been accused of using its influence in Syria to influence the outcome of the war in Syria.

More than 3,000 people have been evacuated in buses and ambulances from a besieged rebel-held enclave in the Syrian city of Aleppo, officials say.

Article: The figure is worked out by assessing the value of agricultural output and subsidies and subtracting the cost of production and finance.
The profit was less than the total value of subsidies, which were £236m.
Total turnover fell 9% to £1.74bn while input costs were down by 4% to £1.39bn.
The output value of the dairy sector was down by 27% to £480m, reflecting persistently low milk prices.
The output value of cattle was marginally higher at £394m.
While the number of animals slaughtered fell by 2%, this was more than offset by a 9kg increase in the average carcase weight.
Output values for sheep meat, pork and poultry were all down due to lower farm-gate prices.
The only bright spots were in the increased output values of eggs, mushrooms and flowers
The Department for Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) has forecast that at the individual farm level profits are likely to be down by 46% in 2015/16.
The average farm profit was £24,942 in 2014/15 and is expected to drop to an average of £13,451 in 2015/16.
A spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said: "Without subsidies in 2015 market receipts would not have covered all costs (including consumption of fixed capital and depreciation costs).
"This also occurred in 2012 and previous years in the past."

Summary: The Northern Ireland farming industry saw its profit fall by 42% to £183m last year, driven by a big fall in prices for the dairy sector.
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Article: A full meeting of Perth and Kinross Council considered bids to turn the hall into a food market or a hotel, with officials backing the market plan.
Councillors agreed to give Perth Market Place Ltd "preferred bidder status", and detailed negotiations over the building's lease will now begin.
A draft lease could go back before councillors in February 2016.
The B-listed Edwardian building has been empty since it closed 10 years ago.
The drawn-out process of deciding its fate has seen a demolition bid blocked by Historic Scotland, and initial backing for a plan to transform it into a luxury hotel.
Councillors had agreed to market a 125-year lease for the building in a final bid to settle whether an alternative use could be found for the building, which dates back to 1911.
However, in July they deferred a decision on whether the hotel plan submitted by the Seventy Group or the marketplace proposal were suitable for the site.
Independent property firm Jones Laing LaSalle backed the market bid, while council officers warned of a "change in circumstances which significantly impacts upon the Seventy Group bid", which once won initial planning permission.
If the negotiations over the lease fail, the demolition plans could return to the agenda, although Historic Scotland chief executive Ian Walford has warned he would be minded to object to such a move.
In his report to councillors ahead of the meeting, planning and development head David Littlejohn noted that "the process cannot be allowed to perpetuate".
The draft lease likely to be considered by councillors next year will also need to be signed off by the Perth Common Good Fund Committee.

Summary: Perth and Kinross councillors have backed a plan to turn Perth City Hall into a food market.
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Article: The experts reported that YouTube did not count many of the "fake views" they directed at their own videos. But it still charged the researchers for many of them.
The case highlighted the need for more transparent analytics, said one expert.
Google said it would work with the researchers to improve its performance.
"We're contacting the researchers to discuss their findings further. We take invalid traffic very seriously and have invested significantly in the technology and team that keep this out of our systems. The vast majority of invalid traffic is filtered from our systems before advertisers are ever charged," a spokesman said.
The experts tested the systems employed by five video platforms, including YouTube.
In the case of the Google-owned site YouTube, they uploaded videos and bought ads targeted at them using Google's AdWords service. They then set up a series of bots - automated systems that carry out their commands - to target fake views at the videos.
YouTube carries out two separate counts of video views. The first, called the public view count, determines how many times the video has been seen and is displayed publicly. The second, the monetised view count, determines the viewership for the purposes of calculating advertising charges.
The researchers found that the public view counter was significantly more discerning than the monetised one. On two of the videos they uploaded, Google publicly counted only 25 of the 150 fake views as real. But its monetised view counter waved through 91.
They also found that they were charged for fake views on another two videos, but YouTube then identified the activity as suspicious in a secondary check and suspended the associated account.
"YouTube uses a seemingly permissive detection mechanism to discount fake monetised views," wrote the researchers, who are from four institutions - UC3M, Imdea, NEC Labs Europe and Polito.
They said that the issue "exposed advertisers to the risk of building their advertisement campaigns on unreliable statistics" when the...

Summary: Google charges marketers even when its own checks indicate that adverts were not viewed by human beings, according to researchers.
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Article: Ellen Higginbottom's body was found at Orrell Water Park in Wigan early on Saturday.
Post-mortem tests found she had been killed by "multiple wounds to the neck".
Ellen was reported missing on Friday after she had failed to return home from Winstanley College, where she studied.
Greater Manchester Police earlier said some of Ellen's friends had told them she had been last seen at the nature reserve.
The force said the arrested man, from the Billinge area of Wigan, was being held on suspicion of murder and was currently in custody for questioning.
Police previously said Ellen's disappearance was "extremely out of character".
Det Supt Howard Millington said: "First of all my thoughts continue to be with Ellen's family at this devastating time."
He urged members of the public to report "anyone acting suspiciously in the area either on Friday or in the days prior".
He said investigators would remain at the scene of the water park for the next few days and said officers would be continuing "to patrol the streets in the area".

Summary: A 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering an 18-year-old student found dead at a beauty spot.
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Article: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says the full evacuation of civilians and rebels is likely to take several days.
Government forces, backed by Russian allies, took nearly all remaining rebel-held parts of Aleppo this week.
It represents a major victory for President Bashar al-Assad.
He hailed the "liberation" of Aleppo and said history was being made.
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The evacuation of civilians, rebels and their families had been due to take place on Wednesday but an earlier ceasefire deal collapsed.
"Some 3,000 civilians and more than 40 wounded, including children, were brought out," the head of the ICRC in Syria, Marianne Gasser, said after two convoys left.
"No-one knows how many people are left in the east, and the evacuation could take days," she added.
The evacuees are being transferred to rebel-held areas in neighbouring Idlib province.
US Secretary of State John Kerry meanwhile accused Syrian leaders of carrying out "nothing short of a massacre" in Aleppo and urged them to return to peace talks in Geneva.
"The only remaining question is whether the Syrian regime, with Russia's support, is willing to go to Geneva prepared to negotiate constructively, and whether or not they're willing to stop this slaughter of their own people," he said in Washington.
John Kerry expressed moral outrage at the fate of Aleppo and he stressed that the Syrian regime was responsible for the failure of a year's worth of US-Russian negotiations aimed at a nationwide ceasefire and peace talks.
But he didn't offer any new plan to end the conflict. Nor did he accept that the fall of Aleppo was also due to a failure of US diplomatic strategy. "You can't make someone do something through diplomacy that they're not prepared to negotiate," he told me.
Critics in Washington, though, have slammed the Obama administration for refusing to back that diplomacy with the threat of credible force, giving Mr Kerry very...

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's practice of requesting a "recommended" admission fee of $25 (Â£16) deceives patrons entitled to pay as little as they choose, a lawsuit charges.

Article: Paramedics were called after the baby boy reportedly stopped breathing at a house in Birchfield Road, Walton, on 2 September.
Two men, aged 34 and 29, were arrested on suspicion of wounding, and a 25-year-old woman was held on suspicion of inflicting GBH, Merseyside Police said.
The baby remains in hospital after suffering head, arm and rib injuries.
His condition is described as serious but stable, police said.
The three suspects - who were previously arrested on suspicion of assault - have been released on bail.

Summary: Three people have been arrested on suspicion of harming a four-month-old baby in Liverpool.
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Article: There have been 3,400 shows - some of which have delighted critics and some which definitely did not.
In comedy, a rich theme has been the state of America and of the US presidency.
But is satirising President Trump the definition of pointlessness?
At the start of last year, comedian Simon Jay needed to decide on the show he'd work on for the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
"This was 20 months ago so Donald Trump wasn't even Republican nominee - but I sensed comedy in him so I decided to take a punt and go for a Trump show," he says.
"But I think even last August the Edinburgh audience was mainly seeing Trump as a bit of a no-hoper. A year later I'm back with a show about a president."
It's probably safe to say few of the comedians satirising President Trump at Edinburgh this year have been fans of his style or his politics.
But they accept that the first months of his presidency have provided huge amounts of material.
In Trumpageddon, a deeply orange Jay invites his audience to a rally. The president deals peremptorily with questions then - as Jay admits - "tends to get a bit handsy" with women in the audience.
"Standing on stage, I can see some people get really frightened by him. I've watched lots of his rallies online and they're big showman experiences.
"They're loud and silly and bizarre and in some ways it's like a stand-up experience already. In the 1970s, Trump could have been the American Bernard Manning."
Jay says the impersonation aspect is important but it's only part of the show. "I use my real hair and a lot of make-up. There are some obvious things like wearing a blue suit and the strange o-shapes he makes with his fingers.
"When the audience submit questions they can be silly and crude - but Americans in particular also ask intelligent questions about energy policy or big business.
"So I need to know enough about Trump to give informed answers, alongside all the jokes. The audience knows I'm the puppeteer but they want to hear from the real Donald Trump too."
The other person in Edinburgh...

Summary: In Edinburgh, this is the final hectic weekend of the annual Festival Fringe.
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Article: Danny Alexander said boosting borrowing to fund higher spending would set Scotland on a different path from the rest of the UK.
The Treasury chief secretary expressed his concerns to Alex Salmond in a letter.
The first minister said initial borrowing would boost the economy.
He added that this would allow for a sustainable cut in the deficit.
He also said an independent Scotland would start out being more prosperous per head than the UK, France or Japan.
Following a "Yes" vote in September's referendum, the Scottish government plans to increase public spending by 3% in each of the first three years after independence to drive economic growth. This contrasts with the 1% planned by the UK chancellor.
According to Finance Secretary John Swinney, this extra spending would be funded by borrowing.
But in his letter to Mr Salmond, Mr Alexander said this amounted to an admission that a currency union would not be created since the economic policies of the two states would "diverge".
Speaking in an interview with the BBC, Mr Alexander called on the Scottish government to be "transparent and open" about alternative currency plans.
He said: "John Swinney's plans for massive extra borrowing basically show that the Scottish government is now assuming that there won't be a currency union.
"One of the biggest reasons why I think a currency union wouldn't work, and have said no to it, is because inevitably policies would diverge between Scotland and the rest of the UK under independence."
He added: "The Scottish government, as we already know, would start off with a larger deficit than the rest of the UK, would face higher borrowing costs because of the setting up of a new country and the extra risks that involves.
"By adding yet more borrowing to that position you create a pretty precarious position, financially, for an independent Scotland.
"You can't have massive extra borrowing and claim that a currency union is going to take place."
However a spokeswoman for Mr Swinney described Mr Alexander's comments as "more...

Summary: The Treasury has claimed that Scottish government plans to increase borrowing under independence would be incompatible with retaining the pound.
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Article: Those looking for votes in the Irish nationalist battlegrounds, near the border in counties Down and Armagh, may literally walk up a few hills.
As any constituency will have a tight race for the final seats, it is well worth knocking on the doors of isolated dwellings nestled up high.
Newry and Armagh is a bellwether constituency for nationalist politics.
For almost 20 years, the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) deputy leader, Seamus Mallon, was the MP.
That was back when his party was the major force in nationalism.
But Sinn Féin now dominates - holding the Westminster seat and having three Newry and Armagh MLAs to the SDLP's one Stormont representative.
If the electoral dynamics are to shift again, the SDLP will need to make inroads in places like this.
I asked people in Newry about how they voted - and their thoughts generally chimed with the election results over the last 15 years or so.
A number said they used to vote SDLP, but not any more.
"They seem to have lost their way," said one man.
"They disappeared after John Hume and Seamus Mallon stood down," a woman told me.
But Colum Eastwood - the SDLP's new leader - says he is serious about retaking ground.
At 32, he is the youngest party leader in the upcoming Northern Ireland Assembly election.
South Down MLA Karen McKevitt says he has been "a breath of fresh air".
She will switch constituencies to run in Newry and Armagh in the assembly poll.
"People stop me in the street and say how proud they are that the SDLP have made a change in leadership," she says.
"That's strong. But that also tells me that people are sick of orange-and-green politics.
"They want to see change. We want to make that change."
The SDLP goes into the election in May with 14 seats. Sinn Féin has 29.
It will be the republican party's second election this year.
They hope to improve on their tally in the Irish parliament (Dáil) in the general election expected in the next couple of months.
Sinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy says standing in both elections is in itself a strategy...

Summary: Politicians may sometimes liken an election campaign to climbing a mountain.
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Article: Under a longstanding agreement with the city of New York, the museum must accept whatever patrons offer to pay.
But signs at cashier desks appear to demand full price, the suit contends.
The museum says its "recommended" policy has been place for 40 years and it makes no effort to deceive visitors.
The lawsuit, filed in New York City on behalf of former patrons, contends that the world famous museum, which receives six million visitors a year, uses misleading marketing and cashier training to deceive unwary visitors.
Lawyers say the signs in the lobby listing the price of admission with the word "recommended" below in smaller type violate a 1893 law mandating the public be admitted free of charge at least five days and two evenings per week in exchange for monetary grants and rent-free use of city-owned land.
The suit, which lawyers hope will eventually represent a broad class of people who have visited the museum in recent years, seeks a change in the admissions policy and reimbursement for those who they say were misled.
Confusion over whether visitors were required to pay the full $25 is "an issue with tourists travelling to the US from a foreign country", Michael Hiller, a lawyer for those who brought the suit, told the BBC.
"They are violating the statute, plainly and simply," Mr Hiller said, referring to the 1893 law. "The museum was designed to make art accessible to the public."
A former employee of the Met is expected to testify, Mr Hiller said.
The witness, who trained cashiers from 2007-2011, alleges that signage was changed from "suggested" to "recommended" because administrators believed it would encourage people to pay more, Mr Hiller said.
Harold Holzer, a spokesman for the museum, said the 1893 law had been superseded.
New York City agreed to the museum's request in 1970 to charge an admission fee - so long as the amount was left up to individuals and the signage reflected that.
About 40% of visitors pay full price, Mr Holzer said. He said gate proceeds allowed the Met to offer free admission...

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Pet owners who bag up dog poo and leave it on beaches are threatening the safety of people who visit the seaside.

Article: Dave was taken in by Bath Cats and Dogs Home after his elderly owner went into a care home.
The animal had to have part of his nose removed a few years ago due to a tumour.
The centre, which campaigned to find him a new home, said his death was "unrelated to his nose".
It added: "With great sadness, it was kindest to put him to sleep".
The home said Dave struggled to find a new owner because people could not "see past" his unusual face.
It launched a campaign to find him a new home and had been "overwhelmed" by offers.
A spokesman said: "Sadly our happiness was short-lived as Dave became suddenly and seriously ill a few days ago.
"We hoped for the best but tests showed that Dave was suffering from a serious underlying illness  - unrelated to his nose."

Summary: A nose-less cat who was struggling to find a new home has had to be put down after becoming "suddenly very seriously ill".
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Article: The swarm, which gathered on the Mitsubishi Outlander in Castle Square, Haverfordwest, on Sunday, was spotted by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park ranger Tom Moses.
He managed to reach some beekeepers who rounded up the insects.
Mr Moses said the sight of the swarm was "spectacular".
The 41-year-old said he was travelling through the town at about 17:00 BST when he spotted a "big brown splodge" on the back of the vehicle.
"It was quite spectacular to see. There was a lot of people in town and when they were coming past they were really amazed by it, cars [were] slowing down and people [were] taking pictures of it."
Mr Moses, of Haverfordwest, said he often talks to people about the struggles bees face as a result of pesticides and habitat destruction.
"I was a little bit concerned, with it being in the middle of town, on a Sunday, outside a pub, that someone might do something stupid and get hurt or do something stupid and hurt the bees," he said.
Two beekeepers helped to round up the swarm, after Mr Moses contacted the Pembrokeshire Beekeepers' Association.
And despite being stung while assisting, Mr Moses said he was glad to have intervened.
"At the national park, we like people to be aware of how important bees are and how people should be looking after them," he added.

Summary: A car became the buzz of a Pembrokeshire town after hundreds of bees swarmed on its boot.
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Article: Norman was on loan to Allen Smith, 65, when he took flight from the falconer's workplace in Flitwick on Friday.
The plucky bird of prey has already been spotted in the garden of a woman living in nearby Lidlington since making his bid for freedom.
Mr Smith said three-year-old Norman "could potentially go for a cat. but not unless he was really hungry".
Norman stands roughly 3ft (0.9m) tall and boasts a 6ft (1.8m) wingspan.
The bird has also been seen in Stewartby, about five miles from Flitwick. He can be identified by the leather straps around his feet.
Mr Smith said: "He had just been fed when he disappeared and he's quite scared of people so I don't think anyone should panic."
Anyone who spots Norman is asked to call the RSPB or Bedfordshire Police.

Summary: A golden eagle is on the loose after making a bid for freedom in Bedfordshire.
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Article: Under the deal, the firm will pay the government £150m to put towards other rail network investments.
In return, the rail firm will also invest £13m in extra services and freezing some ticket prices.
Rail minister Claire Perry said the agreement would mean "significantly better journeys for passengers".
Chief executive of parent company Stagecoach Group, Martin Griffiths, said the new franchise would "deliver a multimillion-pound return to the taxpayer to help fund the Government's ongoing investment programme for the UK rail network".
Under East Midlands Trains' investment, 22 extra services will be added between Nottingham and Newark Castle on Saturdays by December next year.
They have also promised faster journeys and more services between Nottingham and Lincoln on Saturdays, as well as changes to information online and a new mobile phone app.
In addition to these improvements, the Department for Transport said the government would continue working on improving faster journeys and more services on the Midland Mainline and £6m has also been invested in a new railway station at Ilkeston, Derbyshire.
Minister Claire Perry added: "This is another example of the work we're doing to transform the UK's railways as part of our long-term economic plan, with more than £38bn being spent on the network between 2014 and 2019."

Summary: East Midlands Trains has agreed a new franchise to continue operating regional services to the North of England and London until March 2018.
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Article: A new survey shows an overall increase of 11% in dog mess on UK beaches - it's gone up 71% in Scotland.
Dog poo is dangerous because it contains high levels of bacteria - if it gets into water it can be very bad for bathers' health.
Almost 4,500 volunteers took part in the survey by The Marine Conservation Society - across 335 UK beaches.
The society says that pet owners have been thinking ahead by carrying plastic bags to clear up dog mess - which is a good thing.
But it now wants to encourage them to take the bags off the beach and bin it in one of the many dog bins provided.
Even though levels of dog poo were up, there was some good news: overall litter levels were down this year.

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A study of Irish Traveller genetics has suggested that they split socially from the settled population much earlier than thought.

Article: Channels supportive of President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Mubarak supporters on social media celebrated the ruling.
Privately-owned Sada al-Balad TV carried a report on Mubarak's biography, focusing on his achievements during his military career and 30 years in office.
The channel aired live interviews with the former security officials who were on trial. One of them, Adli Fayid, praised the court for "enforcing justice" and thanked the "great Egyptian judiciary". Another, Usama al-Marasi, said he received the ruling with "great joy".
Both private al-Mihwar TV and ON TV Live showed footage of Mubarak supporters celebrating the ruling outside the court.
Mubarak's supporters on social media also congratulated him. "I am Sorry Mr President," a Facebook page, which has more than 1.6m likes, said: "He prayed to God to make him victorious after he was facing injustice."
State-run Mena news agency reported mixed scenes outside the court: While Mubarak's supporters celebrated the ruling and "raised flags joyfully", the relatives of those killed during the protests were in a "complete shock".
After the ruling, various media outlets wondered who was to blame for the protesters' deaths, if it was not Mubarak or his security chiefs. While the pro-Sisi channels tried to blame the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), channels supportive of the Islamist group still blamed Mubarak for the killings.
Interviewed in the studio of state Channel 1 TV, legal expert Ali Hasan wondered "who killed protesters in Tahrir Square" and hinted that the Muslim Brotherhood was involved.
In a live interview with Sada al-Balad TV, Umar al-Faramawi, one of the police officials who stood trial, blamed "infiltrators among the protesters" for carrying out the killings.
On the other hand, pro-Muslim Brotherhood media blamed Mubarak and his senior officials over the killing of demonstrators during the 25 January protests.
"Who killed the demonstrators of the 25 January revolution?" asked a presenter on pro-MB Mikamilin TV. Answering the question, pro-Morsi...

Summary: There were mixed reactions in the Egyptian media after a court in Cairo dropped murder charges against former President Hosni Mubarak and seven of his senior police officials.
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Article: The party took Poole, Winchester City, Basingstoke and Dean and Hart District councils, which had previously been under no overall control.
Despite losing all of their MPs across the South, the Lib Dems held on in Eastleigh, even with a two-seat loss.
Labour has retained control of Reading and Slough borough councils.
The party also managed to hold on to Southampton City Council, despite its majority being cut like in Slough.
At Rushmoor Borough Council the Tories increased their majority by two seats - one from Labour and one from UKIP.
They also increased their hold on New Forest District Council, taking four seats from the Lib Dems and two from UKIP, leaving them with 58 seats on the 60-seat council. The Lib Dems hold the remaining two.
The party has also taken 16 of the 17 available seats on West Oxfordshire District Council, and retained control of Havant Borough Council and Cherwell District Council, Vale of White Horse District Council and South Oxfordshire District Council.
Majorities were also increased across Berkshire in Bracknell, Windsor and Maidenhead, West Berkshire and Wokingham.
Portsmouth City Council and Weymouth and Portland Borough Council remain under no overall control. On both, the Conservatives were five seats short of a majority.
In Bournemouth, the Conservatives increased their control and wiped out any representation from Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
Three councillors are still to be determined with a recount required on Monday in one ward.
See the full breakdown of local council results.

Summary: The Conservatives have dominated the local, district and borough council elections across Dorset, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Hampshire.
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Article: The Advertising Standards Authority, which makes the rules for adverts in the UK, said videos by some of the UK's biggest YouTube stars broke the rules.
In June a group of UK vloggers were paid to say good things about a brand of biscuits, but none of the videos were clearly labelled as adverts.
Newsround raised the issue with the ASA, which said Newsround had to make a complaint for it to investigate further.
The ASA ruled that the adverts were not clearly marked, and must not appear again in their current form.
Lynsay Taffe from the ASA told Newsround: "Brands and vloggers now have to make it very clear, before you click on a video, that it's a promotional video."
That means if a vlogger is paid to promote a product, they need to put something like the word "ad" or "promo" in the title of their video - or use a symbol in the thumbnail telling viewers what they're about to click on is an advert.
MP Ben Bradshaw told Newsround he was worried that this case was part of a wider problem.
He said: "There are strict rules that govern television and other advertising and it seems to me that there's a bit of a loophole when it comes to online, videos and YouTube."
Mondelez, the biscuit company that paid the vloggers, said it was "disappointed" but would "ensure the adverts do not appear in their current form again".
YouTube told Newsround that vloggers themselves are responsible for making videos that stick to their local laws and regulations.
The vloggers affected by the ASA ruling have now changed the descriptions of their videos to make it clear they are paid advertisements, but the ASA said it would be looking at online videos much more closely in future.

Summary: Vloggers are being told they need to be completely clear about when they're being paid to promote products.
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Article: Police investigators said the cause of death appeared to be suicide.
The 69-year-old was due to be questioned on Friday in an inquiry into a possible slush fund and financial irregularities in the company.
Lotte has joint headquarters in Japan and South Korea, and owns businesses from hotels to chemical manufacturing.
According to local media, investigators found a four-page suicide note in his car.
Mr Lee was one of the most senior executives in the Lotte Group, holding the highest position outside the founding family that still runs the firm.
He was also the closest aide to chairman Shin Dong-bin, who is embroiled in a family feud with his older brother over control of the company founded by their father.
In a statement, Lotte Group said: "He (Lee) oversaw Lotte Group's overall housekeeping and core businesses and accurately understood the minds of Chairman-in-Chief Shin Kyuk-ho and Chairman Shin Dong-bin."
In June, prosecutors reportedly raided Lotte offices to investigate the suspected slush fund and allegations of breaches of trust regarding transactions between the conglomerate's companies.
About 200 officials searched Lotte's headquarters in Seoul, several subdivisions of the firm and the homes of key executives, local media said at the time.
It is not clear where this death leaves the investigation.
Lotte Group is involved a variety of sectors including hotels, chemicals, food and retail.
It is Korea's fifth-largest conglomerate and is considered one of Korea's family-run "chaebols" which are known to have complex ownership structures.
Lotte, like other big South Korean companies, is owned and controlled primarily by one family.
But the vice-chairman, Lee In-won, - now deceased - was a trusted outsider who had worked for the company for four decades.
Before Mr Lee's death, South Korean prosecutors were investigating the source of hundreds of millions of dollars in family accounts.
Lotte, like other giant South Korean conglomerates is a maze of companies, with exact ownership unclear. The allegation...

Summary: The vice chairman of South Korea's Lotte Group has been found dead hours before he was to be questioned in a corruption probe.
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Article: The research was carried out by scientists from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University College Dublin, the University of Edinburgh and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
They say it shows the divergence may have began 360 years ago.
It also suggests Travellers are closely connected to Irish settled people.
The researchers found that any genetic disparities between Travellers and settled people in the Republic are largely due to them remaining genetically isolated for several centuries and their numbers decreasing.
It is thought there are about 30,000 people living in the Republic of Ireland who are members of the Travelling community, representing 0.6% of the total population.
Previously it had been thought that Travellers had become displaced between 1845 and 1852 as a result of the Great Famine.
"The findings confirm that the Irish Traveller population has an Irish ancestry and this comes at a time where the ethnicity of Travellers is being considered by the Irish state," the Royal College of Surgeons' Prof Gianpiero Cavalleri said.
"It is important to emphasise that although Irish Travellers show clear features of a genetic isolate, they are genetically very close to settled people in Ireland.
"It is also interesting to observe that the isolation of Travellers from settled people predates the Great Famine.
"However it's important to emphasise that our research estimates the beginning of the social divergence of the Travelling community, rather than their origin."
DNA samples from 42 Irish Travellers were compared with that of 143 European Roma, 2,232 settled Irish, 2,039 British, 5,964 European and 931 individuals from the rest of the world for the study.
Several genetic dating methods were also used to estimate the period when the travelling community began to split genetically from the settled population in Ireland.

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Sri Lanka's prime minister has said mangroves' ability to swiftly absorb carbon make the forests vital in the fight against climate change.

Article: Bath and North East Somerset Council (Banes) also wants healthy eating and local food promoted.
Traders will be required to use more uniform stalls with a "pastel coloured canopy" by January 2017 to "fit in" with the city's World Heritage status.
Some have already expressed concern at the changes.
Under the proposals, buskers who play on the street and sell CDs of their own music will need street trading consent.
Ed Collacott, who has been selling fine art photographs on a stall for 25 years, said street sellers were "one of the delights" of Bath.
"There are some amazing street traders here selling very different things and each one of us is an individual," he added.
"To have everything under the same canopy might not look great and it certainly wouldn't be good for my photos."
However, Liberal Democrat deputy leader of the council, David Dixon said the changes were designed to make things look better and ensure everyone was working to the same objective.
"Our street trading scene in Bath is one of the most varied you'll find in any city," he added.
"We're not making a huge overhaul of the street trading policy whatsoever. It's time for our renewal [and] we did an excellent consultation.
"We had a trial over the past year for the new style canopies, which actually went down very well."
Mr Dixon said the council would be prepared to help stall holders with the changes but added they would be expected to stick to the rules.
The council also intends to purchase a number of units, for both existing and new traders, which could be rented if necessary.
Sark Kenny, who runs a stall selling leather goods, said the changes to his canopy would cost him about Â£400, but he thought it might cost some traders up to Â£800.

Summary: New regulations covering the size, structure and appearance of street traders' pitches in Bath have been voted through.
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Article: American climate envoy Todd Stern said the reaction would be far greater than when the US left the Kyoto Protocol under President Bush.
Many countries are worried that a Republican victory in November's presidential election would see the US walk away from the landmark Paris deal.
But Mr Stern said he thinks this is unlikely given the global reaction.
The recent decision by the US Supreme Court to stall President Obama's Clean Power Plan has raised concerns in many parts of the world that the US might not be able to live up to the carbon cutting commitments it made in the French capital in December.
As US lead negotiator, Todd Stern has been visiting Europe as part of efforts to "reassure" countries that America will stick to its promises.
"We anticipate that the Clean Power Plan will be upheld," he told reporters in London.
"But if for whatever reason it is not, then we will have to use other means to get to our target, but we are not backing off our target."
As well as worries over the Supreme Court ruling on the White House plan to limit emissions, many countries are also concerned about the impact of a new Republican administration on US climate policy, something highlighted by President Obama in recent days.
"They're all denying climate change," the President said, referring to the Republican candidates seeking the party's presidential nomination.
"This is not just Mr Trump," Mr Obama continued. "There's not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change, that thinks it's serious."
Mr Stern recalled that the election of President George W Bush saw the US renounce the Kyoto Protocol, the world's first, flawed attempt to limit carbon emissions.
He said that there was a clear record of what happened, and it was "diplomatically challenging" for the US.
If they reneged on Paris, he said, it would be much worse.
"There was a lot of blowback that the US got generally diplomatically across the range of diplomatic concerns and I have no doubt that it would be...

Summary: The US faces "diplomatic consequences" if a new President decides to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Article: The woman has made a full recovery, and it is thought she had been infected by her partner, who had recently visited a Zika-hit country.
Mostly spread by mosquitoes, Zika can linger in semen for months.
Cases of sexual spread have been reported in other countries and experts said the UK case was "not unexpected".
An update by Public Health England said there had been 265 cases of Zika in the UK with one "likely" spread through sex.
Seven cases were in pregnant women.
While Zika is normally a mild infection, it can damage the development of a baby's brain, leading to microcephaly.
Prof Dilys Morgan, the Zika incident director at Public Health England, said: "PHE advises all male travellers regardless of symptoms to avoid conception and use condoms and other barrier methods during sexual activities for six months following return from a Zika high- or moderate-risk country."
Earlier this month the World Health Organization said Zika virus will no longer be treated as an international medical emergency. By lifting its nine-month-old declaration, the health agency acknowledged that Zika was here to stay.
Prof Jimmy Whitworth, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: "News that one case of sexual transmission of Zika has occurred in the UK is not unexpected.
"About 60 cases of sexual transmission of Zika have been reported worldwide, so we think this is quite rare.
"Discovering just how common it is for the virus to be passed during sex by a man or woman is a key focus for Zika researchers.
"Public Health England's updated advice is also welcome.
"Zika virus survives in semen longer than other body fluids so recommending male travellers returning from Zika transmission countries, with or without symptoms, practise safe sex for six months is sensible."
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Summary: The first likely case of sexual transmission of the Zika virus in the UK has been reported by the authorities.
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Article: He said this would give Scotland "meaningful powers" to grow the economy and close the public spending gap the new system would create.
Mr McColl, who runs Clyde Blowers Capital, backed a "yes" vote in the independence referendum.
But he says that issue has now been "settled".
He has reverted to supporting full fiscal autonomy for Scotland.
That would mean Holyrood taking charge of all Scotland's revenues and paying Westminster for shared services such as defence and foreign affairs.
However, Scottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said fiscal autonomy would be unsustainable and insisted it was not a variation on his party's preference for home rule.
Speaking on BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: "It's an unstable form of devolution that would tip over into independence very, very quickly.
"It would involve an Â£800 tax bill for every single person in Scotland. I think that is unsustainable. If that's what the SNP stand for, go ahead and argue for it."
In a BBC interview, Mr McColl said there did not have to be another independence referendum.
"If you want to avoid something like that happening again, you really have to be a bit more open about what you're going to devolve," he said.
"There's an opportunity to do that just now and I think if you don't do it, then it's just going to be one of those things that hangs over us for a long time".
The businessman, who is also a member of the Scottish government's council of economic advisers, wants Holyrood to have much greater financial powers.
He thinks corporation tax and capital gains tax are essential, if Scotland is to promote a more entrepreneurial culture.
But, like the Scottish government, he would prefer full fiscal autonomy.
Critics argue that falling oil prices mean that would leave a multibillion-pound hole in Scotland's finances.
In his BBC interview, Mr McColl predicted oil prices would recover but conceded there would be financial challenges if the shift to fiscal autonomy happened suddenly.
"There would be a gap if you were...

Summary: One of Scotland's most successful businessmen, Jim McColl, has called for Holyrood to have full control over its finances by 2020.
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Article: His comments come on a day marking the first anniversary of a project to protect all of the nation's mangroves.
As well as storing carbon, the forests provide habitat for fish and protect communities from tsunamis and cyclones.
Also on Tuesday - World Mangrove Day - Sri Lanka's president will open the world's first mangrove museum.
The museum will act as a hub for conservation training for adults, and educating children about the value of mangroves. It is estimated that 20,000 pupils will visit the museum in the first year.
Read also: The community who won back their mangroves
The Sri Lankan government has also included mangrove forest conservation into its national curriculum.
The museum is a central pillar of a five-year programme to protect all of the island nation's mangroves.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said: "Mangroves swiftly absorb carbon dioxide and inject oxygen into the atmosphere, maintaining an ecological balance vital for the environment.
"It is my belief that the mangrove restoration project will generate much needed awareness among key stakeholders such as the community, leisure sector personnel, tourists, and the general public."
He added: "It is my hope that this will be the beginning of a long-term effort to sustain the mangroves for greater conservation benefit."
In partnership with island conservation organisation Seacology and local NGO Sudeesa, the Sri Lankan government has identified all of the nation's 15,000 hectares of mangrove forests, and has surveyed almost half of them.
Ministers have also introduced legislation to protect the habitats and have assigned forest officers to help guard them.
Seacology executive director Duane Silverstein explained that although the project required US $3.4 million of funding, the sum was dwarfed when the ecosystem services provided by Sri Lanka's mangrove forests were taken into account.
"In last year, research has been published looking at the economic value of mangrove in Asia," he said.
"It has concluded that each hectare has a value of...

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Energy companies are "overcharging in many cases" with bills failing to fall in line with dropping wholesale costs, the industry's regulator has said.

Article: Avon and Somerset Chief Constable Nick Gargan was suspended in May 2014 amid allegations of inappropriate conduct and, later, data protection breaches.
PCC Sue Mountstevens said he had "abused his position" by forwarding emails and "storing intimate images" on his work phone.
The news was said to come as a "huge disappointment" to Mr Gargan.
Ms Mountstevens is the first PCC to start the process of using new powers to call upon a chief constable to quit.
Turbulent times for police chief
Mr Gargan, 48, was appointed by Ms Mountstevens in January 2013, after his predecessor Colin Port quit when she asked him to reapply for his job. Mr Gargan remains on full pay but is suspended from duty, she said.
Last month, an independent QC-led panel cleared Mr Gargan of gross misconduct but found him guilty of eight misconduct charges.
The findings published on the force website largely relate to "inappropriate disclosure of information" by forwarding emails and "inappropriate use" of a police-issued phone by storing "intimate" images and text messages.
It recommended a sanction of eight final written warnings - the severest possible - but Ms Mountstevens has been petitioned by retired officers and Mr Gargan's three predecessors as chief constable, who said he should go for the good of the force.
In a statement on Wednesday, she said: "Chief Constable Nick Gargan has let down the colleagues he led and the communities he was there to protect.
"He abused his position by forwarding confidential emails, interfering with a proper recruitment process and sending, receiving and storing intimate images on his police issue phone."
She said he should have "led by example" but had instead "shown flawed judgement" and been found guilty of eight counts of misconduct "including two of discreditable conduct".
"From what I have seen and heard, he has lost the confidence of local people, police officers and staff," she said.
She said she had now "initiated the process to require him to resign".
"I think his position has become untenable,"...

Summary: A police chief guilty of misconduct has been called upon to resign by the police and crime commissioner.
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Article: Prof Malcolm Chalmers was speaking on the first day of a inquiry into the defence impact of Scots independence.
The Westminster inquiry also heard from retired Lt Col Stuart Crawford, now a political and media defence consultant.
He said it would be "sensible" for the Scottish and UK government to begin a dialogue with the MoD on independence.
Last month the Scottish Affairs Committee heard Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey say that the MoD had made no contingency plans for independence.
On Tuesday morning, the Defence Committee heard from Professor Chalmers, director of research at Royal United Services Institute.
He said that in the absence of formal pre-independence discussions and contingency plans, the MoD could deploy plans which are already in place for "other sorts of emergencies".
"In my experience there are people in the MoD that are thinking about these things and talking about them," he said.
"I think going the extra stage and asking the armed forces to make detailed plans for contingencies which would only be relevant in the case of Scottish independence is much harder.
"As far as I know they are not making that sort of detailed planning.
"Clearly, some of the aspects of independence could overlap with other sorts of emergencies.
"For example, if there were to be some sort of terrorist attack that closed Faslane for a period of months, then that sort of contingency planning which I presume that there is would be relevant to this scenario.
"But there are other aspects of Scottish independence which are unique."
MPs questioned who the Scottish government was consulting with on its future defence plans, given that neither witness has been asked for their expertise, nor were they aware of anyone else in the wider defence community who has been asked to contribute.
The inquiry heard that the UK government's post-independence defence contingencies were similarly unclear, with Prof Chalmers suggesting that there may be "an understandable reluctance from London to reveal negotiating cards...

Summary: A vote for Scottish independence could spark an emergency defence response similar to a terrorist attack on Faslane, according a defence expert.
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Article: The move further reduces the involvement of UK companies in the massive nuclear project.
Centrica, which owns British Gas, had the option of taking a 20% stake in four new reactors in a partnership with EDF, the French state-owned utility.
Centrica said "the project costs in new nuclear have increased and the construction timetable has extended".
The nuclear plants being proposed by EDF would be the first such facilities to be built in the UK since 1995. Without Centrica's investment, the companies behind the projects are likely to have to find alternative backers.
Last month, EDF said it would start discussions with Chinese state-owned nuclear company CGNPC about joining the partnership to build the next generation of UK nuclear plants.
Centrica's move follows a decision by German utilities E.On and RWE to quit the nuclear sector after Japan's Fukushima disaster in 2011. In October, they sold their interest in Horizon Nuclear Power, which was to build reactors at sites near Anglesey and Bristol, to Japan's Hitachi.
Centrica's 20% interest in the eight existing nuclear power stations in the UK is unaffected by the decision.
Centrica's intention had been to get involved in the two new reactors at Hinkley Point, in Somerset, and two at Sizewell, in Suffolk.
The company said in a statement: "With pre-development expenditure on the project approaching the agreed Â£1bn cap, Centrica's decision not to proceed follows a detailed appraisal of the project.
"While there has been progress in a number of key project areas, particularly design and planning, there remains uncertainty about overall project costs and the construction schedule. Centrica's 20% share of the pre-development expenditure will be written off as an exceptional cost in the group's 2012 results."
The company's chief executive, Sam Laidlaw, added in the same statement: "Since our initial investment, the anticipated project costs in new nuclear have increased and the construction timetable has extended by a number of years.
"These factors, in particular...

Summary: Centrica has withdrawn from the UK's nuclear re-building programme because of increasing costs and delays.
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Article: Nicola Sturgeon said it was needed to protect Scottish interests over Brexit.
Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood said a hard Brexit would prompt Welsh calls for "greater control of our own affairs".
Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies claimed Ms Sturgeon was putting her party's interests ahead of Scotland's.
In 2014, Scottish voters rejected independence by a 55% to 45% margin, but Ms Sturgeon said on Monday that the UK vote to leave the EU had changed the situation.
As a majority of Scots voted to remain in the EU, she said they should be offered the choice between the prospect of a hard Brexit - outside the single market - and independence.
Ms Sturgeon wanted to see such a poll take place between autumn 2018 and spring 2019.
Prime Minister Theresa May said a second independence referendum would set Scotland on course for "uncertainty and division" and insisted the majority of people in Scotland did not want another vote on the issue.
A spokesman for Mr Jones said: "The constitutional future of Scotland is a matter for the people of Scotland.
"However the First Minister is clear that the four nations of the UK are stronger together than apart."
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said the stakes for Wales "could not be any higher", as the prime minister prepares to trigger the Article 50 process for Brexit.
Her party has called for continued access to the single market.
"Any failure by the UK Government to recognise Scotland's interests could lead to the end of the UK as a state," Ms Wood said.
"In that situation, Wales would need to decide its own future."
She added: "Plaid Cymru believes that decisions about Wales are best made in Wales and the way in which this hard Brexit is being pursued highlights exactly why.
"If the UK Government's Brexit negotiation also leads to the Welsh national interest being overlooked, support will grow for greater control of our own affairs in Wales."
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said:  "Despite her assertions that she is speaking in the interests of the Scottish public,...

Summary: Carwyn Jones believes the UK nations are "stronger together than apart", a spokesman has said, as Scotland's first minister calls for a second referendum on independence.
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Article: Dermot Nolan, chief executive of Ofgem, told the BBC that domestic gas and electricity prices should be cheaper "for the vast majority of people".
Wholesale energy costs make up nearly half of a domestic bill, and have fallen by about a third in the last 12 to 18 months, he said.
Yet, prices had not fallen, he added.
Energy UK, which represents the major energy energy companies, insisted that there was a competitive market of 34 suppliers and that people should switch for savings of hundreds of pounds.
Lawrence Slade, chief executive of the trade body, said the industry had made "mistakes in the past" in failing to assist those languishing on variable deals but that the situation had improved alongside increased competition.
The regulator has said 70% of consumers remain on standard variable tariffs which have hardly changed since early last year.
Pressure is mounting on the UK's big six energy suppliers to cut their prices in line with falling costs after the latest analysis showed wholesale gas and electricity prices in the UK hit a five-year low at the end of 2015.
Figures published on Thursday showed the cost of energy on the wholesale market tumbled to Â£36.76 per megawatt hour on the Power Index, compiled by market information provider ICIS.

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An Ohio judge has ruled that the rape trial of two high school football players will take place in the county where the alleged attack happened.

Article: The Right Reverend Steven Croft will leave his role as the Bishop of Sheffield to take up his new position.
Dr Croft will be the most senior clergyman in the Church of England for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
The Diocese faced "an extended vacancy" after votes in May last year failed to produce a candidate.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
Downing Street announced Dr Croft's appointment on Tuesday.
He was ordained in 1987 and became the Bishop of Sheffield in 2009.
The Diocese of Oxford has been without a permanent bishop since the Right Rev John Pritchard stepped down in October 2014.
Interviews of potential candidates were held in 2015, but the Archbishop of Canterbury said the Crown Nominations Commission - which elects bishops - had "been unable to discern the candidate whom God is calling".
The Bishop of Dorchester, the Right Rev Colin Fletcher, acted as bishop of the diocese in lieu of a full-time post holder.
Dr Croft will tour the diocese on Tuesday. He will meet the Bishop of Reading and the Bishop of Buckingham.

Summary: A new Bishop of Oxford has been announced two years after the post became vacant.
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Article: It meant that a computer alarm kept going off, and in their attempt to fix the issue mid-flight, the crew lost control of the aircraft. All 162 people on board the Airbus A320 died.
The report suggests that the experienced pilot pulled a circuit breaker because he may have seen engineers do a similar thing to resolve the same problem on the ground. It is like pulling the plug to reset your computer.
Pilots are allowed to do it but only in extreme circumstances, and only when they fully understand the impact it will have.
This time around the impact seemed to take the crew by surprise. Pulling the circuit breaker switched off the autopilot.
With no autopilot, the less experienced co-pilot took over the plane. That in itself should not be a problem. But without the computer to help, aircraft can fly a little differently. It goes into a state called "alternate law".
One experienced pilot told me that the controls can become much more sensitive and take a few minutes to get used to.
The report says the co-pilot seemed to become disorientated as the aircraft banked sharply. He kept pulling the nose up until the plane stalled. That is not like an engine stalling on a car, but when there is not enough air going over the wings to create the lift that keeps the aircraft in the sky.
Investigators use words like "delayed response", "startled" and "disorientated" saying of the co-pilot: "He did not react appropriately in this complex emergency."
It seems the more experienced pilot did not take control, as he is trained to do. He was doing the opposite of the co-pilot, pushing the nose down to come out of the stall, but the report says it did not have any effect because the aircraft averages out what the two control sticks are doing.
On an Airbus it is hard to see what your colleague is up to. The sticks are like computer joysticks and they sit on each side of the cockpit, on the armrest, rather than between the feet.
Meanwhile, we have found out that the same part that triggered the computer alarm had been faulty 23...

Summary: Some faulty soldering was the trigger for the clearly avoidable crash of the AirAsia plane in the Java Sea in December 2014, a report from Indonesia's National Transport Safety Committee says.
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Article: It comes three years after its MH370 flight bound for Beijing disappeared with 239 people on board.
Using a soon-to-be-launched satellite network, the airline will be able to monitor its planes in areas where there is currently no surveillance.
They include polar regions and remote areas of oceans not covered by existing systems.
The airline reached a deal for the service provided by US-based Aireon, FlightAware and SITAONAIR.
The new system can also provide more regular updates on a plane's location, especially when travelling over oceans and other remote areas, said SITAONAIR's portfolio director Paul Gibson.
Aircrafts deviating from a flight path could be identified more quickly as a result, he said.
"With access to up-to-the-minute reporting, Malaysia Airlines will know the location, heading, speed and altitude of all aircraft in its fleet, at all times, and be alerted to any exceptions."
But it is unclear if the additional tracking ability would have had any impact on the MH370 disappearance.
All tracking systems monitor a plane's location using its on-board transmitter.  When the Kuala Lumpur-Beijing flight vanished in March 2014, the transmitter signal was lost, with some suspicions it was done deliberately.
Most flights currently transmit their position using signals tracked from both the ground and space.
The new service, available in 2018,  will add to that coverage, using the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation which was launched earlier this year.
The fate of MH370 remains one of the world's greatest aviation mystery. More than 120,000 sq km (46,300 miles) of the Indian Ocean has been searched with no sign of the aircraft.
Some pieces of debris have been found on African islands including Madagascar.
The deep-water search for the flight was called off earlier this year.
Malaysian Airlines has been trying to win back customers' confidence, by offering travel discounts and flight promotions.
The carrier's chief operating officer, Izham Ismail, said the firm was "proud" to be the first airline to...

Summary: Malaysia Airlines has become the first carrier to sign up to a new satellite flight tracking system for its fleet.
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Article: In January 2015, the ZX Spectrum games console - originally launched by Clive Sinclair in 1982 - went back into production in the UK and will be sold pre-loaded with 1,000 classic games.
The same month, Sony brought a 21st Century twist to its classic personal stereo the Walkman, a brand it launched in 1979 and retired in 2010, in the form of a high-end digital music player.
Ion Audio also unveiled a new record player - the Air LP, a turntable equipped with bluetooth for music streaming. It also has USB connectivity so it can be plugged in to a computer.
And in the gaming zone at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, nestling between the Xboxes, Playstations, 4K graphics and virtual reality headsets, was a machine with origins dating back at least 250 years.
That device was the humble pinball machine - the earliest recorded being the bagatelles of 18th Century France.
So why can't we let go of our old tech?
"As is the case in fashion or furniture, retro is quite attractive," said analyst Carolina Milanesi from analysts Kantar.
"With tech, however, it gets tricky as you need to deliver value. In some cases, vendors deliver new tech in a retro package while in others the technology, while improved in specs, remains pretty close to the initial offering."
While using a brand like the Walkman is a good sales tactic, ultimately it is a long way from the original in terms of what it offers - and its price tag (£949) is steep, she added.
"Personally, I believe, that design versus tech would work better as a retro offering - but even so the appeal would be limited."
In America, old arcade games are enjoying a revival thanks in part to the success of drinking establishments like the chain Barcade, where drinkers can quaff locally produced beers while indulging in some classic arcade entertainment.
"Our most popular games are the classics like Ms Pac Man and Donkey Kong and also the multiplayer games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Simpsons, NBA Jam and X-Men," said Barcade CEO Paul Kermizian.
"We...

Summary: Looking at some of the latest tech news, it's tempting to wonder whether we've all jumped out of the same DeLorean famously driven by time travellers Doc Brown and Marty McFly in the 1985 film Back to the Future.
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Article: Judge Thomas Lipps rejected arguments by defence lawyers that witnesses could face intimidation or harassment outside the courthouse in Steubenville.
The case has attracted attention due to social media and the high profile of the football team in the small town.
Judge Lipps also ruled the non-jury trial would be open to the public.
He did so over the objections of the family of the 16-year-old girl who was allegedly attacked.
She wanted to protect her identity and keep evidence that might eventually be ruled inadmissible from becoming public.
Trenton Mays and Ma'lik Richmond, both 16, deny the charges they face next month at a juvenile court.
Three other students who witnessed the alleged attack but were not charged are expected to testify at next month's trial.
Those witnesses include two who took a video and photograph, then deleted the images.
The Ohio attorney general's office told lawyers for those students last autumn that if the images had been found, they would have been charged.
Prosecutors say the girl, who went to a school across the river from the city in West Virginia, was attacked after an alcohol-fuelled party last August.
The case was thrust into the national spotlight after attention by bloggers and the hacker activist group Anonymous.
Some claimed that the community had sought to cover up the alleged crime in order protect the two accused.
The trial is set for 13 March.

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The government has announced that it will not be renewing the licence fee agreement with BBC Monitoring.

The British and German economies are the "beating heart" of Europe, George Osborne has said as he heads to Berlin for talks on reforming the EU.

Article: Two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and a Philippines woman, Mary Jane Veloso were notified by Indonesian officials on Saturday.
Under Indonesian law, convicts must be given 72 hours' notice of execution, but no formal date has yet been set.
The appeals process for a French national is still under way.
The group is being held on the prison island of Nusakambangan.
"Indonesian authorities today [Saturday] advised Australian consular officials that the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will be scheduled imminently at Nusa Kambangan prison in central Java," Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in a statement.
She said she would continue to press for clemency. However, Indonesia's government has rejected all appeals so far.
Veloso's parents, two sons and sister travelled to the island on Saturday to see her.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were the leaders of the "Bali Nine" group arrested in 2005 while attempting to smuggle heroin to Australia.
A court ruled that they had organised a nine-member smuggling operation and they were sentenced to death in 2006.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who took office last year, has taken a tough stance on drug crime.
In January he authorised the executions of six people, including five foreigners, convicted of drug offences.
The group of 10 awaiting execution also includes Brazilian and Nigerian nationals.
Who are the Bali Nine?

Summary: At least three of 10 people on death row in Indonesia for drug smuggling have been given formal notice of their imminent execution.
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Article: The Foreign Affairs Committee said the service, which translates and analyses international news, is a "key source of information" for the Foreign Office.
A £4m shortfall means BBC Monitoring faces losing 40% of its staff in the UK and 20% abroad.
The Foreign Office said it "has confidence" in the current system of funding by the licence fee.
Since the start of World War Two, BBC Monitoring has been tracking global developments by keeping a watch on the world's media and now has an annual budget of about £27m.
The government passed responsibility for funding the service in 2013 to licence fee payers, following a change announced in then-chancellor George Osborne's 2010 spending review.
But the report from a cross-party committee of MPs said that decision should be reversed as it was made for "presentational" reasons.
"The Foreign and Commonwealth Office needs to be the eyes and ears of the UK abroad... BBC Monitoring is one of its key sources of information," it said.
"There is no good reason why the government should expect to have the benefit of a product which is key to policy-making without providing funding for it.
"The taxpayer is the main beneficiary of BBC Monitoring's work, not the licence fee payer; and logically the taxpayer should fund it," it added.
In a statement, the BBC said it too believes BBC Monitoring could continue to meet the government's needs after the planned restructuring.
"We will continue to honour the licence fee agreement from 2010.
"However, if the government decided there would benefits in offering additional direct funding to BBC Monitoring, we would be happy to consider this," a BBC spokeswoman said.

Summary: The government should restore its funding of BBC Monitoring, MPs have said.
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Article: Earlier this month the European Central Bank (ECB) introduced fresh measures designed to boost the eurozone, including a "below-zero" interest rate and cheap, long-term bank loans.
ECB president Mario Draghi has referred to inflation below 1% as being in "the danger zone".
The bank wants inflation to be near 2%.
Flash estimates from the EU statistics office, Eurostat, show that the service industry was the only sector to report significant price growth, with a rise of 1.3%, but food, alcohol & tobacco prices were down 0.2%, and industrial goods remained unchanged.
Separate figures from the eurozone showed that retail sales in Greece enjoyed their strongest annual rise in more than two years in April, up 7.3% compared with the year before.
In Germany, retail sales in May were up 1.9% compared with the year before, but down 0.6% compared with April's figures.
Earlier this month, the ECB became the first major central bank to introduce negative interest rates, in an effort to get money moving into the stagnant eurozone economy.
There had been concerns that the eurozone could slip into deflation, raising fears that consumers might spend even less because they would expect prices to fall in future months.
Howard Archer, an economist at IHS Global, said there may be "some relief" within the ECB that eurozone inflation did not weaken further in June.
"Nevertheless, the ECB will likely have been hoping that inflation would actually edge a little higher in June following a marked move back up in German inflation," he added.

Summary: The rate of inflation in the eurozone remained at 0.5% in June, marking the ninth consecutive month of below-target growth in the 18 member states.
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Article: Coverage is set to reach 95% by 2019, North Yorkshire County Council said.
Council leader, Carl Les, said: "Trying to deliver any service across 3,000 sq miles is always going to be a challenge."
Now some local community projects are delivering broadband via fibre-optic cable after raising their own funds.
Mr Les said: "We thought [100% coverage] was a realistic expectation but with the benefit of experience we're now realising that it's perhaps that little bit more difficult than we thought at first."
He said broadband had been delivered to over 90% of locations within "a relatively short time" but he understood those left out would be "very disappointed".
High-quality broadband with a minimum speed of 25Mbps will cover 91% of North Yorkshire premises by June at a cost of about £35 million, the council said.
Funding of £21m has been agreed by the council for the third and final phase to reach 95% of premises.
Simon Peach, led a community scheme in Clapham cum Newby to raise about £250,000 to provide broadband for everyone in the parish.
He said about 20 miles (32km) of fibre optic cable had connected about 100 houses and delivered broadband speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps, but it required volunteers to negotiate land access to complete the project.
He said: "We did the right thing absolutely. It is frustrating because those of us who live in rural properties are last in the queue."

Summary: Some remote communities in North Yorkshire will not get high-speed broadband despite being promised 100% access by 2017, a council has admitted.
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Article: The Chancellor will meet finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to set out more details of the UK's bid to renegotiate its EU membership.
Securing German backing is important for the success of British plans for reform.
David Cameron has already courted support from Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mr Osborne said: "The UK and German economies are the beating heart of Europe, the engine for growth and jobs.
"Together we make the world's third-largest economy, behind only America and China, and since the crisis ended, we have generated two-thirds of EU growth.
"But the future holds challenges for our economies. We must cut debt and boost productivity. To do this, we need a strong EU, fit for today's challenges and working for the benefit of all 28 member states.
"The UK's reform and renegotiation plans aim to achieve this, which is why these talks with key partners in Europe are so important."
Mr Osborne will also visit a Siemens factory in the German capital and address an audience of business leaders at the annual conference of the BDI, the Federation of German Industries.
In May Germany's Chambers of Commerce and Industry warned that a UK exit from the EU would be "disastrous" for the two countries.
Volker Treier, deputy chief executive of the organisation, told the BBC that German business was "astonished" that the UK was planning a referendum on its EU membership.
David Cameron's renegotiation plans will be formally debated for the first time by the EU's 28 leaders at a summit in Brussels in mid-December.

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A planned state-of-the-art joint training college for Northern Ireland's police, fire and prison services has been radically redrawn.

Article: He was "ranting about Europe".
"Do you know the Vale of Glamorgan is the most Eurosceptic place in Wales?" asks the Welsh Tory leader.
If so, Mr Davies should feel at home. He's announced he'll vote to leave the EU.
He's always been a Eurosceptic, he says, so he didn't need to agonise over whether to make that announcement.
"Anyone who knows me knows I agonise over very little. That's why I look so young."
But before going on an anti-EU charm offensive, he has another objective: becoming first minister.
Campaigning for the EU referendum on June 23 is on hold until after the assembly election on May 5 - an election he hopes will usher in a Welsh Tory government.
That'll be difficult. It's likely some form of coalition would be needed to put the Tories in charge.
And while Mr Davies says he doesn't rule anything in or out, Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood, leader of the assembly's third biggest party, has no appetite to work with him.
Nevertheless, Mr Davies is convinced there are enough Tory supporters out there.
Just look at last year's general election, he says. More people voted Conservative then than voted for Carwyn Jones's Labour Party at the last assembly election in 2011.
That may be true, but turnout at assembly elections has been much lower than in general elections.
"So what we've got to do is energise people to say the assembly is important," Mr Davies says.
"The assembly election is vital to our future wellbeing - and we need change. After 17 years here of Labour running services into the ground we need to secure real change in Wales."
Being a member of the national assembly is a privilege, he tells me.
The other three party leaders in the institution were campaigning for its creation 20 years ago. What was Mr Davies attitude towards devolution back then?
"I suppose quiet indifference would have been the word I would have used. Ultimately, I was securing my family's future - my business's future - by getting my head down and working here on the family farm.
"Really, politics was most probably not that...

Summary: On his farm in the Vale of Glamorgan - one of five owned by his family - Andrew RT Davies says a neighbour paid him a visit recently.
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Article: His assurance came as he answered questions about the possible takeover of General Motors' European operations, including Vauxhall, by the French PSA.
PSA owns both Peugeot and Citroen and its interest in buying the GM businesses was announced last week.
Mr Clark met the PSA board and French industry minister last Friday.
Speaking in the Commons, the business secretary said his French counterpart, Christophe Sirugue, had told him it was important that all Opel's factories across Europe were treated fairly.
"We have a very strong domestic market and Vauxhall has a large share of that - something PSA recognises," said Mr Clark.
"One of the points the PSA executives made to me was that since the new management of PSA has been in place, they have taken some pride in having part of their strategy not to close plants," he added.
Meanwhile, Germany's deputy economy minister, Matthias Machnig, said that GM and PSA were yet to give any binding guarantees on German jobs, but that there had been some encouraging signs.
Vauxhall employs abut 4,500 workers in the UK, making cars in Ellesmere Port and vans in Luton.
Mr Clark sidestepped a question about whether any sweeteners were on offer to ensure that the PSA Group - if it takes over the loss-making GM businesses in Europe - will maintain manufacturing in the UK.
However, he said the UK car industry was very competitive, had a flexible workforce, and was investing in technology.
"The UK is a beacon of success in this, and other, industries," Mr Clark said.
"From my initial conversations [with PSA and General Motors] I think it is understood that Vauxhall's plants are very efficient," he added.
Asked by Labour MP Pat McFadden about the future of the UK's supply chain for the car industry, the minister hailed the UK's competitive car parts sector.
"That makes it attractive to investors," he said.
Mr Clark also told MPs that he had mentioned the importance of looking after current and former employees who are members of the Vauxhall pension scheme, which has a deficit of...

Summary: The business secretary, Greg Clark, has told MPs that Vauxhall workers in Luton and Ellesmere Port have no reason to fear for their jobs.
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Article: Will Strutt, 25, from Heybridge, Essex, posted on Tesco's Facebook page about his experience in the reduced fruit and veg aisle in the Maldon branch.
The supermarket replied with a poem, saying they were "not worthy to bask in your glory and fruitful findings".
The post has attracted hundreds of comments, the Essex Chronicle reported.
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Mr Strutt said his fruity bounty was put to good use as dessert for his family, with the remaining strawberries being frozen for use in breakfasts.
His post claimed "minstrels will write songs about this day", and went on to recount the rivalry he had with a "rival dad" who also had en eye out for the yellow sticker gun labelling items as reduced.
"Then I saw it, in all its golden aura, the promised land," he wrote.
"The previously empty reduced fruit and veg hotspot contained a tray of strawberries, not 25% off, not 50% off but 10p... a box!"
He told Tesco: "You enjoy that 80p, buy yourself something nice & treat yourself.
"For today you levelled me up and my newly upgraded bargain skills will no doubt allow me to live like a king for the rest of my days."
In response, Tesco made a poem out of the tale of his experience.
"But there is one question left / For bargaining is an art / With all the fruit you have now / Will you make Pimms or Tart?," it read.
Mr Strutt said he had not expected such a response, thinking he would "only get ribbed by friends and family".
The post went on to gain more than 2,400 Facebook likes and hundreds of shares and comments.
"We ended up having a bit of back and forth," he said. "I was very impressed with the way they handled it - it showed the less corporate side of things."
Mr Strutt is now planning on creating more posts as his regal bargain-hunting character with the aim of "making people smile and having fun".

Summary: A supermarket shopper has become the self-proclaimed "king of the yellow stickers" after purchasing punnets of strawberries worth £16 for 80p.
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Article: He needed £120 and says he didn't have a problem convincing them to lend him cash by saying he worked full-time.
But the 20-year-old admitted lying on his application and told Newsbeat it was "too easy" to be accepted.
He's now likely to be one of 330,000 people whose debts will be written off after a ruling that Wonga lent money to people who couldn't repay it.
"My bank couldn't give me an overdraft or anything, and so I went to them [Wonga]," he says.
He received his money and went on holiday, but a few weeks later he says the firm started calling him and he says they were "constant".
"They were ringing me every day," he says. "They were telling me how much I owe and that there was added interest."
Elliot says that a few months later he was being told his debt had risen to more then £800 and it began to affect his day-to-day life.
The longer it went on, the more he says he worried he would get about his situation getting out of control.
Elliott is likely to be one of those to have his loan cancelled and says it's come as a relief.
He says the amount of the debt was making him feel depressed and that he had "no idea" what he would have done if this ruling hadn't come.
In Elliott's opinion, the whole process is too simple and he wants payday lending to be banned.
"It's so easy to go online and get one that you don't really look at the small print and they don't really tell you that much," he says.
He also said it would have been easy for him to lie about his salary and increase the amount he could get.
He describes the payday loan system as a "vicious circle" and warns that you can end up owing more and more money each month.
Newsbeat have approached Wonga for a response but we've yet to hear back from them.
If you're struggling with debt, the Citizens Advice Bureau says not to use payday lenders.
They offer a service to help people re-organise and manage their repayments to make them more affordable.
There's a chance you may have also been treated unfairly and they'll deal with the lender on your behalf to...

Summary: When Elliott Gomme needed money for a holiday, like many people he turned to payday lender Wonga.
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Article: The new plan is for training to be split across three different sites.
There would be some joint training, but the three services would each have their own facilities.
The big winner would be the fire and rescue service - it would get a £44m purpose-built complex at Desertcreat, near Cookstown in County Tyrone.
Timeline: Ten years of stop and start for NI's public services college
The BBC revealed in March that a programme board in charge of the Desertcreat project had concluded it was no longer economically viable.
It said the joint college as originally planned was no longer needed because of reduction in the number of training days required by each of the three services.
The Office of First and deputy First Minister then asked for a revised business case, setting out preferred options for future training needs.
That review has now been completed and the BBC has obtained a copy of a draft report setting out the board's recommendations.
It says the preferred option is for the fire service to have a training facility at Desertcreat at an estimated cost of £44m.
If the plan is approved by the Northern Ireland Executive, it is understood the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) would also be allocated about £20m to refurbish its existing training facilities at Garnerville police station in east Belfast.
The Northern Ireland Prison Service would be given funding for training at Maghaberry and Magilligan prisons as its training centre in Millisle, County Down, has been closed.
The proposed new complex for the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) would be built on the site bought 10 years ago for a new policing college at Desertcreat.
That plan was later changed to include the fire and prison services, but has now been revised.
It would include what is called a 'hot house'.
This is a building that can be set on fire in a controlled fashion, or heated to extremely high temperatures, to give firefighters realistic training.
Northern Ireland does not currently have such a facility.
The NIFRS would...

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Almost a fifth of homeless applications now come from the private rented sector, according to Shelter Scotland.

Article: Photographer Richard Nicholson took a look inside that box, capturing those who have helped bring the silver screen to life.
"When I first stepped into a projection box, I was struck by the claustrophobic atmosphere," says Nicholson.
"It was a dark, cramped space, and, as the projector whirred into motion, it became increasingly hot and noisy.
"As I watched the projectionist wrestle with a giant spool of film, the scene reminded me of a railwayman shovelling coal into a locomotive."
Working with The Projection Project, Nicholson's pictures are accompanied by the thoughts of the projectionists, many of whom are experts on the history of cinema.
Nicholson usually works on a large-format film camera - but, paradoxically, for this project, he shot the images on a digital camera.
Following a test shoot, he realised he would require a vast amount of lighting to work on film, whereas a digital approach allowed him to use smaller flashguns to light the projection boxes.
With cinemas across the country still under threat from redevelopment and closure, it is perhaps the perfect time for this project.
"I think it's a wasted opportunity if you go to a cinema and it's just a blank screen, and no curtains, with some feeble lighting, and it just sort of starts," said projectionist Peter Howden.
"I remember going to the cinema and the lights would change colour and the organist would come up out of the floor. It's simple and it's effective and it would be a pity to lose that.
"I think it's part of the magic of going to the cinema. Putting on a show rather than just showing a film."
The projectionist is the final step between the film and the public. And, for many, that flickering light that pierces the darkness of the cinema is still magical.
"When I used to go to the cinema with my mother, I was never looking at the film, I was always looking to see where it came from," said projectionist Rachel Dukes.
"In those days everybody used to smoke. And so when the beam of light was coming down, you'd have these pretty patterns of...

Summary: At the start of the decade, many of Britain's cinemas made the switch from analogue projection to digital, changing forever the role of those inside the projection box, with many films now projected by a computer.
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Article: David Cameron told a committee of MPs there had been an "attitudinal change" which he wanted to see continue.
He cited the example of the Somerset Levels, where dredging of rivers has resumed in a bid to avoid a repeat of flooding seen in 2013-14.
He also defended the response to floods in northern England and Scotland.
In an appearance before the Commons Liaison Committee, Mr Cameron said: "You've seen quite an attitudinal change in the Environment Agency that in years gone past, I think, were trying to balance up the effects on nature on the one hand and protecting property on the other hand.
"We've said to them: 'The time for that is over. This is about protecting human lives. This is about protecting our homes.'
"I want to see that continued shift. You saw that very directly in Somerset, where there is a man-made environment and it was ridiculous those rivers weren't being dredged.
I threatened to go and drive the dredger myself. Those rivers have now been dredged.
"Do we need an attitudinal change in the way we approach flooding? Yes, we absolutely do."
The Environment Agency, which covers England, is responsible for managing the risk of flooding from main rivers, and issues flood alerts and warnings.
But that was not the reason it was set up or the main part of its remit.
"We work to create better places for people and wildlife, and support sustainable development," the agency says on the "what we do" section of its website.
Several storms wreaked havoc across the UK in December, with Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester and Yorkshire among the worst affected by the floods.
Parts of Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland also saw flooding and damage from a series of storms, including Desmond, Eva and Frank.
The environment agency's chairman, Sir Philip Dilley, resigned on Monday after coming under pressure for holidaying in Barbados during the recent floods.
Last month the agency's deputy chief executive said a "complete rethink" of the UK's flood defences was required, saying better waterproofing of...

Summary: The Environment Agency has been ordered to prioritise protecting people's homes ahead of nature when tackling flooding, the prime minister says.
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Article: Example's announced that he's cutting back on his live schedule to focus on, among other things, his family.
"I feel the need to go away for a while so I can come back in 2016 with a new album and a new live show experience," he wrote on Twitter.
The rapper's released five studio albums since 2007 and had two UK number one singles.
"Last year I did 120 shows and didn't spend enough time in the studio or songwriting for myself and other artists," he wrote.
"In 2015 as it currently stands I will be doing 50 shows with DJ Wire overseas (none of them in the UK)."
If you break down those tour stats, it means he's averaged 250 shows a year, performing roughly 20 songs a time.
That's around 40,000 songs in total.
"I'll be back in 2016 with the full live band and lightshow experience for festivals and tours," he said.
"2015 is all about new music and my wife and son."
Example became a dad for the first time in December.
He's married to Australian model Erin McNaught.
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Summary: When you've done 2,000 shows in eight years, we don't think anyone would begrudge you taking a little break.
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Article: Coventry-based Covpress Limited had experienced "significant and urgent funding issues," administrators Grant Thornton said.
No redundancies have been announced and it would look to "pursue a sale or rescue of the company," it added.
Covpress Limited makes body panels for car makers including Jaguar Land Rover and Renault.
The company said on its website that in 30 months since a Â£30m British-Chinese consortium takeover in July 2013 "a further Â£25m has been invested in the Canley plant in both machinery and jobs".
The Unite union said the administration was "a worrying development for the 800 employees" and more generally for the West Midlands economy.
But regional officer Adrian Ross added "there is optimism that a buyer will be found".
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This is an unusual administration.
It is very different from many collapses we have seen in the past where companies have lacked orders and struggled to win new work.
Covpress has been expanding rapidly over the last three years and is understood to have full order books.
Whatever has gone wrong, I would expect administrators would be seeing a lot of interest from potential buyers and that should help save the bulk of the jobs at Covpress.
Grant Thornton said talks with customers and suppliers would be "critical to any outcome".
Eddie Williams, a joint-administrator, said: "We expect significant interest in this growing business and with that support, we will look to pursue a sale or rescue of the company."
In July last year Covpress spent another Â£30m buying nearby Honda supplier UYT, which was renamed Covpress Assembly, a move that safeguarded 400 jobs, according to the company's website.
Covpress Assembly Limited is not subject to the administration.

Summary: A car parts manufacturer, which employs about 800 people, has been put into administration.
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Article: The charity said this was disproportionate to the sector's size, which is 13% of housing in Scotland.
Homeless applications have decreased by a third in the past five years but the Shelter said the statistics did not tell the full story.
It said it was important that vulnerable households were supported before they were pushed into crisis.
According to the latest Scottish government figures, the proportion of  homeless applications that come from the private rental tenants rose from 13% 2008-09 to 18% in 2013-14.
However overall homelessness in Scotland fell by 34% during the same period, official statistics showed.
Graeme Brown, director of Shelter Scotland, said: "Whilst the headline figures show that homelessness applications are down by one third in the last five years, which is welcome, our analysis shows it is not all good news for homeless people in Scotland.
"The 36,457 households making homeless applications, a youth homelessness rate at 13.7 per 1,000 and a rising proportion of homeless applications from the private rented sector signal that, although there are movements in the right direction, there is still a long way to go."
"With the significant weakening of the welfare state in recent years, it is more important than ever to ensure that vulnerable households are offered support before they are pushed into crisis."
The report, 'Homelessness in Scotland 2014: Getting Behind the Statistics', has been released ahead of Shelter Scotland's annual conference later this month.
Housing minister Margaret Burgess said: "Homelessness in Scotland is falling and the number of homeless applications from the private rented sector has actually fallen by 21% since 2008/09.
"The Scottish government is working closely with local authorities and their partners, and with Shelter, to prevent homelessness, increase the number of affordable homes and address the issue of empty homes. Where people do become homeless, our focus is on finding the best outcomes."

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