timing the broadcast of the episode on the Don Dale centre ahead of the August 27 poll, and told Sky News on Thursday that it was intended to give the Labor opposition "a leg up".

When questioned by journalists in Alice Springs on what evidence he had to support his allegation, Mr Giles said: "I was just asked for my opinion and that's my opinion".

"If 4 Corners want to get in the middle of an election campaign they've done a pretty good job of it ... I think certainly when you're going to run a program just weeks out from the Territory election it does point to something," he said.

Mr Giles said the program "put a target on the back of myself and my colleagues and those in the corrections industry".

"I've been particularly targeted, I've had death threats, other colleagues of mine have had death threats over a report of something that was done six years ago," he said.

When asked if his comments were a deflection of the government's responsibility, he said: "I've stood up and said we take responsibility for what happened before I was even in government and we're doing that and we're providing change, working with the federal government on the royal commission, but I don't think it's wrong to point out the timing of the show that's gone to air."

He said the program had stirred up racial tensions in the NT, a jurisdiction where over 85 per cent of adult prisoners and about 98 per cent of juvenile detainees are indigenous.

"I think this needs to be put into context, I don't think it's fair, I don't think it's reasonable," he said, adding that his government had been trying to find a balance between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities "and to see an episode such as that now stir up racial divide in the NT, I think it's appalling, I think it's racist and I'm absolutely disgusted with what they've done".

4 Corners executive producer Sally Neighbour tweeted: "Adam Giles' claim is false, outrageous and desperate."

Mr Giles has been criticised for his handling of the scandal, with outgoing Country Liberals backbencher Matt Conlan publicly calling on him to stop blaming others, but Mr Giles said he was "absolutely" happy with how he handled the matter.

On Thursday evening, Mr Giles took to his Facebook page, saying that despite his Aboriginal heritage he thought of himself as Australian.

"In politics as a principle I have never sought to use this to my advantage nor disadvantage," he wrote.

"While never taking the bait over many years I have been politically attacked on racial grounds. These attacks have been repeated and promoted in many media outlets. I've copped it sweet. I've risen above it all."

He said the "one-sided" 4 Corners reporting made him and his government look racist.

"We aren't. In fact we bust our guts to restore the balance between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal in the NT."

He said that NT Labor Opposition Leader Michael Gunner "even went so far as to refer to me as being off the reservation, on ABC of course. What does that mean Michael?"

The expression is a racially-charged reference to native Americans who challenged white authority.

Mr Gunner said he used the expression to express that Mr Giles was "out of touch" when claiming the 4 Corners story was politically motivated.

"I have since learned that the phrase has racist connotations. I was honestly not aware of that," he wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday night.

"I will never use that phrase ever again. I genuinely apologise to Adam, and anyone else hurt by my using the phrase."

Summary: The NT's chief minister has accused the ABC of politicising its Four Corners report on youth detention in the lead-up to the NT election this month.


Clark and sailing partner Hannah Mills made history in May 2012 by becoming the first British pairing to win the world title in the women's 470 class. They had previously won silver at the 2011 World Championships after only eight months of competitive sailing together.

Clark was twice a World Championship medallist in partnership with Christina Bassadone, but she awaits her first Olympic medal.

After giving up on selection for the 2004 Olympics, Clark drifted into working in corporate events and says it was "the kick up the backside I needed because I knew I wanted to get to the Olympics".

She came sixth in Beijing and then experimented with a succession of partners before settling on double gold medallist Sarah Ayton. However, Ayton retired suddenly 18 months prior to the 2012 Olympics in order to concentrate on motherhood.

Born in Colchester, Clark took up sailing as it was a family hobby and she says it was the first thing she beat her sister at.

Summary: Clark is on course for her first Olympic medal after winning the world title with sailing partner Hannah Mills.


MADRID—Spain will accept an additional 14,931 refugees as part of a broader European Union response to the Continent’s largest wave of migration in decades, the prime minister’s office said on Wednesday, a sharp increase over its previous offer.

European Union officials had counted on Spain, one of the bloc’s largest economies, to accept a large share of the tens of thousands of migrants who have entered Europe in recent weeks via Hungary, Italy and Greece.

Last week, however, conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said Spain would limit itself to a June commitment to receive 2,749 people, far fewer than the 4,288 the European Commission had first proposed. Mr. Rajoy argued that Spain’s 22.4% unemployment rate, among the highest in the region, would complicate the country’s efforts to absorb refugees.

Spain’s new pledge brings to 17,680 the total number of refugees the country will take in.

The government’s decision follows calls by political opposition leaders to open Spain’s door wider. Some local officials offered their cities’ own resources for migrants and refugees to put pressure on the government and to channel the outpouring of sympathy from many Spaniards to the plight of Syrians and others who have been fleeing conflict zones and risking their lives to reach safety in Europe.

In Madrid, which elected a leftist mayor this year, officials this week unfurled a big sign on city hall declaring “Refugees Welcome” in English. City officials said they planned to spend an additional €10 million ($11.2 million) starting in January to bolster housing and health services for refugees. In the eastern Valencia region, officials have alerted the central government that they have nearly 400 beds available immediately in youth summer camp lodges.

Spanish press reports said Mr. Rajoy also came under German pressure to accept more refugees. The prime minister and some of his cabinet members changed their tune this week, saying they would accept the quota requested as part of a broader plan for the EU.

“We are working hard to ensure that these people are guaranteed not only reception, but, in the medium and long term, the integration that they deserve in our country,” Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría said Wednesday. Last week, Ms. Sáenz de Santamaría had argued that Spain’s capacity to absorb refugees was saturated.

Write to Jeannette Neumann at jeannette.neumann@wsj.com

Summary: Spain said it would accept substantially more migrants and refugees than it previously offered, as part of a broader European Union response to the Continent’s largest wave of migration in decades.


Aftershocks are still being recorded off the coast of north Queensland where a magnitude-5.8 earthquake struck on Thursday.

According to Geoscience Australia, there have been 15 aftershocks since the earthquake was recorded at 2.30pm (AEST), some 70km off the coast of Bowen.

The latest was a magnitude-3.0 tremor at 7.37am on Friday which followed a magnitude-4.1 tremor at 4.27am.

Geoscience Australia senior seismologist Jonathan Bathgate said the magnitude of the Bowen earthquake was significant but not the biggest in recent years in Australia.

"We had an earthquake in Northern Territory earlier which was 6.1 and that was the largest earthquake in 20 years and it has certainly been an active 12 months for earthquakes in Australia."

Had the epicentre of Thursday's quake been on land it may have had the potential to do more damage than the Newcastle earthquake in the late 1980s that claimed 13 lives, he said.

"It was bigger than the Newcastle earthquake so in comparison to that it certainly had the potential to do some significant damage," he told AAP.

Summary: Australians may have to get used to experiencing earthquakes because they're making their presence felt in 2016, says Geoscience Australia.


The death toll in Yemen's 18-month-old civil war stands at about 10,000, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator says, an increase from estimates of more than 6000 cited by officials and aid workers for much of 2016.

Jamie McGoldrick told a new conference in the Yemeni capital that the new figure was based on official information provided by medical facilities in Yemen.

He said he believed the toll might be even higher since some areas had no medical facilities, and relatives there often buried loved ones directly.

Summary: The death toll in Yemen's 18-month-old civil war stands at about 10,000, the UN says.