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The hosts took the lead when Ryan Flynn drove towards the box and curled into the bottom corner. Northern Ireland striker Will Grigg levelled for Wigan after a corner was not cleared, before visiting defender Jake Buxton saw red for a late tackle. League One's Oldham regained the lead when Josh Law drilled in his first goal since joining in pre-season. Match ends, Oldham Athletic 2, Wigan Athletic 1. Second Half ends, Oldham Athletic 2, Wigan Athletic 1. Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Donervon Daniels. Foul by Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic). Donervon Daniels (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Jake Cassidy (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Foul by Oliver Banks (Oldham Athletic). Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Jake Cassidy replaces Lee Erwin. Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Danny O'Brien replaces Tim Chow. Substitution, Wigan Athletic. Sam Cosgrove replaces Ryan Colclough. Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Josh Law. Goal! Oldham Athletic 2, Wigan Athletic 1. Josh Law (Oldham Athletic) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ryan Flynn. Corner, Wigan Athletic. Conceded by Oliver Banks. Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Oliver Banks (Oldham Athletic). Attempt saved. Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the bottom left corner. Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic). Substitution, Wigan Athletic. James Barrigan replaces William Grigg. Attempt missed. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Paul Green (Oldham Athletic). Attempt missed. Cameron Burgess (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by Tim Chow. Corner, Oldham Athletic. Conceded by David Perkins. Substitution, Oldham Athletic. Oliver Banks replaces Marc Klok. Foul by Ousmane Fane (Oldham Athletic). Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt saved. Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Attempt saved. Lee Erwin (Oldham Athletic) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Attempt saved. Josh Law (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Attempt missed. Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Foul by Josh Law (Oldham Athletic). William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Attempt missed. Ryan Colclough (Wigan Athletic) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Ryan Flynn (Oldham Athletic) wins a free kick on the left wing. Foul by Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic). Michael Jacobs (Wigan Athletic) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Paul Green (Oldham Athletic).

Oldham Athletic overcame 10-man Championship side Wigan Athletic to reach the EFL Cup second round.

Up until 1994 it was ruled by a white minority which enforced a separation of races with its policy called apartheid. The apartheid government eventually negotiated itself out of power after decades of international isolation, armed opposition and mass protests. The democratically-elected leadership encouraged reconciliation and set about redressing social imbalances. Population 50.7 million Area 1.22 million sq km (470,693 sq miles) Major languages 11 official languages including English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa and Zulu Religions Christianity, Islam, indigenous beliefs Life expectancy 53 years (men), 54 years (women) Currency Rand President: Jacob Zuma The leader of the ruling African National Congress party, Jacob Zuma, was chosen president by the newly-elected parliament in May 2009. He has spent his entire adult life since 1959 in the service of the ANC. He joined its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe in 1962 and spent ten years in prison for conspiracy to overthrow the apartheid-era government. After his release he left South Africa and was a leading figure in the ANC abroad until he returned home in 1990 to take part in the talks that brought apartheid to an end. Mr Zuma has been at the centre of numerous controversies: He was named in a corruption case related to a major arms deal; he said he showered after sex with an HIV-positive woman to reduce his risk of being infected and he was accused of using public funds to make improvements to his private home at Nkandla. South Africa is the continent's major media player, and its broadcasters and press reflect the diversity of its people. Established state-run and commercial TV broadcast nationally, and hundreds of thousands of viewers subscribe to satellite and cable. South Africa-based MultiChoice markets satellite pay-TV in dozens of African countries. Some key events in South Africa's history: 1910 - Formation of Union of South Africa by former British colonies of the Cape and Natal, and the Boer republics of Transvaal, and Orange Free State. 1912 - Native National Congress founded, later renamed the African National Congress (ANC). 1948 - Policy of apartheid (separateness) is adopted when National Party (NP) takes power. 1960 - Seventy black demonstrators killed at Sharpeville. ANC banned. 1976 - More than 600 killed in clashes between black protesters and security forces during uprising which starts in Soweto. The challenge to white rule escalates over the years. 1991-1994 - Negotiated end to apartheid leads to first non-racial elections and formation of a Government of National Unity under Nelson Mandela. 2009 May - Parliament elects Jacob Zuma as president.

South Africa has one of the continent's biggest and most developed economies.

The events were organised by the Right2Water group. RTÉ reports that demonstrations were held in various parts of the country including Dublin, Cork and Galway. The Right2Water campaign is made up of community groups, political groupings and trade unions. Brendan Ogle of the Unite trade union said the demonstrations were the first step in a significant pre-election campaign by Right2Water. "Water has been a catalyst in the fight against austerity but people are crying out for a change in how our country is run and that will be visible on the streets of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Donegal, among other counties today," he said. The Irish Department of the Environment said three out of four people are now paying water bills. This figure includes those on private schemes as well as those paying through Irish Water. The department added that it did not think it prudent to advise people to get into debt by not paying their bills and urged them to engage with Irish Water.

Thousands of people in the Republic of Ireland have participated in 30 demonstrations about water charges.

After Everton striker Lukaku's fiercely struck opener from outside the box, Bournemouth's Joshua King levelled. Veton Berisha profited from static defending as Norway then led, but Hazard deftly headed in an equaliser and Laurent Ciman got the winner. Meanwhile, Russia, who begin their Euro 2016 campaign against England on Saturday, drew 1-1 with Serbia. They were denied victory by an 88th-minute equaliser from Newcastle striker Aleksandar Mitrovic, having taken the lead through Artem Dzyuba in the 85th minute. Earlier, Czech Republic suffered a 2-1 home defeat by South Korea in their final warm-up game. Yoon Bit-garam and Suk Hyun-jun gave the away side a 2-0 half-time lead before Marek Suchy got one back and Theodor Gebre Selassie was sent off for a second yellow card. Match ends, Belgium 3, Norway 2. Second Half ends, Belgium 3, Norway 2. Foul by Marouane Fellaini (Belgium). Ruben Jenssen (Norway) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Divock Origi (Belgium). Jonas Svensson (Norway) wins a free kick on the right wing. Corner, Norway. Conceded by Marouane Fellaini. Substitution, Belgium. Mousa Dembélé replaces Eden Hazard. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Ruben Jenssen (Norway). Laurent Ciman (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Valon Berisha (Norway). Attempt missed. Marouane Fellaini (Belgium) header from very close range misses to the right. Assisted by Eden Hazard with a cross following a corner. Substitution, Norway. Alexander Sørloth replaces Joshua King. Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Jonas Svensson. Substitution, Belgium. Divock Origi replaces Dries Mertens. Attempt missed. Valon Berisha (Norway) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ruben Jenssen. Attempt saved. Kevin De Bruyne (Belgium) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Jonas Svensson (Norway) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Eden Hazard (Belgium) wins a free kick in the attacking half. Foul by Jonas Svensson (Norway). Jordan Lukaku (Belgium) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Foul by Jordan Lukaku (Belgium). Markus Henriksen (Norway) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Hand ball by Ruben Jenssen (Norway). Offside, Belgium. Thibaut Courtois tries a through ball, but Kevin De Bruyne is caught offside. Substitution, Norway. Ruben Jenssen replaces Stefan Johansen. Radja Nainggolan (Belgium) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Markus Henriksen (Norway). Goal! Belgium 3, Norway 2. Laurent Ciman (Belgium) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld with a headed pass following a corner. Substitution, Norway. Stefan Strandberg replaces Ole Selnaes. Substitution, Norway. Iver Fossum replaces Veton Berisha. Corner, Belgium. Conceded by Haitam Aleesami. Attempt blocked. Romelu Lukaku (Belgium) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a through ball. Attempt missed. Dries Mertens (Belgium) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is too high. Assisted by Jordan Lukaku. Attempt missed. Jordan Lukaku (Belgium) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left misses to the right. Assisted by Romelu Lukaku. Goal! Belgium 2, Norway 2. Eden Hazard (Belgium) header from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross. Corner, Norway. Conceded by Toby Alderweireld. Attempt blocked. Joshua King (Norway) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Markus Henriksen. Substitution, Norway. Valon Berisha replaces Adama Diomande.

Romelu Lukaku and Eden Hazard scored as Belgium came from behind to beat Norway in their final game before Euro 2016.

But it has perhaps been more like Pinter than Shakespeare. The menacing silences, the bullying over polite exchanges, the brutal quest for dominance as self-confidence drains from one man to another. So here is a cut-out-and-keep guide for any budding dramatist on what we know and what I've found out. The day of the referendum. I'm told Michael Gove and Boris Johnson go to bed with only one speech prepared - to acknowledge defeat. 04:45 BST A mobile phone rings in the Gove household. His wife, Sarah Vine - as she explained in her Daily Mail column - hears her husband's phone go off. Then this exchange. "Michael, guess what? We've won!" "Gosh." She wrote in her column: "Given Michael's high-profile role in the Leave campaign, that means he - we - are now charged with implementing the instructions of 17 million people. "And that is an awesome responsibility." As the mobile phones go mad: "'You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off,' I said, in my best (ie not very good) Michael Caine Italian Job accent. "In other words, you've really torn it now." The tear widens as David Cameron resigns. Boris Johnson was at home with a small team, watching the prime minister resign live on TV. Victory, one insider said, was the moment it all went wrong. Another told me Boris felt he was staring down both barrels of a gun. He had rather a nice life - did he really want to be PM? Watching the prime minister resign, Team Boris think Gove, who'd been talking to Osborne, might come on board. Then pretty much public silence from the man who hoped to be prime minister. Cut to a close-up of the thwack of willow on leather - Boris at the wicket of a rather posh, rather jolly, cricket match. Then an apparently quite amusing barbecue at his country house. Michael Gove joined him - and said that together they were the dream team. He was promised he'd become chancellor and be in charge of Brexit negotiations. But had the Tory establishment decided, as one insider told me, they did not want another Old Etonian - another face from that Bullingdon Club photo - as their leader in an anti-elitist age? Did someone urge Gove to sign up with the intention of doing the indecent thing? Morning Please, no clichés of the spinning presses. However, Boris Johnson's Daily Telegraph column is the next scene. "It is said that those who voted Leave were mainly driven by anxieties about immigration," he writes. "I do not believe that is so... British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes; and to settle down." Was this the turning point? Too soft, too un-Brexity, for Michael Gove? Hardly. He had sent an email at 18:00 on Sunday urging only minor changes and describing it as "very, very good." 17:00 BST Gove is shown the spreadsheet of MPs supporting Boris. One source told me that early in a leadership election all that matters is numbers. You need to pull in the left, the right, young, old, Leave, Remain. Morning A meeting at the Park Lane offices of the Australian super-strategist Sir Lynton Crosby. Team Boris are surprised by the appearance of Gove's youthful eminence grise, Dominic Cummings. His exclusion has already been demanded. Then comes the first pubic hint of unease. An e-mail from Vine to her husband Gove finds its way to journalists. "One simple message: you MUST have SPECIFIC assurances from Boris OTHERWISE you cannot guarantee your support," it says. She tells him: "Do not concede any ground. Be your stubborn best." Adding: "The details can be worked out later on, but without that you have no leverage. "Crucially, the membership will not have the necessary reassurance to back Boris, neither will Dacre/Murdoch (the editor of the Daily Mail and News International boss respectively), who instinctively dislike Boris but trust your ability enough to support a Boris/Gove ticket." Speaking in London, Rupert Murdoch says he'd be "happy for Michael Gove to get it" and describes him as "the most principled and most able" candidate available. 18:00 BST Team Boris say they have 63 MPs solidly backing them. Morning The critical day. 10 Greycoat Place, near London's Victoria station, is established as the Johnson/Gove HQ. 18:00 BST Team Boris report they have 97 MPs "locked in solid". 19:00 BST Boris goes to a Conservative MPs' party at Westminster. There are suggestions from Gove's side that Boris bungles this and support is draining away. In particular they claim he forgets a letter promising rising star Andrea Leadsom she can become chancellor as price for her support. Team Boris say this is nonsense, and Gove had already been promised this job. Team Gove say she could have had deputy prime minister. But for them it crystallises something. Gove begins to think Boris is too cavalier and unfocused - an unguided missile. 20:00 BST Boris joins Gove and the prime minister at a party at the Hurlingham Club. Was it the scene of more intrigue? Do we see Michael Gove glad-handing, plotting, building support? Is he being lobbied? Or does he seem a distracted, lonely figure? The prime minister is there. Do they talk? I'm told by an eyewitness at another party - held during the referendum - that Sarah Vine went up to the prime minister and said: "Are we OK?" He apparently hissed: "If you just get your husband off the telly, we'll be fine." My source said: "Everyone just rocked back - it was quite public." 22:00 BST Boris leaves with a key member of Team Gove to write his speech - the most of important of his life. His pitch to become prime minister. Around midnight The Team Gove member takes a series of phone calls. He then makes his excuses and leaves. Gove tries to speak to Chancellor George Osborne, but can't get through. 08:00 BST Dominic Raab has written in the Sun, backing Boris for PM. He says the former London mayor has got the "'Heineken effect', that refreshes the parts that more conventional politicians cannot reach". But cancels a planned interview on the Today programme. 08:00 BST Gove formally tells his team he is going to run. 08:35 BST The team at Greycoat Place get a call from a journalist telling them Gove is jumping ship. "Rubbish," they tell her. 08:40 BST They listen in horror as Sir Lynton Crosby takes a call from Gove, telling him he's running. "I felt kicked in the stomach, it's nasty stuff. Gove is deeply ambitious and he was persuaded he didn't need Boris. It could be him. It was all about power," says one insider. 11:25 BST Moments before Boris is about to go on stage, his small team decides he can't run. 11:50 BST Boris Johnson announces he will not stand for the Tory leadership. Afternoon Team Boris are beside themselves with fury. One sends a text message to the Sun's political editor Tom Newton Dunn. It describes Gove in colourful language, adding that he had "set this up from start". "This is going to be bloody," it adds. Another emails of Gove: "He is actually Theon Greyjoy, or will be by the time I am finished with him." If you don't follow Game of Thrones - that political drama with added dragons - Theon is tortured, castrated, and tortured again, until he is barely human. Politics makes such good drama because it is about the lust for power, driving ambition, the balance between cynicism and belief. It is about when to strike - brutal and quick - and when to stay the hand. But it is also about personality, about an inner life and inner doubts that haunt us all. It is about self-confidence and the need for love. Never more so than in this drama. Many feel it was about Boris's need to be loved that drove him to Brexit as much as ambition. His team were clearly delighted that passing taxi drivers shouted "Oi, Boris" with amused approval. But he didn't like the abuse he was now getting travelling around London after the referendum. His calculation had probably been that he would be applauded by the crowd; loved by the party as a good loser who chose the side that lost; in pole position for a big job in David Cameron's next cabinet - and then perhaps an even bigger one. He perhaps hadn't thought through whether he was really up for it - or up to it. He was never truly clubbable, never a House of Commons man, cultivating friendships. Like the Earl of Essex he "veil his bonnet to an oyster wife, and with a kind of humble conge (bow) greet, the vulgar sort that did admire his life" (anon). Essex too forgot the establishment - the Palace, the Court - carried the power of execution. Johnson's camp portrays Gove as the ultimate Machiavellian villain, driven by an ambitious wife, and adviser, plotting from within to destroy one close ally and then another, climbing the greasy pole with the hand grips of treachery and betrayal. They say that is foolish, because Gove was always the anchor, and it was always a negotiation, a deal - simply one that didn't come off. Perhaps Gove would prefer a softer version of betrayal, with him as Shakespeare's Prince Hal, shaking off Falstaff and his amusing but ultimately childish ways as he grew to power. It was all too hasty, thinks one insider, in sorrow not anger - they were all pushed over the edge by the speed of events. But don't mistake the fury. There will be another act. I am told: "This isn't over. Gove did need Boris. And Boris hasn't spoken yet."

The comparisons to a Shakespearian tragedy have become a cliché, so obvious are the parallels with Caesar, Macbeth, and more profoundly Coriolanus.

Fifty sheep were stolen from a farm in Ammanford and the farmer spotted a flock two weeks later at a livestock market in Llanybydder. After the ewes gave birth, paternity tests revealed they were the offspring of the farmer's rams. Andrew Thomas, 39, of Garnant admitted handling the stolen sheep. He will be sentenced at Swansea Crown Court this month. Dyfed-Powys Police said this was the first time DNA evidence has been used in a case of this type in Wales, and only the third time across Wales and England. Insp Matthew Howells said: "Traditionally, sheep rustling cases are very difficult to detect and prosecute, with this case being no exception. "Although we were unable to prove who stole the sheep, we were able to use forensic techniques usually reserved for humans to help prove that the sheep were in fact the stolen ones."

A Carmarthenshire sheep rustler has been convicted after police used DNA testing on lambs for the first time in Wales.

The Commonwealth super-lightweight champion defends his title against South Africa's Warren Joubert at Meadowbank on 24 March. And the 26-year-old plans to then have one more fight before meeting Burns. "I feel that if I fought Ricky next week I'd win," said Taylor. "I have confidence in my ability but I want to gather experience and develop." Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games gold medallist Taylor remains unbeaten as a professional, having outclassed Alfonso Olvera in Las Vegas in January. "I feel as if I need a little bit more experience at the level I'm at just now, get more rounds under my belt and be involved in a few good, testing fights before I get that chance to have a world title fight," Taylor told BBC Scotland. "It's just a matter of being patient and developing as an athlete. I'd fight against any super-lightweight in the world but I don't want to rush, I want to develop and gain more experience so when that chance comes I'm ready for it. "I don't want to jump into fighting for world titles when I don't feel as if I've had enough experience. The rate I'm going at now is perfect." And while he says when the time comes he will happily fight WBA super-lightweight champion Burns anywhere, Taylor does have an ideal venue in mind. "It would sell out anywhere but the dream would be Edinburgh Castle," added Taylor. Taylor, who has been sparring with a host of top names including former welterweight world champion Shawn Porter, is keeping his sights firmly set on Joubert for now and is expecting a difficult night. "Training hasn't really stopped since Vegas so I've never been out the gym," he added. "I'm already in good shape and ready to go. "I just know about Joubert's record. He's had 35 fights, only four defeats and has avenged one of them. "From what I have seen he's a come-forward fighter, he's aggressive, so it's looking like it's going to be another step up in class and another good fight for me."

Josh Taylor wants a Scottish super-fight against Ricky Burns at Edinburgh Castle - but not quite yet.

The presenter described people involved in hunting and shooting as "the nasty brigade" in an article last year. The corporation received two complaints from readers stating that Packham should not have expressed his personal opinion in a BBC magazine. But the BBC Trust said the strapline had made clear the article was an opinion piece. In a column in the October 2015 issue, the naturalist wrote that conservation groups were "hamstrung by outdated liaisons with the 'nasty brigade' and can't risk upsetting old friends" in the rural and shooting communities. The Countryside Alliance complained Packham was breaking rules by using his position "to spread propaganda" and called for him to be sacked. Packham responded by accusing his critics of trying to "neutralise" him and others who oppose grouse shooting. In its report, published on Friday, the BBC Trust said Packham was a freelancer and therefore not a BBC employee, adding he was not "associated with news or public policy-related output". It also noted that all parties named in the article had been given a right of reply prior to publication, and readers had the opportunity to respond in subsequent issues. Both complainants have had letters published in the magazine in response to Packham's column. The committee added the new editor would not have allowed the term "nasty brigade" to have been published. In its summary, the BBC Trust said there had been no breach of the impartiality guidelines. The committee also looked at whether Packham had breached the BBC's conflict of interest guidelines. But the report stated: "It was clear that Mr Packham had been expressing his personal views as an individual, and that there was no implication that the charities and other causes he supported were endorsed by the BBC." Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

The BBC Trust has said no action is required over comments Chris Packham made in BBC Wildlife Magazine.

The mythical ruler's legendary court has been associated with locations throughout Wales, including Carmarthen, St David's, and Cardigan. Now a retired Bangor University professor has revealed what he believes to be the true location of Camelot. And it turns out to be a small Roman fort at Slack, on the outskirts of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. Prof Peter Field, a renowned expert in Arthurian literature, said: "It was quite by chance. I was looking at some maps, and suddenly all the ducks lined up. "I believe I may have solved a 1,400-year-old mystery." Previous best guesses for the location of the round table include Caerleon in Newport, Somerset's Cadbury Castle, and Tintagel in Cornwall. In Roman times, Slack was home to a fort called Camulodunum, which means "the fort of the god Camul". Over the years, well-recognised linguistic processes would have reduced Camulodunum to Camelot. Though almost forgotten and insignificant today, and even though it was abandoned and dilapidated by the relevant time of King Arthur around A.D. 500, Prof Field argues that this site at Slack would still have been considered a strategic stronghold. At that time, Celtic-speaking Britons, who could have been led by King Arthur, held the north and the west coast against the invading Anglo-Saxons. Slack, on the Roman road from Chester to York, would have been the ideal location from which to defend the east coast. Prof Field added: "If there was a real King Arthur, he will have lived around AD500, although the first mention of him in Camelot is in a French poem from the Champagne region of France from 1180. "There is no mention of Camelot in the period between those dates, known as the Dark Ages, when the country was at war, and very little was recorded. "In this gap, people passed on information, much got lost in transmission, and people may have made up facts or just messed up known information." Prof Field, who taught at Bangor from 1964 to 2004, has been researching the location of Camelot for the past 18 months. He spoke about his findings during the official launch of Bangor University's Stephen Colclough centre for the history and culture of the book.

The quest to find King Arthur's Camelot has puzzled and intrigued scholars and fans for over a thousand years.

Tatiana Duva-Rodriguez, 46, is licensed to carry a concealed weapon, but police said she should not have opened fire because her life was not in danger. Pursued by security guards, a shopflifter ran from a Home Depot hardware store on 6 October to a vehicle driven by an accomplice. Ms Rodriguez fired several shots with a 9mm handgun as they drove away. No-one was hurt outside the store in Auburn Hills, Michigan, about 35 miles (56km) north of Detroit. Police said Ms Rodriguez had hit the back tyre of the getaway vehicle. "I find it very disturbing that someone would take out their gun in a busy parking lot and shoot at the tyres of a passing car," prosecutor Jessica Cooper said in a statement. "Once fired, the bullet could have easily ricocheted or fragmented and injured or killed someone else." The thieves escaped with $1,000 (£652) worth of merchandise. Police arrested two people few days later and charged them with retail fraud. If convicted, Ms Rodriguez faces up to 90 days in jail and a possible fine of up to $500.

A Michigan woman has been charged with recklessness after she fired on a pair of shoplifters.

Media playback is not supported on this device The 2013 champion said he played "one of the best rounds of his life" but "felt like crying" after missing a 15-foot birdie putt on the 18th for a 62. Compatriot Patrick Reed and Germany's Martin Kaymer are second on five under. England's Andy Sullivan is four under, one ahead of compatriot Justin Rose, while Rory McIlroy carded a 69. Mickelson made the most of glorious conditions on the west coast of Scotland, covering the front nine in 32 and the usually more treacherous back nine in 31. The 46-year-old made eight birdies and did not drop a shot. Phil, you made a beautiful read and putt on that last hole, but got absolutely stone-cold robbed. Nine players had carded 63s in 144 previous Opens, the last being McIlroy at St Andrews in 2010. But Mickelson's round was the lowest in an Open at Troon. "It was a fun round," he told BBC Sport. "Yet I still walk away wanting to shed a tear with that putt lipping out. Media playback is not supported on this device "I had a chance to do something historical. With a foot to go I thought it was in - I am not sure how it missed. The heartbreak of that is overshadowing my round right now." Reed made an eagle and five birdies in his five-under-par round, while 2014 Open champion McIlroy was four under at the turn but double-bogeyed the 13th. World number one Jason Day failed to capitalise on the more forgiving front nine and after eight pars on the homeward nine bogeyed the last to finish two over. Pre-tournament favourite and reigning US Open champion Dustin Johnson started with a 71, the same as two-time major winner and world number three Jordan Spieth, while fellow American and world number five Bubba Watson was five under after six holes before a triple-bogey at the notorious par-three eighth saw him post a one-under 70. Defending champion Zach Johnson was six under after 16 holes but bogeys on the final two holes saw him join five fellow Americans on four under. Justin Thomas,Steve Stricker, Billy Horschel, Tony Finau and Keegan Bradley also all shot 67s, while compatriot Rickie Fowler carded a 69. Players from the United States have won the last six Opens staged at Royal Troon. Wales' Jamie Donaldson, who has endured a poor season after an incident with a chainsaw damaged his left hand in January, carded a 69. South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, winner of the Claret Jug in 2010, made a hole-in-one at the 14th in his round of 71, the same as England's reigning Masters champion Danny Willett. Media playback is not supported on this device McIlroy said he was happy with his "solid" start and that he expects scoring to become far more difficult if conditions deteriorate, as they are expected to do on Friday. "Today was a day where you had to make the most of conditions because I don't think we're going to see the course like this for the rest of the week," said the 27-year-old, who missed last year's Open at St Andrews because of injury. "I'm hoping some of the weather forecasts I've seen are right and that it's starting to clear up a little in the afternoon. But it's the Open Championship and you know coming here you're going to have to battle the elements somewhat." Media playback is not supported on this device World number 13 Reed tuned up for Troon with an appearance at the Scottish Open, where he finished tied for 10th in awful weather conditions. "It was cold, windy, rainy and I didn't see the sun once in Inverness," said the 25-year-old, who is playing in his third Open. "Today was a lot easier than I had to deal with last week and it allowed me to be a little bit more aggressive with my irons into the greens. "It's one of those golf courses that allows you to get off to a good start, so that you can get cocky and too careless on the back nine. You have to stay humble." Media playback is not supported on this device 2013 US Open champion Rose, 35, said it was the best he had played for some time, having struggled with a back injury this season. "The score didn't really reflect how well I played," said Rose, whose top-10 finish last year was his best showing at The Open since tying for fourth as an amateur at Royal Birkdale in 1998. "Typical me, playing the back nine in fewer shots than the front nine. But I'm certainly happy with the start." The nature of Troon's Old Course was better demonstrated by South African Haydn Porteous, who went out in 30, including two eagles, and came home in 40. Day, who missed last year's play-off at St Andrews by one shot before winning the PGA Championship, his first major title, admitted he was struggling with his swing. "Every time I hit an iron I kept missing everything left and it caught me off guard," said the 28-year-old Australian. "It's frustrating but the next few days are going to be very difficult and if I can just play good, solid golf I can inch my way back in." Spieth, who also missed last year's play-off by one shot, was at a loss to explain his poor putting, which is usually his strongest suit. "My [putting] stroke's been great heading into here," said the 22-year-old, who had 33 putts in his first round, nine more than Reed. "I was much improved tee to green, struck the ball tremendously well, it just seemed like it didn't want to go in the hole once I got on the greens." Colin Montgomerie, an honorary member of Royal Troon, was first to tee off at 06:35 BST and double-bogeyed the opening hole. However, the 53-year-old Scot, who came through qualifying, reeled off five birdies to turn in 33 before three bogeys on the back nine gave him a level-par 71. "You'll see three- and four-under on the way out and then it's a matter of hanging on on the way back," said Montgomerie, a five-time major runner-up. "And remember, this course hasn't shown its teeth at all. Today was three out of 10. On Friday we're talking seven or eight out of 10, and then it's going to be very different." Media playback is not supported on this device We've launched a new BBC Sport newsletter, bringing all the best stories, features and video right to your inbox. You can sign up here.

America's Phil Mickelson carded a 63, the joint-lowest round in major history, to lead on eight under after day one of The Open at Royal Troon.

Samuel Ward scored a goal either side of half-time to set up the victory, before Henry Weir made sure of the result in the final quarter. Jackson went close to scoring, shooting after the Dutch had pushed their keeper outfield, but Weir deflected it in. The result follows Thursday's 1-1 draw against hosts Germany. Britain face Belgium in their final match on Sunday (10:30 BST).

Great Britain beat the Netherlands 3-0 in the Ergo Masters Four Nations Invitational in Dusseldorf as Ashley Jackson won his 100th cap.

The 28-year-old tested positive for a banned substance just days before heading to the Olympic Games in Rio. He claimed the result was orchestrated to stop him speaking out about politics in Indian sports, saying: "Their intention is to shut me up." Navin Agarwal, director general of India's anti-doping agency, denied samples could have been tampered with. Singh said he denied "all the allegations of doping that I am accused of". "I am being targeted and it's a clear case of conspiracy against me," he said. "My sample has been tampered with "I have been speaking out against the politics in sports in India and how badly athletes are treated and their poor training facilities, and this has riled many powerful people in the country." Singh is the second Rio-bound Indian athlete to fail a doping test after wrestler Narsingh Yadav, 26, last week tested positive for a banned steroid. Yadav has also denied wrongdoing, claiming his food supplements were spiked. "I believe that there is foul play involved in this entire episode," he told India's NDTV station. No sanctions for the pair have been announced, and Singh has been asked if he would like to have a second sample tested.

Indian shot put champion Inderjeet Singh believes he failed a drugs test because of a "conspiracy" against him.

He had an initial spell with the Vikings between 2008 and 2013 and was named one of its 50 greatest players. Defensive end Allen, 34, last played for the Carolina Panthers in 2015 and also had spells with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chicago Bears. "We are proud to have Jared retire as a member of the Vikings franchise," said Vikings owner Zygi Wilf.

Jared Allen will retire as a Minnesota Vikings player after he signed a one-day deal with the NFL team on Thursday.

Official data showed the US economy added 209,000 jobs last month, beating analysts' expectations, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.3%. The Dow Jones closed at a record for the eighth consecutive day, rising 0.3% to 22,092.81. The wider S&P 500 index closed up 0.19% at 2,476.83, while the Nasdaq rose 0.18% to 6,351.56. Analysts said the latest jobs report meant the Federal Reserve was still on track to raise interest rates later this year, which would be the third increase in 2017. Shares of banks, which benefit from higher rates, saw some of the most significant gains on Friday. Goldman Sachs was among the biggest winners on the Dow, rising 2.6%. Among individual stocks, Viacom shares sank nearly 14% after it forecast a drop in sales to US pay-TV companies and streaming services in the current quarter. Consumer review website operator Yelp saw its shares jump by more than a quarter after it announced the sale of its Eat24 business to Grubhub for $287.5m. Yelp also reported revenues of $209m for the second quarter of the year, which beat analysts' expectations. US stocks are in record territory this year. The Nasdaq is up almost 17% since January. The Dow has risen 11% and the S&P 500 is climbed almost 10%.

Stronger than expected jobs figures helped to lift US stocks on Friday, leading the Dow to another record.

Arsenal will play Chelsea on 6 August at Wembley Stadium, and £1.25m could be raised from the match. Football Association chairman Greg Clarke said: "We hope that in some small way through the Community Shield we can help. "Football is for all, and we hope it can in its own way give something back to those who are most in need." The EFL said it would also be donating £175,000, with member clubs contributing their share of proceeds from the match. Chief executive Shaun Harvey said football was "coming together to make a significant commitment to the cause". Premier League clubs have agreed to contribute a total of £250,000. "The thoughts of everyone at the league and our clubs are with the people affected by this terrible event," a statement read. Seventy-nine people are missing or presumed dead after the blaze destroyed 150 homes in the Kensington tower block on 14 June. Survivors, the families of the victims and emergency services personnel will be invited to the game as guests.

Proceeds from the 2017 FA Community Shield will be donated to support those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Until recently, AI seemed firmly stuck in the realm of science fiction. The term "artificial intelligence" was coined 60 years ago - on August 31 1955, John McCarthy proposed a "summer research project" to work out how to create thinking machines. It's turned out to take a bit longer than one summer. We're now entering the seventh decade, and just starting to see real progress. So, it's worth asking: why the long wait, and what has made for today's renaissance in AI research? Well, as is usually the case with technology "revolutions," there's actually been a steady evolution of hard research leading up to today. For example, Geoff Hinton, one of the pioneers of artificial neural networks, came up with many of his key insights in the 1980s, when computers were too slow for the insights to have a big practical pay-off. He continued to work for the next 20 years, and in 2009 he and his students beat the state of the art for speech recognition. Google quickly adopted their methods (and later hired the team) and cut errors in speech recognition on the Google app by around 25% - the equivalent of about ten years of research all at once. So it was really a long effort. But something changed in those last few years, an inflection point, a final push over the line from "This could work" to "Wow, this works better than anything else we've come up with!" Indeed, deep learning really took off when it got an infusion of computing at immense scale, using networks of thousands of computers working together. And it's been accelerated by tackling real-world problems: how do you build a system that recognises speech in 58 languages? How do you find someone's first photo of their golden retriever when it's never been labelled? (These aren't just rhetorical questions; the Google app and Google Photos do this, and many other companies are working on similar real-world applications of machine learning). In other words, the same consumer needs that gave rise to the web and the cloud computing that powers it - people wanting to get any question in the world answered or communicate effortlessly across languages - were what refreshed and refocused the basic research in AI. These turn out to provide tougher and more rewarding challenges than the "toy" problems that had been the benchmarks of AI research in decades past, such as getting a program to navigate a simple maze. The real world is far bigger and messier, and it provides a much higher bar for machine learning. It's not until the theoretical bumps up against the practical that you get real progress. That's why we bring dozens of visiting faculty from universities every year to Google, and why our researchers publish their research openly and go to all the major academic conferences on AI. We offer computing resources, real-world problems and practical expertise building systems; outside researchers bring long experience and ideas for novel approaches. We love the exchange, and we welcome experts in machine learning to conduct their research at Google. (And, by the way, there are other benefits to closing the gap between theory and practice: it makes a lot more sense to ground long-term concerns over AI in a practical discussion of what's actually possible and how we might build the most beneficial technologies.) In the future, we need to do even more blending of AI research with solving real-world challenges. In the next generation of software, machine learning won't just be an add-on that improves performance a few percentage points; it will really replace traditional approaches. To give just one example: a decade ago, to launch a digital music service, you probably would have enlisted a handful of elite tastemakers to pick the hottest new music. Today, you're much better off building a smart system that can learn from the real world - what actual listeners are most likely to like next - and help you predict who and where the next Adele might be. As a bonus, it's a much less elitist taste-making process - much more democratic - allowing everyone to discover the next big star through our own collective tastes and not through the individual preferences of a select few. In order for AI to fulfil its long-term potential for society, we need to direct research even more toward real-world messiness: how do you help someone plan a last-minute great vacation when they've got limited budget, two picky kids, and only a few days to squeeze it into? Can we reduce the noise of modern life by giving you smarter filters on your emails, your social media feeds, your schedule - can we give you less spam and more time? And how can we help scientists make sense of the overwhelming amount of data in genomics, energy and climate science? All those areas stand to benefit from smart, directed, thoughtful innovations in AI, which is why we need to keep thinking first and foremost about people's real needs, and the real world we all inhabit.

As part of the BBC's Intelligent Machines season, Google's Eric Schmidt has penned an exclusive article on how he sees artificial intelligence developing, why it is experiencing such a renaissance and where it will go next.

According to Russian television, the Ukrainian government has ''unleashed real combat on its own people'', while pro-Russian gunmen in Ukraine are presented as local people bravely fighting for their rights. Official state channel Rossiya 1 TV said that while Kiev labelled the militia and protesters in the south-east as "terrorists", locals strongly disagreed. It showed some civilians insisting that they were not separatists. "Kiev is threatening the citizens of Donetsk Region with psychological attacks from the air. Periodically, military helicopters and planes circle menacingly over the towns of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk," Rossiya 1 TV said. Another strand of coverage by Russia's three main TV channels, though, has been to portray the Ukrainian army as weak, disorganised and suffering from poor service conditions and low morale. One report by NTV - owned by state gas giant Gazprom - reported that Ukrainian troops had refused to take orders from their commanders and sided with pro-Russian militiamen, a presenter for NTV reported. "Many servicemen are clearly confused and don't understand how they could point their guns at Ukrainians, the same people as them," the channel's correspondent says. Russian TV channels have also been showing footage of what they say are local people in Donetsk and Luhansk regions confronting Ukrainian troops. In one instance, locals are seen persuading the crew of a tank not to shoot at civilians. In another, they stop and loot a military truck. In contrast, Ukrainian TV channels have been supportive of what they see as the Kiev authorities' efforts to rein in ''separatists'' and "militants supported by Russia". Ukrainian TV channels say "small groups" of violent protesters demanding federalisation or annexation by Russia do not reflect the true sentiment of residents of eastern Ukraine most of whom, they say, want to live in an undivided Ukraine. They have been broadcasting comments from ordinary people in the streets of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv, most of them saying they want their region to stay in Ukraine. The demands of some Ukrainians for action against the separatists also feature heavily. State-owned UT1 TV provided live coverage of a rally in Kiev's Independence Square, where around 10,000 people demanded that the authorities act more resolutely to protect the eastern regions from "Russian aggression". Ukraine's press, meanwhile, is full of doom-laden speculation about Russia's intentions. "If it fails to push through a federation, Russia will bet on splitting Ukraine - all Russian-speaking regions will become unrecognised territories under the imperial protectorate of the Russian Federation," Volodymyr Fesenko writes in Segodnya. Others think Russia's ambitions do not stop there. ''Moscow wants the whole of Ukraine. Entirely. Using any means," navy admiral Ihor Kabanenko says in an article in the Den daily. BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. For more reports from BBC Monitoring, click here. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.

Ukrainians and Russians have been getting starkly contrasting pictures from their respective media of the growing unrest in eastern Ukraine.

Jackie Stokes, from Burton-upon-Trent, said she spent £9,500 on implants in Hungary but an investigation found her treatment plan caused "irreversible damage to otherwise healthy teeth". Dentist Dr Zsolt Csillag was given a one-year supervision order by the General Dental Council. He did not respond to attempts to contact him. The Forest and Ray Medical Care Group said he had left the company due to "personal reasons". The clinic said it "always puts patients first" and treated Mrs Stokes with extra care, above and beyond its normal routine. Mrs Stokes said: "It has left me feeling like I have been assaulted, butchered and robbed of my life savings. "I was advised by an NHS dentist to go down the implant road... because it wasn't on the NHS I would go seek help elsewhere. "A friend of mine had been over to Hungary so we decided to go down that line," the 65-year-old added. Mrs Stokes had implants in her upper jaw and crowns on eight teeth in her lower jaw, over two trips to Budapest. On her second visit in June 2013, she said she was left with a "bulldog bite" - a gap between her gums and upper teeth through which food would seep. The implants failed and were later removed. She now has to wear dentures. In total, Mrs Stokes said she had 27 visits to the dental group over four years. The General Dental Council found Dr Csillag should not have put crowns on her eight lower teeth because they were healthy. In relation to Mrs Stokes and another patient, his treatment plan for them included "irreversible damage to otherwise healthy teeth", the investigation found. The restrictions placed on Dr Csillag can only be imposed when he is working in the United Kingdom.

A woman who spent her life savings on dental implants that had to be taken out feels "butchered" by the dentist.

The Norwegian, who also won the sixth stage of the race in Lisieux, proved the strongest of a breakaway group of 14 riders over the stage's final climb. Frenchman Thomas Voeckler ended an eighth day in yellow, but conceded 27 seconds to his main rivals. Australian Cadel Evans is his nearest challenger - one minute 18 seconds behind with four stages to go. Manx sprinter Mark Cavendish put in another solid shift, picking up a point at the intermediate checkpoint and retaining his green jersey. Team Sky's strong showing in the absence of team leader Bradley Wiggins, who suffered a broken collarbone on stage seven, has also made it a successful Tour for the only British team in the race. Rigoberto Uran and Geraint Thomas have both held the jersey for the race's best young rider, while Boasson Hagen is emerging as a consistent threat at the end of each stage. The 24-year-old played his part in a 14-strong breakaway that established an advantage of more than seven minutes over the peloton as they climbed the category-two Col de Montgenevre. Irishman Nicolas Roche attempted in vain to lead a group of three across the gap as the field climbed over the border and up to the Italian resort of Sestriere. But, with any gains immediately at risk on a subsequent 48km descent, the general classification contenders were content to save their aggression for Pramartino - the stage's final ascent. After breaking free at the head of the field, Spaniard Ruben Perez Moreno reached Sestriere with a clear lead and raced solo downhill in a bold attempt to win from the front. With 20km to go, the lone leader's lead of over a minute was still intact but he was absorbed back into the chasing pack as they climbed for the final time. French champion Sylvain Chavanel initially took on the pace but he could not shake Boasson Hagen who powered away before nervelessly navigating the winding downhill roads to Pinerolo for his victory. "If I'd taken fewer risks, I would have finished with Contador, Evans and the Schlecks Back in the field, Alberto Contador tested Andy Schleck and Voeckler with a burst of acceleration. But the descent proved more profitable for the Spaniard as Voeckler lost crucial time running wide on the corner as he struggled to keep with the downhill pace. Contador, a three-time winner, and his compatriot Samuel Sanchez looked as if they may make inroads into the rest of their rivals as they pressed in the final kilometres. But Andy Schleck, who had looked nervous in wet weather on the way down to La Rochette on Tuesday, brother Frank and Evans stuck doggedly to their tail to record the same time. Contador confirmed that, after getting caught up in a pile-up on the first stage and suffering a knee injury earlier in the race, he had to take some risks in a bid to win a fourth Tour de France. "It was a very dangerous descent," he said. "I was off the front, I saw I could attack and the important thing is to pull back time every day." And Voeckler revealed that Contador's approach was at least a partial success, convincing him to ride unnecessarily aggressively in the closing stages. "It's a pity, because I saw that Contador, Evans and the Schlecks finished together," reflected Voeckler. "If I'd taken fewer risks, I would have finished with them." STAGE 17 RESULT 1 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor/Team Sky) 4hrs 18mins 00secs 2 Bauke Mollema (Ned/Rabobank) at 0:40 3 Sandy Casar (Fra/FDJ) at 0:50 4 Julien El Fares (Fra/Cofidis) same time 5 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra/Quickstep) 6 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz/Astana) at 1:10 7 Maciej Paterski (Pol/Liquigas) 8 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz/RadioShack) 9 Jonathan Hivert (Fra/Saur-Sojasun) at 1:15 10 Borut Bozic (Slo/Vacansoleil) at 2:20 OVERALL STANDINGS 1. Thomas Voeckler (France/Europcar) 73 hrs 24 mins 34 secs 2. Cadel Evans (Australia / BMC Racing) +1.18 3. Frank Schleck (Luxembourg / Leopard) +1:22 4. Andy Schleck (Luxembourg / Leopard) +2:36 5. Samuel Sanchez (Spain / Euskaltel) +2:59 6. Alberto Contador (Spain / Saxo Bank) +3:15 7. Damiano Cunego (Italy / Lampre) +3:34 8. Ivan Basso (Italy / Liquigas) +3:49 9. Tom Danielson (U.S. / Garmin) +6:04 10. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia / Team Sky) +7:36

Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen secured his second stage win of the Tour de France with victory in Pinerolo.

The group carried out a nine-month investigation into the 53,000 images handed to the opposition by a military police photographer, codenamed Caesar. Researchers interviewed former prisoners, defectors, forensic experts and families of the disappeared. Syria's government and its allies had questioned the images' authenticity. They were first published in January 2014 in a report by three former war crimes prosecutors that was commissioned by Qatar, which supports the political and armed opposition in Syria. In an interview earlier this year, President Bashar al-Assad said: "You can bring photographs from anyone and say this is torture. There is no verification of any of this evidence, so it's all allegations without evidence." But on Wednesday, Human Rights Watch laid out in a new report what it said was new evidence regarding the authenticity of the Caesar photographs, identifying a number of the victims and highlighting some of the key causes of death. The US-based group said it had located and interviewed 33 relatives and friends of 27 victims whose cases researchers verified; 37 former detainees who saw people die in detention; and four defectors who worked in Syrian government detention centres or the military hospitals where most of the photographs were taken. Syria torture report In pictures: Syria accused of torture Using satellite imagery and geolocation techniques, HRW confirmed that some of the photographs of the dead were taken in the courtyard of the 601 Military Hospital in Mezzeh, a western suburb of the capital Damascus. The group also identified a coding system for the cards placed on the bodies. "We have meticulously verified dozens of stories, and we are confident the Caesar photographs present authentic - and damning - evidence of crimes against humanity in Syria," said Nadim Houry, HRW's deputy Middle East director. HRW said its report focused on 28,707 of the 53,275 photos smuggled out of Syria by Caesar that, based on all available information, showed the bodies of at least 6,786 people who died in detention or after being transferred from detention to a military hospital. The remaining photographs are of attack sites or of bodies identified by name as of government soldiers, other combatants, or civilians killed in attacks, explosions or assassination attempts. Most of the victims were detained by just five intelligence agency branches in Damascus, and their bodies were sent to at least two military hospitals in Damascus between May 2011, when Caesar began copying files and smuggling them out of his workplace, and August 2013, when he fled Syria, HRW said. Forensic pathologists from Physicians for Human Rights analysed a subset of the photos, and found evidence of several types of torture, starvation, suffocation, violent blunt force trauma, and in one case, a gunshot wound to the head. Among the 27 victims identified by HRW - all of whose families spent months or years searching for news of their whereabouts, in many cases paying huge sums to contacts and middlemen - were Rehab al-Allawi, a boy who was 14 at the time of his arrest for having an anti-Assad song on his phone, and student Rehab al-Allawi, who was 25 when she was detained while working with an activist group. The former detainees, held in the same places as most of the victims, told HRW that guards kept them in severely overcrowded cells with very little air circulation, gave them so little food that they grew weak, and often denied them the opportunity to wash. Skin diseases and other infectious diseases proliferated, and the detainees said guards denied them adequate medical care. "Many of the former detainees who were held in these nightmarish conditions told us they often wished they would die, rather than continue suffering," Mr Houry said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights, an activist group, has documented the arrest and detention of more than 117,000 people in Syria since the uprising against Mr Assad began in March 2011.

Human Rights Watch says it is confident photos smuggled out of Syria by a defector in 2013 showing 6,786 people who died after detention are authentic.

Proposed timetable changes could have seen four of six services being cut. However, CrossCountry said there would now be no changes to timetables from this December, and that further discussion would take place on the future of the services. It followed discussions with the Department for Transport and Transport Scotland. A CrossCountry spokesman said: "Last year CrossCountry consulted widely on possible changes to its timetables from December 2017. "These included the option of changing the number of CrossCountry services north of Edinburgh to and from north east Scotland, allowing the local train operator ScotRail to provide these. "After discussions between the Department for Transport and Transport Scotland, it became clear that ScotRail would be unable to replicate these services at this time, so it was agreed there would be no changes to CrossCountry's Scottish timetables from this December and further discussion would take place to agree the future of these services."

Plans to reduce CrossCountry train services between Aberdeen and Edinburgh have been scrapped.

Staff Sgt Robert Bales, who was sent to Iraq three times before his recent deployment to Afghanistan, returned to the United States on Friday. His lawyer, John Henry Browne, has said the accused could be suffering from PTSD. Talk to people who live around the sprawling military base of Fort Lewis-McChord - one of the largest in America and home to more than 100,000 personnel, including Sgt Bales - and you will find they know all about post-traumatic stress disorder. As the population of this base in the north-western state of Washington has grown - and war zone deployments have increased - so too has the amount of suicide and violence. Last year, the military newspaper Stars and Stripes labelled Lewis-McChord the "most troubled" base in the US military. But it is claimed that cases of PTSD were not just being overlooked - they may actually have been deliberately downplayed. At the base's Madigan Army Medical Center, an investigation is currently under way into allegations that the diagnoses of hundreds of soldiers suffering from PTSD may have been altered to lesser conditions in order to save on disability costs paid by the army. Seattle-based mental health therapist and PTSD counsellor Reid Stell says: "A PTSD diagnosis never goes away. To say you're cured… that would be overly optimistic." As to whether Sgt Robert Bales could have had his diagnosis altered in such a way, a US military spokeswoman told the BBC in a statement that they keep service members' health information private and do not comment on medical records. Navy veteran Matt Bambara, 29, volunteers at a cafe, Coffee Strong, near the Lewis-McChord base. He told the BBC he believes many problems in the community have been caused by people with untreated cases of PTSD. "The military ought to be held accountable for the health and well-being of soldiers," Mr Bambara said. The words "war is trauma" are painted on a wall of Coffee Strong, and Mr Bambara says he witnesses PTSD behaviour among some of his customers. "People come in with high levels of anxiety," he says. "You can almost see it in their face in terms of the way they are looking over their shoulders and constantly looking out of the window and are just kind of generally suspicious and just distrustful." Is the military doing enough? "I don't think they are," he says. "I don't think they have the capacity. "The fact is they wouldn't be able to function and perform their mission if they were to genuinely compensate and allow the proper healing to take place." Dr Harry Croft, former Army doctor and psychiatrist, who has evaluated more than 7,000 veterans for PTSD, says the rampage in Afghanistan means it is time for the military to take a closer look at the impact on soldiers who serve multiple tours. A study in 2008 by RAND Corp, a think tank, indicated that 18% of all service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 had PTSD or major depression. Only about half were seeking help. "They're reluctant for fear that it could affect their military career," says Mr Stell, on why so few soldiers reach out for PTSD and depression treatment. Others say PTSD is too often used as a diagnosis or as an "excuse". "Some people say PTSD because it's an easy diagnosis, in my opinion," says Steve Binda, 67, a retired US Army veteran who served in Vietnam. He says men he knew fought in the trenches and survived the horrors of World War II, coming back home to continue on with their lives post-war. Sue Rothwell, 63, owner of Gerties, a local restaurant and bar popular among the soldiers and veterans, isn't surprised that some soldiers snap. "You take an 18-year-old off a farm in Minnesota, for example, send them over there and then wonder why he can't deal with it," she says. In January 2010, US soldier Joshua Tabor was convicted of assault after holding his four-year-old daughter's head under water when she could not remember her alphabet properly. In April 2011, Sgt David Stewart, a medic assigned to the Lewis-McChord base killed himself and his wife after leading authorities on a high-speed car chase. They subsequently found the couple's five-year-old son dead at their home. Last week, Lt Col Robert Underwood, a national guard trainer, was charged with allegedly hiring a hit man to kill his wife and his superior officer. He also threatened to blow up the Washington state capitol. All three men in these cases were said to have been suffering PTSD, and all were based at Lewis-McChord. Will anything come of the recent killing and maiming of 16 civilians in Afghanistan? Some mental health experts are sceptical. Mr Stell worries that the incident will be brushed off as the actions of a rogue soldier. "This is what it takes," he says. "A big headline-grabbing event, but will it be the bad apple argument."

As a US soldier is held for the massacre of 16 Afghan civilians, there are growing concerns at his home base about post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Ackerman was initially banned in October last year after being found guilty of corruption. He had laid bets against a horse knowing its jockey aimed not to win. Ackerman was granted a stay of implementation in November, but his disqualification has been reactivated with immediate effect until 11 June. However, his fine of £5,000 was quashed upon appeal, at the invitation of the British Horseracing Authority. Ackerman was banned after an investigation into six races featuring Ad Vitam at Kempton and Wolverhampton between 2 November, 2011 and 8 March, 2012. He was found to have breached the rules of racing alongside jockey Michael Stainton, registered owner Kenneth Mackay and former owner David Greenwood. Stainton was banned for two years, Mackay for six months and fined £5,000, with Greenwood, who had already been warned off for a separate offence, banned for eight years. All three also failed in their appeals, although, a separate appeal by Stainton against the penalty imposed "will be considered in due course". Stewart-Moore Solicitors, who represent Ackerman, Greenwood and Mackay, said in a statement that the "matter needs to be resolved by a High Court judge". "Messrs Ackerman, Greenwood and Mackay have not acted in breach of the rules of racing in any way," they added. "In spite of this they have been found, yet again, to have taken part in a conspiracy that has never been properly put to them."

Towcester racecourse chief executive Kevin Ackerman has failed in his bid to overturn a six-month suspension from racing.

Jordan Hill, Brittany Covington and Tesfaye Cooper, all 18, and Tanishia Covington, 24, appeared in a Chicago court on Friday. The four have been charged with hate crimes and aggravated kidnapping and battery, among other things. An online fundraiser for their victim has collected $51,000 (£42,500) so far. Denying the four suspects bail, Judge Maria Kuriakos Ciesil asked: "Where was your sense of decency?" Prosecutors told the court the beating started in a van and continued at a house, where the suspects allegedly forced the 18-year-old white victim, who suffers from schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder, to drink toilet water and kiss the floor. Police allege the van was earlier stolen by Mr Hill, who is also accused of demanding $300 from the victim's mother while they held him captive, according to the Chicago Tribune. The court was also told the suspects stuffed a sock into his mouth, taped his mouth shut and bound his hands with a belt. In a video made for Facebook Live which was watched millions of times, the assailants can be heard making derogatory statements against white people and Donald Trump. The victim had been dropped off at a McDonalds to meet Mr Hill - who was one of his friends - on 31 December. He was found by a police officer on Tuesday, 3 January, a day after he was reported missing by his parents. Prosecutors say the suspects each face two hate crimes counts, one because of the victim's race and the other because of his disabilities.

Four people accused of kidnapping and torturing a mentally disabled man in a "racially motivated" attack streamed on Facebook have been denied bail.

Police said the 33-year-old victim was playing on a fruit machine in the Rosevale Tavern in Partick at about 18:00 on Saturday when a stranger assaulted him. The attacker fled via a side entrance and CCTV showed him heading down Dumbarton Road towards the city centre. The victim was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment to a serious facial injury. Det Con Jen Adams, of Police Scotland, said: "This was a completely unprovoked attack which will leave the victim scarred for life. "Officers have been conducting extensive enquiries including examining CCTV and speaking to people who were within the pub at the time of the incident." The attacker is described as being aged in his mid 20s with brown hair which was longer at the top and shaved at the bottom. He was wearing a black quilted waist-length jacket, dark blue jeans and dark trainers.

A man has been left scarred for life in an unprovoked attack in a Glasgow pub.

Indongo, unbeaten in 21 fights prior to this unification contest, forced his fellow 34-year-old on to the back foot for much of the fight. Burns rallied in the fifth and sixth rounds but the tall southpaw emerged a worthy winner. That was reflected in the judges' scoring - 120-108, 118-110, 116-112. "The better man won on the night, no excuses," said Burns. And no-one could argue. Media playback is not supported on this device This was Burns' third fight at the Hydro and 13th at world title level, while Indongo - "on a mission" from Namibia's president Hage Geingob - was fighting overseas for only the second time as a professional. On his first, in December, he knocked out IBF champion Eduard Troyanovsky in Moscow. It was clear from early in Saturday's fight that Indongo would try to use his greater height and reach to throw jabs at Burns' head, and he did this to good effect in the opening three minutes. Burns has started slowly in recent fights before finding his rhythm, and the Namibian began much the livelier, bouncing around the centre of the ring against a hesitant home fighter. Indeed, he looked to have won the first four rounds by dint of his greater work-rate and accuracy, though Burns was beginning to connect with his right. With their man having 47 bouts under his belt to Indongo's 21, the home fans may have wondered if the tactic was to use his experience to let his opponent tire himself out. Rounds five and six signalled an improvement in Burns' form, with his aggression rewarded as Indongo was forced backwards for the first time. The lead Indongo had built was thanks to the accumulation of cleaner shots rather than anything that badly hurt the Coatbridge fighter in his 17th year as a professional. And, though Burns was still strong in defence, by the time the ninth round had ended he must have realised he was trailing heavily on the scorecards. His task in the remaining three rounds had to be to stop Indongo for the first time in his nine-year career. That looked increasingly unlikely as he struggled to get inside to inflict damage. Too often he was over-stretching to land a meaningful shot, and when he did trouble Indongo his opponent snuffed out the attack with footwork and by holding on. It leaves Burns' dreams of a further unification bout against Terence Crawford in Las Vegas in tatters, though it would be a surprise if he was considering retiring. Ricky Burns: "He was so so awkward. He was a lot better than we thought he was going to be. He can hit as well. "I'm going to have all the doubters saying I'm finished - but I'll come again. "He started the rounds fast and the height and reach advantage meant he was out of my distance." Julius Indongo: "I feel very proud. My home crowd are watching. It's for the whole of Africa. This is so great. "I am very proud for opening my doors and now the world can see me." Adam Booth, David Haye's former trainer, on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra: "It was pretty one-dimensional from Ricky Burns, who was trying to jump in from long distance on a fighter who was bigger, with longer arms and a heavy puncher. "Indongo was dominant, knew what he was about, kept swinging dangerous bombs and didn't let Burns in at all. "In the last two rounds, when he had the match won, he still wanted to dominate, and like true champions, wanted to get rid of his challenger. "He ticks all the right boxes. It is going to take a high-level operator to cope with him. I think Terence Crawford is that kind of guy."

Scotland's Ricky Burns failed to unify the super-lightweight division as his WBA title was taken by IBF and IBO champion Julius Indongo in Glasgow.

Stoneman, who resumed on 83, reached 111 before he was run out to leave the visitors 252-7, still 13 runs behind. Paul Coughlin (49) and John Hastings took them ahead, but both fell to Rikki Clarke after lunch and Keith Barker finished the innings with his fifth wicket as Durham were all out for 327. Warwickshire lost two quick wickets but Ian Westwood (32no) saw them to 63-2. The win, which earned the home side a maximum 24 points, saw them maintain their unbeaten start to the season in Division One, while Durham have now lost two games, but remain second. However, the match will be remembered primarily for Barker's efforts with both bat and ball as he narrowly missed out on becoming the first Warwickshire player since 1911 to score a century and take 10 wickets in a first-class game - as his 5-103 gave him match figures of 9-157. Resuming on 189-4, still needing 76 runs to make the hosts bat again, Clarke removed skipper Paul Collingwood lbw early on although the former England batsman looked from from impressed with the decision. Stoneman soon brought up his first century of the season from 179 balls, but Durham were further in trouble when the out-of-form Phil Mustard edged Barker to William Porterfield at third slip. Then, just as it looked he would take Durham into the lead, Stoneman was farcically run out from the non-striker's end as he went for a single, but was sent back by Coughlin and 17-year-old substitute fielder Aaron Thomason swooped to send the ball back to Jeetan Patel who whipped off the bails. Coughlin and Hastings upped the scoring rate before lunch with a fifty stand, but any hopes of saving the game were extinguished shortly after the interval when both were out to Clarke (3-61) in the same over. Barker ended the innings when he had Chris Rushworth caught by Clarke to finish with his 10th five-wicket haul in first-class cricket. Requiring just 63 for victory, but without captain Varun Chopra who was hit on the leg while fielding, the hosts soon found themselves 12-2 after Porterfield fell third ball and Jonathan Trott was run out. Westwood and Laurie Evans steadied any nerves to see their side home in 17.4 overs. Warwickshire all-rounder Keith Barker: "In these last two games we have been more 'Warwickshire' than we had before and hopefully we can carry that on. "I think we will always be up there or thereabouts in Championship cricket especially. "It is just a question of getting on a roll and making sure we are in contention towards the end of the season." Durham coach Jon Lewis: "We were pretty positive this morning. We felt that with six wickets left we were in with a chance of making something of the day. "Mark played really well but the run-out wasn't a great piece of communication, and unfortunately Mark was the victim. "It's a busy time coming up but we've shown resilience before. I'd like to not have to show resilience after defeat but that's something we're going to have to do."

Warwickshire wrapped up an eight-wicket victory over Durham despite a battling century from opener Mark Stoneman.

Megan Lee, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, died on 1 January, two days after she was admitted to hospital. Royal Spice has been temporarily closed by Hyndburn Council due to below standard allergen management and a mice infestation. Two men from the takeaway held on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter by gross negligence have been bailed. Blackburn magistrates granted the Hygiene Emergency Prohibition Order earlier. The authority said the premises in Union Street, Oswaldtwistle, will remain closed until it was satisfied health risks had been removed. Police have said a post-mortem examination had been carried out but the full results would not be known "for some time". The arrested men, aged 37 and 38 and from Rossendale and Blackburn respectively, have been bailed until 7 July.

A takeaway has been shut down following a teenager's death from an apparent allergic reaction to one of its meals.

The Furcast group says the 90-minute podcast went out without its knowledge and it is "deeply sorry". Two Texas stations were among those which broadcast the material, aimed at "furries"- people interested in animals that are given human traits. Broadcasters have been advised to change passwords on the hardware many of them use. Barix streaming boxes are popular with broadcasters and PA professionals. Furcast said that multiple server requests for its content during the incident were in the name of "Barix Streaming Client" and that many of the individual boxes involved were visible on Shodan, a search engine for devices connected via the Internet of Things. The BBC has contacted Barix for comment but the problem appears to be with security settings not being updated by the box owners. "Someone is attacking Barix Boxes," wrote a member of the Alabama Broadcast Association. "Several radio stations and at least one radio network have been compromised. The Barix receiver is pointed to an obscene podcast and its password changed so it can only be reset manually." Furries are people who have a fascination with anthropomorphism and often dress in animal costumes. The furry group Furcast describes itself as "an improv comedy-themed furry podcast with no censor" and denies that its main aim is to create sexual material. "Our content is discovered by individuals who specifically seek what we produce, and they do not normally come into contact with it via public means," they wrote. "We have no interest in being discovered by a mainstream audience." Texas radio station KXAX found itself broadcasting Furcast's podcast on Tuesday. "At about 9am we were notified that a programme was playing on the station that did not originate from this studio," the station wrote on Facebook. "We found out that our equipment had been hacked and was broadcasting a podcast or a stream from an unknown source. "We were able to eventually get the problem resolved. But still want to apologise to anyone who may have heard the programming." KXAX general manager Jason Mclelland told Ars Technica there did not appear to have been a reason for the hack. Another station affected, KIFT, said in a statement that it had only been able to regain control of its output when an engineer physically went to the site of the hacked remote transmitter. "We are working with equipment manufacturers and auditing the security of our own systems to avoid any repeats of this incident," it said.

Several US radio stations played out an explicit podcast to listeners after an apparent hack.

He was appointed by Nigel Farage in 2014. Nevertheless, he still thinks he enjoys the support of the majority of UKIP members. Now he must convince party members in north Wales to put him on top of their list of candidates for May's assembly election. In each of the assembly's five regions, UKIP's candidates will be ranked in a ballot of party members. Mr Gill says he fought for that ballot inside the party's National Executive Committee (NEC). Some were worried about candidates imposed on them from outside Wales - candidates like former Tory MPs Mark Reckless and Neil Hamilton. Mr Gill won't be drawn on individuals. It's up to members to decide, he says. But some say Mr Gill didn't do enough - that the entire selection process should have been handled in Wales and that Mr Gill should stand down "I've worked in Wales for UKIP for 11 years. I know the vast majority of members. I've canvassed with people all over Wales in every single area," he says. "I know the quality of the people that we've got, the passionate membership, the capability that we have. And I've stood up for them. "And maybe some of the members haven't seen that because it's happened behind closed doors. But I've stood up for Wales." Critics in other parties, who dismiss UKIP as anti-Welsh, will raise an eyebrow at that statement. But the critics in his own party are the bigger problem. And because the decisions on how candidates are selected were taken in three private NEC meetings, unless those critics were in the room they have to take Mr Gill at his word. "There are people obviously who don't like me. There are people who do like me. But I think the people who back me by far outweigh those who don't." Some of those speaking out are motivated by "personal reasons", he thinks, having changed their minds about standing as candidates. And those who say he fails to represent the rank-and-file are talking "nonsense". Compared to the other parties, UKIP's selection procedure has been messy. But UKIP sells itself as the antidote to other parties. Despite being an MEP, Mr Gill doesn't see himself as part of a political class. Perhaps that's not surprising in a climate where politicians are routinely traduced. Who would identify themselves as members of the political class? I met him his at his home - a family-run bed and breakfast on Anglesey where he and his wife Jana are raising their five children. Does part of him think he could do without the flack from those who want him to quit? "Part of me does think that of course, I'm human. I've got a beautiful family. I've got a life outside politics." So why carry on? "Because we have the most important election in Wales for us in five years. We must get UKIP representation in that assembly. "And also, very likely in five or six months time we will have the whole raison d'etre of UKIP. "The whole reason why I joined UKIP is that referendum whether or not Britain should be a member of European Union. "Whether we should be governed by Brussels or whether we think we're big enough to make our own laws. "That is why I joined the party. I can't give up at the last hurdle."

Unlike the other four main party leaders in Wales, Nathan Gill wasn't elected by his party members.

They provided information that would help find the "truth", Mr Fillon said. Last week investigators began a preliminary inquiry into reports she earned €500,000 ($534,000; £428,000) as her husband's parliamentary assistant. Le Canard Enchaine newspaper has questioned how much work she did for the money between 1998 and 2012. Both the centre-right candidate and his Welsh-born wife deny any wrongdoing. In a statement, he said that the information they provided to police would prove the work done by Mrs Fillon. Mr Fillon said last week he was "outraged by the contempt and misogyny" in the newspaper's story. He also said that he wanted to be heard by the investigators and would step down if put under formal investigation. The husband and wife were questioned separately by police specialising in financial crime, BBC Paris Correspondent Hugh Schofield says. The whole affair is causing serious jitters in Mr Fillon's centre-right Republican party, he adds. They are hoping that the documents provided to police are enough to show that Penelope Fillon did indeed earn the money she received. Mr Fillon, 62, is the front-runner for the presidential election in April. National Front leader Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron are seen as his main challengers. The practising Catholic is an admirer of Margaret Thatcher and defeated the more moderate Alain Juppe in a landslide at party primaries in November.

French police have interviewed presidential candidate Francois Fillon and his wife Penelope over claims she was paid for fake work.

The 30-year-old from Holywood, 32nd in the marathon at the Rio Olympics, took ninth place in the Welsh capital. Pollock finished with a time of 65.53 in a race won by Shadrack Korir of Kenya in a course record of 60.54. Medical doctor Pollock was returning to Cardiff where he ran a superb 62:46 to finish 14th at the World Half Marathon Championship. In July, Pollock was the top Irishman in the half marathon at the European Athletics Championships in Amsterdam as he took 17th place with a time of 1:04.28. Last weekend, Pollock ran his first race since the Olympics when he won the Aurora 10k in Bangor.

Northern Ireland's top distance runner Paul Pollock claimed a top 10 finish in Sunday's Cardiff Half Marathon.

Poysden and Mellor, both 25, have committed to the Bears until at least the end of the 2018 season after five Championship games each this summer. Warwickshire chief executive Neil Snowball said: "Josh and Alex have big futures here at Edgbaston. "They played important roles in 2016 and proved that they can compete at the highest level of the domestic game." Poysden, who was already tied to Edgbaston to the end of 2017, has worked with the England Lions at the National Cricket Centre in Loughborough this autumn and is currently with the Lions squad at their training camp in Dubai. He has made 16 one-day and 19 T20 appearances for the Bears since initially joining on trial after leaving Cambridge University ahead of the 2014 season. He also made a late-season breakthrough in the County Championship this summer, taking 15 wickets in his five appearances, including a career-best 5-53 against champions Middlesex at Edgbaston. Former Staffordshire player Mellor, who first joined the Bears at the end of the 2015 season on a one-year deal, has now signed a new two-year contract. Mellor, whose late-season Championship appearances came as cover for the injured Tim Ambrose, has also played three limited-overs games. Warwickshire are still without a director of cricket following the departure of Dougie Brown in October. They have been strongly linked with a return to Edgbaston for former Bears boss Ashley Giles, who is still contracted to his current county Lancashire for another year. BBC Sport understands that negotiations remain ongoing with Lancashire over Giles, who still lives in the Midlands. Chief executive Neil Snowball reiterated last week that they would like to make an appointment before Christmas.

Warwickshire leg-spinner Josh Poysden and wicketkeeper Alex Mellor have signed contract extensions.

Club president Josep Maria Bartomeu told reporters there had been "a mistake... in tax planning" in connection with the transfer. Barcelona had been accused of tax fraud over the signing, which it denied. Neymar and his father are also being investigated over alleged tax fraud, which they also deny. "We have had to accept paying a €5.5m fine due to a mistake in the 2011 and 2013 tax planning in the signing of Neymar," Mr Bartomeu said. "It was better to accept this agreement than continue on with the uncertainty that has dragged on for a long time over the Neymar case." Barcelona made a voluntary tax payment of €13.5m in 2014 after being charged with tax fraud over the signing, but denied any wrongdoing. Neymar, whose full name is Neymar da Silva Santos Junior, joined Barcelona in June 2013 after a successful career with the Brazilian club, Santos. Barcelona said it paid €57m (£43m) for the forward, with the player's parents receiving €40m and Santos €17m. But investigators said the fee was closer to €83m and that Barcelona had concealed part of the deal. The club denied the claim. Earlier this month, Spanish prosecutors called for Neymar to be tried for fraud. They allege that the player and his father hid the true value of the transfer from Santos to Barcelona. A Brazilian investment fund, which held 40% of Neymar's sporting rights when he played at Santos, argues it was deprived of its full share of the transfer deal. Neymar is also being investigated for tax evasion in Brazil.

Barcelona football club has agreed to pay a €5.5m (£4.3m) fine over the transfer of Brazil international Neymar in 2013.

The multiple TT winner set the fastest time of the week in the Classic event on his Yamaha Superbike at 125.49mph. Anglesey's Barry Lee Evans topped the Senior MGP board while home rider Michael Evans moved to the top of the Junior leaderboard. Michael Evans' 119.228mph lap was the fastest Manx Grand Prix time so far. Darryl Field leads the Newcomers' section after a lap of 115.09mph. The session was cut short as mist fell on the mountain section with qualifying to continue on Friday evening with the first racing on Saturday.

New Zealand racer Bruce Anstey continued to set the pace in the fourth qualifying session at the Isle of Man Festival of Motorcycling.

Alice Pyne, 17, of Ulverston, died of Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2013 after publishing her wish list. Haley McTaggart, 33, admitted getting her charity Alice's Escapes to pay £2,000 for her to go on a trek to Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. McTaggart admitted fraud and was jailed for 10 months suspended for two years. The court also heard how McTaggart sold raffle tickets for a false raffle and never handed over the money. She also told the charity that she was unable to transfer money after the trip to Tanzania. Sentencing McTaggart, Recorder John Corless said she had committed an "unpleasant and serious" offence. Alice's Escapes was founded in 2012 by Miss Payne who 16 at the time. The teenager wanted to provide holidays in Cumbria for seriously ill children and their families. The top item on her bucket list was the hope that everyone in the UK would sign up as a bone marrow donor, an aspiration which Prime Minister David Cameron praised in the House of Commons. It is estimated that about 40,000 people signed up as donors as a direct result of her appeal. Miss Pyne and her sister Milly raised more than £100,000.

A Whitehaven woman who defrauded a charity set up by a teenager dying of cancer who became well-known for her "bucket list" has been sentenced.

Anna O'Flanagan, Katie Mullan and Zoe Wilson netted the goals for the Irish who had beaten Wales in the semi-finals. Ireland now turn their focus to World League 3 and the Eurohockey Championships this summer. "We have had an incredible experience and have grown and learnt a lot as a group," said coach Graham Shaw. "This is our first competitive tournament in 18 months and we are very proud of the team and the level of performance. "We will use this tournament as a benchmark going forward. Our number one goal is to qualify for the World Cup and finish as high as possible at the Europeans in August."

Ireland have won the hockey World League Round Two in Kuala Lumpur by beating Malaysia 3-0 in Sunday's final.

England scrum-half Danny Care claimed a hat-trick, while loose forward Luke Wallace crossed twice as Quins booked a home semi-final against Grenoble. But Quins were given a real scare, not reclaiming the lead until late on. Irish ran in three tries through winger Fergus Mulchrone, scrum-half Brendan McKibbin and centre Sean Maitland. And the visitors put in a spirited display that bodes well for next weekend's 11th v 12th relegation battle at Newcastle. Irish and Quins are due to meet again at the Madejski Stadium on Sunday 1 May, on the penultimate weekend of the season. But the Exiles first face an even more crucial test next weekend in that crunch meeting with the Falcons on the artificial pitch at Kingston Park. Grenoble reached the last four with a 33-32 win over Connaght, while Montpellier, who beat Sale on Friday night, will play Newport Gwent Dragons, who put out holders Gloucester, in the other semi. Harlequins v Grenoble (The Stoop) Montpellier v Newport Gwent Dragons (Altrad Stadium) Matches to be played on 22/23/24 April Harlequins director of rugby Conor O'Shea: "We'll take the result. We're in a semi-final. We're the only English side left in the competition. We scored 20 unanswered points to come back from 30-18 down. "We were pretty inconsistent and that's the lesson we have to learn. We were up against a proud set of players and they weren't going to roll over "They had the freedom to play and we probably had that little bit of weight of expectation. It was up and down, but we scored some decisive points when the pressure was on." London Irish assistant coach Clark Laidlaw told BBC Radio Berkshire: "We're really proud of the way the players performed. It was always going to be a tough task coming here. Harlequins are a pretty strong side who've been playing well throughout the year. "We got our noses in front and, if we could have held in there a little bit longer when we were two scores up, it could have been a different night. "But, we're hugely proud of the way the boys played and we're really hoping they can play with that freedom in the weeks to come before the end of the season." Harlequins: Brown; Yarde, Lowe, Roberts, Visser; Botica, Care (capt); Lambert, Gray, A Jones, Merrick, Twomey, Robshaw, Wallace, Clifford. Replacements: Ward, O Evans, Sinckler, Matthews, Luamanu, Dickson, Marchant, Chisholm. London Irish: Fenby; Maitland, Mulchrone, Brophy-Clews, Fowlie; Geraghty, McKibbin; Smallbone, Paice (capt), Halavatau, Lloyd, Sinclair, Guest, Trayfoot, McCusker. Replacements: Cruse, Court, Palframan, Curry, Sisi, Ellis, Allinson, Steele. Referee: Marius Mitrea (Italy).

Harlequins ran in five tries as they came from behind to beat London Irish in the European Challenge Cup quarter-final on home soil at The Stoop.

Pink Mist also took the Roland Mathias poetry award. Francesca Rhydderch won the fiction prize with The Rice Paper Diaries and Meic Stephens took the creative factual award for Rhys Davies: A Writer's Life. In Welsh, Ioan Kidd won the book prize and people's choice award with his work, Dewis. Literature Wales chief executive Lleucu Siencyn said: "This is a book-loving town and local support has ensured the success of this evening. "From Japan to New Quay, Afghanistan to Bristol, Fitzrovia to Blaenclydach the 2014 winners have guided readers to near and distant lands. "Many congratulations to Meic Stephens, Francesca Rhydderch and, of course, to second time winner Owen Sheers." Sheers won the book of the year title in 2005 for his work The Dust Diaries. This year's winning book Pink Mist is about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. The poem looks at the effect of war on the men and those closest to them when they return from service. Sheers told BBC Radio Wales it was a "fantastic surprise" to win. "It's a book that started with around 30 interviews I did with recently wounded service personnel and their families," he said. "I actually did those interviews for a stage project called The Two Worlds of Charlie F, but when that finished I found that I still had so much more that I wanted to say and there were so many stories I hadn't been able to tell on stage, so that's when Pink Mist was born. "It was Radio 4 that approached me about writing a verse drama - sort of, I suppose, a play for voices if you like - and I asked them if I could go back to this same territory." The theme of war continued in the fiction category where Rhydderch's winning novel is set both in wartime Hong Kong and in west Wales. Stephens won the creative non-fiction category with the first full biography of one of Wales' most prolific writers, Rhys Davies. In Welsh, Kidd enjoyed a successful night with his novel Dewis, which looks at the trials and tribulations of contemporary family life. Each category winner was awarded £2,000, and the main award winner in each language received an additional £6,000.

Poet Owen Sheers has won Wales Book of the Year at a ceremony in Caernarfon for his work about three young soldiers.

The Tykes went ahead inside the opening 10 minutes when Roberts converted Conor Hourihane's corner. Fletcher doubled the lead following another Hourihane set-piece, smashing home after an error from Coventry goalkeeper Reice Charles-Cook. Barnsley are now seventh in the table, level on points with Coventry in sixth. Having endured a run of nine successive league defeats earlier this season, the Tykes have lost just once in their last 12 matches. Coventry have now lost two on the spin going into this Saturday's home game with Rochdale, when Barnsley will be at fourth-placed Walsall. Sky Blues boss Tony Mowbray told BBC Coventry & Warwickshire: "We needed the players to turn up and not enough of them did. My standards are high and they did not do enough all night long. "Barnsley are a powerful side. Their two centre backs were colossus tonight. They played like men. "Everyone is down on confidence. The players have been great all season but we need them to get back to the high levels they have shown."

Marc Roberts and Ashley Fletcher scored either side of half-time to help Barnsley to victory over fellow League One play-off-chasers Coventry City.

South Wimbledon and Queensway stations will be the first to see their staff moved from ticket offices into ticket halls and on to platforms. Transport for London (TfL) said it would save £50m annually as it tries to save £4.2bn by 2020. But Manuel Cortes, from the TSSA union, said London Mayor Boris Johnson was "rushing through" the closures. Mr Cortes, leader of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association said: "Talks on the safety implications of closing over 250 stations have not even been concluded. "The mayor doesn't seem concerned about how millions of tourists will cope with fewer staff to help them on their way." TfL said all stations would remain staffed and 150 new ticket machines would be installed by April 2016. It added that new visitor centres would be created at larger stations such as Victoria and King's Cross to help visitors. Nick Brown, London Underground's chief operating officer, said more staff were being placed "where they can offer the best possible assistance" as only 3% of Tube tickets were bought at ticket offices. He said: "This forms part of our wider vision for the Tube, which includes a 24-hour weekend service on core parts of the network." But the changes have led to previous strikes by the Aslef and RMT unions. Labour's London Assembly transport spokeswoman Val Shawcross said: "When he was elected, Boris Johnson promised Londoners he would protect the capital's ticket offices, but today he starts the process of dismantling each and every one of them. "Whilst there is obviously a big role for ticket machines to play, there is no substitute for a member of staff." London Underground said after 100 meetings with unions the number of roles to be reduced had fallen from 950 to 897 with no member of staff facing compulsory redundancy or losing money.

Ticket offices will start closing on the London Underground later in a move that has prompted past strikes.

Fosse Park, near junction 21 of the M1, opened in 1989 and was bought in August for £345.5m. Plans are now being prepared to improve parking and traffic congestion and the appearance of units. Ernie White, leader of Blaby District Council, said the new owners had met with the council to clear up "potential planning questions". "Fosse Park is the gateway from Blaby into the city and they see it as an investment that they think they can improve," said Mr White. "I think it could be a better view when you come into the city, at the moment all you see are far too many backs of sheds." Paul Clarke, director of investments at Crown Estates, said: "Two things we want to address are parking and congestion issues around the park and we believe it has become rather tired over the last few years. "We are very concerned to address the quality of what we call the common areas - where people have to walk and park - and the facilities available to make sure a location like Fosse Park is as good as it can be."

A Leicestershire retail park is to get an injection of investment after being purchased by the Crown Estate.

There were 69 claims against peacekeepers in 2015, up from 52 in 2014 was 66 in 2013. Almost a third of the 2015 claims were made in the Central African Republic. For the first time, the report has also set out all the countries whose soldiers are reportedly involved under a new "name-and-shame" policy. Overall, 10 peacekeeping missions were subject to allegations in 2015. The allegations involve military personnel, international police, other staff and volunteers. According to the UN's latest figures, there are 124,746 personnel serving in 16 peacekeeping missions worldwide. It has been criticised for failing to act quickly on sexual abuse allegations made against peacekeepers. Last December an independent panel calling the UN response to allegations in the Central African Republic (CAR) "seriously flawed" and a "gross institutional failure". It accused senior UN officials of abusing their authority by failing to take action over allegations of abuse by soldiers from France, Equatorial Guinea and Chad. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon's report called for an international convention on "crimes committed in peacekeeping operations". He also urged countries to change their laws so that they apply to sex crimes committed by citizens serving in UN peace operations. Mr Ban also called for "on-site court martial proceedings" for some crimes and a DNA database of all peacekeepers. UN peacekeepers operate under the legal jurisdiction of their home countries, making prosecution more difficult. In February, the UN said it would send home more than 100 peacekeepers from CAR following sexual abuse allegations. A 10,000-strong UN force took over a peacekeeping mission in the country in September 2014. After CAR, the second highest number of allegations was at the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo, with 16 cases, followed by Haiti with nine.

Allegations of sexual exploitation or sexual abuse by United Nations peacekeepers rose by a third last year, according to a UN report.

The body of Omar Omran was found at an apartment in the Riverside complex, Kimmage, on Monday evening. He had been stabbed to death. His mother Maha Al Adheem, a doctor who is originally from Iraq, appeared at Dublin District Court on Thursday. The 42 year old was remanded in custody until next week. During the hearing, a detective sergeant gave evidence of the arrest. He said that about 45 minutes after she was charged, Maha Al Adheem said: "Yes it was my knife. Yes it was my hand. "It was not me. It was the power."

A woman has appeared in court in the Republic of Ireland charged with the murder of her three-year-old son at their Dublin home earlier this week.

The World Rugby Hall of Fame was launched by ex-England and British and Irish Lions captain Bill Beaumont at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum in Warwickshire. World Cup winners Lawrence Dallaglio and Jonny Wilkinson were among 12 stars inducted in to the "hall". Members of the public will be able to visit from Friday. The World Rugby Hall of Fame was established in 2006, and absorbed the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 2014, but has previously never had a physical home. The attraction, which honours players and administrators who have enhanced the game through exceptional achievements, features video archive of rugby matches and memorabilia. The 10 other players inducted in the Hall of Fame were England's Jeremy Guscott and Maggie Alphonsi, Wale's Shane Williams, John Dawes and Arthur Gould, Scotland's GPS Macpherson, Ireland's Brian O'Driscoll, Japan's Daisuke Ohata, Canada's Heather Moyes and Australia's Daniel Carroll. Players, teams, coaches, media and rugby personalities can all be considered for the hall of fame but they need to have been retired from the game for at least three years and have demonstrated rugby's "core values" to be eligible, The sport of rugby is said to have been accidentally invented in 1823 after William Webb Ellis, a pupil at a public school in Rugby, caught the ball and started running forward with it.

A hall of fame celebrating rugby union's past has been officially opened at the sport's birthplace.

Lee Radford's side crossed eight times as they thrashed Salford at home in their opening match of the season. Fetuli Talanoa touched down twice in France, adding to scores from Sika Manu, Josh Bowden, Jack Logan, Jamie Shaul and captain Gareth Ellis. Winger Pat Richards scored all 10 of Catalans' points in the first half. Media playback is not supported on this device The Dragons have lost their first two games of the campaign and such a heavy home defeat early in the season will be a concern, with much of their success in recent years being based on a formidable home record. Hull top the table ahead of Wigan, with both sides starting the campaign with two victories. Former England international Ellis was making his first appearance for the Black and Whites since July after recovering from a serious Achilles injury. Catalans Dragons: Gigot; Yaha, Inu, Duport, Richards; Carney, Myler; Anderson, Pelissier, Bousquet, Stewart, Horo, Baitieri. Replacements: Taylor, Mounis, Bosc, Elima. Hull FC: Shaul; Michaels, Logan, Tuimavave, Talanoa; Pryce, Sneyd; Taylor, Houghton, Watts, Minichiello, Manu, Thompson. Replacements: Pritchard, Ellis, Bowden, Washbrook. Referee: Robert Hicks

Hull FC secured a second convincing Super League win in succession, scoring seven tries in a stunning victory against Catalans Dragons in Perpignan.

On Friday his campaign backed away from his claim that he had been admitted to the prestigious US military academy at West Point. Mr Carson, however, continues to stand by his assertion that as a teenager he tried to stab a relative, angrily denouncing what he says is liberal bias in a CNN investigation that found no corroborating witnesses to the event. In a presidential campaign season that has been anything but ordinary, the latest kerfuffle over Mr Carson's childhood stories places American politics firmly in bizarro-world. "Ben Carson defends himself against allegations that he never attempted to murder a child," reads the headline on a New York magazine article. Usually a candidate faced with previously unrevealed evidence of youthful indiscretions - or worse - denies the charges. Such was the case with Republican nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, when reporters unearthed evidence that he bullied other students in high school. Here, however, Mr Carson is asserting that recollections from childhood acquaintances that he was bookish and shy are mistaken. Instead he's testified to the veracity of examples of misbehaviour that he cites as evidence of his childhood temper, including that: Mr Carson recounts these stories during speeches and in his autobiography as evidence that he was a misguided youth who only achieved success after a religious awakening. It's part of the narrative that has earned the renowned neurosurgeon a devoted following among the evangelical community for years and is one of the reasons why he has attracted strong support from voters in Iowa, a key battleground in the Republican nomination race. A CNN report found no evidence backing up any of Mr Carson's claims, however - even those that Mr Carson said took place on school grounds. Mr Carson appeared on CNN Friday morning to defend himself, leading to a heated confrontation when network presenter Alisyn Camerota pressed him for further details. "This is a bunch of lies attempting to say I'm lying about my history," Mr Carson said. "I think it's pathetic, and basically what the media does is they try to get you distracted." He said the names he cited in his book were changed to protect friends and family members and that the "close relative" he tried to stab had recently told him not to reveal his identity. "The story is well-documented," Mr Carson said. "If you choose not to believe it, if it doesn't fit the narrative that you want, that's fine. Let's let the American people decide." Mr Carson later told a conservative radio programme that he intends to fight CNN "tooth and nail". That may turn out to be a more difficult battle for Mr Carson, however, after another claim in Mr Carson's book was found questionable. Shortly after the CNN confrontation, Politico reported that the Republican had erroneously asserted that he had been accepted to the US military academy at West Point. Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett told Politico that the candidate was a decorated high school ROTC member who had been encouraged to attend the academy but had never formally applied. As polls show Mr Carson solidifying his position among the leaders of the Republican nomination battles reporters have been stepping up their investigations into Mr Carson's past - unearthing an old speech where he made claims about the true story behind the Egyptian pyramids and scouring his writings for apparent inconsistencies or untruths. It's a standard practice most politicians undergo, although Mr Carson's recent arrival onto the national stage means he hasn't been subjected to the kind of scrutiny more experienced candidates have weathered. Whether any of this will adversely affect Mr Carson's standing in the Republican presidential race is an open question. The retired neurosurgeon has made condemnations of the media and "PC culture" a standard part of his campaign rhetoric, so he may already be immunised against perceived attacks from the mainstream press. In last week's Republican debate on CNBC, a moderator who pressed Mr Carson to respond to allegations that he had close ties to a controversial nutrition supplement company was roundly booed by the partisan audience. "They know," Mr Carson concluded. And they very well may continue to stand by their man. Candidates in (and out of) the Republican presidential field

Ben Carson is increasingly on the defensive over stories he has told about his troubled childhood in his autobiography, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story.

15 February 2017 Last updated at 12:57 GMT He particularly likes visiting the Wilko store, sleeping on rugs and saying hello to customers. One lady even thought he was a statue as she passed him on the shelf! George does have a loving home that he returns to every evening. But in the day, he just loves to shop! Video courtesy of Nicola Williams

George the tabby cat has become the local celebrity in the Kings Chase Shopping Centre in Kingswood, Bristol.

Omari Mwanahamisi put Tanzania ahead after only 26 minutes and she doubled the lead just before half-time. Kenya pulled a goal back through Christine Nafula but the 2016 Women's Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers were unable to find an equaliser. In the play-off for third place, which was also played on Tuesday, Ethiopia thrashed Uganda 4-1.

Tanzania beat Kenya 2-1 on Tuesday to win the inaugural Cecafa Women's Championship in Uganda.

West Australian fire authorities said it is too late for some residents in Waroona area who have not yet evacuated to leave. They said the "out-of-control and unpredictable" blaze was burning along the South Western Highway. Strong winds overnight fanned the flames which reportedly started in the Lane Poole Reserve on Wednesday. Waroona resident Melissa Young told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. she left her home when she saw the glow of the fire. "The glow is scary enough... and the ash is coming into the backyards and into the fences, and the smoke's getting really thick so it was just time to get out," she said.

Lives and homes are under threat from a fast-moving bushfire sparked by lightning south of Perth.

The girls were "touched inappropriately" in the Castaway Camp playground at the park in Windsor, Berkshire, on Thursday 11 August. Thames Valley Police refused to give the suspect's age or say where he was arrested, citing "safeguarding issues". The boy has since been released on police bail until 2 December. Police previously issued an E-fit of a suspect, who was described as a white man in his teens or early twenties. Officers said he was white, under 5ft 8in tall, wearing dark slim-fitting trousers, a dark t-shirt and trainers. Police began following up new leads in September after a reconstruction was shown on BBC One's Crimewatch. A 22-year-old man previously arrested on suspicion of carrying out the attacks was released without charge. Thames Valley Police said: "This is remains a live investigation and we continue to appeal for the public's help".

A boy has been arrested in connection with the sexual assault of two six-year-old girls during a trip to Legoland.

Lennon, who managed Brown, now 31, in his four years as Celtic boss, says the midfielder's decision would boost Gordon Strachan's Scotland squad. "It is not a surprise because I thought he retired too early," said Lennon. "Sometimes you can make these decisions and then think you have still got plenty to offer." Brown's return to the fold means that on Wednesday he is almost certain to be included in Strachan's squad for the World Cup qualifier against England at Wembley on 11 November. Lennon told BBC Scotland: "I think last season his injuries took a toll on him and we didn't see the best of him but certainly this season he is looking far more like himself again and playing very well, which will be an asset to Scotland. "I think his presence around the dressing room and training ground and certainly on the pitch will be felt if he is not there. "He is only 31 and there is plenty more to come from him. I thought his decision was premature anyway." Lennon does not envisage any issues with Brown returning to the squad for a game he believes Scotland can win. "I don't know how it would affect the dynamic of the group but certainly I think it would pep it up," he added. "It was a poor performance and result in Slovakia and it might just give them the wee jag they need, having a player of that quality back. "The England game is one I think they can win. It will be a British style of game and there won't be anything the Scottish players will be surprised about." Scotland assistant manager Mark McGhee, meanwhile, looked forward to the team benefiting from Brown's leadership, saying "by example and his voice and influence, (he) makes other people better". McGhee added: "Scott Brown is someone who I would imagine, when England are looking at our squad and our team, would prefer him not to be playing. "He looks as if he has coped better with combining the European and league campaigns. He feels good about himself and he can do both at this stage. "I would imagine he has been revitalised by Brendan (Rodgers, the Celtic manager). I think the manager has given him a new lease of life. "He would have made his [original] decision in an honest way. But now he has looked at it and decided it was clearly the wrong decision. "If the other players feel that Scott Brown gives us a better chance of winning the game, they will be delighted to have him back."

Hibernian's Neil Lennon believes Scott Brown retired too soon from Scotland duty and still has plenty to offer now he has decided to return.

Camilla bought a box of mangoes with a Brixton £10 note, introduced last year to try to keep the money of local people within the community. The couple were surrounded by shoppers as they walked along Electric Avenue. They came to Brixton to see work which has started to revitalise the borough. It was Charles' first visit to the area since 1996, when he was accompanied by the former South African president Nelson Mandela. Greengrocer Derek Chong, who has run a stall on Electric Avenue for 20 years, said Camilla had been "nice and pleasant" when she purchased the fruit. "She asked me what was nice, what would I recommend, and I said we've got some nice mangoes. "She asked me were they ripe and I said yes - they're from the Dominican Republic." Mr Chong is one of 170 local retailers who accept the Brixton Pound. Customers exchange traditional pound coins for Brixton Pounds and then spend them at the market or in participating shops. During the visit, Prince Charles spent time talking to youth worker Marcus West, who works with children nearby on an estate off Coldharbour Lane. Mr West said: "He's on the level, really down-to-earth. They were very cheery. The prince is a lovely man." He added: "I told him I was working with young kids and he said, 'Keep up all the good work.'" Prince Charles also visited the Railway Hotel, at the invitation of his charity The Prince's Regeneration Trust. The trust hopes to restore and refurbish the building, where once Jimi Hendrix and The Clash played, as a new community and business centre.

The Duchess of Cornwall has used some of the currency accepted by businesses in south London - known as Brixton Pounds - on a visit to a local market with the Prince of Wales.

But if ordinary Greeks retain faith in democracy - their vote is all they have left, in the considered words of one struggling cafe-owner I met in Thessaloniki - they are rapidly losing trust in Europe. For many, the EU remains a "one-way" street, as another man put it. For instance, older people used to the modernity EU membership brought back in 1981 cannot envisage ever leaving. But for some younger Greeks in Thessaloniki, capital of a region with 30% unemployment, exit is an attractive idea, or at least the abandonment of the hated euro. "You cannot put a lion and a cat in the same cage," one unemployed young man told me on the street, describing how he sees relations between Greece and the economic giants of the north. Change may take a generation if it ever happens, given the continuing support for the parties tied to the financial crisis, New Democracy and Pasok, and doubts over the willingness of the radical left in the form of Syriza to really effect change. Meanwhile there is marble-cold anger at the relentless impoverishment of a nation on the edge of Europe. Former businessman Stefanos Dimoulas now works as a pizza delivery "boy", in his words, for 3.3 euros (£2.7; $4.5) an hour without medical insurance. He has business debts of 50,000 euros but also, after a recent operation to remove a rare tumour in his neck, he owes 3,000 euros in medical bills. Now he needs more treatment. Mr Dimoulas did not say for whom he would vote, but expressed dismay at the way Pasok and New Democracy were ruling together after decades on opposite sides. He sees Greece's future outside the eurozone and outside the EU full stop, prospering with control over its own resources and currency. His is a positive position, imbued with love for Greece, with none of the nationalist hate associated with the far-right Golden Dawn party. I encountered some Golden Dawn supporters. Not the aggressive men I was used to seeing in TV reports, but two old-age pensioners getting drunk on spirits at a cafe table and a careworn middle-aged farmer, incensed at the low price of milk offered for his dairy herd. None of them spoke to me. It was their friends nearby who informed me of their stance. Making it my mission to interview unemployed or economically vulnerable Greeks primarily, quite at random near the cafes in Thessaloniki where they sit outside on walls or lawns because they cannot afford a simple cup of coffee anymore, I invariably met people preparing to vote for parties of the left. Again, they gave no names of parties, but there was a distaste for the traditional left and a readiness to experiment, it seemed to me, with newer parties. These include Antarsya, an anti-EU, anti-capitalist coalition created five years ago which won less than 1% of the vote at the last national election in 2012. One of its European election candidates, Foteini Rizou, I met out of the blue at a backpacker hostel, where she works as a receptionist to fund her education as an architecture student in Thessaloniki. "Pasok is no different from New Democracy," the Athenian student said. "The left should unite, but Syriza thinks staying in the EU will be good for everyone. Our view is that staying in the EU is really bad for the workers and bad for everyone in the EU." One man who really could do with some urgent change for the better is Ilias, the unemployed mathematician who gave the analogy of the lion and the cat. Unable to claim benefit, and living off his dwindling savings, the 31-year-old cannot contemplate starting a family because "without a job, you cannot get married". Emigration is not an option because he does not want to move away from his ageing parents. He would vote, he said, but about his political views, would only remark that he had never yet voted for a party that got into government. "Something must change here," he told me, shivering in the shadow of the city's Roman-era triumphal arch. "If I had the solution ready I would not be here giving you the interview. We should leave the euro. They just want to make money out of poor countries." A few hundred metres away, down on the seafront, I listened to another unemployed voter, nearly 10 years younger, staunchly anti-fascist and strongly patriotic, who expressed a harsher view. "I think the only solution is a radical one, whatever that means," George Basilos said. "We need to direct our anger at something, instead of just burning. "I think that the older generations drag us down. We are just waiting for them to die out. Some minds you cannot change." His friend, student engineer Socrates Lambadas, who does underpaid part-time work like so many other students, admires Europe for its social progress and believes Greeks are stuck in the past. "I think that many Greeks don't want to accept responsibility for the situation we're in today," he told me. "Thirty to 40 years from now, things will be better and people will not only tolerate change but look forward to it. We do have to change." For now there is continuing poverty and, in the view of Mr Dimoulas, Greece may "have still further to fall". You can also follow Patrick Jackson's reporting on jobless politics in the southern eurozone on his blog on Tumblr or get updates via Twitter.

Champions of the European Union can take heart from the fact that in urban Greece, people ground down by poverty still take the 25 May elections seriously.

FAW officials have yet to decide how to commemorate the occasion after Fifa could not guarantee that there would not be disciplinary proceedings if a poppy was displayed. England and Scotland will defy Fifa's ban on players wearing poppies in their meeting on Friday. With the FAW yet decide their policy, Ledley said: ''We will support whatever decision they make.'' Fifa's regulations say players' equipment should not carry any commercial, personal, political or religious messages. When the issue arose in 2011, a compromise was reached in which Wales players were allowed to wear armbands with the poppy symbol in a friendly against Norway. Northern Ireland will mark Armistice Day by wearing plain black armbands in the World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan in Belfast. The Irish FA had requested permission from Fifa to wear a poppy on the shirt or armband. Breaching Fifa regulations could result in a fine or even a loss of points and the FAW are set to leave a decision until as late as possible. They have already planned a two minute silence during training on Armistice Day's on Friday and there will also be a tribute at the game regardless of whether poppies are worn. Crystal Palace's Ledley said Wales' players are content to leave the decision over poppies to the Football Association of Wales. ''It is obviously out of our hands. It is dealt with by the FA of Wales," Ledley added. "It is down to them too take the decision. We will support whatever decision they make. ''As players our job is just to concentrate on the game, I am sure the FAW will make the right decision.''

Midfielder Joe Ledley believes the Football Association of Wales will make the ''right decision'' on how best to mark Armistice Day in the World Cup qualifier against Serbia.

A video uploaded on Facebook showed Callum Clatworthy-Robins, 22, from Port Talbot, consuming a fish won at a fair in Bridgend county in March. Clatworthy-Robins admitted causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal at Swansea Magistrates' Court. He was barred from owning animals for three years and ordered to pay £200 in fines and costs on Thursday. RSPCA Cymru said the actions of Clatworthy-Robins, of no fixed abode, would have caused the animal "quite an unpleasant death".

A Neath Port Talbot man has been banned from keeping animals after he was filmed swallowing a live goldfish.

There will be posters with the slogan "liar, liar" aimed at MPs who U-turned over their pledge to oppose fee increases for universities in England. "We won't let them trade lies for power again," said NUS president Toni Pearce. "The system now is fairer than Labour's fees system," said a Lib Dem spokesman. The coalition government's decision to raise tuition fees in England to a maximum of £9,000 provoked a series of sometimes violent student protests. Much of the anger was aimed at the Liberal Democrats, who had targeted the student vote in 2010 with personal pledges to vote against any tuition fee increase. In the current election campaign, the NUS is seeking to mobilise the student vote against MPs who had promised to oppose higher fees but then voted to almost treble them. "I'd like to say directly to Nick Clegg that your apology won't cover any of the £40,000 debt that students will graduate with for the first time this summer," said NUS president, Ms Pearce. "They pledged to scrap tuition fees - they lied. We won't let them trade lies for power again. We represent seven million students and are urging every single one across the country to vote against broken pledges." This election issue includes funding for schools, university tuition fees and early years education. Policy guide: Where the parties stand The campaign will involve advertising vans, billboards and newspaper adverts, says the NUS. It is aimed at 28 Liberal Democrats, including leading figures such as Nick Clegg, David Laws and Vince Cable. There are also two Conservative MPs who are accused by the NUS of failing to keep a promise to oppose the fee increase. There were another 21 Liberal Democrat MPs who kept their pledge to vote against the fee increase. The NUS also published a poll of issues that will be important to student voters, which found the biggest concern is cost of living. There have been warnings from students of a lack of recognition for problems in paying for accommodation and living costs and lack of maintenance loans. Labour has promised to cut tuition fees to £6,000 per year, while the Conservatives want to lift the cap on undergraduate university places and have called for more value for money for students. Some university leaders have been critical of proposals to cut fees, arguing that higher fees have not deterred poorer students. University applications dipped when fees were increased, but have since recovered to record levels, with more disadvantaged students applying than when fees were lower. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said: "I'm not prime minister, I lead a party of 8% of MPs in the House of Commons, there was no money left... Labour had introduced and whacked up fees before we had come into office. "But I actually think what we did was incredibly impressive for the smaller party in the coalition, all our front page priorities we stuck to - and we will do so again." And a Liberal Democrat spokesman said: "There will be some people who will judge us for one thing we could not do. But many fair minded people will judge us by what we have been able to do: tax cuts for millions of working people; more money for poor children in schools; a record two million apprentices; equal marriage; shared parental leave."

The National Union of Students has launched a "payback time" campaign against MPs who broke their 2010 election promise over tuition fees, including leading Liberal Democrats.

The Lancet Oncology review, which looked at incidence rates for 27 cancers in 184 countries, found four main infections are responsible. These four - human papillomaviruses, Helicobacter pylori and hepatitis B and C viruses - account for 1.9m cases of cervical, gut and liver cancers. Most cases are in the developing world. The team from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France, part of the World Health Organization, says more efforts are needed to tackle these avoidable cases and recognise cancer as a communicable disease. 'Preventable' The proportion of cancers related to infection is about three times higher in parts of the developing world, such as east Asia, than in developed countries like the UK - 22.9% versus 7.4%, respectively. BBC Health: In depth - cancer Nearly a third of cases occur in people younger than 50 years. Among women, cancer of the cervix accounted for about half of the infection-related cancers. In men, more than 80% were liver and gastric cancers. Drs Catherine de Martel and Martyn Plummer, who led the research, said: "Infections with certain viruses, bacteria, and parasites are some of the biggest and preventable causes of cancer worldwide "Application of existing public-health methods for infection prevention, such as vaccination, safer injection practice, or antimicrobial treatments, could have a substantial effect on the future burden of cancer worldwide." Vaccines are available to protect against human papillomavirus (HPV) - which is linked to cancer of the cervix - and hepatitis B virus - an established cause of liver cancer. And experts know that stomach cancer can be avoided by clearing the bacterial infection H. pylori from the gut using a course of antibiotics. Commenting on the work, Dr Goodarz Danaei from Harvard School of Public Medicine in Boston, the US, said: "Since effective and relatively low-cost vaccines for HPV and HBV are available, increasing coverage should be a priority for health systems in high-burden countries." Jessica Harris of Cancer Research UK said: "It's important that authorities worldwide make every effort to reduce the number of infection-related cancers, especially when many of these infections can be prevented. In the UK, infections are thought to be responsible for 3% of cancers, or around 9,700 cases each year. "Vaccination against HPV, which causes cervical cancer, should go a long way towards reducing rates of this disease in the UK. But it's important that uptake of the vaccination remains high. At a global level, if the vaccine were available in more countries, many thousands more cases could be prevented."

One in six cancers - two million a year globally - are caused by largely treatable or preventable infections, new estimates suggest.

This will be ripe territory for both sides because they believe that is where the highest numbers of undecided voters are to be found. Morgan Brobyn, from Vote Leave, said he was looking to take advantage of the split loyalties many feel because of their previous support for remain-supporting Labour. He said: "It is a combination of failed aspirations which they see around them and because they don't see any tangible benefit to the EU or any difference it's made to their lives. "The level of structural funding is not enough of an incentive for them to remain." Lord Hain, who is running the Welsh Labour In campaign, said between a fifth and a third of voters in its heartland areas were undecided. He said: "People are beginning to get alarmed. We are going to have to fight for a vote that people took for granted. "There is a big section that is undecided and they will hold the key." It means that rock-solid Labour areas will become political battlegrounds during the next week, in marked contrast to normal elections where the results are often foregone conclusions. Unlike in a first-past-the-post general election, every vote in a referendum counts as the the entire UK. In effect, becomes one giant constituency. The Valleys feature prominently in the areas that Vote Leave will be focusing on in the final days of the campaign. As well as Merthyr Tydfil and Caerphilly, they include Port Talbot, Cardiff and Newport. In the north, extra resources will be deployed in the constituencies of Clwyd West, Aberconwy and Wrexham. Leave campaigners say their blanket leafleting approach will be replaced by more targeted door-to-door canvassing in the final days. Any undecided voters expressing some degree of sympathy for a Brexit to a Vote Leave campaigner can expect another visit on June 23rd as the campaign focuses on getting its vote out. Senior Vote Leave figures admit some of their data is too narrow but they believe they are ahead in most parts of Wales apart from Anglesey, Gwynedd, Ceredigion, Cardiff and in Newport where they say they are neck-and-neck with remain. They claim to have had up to 500 activists operating in Wales in the past week. The make-up of the teams vary. In the Vale of Glamorgan, around 80% of the local Conservative activists who campaigned for the party in the recent assembly and general elections are out campaigning for leave. The remain side is more difficult to characterise because it is made up of a number of different elements. Wales Stronger In is the umbrella organisation, but it works alongside parties like Plaid Cymru, and parallel with the much larger ground operation run by Labour. Labour has run a separate operation involving up to 1,000 people on a weekly basis, and has focused entirely on traditional voters using a combination of doorstep canvassing and town centre stalls. From here until the referendum, Labour's focus will be in the south Wales valleys and Newport, where the party admits there is plenty of heavy lifting to be done. Lord Hain believes in some areas it is developing into a head versus heart debate. He says people have begun approaching them saying their heart wants them to leave but their head is telling them to stay. And it is this remark which they are latching onto, as the leave side try to generate a sense of momentum in the final stage of the campaign.

The main battleground in Wales in the final week of the referendum campaign will be the south Wales valleys.

Police found Kevin Malthouse in Blackshots Lane, Grays, in the early hours of Saturday morning following reports of a group of men fighting. The 24-year-old had been stabbed in the chest and died at the scene. Jack Taylor, 18, from Oakley Close, Grays, has been charged with his murder and is due to appear at Basildon Magistrates' Court. Flowers - including moving tributes from Mr Malthouse's parents and wife - have been laid near the spot where he died. For more stories from the county, visit BBC Local Live: Essex A 22-year-old man, who was also arrested, has been bailed pending further investigations. A 21-year-old man, from South Ockendon, was released without charge and faces no further action. Mr Malthouse's former team Tilbury Football Club has paid tribute, saying he was "a lovely lad".

A man has been charged with murder after a former non-league footballer was stabbed to death.

Isabelle Prime, 30, touched down at Villacoublay air base on Friday where she was greeted by her family and the French President Francois Hollande. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France had not paid a ransom, but singled out Oman for its "enormous help" in securing her release. Ms Prime was working as a consultant on a World Bank-funded project in Yemen. She was captured, along with her translator Sherine Makkaoui, as they made their way to the capital Sanaa on 24 February. Ms Makkaoui was released in March. The identity of their kidnappers has not been confirmed. Ms Prime's father Jean-Noel said he was "unbelievably happy" to have his daughter back. "She's in good health but I don't have any further details," he told the AFP news agency. In June, France said that a video showing Ms Prime clearly in in distress was authentic. Dressed in black, she appealed to President Francois Hollande and the Yemeni authorities to arrange her release because she was "really, really tired". "I tried to kill myself several times because I know you will not co-operate and I totally understand." Oman News Agency said the country had played a role in negotiating her freedom in co-ordination with "some Yemeni parties", after a request from the French government. No other details of the release were given. Oman, which borders Yemen, has helped to facilitate the release of other captives, including American journalist Casey Coombs, who was freed by Shia Houthi rebels earlier this year. In recent years tribesmen in Yemen have kidnapped foreigners as a means of putting pressure on the government to provide them with better services or to release jailed relatives. More than 3,000 people have been killed since a Saudi Arabian-led coalition began air strikes in March to drive back Houthi rebels. Aid agencies say a Saudi-enforced sea and air blockade on the country has worsened the humanitarian crisis after months of conflict. More than 80% of Yemen's 25 million people now need some form of aid. The fighting has also caused huge damage to the country's infrastructure, and the blockade has caused severe shortages of food, water, medicine and fuel.

A French woman who was taken hostage in Yemen in February has arrived in Paris after being freed by her captors.

Rafa told the BBC's Today programme: "They used us and threw us away." The Brazilian, 24, who admits using false documents to get the job, said he had been called to a meeting on 4 July, where immigration staff arrested him. Byron said it had been unaware workers had used fake papers until it was informed by the Home Office. People from Brazil, Albania, Nepal and Egypt were arrested following raids at Byron restaurants across London. The Home Office said that of the 35 people who were interviewed by immigration officials, 25 have since been deported. Rafa said he came to the UK in May 2015 to "try his luck" at getting work, and used a false National Insurance card and a fake Italian identity card to get a job at Byron. On the morning of the raids, he said he was told to attend a meeting at the restaurant where he worked. The woman conducting the meeting looked "nervous" and "strange", he said, adding that immigration officers arrived 10 minutes later. He was then interviewed and deported that night. Rafa said he knew what he had been doing was wrong - but said the way he was arrested "is what bothers me". "I felt very bad, because we didn't expect it. I could be caught at any moment - in the street, or in one of the operations by the immigration office. "But the way it was done was what bothered us, what made us sad." He added: "We had been using fake documents, but we paid our taxes normally. That's what made us the saddest - they used us and threw us away." Rafa said the immigration officials treated him well, giving him the opportunity to go home and collect his belongings. He knew the risks he faced and that "if something happens you can be arrested or deported". But he added: "That's not the point. The question is, how they did it," adding that he hopes to return to the UK in future and will apply for a visa. In a statement, Byron said it was completely unaware that any of its workers were in possession of false documentation until the Home Office raids. The restaurant chain, which has 65 outlets across the UK and more than 1,500 employees, said it carried out rigorous right-to-work checks, but the false documentation was "sophisticated." The Home Office said the operation was carried out with the full co-operation of the business, who had carried out the correct checks on staff members. As a result, the chain would not face any legal action itself, the Home Office confirmed.

A former worker at the Byron hamburger chain, who was arrested and deported after immigration raids last month, says he feels "used".

Fly-half Sexton and flanker O'Brien have both recovered from calf injuries and should be available at Murrayfield. Sexton was injured against Castres on 20 January but is said to be "feeling very positive" about his recovery. However, uncapped Munster wing Andrew Conway has been ruled out after aggravating an existing groin problem. Ireland playmaker Sexton has the chance to cement his starting spot, provided he comes through Tuesday's session. Ulster's Paddy Jackson will start for Joe Schmidt's side if the Leinster star is ruled out while Munster's Ian Keatley has joined the squad as cover for the time being. "Johnny's making good progress and he's back on track to train on Tuesday," said Ireland team manager Paul Dean. "I think everything is fine, he's being very positive about it." O'Brien has completed the rehabilitation on his calf issue and was expected to take full part in Monday afternoon's training session. Full-back Rob Kearney says Ireland remain unfazed by his Leinster team-mate Sexton's latest quest for full fitness. Sexton battled hamstring trouble before the turn of the year, with this calf problem proving yet another unwanted hurdle. Kearney labelled injury doubts "par for the course" in any Test week, then tipped Sexton's understudy Jackson to thrive if pressed into service from the start in Scotland. "We're all so used to it now," said Kearney, of general battles for fitness. "On a weekly basis, more often than not, there's someone going in or out. "Someone picks up a niggle or they're not fully fit, so the coach doesn't risk them. The way Test rugby is now, it's par for the course. "Paddy [Jackson] has been there all last week running the plays. He's more than equipped and he's got a week head-start."

Ireland pair Jonathan Sexton and Sean O'Brien are set to resume full training after injury before Saturday's Six Nations opener against Scotland.

In 2015/16, 93.3% of youngsters were in a "positive destination" three months after leaving high school. That was up from 93% in 2014/15. The Scottish government figures also showed that those taking up training was 2.6%, down from 3.8% in 2014/15. The data is based on what happened to 52,249 pupils in S4 to S6 attending council-run and grant aided schools. Minister for Further and Higher Education and Science, Shirley-Anne Somerville, said the statistics showed that the government was making real progress in enabling young people in Scotland to realise "their full potential". She added: "It is especially encouraging to note that the proportion of school leavers in our most deprived areas going on to a positive destination is at a record high. "I am also pleased to note that the proportion of school leavers going directly into higher education has reached its highest ever level." The statistics also showed that from the 20% least deprived areas of Scotland, 96.6% of former pupils were in a "positive destination". That is up from 95.1% in 2011/12. When looking at the 20% most deprived areas, the data shows that 88.7% of former pupils continued in education, got a job or secured training - that is up by 0.2% on 2014/15 and up by 4.8% on 2011/12. At a local authority level Glasgow (89.9% of 4,551 pupils) and Clackmannanshire (90.2% of 489 pupils) had the lowest percentage of pupils going on to "positive destinations" while Na h-Eileanan Siar (97.6% of 248 pupils) and East Dunbartonshire (97.5% of 1,368 pupils) had the highest percentages.

The number of Scottish school leavers staying on in education, getting a job or doing voluntary work is up slightly.

Media playback is not supported on this device Peaty, 22, who also retained his 100m title on Monday, finished in 25.99 seconds - just short of the world record 25.95 he set in the semi-final. Brazil's Joao Gomes Junior took silver and South African Cameron van der Burgh was third. "I'm feeling very good. I'm so, so happy with my displays," Peaty said. He was speaking to the BBC after taking part in the 4x100m mixed medley relay final, in which defending champions Britain finished fifth. USA won in a world record time of three minutes 38.56 seconds. Australia took silver, with China and Canada in joint third. It was a different story in his individual race, earlier. Peaty was level with his rivals in the first few strokes before he pulled away after 30 metres. The City of Derby swimmer appeared set to break the world record for a third time in two days, but narrowly fell short. The Briton suggested "equilibrium" was key to his successes. "I'm a massive believer that all areas of your life need to be equal for you to perform at your best," he added. "Lifestyle, family and friendships. If one is out then you are not going to be at that level." Media playback is not supported on this device Van der Burgh, the 2009 and 2013 world champion in the 50m breaststroke, paid tribute to Peaty's powerful performances. "I think I have to retire and give it a few years and come back when he's older," joked the 29-year-old. "It's really impressive. It's not even breaststroke anymore, he's swimming like a new kind of stroke, like a metamorphosis between [butter]fly and breast. Former British swimmer Mark Foster told BBC Sport that Peaty's display was "immense". "There not enough words to describe how good he is," he said. "Under 26 seconds for the second time - only four hundredths of a second off his best time. It was, again, an immense swim." Karen Pickering, British 2001 world 4x200m freestyle gold medallist We all know how strong Peaty is. In his semi-final he was a little bit lower in the water as he set his world record. Because he's not quite as high as he is in the 100m, he has a quicker turnover. He can keep that up for 50m, but not for a 100m - that's why he went to 25.95 seconds. You couldn't do that in the 100m because of the build-up of lactic acid. But because it's Adam Peaty, he might be able to manage that in a year. Watch the full interview on BBC Radio 5 live's page Rebecca Adlington, double Olympic champion at Beijing 2008 He is the poster boy for swimming across the world, not just in Britain Adam gets the biggest cheer from the crowd for a non-Hungarian for the whole meet. Everyone wants to see him do well because he's such a likeable character. No-one is even close to him, so you ask yourself how much more can he improve. Media playback is not supported on this device Welsh swimmer Georgia Davies booked her place in Thursday's 50m backstroke final with a British record time of 27.49 seconds. "I've not done a PB in this since the Glasgow Commonwealths in 2014," she told BBC Sport. "The depth here is incredible. You can't leave anything behind." Brazil's Etien Medeiros was the fastest qualifier, winning the second semi-final in 27.18. Duncan Scott reached the 100m freestyle final after finishing third in his semi-final in a time of 48.10 seconds. The 20-year-old finished behind winner Frenchman Mehdy Metella, who touched home in 47.65. United States swimmer Caleb Dressel won the other semi-final in 47.66. Team-mate Max Litchfield reached the 200 individual medley (IM) final after finishing second in his semi-final in a time of 1:56.70. He is third fastest overall, with Japan's Kosuke Hagino, who won 400m IM gold in Rio, leading the pack after recording 1:56.04. "We're always in the mix - it'll be a tough race," Litchfield told BBC Sport. "It'll be nice to get a little bit of revenge after finishing fourth in the 400m IM at Rio 2016." South Africa's Chad le Clos stormed to victory in the 200m butterfly final in one minute 53.33 seconds. Home favourite Laszlo Cseh closed the gap to the London 2012 champion in the final few metres, but had to settle for silver. Le Clos was in tears during the medal ceremony. His father Bert, who became a celebrity because of his interviews during London 2012, and mother Geraldine were present in the Budapest arena. The pair had been receiving treatment for cancer. "Last year, my family's health is more important than gold medals," said the 25-year-old swimmer, who finished fourth in the event at Rio 2016. The biggest shock of the evening came in the 200m freestyle final where United States' Katie Ledecky lost for the first time in 13 finals when she was beaten to gold by Italy's Federica Pellegrini.

Britain's Adam Peaty defended his 50m breaststroke title with another stunning display to complete a World Aquatics Championships double-double.

Damage to to overhead wires meant the line is blocked north of Morpeth. Virgin East Coast, Northern Rail, and Cross Country services were affected, with reports of large queues at Newcastle Central Station. Buses were organised to take passengers between Newcastle and Edinburgh, with people advised to avoid travelling if possible. Services resumed late on Friday.

Rail passengers travelling between Newcastle and Scotland faced severe disruption on Friday.

Forensic expert Susan Williamson was giving evidence at the trial of William Burns and Alexander Porter, who deny attacking Russell Findlay. The High Court in Glasgow heard she examined a jacket, mail bag, a knife and a jar that had contained acid. The jury was told DNA matching Mr Burns was found on the jacket. Prosecutor Richard Goddard asked Miss Williamson: "When you examined the jacket you obtained a DNA profile which matched William Burns," and she replied: "Yes." Ms Williamson told the court that she also examined the handle of the knife found at the scene and said the major DNA contributor was Mr Porter. The court was told the odds on the DNA belonging to anyone else not related to the men was a billion to one. Defence counsel Susan Duff, representing Mr Porter, said: "There are a number of ways DNA could have got there," and Ms Williamson said: "Yes." As well as working for the Sun newspaper, Mr Findlay is the author of books about Glasgow crime gangs. Mr Findlay has already given evidence alleging that a man claiming to be a postman came to his door at 08:30 on 23 December 2015. The journalist said the man, whom he identified as Burns, threw liquid onto the right side of his face and right eye. The jury has heard from an eye specialist that Mr Findlay's sight could have been saved by a neighbour dousing is face with water. Mr Burns, 56, and Mr Porter, 48, also deny attempting to murder Ross Sherlock by shooting at him repeatedly near St Helen's Primary School in Bishopbriggs on 24 September 2015. The trial before Judge Sean Murphy QC continues.

DNA matching two men accused of throwing acid at the face of a Scottish Sun journalist was found on items at the scene, a court has heard.

The 68-year-old Dutchman was appointed in March, when the Black Cats were one point above the relegation zone. He guided them to safety and was due to leave the club in the summer, only to sign a new one-year contract. Advocaat said: "I have made the decision to go after only eight games as I felt it was important to give everyone time to turn things around." Sunderland chairman Ellis Short said: "I am truly saddened by Dick's decision, but I respect him for his honesty. Media playback is not supported on this device "It is also testament to his character that he has foregone any kind of a financial settlement, something which is very unusual in football." Assistant head coach Zeljko Petrovic has also left the club. Saturday's draw with West Ham left Sunderland without a win in their first eight league matches and looking for a sixth manager in four years. Since Steve Bruce was sacked in November 2011, Martin O'Neill, Paolo di Canio, Gus Poyet and Advocaat have managed the club. Advocaat's departure also follows a trend set by Di Canio and Poyet of managers arriving to save the Black Cats from the drop, only to depart in the next season. He initially agreed to lead Sunderland only until the end of last season, shedding tears as their survival was secured with a 0-0 draw at Arsenal. Advocaat said he would leave the club to fulfil a promise to his wife, but changed his mind and returned in June. The former Netherlands, Russia and South Korea boss has seen his side win just once this season - against League Two Exeter in the League Cup. North-east rivals Newcastle are the only team below them in the Premier League table.

Dick Advocaat has resigned as Sunderland boss, with the team yet to win in the Premier League this season.

The 32-year-old was attacked in St George's Gardens shortly after midnight on Wednesday 12 July. Detectives have appealed to two witnesses who saw the suspect and the victim shortly before the attack took place. They said two men passed the woman and her attacker and spoke to both of them as they walked towards Sandy Row. Police are appealing for these men, and other potential witnesses, to come forward with information which may assist their investigation.

Police are investigating a serious sexual assault on a woman near Sandy Row in south Belfast.

All but one Welsh council had resettled refugees from the UK government's Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme by the end of last December. Councils had been criticised for the speed that they were housing people. Oxfam Cymru welcomed the figures, with Conwy and Denbighshire the latest authorities to become involved. The charity's Matthew Hemsley said: "Wales has a proud history of welcoming those in need and it is important to see that tradition being continued." The majority of the refugees in Wales were taken in the second half of 2016 - 285. A total of 5,454 people have been resettled in the UK. The figures from the Home Office come after the Welsh Local Government Association said Syrian refugees were expected to have been housed in all council areas across Wales by the end of 2016. In August 2016, it was reported that only nine of Wales 22 councils had taken part up to the end of June. The statistics said that one authority - Pembrokeshire - was yet to house refugees from the programme at least by the period covered by the figures, which run from October 2015 to December 2016. However the council says it plans to resettle a family in the county by the beginning of April.

The number of Syrian refugees resettled in Wales has reached at least 397, according to figures from the Home Office.

A spokesman for the bank said they were "working flat out to get these payments updated for our customers no later than Saturday". Its parent company RBS said about 600,000 payments were affected. It said it had now identified and fixed the underlying problem. Ulster Bank said concerned customers should "come into a branch or get in touch with our call centres". "We will ensure no customers are left out of pocket as a result of this issue," a spokesman said. In 2012, the RBS group was hit by a major IT meltdown that led to a large fine. RBS, NatWest and Ulster Bank customers were affected in June 2012 after problems with a software upgrade. On that occasion, the IT failure affected more than 6.5 million customers in the UK over several weeks. The banking group said it had invested hundreds of millions of pounds to improve its computer systems since then.

Ulster Bank is working to restore payments and direct debits that were delayed by a computer glitch involving the RBS group of banks.

Mr Tshibala will be leader until presidential elections later this year. He was expelled from Congo's largest opposition party, the UDPS, last month after contesting the designation of successors to veteran leader Etienne Tshisekedi who died in February. Mr Tshibala's appointment is likely to further divide Mr Kabila's opponents. Talks to negotiate his exit from power broke down last week. Mr Kabila was supposed to step down after his second and final five-year term came to an end last year but the vote to replace him was not held. The electoral commission cited financial and logistical difficulties. The arrogance of power The failure to organise the polls led to a wave of deadly demonstrations by opposition supporters, with calls from diplomats for the president to respect the constitution. The Roman Catholic Church stepped in to broker a deal at the end of 2016 which outlined the creation of a transitional government that would oversee the elections. But the deal collapsed because the government and the opposition were unable to agree on the power-sharing mechanism under the arrangement. The country of 71 million people has not had a peaceful transfer of power since its independence from Belgium in 1960.

Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila has appointed Bruno Tshibala as the new prime minister of the power-sharing government.

The first earthquake near Dingxi city had a magnitude of 5.98 and was shallow, with a depth of just 9.8 km (6 miles), the US Geological Survey said. Just over an hour later, a magnitude 5.6 quake hit the same area, it added. In 2008, an earthquake in Sichuan province left up to 90,000 people dead and millions homeless. A factory worker in Minxian county told AFP that he felt "violent shaking" and "ran to the yard of the [factory] plant immediately". "Our factory is only one floor. When I came to the yard, I saw an 18-storey building, the tallest in our county, shaking ferociously, especially the 18th floor," he said. The area has been hit by 371 aftershocks, according to the Earthquake Administration of Gansu province. Tremors were felt in the provincial capital, Lanzhou, and as far away as Xian, 400km (250 miles) to the east. At least 5,600 houses in the province's Zhangxian county are seriously damaged and 380 have collapsed, while some areas suffered from power cuts or mobile communications being disrupted, the earthquake administration added. "Many have been injured by collapsed houses," a doctor based in Minxian county was quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. "Many villagers have gone to local hospitals along the roads." The earthquake has caused a direct economic loss of 198 million yuan ($32m; £21m), the Dingxi government said on its microblog. Both the Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang had called Gansu province to express their concern for the victims and stress the importance of the rescue operations being conducted well, the Dingxi government added. Crews of fire fighters and rescue dogs have already arrived at the scene, the BBC's Celia Hatton in Beijing reports. In pictures: Quakes aftermath The closer to the surface an earthquake strikes, the more damage it can cause, our correspondent adds. The earthquake reportedly triggered a series of mudslides and landslides, making it difficult for rescuers to access some areas hit by the quake. The Gansu military police have deployed 500 soldiers, including 120 specialist rescuers, while 500 emergency tents and 2,000 quilts are also being transported to affected areas, Xinhua added. Officials from the civil affairs, transportation and earthquake departments were also visiting local towns to assess the damage, a statement on the Dingxi party website said. Rain is expected in the region later, leading to fears that this will make rescue efforts more difficult, or cause more landslides. "Showery weather is expected tomorrow, and lighter rain the day after that. The rain may have an adverse effect on rescue efforts - please pay attention and be on guard!" the Dingxi government wrote on its microblog. Residents in towns near the earthquake also reported feeling the tremors. "You could see the chandeliers wobble and the windows vibrating and making noise, but there aren't any cracks in the walls," AP news agency quoted a clerk at Wuyang Hotel, about 40 km (25 miles) from the epicentre, as saying. "Shop assistants all poured out onto the streets when the shaking began," the clerk said.

Two powerful earthquakes have struck China's north-west Gansu province, killing at least 75 people and leaving more than 400 others injured.

Kieren Moss crossed twice to give the hosts an early lead at Craven Park before Ben Heaton scored the first of his four tries for the visitors. Matty Marsh went over for the Robins but Heaton then scored three unanswered scores put Halifax 22-14 up. George Lawler's converted try made it a two-point game and Nick Scruton touched down six minutes from time to deny Fax a famous win. Hull KR: Moss, Carney, Minns, Hefernan, Shaw, Marsh, Ellis, Scruton, Lunt, Jewitt, Blair, Addy, Kavanagh. Replacements: Masoe, Mulhern, Atkin, G. Lawler, G. Lawler. Halifax: Sharp, Heaton, Barber, Tyrer, Worrincy, Murrell, Johnston, Mammone, Moore, Boyle, Grady, Cahalane, Grix. Replacements: Morris, Woodburn-Hall, Kaye, Douglas. Referee: Liam Moore (RFL)

Hull KR battled back to beat Halifax in their first game of the Qualifiers.

Webb joins full-back Leigh Halfpenny in missing the tournament after being injured in Saturday's final warm-up game with Italy in Cardiff. The 26-year-old is replaced by Lions scrum-half Mike Phillips while Ospreys wing Eli Walker is also drafted back in to the squad to take Halfpenny's spot. Both were part of the extended training pool but did not make the final cut. Webb posted a message on social media saying: "Really disappointed to be ruled out of the RWC. After all the hard work I've put in over the summer, words can't describe how I'm feeling." And Wales head coach Warren Gatland said: "It is extremely disappointing for both Leigh and Rhys. "They have worked exceptionally hard to establish themselves on the world stage and to prepare for the tournament and we wish them all the best with their recovery. "After announcing the squad we spoke about the need for players to remain ready for action and it is a great opportunity for Mike and Eli. "It's great that we can call on players of this calibre. To bring Mike's experience into the squad is a bonus along with Eli's exciting talent." Wales say Webb requires further assessments on both his foot and knee before details can be given about whether he requires surgery. He left the field on a stretcher during the first-half against Italy on Saturday after being caught in a ruck. Gatland's worst fears have now been realised with the loss of Webb and Halfpenny. Webb has established himself as Wales' leading scrum-half, having been outstanding during last season's Six Nations Championship. Halfpenny has scored 508 points in 62 appearances for his country and was voted man of the series when the British and Irish Lions beat Australia by two Tests to one in 2013. Phillips will add plenty of experience on his return to the squad, having played in two previous World Cups during a 94-cap career. His five Lions caps mean he is one short of reaching the 100-cap milestone. The 33-year-old was discarded from the squad in August as Gatland chose Webb, Gareth Davies and Lloyd Williams as the scrum-halves. Walker is just starting his international career, the 23-year-old having only made his Wales debut against Ireland in August before being overlooked in favour of George North, Alex Cuthbert and Hallam Amos. Wales are banking on Liam Williams to prove his fitness and take over from Halfpenny at full-back, with the Scarlets back only recently returning to full training following foot surgery in June.

Wales scrum-half Rhys Webb has been ruled out of the Rugby World Cup because of a foot injury.

Guy Bridge, 16, completed the lap on Thursday in two hours, 32 minutes and 25 seconds to become the fastest single-handed sailor round the island. His mother, Steph Bridge, claimed the spot for the fastest female in three hours, three minutes and 24 seconds. The World Sailing Speed Records (WSSR) will formally ratify the timings later. WSSR said: "This is the first time there has been an official attempt in these two categories. It's a benchmark." Guy, who beat his brother, Olly, 18, in the race by just two seconds said: "It feels amazing but my legs were burning - it was tough." The trio from Exmouth reached speeds of 25knots during the 55-mile (89km) race which started and finished off the Royal Yacht Squadron line in Cowes.

A mother and her teenage son have set benchmark records for the fastest circumnavigation of the Isle of Wight on kiteboards.

Lil' Chris, whose real name was Chris Hardman, rose to fame in Channel 4's Rock School. He was found dead at in Lowestoft on 23 March. His family said the 24-year-old struggled with mental health issues and depression. A private funeral was held earlier this month. The inquest, at St Margaret's House in Lowestoft, was told the full hearing has been adjourned until 28 July. Suffolk coroner Dr Peter Dean conducted the short hearing, which was told the musician was found by his friend. The emergency services were called to the house in Union Road, before Mr Hardman was declared dead an hour later by a paramedic. Dr Dean expressed his "sympathy" to the family. Following Mr Hardman's death, fellow musicians and fans paid tribute on social media to the singer, who had his first hit single with Checkin' It Out. It followed his appearances in the Channel 4 series with Kiss frontman Gene Simmons in 2006, which was set at the town's Kirkley High School. Guy Barnes, a producer who was working with Hardman, said: "As much as we're all mourning the death of the boy, everybody needs to put as much love and strength as they possibly can do into the Hardman family because I don't know how anyone deals with that." In a statement released after Lil' Chris's death, his family said he was a "huge personality who will be missed by everyone who knew him". "He was a hugely creative person who used this side of his personality to make others smile, to cheer people up and to make others feel better," they said. "A real people person, he would always take the time to stop and talk, no matter who or when and we are proud that he was so well thought of by all who knew him." Family and friends gathered for his funeral on 8 April in Gorleston, Norfolk, before releasing balloons in his favourite colour of green on Claremont Pier in his hometown of Lowestoft. Samaritans' deputy chief executive Fiona Malcolm has said the charity had been "saddened" by his death. "If anyone has been affected by this news, or is struggling to cope, we would like to let people know that Samaritans is here for them if they need to talk," she said.

Singer Lil' Chris's death was caused by hanging, an inquest has heard.

The protesters have built barricades and occupied key road junctions, and want to replace the government with an unelected "People's Council". The government has deployed 18,000 security personnel to maintain order. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has offered to meet protest leaders to discuss potentially delaying the polls. Protesters allege Ms Yingluck is a proxy for her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by the military in 2006 and is currently in self-imposed exile. Thaksin-allied parties draw considerable support from rural voters and have won the last four elections. By Jonathan HeadBBC News, Bangkok It was all wearily familiar - the shrieking whistles, the colourful umbrellas, the rousing speeches and music from the stages, which had been moved overnight to block some of Bangkok's busiest intersections. And there was a certain weariness visible among the protesters, now in their third month of street rallies. Not the same levels of energy I saw a month ago. Nor do these loyal supporters of a movement largely defined by its hatred of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her family really know what results to expect from their marathon protest. They know about the idea of an "appointed committee" to fix Thai politics, and they can all mouth the slogans "Reform Before Election", and "Shutdown Bangkok, Restart Thailand". But, asked what would happen if the prime minister resigned, and her own substantial support base outside Bangkok were to refuse to accept this, no one had an answer. "Well, it doesn't matter, because we are going to win anyway", was one woman's hopeful answer. The longer these debilitating protests continue, the more likely a dramatic, perhaps violent, showdown between the two irreconcilable sides of Thai politics. Would that spark the much-rumoured military intervention? A coup still seems unlikely, and yet not impossible. The crowds on the street are just a part of a bigger game, involving bargaining and brinkmanship by leaders on all sides. In a conversation with Anchalee Praireerat, one of the more hard-core protest leaders, she would not say exactly what she expected to happen. But she assured me it would all be over in three days, and that the protesters would win. But the protesters claim the Thaksin-allied parties' populist policies have created a flawed democracy. The main opposition party is now boycotting the 2 February polls. Anti-government demonstrators have called on Ms Yingluck - who has urged protesters to respect the democratic process and use the February elections to choose the next government - to step down. Thailand's election commission has called for the vote to be postponed to May. But this is unlikely to satisfy the protesters, who want the Shinawatra family to be purged from politics, and a two-year period without elections in which an appointed committee would reform Thailand's political system, the BBC's Jonathan Head in Bangkok reports. At least eight people have been killed since the protests began late last year. On Saturday, at least seven people were injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on demonstrators at the main rally site in Bangkok. On Sunday night, an unidentified gunman attacked demonstrators at a protest site, shooting at least one man, officials said. Police said a gunman also fired shots at the opposition party headquarters in a separate incident, although no casualties were reported. Thousands are reported to have turned out for Monday's demonstrations. Protesters say they intend to achieve what they are calling a shutdown of the capital. Protester Darunee Suredechakul told AP news agency: "The government has to go. Reforms must be carried out." "We don't want to see the same old corrupted politicians returning to power over and over again," she added. Seven major intersections have been blocked by the anti-government protest movement, which has erected stages and piles of sandbags across the roads, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports. The government says it wants life to continue as normal through the shutdown and has ordered extra trains to run on the mass transit system and provided thousands of additional parking places outside the city centre, our correspondent adds. Protesters also plan to surround key ministries and cut off their power supply in a bid to prevent them from functioning. About 150 schools have been told to close. The protesters say they will remain in place for several days - but say they will not target public transport or the airports, which were closed for several days by anti-Thaksin protesters in 2008. Protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, who was formerly a senior opposition party politician, described the movement as "a people's revolution". Ms Yingluck was "no longer prime minister" in the eyes of the demonstrators, he told reporters on Monday. The government says it is deploying 8,000 soldiers and 10,000 police to keep order. The military - which has carried out several coups in the past - has refused to rule out another one. Some fear an escalation of violence could lead to a military intervention. The government has so far worked to avoid confrontation with the protesters. Ms Yingluck had "ordered all police and military personnel to exercise utmost restraint and not to use all kinds of weapons in handling the protesters", the deputy prime minister said. The political unrest is the worst to hit Thailand since the protests of 2010, which were against a government led by the current opposition party and left more than 90 people, mostly civilian protesters, dead. The current protests began in November after Thailand's lower house passed a controversial amnesty bill which critics said could allow Mr Thaksin to return without serving time in jail for a corruption conviction. The bill was later rejected by the Senate. Thailand remains bitterly divided over Mr Thaksin, one of the most polarising characters in Thai politics. He is deeply unpopular with urban and middle class voters, but commands strong support in the rural communities his policies helped, with thousands of villages in north-east Thailand calling themselves "red villages" to indicate their loyalty to his party.

Protesters are blocking roads in parts of the Thai capital, Bangkok, in a bid to oust the government before snap elections on 2 February.

The "low three-figure" sum of money was taken from three purses which had been left unattended at the Aberdeen Sea Cadets base at Pocra Quay. Insp Carron McKellar said: "This is a disgraceful incident which has left the victims shocked and upset." Anyone with information on the theft is urged to contact Police Scotland. Insp McKellar added: "It is understood that the suspect entered the building while visitors were in another part of the building and took the money. Nothing else has been taken."

The theft of money from purses at a Remembrance Sunday event at Aberdeen harbour has been branded "disgraceful" by police.

Chechen Muslim clerics met on 3 April, two days after the paper's revelations, and said the report had insulted their faith and the dignity of Chechen men. "Retribution will catch up with the true instigators, wherever and whoever they are," their resolution said. Novaya Gazeta says it amounts to a call for "reprisals against journalists". "We urge the Russian authorities to do everything possible to prevent actions aimed at inciting hatred and enmity towards journalists, who are doing their professional duty," the paper said. On 1 April it reported that more than 100 people had been detained in Chechnya on suspicion of being homosexual, and that at least three had been killed. The Russian LGBT Network, in touch with victims in Chechnya, told the BBC that the report was true. Homophobia is rife in the mainly Muslim North Caucasus republic. Authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov is fiercely loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin. A spokeswoman for the LGBT Network said detainees were tortured with electric shocks and beatings at a prison near Argun, 20km (13 miles) from the city of Grozny. "All the people arrested are homosexual men or perceived as being gay," said Natalia Poplevskaya. Ramzan Kadyrov has denied the allegations, calling them "lies". His spokesman Alvi Karimov said there were no gay people in Chechnya. The Chechens' spiritual leader, Mufti Salah-haji Mezhiev, confirmed that "retribution" was part of the resolution adopted at the special Muslim meeting in Grozny on 3 April. "There will be retribution!" he told the Russian news website RBC. "Allah will punish those who slandered the whole Chechen nation and Chechen Republic's clerics." Novaya Gazeta's 1 April report said the detainees included some influential Muslim clerics close to Mr Kadyrov, and two well-known Chechen TV presenters. In an open letter to the mufti, the paper's chief editor Dmitry Muratov said his journalists would continue investigating human rights abuses in Chechnya. "We did not insult - nor had we the slightest intention to insult - the Chechen people," he wrote, urging dialogue. Chechens have been linked to two murders of Novaya Gazeta reporters who investigated crimes in Chechnya - Anna Politkovskaya and Natalia Estemirova. But much remains unclear about those contract killings, and that of Boris Nemtsov, an opposition politician who was shot dead in Moscow in 2015 and also exposed corruption and organised crime in Chechnya. The LGBT Network says it is helping people to flee the persecution in Chechnya and accuses the Russian authorities of ignoring the abuses. If Russia fails to prosecute anyone, it says it will file a case at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

The Russian daily Novaya Gazeta says it is alarmed by a Chechen Muslim call for "retribution" after the paper reported violence against gay men in Chechnya.

Nearly four-fifths of the RCN members surveyed were worried about the cost of their accommodation. The RCN's London regional director said essential services were at "breaking point". Last year 17% of all London's registered nursing jobs were vacant. Ben Morrin, the director of workforce at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, told the BBC that hospitals initially offered subsidised accommodation to new staff. King's College Hospital offers rooms in shared accommodation for £452 per month, including bills and council tax. A nurse's starting salary (including 20% inner London weighting) is £26,030. But as staff settle down they are tempted by the lower cost of living outside the capital. "Normally we get to a decision point after two to three years when they want to move outside the capital, and the reputation of London's teaching hospitals makes it easy for them to find jobs," Mr Morrin said. "We have trouble in retaining those nurses." One agency specialising in accommodation for NHS workers offers a single-bedroomed flat in Limehouse, east London for £1,350 - over three-quarters of take-home pay on a starting salary. "With staffing shortages in London getting worse by the year, while patient need continues to go up, essential services are being stretched to breaking point," said Bernell Bussue, the regional director of RCN London. The college is calling on the next London mayor to offer discounted travel for NHS workers, and require new homes built on NHS land to be offered first to low-paid NHS staff. Source: NHS Employers

Four in 10 London nurses expect to leave the capital by 2021 because housing costs are so high, according to a survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).

The IXV resembles a smaller, robotically controlled version of the US space shuttle, and could provide Europe with a re-useable orbital transportation system of its own It blasted off on a Vega rocket from South America just after 13:40 GMT. The test data could also inform future Mars landing technologies. The demonstrator flew east around the globe, before coming down in the water west of the Galapagos Islands at about 15:20 GMT. The wedge-shaped IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle) was designed to gather information on how space objects fall back to Earth. Commenting on the flight, Esa director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain said: "It couldn't have gone better. "But the mission itself is not over because now it is necessary to analyse all the data gathered during the flight." At the time the craft re-entered the atmosphere, it was moving at 7.5km/s. As it pushed against the air, the temperatures on its leading surfaces would have soared to 1,700C. Flaps and thrusters controlled the trajectory, ensuring the IXV came down close to a recovery ship. A parachute system deployed in the very late stages of the flight and put the two-tonne vehicle gently in the ocean. Floatation balloons came out to stop it from sinking. Europe's expertise on re-entry technologies is more limited than, say, the US's or Russia's - something it wants to change with the help of the IXV. Esa's project manager Giorgio Tumino told BBC News: "Europe is excellent at going to orbit; we have all the launchers, for example. We also have great knowhow in operating complex systems in orbit. But where we are a bit behind is in the knowledge of how to come back from orbit. "So, if we are to close the circle - go to orbit, stay in orbit, come back from orbit - we need to master this third leg as well as other spacefaring nations." Esa has already approved a follow-on spacecraft, called Pride, which looks very similar in design to the X-37B, a robotic craft operated by the American military. No-one is quite sure what missions are flown by the X-37B, but they are likely to include the early testing of new technologies for future satellites. This could be a role also for Europe's Pride vehicle. In-orbit servicing of satellites is a capability often discussed in this context as well. Esa nations will meet shortly to define these roles. "We need still to agree with all the member states all the different types of operations in orbit. But whatever the payload, it will always be in the perimeter space of civilian applications," stresses Mr Tumino.

A prototype for a versatile mini-spaceplane has successfully completed its first test flight, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

Vicky Cherry, 44, had been missing for 15 months when police found her body wrapped in a duvet and plastic sheeting at a house in Toronto Street, Bolton, in January. Andrew Reade, 43, admitted preventing the lawful burial of a body and perverting the course of justice. He was sentenced at Bolton Crown Court to four years and four months in jail. Miss Cherry's cause of death could not be ascertained because of heavy decomposition but a pathologist concluded she may have died as a result of strangulation, as injuries to her neck were detected. Sentencing Reade, Judge Timothy Clayson said the defendant could not be held responsible for Miss Cherry's death but what followed was "inexcusable". Officers had launched a "non-body" murder investigation because Miss Cherry, from Fulwood, Lancashire had not been seen since October 2015. Reade, of Toronto Street, Bolton, told her family they had split up and she had moved to Blackburn. However, police discovered that her unemployment benefits were still being withdrawn in Bolton. When officers arrested Reade on suspicion of murder, he claimed he had panicked upon waking to find his girlfriend dead after they had binged on a cocktail of drugs. The 43-year-old admitted hiding her body and lying to her family and police. He also admitted taking her benefits for several months after her death. In a victim statement to the court, Miss Cherry's daughter said: "Reade has held her body in a cupboard with things on top of her like she was a piece of rubbish. "I will never forgive Reade. Reade himself is the only person who truly knows what happened to my mother. We will be forever tormented by this." Nick Ross, defending, said his client, a long-standing user of Class A drugs, had exercised "very poor judgment" after grief and panic had set in following Miss Cherry's death. "He wishes he could turn the clock back," he said. Det Ch Insp Terry Crompton said: "Reade's deliberately deceptive and misleading actions seriously obstructed the investigation into how Vicky died and cost us valuable opportunities to investigate."

A man who hid his dead girlfriend's body in an airing cupboard for more than a year has been jailed.

Ramunas Macnoris is charged over separate gun attacks in Newry, County Down, early last Thursday when two men, both aged 32, were shot in the legs. The 26-year-old, of Lambfield House, Dungannon, was also charged with having a firearm. The accused, who is originally from Lithuania, was remanded in custody, A detective objected to bail, saying police feared he would reoffend, flee the country or interfere with witnesses. However, a defence lawyer argued he could be released under stringent conditions, including staying 40 miles away from Newry. Refusing bail, the judge said there were "genuine fears" about the concerns raised by the detective. The accused is due to appear in court again via videolink next month.

A man charged with attempted murder and kidnapping is allegedly part of an international drugs smuggling gang, a court has heard.

Media playback is not supported on this device In Konta's match against Sorana Cirstea, Nastase was sent off after swearing at the umpire and abusing Konta and her captain Anne Keothavong. The world number seven lost her serve in the next game and was visibly upset before play was halted for 25 minutes. The International Tennis Federation is investigating Nastase's conduct. The world governing body said it was looking into "this matter as well as previous comments made by Mr Nastase during the week". Nastase - a former world number one - had caused controversy in the build-up to the tie after being heard making a derogatory comment about Serena Williams' unborn child. While Romanian player Simona Halep was answering a question in English about Williams' pregnancy on Friday, the 70-year-old turned to one of his other team members and added in Romanian: "Let's see what colour it has. Chocolate with milk?" He also put his arm tightly around Keothavong and asked for her room number, in earshot of the watching media. Before play had even started on Saturday, Nastase insulted a British journalist over their reporting of Friday's events, calling the Press Association's tennis correspondent "stupid". And as he was finally escorted away from the venue by a group of security guards, he abused the reporter again, calling her "ugly". WARNING: Some people may find the language below offensive The incident that led to him being dismissed on Saturday happened when Cirstea was 2-1 up in the second set of the World Group II play-off tie in Constanta. After Konta and Keothavong had complained of calling out from the crowd at 1-1, Nastase was involved in a discussion with officials in which he used foul and abusive language. Nastase called both Konta and Keothavong "a bitch" multiple times, as well as swearing at them. He was sent off the court by referee Andreas Egli and, after initially taking a seat in the stands, was then escorted back to the locker room. Konta went 3-1 down after her serve was broken in the next game and was in tears before the umpire suspended play. Romania player Halep spoke to the crowd during the suspension to try to calm the situation. When play resumed in a subdued atmosphere, Konta won five games in a row to win the match 6-2 6-3, levelling the tie at 1-1. The ITF explained Nastase was asked to leave "for unsportsmanlike conduct, having already received two official warnings". A statement added: "Mr Nastase was also removed from the grounds due to his serious misconduct. His accreditation was removed and he will play no further part in the tie." Media playback is not supported on this device "It was not something anyone should experience," Konta told BBC Sport. "It did upset me quite a lot and that was shown. I am not one to cry on court. It was slightly embarrassing but it affected me more than I would have liked. "I know that Fed Cups can be quite emotional and can sometimes take an unexpected turn but it wasn't something I was prepared for. "Obviously, it left me slightly unnerved but the best I could do was to make it as much about the tennis as possible. I felt I did that and am looking forward to that again tomorrow." Keothavong said she had "expected a patriotic crowd", but did not expect "abusive language to be used". "It's unacceptable. No-one deserves to be spoken to in that way," she told BBC Sport. "We've come here to play tennis. The referee made the right call to suspend the match, and during the break I was just trying to keep Johanna calm. "All of the players - from both teams - handled the situation incredibly well. It's happened, it's done and there is a lot to play for tomorrow." The Lawn Tennis Association said it was "deeply shocked" by Saturday's events. "There is no place in sport for that type of behaviour, it's not acceptable and the integrity of the sport must always be paramount," it said in a statement. "We will be submitting an official complaint to the ITF after this tie and expect a full investigation into the actions by the Romanian captain." However, Cirstea claimed Konta had "overreacted". "Someone crying cannot stop a match," she told BBC Sport. "From a tennis point of view, Johanna deserved the win - she is a better player than me - but the behaviour of the British team was exaggerated. "Why did we stop? Only because Johanna cried? I have never cried on the court because someone told me something. You have to toughen up. "OK, at 2-1 you take our captain out, that was the right decision, but then at 3-1 I break you and now you cry. I am not saying it was fake, but it was not logical. "Next time I'm in trouble I will cry, maybe I can go off the court. As Romanians we get double insulted because of our nation but it's OK, we are tough. Tougher than British people apparently." Media playback is not supported on this device Before play started on Saturday, Nastase went into the media centre to seek out British journalists over their reporting of the comments he made about Williams at Friday's news conference. Press Association Sport reported that their tennis correspondent Eleanor Crooks was the only member of the British media present in the room at the time and that he said to her: "Why did you write that? You're stupid, you're stupid." PA Sport has sent details of Nastase's remarks to the International Tennis Federation. "He repeatedly called me stupid, asked me why what he said was racist," said Crooks. "I explained we simply reported what he said and that it was unnecessary to make such a comment about colour. He said the English were out to get him and called me stupid a few more times. "Fortunately he was across the other side of the room from me and there were other journalists around so it was unpleasant rather than threatening. "But it is certainly not the behaviour you would expect of someone in his position and wholly unnecessary, especially given he did not dispute the accuracy of what was reported." And when Nastase was escorted from the venue on Saturday he confronted Crooks again, calling her "ugly" as he was being led away by security. This content will not work on your device, please check Javascript and cookies are enabled or update your browser Romanian Tennis Federation president George Cosac defended Nastase. When asked about the comments made about Williams and to Keothavong on Friday, he told told BBC Sport: "That's Nastase. He was all the time with a lot of jokes. That's why everybody likes him. "He didn't make any mistakes. It was not racist, you cannot take it seriously. I'm sure it was just a joke," Cosac added. "What I know is that he is a very good friend with Yannick Noah and he played many tournaments together with Arthur Ashe [Noah and Ashe are the only black men to win Grand Slam singles titles] - I'm sure he didn't say something wrong." Earlier on Saturday, Romania took the lead when Halep won 26 of the last 33 points on her way to comfortably beating Heather Watson 6-4 6-1. World number five Halep increased her intensity at 4-4 and broke Watson to love before serving out to take the opening set for the hosts. Watson, ranked 113, struggled to cope with her rival as she lost her serve twice to love in the second set. Russell Fuller, BBC tennis correspondent This was a very decorated player, but an increasingly isolated man, losing his cool on a spectacular scale. Nastase appears to have no concept of why I, and my three British colleagues here in Constanta, felt his slurs and actions of Friday needed highlighting. Having targeted one of the journalists in the morning, he turned his ire on his opposite number and her star player when battle was joined on the court. ITF president Dave Haggerty says Nastase's conduct is "unacceptable". They have issued more than one stern statement this weekend, but will be judged on their deeds, rather than their words. If the ITF do not act, then the Romanian Federation clearly will not either. Their president cannot understand why we do not appreciate Nastase's sense of humour. Why can't we see that his captain is more than entitled to make derogatory comments about Serena Williams - because many of his best friends are black?

Romania captain Ilie Nastase was banned from the Fed Cup tie against Britain after an incident that left Johanna Konta in tears and her match suspended.

The Asian Civilisation Museum (ACM) bought the artwork for $650,000 (£420,000) from New York dealer Art of the Past in 2007. The company's manager later admitted selling stolen Indian antiquities, including the bronze being returned. The allegations first came to light during a 2012 court case against the firm for trafficking antiquities. The sculpture of Hindu goddess Uma Parameshvari is thought to have been stolen from a Shiva temple in Tamil Nadu in southern India. The decision to return the item came after discussions between Singapore's National Heritage Board and the Indian government body looking after its antiquities, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The ASI submitted an official request for the return of the sculpture in May, according to the museum. "While there is no conclusive proof that the sculpture was stolen from a Shiva temple in Tamil Nadu, India, ACM took note of the confession of Aaron Freedman, who was the manager of Art of the Past, of dealing in looted Indian antiquities and of criminal possession of 150 stolen objects," the museum said in a statement. It was one of 30 objects ACM bought from the art dealer, although none of the others are thought to be listed as stolen. The ASI was reportedly allowed to view them, anyway. The museum said it will take legal action to get compensation for the apparent fraud.

A Singapore museum will return to India an 11th Century sculpture believed to have been stolen from that country.

The presenter succeeded Jonathan Ross as host of the revamped weekly show and said leaving "wasn't an easy decision". Winkleman, who also co-hosts Saturday night show Strictly Come Dancing, said the show "simply deserves someone who can give it their all". A new series will return this autumn with the new presenter to be announced "in due course", the BBC said. Winkleman, who lists The Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption as her favourite films, said: "I'm incredibly sad about leaving the film show and it wasn't an easy decision. "At this time of year I juggle all kinds of things for TV and radio and the show simply deserves someone who can give it their all." She added that she would miss film critic Danny Leigh, who presents the show alongside her, and the team behind the show. Mark Bell, BBC head of arts commissioning, said: "We've loved having Claudia on Film 2016 and I'd like to thank her for all her hard work and commitment to the show." The long-running film show, first broadcast 45 years ago, was fronted by film critic Barry Norman for 26 years. He was succeeded by Ross in 1999, who stayed at the helm for 11 years. Winkleman will still present the BBC's The Great British Sewing Bee and host a Radio 2 show. After landing the job on Strictly in 2014 when Sir Bruce Forsyth left, the mother-of-three said of her TV and radio commitments, she would "make it work". The 14th series of Strictly gets under way on Saturday evening, with Olympians, actors and singers competing for the glitterball trophy.

Claudia Winkleman has quit the BBC's movie review show, Film 2016, after six years of fronting the programme.

The ticket for the Grosvenor in Norwich was bought for seven shillings and sixpence and signed at the gig by John Lennon and Ringo Starr. It also states the band were supported at the now defunct venue on Prince of Wales Road by local band Ricky Lee and the Hucklebucks. The ticket is being auctioned by Bonhams on 3 July. At the time of the gig The Beatles were celebrating their first number one single From Me To You, which stayed at the top of the British singles chart for seven weeks. Bonhams said if the ticket also contained the signatures of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, it would have been worth nearer £4,000.

A signed Beatles ticket from a concert in Norfolk in 1963 is expected to fetch up to £2,000 at auction in London.

Two men from Douglas and a 32-year-old man from Liverpool were held in connection with the discovery, which followed a raid at a property in Douglas on Thursday. They are suspected of being involved in the "importation and onward supply" of the Class B drug. The men were remanded in custody and are due to appear in court later. Det Sgt Paul Holland said: "Seizing this amount of cannabis prior to the TT race period puts a significant dent in the availability of obtaining the drug during a busy time."

Cannabis with a street value of £25,000 has been seized and three people arrested on the Isle of Man.

Microsoft has revealed details of a login system for the next version of Windows based around pictures a user stores on a touchscreen device. Only when parts of an image are tapped or touched in the right order will a user be able to access a device. Experts said it might stop people using weak passwords but could lead to other loopholes that are harder to solve. Microsoft aired the idea of using images to sign on to a device via a blog written by engineers working on Windows 8 - the next version of the Windows operating system expected to be released in late 2012. Windows 8 is designed for touchscreen devices such as tablets and the novel sign-on systems makes use of the sensitive displays they are likely to sport. The familiar process of getting to use a desktop PC or laptop by typing in a password made of up lower and upper case letters as well as numbers was felt to be too "cumbersome" for tablets,wrote Microsoft engineer Zach Pace on the blog. The replacement system proposed by Microsoft employs a picture chosen by a user from their collection of images on a device. On this image, users are encouraged to tap on, underline or circle the parts that are important to them. The sequence of gestures, including start and end positions and orientation act as a key to unlock the device. User-testing suggests that the image-based system can grant access to a portable gadget far faster than was possible through text-based passwords, wrote Mr Pace. He stressed that the system would work alongside text-based passwords rather than replace them. If a user failed to properly reproduce the correct gestures fives times in a row they would be prompted for the password they set up when they first used the device. The permutations of taps, touches and circles that could be drawn on a picture was likely to be far higher than those available from text-based passwords, said Prof Alan Woodward from the department of computing at the University of Surrey. That was especially true, he said, when one considered the limited number of words from which most people picked their passwords. "The initial calculations show that it is likely to provide a level of security that is at least as strong as a password, and frankly, stronger than most passwords chosen by users," he added. Graham Cluley, senior security researcher at Sophos, said the research was "interesting and cute" but may introduce other security problems. It could, he said, make people vulnerable to "shoulder surfing" - a practice better known from cash machines where crooks try to spot a victim's Pin as they tap it into a number pad. "With normal password entry, what you're doing is asterisked on the screen," said Mr Cluley. "With this gesture input, folks may find it easier to see the movements you are making." There might be more value in operating systems encouraging people to use stronger passwords by refusing to let them use dictionary words or ones that are easy to crack, he added.

Using Windows 8 devices could involve signing on by tapping, circling or touching images.

Media playback is not supported on this device GB had opened their campaign with a comfortable 31-7 win over Kenya, Dan Bibby (2), Dan Norton, Phil Burgess and Mark Bennett all scoring. Against Japan - who upset joint favourites New Zealand 14-12 - GB led deep into the final stages. But Japan scored a third try, only to miss a conversion to draw with time up. Media playback is not supported on this device New Zealand - who will be without Sonny Bill Williams for the rest of the tournament after he partially ruptured an Achilles tendon - bounced back from their shock opening loss to Japan to beat Kenya. Augustine Pulu scored 11 points, including three conversions, as the All Blacks recovered from conceding a try inside the first minute to win 28-5. Team GB only just maintained their 100% start to the tournament when they met Japan, James Rodwell scoring twice and Marcus Watson adding another with captain Tom Mitchell converting all three tries. The Japanese could have drawn after the final hooter when Lomano Lemeki crossed for Japan's third try, but Katsuyuki Sakai missed the tricky drop-goal conversion. Britain face New Zealand at 16:30 on Wednesday in the final match in Pool C. The top two sides in each of the three pools go into the quarter-finals, plus the two best third-placed teams. Media playback is not supported on this device Feel inspired to have a try? Here's our handy guide.

Britain's men made it two wins from two in the Olympic sevens as they edged past New Zealand's conquerors Japan 21-19 in a thriller in their second match.

Eman Abd El Aty, said to have weighed around 500kg (1,102lb), left an Indian hospital last Thursday after doctors said she lost more than 250kg. But doctors in UAE say she is suffering from a "cardiac issue" and infected bed sores, apart from her obesity. Recent weeks saw a row erupt between her doctors in India and her family. It began when her sister, Shaimaa Selim, released a short video on social media alleging that her sister was still unable to speak or move, and had not lost as much weight as the hospital was claiming. The hospital strongly denied the allegations. A statement issued by Abu Dhabi's Burjeel Hospital said a multi-disciplinary team of 20 doctors is treating Ms Abd El Aty. "She is currently facing several health conditions, including a cardiac issue, which is still under intensive investigation; severe urosepsis [a bacterial infection complicating a urinary tract infection]; and third degree infected bed sores." The statement said the doctors are "currently focused on improving her health condition and ensuring that as part of the hospital's short term goal, Eman is able to sit with minimal to no assistance". She had arrived in India on a specially-modified Airbus plane in February and was put on a special liquid diet to reduce her weight so that doctors could perform bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery, also known as weight loss surgery, is used as a last resort to treat people who are dangerously obese and carrying an excessive amount of body fat. The two most common types of weight loss surgery are: Gastric band, where a band is used to reduce the size of the stomach so a smaller amount of food is required to make someone feel full Gastric bypass, where the digestive system is re-routed past most of the stomach so less food is digested to make someone feel full

An Egyptian woman who was believed to have been the world's heaviest is now being treated for several health conditions at a hospital in Abu Dhabi.

The "fully-guided" tours will take place at weekends, when the specially-built set on the Harewood Estate in Leeds is not being used for filming. They will take in "the familiar haunts of Home Farm, Bob's Cafe and The Woolpack", a spokeswoman said. She added they had been launched as a result of the "incredible success" of the Coronation Street tours. About 850,000 visitors looked around the famous cobbled streets of Weatherfield before the tour was closed to allow redevelopment of the site. Emmerdale moved to the purpose-built set in 1998 after the number of fans visiting its original location, the West Yorkshire village of Esholt, made filming difficult. The new tours will take place on 10 Saturdays in April, July, August and October. The head of ITV North, John Whiston, said the set was "a unique and special place", which the company were "excited to be able to show off to a select number of visitors". Unlike those at Coronation Street, the Emmerdale tours will not offer the chance to see the interior sets, which are housed at studios near Leeds city centre.

Soap fans will be able to take a tour of Emmerdale from April, ITV have announced.

The National Lottery windfall has been won with a ticket bought somewhere in Denbighshire for the 1 April draw. It matched the Lotto Millionaire Raffle draw - AQUA 6323 7030 - but no-one has come forward. The mystery ticket holder has until the end of September to submit their claim - otherwise the money will go to lottery good causes. "We're urging everyone who bought a Lotto ticket in this area to check their old tickets again or look anywhere a missing ticket could be hiding," said Andy Carter from the National Lottery. "Try checking in the pockets of clothing, in wallets, bags and down the back of the sofa - someone out there could literally be sitting on a fortune."

The search is on for the winner of an unclaimed winning lottery ticket worth £1m.

The 31-year-old Falcons academy graduate won three Premiership titles with Leicester in his nine years away from Kingston Park. Flood, who has been capped 60 times by England, said: "When the opportunity came on to the table, it didn't take long for me to make the decision. "It really feels like I'm coming home, and I've watched a fair amount of Newcastle's games in recent months." Falcons, who have now made 10 signings for the 2017-18 season, did not disclose the length of Flood's contract. Flood, who made his Premiership debut for Newcastle in 2005, spent six season with Leicester where he went on to become club captain. He has spent the past three seasons in the French top flight with Toulouse. Falcons director of rugby Dean Richards said: "Toby is a proven performer at the very top level, he is a local lad and it is a huge boost for us to be able to add a player of his quality to our squad. "He has vast leadership experience, he will bring an extra dimension to our game and this really is a signing which outlines the ambition we have to rise even further up the Premiership table." Newcastle won their final match of the Premiership season on Saturday, beating relegated Bristol 39-27 to finish eighth in the table. "We have quality players coming through our academy and a number of major new signings joining us," Richards added. "All the signs are really positive for next season and it is a hugely exciting time to be involved with the club."

Newcastle have re-signed fly-half Toby Flood from French side Toulouse.

Cleverly, 29, will face Braehmer for the WBA regular light-heavyweight belt in Germany on 1 October. The Welshman's three career defeats have all come in his last six bouts. "This is a must-win for me - I'm confident I can upset the champion," said Cleverly. "I believe this is my opportunity to turn things around." Cleverly and Braehmer were due to meet in 2011 before an eye injury forced Braehmer to withdraw. The German will be aiming for a seventh successful defence of his title, while Cleverly lost his WBO crown in 2013 when he was stopped by Sergey Kovalev. Asked if this would be his last world title fight if he lost to Braehmer, Cleverly told BBC Radio Wales Sport: "Possibly so and probably so. "I knew the world title opportunity would come back around. "Sometimes you hit those plateaus - you peak and then have a bit of a flat period. But I think I've got through that and the best is yet to come." The WBA super world light-heavyweight title - the body's top honour in this weight division - is held by Kovalev. Cleverly's last fight was a points defeat by Andrej Fonfara in Chicago in October 2015, though he was encouraged by his performance. "We [Cleverly and Braehmer] were meant to fight three times in the past but he never fancied the challenge when I was at the peak of my game and had a lot of hunger and fire," he added. "Maybe he's taken the fight now thinking I've had a quiet couple of years and gone off the boil. "Maybe he's thinking this is his opportunity to beat me but, as I showed in my last fight, the fire is coming back. "I'm looking to become a two-time champion and I'm going to grab it with both hands. "It's notoriously difficult for boxers in Germany against the home fighters, but I'm confident that I'm not just going to win, I'm going to win emphatically and take it out of everyone's hands."

Welsh former world champion Nathan Cleverly believes his world title fight against Juergen Braehmer can be a turning point in his career.

21 March 2016 Last updated at 15:37 GMT The pair were working on a new 'augmented-reality' programme called Project Sidekick that's designed to give mission control a better view of what's happening on the station. Tim explained: "Sidekick creates a virtual-reality world on the International Space Station .... Ground control can come into our virtual world and we can use it for doing tasks together - for example the VR world can point out exactly what switches to flip or which screws to loosen, handles to turn and even guide us to storage locations." After two hours of working on the project, they found the hidden Space Invaders game and were allowed to take a break and have some fun! The special effects were added in later by the ESA.

The European Space Agency has shared footage of Tim with his former crew mate Scott Kelly fighting virtual aliens on the ISS, before Kelly returned to Earth earlier this month.

The "deplorable" conditions violated a ban on cruel and unusual punishment in the US Constitution, its report said. Jail officials, it said, had failed to address a "dramatic increase" in suicides over the past two years. But the sheriff's office said it was "disappointed" the report "fails to fully recognise" improvements made. "The report also mischaracterises and significantly understates the incredible efforts made to improve our suicide prevention practices," the sheriff's office said in statement. The US justice department said the nation's largest jail system - with about 19,000 prisoners - had completed some of the reforms required by a 2002 court agreement. It also applauded steps to expand community supervision programmes, saying a rapid increase in the number of prisoners who are seriously mentally ill was putting the system under strain. But it said "serious systemic deficiencies" and "deplorable environmental conditions" remained for those being held at the jail, violating the US constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. Among the criticisms in the report was a lack of response to an increase in suicides and suicide attempts at county jails. "Fifteen suicides in 25 months produced almost no discernible change in the jails' custodial practices," the report said. Other findings include: The sheriff's office said it remains committed to working with the Justice Department on the issues. Jails in the US are generally for people being locked up in the short-term, but the prison system throughout the state of California, where inmates serve longer sentences, has also come under scrutiny for overcrowding.

The condition of mental healthcare inside Los Angeles County jails is so poor that it is unconstitutional, the US justice department has said.

"I am most grateful for the many digital messages of goodwill I have received and would like to thank you all for your kindness," she wrote. The monarch, whose milestone birthday was marked with numerous events, signed off the rare message "Elizabeth R". The Queen sent her first ever tweet in 2014 when she opened a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London. Britain's longest-serving monarch celebrated her 90th birthday on 21 April, and a host of events were held over three months, from April to June. The Queen has two birthdays - her real birthday on 21 April, and her official birthday held on a Saturday in June - a tradition going back 250 years. It was introduced to try to ensure better weather for the monarch's official celebrations. Her official birthday this year was 11 June and the annual Trooping the Colour was held on Horse Guards Parade, followed by an RAF flypast which the Royal Family watched from the balcony of Buckingham Palace. The following day the Queen hosted the Patron's Lunch, a street party for some 10,000 people along The Mall which recognised her patronage of more than 600 organisations in the UK and around the Commonwealth. Queen Elizabeth II at 90 Find out more about Queen Elizabeth II on BBC iWonder

The Queen has tweeted her thanks to people who sent her 90th birthday messages on social media.