[ { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/56C6/production/_129741222_182bc6a894027b202cf483275263b4317f5d7783.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " A 2017 genetic study suggests ancient gene flow (introgression) between 200 and 550 thousand years ago from the bonobo into the ancestors of central and eastern chimpanzees\nOther researchers argue that chimpanzees either should not be used in research, or should be treated differently, for instance with legal status as persons\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/56C6/production/_129741222_182bc6a894027b202cf483275263b4317f5d7783.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Ukraine says it shot down hypersonic missiles amid an \"exceptionally dense\" barrage fired at Kyiv on Tuesday. Kyiv said air defences intercepted six Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, which Russia has claimed can overcome all existing air defence systems. They were among 18 missiles of different types fired at the city in a short space of time, officials said. Russia denies its Kinzhals were stopped and said one destroyed a US-supplied Patriot air defence system. Ukraine declined to comment. The BBC cannot independently verify the claims made by either country. Russia has stepped up its air campaign in recent weeks - bombarding the Ukrainian capital eight times so far this month - ahead of an expected Ukrainian offensive. On Tuesday evening Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow had not fired as many of the Kinzhal missiles as Kyiv had claimed to have shot down. However if Ukraine's claims are true, Moscow will be feeling frustrated that the finest weapons from its missile fleet are now able to be intercepted. This is in large part due to the arrival of modern Western defence systems, including Patriots. Russia continues to insist that the missiles, which it says can travel at more than 11,000kmh (7,000mph), cannot be destroyed by any of the world's air defence systems. The Kinzhal, or \"dagger\", is an air-launched ballistic missile. Most ballistic missiles reach hypersonic speed - five times the speed of sound, or just over 6,000 kmh - at some point during their flight. Kyiv said it shot down a Kinzhal for the first time last week. In the past few days, President Volodymyr Zelensky has been on a European tour in which he has been promised several billion dollars' worth of military equipment by Western allies, including UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Emmanuel Macron of France. During Tuesday's barrage footage showed air defences destroying targets over the city. The head of Ukraine's armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhny, said Russia attacked Kyiv from the north, south and east and that 18 air, sea and land-based missiles had been used. Serhiy Popko, head of the Ukrainian capital's military administration, described the barrage as being the \"maximum number of attack missiles in the shortest period of time\". Gen Zaluzhny said that also included nine Kalibr cruise missiles, which were launched from ships in the Black Sea, and three land-based missiles. Residents on Tuesday were warned to keep away from windows as debris from intercepted missiles fell from the sky. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said rocket debris had fallen in central districts, including on the city's zoo. No animals or workers were injured. Kyiv resident Kseniia told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she and her husband were asleep when they heard a \"series of very loud explosions\" above their building. She compared the intensity of the attack to a Star Wars film or an action video game. She also said that thanks to the support of its international allies, Ukraine is now capable of tracking down and destroying high calibre missiles. \"It's such a relief to know Kyiv is under such a strong defence right now\". Another resident, Yevhen Petrov, said Tuesday's attack was the first time since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 that his house had shaken from the force of an assault. Russia's resumption of strikes on Kyiv earlier this month came after a lull of over 50 days. The Ukrainian authorities believe Moscow's strategy is to exhaust the air defence systems, which have been extremely successful in intercepting most of the missiles and drones fired. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, thousands of civilians and combatants have been killed or injured, cities and towns have been destroyed in fighting, and 8.2 million Ukrainians have been registered as refugees in Europe with 2.8 million of them in Russia, according to data provided to the UN's refugee agency. Additional reporting by BBC weapons analyst Chris Partridge.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/65BC/production/_129744062_fishandchipspic1.png", "label": 1, "text": " Reruns have aired on Boomerang and Adult Swim\n=== Movies ===Cartoon Network Movies is a film production unit of Cartoon Network\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/65BC/production/_129744062_fishandchipspic1.png", "label": 0, "text": "The price of fish and chip takeaways has increased by 19% but it has nothing to do with profiteering, the National Federation of Fish Friers (NFFF) says. In Somerset a portion of fish and chips can cost as much as \u00a314 - the UK average is \u00a39 according to the ONS. Factors including the cost of living crisis mean outlets are raising prices in order to survive, NFFF said. Stuart Devine, area director for the NFFF, said fish and chip shops were facing \"a perfect storm\". In the year to March 2023 the price of takeaways rose by 13% in the UK and fish and chip meals saw the highest increase of 19%, representing a rise of about \u00a31.44 to \u00a39 on average for one portion, the Office for National Statistics said. Mr Devine said food inflation, energy and fuel costs, as well as Russia's invasion of Ukraine, had driven up the cost of ingredients and the power to cook them. How much are prices rising for you? Try our calculatorCost of living tips: Your personalised money guide \"Cost are soaring. You either put your prices up or you risk going out of business,\" Mr Devine said. \"There's no profiteering happening in fish and chip shops. \"I run six fish and chip shops, employing 150 people, and we are finding it very tough. \"Small, independent fish and chip shops may survive because their overhead costs are less, but it really is at a critical point.\" Steve Gibbs, who runs Howards Fish and Chip Shop in Taunton, said he feared rising prices would deter customers. \"It's the price of cooking oil. Then Brexit and the war in Ukraine because most of the fish comes from Russia. So now the fish is Norwegian. \"It's just so expensive. We have to pass [on the costs] to customers.\" But his wife and co-owner Sue said fish and chips were still good value and added: \"We try not to put our prices up if we can help it.\" In a statement, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: \"We recognise that many businesses are struggling with the impact of higher prices, which is why we remain committed to our plan to halve inflation this year. \"That's why we have held down non-domestic energy bills, slashed business rates bills by 75% and recently set out a range of policies that will bring over 100,000 people into the labour market - ensuring businesses have access to the skills they need.\" Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/5e66/live/ff86ee90-f3d5-11ed-932a-b54e764dc9b6.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The pervading presence of stage actors in film was the cause of this outburst from director Marshall Neilan in 1917: \"The sooner the stage people who have come into pictures get out, the better for the pictures\n This problem has been addressed with the use of Viagra, although Viagra can make the actor's face noticeably flushed, give him a headache, make it difficult to ejaculate, and can take about 45 minutes to take effect\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/5e66/live/ff86ee90-f3d5-11ed-932a-b54e764dc9b6.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A parish councillor has described the removal of a flagpole from a village green as \"bizarre\" and \"depressing\".Jon Gambold said the pole, in Biddenham, near Bedford, bearing a Ukrainian national flag, has been vandalised three times since 31 December. He said the actions were \"very, very hurtful for the Ukrainian refugees we've got in the village and across Bedford\".Biddenham Parish Council was aiming to purchase a \"bigger vandal proof pole and a bigger Ukrainian flag\", at a cost of more than \u00a31,000, he added. Mr Gambold, who is also a Conservative councillor for Bedford Borough Council, said: \"We want to show solidarity with these people.\"I'm upset on their behalf and for them.\"He said he did not know who cut the pole down, but that he was aware of one person who had expressed unhappiness that an Ukrainian flag was being flown in the village. Councillor Gambold said he \"started to get worried\" after the flag was removed for a second time in March.\"I got a new cleat for the flag pole and put it higher up so that they couldn't get to it to vandalise it\", he said. He said the Ukrainian flag was replaced with the union flag for the King's Coronation, but \"on the Wednesday night or Thursday morning it had gone\".The incidents have left him \"shocked\", he said, adding: \"I thought we'd done what we could to stop it being vandalised and someone has still found a way to do it.\"Putting up a bigger flag is the sort of statement we're trying to make,\" he added.Bedfordshire Police said it was aware of a previous incident and has been contacted for comment. Find BBC News: East of England on\u00a0Facebook, external,\u00a0Instagram, external\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter, external. If you have a story for us, email\u00a0eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk, external", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0F08/production/_128984830_gettyimages-1229810647.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "=== 1960s and later ===The decades following the decline of the studio system in the 1960s saw changes in the production and style of film\n In November 2015, Union began voicing Nala in the Disney movie and series The Lion Guard\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0F08/production/_128984830_gettyimages-1229810647.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "UN officials are in last-ditch negotiations to make sure a deal which allows Ukraine to export grain by sea is renewed before it expires on 18 May. Thanks to the agreement between the UN, Turkey, Ukraine and Russia, more than 30 million tonnes of grain and other foodstuffs have been shipped out of the Black Sea through a safe corridor. However, Russia is threatening to pull out of the deal because it says Western sanctions are hampering its own agricultural exports. Ukraine is a major global exporter of sunflower, maize, wheat and barley. When Russia invaded in February 2022, its naval vessels blockaded Ukraine's ports, trapping some 20 million tonnes of grain. That sent global food prices rocketing. Food supplies were particularly threatened in Middle Eastern and African countries which rely heavily on Ukrainian grain. The UN says prices of staple foods rose across these regions by an average of 30%. It warned that 44 million people in 38 countries were facing \"emergency levels of hunger\". \"UN officials were worried about the Horn of Africa, where drought was already pushing countries towards famine conditions, and a lack of grain was making things worse,\" says Richard Gowan from The International Crisis Group, which works to prevent conflict. Ukraine grain deal needed to feed world \u2013 WFP head The arrangement is meant to be extended for 120 days at a time, and was last renewed on 18 March. However, Russia only agreed to a 60-day extension,and is now threatening to pull out altogether. It wants Russian producers to export more food and fertiliser to the rest of the world, but says Western sanctions are getting in the way. There are no specific sanctions against Russian agricultural exports, but Moscow argues other restrictions mean international banks, insurers and shippers are reluctant to do business with its exporters. UN officials are trying to broker a compromise. Russia previously withdrew from the deal in November 2022, accusing Ukraine of launching a \"massive\" drone attack on its fleet in Crimea from vessels in the safe shipping corridor. However, it rejoined a few days later. On 22 July 2022, Russia and Ukraine signed the Black Sea Grain Initiative, with the support of the UN and Turkey. It let cargo ships pass safely through the Black Sea to and from the ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Yuzhny/Pivdennyi. The first grain shipments started in early August, using a corridor 310 nautical miles long and three nautical miles wide. According to the UN's Joint Coordination Centre (JCC), which oversees the scheme, more than 30 million tonnes of grain and other foodstuffs have been shipped from Ukraine, as well as fertiliser. These extra supplies were a major factor in lowering world food prices. Prices started falling in spring 2022, ahead of an expected deal, and are now lower than they were before Russia's invasion. Ukraine is exporting 30% less food that it did before the Russian invasion, according to its agriculture ministry. This is partly because farmers are producing less, due to the fighting across large parts of the country. However, Ukraine's government says Russia has been delaying cargo ships heading to ports to pick up produce. Under the deal, Russia has the right to inspect ships to make sure they aren't bringing cargo into Ukraine, such as weapons. \"Ukraine has accused it of being overly picky with the inspections,\" says Bridget Diakun, from the shipping journal Lloyds List. \"There is usually a queue of about 100 ships in the entrance to the Black Sea.\" Only about a quarter of Ukraine's food exports have been going to the world's poorest countries, according to UN figures: 47% has gone to \"high-income countries\" including Spain, Italy and the Netherlands 26% has gone to \"upper-middle income countries\" such as Turkey and China27% has gone to \"low and lower-middle income countries\" like Egypt, Kenya and Sudan Russian president Vladimir Putin has criticised Ukraine for not exporting more of its foodstuffs to developing countries. However, the UN says the exports have benefited needy people around the world because they calmed international food markets, bringing food prices under control. In 2022, more of half of the wheat grain procured by the United Nations World Food Programme came from Ukraine. Between August 2022 and the end of the year, it sent 13 ships from Ukraine carrying a total of over 380,000 tonnes of wheat to Ethiopia, Yemen, Djibouti, Somalia and Afghanistan. Pictures provide evidence of Russian grain theft Correction 17 March 2023: A reference to the volume of the WFP's wheat grain procurement was amended. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/05D5/production/_129739410_de27.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " While they waited for the third Canadian season to be completed (thereby making 26 episodes in total when added to season 2), they produced two exclusive cel-animated series of their own, Beast Wars II (also called Beast Wars Second) and Beast Wars Neo, to fill in the gap\n Galvatron reactivates himself and a battle follows in Hong Kong between the Autobots, Cemetery Wind, and the drones\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/05D5/production/_129739410_de27.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Imagine being in court and seeing your son - a government critic - sentenced to 25 years in prison. Elena Gordon knows exactly how that feels. Last month Elena stood beside the dock - a glass cage - in a Moscow courtroom. Locked inside it was her son Vladimir Kara-Murza. One of President Putin's most vocal critics, he was convicted of treason and other alleged crimes and jailed for a quarter of a century. Elena, who lives abroad, had flown to Moscow for the verdict. \"I was the only one from the family and friends to get into the courtroom,\" Elena tells me. \"Vladimir hadn't been aware that I would be there. So, he was a little bit shocked, but hopefully pleasantly surprised. I had been prepared [for this outcome], although I thought they would give him 24 years and eleven months, as a kind of an insult. In the end they decided to act blatantly. They gave him the maximum.\" Since her son's conviction, Elena has managed to secure two meetings or svidaniya with Vladimir in jail. \"He's become very thin,\" Elena says. \"I'm worried about his health. But he's brave, obviously, and he says his spirit is unbroken. \"He is surprisingly optimistic. He believes in the future of Russia, and he believes in his own role in the future democratic Russia. But in terms of his own immediate future he is realistic. He is getting ready to be transferred to a penal colony.\" \"What about you, his mother?\" I ask Elena. \"Are you optimistic or pessimistic?\" \"I not only hope, I believe that I will see Vladimir free,\" she replies, \"and I don't intend to wait twenty-five years for that.\" For more than a decade Vladimir Kara-Murza has been a high-profile opponent of the Kremlin. He helped persuade Western governments to impose sanctions, including visa bans and asset freezes, on Russian officials engaged in corruption and human rights abuses. Such persistent activism sparked anger in the corridors of Russian power. He survived two mysterious poisonings, which he and his supporters have linked to the Russian authorities. Kara-Murza's letters to the BBC from jail In the West he spoke out against political persecution at home and against the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Last year, in a speech to lawmakers in the US state of Arizona, he condemned the \"dictatorial regime in the Kremlin.\" Soon after he returned to Moscow where he was arrested. \"Vladimir must have known he was putting himself in danger by returning to Russia,\" I suggest to his mother. \"Did you try to stop him coming back?\" \"I did,\" replies Elena. \"It's a painful topic for me, as a mother. I cannot distance myself and see him as a political figure only. He is first and utmost my son. \"I begged him not to go back to Russia. He promised to think about this. And as you see, the result of his thinking was negative.\" \"Has he expressed any regret to you that he returned?\" \"No, never. Never,\" says Elena. \"I regret it very much. I speak for myself. \"He has principles. He really believes that he must be with his country and with his people, and that he would have no right to have a say in the future democratic Russia if he had fled and stayed in security.\" Vladimir Kara-Murza's fate is a reminder of the danger in which politicians, activists, individuals who challenge the Kremlin are putting themselves. Most of Russia's leading opposition figures have either fled the country or are now in prison. \"I am afraid that Russia has turned into a dictatorship,\" says Elena Gordon. \"To me it all looks rather grotesque, actually - that in the 21st century we see around us what was described in the anti-utopias of the 20th century. It's a terrible regression. It's a shame.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/108E5/production/_129731876_a4e2870829c2e848207c70cc8498e4e52c319424.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "== Education ===== Primary and secondary ===Victoria's state school system dates back to 1872, when the colonial government legislated to make schooling both free and compulsory\n In November 2019, Victoria's Secret announced it would no longer hold the annual fashion show featuring its angels, indicating a major change in marketing strategy\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/108E5/production/_129731876_a4e2870829c2e848207c70cc8498e4e52c319424.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The UK will send hundreds of air defence missiles and armed drones to Ukraine on top of the Storm Shadow cruise missiles announced last week. The move means the UK is going further than any other country in providing weapons with the potential to tip the battlefield in Ukraine's favour. Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky met the UK's Rishi Sunak as part of his tour of Western allies. Mr Zelensky said it was important for the West to send fighter jets as well. But the prime minister said providing fighter jets was \"not a straightforward thing\", although he did say the UK would form \"a key part of the coalition countries\" providing that support. Ukraine is continuing to prepare for a much-anticipated counter-offensive against Russian forces. Last week, Mr Zelensky told the BBC his country needed more weaponry before it could launch the attack. On Monday, the Ukrainian president had about two hours of talks with Mr Sunak at Chequers, near London. He arrived on British soil for a surprise visit after a whirlwind tour of Western Europe that also took in Rome, Berlin and Paris. Mr Zelensky said Ukraine and the UK were \"real partners\", while Mr Sunak's spokesman described the meeting as \"warm and collegiate\". The Storm Shadow cruise missiles can be used to destroy Russia's positions on occupied Ukrainian territory. If Ukraine can destroy Russia's command centres, logistics hubs and ammunition depots in occupied territory, then it may prove impossible for Moscow to continue resupplying its frontline troops in places. This is what Ukraine did so successfully in Kherson last year, forcing the Russians to withdraw almost without a fight. It will now be hoping to repeat the process with the help of Western-supplied munitions. What weapons are being given to Ukraine by the UK?The challenges of giving fighter jets to Ukraine President Zelensky's repeated calls for Nato to send F-16 jets are being met with delays and obfuscations, for several reasons. The Ukrainian air force has trained its pilots on F-16s, which the RAF do not use, but such training takes months, not days. Logistics, maintenance and the need to find suitable runways are all important too. Finally, there is the question of escalation. Nato is struggling to balance giving Kyiv the maximum support it can, without getting directly drawn into this conflict. If Nato does end up sending F-16 warplanes, however old they may be, then that, in Moscow's eyes, constitutes a major provocation by the West. Mr Zelensky said he discussed the supply of Western fighter jets with Mr Sunak. New jets were a \"very important topic for us, because we can't control the sky\", the Ukrainian leader added. \"We spoke about it and I see that in the closest time you will hear some, I think, very important decisions, but we have to work a little bit more on it,\" he said. The UK has no plans to send fighter jets to Ukraine, according to the prime minister's official spokesman. But No 10 said elementary training for Ukrainian pilots would begin this summer, along with British efforts to work with other countries on providing F-16 jets to Ukraine. The prime minister's official spokesman also denied that any drones supplied by the UK would be used to hit targets inside Russia. They would be used for the defence of Ukraine on Ukrainian sovereign territory, the spokesman said. Mr Sunak said: \"This is a crucial moment in Ukraine's resistance to a terrible war of aggression they did not choose or provoke. \"They need the sustained support of the international community to defend against the barrage of unrelenting and indiscriminate attacks that have been their daily reality for over a year.\" In response, Russia said the new British weapons due to be supplied to Kyiv would only cause \"further destruction\". \"Britain aspires to position itself at the forefront of the countries that continue to pump weapons into Ukraine,\" Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Ukraine secured a new defence aid package from Germany after talks in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday, taking its total military funding to nearly $7bn (\u00a36.44bn). Mr Zelensky described the new pledge of German Leopard tanks and anti-aircraft systems as \"the largest since the beginning of the full-scale aggression\" by Russia in February 2022. France has promised dozens more light tanks and armoured vehicles after President Emmanuel Macron met his Ukrainian counterpart in Paris. In February, Mr Zelensky visited London for the first time since the start of the war, during which he attended an audience with the King and addressed Parliament. His latest visit to the UK comes ahead of a G7 gathering in Hiroshima, Japan, later this week which will also be attended by Mr Sunak.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/1587C/production/_124788188_gettyimages-1239049123.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Major artists included Carole King, James Taylor and America\n In 2019 the concert series' format was retooled and the event was renamed the Rock Hall Honors, in which the honored performer is joined in concert by guests of their choice\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/1587C/production/_124788188_gettyimages-1239049123.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been in the UK for talks with the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The visit came ahead of a Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces, expected to begin in the coming weeks. Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, the UK has been a major supplier of weapons and equipment to Kyiv, though on a much smaller scale than the US. So what exactly is being sent, and how much of a difference is it making? The UK confirmed that it had supplied Ukraine with long-range missiles earlier this month. The Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250km (155 miles), according to the manufacturer. By contrast, the US-supplied Himars missiles used by Ukraine only have a range of around 80 km (50 miles). Currently, Storm Shadow has the longest range of any missile available to Ukraine, and can therefore strike targets previously believed to be safe by Russian forces. Russia claims the system has already been used against its forces. The UK is the first country to supply cruise missiles to Kyiv. The UK also led the way in supplying Nato standard main battle tanks to Ukraine. In January the UK announced that 14 Challenger 2 tanks would be sent, alongside around 30 AS90 self-propelled guns. The Challenger 2 was built in the 1990s, but is significantly more advanced than Warsaw Pact standard tanks used by Ukraine. Following the UK's announcement, several others committed to sending tanks to Ukraine, including Germany with its Leopard 2 model. Many military analysts believe tanks, in co-ordination will other weapons systems, will be vital to any attempt by Ukraine to dislodge Russian forces from heavily fortified positions in the expected counter-offensive. On Monday, Downing Street said that it would supply \"hundreds\" of attack drones and air defence missiles. The statement did not reveal what kind of drones would be supplied, but it said they would have a range of over 124 miles (200km). It is anticipated they may be used to hit logistics and control facilities deep behind Russian lines. In 2022, the Ministry of Defence announced supplies of heavy lift drone systems to provide logistical support to isolated forces. Analysts say that drones can be very effective in getting supplies over the \"last mile\" to front line troops, particularly under threat of Russian artillery fire and in situations where there is a risk of encirclement. \"It's the sheer quantity of stuff needed by troops,\" says Justin Bronk of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi). \"Every time you can use a drone instead of a soldier to get supplies forward is one less time someone is exposed to extreme danger.\" The donation of M270 multiple-launch rocket systems with M31A1 precision munitions to Ukraine was confirmed in 2022. The UK's M270 system is similar to the American Himars launchers. Jack Watling Rusi told the BBC: \"These systems are precisely what Ukraine needs. They allow the Ukrainians to out-range a lot of the Russian artillery systems and also to strike with precision.\" The UK has sent more than 5,000 next generation light anti-tank weapons, or Nlaw, to Ukraine. Nlaws are designed to destroy tanks at short range with a single shot. Crucially for Ukraine's armed forces who need weapons immediately, the missiles are easy to transport and simple to use. A soldier can be trained to use them in less than a day. Many analysts believe they had a major impact on the course of the conflict in the days following Russia's invasion. \"Nlaw was absolutely critical to the defeat of Russian ground thrusts in the early stages of the war,\" says Mr Bronk. The weapons have been \"particularly effective\" when used in combination with artillery, he says. Maritime Brimstone missiles were also sent to Ukraine in 2022. Brimstones can be used against tanks, artillery and some smaller vessels such as landing craft, according to Capt Chris Carlson, formerly of the US Navy. The missiles are normally fired from aircraft, but in Ukraine they are being modified to be fired from trucks. Launching them from the ground reduces their effective range, says Capt Carlson. When used as anti-ship missiles, Brimstones are far too small to sink larger vessels, but could cause substantial damage. \"It all depends where you hit,\" he says. \"If you went through an engine or near the water line, you could give an enemy some serious trouble.\" Britain has donated at least 120 armoured vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff patrol vehicles. Mastiffs were very popular among British troops in Afghanistan as they provide a high level of protection against landmines and improvised explosive devices. Analysts say that in an area which as been as heavily mined as the Donbas, Mastiffs are likely to be very useful. It is understood that both sides in the conflict have used landmines extensively. COUNTER-OFFENSIVE: Zelensky: We must wait before starting offensiveANALYSIS: What weapons is the world giving?READ MORE: Full coverage of the crisis Britain says it has donated at least six air defence systems, including Starstreak missiles. Starstreak is designed to bring down low-flying aircraft at short range. It ignores counter-measures such as flares and chaff deployed by many aircraft. \"From a pilot's point of view, Starstreak is a very unpleasant thing,\" says Mr Bronk. \"There's very little you can do about it.\" He says Russian forces may deem some operations too risky if they are aware that a weapon as deadly as Starstreak is on the ground. The UK has also supplied Stormer vehicles to act as a mobile platform for Starstreak missiles. Other equipment supplied by the UK includes: Javelin anti-tank missilesAnti-structure munitionsPlastic explosivesSmall-arms munitionHelmetsBody armourNight vision devicesElectronic warfare equipmentCounter battery radar systemsGPS jamming equipment Graphics by Gerry Fletcher.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/12022/production/_129726737_4209012d4b8d19049caf8c0fb59f8bf49982e717-1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Facing forward the right side is referred to as starboard and the left side as port\n Handweaving was highly regarded and taken up as a decorative art\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/12022/production/_129726737_4209012d4b8d19049caf8c0fb59f8bf49982e717-1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Ukraine has no plans to hit targets in Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in Germany, where Kyiv secured a big new defence aid package. \"We are not attacking Russian territory,\" he said after talks in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. \"We are preparing a counterattack to de-occupy the illegitimately conquered territories,\" Mr Zelensky added. Mr Scholz vowed to back Ukraine \"for as long as it is necessary\", promising \u20ac2.7bn (\u00a32.4bn) worth of weapons. This includes advanced German Leopard tanks and more anti-aircraft systems to defend Ukraine from almost daily deadly Russian missile and drone attacks. President Zelensky described the new tranche as \"the largest since the beginning of the full-scale aggression\" by Russia in February 2022. The war has transformed Germany's attitude towards Ukraine, moving from being a reluctant supplier of military hardware to virtually doubling its contribution overnight, the BBC's Jenny Hill in Berlin says. Russia accuses Ukraine of repeatedly hitting targets inside Russia, including a reported drone attack on Moscow's Kremlin earlier this month. Ukraine denies the accusations, while also stressing that it has a legitimate right to use force and other means to fully de-occupy its territories currently under Russian control. These include four regions in the south and east, as well as the Crimea peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014. Later on Sunday, President Zelensky travelled to the western city of Aachen to receive the prestigious Charlemagne Prize awarded this year to him and the Ukrainian people. The honour is given for efforts to foster European unity. \"Ukraine incarnates everything the European idea is living for: the courage of convictions, the fight for values and freedom, the commitment to peace and unity,\" EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at the award ceremony. Previous winners include Winston Churchill, Pope Francis and Bill Clinton. In other developments on Sunday: Ukraine's air force says it destroyed 25 drones and three cruise missiles launched by Russia in yet another massive overnight attackSix people were killed and another 16 injured in the past 24 hours in Russian shelling of Ukraine-held areas in the eastern Donetsk region, local officials saidOne person was killed in Sunday's Russian artillery attack on the southern Kherson regionMobile internet is temporarily suspended in the Russian-seized areas of the eastern Luhansk region because of increased shelling by Ukrainian troops, Moscow-installed officials said President Zelensky flew to Germany from Italy overnight, his plane escorted by two German Air Force fighter jets. In Rome, the Ukrainian leader met Italian President Sergio Mattarella and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. He also had a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican. The Argentine pontiff said he was constantly praying for peace in Ukraine. The Pope also stressed the urgent need to help \"the most fragile people, innocent victims\" of the Russian invasion. Meanwhile, Ms Meloni assured Mr Zelensky of Rome's support for united Ukraine. Later on Sunday, the Ukrainian leader arrived in Paris, where he went to the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace for a working dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AEDA/production/_129726744_lukashenko_reu.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Examples include: Metropolis (1927), Planet of the Apes (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Blade Runner (1982) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Children of Men (2006), and Arrival (2016)\n In this broader sense, drama is a mode distinct from novels, short stories, and narrative poetry or songs\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AEDA/production/_129726744_lukashenko_reu.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Belarus' leader Alexander Lukashenko has missed a major state celebration, further fuelling health speculation. The autocratic politician, 68, usually speaks publicly at the annual National Flag, Emblem and Anthem Day event but his prime minister read a message on his behalf on Sunday. Last week, Mr Lukashenko left Moscow soon after Victory Day parade, skipping lunch with President Vladimir Putin. Mr Lukashenko looked visibly tired, and his right hand was bandaged. He was last seen in public laying flowers in the capital Minsk during Belarus' own Victory Day celebrations on 9 May - a few hours after returning from the Russian capital. An opposition Telegram channel reported that Mr Lukashenko visited a presidential medical centre just outside Minsk on Saturday night - but this information has not been independently verified. Mr Lukashenko's office has so far made no comments on the issue. Often described in the West as Europe's last dictator, Mr Lukashenko has ruled Belarus since 1994, suppressing any dissent. In 2020, he was proclaimed as the winner of presidential elections, which were denounced by the opposition as a sham. Thousand of people were later arrested and brutally beaten by riot police and KGB security service agents during mass anti-government protests that rocked the country. However, Mr Lukashenko managed to stay in power, backed by Russia. Last year, he supported President Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, offering Belarus as a launchpad for Russian troops to cross into Ukraine and allowing Russian war planes to carry out strikes from Belarusian soil.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/151A0/production/_129723468_ukrainegrab.png", "label": 1, "text": "Museums in the area include the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame, the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame, and the Saratoga Automobile Museum\n Variety found the film to be a \"spirited, funny and warm saga\" that serves them up \"in a new way that enhances their most winning qualities\"\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/151A0/production/_129723468_ukrainegrab.png", "label": 0, "text": "The hometown of Ukraine's Eurovision act was hit by Russian missiles moments before the band took to the stage in Liverpool, officials say. The head of Ternopil regional state administration, Volodymyr Trush, confirmed two people had been injured. Ternopil mayor Serhiy Nadal said warehouses were damaged. Ukraine's foreign ministry accused Russia of attacking Kyiv and Ternopil regions before and during Tvorchi's Eurovision performance. Ten minutes before taking to the stage at the Liverpool Arena, Tvorchi posted on Instagram citing reports of Ternopil in western Ukraine being attacked. After performing, they added: \"Ternopil is the name of our hometown, which was bombed by Russia while we sang on the Eurovision stage about our steel hearts, indomitability and will. \"This is a message for all cities of Ukraine that are shelled every day. Kharkiv, Dnipro, Khmelnytsky, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Uman, Sumy, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kherson and all others. \"Europe, unite against evil for the sake of peace!\" Tvorchi, made up of producer Andrii Hutsuliak and Nigeria-born vocalist Jeffery Kenny, hoped to defend the Eurovision title after Kalush Orchestra won last year in Turin. They performed \"Heart of Steel\" - a song about troops who led an ultimately unsuccessful resistance against Russian forces at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. The duo seeking Eurovision glory for Ukraine Liverpool is hosting the contest on behalf of Ukraine due to the ongoing conflict. At the end of their performance, Tvorchi held their fists in the air as acts from other nations were also seen waving the blue and yellow flag of Ukraine. The UK's ambassador to Ukraine Dame Melinda Simmons described Tvorchi's Eurovision performance as \"poignant\". Writing on Twitter, she added: \"Reminder that the reason why Ukraine could not host this event is because Russia continues to invade and the people of Ukraine live in continuing danger.\" Though Swedish act Loreen took the Eurovision crown after a nail-biting finish, there was praise for Tvorchi from Ternopil's mayor who thanked the band for supporting the city during their performance. Posting on Facebook in Ukrainian, Mayor Nadal wrote: \"It was at this time that our city was attacked by Russian missiles. \"Thank you, because your speech has become a symbol of not only the unity of the country, but of the whole world.\" He told the BBC the fire at the warehouse in Ternopil had been brought under control. \"Firefighters worked all night and continue to work,\" he said, adding that the two people who were wounded suffered minor injuries and were in hospital. Russia has not yet made any official comment. Earlier in the day, President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Pope Francis at the Vatican and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Rome. He has since flown to Germany, arriving in Berlin just before 01:00 local time.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AE69/production/_129694644_5ff90aa9c87fa6d36090bfc27fb38fa70c7c528a-1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "During the album's production, Vaughan appeared at the Houston Astrodome on April 10, 1985, where he performed a slide guitar rendition of the U\nIn early October 1978, Vaughan and Double Trouble earned a frequent residency performing at one of Austin's most popular nightspots, the Rome Inn\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AE69/production/_129694644_5ff90aa9c87fa6d36090bfc27fb38fa70c7c528a-1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Russian communities across Europe have been polarised by the Ukraine war - and that threatened to spill over in Berlin this month when they marked the defeat of Nazi Germany. Given how much Vladimir Putin uses the Soviet victory over fascism in 1945 to justify Russia's ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there was no avoiding the war here in the German capital. Many German-based Russians clearly believe the president's reasons for the war, with some views in Berlin virtually indistinguishable from the narratives promoted by Russian state TV - but others are just as vocal in opposing it. The commemorations in Berlin started on 8 May, as Germany marked the 78th anniversary of its liberation from fascism, and groups of Russians visited the Soviet war memorial in Treptower Park. One, Alexander, who is originally from Russia but has lived in Germany for more than 20 years, said he believed Russian forces were \"defending Donbas, Crimea, Kherson, and Odesa against fascists\" - listing places in south-eastern Ukraine. \"They belong to Russia! Russia is taking back what belongs to it,\" added Anna, another Russian living in Germany. Alexander then showed me a cigarette holder and a tobacco box he had decorated by taping portraits of President Putin to them. But the events that matter most to Russian speakers were held the following day, 9 May - marked in Russia as Victory Day. They kicked off with the Russian ambassador laying flowers to the imposing statue of a Soviet soldier in Treptower Park. Again, the event mostly attracted supporters of the Kremlin's policies and rhetoric. One of them, a young Russian called Yevgenia, told me that \"the collective West, particularly America\" were fanning the flames of neo-Nazism in Ukraine. Yevgenia was sporting the St George's Ribbon - a Kremlin-backed symbol often used by Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. Like many at the rally, she and her friend held aloft a Soviet flag, as Russian flags were banned. But not everyone supported such views. The monument to the grieving mother at the other end of Treptower Park was the meeting point for those who wanted to honour the victims of fascism without supporting Mr Putin's claims that he is fighting \"fascists\" in Ukraine. And many of the people who gathered there were Russians. One of them, Kirill, told me he fled Russia last October to avoid being drafted into the army and being sent to fight in Ukraine. \"I do not want to become a murderer for Putin. I do not believe the lies I'm told by TV,\" he said. \"I was very afraid, but I attended anti-war rallies. I did all I could do,\" Kirill told me, standing alongside a poster about political prisoners in Russia. Kirill fled Russia after being arrested, fined and beaten for attending anti-war rallies in St Petersburg. Another young Russian in this corner of Treptower Park, an activist called Alexandra, thought President Putin had turned Victory Day into a propaganda tool. \"It is an absolute sacrilege for us,\" she told me. Her friend Ekaterina chimed in: \"It is important for me to show that not everyone from Russia supports what is happening in Ukraine or what this day has turned into. \"The way it is marked now is a one big reason why this war started on 24 February last year.\" At another important event held by Russians in Berlin on Victory Day, dozens gathered at the Brandenburg Gate for what is known as the march of the Immortal Regiment. Even though such marches are encouraged by the Kremlin, the one held in Berlin seemed less overly political than the events in Treptower Park, with dozens of Russians solemnly carrying photographs of their ancestors who fought in World War Two. A group of anti-war Russians demonstrated against Victory Day being turned into a propaganda tool - but their event was outnumbered by the rally sporting Kremlin-encouraged symbols such as St George's ribbons or Soviet flags. But what do Germans think of all this? I was able to find the whole spectrum of opinions among them. Many came to Treptower Park on 8-9 May to offer thanks for the Soviet army liberating Germany from fascism, and were less concerned with the present. \"What Putin is doing in Ukraine now doesn't change the fact that [Russia did liberate Germany],\" one of them, Wolfgang, told me. Another German demonstrator, Kristina, was against weapons deliveries to what she described as the \"fascist regime\" in Ukraine. But a young man, Janek, said it was \"shameful\" that President Putin was using the defeat of Nazism as a foreign policy tool. \"They say they want to free Ukrainians from the Nazis there - but it's just not true, it's propaganda,\" he said.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F0E2/production/_129666616_mediaitem129659374.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "The Po, Italy's longest river (652 kilometres or 405 miles), flows from the Alps on the western border with France and crosses the Padan plain on its way to the Adriatic Sea\n The Apennine Mountains form the peninsula's backbone, and the Alps form most of its northern boundary, where Italy's highest point is located on Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) (4,810 m or 15,780 ft)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F0E2/production/_129666616_mediaitem129659374.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Firefighters who were involved in a fifth convoy to Ukraine have returned home. Avon Fire and Rescue Service joined its first convoy by sending two former fire engines and six members of staff on the journey. The members of the convoy transported essential kit and medical equipment to aid firefighters in Ukraine. Ross Larner, a firefighter from Clevedon Fire Station, said there was a \"great sense of camaraderie\". The six firefighters embarked on their five-day journey from Avonmouth to the Ukrainian border in Poland on 2 May. Prior to leaving the country, they met with other members of the convoy from around the UK. In total, 25 vehicles and 80 crew members transported 8,000 pieces of equipment across the continent. Mr Larner said the team were told that more than 70 men had been killed on the front line and more than 350 fire stations and 1,500 trucks had been destroyed as a result of the conflict. He added that although the convoy was not directly helping, their donations would help keep civilians safe. Mr Larner said he and his colleagues felt a \"great sense of achievement\" when they met the Polish and Ukrainian fire services at the border. \"You do get very run down and tired and it's not the greatest conditions to be in, but it is worth it - and it's nothing compared to what the Ukrainians are going through\", he added. Mr Larner said that he would \"definitely\" be open to joining a similar scheme in the future. \"I feel quite privileged to have had the experience,\" he said. \"A few people have been on previous convoys which is a testament to what a good experience it is.\" Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/161F4/production/_129721609_f42f5e251bfc19abd8cbc9b88106074b42259a66-1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "From the 1990s on, the New York divorce coercion gang was involved in the kidnapping and torture of Jewish husbands in New York City and New Jersey for the purpose of forcing them to grant gittin (religious divorces) to their wives\n Shortly after her arrest, doctors recorded signs of trauma: her IQ was measured as 112, whereas it had previously been 130; there were huge gaps in her memory regarding her pre-Tania life; she was smoking heavily and had nightmares\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/161F4/production/_129721609_f42f5e251bfc19abd8cbc9b88106074b42259a66-1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Pope Francis has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky he is constantly praying for peace after the two met privately at the Vatican. The pontiff also stressed on the urgent need to help \"the most fragile people, innocent victims\" of the full-scale invasion launched by Russia last year. Mr Zelensky earlier met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who assured him of Rome's support for united Ukraine. More than 1,000 police are deployed and a no-fly zone over Rome is in place. In a statement on Saturday, the Holy See said Pope Francis and President Zelensky \"discussed the humanitarian and political situation in Ukraine caused by the ongoing war\" during a meeting that lasted about 40 minutes. The Argentine pontiff and President Zelensky \"both agreed on the need to continue humanitarian efforts to support the population\". The statement added: \"The Pope has assured his constant prayer and continuous invocation to the Lord for peace - since last February\" - when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion. Pope Francis has often said that the Vatican stands ready to act as a mediator in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Earlier this month, he stated that the Vatican was working on a peace plan to end the war, saying that the mission was \"not yet public. When it is public, I will talk about it.\" But the relationship between Ukraine and the Vatican has sometimes been uneasy. A few months after the war in Ukraine began, the Pope said in an interview that Moscow's invasion was \"perhaps somehow provoked\". And last August, Ukraine's ambassador to the Vatican took the unusual step of criticising the Pope after the pontiff referred to Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultra-nationalist figure, who was killed by a car bomb, as an \"innocent\" victim of war. Earlier on Saturday, President Zelensky had talks with his counterpart Sergio President Mattarella and then met Ms Meloni for a working lunch. Italy historically has strong ties with Moscow. Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the conservative Forza Italia party, is an old friend of President Putin. They went on trips together and exchanged birthday gifts. Matteo Salvini, the deputy prime minister, has frequently voiced pro-Russian sentiments and criticised military assistance to Ukraine. President Zelensky is not expected to meet either Mr Salvini or Mr Berlusconi during his trip. At the news conference that followed the meeting between Mr Zelensky and Ms Meloni, the Ukrainian leader invited \"all the Italian political leaders and representatives of civil society\" to visit Ukraine. He said they would be able \"to see what a single person was capable of doing to us, what Putin was capable of, and you will understand why we are fighting this evil\". Ms Meloni stressed that the war would only end when Russia stopped its \"brutal and unjust aggression\" and withdrew from all Ukrainian territory. She also pledged Italy's support for Ukraine for \"as long as is necessary\". Meanwhile, the German government unveiled its biggest military aid package for Ukraine yet, worth \u20ac2.7bn (\u00a32.4bn). Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to President Zelensky, said the aid indicated that Russia was \"bound to lose and sit on the bench of historical shame\". Earlier this week, German media reported that President Zelensky was planning to visit Germany following his trip to Italy, although this has not yet been confirmed. In other developments: President Zelensky's visit came after Russia carried out a new wave of air strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnightMore than 20 people were injured in the western city of Khmelnytsky. Critical infrastructure, as well as homes and government buildings, was also hitExplosions were reported on Friday in the Russian-occupied city of Luhansk, about 90km (56 miles) behind the front line in eastern Ukraine. Russian-backed separatist forces in the region accused Kyiv of using Storm Shadow missiles, which the UK said it had supplied Ukraine with earlier this weekThere were also more reports of blasts in Luhansk on SaturdayA helicopter crashed in Russia's Bryansk region, on the border with Ukraine, injuring one woman. Footage circulating on social media purports to show an S-24 warplane also crashing in the region on Saturday - although the videos have not been verified.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2576/production/_129709590_5ef52b12b76ee85c2d0c5f3f979b091db2dfe46b.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " She awakens to find Gale by her side, who reassures her that her family is safe but her home no longer exists\n When mandrills attack, Peeta is saved by the unexpected sacrifice of a drug-addicted tribute from District 6\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2576/production/_129709590_5ef52b12b76ee85c2d0c5f3f979b091db2dfe46b.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A volunteer who helped transport almost 350 tonnes of aid to the front line in Ukraine has been paralysed in a moped accident while on holiday in Spain. Darius Linkus and wife Saule - who was his passenger - both broke their necks, with Mr Linkus losing the use of both legs. Friends of the pair, from Trimley St Mary, Suffolk, are fundraising for an accessible wet room. \"I just thought I had to help; he kind of inspired me,\" said Oliver Horsman. The husband and wife, both 41, have three children who are being looked after by a relative. The pair are in rehabilitation, with Mrs Linkus suffering a broken right shoulder and the loss of some mobility in her arm. Mr Horsman said that after the crash in September, Mr Linkus was on the phone from his bed, trying to arrange for generators to be delivered to people near front lines. \"It was a bit of a frog in throat moment,\" said Mr Horsman. \"He knew he was paralysed at that point but he was like, 'I've got to do something'. \"It's pretty crazy that he now needs other people's help really - pretty tragic.\" Mr Horsman said Mr Linkus, who works in import and export, was quick to help after war broke out in Ukraine last year. Within three days of the war starting their Facebook post asking for aid had been shared thousands of times. \"It went insane,\" said Mr Horsman. \"It ended up generating about 350 tonnes worth of aid. \"Through Darius's connections he managed to sort out all the import/export paperwork, get all the fixers on the borders for these vans that were going over. \"He ended up doing four or five trips himself and we facilitated 50 or 60 further trips to get that stuff over the border.\" The aid they took to Ukraine included surgical and first aid kits, incubators and military boots, and they also helped pick up and drop off refugees. After a \"manic\" few months, the couple had a weekend break in Spain and hired a moped, Mr Horsman said. \"His front wheel hit a rock in the road,\" he added. \"Both wearing helmets, within the speed limit, nothing silly. \"It was just how they fell.\" He said he wanted to fundraise for the wet room \"so at least he can have a quality of life\", as they had no income. \"He's a very proud man, super giving, will literally give you the shirt off his back,\" he added. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/380D/production/_129694341_bakhmut-index-reuters.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "In Japan, the series Transformers: Cybertron showed no ties to the previous two series, telling its own story\nIDW Publishing introduced The Transformers: Evolutions in 2006, a collection of mini-series that re-imagine and reinterpret the G1 characters in various ways\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/380D/production/_129694341_bakhmut-index-reuters.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Ukraine says it has recaptured ground in Bakhmut, a rare advance after months of grinding Russian gains in the eastern city. Kyiv said its forces advanced 2km (1.2 miles) in a week. Russia said its troops had regrouped in one area. The claims signal a momentum shift in Bakhmut - but more widely, there is no clear evidence of a Ukrainian counter-offensive. However, two explosions were reported on Friday in Russian-occupied Luhansk. Images posted on social media, verified by the BBC, show a big plume of black smoke rising from the city, which lies about 90km (55.9 miles) behind the front line in eastern Ukraine. The blasts come a day after the UK said it had supplied Ukraine with long range Storm Shadow cruise missiles. Kremlin-appointed officials said six children in Luhansk were injured in a missile attack alongside Russian parliamentarian Viktor Vodolatsky. The authorities there have blamed the attack on Kyiv. Luhansk is beyond the reach of the Himars rockets Ukraine has previously relied on for deep strikes against Russian targets. But Russian-appointed officials in the region said they thought Ukrainian-made missiles were responsible, hitting administrative buildings of two defunct enterprises. Earlier Russia's defence ministry said Russian troops in one Bakhmut area had changed their position for strategic reasons. It said units of the southern group of Russian forces had taken up a better defensive position in the Maloilinivka area, something which took into consideration \"the favourable conditions of the Berkhivka reservoir\". However the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group Yevgeny Prigozhin said what the Ministry of Defence was talking about \"is unfortunately called 'fleeing' and not a 'regrouping'\". As the intense, bloody battle has worn on, Bakhmut has become symbolically important - though many experts question its tactical value. In a post on Telegram, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar claimed Russia suffered significant troop losses as Ukraine gained 2km without losing any positions. Meanwhile Russian military bloggers reported Ukrainian advances or troop movements in several areas. The Institute for the Study of War also said Ukrainian forces had probably made gains of 2km in Bakhmut. The BBC has verified video of soldiers with Ukrainian-identifying markings posing in front of a gate and a tank in the distance, also with Ukrainian markings. The video, published on 11 May, has been located to an area around Bakhmut industrial college, until recently held by Wagner troops. Away from Bakhmut, the exiled mayor of Melitopol reported a large explosion on Friday morning in the centre of the south-eastern city, which has been occupied by Russia since the start of the war. It was not known what caused the blast, but the Ukrainian air force made 14 strikes on Russian forces and military equipment on Thursday, Ukraine's armed forces said. Alongside the air strikes, Ukraine said it destroyed nine Russian drones and carried out successful attacks on dozens of military targets - including artillery units, an ammunition warehouse and air defence equipment. After months of stalemate, a Ukrainian counter-offensive - helped by newly-arrived Western weapons - has been openly discussed. But Ukraine's president said on Thursday it was too early to start the attack. \"With [what we already have] we can go forward and, I think, be successful,\" President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview. \"But we'd lose a lot of people. I think that's unacceptable. So we need to wait. We still need a bit more time.\" Despite President Zelensky's words, pro-Kremlin Russian war correspondent Sasha Kots claimed the counter-offensive had begun. Ukrainian tanks were on the Kharkiv ring road heading towards the border with Russia, he said, quoting \"trusted\" sources. His claims could not be independently verified. \"There are low loaders in the columns carrying Western [tank] models among others,\" Kots added. \"In other words,\" he said, \"Kiev [Kyiv] has decided to aggravate the situation along the northern front in parallel with the start of offensive actions on the flanks of Artyomovsk [the Russian name for Bakhmut].\" Another Russian war correspondent, Alexander Simonov, wrote on Telegram that Ukrainian forces had broken through near the village of Bohdanivka, close to Bakhmut, taking \"several square kilometres\" of ground. Ukrainian military analyst Oleksandr Musivenko said Kyiv recognised that the anticipated counter-offensive might not necessarily defeat Russia \"in all occupied areas\". He told Ukrainian NV radio there was every possibility the war could continue into next year. \"It all depends on how the battles develop. We can't guarantee how the counteroffensive will develop,\" he said. An unnamed senior US military official told CNN that Ukrainian forces were preparing for a major counter-offensive by striking targets such as weapons depots, command centres and armour and artillery systems.. Ukraine's spring 2022 advances in the southern and north-eastern parts of the country were also preceded by air attacks to \"shape\" the battlefield. Daniele Palumbo and Richard Irvine-Brown contributed to this article Incident Room - Ukraine: How Will it End? Frank Gardner weighs up the possible outcomes for the war, as Ukraine prepares a counter-offensive against Russian forces. Watch now on BBC iPlayer (UK only)", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7E6C/production/_129746323_co2.png", "label": 1, "text": " Ardeth bids Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan goodbye, and the trio rides away on a pair of camels, not realizing it is laden with Beni's stolen treasure\n Stage one was the mummy at its most decayed, with tattered bits of clothing, skin, and sinew hanging over a skeleton\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7E6C/production/_129746323_co2.png", "label": 0, "text": "Industrial sites in Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire are aiming to set up a network of pipes to collect carbon dioxide emissions and pump it to be stored under the Irish Sea. The \"Peak Cluster\" group is made up of five cement and lime plants plus a waste power plant near Northwich. The aim is to have the pipelines up and running by 2030 with units set up at those sites to capture the emissions. It could cut three million tonnes of emissions each year, the group claimed. Progressive Energy, the firm behind the project, said it would help the UK achieve \"net zero\" greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The cement and lime plants in the Peak District and Staffordshire Moorlands are owned by Tarmac, Breedon, Lhoist and Aggregate Industries. The would be joined by the Lostock Sustainable Energy Plant plant in Cheshire, due to become operational in 2025. The underground pipes will feed into one of two existing storage sites in the Irish Sea, at locations which once held natural gas. Project director John Egan from Progressive Energy said the scheme was still in its early stages, but would make a \"crucial contribution\" to driving down harmful emissions. Seabed sites for storing captured carbon, to remove climate damaging gases from industrial sites, are seen by many scientists as important in reducing emissions to net-zero. But there have been warnings about the potential for CO2 leakage if the correct sites are not chosen. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/117BA/production/_104401617_mediaitem72911983.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Cage had a small role in the film, which received poor reviews and a short run in a limited number of theaters\n== Controversies ==The issue of citizenship naturalization is a highly contentious matter in United States politics, particularly regarding illegal immigrants\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/117BA/production/_104401617_mediaitem72911983.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Tidal flood defences must be raised 15 years earlier than expected as sea levels rise, the Environment Agency says. An updated plan is designed to ensures communities in London and the wider Thames Estuary are ready to adapt to the impact of climate change. It sets out how it will protect more than 1.4 million people and \u00a3321 billion of property from tidal floods. The plan says defences must be raised upstream of the Thames Barrier by 2050. The Environment Agency has assured Londoners that the Thames Barrier continues to operate reliably and effectively as part of the wider flood defence system. It expects the barrier to continue to protect London until 2070. However, to further protect the capital it has committed to deciding an end-of-century option by 2040. The plan also calls for riverside strategies to be embedded into local planning frameworks by 2030 to ensure that new developments factor in future flood defence requirements. Julie Foley, the Environment Agency's FCRM Strategy & National Adaptation Director, said: \"Sea levels are rising at an accelerated rate across the Thames Estuary, and it is therefore essential that we act now to respond to the changing climate. \"Our updated plan recognises that defence raising needs to start earlier than originally thought - by some 15 years. \"Alongside, the plan also requires greater investment in habitats and natural flood management to support nature recovery. \"We cannot deliver the ambitions of the updated Thames Estuary 2100 Plan on our own. \"That is why we will continue to work with many partners to deliver a green and resilient estuary.\" Wandsworth Bridge to close to vehicles for 10 weeksThames Water told to fix leaks by Environment AgencyThames flood defence scheme 'to be built by 2027' Last summer over 1,000 properties across London were severely flooded during intense storms. A report found that Thames Water was slow to respond to the floods because it had struggled to understand what caused them and their impact. It added that the company did not plan for the storms properly, gave customers unclear messages about what to do, and failed to update local councillors and MPs about what was happening. Follow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10330/production/_129725366_mikekeen1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " As president, Biden has addressed the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession\n Biden signed the bill into law in mid-November 2021\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10330/production/_129725366_mikekeen1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A man has embarked on a 3,000km (1,864 miles) kayak voyage in icy waters as part of a \"poo-centric expedition\". Mike Keen, from Suffolk, is almost a month into his three-month paddle from Qaqortoq in the south of Greenland - to Qaanaaq in the north. Along the way, he is collecting poo samples from sea mammals to check the levels of microplastics. He is also only eating a Greenlandic diet - food that can foraged or hunted - as part of a microbiome study. Mr Keen, who set off on 20 April and expects to complete his journey at the end of July/early August, described his mission as a \"poo-centric expedition\". He said the \"tough bit\" so far had been the cold. The 53-year-old chef, from Holton St Mary, near East Bergholt, has been rough camping and relying on the generosity of locals along the way. \"Getting up in the morning, putting all your wet gear on for an eight-hour paddle in a kayak is pretty tough going but once you're out on the water it's OK,\" he said. He said he has had to haul his kayak across frozen fjords as he makes his journey up the west coast of Greenland. The high fat and protein diet of fish, seal, shrimp and reindeer also \"took some time getting used to,\" he said. The samples of sea mammal poo he is collecting will be sent back to laboratories in Greenland's capital - Nuuk - to be analysed for microplastics. Samples of his own faeces will be sent back to a team of microbiologists to see what effect the diet has on his gut microbiome, his physiology and mental wellbeing. Murals aim to inspire climate change actionGreenhouse farmers call for support for homegrownCouple complete Atlantic charity row challenge Mr Keen said he was not looking forward to the sea ice as he continues to head north - and added that he \"may need to think up a plan B\" for getting through it. He said he wanted to raise awareness of climate change in the Arctic and the two scientific research projects he would be carrying out were \"important\". Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8387/production/_129717633_c085e82e0d6fe37037598553c3bae81964a2e732.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " In a constitutional democracy the powers of the majority are exercised within the framework of a representative democracy, but the constitution limits majority rule, usually through the provision by all of certain universal rights, e\n== Maps ==Democracy is the most popular form of government with more than half of the nations in the world being democracies-97 of 167 nations as of 2021\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8387/production/_129717633_c085e82e0d6fe37037598553c3bae81964a2e732.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Residents of a tiny Swiss village have all been evacuated because of the risk of an imminent rockslide. Brienz's fewer than 100 villagers were given just 48 hours to pack what they could and abandon their homes. Even the dairy cows were loaded up for departure after geologists warned a rockfall was imminent. Two million cubic metres of rock is coming loose from the mountain above, and a rockslide could obliterate the village. The development has raised questions about the safety of some mountain communities, as global warming changes the alpine environment. Brienz, in the eastern canton of Graub\u00fcnden, is now empty. The village has been judged a geological risk for some time and is built on land that is subsiding down towards the valley, causing the church spire to lean and large cracks to appear in buildings. As the minutes ticked towards the deadline to leave, even Brienz's dairy cows were being taken to safety. The residents, some young, some old, families, farmers and professional couples, had two days to abandon their homes. They were asked earlier this week to evacuate the village by Friday evening. Swiss villagers told to flee monster rockslide Switzerland's Alpine regions are especially sensitive to global warming - as the permafrost high in the mountains begins to thaw, the rock becomes more unstable. This particular mountain has always been unstable, but recently the rock has been shifting faster and faster. Days of heavy rain could bring two million cubic metres of loosened rock crashing down the mountainside onto the village, scientists warned. Now the villagers must wait, in temporary accommodation, for the rock to fall - and hope it misses their homes.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/5fe0/live/caf4a5f0-f0d3-11ed-af9e-cde41dc3e3c6.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Andorran Group (Agrupament Andorr\u00e0), an anti-fascist organization linked to the Occitanie's French Resistance, accused the French representative (veguer) of collaboration with Nazism\n Most Andorran residents can speak one or more of these, in addition to Catalan\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/5fe0/live/caf4a5f0-f0d3-11ed-af9e-cde41dc3e3c6.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A \u00a342.9m project to refurbish the flood defences in an seaside port town has been completed.Nearly 4km (2.5 miles) of flood walls in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, have been updated.The upgrade should provide protection from tidal flooding to more than 2,100 homes.Tom Stanley, project manager for the Epoch 2 scheme, said: \"We are already seeing the impacts of climate change in the UK and around the world, which is why urgent action is needed to adapt the impacts of climate emergency.\" Great Yarmouth has a history of flooding, including the 1953 east coast tidal surge, and more recently, in December 2013 and January 2017.The work, which started in September 2019, saw 40 flood defence walls refurbished at locations across the town, which should extend their lifespan by up to 30 years, the Environment Agency said.It said less material, lower carbon materials and hybrid power reduced the project's carbon footprint, and it also created a new inter-tidal saltmarsh to boost biodiversity in the area.The project was not delayed by the World War Two bomb which exploded in Great Yarmouth in February, the Environment Agency said.A business case is currently in development for the next stage of the project. Find BBC News: East of England on\u00a0Facebook, external,\u00a0Instagram, external\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter, external. If you have a story for us, email\u00a0eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk, external", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11ECD/production/_129712437_cambridge_electric_bus_atstagecoach_east_976.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " How would you portray death if you had to experience it first?\" Charles Laughton, who worked closely for a time with Bertolt Brecht, argued that \"Method actors give you a photograph\", while \"real actors give you an oil painting\n He was one of the first notable Hollywood actors to play a homosexual character, starring as a gay Holocaust victim in the 1979 Broadway production of Bent, for which he earned a Theatre World Award\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11ECD/production/_129712437_cambridge_electric_bus_atstagecoach_east_976.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Thirty new electric buses costing almost \u00a3500,000 each have joined a fleet taking passengers around Cambridge. Stagecoach East is introducing the new double-deckers across routes from Sunday. Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA), which helped fund the fleet, said they would \"help tackle pollution\" and encourage bus travel. The bus company already has two electric vehicles, introduced in 2020. The new fleet has been funded by the CPCA, Greater Cambridge Partnership, Stagecoach East and the Department for Transport, following a successful bid to the government's Zero Emission Bus Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme. The combined authority said the buses \"emit 72% less well-to-wheel CO2 emissions than an equivalent-size diesel bus\". The introduction of the new vehicles means 31% of Stagecoach's Cambridge bus fleet will be electric. Cambridge congestion charge: Your viewsReferendum on city congestion charge rejected The Swedish message to UK congestion charge cities The Labour Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Dr Nik Johnson, said it was \"marking a turning point for public transport in the region\". \"Removing 30 diesel buses from our historic city and replacing them with these new vehicles will not only have a positive impact on the health of our region by reducing air and noise pollution, but will also help in the broader fight against climate change as we embrace these new and exciting technologies,\" he said. He said the authority aimed to have \"all buses and taxis operating within the area [with] zero emissions by 2030\". Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11EEA/production/_129705437_gettyimages-184875964.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Some species, such as sperm whales, are particularly well adapted for diving to great depths to catch squid and other favoured prey\n=== Family ===On 17 May 2020, Bolt's longtime girlfriend Kasi Bennett gave birth to their first child, daughter Olympia Lightning\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11EEA/production/_129705437_gettyimages-184875964.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The Australian government has approved a new coal mine for the first time since it was elected - on a climate action platform - last year. The government was bound by national environment laws when considering Central Queensland's Isaac River coal mine, a spokeswoman said. Only one coal mine proposal has ever been blocked under those laws. Scientists have repeatedly warned that any new fossil fuel projects are not compatible with global climate goals. The Isaac River coal mine - which will be built near Moranbah, an 11-hour drive north of Brisbane - is expected to produce about 2.5 million tonnes of coal over five years. The mine will extract metallurgical coal, also known as coking coal, which is used in steelmaking. Although a small mine compared to others in the state, its production could amount to some 7 million tonnes of greenhouse gases in its lifetime, think tank the Australia Institute says. A really simple guide to climate change Environment groups had called on the government to block the new development, on the grounds it would increase global emissions and damage the habitat of endangered or vulnerable species like the koala, the central greater glider and the ornamental snake. But when Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek's proposed decision was announced on Thursday afternoon, the government said no-one had made submissions during the formal consultation period. \"The Albanese government has to make decisions in accordance with the facts and the \u00adnational environment law - that's what happens on every project, and that's what's happened here,\" a spokeswoman for Ms Plibersek said . The proponents of the mine, Bowen Coking Coal, will have the opportunity to respond to any proposed conditions on the development before it is formally approved - usually in a matter of months. Since it came to power in May 2022 after campaigning on greater climate action, Anthony Albanese's Labor government has enshrined into law a stronger emissions reduction target - of 43% by 2030 - and has negotiated the introduction of a carbon cap for the country's biggest emitters. But it has refused to rule out new coal and gas projects. And while it in February blocked a coal mine on environmental grounds for the first time in history, it did not consider climate in doing so. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says any new fossil fuel projects are not compatible with the aim of the Paris Agreement - limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees. In fact, existing fossil fuel infrastructure must be urgently phased out, it says. Greens environment spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said the decision demonstrated a need for reform. \"Australia's environment laws are clearly broken. Polluting projects are failing to be \u00adassessed for the emissions they create,\" she said.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/177C8/production/_129700269_nandos.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "The Globe Theatre of London initiated a project in 2014 to perform Hamlet in every country in the world in the space of two years\n Shakespeare's next comedy, the equally romantic Merchant of Venice, contains a portrayal of the vengeful Jewish moneylender Shylock, which reflects dominant Elizabethan views but may appear derogatory to modern audiences\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/177C8/production/_129700269_nandos.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A restaurant chain is using waste heat generated from its kitchen to heat water and buildings following trials. The success of the year-long trial at Nando's Didsbury branch in Manchester has been rolled out to 14 other stores. The system created by Lancashire energy firm Dext Heat Recovery uses a heat exchange - a box on the roof which collects the heat produced by cooking. Instead of releasing it into the atmosphere, the heat is filtered and recycled. Prof Karl Williams, director of the centre for waste and resource management at the University of Central Lancashire, said he was excited about ways to recover energy to combat the climate emergency. \"There's lots of technology out there to recover energy for example from sewers, but every bit helps to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels,\" he said. Prof Williams added: \"The main challenge I see with this is cost, to have a real impact it needs to go into smaller businesses on our high streets because there are a lot more of them than big chains. \"They'd find it difficult to invest as it would take them longer to get payback as they don't generate as much heat as larger chains.\" The amount of heat produced in the average Nando's kitchen a year is enough to heat more than 30 homes for a year. Dext has been working with Nando's since 2009 when they started collecting the heat from its grills to heat water- a system which is now used to save energy in 300 branches. Director of Dext Heat Recovery Neil Bracewell said he believed it could be a game changer for the restaurant industry. \"We work with Sheffield Hallam University where we developed and researched the heat exchanger to cope with dirty air from restaurant kitchens. Wind is main source of electricity for first timeGreen energy projects worth billions stuck on holdIs the UK on track to meet its climate targets? \"Nando's have helped us financially and by allowing us to test our equipment.\" He added it was still a \"learning curve\", but they were \"saving money and reducing CO2 emissions\". Mr Bracewell said their systems currently start at about \u00a320,000 but estimated the outlay could be made back in 18 months depending on the size and use of the kitchen. Sam McCarthy, Nando's head of sustainability for the UK and Ireland, said they were keen to share this technology with other restaurant chains. \"We have a net zero target of 2030 and this new technology is proving to be a success reducing the impact on the planet and saving money on energy bills which we want to reinvest in the future of our restaurants. \"We're always looking to trial new technology to help us with this and it's great to support and work with a small business like Dext.\" Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16707/production/_128211919_gettyimages-157230551.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Francis emphasised poverty, chastity, obedience and submission to Christ\n She later received other Indian awards, including the Bharat Ratna (India's highest civilian award) in 1980\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16707/production/_128211919_gettyimages-157230551.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "To help tackle climate change, the UK has pledged to reach \"net zero\" - where no further planet-warming greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere - by 2050. To achieve this, much less energy needs to be generated by fossil fuels and much more needs to come from renewable sources and low-carbon technologies. Experts say increasing the use of renewables would also improve the UK's energy security. Energy is used for various purposes, including heating and powering homes, businesses, transport and industry. In 2022, the majority of the energy (79.1%) used within the UK came from fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas). This is down from 87.2% in 2012, mainly due to the declining use of the dirtiest fossil fuel, coal. Around one-fifth (20.1%) of UK energy use was from \"low-carbon\" sources in 2022 - up from 12% in 2012. \"Low-carbon\" includes renewables (wind, solar, hydropower and bioenergy) and nuclear. Nuclear is not considered renewable, but is classed as low-carbon because power stations do not directly release greenhouse gases during their operation. The output from nuclear energy has actually fallen by around a third in the past decade due to ageing reactors. Electricity generation accounted for around a third of the UK's total energy use in 2022. Of the electricity generated in the UK in 2022: 40.8% came from fossil fuels56% from low-carbon sources - including 41.4% from renewables and 14.6% from nuclear By comparison, of electricity generated in 2012: 67.6% came from fossil fuels30.7% came from low-carbon sources, including 11.3% from renewables and 19.3% from nuclear. In particular, power generation from coal has fallen sharply, although natural gas usage remains high. The use of both wind and solar power has increased rapidly. In the first three months of 2023, for instance, for the first time wind generated more electricity than gas. To meet the UK's legally-binding target to be \"net zero\" across the economy by 2050, the government has said that all electricity should be generated from \"clean\" sources by 2035. Remaining non-electric energy use will have to be net zero by 2050. Since electricity can be generated by low-carbon sources rather than fossil fuels, demand for it is expected to grow by 40-60% by 2035. Ensuring electricity is generated as cleanly as possible will therefore be increasingly important to meet the overall net zero goal. The government has announced various ambitious targets to decarbonise energy and electricity. These include increasing the capacity of offshore wind, nuclear, carbon capture and hydrogen, all of which are low-carbon technologies. It is also encouraging people to use electric heat pumps instead of gas boilers, and will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. Green energy projects worth billions stuck on hold Recent reports by the government's independent climate advisers the Climate Change Committee (CCC), the National Audit Office and a cross-party group of MPs have all warned that the UK risks missing its 2035 \"clean\" electricity target without increased effort from Whitehall. Key recommendations include: reducing natural gas usage more quicklyimproving homes' energy efficiencychanging planning laws to speed up renewable projectsreforming the electricity grid to pass on the cheaper running costs of renewables to consumers Is the UK on track to meet its climate targets? In 2022, the UK imported about 37% of its energy. That represents a drop from nearly 50% in the early 2010s, but the figure is still higher than in the late 1990s, when the UK was a net exporter - meaning it sent more energy abroad than it imported. The UK imports proportionally less of its electricity - typically about 5%. In 2022 it was a net electricity exporter for the first time in 44 years, but this was largely because of French nuclear plant maintenance. The importance of energy security was highlighted when Russia's invasion of Ukraine disrupted the gas market. The reduction in Russian supplies increased demand for other countries' gas resources, causing global prices to soar, and pushing up consumer bills. Former Prime Minister Liz Truss opened applications for new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences, which the government said would boost the UK's energy security. Rishi Sunak has not confirmed whether he backs his predecessor's plan. The International Energy Agency and other bodies warn that any new oil and gas projects would go against existing commitments designed to avoid the most harmful impacts of climate change. The CCC and environmental think tanks Green Alliance and the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit argue that the best way to lower bills for customers and boost energy security would be to cut fossil fuel use. This is not least because North Sea supplies are dwindling, and gas from any newly granted licences would not enter the market until around 2050. By contrast, they say a decarbonised electricity system would be more reliable, secure and cost-effective by protecting the UK from volatility in fossil fuel prices. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0C2C/production/_129661130_beau-runsten-mr-n67xjthg-unsplash-edit2.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " He met Rachael Speed, an assistant director, on the set of The Virgin Queen in 2005, and they had a son in April 2008 before separating in 2009\n TV Guide (April 11\u201317, 1987) called 1977's Jesus of Nazareth \"the best miniseries of all time\" and \"unparalleled television\"\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0C2C/production/_129661130_beau-runsten-mr-n67xjthg-unsplash-edit2.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "If you are a marathon runner in search of a personal best, your body shape could be just as important as your training, analysis suggests. A study of 170 Ironman contestants found tall, leggy runners performed better in warm climates, while shorter, stockier people had the upper hand in colder temperatures. But the effect is seen in men only, the researchers say. Natural selection probably means the fastest men became the best hunters. Study author Prof Ryan Calsbeek, a professor of biological sciences, at Dartmouth College, in the US, said his research was among the first to suggest human physiology may be adapted to climate to optimise physical performance. \"Global patterns of temperature and climate may have shaped human body types to look and perform the way they do,\" he said. So even before athletes leave the starting line in Ironman triathlons, marathons and other endurance events, some men may be better suited than others to racing - based on their body type and the temperatures they are running in. Daily walk prevents one in 10 early deaths - studyPumping weights could help you live longerExercise addicts urged to build in rest days Humans, it turns out, may be just like animals, with cold-adapted species tending to be burlier with thicker, shorter limbs to limit heat loss. And in hotter climates, sleeker human (and animal) physiques are built to keep cool efficiently. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, analysed 171 triathletes who had competed in at least two Ironman events - one in a hot location, the other in a cold one - and used software to measure the athletes' physiques, based on photos from the competitions. Ironman participants have to: swim 3.8km (2.4 miles)cycle 180kmrun 42.2km Triathletes were chosen for the study because their event is a perfect way of studying how the size and shape of the human body affects performance. \"There is one event, running in particular, that we know to be important in the evolution of humans and two events - swimming and cycling - that are not,\" Prof Calsbeek said, which made comparisons very useful. He found the greatest difference in performance based on physique came in the running section. Endurance athletes are urged to think about which climates their body shape and type might be naturally suited to, while not taking their eye off the ball on training and motivation either. \"People attempting a personal best time can think about race locations and average temperatures, to pick a venue based on how their body type is adapted to perform,\" Prof Calsbeek said.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/52F9/production/_129614212_turbineconstruction_2.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " On the eve of the second season's premiere, CNN said, \"after this weekend, you may be hard pressed to find someone who isn't a fan of some form of epic fantasy\" and cited Ian Bogost as saying that the series continues a trend of successful screen adaptations beginning with Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001\u20132003) and the Harry Potter films (2001\u20132011) establishing fantasy as a mass-market genre; they are \"gateway drugs to fantasy fan culture\"\nThe show's final two seasons, especially season eight, received more criticism\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/52F9/production/_129614212_turbineconstruction_2.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Billions of pounds' worth of green energy projects are on hold because they cannot plug into the UK's electricity system, BBC research shows. Some new solar and wind sites are waiting up to 10 to 15 years to be connected because of a lack of capacity in the system - known as the \"grid\". Renewable energy companies worry it could threaten UK climate targets. National Grid, which manages the system, acknowledges the problem but says fundamental reform is needed. The UK currently has a 2035 target for 100% of its electricity to be produced without carbon emissions. Last year nearly half of the country's electricity was net-zero. Where does the UK get its energy and electricity?Wind generated a record amount of power in 2022 But meeting the target will require a big increase in the number of renewable projects across the country. It is estimated as much as five times more solar and four times as much wind is needed. The government and private investors have spent \u00a3198bn on renewable power infrastructure since 2010. But now energy companies are warning that significant delays to connect their green energy projects to the system will threaten their ability to bring more green power online. A new wind farm or solar site can only start supplying energy to people's homes once it has been plugged into the grid. Energy companies like Octopus Energy, one of Europe's largest investors in renewable energy, say they have been told by National Grid that they need to wait up to 15 years for some connections - far beyond the government's 2035 target. There are currently more than \u00a3200bn worth of projects sitting in the connections queue, the BBC has calculated. Around 40% of them face a connection wait of at least a year, according to National Grid's own figures. That represents delayed investments worth tens of billions of pounds. \"We currently have one of the longest grid queues in Europe,\" according to Zoisa North-Bond, chief executive of Octopus Energy Generation. The problem is so many new renewable projects are applying for connections, the grid cannot keep up. The system was built when just a few fossil fuel power plants were requesting a connection each year, but now there are 1,100 projects in the queue. Torbay Council has been hit by the delays. The diggers are already clearing the ground for a 6-hectare solar plant it is building in Torquay. It is due to be finished next year. The council plans to use money raised from selling the energy to help fund local services, but it has been told the plant will not be connected for five years. And even that date is not certain. \"Worryingly, there are some indications that that could slip into the mid 2030s\", said Alan Denby from Torbay Council. \"That's a real problem for the council in that we declared that we wanted to be carbon neutral by 2030.\" With projects unable to get connections, construction is either being paused or projects are being completed but are unable to produce any power. National Grid, which is responsible for moving electricity across England and Wales, says it is tightening up the criteria for projects to apply so only the really promising ones join the queue. But a huge new investment is also required to restructure the grid so it can deal with more power sources, says Roisin Quinn, director of customer connections. \"Fundamental reform is needed,\" she told the BBC. \"More infrastructure is needed. We are working very hard to design and build at a faster pace than we ever have done before.\" Energy Networks Association represents the UK's network operators, such as DNOs, which connect people's homes to the main system owned by National Grid. It says that the government needs to speed up the planning process so electricity infrastructure can be built more quickly. A Department for Energy Security and Net Zero spokesperson said: \"We have connected the second highest amount of renewable electricity in Europe since 2010 but we recognise the challenge of connection delays.\" The government is due to announce a new action plan for speeding up connections later this year. The energy regulator, Ofgem, which oversees the operators, said that all stakeholders were playing catch-up with the government's targets. Rebecca Barnett, director of networks at Ofgem, said: \"The targets have been increasing in the last two or three years dramatically and there is a long lead in investment time that is needed to commit, develop, and deliver these really big assets. \"I think that has caused a real problem; we definitely need to catch up. The incremental approach of the past is not fit for purpose.\" Ofgem says it has agreed to allow the National Grid to raise an additional \u00a320bn over the next 40 years from customer bills to pay for the huge upgrades the grid needs. Customers have seen household prices soar over the last year following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and a run-on gas. But Ms Barnett said this new investment will have a minimal impact on customers bills and will help shoulder the burden of some of the volatile energy prices. \"The future is for green, more secure and in fact cheaper energy. We know there is some investment cost needed to get us there, but in the long run it is going to be cheaper for us all,\" she said. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/13A68/production/_129388408_gettyimages-856895372.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Written by multiple authors, the series was set 25 to 30 years after the original films and introduced the Yuuzhan Vong, a powerful alien race attempting to invade and conquer the entire galaxy\n Most specifically he revealed the \"symbiotic relationships\" between the Jedi, the Force, midi-chlorians (microscopic lifeforms, first mentioned onscreen in 1999's The Phantom Menace), and the Whills (all-powerful creatures first mentioned in the title of the original outline of Star Wars, Journal of the Whills):[The next three Star Wars films] were going to get into a microbiotic world\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/13A68/production/_129388408_gettyimages-856895372.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The world's biggest storms, which whip the high seas into a frenzy or flatten buildings on land, have long daunted wind farm developers. But that is changing. Operators are increasingly adopting turbines designed to withstand tropical cyclones. One of the latest examples is a \"typhoon-resistant\" floating wind turbine, which will soon help to power an offshore oil platform in China. According to the manufacturer, MingYang Smart Energy, this 7.25 megawatt (MW) turbine can survive wind speeds of up to 134mph for 10 minutes. It has been installed at a facility 136km off the coast of the island province of Hainan. MingYang did not respond to a BBC request for comment but theirs is not the first turbine designed to face down such an onslaught. In 2021, US firm GE received typhoon-certification for its mammoth Haliade-X turbine. It is fixed, not floating, and has a capacity of up to 13MW. The blistering growth of the wind energy industry is pushing turbines to their limits and some question whether the pace of the rollout is wise. While components such as turbine blades are remarkably strong, they are not indestructible. And the forces of nature, especially out at sea, are notoriously unpredictable, meaning the pressure is on to prove that wind turbines really are hurricane-ready. Tropical cyclones - often called typhoons or hurricanes depending on location - are a familiar threat in certain parts of the world, including in the Gulf of Mexico or around much of Southeast Asia. Such storms can produce wind speeds well in excess of 100mph. The strongest one-minute sustained winds on record, of 215mph, were created by Hurricane Patricia in the Eastern Pacific in 2015. Despite the meteorological challenges in such regions, the expansion of wind energy is expected there in the coming years and decades. Today's turbines already put up with some powerful gales. Those positioned off the northeast coast of the UK in the North Sea operate in wind speeds of up to 50mph or so, after which point they are switched off, notes Simon Hogg at Durham University, who holds the \u00d8rsted chair at the university, which is funded by energy firm \u00d8rsted. Technically, such turbines are designed to survive even higher wind speeds. Leon Mishnaevsky of the Technical University of Denmark suggests that wind turbine blades are generally quite reliable. These days, they are made from strong but lightweight carbon fibre composites and automated manufacturing processes help to ensure the uniform placement of the fibres, which is important for the blades' robustness, he notes. Wind turbine makers also perform a range of stress tests on blades to ensure that they are up to scratch. This can include attaching large \"exciters\" to the blades, which bounce up and down, simulating the repeated stresses of winds on the structure. Giant blades are also sometimes bent to the point of breaking, says Prof Hogg, which helps to confirm the maximum loads they can bear. But the fallibility of turbines, especially the biggest ones, is becoming more apparent as time goes by. Insurer GCube notes in a recent report that offshore wind losses rose from \u00a31m in 2012 to more than \u00a37m in 2021. Plus, machines with capacities larger than 8MW can suffer component failures within just two years of installation, the firm says, more than twice as fast as 4-8MW devices. More technology of business: Why teaching robots to blink is hard but importantThe tech entrepreneur betting he can get youngerHow LinkedIn is changing and why some are not happyThe tiny diamond sphere central to a fusion breakthroughThe remote Swedish town leading the green steel race Some of the most dangerous forces to trouble turbine blades are torsion, or twisting, loads, says Find M\u00f8lholt Jensen, chief executive of Bladena, a firm that specialises in diagnosing and repairing large turbine blades around 60m in length, or longer. Repeated twisting of blades can induce difficult-to-spot fractures, he says: \"The damage cannot be seen from the outside.\" The longer the blade, the greater the risk, comments a spokesman for Bladena. Current testing and industry standards are not sufficient to prove that the largest turbine blades can withstand these stresses, argues Dr Jensen. New designs could help, though. In Japan, Challenergy has been working on a turbine with tall, vertical blades that spin around a central tower. While currently much smaller and less powerful than the biggest traditional, three-bladed turbines in operation today, Challenergy's device is intended to cope with very high winds. When a powerful typhoon called Hin Nam No struck the Philippines and Japan last August, it passed over two of the company's turbines. One of the devices, at Ishigaki City in Okinawa, recorded wind speeds of around 64mph. The turbine continued to operate without any problems, according to Challenergy. In the US, a research team has taken a cue from nature in their design of an alternative hurricane-resistant turbine. \"We were inspired by palm trees,\" explains Lucy Pao at the University of Colorado Boulder. \"In high winds they kind of go with the flow, they bend with the wind.\" She and her colleagues designed a prototype two-bladed wind turbine design with flexible blades. Plus, the rotor faces downwind rather than into the wind, as is common in traditional configurations, helping it to absorb the impact of strong gales. During tests at an onshore site in Colorado, the blade tips were observed deflecting by up to 600mm, more than half a metre. \"None of them snapped,\" says Prof Pao. Wind speeds in the area can reach 100mph in the wintertime, she adds. However, the wind energy industry has almost universally adopted the upwind, three-bladed design so selling a new concept is difficult, Prof Pao explains. Currently, her research in this area is on hold, pending further funding. She shares the concerns of other observers who question whether wind turbines are really ready for some of the strongest winds nature can hurl at them. \"The novel materials, they are stronger, they are pretty amazing, but I don't know that they've been tested out as thoroughly as maybe they should be,\" she says. Then there are the tricky economics of siting turbines in places where winds are especially variable. James Martin is chief executive at Gulf Wind Technology, a company exploring the deployment of turbines in the Gulf of Mexico. In this area, low wind speeds are common for most of the year - with the occasional hurricane blasting its way through. \"If you design that turbine to be strong enough to withstand the peak wind event, then you'll be carrying a lot of extra cost for the times that you've got light wind,\" notes Mr Martin. He declines to share details of the turbines or technologies his firm is considering. In the coming years, you can expect to see more and more turbines arriving in regions affected by cyclones, though. \"We need [turbines] there as much as we need them in any other area of the globe,\" argues Prof Hogg. \"I don't think we should shy away from it.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10896/production/_124943776_hi073870675.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "The salon staff go to a night club to party\n Customer's purchase intention based on rational expectations, and additionally impacts on emotional trust\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10896/production/_124943776_hi073870675.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Bus maker Wrightbus has received a \u00a312m cash boost to produce green buses at its County Antrim factory. The NextGenZEBs project will develop battery-electric and fuel-cell-powered buses to replace diesel engines. It is part of a \u00a377m joint government and industry-backed funding to develop zero-emission vehicles. Meanwhile, it's been annouced two NI firms will split \u00a33.6m in government funding to cut down on their use of fossil fuels. FP McCann Ltd is getting \u00a33.39m to improve the energy efficiency of crushing and concrete manufacturing at its Craigall Quarry in Kilrea. Natural World Products in Dunmurry produces peat-free composts and soil conditioners.\u00a0 It will put almost \u00a3300,000 towards replacing diesel-powered equipment with electric-powered equivalents. The funding supports businesses which use high amounts of energy to clean up their manufacturing processes using low-carbon technologies. It's a portion of a wider pot of \u00a324.3m funding awarded through the UK government's Industrial Energy Transformation Fund. A Natural World Products spokesperson said the funding had \"allowed the company to make significant further greenhouse gas emissions savings at one of its key processing facilities\". Wrightbus will work alongside Queen's University Belfast and Translink to deliver its NextGenZEBs project. It is hoped that it will fill a gap in supply for zero-emission, multi-axle vehicles, as well as creating and safeguarding 883 jobs. Jo Bamford, Wrightbus executive chairman, said: \"When I took over the company, I was clear about my ambitions for it, both in terms of contributing to the UK's plans for net zero and in terms of supporting the British economy. \"We have always said that we will continue to drive forward with our zero-emissions vision.\" In February, Wrightbus announced it is planning to develop a green hydrogen production facility. Two months later, the Ballymena business secured an order to deliver 48 zero-emission buses for use in London by the end of this year. In Northern Ireland, Wrightbus already supplies Translink with battery and hydrogen powered buses, the first of which hit the streets in March 2022. The NextGenZEBs project is one of seven schemes across the UK with joint government and industry backing, ranging from work on green fire engines to a hydrogen fuel cell version of the Ford Transit van. A Department for Business and Trade spokesperson\u202fsaid: \"Zero-emission cars, vans and taxis are increasingly common but this cutting-edge work is going to mean clean, green vehicles designed and built in the UK can increasingly take on the toughest jobs too, from life-saving emergency services to haulage and public transport.\" The funding has been awarded through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) Collaborative Research and Development programme, which aims to build an end-to-end supply chain for zero-emission vehicles in the UK. More than \u00a338m of this investment comes from the government, backed by a further \u00a338.7m from the automobile industry - taking the total to just over \u00a377m.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/DF1E/production/_129581175_09b83f80-c90c-4566-b1c3-086a7cb32b05.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Mackie was hesitant about the series because he felt it would not be able to match the quality of the MCU films, and he did not want a Black actor to be the lead of Marvel's first failure, but he was won over by Spellman's writing\n== Premise ==Six months after being handed the mantle of Captain America at the end of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Sam Wilson teams up with Bucky Barnes on a global mission to stop an anti-patriotism group, the Flag Smashers, who are enhanced with a recreation of the Super Soldier Serum and believe the world was better during the Blip\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/DF1E/production/_129581175_09b83f80-c90c-4566-b1c3-086a7cb32b05.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Businesses are having to move while flood defences are installed on Wales' coastline over the next 18 months. A seafood stall is among those relocating when the work in Mumbles, Swansea, starts this month. Gower Seafood Hut owner Chris Price called the timing \"a concern\" as the cost of living has already meant tough times for businesses. The Welsh government-funded project aims to protect business and homes threatened by climate change. Mr Price runs the seasonal seafood pop up between March and September, along with his partner, Sarah. But he said sales were down on previous years and is worried that having to move for the installation of flood defences may further affect sales. Climate anxiety to be eased with \u00a3214m flood fundsDoctor spends thousands defending home from floodsFears 9ft-high flood defences will destroy privacy \"We don't get footfall of the promenade anymore,\" he said. \"And with the land train and bike rack also being moved, it's causing concern.\" Mr Price said he recognised that the work was required due to climate change and rising tides, but was disappointed with the timing. \"Businesses in the Mumbles are so reliant on the summer. Starting the work at the beginning of the season is not ideal.\" The work, which is due to end in 2024, will see 0.8 miles (1.3km) of flood defences rebuilt along the coastline. Another business, coffee van Bibby's Beans, has also been moved. Owner Marc Bibby said the move had been \"disrupting\" but he was \"quite confident\" about sales during the summer. \"There's a lot of engineering going on and we appreciate that. \"If they don't do it, Mumbles is going to disappear, so we understand.\" The Welsh government is set to spend \u00a3215m on managing flood risk over three years. Last year, \u00a371m was spent, which increased to \u00a375m this year. About 250,000 properties are at risk of flooding across Wales. In Mumbles, the defences will protect 120 homes. Natural Resources Wales operations manager, Ioan Williams, said the investment was a \"step in the right direction\" to protect homes, commercial developments and major road infrastructure. He added: \"There's a conversation that we need to have here with governments, with local authorities and with communities around planning policy. \"Where we build properties, where we build schools, hospitals, other infrastructure to make sure that they are resilient for the future.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12CB6/production/_129628967_gettyimages-1249172249.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " These tracks inspired emerging American house producers such as DJ Sneak, Green Velvet and Roger Sanchez to produce sample-led house tracks with deep funky grooves, and ultimately resulted in the release of a sole full-length album, Pansoul\n== Precursors ===== Garage rock and beat ===The early to mid-1960s garage rock bands in the United States and elsewhere are often recognized as punk rock's progenitors\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12CB6/production/_129628967_gettyimages-1249172249.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Vietnam has recorded its highest ever temperature, just over 44C (111F) - with experts predicting it would soon be surpassed because of climate change. The record was set in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, where officials warned people to stay indoors during the hottest times of the day. Other countries in the region have also been experiencing extremely hot weather. Thailand reported a record-equalling 44.6C in its western Mak province. Meanwhile Myanmar's media reported that a town in the east had recorded 43.8C, the highest temperature for a decade. Both countries experience a hot period before the monsoon season but the intensity of the heat has broken previous records. In Hanoi, climate change expert Nguyen Ngoc Huy told AFP that Vietnam's new record was \"worrying\" given the \"context of climate change and global warming\". \"I believe this record will be repeated many times,\" he said. \"It confirms that extreme climate models are being proven to be true.\" The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments make steep cuts to emissions. In Vietnam's central city of Danang, farmer Nguyen Thi Lan told AFP the heat was forcing workers to start earlier than ever and finish by 10:00. Vietnam's previous record temperature of 43.4C was set in central Ha Tinh province four years ago. Further west, the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka recorded its highest temperature since the 1960s while Indian authorities said parts of the country were experiencing temperatures that were three or four degrees above normal. In April, Spain recorded its hottest-ever temperature for that month, hitting 38.8C at Cordoba airport in the south of the country. In March climate scientists said a key global temperature goal was likely to be missed. Governments had previously agreed to act to avoid global temperature rises going above 1.5C. But the world has already warmed by 1.1C and now experts say that it is likely to breach 1.5C in the 2030s. In its report, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said \"every increment of global warming will intensify multiple and concurrent hazards\".", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6BFA/production/_123824672_gettyimages-109438460.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Following months of cross-border raids between the two countries, Saddam declared war on Iran in September 1980, initiating the Iran\u2013Iraq War (or First Persian Gulf War)\nDuring 2006, fighting continued and reached its highest levels of violence, more war crimes scandals were made public, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed by US forces and Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity and hanged\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6BFA/production/_123824672_gettyimages-109438460.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Shell is selling its stake in the controversial Cambo oil field, it has been announced. The project - which is west of Shetland - is the second-largest undeveloped oil and gas discovery in the UK's North Sea. The oil major is looking for a buyer for its 30% holding. Cambo has been the focal point of many protests, and Shell has been rumoured for months to be looking for someone to take over its part. The remaining 70% of the field is owned by Ithaca Energy. Cambo in better position for go-ahead, say ownersWhy Cambo oilfield is a difficult gamble for ShellCambo oil field development to be paused Ithaca said the two companies had agreed on several possible outcomes. Shell might sell all of its stake, but if it only manages to find a buyer for a portion of the stake it could offload its remaining share to Ithaca. If a buyer wants to purchase more than Shell's 30% stake then Ithaca will sell up to 19.99% of its holding in the project, it said. Shell's senior vice president of UK Upstream, Simon Roddy, said: \"Following an internal review, we have decided to sell our 30% working interest in Cambo and have agreed a process with Ithaca Energy for the sale of Shell's stake in the field this year. \"We wish Ithaca Energy well in the future development of the field, which will be important to maintain the UK's energy security and to sustaining domestic production of the fuels that people and businesses need.\" Ithaca chief executive Alan Bruce said: \"Our agreement with Shell represents a meaningful step towards the development of Cambo, the second-largest undeveloped field in the UK continental shelf and a key asset in helping maintain the UK's future energy security.\" He added: \"Ithaca Energy remains committed to investing in the UK North Sea, however, the impact of the amended Energy Profit Levy and the fiscal instability it has created continues to constrain our ability to invest. \"We are actively engaging, in a constructive manner, with the UK Government in pursuit of the fiscal stability required to make critical investment decisions that will support the UK's long-term energy security.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/183BE/production/_129626299_mediaitem129626297.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Peter Travers wrote for Rolling Stone that \"Lohan rises to the occasion, delivering a rock-the-house version of 'Frankie and Johnny\n==== Performers ====See List of longest-serving soap opera actorsSoap opera performers in the United States are typically divided into two main groups: primary characters (sometimes referred to as \"contract players\" \u2013 as their portrayers signed contracts of employment \u2013 or leading characters) and secondary characters (sometimes referred to as recurring characters)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/183BE/production/_129626299_mediaitem129626297.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Alberta has declared a state of emergency after wildfires spread across the western Canadian province, driving nearly 25,000 people from their homes. Faced with more than 100 wildfires, Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith called the situation \"unprecedented\". Residents of Edson, a town of more than 8,000, were told to leave immediately. Ms Smith said a hot, dry spring had created \"so much kindling\" and some 122,000 hectares (301,000 acres) had burned so far. Many of the fires are burning out of control, fanned by strong winds. The worst-hit areas include Drayton Valley, about 140km (87 miles) west of the provincial capital Edmonton, and Fox Lake, some 550km north of the city, where 20 homes were consumed by fire. Firefighting helicopters and air tankers have been brought in and the federal government has offered assistance from Ottawa. Edmonton Expo Centre is accommodating more than 1,000 evacuees and in the town of High Level a curling rink is being turned into a temporary shelter. Alberta is a major oil-producing region, but so far oil facilities do not appear to be in immediate danger.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7DEE/production/_129583223_mediaitem129583222.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "In 2013, 1% of adults were estimated to hold 46% of world wealth and around $18\n Cotonou International Airport provides service to the capitals of the region and to France, as well as the major cities of Benin: Parakou, Kandi, Natitingou, Djougou, and Sav\u00e9\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7DEE/production/_129583223_mediaitem129583222.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "At least 130 people have died after floods and landslides hit Rwanda's northern and western provinces, authorities say. The rains hit at night when many people were asleep - an official told the BBC this is one reason why so many died. The five-year-old daughter of Claudette Nyiraneza was among them. \"We could not save my daughter under the rubble until morning,\" she told the BBC, adding that neighbours eventually helped retrieve her body. Local governor Fran\u00e7ois Habitegeko said many houses had collapsed on people. He said that main roads in the area \"are not usable because of landslides\". Rwanda's public broadcaster RBA reports that the casualty numbers are expected to increase as floodwaters continue to rise. Rwanda's president offered his condolences to those who have been affected. His statement also added that residents were being evacuated from \"affected and high-risk areas\". The government's main priority now is to \"reach every house that has been damaged to ensure we can rescue any person who may be trapped\", the Reuters news agency quotes Mr Habitegeko as saying. Relief efforts have already started, \"including helping to bury victims of the disaster and providing supplies to those whose homes were destroyed,\" a government minister for emergencies, Marie Solange Kayisire, told AFP Africa Live Page: For news updates from around the continent The heavy rains pounded Rwanda \"all night\" and more downpours are expected throughout the month, authorities say. Heavy rains and consequent damage and casualties between March and May are commonplace in Rwanda, but the deluge on Tuesday night was unusually strong and long-lasting. This is the worst flooding Rwanda has seen since May 2020 when around 80 people died. Deaths have also been reported in neighbouring Uganda, where six people have died after landslides, the Ugandan Red Cross says. Rwanda's weather authority is linking the unusual rains seen in recent years to climate change. Many factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely. The world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began and temperatures will keep rising unless governments around the world make steep cuts to emissions.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1176F/production/_129753517_gettyimages-1442569992.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "In the United States, much of the film industry is centered around Hollywood, California\n == Film types, macro genres and the filmmaker's voice ==The screenwriters taxonomy creates additional categories beyond \"subgenre\" when discussing films, making the argument that all narrative Hollywood films can be delineated into comedies or dramas (identified as a \"film type\")\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1176F/production/_129753517_gettyimages-1442569992.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A court has ruled that disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must report to prison while she appeals against her fraud conviction. Holmes, 39, had asked a judge to remain free while she fought against her jail sentence for a blood-testing hoax. She was sentenced to over 11 years in prison after a jury last year found her guilty of defrauding investors. In a separate ruling, US District Judge Edward Davila also ordered Holmes to pay $452m (\u00a3363.8m) to victims. She will split the multi-million dollar payment with her former romantic and business partner, ex-Theranos boss Ramesh \"Sunny\" Balwani. A judge will set a new date for Holmes to go to prison. The BBC has reached out to Holmes' attorneys for comment. Balwani was sentenced to 13 years in prison after being convicted on 12 counts of fraud and conspiracy last year. He began serving his sentence in April after losing his own attempt to remain free while appealing against his conviction. The court has recommended Holmes serve her time behind bars at a federal minimum-security women's prison in Bryan, Texas. Elizabeth Holmes: From tech star to convicted fraudsterThe prison experience Holmes is desperate to avoid Holmes had asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to delay her sentence days before she was supposed to report to prison in April. The Theranos founder had said that she would raise \"substantial questions\" about her case that could warrant a new trial, an argument that Mr Davila had rejected. \"Contrary to her suggestion that accuracy and reliability were central issues to her convictions, Ms Holmes's misrepresentations to Theranos investors involved more than just whether Theranos technology worked as promised,\" he said at the time. Holmes' attorneys also argued she should remain free while appealing against her case to care for her children. The mother of two has been living in San Diego, California, with her partner, hotel heir William Evans, as well as their one-year-old son William and three-month-old daughter Invicta, Once hailed as the \"next Steve Jobs\", Holmes was said to be the world's youngest self-made billionaire. She started Theranos after dropping out of Stanford University. During her time leading the company, Holmes was able to raise millions of dollars from high-profile investors, including media mogul Rupert Murdoch, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Oracle founder Larry Ellison. But the start-up crashed in 2018 after investigations revealed its technology did not work. The blood-testing device was purported to be able to run a multitude of tests from just a few drops of blood. The company's infamous downfall was documented in a TV series, an HBO documentary and a podcast.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/CE63/production/_129753825_gettyimages-1247426205.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The dentition of the nine-banded armadillo is P 7/7, M 1/1 = 32\n Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th century, leprosy was unknown in the New World\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/CE63/production/_129753825_gettyimages-1247426205.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Gunmen in south-eastern Nigeria have attacked a US convoy, killing four people, local police say. They say two of the victims of Tuesday's attack in the Anambra state were US consulate employees, while the other two were police officers. The attackers kidnapped three other people, and set their vehicle on fire. Washington says no US citizens were in the convoy, which was travelling in the state plagued by violence and separatist insurgency. Nigerian police say the attack happened on the Atani-Osamale road in Ogbaru region. Police spokesperson DSP Ikenga Tochukwu says security forces were currently carrying out a rescue and recovery operation. In a statement to the BBC, the US confirmed that \"there was an incident on 16 May in Anambra state\", adding that Washington was working with Nigerian security services to investigate the attack. \"The security of our personnel is always paramount, and we take extensive precautions when organising trips to the field,\" the US state department said. The Nigerian authorities often blame violent attacks in the region on the separatist Indigenous People of Biafra movement (Ipob). The group has so far made no public comments on the issue.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E7D1/production/_129754395_darfur.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " He changed its mainbase colour design when switching teams during his F1 career; in 2008 Alonso attached two pictures of a spade, ace and heart symbol to show he was a two-time world champion\n In his first race with Alpine at the 2021 Bahrain Grand Prix, Alonso was forced to retire after plastic debris entered his brake duct\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E7D1/production/_129754395_darfur.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Accountant Mohamed Osman has been forced to pick up an AK-47 rifle for the first time in his life to defend his neighbourhood as the conflict in Sudan escalates, inflaming racial tensions between Arabs and other groups in the country's volatile Darfur region. Mr Osman lives in El Geneina, historically a symbol of black African power in Darfur, that has been shelled, burnt and looted by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militiamen. Their notoriety has earned them the nickname Janjaweed, an Arabic word for \"devils on horseback\" . \"I've never seen such a thing in more than 20 years of war in Darfur. It's awful,\" Mr Osman, 38, said. We have changed his name for his own safety. \"Whenever there is an attack by the Janjaweed here in El Geneina, their fellow tribesmen come with their arms from across the border in Chad on motorbikes and on horsebacks to assist them,\" he told the BBC from his home in the northern Ardamata neighbourhood. Mr Osman's office, in the city centre, is a burnt-out wreck. \"I can't go there, let alone work,\" he noted, in a matter of fact way. Another resident, Mohammed Ibrahim, said the city had been taken over by the RSF and Janjaweed, with snipers positioned in buildings and gunmen on streets. \"They're just shooting every place. If you go outside you'll be killed. You can't move, even 200 or 300 metres,\" Mr Ibrahim told the BBC. His name has also been changed. Medics reported that at least 280 people have been killed and 160 have been wounded in El Geneina in the last few days alone. The latest violence is seen by analysts as a clear breach of the 11 May Saudi-brokered agreement between the RSF and the Sudanese army to alleviate the suffering of civilians, while talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire continue in Jeddah. Mr Osman said that as the fighting advanced closer to Ardamata in recent days, he and many other men in his neighbourhood got AK-47 rifles and began carrying out 24-hour patrols in shifts. This was something he never imagined doing, as his life used to revolve around keeping track of the finances of his clients. \"We have no choice but to arm ourselves and defend our city,\" Mr Osman said, pointing out that he could not risk exposing his family - including his mother, sisters, nieces and nephews - to the much-feared paramilitaries and militiamen. Asked how he acquired his Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifle, he replied wryly: \"The cheapest thing you can buy here is a weapon.\" In contrast, food has become scarce and prices have rocketed as the RSF and Janjaweed set markets ablaze. \"They even burnt the food and flour that was stored in the markets, as if they want the survivors of bullets to die of hunger,\" said Ishaq Hussein, a former worker at a non-governmental organization in El Geneina. The BBC has been unsuccessful in attempts to reach the RSF for comment. With a population that was put at around 170,000 in the last census in 2010, El Geneina is the traditional capital of the Massalit kingdom, making it a target for the Janjaweed. They have long been accused of ethnic cleansing against non-Arab groups in Darfur. \"The Janjaweed are killing all the African people starting with the Massalit,\" Mr Ibrahim said. Conflict first erupted in Darfur in 2003 when mostly non-Arabs took up arms against the government, complaining about discrimination and a lack of development. The government retaliated by mobilising the Janjaweed, and later welding them into an estimated 80,000 to 100,000-strong paramilitary force that has now turned on Sudan's military ruler Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the army he commands. The RSF launched an assault on the capital Khartoum on 15 April, with the military retaliating with daily air strikes in a bid to regain control of the city. But in El Geneina, there is no attempt to fight back against the RSF and the Janjaweed. \"There's a zero presence of the army or any other government body to protect the civilians,\" Mr Ali said. The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) estimates that about 100,000 people have fled their homes in the city, and remain \"at the mercy of the relentless violence, with settlements once again being reduced to ashes\". \"We are still unable to deliver emergency aid,\" NRC added in a statement. Mr Ibrahim said that water supplies had also been cut. \"Water is a big problem for everyone, even for the donkey,\" he said. He made a desperate plea for international help, saying the city has been under attack for 23 consecutive days. \"A lot of injured people don't have any type of treatment, more than hundreds and hundreds and hundreds,\" Mr Ibrahim said. He added that he was alone at home, having sent his wife and family to safety. \"I have kids and it's difficult for them to be hearing these guns every day. That's why I sent them out,\" he said, pointing out that families tend to leave in guided groups before sunrise, when the risk of being confronted by the RSF and Janjaweed is less. Mr Osman said that if the security crisis deepens, he too will flee to Chad to live in make-shift camps. \"If this does not stop by the mercy of Allah, I will take my family and run to Chad to stay in a shelter built with our clothes rather than being killed here,\" he said. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5B13/production/_129751332_d3e4c271-a8df-4ad0-9c1b-122cdde28f82.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "\" The band originally identified themselves as \"Gorilla\" and the first song they recorded was \"Ghost Train\", which was later released as a B-side on their single \"Rock the House\"\nOn 27 February, the band released the second episode of Song Machine entitled \"D\u00e9sol\u00e9\"\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5B13/production/_129751332_d3e4c271-a8df-4ad0-9c1b-122cdde28f82.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Australian police are investigating after at least 65 women received used condoms in the post. The letters, which also contained handwritten messages, were sent to addresses in south-eastern and eastern Melbourne. Police believe the victims are linked and part of a targeted attack. All of the women are believed to have attended the city's Kilbreda College private girls' school in 1999. The first victim came forward in March, and the most recent was reported on Monday, police said. Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper reported that the women suspect their addresses were obtained from an old school yearbook. Bree Walker told the paper she \"didn't sleep\" the night she received the letter, which contained a \"very graphic (handwritten) message\". She later contacted friends to see if they had received similar packages. Police believe that most of the women received multiple letters, all with used condoms enclosed. The investigation is ongoing, and police have urged anyone with information to come forward. They are expected to give an update on the case later on Wednesday. Kilbreda College, an independent Catholic girls school, was founded by the Brigidine Sisters in 1904 and has some 900 pupils enrolled.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/134BB/production/_129753097_gettyimages-1233742899usethis.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "The metropolitan region is defined by the Planning and Development Act 2005 to include 30 local government areas, with the outer extent being the City of Wanneroo and the City of Swan to the north, the Shire of Mundaring, City of Kalamunda and the City of Armadale to the east, the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale to the southeast and the City of Rockingham to the southwest, and including Rottnest Island and Garden Island off the west coast\n The Perth-Gingin Shrublands and Woodlands and Banksia Woodlands of the Swan Coastal Plain straddle the metropolitan area\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/134BB/production/_129753097_gettyimages-1233742899usethis.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A Chinese comedy troupe has been slapped with a 14.7m yuan ($2.1m; \u00a31.7m) penalty over a joke about the military that invoked a slogan from President Xi Jinping. The quip, which likened the behaviour of a comedian's dogs to military conduct, irked authorities. They said Shanghai Xiaoguo Culture Media Co and comic Li Haoshi had \"humiliated the people's army\". The company accepted the penalty and terminated Mr Li's contract. The offending remark was made during a stand-up performance in Beijing on Saturday, when Mr Li alluded to two canines he had adopted which were chasing a squirrel. \"Other dogs you see would make you think they are adorable. These two dogs only reminded me of... 'Fight to win, forge exemplary conduct',\" said Mr Li, whose stage name is House. The punchline is part of the slogan that President Xi unveiled in 2013 as a goal for the Chinese military. In an audio recording of the performance shared on China's Twitter-like platform Weibo, audience members can be heard laughing at the joke. But it was much less welcome on the internet, after a member of the audience complained about it. Beijing authorities said they launched an investigation on Tuesday. They then confiscated 1.32m yuan of what was deemed to be illegal income, and fined the company another 13.35m yuan, according to Xinhua. Shanghai Xiaoguo's activities in the Chinese capital have also been indefinitely suspended. \"We will never allow any company or individual use the Chinese capital as a stage to wantonly slander the glorious image of the PLA [People's Liberation Army],\" said the Beijing arm of China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism Bureau. The audio went viral, with some nationalists saying they were deeply offended and state media also piling on. But others questioned if the reactions were over the top. \"I am patriotic and really don't like others to humiliate our country... But I really don't like this atmosphere where every word about politics is sensitive,\" reads a post liked 1,200 times. Mr Li apologised to his more than 136,000 Weibo followers. \"I feel deeply shamed and regretful. I will take responsibility, stop all activities, deeply reflect, learn again.\" His Weibo account has since been suspended. The incident sheds light on the challenging climate for Chinese comedians, who have been targeted by authorities and netizens alike. In late 2020, stand-up comedian Yang Li was accused of \"sexism\" and \"man hating\" after making jokes about men. A group claiming to defend men's rights also called on netizens to report her to China's media regulator. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7728/production/_129740503_fc38d1c3dafd2014c9232800f843fa7288055aa2.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Voice-over performances and cameo appearances in which persons play themselves are not eligible from all of the film and TV acting categories\nThe European Golden Shoe, also known as European Golden Boot, is an award that is presented each season to the leading goalscorer in league matches from the top division of a European national league\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7728/production/_129740503_fc38d1c3dafd2014c9232800f843fa7288055aa2.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "New Zealand police have launched a homicide inquiry into a fire at an emergency housing hostel in Wellington, where at least six people were killed. Officials said up to 20 people were still missing and they were treating the blaze as an act of arson. The fire had broken out at the four-storey Loafers Lodge hostel early Tuesday - forcing residents to the rooftop and some to jump from windows. Due to the damage, police have not yet been able to confirm the death toll. However, they warned that number could rise on Wednesday, as a team of investigators was sent into the building after an assessment of the building's integrity. \"Officers will be working to locate and recover those who have lost their lives tragically in this fire,\" Acting Wellington District Commander Dion Bennett told reporters on Wednesday, \"We know there are many people waiting for news of family and friends including residents who escaped the fire and who are keenly waiting for news of their fellow tenants.\" More than 90 people had been accounted for. But authorities have not yet disclosed the identities of the dead or those missing - some of whom might be unaccounted for due to other reasons, they said. The incident has shocked New Zealand. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins called it \"an absolute tragedy\" and said it raised a wider discussion about the nation's housing crisis. The 92-room hostel was known to house residents from vulnerable and marginalised communities - including those on welfare and disability pensions- as well as workers from a nearby hospital. Residents who survived said the blaze had begun shortly after midnight local time, (12:30 GMT Monday). Some had crawled through smoke to safety, while others were rescued from the roof by firefighters. One resident, Tala Sili, said he had jumped from his window to escape the fire which had started on the third floor. \"I was on the top floor and I couldn't go through the hallway because there was just too much smoke so I jumped out the window,\" he told national broadcaster RNZ. \"It smelt like poison,\" he said. On Wednesday, police were given the all clear to send in a reconnaissance search team for the first time, after the building's rooftop collapse. \"This scene examination will be an extensive and methodical process, and we expect it to take some time - likely several days,\" Mr Bennett said. Loafers Lodge Hostel had been designated by New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development in 2011 as an emergency accommodation provider. The government said on Tuesday that contract had ended. However the hostel is still part of a wider but informal network of temporary lodging. Homelessness charities in the city have confirmed that some of their previous clients had found lodging there. New Zealand is in the midst of a housing crisis brought on sky-high private property prices and rents and a shortage of state housing. Official figures show that as of February more than 3,300 households live in emergency housing. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10257/production/_129753166_0eb33a9300b554cffd790bb68d7a16ce7041624e.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " It constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the U\nNew York is one of the most important sources of political fundraising in the United States\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10257/production/_129753166_0eb33a9300b554cffd790bb68d7a16ce7041624e.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his appeal against a prison sentence for corruption. However, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag instead of going to jail. In 2021 Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison - including two suspended - for trying to influence a judge in a separate case. The 68 year-old was the first former French president to get a custodial sentence. Following Wednesday's ruling, Sarkozy's lawyer said she would launch a new challenge with the Court of Cassation, one of France's highest jurisdiction. \"Nicolas Sarkozy is innocent,\" lawyer Jacqueline Laffont said. \"We will take this all the way.\" The former president was convicted of attempting to obtain information about a case in 2014 - after he had left office - by suggesting he could secure a prestigious job for the judge. He has been banned from holding public office for three years. It is one of several corruption cases involving Sarkozy, who denies any wrongdoing. Earlier this month, prosecutors requested that he should face trial over to allegations that the Libyan government illegally contributed to his 2007 presidential bid. But investigating magistrates have the last word over whether a case should go to trial. Nicolas Sarkozy served one five-year term as president, until 2014. He adopted tough anti-immigration policies and sought to reform France's economy during a presidency overshadowed by the global financial crisis. Critics nicknamed him \"bling-bling\", seeing his leadership style as too brash, celebrity-driven and hyperactive for a role steeped in tradition and grandeur. France's Nicolas Sarkozy: 'Bling' and legal woes", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16643/production/_129751719_weighingmachine.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Presently, the largest university in Portugal is the University of Lisbon\n In a constitutional democracy the powers of the majority are exercised within the framework of a representative democracy, but the constitution limits majority rule, usually through the provision by all of certain universal rights, e\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16643/production/_129751719_weighingmachine.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Police officers in the Indian state of Assam are being asked to lose weight in a few months or leave the force. A top state police official said that the body mass index (BMI) of all officers will be \"professionally recorded\" starting mid-August. Officers in the \"obese\" category will then be given time until November to reduce weight or voluntarily retire. People with medical conditions will be exempted, said GP Singh, Assam's director general of police. Mr Singh said in a tweet that he would be the first in the force to get his BMI recorded. A few weeks ago, Assam's chief minister had said that around 300 police personnel in the state would be asked to retire early because they were \"habitual drinkers\" and \"physically unfit\". He said it was part of an exercise to \"cut the deadwood out of the police force\". Heavy drinkers told to leave India police force Studies have found that Indian police officers often work long, irregular hours without proper rest or breaks. In 2018, reserve police officers in Karnataka state were also asked to lose weight or face suspension. A top official had told the BBC at the time that the decision was taken because several officers had died due to \"lifestyle-related diseases\" such as cardiac problems and diabetes in the past 18 months. BMI is calculated by dividing a person's weight by the square of their height, and is used by many doctors, health service providers and insurers around the world to decide whether an individual is healthy, overweight or obese. But its is also highly controversial - several experts have argued that using BMI as a measure of health is flawed as it is inaccurate, unscientific and and designed for white, European men. BBC News India is now on YouTube. Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features. To kiss or not - the taboo around public affection in IndiaThe officer accused of asking for bribe from Shah Rukh KhanThe remarkable reinvention of cricket icon Dhoni at 41 Dozens held in India after Islamic State film rowThe life of India's gangster-politician killed on live TV", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A8CF/production/_129751234_buscrash.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Because it is a fixed resource which is in demand by an increasing number of users, the radio spectrum has become increasingly congested in recent decades, and the need to use it more effectively is driving many additional radio innovations such as trunked radio systems, spread spectrum (ultra-wideband) transmission, frequency reuse, dynamic spectrum management, frequency pooling, and cognitive radio\n=== Remote control ===Radio remote control is the use of electronic control signals sent by radio waves from a transmitter to control the actions of a device at a remote location\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A8CF/production/_129751234_buscrash.jpg", "label": 0, "text": " A group of primary school children has suffered traumatic, \"life-changing\" injuries after a horrific bus crash in Melbourne, Australia. The bus was carrying 45 students when police say it was hit by a truck from behind and rolled on Tuesday afternoon. Some 18 children - aged 5 to 11 - were rushed to hospital, many for emergency surgery. One remains in intensive care. The truck driver has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury. Australia has a below-average road safety record compared to other advanced economies. It ranks 20th of out of 36 OECD countries for road fatalities. Warning: This article contains distressing details Police said the bus had only just left Exford Primary School, on the western fringes of Melbourne, when the collision occurred. Children were trapped inside the bus before bystanders - including the truck driver and many of their teachers, who had rushed to the scene - helped emergency responders to free them from the wreckage. Surgeons worked into the early hours of the morning to treat those children seriously hurt. Their injuries included crushed limbs - forcing amputations - as well as head injuries, spinal injuries and serious cuts. Seven children remain at the hospital in serious conditions, including one in intensive care, the Royal Children's Hospital said. \"It is just distressing, knowing what our kids have been through and I can just imagine their fear,\" principal Lisa Campo told media on Wednesday. The 52-year-old bus driver was also taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was among those who thanked first responders and sent well-wishes to the families involved. \"Any accident is just horrific, the fact that it involves school students just breaks your heart,\" he said. Superintendent Michael Cruse said the scene of the crash was extremely confronting for all who were there. \"Some of the injuries are life changing [and] this incident was avoidable,\" he said. The 49-year-old truck driver - who suffered minor injuries - has since been charged with four counts of dangerous driving. Investigations are ongoing, but Supt Cruse said \"inattention\" would be a key focus, and more charges are likely to be laid.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E6EB/production/_129751195_ff6f11235e8ad286b4fd5915598f05b6de7a00be.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Thriller may refer to:Thriller (genre), a broad genre of literature, film and televisionThriller film, a film genre under the general thriller genre== Comics ==Thriller (DC Comics), a comic book series published 1983\u201384 by DC Comics in the USThriller Comics, later known as Thriller Comics Library and Thriller Picture Library, a series of comics published by Amalgamated Press/Fleetway in the UK from 1951 to 1963Boris Karloff Thriller, a comic published by Gold Key Comics in 1962== Films ==Thriller \u2013 A Cruel Picture, a 1973 film by Bo Arne VibeniusThe Thriller, a 2010 Indian filmThriller (2018 film), a slasher horror film starring Mykelti Williamson and RZAThriller, a 1979 film by Sally Potter== Music ==Thriller (album), a 1982 album by Michael Jackson\"Thriller\" (song), a song by Michael JacksonThriller 25, a 2008 special 25th anniversary edition of the Jackson albumMichael Jackson's Thriller (music video), a 1983 music video\"Thriller\" (viral video), a 2007 video featuring prison inmates in Cebu, Philippines recreating the dance from Michael Jackson's music videoThriller \u2013 Live, a 2009 musical featuring the music of the Jackson 5 and Michael JacksonThriller (Cold Blood album) (1973)Thriller (Eddie and the Hot Rods album) (1979)Thriller (Lambchop album) (1997)Thriller (Swoop album) (1993)Thriller (EP), a 2013 EP by BtoBThr!!!er, a 2013 album by !!!Thriller, a 1982 album by KillerThriller, a 2009 album by Part ChimpThriller, a 2000s American rock band featuring Jeremy Bolm\"Thriller\", a song by Fall Out Boy from Infinity on High, 2007== Television ==Thriller (British TV series) (1973\u20131976), an anthology television seriesThriller (American TV series) (1960\u20131962), an anthology television series hosted by Boris Karloff== Roller coasters ==Thriller (roller coaster) or TsunamiThe Thriller (roller coaster)Thriller (Land of Make Believe)== Other uses ==Thriller Manju (born 1972), Indian film actor, martial artist, director, screenwriter, stunt coordinator, and choreographerThriller (short story collection), a 2006 short story collection edited by James PattersonThe Thriller, a magazine published in the 1910s, which reprinted stories from The Black Cat and possibly other sources\n== See also ==Thrill (disambiguation)Triller (disambiguation)All pages with titles beginning with Thriller All pages with titles containing Thriller\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E6EB/production/_129751195_ff6f11235e8ad286b4fd5915598f05b6de7a00be.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Former prime minister Liz Truss has made a personal plea for Rishi Sunak to brand China as a \"threat\" to UK security during a visit to Taiwan. The ex-prime minister challenged Mr Sunak to deliver on pledges he made last summer to clamp down on China. Ms Truss made the speech in Taipei City on Wednesday, making her the first former prime minister to visit Taiwan since Margaret Thatcher. The Chinese Embassy called Ms Truss's visit \"a dangerous political stunt\". It added that the visit \"will do nothing but harm to the UK\". In the speech, Ms Truss urged the West not to work with China, warning that totalitarian regimes \"don't tell the truth\". She drew comparisons between the tensions between China and Taiwan, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During the Conservative party leadership contest, Ms Truss pledged to take a firm stance against the Chinese government, and wanted to declare China under Communist Party rule a \"threat\" to national security. But after her short-lived time in No 10, her plans were never realised. Her successor Rishi Sunak, also declared China as \"the biggest-long term threat to Britain\", and promised to close all 30 of Beijing's Confucius Institutes in the UK. Confucius Institutes, which teach Chinese language and culture, came under fire after critics and charities accused the centres of being used by the Chinese government to spread propaganda under the guise of teaching, interfere with free speech on campuses, and even spy on students. While Mr Sunak has not closed the institutes, the UK government is expected to promise that it will stop funding Mandarin teaching at the centres. In her speech, Ms Truss said Mr Sunak was \"right\" to make those pledges. \"We need to see those policies enacted urgently,\" she added. The prime minister updated the UK's integrated review on foreign and defence policy in March to describe China as representing an \"epoch-defining and systemic challenge\". In her speech, Ms Truss said the review needed to be amended to \"state clearly that China is a threat\". She called on the UK government to support Taiwan joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade agreement - and for it to block China from joining. UK agrees to join Asia's trade club - but what is it? The former prime minister also called for the development of \"an economic Nato\", which \"supports freedom and proper free enterprise\". She suggested countries including the G7 nations, members of the EU, South Korea and Australia could join this kind of group. Ms Truss said: \"We cannot rely now on the UN security council, which was recently chaired by Putin's Russia. \"We cannot rely on the World Trade Organisation to make sure fair trade rules are in place. That's why we need other alternatives to get things done.\" Ms Truss made the speech at the invitation of the Prospect Foundation, a think tank. It forms part of the former UK leader's five-day visit to the country. Last week, senior Conservative MP Alicia Kearns accused former Prime Minister Liz Truss of \"Instagram diplomacy\" over her planned visit to Taiwan. Ms Kearns, who chairs the Commons Foreign Affairs committee, told the Guardian the trip was \"performative, not substantive\". But Ms Truss accused her Tory colleague of \"misusing\" her position \"to engage in petty political attacks\", and said her visit aimed to show \"solidarity\" with Taiwan. Taiwan and China split in 1949 following a civil war that ended with the Communist Party in control of the mainland. China views Taiwan as Chinese territory. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2336/production/_129741090_wankhedeshahidshaikh.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Although an adequate amount of dietary iodine is important, too much may worsen specific forms of hypothyroidism\n Central/secondary hypothyroidism affects 1:20,000 to 1:80,000 of the population, or about one out of every thousand people with hypothyroidism\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2336/production/_129741090_wankhedeshahidshaikh.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A year after Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son was cleared of all charges of possession and consumption of drugs, the case is once again making headlines in India. An officer in charge of investigating the case against Aryan Khan - who was arrested in November 2021 - has been charged for corruption and extortion. Sameer Wankhede has been accused of asking for a bribe of 250m rupees ($3.04m, \u00a32.4m) from the actor's family. On Monday, he was among the five people named in a complaint filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's leading investigation agency. The CBI said that Mr Wankhede had allegedly allowed his aides to threaten Aryan Khan's family, saying he would be framed in a drugs case unless they paid the amount. \u2018Excessive\u2019 media gaze on star son after drug bust Mr Wankhede has denied the allegations and said he is being \"rewarded for being a patriot\". There was no immediate comment from Aryan Khan or his family. Mr Wankhede was one of the three officers who led the October 2021 raid on a cruise in which the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) claimed to have seized drugs from Aryan Khan and 19 others, and arrested them. Aryan Khan was taken off a cruise ship that was on its way from Mumbai - the city where his family live - to Goa. The NCB said Aryan Khan and the others were detained under laws \"related to possession, consumption and sale of illegal substances\". The case made headlines in India and globally. The Bollywood actor's son spent nearly three weeks in jail and was later released on bail. A twist came in November when Mr Wankhede was criticised for mishandling the case and was transferred from his position as the chief of NCB's Mumbai zone. Nawab Malik, a politician belonging to the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) which was part of the ruling alliance in Maharashtra at that time, accused Mr Wankhede of several irregularities, including extortion. Shortly after, the case against Aryan Khan - along with six other pending investigations - was taken away from Mr Wankhede and handed over to a special investigation team. Mr Wankhede's tenure with the NCB ended in December and five months later, he was moved to a tax department in the southern city of Chennai. Reports, however, said that he continued to spend most of his time in Mumbai on leave. In the meantime, the drugs agency cleared Aryan Khan of all charges in May 2022. Girlfriend on 'media trial' in Bollywood star's death In August, the case was back in the news after Mr Wankhede filed a police complaint, alleging that he was receiving death threats on social media. In another complaint the same month, Mr Wankhede alleged that he was being harassed by a top NCB official, who was investigating the irregularities in the drugs case. The CBI says it began investigating Mr Wankhede and four others after an NCB official accused them of impropriety under Mr Wankhede's supervision. It said that a special enquiry team of the NCB found several irregularities in the manner in which Mr Wankhede conducted the investigation. The names of 17 suspects had been dropped from the official documents filed in connection with the case, the agency said in its complaint. It added that Mr Wankhede allowed two civilians - KP Gosavi and his aide Sanvile D'Souza - to accompany the team of NCB officials on the raid as \"independent witnesses\", but gave the suspects the impression that they were NCB officials. \"Gosavi was even allowed to come to the NCB office after the raid, which is against the norms for an independent witness,\" the complaint registered by the CBI said. \"He also clicked selfies and recorded the voice note of an accused.\" According to the enquiry team, this allowed Mr Gosavi to demand 250m rupees from Aryan Khan's family as he threatened them with accusations of drug possession against their son. The amount was brought down to 180m rupees and a token amount of 5m rupees was taken as bribe by Mr Gosavi and Mr D'Souza. A part of this was later returned by them, the CBI said. Aryan Khan's family has not commented on the allegation. Why a film star's death trumped India's Covid story The CBI complaint also alleged that during the investigation, Mr Wankhede had failed to provide \"satisfactory proof\" of his assets against his declared income. On Monday, CBI officials raided Mr Wankhede's home along with 28 other locations in Mumbai city in connection with the case. Mr Wankhede denied the allegations against him and said he was being \"rewarded for being a patriot\". \"They found 23,000 rupees and four property papers in my house,\" he told reporters after the raid . \"These assets were acquired before I joined the service.\" On Tuesday, his wife said the allegations against him were wrong. \"We are fully cooperating in the CBI proceedings. We have faith in law and order, and we are ready to cooperate with the investigating agency as a responsible citizen,\" Kranti Redkar Wankhede told news agency ANI. BBC News India is now on YouTube. Click here to subscribe and watch our documentaries, explainers and features. The life of India's gangster-politician killed on live TVTo kiss or not - the taboo around public affection in IndiaThe remarkable reinvention of cricket icon Dhoni at 41 'I lost 11 family members in Kerala boat accident'Broken dreams and burnt homes after India ethnic clashesIndia\u2019s booming population needs more women at workDeaths raise fresh fears over cow vigilantism in India", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/874B/production/_129753643_pa.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Grayson temporarily took over as Batman (while Wayne was traveling through time), using the aid of Damian Wayne, making his newish appearance as \"Robin\", to defeat and imprison Todd\n As a team, Batman and Robin have commonly been referred to as the Caped Crusaders and the Dynamic Duo\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/874B/production/_129753643_pa.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Scotland's first minister has said there was nothing unusual in the timing of a warrant to search his predecessor's home. It emerged on Tuesday that police asked for permission to search Nicola Sturgeon's house and the SNP HQ during the party's leadership contest. The request was not granted by a sheriff until two weeks later - after the contest ended. Humza Yousaf said the government would \"never dream\" of interfering. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the first minister was asked whether a two-week gap between a warrant being requested and granted was normal. Police waited two weeks for SNP search warrantTimeline: The SNP finances controversy He replied: \"I suppose that would be a question for the Crown, not questions for government or ministers or the first minister. \"I don't believe there will be any particular reason out of the ordinary that it would take that time.\" Mr Yousaf added: \"We would never dream of interfering, neither in a live police investigation, but certainly not in a search warrant. \"I'm the first minister. I don't sign off on search warrants, I don't get involved in operational decisions for Police Scotland.\" The first minister also said he did not believe the Crown Office took decisions \"based on election contests or politics\". 15 February - Nicola Sturgeon announces she is to stand down as first minister and SNP leader 18 March - Ms Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell quits as SNP chief executive in a row over misleading party membership figures being given to the press 20 March - Police submit a draft warrant to the Crown Office seeking permission to search Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell's home and the SNP headquarters in Edinburgh 27 March - Mr Yousaf narrowly defeats Kate Forbes in the SNP leadership contest 3 April - The finalised search warrant is sent to a sheriff and is granted 5 April - Police raid the home of Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell and the party HQ and remove several boxes of evidence. Mr Murrell is arrested and later released without charge. See a full timeline of the two-year police investigation here. Sources close to the inquiry have denied that there was an undue delay in granting the warrant, which is reported to have included a long list of items the police wanted to seize as part of their ongoing investigation into the SNP's finances. BBC Scotland understands that prosecutors discussed the draft search warrant with police officers after it was submitted, with a sheriff signing it off on the same day it was finalised. Opposition parties have highlighted what they believe is a potential conflict of interest in the role of Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC, who heads the Crown Office but is also a Scottish government minister and sits in its cabinet meetings. Ms Bain did not respond when asked by Sky News on Tuesday whether the search warrant had been deliberately delayed until after Ms Sturgeon left office. A spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said prosecutors always acted independently of political pressure or interference. He also said any case involving a politician was carried out without the involvement of the Lord Advocate or her deputy the Solicitor General. Details of the two-week gap between detectives submitting a request for a search warrant to the Crown Office and it being sent to a sheriff for approval were released by Police Scotland in response to a freedom of information request and first reported by the Scottish Sun. It showed that the Crown Office was told on 20 March that Police Scotland wanted a search warrant. It was not until 3 April - a week after Mr Yousaf, the SNP hierarchy's preferred candidate, narrowly won the SNP leadership contest - that the application for a warrant was approved by a sheriff. Officers searched the Glasgow home of Nicola Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell two days later. Mr Murrell, who had recently quit as the SNP's chief executive, was arrested before later being released without charge while further investigations were carried out. The SNP's headquarters in Edinburgh was also searched on 5 April and a luxury motorhome that sells for about \u00a3110,000 was seized from outside the home of Mr Murrell's mother in Dunfermline. Colin Beattie, who was the party's treasurer at the time, was arrested on 18 April before also being released without charge while further inquiries were carried out. He subsequently quit as treasurer. Alba MP Kenny MacAskill, who served as justice secretary in the SNP government led by Alex Salmond, called for a judge-led inquiry into the Crown Office's role in the granting of the warrant to search Ms Sturgeon's house and the SNP HQ. He said an inquiry would \"reassure the public that the decisions taken by the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service have not been influenced by political considerations\". Scottish Conservative MSP Russell Findlay told BBC Scotland that the case raised \"fundamental questions\" about the role of the Lord Advocate. He said it was \"not appropriate\" for the head of the prosecution service to also be a government minister, and that the roles needed to be separated. Police launched their Operation Branchform investigation almost two years ago after receiving complaints about how a total of \u00a3666,953 donated to the SNP by activists was used. The party pledged to spend the funds on a future independence referendum. Questions were raised after its accounts showed it had just under \u00a397,000 in the bank at the end of 2019, and total net assets of about \u00a3272,000. Last year it emerged Mr Murrell gave a loan of more than \u00a3100,000 to the SNP to help it out with a \"cash flow\" issue after the last election. The party had repaid about half of the loan by October of that year. It still owes money to its former chief executive, but has not said how much.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/DD95/production/_129752765_electricvan.png", "label": 1, "text": "\"In February 2006, Gilmour was interviewed for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, which announced that Pink Floyd had officially disbanded\nThe meaning of \"fame\" has changed over the years, originally meaning \"renown\" for achievement, as opposed to today's more common meaning of \"celebrity\"\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/DD95/production/_129752765_electricvan.png", "label": 0, "text": "One of the world's biggest carmakers has called on the government to renegotiate part of the Brexit deal or risk losing parts of its car industry. Stellantis, which owns Vauxhall, Peugeot, Citroen and Fiat, had committed to making electric cars in the UK, but says that is under threat. It said it can no longer meet Brexit trade rules on where parts are sourced. The government is \"determined\" that the UK will remain competitive in car manufacturing, a spokesperson said. \"If the cost of electric vehicle manufacturing in the UK becomes uncompetitive and unsustainable, operations will close,\" Stellantis said. It is the first time a car firm has openly called on the government to renegotiate the terms of the Brexit trade deal. It called on the government to come to an agreement with the EU to keep rules as they are until 2027, and it also wants arrangements for manufacturing parts in Serbia and Morocco to be reviewed. Nissan warns costs must fall to make new electric cars in UK Just two years ago, the world's fourth biggest car maker said the future of its Ellesmere Port and Luton plants was secure. But now Stellantis has asked the UK government to renegotiate part of the Brexit deal amid a \"threat to our export business and the sustainability of our UK manufacturing operations\". In a submission to a Commons inquiry into electric car production, the firm said its UK investments were based on meeting the strict terms of the post-Brexit free trade deal. These rules state that from next year, 45% of the value of the electric car should originate in the UK or EU to qualify for trade without tariffs, later rising to 65%. Stellantis said it was \"now unable to meet these rules of origin\" after the surge in raw materials costs during the pandemic and energy crisis. Why rules of origin are a headache for manufacturersHonda workers in Swindon to face 'reality check' after it closes If the government cannot get an agreement to keep the current rules until 2027, from next year \"trade between the UK and EU would be subject to 10% tariffs\", it said. This would make domestic production and exports uncompetitive in comparison to Japan and South Korea, it said. \"To reinforce the sustainability of our manufacturing plants in the UK, the UK must consider its trading arrangements with Europe,\" Stellantis said. A government spokesperson said that Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch \"has raised this with the EU\". Ms Badenoch, who will meet with Stellantis executives today, \"is determined to ensure the UK remains one of the best locations in the world for automotive manufacturing, especially as we transition to electric vehicles,\" the spokesperson said. The government has set up a fund to develop the supply chain for electric vehicles, and in the coming months will take \"decisive action to ensure future investment in zero emission vehicle manufacturing\", the spokesperson added. But Labour's shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds said manufacturers had been let down by a \"government in chaos\". He said that \"the jewel in the crown of British manufacturing is at risk without urgent action from the government\", promising that Labour \"will work with industry to build the gigafactories we need\". The deal on electric cars and batteries was one of the very last issues settled in Brexit negotiations between Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen in 2020. The Stellantis document warns that uncompetitive electric vehicle costs will mean \"manufacturers will not continue to invest\" and will \"relocate manufacturing operations outside of the UK\". It then lists Ford, and BMW's electric Mini, as well as Honda's investment in the US after closing its UK site in Swindon. The core problem remains a lack of UK battery plants, and a domestic supply chain that should be being built now, but is being dwarfed by developments elsewhere. At a time of some uncertainty over UK trading arrangements, now the US, China and the EU are pouring subsidies into this market. The industry-wide fear is that the UK is missing out on a once-in-a-generation tidal wave of investment around the electrification of cars. Earlier this week, French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Tesla's Elon Musk, who hinted he might invest in a gigafactory - which makes batteries - in France. The owners of the UK's biggest manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, are currently being wooed by the Spanish government to host a gigafactory that had long been assumed to be being built in the UK. Andy Palmer, a former chief operating officer at Nissan and chairman of the battery start-ups Inobat and Ionetic, told the BBC \"we are running out of time\" to get battery manufacturing in the UK. \"It's basically impossible to meet those [EU] local content rules unless you're sourcing your battery from a plant in the UK or in the EU,\" he told Radio 4's Today programme. He added that the cost of failure was clear: \"It's 800,000 jobs [lost] in the UK, which is basically those jobs associated with the car industry.\" David Bailey, professor of business economics at the Birmingham Business School, agreed, saying: \"If we don't make batteries at scale in the UK, we won't have a mass car industry.\" He added that although the government under Boris Johnson wanted a \"gigafactory\" built in the UK, \"essentially there's no industrial policy to back that up\". The Brexit trade agreement allowed a \"phase in\" of the strict rules on the origin for electric vehicle parts. The first stage comes in next year, and some in the UK car industry hope that the EU itself may want to renegotiate, if its own manufacturers are struggling to meet the origin requirements. But the requirements are hard-wired into the UK-EU treaty. The rules are then due to tighten again in 2027, and insiders believe UK exporters will find it impossible to export cars tariff free at that point, without UK battery production.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8DE5/production/_129752363_newproject-9.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " She made her American television debut guest-starring as a Rebel Wilson' character mother in her short-lived comedy series Super Fun Night\n While in Cincinnati, Weaver began to question his support for the institution of slavery, a change biographers attribute to Storer's influence\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8DE5/production/_129752363_newproject-9.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A mother says she watched her terrified seven-year-old son ride a rollercoaster without the safety bar down. Emma Underhill said she was unable to sleep after watching James ride the Nessi rollercoaster at the Rhyl Family Fun Fair in the Children's Village. Ms Underhill, 27, said she was horrified when she realised James was not strapped in. A Rhyl Family Fun Fair spokesperson said an internal investigation was ongoing. It was not the family's first time at the park, but it was the first time James had been allowed on the rollercoaster by his mother. Once off the ride, Ms Underhill said her son was \"shaking and petrified\". Theme park's 'sadness' over rollercoaster injuries \"He said: 'Mummy, I thought I was going to fall out and die',\" the mum from Greenfield, Flintshire, said. \"I can't sleep. I'm getting upset talking about it. I can still see his face on that ride now. I had to watch him go around that whole track once, knowing he wasn't strapped in. As a parent who has always kept my children safe, it was terrifying.\" The theme park said it was treating the complaint \"very seriously\", according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) confirmed the matter was passed to their concerns team and North Wales Police said they attended the incident. Ms Underhill, was at the theme park on 13 May with her partner Daniel Badrock, 28, James and their other son George, two. She said: \"It was Daniel's birthday, so we thought we'd take the children out. James wanted to go on the Nessi rollercoaster on his own. He was very excited, thinking he was brave. Bless him. \"James sat on the rollercoaster waiting to go. We were watching when he screamed: 'I'm not strapped in'. \"My partner and I were literally screaming to the ride operator that James wasn't strapped in, and he replied: 'Yes, he is',\" Ms Underhill claimed. \"I watched petrified as the rollercoaster moved. The ride goes around twice, but the operator didn't stop it until after the first lap, and it was then he noticed the safety bar wasn't down on James. \"James had just been holding on to a handrail the whole way around with no safety bar. I ran up and got James off the ride. I was in a panic, and James was screaming the whole time around. \"There are signs on the rollercoaster saying the safety bar will be put down immediately, but there was no safety-bar check. It's not a slow rollercoaster - it has some speed to it.\" \"He's lucky there were no physical injuries, but psychologically our anxiety has gone through the roof,\" she said. A Rhyl Family Fun Fair spokesperson said: \"There was a complaint that was brought to our attention on Saturday, May 13, 2023. Although there were no injuries sustained, we have launched an internal investigation which is currently ongoing.\" They also said due to the investigation they could not comment further, but that the park has health and safety measures including safety checks. It said they were taking the complaint \"very seriously\". The family are waiting for a call back from the doctor on how to manage James' stress levels, his mother said. She also reported the matter to Denbighshire County Council and the HSE. She said there was \"no apology from the ride operator or the owner\". \"We are meant to be going to Thomas the Tank Engine Land in a couple of months. James has said he doesn't want to go on a rollercoaster for the rest of his life.\" Ms Underhill said the incident had left them \"angry and upset\". A police spokesperson said: \"We were called shortly after 1pm on Saturday, May 13 to report a dispute in the Children's Village area of Rhyl. Officers attended the area to speak with those involved as well as staff members at the site.\" The council said fairground safety concerns were the responsibility of the HSE.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/496A/production/_129749781_florencecourtgreenhouse.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " There are many classical guitarists listed as notable in their respective epochs\n== Epistemology of logic ==The epistemology of logic investigates how one knows that an argument is valid or that a proposition is logically true\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/496A/production/_129749781_florencecourtgreenhouse.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A kitchen garden which once produced food for the Earls of Enniskillen is now providing food for the soul. The garden at Florence Court in County Fermanagh has been restored to its former 1930s glory with the help of a team of volunteers. Two glasshouses which were demolished in the 1970s have been reinstated by the National Trust. They will be used to grow soft fruits and provide a space to nurture an interest in horticulture and heritage. The walled garden was created during the late 18th century and was once the heart of the Florence Court estate, the home of the Earls of Enniskillen. It was at its most productive from the late 1890s up to the Second World War, with 12 full-time gardeners cultivating fruit, vegetables and flowers. However, it fell in to decline following the departure of the last head gardener in 1947. After the estate was gifted to the National Trust in 1995, parts of the two-acre garden were restored, including the rose garden and apple orchard. The senior gardener at Florence Court, Ian Marshall, said the kitchen garden project is \"about building a community as much as a garden\". There are just over 30 volunteers who work in the garden for a day or two each week. \"They are a hard-working and dedicated bunch, and without them the garden wouldn't exist,\" said Mr Marshall. \"I think we have the peace, the tranquillity, but also the craic in here.\" One of the volunteers Deirdre McSorley believes working in the garden is \"better than going to the gym\". \"It's a learning exercise, it's also very therapeutic, and you are getting exercise,\" she said. \"I've got a garden at home with very little growing in it, so I'm learning here. \"So when you do something like propagate seeds I know to do it at home,\" she added. Mr Marshall said new volunteers are always welcome. \"It's a great social activity, you're meeting great people, great weather, though not all the time, and also you build up a bit of knowledge. \"That's what I think people are here for, they come to learn new skills but they also come to meet new people and have a bit of fun.\" The two new glasshouses were installed following an award of \u00a3410,000 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore the garden to its original character and atmosphere. One will be used to grow fruits and plants and the other will be a community hub for hosting lectures, training workshops and skill-sharing.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/4BEB/production/_112953491__108802839_624_transparent-nc.png", "label": 1, "text": "\"==== Ramla bint Abi Sufyan (Umm Habiba) ====In the same year, Muhammad signed a peace treaty with his Meccan enemies, the Quraysh effectively ending the state of war between the two parties\n==== Hira'a Cave ====Situated atop Jabal an-Nur, this is the cave where Muslims believe Muhammad received the first revelation from Allah through the archangel Gabriel (Jibril in Islamic tradition) at the age of 40\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/4BEB/production/_112953491__108802839_624_transparent-nc.png", "label": 0, "text": "", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AB47/production/_115574834_gettyimages-1228011464_1200.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Wales also received immigration from various parts of the British Commonwealth of Nations in the 20th century, and African-Caribbean and Asian communities add to the ethnocultural mix, particularly in urban Wales\nTraditional dances include Welsh folk dancing and clog dancing\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AB47/production/_115574834_gettyimages-1228011464_1200.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Funding for schools to bring pupils from different religions and backgrounds together is to be cut by 50% from September. Shared education sees pupils from different schools and backgrounds meeting for classes and activities. Hundreds of schools which take part face getting only half of the funding they received during 2022/23. A letter from the Education Authority (EA) said the 50% cut was due to the \"financial climate\". The letter to principals also said there was no funding available for shared education from the Department of Education (DE) after April 2024. According to the most recent DE figures, about 700 schools and pre-schools had received funding for shared education projects as of June 2021. The aim is to bring pupils from Catholic, Protestant and other backgrounds together on a regular basis for joint classes, activities or trips. It is different to integrated education. One of the longest-running partnerships is between Limavady High School and St Mary's High School. The two schools are also set to share Northern Ireland's first completed shared education campus - a new building used by pupils of both. The department provided funding of about \u00a35m a year for schools working together in Shared Education partnerships. That paid for trips, resources, activities and things like the cost of buses to transport pupils between schools. But in the letter from the EA, which has been seen by BBC News NI, principals were told education budget pressures \"have unfortunately impacted on the budget available to support mainstreamed shared education (MSE) for the next academic year\". Funding for education was cut in the recent budget from the Northern Ireland secretary. The shared education money for schools will be about 50% less than the budget provided in 2022/23, the EA letter said. \"We recognise that this will be detrimental to the level of activity that can be provided to children and young people,\" it added. Schools in shared education partnerships will be told the exact funding they will get in the coming days. The EA letter said that \"due to the current significant financial pressures\" funding to schools for shared education could not yet be confirmed beyond Easter 2024. \"It is hoped that further resourcing will be made available thereafter but at this time we are unable to make any further commitments beyond that timeframe,\" it said. The department has already cut funding for numerous schemes, mainly aimed at helping disadvantaged pupils, to save money. Funding for others, like the early years programmes the Pathway Fund and Sure Start, has not yet been confirmed beyond June. Why are there so many cuts? The Executive Office has suggested cuts to numerous groups in response to what it calls \"the most challenging budget in recent history\". With a percentage of funds already allocated for designated purposes, the department says front-facing funding cuts are inevitable. Stormont officials believe they will need to find \u00a3800m in cuts and revenue-raising measures in the wake of last month's budget announcement, which was set by Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris. The task was put upon Mr Heaton-Harris in the absence of a functioning Northern Ireland Executive as the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) continues its boycott of devolved government until concerns about post-Brexit trading arrangements are resolved. Mr Heaton-Harris, who has denied setting a \"punishment budget\", warned that government departments face difficult decisions in order to live within the funding available. The news about shared education cuts comes as the Equality Commissioner for Northern Ireland has said its funding is at a \"critical stage\". Required funding for the year ahead has been reduced by about 11% (\u00a39.5m). That is despite extra expenditure on areas like the Homes for Ukraine scheme and the Identity and Language Act. Equality Commission chief commissioner Geraldine McGahey told BBC News NI the commission had been subjected to successive year-on-year cuts for more than a decade. She said its budget had been reduced by nearly 40% in that period with staffing numbers currently half its establishment figure, despite taking on new responsibilities. \"This further proposed 10% budget reduction just compounds this situation further,\" she said. \"The level of funding is now at a critical stage and impacting significantly on the nature and scale of the work we can do to improve people's lives through addressing inequalities and tackling discrimination.\" This was particularly disappointing following the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement which established the commission as one of its safeguards, she added. The Executive Office has been allocated \u00a3182m for the year ahead - this is despite an increase in financial pressures related to both loss of income sources and new spend commitments. These new spends include: The Covid-19 inquiryThe Homes for Ukraine schemeAn increasing number of asylum seekers choosing to make their home in Northern IrelandPreparations for the establishment of three new bodies mandated by fresh Irish language and Ulster Scots legislation. The department said \u00a3106m of this year's budget has already been earmarked toward schemes such as truth recovery and victims' payments. These funds can only be used for their designated purposes and not at the discretion of the department. With a baseline budget requirement of \u00a385.2m for additional spending, the department now faces a reduction equating to \u00a39.5m. Some 37% of TEO's budget is spent by its arm's-length bodies (ALB) focused on areas such as equality, community relations and institutional abuse. An equality impact assessment on potential decisions - which now faces a 12-week consultation period - includes a model of how a 10% budget cut would impact some of these ALBs. Bodies impacted could include: Equality CommissionCommunity Relations CouncilCommission for Victims and SurvivorsAttorney General for Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland Judicial Appointments CommissionCommissioner for Survivors of Institutional Childhood Abuse An analysis of information held by TEO indicates ALB reductions are anticipated to have a negative impact on good relations between people of different religious beliefs, political opinions or racial groups. The department says budget cuts could also have significant and adverse impacts on children, women, people with disabilities, those with mental health problems, refugees and migrants. TEO said it had identified potential areas for mitigation by prioritising projects where the safety of a group is at risk. Further money-saving measures could include continuing a temporary suspension of recruitment and a reduction in Good Relations work - reducing delivery to district council schemes by about 50% compared with last year. The department stressed these were not recommendations that would be made by officials under normal circumstances, but were actions required as a consequence of \"an extremely constrained\" budget allocation.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16909/production/_129752429_crypto-index-getty.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Copper and its alloys are the most common materials used in lightning protection\n Most CG flashes only \"strike\" one physical location, referred to as a \"termination\"\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16909/production/_129752429_crypto-index-getty.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "MPs have urged the government to treat retail investment in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as a form of gambling. Their value could change dramatically and consumers risked losing their entire investment, characteristics closely resembling gambling, the Treasury Select Committee found. It also criticised abandoned plans for the Royal Mint to create a non-fungible token (NFT). The Treasury told BBC News it did not support using gambling regulation. The risks posed by crypto were \"typical of those that exist in traditional financial services and its financial services regulation - rather than gambling regulation - that has the track record in mitigating them\", a Treasury official told BBC News. Trade association CryptoUK strongly rejectedthe committee's findings, saying MPs' observations about cryptocurrency were \"unhelpful, false, fundamentally flawed and unsubstantiated\". The committee said \"unbacked\" crypto assets - typically cryptocurrencies with no fixed value - exposed \"consumers to the potential for substantial gains or losses, while serving no useful social purpose\". \"These characteristics more closely resemble gambling than a financial service,\" the MPs added. Gambling helpline charity GamCare told the BBC that, in the past two years, it had heard from more than 300 people who said they were struggling with investing in cryptocurrency and other forms of online financial markets. Research cited by MPs found 40% of new Bitcoin users were men under 35, commonly identified as the most risk-seeking segment of the population. Castle Craig, a rehab clinic specialising in treating people with addictions, put us in touch with a young man who had lost heavily on crypto. The former gambling addict told BBC News that, although he had given up gambling, he had turned to crypto. \"In my head, I just thought this isn't gambling it's just an investment, but clearly it wasn't,\" he said. He said he had lost about \u00a3150,000 investing in crypto, including money he had borrowed, and that checking his phone to see how the market had moved had become an obsession. \"There was no break at all, I was just I was on my phone constantly watching it and just couldn't sleep,\" he recalled. He said he supported the approach of the committee. \"Crypto stuff is gambling,\" he said. \"You can lose everything you've got.\" Former sports minister and gambling campaigner Conservative MP Tracey Crouch welcomed the report. \"At the moment, crypto feels like a Wild West town with no sheriff,\" she said. \"However, I'm sure, if properly resourced, the Gambling Commission could bring some order into this complex, risky and often confusing area that has unwittingly sucked in consumers by marketing to them via sports such as football, giving a pretence to fans and others that they are safe and protected.\" Crypto sponsorship has been widespread among football clubs, but those in the Premier League recently agreed to end gambling sponsorship on the front of their shirts from the start of the 2026 season. This was a voluntary move and not required by regulation. The report gives little detail on what gambling regulation applied to crypto might mean. MP Harriett Baldwin, chairwoman of the committee, said the report recommended \"that the sort of speculative luring of people into buying particular cryptocurrencies\" was treated like gambling. She said the committee had heard a lot of evidence of how \"football clubs are using this as a way of taking money off their loyal supporters\". In February, the government asked people to comment on proposals for the financial regulation of crypto assets. But the committee said the government plans to regulate cryptocurrencies as financial services would create a false impression they were as secure as traditional investments - a \"halo effect... that leads consumers to believe that this activity is safer than it is or protected when it is not\". The committee's report noted surveys suggesting about one in 10 people in the UK hold crypto assets, most investing in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. The most mentioned reason for holding crypto assets was they were a \"fun investment\". Cryptocurrencies are just one type of asset. More generally, MPs said, while they supported innovation, the potential benefits from crypto asset technologies remained uncertain. \"In the meantime, the risks posed by crypto assets to consumers and the environment are real and present.\" The government has been excited by the potential of crypto. While chancellor, Rishi Sunak announced his ambition to make the UK a global hub for the technology. The Treasury believes crypto offers opportunities, but said it was \"robustly regulating the market, addressing the most pressing risks first in a way that promotes innovation\". CryptoUK's Ian Taylor said the finance industry was embracing crypto: \"Professional investment managers see Bitcoin and other crypto assets as a new alternative investment class - not as a form of gambling - and institutional adoption of unbacked crypto assets has increased significantly.\" Recognising the potential risks and rewards, the committee recommended a balanced approach, but suggested government avoid spending public resources on projects without a clear beneficial use. \"The government's recent foray into seeking (and subsequently abandoning) the production of a Royal Mint non-fungible token is a case in point,\" the MPs wrote. \"It is not the government's role to promote particular technological innovations for their own sake\". NFTs are \"one-of-a-kind\" digital assets that can be bought and sold like any other piece of property - they are often associated with digital images. The committee will examine central bank digital currencies in a separate report.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8C22/production/_129747853_gettyimages-1488956114.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The show ran for two seasons and Bates was nominated for two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards\nShe received her second Academy Award nomination (and first in the Best Supporting Actress category) for her work as the acid-tongued political advisor Libby Holden in Primary Colors (1998), which was adapted from the book by political journalist Joe Klein\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8C22/production/_129747853_gettyimages-1488956114.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Cardiff is preparing to welcome thousands of Beyonc\u00e9 fans eager to see the singer perform on her world tour. Wednesday's Principality Stadium concert, in front of about 60,000 fans, kicks off the UK leg of her Renaissance tour. People are expected to travel from around the UK and as far away as the United States, Lebanon and Australia. Cardiff council is warning concert-goers to plan their journey in advance and arrive early. People were already queuing at 07:00 BST this morning. Stereophonics and Sir Tom Jones Cardiff concertEd Sheeran's third Cardiff concert \"I'm so thankful that this opportunity has come, that I finally get to see her,\" said George Crocker, 15, from Avoca Beach, New South Wales, Australia. \"She is a goddess, she's my mother. She is my absolute queen... she's just everything in a person. \"Everything about her is just perfect.\" A fan since the age of four, he has travelled with his mum Penny, and added: \"I'm just going to bawl my eyes out the whole time, I just know that for a fact.\" The Renaissance World Tour is 41-year-old Beyonc\u00e9's first solo tour in seven years, and many fans have travelled a long way to see her in Cardiff. Giovani Tana, 20, arrived in the Welsh capital on Saturday, after flying to London from Beirut and catching a train. \"It's my first time in the UK ever, so it's a great excuse to come,\" he said. \"I think London is fully sold out and I thought I would explore a different city.\" He is looking forward to connecting with other fans, adding: \"Her work is incredible. No-one puts on a show like she does. \"I respect her work and what she's doing for the queer community is truly incredible. \"For her to be on that stage representing a lot of different people is inspirational.\" It is not the singer's first time in Cardiff - she joined husband Jay-Z on the On The Run II Tour in the city in 2018. The show, which kicks off at 19:00 BST at Cardiff's Principality stadium and will end at 22:30 BST, follows appearances in Stockholm, Sweden, and Brussels, Belgium, in a tour that will end in the United States in September. The tour setlist includes 40 hits spanning Beyonc\u00e9's career as well as singles from the album Renaissance released in 2022, including Break My Soul and Cuff it. Over the next three weeks the singer will also play at venues in Edinburgh, Sunderland and London. Cardiff council has warned roads into the city will be \"very busy\". It has strongly advised people to plan their journey in advance and arrive at the stadium early. An Ed Sheeran concert in May 2022 saw 15-mile queues from the Prince of Wales Bridge towards Cardiff on the M4, causing some people to miss the event. Fans have been tweeting this morning as they take their place in the queue for the 19:00 BST show. South Wales Police have also said they will be using facial recognition in the city to help with policing. What to expect from Beyonc\u00e9's Renaissance tourBeyonc\u00e9 fans battle to snap up tickets Beyonc\u00e9's Renaissance debuts at number one By road There will be a full city centre road closure from 16:00 until midnight. Those attending are advised to use a park ride facility at Leckwith Stadium, or park and walk spaces at County Hall in Cardiff Bay. Train Trains are expected to be very busy after the event and a queuing system will be in place at Cardiff Central station. Great Western Railway are running extra services to Swansea, Newport, Bristol and Swindon afterwards. Passengers are being advised to check the GWR website before travelling as industrial action on 17 May is likely to cause \"some short-notice changes and cancellations\", the operator said. Over-running South Wales Metro engineering works also mean there will be no trains north of Pontypridd on the core valley lines of Treherbert, Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare. Gates open to the public at 17:00, while the box office will open at 13:00. Officials say all tickets have been issued digitally and should be downloaded and transferred through the relevant app before arriving at the stadium. People are also being warned not to screenshot tickets as this could invalidate them.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6ADA/production/_123245372_abuse.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Namibia's economy is characterised by a divide between the formal and the informal economies, which is in part aggravated by the legacy of apartheid spatial planning\nZambia practices several ceremonies and rituals ranging from nationally recognised traditional ceremonies to unrecognised yet important ceremonies\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6ADA/production/_123245372_abuse.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A man who witnessed his mother being abused by his father as a young child has welcomed a new initiative to support child victims of domestic violence. Paul - not his real name - is now 28 years old, and some of his earliest memories include hearing arguments between his parents. When he was six he witnessed his father hit his mother for the first time. Paul said he struggled at school trying to deal with what he had experienced. A scheme to support young children who witness domestic violence at home will now be extended to schools across Northern Ireland. Operation Encompass enables police to tell school staff if a pupil has been affected by domestic abuse. The partnership between the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Education Authority (EA), the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland and schools was launched in 60 County Down schools in 2021. It was later extended to cover 400 other schools in County Down, County Armagh and County Tyrone. It has been in operation in police forces in England and Wales for a number of years. Police said that since the start of the 2021 school year, officers attended 2,121 domestic incidents with 3,774 children affected. A total of 3,160 referrals have been made by officers to the designated teacher at the relevant school as a result. From Wednesday, the scheme will be rolled out in all of Northern Ireland's 1,162 schools. If an officer attends a domestic violence call out where children are present, they will contact the child's school before 09:00 the following morning to share this information with the school's safeguarding team. This is to ensure the correct support can be put in place. Paul said the scheme would have helped him when he was younger. \"To know as a child that a teacher was aware of it - if I am having a real issue then I could go and speak to them - that would have been great,\" he told BBC News NI. \"Whereas back then it was just me, no-one else knew, I hardly told any of my friends.\" Despite attempts from his mother to shield him from the violence, Paul remembers the fighting between his parents from a young age. \"I've loads of memories of loads of yelling. \"I remember one time coming into the kitchen and seeing him throw a cereal bowl at her and her trying to make a joke out of and [that] it was just an accident. \"Parents convince themselves that the kids don't know, but we do, but I didn't comment on it or anything like that. \"I would find a spot somewhere and just sit...frozen, having to listen to it - and then there was always the disconnect when my mum would have tried to make light of it or I'd be pretending I didn't hear it.\" Det Supt Lindsay Fisher said police responded to about 90 domestic abuse calls each day and children were often present. \"Operation Encompass really recognises children as unseen victims of domestic abuse,\" she said \"We know the impact of the trauma that children experience from seeing, overhearing or coming back into a house where there has been a domestic abuse incident. \"The scheme allows us to share information with schools in quick time so that we can best protect and support children through times that are incredibly difficult for them.\" She said the support and understanding that teachers could provide should never be underestimated.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1632D/production/_129752909_passportcontrolgetty.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Cena defeated Big Show at Judgment Day on May 17 and Extreme Rules on June 7 in a submission match by applying the STF\n On the December 30 episode of SmackDown, Cena wrestled for the first time in over a year, where he and Kevin Owens defeated The Bloodline's Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1632D/production/_129752909_passportcontrolgetty.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Ministers are trying to work out what to do about immigration, and quickly. Next week, the latest migration statistics will be published for 2022. Net migration - those arriving minus those leaving - is expected to be at a record high. \"It'll be a challenging number,\" one government figure acknowledges to me, with understatement. In the year to June 2022, net migration was just over half a million people. Next week's number is expected to be bigger. UK net migration hits all-time record at 504,000Sunak considers foreign student restrictionsTrain fruit pickers to cut migration - Braverman There are so many questions for ministers to weigh up. How high is too high? How do you wrestle with the trade-offs - for the economy, public services, communities, society? And how do you justify your decisions, when you can't blame anyone else? One of the consequences of Brexit is that immigration policy is now entirely down to the government at Westminster. They can't blame anyone else - such as the European Union - any more. Opposition parties have nowhere to hide either: Labour's immigration policies will be keenly scrutinised too. The political backdrop is stark. In four consecutive Conservative election manifestos, big promises have been made on immigration - and four times they have been broken. David Cameron in 2010 and 2015, and Theresa May in 2017 promised to get net migration down to the tens of thousands a year. Neither managed it, or ever got that close. Boris Johnson in 2019 promised to get the number falling. Granted, it did, briefly, during the pandemic - but it has since rocketed. So what are ministers now considering? Take agriculture. The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has said the UK should train its own fruit pickers. The prime minister told Farming Today on Radio 4 the government was willing to expand the number of seasonal visas for agricultural workers. Then, there is education. International students are proudly welcomed by the UK: they bring in billions of pounds, help subsidise tuition fees for British students, and some in government argue, are crucial for the UK's soft power - leaving hundreds of thousands of young people with a lasting affection for Britain. So, there are some in government pretty sceptical about limitations here. One source said to me that 55 current world leaders were educated in the UK, and this is an influence to cherish. So ministers, including the home secretary, chancellor and education secretary, have been discussing what to do about it. It appears there is agreement to prevent those doing Masters degrees, which usually take around nine months, from bringing dependents with them. Discussion is ongoing about whether the restriction could be broader than that. But there is a resistance for it to include, for instance, PhD students, who tend to study for several years and whose qualifications and skills are more highly sought after in the jobs market afterwards. There has also been discussion about whether particular courses or universities could be valued more highly than others. But if you prioritise a particular course, you might incentivise poor providers to bump up supply. And if you prioritise institutions, on what basis do you rank them? Dilemmas abound. One final thought: to how many people is high immigration a problem? There is some polling evidence to suggest that since Brexit, the issue matters less to some people. And some want immigration to be higher. It is a mighty tricky policy issue for governments to get right - as the next week or so will illustrate. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/123A9/production/_129256647_le_2023_index_promo_lookup_v1-nc.png", "label": 1, "text": " Such popular hostility against the church was rare in England before 1558; the Reformation in England and Ireland was directed from the king and highest levels of society\n They were expelled from England in 1290 following the Edict of Expulsion, only to be allowed back in 1656\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/123A9/production/_129256647_le_2023_index_promo_lookup_v1-nc.png", "label": 0, "text": "Voters across Northern Ireland go to the polls on 18 May to choose new councillors for the first time in four years. The elections give people the chance to decide who is responsible for a range of local issues - such as leisure services, bin collections and the rates bills paid by every household. A total of 462 seats will be contested in all of Northern Ireland's 11 councils. The elections have been pushed back by two weeks due to the coronation of King Charles III on 6 May. To find out who is standing in your area, type your postcode into the bar below. The elections use the single transferable vote (STV) system, the same as is used for elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. Voters mark the ballot paper in order of preference - with a 1 beside their favourite candidate, a 2 beside their second-favourite and so on. Voters choose councillors in their district electoral area (DEA). Each DEA is represented by five, six or seven councillors. There are three ways to vote: In person at a polling station (often in places such as schools and community centres)By postal voteBy nominating a proxy to vote on your behalf You will get a polling card before election day telling you where your polling station is. You do not need this card to vote. Voters must be: Aged 18 or overRegistered at an address in the area where they want to voteA British citizen, an Irish or EU citizen or eligible Commonwealth citizenNot legally excluded from voting You need photographic ID to vote, such as a passport or driving licence. A full list of acceptable ID is available on the Electoral Office website. The big story of the 2019 local elections was the rise in support for the Alliance Party, which gained 21 seats across all councils to claim a total of 53. It remained the fifth-largest party overall but closed the gap on the Social Democratic and Labour Party, which dropped by seven seats to 59. The Democratic Unionist Party won 122 seats - a drop of eight - to remain the largest party while Sinn F\u00e9in was second with 105, unchanged from the previous election. The Ulster Unionist Party was third with 75 seats - a drop of 13. Smaller parties the Greens and People Before Profit both gained four seats each while the Traditional Unionist Voice dropped by seven to hold six overall. Council elections are also often used by voters to give their opinion on the various political parties, even on issues which are not directly related to councils, so the results can often be a sign of things to come. For example Alliance's strong performance was followed by its success in European, Westminster and Stormont elections over the course of the following three years. Councils are responsible for a range of services, including: Leisure servicesCemeteriesWaste collection and disposalLocal planning Dog control They also look after some local tourism, off-street parking and elements of heritage such as managing conservation areas. These services are paid for by rates. Every council votes each year on what the district rate will be in their area, which is added to the regional rate set by Stormont and sent out to every eligible household as a rates bill. The elections will decide the make-up of each council, which has an impact on their approach to the services run by each local authority. Earlier in the year, all 11 councils agreed their highest rate rises since local government reform in 2015, so the upcoming election will be a chance for voters to give their views on that, as well as on candidates' plans for rates in the future. Voters may also use the elections to give a verdict on the parties' approaches to the Windsor Framework - the amended Brexit deal for Northern Ireland. Animals - apart from assistance dogs - are not usually allowed in polling stations. However, as dogs aren't specifically mentioned in UK electoral law, they are admitted to polling stations at the discretion of the local authority. Voters are encouraged to bring children to polling stations to help educate them about democracy, but they are not allowed to mark your ballot paper. Counting of the votes begins on Friday 19 May, the day after the election. In 2019, counting continued past midnight and into the next day.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/3FC5/production/_103152361_albertbridge.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Aaliyah was known to have usually been accompanied by members of her family\n Aaliyah had not intended for her albums to have such a gap between them\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/3FC5/production/_103152361_albertbridge.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A popular County Antrim coastal path has been closed to the public after \"significant rockfall\" raised concerns about safety. Blackhead Path in Whitehead was shut last week after heavy rain led to the rockfall. Mid and East Antrim Borough Council said it had to close the path to assess the damage. In a Facebook post, the council apologised and urged people to heed warning signs and keep safe. The path was previously closed between August 2018 and July 2020 after engineers found it was at risk of collapse. In 2022 it was given Local Nature Reserve status by the council. It features a wide variety of bird life on and off shore including fulmar, curlew, lapwing, purple sandpiper, oystercatcher, dunlin, snipe, redshank and eider. The council has been contacted for comment. During a previous rockfall on the County Antrim path, some people ignored warnings informing them that the route was not safe.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/CE30/production/_129748725_supportedliving.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "\" Taran Adarsh said: \"Ajay makes a stirring and powerful interpretation of a man haunted by uncertainty about his lover's faithfulness\nIn 1993, Devgn starred in Dil Hai Betaab, a movie about a love triangle and romantic themes such as revenge\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/CE30/production/_129748725_supportedliving.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Some older people living in sheltered accommodation fear \"unfair\" cuts to support services will affect them mentally and physically. Residents of Bangor's Montgomery Manor are worried cuts will make them feel alone and less safe. The Supporting People' scheme could be cut as the Department for Communities is set to make a 16% spending cut. Any cuts could mean fewer morning check calls and fewer social activities for residents. Tenant Sam Lowry said: \"I would be locked up 24 hours a day in my bungalow and see nobody.\" He said that without the wildlife group and other opportunities the scheme provided, \"you'd just go into your bungalow and you'd rot away - simple\". \"It might just sound like a cup of tea to you, but to us, it's getting out, it's talking to each other and seeing people you haven't seen in a couple of days, making sure everybody's fine. Just asking how you are - that means an awful lot to someone in our position,\" he added. The Supporting People programme allows different groups to live as independently as possible in the community by providing services to about 19,000 people in Northern Ireland, including 8,000 older people. The programme funds the scheme co-ordinators and out-of-hours telephone services that allow tenants to access emergency help when needed. Budget cuts could mean reducing co-ordinators' hours. Jean Ann Peters, who is originally from South Africa, has been a tenant at Montgomery Manor for six months. She said the co-ordinators made everybody feel like they had a family, even if they hadn't. \"You feel as if you've either got a mother or a daughter in there,\" she said. If their support services were reduced, Jean said people at the home wouldn't feel as safe. \"They bring out a light and a family and a joy, there's always someone there to look after you,\" she said. \"So losing it would be awful.\" Tenant David O'Neill said if these services were not protected, everybody's standard of living would drop, which was simply not fair. \"When we have so many price rises, inflation has gone up and now they seem to want to cut the budget, it's just not right.\" Tenant Clements MacDonald said services should be protected for the physical and mental well-being of older people. The scheme aims to reduce pressure on other public services including health and social care services. Alpha Housing Chief Executive Cameron Watt said his was a preventative service that saved the public purse money, and cuts would impact some of Northern Ireland's oldest and most vulnerable citizens. \"Every \u00a31 invested in support services like this saves the public purse \u00a32.60 by reducing pressure, particularly on health and care services,\" he said. \"If cuts were made, we would try to soften that, but I think within 3-6 months you could see the services here and the 350 other sheltered schemes could have to be cut back dramatically.\" That would have a big impact on some 8,000 older people across Northern Ireland within this year, he added.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/929B/production/_129013573_gettyimages-1243508849.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS) is a fictional disease that is not present in the short story\n Their use is based on the observation that the human mind more easily remembers spatial, personal, surprising, physical, sexual, humorous, or otherwise \"relatable\" information, rather than more abstract or impersonal forms of information\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/929B/production/_129013573_gettyimages-1243508849.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Hundreds of young footballers have been left in limbo after the FAW withdrew licences for five academies and downgraded others. Taff's Well, Risca, Cwmbran Celtic, Llandudno and Cefn Druids all lost out. They will no longer be able to provide academy football for players aged 12 to 16. Other clubs will have fewer teams after being downgraded. The FAW said a review had been ongoing since December 2021 and clubs had been consulted at each stage. The clubs have a right of appeal. After children chose between grassroots and academy football last year, parents fear they will struggle to find a new academy and may not have a grassroots team to return to. Clubs pay hundreds as weather hits grassroot clubsWales' children doing less sport outside school - surveyWRU: Wales' sport body 'cannot investigate sexism allegations' The clubs have accused the FAW (Football Association of Wales) of being heavy handed. Taff's Well FC chairman, Lee Bridgeman, said it felt like \"a real kick in the teeth\" and the club should be judged on its record of producing players. \"Parents and children are devastated by this decision,\" he said. \"Thirty of our players have gone to Cardiff City, Swansea City or Newport in the last three years.\" Mr Bridgeman said the news was a shock. \"Every problem we were made aware of by the FAW we put right,\" he said. \"This seems like a draconian measure not to even give us an action plan or support to improve the academy. \"To just withdraw the licence just doesn't make sense.\" Cwmbran Celtic academy had 134 registered players. One of them, Evan, was disappointed. The 15-year-old said: \"There's going to be really good players who can't get a team. \"It's just going to be a waste of a good player.\" The FAW said it was widening access and opportunity for talent. Risca United are appealing the decision and the club's under-15s head coach, Mark Hayward, believes the FAW could have been more supportive. \"We're all volunteers, none of us gets paid, not at Risca anyway. \"It's going to be extremely difficult to take, for me as a coach and for the boys, with the amount of hard work that's gone in, just to shut the gates.\" The FAW said it reviewed the academy structure to ensure high-quality provision throughout the country. Last May clubs were told what was expected for them to be successful in their applications, it said. In June, clubs were invited to apply for one of three academy categories based on the criteria they could meet and in October, funding was provided to help them. The FAW said it undertook visits to clubs and gave feedback, but in March more than half of clubs were told they could lose their licences completely. It said clubs that did not get a licence failed because of problems with safeguarding, coaching, competitiveness and facilities. The association also claimed Wales' population was too small to support 25 academies while England had only 50.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/171E1/production/_126498649_bobuse.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Finding too many distractions in his house, Dahl remembered the poet Dylan Thomas had found a peaceful shed to write in close to home\n\" Anna Leskiewicz in The Telegraph wrote \"It's often suggested that Dahl's lasting appeal is a result of his exceptional talent for wriggling his way into children\u2019s fantasies and fears, and laying them out on the page with anarchic delight\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/171E1/production/_126498649_bobuse.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Scotland's councils have \"gone beyond the point\" where making savings is enough to balance their books, a spending watchdog has warned. The Accounts Commission said local authorities must radically change how they operate in order to maintain and improve the services they offer. Auditors warn budget constraints and cost pressures are putting councils' finances under \"severe strain\". Adult social care and housing are among areas of concern. These areas, along with environmental services and culture and leisure, are where a new Accounts Commission report concludes service performance was \"at risk or declining\". A \"new deal\" between the Scottish government and councils, which is aimed at allowing more long-term planning and could allow new local taxes, is \"long overdue\", the report adds. Tricky decisions as Scotland's councils face budget shortfallsCouncils say they face worst ever finance pressureExtra \u00a3100m for councils as tax-raising plans approved Council services across Scotland have been impacted by financial pressures in the last year. In Aberdeen, campaigners have been fighting the closure of libraries and a swimming pool, while in West Lothian a number of leisure centres are earmarked for closure. Tim McKay, acting chairman of the Accounts Commission, said local authorities need to have \"open and honest conversations\" with their communities and staff about how they will operate in the future. He added: \"Councils have gone beyond the point where making savings is enough. \"If the change needed doesn't happen now, some services will continue to get worse or deeper cuts will be made. \"This will impact communities and individuals that are already at crisis point with the effects of inequality and persistently high poverty.\" The Audit Scotland report highlights how 23% of council budgets were ringfenced or directed for national policy initiatives in 2021/22 - up from 18% in the previous year. This type of funding supports the delivery of key Scottish government policies but \"it prevents councils from making decisions about how funds can be used at a local level, to meet local need\", the report adds. Analysis by Audit Scotland shows spending on children's services and adult social care has been protected and increased because of Scottish government policy directives over the last decade. However, the remaining \"unprotected\" services have borne a \"disproportionate level of spending reductions\", according to auditors. The Scottish government has said it will review all ring-fenced funding as part of the delayed \"new deal\" for local government. The Audit Scotland report calls for councils to be more transparent with the public about scale of demand, the extent of backlogs and the need to ration access to services. It also calls for a more collaborative approach between public bodies. Shona Morrison, president of council umbrella body Cosla, said this was demonstrated during the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. She added: \"The report also recognises the huge challenges councils face due to budget constraints, increased cost pressures and demand, and increases in directed and ringfenced funding. \"As we have all seen, increasingly difficult choices are required about spending priorities and service provision, given reducing budgets coupled with growing demographic and workforce pressures.\" The Scottish Conservatives said urgent action was needed to avoid cuts to local services that would have a \"devastating impact on our most deprived communities and the most vulnerable people living in them\". The party called on the first minister to \"come good on his promise of a New Deal for local government as soon as possible\". Scottish Labour said the report \"lays bare the scale of the crisis facing local government after years of cuts and centralisation by the SNP and the Greens\" and said the government should stop \"robbing funding from communities\". Local government minister Joe FitzPatrick said: \"We recognise that the work of both local and national government is vital in delivering sustainable public services our communities rely upon. \"That is why the Scottish government is committed to working with Cosla to agree a 'new deal' for local government that promotes empowerment and provides greater flexibility over local funding with clear accountability for delivery of shared priorities and outcomes.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7E1B/production/_129738223_uploader-arlene-woodland.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "There is no definitive date when the various Italian variants of Latin\u2014including varieties that contributed to modern Standard Italian\u2014began to be distinct enough from Latin to be considered separate languages\n Also, the term norteamericano (North American) may refer to a citizen of the United States\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7E1B/production/_129738223_uploader-arlene-woodland.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Join us as we take a few moments every day to relax and enjoy the beauty of England through the stunning images you send us. Upload your images or email us at england@bbc.co.uk Upload your images or email us at england@bbc.co.uk. For inspiration, view some top tips from three of England's Big Picture photographers. When emailing pictures, please make sure you include the following information: The full name of the person who took the pictures (as this person owns the copyright)Confirmation that the copyright holder gives permission for the BBC to use their pictures across all its outputsThe location, date and time the pictures were takenYour telephone number so we can get back to you if we have any further questionsAny other details about the pictures that may be useful for us to know Please note that while we welcome all your pictures, we are more likely to use those which have been taken in the past week. Email your photographs to our colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Pictures can be found on Instagram, on the hashtags #BBCEngland and #EnglandsBigPicture and on our England's Big Picture board on Pinterest. If you submit a picture, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions and the BBC's privacy policy. In contributing to England's Big Picture you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide. It's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to England's Big Picture, and that if your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside. The BBC cannot guarantee that all pictures will be used and we reserve the right to edit your comments. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws while collecting any kind of media.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/FB80/production/_129748346_sirhughorde2.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Within the above-mentioned states are several de facto independent countries with limited to no international recognition\n There are about 25,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/FB80/production/_129748346_sirhughorde2.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Shortcomings in secret surveillance of the PSNI's own officers were \"a recipe for disaster\", former Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde has said. Another retired senior officer said there should be a judge-led inquiry into the extent of failings within internal corruption investigations. BBC Spotlight has looked at the fallout from a bribery investigation that led to officers being arrested or suspended. It collapsed without criminal charges. Sir George Hamilton, who led the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) at the time, said he was \"satisfied with the integrity and professionalism of the investigation\". Spotlight has examined failings around the high-profile bribery investigation into multi-million pound police vehicle contracts. In 2014, eight people were arrested and questioned in connection with the case, including retired Assistant Chief Constable Duncan McCausland and a serving PSNI officer. The then-Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, Police Mark Gilmore, was suspended. His home and office were searched although he was not arrested. No charges were brought against any of the police or civilians caught up in the case. Mr McCausland and Mr Gilmore complained to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal about secret surveillance in the case. In December 2022, the PSNI settled the case just before a public hearing was about to start, admitting it had broken its own intelligence rules. The police investigation into Mr McCausland and Mr Gilmore had been running for years before the arrests. It involved secret surveillance, including the interception of personal phone calls by Mr Gilmore. An employee of Newforge Country Club, a recreation complex in Belfast, claims he was asked by police to spy on the former senior PSNI officers. There are strict rules regulating the use of intelligence sources that require police to review members of the public who provide them with information more than three times. In 2022 the PSNI conceded this did not happen in the case of the Newforge source. Police handlers spent thousands of pounds on him, buying gifts and meals in upmarket restaurants, as well as bringing him to Ulster Rugby games. Police had nearly 70 meetings with the source and called him more than 700 times, according to Mr McCausland and Mr Gilmore's solicitor. The most senior detective in Northern Ireland at the time of the bribery investigation told Spotlight he had concerns about the way the case had been conducted. Former Det Ch Supt Tim Hanley said: \"I think the term I used was 'system chaos'. \"I would describe it as like a juggernaut, and nobody wanted to put their foot on the brake.\" Spotlight also uncovered extracts from a report by the Surveillance Commissioners issued in 2016. The report extract does not refer directly to the bribery investigation but said some spying on police officers had \"no external oversight\". It also said the Covert Authorities Bureau, the gatekeeper for secret surveillance, was \"totally unsighted\" on some internal PSNI cases. Former PSNI Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde told the programme that without such checks and balances in place you have \"run a coach and horses through the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act\". \"If you have someone operating out with that check and that balance you have a recipe for disaster,\" he said. The Northern Ireland Policing Board, which oversees the PSNI, told Spotlight it was not \"made aware of or briefed on\" the commissioners' report. At that time, the board was told the surveillance commissioners \"noted the excellence of PSNI practice and procedure but made recommendations of a technical nature\". The PSNI said it developed an action plan to address a recommendation from the 2016 report which it said \"was noted as discharged\" in a commissioner's inspection the following year. The BBC investigation has unearthed an evidence trail that suggests the bribery investigation was not the only case where intelligence sources were operating with questionable authority. Sources have told Spotlight the PSNI's source handling unit was tasking senior police officers and civilians to spy on other officers. The informants were known as ethical officers. There is no such classification under the legislation which regulates how public bodies collect intelligence. Mr McCausland and Mr Gilmore's solicitor, Ernie Waterworth said: \"The system does not allow them to be 'ethical officers'. \"If they're working for the good of the organisation in a covert way, they have to be registered and authorised.\" In a statement to Spotlight, the PSNI maintained that the use of ethical officers does not fall within the remit of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. But it also said it no longer used ethical officers. Former Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan called for an independent judge led inquiry to understand the full extent of police failings. \"The public needs to find out , the Policing Board needs to be assured what went on there, how did it happen because unless you set out honestly and openly to open that up and fix it you don't know it's not going to happen again,\" he said. Spotlight - Covert Cops: When Spying Goes Wrong is available on BBC iPlayer.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/17056/production/_129749249_eggs3.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "T, a Swedish bandAct (band), a British bandAct (drama), a segment of a play or operaACT Music, a German music labelACT Theatre, in Seattle, Washington, USActing, theatrical performanceActs, a 2012 album by American band RNDMAmerican Conservatory Theater, in San Francisco, California, US== Business organizations ==AdaCore, formerly Ada Core Technologies, Ada specialist software companyAdvanced Cell Technology, stem cell companyAdvanced Computer Techniques, a U\n She played his character's wife in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows \u2013 Part 2\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/17056/production/_129749249_eggs3.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Shoppers may see egg shortages on supermarket shelves for another year, a farmer has warned. Llyr Jones, whose 32,000 hens supply Tesco, said factors including soaring energy prices last year meant some farmers left the industry. He said it would take time for it to return to \"normality\" now farmers have started re-stocking flocks. Farming union NFU Cymru warned that egg production \"is not a simple switch on, switch off system\". Mr Jones' hens currently produce just over 31,000 eggs per day from Derwedd Farm in Llanfihangel Glyn Myfyr, Conwy. Last year his feed bills rose from \u00a330,000 a month to \u00a350,000 due largely to the invasion of Ukraine, which is a major producer of the corn used for bird feed. Mr Jones said a rise in energy bills, the outbreak of bird flu, and the desire for less caged hens have also proved obstacles. He said the supermarkets were initially reluctant to pay farmers more for their eggs, which made some quit the industry, while others chose not to re-stock their flocks. Mr Jones said: \"A lot of farmers decided not to re-stock and that then put pressure on the market and the price of eggs was forced up. \"Now, this year, egg prices have increased for us as farmers and thankfully our costs have started to fall a bit, so we're having to recuperate the money that we lost last year.\" Egg shortage warning as chicken feed price doublesWhy is there an egg shortage?Asda and Lidl limit egg sales after supply issues Although farmers who decided not to re-stock were now putting in orders for new hens, getting hens back on farms takes nearly eight months and then another two months to get them producing eggs. \"So, you're nearly a year until a farmer, from when he's empty, to when he can produce eggs. Now egg prices have gone up, some farmers are buying hens in now, but those eggs won't be on the market for another year,\" he said. \"So, just bear with us for a bit.\" Customers may start seeing more white eggs because some farmers replaced their flocks with white hens, he said, which are more productive than brown egg-laying hens. But Mr Jones said customers should not notice a difference in quality or taste. \"An egg is an egg. It doesn't matter what colour it comes in,\" he said. Mr Jones said that adding to a shortage was that egg consumption is growing in the UK by about 3% a year. \"We're in a cost of living crisis so eggs are one of the cheapest proteins you can buy at the moment,\" he said. On Tuesday, about 70 leading members of the food industry, including farmers and supermarket bosses, met the prime minister and his colleagues to talk about how the UK can improve the way it produces and sells food. The UK government pledged to put greater emphasis on farmers' interests in future trade deals and said it would review horticulture and egg supply chains to \"ensure farmers get a fair price for their produce\". Recent Defra figures show egg production is down by 2.9% in England in Wales in just three months - to 121 million dozen. Production is down by nearly a quarter compared to the first three months of 2022 (24.6%). This is the lowest amount produced on record, according to the Defra figures, which cover January to March 2023. Meanwhile, egg imports are up 11% compared to the same period last year. Geraint Hughes, agri-food consultant for Lafan Consulting, said: \"Maybe what this has shown is the lack of flexibility within the supermarkets to react quickly to sudden increases in cost. \"We've had decades of small inflationary pressures in the food industry\u2026 which allowed supermarkets to do 12 month contracts. Well, now these sudden increases in costs means they should really respond within a matter of days and weeks. \"That's a big structural challenge for the industry.\" Mr Hughes said part of the answer was to try and deliver policies and mechanisms to encourage shoppers to buy more local, so the industry was less reliant on \"global factors\". Brendan Markland, who is on holiday on Anglesey with his son Jonathan, said they had brought eggs with them all the way from Shropshire to have for their breakfast on Tuesday morning. \"So if that doesn't tell you there's a shortage, nothing does,\" he said. Margaret Hall, from Amlwch, said: \"In Amlwch they're very scarce. I've always lived on a farm and I always had my own chickens, so it's handy.\" Her daughter-in-law Sandra Hall, said: \"There's been a great shortage for some reason and we don't know why. We don't use that many, but when you need eggs you need eggs.\" NFU Cymru policy adviser Dafydd Jarrett said egg producers were at the mercy of wholesalers and retailers to signal that they required their products. \"Egg production, like any food production system is not a simple switch on, switch off system,\" he said. \"Any disruption to primary producers in the food supply chain, as has happened recently, takes time to readjust.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5B81/production/_129752432_bills-top-getty.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " For her performance on Billboard\u2019s music charts, Gomez received the Chart-Topper Award at the 2015 Billboard Women in Music event\n By the end of 1994, Selena Etc\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5B81/production/_129752432_bills-top-getty.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The number of adults struggling to pay their bills and debts has soared to nearly 11 million, new figures show. Some 3.1 million more people faced difficulties in January than they did in May last year, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said. It found that 11% of adults had missed a bill or loan payment in at least three of the previous six months. The FCA encouraged people to ask for help as household budgets were squeezed by the rising cost of living. \"Our research highlights the real impact the rising cost of living is having on people's ability to keep up with their bills, although we are pleased to see that people have been accessing help and advice,\" said Sheldon Mills, its executive director of consumers and competition. \"We've told lenders that they should provide support tailored to your needs,\" he added. What do I do if I can't afford to pay my debts?What can I do if I can't pay my energy bill? Energy, food and fuel prices have jumped in the last 18 months, putting pressure on personal finances. Prices for most things have been rising and inflation, the rate at which prices go up, is at 10.1%, meaning goods are more than 10% more expensive on average than they were a year ago. Researchers found that 29% of adults with a mortgage and 34% of renters had seen their payments increase in the six months to January this year. The team also saw signs that some people had reduced or cancelled their insurance policies as a way of easing the pressure on their budgets. The FCA said it had repeatedly reminded firms of the importance of supporting their customers and working with them to solve problems with payments and bills. But Helen Undy, chief executive of the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, said the regulator needed to do more by cracking down on \"aggressive\" debt collection practices and limiting the number of times lenders could contact people who had missed a payment. \"Those actions would go a long way in mitigating the mental health impacts of the crisis, and could even save lives,\" she said. The FCA said its survey suggested around half of UK adults (about 28.4 million people) felt more anxious or stressed due to the rising cost of living in January than they did six months earlier. The body said it had reminded 3,500 lenders of how they should support borrowers in financial difficulty and added it had told 32 lenders to \"make changes to the way they treat customers\". The FCA said this work had led to \u00a329 million in compensation being secured for over 80,000 customers. UK Finance, the trade association for the UK banking and finance industry, said lenders were contacting customers and would \"always work with them to find the right solution for their particular needs and circumstances\". It urged people worried about their finances to contact their lender, and said discussing options would not affect a person's credit rating. The FCA released its latest figures after gathering more than 5,000 responses as part of a UK-wide survey of people aged 18 and over.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E5DB/production/_129734885_genie1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " A comic novel of a tontine; filmed in 1966 starring John Mills, Ralph Richardson and Michael Caine\n\" He paid for the printing of Robert's first publication at 16, entitled The Pentland Rising: A Page of History, 1666\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E5DB/production/_129734885_genie1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Food banks are having to buy groceries at high prices because donations fail to meet demand from families in need. The Trussell Trust said 13% of food in emergency parcels was bought, compared with none before the pandemic. Organisers say some shoppers are now splitting multipacks of cans because they cannot afford to donate it all. But new software may be helping solve the dilemma, by telling people exactly which items are running low in their local food bank. Paul McMurray, from North Shields, has created Donation Genie - a website that displays the items that are most needed at each specific food bank across the UK. Visitors to the site simply enter a postcode or name of the area and it will show the addresses of the four nearest food banks and which items are top of their list of requirements. The service does not ask for, or make, any money. It is similar to some other services, but draws on public data, including information provided on individual food bank's own websites. That means they do not need to sign up to benefit. \"Food banks are already busy. We don't want to give them extra things to do,\" said Mr McMurray, a software engineer at Accenture, who used company's charity days to develop the idea. \"We want to use the simplicity of technology and kindness of people, then join them together to direct the right food to the right people.\" That could lead to \"less hunger, less waste, and less food poverty\", he said. The need is clear from data in his area. There was a 54% rise in food parcels handed out in the North East of England in 2022-23 compared with the previous year, among a record three million across the country, according to The Trussell Trust - the UK's largest food bank provider. Close to Mr McMurray, the network of 36 food banks in County Durham and Sunderland provided food to 2,000 people at the start of last year. By this March, that had risen to more than 4,000 individuals, with children accounting for more than a third of them. Rising demand for help and fewer donations are the result of food prices rising at their fastest rate for 45 years, having gone up by 19.1% in a year, according to official statistics. Those trends shows no sign of stopping, despite predictions of a slowdown in price inflation, according to Paul Conlon, distribution manager for Sunderland and County Durham food banks. \"Food prices have really affected donations,\" he said. \"Month-on-month, donations are decreasing - less food is coming in to the warehouse from the public. At the same time, the number of people using food banks is increasing.\" It is the same story at the other end of the country. In Bromley, south east London, the Living Well food bank spent more than \u00a35,000 in April on produce to give out. Before Covid it ran on donated food alone. Among those who need it now are families with working parents, included one who has three jobs. Elsewhere, figures from surveys by the Charities Aid Foundation show that financial donations to food banks peaked in the run-up to Christmas, then slumped in February, although there has been some recovery since. Food banks told the charity that donated supplies had been \"erratic\" at best. Mr Conlon, from the Durham food banks network, said any donations were welcome but, in general, there was a greater need for toiletries, as well as tinned meat and fish. People were more likely to drop pasta, cooking sauce and tins of beans in the collection baskets at supermarkets and churches. Evidence of the mismatch was all around him in a warehouse where a team of volunteers were sorting items primarily given by the public. The solution, he said, was to think more creatively. Human-centric technology like Donation Genie is one example of that, community spirit is another. Warning prices to be higher for longer as rates riseHow much are prices rising for you? Try our calculator A few miles away in Gateshead, some of the residents of Bensham Court are playing bingo. Hot dog sausages and tins of coffee are the prizes, signalling the shift in what may be considered a lucky luxury as prices soar. In this sheltered accommodation, one flat has been converted into am emergency food bank. It is a lifeline for some of the 135 residents, all of whom are aged over 50. However, there is such togetherness, that they are planning to top this up with food grown in a new allotment in the grounds of the 1960s tower block. According to Julie Bray, social prescribing link worker at the local GP practice, such activities are bringing health as well as financial benefits. Both have been affected by Covid lockdowns and the rising cost of living. \"That keeps them away from their GPs, it stops them from taking medication, and is making them resilient again.\" Poonam lives here, has struggled financially, but said she had received vital help and support since she moved in, making her feel part of a family - and that was priceless. Look at your cupboards so you know what you have alreadyHead to the reduced section first to see if it has anything you needBuy things close to their sell-by-date which will be cheaper and use your freezer Read more tips here", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/fa3a/live/241ce380-f3fa-11ed-92cc-b3a9bf1f67e9.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "People who have been vaccinated against measles but have incomplete protective immunity may experience a form of modified measles\nRisk factors for measles virus infection include immunodeficiency caused by HIV/AIDS, immunosuppression following receipt of an organ or a stem cell transplant, alkylating agents, or corticosteroid therapy, regardless of immunization status; travel to areas where measles commonly occurs or contact with travelers from such an area; and the loss of passive, inherited antibodies before the age of routine immunization\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/fa3a/live/241ce380-f3fa-11ed-92cc-b3a9bf1f67e9.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "An MP has described proposals to build hundreds of homes - which have already attracted more than 650 objections - as \"undesirable and unnecessary\".Stockton North Labour MP Alex Cunningham called for the plans for Wynyard to be rejected.\u201cNever before have I had so many contacts from local residents sharing their concerns about a development,\" he said.The scheme's designers said they wanted to develop Wynyard Estate \"in a considerate and measured way\". The proposals for up to 700 homes also include a community centre, medical facilities, play spaces, cycleways and golf course improvements.A spokesperson for Cameron Hall Developments and Jomast Developments said the location was \"identified for growth\" in the area's local plan.However, Wynyard Parish Council said the \u201cvague and disjointed\u201d plans were contrary to the local plan and would remove natural habitats. Hartlepool Council also said the large-scale development was contrary to both the 2019 Stockton Local Plan and the 2019 Wynyard Masterplan, although the latter was not a rigid blueprint, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.Mr Cunningham said the decision \"to lump all manner of things\" into one application \"does the applicant no favours\".It appeared to be \"an attempt to win approval for a huge housing development on the back of some important elements which are I suspect needed within the community\", he said.\"I am surprised that there has been no comprehensive public consultation exercise by the developers,\" he added. Historic England recommended taking the golf course extension out of the application while the Woodland Trust said it should be deferred until the ancient woodland status of adjacent trees had been determined.Cameron Hall Developments and Jomast Developments said more detailed proposals would be forthcoming and a consultation was planned.\"It is our goal that our aspirations for new amenities for the village align with those of current residents,\" a spokesperson said. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, external, Facebook, external and Instagram, external. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/111A2/production/_129605007_gettyimages-1252352153.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The Ant-Man films were directed by Peyton Reed and starred Paul Rudd\n He has been married to actress Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000 to 2023\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/111A2/production/_129605007_gettyimages-1252352153.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Falling birth rates are a major concern for some of Asia's biggest economies. Governments in the region are spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to reverse the trend. Will it work? Japan began introducing policies to encourage couples to have more children in the 1990s. South Korea started doing the same in the 2000s, while Singapore's first fertility policy dates back to 1987. China, which has seen its population fall for the first time on 60 years, recently joined the growing club. While it is difficult to quantify exactly how much these policies have cost, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol recently said his country had spent more than $200bn (\u00a3160bn) over the past 16 years on trying to boost the population. Yet last year South Korea broke its own record for the world's lowest fertility rate, with the average number of babies expected per woman falling to 0.78. In neighbouring Japan, which had record low births of fewer than 800,000 last year, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged to double the budget for child-related policies from 10tn yen ($74.7bn; \u00a359.2bn), which is just over 2% of the country's gross domestic product. Globally, while there are more countries that are trying to lower birth rates, the number of countries wanting to increase fertility has more than tripled since 1976, according to the most recent report by the United Nations. So why do these governments want to grow their populations? Simply put, having a bigger population who can work and produce more goods and services leads to higher economic growth. And while a larger population can mean higher costs for governments, it can also result in bigger tax revenues. Also, many Asian countries are ageing rapidly. Japan leads the pack with nearly 30% of its population now over the age of 65 and some other nations in the region are not far behind. Compare that with India, which has just overtaken China as the world's most populous nation. More than a quarter of its people are between the age of 10 and 20, which gives its economy huge potential for growth. And when the share of the working age population gets smaller, the cost and burden of looking after the non-working population grow. \"Negative population growth has an impact on the economy, and combined that with an ageing population, they won't be able to afford to support the elderly,\" said Xiujian Peng of Victoria University. Most of the measures across the region to increase birth rates have been similar: payments for new parents, subsidised or free education, extra nurseries, tax incentives and expanded parental leave. But do these measures work? Data for last few decades from Japan, South Korea and Singapore shows that attempts to boost their populations have had very little impact. Japan's finance ministry has published a study which said the policies were a failure. It is a view echoed by the United Nations. \"We know from history that the types of policies which we call demographic engineering where they try to incentivise women to have more babies, they just don't work,\" Alanna Armitage of United Nations Population Fund told the BBC. \"We need to understand the underlying determinants of why women are not having children, and that is often the inability of women to be able to combine their work life with their family life,\" she added. But in Scandinavian countries, fertility policies have worked better than they did in Asia, according to Ms Peng. \"The main reason is because they have a good welfare system and the cost of raising children is cheaper. Their gender equality is also much more balanced than in Asian countries.\" Asian countries have ranked lower in comparison in the global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum. There are also major questions over how these expensive measures should be funded, especially in Japan, which is the world's most indebted developed economy. Options under consideration in Japan include selling more government bonds, which means increasing its debt, raising its sales tax or increasing social insurance premiums. The first option adds financial burden to the future generations, while the other two would hit already struggling workers, which could convince them to have fewer children. But Antonio Fat\u00e1s, professor of economics at INSEAD says regardless of whether these policies work, they have to invest in them. \"Fertility rates have not increased but what if there was less support? Maybe they would be even lower,\" he said. Governments are also investing in other areas to prepare their economies for shrinking populations. \"China has been investing in technologies and innovations to make up for the declining labour force in order to mitigate the negative impact of the shrinking population,\" said Ms Peng. Also, while it remains unpopular in countries like Japan and South Korea, lawmakers are discussing changing their immigration rules to try to entice younger workers from overseas. \"Globally, the fertility rate is falling so it'll be a race to attract young people to come and work in your country,\" Ms Peng added. Whether the money is well spent on fertility policies, these governments appear to have no other choice.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/68f7/live/562c6760-f413-11ed-8949-1194038a033d.png", "label": 1, "text": " During that period she fantasized about someday sharing her personal and stage lives with Douglas, but would later be disappointed: \"Kirk did not really pursue me\n Some cat breeds are prone to having extra digits (\"polydactyly\")\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/68f7/live/562c6760-f413-11ed-8949-1194038a033d.png", "label": 0, "text": "A mayor who denied there was \"industrial-scale corruption\" at a multimillion-pound redevelopment has said he would support a full investigation being carried out.Conservative Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen has faced concerns over the transfer of millions of pounds of assets at Teesworks to private developers.Labour shadow secretary for Levelling Up Lisa Nandy said there were \"serious questions\" that \"remained unanswered\".Mr Houchen said: \"I want this nipped in the bud once and for all\". It followed reports land, potentially worth millions of pounds, at the former steel works site in Redcar were handed to private investors for \u00a3100.Middlesbrough Labour MP Andy McDonald had accused developers of financially benefitting from land that had seen millions of pounds of taxpayer investment.Tees Valley mayor denies Labour MP's Teesworks corruption claimsMs Nandy said the Labour Party had called on the National Audit Office to investigate. She cited the Financial Times, which she said \"raised questions about the use of public money, the oversight, transparency and accountability of public money\".\"We're calling on the NAO to launch an investigation to ensure those decisions are being taken for the benefit of the people, and not just used to line the pockets of a small handful of people\", she said.Ms Nandy said she believed there had been a breakdown of \"local scrutiny arrangements\". Mr Houchen maintained claims of wrongdoing were \"untrue\" and the site was being \"smeared.\"He said : \"What they [Labour] are trying to do is pull down work that, not just me, but my officials and the team have done to deliver those jobs.\"I am quite happy to put all that to bed and allow the Labour Party to have an investigation\".Mr Houchen later submitted a letter to the NAO, which does not currently have the remit to review decisions made at the site, asking for an exception to allow them to investigate. The government previously said the allegations were false and independent audits of accounts had \"not raised any concerns\".The NAO previously said it had made inquiries into the government funding that was within its remit, and found funding had been used as intended.It said it would be liaising with relevant government departments and that no decision on whether to conduct a more detailed audit had yet been taken. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, external, Facebook, external and Instagram, external. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6DD6/production/_98581182_g1urk6hq.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " She cut her teeth producing the open, bumps and teases for the 2004 Olympics in Athens, but more recently Ryder helped lead marketing efforts on Amazon's first exclusive season of Thursday Night Football, as well as many sports docuseries like Good Rivals and Coach Prime\n During the 19th century, parallel operatic traditions emerged in central and eastern Europe, particularly in Russia and Bohemia\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/6DD6/production/_98581182_g1urk6hq.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The Bank of England's top economist has said he is sorry for using \"inflammatory\" language to suggest people must accept they are poorer. Huw Pill recently said people needed to stop asking for pay rises to keep up with soaring prices because this risked keeping inflation higher for longer. However, his remarks prompted criticism, including from his own boss. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said Mr Pill's \"choice of words was not right\". Mr Pill said: \"If I had the chance again to use different words I would use somewhat different words to describe the challenges we all face.\" He added: \"Although we have some difficult messages to bring. I will try and bring those messages in a way that is perhaps less inflammatory than maybe I managed in the past.\" Inflation - which measures the rate at which prices rise - remains stubbornly high at 10.1%, mainly due to food prices. People 'need to accept' they're poorer, says Bank economist\u2022Why are prices rising so much? Why does the Bank of England change interest rates? Part of the Bank of England's job is to keep inflation at a target rate of 2%. It can try and do this by raising interest rates, which makes the cost of borrowing money more expensive. This move, in theory, is supposed to make people reduce spending, so that demand for goods cools and price rises slow. However, if people keep asking for pay rises to keep up with inflation it could result in higher prices for a long time. Last week, Mr Pill said: \"Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices, whether through higher wages or passing energy costs on to customers.\" He added: \"What we're facing now is that reluctance to accept that.\" In response Mr Bailey said the Bank was very sensitive to all people facing higher inflation \"but particularly people on lower incomes\" because they spend more of their budgets on \"the essentials in life\" such as food and energy. At the time, he said: \"I don't think Huw's choice of words was the right one in that sense, I have to be honest and I think he would agree with me.\" The Bank has raised interest rates 12 times since December 2021 to 4.5%. It is aiming to bring inflation back to its 2% target in three years' time. On Monday, Mr Pill said that both he and the Bank of England \"recognise that we live in very difficult and challenging times and those challenges are particularly acute for some parts of society\".", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/111F6/production/_129743107_neckpain_gettyimages-1301977723.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " In 1977, Provost Hanna Holborn Gray was appointed interim president of Yale and later went on to become president of the University of Chicago, being the first woman to hold either position at each respective school\n In 2007, Facebook launched Facebook Pages for brands and celebrities to interact with their fanbases\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/111F6/production/_129743107_neckpain_gettyimages-1301977723.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The number of people not working in the UK due to long-term sickness has risen to a new record, official figures show. More than two and a half million are not working due to health problems, the Office for National Statistics said. It blamed an increase in mental health issues in younger people and people suffering back and neck pain, possibly due to home working, for the rise. Typically, for every 13 people currently working, one person is long-term sick. Since the start of the Covid pandemic, there were \"well over 400,000 more people outside of the labour market due to ill health,\" Darren Morgan, director of economic statistics at the ONS, told the BBC's Today Programme. As well as an increase in mental health conditions and back and neck pains, Mr Morgan said there had also been \"an increase in the category that includes post-viral fatigue, so perhaps long Covid having an impact\". Who are the millions of Britons not working?Are wages keeping up with inflation? One of the reasons why the UK economy has been doing less well than other developed nations has been the case of the missing workers, after millions stopped working during the pandemic. Getting these people back to work is a key part of the government's plan to get the economy growing again with changes to the rules around health-related benefits and universal credit in the March Budget aimed at helping to address the shortage of workers. The latest figures show mixed progress on this front. Significant numbers of students, carers and even some retired people have started looking for work again, pushing the inactivity rate - the key measure of people not in work - down to 21% - the lowest level in three years. However, the rise in the number of people too ill to work is likely to worry policymakers. \"We should be concerned by the high number of people who are economically inactive because they are sick, and progress on tackling inactivity overall is too slow,\" said Neil Carberry, chief executive at the industry body the Recruitment and Employment Confederation. \"It is a year since the ONS reported on high worklessness, labour shortages and high inflation and too little has changed. This is holding the economy back by constraining companies' ability to grow.\" By Michelle Roberts, digital health editor Sitting with proper posture is one of the best things you can do to prevent back and neck problems. So it is easy to see how spending long hours sitting at a desk, hunched over a laptop could be bad for you. The latest data from the ONS suggests musculoskeletal issues are on the rise, and likely linked to the shift to home working that happened to many of us during the pandemic. If you use a home workstation, the advice is to make sure the top of your computer screen is level with your eyes and about an arm's length away from you. You should be able to relax your shoulders when you are typing and keep your elbows at 90 degrees. Take regular breaks too to stand up, stretch and move around. If you have neck or back pain, chat with your doctor or see a physiotherapist. Employers are also required by law to protect the health and safety of their workers Ian, 48, from Manchester used to work in software support, but back and leg problems forced him to leave his job, and he's now waiting for surgery on his back. He told the BBC he's \"frustrated\" but hopes he can return to work at some point. However, he thinks he will be at a disadvantage when applying for jobs. \"The tone changes in the interview,\" he says, when you tell a potential employer that you have health problems. James, 39, from Durham has been given time off work after having problems with his eyesight. He was recently diagnosed with diabetes and says working from home has led to an unhealthy lifestyle. \"My eyesight was badly affected because blood sugar levels were so high. I couldn't really look at screens, so couldn't do work properly.\" He also says it can be difficult to set up a work desk correctly at home. \"In an office, someone sets up the chair properly, they have screens that protect eyes. There are more precautions.\" The latest ONS figures also showed the squeeze on pay remains, with wage increases failing to keep up with rising prices. Growth in regular pay, which excludes bonuses, was 6.7% in the first three months of the year, and pay growth in the public sector was 5.6% - the highest rate since 2003. However, when price rises are taken into account, regular pay fell by 2%. The latest figures from the ONS also showed: the employment rate edged up to 75.9% between January and March, helped by more part-time employees and self-employed workersthe unemployment rate also rose slightly to 3.9%the number of people on employers' payrolls dropped in April, the first decline in more than two yearsjob vacancy numbers fell for the 10th consecutive period, although there are still more than one million unfilled poststhe number of working days lost to strikes rose to 556,000 in March 2023, mainly due to walkouts in the health and education sectors. In response to the latest figures, the Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, said: \"It's encouraging that the unemployment rate remains historically low but difficulty in finding staff and rising prices are a worry for many families and businesses.\" But shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth said the government was a \"drag\" on the economy with family finances \"being squeezed to breaking point by a further fall in real wages\" and with fewer people in employment than before the pandemic. Additional reporting by Victoria Park and Emily Roberts", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10D10/production/_129708886_percypigicecream.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "In 2021, Columbia was ranked seventh in the world (sixth in the United States) by Academic Ranking of World Universities, sixth in the world by U\nColumbia has four official undergraduate colleges: Columbia College, the liberal arts college offering the Bachelor of Arts degree; the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (also known as SEAS or Columbia Engineering), the engineering and applied science school offering the Bachelor of Science degree; the School of General Studies, the liberal arts college offering the Bachelor of Arts degree to non-traditional students undertaking full- or part-time study; and Barnard College\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10D10/production/_129708886_percypigicecream.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "An ice cream parlour that renamed a product after a letter from Marks and Spencer said it \"couldn't keep up\" with the positive messages it had received. Fabio's Gelato, based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, was asked not to use the name Percy Pig in its ice cream. Owner Fabio Vincenti said it was a case of two companies that \"came together and came up with a good solution instead of arguing\". \"There wasn't any negativity, it was just well thought out,\" he said. Marks & Spencer said the Percy Pig name, which started life as a bag of sweets in 1992 but has since evolved to other ranges, could only be used on \"official M&S products\". Mr Vincenti posted a picture of the ice cream on social media last week and three days later he received a \"polite and fair\" letter from M&S asking for the name change. It said he could continue to use the sweets, but not the name of the product. After the letter was posted on social media and featured in the news, he said: \"I couldn't keep up with messages and notifications from friends and family and just messages from customers. \"I reckon 99% were positive, [they were] really chuffed to see it on TV, on the news, and saying 'well done'.\" 'Frantically making more' The ice cream has now been renamed \"Notorious P.I.G\", following an appeal on social media for a new moniker. Based on the rapper the Notorious B.I.G., Mr Vincenti said it was \"pretty funny, it made us laugh\". \"We saw another really good one - Hog'n Dazs - which was brilliant, but we said, 'we just can't use that',\" he said. Why are Percy Pigs a headache for M&S? He said since it had been on sale the flavour had \"gone down really well, we're frantically making more\". Mr Vincenti said he had to buy more sweets to make the ice cream \"so I'm still funding M&S\". He believed other parlours could recreate the ice cream and \"hopefully it'll be the flavour of the summer\". Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk or get in touch via WhatsApp on 0800 169 1830", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/642F/production/_128874652_gettyimages-1265235793.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " In the early 1970s, MOS IC technology enabled the integration of more than 10,000 transistors on a single chip\n By the 1950s, the success of digital electronic computers had spelled the end for most analog computing machines, but analog computers remained in use during the 1950s in some specialized applications such as education (slide rule) and aircraft (control systems)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/642F/production/_128874652_gettyimages-1265235793.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Greggs says sales have gone up nearly a fifth compared to this time in 2022, saying its food remains \"compelling\" to customers in the cost-of-living crisis. The bakery chain, which opened its first shop in Newcastle in 1951, opened 63 new shops this year and extended some opening hours. The company said hot food like chicken goujons, wedges and pizza were popular, adding total sales were up 17% on 2022. But it said inflation and pressures on incomes remained challenging. It said though it was confident its \"outstanding value proposition continues to be compelling\". In the past year Greggs has opened the new shops but closed 25 franchises, leaving it now with more than 2,360 outlets. The rise in 2023 was partly because the beginning of last year was impacted by the Omicron variant of coronavirus, Greggs said. The bakery announced in March plans to open 150 shops and extend opening hours. Greggs' chief executive Roisin Currie said customers were \"loving the versatility\" of hot and cold options. \"It's all about offering that choice, so people can come in more frequently,\" she said. \"They can come in time and time again and try lots of different things, as well as they favourites that they love.\" The company said sales growth was likely to \"normalise\" throughout 2023 if inflation started to ease. But it said it was still expecting cost inflation to reach about 9% to 10% this year, driven by staff pay pressures and higher energy costs. The national average price of its takeaway sausage roll is currently \u00a31.20, up from \u00a31 at the start of 2022. The company is increasingly targeting busy commuter areas, with new shops opening in London's Canary Wharf station and Cardiff and Glasgow airports. Ms Currie added the company had launched another two new Tasty cafes in Primark stores, including Bristol, to attract customers \"on the go\". The group is also currently choosing a location to trial a 24-hour drive thru, she added. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/166CD/production/_129735819_img_1166.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " It works especially well in The Breakfast Club because we keep waiting for the film to break out of its claustrophobic set and give us a typical teenage movie sex-or-violence scene\n\"=== Ancient breakfast ======= Ancient Egypt ====In Ancient Egypt, peasants ate a daily meal, most likely in the morning, consisting of soup, beer, bread, and onions before they left for work in the fields or work commanded by the pharaohs\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/166CD/production/_129735819_img_1166.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Adrienne Alher and Okan Aslan have spent almost 11 years growing their east London business. But it's more than that for them. Their vision was to create a shop that was sustainable and green, selling products sourced from suppliers who paid their staff a decent wage, and offering organic produce that didn't need packaging. Customers bring their own jars and bags and can stock up on everything from pasta and porridge to peanut butter and detergent. Stone Mini Market, in Leytonstone, grew from a small off-licence with a few refill stations to four times its original size as the demand for a greener way of shopping grew. But the owners say that, almost overnight, everything changed. Rising inflation among other global factors had a big effect on this small business. \"We became almost a luxury shop,\" Ms Alher said. \"The organic food became too expensive for 70% of our customers.\" Not all of the products Stone Mini Market sells are more expensive than you'd find in a supermarket, but suppliers' prices shot up with inflation, as did energy bills, by about 30%. The couple say sales are down by 60% and if the trend continues into the summer, they will have to close. Adrienne says theirs is one of the last shops of its kind left in the area. She added: \"We know of at least seven shops that have had to close.\" Organic food has a shorter shelf life than other food so if they don't sell it quickly, it is wasted. \"If there's no demand for what we do, then we are not proving we are sustainable and we have to stop,\" Adrienne says. She explains that customers are still coming in, but are buying less. \"Organic food became more expensive, and people are buying more of the cheaper, unethical food because of having no choice. \"People are choosing to buy from bigger, cheaper companies than smaller shops like ours where we had to put the prices up.\" She says she understands this and doesn't blame her customers. \"We all have to make choices,\" she adds. Last year, environmental organisation City to Sea commissioned a survey which suggested that 50% of people are doing less to reduce the use of single-use plastic than they were six months ago, as a result of increases in household bills. Steve Hynd, the policy manager at City to Sea, says people do still want to make changes for the sake of the planet. \"Plastic pollution is still a major issue for consumers,\" he says. \"They're trying to do the right thing; they're trying to make eco-choices.\" Why are prices rising so much?How easy is it to be green on a budget?Five hacks to help save money on your food shop But, he says, the cost of living is making it very difficult to do that as budgeting is the main priority. \"They're having to downgrade essentially how they shop and where they shop, and this often means going to supermarkets and buying products that are covered in plastic.\" The cost of living is now a bigger concern than climate change for many people, according to the Office for National Statistics. Its research found that cost \"is one of the largest barriers people face when making changes to help tackle climate change\". The \"eco-friendly\" delivery service Milk and More says it believes people will still try to be green, if it's also convenient. The business uses a fleet of electric vehicles to deliver produce in refillable containers to its 300,000 UK customers. It says it has also seen customers make different choices because of inflation. CEO Patrick Muller said: \"We saw a certain route from organic to basic products, so if people usually buy organic milk, now they're buying standard milk. These are the kind of moves we're seeing.\" He says the company was \"cautious\" about passing on rising costs to the customer and \"wanted the smallest amount of price increase as possible\". Back at the mini-market, Adrienne and Okan have had to be resourceful to keeping their business open - at least for now. It's currently being run as a community interest company, hosting sewing classes and other events. Adrienne says she hopes this will help them stay open, adding that they're grateful for the \"good community support\" they've been getting in Leytonstone. \"We're betting everything on it,\" she says. Follow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/DCB8/production/_129740565_gettyimages-1487983057.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "=== Early biographies ===Important sources regarding Muhammad's life may be found in the historic works by writers of the 2nd and 3rd centuries of the Muslim era (AH \u2013 8th and 9th century CE)\n 3, Book 30, Hadith 103)by Abu Hurairah:\"There are angels guarding the entrances (or roads) of Medina, neither plague nor Ad-Dajjal will be able to enter it\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/DCB8/production/_129740565_gettyimages-1487983057.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Elon Musk has been subpoenaed by the US Virgin Islands in a lawsuit accusing a Wall Street bank of enabling Jeffrey Epstein to sex traffic women. It calls on the Tesla boss to hand over any documents showing communication between him, JP Morgan Chase bank and Epstein, who died in 2019. Mr Musk is not accused of any wrongdoing in the case. On Monday, he also reiterated denials of suggestions that Epstein had provided him with financial advice. Jeffrey Epstein died in jail in New York in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. The Virgin Islands is suing JP Morgan Chase for allegedly helping enable Epstein's alleged crimes. Its case alleges trafficked women were sexually abused by Epstein and others on Little St. James, his private island in the territory. The Virgin Islands government has accused the bank of not acting on warning signs about the alleged crimes. The bank has denied the allegations. As part of the case, a court filing on Monday revealed the territory's authorities had tried to serve Mr Musk, the multi-billionaire owner of Twitter, with the subpoena but had been unsuccessful. \"The Government [of the US Virgin Islands] contacted Mr. Musk's counsel via email to ask if he would be authorized to accept service on Mr. Musk's behalf in this matter, but did not receive a response confirming or denying his authority,\" the filing said. The Virgin Islands also asked a Manhattan federal court judge to allow it to serve Mr Musk with the subpoena with Tesla's registered agent. Mr Musk may have been referred to the Wall Street banking giant by Epstein, according to the court filing. However, the Virgin Islands did not provide further explanation for its interest in obtaining documents from Mr Musk. Epstein, a financier, had been a client of JP Morgan from 2000 to 2013. Mr Musk was also been a customer - with JP Morgan in charge of Tesla's commercial banking business for several years. Mr Musk tweeted on Monday that the suggestion that he taken advice from Epstein was \"idiotic\" and called the late financier a \"dumb crook.\" Epstein, who was convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor, moved in social circles that included Prince Andrew and former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, as well as many key figures of the business world. Prosecutors in 2019 accused him of running a \"vast network\" of underage girls for sex. JP Morgan Chase has denied knowing about Epstein's crimes.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/14276/production/_129705528_gettyimages-97002748.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "In 2005, Campbell was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame\nHe is credited with giving Alan Jackson his first big break after Jackson recorded with Campbell's music publishing business in the early 1990s\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/14276/production/_129705528_gettyimages-97002748.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "At the end of last year, the lease on Eva Teh's flat in central Singapore came up for renewal. The Singaporean and her husband were expecting their monthly rent to rise. What they weren't prepared for was the 60% hike proposed by their landlord. \"We immediately went to search for available apartments. What we found gave us another shock. Rents have soared,\" she tells the BBC. \"The thought of not being able to afford a roof over our heads terrified us,\" she adds. \"It felt like doomsday.\" Ms Teh says she had little choice but to negotiate with her landlord for a better deal. Now, they pay S$2,900 ($2,185; \u00a31,732) a month for their one-bedroom home, up from S$1,950 before the rent hike. How a tote bag sparked a class debate in Singapore'Revenge partying' in strait-laced Singapore \"To cope with the increase in rent, I'm forcing myself to work harder so I can make more money,\" Ms Teh, who is a media freelancer, says. \"In months where I can't make ends meet, I will have to dip into my savings. Fortunately, we have an emergency fund for days like this.\" She is not alone. Surging rents have become a major issue in the South East Asian country. Private housing rents, which rose last year at the fastest pace in over a decade, have continued to climb in recent months. Prices are rising across the city-state's property market, with rents for properties in public housing blocks and high-end homes heading higher. According to real estate consultancy Knight Frank, Singapore now has the fastest rising luxury property rents, after overtaking New York. Rents have jumped as the pandemic delayed building projects and brought more locals into the market, the country's Housing and Development Board (HDB) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) tell the BBC. \"Rental demand has also increased as non-residents are returning to Singapore to work amidst the robust recovery from Covid-19,\" they add. The country's rental market has long been dominated by foreigners. This is because the majority of Singapore's 5.6m residents have bought long leases on subsidised public housing. Traditionally, Singaporeans would not leave their family home until they got married, but that's now changing. There is an increasing trend for younger Singaporeans choosing to rent, Tan Tee Khoon from the PropertyGuru real estate portal says. \"They wish to have their own space and live among a like-minded community. For that reason, co-living has become a more popular choice in recent times,\" he adds. When Singapore's pandemic restrictions were in place in 2021, Pearlyn Siew moved into a co-living property, where she had her own room and shared amenities, including bathrooms, a kitchen and laundry facilities. \"I needed space from my family after being in the same house throughout Covid. It felt really suffocating,\" she tells the BBC. \"My parents were not agreeable and we were on pretty bad terms,\" she adds. \"But my relationship with them improved after I got the space to take care of my own mental well-being. I was able to connect with them with a healthier nervous system.\" Meanwhile, Asher Chua moved out after struggling to work from a flat that he shared with his parents and three siblings. \"When your siblings are not working and you're living in the same room, your schedules tend to conflict. It becomes quite tough to live together when you are not in the same life stages,\" he says. Both Asher and Pearlyn are unmarried and under the age of 35, which means that they do not yet qualify for public housing. \"The eligibility rules limit access to affordable housing for singles, regardless of the individual's aspiration to have a place of one's own,\" says sociologist Chua Beng Huat. \"Families have a greater need for housing than single individuals, when the HDB is always trying to catch up with demand,\" Mr Chua adds. The rent increases have also hit the LGBT community, who make up a significant portion of renters. Same-sex marriages are not recognised in the country. It only recently repealed the controversial 377A law which banned sex between men. \"While housing policies which affect singles also affect the LGBT community, the community has its own set of problems,\" real estate agent William Tan says. \"Many people are not able to stay at their family home because of an unfriendly, dangerous or toxic environment. This forces them to rent,\" Mr Tan adds. There is some good news though, as rents are expected to fall with \"a significant housing supply coming onstream over the next few years,\" HDB and URA says. Close to 40,000 public and private homes are scheduled to be completed this year. That is the most in five years, according to official estimates. Another 60,000 homes are expected to be completed by 2025. \"As the supply comes onstream, Singaporeans who are temporarily renting while waiting for the completion of their new homes will vacate their rental units, and help ease the rental market,\" HDB and URA adds. \"The government will continue to monitor the property market closely and adjust our policies as necessary.\" However, Ms Teh will have to keep renting until her public housing apartment is ready in three years time. \"We talked through every single option that we had. Moving in with our family was not an option because our parents live overseas,\" she says. \"I'm hopeful that rents will go down as more new flats are completed. I think nobody could have prevented this from happening, because nobody could stop Covid from spreading.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16FA1/production/_129731149_centerparcs1.png", "label": 1, "text": "On April 1, 1988, Thai Airways Company Limited (TAC) merged with Thai Airways International, under the cabinet resolution, single national airline of the Kingdom of Thailand, as authorized by General Prem Tinsulanonda, Prime Minister at the time\n Some of Google's services, such as Gmail, Google News, Orkut, and AdSense originated from these independent endeavors\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16FA1/production/_129731149_centerparcs1.png", "label": 0, "text": "UK holiday village chain Center Parcs has been put up for sale by its owner, the Canadian private equity firm Brookfield. The company is looking to raise between \u00a34bn and \u00a35bn from the sale according to the Financial Times. Brookfield bought the business for about \u00a32.4bn in 2015. Center Parcs runs six holiday villages in the UK and Ireland which attract more than two million visitors every year. They are particularly popular with families as they offer a range of activities on-site, with an indoor waterpark as the central attraction and wooden cabins set in cycle-friendly forests. The first UK location opened in 1987, at Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. There are now holiday villages at Elveden Forest, Longleat Forest, Whinfell Forest and Woburn Forest. In 2019, it opened its first site in Ireland, with Center Parcs Longford Forest close to the town of Ballymahon in County Longford. The Financial Times said that Brookfield had appointed investment bankers to sound out potential buyers, including other private equity firms. Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell, said there still appeared to be strong demand for Center Parcs holidays for now, with some wealthier holidaymakers trading down from holidays abroad. \"During the pandemic Brits rushed to snap up sought after places, but even with cash-strapped families ditching the extra 'staycation' in favour of one holiday, it's clear by the prices and availability that there's still more than enough business to go around - so far,\" she said. But rising mortgage costs and the difficult economic climate did raise a question over future growth, she added. Earlier this year, Center Parcs scrapped plans to develop a new holiday village in West Sussex. In July 2021, the company had secured an option agreement to acquire Oldhouse Warren, a privately-owned woodland on the outskirts of Crawley. However, Center Parcs said a \"rigorous\" environmental survey had revealed that the site was not suitable for development. Environmentalists had argued that the site would destroy established woodland and damage the habitats of rare birds. At the end of last year Center Parcs said occupancy rates were at 97.3%, and broadly in line with pre-Covid levels. Revenue of \u00a3426.6m between April and December last year represented a 20% increase compared to the same period a year earlier, and 18% higher than before the pandemic. Last year, Center Parcs was forced to backtrack over a decision to ask guests to leave its sites on the day of the Queen's funeral. When it announced the move, it said the decision was made \"as a mark of respect\" and to allow employees to \"be part of this historic moment\". But the move prompted angry complaints from holidaymakers as it would have meant some guests would have had to leave part-way through their break and return afterwards. Center Parcs UK is a separate business from Center Parcs Europe, which has holiday villages in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and France. The European business is still owned by Blackstone Group which sold the UK part of the business to Brookfield in 2015.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/758/cpsprodpb/cc59/live/264de8d0-f340-11ed-ad5f-c71f20f67103.png", "label": 1, "text": " The most prominent state being the Emirate of Kabul, ruled by Dost Mohammad Khan after he declared himself emir and was bestowed upon the title of Amir al-Mu'minin in summer 1826 after he usurped the throne from his brother, Sultan Mohammad Khan\n However, Afghanistan remained neutral and was neither a participant in World War II nor aligned with either power bloc in the Cold War thereafter\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/758/cpsprodpb/cc59/live/264de8d0-f340-11ed-ad5f-c71f20f67103.png", "label": 0, "text": "A residential home for elderly and vulnerable people is to close amid \"unsustainable\" pressures and the cost of living crisis.Shotley Park Care Home in County Durham has called in liquidators after it was \"unable to meet its financial obligations\".The privately-run site, in Shotley Bridge near Consett, is home to almost 40 residents and more than 60 staff.Durham County Council is taking \"immediate steps\" to ensure residents are \"offered alternative\" housing. The home, which is due to close in the coming weeks, has informed residents and staff.It said its owners, who are in their 80s and 90s, had tried to keep the business running for years but had been unable to do so.This included through failed attempts to seek external investment and efforts to sell the business.\"The directors have put in a tremendous effort to keep the home open over the years,\" Martyn Pullin of liquidator FRP said.\"Unfortunately, the pressures on Shotley Park\u2019s finances have become too great and unsustainable and the business simply can\u2019t continue trading any further\".It said that it is working with the Care Quality Commission and council to \"ensure a smooth transition\" for residents. Neil Jarvis, the council's senior commissioning delivery manager, said it was supporting residents and staff.He said its teams had started work on finding alternative accommodation for those who required it.Meanwhile, he said it would be supporting affected staff who may wish to work at remaining locations in the sector. Mr Pullin added: \u201cWe understand that this will be a difficult time for residents and their loved ones, but also the dedicated staff at Shotley\". Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, external, Facebook, external and Instagram, external. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A34B/production/_129730814_vice1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "=== Lumber, waterpower, and flour milling ===Minneapolis's two founding industries\u2014lumber and flour milling\u2014developed in the 19th century concurrently\n A 1989 Minnesota Archaeological Society analysis of the Minneapolis riverfront describes the use of water power in Minneapolis between 1880 and 1930 as \"the greatest direct-drive waterpower center the world has ever seen\"\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A34B/production/_129730814_vice1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The company behind the websites Vice and Motherboard has filed for bankruptcy in the US and is set to be sold to a group of its lenders. Vice Media Group - which was valued at $5.7bn (\u00a34.5bn) in 2017 - could be taken over for $225m. The youth-focused digital publisher said it will continue to operate during the bankruptcy process. It added that it \"expects to emerge as a financially healthy and stronger company in two to three months\". Launched in 1994 as a fringe magazine called Voice of Montreal by Shane Smith, Gavin McInnes and Suroosh Alvi, Vice currently operates in more than 30 countries. It was once heralded as part of vanguard of companies set to disrupt the traditional media landscape with edgy, youth-focused content spanning print, events, music, online, TV and feature films. After a visit to the Brooklyn-based firm's office in 2012, media mogul Rupert Murdoch tweeted: \"Who's heard of VICE media? Wild, interesting effort to interest millennials who don't read or watch established media. Global success.\" Past credits have included My Journey Inside the Islamic State, in which a Vice journalist filmed alongside the terror group in Syria. It also followed basketball star Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters team on a \"sports diplomacy\" trip to North Korea. More recent fare has included documentaries about controversial influencer Andrew Tate and a film about Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, by actor Sean Penn. Vice Media Group's investors include Fortress Investment Group, Monroe Capital and Soros Fund Management - the firm founded by fund manager and billionaire George Soros. The hope was that Vice would reap the financial rewards from attracting millions of younger readers through social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram. However, the company's revenues have been flat for some years and it has also struggled to turn a profit. Vice's plans to go public through a merger also failed. \"The issue with Vice and all similar websites is that they never really worked out a business model for free online journalism,\" Joseph Teasdale, head of technology at Enders Analysis, told the BBC. Websites like Vice came along at the same time as the first dotcom boom was in its infancy and technology start-ups were springing up. \"There was a tendency at the time to treat everything like software, where you do your investment up front, attract a bunch of users, and then eventually when you're big enough you become incredibly profitable,\" he said. \"But it turns out content doesn't work like that - if you want people to keep coming back to your website, or to reach new people in new markets, you have to keep spending to make new content.\" And some of Vice's content was \"pretty expensive journalism\", Mr Teasdale said, involving global trips. Last month, Vice announced layoffs after its flagship TV programme was shut down. BuzzFeed, another pioneering online platform, also recently announced that it was shutting down its news division and laying off 15% of its workforce amid serious financial challenges and a slump in advertising revenue. Vice Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a procedure which postpones a US company's obligations to its creditors, giving it time to reorganise its debts or sell parts of the business. Announcing the bankruptcy move, Bruce Dixon and Hozefa Lokhandwala, Vice's co-chief executive officers, said: \"This accelerated court-supervised sale process will strengthen the company and position Vice for long-term growth.\" Vice's lenders have approved $20m of funding to keep the firm going through the bankruptcy process. During this time, other firms can submit \"higher or better\" bids for the media company. If these offers are not successful, Vice Media's lenders will acquire the publisher for $225m. The sale process is expected to take about two to three months.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10D10/production/_129708886_percypigicecream.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "With five titles, Brazil are the most successful World Cup team and also the only nation to have played in every World Cup (22) to date\nMiroslav Klose of Germany (2002\u20132014) is the all-time top scorer at the World Cup with 16 goals\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10D10/production/_129708886_percypigicecream.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "An ice cream parlour has changed the name of one its products after a \"polite\" request from Marks & Spencer. Fabio's Gelato, based in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, only began making its Percy Pig ice cream last week. But the retailing giant sent the owner Fabio Vincenti a letter which said he could continue to use the sweets, but not the name of the product. \"It is what it is, they've got to protect Percy Pig,\" he said. Marks & Spencer said the name of Percy Pig, which started life as a bag of sweets in 1992 but has since evolved to other ranges, could only be used on \"official M&S products\". The ice cream parlour uses several different branded items for flavours, including chocolate bars, energy drinks and Marmite. Mr Vincenti said: \"We've done so many different brands of ice cream.\" He said the feedback was generally positive from the various companies but he \"wondered why no-one ever moaned and always knew someone might say something\". The \"polite and fair\" letter from M&S was received on Thursday, along with some packets of the swine-faced treat, he said. Mr Vincenti posted a copy of the letter on social media, saying he could continue to make the ice cream, but had to change the name to something such as \"Pig Faces or Pig Sweets\". The letter said: \"Percy Pig is one of our 'hero' brands and we own trade marks to protect it. \"We risk losing those trade marks (and more importantly to us, consumers will no longer be confident Percy Pig-branded products originate from M&S) if we do not take steps to stop others from using them without our permission.\" Mr Vincenti said the ice cream had already proved popular online and would, for now, be renamed \"Fabio's Pig\". An M&S spokesman said it was \"careful to only put [Percy Pig's] name on official M&S products\". \"It's flattering that he's inspired Fabio's new gelato and we hope they enjoy the treat we sent,\" he said. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9877/production/_129713093_mediaitem129713088.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " This is generally translated fully in English Bible versions such as \"his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace\" (KJV)\n Adebayor's second goal against Tottenham won Match of the Day's Goal of the Season competition for the 2007\u201308 season\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9877/production/_129713093_mediaitem129713088.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "In the dusty cornfields of West Kentucky, an area which had long ago been abandoned as an industrial site is once again coming to life. US manufacturer Ascend Elements has chosen the site to build a factory for electric car batteries made from recycled ones - an industry previously almost entirely based in China. It has been drawn here by US incentives. The country is spending billions in new subsidies via loans and tax breaks targeted at green energy and vehicles. Half of Ascend's initial $1bn build costs were covered by the US government under this new scheme, known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The move is part of tectonic shifts emerging in where the world makes everything. It could spark a global trade war between Western allies, as the EU responds to the US plans in kind. It is about those in the West refusing to bow to what was thought to be the inevitable ascent of China to being the world's biggest economy. And it is about the livelihoods of those hoping to find employment in the industries of the future. In Britain, it means there are choices to be made. A government preoccupied with Brexit and domestic political turmoil may have missed the start of a carve-up of future industries between giant trading blocs coming out of the pandemic. The presumption that has dominated British politics for nearly half a century that governments do not \"pick winners\" in industry, is being severely tested by the fact that most G7 allies are doing just that, because of the push to reduce carbon emissions to net zero, post pandemic supply chain concerns and a wish to decouple from China. John Neil, the boss of major UK manufacturing firm Unipart, says the combination of incentives offered by the US and similar government and regional plans could amount to $10 trillion - five times the size of the entire UK economy. \"The risk is that we're standing on the side lines while these big blocks compete\u2026 playing the game. I'm not sure that anybody [in UK politics] has calibrated the scale of change that that IRA and the Chips Act and the rest of it is going to have.\" Mr Neil's publicly stated view reflects the private view of many in the UK car industry and beyond. The blueprint for the US plan was written during the pandemic. On the side lines of an IMF finance ministers meeting at the G7 in late 2021 the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen invented an entirely new word: \"friendshoring\". It was a play on the efforts to \"reshore\" domestic production in critical industries, but including allies or \"friends\" in these rebuilt supply chains. The French were cock-a-hoop when President Biden expanded upon the plan. Tellingly, French finance minister Bruno Le Maire, back then talked about reducing dependence, not just on China, but on East Asian allies too. The year before, Le Maire had been privately shocked when his officials reported that the supply chain for European electric car batteries was 85% dependent on China. For solar panels it was 95%. Indeed that week, Biden had promised \"never again\" to be dependent on another nation in critical industries. At a rally to promote his push in January President Biden told car workers: \"You see I'm getting criticised internationally for focussing too much on America. To Hell with that. Where is it written that America can't lead the world in manufacturing again?\" Insiders say that although the focus is on green industries, the strategy is about supporting middle income jobs and wages in left behind areas - the regions where US presidential elections are decided. Former US President Donald Trump took Kentucky by some margin in 2016, and promised to deregulate the industry, abandon climate change efforts and allow the mines to reopen. It did not happen. Mining union boss Steve Earle recognises the targeted nature of the White House's investment drive, channelling new industries to set up close to where the coal mines shut down, going as far as paying former miners their union wages. \"We welcome the funding, we welcome the jobs, but I want President Biden to come from Washington DC down here and see first hand how these people have suffered for several years,\" he tells me. While Mr Earle and his fellow miners seem no fans of Trump, they are sceptical of this new world of green technology and electric cars. \"Range anxiety\" in states as wide open and empty as Kentucky is still inherent, and especially so for the farmers. The IRA and other policies are designed to capture the clean energy transition and channel the benefits of these changes to areas that have been left behind. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen calls it: \"Modern supply side economics\". Supply side economics is typically seen as the opposite of what President Biden is doing right now. It focuses on the benefits of free trade, free markets, low taxes and deregulation. Ms Yellen says that these policies have led a \"race to the bottom\". Instead, she said in a speech last year: \"Essentially, we aren't just focused on achieving a high, top-line growth number that is unsustainable - we are instead aiming for growth that is inclusive and green.\" Washington insiders say there is an important change in strategy on environmental policy. Where as climate policy had long focused on the stick of regulation, such as capping emissions, it is now focused on the carrot of incentives, on a massive scale. This has brought business on board. To criticism around the world that it is diverting investment from Europe and Asia to the US, deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo says the US wants the rest of the world to follow suit, and praises Canada which has just announced similar extraordinary incentives for electric car makers. He acknowledges there are \"Made in America\" clauses but says they represent a \"small element\" of the support package. The EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis points out that EU nations would not have dreamt of excluding US-made Tesla from their electric car subsidies. \"Many EU member states also have subsidy schemes for electric vehicles, but they are non-discriminatory. What the US is doing... discriminating against other producers, is also making it... more inefficient in terms of green transition, because the best technology will not always be available\". One European leader told me the US had said the targeting of European industry was all a \"giant accident\", and was not meant \"aggressively\". In the US, insiders said the IRA had been created by Biden's environment team rather than his trade team, who just assumed there was already a relevant trade deal in place with the EU. There was not. The policy aim was to ensure that EU producers were given the same allowances as other allies such as Canada. If there were subsidy wars, however, the big EU nations would be able to compete, and side line the smaller ones, creating significant pressures on the European single market. So where does this all leave the UK? Not formally involved in the US-EU talks. Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch had \"compared notes\" with Dombrovskis. There could be a minerals agreement to help UK car exporters benefit from the US car incentives. The official line articulated by both the Chancellor and the Energy Secretary is that the US is playing catch up with Europe and the UK on climate change, and that the UK uses double the proportion of renewables as the US. But the language used by government appears to be evolving. Just last month cabinet ministers described US plans as \"protectionist\" and \"dangerous\", and insisted the UK would not go \"toe to toe\" with the US. But manufacturers have been spelling out the consequences of standing on the side lines in public, and even more so in private. Now there is some talk of focusing on target sectors, even the return of \"industrial strategy\" two years after the phrase was banished by Kwasi Kwarteng. The government's self-imposed fiscal rule to aim for reducing national debt, limits room for manoeuvre and spending power. Labour has embraced the language of a British \"Inflation Reduction Act\" but as yet has not committed significant new money to such plans. Would the Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves want to announce a loosening of the purse strings that risked acceptance of a rising national debt in the economy? In the US, President Biden is facing pressure to cut from Congressional Republicans threatening debt limit legislation. Britain's post-Brexit economic strategy has been to focus on areas of strength that might benefit from faster, more effective or lighter regulation outside the EU - life sciences, the city and AI. But John Neil and others fear the UK is being squeezed between the US & EU in this new world, especially in industries which had been promised \"levelling up\". The chancellor has said he awaits the EU response to the US push. This may reflect a calculation that the EU might not respond quite as hard as expected, given some splits. But this is the crux of the dilemma. The US is engaged in a massive atypical economic intervention designed to change the map of global production, address left behind areas and the net zero challenge as well as reducing reliance on China. It is here to stay and other blocs, especially the EU, will respond and are already fast-tracking some subsidies. So, the question is should the UK follow suit, and can it afford to follow suit? There are fears in industry the scale of the intervention elsewhere means that it is already too late. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/60AF/production/_129715742_gettyimages-474401450.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "== Personality traits ==In a January 2014 study, conducted in the British Journal of Psychiatry, scientists found that comedians tend to have high levels of psychotic personality traits\n In July 2019, Carpenter began work on a fifth studio album\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/60AF/production/_129715742_gettyimages-474401450.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A company that supplies airbag parts to about one-quarter of US vehicles has rejected a request to recall its defective product. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said ARC Automotive's airbag inflators had ruptured and caused injury on several occasions due to a safety defect. It urged the parts maker to immediately withdraw 67 million of its inflators. ARC replied that the agency's findings did not support a large-scale recall. Concerns over airbag inflators that explode and hurl shrapnel at passengers have long plagued the motor industry. ARC's products are used by several top car makers, including BMW, General Motors, Hyundai and Kia. GM on Friday agreed to recall almost one million vehicles. The driver of a GM-made SUV sustained facial injuries from a ruptured airbag this March. That incident is one of nine, dating back to 2009, that was cited by the NHTSA in a letter to the parts supplier that presented the findings of an eight-year investigation. \"An airbag inflator that ruptures when deploying in a vehicle is plainly defective,\" wrote Stephen Ridella, director of the NHTSA office of defects investigation. Recommending an immediate recall for safety reasons, he warned the defect had created \"an unreasonable risk of death and injury\" to front-seat passengers. The company wrote back on Thursday that it \"strongly disagrees\" with the NHTSA's findings. \"ARC takes any potential issue with its products very seriously,\" said Steve Gold, ARC's vice-president of product integrity. But, he said, investigators had failed to identify any \"systemic or prevalent defect\" in the inflators, instead relying on incidents that resulted from \"random \"one-off\" manufacturing anomalies\" that have already been addressed. The stand-off is likely to tee up a legal battle if the two parties cannot reach an agreement. The spat is reminiscent of the years-long recall of more than 100 million defective inflators sold by Takata Corporation. The sprawling recall was the largest in the history of the US motor industry and ultimately led the Japanese parts maker to file for bankruptcy.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/17C8D/production/_129712479_gettyimages-1469401572.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " It was voted Greater Manchester's favourite building by readers of the Manchester Evening News in 2012 and in the same year featured in a series of Royal Mail stamps commemorating British landmarks\n Both buildings are topped by very tall towers, have ancient clocks by which the townsfolk can regulate their lives, and have storerooms for muniments\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/17C8D/production/_129712479_gettyimages-1469401572.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Elon Musk has named a new chief executive of Twitter, just over six months after his controversial takeover of the social media company. The billionaire said Linda Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal, would oversee business operations at the site, which has been struggling to make money. He said she would start in six weeks. Mr Musk will remain involved as executive chairman and chief technology officer. \"Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app,\" he wrote on Twitter, confirming the decision a day after he had stoked speculation by writing that he had found a new boss without revealing their identity. Mr Musk - who bought the social media platform last year for $44bn - had been under pressure to find someone else to lead the company and refocus his attention on his other businesses, which include electric carmaker Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX. With fewer than 10% of Fortune 500 tech companies headed by women, Ms Yaccarino will become that rare example of a woman at the top of a major tech firm, after rising steadily through the ranks of some of America's biggest media companies. Ms Yaccarino was raised in an Italian-American family. After graduating from Penn State, she worked at Turner Entertainment for 15 years before joining NBCUniversal, where she oversaw roughly 2,000 people, and was involved with the launch of its streaming service. Her work has been marked by close collaborations with big brands, finding opportunities for product placement and convincing them to advertise alongside television shows - even ones with a reputation for edgy content, such as Sex and the City when it first launched. She has also built relationships in new media with the likes of Apple News, Snapchat and YouTube. A 2005 profile in an industry publication portrayed her as a busy, married mother-of-two children, then aged 13 and 9. \"I have absolutely no hobbies,\" she said at the time. Business Insider's Claire Atkinson has followed Ms Yaccarino's career for two decades and said her background in advertising could help Twitter, which has seen its ad sales drop sharply since Mr Musk's takeover. \"If Twitter are looking to monetise better than they have been, then that would be the place to start and Linda would be the ideal person to make that happen,\" the chief media correspondent said. \"She's the kind of person that I can imagine Elon Musk needs,\" Ms Atkinson added. \"She won't be rolled over.\" Indeed, her negotiating style within the industry earned her the nickname the \"velvet hammer\", according to the Wall Street Journal in 2012. Ms Yaccarino will face the challenge of running a business that has struggled to be profitable, while facing intense scrutiny over how Twitter handles the spread of misinformation and manages hate speech. When Mr Musk first started discussing his plans for Twitter last year, he said he wanted to reduce the platform's reliance on advertising and make changes to the way it moderated content. He also said he wanted to expand the site's functions to include payments, encrypted messaging and phone calls, turning it into something he called X. But Mr Musk courted controversy when he fired thousands of staff upon his takeover, including people who had been tasked with dealing with abusive posts. He also overhauled the way the service authenticates accounts, charging for blue ticks in a move critics said would facilitate the spread of misinformation. Some of the changes raised concerns among advertisers, worried about risks to their brands, who subsequently halted spending on the site. Mr Musk has acknowledged \"massive\" declines in revenue, though he told the BBC last month that companies were returning. At an advertising conference last month Ms Yaccarino interviewed Mr Musk and pressed him on what he was doing to reassure firms that their brands would not be exposed to risk. \"The people in this room are your accelerated path to profitability,\" she said. \"But there's a decent bit of sceptics in the room.\" There has also been some instant scepticism at Ms Yaccarino's appointment on social media, where many were looking for clues to her politics, which reportedly lean conservative. Her work for the World Economic Forum, an organisation viewed negatively as \"globalist\" by those on the right, has not been well-received in some quarters along with her role in a coronavirus vaccination campaign featuring Pope Francis. Others on the left have questioned her political involvement in a White House sports, fitness and nutrition council under former President Donald Trump. Mr Musk, who has also put women in senior positions at SpaceX and Tesla, is known to be a notoriously unpredictable and demanding boss. Even the announcement unfolded in an unusual manner, after media reports sparked by Mr Musk's post that identified Ms Yaccarino appeared to catch her bosses at NBCUniversal off guard. As of mid-Friday in the US, Ms Yaccarino had still not commented publicly on the move. Industry watchers will be curious to see how the relationship develops between the New Yorker and the until now hands-on Mr Musk. Ms Atkinson said the two Twitter executives would be facing \"difficult conversations\" about how to handle moderation, especially with the 2024 presidential election approaching in the US. \"How long Linda can last under these tricky management situations is anyone's guess,\" Ms Atkinson said. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B79D/production/_129750074_gettyimages-1236193308.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Competition is often considered to be the opposite of cooperation, however in the real world, mixtures of cooperation and competition are the norm\n The Albee Award, sponsored by the Yale Drama Series, is among the most prestigious playwriting awards\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B79D/production/_129750074_gettyimages-1236193308.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A former Apple engineer has been charged with stealing the company's self-driving car technology, almost five years after he fled to China. Prosecutors accuse Weibao Wang, 35, of stealing thousands of files containing proprietary information while secretly working for an unnamed Chinese company. Six counts of theft or attempted theft of trade secrets are in the indictment. This is the third time an ex-Apple employee has been accused of stealing autonomous tech secrets for China. The justice department alleges Mr Wang stole documents containing the source code for the software and hardware behind the self-driving systems. Mr Wang joined Apple in March 2016 as a member of the team that developed technology for autonomous systems, the justice department said. He signed a confidentiality agreement about the project, which was at the time known to very few people within the company. Mr Wang left Apple on 16 April 2018, the indictment said. Unbeknownst to the firm, he had accepted an offer more than four months earlier to work as an engineer at another company developing self-driving cars, said US prosecutors. That company, unnamed in the indictment, is based in China, said prosecutors. Law enforcement searched Mr Wang's home in Mountain View, California, in June 2018 while he was there. He told authorities he had no plans to leave the US. That same day, he bought a one-way ticket from San Francisco to Guangzhou, China, the justice department said. An analysis of the devices seized from Mr Wang's home showed he had stored large quantities of Apple data on self-driving car technology. In a press conference, the US Attorney for the Northern District of California, Ismail Ramsey, said Mr Wang remained in China. If he were ever extradited and convicted, he could face 10 years in prison for each of the six charges. Apple did not respond to BBC's request for a comment. Two other former Apple employees have previously been charged in similar cases involving the theft of trade secrets. Xiaolang Zhang pleaded guilty last year in a court in San Jose, California. He was arrested in 2018 as he tried to board a flight to China. Another ex-Apple employee, Jizhong Chen, faces similar charges.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/38D0/production/_129744541_gettyimages-1247310019.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Director Mike Nichols, who had seen Cher onstage in Jimmy Dean, offered her the part of Dolly Pelliker, a plant co-worker and Meryl Streep's lesbian roommate in the film Silkwood\n The song was rejected by many radio stations programmers as they thought Cher's deep contralto vocals were a man's vocals; therefore, they believed it was a male homosexual singing a love song dedicated to the Beatles drummer Ringo Starr\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/38D0/production/_129744541_gettyimages-1247310019.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Facebook parent company Meta has begun rolling out a paid verification service in the UK. Similar to Elon Musk's Twitter Blue, the service gives Facebook and Instagram users a blue tick from \u00a39.99 per month. Subscribers must be at least 18 years old and submit a government ID to qualify. The feature is already available in the US, Australia and New Zealand. People who registered interest in Meta Verified will receive a notification when it becomes available to them. It is rolling out to others in the UK in the coming weeks. Those approved by Meta will get a verified badge, which the tech firm says will give them more protection from impersonation, in part because it will monitor their accounts to check for fakers. It says verified users will also get \"access to a real person\" if they have any issue with their account. The move comes after Mr Musk implemented the premium Twitter Blue subscription in November 2022. The service proved controversial at the time as it replaced the previous system, where blue ticks were used to verify that high-profile accounts belonged to the people they claimed to be. Mr Musk removed what became termed \"legacy\" verification ticks from account holders on 20 April - reserving the \"verified\" blue badge for those who had paid for Twitter Blue, and authenticated their phone number. The blue tick removal process led to mass confusion as high-profile users like Hillary Clinton lost their verification badges and subscribers were able to edit their own username to impersonate them. Twitter later chose to return blue ticks to a number of celebrities, governments and organisations for free. Both Facebook and Instagram already have a verification system for notable figures, and Meta does not appear to be planning to scrap this anytime soon. According to the support pages for the platforms, as well as subscribing to Meta Verified, users can still apply for a verified badge if they are \"a public figure, celebrity or brand and meet the account and eligibility requirements\". The decision to add a paid-for verification system amounts to a change of direction for Facebook and Instagram, which have previously both been free to use in all circumstances since they rose to prominence. The services have relied on advertising income, which makes up the vast majority of Meta's revenue. While both can still be used for free, the decision to add a paid tier which increases prominence is an attempt to find other ways of monetising the platforms. It comes six months after the company announced 11,000 job losses as a result of what it said was over-investment during the pandemic. At the time, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg said he had predicted an increase in the company's growth but that ultimately had not happened.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1572E/production/_129745878_gettyimages-1490199975.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "English and French are recognized by the Constitution of Canada as official languages\n As a result, Corey Taylor was recruited from fellow Des Moines band Stone Sour; this moved Colsefni to backing vocals and percussion\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1572E/production/_129745878_gettyimages-1490199975.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Twitter's decision to block certain content in Turkey the day before its presidential election was wrong, says the founder of Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales told the BBC his organisation had spent two and a half years in court to avoid similar demands made by Turkey in the past. He said he believed the tech sector should stand together in defending free access to information. Twitter's owner Elon Musk said Turkey had threatened to block the whole site. In 2014, Turkish President Recep Erdogan did exactly that, vowing to \"wipe out\" the social network after corruption allegations about his administration were shared on the platform. Wikipedia was also banned in Turkey for almost three years after refusing to delete articles that criticised the government. Turkey's election will be decided in a run-off later this month, after no clear winner emerged from this weekend's voting. In a tweet, Twitter said four accounts and 409 tweets had been identified by the Turkish government in a court order, which the firm had then blocked. Twitter added that it would \"continue to object in court\" to it. The content is still visible outside of Turkey. But Mr Wales said Twitter should have stood its ground. \"We have been blocked in various places around the world at different times, we have never given in to censorship and we never will,\" he told me on the BBC's tech podcast Tech Life. \"If governments around the world believe that in order to get political advantage they can control what their political opponents are saying online or prevent them from speaking online, then they will try that.\" He said Twitter's actions would put pressure on other websites to comply with future demands. \"I think people in the industry should really stand up and vigorously say no - actually an open internet, a free internet, the free sharing of ideas and knowledge is really crucially important,\" he added. Elon Musk has described himself as a \"free speech absolutist\" and has spoken at length about his commitment to giving everybody a platform to have their say. Twitter said it was told by the Turkish government that it was the only social network which had not complied with its court orders. The BBC has not been able to verify this. Wikipedia and Twitter are clearly very different services - there is no \"tell us what you think\" box on the online encyclopedia which Mr Wales said made moderation a lot less complex. Follow Zoe Kleinman on Twitter @zsk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/57F2/production/_129741522_gettyimages-1467404622.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "H\nI\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/57F2/production/_129741522_gettyimages-1467404622.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Tom Hanks has raised the prospect of his career continuing after his death using artificial intelligence. The Forrest Gump and Cast Away actor said the technology could be used to recreate his image, ensuring he continued to appear in movies \"from now until kingdom come\". But he admitted the developments posed artistic and legal challenges. His remarks came as the Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant said AI could be used by musicians to complete songs. Hanks, 66, was asked about the legal ramifications of the new technology in the latest episode of The Adam Buxton podcast. \"This has always been lingering,\" he said. \"The first time we did a movie that had a huge amount of our own data locked in a computer - literally what we looked like - was a movie called The Polar Express. \"We saw this coming, we saw that there was going to be this ability to take zeros and ones from inside a computer and turn it into a face and a character. That has only grown a billion-fold since then and we see it everywhere.\" The Polar Express, released in 2004, was the first film entirely animated using digital motion-capture technology. Hanks said talks are being held in the film industry about how to protect actors from the effects of the technology. \"I can tell you that there is discussions going on in all of the guilds, all of the agencies, and all of the legal firms in order to come up with the legal ramifications of my face and my voice and everybody else's being our intellectual property,\" Hanks added. \"What is a bona fide possibility right now is, if I wanted to, I could get together and pitch a series of seven movies that would star me in them in which I would be 32 years old from now until kingdom come. \"Anybody can now recreate themselves at any age they are by way of AI or deep fake technology. I could be hit by a bus tomorrow and that's it, but performances can go on and on and on and on. \"Outside the understanding of AI and deep fake, there'll be nothing to tell you that it's not me and me alone. \"And it's going to have some degree of lifelike quality. That's certainly an artistic challenge but it's also a legal one.\" Similar technology has already been used in the latest Indiana Jones film, for which Harrison Ford, 80, was \"de-aged\" for the opening sequence. Filmmakers trawled archived material of the younger Ford before matching it to new footage, creating the illusion of Indiana Jones in 1944. Hanks acknowledged that the technological developments could lead to an AI-generated version of himself appearing in films he may not not normally choose. He said: \"Without a doubt people will be able to tell [that it's AI], but the question is will they care? There are some people that won't care, that won't make that delineation.\" Tom Hanks says he is not always Mr Nice GuyGrimes says anyone can use her voice for AI songsDrake and The Weeknd AI song pulled from Spotify AI is also posing dilemmas for the music industry, with conflicting reactions to its use to make music by artists. A song created using the cloned voices of Drake and The Weeknd was pulled from streaming services last month, but Grimes has encouraged musicians to use her voice to make music. Pet Shop Boys' singer Neil Tennant told the Radio Times he was excited about the potential of the technology. \"There's a song that we wrote a chorus for in 2003 and we never finished because I couldn't think of the verses, \" he said. \"But now with AI you could give it the bits you've written, press the button and have it fill in the blanks. You might then rewrite it but it would be a tool.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AB07/production/_129338734_castleview5.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Both shows featured characters who traveled to and from the past\n This is a high-cost process and thus mostly reserved for refining bullion containing high percentages of impurities\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/AB07/production/_129338734_castleview5.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Plans for a 5G mast which conservationists said would \"damage\" an iconic view of Edinburgh Castle have been scrapped following a backlash. More than 320 objections were lodged against the proposed 17m (56ft) structure on Johnston Terrace, which passes below the castle. Mobile network Three UK originally said the mast would not spoil the view. However it has withdrawn its application following a review and said it was trying to find a suitable site. Plans for 5G mast in Edinburgh 'will damage iconic castle view' A spokesperson for Three said: \"We want to offer a great network experience in the area and our planners determined that a new site was required to deliver it. \"Following a review, we have withdrawn our application and are working with the city planning team to try to find a suitable location for the mast.\" The firm added that 5G rollout is vital for residents, visitors and businesses in the centre of Edinburgh. The mast was proposed by CK Hutchison Networks to help provide coverage for Three UK's network. It proposed to build the structure on Johnstone Terrace at the top of Granny's Green Steps - which is just below the castle rock. Historic Environment Scotland, which manages Edinburgh Castle, said it had not been consulted about the plans. Many city tours stop in the Grassmarket area so visitors can capture the view looking up at the landmark. Terry Levinthal, director of Scotland's oldest conservation charity the Cockburn Association, welcomed news of the plans being withdrawn. He previously told the BBC it was \"unacceptable\" to erect a mast in such a significant location. On Tuesday, he said: \"It has to be appropriate for the place. Some places have 5G masts that are not necessarily pretty, but are not having an impact - but in some places, it is. \"There is is a duty in any planning application to make sure any proposal preserves the character and appearance of the area. \"What we hope for in future is for operators, the city council and other interested parties to sit down and begin thinking of the best way of doing this and what are the sensitive areas.\" Mr Levinthal added he was happy to have discussions with companies who wanted to develop in conservation areas. In Edinburgh alone 50 areas have been granted the status, which recognises parts of special architectural or historic interest.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1D5A/production/_129741570_6424554b-6a6e-4b3e-8a9c-d06c8150f20a.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The city lies at the transition between USDA plant hardiness zones 6b (most of the city) and 7a (Downtown, South Boston, and East Boston neighborhoods)\nBoston has been a noted religious center from its earliest days\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1D5A/production/_129741570_6424554b-6a6e-4b3e-8a9c-d06c8150f20a.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Vodafone will axe 11,000 jobs over the next three years as the new chief executive sets out her plans to \"simplify\" the telecoms giant. The cuts equal around a tenth of its global workforce and will affect its UK headquarters and other countries. Margherita Della Valle, who is also Vodafone's finance director, said its \"performance has not been good enough\". Vodafone has 12,000 staff in Britain, based in seven offices including at its UK headquarters in Berkshire. The firm, which had 104,000 staff worldwide last year, has already outlined plans to cut jobs in some areas. The UK telecoms giant has struggled with higher energy bills which are driving up costs and impacting its profits. It has also seen weaker sales in Germany, its biggest market, as well as Italy and Spain where it has struggled to keep pace with rivals. \"Part of that can be tied to falling customer satisfaction levels in those regions,\" said Matt Britzman, an analyst at investment firm Hargreaves Lansdown. Vodafone's broadband service in the UK was the second most complained about of any major provider in the three months to December, according to the industry watchdog Ofcom. It also faced embarrassment in April when a problem knocked out its broadband services for around 11,000 UK customers. \"To consistently deliver, Vodafone must change,\" said Ms Della Valle, who was appointed as Vodafone's new chief in January, and is serving as its interim finance director until a replacement is found. \"My priorities are customers, simplicity and growth. We will simplify our organisation, cutting out complexity to regain our competitiveness.\" It announced the job cuts after reporting a small rise in full year sales to \u20ac45.7bn (\u00a339.7bn) and a fall in pre-tax profits. It also posted a sharp drop in cash flow and forecast earnings would be \"broadly flat\" for the current financial year. Vodafone's former boss Nick Read stepped down in December following concerns over the company's performance. During his four years in charge the firm's share price fell sharply. Mr Britzman agreed with Ms Della Valle's assessment of Vodafone's business, describing it as \"lacklustre\" in recent years. He said her honesty about the challenges Vodafone is facing is \"refreshing\" but investors were yet to be convinced she could turn things around. Shares in the telecoms giant fell by 5% on Tuesday. Victoria Scholar, from Interactive Investor, the share trading platform, said Ms Della Valle had a tough task ahead with shares \"languishing at lows not seen since the late 1990s\". \"She needs to continue to focus on cutting costs, the turnaround plan in Germany and M&A [merger and acquisition] opportunities in the UK and abroad to bolster the firm's market share, find efficiencies, and improve its pricing power.\" Do you work for Vodafone? Is your job at risk? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk. Please include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways: WhatsApp: +44 7756 165803Tweet: @BBC_HaveYourSayUpload pictures or videoPlease read our terms & conditions and privacy policy If you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/13A59/production/_129737408_img_2958.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Russian belongs to the Indo-European language family and is one of the living members of the East Slavic languages; the others being Belarusian and Ukrainian (and possibly Rusyn)\n=== Empire (1721\u20131917) ===After losing the status as the capital of the empire, the population of Moscow at first decreased, from 200,000 in the 17th century to 130,000 in 1750\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/13A59/production/_129737408_img_2958.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A surgeon is leading a campaign to bring cutting-edge assisted robotic surgery to Cornwall. Nick Battersby, a consultant at the Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust (RCHT), is helping organise a 5km (3.1-mile) swim across Falmouth Bay on 8 July to raise money for the technology. Robotically-assisted surgery involves the use of robotic arms to provide additional precision. Mr Battersby said RCHT's cancer unit needed a surgical robot to modernise. He said patients \"deserved\" modern surgical care without the need to travel out of the county. Across the UK, the technology has been credited with saving lives and helping cut hospital stays. Mr Battersby told BBC Radio Cornwall: \"Cornwall was one of the pioneers for minimally invasive surgery 20 years ago - but obviously technology has moved on. \"Of the top 20 highest-volume cancer units in the country, we're now the only unit that doesn't have this.\" After using a simulator, Mr Battersby said small robotic arms were \"much more like hands\" instead of the fixed instruments he normally uses. \"That's what really gives us the additional precision and the ability to give what's called traction and counter-traction, which is really what we need to operate with minimal tissue trauma,\" he said. The robot is expected to cost \u00a32.5m over a five-year budget and Mr Battersby aims to raise \u00a350,000 through community efforts. Karen Murrish, fundraising manager for Royal Cornwall Hospitals charity, said the initiative was the beginning of the project. \"Obviously to bring a robot of this nature into Cornwall is a huge investment, so there will be lots of other needs in terms of funding,\" she said. \"At the moment it's exciting - it's a start and something born from a passion from one of our surgeons.\" The 5km (3.1m) Swim across the Bay challenge will involve a pod of up to 50 open-water swimmers including Mr Battersby, leaving from Rosemullion Head and finishing at Pendennis Point in Falmouth. Follow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D339/production/_129737045_gettyimages-1215773097.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Negotiations on reunification failed, and in 1948, separate governments were formed: the socialist and Soviet-aligned Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the capitalist, Western-aligned Republic of Korea in the south\n The UNC, led by the United States, intervened to defend the South, and rapidly advanced into North Korea\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D339/production/_129737045_gettyimages-1215773097.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Nine online talking-therapy treatments for anxiety or depression have been given the green light to be used by the NHS in England. They offer faster access to help but less time with a therapist, which may not suit everyone, the health body recommending them said. There is huge demand for face-to-face services, with people waiting several weeks to see a therapist. Psychiatrists said digital therapies were not a long-term solution. Mental-health charity Sane said they were no substitute for a one-to-one relationship and could leave people feeling even more isolated than before. One out of every six people in England says they experience a common mental-health problem such as anxiety and depression in any given week. In 2021-22, more than half a million people were referred to depression and anxiety services - called NHS Talking Therapies - for problems such as body-dysmorphic disorder, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder and a variety of phobias. The new digital therapies are delivered via a website or an app and use cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). They provide an alternative way of accessing support, which may be more convenient for some, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says. They could also free up resources and help reduce the wait for care. Its guidance recommends six therapies designed to treat adults with anxiety disorders and three to treat those with depression, including Beating the Blues, Deprexis and Space from Anxiety. Before treatment starts, there is a formal assessment with a trained clinician or practitioner but after that, clinicians are involved much less: During online depression therapy, 90 minutes is spent with a therapist instead of eight hours during standard careOnline anxiety therapy gives four hours with a clinician, as opposed to 10 hours under normal care Dr David Rigby, who jointly chairs the Royal College of Psychiatrists' digital group, said digital therapies could make it easier for some vulnerable patients to access vital mental-health support but were not a long-term solution. \"Mental health services are struggling with chronic staff shortages which are making it difficult for them to provide patients with quick and effective treatment,\" he said. \"The government must tackle the workforce crisis by honouring its commitment to publish a comprehensive NHS workforce plan this year.\" Marjorie Wallace CBE, founder and chief executive of Sane, said digital therapy \"may be very useful for some\" but was \"no substitute for a one-to-one relationship with someone who knows their story\". \"Our experience with those who contact us is that self-diagnosis and techniques of self-management do not always reach the layers of their inner mental pain and can leave them feeling even more unsafe and alone,\" she said. Mark Chapman from NICE said: \"One of our priorities is to get the best care to people fast while at the same time ensuring value for money for the taxpayer - these digitally enabled therapies do both.\" But the choice of online therapy \"must be the right one for the individual\", he said. While some of the digital therapies are already in use, others require further approvals being they can be rolled out. NICE will look at the evidence from their use over the next few years to work out how cost-effective they are.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E5E2/production/_129605885_creditnaraward.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " changed his name to Martin Luther King and his five-year-old son's name to Martin Luther King Jr\n Jackson stated after the shooting that he cradled King's head as King lay on the balcony, but this account was disputed by other colleagues of King; Jackson later changed his statement to say that he had \"reached out\" for King\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E5E2/production/_129605885_creditnaraward.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Nara Ward says keeping track of her kids' spending when they are playing their favourite computer games is a full-time job. Ms Ward lives in Barbados with her husband and sons, Finn, 14, and Leif, 12. When Leif started playing Roblox, he began asking for robux - the game's currency - that allows players to upgrade their character or buy virtual items. So his grandparents gave him $200 (\u00a3159) Apple credit for Christmas. \"To my shock, he spent all of it in a matter of days,\" says Ms Ward. \"After that, I gave him no more than $10 worth of robux per month. He quickly became frustrated and bored with the game.\" Leif moved on to World of Tanks, which also requires players to upgrade their weaponry using PlayStation credit. \"However, this game has the option to watch ads to gain credit,\" says Ms Ward. \"He would do that out of desperation when he had used up his monthly gaming allowance.\" Ms Ward says her younger son has yet to learn self-control or money-sense. \"It's something that I have to police constantly.\" Rather than profiting from the initial sale of a video game, many of today's gaming companies rely on revenue generated by in-game purchases, or microtransactions. The content purchased can be purely aesthetic - dance moves, skins or clothing. Alternatively, in-game purchases can provide a tactical advantage to the gameplay - extra lives, character upgrades or weapons - providing a lead over players who did not purchase the additional content. The global online microtransaction market is forecast to grow from $67.94bn in 2022 to $76.66bn in 2023. However, there are signs of a backlash from experts and consumers alike. Also, some companies are promising new releases that are in-game purchase-free. Gaming companies use behavioural psychology to manipulate users into spending, says Prof Sarah Mills, and the link between gaming and gambling is becoming \"increasingly blurred\", she explains. Ms Mills is professor of human geography at Loughborough University. Her research found gambling techniques make gamers play for longer and spend more money, and drive repeat buying. Vicki Shotbolt, chief executive of Parent Zone, an organisation which helps parents navigate the digital world for their children, is more specific about how games incentivise players to part with their money. By spending players can \"avoid the grind\" - where making an in-game purchase means you avoid hours of monotonous gaming to progress to another level. \"Fun pain\" is where you risk losing something important if you don't make a purchase. Meanwhile, \"obfuscation techniques\", like in-game currencies, make it hard to see how much you're really spending. Another tactic is the use of \"loot boxes\". Players buy a box without knowing what's inside. It could contain a game-changing item - but more often than not the prize is nothing more than a mediocre customisation. \"Young people recalled senses of shame when they reflected on the amount they spent trying to gain a rare item, even if they were successful,\" says Prof Mills. And - despite many children saying they dislike in-game purchasing - spending money on microtransactions has become an expectation. While spending on games has risen, some argue that playing games can benefit young people and fears are exaggerated. Gaming as a form of play has been found to relieve stress, help develop cognitive skills and combat loneliness. As a teenager Zhenghua Yang, from Colorado, spent two years in hospital. \"I played a lot of video games. The single-player games made me feel like a hero. The multiplayer games connected me to other people. I made life-long friends all over the world.\" In 2014, Mr Yang founded Serenity Forge, a gaming company on a mission to help others. To date, more than 20 million people have played the firm's games. \"We are in the business of expanding people's horizons,\" says Mr Yang. Serenity Forge does not use microtransactions but, says Mr Yang, that could change in the future if they found them to contribute to \"meaningful, emotionally impactful games that challenge the way you think\". The impact of microtransactions, says Mr Yang, depends on the vulnerability of the user. \"Like a credit card can be dangerous for someone in an inappropriate context, so too can microtransactions. However, credit cards can also serve an important function and in-game purchases can be important to a gamer engaging with their favourite game.\" Sarah Loya's son Andrew, 14, spends almost all his pocket money on gaming but, she says, that isn't a problem and gaming makes him happy. \"He plays daily, after school and on the weekends. I don't really see much of a negative. He's a smart kid and knows the difference between reality and fantasy.\" Ms Loya lives in Texas with Andrew, and his brother Rex, 6. \"My bank account is linked to Andrew's subscription, so I would see if he purchased something without permission,\" says the 43-year-old, \"but he always asks me before making a purchase.\" More technology of business: Teaching robots to blink is hard but importantWhy there is serious money in kitchen fumesThe tech entrepreneur betting he can get youngerHow LinkedIn is changing and why some are not happyThe remote Swedish town leading the green steel race While it can be difficult for parents to keep track of registered emails, passwords and payment cards across various platforms and devices - there are ways that you can protect your teen and your bank account. Child accounts and parental controls can be used to disable purchases or set a spending limit. Parents can set up email notifications to flag purchases, and use gift cards rather than credit cards. Perhaps most importantly, adds Mr Yang, talk to your child. \"In my experience, friction stems from a lack of parental presence,\" he says. \"I now have two kids and, instead of using games as a babysitting tool, I make sure I'm present in their lives as they consume media.\" Back in Barbados, Ms Ward has set up screen time limits and passcodes to keep Leif gaming safely. \"My password is needed to make any purchases and if he wants money added to his account he has to ask me. Microtransactions are annoying but this is a life lesson.\" If parents are worried about a young person struggling with gaming or potential gambling-related harms, please visit the Parent Hub website by YGAM (Young Gamers and Gamblers Education Trust) for support and resource.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7CF6/production/_107809913_hi051283625.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "== People ==Nicknames are usually applied to a person and they are not always chosen by the recipient themselves\n== Etymology ==The compound word ekename, literally meaning \"additional name\", was attested as early as 1303\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7CF6/production/_107809913_hi051283625.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "No drone was found after a suspected sighting of one led to flights being disrupted at Gatwick on Sunday, the airport said. Operations were suspended temporarily just before 13:45 BST but resumed about 50 minutes later. Twelve inbound flights were diverted to other airports during the incident but all returned to Gatwick on Sunday. A spokesperson for the West Sussex airport said passenger safety was its \"absolute priority\". They said: \"Passenger safety is the airport's absolute priority and, following established procedures, operations at London Gatwick were suspended temporarily at 13:44, while investigations into the sighting of a suspected drone close to the airfield took place. \"This investigation followed sightings from a pilot and also airfield staff about a suspected drone close to the flight path of approaching aircraft. \"Following further investigation, no drone was found and the airfield reopened at 14:35.\" Gatwick was shut for more than a day in December 2018 after drone sightings. No-one was ever prosecuted over the incident that caused chaos for travellers, affecting more than 1,000 flights and about 140,000 passengers. Since then, experts have been working on systems to prevent drones disrupting operations at major airports. Follow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/C687/production/_129732805_gettyimages-1237824824.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Nixon's upbringing was influenced by Quaker observances of the time such as abstinence from alcohol, dancing, and swearing\nIn 1964, Nixon won write-in votes in the primaries, and was considered a serious contender by both Gallup polls and members of the press\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/C687/production/_129732805_gettyimages-1237824824.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "EU regulators have approved Microsoft's $69bn (\u00a355bn) attempt to purchase Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard. The European Commission (EC) said Microsoft had addressed their concerns on competition issues. It comes three weeks after the UK blocked the deal over worries it would hurt competition in the emerging cloud gaming business. The proposed takeover is poised to be the biggest deal in gaming history but has split global regulators. In order for the deal to go through Microsoft and Activision need approval from regulatory bodies in the UK, EU and the US. The US Federal Trace Commission filed a lawsuit in December to block the deal - a judge's decision is unlikely before the end of the year. Microsoft's big deal - what you need to know The EC have approved the acquisition, saying that Microsoft's offer of 10 year free licensing deals - which promise European consumers and cloud game streaming services access to Activision's PC and console games - mean there would be fair competition in the market. \"The commitments fully address the competition concerns identified by the Commission and represent a significant improvement for cloud gaming as compared to the current situation,\" the EU competition watchdog said in a statement. It said an in-depth market investigation indicated that Microsoft \"would not be able to harm rival consoles and rival multi-game subscription services\". And it said cloud game streaming service providers \"gave positive feedback and showed interest in the licences\", with some having already entered into agreements with Microsoft based on their proposals. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) shock veto of the deal last month had experts warning the deal now faces significant hurdles in order to be successful. Microsoft and Activision filed an appeal and have reportedly hired high-powered lawyers who have previously represented British Royals to fight that decision. On Thursday the CMA dealt a further blow by restricting Microsoft and Activision Blizzard from acquiring stakes in each other without \"prior written consent\". Reacting to the European Commission's statement, CMA chief executive Sarah Cardell said they stood by their decision. \"Microsoft's proposals, accepted by the European Commission today, would allow Microsoft to set the terms and conditions for this market for the next 10 years,\" she added. \"They would replace a free, open and competitive market with one subject to ongoing regulation of the games Microsoft sells, the platforms to which it sells them, and the conditions of sale. \"This is one of the reasons the CMA's independent panel group rejected Microsoft's proposals and prevented this deal.\" The deal is important for Microsoft who are trying to play catch-up with its main competitors Sony. They have been the more successful of the two in recent years when it comes to sales in the console market. However, this attempted massive investment from Microsoft can been seen as a play for the future of games rather than its present. Microsoft is betting big on its Game Pass service, which can be described as a Netflix of games. They think the future lies in players having subscriptions to libraries rather than making one off purchases - which is the predominant way of accessing games at the moment. Their Game Pass offering is compelling but lacking the volume and calibre of new titles to fully transform the way most people play. This deal would give it control of some of the world's most popular games such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Overwatch. Being in charge of titles like that could be a big boost to the service. Cloud gaming is an extension of that principle allowing people to stream their game on any device they own - form a phone to a console or high-end PC. Just like watching Amazon Prime or Disney+ but with video games. Currently this is a small and emerging part of the games industry because of the technological requirements of making it work. It is however seemingly growing with the number of people playing this way in the UK having tripled between 2021 and 2022 according to the CMA. Microsoft have invested in this space and so combined with its Game Pass offering it is in a good position to lead the way, should cloud gaming go on to become a significant part of the industry. That is why the CMA decided to block the decision in the UK, arguing it would put Microsoft in too dominant a position in this up-and-coming sector. However many within the games industry have disagreed with their analysis - especially given how small the cloud gaming sector is in the grand scheme of things and given it is not be guaranteed to become the dominant way of accessing games in future. The American technology giants have not taken the setback in the UK quietly. Microsoft President Brad Smith said the CMA decision was \"bad for Britain\". \"It does more than shake our confidence in the future of the opportunity to grow a technology business in Britain than we've ever confronted before,\" he said in an interview with the BBC last month. \"There's a clear message here - the European Union is a more attractive place to start a business than the United Kingdom.\" The drama is far from over and there is a lot of money on the line. Activision Blizzard, for example, will still get $3bn from Microsoft if the deal fails. The EU taking an opposing position on the mega-deal could be read by some as a reflection of post-Brexit frictions with the UK. It is believed that Microsoft's recent 10-year licensing agreements with cloud streaming rivals Nvidia's GeForce Now, Ukraine's Boosteroid and Japan's Ubitus, played a role in the EC decision. Nintendo and Sony are also being promised access to keep Call of Duty on their gaming consoles - the Switch and PlayStation. This non-exclusivity for the Activision Blizzard game has helped smoothed the path. But the Xbox-maker hasn't agreed a compromise with Valve Corp which owns the world's largest video game distribution platform Steam, however it's boss Gabe Newell said he didn't need to sign a deal as he trusted their intentions. For more gaming content, go to Press X to Continue, the BBC Sounds gaming Podcast.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1CC6/production/_126866370_gettyimages-1319183692.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "\"The first use of the term to describe the specific post-war geopolitical confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States came in a speech by Bernard Baruch, an influential advisor to Democratic presidents, on 16 April 1947\nBy early 1985, Reagan's anti-communist position had developed into a stance known as the new Reagan Doctrine\u2014which, in addition to containment, formulated an additional right to subvert existing communist governments\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1CC6/production/_126866370_gettyimages-1319183692.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A council has been reprimanded for not responding to the public on time when asked for information held about them. Norfolk County Council repeatedly failed to meet the legal deadline of one to three months, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said. It has instructed the council to take steps to ensure that information is sent out within the statutory period. \"We fully accept the findings and are working hard to ensure the backlog is dealt with swiftly,\" the council said. It pointed out that Subject Access Requests (SARs) to the council had almost doubled in the past five years. The ICO said it found the council had only responded to 51% of requests on time between April 2021 and April 2022, meaning that 251 residents did not receive a response within the legal timeframe. Director of investigations Stephen Eckersley said asking for information was a \"fundamental right\" and delays to the process could have a significant impact on people's lives. The council had recruited staff to tackle the requests but the reprimand outlines further steps to improve compliance with data protection law, the ICO added. It has asked for details of actions taken to address the recommendations within six months of the reprimand being issued. A spokesperson for the council said: \"As of the date of the reprimand, less than 12% of the SARs submitted during the period in question remain outstanding, and in line with ICO recommendations we had already increased the number of staff dealing with these requests and are grateful to the ICO for recognising and commending the progress we have made.\" Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/18061/production/_129710489_mediaitem129710488.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "== Education ==The academic bodies of Sciences Po consist of the Undergraduate College, six professional schools, and the Doctoral School\n\u201d=== Sexual violence ===After Richard Descoing, head of the school from 1997 to 2012, died under suspicious circumstances, it was revealed that he had sex with students, and made no case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's habit of \"seducing\" young students\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/18061/production/_129710489_mediaitem129710488.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Care homes in Oxford have been harnessing virtual reality (VR) technology to help improve the wellbeing of their residents. Forty people have been taking part in the trial that has helped them \"walk\" up to 3km (1.8 miles) using VR headsets attached to seated treadmills. The headsets allow them to explore real places and even meet up with friends. The 17-month trial has been run by Oxfordshire County Council's Innovation Hub and Oxford start-up ROVR Systems. The scheme has been trialled at Fairfield Residential Home in Summertown and Auditcare's Mon Choisy care home in Kennington. DeeDee Wallace, of the Innovation Hub, said: \"It brings the world into them, making their world bigger - and if you think about dementia, they can access neighbours and unlock memories by having a VR experience.\" Charles King, CEO of ROVR Systems, said: \"We need to live longer better, not just live longer, so we need to be active and the way we do that is maintain physical activity and social connection.\" Follow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A32C/production/_129727714_9756-88.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Variety estimates that only a little over a quarter of all pilots made for American television proceed to the series stage\n The survival odds for these new series are low, as typically only one or two of them survive for more than one season\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A32C/production/_129727714_9756-88.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The UK's first full-sized driverless buses have started operating for passengers in Edinburgh. The autonomous vehicles, operated by Stagecoach, run across the Forth Road Bridge from Ferrytoll park-and-ride in Fife to Edinburgh Park station. Despite the \"driverless\" name, the buses operate with two staff on board. One will sit in the driver's seat to monitor the technology, and a so-called bus captain will help passengers with boarding and buying tickets. Stagecoach said the five single-decker buses have the capacity for about 10,000 passenger journeys per week. The vehicles have sensors enabling them to travel on pre-selected roads on the 14-mile route at up to 50mph. The AB1 service is the first registered autonomous bus route in UK. It is part of Project CAVForth, run by Stagecoach and funded by the UK government. Stagecoach worked with Fusion Processing Ltd and project partners Transport Scotland, Alexander Dennis, Edinburgh Napier University and Bristol Robotics Laboratory. The Alexander Dennis Enviro200AV buses can take on complex traffic manoeuvres such as roundabouts, traffic lights, and weaving between motorway lanes. The project has recruited 20 staff from Stagecoach East Scotland's existing driving team. Stagecoach UK managing director Carla Stockton-Jones said: \"We are excited to introduce the UK's first autonomous bus fleet in east Scotland. \"We are proud to be at the forefront of transport innovation with this project that marks a significant milestone for public transport.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/14538/production/_129665238_comp_2panel_976x549.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Gaddafi travelled around Libya collecting intelligence and developing connections with sympathizers, but the government's intelligence services ignored him, considering him little threat\n From 1999, Gaddafi shunned pan-Arabism, and encouraged pan-Africanism and rapprochement with Western nations; he was Chairperson of the African Union from 2009 to 2010\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/14538/production/_129665238_comp_2panel_976x549.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The issue of photo manipulation on social media has long been a concern for many, but with the technology now increasingly extending to videos, should authorities intervene? Krystle Berger insists that she is \"not drastically changing my features\" when she posts photos and videos across Instagram, TikTok and Facebook. \"I'm really just digitally giving myself the perfect make-up and lighting,\" she says. A young mother from the US state of Indiana, Ms Berger pays to subscribe to an app called FaceTune that has been downloaded more than 200 million times around the world. The app allows users to both make subtle changes to their facial appearance, such as smoothing over wrinkles, or alternatively - completely transform how they look. For example, they can narrow their face, change the shape and size of their eyes, or give themselves a digital nose-job. Originally only able to work on photos, two years ago FaceTune launched a version for short selfie videos that has increasingly grown in its effectiveness since then. Meanwhile, another popular app that allows users to alter their social media photos - Perfect365 - is due to launch its video version later this year. FaceTune is owned by Israeli-firm Lightricks and two years ago the company was reported to have a valuation of $1.8bn (\u00a31.4bn). Lightricks' founder Zeev Farbman says that \"the name of the game\" is making the app work as easily as possible. \"You want to give people 80% of the power, with 20% of the complexity of professional software. That's the game we are trying to play.\" But it has long been argued that such tools are unhealthy, in that they promote an unrealistic view of beauty that can be dangerous, particularly for impressionable children and young adults. For example, 80% of teenage girls said they had changed their appearance in an online photo by the age of 13, according to a 2021 survey by skincare brand Dove. While no-one is calling for the tech to be banned, there have been increasing moves to force social media advertisers and influencers - people who are often being paid to promote products in a more informal way - to admit when they have altered their physical image. Norway introduced a law in 2021 that requires these two social media groups to indicate whether a photograph has been retouched. France is now going one stage further, and is in the process of demanding the same requirement, but for both photos and videos. Meanwhile, the UK is now looking at the same issue, as the government's Online Safety Bill continues to make its way through Parliament. However, it remains to be seen whether the law will target just adverts on social media, or influencers as well. A spokesperson for the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said: \"The government recognises the threat that digitally manipulated content can pose, and takes the issue very seriously.\" Conservative MP Luke Evans has long campaigned for advertisers and influencers to admit when they have altered an image on social media. He wants to see the new law \"contain future proofed regulation\", so it also requires the same admission for altered videos, and any other tech developments. \"It's imperative that we have wider awareness and increased transparency surrounding these new technologies,\" he says. \"For me this is all about honesty.\" New Tech Economy is a series exploring how technological innovation is set to shape the new emerging economic landscape. Mr Farbman's response is that while \"this conversation was always there... over time the acceptance of these tools just grows\". He adds that it is a free speech issue. \"It's always kind of weird to me that a company will decide to limit the expressive freedom of its users, because of aesthetic or ethical sensibilities.\" Sean Mao, the chief executive of San Francisco-based Perfect365, urges people to use its app \"in a safe and ethical way\". He adds: \"We encourage people to use the app to express their creativity and not to use the app with malicious intent to deceive others or misrepresent themselves.\" Psychologist Stuart Duff, a partner at UK practice Pearn Kandola, says that some social media influencers will always be tempted to use tricks to improve their online appearance - because being good-looking sells. \"Physical attraction has a very strong but often unconscious influence on our decisions when it comes to buying products and services from others,\" he says. \"When asked what matters most, we consciously talk down the importance of physical appearance and talk up qualities such as intelligence, values and personality, yet psychological research consistently reveals a strong positive relationship between a person's attractiveness and their ability to sell to us.\" One social media influencer who goes by the name of Brandon B has 5.6 million subscribers on YouTube. He takes the view that photo and video manipulation apps should be seen in a positive light. \"I'm glad these apps exist, because I think there are a lot of people who are not body positive enough to present on social media, so they might feel left out,\" he says. \"These tools help them get on social media.\" However, Dr Shira Brown, an emergency physician at South Niagara Hospital, in Ontario, Canada, says that \"distorted perceptions of body image\" appear to be being \"exacerbated by common social media practices\". She adds: \"We see the urgent mental health consequences of social media in our departments on a daily basis, such as anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and depression.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/073E/production/_129745810_tash1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Furthermore, several articles of the Defence Statute enable the president to order a general or partial mobilization of the military, announce martial law, oversee the war industry and make regulations\n=== Nominations ===The president is highly active in appointing top officials in the country\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/073E/production/_129745810_tash1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Wry smiles and sense of nostalgia aside, the appearance of crisp packets from the 1960s on a Norfolk beach is a potent reminder of the longevity of single use plastics. Can anything be done to prevent today's crisp packets returning to our shores 60 years from now? Chris Turner was staying at his holiday home in Scratby, near Great Yarmouth, when he started to find decades-old litter on the beach. His discoveries include pre-decimalisation packets of Golden Wonder crisps, marked with a price of 5d, and 2d Spangles sweets. According to Statista, the UK devoured 8.3bn packets of crisps in 2017. By 2030, the consumer data firm expects that number to rise more than 30% to 11.1bn a year. The volume of single use crisp packets has both environmental experts and the crisp makers themselves concerned. Tash Jones, of Fairfields Farm Crisps, near Colchester in Essex, said she found Mr Turner's discoveries at Scratby very \"disheartening\". \"Packaging is a difficult one and I don't think anybody has quite got there yet,\" she said. Fairfields, she said, was committed to finding ever more sustainable forms of packaging for its crisps. The company has tried a number of different packaging types in recent years, including a single ply wrapper which was found to reduce the shelf life too much to be economically viable. Its move from a three-ply packet to a two-ply bag using thinner film from a net-zero carbon packaging producer, however, has worked well, said Ms Jones. What about compostable bags? \"It is not a never,\" said Ms Jones. \"But a lot of local authorities will reject compostable packaging.\" The biggest issue, she said, was that while many crisp packets are recyclable, they are not actually recycled because many people will put bags in the bin rather than take them to a dedicated flexible plastic recycling facility. Laura Scudder created in the first sealed packet of crisps in the US in the 1920s using waxed paper bagsHowever, such packaging was not airtight, which led to crisp makers using plastic bags insteadIn the 1950s and 1960s, crisp packets were made from single-layer of plastic, often with a transparent section so the buyer could see the crisps insideToday's crisp packets often have a number of layers and are usually made from polypropylene or polyethylene with an aluminium coating The environmental charity WRAP agrees. \"There is still change that needs to take place for widespread roll-out of recycling collections at kerbside for plastic bags and wrappings,\" a spokesperson for WRAP said. \"The infrastructure to recycle this type material at scale, is not universally available. \"Every form of packaging leaves an environmental footprint, and packaging innovations must reduce these to be more sustainable.\" However, the organisation said consumers needed to do their bit too by taking their crisp packets and similar wrappers to recycling facilities at supermarkets across the UK. The charity said it understood the difficulties some people faced in recycling plastic wrapping but warned it was \"a critical step in the pathway to building the infrastructure at scale\". It said it would \"continue to work with industry partners to prepare for kerbside collections of plastic bags and wrapping\". The biggest crisp company in the UK is Walkers, which is owned by PepsiCo. \"We plan to eliminate virgin fossil-based plastic in all crisp and snack bags by using 100% recycled or renewable content in all packets by 2030,\" a spokesperson said. In the meantime, the company said it was finding ways to cut the amount of plastics used in its packaging and encouraging customers to recycle packets. The recycling issue is entirely bypassed by the Herefordshire-based company Two Farmers, which sells crisps in compostable packets. Co-founder Sean Mason said his packaging is made of cellulose and uses plant-based inks and glue. An extremely thin layer of aluminium is applied to the inside of the cellulose wrapper to keep the crisps fresh. \"The aluminium sprayed on the film is less than you would find in the soil and there is zero plastic,\" he said. The firm's bags will break down in a typical domestic compost set-up within 25 to 35 weeks. So why aren't all companies going down the compostable route? The first reason is price. A packet for a standard 40g bag costs independent crisp makers about 1.6p. A compostable Two Farmers bag costs 12.5p. \"We launched with it and gave consumers the choice - they knew we were more expensive from day one.\" For other makers suddenly to increase their packet price by 11p to cover the compostable packaging cost could kill their business, said Mr Mason. The second issue is shelf-life. A typical plastic and foil bag has a shelf life of six or more months while a cellulose packet is about 4.5 months, said Mr Mason. Crisp packet from 1960s found on beachOceans littered with 171 trillion plastic piecesHow many other Hemsbys are waiting to happen? Plastic kills fish and sea animals and takes hundreds of years to break down into less harmful materials. Two Farmers' cellulose packets, on the other hand \"completely break down in water\", the end product resembling a slimy goo. If they were eaten by a sea animal the bags, Mr Mason said, would \"break down in their digestive tract and pass safely through\". \"We don't want our bags littered anywhere, but if they were dropped at sea you wouldn't find our bags coming to shore from the water in a year's time never mind in 60,\" he said. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D52E/production/_129747545_fruitpicker.png", "label": 1, "text": " Nintendo eventually sold a total of 35 million copies for the Game Boy, and 8 million for the NES\n The model used for Mega Millions is the Criterion II, manufactured by Smartplay International of Edgewater Park, New Jersey\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D52E/production/_129747545_fruitpicker.png", "label": 0, "text": "More seasonal workers will be allowed into the UK if needed, the prime minister has said after the home secretary said migration must fall. Rishi Sunak told a gathering of farmers and other food producers an extra 10,000 visas will be made available for the agriculture sector. This would be on top of the current 45,000 allocated. But on Monday, Suella Braverman said there was no reason the UK could not train its own fruit pickers. At a speech, the home secretary said it was \"not racist\" to want to control borders and her aim was to reduce net migration. On Tuesday, Mr Sunak said the government was responding to the needs of farmers by offering the extra visas. Asked by Farming Today on BBC Radio 4 why the number of visas was not higher, Mr Sunak said: \"I think the number is appropriate. \"We haven't used the 45,000 allocation last year. Before we start saying we need more it's reasonable to extend the current numbers.\" The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the extra visa numbers were also offered to the agricultural sector last year. Around 70 leading members of the food industry, including farmers and supermarket bosses, met with the prime minister and his colleagues to talk about how the UK can improve the way it produces and sells food. It comes against a backdrop of continued high prices, and new research from the consumer group Which? that said the price of some goods had jumped by as much as 25% in April, compared with the same month last year. Dairy products such as cheese saw the biggest rise, the group said. Overall, in a survey of the UK's eight largest supermarkets looking at 26,000 products, it said food prices rose more than 17%. Supermarkets are starting to bring down the prices of bread and butter but Which? said prices remained at \"shockingly high levels\" compared with last year. It also found supermarket own-label budget items were up 25% in April compared with the same period 12 months ago. The consumer group said it was \"concerned the voices of millions of people\" struggling with soaring food inflation had not been heard at the summit. \"Families up and down the country are facing a daily struggle to put food on the table and it's clear the big supermarkets could...make available a range of healthy budget foods available in all shops,\" it said. Earlier on Tuesday, Tesco announced that it was cutting prices of vegetable and sunflower oil, as well as pasta by 15p. But a 500g bag of penne pasta is still 80p - in 2021, it was 50p. However, Bill Grimsey, the former boss of frozen food chain Iceland, warned: \"If anybody thinks prices are going to come down quickly anytime soon, well they're not.\" Farmers and businesses have been hit by rising operating costs, in part caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Other expenses such as shipping costs - which soared during the Covid pandemic - have since fallen but Mr Grimsey said shoppers are unlikely to see the impact of this on the prices they pay. The government also pledged to put greater emphasis on farmers' interests in future trade deals and said it would review horticulture and egg supply chains to \"ensure farmers get a fair price for their produce\". Many farmers have argued that supermarkets are not giving them a fair deal for certain goods, such as eggs. Ash Amirahmadi, managing director of the UK's largest dairy producer Arla Foods, attended the summit and told the BBC the meeting was a \"good start\", but added that the government needed to \"follow through\" on its commitment to prioritise the UK's food industry. Mr Amirahmadi said burgeoning costs in the sector were not unique to the UK and were about 40% up before inflation first started rising, though he cautioned against a return to the days of cheap milk. \"I expect when we fully come out of this prices will be higher than they were before,\" he added. The British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents retailers, has said they are \"doing all they can to keep food prices as low as possible\" and called on the government to streamline regulation around recycling, packaging and Brexit to try to bring down prices for consumers.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1652/production/_129741750_gettyimages-1255057071.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Richard III and Henry VII both maintained small companies of professional actors\n It is a romantic drama based on Tennessee Williams' 1957 screenplay\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1652/production/_129741750_gettyimages-1255057071.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The powerful cyclone that hit Myanmar on Sunday has killed at least 40 people, locals have told the BBC, and the toll may rise further. Cyclone Mocha was one of the strongest storms to make landfall in the region this century, packing winds of about 209km/h (130mph). Most confirmed deaths are in Rakhine state, in central Myanmar, others in Sagaing and Magway regions. The military have announced 21 deaths nationwide. Unconfirmed reports put the death toll much higher, especially in camps where the internally displaced Rohingya minority live. It is thought those casualties are not being counted by the military junta which seized power in a 2021 coup. Hundreds of homes and shelters have collapsed. Communication has been difficult in the country, and people are still missing, so death toll estimates vary. In Sittwe, the capital city in Rakhine state, where many people live in low-lying coastal areas, roads have been blocked by uprooted trees and fallen power pylons. In other, less peaceful, areas of the country there are also reports of military attacks on locals following the storm. Thousands of people have fled their homes in the north-western Sagaing region as the army entered villages under cover of the cyclone. \"It has been raining since 12 May, we had run from the overflowing streams,\" a resident in the region's Kani township told the BBC. \"The soldiers also punched. [Residents are] fearing the danger of the soldiers more than the danger of the storm.\" Locals who the BBC spoke to estimate that some 15,000 residents from the Kani and Khin Oo townships have been affected by military attacks in the last two days. They said a four-year-old boy in Inpa village was receiving medical treatment after being hit by a bullet. \"Myanmar is facing a storm on many fronts, with reports that the Myanmar army attacked villages in other regions while Cyclone Mocha unfolded in Rakhine state. The needs of families continue to be great,\" NGO Partners Relief & Development, which works in the cyclone-hit Rakhine state, said in a Twitter post on Tuesday. Communities in Sagaing have put up some of the strongest opposition to the military. The division also houses a large number of anti-coup militias, known as the People's Defence Force. There were no immediate reports of casualties in neighbouring Bangladesh, but the category five storm crushed thousands of shelters in the world's largest refugee camp at Cox's Bazar. It is home to one million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. About 750,000 people fled low-lying areas ahead of Mocha's landfall last Sunday. It came 15 years after one of Asia's deadliest cyclones, Nargis, smashed into Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta and claimed 140,000 lives. Cyclones are the equivalent of hurricanes in the Atlantic and typhoons in the Pacific. Scientists say these storms have become stronger and more frequent due to climate change.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/45D1/production/_115537871_019539222.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " It was expected to be one of three states that would not have a non-Hispanic white plurality in 2014; the other two are California and New Mexico\n The uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands make up most of the Papah\u0101naumoku\u0101kea Marine National Monument, the United States' largest protected area and the fourth-largest in the world\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/45D1/production/_115537871_019539222.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Problems in the planning system are jeopardising the environment, the economy and employment in Northern Ireland, according to a renewable energy organisation. RenewableNI says the system needs \"radical reform\". It claims the Planning Appeals Commission (PAC) is functioning at only about 75% capacity and is experiencing significant resourcing pressures. The organisation said a member received a letter from the PAC confirming this. A Department of Justice spokesperson said PAC was a tribunal non-departmental public body but the department was responsible for providing resources and services. They added that the department was running recruitment competitions to fill vacant posts. Director Stephen Agnew said renewable energy for 85,000 homes has been held up for more than three years. Northern Ireland has a target of 80% of electricity coming from renewable sources by 2030. RenewableNI said the letter stated the PAC did not have the resources to allocate a commissioner to a review of a renewable electricity development. The letter cited \"significant resourcing pressures\", with \"a major conjoined public inquiry\" currently using all of them. It also suggested that only a single inquiry could be held at a time. Mr Agnew said RenewableNI previously had concerns about the PAC's ability to work at pace when operating at 100% capacity. He added that this was a \"substantial impediment\" to all developers and the system was \"unfit for purpose\". NI's wind turbines generate controversyOffshore wind farms would boost jobs - reportHalf of NI's electricity was renewable in 2022 \"To reach 80% by 2030, we need to double our renewable capacity and we're not developing those projects. So if business as usual continues, you will get nowhere near those targets. \"If we reach our 80% renewable target by 2030, that could bring over \u00a35bn of new investment to Northern Ireland and create 1,500 plus jobs. So that's the potential. \"We just need to have a system that facilitates that.\" There are concerns that some renewable energy investments could be withdrawn from Northern Ireland without reform. \"There is a huge risk that investment will be lost in Northern Ireland and we will not reach our 80% targets,\" said Tamasin Fraser, UK director of the German green-energy company ABO Wind. \"In order to get to those targets it's going to take a \u00a35bn investment in Northern Ireland. In other countries across the world they are making significant strides to actually push forward with planning to ensure that the projects are achieved. Here, we're not able to do that.\" She added: \"So the question for me is, are we willing to stand by and watch \u00a35bn of investment go to our neighbours and further afield? \"Or are we prepared to now step up, take action and make tangible change so that we can secure that investment for the good of Northern Ireland and to bring about better energy security in Northern Ireland and address the energy crisis?\" For another company, the ease of the planning process in the Republic of Ireland has already proved much more attractive. Strategic Power Projects has more than \u20ac1bn (\u00a3870m) worth of projects in the pipeline, with one project taking just five months from application to approval, in accordance with the time limits of the Republic's system. The solar and battery-storage specialist's managing Director Paul Carson said such certainty was not available in Northern Ireland. \"There is no timeline in Northern Ireland; we just don't know,\" said Mr Carson. \"So when a developer is taking an investment decision, the developer will always go to where the certainty is, where the confidence is. \"At the minute, we don't have any certainty or confidence in the planning system in Northern Ireland because we just don't know when we would get the decision. And you can't run a business on that basis - you need to have certainty on timeline. \"But we are also working on new projects for Northern Ireland. And if we can see a change in the way planning is dealt with in Northern Ireland, we will have those projects are ready to submit, because we all have a task to do here to try to get [to] 2030 targets,\" Mr Carson said. Speaking on Friday, Mr Agnew said the renewable electricity industry had accepted a fees increase, despite Northern Ireland already having the highest planning application fees of anywhere in these islands. \"However, we insist the increased fees should be value for money and the system resourced to meet the needs of users,\" he added.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/4ABE/production/_129743191_250e5739fd6a439385959187afe98881.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " This is because the eldest son would take responsibility for his mother after the death of her husband; any other sons of Mary should have taken on this responsibility if they existed, therefore arguing against a direct natural brother relationship\n Dunn has proposed that Peter was the \"bridge-man\" between the two other \"prominent leading figures\", Paul and James the Just\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/4ABE/production/_129743191_250e5739fd6a439385959187afe98881.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Twenty three beaches in Devon and Cornwall have achieved the internationally recognised Blue Flag award for 2023. A total of 77 sites around the UK were awarded the Blue Flag award this year. Oddicombe beach in Torbay has scooped the award every year since it was launched 36 years ago. Torridge District Council looks after Westward Ho! and said the award from environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy was considered the \"gold standard\". Westward Ho! beach has won the award for more than 20 consecutive years. Summerleaze beach in Cornwall and Beer beach in East Devon were first-time Blue Flag winners this year. Keep Britain Tidy describes the Blue Flag Award as an \"international award presented to well-managed beaches with excellent water quality and environmental education programmes\". Sean Kearney, head of communities and place at Torridge District Council, said the beach and the burrows at Westward Ho! offered a \"fantastic location for recreation and connecting with nature\". Mr Kearney said: \"We're very lucky in Torridge to have such a fantastic beach right on our doorstep. \"Right next door Northam Burrows forms an integral part of North Devon's Unesco Biosphere Reserve and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.\" To qualify for the Blue Flag award, beaches must satisfy standards in four categories with 33 individual targets covering environmental education and information, water quality, environmental management, and safety and services. Blue Flag beaches also have to run a minimum of five educational activities each year making people aware of the importance of looking after the natural environment. Keep Britain Tidy's chief executive, Allison Ogden-Newton said: \"Visitors to a beach flying a Blue Flag or Seaside Award can be assured the beach will be clean, safe and meet the highest environmental standards, as well as international bathing water quality standards.\" Ms Ogden-Newton said the Blue Flag was the \"world's most recognised award for beaches and marinas\". She added: \"We'd therefore like to recognise and applaud all those who have worked so hard to protect and improve some of our best-loved and most popular beaches. \"The collective efforts of beach managers, volunteers, residents and businesses all contribute to the success of these sites in achieving the incredibly high standards demanded.\" Speaking about six Torbay beaches receiving the award, Carolyn Custerson, CEO of English Riviera BID Company Ltd, said: \"These awards highlight the outstanding quality of the English Riviera as a destination and the exceptional visitor experience, they offer. \"As one of the most scenic coastlines in the UK, with 22 miles to explore by land or from the sea there's plenty to discover and enjoy all year round. We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to the English Rivera this summer.\" Carbis Bay - Cornwall Crooklets - Cornwall Gyllyngvase - Cornwall Porthmeor - Cornwall Polzeath - Cornwall Porthtowan - Cornwall Trevone Bay - Cornwall Widemouth Bay - Cornwall Summerleaze - Cornwall Beer - Devon Exmouth - Devon Seaton - Devon Sidmouth Town - Devon Dawlish Warren - Teignbridge Breakwater Beach - Torbay Broadsands - Torbay Meadfoot Beach - Torbay Preston Sands - Torbay Oddicombe - Torbay Torre Abbey Sands - Torbay Westward Ho! - Torridge Croyde Bay - Devon Follow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1808C/production/_129744489_mediaitem129744488.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "== Economy ===== Overview ===France has a developed, high-income mixed economy, characterised by sizeable government involvement, economic diversity, a skilled labour force, and high innovation\n Italian is a null-subject language, so that nominative pronouns are usually absent, with subject indicated by verbal inflections (e\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1808C/production/_129744489_mediaitem129744488.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Pupils left heartbroken when thieves broke in and stole their budgies have welcomed a new flock to their school. Brentry Primary School in Bristol has been given 20 replacement budgies along with a new aviary thanks to community fundraising after the school break-in. Two thieves were spotted on CCTV in March raiding the bird house at night and capturing the flock. \"I was heartbroken, but now to have the chirping every morning again will bring a smile to my face,\" said Sasa, age 11. Speaking in March, Business Manager Hannah Jack, said they just wanted their budgies to be returned because they did not have a great monetary value but held \"massive sentimental value\" for the children and school community. The school took in its first budgie seven years ago, when pupils cared for a sick bird found stuck in one of the drains on site. Staff and pupils nursed the bird back to health and built an aviary for it to live in. Other budgies owned by a neighbour were rehomed at the school and they began to breed, growing to a population of 20. \"We had them for quite a long time,\" said Minnie, 11, \"they were part of our school, so it's really nice to have some more. It completes the school.\" The Year Six pupils take responsibility for the budgies, by feeding them daily and cleaning out the aviary. \"It brings a smile to hear that morning tweet and to look at their lovely feathers,\" said Eliza, age 11. \"It's nice because sometimes you see them playing and they're clumsy and it makes you laugh,\" she added. Ms Jack said: \" It's the familiarity and the noise which is just so lovely, hearing the chatter as you come up the school drive. \"We are so grateful to everyone for their kind messages and generosity supporting our fundraiser,\" she added. Avon and Somerset Police said there had been no significant update on the stolen birds. Anyone with information about the stolen birds is asked to call the police 101 non-emergency number. Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B698/production/_129744764_gettyimages-947535526.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "At the beginning of the 13th century, Germans ruled large parts of what is currently Latvia\n=== Religion ===The largest religion in Latvia is Christianity (79%)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B698/production/_129744764_gettyimages-947535526.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A proposed holiday park in Cumbria would create hundreds of jobs without affecting one of the few UK habitats of a rare toad, its developer says. A planning application for around 450 lodges on the shore of the Duddon Estuary in Furness has been submitted. However, more than 4,000 people have signed a petition opposing the scheme at Roanhead Farm near Askam. Conservation groups have also expressed concerns about the impact on natterjack toads. Cumbria Wildlife Trust fears it will have \"unacceptable impacts\" at Duddon Estuary and Sandcastle Haws where it says one-quarter of the UK's population of the rare toads breed. If approved by Westmorland and Furness Council, the scheme would include a restaurant, gym, pool and children's petting farm. Andrew Coutts, chief executive of developer ILM Group, told BBC Radio Cumbria the \u00a3100m scheme would have a \"considerable economic impact\" and that environmental concerns were addressed by the plans. \"The investment is in excess of \u00a3100m. In terms of employment, the projected number of full-time employees is just over 270. \"The additional impact of resort guests in terms of numbers of people will be minimal. It isn't to say there won't be additional people, of course there will be. \"[And] we're very experienced in environmental impact assessments processes. Our ecologist worked with us for six months to understand the local habitats of different species.\" Mr Coutts said the creation of new habitats on the site, including breeding ponds for the toads, was being explored with council planners set to spend three months examining the overall plans. The authority has requested further information from ILM before details of the scheme are made available online and a consultation process can begin, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/a4bb/live/36ad9690-f3cb-11ed-bd4a-d516c3febef5.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The government decided, on the following day, to table another resolution with a minor change being made merely for the sake of circumventing procedural requirements that a negatived question cannot be tabled again\n A company has a very limited ability to prevent exogenous uncertainty\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/a4bb/live/36ad9690-f3cb-11ed-bd4a-d516c3febef5.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A London council has been \"confiscating\" plant pots and garden ornaments from a housing estate, saying they pose a fire safety risk, residents say.Greenwich Council says the front gardens of Vanbrugh Park estate, south-east London, are impeding fire escapes from the building.Residents say the area is the only access they have to personal outdoor green space, and have begun a petition to halt the council's \"draconian\" actions.A meeting between councillors and residents is planned to \"ensure that their estate meets all fire safety requirements.\" In 2020, the council's fire safety report concluded the gardens posed no safety risk. But it says current measures are being reviewed in light of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, which led to 72 deaths.A number of residents say clearing the area will reduce privacy, safety, and wellbeing.They also have concerns about a lack of shade with south-facing windows.Their petition, which has 1,500 signatures, says, \"the council has begun sending groups of men to the estate to confiscate pot plants, benches and other items kept in the gardens\".Alex Wheeler, chair of the Vanbrugh Park Residents Association, said council officers were \"waging an unnecessary war on garden gnomes and pot plants\".Mr Wheeler says he was shocked at the \"draconian treatment\" of residents and the council's \"refusal to work with our community to agree a sensible way forward.\" Building regulations state entrances should have a width of at least 90cm, but the residents say the council is demanding 360cm.Following the removal of plants, Richard Tacagni, an independent housing safety assessor, visited the site at the request of the residents.Mr Tacagni says \"there was no serious category one, or high-level category two, fire hazard caused by the presence of pot plants\".\"There was nothing that would justify enforcement action.\" Pat Slattery, cabinet member for housing, neighbourhoods and homelessness, said the safety of residents was \"our top priority\" and that \"we have an absolute duty of care\".Ms Slattery also confirmed the council would be meeting with residents to \"listen to concerns\" and answer questions. Follow BBC London on Facebook, external, Twitter, external and Instagram, external. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk, external", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/53D3/production/_119795412_gettyimages-1219625701.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The film was directed by Steven Spielberg, and released on October 4, 2015, to critical acclaim\n Buscemi won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Variety Series for Park Bench with Steve Buscemi (2016)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/53D3/production/_119795412_gettyimages-1219625701.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A 'farm-to-fork' summit is aimed at addressing food insecurity in Britain, in response to farmer pressure, sharply increased prices and supply shortages. In a wider context, United Nations reports show more than quarter of a billion people were facing severe food insecurity last year - an increasing number whose inability to get sufficient food put them in immediate danger. If one response is to divert valuable grain from resource-intensive livestock farming, there is some reassurance for livestock farmers - the United Nations food agency reckons many women and children need more meat, dairy and eggs in their diet, but warns that farmers have to clean up. Out of the frying pan and onto the political hotplate: rising prices, war in Ukraine and disruption of trade with Britain's nearest neighbours have together put the heat under food insecurity. Rishi Sunak is convening a summit on food supplies at Downing Street on Tuesday, to look at inflation issues, the resilience of supplies after winter months of some empty fresh vegetable shelves, and export opportunities. When the meeting was announced, fulfilling a leadership campaign promise to farmers, Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers Union, said: \"The past 18 months have been a stark reminder of how vulnerable the nation's food security is. \"It has been a wake-up call for the importance of a secure domestic supply of food, and it is vital that the summit delivers actions, not just words.\" On the even of the summit, Downing Street announced measures to tackle disruption in the horticulture and egg sector, using legal powers already deployed with pork and dairy. There are additional funds for promoting exports, including seafood, and tackling obstacles to export in foreign markets. The prime minister's words make a big promise to producers on future trade policy. \"Farmers' interests will be put at the heart of trade policy,\" Mr Sunak says, \"through a new framework for trade negotiations, committing to protect the UK's high food and welfare standards and prioritise new export opportunities.\" Even one former Conservative agriculture secretary, George Eustice, says their interests were not protected adequately in the post-Brexit trade talks with Australia and New Zealand. Farmers are warning that cheaper imports through those Pacific trade deals, plus a lack of clarity about the future subsidy regime (and this responsibility in Scotland falls to the Scottish government) make us more reliant on imported food, and undermine the job agriculture is doing to look after the countryside. Meanwhile, the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, on Monday exhorted us to become agricultural workers, rather than rely on migrant labour to pick British berries and post-Brexit non-Brussels sprouts. Of course, food is traded globally and few places, if any, can be entirely self-sufficient. So while we may be rightly concerned about the 19% inflation rate for our grocery food basket, maybe it's time to get some perspective. First, to point out that we're not alone. Some European countries, including Germany, have even higher food price inflation, but the average for the OECD, the rich country club is lower, at around 15%. The US and Canada are close to 10% food price inflation. As with energy, most people in such countries are able to switch their spending from non-essentials to cover the extra cost. Even while spending more on food, the average British household is buying less food by volume, with significantly less spending on non-food retail. Some of that shift is to cheaper cuts of meat or down-market 'value' brands. Some of it could lead to less waste of food. A minority don't have that flexibility in relatively well-off countries. But what about poorer countries, where huge numbers lack the flexibility to absorb higher food prices? The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations is a useful source of data and insights. It has recently published several reports of note. One was with a warning about the number of people and countries facing a severe increase in food cost and insecurity. It said the number of people in that position, and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance, last year increased for the fourth consecutive year. Over a quarter of a billion people were facing acute hunger and people in seven countries were on the brink of starvation. This does not include the many people with chronic malnourishment. Instead, it is a measure of a person's inability to consume adequate food, so that it puts their lives or livelihoods in immediate danger. The Global Report on Food Crises, produced by the Food Security Information Network, found that around 258 million people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity, up from 193 million people in 53 countries in 2021. There is a statistical health warning. Some of this growth may reflect an increase in the population analysed. UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned: \"More than a quarter of a billion people are now facing acute levels of hunger, and some are on the brink of starvation. That's unconscionable. \"It is a stinging indictment of humanity's failure to make progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 2 to end hunger and achieve food security and improved nutrition for all.\" These goals were agreed through the United Nations in 2015, with a goal for achieving them by 2030. Among the worst affected countries, and with 40% of those in the most at-risk category, were Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, 21 states within Nigeria and Yemen. War, including civil conflict, plays a part in driving up food costs and disrupting agriculture, and was the main driver for an estimated 117 million people facing food insecurity. The FAO has since published a separate report warning that a particularly worrying type of locust has arrived in Afghanistan, deepening its troubles. Other acute problems exist in Somalia, Haiti, Burkina Faso and South Sudan. In 30 of the world's worst hit crisis areas, over 35 million children under the age of five suffered from wasting or acute malnutrition, with 9.2 million of them suffering from severe wasting, the most life-threatening form of undernutrition and a major contributor to increased child mortality. Extreme weather was the main cause of food insecurity for 57 million people, including those facing drought in the Horn of Africa and southern Africa, with devastating floods in Pakistan and cyclones in other countries. A major cause of food insecurity far from the battlefront was war in Ukraine, estimated as the main cause for 84 million people in 27 countries. It sharply pushed up prices of traded grains and cooking oil, and while that hit relatively well-off nations, the poorest countries were at the end of the queue for scarce resources. The FAO has an index of traded food commodities, which soared just after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and then fell every month until last month, when it ticked upwards again. Compared with April last year, the FAO food price index was 19.7% down, but it was still 5.2% higher than in April the previous year. This is where the news looks less grim. With Ukrainian grain able to enter world markets through safe passage in the Black Sea, the disruption is seen as being less of a problem. And although the cost of fertiliser rose steeply last year, much of it coming from Russia, the impact of its reduced use on crop yields does not seem to be disrupting world markets as much as some had feared. This year's wheat harvest is forecast to reach 785 million tonnes, the second highest on record, beaten only by last year's crop. Maize is expected to see a bumper harvest in Brazil, not so much in Argentina, while South Africa's output is looking strong. The sugar price index was up nearly 18% in April, reaching its highest level for 12 years due to reduced expectations of harvests in Asia and the European Union. In the UK, the Office for National Statistics says the price of retailed sugar is up by 42%. That is caused by dry weather conditions, and is also pushed higher by a rise in the international price of crude oil. Crude oil!? Yes, when that price goes up, there's a stronger financial case for diverting sugar production into the manufacture of ethanol as a substitute for oil. Before long, the world's aviation industry is also going to be competing for agricultural grain output to fuel aircraft, and reduce its carbon footprint. The global meat price index also rose last month, driven by pig and poultry prices, as Asian demand increased and animal health worries curbed some production. Beef prices rose as the number of cattle being sold for slaughter fell, especially in the USA. While other major commodities continued to decline in price, the FAO says one to watch is rice - a staple for many of the world's poorest people. Harvests were hit by higher input costs and adverse weather, as Asian import demand increased. Under pressure, some governments choose to limit or ban food exports, contributing to a forecast fall in internationally traded rice of more than 4% this year. The FAO's chief economist, Maximo Torero said: \"The increase in rice prices is extremely worrisome and it is essential that the Black Sea initiative (allowing Ukrainian exports) is renewed to avoid any other spikes in wheat and maize\". One answer to food shortages and insecurity is to redeploy a lot of grain and fishmeal from producing meat, with the argument that it is a highly resource-intensive and inefficient way to get the protein people need and so many millions of people lack. It's a subject that gets livestock farmers riled up, notably in places - including much of Scotland - where there's not a lot you can do with land other than put sheep on it. That's where another recent FAO report comes in. Published late last month, it addresses the question of whether meat, dairy and eggs are required in the human food chain. The report claims to be the most comprehensive analysis so far of the benefits and risks of consuming animal source food, drawing from more than 500 scientific papers and 250 policy documents. The reliability of the source of such papers is open to dispute, where vested interests in the food industry have a lot of influence. But the conclusion is that \"meat, eggs and milk offer crucial sources of nutrients which cannot be obtained from plant-based foods\". Or to be more precise, they cannot be obtained in sufficient quality and quantity. This is particularly important during pregnancy, lactation, childhood, adolescence and older age, the study claims. Iron, zinc and vitamin A are notably absent from too many children and pregnant women, it says, affecting more than half of pre-school children and 1.2 billion women of child-bearing age. Three-quarters of these children live in south and east Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and the Pacific. The report demonstrates how widely varied is the use of meat and dairy in diets. A person in the Democratic Republic of the Congo consumes on average only 160 grams of milk a year, while someone in Montenegro consumes 338 kilograms. A person in South Sudan consumes 2 grams of eggs on average each year, compared to an average 25kg for a person in Hong Kong. The average person in Burundi consumes just 3 kg of meat a year, compared to 136 kg for someone living in Hong Kong. Not such good news for meat producers is the conclusion that processed red meat, even in small quantities, is linked to increased risk of chronic disease and early death. But unprocessed red meat, in moderation, has not been shown to carry those risks. Better news still for the world's livestock farmers is the FAO conclusion that evidence of links to common life-threatening conditions such as heart disease, strokes and hypertension are inconclusive for milk and not significant for eggs and poultry. But the critics of meat production get more support on other fronts, with reminders that the industry has big challenges if it is to reduce the environmental impact of deforestation to clear land for grazing, of greenhouse gas emissions from animals, of unsustainable water and land use, and of pollution from intensive farming. The list goes on: concerns about overgrazing and poor animal welfare, the problems for human and animal health from overuse of antibiotics, and the risk of transferred disease from animals or from the food they produce, which may have led to the Covid-19 pandemic and could do likewise again. There are also social issues, of the fairness of a food production system that uses so much to make protein for richer countries, while others find grain prices getting out of reach. Food insecurity is rarely a problem of insufficient food. It is more often a problem of affordable food, and how it is distributed\u2026 which brings us round the world and back - with some more perspective, I hope - to that \"farm-to-fork summit\" of government leaders and food producers in Downing Street.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/17A92/production/_129741969_2ab4f1d26e0a6ca8d2e20b163fa44d028e9544ee0_396_4032_22684032x2268.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " T & the Women (2000), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Van Wilder (2002), My Boss's Daughter (2003), and Alone in the Dark (2005)\n In 2013, she starred as April Wexler in the television film Sharknado, and went on to reprise the role in five sequels (2013\u20132018)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/17A92/production/_129741969_2ab4f1d26e0a6ca8d2e20b163fa44d028e9544ee0_396_4032_22684032x2268.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A call by the home secretary to limit dependence on migrant workers was \"impossible\", a farmer said. Christine Snell runs a soft fruit farm in Herefordshire and said she was barely able to recruit 10% of the workers it needed during the pandemic. \"Had I relied on them to pick the crops, the crops would have just remained in the field,\" she said. Suella Braverman said on Monday there was \"no good reason\" the UK could not train its own fruit pickers. Addressing a conference in London, the home secretary argued there should be training for British fruit pickers, lorry drivers and butchers in a bid to bring down the reliance on migrant workers. Mrs Snell said her farm, Wind Hill, hires about 300 seasonal workers from all over the world each year for six months. One of her current workers is 25-year-old Nazife Ayrush from Bulgaria who does the job to fund her studies. \"We tried very hard in the pandemic to recruit locally. Out of the 300 we need, we were able to recruit about 35,\" Mrs Snell said. Of those, many soon left when other opportunities arose, Mrs Snell said. The horticulture industry has suffered labour shortages since the UK left the EU, made worse by the pandemic, and a campaign to recruit more UK-based workers for seasonal farm roles was scrapped in 2021. A government report in 2022 found British workers were \"not strongly attracted to roles in the food supply chain, particularly seasonal work\". It highlighted the need for more training and technology to address \"longstanding negative perceptions\" of working in the sector. Ms Braverman said the UK needed to be \"less dependent on low-skilled foreign labour\" but her speech divided politicians. Among those who disagreed with her was the Conservative MP for Wyre Forest, Mark Garnier. \"I don't see why we should be trying to persuade [kids] to do low-productivity, less aspirational jobs like fruit picking when they want to do better things,\" he added. Mr Garnier said it was important to distinguish between migrant workers and other forms of immigration. \"They're not coming in because they're hanging around going on the dole line, they're coming in because we need migrant workers to do the jobs,\" he said. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/c87a/live/90e042f0-f346-11ed-9009-bfc614bb129d.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "=== 2005\u20132009: Charge!! and renewed success ===In the summer of 2004, The Aquabats were signed to independent label Nitro Records and began work on a new studio album in the fall\n Pollock was succeeded by former Death by Stereo member Ian Fowles (Eaglebones Falconhawk), though he would continue to contribute guitar tracks to The Aquabats' studio albums and perform with the band as a second guitarist for their southern California concerts and major festival shows\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/c87a/live/90e042f0-f346-11ed-9009-bfc614bb129d.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A pub in Cornwall has been crowned the winner of a competition set up to find the most nature-friendly beer garden.Eighteen tenanted St Austell Brewery pubs across Cornwall were in competition for the top spot.The owners of the St Kew Inn, near Bodmin, installed a pond and have grown a wildflower meadow to attract wildlife.Pub landlord Mike Masters said they also avoided cutting hedges and shrubs and have removed fences to attract hedgehogs. The competition was set up by researchers at the University of Exeter's Cornwall campus, St Austell Brewery and the Cornwall Wildlife Trust.The idea was to get pubs to compete against each other in creating space for nature in their pub gardens.Mr Masters said: \"We've actually put in bird boxes, hedgehog boxes, ponds, various different trees.\"He said making the beer garden more nature-friendly was a \"win-win for everyone\". He said: \"If we can regenerate the biodiversity, it will effectively give our customers a better place to drink and eat their food.\"Speaking about the pub being crowned winner of the competition, Mr Masters added: \"We're very lucky, there's been amazing pubs that have entered it, we're lucky to come out on top.\"As well as winning the title, The St Kew Inn also received a small cash prize to spend on further environmentally-friendly measures, and a barrel of beer.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B452/production/_129726164_sign.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Blizzard helped launch and promote an esports scene surrounding the game, including an annual Overwatch World Cup, as well as a league and its developmental minor league, which borrowed elements found in traditional American sports leagues\n The characters that are not controlled by a player are called non-player characters (NPCs)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B452/production/_129726164_sign.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A nature charity is rewarding gardeners who make space for wildlife. Somerset Wildlife Trust is giving plaques to people who allow wildflowers to bloom and cut out the use of weedkillers. It hopes it will inspire others, and this year it is also offering plaques for whole communities making a collective effort to support nature. Fellow charity Plantlife says it has already seen some bird species increasing thanks to wilder gardening. Bryony Slaymaker, of Somerset Wildlife Trust, said: \"The aim is to give people recognition and to say thank you because gardens are so important and if we all do a little bit it will make a huge difference. \"Behavioural science tells us that if one in four people visibly take action, that encourages everyone else to do things - it tips the balance.\" No Mow May, where gardeners do not use their lawnmowers or shears for a month, was launched by Plantlife in 2018, and has been steadily gaining traction. People can apply for a plaque by filling out a self-assessment survey on the Somerset Wildlife Trust's website with details of their garden's size and the different features they have added. Those with just a courtyard or window box can join in, and there is also a category for allotments. This year, for the first time a street, village or an entire town can try to earn a community plaque if enough people start managing gardens and green spaces for wildlife. Ms Slaymaker said: \"This is brand new, no one has got it yet - the plaques aren't even printed out but we would really love to see it.\" \"It is a big ambition, and it will take local people and community champions getting behind it.\" Sarah Shuttleworth, senior ecological advisor with Plantlife, says efforts by individuals and local communities can add up to real policy change. \"If people are changing the way they are managing their own gardens, they are going to start changing their values about how they feel about wildlife everywhere, and that definitely does make a difference,\" she said. \"If we have this idea of 'I can't do anything because it is such a small amount,' that is not the way we are going to change things in the biodiversity crisis.\" Ms Shuttleworth, who is based North Curry, manages some plots of land in the Somerset village and says she has already started to notice the difference. \"I have seen an increase in plant life and an increase in bird species, including predators such as sparrowhawks.\" Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5AE9/production/_129737232_whalefvvqfkcxwayofyh.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " There is no freedom of press in North Korea as all the media is controlled and filtered through governmental censors\n North Koreans refer to their Pyongyang dialect as munhwa\u014f (\"cultured language\") as opposed to the dialects of South Korea, especially the Seoul dialect or p'yojun'\u014f (\"standard language\"), which are viewed as decadent because of its use of loanwords from Chinese and European languages (particularly English)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5AE9/production/_129737232_whalefvvqfkcxwayofyh.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A 10-tonne beached sperm whale was so thin when it died its ribs were sticking from its side. The post-mortem examination on the mammal found at Porth Neigwl, Gwynedd also discovered it ate squid beaks. Experts said the whale was very poorly and underweight when it became stranded and had urged people to stay clear of the carcass. The adult female whale about 10.8m (35.4ft) long was the second to wash up on a UK beach in two days. It is only the second sperm whale to be recorded in Wales in the last century. The post-mortem examination was carried out by a team from the Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme and marine biologist Rob Deaville said there were parasites at \"several sites\" but these were considered incidental to its death. He added that there was no evidence of recent feeding but the whale had consumed \"small numbers of squid beaks\". Mr Deaville said there was little evidence it had eaten plastic or other debris bar a \"few fragmentary pieces\". Sections of intestine were taken to be examined for microplastics. Two octopuses spotted walking on a Ceredigion beachDogs save tiny turtle from becoming gull's dinnerSailor spots 12ft shark lurking in sea off Tenby The marine biologist said on Twitter it was confirmed it was an adult female from \"scars on the ovaries and the appearance of the uterus\". It was, he said, in \"markedly poor nutritional condition\". \"We were concerned about a potential mass on its side,\" Mr Deaville said. \"Surprised to find on site that this was actually the ribs protruding.\" It had suffered significant muscle wastage and was \"the thinnest sperm whale I've ever worked on\". The age of the whale remains unclear. Mr Deaville said the interim findings were considered consistent with \"marked nutritional loss and live stranding\". The whale was far from home, he said, adding that more could be learned from further analysis. Mr Deaville said it was only the second sperm whale recorded in Wales over the last century and only the fourth female in the UK in the same period.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/359D/production/_129752731_gettyimages-539745783.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The song featured him along with Rick Ross, Plies, and Lil Wayne\n The third and final single from the album, \"Studio Luv\", was released in October 2006 but failed to chart\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/359D/production/_129752731_gettyimages-539745783.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A project to help train and develop new and emerging film and TV production crew has been awarded \u00a3600,000. Resource Productions CIC, Shinfield Studios and the University of Reading have partnered to create the Berkshire-based scheme. The aim is to build a larger local skills base and help people find viable routes into the screen industry. The funding comes from the British Film Institute (BFI) and will cover three years. It is part of a wider programme of investment by the BFI which will see a total of \u00a39.6m of National Lottery funding to support skills development and training across the UK. The industry-wide scheme aims to create new opportunities for those from underrepresented backgrounds, individuals upskilling and people over 50 returning to work. Dominique Unsworth MBE, CEO of Resource Productions CIC, said: \"We've all been talking about screen sector skills gaps for so long, now we actually have some resource to enable real action.\" Dr Shweta Ghosh, from the University of Reading, said diversity in the film industry was crucial for promoting new perspectives from underrepresented groups. \"It's not just about social justice, it's also about expanding the creative boundaries of filmmaking,\" she explained \"We can create a more authentic representation of the world on screen and develop inclusive and accessible filmmaking practices by making film production more diverse.\" Shinfield Studios is expected to be fully operational by the end of 2024 and Nick Smith, joint managing director, said the goal was to build on the area's existing production talent and infrastructure to help address the wider skills shortage and offer a career pathway for local people. \"With Shinfield Studios less than 12 months away from being fully operational, there will be even more opportunity for employment in this rewarding sector,\" he added. Follow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0915/production/_129752320_gettyimages-1231657307.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "\" Women \"directed the same percent of the 250 top-grossing films in 2012 (9 percent) as they did in 1998\n Since then, American films have become increasingly divided into two categories: Blockbusters and independent films\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0915/production/_129752320_gettyimages-1231657307.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The world's largest collection of original Banksy artworks is set to go on display once again. Featuring more than 110 pieces from the anonymous Bristol-based artist, The Art of Banksy will open at 84-86 Regent St, London, in July. The artworks include some of his best-known pieces such as Girl With Balloon and Flower Thrower. The exhibition, which is not authorised by the artist, has toured across the world. It has welcomed visitors in Melbourne, Chicago, San Francisco, Sydney, Washington DC, Boston, Tel Aviv, Auckland, Toronto, Miami and Gothenburg. In 2022 it was also on show in Salford in a purpose-built structure. Rude Copper, which depicts a policeman holding up his middle finger, will also be included in the display. Rising to fame by creating stencilled designs around his home city of Bristol in the early 1990s, despite worldwide following, Banksy's identity remains unknown. The exhibition, which has not been authorised by the graffiti artist, with all the works included having been loaned by private collectors, will also include art that is going on display for the first time. Organisers say the London exhibition will, for the first time, see close associates of the artist share their personal stories and give unique insight into some of the famous images. The anonymous testimonials will also share details of how the street art stunts were devised. In 2022 Banksy hinted his fans should shoplift from clothing store Guess in Regent Street, after he accused the company of using his art on their garments without permission. Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/b961/live/b5ab5790-f3ec-11ed-adb8-e344a187a16f.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " It is considered to be the first German film to deal with homosexuality and some researchers even believe it to be the first in the world to examine this issue explicitly\n In addition, as journalists were also organised as a division of the Propaganda Ministry, Goebbels was able to abolish film criticism in 1936 and replace it with Filmbeobachtung (film observation); journalists could only report on the content of a film, not offer judgement on its artistic or other worth\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/b961/live/b5ab5790-f3ec-11ed-adb8-e344a187a16f.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A new play will transform a community centre in an area synonymous with 1990s rave culture into a nightclub and take audiences on a night out.Club Revolution tells the story of two young people growing up in Luton from 1997 to the present day. It will be staged by Revolution Arts, external at Marsh House Community Centre in Marsh Farm from Thursday to Saturday.\"The audience are going to be at the centre of the action,\" assistant director Tiarnan Doherty said. The venue has been chosen because it is the area of town that served as a base for the Exodus Collective - a community movement and sound system formed in 1992 that organised parties and raves.It was the subject of a BBC Radio 1 documentary, external.However, the comedy drama centres around the lives of two young people, Lu and Tone, who went through school and university in an era after the explosion of rave culture in the late 1980s and early 90s.\"They both have these big dreams and it's about exploring the idea that people who come from Luton or towns like Luton are often told the narrative that they maybe can't achieve those dreams,\" said Doherty. \"I think it's really going to resonate with young people.\"The play was written by James McDermott who spoke to young people from Luton during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdowns, including Doherty.\"James learnt about what our experiences were like growing up in Luton and then, from our responses, he would then take bits and pieces of those and he crafted them all into this story,\" said the assistant director.\"The story is very literally taken from the direct experiences of people like me.\" Marsh House Community Centre will be transformed into \"Club Revolution\" for the play.Mr Dohety said: \"The idea is that we take the audience on a club night out.\"The audience will come in and they'll be on the dance floor with the characters dancing with them, interacting with them and they will follow us on this journey.\"That's what's unique about it because people can come and see the show and they'll get a totally unique experience compared to maybe a different audience member.\" Find BBC News: East of England on\u00a0Facebook, external,\u00a0Instagram, external\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter, external. If you have a story for us, email\u00a0eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk, external", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/408B/production/_129732561_caitlinconducting.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "DiseaseThe term disease broadly refers to any condition that impairs the normal functioning of the body\nIn the rare situations where both parents have an expanded HD gene, the risk increases to 75%, and when either parent has two expanded copies, the risk is 100% (all children will be affected)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/408B/production/_129732561_caitlinconducting.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A young carer says working with a professional orchestra has given her confidence and self belief. Caitlyn Newble, 19, from Wiltshire, is one of hundreds of carers who has been involved in the project run by Bath Philharmonia. The project helps young people build confidence and supportive relationships, by writing and performing their own music. Ms Newble joined the project as a child and will start university in September. \"When I first started the project, I was very shy, I didn't have any confidence in myself and in my social skills.\" said Ms Newble, who sings in the orchestra. \"I really struggled just being able to get out of bed in the mornings, so the project has given me an incredible amount of confidence and self-belief.\" Ms Newble added that the support she received has helped her to choose a career path, and said she is excited to start a degree in music this year. Bath Philharmonia reaches more than 12,000 people each year through a combination of concerts and projects in communities. Run by music director Jason Thornton, the orchestra has been working with young carers in the South West for 13 years. \"The young carers just love it and we're the only orchestra in the country to do this kind of work, which I'm very proud about but also ashamed about in our sector,\" said Mr Thornton. In 2023, The Children's Society and Children's Commissioner said there are at least 800,000 young carers aged between five and 18 that care for an adult or family member in England. Mr Thornton said that music is a healing tool that can help people build confidence. \"It helps people feel part of something bigger than themselves, it helps people overcome, just for a little while, the situations that they are in,\" he said. \"It's amazing for families to see their amazing young people. Being a young carer can be very isolating, so to get them doing music in a live concert is an amazing thing for parents and families.\" Caitlyn and her peers will perform at a concert at the Bath Forum on 18 May. Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/464/cpsprodpb/1744D/production/_119390359_line976.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " On 1 July 2022, it was announced that Assange had formally appealed against the extradition order\n== Ecuadorian embassy period ===== Entering the embassy ===On 19 June 2012, the Ecuadorian foreign minister, Ricardo Pati\u00f1o, announced that Assange had applied for political asylum, that the Ecuadorian government was considering his request, and that Assange was at the Ecuadorian embassy in London\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/464/cpsprodpb/1744D/production/_119390359_line976.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A violinist who travelled from New York to perform in Dorset wowed the audience after he manged to continue his performance despite his \u00a324,000 bow breaking unexpectedly. Stefan Jackiw was performing in Poole with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO) on 10 May when it happened. He was surprised as he says violin strings usually break, but bows do not. The broken bow was immediately swapped for a different one and Mr Jackiw carried on as if nothing happened. He said he would remember his performance of the UK premiere of Gli\u00e8re's violin concerto at the Lighthouse \"for the rest of his life\". \"At first I didn't quite understand what happened because this is something I had never experienced before,\" he said. The bow was made by Francois Nicolas Voirin in Paris in the 19th Century and had been used by Mr Jackiw, 38, for 20 years and thousands of concerts. After a speedy bow swap with violinist and orchestra leader Amyn Merchant, the show \u2014 under the baton of the BSO's chief conductor Kirill Karabits \u2014 went on. When asked how it felt to play with a different bow, Mr Jackiw said: \"It's like if you suddenly put on someone else's shoes and then go for a run. They are still shoes but they don't fit you quite the way they used to and they feel very foreign. \"But I got through it and I believe this unexpected episode kind of gave the whole performance some sort of joyful spontaneity.\" Dougie Scarfe, the chief executive of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, said it was \"an incredible thing to see\". \"For something really dramatic to happen and without saying a word to collect and carry on and to perform extraordinarily well under any circumstances was really special,\" Mr Scarfe added. It is not known why the bow broke but it is being mended and will soon be returned to Mr Jackiw. Follow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15E47/production/_128217698_wmfsnip.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "=== Critical response ===On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Incredibles holds an approval rating of 97% based on 248 reviews, with an average rating of 8\n== Reception ===== Box office ===Incredibles 2 grossed $608\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15E47/production/_128217698_wmfsnip.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A music festival is going ahead thanks to donations from supporters. In January, the future of Whittington Music Festival was uncertain, after its bid for \u00a315,000 from the Arts Council was rejected. Following an appeal, about 80 people offered handouts and the performers agreed a reduced fee to keep it running. The event starts on Wednesday at Whittington Church and runs until Sunday. Ticket sales only account for a third of the cost of running the festival, which started in 2011, and organisers say funding for the event is reliant on grants and donations. Roderick Williams OBE, who sang at the coronation of King Charles III, is among the headliners set to perform. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/d6a6/live/5a4aca10-f3e3-11ed-92cc-b3a9bf1f67e9.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "In addition to the long-running All My Children (1970\u20132011) and One Life to Live (1968\u20132012), notable past soap operas seen on the daytime lineup include Ryan's Hope, Dark Shadows, Loving, The City and Port Charles\n states where ABC does not have a locally licensed affiliate (New Jersey is served by New York City O&O WABC-TV in the north half of the state and Philadelphia O&O WPVI-TV in the south;[1] Rhode Island is served by New Bedford, Massachusetts-licensed WLNE, though outside of the transmitter, all other operations for the station are based in Providence;[2] and Delaware is served by WPVI in the northern two thirds and Salisbury, Maryland, affiliate WMDT in the southern third of the state)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/d6a6/live/5a4aca10-f3e3-11ed-92cc-b3a9bf1f67e9.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Testing of a new television transmitter could have a \"minor\" effect on reception, its owners have said.The previous Bilsdale mast was destroyed in a fire in August 2021 leaving about a million people in Teesside, North Yorkshire and County Durham without TV coverage.Arqiva said there was a \"small possibility of minor interruptions to TV services\" as its replacement was checked.The company had written to affected households but the majority of viewers would notice no difference, it said. The antenna on the new mast uses the same channels and frequencies as the 80m temporary tower.Most viewers in the region are receiving signal from the interim structure and so may not need to retune when the new 984ft (300m) tall mast goes live. Fewer than 5,000 households may not automatically receive signals from the new mast and have been told what to do if this happens.Other viewers experiencing problems are advised to visit the restoration project's website, external for information. Some households may lose HD services but these will return when additional antenna are installed on the mast, Arqiva said.Work to reinstate heather cleared to make way for the new mast base has also been completed, the company said. The moorland site sits within a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) which required the protection of the heathland habitats and wildlife. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, external, Facebook, external and Instagram, external. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2321/production/_129639980_img-8085.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "While known primarily for his comic roles, Perry has carved out a career in drama as well, particularly in his portrayal of Associate White House Counsel Joe Quincy in Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing\nKeith Powers as Jordan Wilder, a troubled star who lands the role of the other point in the movie's famous love triangle\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2321/production/_129639980_img-8085.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "As conservatives rally around social issues, the Republican Party is clashing with corporate America. Will the fights break its longstanding alliance with big business? At the home of Sarah Fields, a conservative activist and mum-of-three from Texas, some of America's biggest brands are no longer welcome. She cut out Disney first, turned off by children's shows featuring gay couples. Her boycotts of Olay skin products and beers from Bud Light-maker Anheuser-Busch began more recently, after she learned they had worked with transgender social media star Dylan Mulvaney. \"My thing is protecting kids and the very first time I ever saw corporations pushing any kind of LGBTQ or any kind of trans ideology towards kids is when I really started to pay more attention,\" the 36-year-old says. \"There are so many different ones [now], I can barely keep track.\" Sarah became politically active during the pandemic, protesting against lockdowns. Now a delegate to her state's Republican Party, she is one of the players pushing the party to rally around social issues such as gender identity and take on \"woke\" firms in corporate America. Companies have been caught in the crossfire of America's culture wars before, as the country grows more polarised and firms face pressure from staff, customers and shareholders on the left and right to pick a side. But legislative moves targeting firms mark a new frontier for Republicans, who have traditionally been allied with big business over matters like lower taxes and light regulation. In Florida, state lawmakers voted to remove Disney's power over a district including Walt Disney World theme park, after it criticised a law that banned discussions of gender and sexuality in schools. In Georgia, lawmakers threatened to remove a tax break from Delta Airlines, after its chief executive called changes to voting laws \"unacceptable\". Meanwhile dozens of states are considering proposals aimed at stopping government from doing business with financial firms that consider environmental, social and governance factors when making investments - moves that had cost one of the major targets of the campaign, BlackRock, more than $4bn in customer funds as of January. The measures have been controversial, including among Republicans, some of whom say the proposals go too far to interfere with private business. Proponents are unapologetic. \"My job is to protect taxpayers and my constituents from overreach, regardless of where it comes from,\" says Blaise Ignoglia, one of the Florida state senators who sponsored the Disney legislation - a fight that has now evolved into a legal battle over free speech. \"They turned their backs on parents and children when they decided to support sexualising our most vulnerable youth.\" Mr Ignoglia says he is not worried about taking on Disney, which has supported him in the past and wields major economic and political heft in Florida. To the contrary, he says, \"I live in the second reddest district in the state. My constituents are of the same mindset.\" Big business has lost its grip on the Republican Party, as the party shifts right and picks up support from voters without university degrees, while losing ground among the college educated, says Prof Mark Mizruchi, a sociologist at the University of Michigan. In 2022, the share of Republicans saying that large corporations have a positive impact was 26% - on a par with Democrats and less than half of what it was three years earlier, according to Pew. But Prof Mizruchi says politicians' attacks on companies for being woke are \"mostly a smokescreen\", noting that on issues like unionisation, taxes and regulation corporate America and Republican leaders remain tightly aligned. In the 2022 election cycle, the majority of official corporate political donations went to Republicans, as they have for nearly three decades, according to data from OpenSecrets. \"Republicans have to play this very careful game of supporting the wealthy and big business behind the scenes, but making it appear to the public that they're on the side of the little person,\" he says. \"That's why going after the wokeness is a good way to do it - because that's not a bread and butter issue [for corporations].\" The financial impact of the conservative backlash appears to be relatively limited so far. At BlackRock, lost funds amounted to less than 2% of its portfolio. The Bud Light sales decline in the first three weeks of April reflected only 1% of Anheuser-Busch overall volumes. But the outcry has altered the mood, says Martin Whittaker, chief executive of Just Capital, a non-profit that ranks firms based on issues such as worker pay and environmental impact. Though many companies are still moving forward with initiatives internally, he says public discussions have become quieter. \"You're not seeing CEOs stick their necks out.\" Disney, which spoke out on the Florida bill under pressure from its employees, has taken legal action against Florida. But other firms appear to be in retreat. In BlackRock's annual letter this year, risks from climate barely got a mention, though the firm acknowledged challenges due to opinions \"diverging across regions\". Credit card firms have said they would delay changes that activists had hoped would help track gun purchases, citing legal uncertainty. And some big financial firms including Vanguard have backed out of initiatives aimed at climate change, pointing to \"confusion\" about their views. Will Hild is the executive director of Consumers' Research, a group that since 2021 has spearheaded multi-million dollar ad campaigns targeting firms such as Nike, American Airlines, Major League Baseball and Levi's for putting \"woke politics above consumer interests\". \"People forget that in the spring of 2021 you had companies coming out and getting involved in election integrity discussions at the state level in Georgia and Texas,\" he says. \"You haven't seen that in the years since and for us, that's an indication that our campaigns have been successful.\" Last month, after weeks of attacks from conservative pundits and politicians for its partnership with Dylan Mulvaney, Anheuser-Busch put two executives on leave and released a spate of Bud Light ads studded with imagery of American flags and horses galloping across open country. The company, which did not respond to a request for comment from the BBC, said it did not mean to be \"a part of a conversation that divides people\". Decried by some on the left, the about-face was seen by Sarah as a victory. \"What happened with Bud Light is an amazing start and it should be that way for all corporations,\" she says. \"We need to be less fearful and we need to start using our voice more.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/78FE/production/_129747903_radio1dancenominations-051222_creditamyheycockweb-6176.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "On Oliver Cromwell's death, his son Richard became Lord Protector, but the Army had little confidence in him\n The controversy eventually led to Laud's impeachment for treason by a bill of attainder in 1645 and subsequent execution\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/78FE/production/_129747903_radio1dancenominations-051222_creditamyheycockweb-6176.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A music festival has been cancelled less than a month before it was due to take place, with the organisers blaming \"spiralling\" costs. Detonate was due to be held at Colwick Park in Nottingham on 10 June, headlined by a DJ set from electronic duo Chase & Status. Some people who have already booked hotels have complained on social media about the festival being cancelled. The organisers said they were \"gutted\" to \"postpone\" the festival. They have said it \"will be back soon\", despite also saying that costs of putting on the festival have increased. A statement posted online said: \"We're completely gutted, but a number of factors mean that it now feels impossible for us to put on the festival to the expected standard. \"Everything that's needed to put on a festival has gone up massively, and costs are continuing to spiral as we get closer to the event. \"We're unable to pass these costs on to ticket buyers in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis.\" The organisers said refunds would be given to all those who had bought tickets. \"This isn't a decision we've taken lightly, and we know it's disappointing for the thousands of you that have tickets,\" the statement said. The festival is held every year at Colwick Park. Organiser James Busby told BBC Radio Nottingham they had no plans to stop but changes may need to be made for future events. \"What we need to do at this point is find a more sustainable model that works for how things are now. \"What we've been doing is the same model as pre-pandemic, which perhaps is no longer a workable thing,\" he said. In 2016 a Halloween Detonate event was shut down three hours ahead of the scheduled end time due to health and safety fears. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10219/production/_127737066_external-landscapenov22.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Its lead single, \"Perfect Illusion\", debuted at number one in France, while second single \"Million Reasons\" reached number four in the US\n=== 2015\u20132017: American Horror Story, Joanne, and Super Bowl performances ===In February 2015, Gaga became engaged to Taylor Kinney\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10219/production/_127737066_external-landscapenov22.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A board set up to oversee the closure of a 135-year-old theatre and its legacy is set to be the anchor tenant for a new theatre. Oldham Coliseum shut its doors in March after losing all its funding from Arts Council England (ACE). The theatre was unable to come up with a rescue plan despite a campaign to save it backed by actress Maxine Peake. Oldham Coliseum Board said it would work with the council on the new \u00a324m theatre and its cultural programme. An emotional night of performances and tributes led by Peake and actor Christopher Eccleston brought down the final curtain on the Coliseum. Oldham Council had said the playhouse building was not fit for purpose and had a \"litany of problems\" including asbestos as it unveiled plans for a new theatre supported by the ACE which has pledged almost \u00a31.85m for performing arts in the borough. Oldham Coliseum Board said on its website: \"We've agreed to be the anchor tenant for Oldham Council's new purpose-built theatre, scheduled to open in 2026 on Greaves Street.\" \"At the same time, we've taken up a seat at the table of the council's Performance Space Partnership Board with a view to supporting the development of the new space and its inner workings. \"We've also been working closely with Oldham Council on supporting the development of their proposal to Arts Council England for the \u00a31.84m funding to deliver a cultural programme across the borough between now and the opening of the new building, which the Coliseum will lead.\" It said it had \"started considering how a new venue could operate in Oldham, how we could commission and produce new work and how we could collaborate with other arts organisations and community groups\", adding it was \"exciting as there's so many opportunities\". It said once the funding for the cultural programme was confirmed and discussions with other key stakeholders had taken place, it would announce \"what part we will play in that offer\". Oldham Council said plans for the new theatre, set to be finished by 2026, would be submitted in the summer. Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9276/production/_129749473_western_bfi.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The group remixed indie rockers Yo La Tengo's single, \"Here To Fall for the Here To Fall\" remixes EP which included remixes by RJD2 and Pete Rock, and were featured on a remix of Matt & Kim's single \"Daylight\" by DJ Troublemaker\nHip hop as both a musical genre and a culture was formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, particularly among African American youth residing in the Bronx\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9276/production/_129749473_western_bfi.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A Western movie, which was shot in Blackburn and believed to be the first, is to be celebrated with artwork. Kidnapping By Indians was filmed in 1899 in Lancashire by pioneering movie makers Mitchell and Kenyon. The artwork will feature 40 arrows embedded into the end of a terraced house where the film was made. A short film clip was found in a shop basement in Northgate in 1994. Artist Jamie Holman helped uncover the links between the film clip and Blackburn. He has now submitted the planning application with artist group Uncultured Creatives for the artwork which will be 19ft (5.7m) off the ground. Mr Holman said: \"We are proud to commemorate that the world's first Western was made here in Blackburn town centre.\" He added: \"It's an extraordinary story that I am proud to tell on behalf of Mitchell and Kenyon.\" Kidnapping by Indians follows the plot of a young girl being kidnapped by native Americans before being rescued in a gunfight. It was shot in fields close to Blackburn with local mill workers also used in the silent black and while film as well as local actors. Blackburn with Darwen Council's leader Phil Riley told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: \"This was the starting point of what would become a key Hollywood genre.\" He added the artwork will be \"a lasting feature and a real talking point in the town\". Most film critics had cited Edwin S Porter's 1903 The Great Train Robbery, based on a real raid by outlaw Butch Cassidy, as the first Western before the Blackburn discovery. Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15889/production/_126310288_382a58510f38852ea4227b4dee567d2abce06805.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The northern clouds are smaller, sharper and brighter\n The particle flux is high enough to cause darkening or space weathering of their surfaces on an astronomically rapid timescale of 100,000 years\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15889/production/_126310288_382a58510f38852ea4227b4dee567d2abce06805.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Nine months after he was was stabbed on stage, acclaimed author Salman Rushdie in a rare public address has warned that freedom of expression in the West is under threat. Rushdie, 75, delivered the video message at the British Book Awards on Monday, where he was awarded the Freedom to Publish award. The attack at a literary festival in New York left him blinded in one eye. Rushdie is best known for his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. The book, which some Muslims have decried as blasphemous, was banned in several countries within months of its publication and ignited protests at bookstores around the world. Iran's leader also called for Mr Rushdie's assassination in 1989 and placed a $3m (\u00a32.4m) bounty on the author's head. Davina McCall and Sir Salman Rushdie win at British Book Awards As he accepted his award, Rushdie said he believes freedom of expression in the West is at a critical juncture. \"Now I am sitting here in the US, I have to look at the extraordinary attack on libraries, and books for children in schools,\" he said. \"The attack on the idea of libraries themselves. It is quite remarkably alarming, and we need to be very aware of it, and to fight against it very hard.\" The award-winning author also criticised the rewriting of older books in modern times to remove language deemed offensive, saying that books should \"come to us from their time and be of their time.\" \"And if that's difficult to take, don't read it, read another book,\" he said. He appeared wearing sunglasses with one tinted lens covering his injured eye, and looked thinner than usual. Before he was attacked on stage in New York, Rushdie was about to give a speech about how the US has served as a haven for writers exiled under threat of prosecution. The Indian-born, British-American writer was forced into hiding for nearly 10 years after The Satanic Verses was published. The British Book Awards recognised Rushdie with their Freedom to Publish award, which \"acknowledges the determination of authors, publishers and booksellers who take a stand against intolerance, despite the ongoing threats they face.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8204/production/_129748233_777e9dde-b705-461b-bf46-f9edae8aae44.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "==== Ballet ====Ballet is notable for the risks of injury due to the biomechanics of the ankle and the toes as the main support for the rest of the movements\n As far as competitive categories go, most competitions base their categories according to the dance style, age, experience level and the number of dancers competing in the routine\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8204/production/_129748233_777e9dde-b705-461b-bf46-f9edae8aae44.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "BBC journalists in England will stage a 48-hour strike after rejecting revised plans on cuts to local radio. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) will walk out on 7 and 8 June. They will also work to rule, which includes refusing to act-up to more senior roles. The BBC said it would continue to engage with the union in an effort to minimise the impact on its staff and audiences. The dispute centres on the BBC's plans for its 39 local radio stations to share more programmes. Some concessions were made in talks brokered by the conciliation service Acas but they did not go far enough, according to the union. BBC local services disrupted by 24-hour strikeGovernment 'concerned' by BBC local radio cutsBBC announces local radio programming cuts NUJ members working for BBC Local first walked out on strike on 15 March, in a move which disrupted some programming. A second strike planned to coincide with the local elections on 5 May was called off while members were balloted on the BBC's revised proposal. The union said the revised deal removed the risk of redundancy from 300 journalists and would see three extra pairs of weekend breakfast shows. But it has been rejected by members and those working in local radio, regional TV and online in England will strike in June. Paul Siegert, NUJ national broadcasting organiser, said: \"Many of our members who have had to reapply for their jobs and face redundancy have had a very bruising and upsetting time. \"This fight is about the heart of the BBC's public service remit. \"Local news is vital not just so people can be informed to be able to participate in local democracy, it binds communities together and for the many who will not be able to access local news digitally they will lose the familiar presenters who have become their friends. \"Local radio is not expensive in terms of the BBC's budget and we believe that the BBC could easily solve this dispute.\" A BBC spokesperson said: \"We're obviously disappointed with the result of the NUJ ballot. \"We will continue to engage with the union as we have done over the last few months in an effort to minimise the impact on our staff and our audiences. \"We have a plan to modernise local services across England - including more news journalists and a stronger local online service - which will see no overall reduction in staffing levels or local funding. \"Our goal is a local service across TV, radio and online that delivers even greater value to communities.\" Separately, members of the NUJ who work across BBC Northern Ireland are planning to strike on 19 May for 24 hours. They oppose plans to close 36 posts in an attempt to make \u00a32.3m in savings and invest more money in online services. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15C86/production/_123222298_jonnyjohnsongettyimages-959112142.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Regarding the genetic relation between the Syrians and the Lebanese based on Y-DNA, Muslims from Lebanon show closer relation to Syrians than their Christian compatriots\n The Arabs mentioned in Syria by Greco-Roman writers were assimilated into the newly formed \"Greco\u2013Aramaean culture\" that dominated the region, and the texts they produced were written in Greek and Aramaic\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15C86/production/_123222298_jonnyjohnsongettyimages-959112142.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A film about the lesser known part of the Dambusters raids has been released. Narrated by late Dambuster George \"Johnny\" Johnson, Attack on Sorpe Dam features Mr Johnson's experience in the raids, which mark their 80th anniversary on 16 and 17 May. Sqn Ldr Johnson was a bomb-aimer in 617 Squadron, which destroyed key German dams in World War Two. Film director Andrew Panton said he was \"continuously involved\" until his death in December 2022 aged 101. The Bristol-produced film covers the time where Mr Johnson joined 617 squadron in March 1943, from his training right up to when they were briefed about the Dambuster raids. Launched from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire and codenamed Operation Chastise, the raids led to eight of the 19 planes to be lost, the deaths of 53 men and the capture of three. The film was premiered at the former IMAX screen at Bristol Aquarium on 13 May. The filmmakers also worked with the University of Bath - with their camera team creating computer-generated imagery. Mr Panton said right from his first meeting with Mr Johnson, he \"could see that he really wanted a film where he himself could tell his complete story in his own words\", making sure it \"was accurate and factual\". \"Throughout the film, Johnny reviewed all the screenplay, he looked at the imagery we produced, just to make sure it was historically accurate,\" he explained. \"He was so happy to see that finally we had captured his story in the way he wanted it to be told.\" Tony Peters, chairman of the City of Bristol branch of the Royal Air Force Association (Rafa), said the film was a good way to remember such a \"modest\" and \"likeable\" man. \"The man himself is talking about it. He's guiding you through,\" he added. On why it's important to mark the 80th anniversary and learn about the Sorpe dam, Rafa committee member John Langwade said: \"We are of our history and if we don't remember history, we'll never learn anything. \"They were all heroes to do that again and again and again. Ordinary guy, but a hero. Just like talking to your mate.\" Ian Harding, who watched the trailer of the film, said: \"He's quite a character for Bristol and I think this film will bring that home to people who watch it.\" Josh Rowles, who as a cadet met Mr Johnson, said: \"This film really captures the story of the Sorpe Dam, something that's not been done so well. \"I'm happy to see the story being told again.\" Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F413/production/_129738426_5b3bb7b0-3000-4268-b548-daeab43f4ac0.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "Civil law jurisdictions treat contracts differently in a number of respects, with a more interventionist role for the state in both the formation and enforcement of contracts\nIn the early 1800s, William Tudor wrote that Boston was \"'perhaps the most perfect and certainly the best-regulated democracy that ever existed\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/F413/production/_129738426_5b3bb7b0-3000-4268-b548-daeab43f4ac0.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A professional musician says she had no choice but to leave her flat after a council handed her a noise abatement notice. Fiona Fey received the notice two weeks ago after a string of complaints from one neighbour in Lewisham, south London The notice prohibits her from playing all instruments at home at any time. Lewisham Council said: \"We do not make decisions like this lightly and tried to avoid enforcement.\" It added: \"When we tried to explore reasonable offers and solutions to find a balance, the tenant refused to engage and we received multiple further complaints.\" Ms Fey, a member of classical choir Mediaeval Baebes, told the BBC she started to receive noise complaints from a neighbour downstairs after two months of living in her flat. She agreed to compromise with the neighbour and said she \"stopped playing almost all of my instruments other than a guitar and a low whistle that is the same volume as a vacuum cleaner\". \"When my neighbours got nasty, I contacted the council to find out if I was breaking the law.\" She said that the council told her \"you sound guilty to me or you wouldn't be calling\". Ms Fey decided to move out of her flat after she was issued with a noise abatement notice that prohibits her from playing any instruments. She said that the council warned that if the notice was broken it could force entry into her property, confiscate instruments and issue a fine of up to \u00a35,000. She added: \"This has had a taken a huge emotional toll and placed an enormous financial strain on me. \"I was made to feel self conscious and anxious every time I played my music. \"I had almost finished recording an album but now I can't use my recording equipment as it is in a storage unit. \"I am currently living with friends and I don't know how I will find a new place to live as there's nowhere I can afford.\" Fans asked to help save venue after concert deathsWoman hurled cement at neighbours in bitter feudNeighbours share potato-cooking duties to cut costs Lewisham Council said: \"We have been aware of noise issues at a residence since November 2022 involving loud music, playing of instruments and singing, resulting in numerous complaints. \"The tenant refused to agree to a good neighbour agreement or rehearsal times to prevent further concerns. \"Lewisham Homes instructed a professional witness who attended the complainant's home in February 2023. \"The report confirmed that the music from the residence was audible within the complainant's home and was at an unreasonable level.\" Another semi-professional musician living in Lewisham also told the BBC the council had issued him with a community protection notice that stops him from playing any instrument in the house at any time of the day. He said: \"It's heart-breaking, music is my livelihood and the fact I can't even play my instruments for five minutes in my house is draconian.\" The musician, who has taken to practising in his shed, wants the council to have a clear policy on how musicians can practice. \"Lewisham was the borough of culture last year and we want them to recognise that not everyone is rich enough to live in a detached house or own their own recording studio,\" he said. \"There needs to be a policy that finds a realistic middle point so it's not just neighbours being pitted against each other.\" Colin Stuart, the Independent Society of Musicians head of external affairs, said: \"Musicians contribute so much to our cultural life and the economy. \"Fundamentally, musicians must have the right to practise for professional work or for leisure. \"The ISM supports members when faced with noise complaints regularly, and reasonable solutions between local authorities, neighbours and musicians can usually be found with dialogue. \"Noise Abatement Notices can be devastating and it's simply wrong to use them to effectively ban musicians from practising at home at all.\" Follow BBC London on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to hellobbclondon@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7941/production/_129714013_20230503_133020411_ios.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " She played the heroine Viola in a summer 2009 production of Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater in New York City\n A writer for The Daily Telegraph commended her willingness to appear in different genres, ranging from action comedies to dramas\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7941/production/_129714013_20230503_133020411_ios.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A rare copy of The Beatles' 1968 White Album raised more than \u00a32,000 at auction after being donated to a charity shop. The first edition of the album was handed in to The British Heart Foundation's Sutton Coldfield branch. Shop manager Natalie Langsford said a \"generous donor\" brought it in \"and it was just mixed in with other items\". After charity experts suspected its value, it was listed on eBay and sold for \u00a32,350 on Monday night. \"That's just an amazing amount,\" said the charity's area manager, Marcie Somel. \"We're delighted.\" The White Album, released in 1968 with a blank sleeve, was the Liverpool quartet's ninth studio album and is formally titled The Beatles. It is often said to be the band's best ever album and comprises 30 songs. The edition donated to the British Heart Foundation is thought to be incredibly rare, featuring a misprint unique to the first version of the record of which there are only 10,000 copies. Despite its age, it was also in good condition, complete with original inserts and a foldout poster. \"We were thrilled to have such a rare donation come into our shop,\" Ms Somel said. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/64AE/production/_129747752_mike2.png", "label": 1, "text": "==== Books and comics ====Palpatine made his first major appearance in Star Wars-related comic books in 1991 and 1992, with the Dark Empire series written by Tom Veitch and illustrated by Cam Kennedy\n Palpatine sees this as an opportunity to seek out other remaining Jedi, ordering Vader to dispatch an Inquisitor to hunt down Ahsoka\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/64AE/production/_129747752_mike2.png", "label": 0, "text": "A woman who lost her husband to skin cancer has fulfilled his dream of raising \u00a350,000 to pay for a mole-checking machine. Mike Hull, from Droitwich, Worcestershire, died in March 2022, but his wife, Carol, said he was involved in the fundraising almost until the very end. She said he would have been very pleased to see the target reached. The machine will go to Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Her husband was \"gentle, kind, always with a smile\", Mrs Hull said. She said he worked in the prison service and fire service \"so he had a calmness about him\". He was diagnosed with melanoma - the most serious type of skin cancer - in 2013. Instead of withdrawing into himself, she said he \"went the opposite way\" and committed himself to raising money to buy the piece of equipment. She said: \"He was always on the go, he never stopped.\" The couple, along with family and friends, sold cakes, made bracelets and helped to do bacon and sausage rolls on a Saturday morning at Droitwich Spa Football Club to raise money. Their supporters also knitted and sold teddy bears, held quizzes, discos and reunions, Mr Hull died just before he was able to hit his target of \u00a350,000 and his wife said: \"I was extremely upset because I had this think in my head that mike was going to beat it.\" But she was able to get the appeal over the finishing line and ended up raising \u00a358,000. The money will be used to pay for the machine which can be used to quickly check suspicious moles for signs of melanoma and the excess will go to the Royal Marsden Hospital PEACE project. Their study collects tissue samples from people with melanoma after their death to analyse and improve understanding of the disease. She said she thought it helped her, after losing her husband and added: \"I'll be happy because I'll have fulfilled his dream and I think he'll be watching us and he'll be pleased.\" Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2B3D/production/_108196011_construction_site_nhs_getty.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The town is at the centre of England's Golf Coast and has hosted the Open Championship at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club\n The former Southport Theatre & Convention Centre closed in 2020 and a planning permission application for a new Marine Lake Events Centre was submitted at the end of June 2022\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2B3D/production/_108196011_construction_site_nhs_getty.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Building work is yet to start for 33 of the government's 40 promised new hospitals in England, the BBC has found. Most are still waiting to hear what their final budget will be for the projects with a 2030 deadline. Only two are finished and open. Ministers aimed to have six ready for 2025 - but none of this group has full planning permission or funding yet. The government insists it remains committed to meeting the targets. Health leaders say they need urgent clarity. The BBC looked at the issue last year and since then there has been little progress. When the pledge was announced, in 2019, there was some controversy about exactly what counts as a \"new hospital\". What's happened to the 40 new hospitals pledge?NHS hospital buildings 'risky and need repair' NHS guidance says it can range from an entirely new building on a new site to a major refurbishment or alteration. By October 2020, the commitment was confirmed, with an initial budget of \u00a33.7bn. Of the 40 hospitals on the list, eight were projects already planned. BBC News contacted them all, asking for a progress report: 33 said they had not started the main building work yet Five are under constructionTwo, the Royal Liverpool and the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, are finished and open to patients Investment seems to be a factor: Eight said they had full fundingOne hospital did not want to answer31 said they did not yet have the money to start the core building work but had received some cash to get the project going One of the six due to be completed in 2025 is Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, near London. Some parts of St Helier's site look more like a derelict building than a functioning NHS hospital. A makeshift wooden roof at the back is held down with sandbags. One of the three intensive-care units has a problem with ventilation, so it can be used only as a storeroom. In another, staff are working around a leak. In winter, it is not unusual for entire corridors to flood. When we met Chief Medical Officer Ruth Charlton outside a condemned ward, she told us: \"It's not safe to enter - the foundations are crumbling and windows are falling out.\" She cannot see a new build happening by 2025. Her \"optimistic\" estimate is 2027. Ms Charlton would not be drawn on a realistic guess but was blunt about how sad and frustrated she felt. \"I'm frustrated on behalf of our patients, their families or staff that they can't receive healthcare in the sort of facility that I would want my family to receive healthcare in,\" she told us. As we talk, we can hear the sound of a maintenance crew drilling. The trust says its backlog maintenance - to bring buildings and equipment up to standard - will cost \u00a3130m. Across the NHS in England, backlog-maintenance costs have more than doubled, from \u00a34.7bn in 2011-12 to \u00a310.2bn in 2021-22. In other words, it has become twice as expensive just to keep the doors open. Health think tank the Nuffield Trust chief executive Nigel Edwards says the government started with a \"big and slightly vague promise - and it was never clear there was enough money available to do anything like the scale of construction that they wanted to\". And ministers hitting their 2030 target is \"extremely unlikely\". \"They've underestimated how long it takes to change the way they design, build, and plan hospitals,\" he says. \"It's a great ambition - but I think a bit of realism is now starting to sink in.\" In 2019, Boris Johnson assured voters he could build the 40 new hospitals but only \"because we're running a strong economy\". The government has never explicitly allocated a budget for this project - but it has undoubtedly become more expensive. Inflation means prices have gone up sharply, especially in construction. Institute for Financial Studies senior research economist Ben Zaranko says: \"Either the government sticks to that pledge and accepts it will need to spend more on hospital building or it decides it scales back the number and scope of hospitals.\" A Department of Health and Social Care official said: \"We remain committed to delivering all 40 new hospitals by 2030 as part of the biggest hospital-building programme in a generation.\" The logic here is the New Hospital Programme is developing a new national approach to building these hospitals across England - and a standard approach should mean more a rapid process. But there is another - potentially dangerous - complication. Several hospitals across England are at risk of collapse, with roofs propped up with scaffolding and posts, because they were built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) - a lightweight concrete with bubbles inside like \"a chocolate Aero bar\". The NHS has identified 34 NHS buildings in England containing RAAC planks - and it is believed about five need to be dealt with urgently. But only a small number of the hospitals with planned new builds are thought to be affected by RAAC, so it would make sense to expect new RAAC hospitals to be added to the list soon. Sir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents trusts, wants clarity, ideally in the next few weeks. \"We are at a pivotal moment, a key point, where we cannot leave for much longer the scale of deterioration,\" he says. 'We need to know that if we delay too much longer, the scale of the problems in other hospitals and facilities will get to a critical level.\" Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he added there was an \"absolutely dire need for decisions to be made about making progress... and tackling in the longer term the ageing infrastructure\" of hospitals.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0839/production/_129750120_ae5deac1-db8c-427d-a8cf-9654d9f3021d.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " This results in the logical division of an IP address into two fields, the network number or routing prefix and the rest field or host identifier\nMost servers that provide these services are today hosted in data centers, and content is often accessed through high-performance content delivery networks\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0839/production/_129750120_ae5deac1-db8c-427d-a8cf-9654d9f3021d.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A dedicated ambulance response car for mental health emergencies has been launched by the NHS in Essex. The vehicle is staffed by an East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) clinician and a mental health nurse from the Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT). It is the first of its kind for mid and south Essex and follows a similar rollout in Norfolk in 2021. The NHS said the team could triage patients to mental health services. Dan Phillips, interim deputy clinical director and consultant paramedic for the EEAST, said: \"This will also have the secondary benefit of freeing up ambulance crews faster and reducing pressure on emergency departments.\" 'I've got my daughter back after suicide attempts'Ambulances taking 90 minutes to get to 999 callsOn patrol with a mental health crisis team The car could be dispatched typically after a 999 call to the control centre. The NHS said the dedicated team would be ready for callouts between 13:00 and 01:00 seven days per week. Alex Green, chief operating officer at EPUT, said: \"I'm really pleased to be working with our partners to launch such a vital service for people experiencing mental health crisis.\" The car began operation earlier this month and the team met media on Tuesday for an official launch. Find BBC News: East of England onFacebook, Instagramand Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A9DC/production/_129748434_markgatiss2.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " As a result, this also means that the end of male-male friendships tends to be less emotionally upsetting than that of female-female friendships\n== Definitions ==The word \"communication\" has its root in the Latin verb \"communicare\", which means \"to share\" or \"to make common\"\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/A9DC/production/_129748434_markgatiss2.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A host of celebrities have joined an art campaign that supports palliative care nurses. Run by Sobell House Hospice Charity, the My Lovely Postcards project uses art from creatives and well-known figures to raise money in memory of an Oxford woman who died of bowel cancer. Beth's Bursary Fund was set up in memory of Beth Foreman who died aged 32 in 2016. Celebrities involved include Judi Dench and Mel Giedroyc. The project has more than 180 original artworks, including those by well-known figures. They will feature in an exhibition and be available to buy via an online auction. Veronica Brooks, who was a friend of Ms Foreman, said they wanted to \"appropriately honour\" the fashion design graduate's creativity, describing her as \"such a lively, creative young woman\". The money raised will go towards helping to pay for additional skills training for specialist palliative nurses and palliative care staff. Jonas Foreman, Beth's brother, said that the fund will help nurses access vital training courses that they would otherwise have to pay for themselves. He said: \"Whilst being at the hospice, we discovered how tough it is for nurses to access the training they want to do to develop. \"If we can increase the chance of someone else getting access to the kind of care that Beth got, then that is a small win for life in general.\" Mary Walding, Lead Specialist Nurse for Palliative Care, at Sobell House Hospice Charity said there is \"stiff competition\" for funding. The exhibition will take place at St John the Evangelist Arts in Oxford on 20 and 21 May and from 24 to 28 May. Follow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/18638/production/_129269899_nhsbt.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "==== Live-action films ====A feature-length live-action film version of Scooby-Doo was released by Warner Bros\nScooby-Doo makes a cameo in the 1988 Disney film Oliver & Company\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/18638/production/_129269899_nhsbt.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Groups encouraging more black and Asian people to become blood and organ donors in the South East are to get a share of \u00a3685,000 government funding. The shortage of donors from black and Asian communities means those needing transplants can wait longer for organ transplants, the NHS says. People from the same ethnic background are more likely to be a donor match. Those from such groups make up a third of those waiting for a transplant due to the difficulties finding a match. The Community Grants Programme, managed by NHS Blood and Transplant, helps fund community, faith or belief organisations to deliver projects that encourage more black and Asian people to become donors. Carol Stewart, chair of the Medway African and Caribbean Association, said: \"We know that nationally there is a shortage of donors, which ultimately decreases the likelihood of treatment for black people in need of blood and organs. \"Increasing the diversity of donors will help to ensure that people of African and Caribbean origin have more access to compatible blood and organs when needed.\" NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) says it can only supply the best matched blood for those with sickle cell about half the time, and needs 250 donations per day to help treat those with the condition. Sickle cell, which is one of the fastest growing genetic conditions in the UK, is more prevalent in those from the black-African and black-Caribbean backgrounds, the NHS said. \"White patients have about 80-90% chance of finding a stem cell match from a stranger. However black, Asian and mixed race people can only find a stem cell match from a stranger around 30-40% of the time,\" an NHS spokesman said. Health minister Neil O'Brien said: \"It is important everyone has the best chance of receiving a potentially life-saving blood, organ or stem cell donation, regardless of their ethnic background and these organisations are helping to make a real difference. \"We're investing to encourage and increase education about donation among black and Asian communities.\" Follow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10DB/production/_129751340_ncabortion12.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "'\"=== Black models ===The arrival of black women modeling as a profession began in early postwar America\n For example, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was a fashion icon of the early 1960s\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10DB/production/_129751340_ncabortion12.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "North Carolina lawmakers have voted to override the governor's veto of a ban on most abortions after 12 weeks. The measure was passed by the state's Republican-controlled legislature in early May, but was vetoed by Democratic Governor Roy Cooper over the weekend. Republicans overturned the veto in back-to-back votes, prompting chants of \"shame\" from onlookers. The law, which cuts the window for abortion in the state down from 20 weeks, will now take effect on 1 July. On Tuesday, the state Senate voted 30-20 and the House by 72-48 to override the veto. A single Republican defector could have tipped the outcome the other way. \"Shame! Shame! Shame!\" protesters in the statehouse started shouting. Officially known as the Care for Women, Children and Families Act, it was passed by the state Senate along party lines on 4 May, a day after being passed by the state House of Representatives. The measure was vetoed by Governor Cooper at a rally on Saturday. He said the bill would stand \"in the way of progress\" and \"turn the clock back 50 years on women's health\". The legislation bans abortion at 12 weeks except in cases of rape, incest and medical emergencies. It mandates that any abortions taking place after that period be carried out in a hospital. The exceptions in the case of rape and incest are until 20 weeks of pregnancy, or in the event of a \"life-limiting anomaly\", up to 24 weeks. For Supreme Court, the abortion battle is just beginningWhat comes next for the abortion pill in the US? The law also restricts use of abortions pills after 10 weeks of pregnancy and puts in place additional requirements, such as an in-person consultation with a doctor ahead of the procedure. The law includes $160m (\u00a3128m) in funding for contraception, foster and childcare and paid parental leave. Republicans hold slim supermajorities in both chambers of the statehouse, giving them the ability to override a veto from the Democratic governor. The party gained its veto-proof supermajority last month after a Democrat who had previously vowed to protect abortion access switched her party affiliation to Republican. Congresswoman Tricia Cotham voted in favour of the ban after promising last year to \"continue my strong record of defending the right to choose\". Republicans hold exactly three-fifths of seats in both the Senate and House, meaning that just one party defector could have scuppered the vote on Tuesday, allowing the governor's veto to stand. The razor-thin supermajority led Mr Cooper to launch a last-ditch pressure campaign last week to try to convince any Republican to cross party lines. After the state Senate voted to override the veto on Tuesday, four female Republican lawmakers released a joint statement saying the new law \"brings to life a culture that cherishes motherhood and saves the lives of the unborn\". One of the four, Vickie Sawyer, accused Democrats of \"exaggerated and extremist objections\". But Democratic state representative Deb Butler said the law would make North Carolina a \"less hospitable place to live\". \"This regressive law will affect every single woman in the state for the entirety of her reproductive life,\" she said. Democratic state Senator Natasha Marcus said: \"This bill is a slap in the face. It is a muzzle over our mouths, and it is a straitjacket on our bodies.\" Near-total abortion bans have been passed by 14 states in the US since the Supreme Court ended the nationwide right to abortion last year. North Carolina saw abortions rise 37% in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling, according to the Society of Family Planning, a non-profit that advocates for abortion rights and research. The increase was largely driven by women travelling to North Carolina from other parts of the southern US, where restrictions are now largely restricted. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/94E3/production/_129751183_gettyimages-1231180553.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " David Chase directed the commercial and treated it as a continuation of The Sopranos story\nSeveral well-known actors appeared in one or two episodes, such as Lauren Bacall, Daniel Baldwin, Annette Bening, Polly Bergen, Sandra Bernhard, Charles S\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/94E3/production/_129751183_gettyimages-1231180553.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Eight out of 10 South African school children struggle to read by the age of ten, an international study has found. South Africa ranked last out of 57 countries assessed in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, which tested the reading ability of 400,000 students globally in 2021. Illiteracy among South African children rose from from 78% in 2016 to 81%. The country's education minister blamed the results on school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. Describing the results as \"disappointingly low\", Angie Motshekga also said the country's education system was faced with significant historical challenges, including poverty, inequality and inadequate infrastructure. In many primary schools \"reading instruction often focuses solely on oral performance, neglecting reading comprehension and making sense of written words\", she added. The study showed that 81% of South African children could not read for comprehension in any of the country's 11 official languages. Alongside Morocco and Egypt, South Africa was one of only three African countries which participated in the assessments to monitor trends in literacy and reading comprehension of nine- and 10-year-olds. Based on tests taken every five years at the end of the school year, the new study places countries in a global education league table. Singapore secured top spot in the rankings with an average score of 587, while South Africa ranked last on 288 points - below second-last Egypt's average of 378. The scores are benchmarked against an international average of 500. The study also showed that overall, girls were ahead of boys in their reading achievement in nearly all of the assessed countries, but the gender gap has narrowed in the most recent testing round. South Africa's struggles with its education system are longstanding, with significant inequality between black and white students a consequence of the segregation of children under apartheid. Education is one the single biggest budget expenses for the government, which can lead to disappointment over poor performance in studies like this. A lack of suitable reading materials and inadequate infrastructure in schools, often things like toilets, have contributed to the crisis.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/937/cpsprodpb/1225/live/a6182190-f361-11ed-b22f-011c83173b35.png", "label": 1, "text": " From 1999, Gaddafi shunned pan-Arabism, and encouraged pan-Africanism and rapprochement with Western nations; he was Chairperson of the African Union from 2009 to 2010\n When Gaddafi refused, citing the Montreal Convention, the United Nations (UN) imposed Resolution 748 in March 1992, initiating economic sanctions against Libya which had deep repercussions for the country's economy\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/937/cpsprodpb/1225/live/a6182190-f361-11ed-b22f-011c83173b35.png", "label": 0, "text": "A council has issued a warning after several new cases of measles were confirmed.There have been three known cases in north-east England and one in the North West, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.Colin Cox, director of public health for Cumberland Council, said measles, mumps and rubella remained \"highly infectious\" conditions.He issued a reminder that the vaccine provided \"safe and effective protection\". He said those who had not had two doses, including children and adults, should have arranged to have their course completed with their GP.\u201cGetting vaccinated is important as these conditions can spread easily amongst unvaccinated people and lead to serious problems including meningitis, hearing loss and problems during pregnancy,\" he added.Cumberland Council said residents could check their vaccination records at their GP.The UKHSA said an uptake in routine childhood vaccinations had fallen during the Covid pandemic.Dr Sam Ghebrehewet from UKHSA North West said this was leaving people vulnerable to outbreaks \"especially as people travel abroad for summer holidays to places where measles is more common\".He said: \"It\u2019s important to remember that measles is not just a childhood illness and it\u2019s never too late to have the vaccine.\"Measles can be more severe in young people and adults, often leading to hospital admissions.\"Symptoms can often start with cold-like symptoms, developing into a rash., external Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, external, Facebook, external and Instagram, external. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/f793/live/49002a60-f3f8-11ed-bfcd-db47ffdaa291.png", "label": 1, "text": "== Potential remake ==In August 2016, Sam Mendes was revealed to be in negotiations with Disney to direct another live action adaptation of the novel, with Nick Hornby in talks for the script\n His elder son, Benjamin, was born with Peters Anomaly, a rare genetic eye disorder which, despite many operations, left him blind in his left eye\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/f793/live/49002a60-f3f8-11ed-bfcd-db47ffdaa291.png", "label": 0, "text": "A crisis in mental health care is forcing police officers to divert from frontline duties, the Surrey police and crime commissioner (PCC) said.Lisa Townsend said two Surrey officers recently spent a week supporting one vulnerable person.Over the past seven years the number of hours the county's officers have spent with people in crisis has trebled, according to the PCC.It is hoped a new national scheme could help address the problem. Ms Townsend, the national lead for mental health for the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said: \u201cUnlike doctor\u2019s surgeries, community health outreach programmes or council services, the police are available 24 hours a day.\u201cWe have seen time and time again that 999 calls to help someone in distress spike as other agencies close their doors.\" Last year Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Police Commissioner, said for every mental health patient his officers dealt with, they would spend an average of 14 hours in A&E.In February Surrey Police officers spent 515 hours dealing with mental health incidents, the highest number for a single month the force has recorded so far.Ms Townsend said a new scheme, called Right Care, Right Person, and trialled in Humberside, external, could help save police time and get people the care they need quicker.It would see the NHS, local authorities, charities and other mental health providers work more closely together.She said: \u201cWhen there are concerns for a person\u2019s welfare that\u2019s linked to their mental health, medical or social care issues, they\u2019ll be seen by the right person with the best skills, training and experience.\"Other forces, including Cambridgeshire, Merseyside and Scotland, have trialled mental health workers going on patrol with officers. Follow BBC South East on Facebook, external, on Twitter, external, and on Instagram, external. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk, external.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12B57/production/_126213667_gettyimages-1227547065.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Daniel was in political trouble following the enactment of a two-cent state sales tax in 1961, which had soured many voters on his administration\n He began his career as a Democrat and later became a Republican in 1973\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/12B57/production/_126213667_gettyimages-1227547065.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A long-serving Conservative MP said NHS dentistry was at risk of \"collapse\", during a debate at Westminster Hall. South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon was opening a discussion on dental services in the East of England. No dental practices in Suffolk, Norfolk, North Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire were accepting new adult NHS patients last year, according to BBC research. The government says it has started to reform UK dentistry services. \"I don't think the collapse of NHS dentistry is a phrase too extreme when we're seeing what's happening,\" said Mr Bacon. \"We're talking about such piffling sums of money compared with the overall costs of the NHS that it's simply incomprehensibly we wouldn't deal with this.\" Mr Bacon claimed the \"collapse\" dated back 25 years to the \"withdrawal of funding\" under the New Labour government and was aggravated by the 2006 dental contract. The reforms were intended to simplify charging and make it easier to find an NHS dentist. \"It will continue to get much worse unless the government decides to take a decisive step change and then matches that decision with the right resources, in the right places, within a contractual framework that incentivises the right behaviour,\" he added. The British Dental Association, which represents NHS dentists in the UK, has blamed the access problems on under-investment from government. NHS dental treatment is not free for most adults, but it is subsidised. Research by the Association of Dental Groups, published last year, suggested there were 38 NHS dentists per 100,000 people in the former Norfolk and Waveney clinical commissioning group area, and 44 in West Essex and Thurrock. NHS tooth care like a 'dental desert', MP says Patients in pain amid struggle to find dental careAre cut-price reality TV teeth worth it? The Conservative MP for South West Bedfordshire, Andrew Selous, said he had confidence in health minister Neil O'Brien to make reforms, but said: \"This is urgent, it matters, please deliver.\" Waveney Conservative MP Peter Aldous also added: \"East Anglia is probably the largest dental desert in the UK and what we do need to be doing, metaphorically at least, with immediate effect, is bringing in the irrigators and sinking the bore holes.\" Labour shadow public health minister Andrew Gwynne said: \"You guys have had 13 years to fix that dental contract and it is of deep frustration that in the course of a decade and three years that has not happened.\" He said a Labour government would provide the staff, equipment and modern technology to bring down waiting lists and \"ensure patients get the care they deserve\". Tory health minister Mr O'Brien, speaking at the debate, said dentistry reform was the \"number one issue\" he was working on and the issues were most \"acute\" in the East of England. He said dentists had responded positively to the package of \"initial reforms\" introduced by NHS England in July and that the number of NHS patients had increased by nearly a fifth year-on-year. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/4A78/production/_129746091_2fqkfl0i.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "The skin and eyes are most sensitive to damage by UV at 265\u2013275 nm wavelength, which is in the lower UVC band that is rarely encountered except from artificial sources like welding arcs\n The WHO recommends following the shadow rule: \"Watch your shadow \u2013 Short shadow, seek shade!\"=== Sunscreen ===Commercial preparations that block UV light are known as sunscreens or sunblocks\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/4A78/production/_129746091_2fqkfl0i.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "An art show raising awareness of men's mental health has opened. Life by Numbers includes work from six artists and will be spread across the walls of the Arnolfini Caf\u00e9 in Bristol throughout May. Street artist Stewy said the exhibition was about the importance of talking and \"not hiding away\" from mental health issues. Prints and merchandise of the pieces will be on sale, with proceeds going to Bristol charity Talk Club. The charity - which was launched in Bristol in April 2019 and now has more than 70 groups worldwide - encourages men to speak openly about their feelings. Stewy said he wanted to raise awareness of men's mental health after witnessing his father \"go in and out of mental health institutions\" as a child. \"It manifested itself more as depression as we know it now. Very quiet, very thoughtful, it wasn't happy but I didn't know anything else,\" he said. The 50-year-old told BBC Radio Bristol he hoped his work would show children who may be witnessing their parents struggling that it is \"not their fault.\" \"There's nothing to be ashamed of,\" he said. Stewy believes street art has helped his mental health and his work includes paintings of Bristol-based punk band Idles and local legend DJ Derek. Artists Big Jeff, Tozer, Farrah, Sickboy and #DTFE are also taking part in the exhibition. Alongside their pieces, biographies of the artists involved will also be at the exhibition, including information about how they have been affected by mental health. Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11BE6/production/_121587627_049977857.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Murnau and Fritz Lang, in many ways inspired by the meteoric wartime progress of film through Griffith, along with the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, quickly caught up with American film-making and continued to further advance the medium\nMichelle Yeoh became the first ever Asian woman nominated in the Best Actress category\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11BE6/production/_121587627_049977857.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "\"Covid vaccine passports\" introduced in Northern Ireland during the pandemic were lawful, judges have ruled. The Court of Appeal said the Covid certification scheme was a proportionate and legitimate response to the pandemic's impact on the health system. The passports were required to enter restaurants, bars and cinemas. Judges rejected claims this was a violation of civil liberties for unvaccinated people. They also rejected the argument that data protection rules were breached. On Tuesday, Lord Justice Treacy said the regulations were \"in accordance with the law and served a legitimate aim and were proportionate and justifiable\". In November 2021, the Stormont Executive brought in the certification scheme in an effort to curb the spread of Covid-19. The measures - since scrapped - required proof of full vaccination status, a negative test, or proof of recovery from the virus to enter hospitality venues. Belfast man Risteard O'Murch\u00fa and Darren Williams, from Carrickfergus, County Antrim, brought separate challenges over the lawfulness of the scheme. Mr O'Murch\u00fa claimed the regulations were an unjustified and intrusive step which stigmatised and discriminated against those who did not get vaccinated. Mr Williams claimed there was a breach of data protection in how confidential personal information was obtained through scanning customer's QR codes. In February 2022, the High Court dismissed both challenges and ruled that the scheme was justified. Even though the passports are no longer required, appeals were mounted against that decision. Judges were told that there is still a power to reintroduce the step at any stage. Ruling on the cases, Lord Justice Treacy said there had been, unarguably, a legitimate aim behind the scheme which was backed by the chief medical officer and the chief scientific adviser. \"There was scientific evidence to support the argument that restricting access to vaccinated or non-infected persons in high risk settings has the potential to reduce transmission of the virus,\" he said. Any interference with Mr O'Murch\u00fa's human rights was limited and did not prohibit attendance at high risk settings, the court held. It was open to him to take the option of providing proof of a negative lateral flow test within the previous 48 hours. The tests were free and easily available then, the judge said. \"The appellant described this as an 'inconvenience' but that inconvenience has to be seen in light of and set against the legitimate and overwhelming aim of protecting public health,\" Lord Justice Treacy said. \"We consider it unarguable that the necessity/proportionality tests are not met.\" Dismissing Mr Williams' appeal, the judge said it was \"wholly academic, serves no utility and there is no public interest or good reason that this court can discern which would justify determining such a plainly academic matter.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10BB4/production/_129723586_00ab83cda91944b839001d2f32557057773a09a9.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Star Trek also brought teleportation to popular attention with its depiction of \"matter-energy transport\", with the famously misquoted phrase \"Beam me up, Scotty\" entering the vernacular\n=== Expansion of the Star Trek Universe (2017-2023) ===CBS turned down several proposals in the mid-2000s to restart the franchise on the small screen\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10BB4/production/_129723586_00ab83cda91944b839001d2f32557057773a09a9.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Patients are not dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because patients are dying, the head of the Royal College of Nursing says. Speaking at the union's annual conference, Pat Cullen praised nurses' protests over pay and safe staffing. She told delegates she has been invited to have more discussions with Health Secretary Steve Barclay. The government confirmed the meeting but said a deal recently reached with other unions would \"not be reopened\". Instead the talks would focus on how the NHS can be made \"a better place to work\", sources said. They pointed out the pay deal in England - a 5% rise this year and a one-off lump sum worth at least \u00a31,655 to boost last year's 4% pay rise - was in the process being implemented, with the first payments expected in the pay packets of NHS workers in June. What is the new NHS pay offer? The deal does not cover doctors and dentists who are on separate contracts. Ms Cullen's speech came after her members rejected the pay offer from government, despite her recommending that they accept the deal. Nurses rejected it by 54% to 46%. It has put the RCN leader in a difficult position, but she was quick to praise her members, calling them an \"inspiration\". She urged them to vote in the forthcoming ballot on future industrial action, which opens next week and will give results in June. The union's previous mandate for strike action, which has seen them take part in eight days of walkouts in England so far in this dispute, expired earlier this month. She said the pay disputes in Wales and Northern Ireland were not over either, since no deals have yet been agreed on pay. She told members at the conference in Brighton: \"Patients are not dying because nurses are striking. Nurses are striking because patients are dying. It is as clear as that.\" She said the NHS was \"sailing close to the wind\", with staff shortages threatening patient safety. In the hall, her speech was well received by delegates - and there is certainly a lot of pro-strike sentiment among those attending. Nurses have taken to the stage during the week promising to fight until they win. But it must be remembered these sort of gathering tend to attract those with the strongest viewpoints. There are around 3,000 delegates in Brighton - around 1% of the RCN's membership. It is why those involved in the running of the strike ballot believe it is too close to call over whether a strike mandate will be achieved. For the vote to count, over half the membership has to vote - and a majority of those to back action. First time around this was only achieved in half of NHS trusts. As it was run as a series of local workplace ballots nurses in those trusts were able to strike. But this one is a national vote - essentially an all or nothing last throw of the dice to get ministers back to the negotiating table. It means if it fails to reach the required threshold the threat of industrial action disappears.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/138CE/production/_119387008_gettyimages-1321310203.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The wedding was followed with a reception in the Gallery Building at Herrenhausen Gardens, the only part of the House of Hanover's former summer palace still intact, as the palace itself had been burned down during World War II\n For example, Mary and Elizabeth, daughters of Henry VIII of England, were often simply referred to as \"the Ladies Mary and Elizabeth\"\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/138CE/production/_119387008_gettyimages-1321310203.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Scotland's national clinical director said the easing of face mask rules in care homes and healthcare settings was a \"good thing\". Prof Jason Leitch said Covid would be treated like any other respiratory disease. The return to pre-pandemic guidance comes more than three years on from the start of Covid face mask restrictions. Some individual health and social care settings may still ask people to wear masks for infection control reasons. The change comes two weeks after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that Covid-19 no longer represents a \"global health emergency\". Speaking to the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, Prof Leitch said the move allowed countries to make risk-based choices. \"One of the things we had was extra rules about face coverings for Covid - now we're going back to standard rules,\" he said. \"Everyone is fatigued with a global pandemic. \"But I've been in environments where alcohol gel has re-appeared. Vaccination numbers would suggest that the country still cares enough to know that the principal protective route is available and people are still staying off a bit more when they're sick. \"We're downgrading the use of face coverings [in healthcare settings]. That's a good thing for communication, for families and for most people.\" Covid: Law on wearing face masks in Scotland is liftedCovid global health emergency is over, WHO saysFace coverings now compulsory in Scotland's shops Face coverings were first recommended in healthcare settings in June 2020. The requirement to wear them in other places, such as on buses and in shops, was then introduced later as the country opened up after Covid lockdown measures. This legal requirement ended in April last year but guidance for health and social care settings was kept in place. Now staff, patients, service users and visitors will no longer be routinely asked to wear face masks in these settings. The BBC has heard from people with health conditions who have concerns about the latest relaxation of the rules. Brian Keeley, from Aberdeen, had a heart transplant in 2013 and takes medication every day to suppress his immune system and prevent organ rejection. Although he expects medics in immunotherapy settings will continue to wear masks, Brian frequently has appointments in other healthcare settings where he fears people may not be as careful. He said: \"I go to clinic every six months, but I also have to go to the GP, to respiratory appointments, local clinics to give blood samples, vaccinations clinics that are full of people. \"These are things we have to do anyway and nobody there knows the level of vulnerability of people. \"I was at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary recently and everyone there was wearing face masks. It was all very safe and reassuring but from today that may not be the case.\" Brian said he felt things were moving on without consideration for people who are still \"effectively shielding\" given the prevalence of Covid. The latest Public Health Scotland figures show one in 40 people have Covid - which is down from a peak of one in nine in March. \"I think we've got used to the fact that in settings where people have a choice then the majority of people are well vaccinated,\" said Brian. \"It's great that vaccination has been so successful. \"But for those of us where vaccination has a limited effect, we still have to live our lives as if we've never been vaccinated. \"It's a lonely place to be.\" First Minister Humza Yousaf said the change to rules on face masks was an \"evolution of the guidance\" but stressed that \"Covid isn't over\". He added: \"People may themselves have had Covid recently or had a family member have Covid recently. \"It's really important we follow all of those guidelines in order to keep ourselves safe and the public safe.\" Chief nursing officer Alex McMahon added: \"Due to the success of vaccines in protecting people, and the availability of treatments, now is the right time to revise the advice on wearing masks in health and social care settings and return to pre-pandemic guidance.\" While he said some staff \"may have concerns\" about the change, Mr McMahon said organisations would carry out individual occupational health assessments and risk assessments as appropriate. He added: \"We continue to be vigilant in our response to Covid-19 and encourage everyone to make sure they are up to date with the boosters available to them.\" Officials at the WHO said the status of Covid had changed after the global estimated virus death rate dropped from a peak of more than 100,000 people per week in January 2021 to just over 3,500 on 24 April. But the organisation warned the removal of the highest level of alert did not mean the danger was over and said the emergency status could be reinstated if the situation changed.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/3bf0/live/cefe0050-f3e0-11ed-82e3-b5e4b2cf9588.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Stewart reunited with Assayas the following year in the supernatural thriller Personal Shopper (2016) and made her directorial debut with the short film Come Swim (2017)\n Stewart also reunited with Clouds of Sils Maria director Olivier Assayas to headline his film Personal Shopper, a ghost story that takes place in the fashion industry\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/2048/cpsprodpb/3bf0/live/cefe0050-f3e0-11ed-82e3-b5e4b2cf9588.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A new leader is being recruited for two hospital trusts providing services on the north and the south banks of the River Humber. In 2022 the boards at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) agreed to move towards a group leadership model. A new joint executive team, led by a joint chief executive will oversee the management of the two organisations. Recruitment for the position \"is well under way\" said HUTH, but the current bosses of both trusts will not be contenders after announcing they were leaving their positions earlier in the year. Chris Long, chief executive of HUTH announced hw will retire from the NHS later this year.Mr Long said: \u201c This has not been an easy decision but I feel that at the age of almost 63 I will not be able to provide the longevity in post that leading the transition of our two Trusts into a single group will require.\" NLAG chief executive Peter Reading has also announced he will be leaving his position. \"Working at NLAG has been both a personal and professional pleasure,\" he said.\"I have seen our staff achieve many amazing things in the past six years and they should be incredibly proud of that; I know I am. \"Their dedication to their roles, their ability to do them with humour and, when appropriate, with challenge, is as strong as any I have seen anywhere in the NHS throughout my career.\"Sean Lyons, chair at both HUTH and NLAG, said: \"We are continuing with our plans to create a Group structure with Hull University Teaching Hospitals and we expect to confirm the appointment of a Group Chief Executive to lead both NLAG and HUTH in the near future.\"", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/999/cpsprodpb/122F9/production/_129698447_x1_overallwinnerandstreetfood_jonenoch_thecandyman_lorescredited.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Adaptation affects all aspects of the life of an organism\n Firstly, it is the dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/999/cpsprodpb/122F9/production/_129698447_x1_overallwinnerandstreetfood_jonenoch_thecandyman_lorescredited.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The Candy Man, by UK photographer Jon Enoch, has won the overall prize at the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year competition this year. The photograph was taken in the streets of Mumbai and is part of a wider series of images of the sellers who display the candy in a variety of ways in the hope of attracting a buyer. \"I'm ecstatic to receive this award, it's a real honour to get this recognition in such a prestigious competition laden with wonderful imagery,\" says Enoch. \"The winning image was part of a personal project - a huge amount of time and thought went into capturing it so it's great to be recognised by such an esteemed panel of judges. Ever since I first saw the candy floss sellers I was drawn to the shapes, colours and juxtaposition of the candy and the urban environment.\" Here are some of the competition category winners, with descriptions by the photographers. \"When I arrived at Lap An Lagoon, the storm came. \"The people who were with me were very afraid of lightning, but I stayed to witness the change of the storm when Heaven and Earth seemed to be connected by wind and water. \"I tried to stay calm, to forget my fear and shoot this moment.\" \"Adua's kitchen is part of a journey down memory lane of an 86-year-old woman who had to leave her lifelong home during the Covid pandemic.\" \"Girl resting after emptying a vat after the fermentation of the grapes in a vineyard in Burgundy. \"Physical and tiring work.\" \"This image was taken from my visit to Shwe Gu Orphanage monastery in Old Bagan, Myanmar, in 2018. \"I visited this monastery for three days and observed their daily routines. Most of these children have lost their parents and have no family. \"They are training to be Buddhist monks.\" \"This year's persimmons are harvested, peeled and dressed, and hung under the eaves in bunches, waiting for the persimmons to soften and freeze, hoping they will bring a good price in the New Year.\" \"Spag bol is always a winner in our house and the leftovers are enjoyed for lunch the next day, as my youngest daughter demonstrates in this image.\" \"A sow taking a nap in a hole, meanwhile her piglets feed themselves in the hot weather of Palenque, close to Cartagena, Colombia.\" \"This image is one of several in the collection Beauty in Destruction.\" \"Saturday afternoon street food in Galle Fort, Sri Lanka.\" \"The process of pulling sugar is a local specialty. \"This process is very skilful and the master appears to be dancing when pulling the white sugar.\" \"After the campaign of the Syrian regime on Idlib and the departure of the Syrian forces from the city of Nayrab, the people of the city found all its houses destroyed. \"That was in the month of Ramadan in the year 2020. Neither the war nor the destruction prevented the people from holding a group breakfast, an important tradition for them during Ramadan.\" \"An imaginative scene that could be somewhere in the dense Amazonian jungle made out of food.\" \"One of my favourite summer fruits, photographed under a tree in our garden.\" The exhibition of all the finalists can be seen at The Royal Photographic Society in Bristol from Saturday 20 May until Sunday 11 June. All photographs courtesy Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2023", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/779/cpsprodpb/2767/live/438207b0-f3c7-11ed-afa1-fd87d2219315.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "\u201d Her decision to quit being vegan sparked backlash from the vegan and vegetarian community and physicians who accused Cyrus of \"abandoning her vegan diet\" and spreading misinformation about omega-3 in plant-based diet, which can be found in various plant-based sources and dietary supplements\n In September 2019, Cyrus met with another fan through the Make-A-Wish Foundation at the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/779/cpsprodpb/2767/live/438207b0-f3c7-11ed-afa1-fd87d2219315.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Some children in Kent are waiting up to four years to be assessed for autism or ADHD.Over 10,000 children and young people were on a waiting list for referrals for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), NHS Kent and Medway said. The National Autistic Society (NAS) said that without assessment, people were \"left struggling\" without support.The Department of Health and Social Care said a \"timely diagnosis\" was \"vital\" and it was \"committed to reducing delays\". The increase in waiting times comes after referrals increased by about 80% in 12 months.Ella Pitt, senior policy officer at NAS, said many children were struggling \"at school, at work, [and] at home.\"Many go on to develop mental health problems,\" they added. The charity has called for more government investment in diagnostic services after a growth in ASD awareness in recent years. It said access to services was currently a postcode lottery, and that delays had been made worse by the pandemic. Beth Whatman, from Tenterden, said her five-year-old son Rufus could have to wait two years for an ASD assessment and four years for an ADHD appraisal. She told the BBC: \"It is very frustrating. We know he is autistic and we need that extra support.\"There is only so much you can look at online to try to find ways to help him. \" Charlotte Cornell, a Labour councillor at Canterbury City Council, said her youngest son was diagnosed with ASD after an 18 month wait. \"I sat in front of the paediatrician and said that I wasn't leaving without a diagnosis,\" she said.\"But I have other friends [who] are absolutely desperate and they are being fobbed off with online appointments\". A Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"It is vital to have a timely diagnosis of autism and we are committed to reducing delays and improving access to support.\"The government invested \u00a32.5m last year to improve autism diagnostic pathways, he added. Follow BBC South East on Facebook, external, on Twitter, external, and on Instagram, external. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk, external.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8479/production/_129731933_xp2302_095522cl_xe_scot_1305-55-1000x1000.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " It was shot in Los Angeles and features several cameo appearances from Cage's Definitive Jux label-mates\n In Hebrew, his first name Shia translates as 'gift of God'\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8479/production/_129731933_xp2302_095522cl_xe_scot_1305-55-1000x1000.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "An old coal mine in southern Scotland was the site of an electric off-road rally at the weekend. The Extreme E series held its Hydro X Prix at Glenmuckloch in Dumfries and Galloway. Teams backed by the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button competed over two days. Previous sites to have hosted the series have included Greenland, the Atacama Desert, Saudi Arabia and Senegal. All images are copyrighted.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1659/production/_129712750_311c4c901bd03c99ea5ccb5d84f432b8233694f1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "In July 2010, before the Davis Cup clash away at Croatia, Djokovic made another addition to his team \u2013 Igor \u010cetojevi\u0107, a Serbian nutritionist and proponent of traditional medicine living in Cyprus, who influenced Djokovic's diet\nAfter winning his first Master Series title, Djokovic returned to Serbia to help his country enter the Davis Cup World Group in a match against Georgia\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1659/production/_129712750_311c4c901bd03c99ea5ccb5d84f432b8233694f1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. All photos subject to copyright", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/53F3/production/_129719412_mediaitem129719410.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " He returned to action four days later in a 4\u20131 away win over Torino, but was substituted after sustaining yet another injury\n Dybala was also the first to play 38 consecutive matches in a professional league in the country (again edging Kempes), and was also the first to score two hat-tricks in a season\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/53F3/production/_129719412_mediaitem129719410.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "An outdoor exhibition revealing the hidden life of hill farming has gone on show in Upper Teesdale. Photographer Joanne Coates spent a year documenting life on Herdship farm in the North Pennines, capturing tenant farmers Paul and Jen Johnson. The resulting photographs are being exhibited in the field at the Langdon Beck Hotel until 4 June. \"I hope it shows the hard work that hill farmers are doing to try and farm in a sustainable way,\" Joanne said. The photographer, who has worked as a farm labourer and still occasionally milks cows, said it was important to tell stories close to her and to show the challenges of working in agriculture. \"Hill farmers are custodians of the land and put an immense amount of care into what they do,\" she said. \"It is not only for today that they farm, but for the future. This isn't often understood, and it was a really important element for me, to showcase this story of one who cares for the land.\" While the collection spans the seasons, one photograph which resonates with the photographer is of Paul in winter, stood on the snow-covered fell tops, looking out over the landscape. \"He is wearing the same jacket he is wearing in autumn, on a sunny day, on a windy day,\" explained Joanne, who is based in Swaledale, North Yorkshire. \"I asked him what it means to be a tenant farmer and what it would mean if hill farming wasn't possible any more. \"He just looked out over the landscape and it was the way he was looking, it spoke with that emotion and it was a real quiet moment - what would his life look like, what would his community be like, if farming wasn't there any more?\" Just 20 photographs were chosen from a catalogue of 400, showing life, work and the natural year, and have been mounted on posts which will be repurposed for tree guards at the end of the Herdship exhibition. Paul Johnson said looking after nature was \"part of our everyday business\" and he and his wife took part in the project because they wanted to show the work that goes into a hill farm, and \"the nature-friendly way\" they farm, working with wildflowers and birds. The free exhibition is part of the Tees-Swale: naturally connected programme, delivered by the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Partnership and the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. Duncan Peake, chief executive of the Raby Estate, where the farm is located, said: \"Upper Teesdale is a special place for people and nature, but this hasn't happened by accident. \"Farmers such as Paul and Jen Johnson have adapted their farming methods to create the right conditions for wildlife to thrive, and this way of farming with nature is at the heart of the Tees-Swale programme.\" All images subject to copyright Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5A6F/production/_129715132_uploadesandhyabhattaramr.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "The cinema of Japan (\u65e5\u672c\u6620\u753b, Nihon eiga, also known domestically as \u90a6\u753b h\u014dga, \"domestic cinema\") has a history that spans more than 100 years\n The first winner for Best Film was The Inugamis by Kon Ichikawa\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5A6F/production/_129715132_uploadesandhyabhattaramr.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Join us as we take a few moments every day to relax and enjoy the beauty of England through the stunning images you send us. Upload your images or email us at england@bbc.co.uk Upload your images or email us at england@bbc.co.uk. For inspiration, view some top tips from three of England's Big Picture photographers. When emailing pictures, please make sure you include the following information: The full name of the person who took the pictures (as this person owns the copyright)Confirmation that the copyright holder gives permission for the BBC to use their pictures across all its outputsThe location, date and time the pictures were takenYour telephone number so we can get back to you if we have any further questionsAny other details about the pictures that may be useful for us to know Please note that while we welcome all your pictures, we are more likely to use those which have been taken in the past week. Email your photographs to our colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Pictures can be found on Instagram, on the hashtags #BBCEngland and #EnglandsBigPicture and on our England's Big Picture board on Pinterest. If you submit a picture, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions and the BBC's privacy policy. In contributing to England's Big Picture you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide. It's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to England's Big Picture, and that if your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside. The BBC cannot guarantee that all pictures will be used and we reserve the right to edit your comments. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws while collecting any kind of media.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9E4A/production/_129722504_gettyimages-1254573709.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Also, during Deadpool's first ongoing comic, he possesses a device that projected holographic disguises, allowing him to go undercover or conceal his appearance\n Deadpool infiltrated their base and managed to get T-Ray and Slayback killed when Kemp was about to kill herself in an explosion which would kill Wade in the process, he convinced her not to attack him\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/9E4A/production/_129722504_gettyimages-1254573709.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Fans from across the globe were treated to a Eurovision Song Contest feast in Liverpool. The winners of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, Kalush Orchestra performed on stage at the start of the final. UK entry Mae Muller took part in the flag parade as the proceedings began, and Marco Mengoni carried the Pride flag as well as the Italian one. Alesha Dixon, Julia Sanina, Hannah Waddingham and Graham Norton were all on stage for the start. Mimicat representing Portugal, Teya and Salena for Austria, Loreen from Sweden and Andrew Lambrou for Cyprus were among the first performers. Czechia entrant Vesna's braids drew attention, as did the performance of Finland's Kaarija. Ukraine, last years winners, were represented by TVORCHI. Let 3 from Croatia had a controversial performance. The UK's Mae Muller was the final act. Duncan Laurence and other past Eurovision acts joined the presenters on stage after the performances. Loreen hears that she has won after a tense voting count. In the Eurovision Village, crowds sang their hearts out as they watched all the musical drama on a big screen. HMS Mersey was illuminated in the colours of Ukraine. Irish duo Jedward were among the acts who entertained fans in the Village zone earlier in the day. All photographs subject to copyright. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/3DB1/production/_129439751_leroy.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "\"Sulk\" was written as a response to the Hungerford massacre\n In \"Just\", Jonny and Colin Greenwood create substantial space by playing octatonic scales that extend over four octaves\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/3DB1/production/_129439751_leroy.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Tributes have been paid to an artist whose arrest sparked riots in Liverpool more than 40 years ago. Leroy Cooper was 20 in 1981 when his detention became the catalyst for nine days of disturbances in Toxteth. He went on to become a poet and street photographer, capturing more than 250,000 images that championed his community. The Museum of Liverpool, which is holding an exhibition of his work, said it was \"deeply saddened\" by his death. \"We have known Leroy for many years and we were so pleased this relationship recently led to his first major display, 'Liverpool Through the Lens by Leroy Cooper', which opened in April,\" it said. The museum said the exhibition of his images, which will continue to run in his memory until next year, emanates \"genuine pride, love and solidarity for his community who were so important to him\". News of Mr Cooper's death has seen an outpouring of tributes on social media from those who knew him or were familiar with his work. Liverpool Riverside MP Kim Johnson wrote that it was \"desperately sad news\" and described his photography as \"beautiful pictures that reflected his love for his L8 community\". \"He will live long in our hearts and in our history,\" she added. In the run-up to the 1981 riots, tensions had been rising in the inner-city neighbourhood of Toxteth with police having a reputation for stopping and searching black youths. Mr Cooper's arrest - while he was trying to help another resident near Granby Street - was witnessed by an angry crowd on the evening of Friday 3 July. The Merseyside officers' treatment of Mr Cooper led to a fracas in which three policemen were injured. Disturbances escalated rapidly and turned into full-blown riots, with pitched battles between police officers and youths throwing petrol bombs and paving stones. In the years after his arrest, Mr Cooper enrolled on a photography course and pursued it as a career, capturing images to counter negativity about the neighbourhood. Speaking at the launch of his exhibition last month, he said his photos showed the area as a \"place of warmth, community and family\". \"I think, after Liverpool's connection with black people over 300 years, it is a very important moment in the city. They are celebrating my work after 40 years of being on the street telling the story of our city. \"It's a labour of love - I genuinely love the people of Liverpool.\" Jubeda Khatun, from the city's art organisation Blackfest, said: \"I spent hours in conversation with Leroy and he always flowed with wisdom and creativity, what an amazing human, talent and huge inspiration to us.\" The Blast Network, which supports black social traders in the city, also described him as \"a much-loved community member\". Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8F9C/production/_129646763_chrismorrisbutterfliesresized.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "The New Republic: The era after the original trilogy, set during the formative years of the New Republic following the fall of the Empire\n Other notable series from Bantam include the Jedi Academy trilogy (1994) by Kevin J\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8F9C/production/_129646763_chrismorrisbutterfliesresized.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 5 and 12 May. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here. Please also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly. Conditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions. Please ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice). In contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide. However, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law. You can find more information here. All photos are subject to copyright.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/3215/production/_129712821_9e300292-4a0d-4212-a503-87b303c7d7bc.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Seeking to exploit the Amphibian Man for a US advantage in the Space Race, General Frank Hoyt is eventually persuaded by Strickland to vivisect it\nAs a producer or writer, he worked on the films The Orphanage (2007), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), The Hobbit film series (2012\u20132014), Mama (2013), The Book of Life (2014), Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018), Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), and The Witches (2020)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/3215/production/_129712821_9e300292-4a0d-4212-a503-87b303c7d7bc.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week: Images subject to copyright. ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/46B4/production/_129600181_carolynlefley-walled.cringes.unlocking.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "In April 1978, Fisher appeared as the love interest in Ringo Starr's 1978 TV special Ringo\n Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn also star in the film\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/46B4/production/_129600181_carolynlefley-walled.cringes.unlocking.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "An exhibition featuring 'Slow time' photographs during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 has opened. Led by artist Janette Kerr, the six-month project featured 150 pinhole cameras scattered across Somerset. John Gammans, who worked on the project, said the cameras made out of recycled drink cans, gave a \"very unique snapshot of what was going on in Somerset at that time\". The exhibition will run until 21 May at East Quay in Watchet. The cameras featured light-sensitive material, eventually creating long-exposure photographs of the Somerset landscape. Each camera can captured light waves as they travelled through the air, passing through a pinhole and then onto black and white photographic paper. The photos were then processed months later by scanning the paper, uploading it onto a computer and then manipulating it using a photo editor. Dr Kerr said the idea first started after she made and gifted her friends and neighbours pinhole cameras for Christmas in 2020. \"Everyone got excited about it and then I happened to mention it to Somerset Art Works and they asked me if I could extend it to the whole of Somerset,\" she said. Eventually over 100 participants took part, with each camera pointed at a different viewpoint, in places including Glastonbury, Minehead, Frome, Taunton and Stoke Sub Hamdon. \"I think that because it was lockdown and because people weren't travelling so much, the emptiness of the landscape reflected that time because there was an absence of people,\" she added. While 170 images were captured and will be shown on screen during the exhibition, only 36 were selected to be printed, with Dr Kerr asking those that were chosen to write something to accompany their image - from what their experience of lockdown was to how the image made them feel. Mr Gammans, who works as an artist and helped coordinate the project said it was \"lovely to see people's faces light up with curiosity on how it was all going to work\". \"The images themselves provide a really unique viewpoint - given the fact it was a very odd time where you could go out your front door and not hear cars, not see people, people were more aware of birdsong, you noticed how clear the sky was - it was a very very strange time and the little cameras encapsulated that perfectly,\" he said. Calling them \"little time cameras\", Mr Gammans said they managed to record their own perception of time. \"We don't sort of notice the movement of the sun and we also take for granted everything moving around us,\" he said. \"I do equate it to if a tree had any perception of what's going on around it.\" Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk ", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1655D/production/_129658419_norwich-getty.png", "label": 1, "text": " On July 2, 2018, Randle was renounced by the Lakers\nThe Lakers won 58 games in 2001\u201302\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1655D/production/_129658419_norwich-getty.png", "label": 0, "text": "An appeal has been launched for photographs depicting scenes capturing a city's unique history and culture. Historic England wants to add images of Norwich, Norfolk, to its growing permanent archive collection. Three winning photographs will join 65 others in a national touring public exhibition - Picturing High Streets. Tamsin Silvey, of Historic England, said: \"The high street is an often overlooked part of our lives and it needs our support more than ever.\" Images of \"favourite hang outs\" and meeting places are also eligible for inclusion. The exhibition is part of a three-year project by Historic England and Photoworks, which the body said \"tells the stories behind our shopfronts\". It celebrates high street heroes, captures familiar scenes and invites audiences to consider the value and role of their local high street. The exhibition - which will take place by the Forum in Norwich from June - is part of Historic England's \u00a395m government-funded Heritage Action Zones scheme. Historic England said it was \"looking for people to photograph what makes Norwich special, from high street heroes to favourite hang outs and meeting places, and the historic features and buildings that give the city its unique character.\" England's high streets championed in photographs In other parts of England, budding photographers have been uploading pictures to Instagram since September 2022, creating an unofficial archive documenting a year in the life of the English high street. Isabel Johnson of the Norwich Business Improvement District (BID) said: \"As the city of stories, Norwich has so many tales to tell. \"This exhibition provides a vehicle for people who live and work in the city to tell those stories, for historical record. It has the potential to be both poignant and powerful.\" The Picturing High Streets exhibition can be seen in Norwich from 26 June to 5 July. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16146/production/_129583409_uploaderemmapownall.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Custen, in Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (1992), regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F\n The Errol Flynn film They Died with Their Boots On tells the story of Custer but is highly romanticized\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/16146/production/_129583409_uploaderemmapownall.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Join us as we take a few moments every day to relax and enjoy the beauty of England through the stunning images you send us. Upload your images or email us at england@bbc.co.uk Upload your images or email us at england@bbc.co.uk. For inspiration, view some top tips from three of England's Big Picture photographers. When emailing pictures, please make sure you include the following information: The full name of the person who took the pictures (as this person owns the copyright)Confirmation that the copyright holder gives permission for the BBC to use their pictures across all its outputsThe location, date and time the pictures were takenYour telephone number so we can get back to you if we have any further questionsAny other details about the pictures that may be useful for us to know Please note that while we welcome all your pictures, we are more likely to use those which have been taken in the past week. Email your photographs to our colleagues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Pictures can be found on Instagram, on the hashtags #BBCEngland and #EnglandsBigPicture and on our England's Big Picture board on Pinterest. If you submit a picture, you do so in accordance with the BBC's Terms and Conditions and the BBC's privacy policy. In contributing to England's Big Picture you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way that we want, and in any media worldwide. It's important to note, however, that you still own the copyright to everything you contribute to England's Big Picture, and that if your image is accepted, we will publish your name alongside. The BBC cannot guarantee that all pictures will be used and we reserve the right to edit your comments. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws while collecting any kind of media.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/999/cpsprodpb/ED2E/production/_129581706_01.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The Quran narrates that Noah received a revelation to build an Ark, after his people refused to believe in his message and hear the warning\nIn 2018, Weaving starred as Thaddeus Valentine in Mortal Engines\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/999/cpsprodpb/ED2E/production/_129581706_01.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of \"three colours\". Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world. The next theme is \"springtime\" and the deadline for entries is 16 May 2023. The pictures will be published later that week and you will be able to find them, along with other galleries, on the In Pictures section of the BBC News website. You can upload your entries on this page or email them to yourpics@bbc.co.uk. Terms and conditions apply. Further details and themes are at: We set the theme, you take the pictures. All photographs subject to copyright.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1FCE/production/_129624180_gettyimages-1252776126-1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Primarily of Irish descent, he was a great-grandson of Methodist evangelical author Beverly Carradine and a grandnephew of artist Will Foster\n Thai authorities conducted the first autopsy on Carradine shortly after his death, and stated on June 8 that it would take a month to determine how he died, although a Thai police colonel told Reuters that the likely cause was asphyxiation\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/1FCE/production/_129624180_gettyimages-1252776126-1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "People across Scotland have been celebrating the Coronation of King Charles. From big screen events to smaller gatherings, thousands turned out to mark the first occasion of its kind since 1953. BBC Scotland takes a look at a selection of images from a historic day. All photos are subject to copyright.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/75E4/production/_129608103_0011_jjward_0011.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "=== Major star ===Curtis graduated to more prestigious projects when he was cast as a co-star of Burt Lancaster and Gina Lollobrigida in Hecht-Lancaster Productions' Trapeze (1956)\n=== The Boston Strangler ===Because of the poor performance of a series of comedies, Curtis fired his agent and took a pay cut to $100,000 to play the title role in The Boston Strangler (1968), his first dramatic film in several years\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/75E4/production/_129608103_0011_jjward_0011.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A collection of photographs shows how a city celebrated the coronations of kings and queens going back more than 100 years. Early images from the Coventry Digital collection show crowds gathering in the city centre to celebrate the coronation of George V in 1911. Others capture people coming together for the 1937 Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, as well as the ceremony to crown Queen Elizabeth II 16 years later. The online archive, run by Coventry University, celebrates the city's heritage and encourages people to upload their personal collections to its website. All photos, which are available to view on the Coventry Digital website, are subject to copyright. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/BA0D/production/_129592674_gettyimages-1252648729.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "\" Palermo concluded that Dahmer had a severe mixed personality disorder, with antisocial, obsessive-compulsive, sadistic, fetishistic, borderline and necrophilic features, but otherwise legally sane\n\" After shooting Lohman twice more, both post-mortem, Feyen finally wrote Scarver a US$3,000 check (equivalent to $6,222 in 2021)\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/BA0D/production/_129592674_gettyimages-1252648729.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week. All photos subject to copyright", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/DD0D/production/_129598565_cj.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "== History of Afghanistan's tricolor flags ==The black color represents its troubled 19th century history as a protected state, the red color represents the blood of those who fought for independence (specifically, the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919), and the green represents hope and prosperity for the future\n=== Cuisine ===Afghan cuisine is largely based upon the nation's chief crops, such as wheat, maize, barley and rice\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/DD0D/production/_129598565_cj.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "An autistic and deaf man has been recognised by the Royal Photographic Society for his talents with a camera. CJ Ware, 30, from Paignton took up photography 13 years ago and has now obtained a Licentiate qualification from the society. He had three heart attacks as a teenager and requires a wheelchair much of the time. Mr Ware said: \"I feel I hide behind my camera - it's like a comfort blanket\". \"It's sort of my safety net. \"If I am getting a bit uncomfortable somewhere I will get the camera out, take some photos, and it helps me feel a bit more relaxed and calm.\" To achieve a Licentiate, a photographer must submit 10 photos that reflect their ability, using a variety of techniques. About 13 years ago he teamed up with professional photographer Clive Figes, who mentored him and quickly noticed his talent. \"I learned to treat CJ as a human being, a human being with gifts that I haven't got. \"To treat him like a decent person, to show interest in him\", Mr Figes said. Mr Ware explained his photographic style: \"I like to do weird imagery. I spot things that people often overlook.\" Follow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E6CF/production/_129578095_alexmackintosh.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " However, the characters portrayed in comedies were not worse than average in every way, only insofar as they are Ridiculous, which is a species of the Ugly\n The humour derived gets its appeal from the ridiculousness and unlikeliness of the situation\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/E6CF/production/_129578095_alexmackintosh.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 28 April and 5 May. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here. Please also ensure you take your pictures safely and responsibly. Conditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions. Please ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice). In contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide. However, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News. At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law. You can find more information here. All photos are subject to copyright.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7854/production/_129440803_tinubu1.png", "label": 1, "text": "=== Season 2 ===In 1979, Lou Solverson is a state trooper with the Minnesota State Police and based out of Luverne, Minnesota\nLater, while driving his family into town, Lou stops by the crime scene where Betsy finds Rye's gun in some weeds\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7854/production/_129440803_tinubu1.png", "label": 0, "text": "A BBC investigation has found evidence suggesting some results from Nigeria's presidential election may have been manipulated. The winner Bola Tinubu is due to be inaugurated on 29 May but the opposition is challenging this. The BBC has uncovered significant anomalies in Rivers state, a key battleground, although not sufficient to change the overall national outcome of the election, which took place in February. There are also questions over the identity of an election official who read out some of the unexplained results. On 25 February, Nigerians cast their votes at thousands of polling stations across the country. At each polling station, the votes for the party of each candidate were publicly announced and the results sheets taken for collation first at the ward level, then at local government (LGA) centres. An election official from each LGA then travelled to the state capital, where these results were officially declared. For the first time in a Nigerian election, photographs of the polling station results sheets were published online by the electoral commission. This made it possible to add up all the polling station sheets and to compare them with the results declared at the state level. We added up the voting tally sheets from over 6,000 polling stations in Rivers state, where many of the opposition complaints had been made. While the official result in this state gave a clear majority to Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), our tally suggested that Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP) had actually received most votes in the state by a wide margin. We found an increase of just over 106,000 in Mr Tinubu's vote in the official declaration when compared with our polling station tally - almost doubling his total in the state. In contrast, Mr Obi's vote had fallen by over 50,000. It's important to make clear that although we searched through the election website for every single one of the 6,866 polling stations in Rivers state, we were not able to obtain results from all of them. Some were incorrectly uploaded, others were missing, even after a month from the date of polling. For about 5% of polling stations, the photos of tally sheets were too blurred for us to read. It's reasonable to assume that the official count would have included these as they would have had the original documents. In another 17%, there were no results at all. Many of these would have been places where no voting took place due to security issues or the non-arrival of voting materials. Others had technical problems preventing officials uploading the documents. So there clearly would have been more polling stations included in the final official results that weren't included in the BBC investigation. However, these additional tally sheets would have increased the totals for each party, not decreased them. And what we found was that the votes for Peter Obi's Labour Party had decreased sharply in Rivers state. So how can the sharp fall in votes for Peter Obi - in the official result - be explained? Two areas stood out. The first was the Oyigbo local government area, where we found: The vote for Bola Tinubu was six times larger in the officially announced results compared with the BBC's polling station count Peter Obi's votes had been cut in half The second local government area where we found major discrepancies was in nearby Obio/Akpor: The official result for Mr Tinubu was 80,239 votes, but we counted just 17,293 votes from polling station talliesThe count for Mr Obi was announced officially as just 3,829 votes, but the BBC counted 74,033 votes for him on the tally sheets As explained earlier, all the polling station sheets are collated at local government (LGA) headquarters. We found an official election document with these collated votes for the Oyigbo area, signed by an election official and some of the party agents. Several different photographs had been taken of it and uploaded on social media accounts. The numbers in this document closely matched our own tallies for the two leading candidates (Obi and Tinubu). This would have been one of the 23 collation sheets from LGAs in Rivers state taken to the state capital, Port Harcourt, for the official declaration. Broadcast live on television on 27 February, in front of a bank of microphones, Oyigbo election official, Dr Dickson Ariaga, announced his name and that he worked for the Federal College of Education in Omoku. On the recording, the word \"Omoku\" is indistinct, but there is only one Federal College of Education in Rivers state. Dr Ariaga then read out the results for each party in alphabetical order, including for all the smaller parties. They all matched those on the collation sheet the BBC had obtained. But when he reached Mr Tinubu's APC, instead of saying 2,731 as written on our photograph of the sheet, he read out \"16,630\". Then for Mr Obi's party (LP) the figure changed again - instead of the 22,289 seen on the sheet, he announced \"10,784\", more than halving his vote. We asked the electoral commission if we could speak to Dr Ariaga, but they would not give us his details or reach out to him for us. We spoke to the election official seated next to Dr Ariaga, but she told us she wasn't authorised to talk to the press. So we sent a reporter to the Federal College of Education in Omoku, about two hours drive north of Port Harcourt, where he'd said he worked when introducing himself. The Deputy Provost Moses Ekpa told the BBC: \"From our records, both from our payroll and from our human resources, there is no such a name in our system and we don't know such a person.\" We tried tracking him down on social media and eventually came across another Facebook account for someone in Port Harcourt, whose profile details had the name Dickson Ariaga. When we compared an image from this account to the television pictures of Dr Ariaga using Amazon Rekognition software, we achieved a match of 97.2%, indicating a very high probability they're the same man. Dr Ariaga did not respond to messages sent by us to this account. By reaching out to his Facebook friends we did finally manage to speak to a man who said he was a relative, who was at first willing to help us but then didn't return our calls. We put these findings to Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec). Johnson Sinikiem, Inec's regional spokesman in Port Harcourt, told us that due to a \"gross shortage of time and personnel\" they had needed to take on some people without verifying their identity documents. Referring to Dr Ariaga, he said: \"If he had presented himself as a lecturer from [the college in Omoku] and it's otherwise, then he is dishonest.\" We also approached Inec's headquarters in Abuja for a response to our findings of discrepancies in the results in Rivers state. We were told that they were unable to comment due to ongoing legal challenges. This is just one case in one state in southern Nigeria where the evidence points to the results having been manipulated. On their own, these altered results would not have decisively swayed the outcome of the presidential election. Bola Tinubu won the national presidential vote by 1.8m votes over his nearest rival, Atiku Abubakar of the PDP. We're still looking for Dr Ariaga to respond to the findings in this report. Additional reporting by Liana Bravo, Jemimah Herd, Jake Horton and Kumar Malhotra Edited by Dan Isaacs", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/FFAE/production/_129645456_gpsurgery.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Will breaks up with Skylar and later storms out on Lambeau, dismissing the mathematical research he has been doing\n xii), which seems to imply that not all hunting is illicit, and canonists generally make a distinction declaring noisy (clamorosa) hunting unlawful, but not quiet (quieta) hunting\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/FFAE/production/_129645456_gpsurgery.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Health Minister Neil O'Brien spoke on 9 May about the state of the NHS on BBC Breakfast, which had earlier heard from a GP who said there was an urgent need for more doctors. Mr O'Brien said: \"We've got 2,000 more doctors working in general practice than we did in 2019 before the pandemic.\" Is he right? Mr O'Brien was talking about the number of GPs in England. Health is a devolved issue, which means that the UK government is only responsible for England's NHS. The usual way to compare numbers of GPs is to look at the number of \"full time equivalent\" GPs, which is provided by NHS Digital. Full-time equivalent (FTE) means that instead of counting the number of GPs regardless of the number of hours they are employed for, you count the number of contracted GP hours. That means, for example, that if you had two GPs contracted to work half the week each that would count as one FTE GP. We asked the Department of Health and Social Care which figures the health minister was referring to. We were told he was comparing December 2022 with December 2019 figures, when there were 2,167 more doctors in general practice. In December 2019, there were 34,519 FTE GPs working in NHS England. In December 2022, that figure was 36,686 - which is indeed 2,167 higher. But the numbers of GPs has since fallen, and in March 2023 (the latest available data) that number was 36,428 - an increase of 1,909 on December 2019, which is just under 2,000. In December 2019 the government promised that it would increase the number of GPs in England by 6,000 by March 2025. There are other ways of counting the number of GPs. The figures above include GPs who are not fully qualified and are still in training. Having lots of trainee GPs is a good thing if you're trying to increase GP numbers in the longer term. But trainee GPs don't see as many patients as fully-qualified GPs. Some of their time is dedicated to education and some of the appointments they carry out are supervised by fully-qualified GPs, taking them away from seeing other patients. If you exclude trainee GPs, there are 823 fewer GPs now than there were in December 2019. Antibiotics prescribed at pharmacies to free up GP timeThe areas with the fewest GPs revealedAre GP numbers going up or down? What claims do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8A8C/production/_129586453_gettyimages-875574598.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The show also features judges who act as counselors, mediators and sometimes mentors to help contestants develop their skills further or perhaps decide their future position in the competition\n However, reality television as a whole remained durable in the U\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8A8C/production/_129586453_gettyimages-875574598.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "At Prime Minister's Questions, Rishi Sunak described Labour as \"a party that stands for higher council tax\". Earlier in the day, Security Minister Tom Tugendhat told BBC News: \"[Council] tax in Labour areas... is about \u00a380 more than in Conservative areas\". But Labour is running a tweet in which it claims: \"Conservative councils already charge \u00a3345 more than Labour ones.\" They are talking about council tax rates in England, where many areas are holding elections in May 2023. There are also elections due in Northern Ireland, but they have a separate domestic rating system, not council tax. So which is correct? It is very difficult to say, as other organisations have concluded in the past. There are several questions to answer if you try to do this sort of calculation, which have considerable impact on the answer. Council tax: What is it and how much has it gone up by?Local elections 2023: When are they and who can vote?Have the Conservatives increased council tax by 15%? The first question is whether you are only including councils in which one party has an overall majority. Many councils do not, in which case sometimes one party will try to run it with a minority administration and sometimes there will be a coalition. We asked the Conservatives about their calculation and they told us they were only looking at councils with an overall majority that are up for election in May 2023. We asked Labour for their methodology and they did not get back to us. But they told the Telegraph that if the Conservatives had looked at all council areas then Labour would have turned out to be cheaper. In that article, the Conservatives also claimed that Tory-run councils charge \u00a321 less than ones run by the Liberal Democrats. We asked the Liberal Democrats to comment and they told us: \"Liberal Democrats have long called for more powers and funding for local authorities, yet year after year, out-of-touch Conservative ministers have slashed budgets and left people with no choice but to raise council tax.\" The Conservatives are comparing the bills paid by people living in a Band D property. In England, bands are based on the value of a property in April 1991 - the higher the value the higher the band and so the higher the council tax. The Band D comparison for a household with two adults is widely used as a way of comparing what people in similar circumstances across different areas are paying. But it is not a typical bill because that would be affected by the housing stock in an area, for example. To take that into account, some people instead compare the average bill per household. There are different types of councils: town or parish councils, district councils, county councils and unitary authorities. It is important to compare like with like. The Conservatives have averaged the taxes across these tiers. But there are considerable difficulties in this. Consider, for example, someone living in St Albans. For every \u00a31 they pay in council tax: 77p goes to Hertfordshire County Council, which has a Conservative majority9p goes to St Albans City and District Council, which has a Liberal Democrat majority11p goes to the Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner, who is a Conservative 3p goes to parish councils, which are not necessarily political. So, in this case, while the majority of the charges on the council tax bill will have been set by Conservatives on the county council, some will also have been set by Liberal Democrats on the district council. Some parts of a council tax bill may also go to fund adult social care or a mayor, for example, and crucially they may be set by members of a different party to the one that sets your main council tax. So how do you allocate these parts of the bill? The decisions you take about any of these questions can make a big difference to the answer, which means you cannot say definitively which party has the cheapest council tax. What claims do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8C01/production/_129514853_gettyimages-1252193778.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 69% based on 220 reviews, with an average rating of 6\n McCready, Lessard, and Mark worked with musicians Matt Chamberlain, David Levita, Aaron Kaplan, Victor Indrizzo, Chris Chaney, Davey Chegwidden and DJ Cheapshot to develop the music\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/8C01/production/_129514853_gettyimages-1252193778.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Hundreds of British nationals have been evacuated from the fighting in Sudan. But when she was asked whether the UK was going to \"start looking at safe routes for refugees from Sudan [who are not British nationals]\", Home Secretary Suella Braverman replied: \"We have no plans to do that.\" The prime minister confirmed the government's current priority was getting British nationals out. Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick was later asked in Parliament what \"safe and legal\" routes to the UK would be available to a young person wanting to flee the conflict in Sudan. He said: \"The United Nations is operating in most, if not all, of the countries surrounding Sudan,\" adding that \"the best advice clearly would be for individuals to present to the UNHCR. We already operate safe and legal routes with them.\" The UNHCR is the UN's refugee agency. But the SNP's Alison Thewliss pointed out that the UNHCR had earlier issued a statement saying: \"There is no mechanism through which refugees can approach UNHCR with the intention of seeking asylum in the UK.\" Mr Jenrick rejected her comments: \"Whatever the honourable lady may be quoting from her iPhone, I would prefer to take at face value what I have heard in discussion with the assistant commissioner [of the UNHCR].\" Mr Jenrick and Ms Thewliss were both referring to the UNHCR's resettlement scheme. Under this, the UNHCR identifies refugees who are considered to be \"particularly at risk\" in the countries to which they have initially fled. These are people who cannot integrate in the country where they have initially sought refuge but also cannot return home. These \"refugees at heightened risk\" are then resettled in partner countries such as the UK, but it is UNHCR officials who recommend where they should go. That route is only available to about 1% of refugees worldwide. \"Although a critical and lifesaving mechanism, resettlement is not a solution for most refugees, and does not replace the right to seek asylum itself,\" the UNHCR said. Seeking asylum generally involves going to a country and claiming asylum once you are there. Resettlement involves moving people from the first country where they sought refuge to another country that is more suitable. Refugees generally have to be registered with the UNHCR to be considered for resettlement. But the UNHCR told the BBC that the UK is only currently accepting Afghan nationals for resettlement. This means that registering with the UNHCR would not provide a route for anyone else to come to the UK. So Mr Jenrick's suggestion that people in Sudan wanting to escape to the UK should \"present to the UNHCR\" was not correct. What are the legal routes to the UK?Migration bill passes as Tory rebellion defused We asked the Home Office about the UNHCR statement and the government's current position on safe and legal routes from Sudan. We were pointed towards the comment from Ms Braverman quoted above, and told there was no further comment at this point. According to UK statistics, last year 218 people from Sudan came to the UK under the UNHCR resettlement scheme, but almost all of those came from pre-pandemic applications. What claims do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5E06/production/_129507042_mediaitem129499571.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit\n In 1954, fashion photographer Cecil Beaton declared Hepburn the \"public embodiment of our new feminine ideal\" in Vogue, and wrote that \"Nobody ever looked like her before World War II \n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/5E06/production/_129507042_mediaitem129499571.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The government has reached its target to recruit 20,000 more police officers in England and Wales. It has employed 20,951 more officers since 2019 so the total is now 149,572. This means the number of officers is about 3,500 higher than it was in 2010, when the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats began cutting police numbers. But there are concerns that the rise hasn't kept pace with the increase in population since 2010 and that many experienced officers have left. Many of the new officers are replacing the approximately 20,000 who left between 2010 and 2019. The new headcount of 149,572 officers in England and Wales (including part-time employees) is higher than the previous record of 146,030 in 2010. The recruitment target, pledged in the Conservatives' 2019 election manifesto, was set for March 2023. It has been reached after a big rise in the first three months of 2023 - 4,000 extra officers - by far the biggest quarterly jump since the government's police uplift programme started. Home Secretary Suella Braverman said: \"We have delivered on the promise we made to the British people which means more police on the beat preventing violence, solving burglaries and cracking down on antisocial behaviour.\" Police taking over five hours to respond to priority calls in England'More than 50,000 new police officers needed'Met chief has concerns over rapid hiring of officers Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper tweeted: \"the Tories are trying to take country for fools on policing... they CUT 20,000 police officers\". That's a reference to the reduction in police numbers of about 20,000 between 2010 and 2019, after government funding was cut by 20%. Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Alistair Carmichael said: \"Suella Braverman's boasts will ring hollow for communities that have seen community policing decimated under this government.\" While the number of police officers is a few thousand higher than 2010 levels, the population has grown - by about 7% - since then. If the number of officers in England and Wales had risen in line with the population since 2010, there would need to be thousands more officers. Ms Braverman told BBC News that in 2019 \"we set that [20,000] target accounting for increases in population\". We have asked the Home Office how they did this. In the year to March 2022, the number of full-time police officers leaving the force reached a 20-year high of 8,117. Half of those leaving retired - police officers can claim their pensions in their 50s. However, an increasing proportion resigned - about 40% in 2021-22, compared with a third the year before. About 9% of newly recruited officers leave during their two-year probation periods, a report by the Public Accounts Committee, which examines government projects, found last year. Chief Constable Ben-Julian Harrington, of Essex Police, said his force had received more than 900 new officers as part of the police uplift programme. However, he is concerned some will leave because of low salaries and the rising cost of living. \"You can't arrest your gas bill,\" he said. To keep new officers, he said he would \"speak up for them, and make sure they are trained and supported\". There are now fewer senior full-time police officers than in 2010. The number of inspectors is down 14% to 6,245. The number of superintendents and sergeants has also fallen. Currently, a third of all police officers in England and Wales have fewer than five years' experience where the length of service is known. This is more than double the number six years ago. The Public Accounts Committee has linked falling levels of experience with the government's drive to recruit new officers. Dame Meg Hillier, who heads the committee, said: \"The danger is if you go up and down with police numbers and then recruit very quickly, you end up with a larger number of more junior officers, without the experienced people above them.\" This could affect police force performance. In June 2022, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, the police watchdog, placed the Metropolitan Police in special measures. In a letter to the force, HM Inspector Matt Parr said systemic failures had been \"amplified by the presence of a relatively young, inexperienced workforce - a consequence of the [Met's] increased recruitment enabled by the police uplift programme\". The BBC has spoken to officers who joined a Met Police scheme to recruit graduates to be detectives without first serving in uniform. They describe being left to cope on their own with growing caseloads. One of them - who didn't want to be named - said he was given 12 cases on his first day in CID (Criminal Investigation Department). \"From that point,\" he said, \"I was swimming upstream.\" Another described his time as a detective as \"the worst year of my life\". He said his CID unit was staffed almost entirely by trainees and he was worried he might make a mistake that affected a case or a victim of crime. Both trainee detectives have now left the Met, and say about 10 of their 30 fellow recruits have done the same. The Met was the only police force that did not meet its recruitment target. It fell short of its 4,557 target by 1,089 officers. Additional reporting by Libby Rodgers", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/157AB/production/_129497978_gettyimages-1248143728.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " The Bruins placed second in the Adams Division, and lost to the Chicago Black Hawks in the first round of the 1975 playoffs, losing a best-of-three series, two games to one\n In the 2020\u201321 season, the Bruins made the 2021 playoffs, where they defeated the Washington Capitals in five games, but lost to the New York Islanders in six games\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/157AB/production/_129497978_gettyimages-1248143728.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Leaders and representatives from across the Commonwealth are expected to come to London for the Coronation of King Charles III on 6 May. Some of these countries were previously in the British Empire, some are still British dominions, while others had no colonial links to Britain but have chosen to join the global club. Here are seven things you may not know about the Commonwealth. About 2.5 billion people - out of a global population of eight billion - live in the 56 Commonwealth countries. More than 60 per cent of the Commonwealth's population is aged 29 or under. Globally, a third of all young people aged between 15 and 29 live in Commonwealth countries. The biggest country by population is India, which accounts for about half of the total. Pakistan, Nigeria and Bangladesh are the next biggest countries by population, with the UK fifth. King Charles is the head of state in 14 Commonwealth countries - or realms - in addition to the UK. Most countries in the club are republics - with Barbados the last to remove the UK monarch as its head of state in 2021. Five countries - Lesotho, Eswatini (previously known as Swaziland), Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia and Tonga - have their own monarch. King Charles remains head of state in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, although for many years there has been an active movement in Australia in favour of becoming a republic. The country's central bank has announced that Charles will not feature on Australia's new $5 note. What does the King do? Rwanda and Mozambique became members in 2009 and 1995 respectively, although neither were colonised by the British. Rwanda was previously under the rule of Germany and Belgium. Former French colonies Gabon and Togo are the most recent joiners, becoming members in June 2022. Why ex-French colonies are joining the Commonwealth The club has also lost members. South Africa withdrew in 1961 after it was criticised by Commonwealth members for its apartheid policies. It became a member again in 1994. Pakistan was thrown out after a military coup in 1999, but was readmitted in 2004. Membership was suspended again between 2007 and 2008. Former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe took his country out in 2003 after its membership was suspended amid reports of election rigging. It applied for re-admission in 2018, but no decision has been reached. The last country to leave was the Maldives in 2016, but it re-joined in 2020. The Commonwealth makes up a quarter of the world's land mass. The giant of the group is Canada, the world's second largest country by area. India and Australia are huge too. But many of the member countries are small - such as the Pacific island nations of Nauru, Samoa, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, and Antigua and Barbuda, and Dominica in the Caribbean. Thirty-three of the world's 42 small states are part of the Commonwealth. Prince Philip: The Vanuatu tribes mourning the death of their 'god' The UK is no longer the biggest economy in the Commonwealth, according to the latest GDP numbers from the International Monetary Fund, with India overtaking it for the first time in 2022. The combined GDP of the 56 members is more than $13tn (\u00a310.8tn). That's more than twice the size of Japan ($5tn, \u00a33.75tn), but some way behind the US at $23tn (\u00a317.2tn). Trade with the Commonwealth accounted for 9% of the UK's total trade in 2021 - around the same as the UK's total trade with Germany. The UK exported goods and services worth \u00a362.6bn to the rest of the Commonwealth, while imports from member states totalled \u00a358.2bn The modern Commonwealth was formed in 1949, after \"British\" was dropped from the name and allegiance to the Crown was removed. Only three people have been head of the organisation - King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II and King Charles III. It's not a hereditary role, although the Commonwealth accepted King Charles as its head in 2018, when he was Prince of Wales. The organisation is run from London by its secretary-general, currently Baroness Scotland. She was re-elected to a second term in June 2022, despite facing criticism from some member states over her performance. The other founding members were Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. The Commonwealth Charter was adopted in 2012, and commits members to the values of democracy, gender equality, sustainable development and international peace and security. The Commonwealth has been criticised for being a post-colonial club and for having little influence in the modern world. Supporters argue the benefits which membership brings include developmental support and co-operation on international goals. Russia and a number of other former members of the Soviet Union set up the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1991. It aimed to coordinate economic, defence, immigration and foreign policy across the bloc, although this proved difficult in practice. Georgia withdrew in 2009 after Russia seized part of its South Ossetia territory. Ukraine withdrew its membership in 2018. There is another group called the International Organisation of La Francophonie - an alliance of French-speaking countries which aims to promote the French language and increase mutual co-operation.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7E5F/production/_129415323_43cc14e4-bfa9-4613-921b-fb38179075ec.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Another example of cinematic language is having a shot that zooms in on the forehead of an actor with an expression of silent reflection that cuts to a shot of a younger actor who vaguely resembles the first actor, indicating that the first person is remembering a past self, an edit of compositions that causes a time transition\n He then further developed the device into the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Optique which could project longer sequences with separate backgrounds, patented in 1888\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/7E5F/production/_129415323_43cc14e4-bfa9-4613-921b-fb38179075ec.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Russia's Wagner mercenary force is accused of having various commercial and military ties to Sudan, but the group denies any involvement in the current conflict in the country. Its founder, Yevgeny Prighozin - who has close links to President Vladimir Putin - has said that \"not a single Wagner PMC [private military company] fighter has been present in Sudan\" for over two years. We've found no evidence that Russian mercenaries are currently inside the country. But there is evidence of Wagner's previous activities in Sudan, and Mr Prighozin's operations in the country have been targeted by both US and EU sanctions. In 2017, Sudan's then President Omar al-Bashir signed a series of deals with the Russian government during a visit to Moscow. These included an agreement for Russia to set up a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, as well as \"concession agreements on gold mining between Russian company M Invest and the Sudanese Ministry of Minerals\". The US Treasury alleges that M Invest and a subsidiary group, Meroe Gold, are fronts for the activities of the Wagner Group in Sudan, Africa's third-biggest gold producer. \"Yevgeniy Prigozhin and his network are exploiting Sudan's natural resources for personal gain and spreading malign influence around the globe,\" said then Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in 2020. Both M Invest and Meroe have been specifically targeted by US sanctions. According to an investigation by CNN, gold has been transported overland to the Central African Republic (CAR), where Wagner is known to operate - exports not recorded in Sudanese official trade data. Significant amounts of gold have also been smuggled out via a network of military airports, according to a report last year in the Daily Telegraph. Since 2017, Russian and international sources have published images that appear to locate Russian mercenaries inside Sudan. These are said to show them acting in various roles, including training Sudanese soldiers or allegedly helping the security forces crack down on protests. The BBC has not independently verified these images. In 2021, a Wagner-linked Telegram channel published images featuring an unnamed top Wagner commander awarding Sudanese soldiers memorabilia at a ceremony held two years earlier. And in July 2022, this channel distributed a video allegedly showing Wagner mercenaries conducting parachute-landing exercises for Sudanese forces. The same source linked to the Instagram profile of an anonymous Russian mercenary, calling himself a \"freelancer\" and sharing stories of his exploits in Sudan in posts from August and October 2021. In a 2020 Wagner propaganda action film, Sudan was featured as one of the countries where the mercenaries operate. The US Treasury says the Wagner Group has conducted \"paramilitary operations, support for preserving authoritarian regimes, and exploitation of natural resources\". \"Initially, in 2018, they had about 100 men actively training Sudanese military forces, and the relationship has grown from there,\" says Dr Joana de Deus Pereira of the UK-based Royal United Services Institute. Sudanese media reports says that figure grew to about 500, and they were mainly stationed in the south-west near Um Dafuq, close to Sudan's border with the Central African Republic (CAR). The Sudan Tribune reported that when President Bashir faced popular protests in 2019, \"Russian fighters\" were deployed to observe anti-government protests alongside Sudanese intelligence and security services, although this was denied by the Sudanese authorities. The Wagner Group devised its own media campaigns to help President Bashir stay in power, says Dr Samuel Ramani, author of a book about Russia's activities in Africa. \"Prigozhin was calling for\u2026 the protestors to be accused of being pro-Israel and anti-Islamic,\" he says. This caused friction with the president's own security forces, and so Wagner switched its support to the man who ousted him - General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. \"While the Foreign Ministry in Moscow was against the coup, Prigozhin and the Wagner Group actually welcomed al-Burhan's takeover,\" says Dr Ramani. According to Dr Ramani, it was in 2021 and 2022 that the Wagner Group increased its connections with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is currently fighting Sudan's regular army, led by Gen Burhan. Mr Prigozhin was interested in sourcing more gold through mines recently acquired by the RSF's leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti. Last year, Hemedti visited Moscow, saying he hoped to bolster ties between Sudan and Russia. However, Kholood Khair of Confluence Advisory, a think-tank on Sudanese affairs, believes the Wagner Group is not choosing sides in the current conflict. \"Wagner has had links to both General al-Burhan's enterprises and to Mr Hemedti's enterprises to different extents and in different ways,\" she says. Wagner fighters have widely reported to have been in the Central African Republic (CAR) for several years, guarding the country's diamond mines, as well as in Libya and Mali. A BBC investigation in 2021 found evidence of their involvement in Libya's civil war from a digital device left behind by a Wagner fighter and from speaking to Libyan soldiers and civilians. In Mali, the government has turned to Wagner to help battle Islamist militants, although it has never officially acknowledged the group's presence. Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused Russian mercenaries of serious abuses, both in CAR and Mali, including torture and killings. Additional reporting by Beverly Ochieng, Thomas Spencer and Daniele Palumbo", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/720/cpsprodpb/BCDC/production/_129384384_council_tax.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " Rumors of a new Earthworm Jim game for the PlayStation Portable started in 2006\n It classically starts at the head, and spreads downwards\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/720/cpsprodpb/BCDC/production/_129384384_council_tax.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "Labour tweeted about increases in council tax over the weekend. \"The Tories are raising council tax by up to 15%,\" it said. Some emphasis needs to be placed on the \"up to\" in that sentence. Only one council, Croydon, which has no party in overall control, has raised tax by 15%. The highest after that were two councils that raised it by 10%. These were Labour-controlled Slough and Conservative-controlled Thurrock. Croydon raised council tax by 15% after declaring bankruptcy because it realised it faced a \u00a3130m hole in its budget. Although the borough has an elected Conservative mayor, the Tories and Labour both have 34 councillors in total. The Green Party has two councillors and the Liberal Democrats one. The mayor has blamed \"the toxic debt and financial failures of the previous administration\" for the financial problems. These are partly due to the funding plans for the refurbishment of a concert hall. A report into the financial problems in Croydon found \"organisational dysfunction at the most senior level in the council\". The former leader of the council and its former cabinet member for finance, both of whom were Labour councillors, resigned from their roles as did its former chief executive. Labour councillors in Croydon have previously said that the government should be providing more funding instead of allowing the increase in council tax. They have also said the current administration inherited an underspend as well as a \u00a327m reserve. How much is council tax going up?Croydon approves council tax rise of 15% The government increased the amount councils were allowed to raise taxes without a referendum to 5% - if they have social care responsibilities - in November's Autumn Statement. Croydon, Thurrock and Slough councils were given special permission by the government to raise their taxes by more without putting it to a vote. Thurrock, which is Conservative-controlled, is putting up council tax by 10% after declaring bankruptcy. Leader of bankrupt Thurrock Council admits 'systemic weaknesses'Cash-strapped Slough Borough Council set to sell off housing land Slough, which is Labour-run, is also putting council tax up 10% having declared bankruptcy in 2021 as a result of property and land investments. Labour also said in its campaign tweet that Conservative councils charge \u00a3345 more than Labour ones. We asked Labour how it reached the figure but have not heard back. What claims do you want BBC Reality Check to investigate? Get in touch Read more from Reality Check", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0C33/production/_129332130_gettyimages-1247922245-1.jpg", "label": 1, "text": "== Discography ==Ruby Blue (2005)Overpowered (2007)Hairless Toys (2015)Take Her Up to Monto (2016)R\u00f3is\u00edn Machine (2020)== Awards and nominations ==== References ==== External links ==R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy \u2013 official siteMoloko \u2013 official siteR\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy at AllMusicR\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy discography at Discogs R\u00f3is\u00edn Murphy's channel on YouTube\n Murphy was raised by her mother in Edison, New Jersey\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/0C33/production/_129332130_gettyimages-1247922245-1.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The suspected leaker of a large batch of US military documents, Jack Teixeira, has been charged in a Boston court and detained pending trial, but where did the classified files come from and how were they shared online? We've pieced together what we know about how they first appeared and where they spread online. The documents were initially posted on a small private chat group called \"Bear vs Pig\". This was itself a sub-group of another known as \"Thug Shaker Central\" on the Discord social media platform. Both were accessible by invitation-only and had around two dozen members. In court papers in support of Mr Teixeira's arrest, the FBI says he first posted classified information online as paragraphs of text \"in or about December 2022\". It says he then posted photographs of documents \"in or around January 2023\". In interviews with the Washington Post and New York Times, members of Thug Shaker Central say they had initially met in another Discord group dedicated to fans of a YouTuber who posts videos about guns and military gear. These members say that during the Covid lockdowns, they broke away to form their own private group and that Mr Teixiera was the driving force in this new close-knit community. Members of group say it not only contained US citizens but also others from Ukraine, Russia, South America and elsewhere. For a few months the classified documents remained private to this group. Attention has focused on an individual with the user name \"Lucca\" who, in early March, posted some of the documents on a public channel on Discord called \"wow_mao\". This same user was also a member of the Thug Shaker Central community, according to the New York Times. Shortly afterwards, in another public Discord channel, during a brief argument about the online game Minecraft and the war in Ukraine, a user says \"here, have some leaked documents\" and posts several screenshots. It was following this public sharing of the documents that Mr Teixeira quickly deleted Thug Shaker Central, including its sub-group, Bear vs Pig. On 5 April, screenshots of the documents appeared on the message board 4chan, one of the biggest and most controversial hubs of internet subculture. They were shared on one of 4chan's most notorious boards known as /pol/ - standing for politically incorrect - by anonymous users during an argument about the exact number of Ukrainian and Russian casualties there had been in the conflict. Just a few hours later, these documents began appearing on pro-Kremlin Telegram channels and were also picked up by prominent military bloggers. One image - widely circulated by Russian channels - was edited to reduce the number of Russian troops killed and inflate the Ukrainian losses. By 7 April, the documents were also circulating on some of the major social media platforms, such as Twitter and Reddit. Initially, pro-Kremlin Telegram channels who shared the screenshots did not dwell much on the authenticity of the documents, focusing largely on their content. But soon several prominent channels and media outlets started to lean towards portraying the documents as at least partly fake. An expert quoted by ultranationalist news website Regnum suggested the documents may be a deliberate leak aimed at providing a smokescreen for the coming Ukrainian counter-offensive. On state TV, Yuri Podolyaka, a prominent war commentator, said this was \"planted information\" intended to mislead Russia about the counter-offensive. Olga Skabeyeva, host of state Rossiya 1 TV's 60 Minutes talk show said the West had been doing \"all it can to create the image of a weak Ukraine whose shells are running out and which has nothing left at all\". Questions about the authenticity of the documents have been raised in Ukraine too, with some commentators accusing Russia of planting fake documents ahead of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. Multiple screenshots of the documents - often of poor quality - are still circulating on Twitter, Telegram and Reddit. But the originals are much harder to find. A lot of the original copies have now disappeared from the chats where they first emerged. Others who shared the screenshots on Discord, Telegram and Twitter have either wiped out their feeds or deleted their social media profiles altogether. And there's a great deal of paranoia too. One user who has previously shared screenshots of the documents on Discord told fellow users they'd been trying to get rid of all the copies they had on their phone. Another was quick to respond to a plea to share more documents on the forum with: \"Nice try FBI\". Additional reporting by Adam Robinson and Daniele Palumbo.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B0ED/production/_129339254_zelensky.png", "label": 1, "text": " Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon famously posed as women to escape gangsters in the Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot\n The movie A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum stars Jack Gilford dressing as a young bride\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B0ED/production/_129339254_zelensky.png", "label": 0, "text": "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on world leaders to respond after a video emerged apparently showing a Ukrainian soldier being beheaded by a Russian serviceman. \"Everyone must react. Every leader. Do not wait for this to be forgotten,\" he said in a video address. Ukraine's SBU security service said it was investigating the \"war crime\". The Kremlin said the video was \"awful\" but its authenticity had to be checked as well as who was behind it. The grainy and extremely graphic video appears to have been filmed on a mobile phone, and possibly during the summer months. It shows a man in military uniform wearing a yellow armband - frequently worn as identifying symbols by Ukrainian soldiers. The perpetrator and other men visible in the clip have white bands on their legs, which Russian soldiers are known to wear as a means of identification. They can also be heard to speak Russian, although that is not conclusive as many Ukrainians speak Russian too. During the short video, the victim with the yellow armband is beheaded by a man with a large knife who is wearing a white band around his leg. At one point, one of the men holds up body armour with a trident mark - the state symbol of Ukraine. The colours and shape of the trident badge are similar to the insignia of the Ukrainian ground forces. The body armour also features what looks like the Punisher skull symbol (a comic-book character), which in the current conflict has been spotted being worn by fighters on both sides. A green passport-like booklet is also visible on the ground. It's upside down in the video (highlighted below) but its appearance matches that of the standard-issue Ukrainian military ID in its colour, the presence of a Ukrainian trident symbol and the layout of the writing. There has been speculation online that the video was filmed near the city of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine. The BBC has been unable to verify these claims as the video's surrounding features offer too few visual clues to identify its location, such as buildings or specific landscape points. It also remains unclear when the footage was filmed. It looks as if it's from the current conflict, where white and yellow armbands have been used by opposing sides as identification. The leaves in the video are bright green which suggests that it may have been from late spring or summer last year. Some social media users have suggested it may have been filmed in July but we cannot verify this. The footage began circulating on Telegram late on Tuesday, after a popular pro-Kremlin blogger shared it with his nearly 300,000 followers. He later claimed he was not the original source of the video and that the footage had been on Telegram before he posted it. We have been unable to find any earlier versions. The video has since spread to Twitter. Exiled Russian journalist Vladimir Osechkin says Andrey Medvedev, a former Wagner Group commander who sought asylum in Norway, told him after watching the video that he could recognise the perpetrators as Wagner fighters. \"He says he can unambiguously identify his former Wagner colleagues by their characteristic call-signs, by how they talk,\" Mr Osechkin told the YouTube channel of exiled ex-oligarch and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that \"in the world of fakes that we inhabit, we need to check the veracity of this footage\". Another video purporting to show the bodies of two beheaded soldiers has also been circulating on social media in recent days. The video shows what appears to be a destroyed M113 armoured personnel carrier, mainly used by Ukrainian forces. A man filming the scene says in Russian that it had driven over a mine. At least two bodies without heads and hands can be seen lying on the ground nearby. A yellow armband is visible on the right arm of one of the bodies, suggesting the victims had been fighting on the Ukrainian side. At least three other soldiers can be seen standing over the two bodies. Social media comments have suggested the video was filmed near Bakhmut, where Russian forces - including the Wagner private military company - have been battling Ukrainian troops for control of the city. However, the BBC has been unable to verify the location of the video. Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has put out a statement saying that he has \"not found\" any evidence that the events in the video had happened near Bakhmut or involved Wagner fighters. Many gruesome videos have been posted online since the war began. Bucha satellite image contradicts Russian claimsDoes video show Russian prisoners being shot? Last month President Zelensky promised to find the Russian soldiers who apparently shot dead an unarmed Ukrainian prisoner of war named Oleksandr Matsiyevskiy. EU foreign affairs spokeswoman Nabila Massrali reminded Russia it had to abide by humanitarian law and added that the EU was committed to holding to account all perpetrators of war crimes committed during the war.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15716/production/_122003878_gettyimages-1234734838.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " They also shared many priorities in domestic affairs and, with Bryan's help, Wilson orchestrated passage of laws that reduced tariff rates, imposed a progressive income tax, introduced new antitrust measures, and established the Federal Reserve System\nAfter the start of the convention, Bryan engineered the passage of a resolution stating that the party was \"opposed to the nomination of any candidate who is a representative of, or under any obligation to, J\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/15716/production/_122003878_gettyimages-1234734838.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "The government has announced new funding to relocate more than 8,000 Afghans who are currently living in hotels in the UK. The government says this will help move refugees into permanent homes, but critics say it risks making some Afghans homeless. The government says that more than 24,000 people have arrived in the UK from Afghanistan as of December 2022, including British nationals. Of these, more than 21,000 have been resettled under Afghan refugee schemes. Most came as part of Operation Pitting, the British military operation starting in August 2021 to evacuate British nationals and Afghans from Kabul. About 2,000 came before Operation Pitting15,000 arrived during Operation Pitting 7,000 have arrived since In written evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee, Raphael Marshall, who previously worked on the Foreign Office's Afghanistan crisis response, estimated that between 75,000 and 150,000 people had applied for evacuation in August 2021. He estimated that 5% of these received assistance. The Home Office said another 1,400 former staff and their families had already been relocated since 2013 under an earlier scheme. In April 2021 - before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan - the government launched the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) scheme. Under the scheme, Afghans who worked for the British military and UK government - for example, as interpreters - could apply to settle permanently in the UK, rather get five years' residency which was previously offered. The government also opened the Afghan Citizens' Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) in January 2022, which it says will allow up to 20,000 refugees to settle in the UK. This scheme focuses on women and children as well as religious and other minorities in danger from the Taliban. Immediate family members of those eligible under either the ACRS or ARAP schemes are also eligible for resettlement in the UK. In 2022, 4,629 Afghans were resettled under these schemes but most are people who worked for the UK before Kabul fell in August 2021. Only 22 were brought in because they were vulnerable or at risk refugees. As part of an initiative called \"Operation Warm Welcome\", local councils have been allocated funding packages of \u00a320,520 per person over three years. The funding will help refugees to enrol in education, find work and integrate in their new communities. The government is providing an additional \u00a310m in the first year for housing costs, then \u00a35m and \u00a32m in the two following years. The government has announced a new \u00a335m fund to help local authorities move around 8,000 Afghans out of hotels and into permanent homes across the UK. It will also add a further \u00a3250m to the local authority housing fund. The refugees will be given three months to vacate their hotels for relocation. The Refugee Council has expressed concerned that some Afghans may be left homeless by the new measures. The Home Office says that more than 9,000 Afghan refugees are still living in hotels while another 9,000 have either been moved to a permanent home or are waiting to move in. In February 2022, the Home Office said that accommodating Afghan refugees in hotels cost \u00a31.2m per day. Afghanistan evacuee 'feels stuck' in hotel room Afghan refugees in London hotel 'reject accommodation offers' They can come through the UK Resettlement Scheme which prioritises refugees from regions in conflict. In 2022, 36 Afghans came through this route. The other main way to settle is to seek asylum after arriving in the UK. However, proposed changes to the UK immigration system mean that people deemed to have arrived illegally could be sent to Rwanda for processing. The number of Afghans arriving in the UK on small boats having crossed the English Channel has increased sharply: In 2020, 494 crossed in small boats In 2021, 1,437 crossed in small boatsIn 2022, 8,633 crossed in small boats Home Office statistics also show that nearly 11,000 Afghans and their dependents applied for asylum in 2022. The US evacuated the largest number of people from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power. From 14 August to 28 August 2021, it got 113,500 people out. Other countries evacuated much smaller numbers over that period, according to official statements and press releases: Germany - more than 5,300Italy - more than 5,000Canada - more than 3,700France - around 3,000 Since August 2021, some countries have continued to carry out occasional evacuations. On December 3 of that year, France announced that it had evacuated 258 people from Afghanistan. There was also an increase in the number of Afghans who applied for asylum in some EU countries such as Greece, France and Germany.", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2A8B/production/_129519801_barbara-out-img20230417153121_01.jpg", "label": 1, "text": " However, Rishi Kapoor received the Best Actor award for his jolly, schoolboyish debut role in Bobby, Khanna did not win the award for his performance in Daag\n Khanna even helped Leena Gangully and Amit Kumar in completing Mamta Ki Chhaon Mein, the last film directed by Kishore, who died before the completion of the film\n\n", "title": "", "url": "" }, { "imgURL": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2A8B/production/_129519801_barbara-out-img20230417153121_01.jpg", "label": 0, "text": "A couple who have spent two years fighting a no-fault eviction notice on their home of more than 20 years said they were \"poised for panic\" as they awaited bailiffs to finally move them out. Barbara Smathers and her partner Les were first issued the Section 21 eviction order in 2021, which means a landlord does not need to give a reason for ending the tenancy. Since then they have spent more than \u00a31,000 in court fees defending their case, but in April were handed their final eviction notice. They are not alone. The number of Section 21 eviction notices handed to tenants in the Midlands is the highest it's been in the past five years, according to the latest government data. In 2022, more than 1,720 no-fault claims were issued by private landlords to tenants which saw a 172% increase on the previous year - up from 635. Barbara, 69, who lives in Audley, Staffordshire, spoke to BBC News after receiving their first eviction notice and said their lives had \"overwhelmingly been consumed\" by the fear of where they would live. She said: \"You go to bed worrying about it. You go to sleep and wake up thinking about it: 'I've got to find somewhere else to go - what am I going to do?'\" Barbara has 12 therapy horses which need to relocate with her, making the search for a home even harder. \"I didn't know anything about this [Section 21 evictions] until a couple of years ago,\" she said. \"It feels like people look at you and judge you. Anyone in private rental is at risk of this and there's nothing you can do.\" Rent prices: How much have they gone up in your area?'I couldn't sleep, eat or function after eviction stress'What are your rights when you're renting? The BBC has approached the landlord for comment. The sharp increase of Section 21 evictions and notices has been felt by thousands, following the eviction ban which was lifted in May 2021 after the outbreak of coronavirus and a subsequent backlog in the courts. Alex, 27, was living in central Birmingham with a friend when she was unexpectedly issued a Section 21 notice in February, weeks after complaining about mould throughout the house. As well as not needing to give a reason for eviction, the tenant can be forced out of their home in as little as two months' time. Fortunately, Alex was able to leave before going to court, however it's come at a cost - her new flat is \"significantly more expensive, smaller and in a less convenient location\". \"But it was a matter of not being able to deal with the stress and uncertainty of an eviction process to play out,\" said Alex, who does not want to be identified because of the stigma attached to evictions. \"Even though logically it isn't my fault, there is this sense that if you're evicted it's because you're bad and did something wrong. It made me feel insecure about the future.\" Susan has been served a Section 21 eviction notice at the house she has rented for more than 30 years in Stoke-on-Trent. Her landlord died and their family want to sell. \"It's making me ill - physically sick,\" she said, as she faced up to the prospect of \"starting all over again\" at 58. Currently paying \u00a3400 in rent, she said she was unable to afford a similar sized property without paying \u00a3200 more a month. In Stoke-on-Trent, the Citizens Advice Bureau said it had seen a \"a huge increase\" in its workload, with 70% of the housing support team now helping tenants with Section 21 cases. \"It is completely phenomenal. We've never known anything like that before,\" says Jude Hawes, head of the service specialist and equalities teams. The team are seeing a variety of reasons for the evictions, from private landlords selling up and leaving the market - to dramatically increasing rents. In the courts, judges may hear up to 20 cases a week. They include \"heart-breaking\" situations, said Jude, leaving many children \"unsettled and distressed\" as they are moved across the city and made to join new schools. \"The worst case I've seen is when a lady who was terribly ill and didn't have long to live,\" said Mr Hawes. \"She'd lived in the property for more than 20 years and there was nothing we could do. The woman was out of her home and in homeless accommodation and I suspect she will die in homeless accommodation.\" Ramona Hirschi is an estate agent in the city and also a landlady herself with five rental properties. \"Most landlords don't wake up in the morning and think, 'hey, let me kick my tenant out and I'll have no rent and bills paid',\" she said. It is a \"last resort\" for many reputable landlords and agents, said Ramona, who manages about 270 rental properties across Stoke-on-Trent. \"When a house goes up for rent we have 30-40 enquiries, that is the level of under supply and over demand in Stoke and that's not going to improve if there is no support for landlords,\" said Ramona. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities insisted it would bring forward a Renters Reform Bill by the end of this Parliament. However Romana said: \"We need more enforcement - not regulation. \"If you don't catch the bad guys [landlords] there is no point enforcing more and more, because the good guys [landlords] are already doing everything,\" she added. Mark Pickman is known as an \"accidental landlord\" after inheriting his late father's home and deciding to rent it out. Over the past 15 years, he's bought three more properties in the Cannock area to build up a pension pot, but the highs and lows of property management have made him think again. \"From a personal perspective, I wouldn't do it again if I had the opportunity of an inherited property, knowing what I know now. I would sell it,\" said Mark. The number of landlords who are planning to cut the number of properties they own has almost doubled in a year in the West Midlands. Almost four in ten (38%) said they wanted to reduce the number they let, according to research carried out on 750 members of the National Residential Landlords Association. Mark is paying more than 6% interest rate on one mortgage and with rising maintenance costs in recent years, it's been \"difficult\" to pass on rent increases in line with inflation to tenants. \"When you see someone on the news talking about 'bad landlords' - we all get lumped in, because we're private landlords tarnished with the same brush and it's simply not right.\" A spokeswoman for the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities said: \"We remain absolutely committed to delivering a fairer deal for renters. \"We will bring forward a Renters Reform Bill in this Parliament, abolishing 'no-fault evictions' so that all tenants have greater security in their homes and are empowered to challenge poor conditions and unreasonable rent rises.\" Stay in touch with your landlord or agentYou may be eligible for emergency housing or a discretionary housing paymentYou can only be evicted if your landlord has followed the proper stepsFind your local Citizens Advice Bureau which can give you tailored advice Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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