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    {
        "question": "Greg Gianforte was accused of attacking a journalist from the UK's Guardian newspaper a day before his election.\nThe congressman said he was making a $50,000 (\u00c2\u00a338,000) donation to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).\nThe Guardian said the apology and donation was \"part of an agreement that settles any potential civil claims\".\nA letter sent by Mr Gianforte to journalist Ben Jacobs offered a \"sincere apology\".\n\"My physical response to your legitimate question was unprofessional, unacceptable and unlawful,\" it said.\nMr Gianforte, who won the election, is still facing a criminal charge of misdemeanour assault, for which the maximum penalty is a $500 fine and a six-month jail term.\nHe \"grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground\" after the reporter persisted in trying to question him about healthcare policy, another reporter from Fox News, who witnessed the confrontation, said.\n\"I watched in disbelief as Gianforte then began punching the reporter. As Gianforte moved on top of Jacobs, he began yelling something to the effect of, 'I'm sick and tired of this!'\" Alicia Acuna said.\nMr Jacob's glasses were broken during the incident.\nMr Gianforte initially claimed Mr Jacobs had grabbed his wrist, pulling them both to the ground. His spokesperson called it \"aggressive behaviour from a liberal journalist\".\nBut in his formal apology to Mr Jacobs on Wednesday, he said: \"Notwithstanding anyone's statements to the contrary, you did not initiate any physical contact with me, and I had no right to assault you. I am sorry for what I did and the unwanted notoriety this has created for you.\n\"I take full responsibility,\" he added.\nThe apology also detailed the donation to the CPJ, \"in the hope that perhaps some good can come of these events\".\nThe CPJ is an independent non-profit group that promotes press freedom globally.\nIn a tweet, the group said it had accepted the donation for what it called Mr Gianforte's \"unacceptable behaviour toward a journalist just doing his job\".\nIn the Guardian, Mr Jacobs said he had accepted the apology.\nThe newspaper had previously covered Mr Jacob's acquisition of a new pair of glasses from a London optician - noting that he donated the pair broken in the clash to Washington DC's press museum, the Newseum.",
        "answer": "A Montana politician charged with assaulting a reporter has apologised and made a substantial donation to a press freedom charity."
    },
    {
        "question": "The banner which read \"supporting the London Olympics\" breached the rules set out by Games organisers Locog.\nThe rules state that only official sponsors are allowed to use logos and text defined in the organisation's  \n          2012 UK statutory marketing rights.\nThe sign was being used to promote Olympic events in the city.\nThe torch relay is due to visit Derby on 29 June and Peter Allen, director of marketing for the university, said he was keen to support the event.\nHe said: \"As you can imagine it's difficult to do this without making reference in some way to the Olympics.\"\nBut he added that the university was working closely with Locog and the city council to ensure it followed brand guidelines.\nSeveral independent businesses in the East Midlands have also used Olympic logos in their shop windows.\nHobsons shoe shop on the Strand in Derby has put a display with five coloured rings in its window.\nThe shop's owner said he would keep the rings until he was told to take them down.\nThe owner of a neighbouring wool shop, John Sallis, had planned to create his own woollen Olympic rings to put on display.\nHe said: \"It's absolutely ridiculous - all I want to do is celebrate the Olympics by putting the five rings in the window to celebrate the Olympic runners coming past.\"\nOne shop owner in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, was told to take down her plastic rings by Trading Standards.\nJulie Swain, who runs a lingerie shop, said: \"We were hoping to have a competition for window designs for when the torch relay comes past. Obviously, I don't think we will be able to do that now.\"\nKeith Regan, from Leicestershire Trading Standards, said: \"The Olympic rings are very much protected.\"\nHe added that people could get involved by using different types of displays  - as long as Olympic logos were not used.",
        "answer": "The University of Derby has removed a sign supporting the London 2012 Olympics because it had not been officially approved."
    },
    {
        "question": "Stephen O'Brien urged the warring parties to allow the evacuation of hundreds of people who need urgent medical care.\nRebel-held front-line areas were subject to dozens of Russian air strikes overnight, observers said.\nIt allowed government troops to gain ground in the north of the city.\nHours later, the Syrian army offered rebel fighters safe passage if they evacuated eastern Aleppo.\n\"The army high command calls all armed fighters in the eastern neighbourhood of Aleppo to leave these neighbourhoods and let civilian residents live their normal lives,\" said a statement, carried by state news agency Sana on Sunday.\n\"The Russian and Syrian military leaderships will guarantee safe passage for the fighters and will give them aid as necessary.\"\nThe government made a similar offer in July, but the rebels ignored it.\nSyrian government forces have been trying for months to recapture the city's eastern half, which has long been a major opposition stronghold.\n\"I am deeply alarmed by the ferocious pummelling of eastern Aleppo city,\" Mr O'Brien, UN under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, said in a statement.\n\"Indiscriminate bombing and shelling continues in a shocking and unrelenting manner, killing and maiming civilians, subjecting them to a level of savagery that no human should have to endure.\"\nThe healthcare system in eastern Aleppo had been \"all but obliterated\", he added.\nOn Saturday, air strikes hit Aleppo's main trauma M10 hospital for the third time in a matter of days, medical workers say.\n\"The hospital is now out of service completely,\" radiologist Mohammad Abu Rajab was quoted by Reuters as saying.\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based opposition monitoring group, said dozens of Russian air strikes overnight had targeted front-line \"fighting zones\".\nA correspondent with AFP news agency said the districts of Bustan al-Basha, Sakhur and Suleiman al-Halabi were all hit.\nObservatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said the strikes had helped pro-government troops to advance in the north of the city, reaching the outskirts of al-Halaq district.\n\"Regime forces aims to control Bustan al-Basha and Sakhur districts, to tighten the zones controlled by rebels,\" he said.\nIsmael Abdullah, a volunteer with Syrian civil defence group the White Helmets, told the BBC: \"The bombing started from the morning. There are air strikes in the al-Maja neighbourhood and rescue teams are there to get the people out from under the rubble.\"\nRussia and the US are at loggerheads over ending the conflict in Syria, both supporting opposing sides in the five-year civil war.\nA US-Russia brokered cessation of hostilities recently collapsed and the US had threatened to end co-operation with the Kremlin unless Russia halts its military campaign.\nFor its part, Russia accuses the US of secretly supporting the powerful jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as al-Nusra Front) in its attempts to unseat President Bashar al-Assad.\nIt has emerged that Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his US counterpart John Kerry talked again on Saturday about the situation in Aleppo.\nBut there was still no sign of any diplomatic breakthrough that might end the bloodshed.\nOnce Syria's commercial and industrial hub, Aleppo has been divided roughly in two since 2012.\nAt least 250,000 people have been killed in the conflict, with the observatory estimating the true number to be about 430,000.\nMore than 4.8 million people have fled abroad, and an estimated 6.5 million others have been displaced within the country, the UN says.",
        "answer": "Civilians in the rebel-held part of the Syrian city of Aleppo are enduring a \"living hell\", the UN humanitarian chief has said, as fighting rages on."
    },
    {
        "question": "Cameron McGeehan's deflected free-kick gave the hosts the lead, before two goals in less than three minutes from Marriott and Joe Pigott made it 3-0.\nJayden Stockley headed in Tom McCready's cross just after half-time to reduce the deficit for Exeter.\nBut Marriott fired in from the just inside the box to secure all three points for the Hatters.\nLuton finished 11th, while the Grecians dropped to 14th after seeing their winless run extend to five games.",
        "answer": "Two goals from Jack Marriott helped Luton finish the League Two season with a comfortable win over Exeter."
    },
    {
        "question": "Stevens, 39, has had the cue since becoming a professional in 1994 and it has helped him win the 2000 Masters and 2003 UK titles.\nIt was taken from his white BMW between 20:00 BST on Sunday and 08:30 on Monday while it was parked on Gilbert Crescent in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.\nStevens has promised a reward for the safe return of his cue.\nIt was in a black case with the word MAXIMUS written in gold on the case.\nDyfed-Powys Police is investigating the theft.\nStevens, from Carmarthen, has twice been a World Championship finalist, losing to Mark Williams in 2000 and Shaun Murphy in 2005.",
        "answer": "Double snooker World Championship finalist Matthew Stevens has had his cue stolen from his car."
    },
    {
        "question": "Disagreement over when the event was first held means the carnival's 50th anniversary will be marked again this year, as it was in 2014 and 2015.\nThe first parades in the 1960s had many similarities to those held now.\nBBC News looks at how the event has developed into what organisers claim is the largest street party in Europe.\nIn 1959 a Caribbean style cabaret was held at St Pancras Town Hall to showcase the styles of carnival.\nOther Caribbean events were held in London during the 1960s before a parade was organised in Notting Hill by a team led by social worker Rhuanne Laslett.\nThe organisers said the aim of the festival was to bring cultures together through arts and Caribbean steel bands.\nBy the 1970s the festival was attracting increasing numbers of performers each year to west London.\nBut racial tension simmered at some events with a riot following the carnival in 1976.\nStatic sound systems, like this one seen in 1981, have become a major part of the event. There are now 38 separate sound systems as well as the World Music Stage at Powis Square.\nRelations between police and the organisers have improved over the years.\nThe carnival has always attracted a diverse crowd, like this punk in 1984.\nMasquerade bands, sound systems, steel bands, calypso and soca music are all carnival mainstays.\nThe costume troupes who parade each year are known as Mas or Masquerade bands.\nInternational stars have made appearances at the carnival, like Wyclef Jean in 2003.\nJouvert marks the start of the carnival on Sunday morning, where performers cover each other in paint and chocolate.\nVeteran DJ Norman Jay, seen here in 2006, has become a mainstay at the carnival with his Good Times sound system.\nAs well the costumes, music and dancing, the carnival is well known for its street food...\n...as well as the enormous queues for the carnival toilets.\nSamba band Batala have made numerous appearances and will be returning again in 2016.\nThe Sunday parade is more child-friendly and proves popular with families.\nRevellers will be hoping for an improvement in the weather compared to 2015.\nThis year's parades begin at 10:00 BST on Sunday and Monday.",
        "answer": "Every year more than one million people descend on the streets of west London to enjoy two days of festivities at the Notting Hill Carnival."
    },
    {
        "question": "The alert was raised at about 13:10 BST after the man's kayak capsized on the River Wey at Guildford and he went into the water near a weir.\nA police helicopter, firefighters and ambulance crews are all at the scene.\nCh Insp Dave Mason, of Surrey Police, said he had been seen in difficulty because of the strong current.\n\"We have a large number of officers out looking for this man alongside a number of fire crews,\" he said.\n\"The man was spotted in the water by several members of the public and was clearly in difficulty due to the extremely strong current.\n\"We are doing everything we can to try and find him.\"\nHe urged anyone who sees the man not to go into the river, but to call 999 immediately.\nThe man went into the water near Guildford Borough Council's offices.\nA flood alert is in place for the Upper River Wey, including the Guildford stretch.\nThe Environment Agency said river levels rose on Sunday and were expected to continue to rise on Monday.\nAn update on River Wey conditions from the National Trust on Monday said all river sections were in flood and dangerous to navigation.",
        "answer": "Searches are under way for a kayaker who overturned and disappeared from view after getting into difficulty on a flooded river."
    },
    {
        "question": "More attacks like those in Mumbai in 2008 and Paris last November could be being planned, Rob Wainwright said.\nHe was speaking as Europol opened its new counter-terror centre in The Hague.\nThe unit will seek to improve information exchange and identify the links between terrorism and other areas of crime.\nThe need was highlighted in particular by the Paris attacks on 13 November that killed 130 people. On Sunday, the Islamic State group posted a video apparently showing nine of the suspected gunmen before they carried out those attacks.\nWhat is Islamic State?\nWho were the Paris attackers?\nParis attacks: Who were the victims?\nParis attacks: What happened on the night\nThe opening of the centre coincided with Europol's new report on IS.\nThe Paris attacks and the downing of a Russian airliner over Egypt last October \"suggest a shift in IS strategy towards going global\", it says.\n\"IS is preparing more terrorist attacks, including more 'Mumbai-style' attacks, to be executed in member states of the EU, and in France in particular,\" the report, Changes in modus operandi of Islamic State terrorist attacks, says.\n\"The attacks will be primarily directed at soft targets, because of the impact it generates.\"\nIt suggests refugees fleeing Syria and other nations for Europe may be vulnerable to recruitment.\n\"Indeed there are reports that refugee centres are being specifically targeted by Islamic extremist recruiters,\" the report says.\nOther points in the report:\nMr Wainwright said more than 5,000 EU nationals had been radicalised fighting abroad and many had returned home.\nEurope's leaders, he said, had decided to establish \"for the first time a dedicated pan-European operational centre to combat terrorism\".\nMr Wainwright said the centre's priority would be to improve information exchange between EU members.\nIt will also focus on links to other criminal sectors.\nMr Wainwright said: \"We know that many terrorist suspects, such as those responsible for the terrible attacks in Paris, have a criminal background, are linked with the drugs sector, firearms and other criminal sectors.\n\"Critical to Europol, therefore, functioning as the EU's information hub on countering crime and terrorism will be to uncover those links.\"\nThe new unit will have between 40 and 50 experts in counterterrorism.\nEuropol has in total about 800 staff at its headquarters in The Hague. They work with law enforcement agencies in the 28 member states and in other non-EU partner nations to combat serious crime.",
        "answer": "Self-styled Islamic State has developed a new \"special forces\" style of combat to target Europe, the director of the EU's police agency Europol says."
    },
    {
        "question": "The pygmy marmosets at Skansen zoo in Stockholm had been destined for a Riyadh zoo.\n\"They didn't want the monkeys anymore because of the political situation,\" said Skansen zoo boss Jonas Wahlstrom.\nLast month the Saudi ambassador to Sweden was recalled, after Sweden ended an arms deal in a human rights dispute.\nWeighing just over 100 grams (3.5 oz) each pygmy marmosets are the smallest primates in the world.\n\"It's a little comical. I'll just have to wait until they grant visas to Swedish businessmen again. Maybe monkeys will get visas then too,\" said Mr Wahlstrom, quoted by Radio Sweden.\nLast month Saudi Arabia attacked Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom for an \"offensive\" speech which it called \"blatant interference\" in its internal affairs.\nSaudi Arabia prevented her from reading the speech at a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo.\nIn the speech, Ms Wallstrom called for \"freedom of association, assembly, religion and expression\" and for Arab nations to \"focus attention on women's rights, women's representation and their adequate resources\".",
        "answer": "Saudi Arabia has refused to accept four tiny Amazonian monkeys from a Swedish zoo because of a diplomatic row, Swedish media report."
    },
    {
        "question": "The blast led to the partial collapse of the five-floor building in Mansoura, 110km (70 miles) north of Cairo.\nInterim Prime Minister Hazem Beblawi called it \"an act of terrorism\".\nThere have been a series of attacks on the security forces claimed by Islamist militants since the military deposed President Mohammed Morsi in July.\nNo group has so far said it was behind Tuesday's attack, but security officials said it bore the hallmarks of the Sinai-based Salafist-jihadist group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis.\nThe military-backed interim government said it was an attempt to scare people ahead of next month's referendum on a new constitution - but that the violence would not disrupt voting.\nAlthough Mr Beblawi did not directly blame the Brotherhood, one of his spokesmen said it had showed \"its ugly face as a terrorist organisation, shedding blood and messing with Egypt's security\".\nAt a funeral for the victims, who included at least 12 policemen, hundreds of people chanted: \"The people want to execute the Brotherhood\".\nSome in the crowd held up posters reading \"no to terrorist groups\" and set fire to the car of a man who flashed a pro-Morsi symbol, while others attacked houses belonging to a leading member of the Brotherhood, according to the Associated Press.\nThe Brotherhood condemned the bombing, describing it as a \"direct attack on the unity of the Egyptian people\". It also accused the government of \"exploiting\" the violence to target its members and \"create further violence, chaos and instability\".\nThe explosion shook the building at about 01:10 (23:10 GMT on Monday).\nMedia reports say the provincial security chief was among those hurt. Officials said most of the casualties were police officers.\nThe blast shattered windows of nearby buildings and its impact was felt about 20km (12 miles) away, the reports say.\nMansoura - a city of about 480,000 people - is the capital of Dakahliya province in the Nile Delta region.\nSince the removal of Mr Morsi - Egypt's first democratically elected president - his supporters have been staging mass rallies demanding his immediate release.\nMore than 2,000 Muslim Brotherhood members have been arrested, and 450 of them on Monday went on hunger strike in protest at their \"inhumane treatment\".\nMr Morsi is now facing three separate criminal trials relating to his time in office.\nThe first trial opened on 4 November, but has been adjourned until 8 January.",
        "answer": "At least 15 people have been killed and more than 100 others injured in a car bomb attack on a security building in northern Egypt, officials say."
    },
    {
        "question": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nSteven Lawless fired the visitors ahead with a long-range effort against the run of play at Rugby Park.\nKris Doolan doubled the lead in the second half.\nKilmarnock had a strong claim for a penalty waved away when Kris Boyd was pulled back in the box before Thistle scored, but it wasn't to be their day.\nThe frenetic start provided evidence of the importance of this match for both sides.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nBut, with the home side fighting to scramble out of the play-off spot, it was they who pushed on early looking for the breakthrough.\nMiles Addison, Boyd and Greg Kiltie all spurned decent opportunities in the first 10 minutes.\nHowever, as Thistle rode the storm, they started to look more assured in possession.\nDavid Amoo could have put the Jags ahead on 15 minutes, but the midfielder's close-range header was directed straight at goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald.\nThe English midfielder took a bad head knock in the process and was replaced shortly after with Christie Elliot.\nThe possession pendulum started to swing back the home side's way and goalkeeper Ryan Scully scurried to tip a long-range Josh Magennis effort round the post,\nKilmarnock should have been awarded a penalty.\nBoyd burst through on goal and defender Gary Miller grabbed his shirt, but instead of blowing for a penalty, referee Andrew Dallas shook his head and waved play on.\nThe home side were still feeling aggrieved when Thistle took the lead.\nKilmarnock failed to clear a corner and, when the ball fell to Lawless, the winger blasted the ball left-footed low past Jamie McDonald from 20 yards out.\nThere was an air of desperation about Kilmarnock in the second half, but as they pushed and pushed they were punished by Thistle's top striker, Kris Doolan, who doubled the visitors lead just after the hour.\nHe found himself one-on-one with MacDonald and held his nerve to slot the ball low past the on-rushing goalkeeper.\nKillie manager Lee Clark sounded the bugle after that, but his charges just couldn't find a way through a well-organised Thistle defence.\nSean Welsh almost compounded Killie's misery with the last kick of the ball, but his thundering effort crashed off MacDonald's bar.",
        "answer": "Partick Thistle secured their place in the Scottish Premiership and consigned Kilmarnock to 11th place and a play-off tie against Hibernian or Falkirk."
    },
    {
        "question": "US officials have confirmed that one Navy commando died and three more service members were wounded, and say 14 al-Qaeda fighters were killed. Unconfirmed reports suggested a number of civilians were killed, including an eight-year-old girl whose father and brother were killed in drone strikes six years ago.\nHere's what we know and what's been reported.\nThe US operatives targeted the house of a suspected senior AQAP leader in the mountainous Yakla region of Bayda province - the focal point of recent US drone strikes in Yemen.\nA Pentagon spokesman said the clandestine mission - the first authorised by President Donald Trump - was an intelligence-gathering operation designed to retrieve computer hard drives.\nThe US commandos were dropped near the target location and engaged in a firefight with suspected AQAP militants. Chief Petty Officer William Owens, a member of the elite US Navy special forces unit Seal Team 6, was killed and one other service member was wounded.\nAQAP said in a statement that Abdul Rauf al-Dhahab, one of its leaders, was killed in the fighting. This has not been confirmed by the US.\nAt first, US officials said only that 14 AQAP fighters were killed and denied that there were civilian casualties. But reports credited to Yemeni officials and medics on the ground said that 16 civilians were killed, including women and children.\nAsked on Monday about the reports, Pentagon spokesman Capt Jeff Davis said that some of the AQAP fighters were women.\nHe said: \"Take reports of female casualties with a grain of salt. Not all female casualties are civilian casualties. In many cases, and certainly in this one, females can be legitimate combatants.\"\nOther reports said that an eight-year-old girl, Nawar al-Awlaki, was killed. Her grandfather, who was not at the scene, said in interviews with NBC and Reuters news agency that she was shot dead by US forces. Her uncle also posted to Facebook to say she had died.\nImages circulated on social media and by local media outlets purported to show her body.\nNawar is the daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, a suspected senior al-Qaeda leader killed by a US drone strike in 2011. Her 16-year-old brother, Abdulrahman, was killed by another US drone strike two weeks after the death of their father.\nAsked about the boy's death at the time, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary under Barack Obama, said: \"Maybe he should've had a more responsible father.\"\nThere has been no official confirmation of Nawar's death from Yemeni or US officials.\nCapt Davis said the raid had been planned months ago by the Obama administration but that the plans were handed over to the Trump administration, which authorised it as its first combat action.\nA US V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashed at the site as it attempted to evacuate the US troops, injuring two members of the crew.\nThe Osprey was too badly damaged to fly and was destroyed by the soldiers, who flew out on another aircraft.",
        "answer": "US special forces operatives carried out a raid in central Yemen on Sunday, targeting the house of a suspected leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Englishman opened with a break of 131 but was pegged back from 4-1 to 4-3, making the decisive move with a 74 break in the eighth frame in Cardiff.\nStuart Bingham plays Robert Milkins in the second semi-final at 19:00 GMT.\n\"It's always special when you reach the semi-finals and finals,\" said Trump, who won the European Masters in October.\n\"It's a different atmosphere out there and you really thrive off it, so for me to play in the final here, in kind of my home tournament - it would be an amazing achievement to win it.\n\"I feel like I've really improved this season and it's taking people at the top of their game to beat me.\n\"Every tournament I go into I'm fully prepared and give it my best shot. If I could win this and make it two ranking events in a season, it would feel like a step up to a  different level.\"\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news and reports on the BBC app.",
        "answer": "World number four Judd Trump is through to his first Welsh Open final after beating Scotland's Scott Donaldson 6-3."
    },
    {
        "question": "A 21-year-old and a 19-year-old are being held on suspicion of the murder of Marcel Addai in Hoxton.\nMarcel was stabbed in the chest on 4 September after being chased through St John's Estate in Pitfield Street. He died at the scene.\nPolice believe witnesses have yet to come forward. Marcel's family have appealed for help.\n\"These people must come forward to prevent another family going through the pain we are all now suffering,\" they said in a statement.",
        "answer": "Two men have been arrested after the killing of a 17-year-old boy in north London."
    },
    {
        "question": "Costelloe spent last season with the British Basketball League side.\nLokan, 25, who is also capable of playing as a centre, spent the summer with Western Australia state league side Perth Redbacks.\n\"Simon is a versatile big guy that can stretch the floor with his outside shooting,\" coach Daryl Corletto said.\n\"He'll give us options to play with a big line up at stages in some games.\"\nRaiders head coach Jonathan White said Costelloe was \"a great story\" for the club last season.\n\"He was definitely one of the positive things to come out of the roller coaster season on court. Dylan was a major part of our results towards the end of last season,\" White added.",
        "answer": "Plymouth Raiders have re-signed point guard Dylan Costelloe, while power forward Simon Lokan has also joined to complete their squad."
    },
    {
        "question": "Doris Long said she felt no fear as she came down Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower.\nThe great-great-grandmother last performed the feat on her 100th birthday in May 2014.\nThe pensioner, who has previously abseiled alongside new Top Gear host Chris Evans, is raising money for the Rowans Hospice in Waterlooville.\nMs Long, who first abseiled aged 85, said: \"I don't feel afraid and never have, I just have a placid nature.\"\nMs Long, who has a daughter, three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, received cheers and applause from the crowd as she reached the bottom of the tower.\n\"It was very hard work, much harder than last year,\" she said. \"It was so windy I swung about a bit but oh yes, I enjoyed it, I feel it's well worth it.\n\"My legs ache like anything and my right arm where I hold the rope and my hair is all sticking out.\"\n\"Daring Doris\", who has raised more than \u00c2\u00a311,000 for the hospice, said she hopes to repeat the challenge next year aged 102.\nJennie Watson, 42, from Locks Heath, who completed the abseil earlier in the day, said: \"You have to be quite agile to get the ropes down but it's the bravery more than anything. How she does it, I have no idea.\"",
        "answer": "The world's oldest abseiler, nicknamed \"Daring Doris\", has increased her record after descending almost 100m (328ft) aged 101."
    },
    {
        "question": "It is the latest in a series of steps to improve relations after a tense standoff in August.\nThe confrontation began when two South Korean soldiers were seriously hurt by landmine explosions along the border.\nIt escalated to threats of war and a brief exchange of fire across the border.\nTension only eased when the two sides met for lengthy discussions at which they agreed to resume previously suspended talks and restart family reunions.\nThose reunions were restarted in October, with talks beginning again in November.\nAs Friday's meeting will only be attended by vice-ministers, it is unlikely that they will discuss the most serious issues in the two countries' often tense relationship.\nThe official agenda of the meeting has not been made public however, analysts suggest they may discuss more regular reunions between families separated by the Korean War.\nThe resumption of South Korean tours to the North's Mount Kumgang resort, suspended in 2008, may also be discussed, reports said.\nBecause the 1950-53 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, the two countries remain technically at war.",
        "answer": "North and South Korea are holding high-level talks in the Kaesong joint industrial zone on the North Korean side of the border."
    },
    {
        "question": "Wales face England in the second game of the group stage on 16 June in Lens.\nThey play Slovakia in the opening game on 11 June and Russia the final match of Group B on 20 June.\n'I've got a strong feeling that we won't lose to England, even though they've had a good result against Germany,\" Rush told BBC Wales Sport.\nRush feels Chris Coleman's side will be full of confidence when they come up against Roy Hodgson's men.\n\"The first game is vital - you don't lose the first game,\" Rush said.\n\"After that, we'll go into the England game full of confidence.\"\nRush, who scored 28 goals in 73 games for his country, feels Wales are a side most teams would rather avoid in France, but believes this is just the start of the nation's football ascent.\n\"When you've got Bale and Ramsay in the side, as well as the defence we've got, teams won't want to play us,\" said Rush.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\n\"I'm looking at it as the start of something big. The easiest thing is getting there; the hardest thing is doing it over and over again.\n'We're going to have incredible support out there. We've had a good Euros, so let's take it to the World Cup.\"\nRush, who won five First Division titles and two European Cups with Liverpool, feels the tournament could be won by a number of nations.\nSpeaking ahead of weakened weakened Wales' 1-0 friendly defeat by Ukraine, Rush added: \"I think this is a wide open Euros. I think five or six teams could win it.\n\"England beating Germany tells you something about it.\n\"But France will be favourites because it's in France and they've got a good side.\"",
        "answer": "Wales' record goal scorer Ian Rush says Chris Coleman's men will not lose to England in the European Championships in France this summer."
    },
    {
        "question": "The \u00c2\u00a3500,000 project on the Newcomen Beam Engine at Elsecar Heritage Centre in Barnsley will take two years.\nThomas Newcomen's engines made removing water from mines faster and easier than existing methods.\nThe engine pumped water from Elsecar New Colliery between 1795 and 1923 and is on English Heritage's risk register.\nThe beam engine, shaft and engine house will be restored within the Elsecar village conservation area and is the last to remain in its original location according to the heritage centre.\nThe industrial site is of \"outstanding importance to England's industrial past\" according to English Heritage.\nElsecar was the industrial centre of the Fitzwilliam family from nearby Wentworth Woodhouse.\nIronworks, workshops, a canal, a colliery and the Fitzwilliam's family railway station remain around the engine making a tourist attraction that attracts 300,000 visitors annually.\nDr Fiona Spiers, of the Heritage Lottery Fund, said \"The importance of its unique industrial heritage is not as widely understood or as accessible to the public as it could be.\"",
        "answer": "An \"outstanding\" relic of the industrial revolution in South Yorkshire is to be restored."
    },
    {
        "question": "It happened near Ballat Crossroads at Balfron Station on Saturday afternoon.\nAn air ambulance was seen landing in a nearby field.\nPolice said the road was closed between the A81 at Ballat Crossroads and Drymen. Drivers were urged to use an alternative route.",
        "answer": "Police and the ambulance staff have attended a serious crash on the A811 near Drymen in Stirlingshire."
    },
    {
        "question": "Leslie Ross is accused of killing Michelle Bickerstaff, Margaret Weise and Elizabeth McKee.\nA preliminary enquiry has heard evidence from a number of witnesses over the past three days.\nThese included relatives of some of the deceased as well as retired state pathologist Jack Crane.\nThe details of the evidence cannot be revealed, due to reporting restrictions.\nA district judge thanked all those who had taken the stand, but said there was a \"significant amount of material\" to be sifted through and that \"it wouldn't be proper\" to come to a decision on Friday.\nThe case will now be mentioned at Newry Court on 25 February when the judge will give a date for his decision.\nHe told the families of the deceased that he expected that to be within 10 days of that appearance.",
        "answer": "A former stonemason from County Down will find out next month if he is to stand trial for the murders of three women over a 10-year period."
    },
    {
        "question": "PC Guy Sinnott is in a stable condition after being stabbed once in the stomach and once in the leg, during a response to reports of anti-social behaviour in Bow, east London, on Sunday night.\nThe youngster was remanded in custody at Stratford Youth Court.\nThe youth, who can not be named because of his age, is due before Snaresbrook Crown Court on 1 December.\nHe is also charged with possession of a bladed item.",
        "answer": "A 16-year-old boy has appeared in court accused of attempting to murder a police officer."
    },
    {
        "question": "Australia's Federal Court ruled last year that products marketed as targeting specific pains, such as migraine, were actually identical.\nIn a statement to the BBC, the UK-based company said it \"did not intend to mislead consumers\".\nThe Australian Competition and Consumer Commission had asked for a A$6m fine.\nHow to pick the best painkiller\nThe (ACCC) watchdog brought the matter to court last year.\nThe court ruled that the company had contravened Australian consumer law by saying its Nurofen Specific Pain products were each formulated to treat a specific type of pain.\nEach product contained the same active ingredient, ibuprofen lysine 342mg.\nThe products affected included Nurofen Back Pain, Nurofen Period Pain, Nurofen Migraine Pain and Nurofen Tension Headache.\nNurofen said it recognised \"that we could have done more to assist our consumers in navigating the Nurofen Specific Pain Range\".\nEarlier this year, Reckitt Benckiser removed a TV advert for one of its products - Nurofen Express. The advert had implied that the capsules directly targeted muscles in the head.\nThe company has said it will not re-broadcast it, following complaints that the ad was misleading.",
        "answer": "The manufacturer of Nurofen, Reckitt Benckiser, has been fined A$1.7m ($1.3m; \u00c2\u00a3890,000) in Australia for misleading customers."
    },
    {
        "question": "Rebellion, which prints the character's stories in 2000 AD, is teaming up with studio IM Global to produce the \"big-budget\" series.\nIt is the first time the futuristic lawman's on-screen escapades are being overseen by the Oxford-based publisher.\nRebellion said development of the project, titled Judge Dredd: Mega-City One, has begun, with the cast to be announced at a later date.\nThe programme will be filmed in the UK, a spokesman said.\nJason and Chris Kingsley, the owners of Rebellion, said: \"We're very excited to be beginning the journey to get more of Judge Dredd's Mega-City One on the television screen.\n\"Thanks to the legions of fans who have kept up pressure on social media, and a lot of background work and enthusiasm, we aim to make a big budget production that will satisfy both our vast comics audience and the even greater general screen-watching public.\"\nJudge Dredd patrols an over-populated metropolis in the 22nd Century, where he has the powers of a judge, jury and executioner.\nCreated by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra in 1977, his satirical stories took inspiration from hard-edged cop movies and the punk movement.\nHe has previously been portrayed in films by Sylvester Stallone in 1995 and Karl Urban in 2012.\nMark Stern, executive producer on the show, previously worked for the Syfy channel on Battlestar Galactica.\nHe described Dredd as \"one of those seminal sci-fi properties that seems to only become and more relevant with age\".\nHe added: \"Not only is it a rich world with biting social commentary, but it's also fun as hell.\n\"As a fan of the comics and both films, it's a dream come true to be able to work with Jason and Chris in adapting this for television.\"\nIM Global's previous productions include the Oscar-winning Hacksaw Ridge and Martin Scorsese's Silence.",
        "answer": "British comic book icon Judge Dredd is to star in his own TV show."
    },
    {
        "question": "The tweet read: \"I confronted a Muslim woman yesterday in Croydon. I asked her to explain Brussels. She said 'Nothing to do with me'. A mealy mouthed reply.\"\nMatthew Doyle, 46, was arrested on Wednesday night in Croydon.\nHe has since been taken to a south London hospital after he \"expressed concerns for his health\", the Met said.\nPolice would not confirm whether the arrest relates to the tweet which went viral or to other statements on social media posted by the same user.\nAt least 31 people were killed and scores injured when bombs went off in the Belgian capital on Tuesday.\nThe post was widely mocked on social media and spawned a wave of parodies.\nOne man wrote: \"I confronted an Irish women yesterday in Camden. I asked her to explain Bono. She said 'Nothing to do with me'. A mealy mouthed reply.\"\nLisa Holdsworth wrote: \"I confronted a woman in Croydon and asked her to explain shredless marmalade. 'Nothing to do with me'. A peely-mouthed reply.\nScotland Yard said Mr Doyle had been taken to hospital \"as a precaution\".",
        "answer": "A man has been arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred after allegedly posting a tweet in response to the Brussels attacks."
    },
    {
        "question": "Ballance (78) and Bresnan (63) steered the defending champions to 323 all out, a first-innings lead of 151.\nYoungsters Josh Shaw and Ben Coad helped Bresnan add 87 for the final two wickets to earn a third batting point.\nChris Rushworth took 5-93 for Durham, who were 98-3 at the close, still 53 behind, with Keaton Jennings on 46.\nThere was another failure for England Test hopeful Scott Borthwick, who followed being run out for two in the first innings by making only four before he was bowled by off-spinner Adam Lyth.\nJennings and Michael Richardson played out the final 6.1 overs after Jack Burnham was lbw for eight to Steven Patterson, his seventh wicket of the match.\nYorkshire began day two on 129-4, but lost four wickets during the morning session including Ballance, who was taken at second slip off Graham Onions, having hit 11 fours in his innings.\nBresnan reached his fifty off 106 balls after Shaw was bowled by Borthwick for 24, before he was last to go, caught at deep mid-wicket.",
        "answer": "Gary Ballance and Tim Bresnan made half-centuries as Yorkshire tightened their grip on the Division One game against Durham at the Riverside."
    },
    {
        "question": "They say they are lacking the brains of people with disorders such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.\nIn part, this shortage results from a lack of awareness that such conditions are due to changes in brain wiring.\nThe researchers' aim is to develop new treatments for mental and neurological disorders.\nThe human brain is as beautiful as it is complex. Its wiring changes and grows as we do. The organ is a physical embodiment of our behaviour and who we are.\nIn recent years, researchers have made links between the shape of the brain and mental and neurological disorders.\nMore than 3,000 brains are storied at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital just outside Boston. It is one of the largest brain banks in the world.\nMost of their specimens are from people with mental or neurological disorders.\nSamples are requested by scientists to find new treatments for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and a whole host of psychiatric disorders.\nBut there is a problem. Scientists at McLean Hospital and at brain banks across the world do not have enough specimens for the research community.\nAccording Dr Kerry Ressler, who is the chief scientific officer at McLean hospital, new treatments for many mental and neurological diseases are within the grasp of the research community. However, he says it is the lack of brain tissue that is holding back their development.\n\"We have the tools and the ability to do some great deep-level biology of the human brain now.\n\"What we are lacking are the tissues from those with the disorders we need to really understand.\"\nOne donor visiting the hospital, who wished to be known only as Caroline, told BBC News that she decided to donate her brain for medical research partly because her sister has schizophrenia.\nShe hopes that her donation will help researchers find a cure \u2013 and she's urging others to do the same.\n\u201cMy parents were fine but why did my sister get schizophrenia? We are not sure where it came from. How are we going to find out if we don\u2019t do the research on the brain, which is where the problem is.\"\nThere is a shortage of brains from people with disorders that are incorrectly seen as psychological \u2013 rather than neurological in origin. These include depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.\nProf Sabina Berretta, the scientific director of the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Centre, said: \"If people think that there are no changes in the brain of somebody that suffers from major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder then there is no reason for them to donate their brain for research because (they think that) there is nothing there to find.\n\"This conception is radically wrong from a biological point of view.\"",
        "answer": "Scientists are appealing for more people to donate their brains for research after they die."
    },
    {
        "question": "Martin Lewis, 56, caused \u00c2\u00a39,000 worth of damage at the Stag pub in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taff.\nHe also caused \u00c2\u00a312,000 in damage at his local Jobcentre days later over delays to benefits payments, Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court was told.\nLewis, of Treorchy, was jailed for 18 months after admitting criminal damage.\nLewis, who said he had drunk five or six pints, claimed \"everything was a blur\" after he lost his job driving buses in Coventry.\nThe court was told he was sacked by bus company bosses for \"not knowing the roads well enough\".\nRegarding the pub attack, prosecutor Rachel Knight said: \"He caused damage to just about everything that was not nailed down.\n\"The bar manager said it was completely out of the blue. He went outside to call 999 and the rampage continued. He said he didn't know what the defendant was going to do next.\"\nJudge Christopher Llewellyn-Jones QC: \"You said that you were depressed because of a shortage of money so it is ironic that you were in a pub spending money at that time.\"",
        "answer": "A sacked bus driver wrecked a pub by throwing chairs, tables and bottles after erupting into angry rage over losing his job, a court heard."
    },
    {
        "question": "Public Health England (PHE) told the Bristol Post it was investigating the diagnosis at Boardmasters festival in Newquay, Cornwall.\nThe teenager is a student at St Brendan's Sixth Form College in Bristol.\nFestival organisers said he had been unwell in the days before the event.\nThe student's college has had two cases of meningococcal infection since the spring of 2016.\nMore on this story, and other news\nDeputy director of health protection at PHE's South West Health Protection Team, Mike Wade, said his thoughts were with the family of the critically ill patient.\n\"We want to reassure people that all appropriate public health actions are being taken,\" he said.\n\"It is highly unlikely that this case is related to the previous cases at St Brendan's which occurred 14 months ago.\n\"The student has not attended the college since the end of the summer term at the beginning of July.\"\nThose in close contact with him at the festival were offered antibiotics.\nWhat is meningitis?\nSource: NHS Choices\nIt is not known if the man contracted the disease at the festival, but administering antibiotics to close contacts was \"standard procedure\" with confirmed cases of meningitis, PHE said.\nThe organisers and medical teams at Boardmasters Festival confirmed an 18-year-old was transferred to a hospital in Cornwall after being treated on site.\nDr Aaron Pennell, medical director of Emergency Doctor Medical Services, which was providing medical support at the festival said the teenager was seen and assessed by two intensive care doctors and two critical care paramedics who were part of the medical team on the site.\n\"The patient was assessed fully including initial blood and urine tests to identify life-threatening illness that were all initially negative,\" he said.\n\"He was transferred with a doctor and paramedic to hospital after his condition deteriorated after transfer to a welfare area.\"\nThe surfing and music festival ran from Wednesday 9 August to Sunday.",
        "answer": "Festival-goers in close contact with an 18-year-old who became critically ill with meningitis have been given antibiotics."
    },
    {
        "question": "The 18-tonne sand sculpture of the Giant's Causeway is being built not on a beach, but in the middle of a busy shopping centre.\nYorkshire-born artist Paul Hoggard has started shaping the first distinctive hexagonal stones in the city's Victoria Centre after spending hours shovelling in his raw materials.\n\"It nearly broke my back,\" he said.\n\"Eight hours of shovelling, you need to have the fitness of an athlete. But now I'm getting on with the sculpture and can be a little bit more artistic; now I need the skills of a surgeon.\"\nWorking alongside his wife Remy and a student helper, Hoggard intends to have the huge temporary artwork finished by the end of the week.\nThe sand sculpture was commissioned in conjunction with the National Trust. They hope the model will inspire locals and tourists alike to go and visit the real thing on Antrim's north coast this summer.\nMr Hoggard, who now lives on a farm in Bulgaria, has been sculpting full time since first trying his hand at the art form in India 20 years ago.\nHe has more than 1,000 works to his name, in locations all over the world. But like any sand castle, they do not stand for long.\n\"That doesn't bother me,\" he said.\n\"I am totally dedicated to the process of making it, that's what I love, not the end result. And anyway I always make sure to take a picture when I'm done.\n\"I'm 45 now but I'm still the biggest kid on the beach.\"",
        "answer": "A giant task to re-create one of the world's most famous landscapes using a bucket and spade has started in Belfast."
    },
    {
        "question": "5 August 2016 Last updated at 10:03 BST\nAbout 80 firefighters were called to the Regent Superbowl complex on Regent Road at 03:20 on Friday.\nNearby properties were evacuated and surrounding roads were closed.\nFire station manager John Baker, said: \"The smoke plume was an amazing sight - it can be seen from as far away as Acle and Lowestoft, so we knew it was quite big.\"",
        "answer": "A large fire has engulfed a Great Yarmouth seaside attraction."
    },
    {
        "question": "Albion beat Edinburgh-based Lowland League side Spartans on penalties in the first round but could be eliminated for fielding an ineligible player.\nCrusaders will be at home to Motherwell's Under-20s side who beat Queen's Park on Wednesday.\nTwo teams from the Republic of Ireland are participating for the first time.\nBray Wanderers will travel to Elgin City while Sligo Rovers have home advantage against Falkirk.\nThe matches are scheduled for 2/3 September.\nThis is the second season in which two clubs from Northern Ireland and two from Wales  are taking part in the competition which involves clubs from the Scottish Championship and Leagues One and Two as well as teams from the Highland and Lowland Leagues.\nLast year Crusaders lost 2-1 to Livingston while Linfield were beaten 2-0 at Queen of the South.\nThe competition was won by Dundee United who beat St Mirren in the final in March.\nSee the full draw for the second round of the Scottish Challenge Cup",
        "answer": "Irish Premiership champions Linfield have been drawn away to Albion Rovers or Spartans in the second round of the Scottish Challenge Cup."
    },
    {
        "question": "It has become the latest UK force to investigate the claims, first raised by former players in England.\nA UK-wide hotline has dealt with more than 250 reports in just one week since it launched.\nA senior Scottish officer confirmed that the force is working with partners, including the Scottish Football Association (SFA).\nIn a statement, a Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm we have received reports in connection with non-recent child abuse within football.\n\"We are working with both Operation Hydrant and the NSPCC to ensure there is a co-ordinated UK police response.\n\"It would be inappropriate to comment further.\"\nDet Ch Supt Lesley Boal added: \"We will continue to work with partners, including the National Police Chiefs Council through Operation Hydrant, the Scottish Football Association and the NSPCC to ensure a co-ordinated police response is in place and that we maintain an accurate picture of child abuse investigations.\n\"Speaking out about any form of child abuse is incredibly difficult and disclosures are often made many years after an incident took place.\n\"Police Scotland will listen to any such disclosure, regardless of the passage of time, and will investigate as well as work with partner organisations who have access to advocacy and support during the process of disclosure and investigation.\"\nThe police pointed out that a range of organisations can be contacted through Survivor Scotland.\n\"Keeping children and young people safe is a top priority for Police Scotland and everyone has a role to play in protecting the country's children,\" said Supt Boal. \"Where reports are made, we will assess any current risks and ensure appropriate action is taken.\"",
        "answer": "Police Scotland has confirmed its officers have received reports of historic child abuse within football."
    },
    {
        "question": "UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the civilians were at \"great risk\" and called for the provision of safe corridors to allow them to leave.\nSoldiers, police and militiamen began an offensive to retake Falluja, 50km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, on Monday.\nThe city has been held by IS longer than any other in Iraq or Syria.\nThe jihadists overran Falluja in January 2014, six months before it routed the Iraqi army and seized control of large parts of northern and western Iraq.\nAlthough the offensive to recapture Falluja was launched on Monday, Iraqi government forces have besieged the city and its suburbs for several months.\nResidents reported a second day of shelling on Tuesday, although it was less intensive than on Monday.\n\"No-one can leave. It's dangerous. There are snipers everywhere along the exit routes,\" one resident told Reuters by internet.\nThe UN says there have been no deliveries of aid since IS militants were driven from the nearby city of Ramadi in December and supply routes were cut.\nThe tens of thousands of civilians living in Falluja have faced acute shortages of food, medicine and other essential items. Prices have escalated dramatically.\nThe Iraqi military has urged all civilians to leave Falluja. It has instructed those unable to escape to raise a white flag over their location and stay away from IS positions and gatherings.\n\"No-one can leave. It's dangerous. There are snipers everywhere along the exit routes,\" one resident told the Reuters news agency by internet.\nMr Dujarric said the UN was \"very concerned\" about the fate of the civilians that remain in Fallujah.\nThe UN says women and children have died while trying to escape the city.\nFalluja has been attacked many times and bombed and shelled almost incessantly since it fell into the militants' hands in January 2014. It has withstood all that, despite huge destruction and many casualties.\nNow the government has committed itself to \"liberating\" the city once and for all, in an operation codenamed \"Break Terrorism\".\nBut there are conflicting assessments of how tough the battle will be.\nSome believe that IS has taken such a pounding in the town that its ability to resist has been sapped. Others, in touch with sources inside the beleaguered city, say the militants have long been preparing to face such an offensive and have deployed their full array of defences, including many roadside bombs and booby traps.\nHow tough will it be to recapture Falluja from IS?\n\"The humanitarian situation obviously remains very fluid as the fighting is ongoing.\"\nMr Dujarric said civilians would \"come under great danger as they try to flee\" and that it was important that there were some safe corridors that they could use.\nUNHCR spokeswoman Leila Jane Nassif said 80 families were believed to have fled Falluja since Friday.\nMs Nassif also expressed concern for the safety of men and older boys who survived the escape. She said they were being separated from the women and other children by security forces and taken for security screening at Habbaniya military base.\nIn the event that civilians are able to leave Falluja, the UN and other humanitarian organisations have set up shelters for them in nearby towns.\nIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, who has instructed the military to \"preserve the lives of citizens\" in Falluja, said on Monday that government forces had made better progress than expected.\nShia militias are reinforcing the army and police spearheading the offensive on the predominantly Sunni Arab city. But they will be restricted to operating outside the city limits, officials say.\nThe US-led coalition battling IS says it is providing air support.",
        "answer": "The UN has said it is very concerned about the fate of some 50,000 civilians in Falluja, where Iraqi forces are battling so-called Islamic State."
    },
    {
        "question": "Research suggests synaesthesia is nearly three times as common in adults with autism spectrum disorder than in the general population.\nThe two conditions may share common features such as unusual wiring of the brain, say UK scientists.\nThe study helps understanding of how people with autism experience life, says the National Autistic Society.\nSynaesthesia is a condition where one sense automatically triggers another. Some people experience tastes when they read or hear words, some perceive numbers as shapes, others see colours when they hear music.\nPeople with synaesthesia might say: \"The letter q is dark brown,\" or: \"The word 'hello' tastes like coffee,\" for example.\nFollowing anecdotal evidence of links between synaesthesia and Asperger's syndrome, researchers at the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University set out to test the idea.\nMore than 200 study participants - 164 adults diagnosed with high-functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome, and 97 adults without autism - were asked to fill in questionnaires to measure synaesthesia and autism traits.\nThe study found one in five adults with autism spectrum conditions - a range of related developmental disorders, including autism and Asperger's syndrome - had synaesthesia compared with about 7% of people with no signs of the disorders.\nProf Simon Baron-Cohen, who led the research, told BBC News:  \"Synaesthesia involves a mixing of the senses and it's a very subjective private experience, so the only way we know it's happening is if you ask people to report on their experiences.\n\"And what this new study has done is ask people whether they experience synaesthesia, for example where a sound triggers the experience of colour or a taste triggers the experience of colour, and finding that these unusual experiences are actually much more common in autism than we previously knew.\"\nThe research, to be published in the journal Molecular Autism, suggests that while the two conditions might appear distinct, there could actually be some underlying similarities in brain connectivity.\nSynaesthesia seems to involve unusual connections between brain areas not usually wired together, accounting for the jumbling up of the senses.\nOne theory about autism is that it involves over-connectivity of neurons, so that a person focuses on small details but finds it difficult to see the big picture.\nFuture research is needed to explore biological mechanisms behind both conditions, including carrying out detailed brain scans, says the Cambridge University team.\nCarol Povey, director of the National Autistic Society's Centre for Autism, said the study could help improve our understanding of autism.\n\"People with the condition can find everyday life confusing or even frightening, so research like this, which helps us to understand more about how they experience the world, is valuable,\" she said.\n\"It can help us to develop more appropriate support and to make adjustments according to their needs, which is vital if people with autism are to reach their full potential.\n\"With the right support at the right time people with autism can live the life they choose.\"",
        "answer": "A condition where people experience a mixing of the senses, such as tasting words, has been linked with autism."
    },
    {
        "question": "Doris Payne was arrested at a Walmart store in Chamblee, in Georgia, with $86.22 (\u00c2\u00a366) worth of items, police say. She has been released on bail.\nShe was found wearing an ankle monitor from a previous arrest for shoplifting.\nPayne has served multiple jail terms for her crimes. She is thought to have stolen $2m in jewellery and was profiled in a 2013 documentary.\nA shop employee observed her stealing several items from the pharmacy, electronics and grocery departments.\nHer lawyer, Drew Findling, was quoted by local media as saying: \"This is a sharp contrast to all the cases in the past. We're not talking about high-end jewellery.\n\"We're talking about what an 86-year-old woman needs to survive on a day-to-day basis, food supplies and medical supplies.\"\nShe had recently pleaded guilty of stealing a $2,000 diamond necklace from a department store in a suburb of Atlanta. She was then sentenced to house arrest and banned from shopping centres in the city's area.\nOfficials say she has used at least 22 aliases since she stole her first diamond when she was a 23-year-old, and probably got away with far more than she was convicted of.\nThe Jewelers' Security Alliance, an industry trade group, sent bulletins warning stores about her as early as the 1970s.\nIn a 2005 prison interview with the Associated Press, Payne said it was never about the money: \"I've had regrets, and I've had a good time.\"",
        "answer": "An 86-year-old serial US jewel thief, whose crimes date back to the 1950s, has again been charged with theft."
    },
    {
        "question": "A further 15 were being supported for trauma by the Foreign Office and Red Cross, Mr Cameron told MPs.\nNear simultaneous attacks, linked to Islamic State (IS) militants, were carried out on bars, restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France.\nThe 129 people killed included Briton Nick Alexander, from Essex.\nThe French government has said all the dead have now been identified. A further 400 people were wounded in the attacks, with 221 still in hospital -  57 of them in intensive care.\nMr Cameron said the government would make sure it provided the necessary support to all those left injured or traumatised by the events.\nIn the aftermath of the attacks, British minsters are increasingly confident they can get MPs' approval to launch airstrikes against IS in Syria, the BBC has been told.\nDefence Secretary Michael Fallon has begun talking to Labour MPs to try to get the vote through the Commons. Downing Street insists there is no timetable for a vote yet but it is thought it could happen before Christmas.\nFollow the latest live updates after a police raid on a flat in Saint Denis.\nEyewitness account: 'We experienced scenes of war'\nYoung British Muslims discuss radicalisation\nWhat should you do in an attack?\nStories from Britons caught up in the attacks are still emerging.\nOne couple from Leeds have described how they escaped through a skylight when the Bataclan concert hall was attacked.\nTony Scott and Justine Merton climbed onto the roof when heavily-armed gunmen stormed the building, during an Eagles of Death Metal concert.\nThe engaged pair, who first met at a rock concert, usually watched gigs at floor level but they had arrived late so headed up to the balcony for a good view.\nMr Scott told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the \"insignificant\" decision to go upstairs ended up being \"the difference between life and death\".\nFrom there, they were able to escape into the stairwell, climb up a grate and out onto the roof. They were then ushered to an apartment where they hid with others, before armed police eventually found them.\nAnother couple, also at the concert, described how they went back inside to rescue a friend hurt in the crush to escape.\nMaria and Patrick Moore, from Southampton, were unharmed but they walked to hospital with their friend, who had a broken collarbone.\n\"I don't feel different but there's guilt that we got out and other people didn't,\" Mrs Moore, now back home, told the Southern Daily Echo.\nThe three gunmen at the concert hall killed 89 people, among them Mr Alexander, 36, who was selling merchandise at the gig.\nHis friend, David Gray, said Nick \"didn't stand a chance of getting out\" because his stall was by the front door and the emergency exits were at the sides of the stage.\nBand members of Eagles of Death Metal tweeted: \"Our thoughts and hearts are first and foremost with our brother Nick Alexander.\"\nThey said the band, now back home in the US, were \"horrified and still trying to come to terms with what happened\".\nFriends of Mr Alexander have paid tribute to a clever and charming man.\nMeanwhile, the Muslim Council of Britain has taken out an advert in the Daily Telegraph, saying the \"barbaric acts\" have no sanction in the religion of Islam and British Muslims were united in condemning them.",
        "answer": "Three Britons injured in Friday's terror attacks on Paris are out of hospital and have returned to the UK, Prime Minister David Cameron has said."
    },
    {
        "question": "It charts the British star's move to Hollywood, where he played Igor in Mel Brooks' 1974 film Young Frankenstein.\nFeldman rose to fame writing on 1960s shows like radio's Round the Horne, The Frost Report and his own sketch show It's Marty.\nThe play has been written by Feldman's biographer Robert Ross.\nJones, who was a founding member of the Monty Python team and directed their film The Life of Brian, will direct a four-week season of the theatre production at London's Leicester Square Theatre from 18 January to 20 February.\nDuring the 1960s the Python star worked with Feldman several times, including writing sketches for and appearing in It's Marty.\n\"When I joined the writing team for The Frost Report, the first person to say 'hello' and make me feel welcome was Marty Feldman,\" said Jones.\n\"He was one of those very kind and very funny people who helped all the Pythons along the way.\n\"It's lovely to be able to say a belated 'thank you' by bringing him back to eye-popping life - sort of! - on the London stage.\"\nActor David Boyle will play Feldman as he struggles with life in Los Angeles and \"comes to terms with the burden of fame he has always craved\", as his wife Lauretta \"takes to the glamorous lifestyle with alacrity\". She will be played by actress Rebecca Vaughan.\nProducers say Jeepers Creepers will chart \"one of the most powerful and complex partnerships in comedy, through the unique gaze of one of the greatest: Marty Feldman\".\nThe play's writer Ross has penned several comedy biographies, including Feldman, Benny Hill and Carry On star Sid James, as well as The Monty Python Encyclopaedia.\nLast year Jones took to the stage himself for 10 Monty Python live shows at London's O2 Arena.\nJohn Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Jones and Michael Palin appeared together on stage for the first time since 2009. Palin told fans it would be \"the last time we'll be working together\".",
        "answer": "Monty Python's Terry Jones will direct the world premiere of Jeepers Creepers, a play about comedy star Marty Feldman and his ambitious wife, Lauretta."
    },
    {
        "question": "Nikki Griffiths, 33, of Roath, Cardiff, pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and possession of an imitation firearm at the shop in Fairwater Green, Cardiff.\nCardiff Crown Court was told Griffiths pulled the gun from his pocket when his demand was snubbed after being told the shop had sold out of potato fritters.\nHe allegedly told the worker \"it's not worth it\" before leaving the shop.\nThe hearing was told she thought she was going to be shot as she did not know it was incapable of firing.\nJailing Griffiths for 40 months, Judge Michael Fitton QC said: \"This was a serious offence. That member of staff was scared and shocked.\"",
        "answer": "A man who threatened a chip shop worker with a gun after being refused a free fish cake has been jailed."
    },
    {
        "question": "Anna Larsson decided to cut out sweet treats after realising how bad her young daughter's cravings had become.\nThe results shocked her: after a difficult few days, the little girl was no longer asking for yoghurts and iced buns, but happily consumed healthy options she would once have rejected.\nWhat's more, she was sleeping better and was less grumpy.\nAmazed, Mrs Larsson, 38, took to Facebook to share her experience in a post which has since been \"liked\" more than 2,400 times.\n\"I was in shock at the response,\" Mrs Larsson told the BBC. \"I really don't know why it happened. We know it is bad to give a lot of sugar to kids, or to anyone, so it is not news.\n\"I think I got this result with my story because I am just a normal person, and not a doctor or nutritionist.\"\nMrs Larsson decided to start cutting sugar out after her four-year-old daughter, who she is choosing not to name publicly, had a tantrum when she refused sweets.\n\"She said, 'It seems like I am never going to have it again',\" Mrs Larsson, a former journalist who works in physiotherapy, recalled. \"I thought, she has real cravings for sugar. She did not want to eat the food we are making, all she wants to eat are things like sweet yoghurts.\"\nWithin days of making the decision to cut down on sugary treats, the difference was clear.\n\"She was calming down so quickly, falling asleep so quickly in the evenings - and she did not want to look at the television all the time, she wanted to do things.\"\nHowever, while it is widely believed that sugar can affect behaviour, there is little scientific evidence to back this up.\nSource: NHS\nFood which had been rejected by Mrs Larsson's daughter a week ago was now being described as the \"best ever\".\n\"Her taste buds were like new,\" said Mrs Larsson, who was so surprised by the results she decided to share them online.\nIt seems to have struck a chord with hundreds of other parents.\nSince then, she has written articles for national newspaper Aftonbladet, and has appeared on television. But not everyone has been so impressed.\n\"Some people think it is extreme, but I have never said you cannot eat sugar. We do eat sugar - but you cannot eat it every day.\"\nMrs Larsson is now calling on other parents who are concerned to follow in her footsteps.\n\"If your kid has this total craving for sugar then they need help. The kid cannot do it themselves - it is up to us parents,\" she said.\n\"We cannot give them sugary treats just because we want them to be quiet in the store.\"\nSweden has one of the lower rates of diabetes and overweight children in Europe. In 2015, the International Diabetes Federation reported a 4.69% prevalence of diabetes in the country, slightly lower than neighbouring Norway and far lower than Europe's worst offender, Turkey, which has a 14.85% prevalence.\nMeanwhile, a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) put the number of overweight seven-year-olds in Sweden during 2007/8 at 23.5% for boys and 22% for girls, with 6.8% and 5.1%, respectively, being obese.\nIn comparison, Ireland - which has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in Europe, reported 31.8% of boys and 27.3% of girls were overweight at the same age.\nHowever, experts are still calling for more to be put into education and health campaigns in Sweden.",
        "answer": "A Swedish mother's successful stand against sugar has turned her into a social media sensation."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Smoking Matters service in Dumfries and Galloway helped 102 people in deprived areas kick the habit in the past year - 251 below target.\nPublic Health Consultant Dr Andrew Carnon said the trend was being mirrored across Scotland.\nHe said many people saw e-cigarettes as a stepping stone to stopping smoking.\nNationwide figures have shown a similar trend to those in the south west of Scotland.\nIn 2013, the Information Services Division reported that the number of attempts to stop smoking had fallen by 13% compared with 2012.\nThat was the first decrease seen in recent years and it was also suggested this could be \"partly explained\" by the rise in the use of e-cigarettes.\nDr Carnon said that although there was still a lack of evidence about their effectiveness, the NHS might have to review and adapt its smoking cessation service in the future.\nHowever, he said he believed that there would always be a need for support services in that provision.\n\"The position of e-cigarettes is at the moment not fully clear because they are so new there hasn't been all the research carried out,\" he said.\n\"We actually don't know at this stage just how effective they are in helping people to stop smoking.\n\"There is also a risk, potentially at least, that smokers may use them in certain settings where they are not allowed to smoke tobacco but without any intention of actually stopping smoking tobacco cigarettes.\"\nHe said that was clearly a case where they would not be of any benefit to a smoker's health.\n\"The third possibility, which again would not be a great one, is that people who don't smoke might feel that e-cigarettes are something that are much safer that they would like to try,\" he added.\n\"We just don't have the research evidence at the moment to say whether there is a risk that those people who might simply be experimenting with e-cigarettes might get drawn into using tobacco cigarettes at a later stage.\"\nDr Carnon said it was clear from research that people had the best chance of quitting with some support.\n\"It is not just about the nicotine replacement, it is not just about use of e-cigarettes,\" he said.\n\"It is actually about working with somebody to help you through the difficult process - because it's not easy to quit smoking.\n\"So really we would encourage people either to go to the smoking cessation service which is called Smoking Matters or to one of their local pharmacies who can help them or they can ask their GP if they would like some advice.\"",
        "answer": "A sharp decline in the number of smokers using an NHS support programme to help them quit has been linked to the rise in popularity of e-cigarettes."
    },
    {
        "question": "Karate, sports climbing and baseball/softball are the other three sports proposed by the International Olympic Committee's executive board.\nA decision will be made during an IOC session held on 1-4 August before the Rio Olympics start on 5 August.\nAn IOC statement said the sports \"offer a key focus on youth, which is at the heart of the Games vision for Tokyo\".\nIt added: \"They represent a combination of well-established and emerging sports with significant popularity in Japan and beyond.\n\"If approved, the change would be the most comprehensive evolution of the Olympic programme in modern history.\"\nFuture Games hosts are being given a chance to bring in one or more sports popular in their country to boost ratings and attract greater sponsorship.\nTokyo organisers had put forward these five sports last September and on Wednesday the IOC executive board voted unanimously in favour of the proposal.\nThe decision to add the five sports would not affect the current quota of sports at the Olympics and future Games would not necessarily have to include the same five sports.\n\"Discussions on the event programme in the existing 28 Olympic sports for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 are ongoing, and will be finalised by the IOC executive board in mid-2017,\" the statement added.",
        "answer": "Skateboarding and surfing are two of five sports which could be added to the Olympics for the 2020 Games in Tokyo."
    },
    {
        "question": "Rad Wagon organised the knitting of 2,000 miniature jerseys which were hung in the streets for Monday's race.\n\"We've had requests for them from as far away as the USA so we've asked people to donate to charities. It'll be another great Tour legacy,\" he said.\nFunds will go to Jimmy's, You Can Bike Too and Marie Curie.\nCycling instructor and non-knitter Mr Wagon was inspired to create the knitted bunting after seeing a similar project in Yorkshire.\nMore than 400 people took up their needles to knit over 2,000 miniature jerseys in Tour de France colours.\nIn addition, primary school pupils helped decorate some of the 40 wool-covered bicycle wheels hung along the route in Cambridge.\nThe bunting was taken down on Wednesday, and Mr Wagon and friends have been busy dealing with requests from individuals and organisations keen to have some.\n\"Almost everyone used their own materials, lots of wool was donated and everyone gave their time for free so of course we said they could have their jerseys back,\" Mr Wagon said.\n\"Then we started getting requests from people who had seen the bunting on television and the internet and wanted some as souvenirs because it looked so great.\n\"We picked our charities and have asked people if they would like to donate something. We're not selling it as such, just asking people if they'd like to help these causes.\"\nSince publicising that on his CamBunting website, Mr Wagon said many of those who knitted the bunting had pledged donations as well.\n\"I'm humbled by the enthusiasm and fun exuded by everyone,\" he added.",
        "answer": "Demand for knitted Tour de France bunting as souvenirs of the event in Cambridge has been so great, organisers have decided to \"sell\" it for charity."
    },
    {
        "question": "A busy main road in Nottingham was closed for two hours when a large tree blew down and blocked it, causing bus services to be diverted.\nHigh winds also blew down a tree at a school on the outskirts of the city.\nThe Met Office said gusts as high as 47mph had been recorded at Sutton Bonington in Nottinghamshire.\nDorcas Sukami was on a bus in Nottingham when a tree fell down blocking Hucknall Road at about 15:45 GMT.\n\"I'm actually really surprised nobody got hurt because the way that the tree fell it covered the whole of the middle of Hucknall Road,\" she said.\n\"A couple of the bus drivers were being held up and there was a lot of commotion.\"\nA tree blew down at Woodborough Woods Primary School as parents were picking their children up, but no-one is believed to have been injured.\nHighways England has advised people that driving in windy weather can be hazardous, and people should be particularly aware in northern parts of England.\nSeveral roads have been closed for safety to high-sided and vulnerable vehicles, and drivers are being advised to plan ahead and allow plenty of extra travel time.",
        "answer": "Storm Henry has brought strong and gusty winds across England - bringing down several trees in one city."
    },
    {
        "question": "Birmingham-born Woakes, 27, who has been with the club for his whole career, is now tied to Edgbaston until at least the end of the 2019 season.\nHe has played six Tests, 43 one-day internationals and eight Twenty20 internationals since January 2011.\nWicketkeeper Tim Ambrose, 33, and England Lions fast bowler Chris Wright, 30, have also signed deals, until 2018.\nWoakes has been on Warwickshire's book since playing for the club's Under-10s side and Bears director of cricket Dougie Brown is delighted to have secured him on a longer deal.\n\"Woakesy is a proud Bear and has been one of the leading all-rounders in the country for several years,\" said Brown.\n\"We're very fortunate to have him leading the attack in this early part of the season.\"\nFormer England wicketkeeper Ambrose continues his long association with Warwickshire, having joined from Sussex at the end of the 2005 season.\nWright took 67 wickets as Warwickshire won the County Championship in 2012 having initially moved to Edgbaston on loan from Essex in 2011.\n\"In Tim, we have an outstanding and vastly experienced wicketkeeper,\" Brown added.\n\"Along with Woakesy, he has won all domestic honours in the game and is the club's proud beneficiary for the 2016 season.\n\"Wrighty joined us on loan just before the end of the 2011 season, but he soon became a Bear permanently and went on to play a crucial role in our County Championship triumph.\n\"He is a key member of the bowling attack and we're delighted that he has committed to the club until at least 2018.\"",
        "answer": "England all-rounder Chris Woakes is among three players to have signed contract extensions with Warwickshire."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Nordic nation will start turning off the FM signal at 11:11 local time (10:11 GMT) on Wednesday, in favour of Digital Audio Broadcasting, or DAB.\nThe digital signal gives better quality and coverage than analogue - and for about an eighth of the cost.\nBut there are some who are concerned about the switch-off's potential impact on the elderly and motorists.\nAccording to a December poll published in the Dagbladet daily newspaper, two-thirds of Norwegians think the government is moving too quickly.\nBy the end of the year, national networks will only be available on DAB, while local stations have five years to make the switch.\nAnd despite 70% of Norway's listeners already using DAB to tune into their favourite stations, critics say too many people will be forced to make expensive upgrades to their equipment.\nA new car radio, for example, costs in the region of NOK4,000 ($468; \u00c2\u00a3382).\n\"Norway is not prepared for this. There are millions of radios in homes, cottages and boats that won't work anymore and only around 25% of cars in Norway have digital radios or adapters,'' said Svein Larsen, of the Norwegian Local Radio Association.\nOthers, however, want to cling onto FM - invented in the US in 1933 - for the memories.\nMarius Lillelien, head of radio at the national broadcaster NRK, said: \"Of course there is a lot of nostalgia in radio. That's one of the reasons this switch is so controversial.\n\"But that means people love radio and nostalgia is an asset to us whether we are broadcasting in analogue or on DAB.\"\nMinisters remain undaunted by the change, and countries like Switzerland and Britain - both considering a switch to digital networks - will no doubt be closely watching how the switch goes over the next few months.",
        "answer": "Norway is the first country in the world to start switching off its analogue radio signals."
    },
    {
        "question": "In the New York-based production, Julius Caesar is depicted as a blond-haired businessman in a blue suit.\nThe production company, Public Theater, said the character was a contemporary Caesar \"bent on absolute power\".\nOne of the sponsors, Delta Air Lines, said the producers had \"crossed the line on the standards of good taste\".\nIn the Shakespearean tragedy, which is staged in New York's Central Park, Caesar is assassinated in a lengthy scene in which he fights off his attackers before succumbing to multiple stab wounds.\nThe lead character's wife in the play, Calpurnia, is depicted wearing designer outfits and speaking with an apparent Slavic accent - suggesting that she is based on First Lady Melania Trump, who is Slovenian.\nThe company released a statement saying it stood behind its production.\n\"We recognise that our interpretation of the play has provoked heated discussion; audiences, sponsors and supporters have expressed varying viewpoints and opinions,\" the statement said. \"Such a discussion is exactly the goal of our civically-engaged theater\".\nThe company added its production in no way advocated violence and pointed out the message was that \"those who attempt to defend democracy by undemocratic means pay a terrible price and destroy the very thing they are fighting to save\".\nOn its website, the company states that the play is about \"how fragile democracy is,\" adding that it highlights how the \"institutions that we have grown up with can be swept away in no time at all\".\nTrump travel ban in fresh court defeat\nTrump sued over business foreign payments\nIvanka Trump condemns 'vicious' critics\nSessions to testify publicly on Russia\nTrump targeted at Spacey-hosted Tonys\nProsecutor fired 'after refusing Trump call'\nDelta said on Monday that the \"graphic staging of Julius Caesar\" at the Free Shakespeare in the Park event \"does not reflect\" the airline's values.\nPresident Trump's son, Donald Junior, criticised the production, asking whether boundaries had been crossed in what he described as art becoming political speech.\n\"I wonder how much of this 'art' is funded by taxpayers?\" he tweeted, adding: \"Serious question, when does 'art' become political speech & does that change things?\"\nOn Monday afternoon, the National Endowment of the Arts answered Mr Trump's question on its website, noting that \"no taxpayer dollars support Shakespeare in the Park's production of Julius Caesar\".\nThe play opened with previews on 23 May and the production is due to run until 18 June.\nDelta and the other sponsor to withdraw, Bank of America, have both supported the Shakespeare season in Central Park for several years.\nIn a 2012 production of Julius Caesar by New York-based The Acting Company, the Roman leader was modelled on then-President Barack Obama.\nCommenting on the row, Gregory Doran, the artistic director of the UK's Royal Shakespeare Company, said that Shakespeare could often surprise modern audiences with how \"relevant\" he is.\n\"Though he often set his plays in periods and places that were remote from his own, by doing so he could talk freely about his own society,\" he said.\n\"We constantly reapply that metaphor to our own times. Shakespeare is like a magnet that attracts all the iron filings of what is happening in the world.\"",
        "answer": "Two major US corporations have ended their sponsorship of a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in which the Roman leader mimics Donald Trump."
    },
    {
        "question": "Sky Ballantyne, 12 and sister Kia, 14, will appear on the BBC Two show on Sunday.\nThey will pitch their gadget Crikey Bikey, a harness to help parents teach children to ride bikes safely.\nAfter winning their Monmouthshire school's inventor competition, they became junior engineers of the year at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham.\nThe harness, worn by children learning to ride a bicycle, has a handle on the back for parents to hold on to, putting a stop to bad backs and scraped knees.\nSky had the idea after she saw a dad struggling to teach his child to cycle in the park.",
        "answer": "Two entrepreneurs are among the youngest to ever face the Dragons' Den panel."
    },
    {
        "question": "The biggest date in the British road race calendar will see men's and women's champions crowned in both road and time-trial disciplines.\nDirector Steve Shimmin said the project started 11 years ago and the island is \"determined to deliver a good show\".\nBoth the men's and women's road races will involve the famous TT course.\nThe event's co-director Richard Fletcher said the TT course \"picked itself\".\nHe said: \"It couldn't really be anywhere else given the history of the TT races and cycling on the Isle of Man.\n\"Manx stars are definitely amongst the favourites and the event is certainly gathering excitement.\"\nManx rider Mark Cavendish, who won the national road race title in 2013, said there is a \"huge amount of enthusiasm\" for hosting the national championships on the Isle of Man.\nFellow Manx rider Peter Kennaugh won the title in 2014 and again in 2015.\nKennaugh is the fourth man to win successive national road race titles in the professional era.\nOther Manx riders taking part include Mark and Anna Christian and Isle of Man resident Ben Swift.\nBoth the men's and women's line-up includes .\nResidents have been asked to paint old bicycles red and gold to decorate the course and the Isle of Man government has sent bunting to businesses on the course.\nSilly Moos campsite have decorated their campsite on the TT course, and announced: \"We're looking forward to seeing Peter Kennaugh and Mark Cavendish racing past our farm.\"\nMr Shimmin continued: \"We've been working a long time for this day and we are all very proud and really excited.\n\"The Isle of Man has a massive history of cycling dating back to the 1930s but this is the first championship of its kind here in the modern era.\n\"We want the Isle of Man to be at the forefront of world cycling as this event can only help with that vision.\"\nThe event will begin on Thursday with the time trials which see riders take on a 13.8-mile (22.2km) circuit which starts and finishes at Tynwald Hill.\nThe men's road race on 25 June will see riders complete two laps of the 37.7-mile (60km) Mountain Course before 10 laps of a 4.5-mile (7.2km) finishing circuit in Douglas.\nThe women's race, held on the same day, will involve one lap of the TT course and six laps of the finishing circuit.\nBritish Cycling's director of cycling Jonny Clay said the routes incorporate some of the island's \"most famous sites\".\nA mass participation sportive event will also take place on Saturday.",
        "answer": "Hosting the British Cycling National Road Championships can help put the Isle of Man at the forefront of world cycling, the event's director has said."
    },
    {
        "question": "It will be the first time the show has been seen in central London since 1990.\nSet in Depression-era New York, it tells of a young performer, Peggy Sawyer, who gets a shot at stardom when her show's leading lady is injured.\nThe new production begins previews on 20 March and will be directed by the original show's co-author Mark Bramble.\nFirst staged on Broadway in 1980, 42nd Street was named best musical at the following year's Tony Awards.\nIts original London production, whose cast included a young Catherine Zeta-Jones, won the Olivier award for best musical in 1984.\nZeta-Jones was a second understudy on the production who got a chance to perform when both leading lady Barbara King and her first understudy were indisposed.\nA Broadway revival in 2001 brought further accolades, including a Tony for musical revival.\nThe show has since been seen at various UK venues, among them the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2010.\n\"The original production had the look of a Warner Brothers black-and-white film,\" said Bramble.\n\"This time we're doing an MGM Technicolor version of 42nd Street with additional songs and dances.\n\"The theme of the show speaks louder today than ever before: Follow your bliss and with talent and hard work dreams can come true.\"\nRuby Keeler played Peggy in the original film, best-known for the scene in which she is told: \"You're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star!\"\n42nd Street will open at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, currently home to the musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.\nCasting for the show, which will have its official opening night on 4 April 2017, will be announced at a later date.\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram, or email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",
        "answer": "The stage version of classic film 42nd Street will return to the West End next year, with its producers promising even more singing and dancing than before."
    },
    {
        "question": "Power at about 55,000 homes could be off for \"days\" following flooding at an electricity substation in Lancaster.\nThe Army has been evacuating homes in Cumbria and nearly 50 severe flood warnings remain in place.\nPrime Minister David Cameron said the government was doing all it can to help people and prevent further damage.\nMr Cameron will chair a meeting of the Cobra contingencies committee on Monday to co-ordinate the emergency response.\n\"I would like to pay a huge tribute to all those emergency workers and troops who have worked tirelessly to respond to this weekend's events,\" he said.\n\"There has been a tremendous response from local communities too, with people taking in families affected by the flooding.\"\nFollow live updates for Storm Desmond\nListen to live coverage from BBC Radio Cumbria\nIn Pictures: Storm Desmond\nProvisional figures suggest more than 340mm of rain fell in 24 hours in the Lake District. The current record is 316.4mm of rain over the same time period at Seathwaite, Cumbria, in 2009.\nIn Cumbria, where a major incident was declared, emergency crews used boats to carry people to safety and eight rescue centres are open for those forced to leave their homes.\nRescue teams from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution evacuated homes in Carlisle, helping around 200 people.\nIn other developments:\nRoger and Julie Scoon, of Keswick, put their furniture in a room that was safe during the 2009 floods - but this time around the water came in through the windows.\n\"We did what we could, we got flood gates, we put tiled floors down so we can mop out, but we never dreamt it would come up here,\" Mr Scoon added.\nThe couple, who had been due to sell their house when the flooding hit, said of where they would be for Christmas: \"We can't think that far ahead... we'll just take it a day at a time really.\"\nJohn Chadwick was helped from his home in Carlisle.\n\"I was evacuated as the River Caldew burst over the flood barriers.\n\"I live alone and have severe mobility problems including osteoarthritis and mild epilepsy - I just had time to grab some medication.\n\"I have nowhere suitable to stay as I need ground floor accommodation with disabled access. Social services informed me that they were inundated and I would just have to rough it out at a friend's place a short distance away.\n\"The waters were 2in deep and I got out by dinghy.\"\nIn 2010, a \u00c2\u00a338m flood defence scheme for Carlisle - which has seen some of the worst flooding - was completed in a bid to protect about 3,000 homes and businesses around the city.\nFloods minister Rory Stewart said defences - which have been criticised - had given authorities more time to evacuate people and kept flood levels down.\nThe defences \"held strong\" but the huge levels of rain were too much for them, he said.\nHowever, Mayor of Keswick Paul Titley said the defences had been \"completely overwhelmed\".\n\"The flood defences were designed for a one in 100-year event and since it's six years since we had the last one, we were sort of surprised that we got one so soon,\" he added.\nThe Met Office has issued fresh yellow warnings for rain next week for many badly affected areas.\nStorm Desmond is the fourth storm to be given a name by the public in a project by the Met Office and Met Eireann in Ireland to help raise awareness of severe weather.\nLive flood warnings from the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.\nView the flood map by tapping on the image below\nTap here for the interactive flood map.\nNote: the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency display their flood alert data differently. While the Environment Agency highlights individual rivers only, in Scotland the entire region is coloured to indicate the level of alert.\nThis map and flood alert data are supplied to the BBC by third parties. The BBC is not responsible for its accuracy and you use it at your own risk.",
        "answer": "Tens of thousands of homes are without power after Storm Desmond caused severe flooding and travel disruption across northern England and parts of Scotland."
    },
    {
        "question": "Richard Pentreath, 63, also known as Hilary Clifford Thomas, is wanted on suspicion of causing arson with intent to endanger life on Thursday.\nOn Monday, he was found guilty of historical rape offences in his absence after failing to attend Woolwich Crown Court in London, police have said.\nHe is thought to have left Prestatyn by train in the early hours.\nHe was last seen at Crewe Railway Station in Cheshire on Thursday at 05:30 BST.\nA warrant was issued for his arrest following Monday's court case.\nPolice said he has links to the London, Gloucester and Manchester areas.\nHe is described as white, over 6ft tall (1.82m), with a slim build.\nHe has short dark swept back hair and a full grey beard. He also wears glasses. He was last seen wearing a dark coloured bobble hat, a waist length brown jacket and dark coloured jeans or trousers.\nDet Chf Insp Ian Verburg from North Wales Police said: \"We are in contact with other police forces, including British Transport Police, and are appealing for anybody who may have seen him, or anybody who may know of his whereabouts, to contact North Wales Police immediately.\n\"I would urge him to hand himself in at the nearest police station.\"",
        "answer": "North Wales Police are trying to find a convicted rapist following a fire at an address in Prestatyn, Denbighshire."
    },
    {
        "question": "Dixons Carphone rose 1.2% after it signed a deal with Sprint that could result in it opening up to 500 stores in the US.\nBy midday, the FTSE 100 index was up 22.86 points at 6,631.45.\nEurope saw modest gains earlier before shedding those as investors awaited the latest developments in Greece.\nIn London, shares in housebuilder Persimmon dipped 0.2% initially but closed up 0.4% after it said revenues in the first half of the year had risen by 12% to \u00c2\u00a31.34bn.\nThe firm said demand for homes was being supported by an \"increasingly competitive mortgage market\".\nShares in outsourcing company Serco continued to rise following its comments on Wednesday that it was still on track to meet full-year profit and sales targets. After rising 6.5% in the previous session they were up a further 11%.\nOn the currency markets, the pound fell 0.3% against the euro to \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1.4079 and was flat against the dollar at $1.5611.",
        "answer": "(Close): The FTSE 100 closed higher with shares in Dixons Carphone boosted by news of its tie-up with US mobile firm Sprint."
    },
    {
        "question": "Media playback is not supported on this device\nAfter a drab first half, Jose Mourinho brought on Willian and Diego Costa who provided some much-needed spark.\nWillian struck from 25 yards to give the hosts the lead while Loic Remy doubled Chelsea's advantage with a well-taken half-volley from 12 yards.\nKurt Zouma completed the scoring, heading in Cesar Azpilicueta's cross.\nWith the influential quartet of Cesc Fabregas, Nemanja Matic, Costa and Eden Hazard not starting - Jose Mourinho made eight changes to the team which lost to Tottenham - it was perhaps no surprise the hosts did not immediately click.\nBut Mourinho's men have suffered a dip in form of late, letting an eight-point advantage in the Premier League slip.\nChelsea lacked creativity and control in midfield, with Watford, fifth in the second tier, initially reducing the Premier League co-leaders to half-chances - a flick-on from a free-kick for Gary Cahill and then a glancing header from the defender.\nMedia playback is not supported on this device\nIt was no surprise to see Mourinho make changes at the break, but the Hornets' energetic pressing and physicality continued to stifle the Blues in the early stages of the second half.\nWatford nearly took the lead when Troy Deeney's hopeful shot deflected off Filipe Luis, narrowly missing the bottom left corner.\nBut within minutes, Chelsea were ahead thanks to Willian's fabulous arrowed strike into the top-right corner.\nWatford initially refused to cave in, but crumbled once they fell further behind courtesy of Remy's impressive half-volley, with the Frenchman pouncing while his team-mates appealed for a penalty for handball.\nKurt Zouma polished the script for the hosts, powerfully heading into the top corner to inflict a fifth loss in six FA Cup ties for Watford against Chelsea.",
        "answer": "Chelsea were far from their best but progressed to the FA Cup fourth round at the expense of Championship Watford thanks to three second-half goals."
    },
    {
        "question": "British Transport Police say the railway lines in Blaenau Ffestiniog are being used \"like a park\".\nPatrols are being increased in the area, and those caught trespassing will face on-the-spot fines or arrest.\nA 15-year-old girl and a 35-year-old man are currently being dealt with for anti-social behaviour in the area.\n\"Groups have been hanging about at the station and, worryingly, on the railway tracks, where they're consuming alcohol and drugs, and having barbecues,\" said Sgt Gemma Jones.\n\"They have so far shown a complete disregard for the residents who live nearby, as well as for their own safety. Quite simply, this has to stop.\"",
        "answer": "Police say they will crackdown on anti-social behaviour at a railway station in Gwynedd - including drug and alcohol abuse and barbecues next to tracks."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Reform Alliance was formed last year by five former Fine Gael TDs (members of parliament) and two former Fine Gael senators.\nThe group has denied speculation that the public meeting in Dublin was about the formation of a new political party.\nThey said it was a \"listening exercise\" about the future of the Republic.\nThe group of seven includes Lucinda Creighton, who lost her ministerial post after defying the party leadership over the abortion bill.\nShe was expelled from the Fine Gael parliamentary party last July, after voting against the government as the Irish parliament passed legislation allowing abortion in limited circumstances.\nSpeaking at the meeting in Dublin, Ms Creighton said the work of the Reform Alliance was not about party politics or replicating what already exists in Irish politics.\nShe said its purpose was to get those in power to embrace reforms in politics, the economy and the Irish health sector.\nMs Creighton was given a standing ovation when she mentioned the stand she and her Reform Alliance colleagues took against abortion legislation.\nThe group now plans to hold further meeting around the Republic.",
        "answer": "A crowd of 1,000 people have attended a meeting held by a group of seven Irish politicians who were expelled from the Fine Gael party over abortion reform."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Cork man, who was 76,  retired from RT\u00c9 last year, at the end of the 2014 World Cup, after a 49-year broadcasting career.\nHe had worked in broadcasting since the 1960s, and had been RT\u00c9's chief sports presenter for major events.\nMr O'Herlihy covered 10 World Cups, including Brazil 2014, and 10 Olympic Games.\nIn 1973, he founded the O'Herlihy Communications Group.\nHe began his journalism career at the age of 16 when he joined the Cork Examiner.\nHis first broadcast for RT\u00c9 was a piece on commemorations of the sinking of the Lusitania, off the Cork coast, for Newsbeat in 1965.\nHe also worked on the programme 7 Days.\nMr O'Herlihy presented the first Rugby World Cup on RT\u00c9 television, as well as co-presenting the very first Sunday Game with Jim Carney in 1979.\nHe had a heart attack in 1984 and had an operation in 2007 due to a colon cancer tumour, but recovered to resume his place as anchor of RT\u00c9's soccer coverage.\nHe won a Jacob's award for his presentation of the 1990 World Cup, Irish Sports Journalist of the Year 2003, and in 2007 he was named the Irish Film and Television Academy's Television Personality of the Year.",
        "answer": "The former RT\u00c9 broadcaster and PR executive, Bill O'Herlihy, has died."
    },
    {
        "question": "Only 29.1 overs were possible before the weather turned during lunch and play was abandoned at 17:10 BST.\nNorthants opener Ben Duckett missed out on a third Championship century of the season, edging Ajmal Shahzad to Chris Nash at slip to be dismissed for 72.\nDuckett was the only Northants wicket to fall, while captain Alex Wakely will resume 46 not out on the third day.\nAzharullah's 6-68 helped to bowl out Sussex for just 178 on day one.",
        "answer": "Northamptonshire reached 142-2 to trail Sussex by 36 runs, but rain at Arundel checked their progress on day two."
    },
    {
        "question": "People from all sections of academia, and MPs, are calling for EU researchers working in the UK to be exempted from any future immigration controls.\nThe prime minister has said she cannot guarantee EU nationals the right to stay without reciprocal arrangements.\nThe Science and Technology Committee has called for immediate action.\nThe call comes ahead of a demonstration in central London on Saturday.\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Sally Hunt will urge the Prime Minister to \"stop using EU staff and students as pawns in Brexit negotiations\".\n\"Show some humanity. Do the decent thing. Give our people the right to stay,\" she will say.\nProf Ottoline Leyser, representing the Royal Society, told the committee there were 31,000 non-UK EU citizens working in research in academia in the UK.\nShe said she believed that these people were \"all feeling very anxious and unwelcome\".\n\"There has been a lot of discussion about non-UK EU nationals currently working in the UK and what guarantees can be provided to them.\n\"I think it is absolutely not the way we should be proceeding - to use people's lives as bargaining chips in a broader political landscape.\n\"I do not think that is a constructive way to arrive at a negotiation table either.\"\nIn its report on implications for science and research following the vote to leave the EU, the committee called for \"an immediate commitment to exempt them [EU researchers working in the UK] from Brexit negotiations on any reciprocal immigration controls for workers already in post.\"\nIt also cited evidence stressing the importance of Britain being able \"to recruit and retain the very best scientists, whatever country they come from\".\nProfessor Philip Nelson of Research Councils UK told the committee: \"the biggest risks to the research base in the UK are around the people involved\".\nThe committee said it had received written examples of researchers considering rejecting UK job offers because of the uncertainty around the EU referendum result.\nIt said that Dr Sarah Main of the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) effectively summarised much of their evidence.\nShe said: \"It is not really a question of us allowing talented scientists and engineers to come here; it is about us fighting for them to come here.\n\"'There is an international competitive market for these fantastically talented people.\"\nShe added that she felt the government should clearly state its priorities \"for the place of science in our future\" and \"how it feels about the people that it wants to come here\".\n\"UK science is not done by UK nationals. It is done by many people,\" she added.\nUniversity vice-chancellors mirrored this claim saying it was essential that staff and students from across the world can come to the UK without unnecessary administrative burdens.\nUniversity UK chief executive Nicola Dandridge said: \"We also support the report's recommendation to appoint a chief scientific adviser to the Department for Exiting the EU. This would help to ensure that the significant implications of leaving the EU for science and research were adequately reflected in the government's post-exit plans.\"\nUniversities and Science Minister Jo Johnson said: \"We intend to secure the best possible outcome for our research base as we exit the European Union. The excellence of our research and the attractiveness of the UK as a place to do it are fundamental to our continued success.\n\"Our international relationships make us a global centre of excellence.\"\nShortly after the EU referendum result in June, the government gave a guarantee that students currently in higher or further education - and those applying for a place this academic year (2016-17) - would continue to be able to access student funding support.\nAnd in October this guarantee was extended to students wishing to study in the UK next year.",
        "answer": "Scientists, academics and students should not be used as \"pawns\" in political negotiations over Brexit, Theresa May is being warned."
    },
    {
        "question": "Ex-Navy steward Craig Bryden donned his costume on Friday and caught a bus on his way to hospital in Portsmouth.\nHe sat next to passenger Courtney Jones whose selfie with the 55-year-old has attracted hundreds of comments online.\nMr Bryden, who has been labelled the \"Pompey Pirate\", said he wanted to put a smile on people's faces.\nMr Bryden, from Copnor, spent 20 years in the navy, surviving the sinking of HMS Sheffield when it was hit by an Exocet missile during the Falklands War.\nHe said: \"I've got this inside me and it is going to kill me but between now and then I'm going to embrace life to the full.\n\"If I can put a smile on one person's face every day while I'm slowly ebbing away it will lift me up and keep me going.\"\nHe said he had intended on changing his costume for each session, but the pirate look has gone down so well he is sticking with it.\nMs Jones, whose online post has been shared thousands of times, said: \"He got on the bus and everyone stared; he immediately made me smile.\n\"We got chatting and he went on to tell me how today was his first lot of chemotherapy... but didn't want to go looking like everyone else and just wanted to make people smile.\n\"I have never felt so privileged and honoured to meet such a humble [and] brave man! You're an inspiration Craig!\"",
        "answer": "A Falklands War survivor with incurable lung cancer has become an internet hit after going to his first chemotherapy session dressed as a pirate."
    },
    {
        "question": "Media playback is unsupported on your device\n18 September 2014 Last updated at 16:42 BST\nNot only that, but a Scot has secured a place on the European team to compete against the USA.\nBBC Scotland's Catriona Shearer has been finding out about the legacy hopes for the Ryder Cup.",
        "answer": "Finally the Ryder Cup has returned to Gleneagles - where the first seeds for the competition were planted in 1921."
    },
    {
        "question": "Around ten miles of trails have been published online after an environment group borrowed a special camera from technology company Google.\nUsing the backpack camera, volunteers walked the paths recording imagery which took almost a year to stitch together.\nPeople can now view the paths in 360 degree detail, using the information to plan a day out.\nThe Belfast Hills Partnership hopes it will encourage more people to use the trails. the special backpack contained 15 cameras each taking 24 images a minute.\nGPS technology logged location information. Four volunteers were used to do the work last summer.\nThe result is now available through Google Maps' Street View function.\nThere are also links on the Belfast Hills website http://belfasthills.org/.\nJim Bradley was one of those who lugged the equipment around the hills.\n\"It weighed about three stone, or nineteen kgs and by the time I got to the top of Cave Hill, it felt even heavier,\" he said.\nPeople do not always react well when they spot the Google Street View car recording imagery and can sometimes make inappropriate gestures.\nMr Bradley said he did not think there had been such a reaction from the people whom they had met in the hills.\n\"But I haven't checked all the footage yet,\" he said.",
        "answer": "For the first time, people are able to view miles of public paths around the Belfast hills thanks to some sophisticated technology and an internet giant."
    },
    {
        "question": "The video, filmed on Friday, shows an officer in McKinney, Texas pinning a black 15-year-old girl in a bikini to the ground with his knees.\nThe protesters are demanding that the police officer, who is white, should be dismissed.\nThe officer, Corporal David Eric Casebolt, has been placed on leave.\nIn a statement posted on Facebook, McKinney police said they were called because a number of uninvited people refused to leave the swimming pool.\nA fight then broke out, and more calls were made to police.\nIn a video that is more than seven minutes long, Mr Casebolt is shown swearing at a number of black youths, pointing his gun at others, and pulling the girl by her arm, before pinning her to the ground with his knees.\n\"Call my momma!\" the girl screams several times as she struggles with the officer.\nThe girl, Dajerria Becton, told the Texan broadcaster KDFW: \"Him getting fired isn't enough.\"\nOn Monday night, close to 800 people marched through McKinney, a city of almost 150,000 people.\nThey walked from a school to the swimming pool, carrying placards with slogans including \"My skin colour is not a crime\" and \"Don't tread on our kids\".\nCivil rights leaders in McKinney said they wanted an investigation by the US justice department, and to see Mr Casebolt dismissed.\nThe incident comes at a time of heightened scrutiny about how US police forces respond to minorities.\nProtests have followed the deaths of several African Americans in police incidents since July 2014 - Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Eric Garner in New York, Freddie Gray in Baltimore and Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio.\nBenet Embry, a radio host who witnessed the incident, defended the police, saying: \"That's what they are supposed to do - protect us.\n\"I don't know any other way he could have taken her down or established order.\"\nA number of comments on the police department's Facebook page have defended the officer's actions.\nPolice said the video \"raised concerns that are being investigated\".\nMr Casebolt has not commented on the investigation. He remains in hiding, according to US media reports.",
        "answer": "Hundreds of people have marched to a swimming pool where a police officer was filmed pointing his gun at teenagers."
    },
    {
        "question": "The right-back, 27, was out of contract after two seasons at Southampton and is reunited with former Saints boss Ronald Koeman, now in charge at Goodison Park.\nEverton have already signed Jordan Pickford, Davy Klaassen, Michael Keane, Wayne Rooney and Sandro Ramirez.\n\"You can see this is a club that wants to achieve something,\" said Martina, who has 30 caps for the Caribbean nation of Curacao.\n\"Cuco Martina is an experienced player who can perform in different positions at the back, which is important,\" Koeman said.\n\"It's also important, with the number of games we will face in the coming campaign, that we have strength and competition in the squad.\"\nMartina recently became captain of his national team.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",
        "answer": "Everton have signed defender Cuco Martina on a three-year deal."
    },
    {
        "question": "Rio Andrew, 15, fell ill at the event at a disused building in East Croydon, south London, on 15 June 2014.\nThe teenager, who attended Holland Park School in Kensington, west London, was taken to hospital and died the following day.\nA post-mortem examination found he died from multiple organ failure and acute intoxication.\nFollowing an inquest at Croydon Coroner's Court on Wednesday, Met Police said it had suspended the investigation as there was \"no criminal case to answer\".\nIt said it would reopen the investigation only if new information came to light.\nCommander Simon Letchford said: \"Our thoughts are with Rio's family during this very difficult time.\n\"More than a year has passed since Rio's death and, with the culmination of the inquest, it has highlighted some of the dangers associated with unlicensed music events.\n\"I want to make it absolutely clear that where possible we will do all we can to prevent unlicensed events and illegal raves like these from taking place in London.\"\nPolice made 34 arrests on the night of the rave, leading to nine charges and seven convictions for offences including violent disorder and assault on police.",
        "answer": "A teenage boy who died after an illegal rave in south London died from taking ecstasy, a coroner has found."
    },
    {
        "question": "Ministers won Wednesday's House of Commons vote, with 498 MPs voting for the European Union Bill to go to the next stage, and 114 against.\nOf those, 27 MPs from Wales - including 16 Labour and 11 Tory - voted for the bill, with 10 against.\nThe proposed law would allow ministers to start the Brexit process.\nFollowing a Commons debate, seven Welsh Labour MPs including frontbencher Kevin Brennan were among 47 who defied party orders by voting against the measure.\nThe bill will now return to the Commons next week for the committee stage, when opposition parties will try to push through a series of amendments.\nClwyd West Conservative MP David Jones tweeted it was a \"historic day\". Wales backed leaving the EU in the referendum last year.\nShadow culture minister Mr Brennan was the second Labour front-bencher in Wales to announce he would vote against Jeremy Corbyn's wishes, following Jo Stevens who quit as shadow Welsh secretary on Friday over the order.\nMr Corbyn suggested at the weekend that shadow ministers who choose to vote against triggering Article 50 could be sacked.\nOn his blog, Mr Brennan said: \"I believe it is now quite clear that triggering Article 50 will lead Britain on a road to the kind of economy and society I have never believed in.\n\"That is also the view of the majority of my constituents.\"\nMr Bryant, a former shadow leader of the house, told MPs: \"I believe this bill, this way of Brexiting will leave us poorer, weaker and at far far greater danger in Europe, and in the west and in this country.\"\nHe added: \"Not in my name, never, never, never.\"\nRhondda Cynon Taf registered a 53.7% vote for leave in the referendum. All of the area's MPs voted against the Article 50 bill.\nDavid Jones, a minister for Brexit, said MPs were not voting on the referendum outcome but \"simply\" to start the process.\nHe said the vote was an \"opportunity for all of us to demonstrate\" respect for the referendum's outcome \"by supporting this small and important bill\".\nDavid Davies, Conservative MP for Monmouth and a prominent Leave campaigner in Wales, told MPs: \"Stop fighting the campaign and become part of what is going to take place now.\n\"Our prime minister tonight is going to reflect the will of the British people.\"\nOne of the Labour MPs to vote for the bill, Carolyn Harris, tweeted that the number of constituents who had contacted her to vote for Article 50 outweighed those that asked her to vote against.\n\"I was elected in May 2015 to represent the people of Swansea East and I must continue to carry out their wishes when voting in the Commons,\" she said.\nBefore the debate, Cardiff North MP Craig Williams, who had wanted the UK to stay in the EU, said the poll result must be honoured.\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales, Mr Williams said that, by originally voting to hold a referendum on EU membership, MPs had \"empowered the British people\" and \"now we're going to trust what they told us\".\nPlaid Cymru's Westminster group leader Hywel Williams said the vote was \"not about whether to accept the referendum result - it is about endorsing the Tories' extreme version of Brexit\".\nIn January, the prime minister said the UK must leave the EU single market but promised to push for the \"freest possible trade\" with European countries.",
        "answer": "A majority of Welsh MPs have voted in favour of a bill which will allow ministers to trigger Article 50 and leave the European Union."
    },
    {
        "question": "Torrential rain made conditions difficult at the Estadio de San Mames, but Raul Garcia headed in the only goal in the first half.\nAthletic Bilbao had the better chances, with Aritz Aduriz close to adding a second with a shot that was just wide.\nRodrigo came closest for Valencia, but saw his effort blocked.\n\"Both teams played with fantastic spirit in difficult conditions,\" said Neville. \"They were probably the worst conditions I have seen a game of football played in.\n\"It was very difficult for our forwards to get into the game, but we kept fighting.\"\nElsewhere, holders Sevilla played out a goalless draw with Basel in Switzerland.The Spanish side had midfielder Steven Nzonzi sent off late on.\nFellow Spanish side Villarreal took command of their tie with Bayer Leverkusen as Cedric Bakambu's brace gives them a 2-0 lead heading into the second leg in Germany next Thursday.\nShakhtar Donetsk are also in a strong position to reach the quarter-finals after beating Belgian side Anderlecht 3-1 in Lviv.\nTaison and Olexandr Kucher scored twice in the first half for the Ukrainian side and although Frank Acheampong pulled one back for Anderlecht, Eduardo's late finish put Shakhtar in control.\nMeanwhile, Marco Parolo gave Lazio a potentially crucial away goal as the Italian side drew 1-1 at Sparta Prague, while Mehmet Topal struck in the closing stages as Fenerbahce beat Portugal's Braga 1-0 in Istanbul.",
        "answer": "Gary Neville's Valencia suffered a narrow defeat by La Liga rivals Athletic Bilbao in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 tie."
    },
    {
        "question": "The 20-year-old fired in the opener from outside the box after 26 minutes, before the Buddies twice struck the woodwork.\nMorgan doubled his side's lead three minutes into the second half with a curling effort into the bottom corner.\nAnd former Ross County midfielder Ian McShane's first St Mirren goal sealed the win with 12 minutes to play.\nJack Ross' men join United and Queen of the South on nine points, and sit third in the Championship table, while the Terrors' inferior goal difference means they drop to fourth.\nMatch ends, St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 0.\nSecond Half ends, St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 0.\nStewart Murdoch (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Jordan Kirkpatrick (St. Mirren).\nMark Durnan (Dundee United) wins a free kick on the left wing.\nFoul by Ross Stewart (St. Mirren).\nFoul by Scott McDonald (Dundee United).\nGregor Buchanan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nSubstitution, St. Mirren. Ross Stewart replaces Gavin Reilly.\nSubstitution, St. Mirren. Darren Whyte replaces Lewis Morgan.\nPaul Quinn (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\nFoul by Gavin Reilly (St. Mirren).\nAttempt saved. Stewart Murdoch (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\nSubstitution, St. Mirren. Jordan Kirkpatrick replaces Liam Smith because of an injury.\nPatrick Nkoyi (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Gregor Buchanan (St. Mirren).\nFoul by Jamie Robson (Dundee United).\nLewis Morgan (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nGoal!  St. Mirren 3, Dundee United 0. Ian McShane (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Lewis Morgan.\nAttempt missed. Scott McDonald (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left from a direct free kick.\nBilly King (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Gregor Buchanan (St. Mirren).\nFoul by Stewart Murdoch (Dundee United).\nCameron Smith (St. Mirren) wins a free kick on the right wing.\nAttempt saved. Cameron Smith (St. Mirren) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.\nCorner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Mark Durnan.\nFoul by Willo Flood (Dundee United).\nCameron Smith (St. Mirren) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nAttempt saved. Cameron Smith (St. Mirren) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\nAttempt missed. Paul McMullan (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right from a direct free kick.\nAdam Eckersley (St. Mirren) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\nPaul McMullan (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\nFoul by Adam Eckersley (St. Mirren).\nSubstitution, Dundee United. Patrick Nkoyi replaces Fraser Fyvie.\nAttempt missed. Samuel Stanton (Dundee United) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.\nAttempt missed. Stephen McGinn (St. Mirren) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.\nCorner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Willo Flood.\nCorner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Fraser Fyvie.\nCorner,  St. Mirren. Conceded by Jamie Robson.\nCorner,  Dundee United. Conceded by Cameron Smith.",
        "answer": "Lewis Morgan's double helped St Mirren end Dundee United's winning start to the Scottish Championship season."
    },
    {
        "question": "A Harvard University team came up with a way to drive down the cost of flow battery technology, which is capable of storing energy on large scales - within an electrical power grid, for example.\nGrid-scale storage for renewables could be a game-changer - making wind and solar more economical and reliable.\nDetails appear in the journal Nature.\nWhile flow battery designs are suited to storing large amounts of energy cheaply, they have previously relied on chemicals that are expensive or difficult to maintain, driving up costs.\nMost previous flow batteries have chemistries based on metals. Vanadium is used in the most commercially advanced flow battery technology, but its cost is relatively high. Other variants contain precious metal catalysts such as platinum.\nThe researchers say their new battery already performs as well as vanadium flow batteries, but uses no precious metal catalyst and has an underlying chemistry that is metal-free, instead relying on naturally abundant, more affordable chemicals called quinones.\nThese water-soluble compounds are organic (carbon-based) and are similar to chemicals that store energy in plants and animals.\n\"These molecules are cheap and they're in all green vegetables, as well as crude oil,\" said co-author Michael Aziz from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\nThe mismatch between the availability of intermittent wind or sunshine and the changing demand for grid electricity is one of the main obstacles to boosting the fraction of energy that comes from renewable sources.\nProf Aziz told the Nature podcast: \"What do you do when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing? This problem is the one we think we can solve with a way to store massive amounts of electrical energy, if we can make it cost effective and safe. And we think we've taken a big step in that direction now.\"\nMuch like fuel cells, flow batteries store energy in chemical fluids contained by external tanks, instead of within the battery container itself as do the solid-electrode batteries found in cars and mobile devices.\n\"[A flow battery is] similar to a fuel cell in that respect. It stores energy as hydrogen gas outside the fuel cell and when you need to convert that chemical energy into electrical energy, you run it through the fuel cell to make electricity,\" Prof Aziz explained.\n\"The difference with a flow battery is that you need to run it forwards and backwards. You run it backwards to turn the electrical energy into chemical energy and store it in the tanks. Then you run it forwards to get the energy back out, converting the chemical energy back into electricity.\"\nThe amount of energy that can be stored by a flow battery is limited only by the size of the tanks and the amounts of storage chemicals that can be afforded, he added.\nIn an accompanying article in Nature, Grigorii Soloveichik, from General Electric Global Research in New York, called the results \"promising\", and said the approach \"may serve as the basis for a new flow-battery technology\".\nThe scientist, who was not involved with the latest study, added: \"If long-term capacity and energy efficiency retention can be demonstrated, and if practically useful batteries can indeed be prepared cheaply, then this technology will be suitable for a wide array of energy-storage applications.\"\nPaul.Rincon-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter",
        "answer": "US researchers have made an important step forward in the quest to store electricity from intermittent energy sources such as wind and solar."
    },
    {
        "question": "He could more accurately have described us as a nation of shoppers.\nConsumer spending is the driver of the UK's economic growth, accounting for about 60% of all our economic activity.\nThe quickest route to a downturn in that growth figure is consumers who rein in spending.\nToday's sharp rise in prices (inflation is now at its highest rate for four years) increases the pressure on the just-about-managing classes.\nAnd savers, once again, are feeling the strain in an era of ultra-low interest rates.\nThe fall in the value of sterling since the Brexit referendum is the main inflation driver (but not the only one) as it increases the prices of the 40% of food and fuel we import.\nAnd all the basics businesses buy abroad to make the things we purchase or provide us with services.\nOf course, it is not all one way traffic.\nSterling's decline is good for exporters and for those global corporations based in the UK which earn a substantial proportion of their revenues in dollars and pay increased dividends to shareholders that include our pension funds.\nSome inflation can also be good for an economy as businesses tend to invest more if they assume that prices - and revenues - will rise in the future.\nBut the clear and present danger from this inflation spike is for consumers.\nWhich is, pretty much, all of us.\nInflation is now at 2.9%, already above where the Bank of England believed it would peak by the end of this year.\nIncome growth is at 2.1%.\nThe incomes squeeze which returned last month has just become tighter.\nThere is some evidence it is having an effect, although consumers have so far been remarkably resilient in the face of rising prices.\nThe latest Visa data on credit and debit card activity earlier this week suggested the first fall in consumer spending in four years.\nThe retail sales figures published on Thursday by the Office for National Statistics will be closely watched.\nLast month's saw the biggest quarterly fall in seven years, although the figures can be volatile.\nBehind all this data are the real stories of people who are worse off.\nAverage wage growth masks wide variations, of course.\nThose in the public sector have seen their pay either frozen - or rises capped at 1% - since 2010.\nAnd those people who receive in-work benefits to top up their income have not seen those payments rise.\nIt is into this toxic mix that the question of austerity is thrown - public sector pay and benefits freezes are controlled by the government.\nYes, Theresa May can argue that government debts are still rising and that those debts will have to be paid off by future generations.\nThe need for \"sound money\" still holds sway among many.\nBut, if people feel worse off they tend to look to politicians for solutions.\nAnd if there aren't any, they tend to punish incumbents.\nSince the Second World War there have only been three elections where real incomes have been falling - 1945, 2010 and 2017.\nNone of them ended well for the governing party going into the election - even if they had just won a world war.\nNick Timothy, Theresa May's former chief of staff who resigned at the weekend, said voters \"were tired of austerity\".\nToday's inflation figure will only make that exhaustion - and pressure on the government to change tack - more acute.",
        "answer": "It was Napoleon Bonaparte who once dismissed Britain as a nation of shop keepers."
    },
    {
        "question": "The problem could turn off the engine in affected vehicles while they were being driven, disabling the airbags.\nThe carmaker announced the recall last month, but it has admitted employees knew about the defect as early as 2004.\nThe issue has been linked to 13 deaths and GM has also launched an internal investigation into the matter.\nMeanwhile, a recent report by the New York Times claimed that the US safety regulator had received more than 260 complaints over the past 11 years about GM vehicles that \"suddenly turned off while being driven\".\n\"But they declined to investigate the problem,\" the report alleged.\nThe US House Energy and Commerce Committee said that it is also investigating the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration's (NHTSA) response to consumer complaints related to the problem.\nFred Upton, chairman of the committee, said: \"Did the company or regulators miss something that could have flagged these problems sooner?\"\nHe added: \"We plan to seek detailed information from both NHTSA and GM and will hold a hearing in the coming weeks.\"\nThe recall covers six models: the 2005-07 Chevrolet Cobalt, 2006-07 Chevrolet HHR, 2007 Pontiac G5, 2006-07 Pontiac Solstice, 2003-07 Saturn Ion, and 2007 Saturn Sky.\nRecalls are not uncommon in the industry.\nHowever, the issue is being linked to deaths and General Motors' admission that employees knew about the defect for many years may prove tricky for the company.\nThe NHTSA has already demanded detailed information from GM about when it knew of the problem and how it handled it.\nThe carmaker could face fines if the regulators rule that it took too long to report safety issues.\nThe company also faces recall and repair costs as well as potential liability claims.\nOn Monday, the company said it had hired Anton Valukas, the Chicago-based lawyer who led the court-ordered investigation of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, to lead its internal inquiry into the matter.\nGM spokesman Selim Bingol said Mr Valukas \"has been charged to go where the facts take him and give the company an unvarnished report on what happened\".\nThe recall and the related investigations are the first major challenge for the new chief executive, Mary Barra.\nIt also comes as GM reported a 22% drop in profits for 2013, hurt by disappointing performance outside North America.\nGM made a net profit of $3.77bn (\u00c2\u00a32.31bn) for the last financial year, down from $4.86bn (\u00c2\u00a32.98bn) recorded in 2012.",
        "answer": "A US congressional committee has said it is investigating General Motors' recall of nearly 1.6 million vehicles over faulty ignition switches."
    },
    {
        "question": "Twelve people took more than 1,000 hours to make the replica caravan which includes working electric lights, seats and a sink with running water.\nOrganisers of the Motorhome & Caravan Show 2015, where it is on show, said it is the world's largest caravan built with interlocking plastic bricks.\nItems made of toy bricks include toothbrushes and a frying pan.\nThe replica Tab caravan has been put next to a real one at the show.\nJames Bissett, marketing campaign director for NCC Events, organisers of the show, said: \"To get the (Guinness) world record it had to be identical in every way in terms of the size, dimensions, look and functionality.\n\"Inside you can change the beds and the table as you can in the real thing.\"\nIt was unveiled at the show to celebrate 130 years of leisure caravanning this year, with the 2.2m tall and 3.6m long structure featuring \"a full interior\" according to show organisers.\nThe Lego brick caravan was certified the world's largest by an official Guinness World Records adjudicator, organisers said.\nIt is on display at the show until Sunday.",
        "answer": "A caravan made from more than 215,000 Lego bricks has been put on display at the NEC near Birmingham."
    },
    {
        "question": "The giant glass jar, placed outside the city's Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art, was smashed and its contents taken.\nDesigned by artist Caio Locke, it was entitled Endless Carnival and contained two painted merry-go-round horses.\nIt was one of 50 created to raise funds for Save the Children and Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity.\nThe Glasgow jar, which was more than 4ft tall (1.28m), has now been removed from the trail.\nPersonalities from across the globe, including Steven Spielberg, Prof Stephen Hawking, Simon Cowell, the Duchess of Cornwall and BFG actor Mark Rylance, were invited to help design a jar for the fundraising drive. The sculptures were then created by a specialist design company.\nMost of the dream jars are displayed in London but Glasgow, Birmingham, Cardiff and Cheshire are also taking part.\nArtist Caio Locke said his jar evoked the enduring magic of the fairground carousel: \"My dream is a carnival that never ends, with magical horses designed to keep the merry-go-round forever turning.\"\nNatasha Parker from Save the Children said: \"We are incredibly disappointed to learn that Ciao Locke's The Endless Carnival Dream Jar which was a beautiful and unique piece of art, has been taken from the city centre and will sadly no longer be a part of The BFG Dream Jar Trail.\n\"It was set to raise thousands for Save the Children via the live online auction at www.paddle8.com/bfg to help vulnerable children around the world get the chance to make their dreams come true.\"\nA spokesman for Glasgow City Council said: \"We were approached by the organiser of this project and asked to find a suitable location in the city.\n\"It's deeply disappointing that an artwork intended to help raise money for vulnerable children has been vandalised.\n\"If anyone has any information on who is responsible then we urge them to contact the police.\"",
        "answer": "A BFG Dream Jar artwork that was to be auctioned for charity has been vandalised after going on display in Glasgow."
    },
    {
        "question": "Hannah Blythyn, the Labour AM for Delyn, made her comments as an exhibition celebrating historical LGBT figures opens at the Senedd.\nShe said while growing up in north Wales 20 years ago, she had had few people she could identify with.\n\"I'm grateful to those who put their head above the parapet,\" she added.\nSome of the 20 figures selected in the exhibition include politician Leo Abse and former miner and union activist Dai Donovan, who liaised with the gay rights' group who supported miners during the 1984-5 strike and whose story was included in the 2014 film Pride.\nMs Blythyn told BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales Programme: \"I was shocked about how little I knew about these people and I think it's really important... particularly for LGBT young people growing up in Wales to have these people they can look to.\n\"For me it was incredibly important to be open about who I was because of the lack of people I had to identify with growing up.\"\nShe described her feelings at being called a role model for young people herself at an event shortly after she had been elected.\nSomebody said to her: \"'There's two teenagers who are gay and they saw what you were on social media and it's made a massive difference to them.'\n\"That really took my breath away, not because what they were saying about me but because how far things have come since I was that age, that people feel a lot more confident and open about their sexuality,\" she said.\nAs well as the exhibition Icons and Allies, the assembly is holding a debate on Wednesday to mark LGBT history month which will look at education and tackling homophobic bullying.",
        "answer": "One of three gay politicians elected to the Welsh Assembly last year has spoken of the importance of having role models for LGBT people in Wales."
    },
    {
        "question": "Greig Spence gave the hosts an ideal start with a close-range finish.\nIt remained 1-0 until the 70th minute when Lewis Spence turned home Jamie Robson's cross for the equaliser.\nHowever, Cowden would muster a later winner as Chris Kane came off the bench to head in Declan Hughes' delivery and leave Brechin four points from safety.",
        "answer": "Cowdenbeath's resurgence continued with a third straight win, this time over Scottish League One bottom side Brechin City."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Human Rights Committee said so-called bulk data gathering was \"capable of being justified\".\nIt welcomed the Investigatory Powers Bill as a \"significant step forward\" in human rights terms but said more safeguards were needed.\nThe Home Office said it welcomed the joint committee's report.\nThe Investigatory Powers Bill aims to put on a firmer legal footing the collection by the security services of vast quantities of internet data in the UK and personal details held on databases.\nHome Secretary Theresa May says these so-called bulk powers have played a significant role in every major counter-terrorism investigation over the past decade.\nBut civil liberties groups have raised concerns about privacy.\nThe government has already had to significantly amend its proposals after a draft bill last year was heavily criticised by three parliamentary committees.\nThe legislation returns to the Commons on Monday for further scrutiny, and the government wants it to become law by the end of year.\nAhead of the debate, the joint committee said in a report that bulk powers were not \"inherently incompatible with the right to respect for private life\", saying it was \"capable of being justified if they have a sufficiently clear legal basis, are shown to be necessary, and are proportionate\".\nBut it said the operational case for using the power should be assessed by the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, who should report back to Parliament.\nOn the human rights implications of the bill, the committee welcomed steps towards providing \"a clear and transparent legal basis\" for the investigatory powers being used by security and intelligence agencies.\nBut it said improvements could be made \"to enhance further the compatibility of the legal framework with human rights\".\nThe MPs and peers also raised concerns that the wording of clauses concerning the subject matter of targeted interception and equipment interference warrants was \"too broadly drafted\" and suggested it should be tightened to prevent \"large numbers of people\" potentially falling within its scope.\nAnd it said major alterations to warrants should not take place without approval by a judicial commissioner.\n\"In our view, the power to make major modifications to warrants for targeted interception, without judicial approvals, is so wide as to give rise to real concern that the requirement of judicial authorisation can be circumvented, thereby undermining that important safeguard against arbitrariness,\" it said.\nThe committee also questioned the robustness of new safeguards for legally privileged communications and called for extra safeguards in relation to MPs' communications and journalists' sources.\nCommittee chairman Labour's Harriet Harman said: \"Protection for MP communications from unjustified interference is vital, as it is for confidential communications between lawyers and clients.\n\"And for journalists' sources, the bill must provide tougher safeguards to ensure that the government cannot abuse its powers to undermine parliament's ability to hold the government to account.\"\nWelcoming the committee's report, a Home Office spokesman said the government has \"encouraged rigorous scrutiny of the bill\".\nShe said the draft bill was scrutinised by three parliamentary committees \"and we have listened closely to detailed and productive points made during Commons committee stage\".\n\"It is right that any further detailed discussion and debate should be on the floor of the House at report stage,\" she added.",
        "answer": "Powers that allow UK security services to collect large volumes of personal data are not \"inherently incompatible\" with privacy laws, say MPs and peers."
    },
    {
        "question": "The money is part of a government aid package of up to \u00a380m pledged to help 2,200 workers who lost their jobs when the Thai owners went into liquidation.\nIt will be used to help employees find jobs, support related companies and set up an emergency fund for staff.\nTask force chairwoman Amanda Skelton said it was important \"recovery work\" started quickly.\nMs Skelton, who is also chief executive of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, said: \"The task force is committed to getting this money through to communities as soon as possible so it can start to make a difference.\"\nA \u00a316.5m fund is to be set up to help local companies employ former SSI workers or their family members.\nThere will also be a \u00a32.4m fund to help ease the financial burdens facing SSI workers and their families, such as mortgage or rent payments.\nBusiness Secretary Sajid Javid said the support would \"make a difference\" and the government was \"determined to work hard to boost growth and jobs in the Tees Valley\".",
        "answer": "Workers and supply chain firms affected by the closure of Redcar's SSI steel plant are to get a further \u00a335m."
    },
    {
        "question": "Elizabeth Needs had been ordered to pay back \u00c2\u00a31,200 pounds she had stolen from Bunty Farrand while the octogenarian was having her leg amputated.\nPerth Sheriff Court was told that Needs had failed to pay back the stolen money and had bought the vehicle instead.\nThe case was deferred for the 61-year-old to seek legal advice.\nSheriff William Wood had ordered Needs to pay compensation in December 2014.\nShe was charged with stealing \u00c2\u00a32,800 from her former friend, but admitted taking \u00c2\u00a31,200 between February and March 2013 after the Crown accepted she had spent a large sum redecorating Miss Farrand's living room.\nNeeds befriended her victim while her father lived next door to Miss Farrand in Blairgowrie.\nShe told the court: \"I forgot all about it. I just don't have the money because I have had to buy stuff for myself.\n\"I have also got a heart condition now. I have had to buy myself a scooter so I can get about more than what I am.\n\"Without a scooter I would have to stay indoors all the time. They are not cheap things to buy.\"\nSheriff Wood told Needs: \"What about the money you took from your victim?\n\"Are you going to pay it? The alternative is prison.\"\nShe replied: \"I might get better health in there. I can't get near my own doctor.\"",
        "answer": "A woman who stole an 87-year-old's savings while she was in hospital used the money to buy a scooter, a court heard."
    },
    {
        "question": "Burton's film, based on Ransom Riggs' novel, took an estimated $28.5m (\u00c2\u00a322.1m) over the weekend.\nPeter Berg's Deepwater Horizon, about the 2010 oil rig explosion and starring Mark Wahlberg, came in second with $20.6m (\u00c2\u00a316m).\nChess prodigy tale Queen of Katwe could only manage $2.6m (\u00c2\u00a32m).\nIts release was expanded nationally having made a limited debut the previous weekend.\nThe Disney film, starring Lupita Nyong'o and David Oyelowo, depicts the life of Phiona Mutesi, a Ugandan chess prodigy who becomes a woman candidate master after her performances at the World Chess Olympiads.\nLast week's top film The Magnificent Seven slipped to third spot with $15.7m in its second week.\nThe film, which stars Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, is a remake of the 1960 western film of the same name.\nFollow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.",
        "answer": "Tim Burton's film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children has beaten disaster movie Deepwater Horizon to the top of the US film chart."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Spaniard led overnight after an opening 64, but a three-putt bogey on the 12th and a double-bogey seven on 13 means he is tied second on nine under par with Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee.\nBjerregaard's six-under-par 66 included seven birdies and one bogey.\nEnglishmen Ian Poulter and Paul Casey are tied fourth on eight under.\nPoulter's score came after a second consecutive round of 68, finishing with four birdies in the last six holes after a mixed card until that point.\nCasey dropped a shot on the 12th in an otherwise flawless 69, which included four birdies.\n\"It was a great round and obviously finished off with some good birdies coming in,\" said Bjerregaard, who covered the back nine in 35 after starting from the 10th and birdied five of his last eight holes to come home in 31.\n\"Nothing much really happened on the first nine, I just played really solid. But I thought it was a good bit tougher than [Thursday] with the wind up. Some of the holes were playing really long.\"\nEngland's Ross Fisher, who lost out in a three-man play-off last year, was in contention to join the leaders after five birdies and a bogey on his first 13 holes.\nBut further dropped shots on 14, 15 and 18 meant he slipped to seven under, five shots off the lead.",
        "answer": "Sergio Garcia is three shots behind new BMW Masters leader Lucas Bjerregaard from Denmark after carding a one-under-par 71 in the second round."
    },
    {
        "question": "Based in Dubai, Careem is a rival to Uber and has developed a strong presence in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan.\nSuch cab-booking firms are particularly popular with women in Saudi Arabia, who are not allowed to drive.\nIn a statement to the Saudi Stock Exchange, STC said the stake would cost it $100m (\u00c2\u00a380m).\n\"This move is in line with the company strategy to invest in the innovative digital world, which helps the company to provide additional valuable and innovative products,\" STC said in a statement.\nCareem was founded in 2012 by two former management consultants at McKinsey, Magnus Olsson and Mudassir Sheikha.\nSTC is the biggest provider of phone services in the Middle East and North Africa.\nHowever, its investment in Careem is dwarfed by the $3.5bn that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund invested in Uber in June.\nThat money will be partly used to expand Uber's presence in the Middle East.",
        "answer": "Saudi Arabia's main phone company, STC, plans to buy a 10% stake in cab-hailing firm Careem."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Bulls forward, 31, has made 113 Super Rugby appearances, and played four times for South Africa in 2011-12.\nHis signing follows Tuesday's announcement that Wales tight-head Rhodri Jones will leave Scarlets for Ospreys at the end of the season.\n\"Werner will further strengthen us at the set piece and will bring vast experience,\" said coach Wayne Pivac.\nScarlets rugby manager Jon Daniels said the move for Kruger was made quickly following Jones' decision to leave.\n\"Having been informed that Rhodri had made a decision to leave the Scarlets at the end of the season, it was imperative that we recruited quality in that position to support the other tight-heads in the squad,\" he said.\nKruger is the second South African to sign for the Llanelli-based region in a week, following the announcement of lock David Bulbring's arrival.\nBoth signatures are intended to strengthen the pack to support an exciting-looking back division taking shape for next season.\nWales and British and Irish Lions centre Jonathan Davies is returning from Clermont Auvergne, and will partner Wales international Scott Williams, who has missed most of this season with a knee injury.\nIn addition, Cardiff Blues' Wales international Rhys Patchell is joining with a view to establishing himself as a fly-half after spending a lot of time at full-back in the Arms Park.",
        "answer": "Scarlets have signed former Springboks prop Werner Kruger on a three-year contract from next season."
    },
    {
        "question": "The contraction, which was bigger than analysts expected, was largely due to a slump in mining activity, the figures from Statistics South Africa showed.\nGold mining saw production fall, as well as platinum and diamond mining.\nWorkers in platinum mines have been on strike for five months.\n\"This makes for grim reading,\" said Razia Khan at Standard Chartered Bank.\n\"Mining, hit by protracted industrial unrest, fell almost 25% on an annualised basis. Manufacturing was down 4.4%.\"\nThis is the first quarter of negative growth since the second quarter of 2009. In the final quarter of 2013, the economy grew by an annualised rate of 3.8%.\nThe rand fell by about 1% against the dollar following the release of the figures, to 10.44 rand.\nCompared with a year earlier, the South African economy grew by 1.6%. GDP growth has been slowing steadily for the past three years as the economy struggles with high levels of unemployment, which currently stand at almost 25%.",
        "answer": "South Africa's economy shrank by an annualised rate of 0.6% in the first three months of the year, the worst quarterly performance in five years, official data has shown."
    },
    {
        "question": "The visitors led 15-8 at the break, with Liam Sutcliffe kicking a drop goal after Adam Cuthbertson, Ryan Hall and Jimmy Keinhorst went over for tries.\nLeigh's first-half tries came from Matty Dawson and Mitch Brown.\nBen Crooks got a third Centurions try after the break, but a Sutcliff penalty proved enough to seal victory.\nWinger Dawson got Leigh's Super League homecoming off to an ideal start, opening the scoring after four minutes, with full-back Brown adding a second try soon after.\nProp Cuthbertson was the catalyst for the Rhinos' response, crashing through for a try within a minute of coming off the bench, while hooker Matt Parcell was instrumental in allowing second rower Carl Ablett to get winger Hall over for a second try.\nKeinhorst forced his way over for Leeds' third try on 32 minutes, with Sutcliffe edging the visitors further ahead with a drop-goal from 40 metres.\nAfter the interval both sides had chances before Leeds eventually added to the lead after Leigh had Jamie Acton sin-binned for a foul on winger Tom Briscoe.\nDespite playing against 12 men, Leeds could only add two points from the boot of Sutcliffe, and Crooks set up a pulsating finish with a try 13 minutes from the end, with Keinhorst then making a try-saving tackle on Atelea Vea to ensure the win.\nLeigh Centurions coach Neil Jukes:\n\"It was a big improvement but I'm really disappointed with the result.\n\"We hung in there for long enough and I thought there were two big moments at the end on our right edge, where we needed to pass the ball.\n\"They are fine margins and we've got to make sure we take them. We're going to have to win some tight games and to do that we've got to nail the plays when they are presented to us.\"\nLeeds Rhinos boss Brian McDermott:\n\"I'm pretty pleased and proud of the defensive effort we showed in the second half but disappointed with what we did with the ball and how many times we turned it over, probably in the most cheapest fashion I've seen.\n\"There was error after error which is clearly not going to get us too far this year.\n\"But I know from experience that you can correct those things within a matter of days. What you can't put into a team is the toughness and steel you need to be to go through those tough periods.\"\nLeigh Centurions: Brown, Higson, Crooks, Tonga, Dawson, Reynolds, Drinkwater, Hock, Pelissier, Maria, Paterson, Vea, Hansen.\nReplacements: Hampshire, Hopkins, Acton, Tickle.\nLeeds Rhinos: Golding, Briscoe, Watkins, Keinhorst, Hall, Sutcliffe, Burrow, Mullally, Parcell, Singleton, Ward, Ablett, Jones-Buchanan.\nReplacements: Cuthbertson, Walters, Ormondroyd, McGuire.\nReferee: Jack Smith (RFL)",
        "answer": "Leeds Rhinos edged to their first win of the season by overcoming Leigh in the Centurions' first Super League home game for almost 12 years."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Romanian has only played three times this season, and has not started a game since April 2015.\nThe 23-year-old joined Wednesday on a three-and-a-half-year deal for an undisclosed fee from Bulgarian side CSKA Sofia in February 2015.\nThe Owls currently sit seventh in the Championship table, one point outside the play-off places.\nFind all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.",
        "answer": "Sheffield Wednesday striker Sergiu Bus has joined Italian side US Salernitana on loan until the end of the season."
    },
    {
        "question": "The Republican presidential frontrunner claimed that research by the respected Pew organisation showed a \"great hatred towards Americans by large segments of the Muslim population\" - but he did not refer to any specific study to support that claim, and we can't find one that does.\nMr Trump did cite a specific a study by the Center for Security Policy - \"very highly respected people, who I know, actually\" - which he said showed that 25% of Muslims in the US believed violence against America was justified \"as part of the global jihad\".\nMr Trump's press release:\nBut what exactly is the Center for Security Policy, and just how highly respected is it?\nThe CSP was founded in 1988 by Frank Gaffney Jr, a former staffer in the Ronald Reagan administration who has been accused of Islamophobia. On its website, the centre calls itself a \"Special Forces in the War of Ideas\" which offers \"maximum bang for the buck\" to its donors.\nThe CSP does not publish information about who those donors are, but according to a 2013 report by Salon they include some of the US's biggest aviation and defence companies - Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and General Electric.\nPromoted on the organisation's website are reports and books with titles such as Star Spangled Sharia, Civilisation Jihad, and Muslim Colonisation of America. Responding to the controversy over Mr Trump's remarks, the CSP said it was \"necessary to respond to the threat posed by jihadist terror in a way that ... calls it what it is\".\nThe CSP has been criticised across the political spectrum - by high-profile Republicans as well as Democrats - and by organisations which monitor extremist groups. Terri Johnson, executive director of the Center for New Community and J Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, called it \"an extremist think-tank\" led by an \"anti-Muslim conspiracist\".\nThe group was heavily criticised in 2012 after it repeatedly accused Huma Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton, of being a secret member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Leading Republicans including John McCain and John Boehner denounced the accusations.\nThe CSP has been criticised by a wide range of extremism monitoring organisations, including the  Anti-Defamation League, and Center for Democratic Values at City University of New York.\nArguably, no. According to the Bridge Initiative, a Georgetown University Islamophobia research project, the CSP survey was an online, self-selecting poll of 600 people, meaning respondents opted in to taking part.\nSelf-selecting internet surveys are less reliable that more traditional, random polling methods, because the opt-in element can lead to bias. Then there are the existing views of the organisation commissioning the poll - the CSP - which may have influenced the outcome.\nThe Washington Post called the poll \"shoddy\". According to the Post, the question had an agree/disagree answer format with agree in each case linked to the more controversial option - favouring Sharia law or supporting violence. Researchers say this format is affected by \"acquiescence response bias\" - we are generally more likely to favour agree options.\nThe CSP said in a statement on Sunday that its research methods were \"consistent with international industry standards\".\nMr Gaffney Jr served in the Reagan administration during the 1980s but left in 1988 to form the CSP, after his nomination as assistant secretary of defence was rejected by the Senate.\n\"Once a respectable Washington insider,\" according to the Southern Poverty Law Centre, which monitors US hate groups and extremists, Mr Gaffney Jr became \"one of America's most notorious Islamophobes\", the SPLC said.\nMr Gaffney Jr has repeatedly accused parts of America's Muslim population of what he calls \"civilisational jihad\". He has also called for Muslims to be investigated by a \"new and improved\" House Un-American Activities Committee - a highly controversial Cold War-era body which questioned and blacklisted US citizens accused of being communists.",
        "answer": "Raising the bar for US political controversy once again, Donald Trump called on Monday for \"a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States\"."
    },
    {
        "question": "On Friday Hayes also exchanged contracts to hand over power of London Wasps, who share Wycombe's Adams Park ground, to former player Ken Moss.\nThe Trust have taken control of Adams Park as well as the training ground.\nI'm extremely confident the club are in the best possible hands\n\"The Trust are delighted to take control of Wycombe Wanderers, especially in the club's 125th year,\" said Trust chairman Trevor Stroud.\nStroud added: \"The plan is to work to a break-even model which will secure a sound financial footing for the club.\"\nHayes himself believes the future of the club is in safe hands after relinquishing control.\n\"I've thoroughly enjoyed my time, first as managing director and then as owner, and my support for the club will continue to be just as passionate as ever,\" said Hayes.\n\"I'm extremely confident the club are in the best possible hands and wish the Trust every success in control of the club which I hold close to my heart.\"",
        "answer": "Supporters group the Wycombe Wanderers Trust have successfully completed the purchase of the club from Steve Hayes."
    },
    {
        "question": "His family's Stellar International Art Foundation owns more than 600 rare works of art by artists including Picasso, Renoir and Andy Warhol.\nHe has been photographed receiving a business award from Theresa May and his family has given more than \u00c2\u00a31.6m to the Liberal Democrats. The 67-year-old is now an adviser to Lib Dem party leader Tim Farron.\nMr Choudhrie and his family run a global business empire that includes hotels, healthcare and aviation.\nBut an investigation by BBC Panorama and The Guardian suggests he is also one of the world's biggest arms dealers.\nLeaked documents from the Choudhries' Swiss bank show that the family's companies were paid almost 100m euros by Russian arms firms in one 12-month period alone.\nOne company owned by the Choudhrie family, Belinea Services Ltd, received 39.2m euros between October 2007 and October 2008. Another company, Cottage Consultants Ltd, was paid 32.8m euros in the same period, while a third company - Carter Consultants Inc - was paid 23m euros.\nPanorama: How Rolls-Royce Bribed Its Way Around The World is on BBC One at 20.30 and available on the BBC iPlayer afterwards.\nThe leaked documents say one of the Russian arms firms paying the Choudhries \"makes cruise missiles\".\nSome of the payments were viewed as suspicious at the time by the Swiss bank Clariden Leu. Its compliance office in Singapore raised anti-money laundering alerts and the Choudhrie family accounts were reviewed by the bank's risk management team.\nIt's not clear what action - if any - the bank eventually took. But the leaked report describes the payments from the arms companies as \"incoming funds from clients offset business\".\nOffset payments are sometimes paid by arms companies to provide investment in the country that is buying the weapons. But anti-corruption campaigners say offset payments can be used as a way of funnelling bribes to middlemen and officials.\nIn the leaked documents, Clariden Leu describes the Choudhrie family as being \"very wealthy with an overall fortune of approx $2bn\".\nSudhir Choudhrie declined to comment, but lawyers acting for Bhanu Choudhrie have said he had no knowledge of the Clariden Leu documents.\n\"The report to which you refer appears to be a confidential bank document. Mr Choudhrie has not broken any money-laundering rules in any of his business dealings at any stage.\"\nThe lawyers said our questions about offset payments by Russian arms companies were too vague.\n\"You have not given the dates or amounts of the alleged payments or the basis on which you say they were 'suspicious' or made in relation to Russian arms deals. The business of Cottage Consultants was conducted in a lawful and proper manner.\"\nIn 2014, Sudhir Choudhrie and his son Bhanu were arrested as part of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into Rolls-Royce. Both were released without charge.",
        "answer": "Billionaire Sudhir Choudhrie has been welcomed by the British establishment."
    },
    {
        "question": "Natalya Sharina, who runs the Library of Ukrainian Literature, has been accused of inciting ethnic hatred.\nInvestigators say they found books by radical nationalist Ukrainian author Dmytro Korchynsky, whose works are banned in Russia.\nThe Ukrainian foreign ministry has protested against the search.\n\"This is not the first attempt by the Kremlin to label all things Ukrainian 'Russophobic' and 'extremist',\" the ministry said in a statement.\n\"We call on the Russian authorities to halt pressure on the work of the library - a cultural centre of [the] Ukrainian community.\"\nRussia's powerful Investigative Committee said a criminal case against Natalya Sharina had been opened and investigations were continuing.\nDmytro Korchynsky is a controversial Ukrainian nationalist who has helped to establish far-right political movements.\nRelations between Russia and Ukraine are strained following Moscow's annexation of Crimea last year and its support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.\nIn another development on Thursday, Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels have carried out an exchange of captured fighters.\nThe exchange, in the eastern Luhansk region, is said to have involved 11 rebels and nine government soldiers.\nThe BBC's David Stern in Kiev says it is a sign that a ceasefire introduced at the beginning of September continues to hold, and may be growing stronger.\nPeace talks are continuing in the Belarusian capital, Minsk.",
        "answer": "Russian investigators say they have detained the director of a Ukrainian library in Moscow after a search found \"anti-Russian propaganda\"."
    },
    {
        "question": "In its latest report, Moneyval said the Vatican had improved its financial management and its bank had shut down almost 5,000 suspicious accounts.\nVatican prosecutors had frozen about \u00e2\u201a\u00ac11m ($12m;\u00c2\u00a38m) and 29 money-laundering investigations had been launched.\nHowever, the agency said there had yet to be any indictments or prosecutions.\nIt said there was \"a need now for the anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist financing system to deliver effective results in terms of prosecutions, convictions and confiscation\".\nMoneyval said \"the Holy See/Vatican City authorities should ensure that the gendarmerie and the prosecutor's office have the capacity to conduct proactive financial investigations\" in order that current probes could produce results.\nThe Vatican said it had nothing to add to earlier comments welcoming Moneyval's acknowledgement that improvements had been made.\nMoneyval, which was making its third evaluation of the Vatican since 2012, said the Holy See should give an update by December 2017 on actions it had taken to implement the agency's latest recommendations.\nShortly after taking office, Pope Francis had said the Vatican's finances should be more transparent and its bank should operate in \"harmony\" with the mission of the Church.\nMoneyval's latest report comes about 18 months after the Vatican said it was replacing the entire senior management team of its bank as part of reforms of the Catholic Church's central government.\nIt said the bank would also eventually give up its investment activities to focus on serving religious orders and charities.\nThe changes followed persistent allegations that the Vatican bank had been used by money launderers and businessmen taking advantage of the bank's status - what amounted to an international offshore tax haven.",
        "answer": "The Vatican must \"deliver real results\" from its investigations into money-laundering, the Council of Europe's financial agency has said."
    },
    {
        "question": "Protesters shouted \"resign\" and \"shame on you\" as Elizabeth Campbell was made council leader at a public meeting.\nThe councillor said she was \"deeply sorry\" for the \"grief and trauma\" caused by the blaze in west London.\nThe fractious meeting ended early after a female resident fell to the ground and was attended to by medics.\nAbout 70 of the 255 people who survived the blaze attended the meeting after condemnation of the council's response.\nAt least 80 people are dead or missing after the tower block fire on 14 June.\nThe council has been accused of being slow to react on the ground and not doing enough to re-house Grenfell Tower residents.\nMany people in the public gallery at Kensington Town Hall were calling for the Conservative group that runs the council to resign and for new elections.\nIt was the first cabinet meeting since the fire, after the council abandoned an earlier meeting - which had been planned as a closed one - when members of the press were allowed in after a High Court judgement.\nAddressing survivors in the chamber, Ms Campbell said: \"I am truly sorry that we did not do more to help you when you needed it the most.\"\nGrenfell Tower fire: Who were the victims?\nFormer Grenfell Tower residents sat in the public gallery, while at least 150 community members and volunteers were in an overspill room.\nOne by one, residents and those who lost loved ones gave accounts of their traumatic experiences, voicing their distrust in local services.\nOne survivor, from the 16th floor of Grenfell Tower, who gave his name as Hamid, said he had \"had enough\".\n\"I need a place to go and start my life,\" he said. \"I'm not asking for something big.\n\"We need to move on. We want to go to work - kids got to go to school.\"\nAnother survivor told the chamber he had been living in a hotel room since the fire, with just one double bed between him, his wife and three children.\nHe said that the residents' main problem was a lack of action.\n\"I was forgotten about,\" he added.\n\"You know who has done something for us? The residents of North Kensington. Our community. Our neighbours.\"\nAs the meeting progressed, attention turned to a petition calling for the council's entire elected leadership to resign.\nIt was signed by more than 1,500 people, passing the threshold for a debate by councillors.\nLabour's newly elected MP for Kensington, Emma Dent Coad, said: \"I agree entirely with the petition's demands.\"\nMs Campbell, who was heckled again as she responded to the petition, said: \"We will not continue business as usual and we will rebuild trust, as I said, brick by brick.\"\nEarlier, she said 68 new homes for Grenfell Tower survivors would be identified and bought within the next two weeks, and an additional 31 homes would be acquired in the next few weeks.\nThe councillor also promised that 400 new social houses would be built over the next five years.\nShe took over as de facto leader after Nicholas Paget-Brown resigned on 30 June.\nShe later admitted on the Today programme that she had never been in a tower block, but added that she had visited many council houses.\nA group of demonstrators stood outside Kensington Town Hall during the meeting holding Justice for Grenfell placards.",
        "answer": "The newly elected leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council has been booed and heckled amid continuing anger over the Grenfell Tower fire."
    },
    {
        "question": "The 25-year-old victim fell through the corrugated plastic ceiling of a kitchen annexe in a basement flat on Charles Road on New Year's Day.\nHe is thought to have fallen from a parapet after an incident in another flat, Sussex Police said.\nPost-mortem tests confirmed he died from injuries sustained in the fall.\nThe matter has been reported to the coroner for East Sussex.\nDet Ch Insp Mike Ashcroft, who is leading the investigation, said: \"We are keen to talk to anyone who may have information about what happened.\n\"If they saw or heard anything suspicious, or may be able to help in any other way, I would urge them to contact us here quoting Operation Masefield.\"\nTwo men aged 35 and 29, and two women aged 29 and 24 - all from St Leonards - and a 26-year-old man from Tring, Hertfordshire, have been bailed until 2 March pending further enquiries.",
        "answer": "Five people arrested on suspicion of murdering a man who fell four storeys through a ceiling in St Leonards have been released on bail."
    },
    {
        "question": "In the three months to March, some 943,000 16- to 24-year-olds were Neet, down 20,000 on the previous quarter and 45,000 on the same period last year.\nGovernment figures for England show a 174,000 drop on the same point in 2010.\nBut with one in eight young people still Neet, a leading training group described the fall as \"a tiny victory\".\nIn England, the current figure of 738,000 was the lowest since records began in 2001, ministers said.\nBut the statistics show a mixed picture in England, with the number of 16- to 18-year-olds out of education, employment and training rising by 0.3 percentage points, on the same period last year.\nGovernment statisticians says this increase is not significant, pointing out that it follows a large fall last year in Neet figures for this age group.\nThis followed the introduction of a requirement that teenagers in England to stay in education or training until the age of 17.\nThis will rise to 18 next year.\n\"These record low rates of young people not in employment, education or training demonstrate that our economic plan is working,\" said England's Skills Minister Nick Boles.\n\"No young person should be left without the opportunity of a regular wage and high quality training, that's why we will create three million new apprenticeships over the next five years.\"\nCity and Guilds chief executive Chris Jones said: 'It's great that more young people are in education, training, or work, but it's a tiny victory.\n\"We have a long way to go to make sure that no-one is slipping through the cracks, especially given the slight rise in the Neet rate amongst 16- to 18-year-olds.\n\"One of the best ways to do that is by improving careers advice so that young people are fully aware of their options.\n\"That includes using labour market information and the latest data on skills gaps to shape the careers advice on offer.\n\"That way, young people can get up-to-date advice on the industries and jobs that are in demand.\"",
        "answer": "There are fewer young people not in education, employment or training in the UK than at any time since 2005, the Office of National Statistics has said."
    },
    {
        "question": "An apparent link between alcohol abuse and suicidal behaviour was also identified.\nIn all, three studies into the suicide and alcohol abuse were commissioned by the Public Health Agency.\nKey findings on suicide showed rates were higher in Belfast and other larger towns and cities.\nAlmost half of those who take their own lives in Northern Ireland have made a previous attempt or have had a history of suicidal thoughts, the research suggests.\nWhen it comes to alcohol abuse, families often felt a stigma when trying to get help and GPs said time and a lack of coordination led to problems accessing services.\nA study carried out over 10 years from 2001, involving 1,000 children and 1,097 parents, found that one in five parents were \"problem drinkers\".\nThose families experienced more separations and divorces. Their children were found to spend more time outside the home and felt less attachment to school.\nThe report also showed that children developed clear strategies to help them cope with their parents' drinking.\nIt stresses that schools and teachers should be more aware of these problems.\nThe three research studies were carried out by teams at the University of Ulster and Queen's University, Belfast.\nChief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said it was \"vitally important\" that policy makers listened carefully to the messages in the research studies.\n\"Doing so will ensure that future service delivery improves the care of people impacted by either of these devastating problems,\" he said.\n\"More importantly, we must all ensure we work together towards eliminating these problems from society altogether.\"\nDr Janice Bailie from the PHA said: \"The research we are publishing today is testament to the commitment in Northern Ireland of individuals and organisations trying to understand more about these emotive and important issues.\n\"For anyone who has been affected by the suicide of a loved one or by the misuse of alcohol we hope that today's conference reinforces the message that we are all committed to tackling these issues and in ensuring that all the invaluable information being gathered is available and being used to translate into visible and beneficial actions.\"",
        "answer": "Research involving 1,000 children in Northern Ireland has suggested that one in five parents were \"problem drinkers\"."
    },
    {
        "question": "Fire crews were called to High Street, Cradley Heath, West Midlands at 23:27 GMT on Saturday.\nHaden Cross Fire tweeted: \"Not the usual RTC. This vehicle crashed through road works onto a major gas main. No leaks and car made safe. Driver had left the scene.\"\nThe car was made safe by the fire service and removed from the ditch.\nThe gas and electricity board were also in attendance.",
        "answer": "A car crashed through roadworks and landed in a ditch on a major gas main."
    },
    {
        "question": "Jamie Bonnor Thomson, 19, was charged with culpable and reckless conduct.\nIt came after 10 teenagers fell ill after consuming what police described as a pink-coloured tablet. They were all treated in hospital and discharged.\nMr Thomson made no plea or declaration at Jedburgh Sheriff Court and the case was continued for further examination.\nHe was remanded in custody by Sheriff Peter Paterson.\nHe is expected to appear in court again within eight days.",
        "answer": "A Hawick teenager has appeared in court following an incident which allegedly left 10 young men in hospital after taking an unidentified substance."
    },
    {
        "question": "More than 12,000 people are expected at the Ordination Mass of Fr Joseph Srampicka, which begins at 13:30 BST.\nPope Francis created the new diocese - or eparchy - in July, making it one of only three worldwide.\nThe Grade II-listed St Ignatius Roman Catholic Church, which shut in December 2014, was designated as a cathedral.\nIt reopened to serve an Indian branch of the Roman Catholic Church.\nTwenty-five bishops and more than 200 priests and many nuns will attend the service, with people expected from Australia, Canada and South America.\nThe Indian community are from the Syro Malabar Rite, which claims to have been founded by St Thomas The Apostle in India and is one 22 Eastern Catholic Churches in unity with the Pope.\nSt Ignatius was built in 1836, seven years after the legalisation of Catholicism in England, and was staffed by the Jesuit Order.",
        "answer": "The first bishop of a new cathedral for Indian Catholics in Preston is to be ordained at the home of Preston North End."
    },
    {
        "question": "A third-minute goal from Lucie Vonkova and a second by Klara Cahynova left the visitors trailing 2-0 at half time in Stadion Strelnice on Tuesday night.\nEva Bartonova scored from a corner after 65 minutes to seal victory for the Czechs who moved clear in third.\nSwitzerland and Italy, who set the pace in Group 6, will be Northern Ireland's final opponents in September.\nNorthern Ireland's women defeated bottom-placed Georgia 4-0 at Solitude on Friday and travelled to the Czech Republic targeting at least a third-place finish.\nHowever they were comprehensively beaten, with the home side managing nine shots on target compared to Northern Ireland's one.",
        "answer": "Northern Ireland women's hopes of qualifying for Euro 2017 faded with a 3-0 away defeat to the Czech Republic."
    },
    {
        "question": "The 67-year-old is a former Ulster Unionist, who was at one time chief whip of that party.\nHe was first elected as an MLA for Strangford for the UUP in 2003 and subsequently re-elected in 2007 and again in 2011.\nHowever, he left the Ulster Unionists - a party he first stood in an election for in 1982 - in acrimonious circumstances in 2012.\nMr McNarry resigned the UUP Stormont whip in January after the then party leader Tom Elliot demoted him from the deputy chair of the education committee.\nHe also resigned from the UUP's assembly group, but remained a party member.\nThe Strangford MLA's fall-out with Mr Elliot came after Mr McNarry gave an interview to the Belfast Telegraph detailing discussions between the UUP and DUP about unionist unity.\nAfter Mike Nesbitt replaced Mr Elliot as party leader in March 2012, he said: \"I cannot imagine any circumstances under which David McNarry would be back in the Ulster Unionist assembly group of MLAs when I have control of the whip.\"\nMr McNarry was subsequently expelled from the party in May 2012.\nHe continued to sit in the assembly as an independent, until he joined UKIP in October of that year, becoming the party's first MLA.\nHe became leader of the party in 2013.\nHe said Northern Ireland was ready for a voluntary coalition with an opposition, adding that the current set-up at Stormont had \"served its purpose and passed its sell-by date\".\nIn 2015, Mr McNarry said he had been working for 18 months on the launch of a new Loyalist Community Council, supported by the UDA, the UVF and the Red Hand Commando paramilitary groups, that would explore how the groups would eventually disband.\nLater that year, UKIP expelled one of its most high profile figures in Northern Ireland. Henry Reilly was the party's Northern Ireland candidate in last year's European elections, receiving more than 24,000 votes.\nIn the 2015 Westminster elections, UKIP finished as the highest performing of the non-executive parties in Northern Ireland, receiving 18,324 votes despite only running in 10 of the 18 seats.\nMr McNarry will not be standing in this year's assembly election.",
        "answer": "David McNarry has been the leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) in Northern Ireland since 2013."
    },
    {
        "question": "Hodge was told by Mark Howard that Ben Laughlin had got Sydney Thunder batsman Shane Watson out twice in eight balls.\nHodge duly brought Laughlin on to bowl and, even though he did not get Watson out, the incident \"disappointed\" CA.\nBroadcaster Network Ten later apologised for Howard's comments.\nHodge was wearing a microphone and earpiece so he could speak to commentators in between overs as part of the broadcaster's live coverage.\nHoward: \"Our master statistician Lawrie Colliver tells us that Laughlin has got Watson twice in the last eight balls he's bowled him in this competition.\"\nHodge: \"Really?\"\nHoward: \"I'll leave that with you skipper.\"\nHodge: \"I'll bring him on next over then. Let's get him into the game.\"\nFormer England batsman Kevin Pietersen, who plays for Melbourne Stars in Australia's Twenty20 series, was co-commentating at the time but not part of the exchange.\n\"Very naughty. Very, very naughty, Howie,\" said Pietersen when Laughlin was brought on.\n\"Cricket Australia's integrity unit is looking into the matter further to ensure the comments made during the broadcast did not jeopardise the integrity of last night's match,\" said a statement from CA.\nWatson ended up scoring 39 from 26 balls before being caught by Laughlin off the bowling of Jake Lehmann as Thunder were dismissed for 101 chasing 178.\nThe result left defending champions Thunder bottom of the eight-team table and Strikers in fifth and neither team will progress to the knockout stages.",
        "answer": "An on-air conversation between Adelaide Strikers captain Brad Hodge and a television commentator during a Big Bash game is being investigated by Cricket Australia (CA)."
    }
]