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Valero submitted plans for a Pembroke power generation unit last year, and employs 1,200 people locally,
However, it said it is vital "it is a swift process", describing it as "a development of national significance".
The Welsh Government agreed but said that the planning process worked the same for everyone.
Texas-based Valero bought Pembroke refinery in 2011 in a £447m deal.
It announced the £100m development to create a combined heat and power generation unit last November, saying this would secure future jobs and maintain the viability of the plant.
While plans are still at an early stage and a decision will not be made until next year, the company's Stephen Thornton said the company would re-evaluate if the process is not quick.
"The onus is on the Welsh Government to ensure we reach our schedule," he said.
"This is a development of national significance."
Concerns about the competitiveness of the area have also been raised by the Port of Milford Haven - which is the UK's third biggest and its largest energy port.
Chief executive Alec Don warned that they are competing in a global market, citing the closure of Murco Oil Refinery that shut in 2014, with 400 job losses.
"That refinery plant is being dismantled, and being sold to Pakistan, where it will be exported and rebuilt to continue refining in another country that's half-way around the globe," he said.
"So that's the challenge we had as a country, it's not a little local affair, it's a global market place and we've got to be competitive.
"So unless we're mindful of the competitive position, we're going to continue losing these businesses."
Mr Don also believes the Welsh Government has "a very strong part to play".
While ports are not devolved, it has control over areas like the economy, planning and the environment.
Minister Lesley Griffiths, who is the cabinet secretary responsible for planning issues, said she agreed that Valero's application needed to be dealt with swiftly.
"That's why we've brought forward the Planning Act in 2014. I am now implementing various parts of that," she said.
"But it is really important that this is a speed that works for them. However, planning is for everyone, it's there for the development and use of our land." | Plans for a £100m investment in a Pembrokeshire refinery could be at risk unless they are dealt with quickly, the company behind them said. | 39008287 |
Martin Gorman, 41, died in Crosshouse Hospital after being found seriously injured in a house in Croe Place.
Emergency services had been called to the property at about 01:40.
The woman is expected to appear at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court on Friday. | A 28-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the death of a man in Kilmarnock. | 37439151 |
He was thrown behind bars, and accused of running a criminal network of close family members who had been trafficking huge amounts of forged currency abroad since 2009.
Yet, twice this year, on 17 July and 1 August, the Quispe Rodriguez clan, as the police refer to them, made the news again.
After an operation lasting several months, police said they had detained two further family members and seized counterfeit bills totalling nearly $7m (£4.5m), including euros and Peruvian soles.
"We have dealt a hard blow to organised crime," police chief Raul Salazar told journalists, as he stood next to a long table covered with layers of freshly-printed uncut sheets of fake $50 bills.
Cesar Cortijo, the director of the crime investigation unit within the Peruvian police, says most of that money was intended to be transported abroad, in ways similar to those used by drug-traffickers.
"We have found notebooks with Peruvian traditional drawings on the cover, to make them look like souvenirs," he told the BBC.
"They have a compartment to hide the dollars, which are all wrapped in carbon paper so that the contents are invisible to X-rays."
According to the police, more than $17m in fake money has been seized so far this year, mostly bound for the US and countries that use the dollar as currency, such as Ecuador.
The US authorities believe that Peru is the major foreign producer of fake dollar bills circulating in the US.
"In 2003, we detected the first note that was manufactured in Peru," says Brian Leary, a spokesman for the US Secret Services.
"It's been increasing, and right now 17% of all counterfeit dollars in the US are of Peruvian origin."
The overall amount of fake dollars that makes it out of Peru is unknown.
But the Central Reserve Bank of Peru believes that the forged currency in circulation does not pose a macro-economic threat.
"This is organised crime that mostly affects low-income people," says bank official Juan Antonio Ramirez.
"For them, accepting a forged note can mean losing a lot of money.
"That's why we tell the public to be careful and know very well what security features to look for in banknotes," he says.
Mr Ramirez thinks that around 0.5% of all bills in Peru, including dollars, are fake.
Peruvians are learning to live with the problem, and know to be suspicious when dealing with high-denomination banknotes.
Shops and hotels use ultraviolet lights and special pens to search for signs that could identify fakes, and taxi drivers go as far as forcibly snapping suspicious bills in the air to test for quality.
Peru has a large informal economy, where fake identity cards and other documents can be bought on the black market.
It also has smuggling routes for drugs, goods and people already in place, which could be exploited by forgers.
But whether these factors contribute to the high level of counterfeiting in Peru is hard to say for certain.
The Peruvian government recognises there is a problem, which it says is being tackled as a priority in its fight against organised crime.
Forgers face up to 12 years in jail, and officials say border security is continually being improved to try to detect fake currency.
But Jorge Gonzalez, a Peruvian economist who specialises in monetary policy, believes the authorities should do more to arrest criminal gang leaders, in Peru and abroad.
"They mostly catch the small fish, not those at the top.
"They catch the courier who's taking the money through the airport, but not the person who's sending it," he says.
Multi-national co-operation and shared intelligence may, however, be having some effect.
The US Secret Service estimates that this year the number of fake dollars from Peru will be down by 4%.
The Andean country has been working more closely with the US authorities since 2009, and its Central Bank also exchanges information with Interpol and with Spain, which uses the euro.
But Prof Gonzalez, who has twice served as a government minister, believes that as long as it remains profitable, counterfeiting will not disappear.
According to his calculations, for every 10 fake dollars smuggled out of Peru, a trafficker could be receiving one real dollar in compensation.
"So if you give me millions to take out of the country, you can imagine how much money I could be making," he says.
With such high profit margins, he points out, forgers could move their money-making productions somewhere else if the police in Peru gain the upper hand.
Or if their dollar markets are squeezed here, they could switch to printing more fake euros and other currencies instead, Prof Gonzalez believes. | When Joel Quispe Rodriguez was arrested last year at a bar in north-western Peru, many Peruvians thought his capture marked the beginning of the end of a multi-million-dollar illegal trade in counterfeit money. | 19240999 |
Police say the bodies of nine women and four men were found washed up on a beach in Johor state early on Tuesday.
Those on board were thought to be illegal migrants or workers from Indonesia, they added.
Thousands of Indonesians work illegally in plantations and other industries in Malaysia.
They often risk dangerous sea journeys to bypass border controls when they enter Malaysia or return home.
District police chief Rahmat Othman said he believed up to 35 people could have been on board the boat, and a search and rescue operation was under way.
An Indonesian foreign ministry spokesman told Reuters that "ID cards from Indonesia" were found on the bodies of the 13 victims.
Accidents off Malaysia's coast are relatively common as illegal migrants try to find work in the relatively affluent country.
It is also a key transit hub for asylum seekers fleeing unrest in their own countries, such as in Myanmar, also known as Burma. | Police are searching for survivors after a boat capsized off the coast of Malaysia, killing at least 13 people, officials say. | 35409752 |
The first official photo of the new Great British Bake Off line-up has been released by Channel 4.
Paul Hollywood is the only star who's stayed with the show, while Prue Leith is replacing Mary Berry.
Taking over presenting duties from Mel and Sue are Sandi and Noel.
Comedian and writer Sandi Toksvig currently presents the quiz shows Fifteen to One and QI.
Noel Fielding is also a comedian, who has starred in several comedy shows. He played Ed Banger in the Horrid Henry movie.
The new series of Bake Off is expected to start later this year.
It was announced that the BBC lost the baking competition to Channel 4 last September. | On your marks, get set, bake! | 39598246 |
It is an artistic protest at the deepening political crisis in Brazil.
The anonymous artist said he wanted to protect national figures from Brazil's history from seeing the shameful state of the nation.
The artist said the work was not connected to protest marches against President Dilma Rousseff planned for Sunday.
The statues, which are scattered across the city, include one of Brazil's ex-President Getulio Vargas, the country's first dictator who ruled the country from 1930 to 1945 and sought to transform Brazil from a plantation-based economy into an industrial powerhouse.
Also blindfolded was a statue of Alberto Santos Dumond, the father of Brazilian aviation and Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil who as regent actively promoted and ultimately signed the "Lei Aurea" or Golden Law, emancipating all slaves in Brazil on 13 May 1888.
The artist who works under an art scheme called "Project Oraculo" said that he wanted to transmit that "protest is not just about street demonstrations".
On Sunday huge protests are planned by opponents to President Dilma Rousseff to demand her impeachment on charges of having mishandled the budget and the economy.
Brazil is suffering its worse economic recession in decades.
The artist said: "The idea is to blindfold the eyes of those who can no longer do anything for the country and to avoid them helplessly witnessing the economic and political crisis in the country, unable to do anything." | A hundred statues on the streets of Rio de Janeiro have had their eyes covered in red blindfolds. | 35796529 |
The Celtic manager told BBC Scotland after their Scottish Cup final victory that his treble-winning side ticked off six of his seven targets last term.
"He's set a few more than that," said Brown when asked how to stay motivated after an unbeaten domestic season.
"We've got a few more targets than that, so we'll see if we can hit them all."
Improved teamwork and better possession are among the goals for the season.
"We've just got to maintain the same standards that we set last season - that's in training and in games - and try to improve on the amount of touches you get, the amount of shots on target and maintain every stat we had last season and try to improve on it," Brown added.
"Every month of the season we sit down and have a meeting to see if we've hit our stats, whether it's goals, possession, whatever it is, and we have to build on the ones we didn't hit last season.
"We set standards high in training every day and we need to maintain that, whether it's in training or in games.
"The gaffer wants to hit those stats and that's what we need to do.
"We've got a huge squad now and there's competition for places, so somebody else can easily jump in."
Reaching the group stage of the Champions League is another target for the season.
But Brown, who will unfurl the Scottish Premiership flag ahead of Saturday's opening game of the new domestic campaign, at home to Hearts, insisted that continuing their run of six straight league titles was the priority.
"It is a great honour being asked to do it and you couldn't take the smirk off my face," he said of the flag honour.
"For us, the huge thing is to try to get into the Champions League, but the first game of the season for us is huge - flag day in front of our own fans and you can't beat that.
"The main thing for us is the league. We need to try to win the league yet again and go for seven in a row."
Brown is in his 10th year with Celtic but is not thinking of retirement any time soon.
"I'm just trying to play as long as I can," said the 32-year-old. "I'm enjoying my football and enjoying it under the gaffer as well - it's been fantastic."
Playing in Scotland's World Cup qualifier against England then preparing for Celtic's Champions League qualifiers against Linfield then Rosenborg meant little time for a summer break.
"We've had a good few games and the season hasn't really stopped for myself and a few others," added Brown.
"But the good thing is we are match fit, we're sharp and looking forward to the first league game on Saturday." | Brendan Rodgers has set his squad even more targets for the new season, Celtic captain Scott Brown has revealed. | 40779665 |
Ineos, the chemicals giant that controls Grangemouth refinery and petro-chemicals plant, has taken them on.
This is its first move into owning oil and gas assets.
There are indications its chairman and controlling shareholder Jim Ratcliffe intends to buy more.
The 12 fields, mainly in the southern North Sea, were sold in March by German firm RWE to the LetterOne company controlled by Mikhail Fridman.
They represent around 8% of UK gas production, including the Breagh and Clipper South fields.
The UK Energy Secretary before the UK election, Ed Davey, told LetterOne in April that it had to sell them again.
He said it was not in UK interests to have the fields at risk of sanctions against Russians, and threatened to revoke the owner's operating licence. The sale had to take place by 20 October.
Jim Ratcliffe of Ineos said: "We are pleased to acquire a strong portfolio of natural gas assets and bring on board a highly successful and experienced North Sea industry team.
He said of the gas fields: "They are high quality, low risk assets and they come with a highly experienced management team. Whilst no decisions have yet been made, we will continue to evaluate other opportunities in the North Sea.
"Ineos has been very open about its intention to make strategic investments in the North Sea and this acquisition is our first step in fulfilling this goal. It will also help our UK petrochemical assets to have ongoing access to competitive energy."
Ineos is also investing in onshore unconventional gas projects in the UK, though these are proving controversial.
It has invested heavily in the shipping, docking and processing facilities to bring fracked gas from the USA to Grangemouth and to a Norwegian processing facility. | Twelve North Sea gas fields have been sold by the Russian oligarch who bought them earlier this year but was forced by the UK Government to sell them. | 34499653 |
After Israeli forces were hit by missile fire, they responded by firing shells into southern Lebanon.
The UN Security Council is to discuss the fighting at an emergency meeting called by France in New York.
A senior UN official on the ground in Lebanon urged "maximum restraint to prevent an escalation".
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an emergency security meeting and said the attackers would "pay the full price".
The cross-border violence erupted when Israeli military vehicles were struck by anti-tank missiles at about 11:35 (09:35 GMT) near Mt Dov, in the Shebaa Farms area, a tract of land between the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
Two soldiers died in the attack. Hezbollah said it was retaliation for an Israeli air strike that killed six of its fighters and an Iranian Revolutionary Guards general in the Syrian Golan Heights 10 days ago.
Seven other Israeli soldiers were injured, two of them moderately.
Just over an hour later, mortars hit an Israeli military position on Mt Hermon, prompting troops to close the site and evacuate civilians from a ski resort in the area.
Israel struck back with combined aerial and ground strikes on Hezbollah operational positions along the border, the military said.
At least 50 artillery shells were fired at the villages of Majidiyeh, Abbasiyeh and Kfar Chouba, according to Lebanese officials.
Later, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon announced that one of its peacekeepers had been killed close to the Shebaa Farms area.
The defence ministry in Madrid identified the dead man as a Spanish soldier who had been at a position near the village of Ghajar.
The UN special co-ordinator for Lebanon, Sigrid Kaag, expressed "deep concern over the serious deterioration of the security situation" and "urgently called on all parties to refrain from any actions that could destabilise the situation further".
Edmond Mulet, assistant secretary-general for UN peacekeeping operations, is to brief the Security Council in closed consultations.
After Israel's surprise air strike inside Syria on 18 January, it was clear that Hezbollah and its Iranian backers would feel obliged to respond. The question now is whether the two sides will regard honour as satisfied by their responses so far.
Everyone is mindful of the Hezbollah-Israel war of 2006, which lasted a month and caused death, destruction and disruption on both sides of the border without either side clearly winning.
The feeling is that neither Hezbollah nor Israel has much interest in an escalation to that point. Hezbollah is already heavily embroiled in the war in Syria.
Israel's leaders face general elections in March. They could benefit if a robust response was seen to punish Hezbollah without repercussions, but a disruptive war could backfire at the polls.
Mr Netanyahu said Israel was "prepared to act powerfully on all fronts", adding, "Security comes before everything else."
His office accused Iran, Hezbollah's main backer, of being behind a "criminal terror attack" by the Shia Islamist movement.
In a statement, Hezbollah said the attack had been carried out by a cell calling itself the "heroic martyrs of Quneitra", an apparent reference to an area of the Syrian Golan Heights where the Israeli air strike took place on 18 January.
Sources in Israel say that attack was aimed at stopping an attack on Israeli soil.
The Israeli military boosted its air defences and stepped up surveillance along its northern frontiers after Hezbollah and Iran vowed to seek revenge.
Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli aircraft bombed Syrian army artillery positions in response to two rockets that were fired the previous day into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Israeli medics said up to seven people were lightly injured by the rocket fire. | Two Israeli soldiers and a Spanish UN peacekeeper have been killed as Hezbollah militants traded fire with Israeli forces on the Lebanese border. | 31015862 |
The Conservative-run council's plan is to hand the centres to Care UK, which would then build 10 replacement homes.
Labour councillors claimed financial information was inadequate and asked the scrutiny committee to look at it.
Committee members upheld the original decision, saying it was not convinced by Labour's arguments.
The transfer of the homes was due to take place on 1 November before the decision was called in.
Councillor Colin Hart, Conservative chairman of the scrutiny committee, said: "The majority of the committee was not convinced by the 'call-in' argument that the information available to the cabinet, when they took their decision, was inadequate."
A new date for the transfer has yet to be set.
The council said Care UK would be investing £60m in building the new homes, with construction beginning next year. | A decision to transfer Suffolk's 16 local authority care homes to a private firm has been endorsed after Labour opponents called it in. | 20166633 |
Net earnings for the three months to 31 December fell to $2.33bn (£1.43bn), down 19% compared with the same period last year.
But full-year net earnings rose 8% to $8.04bn on revenues of $34.2bn.
Rival bank Citigroup also reported results, with its profits also hit by reduced income from bond trading.
Citigroup reported adjusted net income of $2.6bn for the quarter, up from the $2.15bn a reported a year earlier but below many analysts' expectations.
JP Morgan, which reported its results on Tuesday, also reported suffering from falling or stagnant bond trading volumes.
Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein described the fixed-income market as "a somewhat challenging environment", as US investors prepare for higher interest rates.
Goldman's revenue from client trading in fixed income, currencies and commodities dropped 15% in the fourth quarter to $1.72bn.
This was partly due to "significantly lower revenues in mortgages", the bank said.
But quarterly investment banking revenues rose 22% year-on-year to $1.72bn.
Net income applicable to shareholders fell to $2.25bn, or $4.60 a share, over the period, compared with $2.83bn, or $5.60 a share, in the same quarter in 2012, the bank said.
The bank paid out $12.6bn in pay and bonuses over the year, down 3% compared with 2012.
Looking forward, Mr Blankfein said: "We believe that we are well positioned to generate solid returns as the economy continues to heal and provide considerable upside for our shareholders as conditions materially improve."
Citigroup saw its overall revenues fall 2% to $17.9bn for the fourth quarter, due in part to a decline in mortgage loan refinancing volumes.
Fixed-income revenues fell 15.5% to $2.3bn, but a rebound in the stock market meant investment banking revenues rose 3% to just over $1bn.
In a statement Citigroup's chief executive Michael Corbat admitted that his bank "didn't finish the year as strongly we would have liked", but said it has still made "substantial progress".
"We enter 2014 as a strong and stable institution," he said.
Shares in Citigroup fell more than 4% as the markets opened on Wall Street. Goldman Sachs shares rose 0.4%. | US investment bank Goldman Sachs has reported a big fall in quarterly profits, due largely to a reduction in bond trading revenue. | 25763087 |
Wickham, 22, appeared to elbow Belgian defender Vertonghen in the face during a tussle at a second-half corner.
Vertonghen, whose team won 3-1, was substituted after the incident, which was missed by referee Martin Atkinson.
Wickham has until 18:00 GMT on Tuesday, January 26 to respond to the charge. | Crystal Palace striker Connor Wickham has been charged with violent conduct by the Football Association after his clash with Tottenham defender Jan Vertonghen on Saturday. | 35398314 |
Former Wales captain Kingsley Jones will take charge of the Welsh Pro12 region until the end of the season.
The Dragons are preparing for a European semi-final on Saturday and Jones' departure comes after weeks of speculation over his future.
"I have thoroughly enjoyed my three years at the Dragons," the 51-year old said in statement by the region.
"With the club transitioning into a new era of potentially new ownership and new investors, the time felt right for me to step aside.
"At the Dragons, we are seeing the emergence of an exciting generation of youngsters that can give the club a fighting chance of securing a place at the very top end of the game.
"I'm really proud to have played a part in this process. It's been immensely rewarding and I hope that it'll become the enduring legacy of my time with the Dragons."
The Dragons have lost seven games in succession in the Pro12 and have won just four league games all season.
Jones missed the last two Dragons games because of "illness" but was spotted at English Premiership club Harlequins with his rugby player son Luc.
Chief executive Stuart Davies, who earlier this month called for investment at Rodney Parade, explained that the Dragons brought forward an end of season review because of Jones' illness, despite the Dragons being in a European semi-final where they face French club Montpellier on Saturday.
"Whilst a frustrating and disappointing season is mitigated by a lengthy injury list and a record number of narrow defeats resulting in losing bonus points, taking the decision now affords Kingsley Jones, head coach, the opportunity to look after the side for the remaining games, ahead of us considering our options for next season," said Davies in a statement.
"Both parties agreed it was best for the side that there was a new voice at the helm going forward."
Jones returned to Wales following stints at an Abu Dhabi school and English club London Welsh.
The former Ospreys head coach appointed former Sale Sharks coach and namesake Kingsley Jones as his assistant and now the former Russia boss will step up and take charge at Rodney Parade.
Chairman Martyn Hazell added: "We would like to thank Lyn for all his hard work during his time in charge at the Dragons, and to wish him well in whatever challenge he takes on next.
"Whilst this season may not have quite delivered, we remain very excited about the talented young squad that he has assembled and are grateful to him for all he has done at the region." | Newport Gwent Dragons director of rugby Lyn Jones has left by mutual consent after "a period away through illness." | 36093480 |
Haunstrup made only one appearance for the newly-promoted League One side last season, starting in the 2-2 EFL Trophy draw with Reading Under-21s in October.
The 20-year-old joined Sutton on loan in October, featuring in three National League games.
Meanwhile, Joe Gallen, 44, has been appointed as assistant manager to new Pompey boss Kenny Jackett.
Gallen previously worked with Jackett at Wolves, Millwall and Rotherham. | Portsmouth left-back Brandon Haunstrup has signed a new one-year deal, with an option for a further year. | 40202036 |
The Grecians took an early lead through Ollie Watkins' strike from the edge of the box, his eighth goal of the season.
Jake Taylor almost made it two, hitting the post from distance before Yeovil's Francois Zoko and Jack Compton forced saves from goalkeeper Bobby Olejnik.
Taylor sealed the points in the second half, scoring after Artur Krysiak failed to hold his initial shot.
Exeter are now unbeaten in nine league games and level on points with Wimbledon, who currently occupy the final play-off position. | Exeter boosted their chances of a League Two play-off spot with victory at Yeovil Town. | 35949171 |
The junta accused the government of "mismanaging" the transition, which was scheduled to end with general elections on 11 October this year. The transitional government was formed after former President Blaise Compaore was ousted following protests in October 2014.
The RSP, which was prominent under Mr Compaore, has had a rocky relationship with the interim authorities. On 14 September, a government commission recommended the disbandment of the RSP.
Below are brief profiles of the key personalities and groups involved in the crisis.
He is the new military ruler, and was Mr Compaore's right-hand man for more than 30 years.
Brig-Gen Diendere is the officer who announced the 15 October 1987 coup that brought Mr Compaore to power. He was instrumental in the formation of the RSP in 1995 and acted as its de facto head until Mr Compaore was ousted.
Gen Diendere's wife, Fatoumata Diallo Diendere, was an MP in the forming ruling party, CDP, and therefore currently banned from contesting the forthcoming elections.
Earlier in 2015, there was speculation that he would be appointed head of Burkina Faso's anti-terrorism operations. In February, he attended the US-led counter-terrorism exercises in Chad.
He is the speaker of the transitional parliament. He opposes the coup and has declared himself the new leader. Cherif Sy urged his compatriots, in particular the "army chief of staff and the chiefs of staff of the various military regions to immediately take measures to ensure that this act of treachery is stopped".
A journalist by profession, Mr Sy was also considered for the interim presidency after Mr Compaore was forced to resign.
In 1990, Mr Sy founded the Bendre newspaper, which carried hard-hitting editorials and glorified the ideals of the 1983 coup that brought the late charismatic military ruler, Thomas Sankara, to power. Sankara was killed during the October 1987 coup led by Mr Compaore.
He is the head of the RSP. He has been in France since August attending the French military academy in Saint Cyr. He is another former aide to Mr Compaore.
Lt-Col Coulibaly accompanied Mr Compaore into exile before returning home to rejoin the RSP. He took over as head of the RSP in February 2015.
He is the ousted interim president. Mr Kafando was a career diplomat before he became the leader of the interim government in November 2014.
He served as the country's envoy to the UN between 1981 and 1982, and then foreign minister until 1983. He later served as the UN envoy from 1998 to 2011, when he retired.
The 73-year-old leader was initially detained in the presidential palace, but the junta later released him as part of peace negotiations.
He is the ousted interim prime minister. Lt-Col Zida was the deputy commander of the RSP when Mr Compaore was ousted.
Immediately afterwards, Lt-Col Zida took over as head of state before being pressed to hand over power to Mr Kafando in November 2014. He was subsequently appointed interim prime minister.
Since then he has had rocky relations with members of the RSP, who view him as a traitor.
In December 2014, elements of the RSP disrupted a cabinet meeting and demanded guarantees on the non-dissolution of the unit, payment of bonuses and the sacking of Theophile Nikiema, who had been named a military adviser at the presidency. Mr Nikiema is an ally of Lt-Col Zida. The soldiers were unhappy that Mr Nikiema had been picked over other senior RSP officers. A similar protest took place in February.
This is Mr Compaore's former ruling party. It was formed in February 1996 and ruled the country until Compaore resigned.
The party is a pale shadow of its former self. It suffered a major setback on 25 August, when the Constitutional Court excluded some of its candidates, including its current leader and presidential flag bearer, Eddie Komboigo, from the polls citing a controversial electoral law.
By the time the ruling was made, the deadline for the submission of the presidential candidatures had passed on 21 August. More than 40 CDP legislative candidates were also disqualified. The judgement effectively locked the party out of the presidential race.
The law, passed by the interim parliament in April, disqualified politicians who supported Mr Compaore's bid to extend his 27-year rule.
This is a civil society group that was at the centre of the 2014 protests, and its name translates as "Citizens' Broom".
The group was formed in 2013 by two musicians - Karim Sama and Serge Bambara (popularly known by their stage names Sams'K Le Jah and Smockey respectively).
Balai Citoyen actively mobilised civilians to reject Mr Compaore's bid to extend his rule.
The group has called for "popular resistance" in every neighbourhood against the "RSP militia".
Since the 2014 uprising, Balai Citoyen has been vocal in demanding the dismantling of the RSP and other vestiges of the Compaore era.
The movement has sought to propagate the ideals of Thomas Sankara.
BBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook. | Burkina Faso's Presidential Security Regiment (RSP) has ousted the interim government of President Michel Kafando and replaced it with a junta known as the National Council for Democracy (CND). | 34318822 |
In a Facebook post for which he later apologised, Jon Wright claimed that caring for a newborn would prevent one candidate, Labour's Catherine Atkinson from being "a voice for the people".
But in 2015-17, women made up 29% of all MPs, and about 30% of candidates for the coming general election are women - a record high.
Many of these women have or are likely to have young families - so what is it like to run for office with a newborn?
The BBC spoke to two politicians about juggling briefing books and breast pumps.
Clifford may well be the youngest baby on the campaign trail.
His mum, Andrea Jenkyns, became the Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood in 2015, famously ousting Ed Balls who was then shadow chancellor.
She gave birth to Clifford, her first son, in March, but what she didn't know was that just three weeks later, a general election would be called.
While people were adjusting to the idea of another election, Andrea was suddenly faced with the task of defending her seat while caring for her baby.
Life with a newborn is hectic for any parent - new babies can need feeding every two hours, and there's also the sleep deprivation.
Most new mums spend this time on maternity leave, but this is no longer an option for Andrea who needs to campaign if she wants to be re-elected.
Her fiance, Jack Lopresti, is also an MP but they spend long hours apart as he lives 200 miles away in his constituency of Filton and Bradley Stoke.
"The biggest challenge was going into election mode when he was three weeks old, I was recovering from my Caesarean that I had to have due to complications and was still taking morphine for the pain," Andrea told the BBC.
Campaigning in a general election means gruelling and physically demanding days - there are voters to meet, doors to knock on and speeches to give.
Andrea has managed to take baby Clifford to some events, including the Conservative manifesto launch in Bradford where he met Theresa May, and when she is delivering leaflets.
"The funniest moment was when the prime minister was due to visit a business in my constituency, and an hour before, I was winding Clifford and he was sick in my hair!
"People are always keen to meet Clifford and he always gets a warm reaction, people also say hello and one little four-year-old girl asked for a photo with him.
"I've also been canvassing on the doorstep when people have asked how he is doing, which is really lovely," she explained.
"Seeing my little boy's beautiful face and the way it lights up when he smiles has kept me going through the tiredness and sleepless nights.
"Being a mother is an absolute real joy."
You can find a full list of candidates standing in Morley and Outwood here.
Azalea is just a year old but she has already played a star role in two major political campaigns.
"In a politician's life when an election happens everything stops," her mum Tulip Siddiq, the Labour candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, told the BBC.
Azalea was just eight weeks old at the start of the EU referendum campaign in May 2016, and now Tulip is defending her seat in the general election.
"You stop cleaning your house. You stop buying food and you start keeping odd hours.
"But when you have a baby, the baby can't skip naps. The baby needs food and milk.
"I have to be super-organised, but Azalea knows that things are different now," says Tulip.
MPs are not legally entitled to maternity leave which puts extra pressure on politicians trying to balance childcare and work.
Tulip returned to work when Azalea was three months old and she found breastfeeding and expressing milk particularly challenging.
Some people thought her daughter's feeding routine prevented her from committing enough time to the EU referendum campaign, but midwives and doctors advised her to breastfeed.
"I am sure there are people around me who thought I was disruptive or not being helpful because I was breastfeeding," she said.
On referendum day, she fed her daughter in a cupboard at a polling station to avoid making others feel uncomfortable.
Azalea is now weaned so Tulip has been able to be a bit more flexible with her campaign commitments. But like many working mums, she worries about what she may miss.
"The other day she stood up and wobbled her first steps and I was screaming with happiness because I had had a rough day on the doorstep and it was just brilliant to be there and witness that," she said.
You can see a full list of candidates standing in Hampstead and Kilburn here.
By Georgina Rannard & Hannah Henderson, UGC & Social News team | She'll be "too busy changing nappies" were the words of one Conservative councillor about a pregnant politician hoping to be elected on 8 June. | 39953371 |
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) declined the request in order to allow the 30-year-old to rest.
Broad bowled 21 overs in Notts' opening match, taking four wickets as they beat Leicestershire by 10 wickets.
He and fellow paceman James Anderson, who is unavailable for Lancashire, will return for the third round of games.
"Both Stuart and Jimmy are committed to their counties and keen to play as much possible," said ECB director of cricket Andrew Strauss.
"But equally they recognise both the challenges and demands to come over the summer. Counties were made aware of the likely schedule back in January."
Despite losing the services of the centrally contracted Broad, Notts will have another England pace bowler, Jake Ball, available after the ECB rested him for the first game.
England do not play a Test until 6 July, but then face seven Tests in just over two months against South Africa and West Indies, before seven more in Australia and New Zealand over the winter. | England bowler Stuart Broad will not be available for Nottinghamshire's County Championship match at Durham on Friday, despite a request from his county. | 39577820 |
Project Brave is the product of a Scottish FA working party.
And some clubs are unhappy at the suggestion that only eight would be given elite academy status.
"I am optimistic that solutions will be found for some aspects," said group member MacGregor, who stressed that work continues on the blueprint.
"Any criticism of it is a bit premature as there's a bit of mileage to go before it is finalised.
"A lot of good work has gone into it, there was a lot of good people involved and most of it I agree with."
Following its examination, Project Brave suggests:
Project Brave was initiated in April by Brian McClair, who left his role as SFA performance director three months later and is yet to be replaced, in a bid to improve the quality of players available to the national squad.
The proposals have already been sent back to the group for further examination by Scottish Premiership clubs, while Championship representatives are due to have their own discussions this week.
However, questions over funding for club academies have left some clubs wanting further examination.
"It has been criteria-based," said MacGregor about current rules governing funding of academies.
"But the focus should be performance-based to reward success."
The SFA says it will reveal further details once the proposal has reached the stage of being approved by its board.
Although there is no specific timescale for its publication, a shortlist has been drawn up for the appointment of a new performance director and that process is nearing a conclusion.
Responding to the report, Gary Naysmith, the former Scotland left-back who is now East Fife manager, echoed the thoughts of other managers who have told BBC Scotland that they would welcome a change to second-string arrangements.
"I don't think the Under-20 Development League works," he said. "I've watched them and I don't think it's competitive enough.
"Thinking back to reserve games I've played, it was brilliant.
"You would have players who were out of favour, players who were coming back from injury and that progressed you on.
"The under-20s is false. They are all trying to play out from the back, the goalie is passing it to a player on the edge of the area, but that doesn't prepare them for when they come to a team like mine on loan - it's like they are caught in the headlights." | Ross County chairman Roy MacGregor is confident that a new blueprint for the future of Scotland's youth football will appease any doubters. | 38043081 |
A Transport Select Committee report cited the "woeful" experience of Southern passengers, who have faced months of industrial action and staff shortages.
Ministers were urged to "get a grip" on monitoring rail franchise agreements.
The Department for Transport (DfT) said improving Southern services was a priority for the government.
The RMT union, which is locked in a bitter dispute with the rail operator over the future role of conductors, said the report was an indictment of the failure of rail privatisation.
It was published as Southern timetables returned to normal after a three-day strike by union members.
A further 11 days of strikes are planned before Christmas.
Southern's owners, Govia Thameslink Rail (GTR) said the report covered many issues already in the public domain.
MPs said the evidence taken from rail passengers was dominated by problems faced by GTR.
The report considered whether the firm is now in default of its contractual obligations due to the substantial number of train cancellations.
"In normal circumstances, this would be grounds for termination of the contract," the report said.
The DfT's claim that no other operator could do a better job in the circumstances was no longer credible, the committee said.
On parts of the national rail network, passengers struggled daily to get the service they deserved, the report said.
It cited a number of other problems, including overcrowding, delays, complex ticketing and a lack of access for disabled passengers.
Committee chairman Louise Ellman said passengers must be "furious, and rightly so".
"The individual voices of customers suffering woeful service on Southern Railway, in particular, came through loud and clear during our inquiry," she said.
"GTR, RMT and the government are all culpable to some extent for the prolonged dispute, but passengers have borne the brunt."
Ms Ellman said the size of the rail network had barely increased despite passenger journeys more than doubling over the last 20 years.
"Passengers now contribute more than 70% of the industry's real income, but in too many places, passengers are badly serviced by train operating companies," she added.
The report recommended an automatic compensation scheme be set up to refund Southern passengers directly without the need to make a claim.
The DfT said it monitored the performance of all rail franchises and each franchise agreement contained clear penalty clauses for repeated poor performance.
"Simply changing the management or taking the franchise from GTR would not address the issues and would only create uncertainty and cause further disruption," it said in a statement.
GTR's CEO Charles Horton said the firm had submitted claims to the DfT for unforeseeable circumstances caused by industrial action that prevented it from fulfilling its contract.
"We recognise and fully accept that our service on parts of the GTR franchise has not been good enough and we are sincerely sorry to our passengers for that," he said.
"Our passengers have already seen 400 new vehicles on our network in the past two years [and] extended smart card technology across our network.
"We remain committed and determined to modernise the railway and deliver a better service for everyone."
What further questions do you have about Southern Rail? | MPs have attacked the government's handling of rail franchises, saying passengers have been let down badly. | 37650531 |
Dr Tom Black said there needed to be an an additional £120m investment.
GPs maintain that the future of the profession has become "unsustainable" because of problems with recruitment, funding and workloads.
In December, hundreds of local GPs signed undated resignation letters.
In January, members of the British Medical Association (BMA) voted to collect undated resignations; the BBC understands the BMA is still collecting these resignations from practices.
In a speech later on Friday to GPs from across the UK, Dr Black is expected to tell delegates that while a plan for reform had been agreed before Christmas with the previous health minister, since the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly, matters had become critical.
"We have found that the only thing worse than having politicians is having no politicians," he is expected to say.
"We need to see an investment in general practice of an additional £120m to bring us up to the level of spending in the GP Forward View."
Dr Black is also expected to say that while his members want to stay and work in the health service, they are prepared to leave if that means protecting GP services.
"These are difficult and dangerous times, fraught with risks and challenges.
"On behalf of NIGPC let me throw down this challenge to the incoming minister for health in Northern Ireland: Work with us or work against us." | The chair of Northern Ireland's GP Committee (NIGPC) is challenging local politicians to either "work with or work against" members over the future of general practice. | 39967618 |
A drop of gin was once advised to ward off the plague, a glug of wine to "defend the body from corruption" and a sip of absinthe to cure the body of roundworms.
Of course all this has changed.
As our understanding of the harms of alcohol on society and the individual has grown, it has given up its place on prescription pads - instead to be superseded by advice to refrain from all but cautious use.
An exhibition at the Royal College of Physicians in London traces its use and sometimes fatal misuse by medical men and women of the past, up to the calls for greater regulation today.
One of the earliest records in the many leather-bound books on display is a translation of the work of Roger Bacon, a 13th Century English philosopher and writer on alchemy and medicine.
According to the translation (published in 1683) Bacon suggests wine could: "Preserve the stomach, strengthen the natural heat, help digestion, defend the body from corruption, concoct the food till it be turned into very blood."
But he also recognises the dangers of consuming ethanol in excess: "If it be over-much guzzles, it will on the contrary do a great deal of harm: For it will darken the understanding, ill-affect the brain... beget shaking of the limbs and bleareyedness."
Wine-based concoctions also make frequent appearances in the handwritten domestic cookery books of the 16th to 18th Centuries, sitting alongside tips on general food preparation.
One recipe for the discerning 17th Century householder recommends an "excellent drink against the plague". Its ingredients include rue, sage and two pints of wine - much more than the UK's daily recommended limits today.
Caroline Fisher, curator of the exhibition says: "While wine has its place in history as more of a fortifying tonic, spirits were seen in a different light.
"While considered as therapies in their own right, they also served as carriers and preservatives for substances that would be otherwise difficult to bottle and sell."
Absinthe, for example, distilled from herbs such as wormwood, has been documented for use against roundworms and other intestinal parasites for many years.
But according to Dr James Nicholls, of Alcohol Research UK, by the 18th Century spirits such as gin were considered by a growing number of people to be a major cause of drunkenness, poverty and crime.
In 1725, the first documented petition by the Royal College of Physicians expresses fellows' concerns about "pernicious and growing use of spirituous liquors".
A gin craze was sweeping across England, as improved distillation methods together with lax regulation in comparison with wine and beer, meant the spirit was affordable to much of the population.
Yet it was not until the 19th Century that alcohol was regarded as a problem in a consistent way, says Dr Virginia Berridge of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
As Britain became increasingly industrialised and urbanised it needed efficient and time-aware workers, making sobriety a virtue.
Temperance movements began to emerge - at first some advised restrictions on certain drinks only, but over time their stance shifted to call for total abstinence.
And by the mid-19th Century, physicians were involved in temperance movements of their own.
An 1871 statement from the British Medical Temperance Society, printed in the British Medical Journal said:
"As it is believed that the inconsiderate prescription of large quantities of alcoholic liquids... has given rise, in many instances, to the formation of intemperate habits the undersigned while unable to abandon the use of alcohol in the treatment of certain cases of disease, are yet of the opinion that no medical practitioner should prescribe it without a grave sense of responsibility."
Society's views of alcohol and that of the medical community gradually changed, heralded, in part, by an increasing focus on efficiency as World War One dawned, and as scientific advances provided compounds with much greater medicinal potential.
Yet one of the most modern pieces to feature in the exhibition is a bottle of Atkinson's Infants Preservative, a remedy for teething babies, dated between 1919-1941.
The packaging reassures parents it can be given "with the utmost confidence" as it had no narcotic content. It does however contain 50% alcohol among its ingredients.
John Betts, Keeper at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum says: "This is perhaps surprising considering what was known about the effects of alcohol by this time.
"But it wasn't until 1941 that legislation in Great Britain forced pharmaceutical manufacturers to list all the ingredients in their medicines."
Over the years the Royal College of Physicians has had a long history of raising awareness of the health damage caused by alcohol.
The college is currently calling for a range of measures, including a fifty pence minimum price per unit of alcohol in the UK and tighter restrictions on marketing and advertising, particularly where children may be exposed to it.
The college says: "Alcohol is a factor in more than forty serious medical conditions, including liver disease and cancer, and one of the major preventable causes of death in the UK." | For hundreds of years alcohol claimed a prize place among the pills, potions and healing herbs of British pharmaceutical history. | 25712005 |
The 44-year-old was given permission to speak to the Championship club on Monday but resigned from his Hibs role, according to Rotherham, to take over.
He leaves Hibs less than two weeks after guiding the Easter Road side to a first Scottish Cup win in 114 years.
And his exit comes despite the two clubs having yet to reach an agreement over compensation.
The former Celtic and Everton defender replaces Neil Warnock at the New York Stadium.
Warnock kept the Millers in the second tier last season but left at the end of the campaign, saying it would have been "wrong" of him to sign a new deal.
Stubbs took over at Hibs in June 2014 following their relegation from the Scottish Premiership.
They finished second and third in his two seasons in charge but were unable to gain promotion via the play-offs on both occasions.
He will be joined at Rotherham by assistant John Doolan, who also resigned from his position as first-team coach at Hibs. | Rotherham United have appointed Hibernian boss Alan Stubbs as their new manager on a three-year contract. | 36426717 |
Experts will research whether the birds have sufficient food and nesting sites in both counties.
Numbers across the UK have declined by 80% since 1979 and by nearly a third in the past 10 years.
Across Europe it is thought 40 million of the birds have disappeared over the past three decades.
"Our records show that we have lost more starlings across Europe than any other farmland bird," said Dr Richard Gregory, from the RSPB's bird monitoring section.
"Forty million starlings lost represents over 150 for every hour since the 1980s.
"This loss should be a wake-up call, because we ignore the decline of nature at our own peril."
It is thought a loss of grassland through conversion to forestry land and the growing of crops could be linked to the reduction of numbers across Europe.
Discover more about starlings with BBC Nature
In the UK, the British Trust for Ornithology has said
intensively farmed land made it more difficult
for the birds to find their favourite food - cranefly larvae that live in undisturbed soil.
Martin Harper, the RSPB's conservation director, hoped the research would yield the answers to ensure the species has a secure future.
"Understanding exactly what is causing these declines will allow us to develop practical and cost-effective solutions for land managers and farmers," he said.
"These could then be delivered through wildlife-friendly farming schemes and other policy interventions."
Starling numbers have been tracked by the RSPB's annual
Big Garden Birdwatch
, the world's biggest wildlife survey.
Since it began in 1979, the average number of starlings spotted by participants has dropped from 15 to just three. | Farmers in Somerset and Gloucestershire are helping national bird charity the RSPB to investigate the decline of Britain's starlings. | 18911171 |
Declan Murray, 44, from Main Street in Strabane, crashed into an oncoming car driven by a 60-year-old child minder who had two children in her vehicle.
Twelve days beforehand a consultant neurologist told him never to get behind the wheel of a vehicle again.
He diagnosed Murray as an epileptic who had numerous seizures.
The consultant also told Murray to inform the DVLA of his medical condition, which he did not do.
Murray pleaded guilty to a charge of causing grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving.
He committed the offence on the Victoria Road between the villages of Newbuildings and Magheramason on 29 May, 2012, after he had what he believed was an epileptic seizure.
A Public Prosecution Service barrister told the judge at Londonderry Crown Court that Murray was driving his van towards Strabane when the vehicle suddenly veered across the white line. It crashed head on into an oncoming car which was being driven by the child minder who had children aged five and eight in the back seat.
The two children sustained minor injuries, but the child minder suffered multiple fractures to her legs and ribs and the prosecutor said such was the severity of her injuries that she was unconscious, unresponsive and paramedics believed her life was at risk.
The victim was taken to Altnagelvin Hospital where she spent the following six weeks in intensive care. She was discharged from hospital six months after the crash.
The prosecution barrister said the injuries the child minder suffered were life-changing and she now needed a crutch to walk.
"The injured party is present in court today to see justice done, but she says she is not here for vengeance and she is not arguing for any particular sentence", the barrister said.
A defence barrister said Murray, who suffered a broken sternum in the crash, was "absolutely saddled with remorse".
"He accepts he is going to jail. He accepts he caused catastrophic injuries and suffering to an entirely innocent and blameless woman," the barrister said.
The judge said he would sentence Murray next week and remanded him in custody.
"He is going to jail," the judge said. | A epileptic man who ignored medical advice never to drive again, was told on Wednesday he would be jailed for critically injuring a woman in a crash. | 36323554 |
Dave Mackay, the company's chief pilot, spoke to the BBC about last October, when the company's new spaceship broke apart in mid-air over California.
"We were listening out on the radio and it became apparent fairly early that something had gone seriously wrong," he said.
The final report into the accident is due within the next few months.
Mr Mackay, from Helmsdale in the Scottish Highlands, was flying the mother ship, called White Knight Two, that had ferried the rocket plane to around 50,000ft before releasing it to the sky.
We stand overlooking the endless, scrub-strewn desert plains where the accident happened.
"We didn't see anything. We launch the spaceship and it drops below us several hundred feet before it ignites the rocket motor," he said.
"When it was apparent the wreckage had hit the ground, we descended to try to give some support in any way we could. Which involved, basically, finding out where the vehicle was and finding out where the survivor was and relaying that position back to emergency services."
According to investigators at the NTSB, the co-pilot, Mike Alsbury, pulled a lever too soon. It unlocks the spaceship's revolutionary "feathering" system, which then seems to have deployed of its own accord.
If you can picture it, the vehicle has two long tails that actually pivot by 65 degrees. It's an odd sight. Like taking two darts and bending them in the middle.
But by folding up like that, the ship slows down, so it's ready to glide back to earth. If those tails move at the wrong time, however, the consequences can be lethal.
Frankly, it's a miracle that the pilot, Peter Siebold survived the crash. After being thrown from the ship and blacking out, he came to, falling through the air and still strapped in his seat.
Somehow he managed to unbuckle himself, which triggered his emergency parachute. His colleague and friend Mike Alsbury was killed.
Flying just a few hundred feet above them that day, Dave Mackay described arriving back at base.
"I was very proud of the way that everybody reacted. It took some time to get over the shock and the sadness," he said.
Then the figurehead for the whole project arrived on the scene.
"Very soon afterwards, within a few hours, Richard Branson and his son Sam came out. Richard obviously was very shocked and saddened as well. But Richard was as determined as everyone else to see this through."
Sir Richard Branson is under pressure to prove his dream can still come true.
At the Virgin Galactic launch in 2004, he told customers they could be floating 66 miles above the earth within three to four years.
A decade later, his radical plane has only made four powered flights, with heights well short of the 350,000 promised in the brochure. They've barely got above 70,000ft.
And there are still daunting technical hurdles to overcome, including working out which fuel will give them enough power. Sceptics have suggested flying could still be years away, and even some of its hopeful customers recently told the BBC that they were resigned to thinking it may never happen.
I met Virgin Galactic's chief executive, George Whitesides, in the shadow of his new spaceship. Like everyone here in Mojave, he comes with a stratospheric CV. Princeton, Cambridge, former chief of staff at Nasa.
"The vast majority of our customers, so about 98%, have been really terrific, very supportive. What we are doing is not easy, it's an historic thing. What we are doing is opening up space to the rest of us. We are democratising space."
He tells me they are happy they have the right rocket for the job. That the new spaceship is safe, otherwise he wouldn't go in it (he's taking one of the first flights). That the investors are supportive; in other words, the money won't run dry. And that it will make a profit once it's all going.
This thing has already burnt up hundreds of millions of dollars.
Then we spar over flight dates. In the end, the best I could get was that paying customers could be up within 18 months to two years, maybe sooner, but not much longer, so not five years, for example.
As regards the altitude, he says that getting to 70,000ft and the speed of sound is the disproportionately tricky bit. Leaping from there to space should be much quicker.
Virgin have been building a new spaceship since 2012, tucked away in a shiny hangar being battered by the desert wind. They showed us how it's coming along.
Stripped down to the bare, brown carbon-fibre body, it's clearly nowhere near ready to fly. The body was in effect finished last weekend, now engineers are fitting the wires and levers that will bring it to life.
Not that we were allowed to film either the inside, or any of the manufacturing processes going on around us. It's all restricted by the US government, which currently treats the project the same as it would treat a new military weapon.
Filming the wrong bit could land people in prison, we were frequently reminded.
I can tell you that some small changes have been made to prevent a repeat of last year's crash. I don't have details, but I understand it may be made physically harder to unlock the feathering system at the wrong time.
However, Virgin are confident this wasn't a design issue, so some of the improvements may come in the way the pilots communicate their actions with each other and with ground control.
Mojave space port is an odd place.
The 300 or so engineers have often given up a nice, well-paid life in a smart city to come and work in this barren town with hostile sunshine, an airplane graveyard and rusty trains out back and no nice shops. Think Breaking Bad and you get the picture. Partners often find it a difficult move.
Among the five pilots on board is a man who flew the space shuttle four times. Another flew the SR71 Blackbird and was once voted US Air Force test pilot of the year. One man I spoke to told me his wife works for Nasa, driving the Mars Rover. Not your average couple.
They all share a determination to make a mark on this stark landscape.
When I ask him about the future, Dave Mackay often conjures up the past.
"You could look back to Otto Lilienthal crashing in his glider," he says. "If people had said then, you know this flying is dangerous, let's stick to walking on the ground, where would we be today?
"It is hard. It has turned out to be harder than we thought it would. But if it was easy, it would have been done a long time ago.
"We're enjoying the challenge." | For the first time, one of the pilots involved in Virgin Galactic's spaceship crash has spoken to the media. | 33002052 |
The blast took place in Garabulli after clashes between locals and militia fighters from the city of Misrata.
Officials initially said a munitions store had exploded but one resident told the BBC a lorry loaded with fireworks had exploded.
In fighting further east, in Sirte, at least 30 pro-government fighters died.
They were killed in fighting with militants from the so-called Islamic State group.
Garabulli is about 50km (30 miles) east of Tripoli and 140km west of Misrata.
A BBC producer close to the scene in Garabulli said the coastal road was completely blocked and he could hear sounds of gunfire from a distance.
A mix of armed civilians and local militias from the coastal town were manning checkpoints on the edge of the town along the coastal road.
Cars trying to pass through were being searched but it was not clear for what.
The situation is very tense, says Rana Jawad, the BBC's North Africa correspondent.
The Garabulli resident who spoke to the BBC said the entire affair had started after a fighter from a Misrata militia purchased items at a grocery store and allegedly refused to pay for them.
The owner of the shop allegedly shot and killed him and then there was a retaliatory attack against the store by the militia.
The shop was burnt down and so was the owner's family home nearby.
Armed residents protested over the attack and the presence of the militia in the town.
It was then that a store nearby that had some depot, or lorry laden with fireworks for sale, exploded.
The resident's account could not be independently verified or backed by a second source in Garabulli.
"The number of casualties is rising and we are working hard to transfer them to nearest hospitals," Mohamed Assayed, a local official, was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency. | A mystery explosion in a town close to the Libyan capital Tripoli has killed at least 25 people, apparently after a dispute at a shop escalated. | 36592509 |
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Rain interrupted the match in Belgrade, but it did not affect the 21-year-old's concentration as he beat the former world number eight 6-3 6-4 6-0.
Tipsarevic, who returned in April after two years out, struggled throughout.
James Ward will play Dusan Lajovic in the next singles rubber, which will start at 11:00 BST on Saturday.
Great Britain are defending the title they won in Belgium last year.
Edmund is leading the team, with Wimbledon champion Andy Murray in Belgrade only as a supporter.
The world number 67 proved himself to be a worthy stand-in and produced great power on his groundstrokes, reminiscent of Murray
I just tried to relax during the rain breaks
His forehand, in particular, was a weapon, as was his serve - winning points on 79% of his first serve, with Tipsarevic only managing 53%.
"To get us off to a good start was great," said Edmund. "Each set I really found my game. I was very pleased with my win.
"We played three games before it rained. I wanted to get the intensity high from the first game back after the break.
"I just tried to relax during the rain intervals. When you go back in it's almost a lull. I had some food and had a shower. It's not hard to switch on and off."
Ward, 29, was scheduled to play after the opening match, but heavy rain meant his contest against world number 81 Lajovic was delayed until Saturday.
The doubles match - scheduled to be between Britons Dominic Inglot and Jamie Murray - and Tipsarevic and Nenad Zimonjic will not start before 15:00 BST.
Media playback is not supported on this device | Kyle Edmund secured a superb straight-set win over Janko Tipsarevic to give Great Britain a 1-0 lead in their Davis Cup quarter-final against Serbia. | 36808527 |
Most of the violence is attributed to fighting between rival drug gangs for control of territory and drug shipment routes. Who are these groups and who are they fighting against?
Mexico's largest and most powerful drug gangs are the Zetas and the Sinaloa cartel. The Zetas operate in more than half of Mexico's states and, according to US geopolitical analysis firm Stratfor, overtook their rivals from the Sinaloa cartel in 2012 in terms of geographic presence. Stratfor says the Zetas' brutal violence gave the gang an advantage over the Sinaloa cartel, which prefers to bribe people.
However, the Zetas have reportedly been weakened by the loss of their long-time leader Heriberto "El Lazca" Lazcano, who was killed by the Mexican military in October 2012, and his replacement, Miguel Angel Trevino, who was arrested in July 2013.
Other influential and violent cartels are the Knights Templar, the Gulf cartel and the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion.
Mexico's cartels control much of the illegal drugs trade from South America to the United States.
They import cocaine from South America and smuggle it on to the US. Some groups grow and smuggle marijuana, while others have specialised in manufacturing methamphetamines, importing precursor drugs from as far away as China.
Most cartels also extort local businesses and bolster their finances through kidnappings for ransom. They have also been involved in people smuggling, prostitution rings, intimidation and murder,
Government security forces are fighting the drug cartels in an attempt to re-establish law and order. Rival cartels are at war with each other in bitter territorial battles.
There is also internecine warfare between cartel members, and the emergence of break-away factions is not unusual.
The Zetas, for example, were first created as the enforcement arm of the Gulf cartel, but later turned on their former allies and have been at war with them ever since. The Knights Templar are an off-shoot of La Familia Michoacana, a cartel that was weakened after the killing of its leader in 2010.
Allegiances shift, and former rivals sometimes band together to fight emerging groups.
Vigilante groups made up of civilians who say they are fed up with the lack of action by the security forces emerged in 2012 in the western states of Michoacan and Guerrero to fight the Knights Templar.
The Knights Templar have accused them of being in league with their rivals from the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion.
Before taking up office, President Enrique Pena Nieto said he would break with the approach of Felipe Calderon, his predecessor.
Mr Calderon had deployed the army to go after cartel kingpins and had declared "war" on the drug gangs.
Mr Pena Nieto promised a lower-profile approach aimed at tackling the violence on a local level by setting up a national gendarmerie to take over from the troops.
But with growing violence in Michoacan, he too sent the army to back up federal and local police forces.
He also struck a deal with vigilante groups, allowing them to keep their weapons as long as they agreed to be integrated in the official security forces.
According to a study by international think tank Institute for Economics and Peace, northern Mexico continues to be the region worst affected by drug-related violence due to its proximity to the United States, the region's most important market for illicit drugs.
But Guerrero on the Pacific coast and central Morelos state have joined the list of most violent states, suggesting the cartels are extending their area of influence.
A study by Mexico's Citizens' Council for Public Security and Penal Justice suggests the city of Oaxaca has the highest occurrence of violent crime, followed by the resort town of Acapulco and Cuernavaca in Morelos state. | Tens of thousands of people have been killed in drug-related violence in Mexico over the past seven years. | 10681249 |
Margaret Henderson-McCarroll pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Eddie Girvan on the grounds of diminished responsibility last month.
The 31-year-old also admitted eight other charges.
She was due to be sentenced on Friday, but a judge has delayed his ruling while a recording of the killing is further investigated.
Belfast Crown Court heard Henderson-McCarroll gagged the 63-year-old, who she had known for some years, with kitchen roll at his home in Greenisland in January last year.
It was heard that the mother-of-two would come and stay with Mr Girvan and he would pay her for sexual relations.
When Mr Girvan's body was found, he was "virtually naked, bound and gagged, seated in a room in the ground floor".
He had been stabbed in the chest and suffered asphyxiation after being gagged with kitchen roll to stop him calling for help. It was heard either injury could have killed him.
The court heard Mr Girvan's hands were bound with three of his own ties, his feet were also bound, his trousers were around his ankles and he was wearing a dressing gown which was open.
Henderson-McCarroll was initially arrested on an unrelated bench warrant and found with a sat nav, a watch, and two sets of car keys.
During police interviews, Henderson-McCarroll said she had stabbed the victim with a cake knife during an argument after he came at her with "a wee stick sword".
The prosecution said she told police she had "freaked out" because he "wouldn't stop squealing" and was shouting "murder, murder".
She told police she had taken heroin "to calm her down" and drove Mr Girvan's car to Belfast where she had an accident at Custom House Square which led to her arrest.
She added she wanted more drugs, and was going to go back to Mr Girvan after "letting him calm down".
The prosecution said Henderson-McCarroll told police she had not meant to kill Mr Girvan, and that he would not have died had she not been "high on heroin and crystal meth".
The judge said: "This is quite a gruesome case, the defendant has an insatiable and uncontrollable appetite for serious drugs."
He added that until she dealt with that addiction, he believed she was likely to pose a danger to the public.
A defence barrister for Henderson-McCarroll said it was his understanding a police tape recorded the defendant describing Mr Girvan as shouting: "Margaret, Margaret", not "Murder, murder" before he was gagged.
The judge said this needed to be made clear, and adjourned the case until next month for sentencing. | A woman who killed a pensioner was "high on crystal meth and heroin" at the time, a court has heard. | 40308155 |
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The former world number one, who would have regained top spot by winning the title, was down 7-6 (7-2) 2-0 when he withdrew with an elbow injury.
Djokovic, 30, had treatment on a right shoulder injury during his last-16 win over Adrian Mannarino and needed further attention against Berdych.
The Serb said he would consider whether surgery was needed to fix the injury.
"I haven't felt this much pain since I've had this injury," said Djokovic.
"It's not the shoulder, it's the elbow that has kept bothering me for over a year and a half.
"I was able, for 30 minutes, to play with some pain that was bearable, but the serve and forehand were shots where I could feel it the most. After that, there was really no sense [in continuing]."
Czech world number 15 Berdych, the 2010 Wimbledon runner-up, will face Roger Federer in the semi-final.
Djokovic had been set to play his last-16 match against Mannarino on Monday but it was delayed as Rafael Nadal's match against Gilles Muller went to five sets and tournament officials decided to not move the Serb on to the available Centre Court.
He beat Mannarino 6-2 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 in Tuesday's opening match but was the only men's quarter-finalist not to have a day's rest between rounds.
Against Berdych, Djokovic called a medical time-out after losing the first-set tie-break and received attention on his right arm before he withdrew.
"It is unfortunate I had to finish Wimbledon in this way. If someone feels bad, it is me," added Djokovic.
"I spent about two hours, two and a half hours, on the table today in between the warm-up and match, trying to do everything I could to make me fit.
"I'm going to talk with specialists, as I have done in the last year, to try to figure out what's the best way to treat it and find a long-term solution.
"The level of pain was not decreasing, it was only increasing as the days went by. Unfortunately, today was the worst day. Probably the fact I played yesterday, days adding up, it wasn't helping at all."
John Lloyd, former GB Davis Cup captain on BBC Two
We called it pretty quickly - he couldn't serve above 115 mph from the start. Once Berdych hung in there and won the first set, Novak knew that there was no chance.
Boris Becker, three-time Wimbledon champion on BBC Two
Most players have niggles and pains; nobody in the second week is 100% healthy. But only Djokovic can say how his body is. He knows whether he can play on or not.
It is the right decision. Murray and Djokovic were dominant last year but they are nowhere near that level now. It is a gruelling schedule and everybody else will put in that extra 10% to beat you. | Novak Djokovic is out of Wimbledon after retiring injured during his quarter-final against Tomas Berdych. | 40588823 |
German shepherd Finn was stabbed in Stevenage on 5 October. His handler PC Dave Wardell was also injured.
Alex Goodwin, of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, was "devastated" when he read about the attack so contacted Finn and PC Wardell via social media.
Cards based on his drawing of Finn sold out within a day.
Police officer's son Alex is undergoing chemotherapy for Ewing Sarcoma, a type of bone cancer that affects fewer than 30 children in the UK each year. He faces further "complex" surgery at Christmas.
He saw the news about Hertfordshire Police dog Finn's injury and continued to follow the story when a petition was started to change the law regarding attacks on police dogs and horses.
"He wanted to know why anyone would hurt a police dog," his father PC Jeff Goodwin, a firearms officer with Warwickshire Police, said.
Via his father, Alex began tweeting Finn and PC Wardell, exchanging pictures.
Then the "Finn's Law" group suggested one could be made into a Christmas card to help raise funds for the boy's future treatment and rehabilitation.
The initial run sold out in less than a day, raising hundreds for the "Alexander's Journey" appeal.
"Alex said he thought Finn was brave and was a hero," PC Wardell said.
"But really, it's Alex who is the brave one. He is an inspiration to me."
It is not known whether more cards will be printed, but Alex's father said: "I'm in the doghouse with Alex's grandma.
"She couldn't get any of the cards and she's very cross with me."
Finn's recovery is continuing and his handler hopes he will be able to return to active duty before the end of the year. | A police dog stabbed while chasing a suspected thief has inspired a charity Christmas card drawn by a nine-year-old boy with cancer. | 38024484 |
Gwent Police said the woman had sustained "life-threatening injuries" in the crash involving a silver Ford Focus at Clarence Place at 13:30 GMT on Thursday.
Town Bridge has been shut in both directions and diversions are in place.
Drivers have been advised to avoid the area due to heavy traffic. | A pedestrian has been airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car in Newport. | 39371154 |
However, the ban must be approved by parliament before taking effect.
Earlier this month, a cross-party panel of the Italian Senate recommended his expulsion from the chamber.
Berlusconi had threatened to topple the coalition government over the issue but backed down during a confidence vote.
If he is expelled from the senate, he will lose his parliamentary immunity from prosecution in a string of criminal cases.
He will also spend a year under house arrest, or doing community service - his preferred option, according to a request he formally submitted last week.
The votes on his expulsion and ban on holding office are expected to take place within the next few weeks.
Berlusconi, 77, was convicted over deals his firm Mediaset made to purchase TV rights to US films.
He was sentenced to four years in prison, automatically reduced to one under a 2006 pardon act. He was also banned from holding public office for five years.
The sentence was upheld in August. | A court in Milan has banned Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former prime minister, from holding public office for two years, following his conviction for tax fraud. | 24593842 |
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City - without needing to be anywhere near their best against the team that took the title race to its final day last season - were already cruising with a two-goal lead when Aguero made his 69th-minute entrance as a substitute for the limping Edin Dzeko.
In the space of those few seconds the Argentina forward strolled onto the pitch at Etihad Stadium and right onto the end of Jesus Navas's perfect pass to put the home side out of sight of Liverpool and maintain their 100% start to the season.
It was a symbolic, highly impressive demonstration of the power City manager Manuel Pellegrini has at his disposal, made even more emphatic as it was produced against a Liverpool side that had the title in their grasp in late April only to stumble near the finishing line.
Watching it all, impassively for the most part, was the man who has been consigned to City's past but who is now entrusted with ensuring Liverpool have a bright future after the departure to Barcelona of last season's 31-goal top scorer Luis Suarez.
Mario Balotelli's face was cheered when it appeared on the big screens as he remains a popular figure with City's supporters, but just hours after the 24-year-old was officially confirmed as a Liverpool player he had the size of the task awaiting him laid out by his former employers.
Many have predicted the title will be a two-horse race this season - and even though the campaign is only two games old it already looks like City and Chelsea will be the teams best equipped to last the course.
Adding to that impression was the fact that the real architect of City's win was another talented individual they were barely able to call upon when they reclaimed the Premier League.
Stevan Jovetic came to Liverpool's attention as a teenager when he scored both goals in Fiorentina's shock Champions League win against them in 2009, but injuries have meant a wait to see him look at his best for City after they paid £22m for the Montenegro forward in July 2013.
Two goals here - the second a magnificent team creation which he started and finished - hinted that this could be his season if he remains in good health.
Jovetic started with Dzeko, allowing Pellegrini to ease Aguero back after his own injury difficulties. If all three stay fit and Alvaro Negredo comes back as he did in the early part of last season, City will be the benchmark for attacking threat.
City eventually won with ease after an awkward first 40 minutes. The three points were earned with a comfort they never enjoyed in the 2-1 victory against Liverpool at home last season, remembering they also lost a 3-2 thriller at Anfield.
This was routine once Liverpool's poor defending allowed Jovetic to give City the lead. The gap between the sides looked wider than at any point last season, although this must also be placed in context by the early stage of the campaign.
For Liverpool and manager Brendan Rodgers, the dilemma has been an obvious one. How can he reassemble his squad to compensate for the loss of Suarez, not just his goals but also the psychological impact and pressure he applied to opposing players and supporters?
There will be a sense of relief among opponents that he is not around to torment them, while it will also take his former Anfield team-mates time to get used to not having such a lethal weapon in their armoury. There is rarely any good news in selling your best player but Rodgers is determined not to let this be an issue that overshadows the new arrivals.
Of course Suarez would have been banned here anyway, and it is absolutely right that Rodgers is allowed time to see how reinforcements such as Balotelli, Lazar Markovic and, when fit, Adam Lallana fare.
He has the nucleus of the squad that did so brilliantly in vain last season, including the attacking gifts of Daniel Sturridge and Raheem Sterling, who will presumably need to dovetail with Balotelli.
Rodgers admits he has taken "a calculated risk" on Balotelli. He is banking on the Italian showing hitherto undetected maturity while also accepting the reality that if he fails at Liverpool his career will be regarded as one in decline.
Ironically, given the focus on Liverpool's attacking resources and how Suarez can be replaced, it was familiar troubles further back that were actually at the root of their downfall.
Rodgers was right to contend that Liverpool were the better team for 40 minutes, but once Jovetic took advantage of Dejan Lovren's poor header and debutant Alberto Moreno's switch-off the game was up.
Lovren, the £20m signing from Southampton, had an uncomfortable night, while Moreno - a £12m arrival from Sevilla - was swiftly acquainted with the need for maximum concentration in the Premier League.
Liverpool's performances and finishing position last season put Rodgers way ahead of schedule. A top four place - even if it means finishing lower than second - should be regarded as satisfactory.
For City, expectation will be the retention of the title and further progress in the Champions League.
And what better way to show they mean business by dispensing comfortably with last season's league runners-up without getting anywhere near their top gear.
The marker has been placed by City, and placed early. | If Manchester City wanted to send an ominous message that it will take something special to remove their status as Premier League champions, Sergio Aguero took 23 seconds to deliver it. | 28932512 |
We'll find out when Liverpool host Manchester United in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 tie on Thursday.
But in the build-up to the game, test your knowledge of the great rivalry by taking our quiz about matches between the teams.
Quiz images: Getty - questions 1-2, 4-10. Rex - question 3. | What will happen when English football's two most successful sides meet for the first time in European competition? | 35768847 |
Jonathan Mathew is one of five former Barclays employees charged with conspiracy to defraud by rigging US dollar Libor rates between 1 June 2005 and 31 August 2007.
Libor is linked to financial contracts around the world.
The five men deny the charge.
Libor - the London interbank offered rate - is a benchmark interest rate used by banks around the world to set the price of financial products worth trillions of pounds.
Mr Mathew, 35, is accused along with Stylianos Contogoulas, 44, Jay Vijay Merchant, 45, Alex Pabon, 37, and Ryan Reich, 34, of manipulating the rate.
The prosecution told the court that "they were driven by money... to make more profit on their trading".
Mr Mathew was 24 and living at home with his parents when he worked on the cash desk at Barclays in London.
He was responsible for submitting the bank's US dollar Libor rates when his boss was away.
His defence counsel, William Clegg QC, said Mr Mathew admitted accepting requests from traders to adjust the rate, but that he didn't financially benefit - he was only doing what his boss, Peter Johnson, told him to do.
Mr Johnson is not on trial.
They also heard that for all the importance of Libor to international financial markets, there was a lack of supervision, education and training at Barclays.
The defence counsel for another defendant, Mr Pabon, said he openly admitted making requests to rate submitters in London to suit his trading positions but had no idea it was wrong.
He, too, was instructed to do it.
The court heard evidence that senior bankers from across the industry knew that Libor was being influenced for commercial reasons but nothing was done.
Adrian Darbishire QC, representing Mr Reich, said when circumstances changed, "you could hear the unpleasant crunching sound of a few expendable traders thrown under a bus".
The trial, being held at Southwark Crown Court, began on Tuesday, and is expected to last 12 weeks. | A former Barclays banker accused of manipulating the Libor interest rate only did what he was told to do by his boss without knowing it was wrong, his defence counsel has told a court. | 35999456 |
Frustrated with traditional monitoring and its risks, Mr Samuelson and George have since joined a growing group of T1 sufferers who are building their own solutions to manage their diabetes - even though they come with their own uncertainties.
Traditional monitoring involves taking blood samples from the fingertips several times a day and administering precise injections of insulin to maintain blood sugar levels. However, over the course of an hour they can change dramatically and too much insulin can be fatal.
It works for many - new British Prime Minister Theresa May has talked openly about living with type 1 diabetes since her diagnosis in 2012.
"In basic management terms, it's the same for everybody," she told Diabetes UK in an interview.
"You have to get into a routine where you are regularly doing the testing."
But Mr Samuelson and George are among thousands who have chosen a different approach.
They are using Nightscout, an open source platform developed and run by a global community of type 1 diabetics.
Open source means it is freely available for anyone to use and modify - in this case at their own risk.
It's a combination of a commercial product called a Continuing Glucose Monitor (CGM), which provides constant updates, a DIY transmitter and the freely available Nightscout programming code which enables the CGM data to be shared with a cloud data storage area - where it can then be distributed to other devices.
So both father and son now receive constant updates on their phones (and George's smartwatch) and are able to assess George's needs minute by minute.
It has given George the gift of freedom - he can now join his friends on sleepovers and enjoy his favourite sports.
Mr Samuelson acknowledges that it is not without risk.
"I am using open source software to do calibrations. Open source software is giving me final numbers and it is not an approved algorithm - it's not going to be exactly the same as the proprietary algorithms," he says.
"But you have to make an informed decision... compared to all the other risks the benefits massively outweigh them."
Why not use the commercial products offering this shared data?
There are not many on the market - and they are expensive.
Rachel from Guildford is using G5, a system by Dexcom, to monitor her son Joe, also nine, but at current rates it will cost the family thousands of pounds a year.
Most of Dexcom's apps are also only compatible with Apple devices.
The homegrown alternatives aren't completely free either - you still need to buy a CGM and there is the cost of new sensors, which must be changed regularly.
Rachel says she was too nervous about the DIY nature of Nightscout - creating the transmitter for the data involves being handy with a soldering iron - but agrees that the benefits of the continuous data being accessible to them all have proved life-changing.
"We went climbing in the Peak District soon after we got it," she said.
"If we hadn't had the tech we would have completely scaled back on what we were planning to do that week. But we were able to use the Bluetooth, walking behind him and tracking him."
Another sufferer called Stephen Black created X Drip, which can pull data from Dexcom devices and share it with cloud storage.
He is not alone - search the hashtag #wearenotwaiting and you will find active voluntary groups of those living with the condition creating their own systems and making them available to all, frustrated with the slow pace of the market leaders.
Their activities are not subject to official testing and regulation as they are not commercial medical products.
"I'm a big proponent of the idea that patients are the experts of their own disease and know what the real problems are in managing the disease," said Dr Joyce Lee from the Night Scout Foundation, which is based in the US.
"They've created tools they need for their own daily management.
"What the tech has done is allowed healthcare to become participatory but the healthcare system has yet to become comfortable with that," she adds
"I'm a big fan of the maker movement - it will never go away. People will continue to innovate and create new versions."
One such "maker" is Tim Omer, who created his own Android app to work with X Drip. Mr Omer has an insulin pump and his app also offers suggestions as to how it should function to keep his levels steady.
Like Alistair Samuelson, Tim Omer believes the risks associated with the DIY tech are matched by the risks of living with type 1 diabetes itself.
"Diabetes is really risky. Right now we are given this [potentially] lethal medication called insulin and told, 'oh just inject and see what happens'," he said.
"So moving to a more logical system with a lot more information available is actually safer."
He says using his own app has been massively liberating.
"I can look at my watch right now and know i have 'x' amount of insulin inside me," he said.
"Twenty-five minutes ago my watch vibrated to tell me to turn my pump off because my blood sugars were low.
"I can go about my daily life knowing the app will notify me if i need to make a change."
There are many more out there - like Open APS (Artificial Pancreas System), another open source community project in which 85 people are managing their type 1 diabetes with kit which includes a Raspberry Pi microcomputer.
Those who choose to try it must build their own and it is also not approved by any regulatory bodies.
The diabetes charity JDRF is cautiously positive about these tools, throwing its own support behind a new project called Tidepool, which is FDA compliant and does not suggest insulin calculations.
"Such technology does seem to offer benefits to people with the condition - particularly parents of children with type 1 diabetes who get peace of mind by remotely checking their child's blood glucose levels via their smartphone," it said in a statement.
"But it's important to add that many of these open source systems available are unregulated. They are not yet subject to the stringent testing and assessment required before they can be approved for use by people with type 1 diabetes." | "I was sending a seven-year-old to school with a drug that could kill him," says Alistair Samuelson, whose son George, now nine, has type 1 diabetes. | 36711994 |
The incident happened on Sunday night at Ballymena's People's Park.
Fencing would have to be erected around the multi-play area, said the mayor of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council, Audrey Wales.
She said the "mindless act" meant children would be denied the chance to use the equipment over the summer.
"It looks like the structure can not be repaired as the uprights have been badly burnt making it structurally unsafe," Ms Wales added.
"This pointless act of sheer vandalism has destroyed a very important resource for our children.
"As we are now into the brighter nights when children should be outside enjoying the park, this is particularly galling."
The council said most, if not all of the play area equipment would likely have to be demolished and replaced at a cost to the ratepayer.
"This is estimated to be a figure well in excess of £65,000 representing an unnecessary and added burden to the borough's ratepayers," said Ms Wales.
PSNI Inspector Doris Purvis said it was "an absolute shame" a play area that benefits so many local children had been damaged, and appealed for information about the incident. | Equipment at a County Antrim children's play park will have to be demolished after vandals caused more than £65,000 worth of fire damage. | 39697714 |
Dozens of sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve shocked Germany, increasing the pressure to pass tougher laws on rape and molestation.
The new legislation could make groping punishable in more cases.
Campaigners for women's rights want the "No means No" principle enshrined in law. They say a woman should not have to prove that she resisted physically.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas wants courts to be able to punish sexual violence in cases where a woman felt unable to resist physically.
It is argued that current German law does not adequately protect victims who come under sexual pressure, who lack any means to defend themselves or who are subject to a surprise attack.
The tougher legislation would include: a woman assaulted in a park without any witnesses nearby, or a wife assaulted at home at night, who does not want to distress her children.
The justice ministers of Saxony and Bavaria say groping ought to be punished by up to two years in jail or a fine.
The Saxony Justice Minister, Sebastian Gemkow, said it was time for the judiciary to treat groping as a criminal offence, not as a type of "insult".
"For the victims it's simply incomprehensible when the judiciary dismisses such cases as 'irrelevant'," he said.
Only one in 10 rapes is reported in Germany currently, the n-tv news website reports, and of those, the conviction rate is only 10%.
Some female celebrities are prominent in the "No means No" campaign, including writer and journalist Susanne Froehlich, actors Sibel Kekilli and Jasmin Tabatabai, musician Judith Holofernes and TV chef Sarah Wiener.
A leading campaigner in the Social Democrat (SPD) party, Elke Ferner, said the draft law under discussion still had shortcomings.
"Unfortunately the principle still holds that a women must fight back in order to prove that she resisted," she told Die Welt newspaper (in German).
"A 'no' must be sufficient to signal that there is no agreement.
"Of course that refusal would also have to be proven, but the law would thereby establish a norm which any moderately intelligent man could understand," she said.
Women made more than 550 complaints of sexual assault after the New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne. Similar attacks also happened in Duesseldorf and Hamburg, on a lesser scale.
Victims described how suddenly gangs of drunken men - many of them North African migrants - surrounded them at night, groped them and stole items such as mobile phones.
Police say many of the attackers may never be caught. Several North African men have been convicted of theft. | The German parliament is debating draft laws to give women more protection in sexual violence cases. | 36159326 |
The news comes amid growing criticism of the software's user interface.
Microsoft said the revision to the operating system (OS), codenamed Windows Blue, would be released at Build, a three-day developers event in San Francisco starting on 26 June.
However, while the company said it had listened to "feedback", it has still not disclosed what changes are planned.
Microsoft added that a final version of Windows Blue would be released before the end of the year, and highlighted that it had already sold more than 100 million licences for the system.
The Verge, ZDNet and other tech blogs have reported that the update could mean Microsoft reversing its decision to remove the start button from the system's desktop environment.
They also suggested it would give users the option of booting their PCs directly into Windows 8's desktop mode rather than having to visit the tile-based Start menu screen first.
On Tuesday the Financial Times ran a front-page story suggesting that a U-turn over key elements of Windows 8 would mark "one of the most prominent admissions of failure for a new mass-market consumer product since Coca-Cola's New Coke fiasco nearly 30 years ago".
This was a reference to the beverage makers' decision to launch and then abandon a new version of its fizzy drink.
The FT's article followed a news briefing given by Microsoft to mark the first six months of Windows 8.
The tech company has issued a statement taking issue with the report.
"It is unfortunate that the Financial Times did not accurately represent the content or the context of our conversation about the good response to date on Windows 8 and the positive opportunities ahead on both Windows 8 and Windows Blue," it said.
"Our perspective is accurately reflected in many other interviews on this topic as well as in a Q&A with [chief financial officer] Tami Reller posted on the Windows blog."
The FT told the BBC it stood by its story.
More than 1.5 billion devices used Windows 7 and earlier versions of the system at the time of Windows 8's launch, making the OS both the most popular of its kind and one of the company's key sources of revenue.
However, Microsoft was aware that sales of tablets and other touch-controlled devices had been growing at a much faster rate than PCs.
This helped prompt it to introduce a new start screen, initially dubbed "Metro", containing resizable tiles that could be tapped and swiped to launch and navigate apps.
Users can still switch to a more traditional desktop mode by clicking on an icon, but the environment lacks the start menu button offered since Windows 95.
This caused some people to become confused about how to shut down their PC and carry out other tasks. Several third-party developers subsequently released their own software allowing users to restore the facility.
"Many people have recoiled in horror at Windows 8 because it is such a stark change over what they had become used to over the past 15 or so years," Chris Green, principal technology analyst at consultants Davies Murphy Group Europe, told the BBC.
"Unless you are using it on a brand-new computer or laptop with a touchscreen display it's not as intuitive to use as Microsoft makes out - and these are still premium-priced products."
Since businesses traditionally wait until at least a major service pack has come out before updating their computers to a new OS, the major impact of the changes has mostly been limited to consumers.
But Mr Green added that it would be a worry for Microsoft if companies now opted to skip Windows 8 in the same way many had previously decided not to install Windows Vista.
"Microsoft wouldn't necessarily miss out on revenue from their largest blue-chip customers because they pay an annual subscription fee for access to its tech whether they use it or not," he said.
"But it's the mid-sized companies - who buy computers and software as they need it - which is where the big money and margins are."
Microsoft has acknowledged that "there is a learning curve [to Windows 8] and we can work to address that," but it also points out it has sold a similar number of licences for the OS as were achieved over the first six months of Windows 7's life.
"It's too early to say that it's flopped," said Benedict Evans, a digital media specialist at research firm Enders Analysis.
"However, there's clearly a lot of pushback from consumers and corporates about the radical change the firm wants to make in the user interface.
"The broader issue is that Microsoft is building an operating system designed with a touchscreen in mind. That's essential for its future because computing is shifting to tablets and mobile, where Microsoft has been irrelevant."
"What in effect they've done is compromise the desktop experience to create a great tablet and mobile experience. The problem is that it's the desktop buyers that pay for everything right now." | Microsoft has announced it will offer a preview version of its first major update to Windows 8 next month. | 22446754 |
Dettori, 42, was given a six-month ban after testing positive in France.
He told Channel 4 News ahead of his expected return on Monday that he took the drug in a "moment of weakness".
"Things were going bad, I was depressed and I guess [in] a moment of weakness I fell for it and I've only got myself to blame," said the former champion.
The Italian-born rider, who has won the Flat Jockeys' Championship in the UK three times, was suspended by French racing authority France Galop after returning a positive test following a routine examination at Longchamp on 16 September last year.
Dettori will ride as a freelance this season after he split in the autumn from Sheikh Mohammed's Godolphin racing team after an 18-year association.
After the failed test, France Galop and Dettori's lawyer refused to confirm the substance despite reports he had taken cocaine.
"I'm very ashamed and embarrassed, and paid a very big price for it. I spent six months not doing the thing that I love, racing," he said.
"I can't blame anybody else. The embarrassment of when it come out, I had to hide in my house for a week with the paparazzi outside.
"The embarrassment of telling the children. They still go to school, they might get bullied and so it was a very, very difficult time."
Dettori endured a difficult 2012 when his place as Godolphin's number one rider came under threat as younger riders Mickael Barzalona and Silvestre de Sousa were recruited by the Dubai-based team, which has two stables in Newmarket.
His failed test came the day after Barzalona won the season's final Classic, the St Leger at Doncaster, on 25-1 shot Encke, trained for Godolphin by Mahmood Al Zarooni.
Al Zarooni was banned from racing for eight years last month after admitting giving anabolic steroids to 15 horses earlier in 2013.
Dettori has been riding out on the gallops since mid-April - including a stint with Godolphin's Irish rivals Ballydoyle - as he prepares for a return which looks set to start on Monday evening at Leicester racecourse, which has named a race in his honour.
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The British Horseracing Authority's licensing committee said on Tuesday it has no objection to his return, which needs to be ratified by France Galop before rides can be booked for Dettori.
"His licence cannot be formally issued while there remain some outstanding test results in France. As soon as France Galop confirm that these are clear the licence will be issued and he can be formally booked for ride," said a BHA spokesman.
Dettori's agent Ray Cochrane, who survived a plane crash alongside the jockey 13 years ago, has said he hopes to book at least five rides for him on Monday. | Jockey Frankie Dettori says he is "ashamed and embarrassed" after admitting for the first time he used cocaine in 2012. | 22539886 |
The 30-year-old topped Essex's batting charts in the 2015 One-Day Cup, scoring 301 runs at an average of 75.25.
He also played 12 County Championship matches this summer and headed their bowling averages in the T20 Blast, with 19 wickets at a cost of 16.11 each.
Bopara played the most recent of his 120 one-day internationals in the 2015 World Cup against Afghanistan.
Essex finished third in Division Two of the Championship, but Bopara believes new cricket committee chairman Ronnie Irani can change the direction of the side.
"The club is making some changes with Ronnie on board," he told the club website.
"I've played a lot under Ronnie, I know him very well, and I'm trusting him to get things the way we all want here at Essex.
"We're a team that should be competing and performing at a higher level than we are. I think we can achieve that with a couple of new signings and I'm confident that the club will get that right." | Essex and England all-rounder Ravi Bopara has signed a new two-year deal with the club. | 34521017 |
Hoyeon Jang, 75, was separated from her husband and son when she boarded a Northern Line train without them at Embankment station on Thursday.
They signalled to her to get off at Charing Cross, the next station, but could not find her there or at Archway station, where they were going.
The Met Police said Mrs Jang was found on Saturday afternoon.
Officers previously said Mrs Jang was last seen at Embankment station at about 17:00 BST on Thursday and was reported missing to the force about three hours later.
The family had been visiting relatives in London. | A South Korean tourist who went missing in London has been found "safe and well", police have said. | 40837620 |
Workers are being recruited on temporary contracts to work over the busy Christmas period.
The internet company is hiring more than 15,000 extra people across the UK in the run-up to December.
Amazon said it expected "many hundreds" of the seasonal workers to move into permanent posts as a result.
The Swansea base, which opened in 2008, has more than 1,000 permanent staff.
During its busiest day last year, Amazon said customers ordered a total of 3.5m items in 24 hours - a rate, it said, of 44 per second.
In 2012, Amazon created more than 10,000 seasonal jobs in the run up to Christmas across the UK, including 1,000 in Swansea. | Online retailer Amazon will be creating more than 1,500 seasonal jobs at its Swansea distribution centre - up by half on last year's total. | 24225619 |
Thousands struggled to get online tickets to Dismaland, a dark theme park, which is open for five weeks at the seaside resort.
A "locals only" free ticket day was held on Friday, but the ticket website crashed when it received more than six million hits.
General tickets are due to go on sale online again on Tuesday.
Doors opened just after 11:00 BST on Saturday. Many queued overnight in order to guarantee entry into the show.
A message on the Dismaland website said "due to unprecedented demand" it was unable to process online ticket sales, and Saturday and Sunday tickets, costing £3, would only be available on the door.
The site has capacity for 2,000 people, and after that is reached, it will be one in, one out, organisers said.
BBC News correspondent Andrew Plant, who is at Dismaland, said the queue was taking about 4 hours.
Ticket woes
Fans have been pondering whether their frustration in failing to buy tickets is in fact part of the "Dismaland experience".
The UKBusinessInsider has questioned the functionality of the Dismaland website, which also shows an upside down supermarket trolley.
Queuing is the only way to see Dismaland today. The ticket website is offline until Tuesday.
So hundreds of people started waiting early this morning to pay their £3 and get inside.
By 10:00 BST, there were 2000 people in the line, which snakes round temporary metal fences and looks like the queues for X-factor auditions.
They're called in in groups of ten every few minutes, and then disappear into the double-doors that mark the start of the Dismaland experience.
One family I talked to had rung their relative in Grenoble as soon as they heard about the exhibition. That relative took a plane from the Alps to Luton airport, then a train, then a bus overnight, arriving here at 4am.
When I asked them why, they said simply: "It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. There was no question about making the journey."
So far the queue is taking about 4 hours. It's sunny today and people seem happy.
But there's rain forecast for the next few days, and that is a long time to stand and get wet.
North Somerset Council said it was trying to establish if the difficulty in getting tickets online was a real problem or a deliberate ploy by Banksy.
John Brandler, an art dealer who collects and sells work by Banksy, said it was likely to put off visitors from further afield.
"Where we are, I'm from London, it's a minimum of £80 on a train. To turn up and then find you can't get a ticket, is that good for Weston? I don't think so. I think people will really get annoyed," Mr Brandler said.
However Mike Jackson, the leader of North Somerset Council, was confident people would still flock to the show.
"The queue is already building nicely here, we've estimated the economic benefit (for Weston) is at least £6m, there's a real buzz about the town.
"Virtually everyone you've spoken to here in the town is really excited about this," Mr Jackson told Radio Bristol.
Social media platforms have been awash with speculation that the difficult ticketing was part of the show, where the audience is also part of the art.
Michele Marie tweeted: "I firmly believe the whole debacle was part of the show2, while Paul Vassos tweeted: "To all the punters... ever get the feeling you've been had?"
Dismaland features work by more than 50 artists, including Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Jimmy Cauty and Bristol-born Banksy, who says he chose the venue himself after walking past the old lido six months ago, which had been closed since 2000.
Among the exhibits are a distorted mermaid, a dilapidated fairy castle and a boat pond where all the boats are filled with models of migrants, as well as paintings and a beach ball hovering above upturned knives.
Many are twists on traditional fairground rides - such as a coconut shy featuring anvils, instead of coconuts. Banksy described the show as a "family theme park unsuitable for children". | Hundreds of people have queued for "on the door" tickets to a new Banksy show in Weston-super-Mare. | 34026536 |
The European Space Agency's Rosetta mission dropped the robot onto Comet 67P in November 2014.
Scientists tried to land the robot several times but there were problems landing.
When it finally settled, its exact location wasn't clear but images and data suggested it was sitting at an awkward angle, in the shade.
This meant that the robot, which is powered by solar energy, was unable to charge properly.
The lander did send back some information but the last contact was in July 2015.
The comet is now travelling into a much colder part of space, with temperatures below -180C.
Philae was never designed to operate at these temperatures so the chances of getting any more data are slim.
Scientists are now focussing on landing the Rosetta space craft on Comet 67P in September. | Scientists have decided to give up trying to contact the comet lander Philae after lots of attempts without success. | 35572674 |
Following surprise inspections in April and May, Admiral Court was deemed inadequate across all fronts.
Inspectors listed a catalogue of errors including unqualified staff, residents not getting food and water and the heat permanently too high.
The BBC has tried to contact the home owner, Four Winds Care.
However, it was not available for comment.
The CQC has previously issued formal warnings to the home for poor maintenance, administration of medication and failing to employ properly qualified staff.
In March the CQC took enforcement action banning the home from taking in any more residents.
In its latest inspection the CQC said the home had failed to address the concerns.
Inspectors also noted: "We found the provider had a disregard for people's humanity and the Human Rights Act, particularly the right to liberty.
"People were unlawfully detained at the home.
"The provider did not have adequate systems in place to protect service users from abuse caused by acts of omission and neglect."
Some residents went for more than a day without getting fresh drinking water while the temperature of the home was kept between 26C (79F) and 28C (82F), making it "uncomfortably hot", the CQC said.
A "disorganised" system also meant some residents were not getting their medication while staff were also handling tablets without wearing gloves which could pose a risk to their own health.
Staff also did not know enough about the residents' individual issues and residents said they were frightened of staff, the inspectors found.
The report said: "There had been occasions when the police should have been called but were not, for instance when allegations of wilful neglect were made or people had physically assaulted others."
A spokesman for Hartlepool Council said: We are aware of the decision taken by the Four Winds Group to give residents 28 days notice to leave Admiral Court, and also the action taken by the Care Quality Commission which required some residents to move within seven days.
"Our priority throughout the process was to ensure that people were safe and well supported, and receiving high quality care that met their needs.
"All residents required to move within seven days were supported to identify alternative accommodation and moves were completed within the required timescale.
"The remaining residents and their families were notified by the provider of the requirement to move within 28 days and were given the same support to identify alternative accommodation. The last resident left Admiral Court on Friday 5 June." | A Hartlepool care home unlawfully detained residents and showed a disregard for their humanity, the Care Quality Commission has found. | 33153031 |
Gen Padrino said the measure was taken to avoid medicine "being re-routed".
Venezuela is mired in an economic crisis which has led to shortages of items ranging from basic goods to medical supplies.
Officials blame the shortages on an "economic war" being waged against it.
The opposition says the crisis was caused by government mismanagement.
Doctors have held a series of protests to draw attention to chronic shortages of key medicine and supplies.
"We're going to take control of the distribution of all medical and surgical supplies managed in all hospitals," Gen Padrino said on state television.
He said the measure had been taken in order "to guarantee that these medicines and supplies get to the patient efficiently and neatly distributed and assigned".
The government says the shortages are caused by unethical business people who hoard goods to sell them at inflated prices on the black market.
But the opposition says they are the government's fault for not putting money aside when prices for Venezuela's main export, oil, were high.
With government coffers depleted and triple-digit inflation wiping out the purchasing power of the local currency, public hospitals are struggling to care for patients.
According to the Venezuelan Medical Federation, some public hospitals are having to make do on only 4% of the supplies they would expect to have.
Gen Padrino said the government was "preparing a more in-depth plan" to ensure hospitals were functioning well.
However, disaffection with the government remains widespread.
In a recent poll, more than 75% of Venezuelans said they were unhappy with President Nicolas Maduro's leadership.
While an opposition march to the presidential palace planned for Thursday has been called off, smaller protests by student groups are expected to go ahead.
The economic crisis has further deepened divisions between the government and its supporters and those who want to see Mr Maduro ousted from office.
The two sides have agreed to meet for talks mediated by the Vatican on 11 November but tension remains high as factions within the opposition have refused to join in the talks. | The Venezuelan Armed Forces are taking control of the distribution of medicine and medical equipment to public hospitals, Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino announced on Wednesday. | 37859183 |
The register of MPs interests showed Mr Osborne declared payments for six speeches from 27 September to 27 October.
His largest fee was £81,174 from JP Morgan for a speech on 4 October, the register of MPs' interests showed.
The now backbencher said his income source was "similar" to that of other former chancellors.
On a visit to a construction site at Newcastle University, he said: "As a member of parliament I declare all my income, so people can see that.
"It's very similar to what previous chancellors, Labour and Conservatives, have done in the past.
"I'm now focused on this: Making the Northern Powerhouse a reality - because I'm passionate about this idea and I don't want the north east to lose out."
The MP for Tatton was sacked by Theresa May when she became prime minister.
The register showed a total of seven hours' work was listed for the largest JP Morgan fee and detailed another speech for which he was paid £60,578 by the firm.
Mr Osborne signed up to the Washington Speakers' Bureau, from where he is due to be paid £80,240 from a company called Palmex Derivatives for a speech in New York he gave on 27 October. He recorded that as a total of two hours' work.
He also expects to be paid £69,992 by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in return for speaking on 27 September and 18 October, and £28,454 from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for a speech on 17 October, listed as three hours' work.
Under Parliamentary rules, MPs have to register within 28 days any interest which could be seen as influencing their actions or words.
The latest edition of the register also showed former justice secretary and Conservative leadership candidate Michael Gove was due to be paid £150,000 a year for writing for The Times.
He also received a £17,500 advance payment for a book. | Former chancellor George Osborne has defended making more than £320,000 over 31 days for giving speeches. | 38110210 |
The 51-year-old was released on bail having been arrested at a London police station by appointment on Monday.
Mr Parker was also arrested in February by police investigating allegations of corrupt payments to public officials.
He remains on police bail for that alleged offence.
Mr Parker was arrested on Monday by Met Police officers from Operation Tuleta, which is probing allegations of computer hacking.
Scotland Yard later said he had been bailed to return to a central Lodnon police station in late September.
It is the eighth arrest in Operation Tuleta and comes less than a fortnight after a Sun journalist was arrested in the same investigation.
The investigation is running alongside Operation Weeting, into phone hacking, and Operation Elveden, which is looking at corrupt payments by journalists to public officials.
It is thought as many as 16 current or former Sun journalists have been arrested as part of Scotland Yard's investigations into corruption and computer misuse. | A journalist held by police investigating a suspected conspiracy to gather data from stolen mobile phones is Sun chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker, the BBC understands. | 19049421 |
First of all to the headline results, which were heavily influenced by the first-past-the-post electoral system used for Westminster elections.
The SNP won 35 seats, and were runners-up in the other 24. They won 59.3% of the seats with 36.9% of the vote.
The Tories won 13 seats, and were runners-up in nine. Their 28.6% of the vote yielded 22% of the seats.
Labour won a broadly similar 27.1% of the vote, but this resulted in only 11.8% of the seats. They won seven, and were runners-up in 25.
And the Lib Dems took four seats, coming second in one. Their 7.5% of the vote won them 6.7% of seats available.
Were the seats to have been divvied up by proportional representation, purely from the share of the vote, the SNP would have had 22, the Tories 17, Labour 16 and the Lib Dems four.
The numbers point to a far closer contest than in 2015, an election of razor-thin margins.
There were four constituencies decided by less than 100 votes in the 2017 election - the SNP clung on in all four.
To contrast in 2015, there were only three constituencies decided by less than 2,000 votes.
At the other end of the scale, there were two seats which ended with a majority of more than 20% on June 8. In 2015, there were 28.
Two votes separated the SNP and the Lib Dems in North East Fife - and it took three recounts to decide that.
In all, 39 MPs were elected with fewer votes than their party polled in their seat in 2015. The 35 SNP members are there, but there were also two Labour and two Lib Dem gains in seats where the party lost votes - their SNP opponents simply lost more.
In the table below are the most marginal seats in Scotland in 2015, and the safest seats in 2017. Look familiar?
Yes, the four safest seats today were all among the five most marginal prior to the election.
There was a swing in the opposite direction too. Seven seats have gone from having a majority of more than 20% to having a margin of 2% or less.
This election featured fewer candidates than any other recent poll - 266, down from 345 in 2015. How did this affect matters?
The Greens stood candidates in three constituencies. There were five seats where the SNP won by a slimmer margin than the number of Green votes there in 2015.
UKIP stood ten candidates. None of them got their deposits back - none managed more than 1.4% of the vote, let alone 5%.
Turnout was down almost across the board in Scotland, from 71.1% in 2015 to 66.4% in 2017. Turnout only increased in three constituencies - Glasgow Central, Glasgow North and Orkney and Shetland.
The biggest drop was in Dunbartonshire West, where turnout fell by 8.7 percentage points.
Glasgow North East registered the smallest turnout in the country, at 53%. | With the dust settling on election results night, now is a good time to start looking at the numbers more closely. | 40246330 |
The club also have the option to sign the 22-year-old permanently at the end of the season.
Former River Plate and Fluminense player Lanzini is nicknamed 'The Jewel'.
"This is very emotional because it is one of the best teams I have ever signed for," he told West Ham TV.
"It is a very important step for my career and for my future. I am looking forward to what is a new era for me.
"I am someone who always gives 100 per cent. I'm an attacking player, I can change the game's tempo and I hope to give my maximum for the fans to appreciate me."
Lanzini has been capped four times by Argentina at U20 level and becomes the club's seventh summer signing after Dimitri Payet, Angelo Ogbonna, Pedro Obiang, Carl Jenkinson, Stephen Hendrie and Darren Randolph.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page. | Argentine midfielder Manuel Lanzini has joined West Ham on a season-long loan deal from United Arab Emirates club Al Jazira. | 33625483 |
More than 100 people were injured in the truck bomb attack in the western city of Zliten, the deadliest since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi.
IS also said it killed seven people in a separate suicide bomb attack on Thursday at the oil port of Ras Lanuf.
Libya has descended into chaos since the overthrow of Gaddafi.
In a message sent via an online messaging system frequently used by IS, the group said its Tripoli wing were responsible for the attack in Zliten.
Islamic State militants have been attacking Libya's key oil terminals in the area around Ras Lanuf for the past week.
Firefighters were still trying to bring under control blazes at seven giant fuel tanks that were set alight by IS shelling on Thursday in nearby Sidra, officials said.
The group is present in several Libyan towns, including the eastern town of Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown.
Meanwhile, Egypt's foreign ministry says it is investigating reports in local media that 21 Egyptians have gone missing in Libya and may have been abducted by IS militants.
Analysis: Rana Jawad, BBC North Africa Correspondent
IS' assertion that it was behind the attack does not come as a surprise, but it will confirm fears of the group's wider reach in the country.
The attack also signals the group's long-term ambitions to extend its influence in Libya, especially as it comes under increasing pressure from bombing campaigns by the US-led Western coalition in Iraq and Syria.
Observers have been quick to point out that IS is now employing a strategy similar to the one used in the past by al-Qaeda in Iraq: targeting police and army training centres to create fear and prevent the rebuilding of state security institutions.
Libya has had no proper army or police force for the past four years.
This new grim reality is only likely to be reversed if the competing militias who rule the country come together to fight against IS.
There are signs that Libya's rival groups are starting to realise that they face a common enemy, but they are still a long way from presenting a unified front.
Funerals for those killed in the attack have been held in Zliten, 60km (40 miles) west of Misrata.
The country has been split into areas run by two governments - only one of which is recognised by the international community.
In December, rival politicians signed a UN-brokered deal to form a unity government.
In a surprise, unannounced move, the newly-appointed and internationally-backed presidency council travelled to Zliten on Friday night to pay their respects to the families of the victims. | The Islamic State group (IS) says it was behind a bomb attack which targeted a police training centre in Libya on Thursday, killing at least 65 people. | 35267541 |
Reports said some of the migrants had been held hostage for five weeks in a house in Mexico State.
Most of the victims were Central Americans, but they also included people from India and Sri Lanka.
The migrants had been trying to reach the US illegally when they were captured by a gang who demanded cash from their relatives.
Five human traffickers were arrested in the town of Axapusco after the raid on Wednesday, said government officials.
Nearly 100 agents were involved in the operation to rescue the victims, who included some 14 children.
Local media reported that those freed are from Guatemala (33), El Salvador (23), India (23), Honduras (18), and Sri Lanka (five).
Police said they had been alerted by a Guatemalan man who had escaped from the house, but since their release some of the migrants have accused him of being in league with the people smugglers.
Alfredo Morquecho, head of Axapusco's security commission, told El Universal (in Spanish) that the migrants were in relatively good condition considering the circumstances.
The newspaper reported that the gang had installed an electrified wire fence around the property to prevent anyone from escaping.
The Mexican government has said it will repatriate the migrants.
Every year, thousands of people enter Mexico illegally to try and make their way into the US.
The journey is extremely dangerous and human rights organisations say that migrants are being increasingly targeted by criminal organisations.
In 2010, 72 migrants were massacred in Tamaulipas state and buried in shallow graves by the drug-trafficking cartel Los Zetas after their families failed to pay a ransom. | Police in Mexico have rescued more than 100 migrants kidnapped by a human trafficking gang near the capital. | 32621089 |
This is the hole outside Sarah Jenkins' house in Upper Basildon, near Reading which appeared earlier this month and is still growing.
It's been described as one of the biggest sinkholes in the UK.
But what exactly is a sinkhole and how and why do they open up? Sinkholes can take thousands of years to form and usually happen when rock underneath the ground is dissolved by acid rain.
That creates a hole under the surface and then the top level of soil falls through when it can't take the weight above it any more.
The final collapse can take anything from minutes to hours.
In the latest case in Berkshire, the house is sat on top of an old brick factory with underground tunnels.
Watch the video of this woman falling into a hole as it opened up in China. She did survive.
Rock which dissolves easily, like limestone or chalk, is more likely to be affected. That's why lots of sinkholes appear in Florida, which is built on limestone.
Heavy rain and bad drainage systems can make the holes more likely.
Britain usually has two or three cases a year, but in February 2014 alone, six sinkholes appeared after heavy rain.
Experts also warned more were likely because of the bad weather.
See trees and water at a forest in Louisiana being sucked into a sinkhole in 2013.
The world's deepest sinkhole is in China - 2,172ft (662m).
The biggest is 50 miles (80km) by 75 miles (121km) in Egypt.
But many are often just a few metres wide.
There can be some warning signs of sinkholes forming in built-up areas.
You might notice doors and windows aren't closing properly, cracks are appearing in building foundations or you may even feel the ground move.
But it's not easy to predict.
Sinkholes are more common in less built up areas, mainly because developers avoid risky sites.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | It's 32ft (10m) wide and 16ft (5m) deep. | 30532117 |
Just across the road in the city's conference centre it had been confirmed that very afternoon that Ed Miliband had pipped his brother for the Labour leadership.
The giant union had encouraged its members to back the younger Miliband and they were celebrating.
But after a messy row with Unite over the selection of a Labour candidate in Falkirk in 2013, the rules for electing Ed Miliband's successor were changed by the very leader who had most benefitted from them.
Previously, the unions commanded about a third of the vote in Labour's "electoral college" - with ordinary members' votes also counting for a third, and MPs and MEPs the remaining third.
Fast forward to 2015 and the special status of MPs in leadership votes has all but gone.
Hopefuls now require the support of 15% of their parliamentary colleagues to take part but when the ballot is held every MP, like every party member - and those who also sign up as registered supporters at a lower rate than the full membership fee - has just one vote each.
The unions' role has changed just as dramatically.
They no longer have a third of the vote guaranteed.
And while in the past any member who paid the political levy had the opportunity automatically to vote for the Labour leader, each member now has to make a positive decision politically and financially to participate in the ballot.
Each trade union member who isn't already in the Labour Party must agree to sign up as an "affiliated supporter" at a cost of £3.
To encourage this, unions have set up call centres and printed and distributed the appropriate forms.
The GMB union is using a picture of Lord Mandelson on their leaflet, in the role of a New Labour pantomime villain - suggesting he and his chums will have too much influence unless rank and file union members sign up for a vote.
But how influential will the unions be in determining the outcome?
The GMB general secretary Paul Kenny says his union has signed up just 10,000 affiliated supporters so far.
He has a target of signing up 60,000 - that's still only one in 10 of the membership.
The larger Unite union won't release figures but sources there say they have a similar tally to the GMB.
Their call centres tell members about the new process but officials believe most people will join up after face-to-face approaches by shop stewards.
They say outside London, where the Labour vote went up at the general election, it's been more of a challenge to encourage participation.
Overall, the unions have a target of signing up 200-250,000 affiliated supporters.
That would give them rough parity in the leadership contest with fully paid-up members of the Labour Party and registered supporters but it wouldn't allow them to dominate the process.
But this target may be ambitious, as only 250,000 union members took part last time when they didn't have to go through the hoop of consenting to cough up cash for the privilege.
But it's also misleading to assume that these new affiliated supporters would necessarily follow the lead of their union bosses in any case.
First of all, ballot papers will be sent out by the Electoral Reform Society not the trade unions.
Union leaders won't be able to send out literature for just one candidate along with the ballot paper.
The GMB and Unite were both accused of doing this in 2010 for Ed Miliband. GMB sources concede there was some Ed literature "in the overall wrapping".
Second, even under the old system recommendations weren't always followed.
So, for example, the GMB hierarchy 20 years ago urged members not to elect Tony Blair as leader - and were firmly ignored.
And far more recently - last year in Scotland - the Unite leadership urged a vote for left-wing MSP Neil Findlay. The members preferred the better-known Blairite MP Jim Murphy.
And the most Blairite of the Labour leadership candidates, Liz Kendall, approves of the new system which she believes diminishes the role of union general secretaries.
It's not clear how many unions will make any recommendations to their members this time. Some will hold off until after a hustings, to be organised by TULO - the umbrella body for unions that have a financial link with Labour towards the end of next month.
But even in the unlikely event that all of them backed, say, Andy Burnham then that's no guarantee of success. | Autumn 2010 and in the bar of the Radisson Edwardian hotel in Manchester the then general secretary of Unite union, Derek Simpson, and the union's political officer - and former Gordon Brown aide - Charlie Whelan were enjoying a drink and were in excellent spirits. | 33098702 |
The A90 and M90 south of the crossing will be shut and the bridge itself will be open for local access only from 20:00 on Saturday until 06:00 on Monday.
The closed section of road includes the M9 spur.
The diversion route will involve the M9, the Kincardine Bridge and A985.
However, there will still be local access between South Queensferry, Kirkliston and Dalmeny.
The work will enable the demolition of the road bridge on the B800 between South Queensferry and Kirkliston.
Stein Connolly, from Transport Scotland, advised motorists to plan their journey, avoiding the affected areas around the Forth Road Bridge if they can.
He said: "The A90 south of the Forth Road Bridge will be totally closed and the Forth Bridge will be in contraflow, so there will be one lane running in each direction and we do expect there will be heavy congestion."
Mr Connolly said the work was part of the improvement works for the new Queensferry Crossing.
He said: "The B800 has to be demolished and this is the only safe and efficient way that we can do it.
"We need to maximise the use of our closure so we have got other necessary works going on at the bridge, so it will reduce the closures at a later date."
Further roadworks are planned for the weekends of 31 October and 14 November.
Mr Connolly said: "We have programmed the closure to avoid the school holidays and major events in the area. There are not many good times to do it but it is a job that has to be done." | The main road which feeds the Forth Road Bridge from the south is to be closed to all traffic for demolition work to remove a bridge over the A90. | 34618767 |
Lin Dong, who works at a labour dispute service, was charged with helping to organise protests, his colleague said.
Workers at the shoe factories in the southern city of Dongguan have been protesting for more than two weeks over their social security contributions.
The Taiwanese firm Yue Yuen makes shoes for brands like Nike and Reebok.
More than 40,000 workers in Dongguan, Guangdong province, had refused to report to work.
They had been pushing Yue Yuen's Taiwanese parent company, Pou Chen, for increased social benefits, compensation for overtime, housing benefits and a salary increase.
On Thursday, police detained Lin Dong and another activist, Zhang Zhiru, who was released a day later.
A majority of the workers have reportedly returned to the factories. However, details surrounding their return were not immediately clear.
Strikes are common in the city of Dongguan one of China's main manufacturing hubs, says the BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing.
But the scale and duration of this walk-out would have worried the authorities, fearing it could trigger wider social unrest, our correspondent adds. | Police in China have formally charged a labour activist with disturbing public order, reports say, following one of the country's biggest strikes in years. | 27208183 |
The Wearsiders were harassed all night, with their close-range opener from Donald Love and Gooch's stunning solo winner both against the run of play.
Carlisle had levelled when Danny Grainger followed up after Robben Ruiter saved his initial penalty.
Reggie Lambe had earlier hit the post for the home side.
Carlisle have been tough opponents for higher-league clubs to visit in recent seasons, with Ipswich, Queens Park Rangers and Blackburn all falling to them, and they did their best to add the Black Cats to that list.
In front of an 8,187 crowd, the hosts raised their game and the Championship side were indebted to goalkeeper Ruiter for keeping out efforts from Richie Bennett and the lively Jamie Devitt, who was involved in much of their best play.
Love, on his first start, tucked in to stun the home support but Carlisle again rallied, and after the break their sustained pressure told.
Papy Djilobodji bundled Bennett over in the box and Grainger levelled, at the second attempt.
That prompted Simon Grayson to send on his first-team regulars Lamine Kone, Aiden McGeady and James Vaughan in a bid to avoid extra time.
However it was one of his starting XI, USA international Gooch, who clinched it, driving forward before drilling low beyond Jack Bonham for his first club goal.
Match ends, Carlisle United 1, Sunderland 2.
Second Half ends, Carlisle United 1, Sunderland 2.
Attempt saved. Mark Ellis (Carlisle United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
James Vaughan (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Michael Jones (Carlisle United) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by James Vaughan (Sunderland).
Foul by Reggie Lambe (Carlisle United).
Didier Ndong (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
(Carlisle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Lynden Gooch (Sunderland).
Reggie Lambe (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland).
Substitution, Carlisle United. Jason Kennedy replaces Nicky Adams.
Attempt missed. James Vaughan (Sunderland) right footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right.
Foul by Tom Parkes (Carlisle United).
James Vaughan (Sunderland) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Attempt blocked. Nicky Adams (Carlisle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Substitution, Carlisle United. Shaun Miller replaces Jamie Devitt.
Substitution, Carlisle United. Hallam Hope replaces Luke Joyce.
Reggie Lambe (Carlisle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Papy Djilobodji (Sunderland).
Goal! Carlisle United 1, Sunderland 2. Lynden Gooch (Sunderland) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner.
Attempt blocked. Lamine Koné (Sunderland) header from the centre of the box is blocked.
Corner, Sunderland. Conceded by Danny Grainger.
Jamie Devitt (Carlisle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Didier Ndong (Sunderland).
Substitution, Sunderland. Aiden McGeady replaces Bryan Oviedo.
Foul by Reggie Lambe (Carlisle United).
Bryan Oviedo (Sunderland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Corner, Carlisle United. Conceded by Adam Matthews.
Attempt blocked. Richard Bennett (Carlisle United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.
Mark Ellis (Carlisle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by James Vaughan (Sunderland).
Substitution, Sunderland. James Vaughan replaces Joel Asoro.
Substitution, Sunderland. Lamine Koné replaces Donald Love.
Didier Ndong (Sunderland) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Michael Jones (Carlisle United) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Didier Ndong (Sunderland).
Attempt blocked. Wahbi Khazri (Sunderland) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt saved. Jamie Devitt (Carlisle United) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal. | Lynden Gooch's late goal ensured Sunderland's progress to round three of the EFL Cup despite a huge scare from League Two side Carlisle United. | 40932016 |
West died peacefully in Los Angeles after a "short but brave battle" with leukaemia, a family spokesperson said.
His tongue-in-cheek portrayal of Batman and the superhero's alter ego Bruce Wayne won a cult following.
He later struggled to find big acting roles, but won a new generation of fans in more recent times after joining the cast of Family Guy.
First appearing in season two in 2002, he voiced Quahog's eccentric Mayor Adam West, described by series creator Seth MacFarlane as an "alternate universe", satirised version of the actor.
MacFarlane paid tribute to the star on Twitter, saying he had "lost a friend" and described West as "irreplaceable".
West's family said in a statement: "Our dad always saw himself as The Bright Knight, and aspired to make a positive impact on his fans' lives. He was and always will be our hero."
The Batman TV series, with its onscreen fight-scene graphics of Wham! and Pow! became an unexpected hit. West and his co-star Burt Ward, who played Batman's sidekick Robin, won widespread acclaim for their kitsch portrayal of the Dynamic Duo.
Catwoman mourns death of Batman
Actor Julie Newmar, who played Catwoman in the series, paid tribute to West on Saturday, saying he was was "bright, witty and fun to work with".
"I will miss him in the physical world and savour him always in the world of imagination and creativity," she said.
In a 2010 interview with the website Slice of SciFi, West said the TV series had benefitted from very good writers.
"They saw the craziness, the comedy. You know, just as he's about to put her in (jail), Batman says to Catwoman, 'You give me curious stirrings in my utility belt.' That's funny stuff."
When the series ended, West struggled to break free from the character, but over a long career appeared in nearly 50 films including Drop Dead Gorgeous, An American Vampire Story and Nevada Smith.
Tributes to the actor poured in via social media following news of his death.
Actor Val Kilmer, who played Batman in a later movie, tweeted: "Ah dear Adam West. He was always so kind when we met. A real gent. Once when I was a kid we found ourselves in front the Batmobile. I got in."
The author Neil Gaiman tweeted: "Rest in Peace Adam West. We met once in 1987 and I was too embarrassed and too foolishly 'cool' to tell you what you meant to my childhood."
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who worked with West, described him was "a wonderful actor and so kind".
He tweeted: "I'm so lucky to have worked w/ him & tell him how much he meant to me & millions of fans."
Before embarking on an acting career, West was drafted into the US Army and was an announcer for the Armed Forces Network.
The US defence department tweeted a picture of West in his uniform with the message: "He was our hero long before the cape."
West was born in 1928 in Walla Walla, Washington state, and began his acting career in Hawaii in the 1950s.
He is survived by his wife, Marcelle, six children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. | Adam West, the US actor best known as the star of the 1960s hit TV series Batman, has died aged 88. | 40235142 |
The 43-year-old former Millers midfielder took over in November after Kenny Jackett's resignation.
They were relegated to League One with seven games of the season left after a home defeat by Fulham on Saturday.
"Paul knows the club inside out. He is a Miller, through and through," chairman Tony Stewart said.
"Paul has greatly impressed the board in a number of areas, in what has been a very difficult situation over the past few months.
"Whilst he has held the title of fitness coach, he has always been much more than that under a succession of managers who have all tapped into his knowledge, motivational skills and coaching ability."
Warne had two spells with the club a player, making a combined total of 263 league appearances, before joining the coaching staff under manager Steve Evans in 2012.
He is the club's fifth manager since Evans left in September 2014 following Neil Redfearn, Neil Warnock, Alan Stubbs and Jackett, who left after just five games.
Warne won three of his first eight league games in charge, but the Millers are now on a run of nine successive defeats after Tuesday's home loss to South Yorkshire rivals Sheffield Wednesday.
BBC Radio Sheffield sport editor Andy Giddings
Paul Warne has seemed to be the board's overwhelming choice for some time.
Warne has overseen the clubs relegation from the championship, but he shouldn't be fully judged until he's allowed to build his own team.
The direction of the season was set long before he succeeded Kenny Jackett. Recruitment, as ever, is key to success, and he'll be aided by the club's plans to improve the infrastructure.
Although no appointment is universally welcomed by supporters, Warne has retained the lion's share of support he's enjoyed as both a player and coach. | Relegated Championship side Rotherham United have appointed interim boss Paul Warne as their manager on a one-year rolling contract. | 39502885 |
But what it has left behind is a sense, as clear as the sky was now blue, that the capital's pollution is far more than just an environmental problem, it is becoming a political issue too.
Put frankly many people simply don't believe official air quality figures.
So northern China's recent awful air quality has left its local government authorities with some serious credibility problems.
Take a look at the photo above. I took it this afternoon from my window.
There, in all its glory, is Beijing's Central Business District, the way it can be appreciated on a clear day.
Now compare this shot, taken from the video I posted yesterday, of exactly the same view.
Yuk. The difference is shocking. You can see more on the video on my blog yesterday if you like.
So when Beijing's environmental bureau was insisting that the pollution was 'light' yesterday you can see why many ordinary Beijingers simply didn't believe it.
Here's a taste of the comments people have been posting on China's microblogs about the pollution. "Do they want to poison the country's people to death?" asked one.
Another called Steedeets wrote: "After 8pm, fog has locked up Beijing's east 5th ring rd. I can't see further than 1 metre! All visions are just scary! No picture can capture this reality, because all pictures will simply be white! There is strong smoke flavour in the air, can hardly breath! What kind of city is this? What kind of horror is this?"
Wang-Ganggang added: "The polluted air hurts the health of Beijing people, the statistics released by the Environment Protection Bureau... hurt the feelings of Beijing people."
And Spatzi said: "It's true that the more corrupt the place is the worse its environment."
The official pollution advice suggested the levels on Monday and Tuesday were acceptable. But the alternative readings posted on the internet by the US embassy, from its own monitoring equipment, indicated it was "very unhealthy" and vulnerable groups, including children and the elderly, should not exercise outside.
The US readings reflect stricter pollution standards called PM 2.5 measuring particles less than 2.5 microns wide.
These tiny particles connected with car emissions, power stations and factories can have serious health effects as they travel deep into your lungs.
Beijing's authorities take PM 2.5 readings but don't release them. They only release larger PM 10.0 measurements.
They say the US readings, taken at just one site in the city are unrepresentative. But with the haze so visible in the air the city authorities didn't sound credible.
Instead people in Beijing have been rushing out to buy masks and air purifiers for their homes. China's biggest online marketplace, Taobao.com, is reported to have sold 20,000 face masks in Beijing recently.
Under the clear blue sky today the Global Times, a government-controlled paper from the Communist Party's People's Daily group warned that "a heated debate on whether air pollution has gone 'out of control' is now running wild".
The paper pointed out that despite official insistence that the situation is not dire, "online opinion prefers to trust data released by the US Embassy in Beijing".
And its editorial cautioned that the debate "is a matter of government credibility. The government can easily lose this argument".
Many Chinese people are already sceptical about a lot of what they hear from the Communist Party and the bureaucrats who run China. From tainted baby milk to dangerous pesticides and additives in food there have been many recent health scares.
The safety of the food people eat and the air they breathe are everyday concerns for millions of people. So there is likely to be even deeper cynicism if the smog is thick and officials are insisting things are fine.
What is interesting is how this issue is a sign of the way China's political landscape is shifting. As people are getting richer, their lifestyles are improving, and their quality of life is increasingly important to them.
So as China's middle classes expand they are getting more assertive about the state of their environment, the quality of their healthcare and schools, and the transparency of their government.
In that - still limited - sense people are becoming more politically aware and active.
And a final observation is that the driving force beneath this is the internet and the access it is providing to information.
What is interesting in this instance is that it is the US Embassy providing that information.
Under President Barack Obama, the US has been looking for ways to use the internet to reach out directly to the hundreds of millions of Chinese people who use the internet, bypassing China's government.
A US embassy cable from 2009 released by Wikileaks said that China's foreign ministry had demanded the US stop publishing its embassy air-quality readings because they were "confusing" and "insulting" and could have "social consequences". The embassy refused. | Thankfully the foul smog that has hung over Beijing for several days has cleared. | 16068926 |
Kal Naismith initially gave the home side the lead as he netted his sixth League Two goal of the season, but they were pegged back by the Shrimps.
Pompey had the first chance of the game in the third minute when Carl Baker tried his luck from long range but goalkeeper Barry Roche matched it with an excellent save.
Morecambe were left waiting until midway through the first half for their first effort on goal but it was wasted by midfielder Aaron Wildig, who hit it straight at Portsmouth's David Forde.
Naismith put Pompey ahead in the 64th minute with a speculative effort from 25 yards after he was not closed down by the Shrimps' defence.
However, Molyneux then drew his side level in the 83rd minute after he was played in by Kevin Ellison before smashing the ball into the back of the net.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Portsmouth 1, Morecambe 1.
Second Half ends, Portsmouth 1, Morecambe 1.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Ryan Edwards.
Attempt blocked. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Gareth Evans (Portsmouth).
Paul Mullin (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Lee Molyneux.
Attempt missed. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Aaron McGowan.
Michael Rose (Morecambe) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses the top left corner from a direct free kick.
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Alex Whitmore (Morecambe).
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Aaron McGowan.
Corner, Portsmouth. Conceded by Lee Molyneux.
Goal! Portsmouth 1, Morecambe 1. Lee Molyneux (Morecambe) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kevin Ellison.
Substitution, Morecambe. Peter Murphy replaces Andrew Fleming.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Danny Rose replaces Amine Linganzi.
Attempt blocked. Gareth Evans (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Michael Rose (Morecambe).
Attempt missed. Michael Rose (Morecambe) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the right misses to the right from a direct free kick.
Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Foul by Gary Roberts (Portsmouth).
Michael Rose (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Christian Burgess (Portsmouth).
Kevin Ellison (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Substitution, Morecambe. Aaron McGowan replaces Liam Wakefield.
Attempt blocked. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Kal Naismith (Portsmouth).
Michael Rose (Morecambe) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Eoin Doyle (Portsmouth) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Alex Whitmore (Morecambe).
Attempt saved. Gary Roberts (Portsmouth) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Conor Chaplin (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Goal! Portsmouth 1, Morecambe 0. Kal Naismith (Portsmouth) left footed shot from outside the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Michael Doyle.
Substitution, Portsmouth. Kal Naismith replaces Kyle Bennett.
Attempt missed. Eoin Doyle (Portsmouth) header from the left side of the six yard box is close, but misses to the left. | Lee Molyneux's late equaliser halted Portsmouth's promotion charge as Morecambe came from behind to draw at Fratton Park. | 39035418 |
It will match the movement of boats with that of whales and dolphins sighted or heard by using underwater equipment in the same area.
HWDT said it would be the first time it had attempted such a project.
The work will be done during the charity's latest season of research trips using its yacht Silurian.
The research will be conducted over the summer out of Tobermory on Mull as well as Kyle of Lochalsh and Ullapool. | Mull-based conservation charity Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust (HWDT) is to monitor the potential effects of marine traffic on wildlife. | 36193067 |
Lynne Radke, 53, was reported missing after last seen being seen in John O'Groats on Monday morning.
Police Scotland said the body that has been found has still to be formally identified.
But the family of Ms Radke has been informed. | Police searching for an Australian tourist reported missing in Caithness say a body has been found at Duncansby Head. | 34298147 |
The 69-year-old was appointed as a football advisor by the Championship promotion hopefuls on Wednesday.
Redknapp, who has been out of football since leaving QPR in February 2015, will work with Rams head coach Darren Wassall until the end of the season.
"No chance. I will not be manager of Derby County this season," he said.
"Darren is here until the end of the season and hopefully many years to come. The chairman has said Darren is managing until the end of the season and that he's good enough. That's what he told me. He is the manager.
"If for any reason he doesn't stay until the end of the season and he goes I will not take over as manager - I will go as well.
"I'm here to help until the end of the season, that's it. If we go up who knows what could happen next season. The chairman may say he wants me to come back next year. But I'm only looking at these nine games, plus possibly the play-offs."
He also stressed he was there in an advisory capacity: "I'm not director of football. I won't be bringing any players in, I won't be making any signings," he said.
"I'll sit in the stand. I'm not going to run down to the dug-out or have a hotline to the touch line."
The emergency loan window for Football League clubs closes on 24 March and Redknapp is known as a shrewd dealer in the transfer market.
But he insisted he was merely at the club to offer Wassall a second opinion when he needs it.
The Rams are fifth in the Championship, seven points outside the automatic promotion places.
Redknapp, who has also agreed to manage Jordan for their next two World Cup qualifiers, is confident the club have the team in place to earn promotion to the Premier League this season.
"They've got an excellent group of players. It is a group that should be getting promoted," he told BBC Radio Derby.
"The chairman has invested big. Everything they have wanted they have been given and now it's time for them to give something back." | Former Tottenham and West Ham boss Harry Redknapp says he has no intention of becoming Derby County manager - this season at least. | 35834319 |
The 30-year-old produced a display of immense grit - landing telling blows in the ninth round - but his 26-year-old opponent's confident work throughout saw him gain a 114-114 117-111 116-112 decision.
Victory would have delivered Britain's first simultaneous twin world champions, with Jamie McDonnell already in possession of the WBA bantamweight belt.
But Vargas - unbeaten in 29 bouts - was rewarded for his control of the early exchanges and left the noisy Ice Arena in Hull with his first world title.
Vargas, with Iganacio Beristain - who has trained Oscar de la Hoya and Juan Manuel Marquez to world titles - in his corner, took the middle of the ring early and confidently landed three-shot combinations with McDonnell visibly cautious against a man with 22 previous knockouts.
In the build-up to the fight, McDonnell's promoter Eddie Hearn said he pushed for the bout to take place at the "down and dirty" Hull Ice Arena in the hope the "bear-pit" atmosphere could do "strange things" to the travelling fighter.
There were moments of home hope, as McDonnell landed a stinging right in the 10th but in just his third fight outside Mexico, Vargas even had the temerity to smile back at his man after taking some punishment late on.
The younger man's confidence to switch from making the fight to boxing on the back foot near the ropes perhaps showed he knew he had built a good early lead. McDonnell's head movement was energetic throughout, while his opponent was happy to remain static at times as he waited to pick his attacks.
Now 19 fights into his career, McDonnell can take great pride from the heart he showed and none of the 3,500 in the venue appeared to feel short-changed by his efforts.
In truth, he simply came up against a fighter who carried plenty of power in his 8st 10lb frame, and showed variation and a cool head to handle the occasion.
At the final bell, Vargas threw his hands into the air before slumping to the ropes and looking to the heavens. McDonnell in contrast seemed to know hopes of family history were over, for now.
Earlier in the night, London 2012 Olympic champion Luke Campbell maintained his momentum as he seeks a world title shot in 2017 - "the biggest year of my career", according to the Hull fighter.
The 29-year-old lightweight recorded his fourth straight win following a shock defeat in 2015 to Yvan Mendy, with a series of crushing left hands to Jairo Lopez.
The Mexican, down in the first, somehow made the second round but was flattened by a left uppercut. Campbell, who began training in Miami after the Mendy defeat, showed his typically energetic style and now has hopes of a shot at WBC champion Mikey Garcia.
Another Hull fighter, Tommy Coyle - beaten by Campbell in 2015 - kept his hopes of a return to world level alive with a third-round stoppage of Rakeem Noble.
Gavin McDonnell, talking to BBC Radio 5 live, said: "I will learn, I know where I went wrong, I am disappointed, but I will work so hard.
"I had him winning by a couple of rounds, probably three rounds in my opinion. Everyone is in with a puncher's chance - if I can improve my speed and power I will land and I can beat that kid.
"If we do have a rematch, I know how to beat him in the future."
In an interview with Sky Sports, he added: "I gave it everything and I hope everyone enjoyed it. I feel like I let everyone down.
"I just fell short at the end. I felt all right in there, I was a bit too eager and I couldn't get close enough. I will come again - I have only had 18 fights and I want to show I belong at this level.
"I have no doubt I will be a world champion."
Promoter Eddie Hearn told BBC Radio 5 live: "I think Gavin started too slowly and he was always chasing it. Vargas was very good - he had excellent feet and confidence.
"To put in a performance like that, Gavin should be very proud but ultimately he was not good enough. I think Rey Vargas will go on to do a lot in the sport.
"Gavin has improved so much but he was not letting his hands go and that was the frustrating thing. It was a little bit of inexperience. If he did what he did in the ninth from the fifth round onwards then he would've had a chance." | Gavin McDonnell's dream of joining twin brother Jamie as a world champion was shattered as classy Mexican Rey Vargas scored a points decision to land the vacant WBC super-bantamweight title. | 39093588 |
Noriega recently underwent an operation after suffering a haemorrhage following brain surgery.
Noriega had been a key US ally but was forcibly removed when American troops invaded in 1989 and was later jailed in the US on drugs and laundering charges.
He spent the rest of his life in custody, latterly in Panama for murder, corruption and embezzlement.
But the former leader was released into house arrest in January to prepare for an operation in early March to remove a brain tumour.
He underwent further surgery after cerebral bleeding but died late on Monday local time in Panama City's Santo Tomas hospital, Secretary of State for Communication Manuel Dominguez announced.
President Juan Carlos Varela tweeted: "The death of Manuel A Noriega closes a chapter in our history; his daughters and relatives deserve a funeral in peace."
Although he was never elected to office, Noriega became the de facto leader of Panama, serving a six-year tenure as military governor in the 1980s.
A strong supporter of the United States, he became a key ally in Washington's attempts to battle the influence of communism in central America.
But the US tired of his increasingly repressive role internally in Panama, and there were indications he was selling his services to other intelligence bodies, not to mention drug-trafficking organisations.
Noriega was indicted in a US federal court on drug-trafficking charges in 1988 and, after US observers declared he had stolen the 1989 election, President George HW Bush launched the "Operation Just Cause" invasion, sending in nearly 28,000 troops.
Noriega sought refuge in the Vatican's diplomatic mission in Panama City.
US troops flushed him out by playing deafening pop and heavy metal music non-stop outside.
By 3 January 1990, Noriega surrendered and was flown to the US to face drug-trafficking, money-laundering and racketeering charges, serving 17 years in jail there.
While in prison he was convicted in absentia in France of money-laundering and sentenced to seven years. After the US extradited him to France, a court there approved a request from Panama in December 2010 to send him back home, where he was convicted again.
In an interview on Panamanian TV two years ago, Noriega read out a statement of apology.
He said: "I apologise to anyone who feels offended, affected, harmed or humiliated by my actions or those of my superiors whilst carrying out orders, or those of my subordinates, during the time of my civilian and military government."
A US Senate sub-committee once described Washington's relationship with Noriega as one of the United States' most serious foreign policy failures. | General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the former military leader of Panama, has died aged 83, officials have announced. | 40090143 |
Hart and winger Raheem Sterling were taken off during Manchester City's 1-0 derby defeat by United on Sunday.
Heaton, 29, will join the squad for the friendlies against Germany in Berlin on Saturday and the Dutch at Wembley on 29 March.
England boss Roy Hodgson will not be adding to his outfield players.
"Tom has been with us on several occasions and I am welcoming him back into the fold," said Hodgson.
"Obviously it's very disappointing for Joe and Raheem to suffer injuries which will rule them out of our games against Germany and Holland.
"They are important players in our squad and I wish them a speedy recovery."
The Burnley captain joins fellow goalkeepers Jack Butland and Fraser Forster in the squad at St George's Park, with England due to travel to Berlin on Friday.
Goalkeepers: Jack Butland (Stoke City), Fraser Forster (Southampton), Tom Heaton (Burnley).
Defenders: Ryan Bertrand (Southampton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Danny Rose (Tottenham Hotspur), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Everton), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).
Midfielders: Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur), Ross Barkley (Everton), Eric Dier (Tottenham Hotspur), Danny Drinkwater (Leicester City), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Liverpool), James Milner (Liverpool).
Forwards: Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Danny Welbeck (Arsenal). | Uncapped Burnley goalkeeper Tom Heaton has been called up to replace injured Joe Hart in the England squad for games against Germany and the Netherlands. | 35863962 |
The victim was struck on the head with a blunt instrument before being robbed of money and other personal items.
The attack took place in an open field area in Bourtreehill, Irvine, at about 20:00 on Friday.
The injured man was taken to Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock where he was treated for a head injury before being released.
The three suspects are described as being around 30 years old and were wearing grey-coloured clothing.
Det Sgt John Deans, of Saltcoats CID, said: "This was a very cowardly attack on a frail, defenceless man who suffers from various health problems and I appeal to members of the public who have any information that could assist our inquiries to contact police immediately.
"There were many youths in the area at the time this incident took place and we believe that they may have seen the three suspects hanging around. If so, please get in touch with police before they cause misery and harm to someone else." | A man was knocked unconscious in an attack by three muggers in North Ayrshire. | 39991378 |
The five-year-old from Blackhall, County Durham, is fighting neuroblastoma and was carried onto the pitch by his hero Jermain Defoe.
A banner organised by Newcastle fans in solidarity against cancer was flown over the stadium but split opinion.
Chants of "there's only one Bradley Lowery" echoed around the stadium.
Proceeds from the match day programme, which has Bradley on its cover, will be donated to a fund in aid of his family.
Rapturous applause welcomed the Sunderland fan who wore a shirt that read "Thank you SAFC and fans".
In the away end, Swansea fans donated money with the Welsh club adding that £1 would also be donated to the fund for every food voucher its fans redeem.
In April, it was confirmed the latest and final round of Bradley's treatment had failed and the family vowed to continue "creating memories".
His mother, Gemma Lowery, said on Facebook on Thursday that the "disease is progressing".
A banner, flown over the Stadium of Light during the first half of the game, which said "United by Cancer - Divided by Leagues" was an attempt at solidarity from local rival football fans from Newcastle.
However, TV presenter and Newcastle United fan Lynsey Hipgrave wrote on Twitter that the banner was "totally distasteful and embarrassing".
But, Mrs Lowery responded to the plans on Facebook and said the banner was "very thoughtful that people to wanted to raise awareness".
Sunderland were relegated in April following 10 years in the top-flight, after they lost 1-0 to Bournemouth.
Local rivals Newcastle United won the Championship on Sunday and have been promoted to the Premier League. | Terminally-ill Bradley Lowery has led his beloved Sunderland team out as a mascot for the Black Cats' final home game in the Premier League. | 39907188 |
His people confirmed to Newsbeat he was treated for Basal Cell Carcinoma after the Wolverine actor was recently pictured with another bandage on his nose.
But his representatives say he's "all good" after the procedure.
BCC is a slow-growing skin cancer and is linked to sun exposure. It accounts for about 75% of skin cancers but rarely kills.
Last night, the 46-year-old tweeted "Sunscreen" with a picture reference to Baz Luhrmann's 1998 song Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen.
Jackman first revealed he was diagnosed with BCC in November, when he posted a picture of himself online after a similar procedure.
At the time, he said his prognosis was good and pleaded with fans to stay protected from the sun.
He then had more cancerous cells removed in May.
He's recently said he believes he'll have many many more scares but claims it's the most "minor" of all the skin cancers.
His wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, first persuaded him to get the mark on his nose checked by a doctor.
Surgery is the main treatment for BCC. If left untreated, it doesn't usually spread to other parts of the body, but it can damage or disfigure surrounding tissue.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Hugh Jackman has had treatment for skin cancer for a third time. | 29798140 |
He is one of nine athletes, including six medallists, disqualified by the International Olympic Committee after samples from the 2008 Games were retested.
The 33-year-old has lost the silver he won in the men's freestyle wresting.
Four years ago he was disqualified from London 2012 after winning bronze.
The IOC has been retesting more than 1,200 samples from Beijing and London.
The nine athletes disqualified on Wednesday are: | Uzbekistan wrestler Soslan Tigiev has been stripped of an Olympic medal for the second time, for failing a drugs test at the Beijing Games. | 37782154 |
Clare Cahill, 42, of Coytrahen, Bridgend, and Jade Pugh, 30, of North Cornelly, denied charges relating to alleged falsification of patient notes.
Both worked at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital.
At Cardiff Crown Court on Wednesday, not guilty verdicts were given on 10 counts after a computer log of patient records was deemed unreliable.
Both women worked on the stroke ward and denied failing to carry out routine blood glucose checks on patients and fabricating their medical records.
On the day jurors were set to hear the case open, the prosecution offered no evidence and the judge ordered them to give the verdicts.
Ms Cahill was cleared of six counts of causing wilful neglect between April and December 2012 and Ms Pugh was found not guilty of four counts of the same charge between June and October 2012.
Judge Tom Crowther criticised the hospital's failure to have a dependable computer system in place.
He added: "Enormous expense has been incurred with trial preparation - hundreds of hours of time has been spent by experts... which has had a knock on effect of other cases waiting to be tried.
"It matters because two women have been facing a trial which should have been ready earlier. It matters because the families of the patients involved will have had their upset prolonged."
Three other nurses, who worked on the same hospital ward, have entered guilty pleas to similar charges.
After the case, a spokeswoman for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg health board said: "Our thoughts are with the families of patients involved in these cases, as this must be a difficult time for them."
She said when issues surrounding blood glucometry tests arose, the health board informed and cooperated with police.
"We have not been able to complete our internal disciplinary proceedings until the criminal proceedings concluded. We are now in a position to move urgently with this," she added.
"We remain determined to do more, to continually improve, and continue to have a commitment to dealing with issues as they arise in an open and transparent way.
"The blood glucometry test and recording system we use is designed to facilitate good patient care. It is widely used by many other hospitals and internationally recognised. It is continually being improved and updated.
"We are not in a position to comment on how information generated for clinical purposes has been used to support a criminal prosecution, as this is not our area of expertise." | The case against two hospital nurses accused of wilfully neglecting vulnerable patients has collapsed. | 34527845 |
The government has repeatedly raised the personal allowance - the amount people can earn before paying income tax - since the 2010 election.
The threshold is due to reach £10,000 in 2014/15 but Mr Clegg wants to make it £10,500 from 2015 - a move that would cost the Treasury £1bn.
Conservatives said they would consider it but any changes must be "paid for".
Deputy prime minister and Lib Dem leader Mr Clegg said raising the personal allowance to £10,000 - a tax cut "worth £700 to millions of people" - was a "huge step" which he had been campaigning on for years.
And he said he wanted to raise the threshold by another £500 as a "workers' bonus".
The cut would be worth £100 a year to 24 million ordinary rate taxpayers, while taking around half a million people out of income tax altogether.
Mr Clegg said his preferred method of paying for the tax cut would be to raise taxes on the "super wealthy" through a "mansion tax" but he said the Conservatives would not agree to this.
He told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme "we will find other ways" to fund the policy.
"It's not agreed yet. It's something I would like to see us deliver as a coalition government in the next budget," he added.
The basic rate of income tax is 20% so an extra £500 on the personal allowance would cut tax by £100 for anyone earning £10,500 or more, though people earning over £100,000 get reduced personal allowance or none at all.
Mr Clegg said the Liberal Democrats' "long-term ambition" was to "make sure no one pays any income tax on the equivalent of the minimum wage, which is around £12,500".
The personal allowance for under 65s was £6,475 when the coalition came to power and it has risen in each of the last three tax years to its current level of £9,440.
The government has already agreed to raise it to £10,000 from April, and Mr Clegg's latest proposal would take effect in April 2015 - just before the next general election.
Some Lib Dems are angry at what they say are "blatant" attempts by the Tories to claim credit for raising the personal allowance - an idea they say was rejected by David Cameron before the 2010 election.
For Labour, shadow treasury chief secretary Chris Leslie said the coalition's changes had left working families worse off overall and called for Mr Clegg to explain how he would pay for the proposal.
"Working people facing a cost-of-living crisis need help right now, but Nick Clegg's government has instead prioritised a huge tax cut for those earning over £150,000," he said.
"When it comes to people on middle and low incomes, the government is giving with one hand but taking away much more with the other."
While the basic personal allowance rate has been rising under the coalition government, the level at which "higher rate" 40% tax is payable has been reduced in steps from £37,400 when the coalition came to power to £32,011 now (payable on income above the personal allowance).
The "additional rate" - 50% of earnings over £150,000 - introduced by Labour just before the 2010 election was reduced to 45% by the current government in April this year.
People aged 65 and over get a higher personal allowance. The current personal allowance is £10,500 for 65 to 74-year-olds and £10,660 for people aged 75 and over. From April 2013 the allowance for over-65s was frozen while that for under-65s went up. Those who turn 65 after 5 April 2013 do not get an extra allowance at all.
Income tax rates are the same across the UK, though the Scottish Parliament is expected to set rates there from 2016 under powers given by the 2012 Scotland Act. | Nick Clegg says he is pushing his Tory coalition partners to agree to cut income tax bills by another £100. | 24976305 |
Mark Woods encouraged people on social media under #walkwithwalnut to share the last outing on a beach in Cornwall.
Walnut the whippet, who was 18-years-old, has now been put down because of his ill health.
Mr Woods said the reaction from people around the world who had heard about Walnut on social media had been "incredible".
Writing on Facebook, Mr Woods confirmed Walnut had died.
He said: "Walnut passed away this morning at 11.56am. The family and our three whippets, Monty, Nelson and Charlie were also in the room.
"He went very quickly and in my arms. I am writing this post because I owe it to everyone who has supported myself, my family and most importantly Walnut.
"Thank you to the hundreds of people that attended the walk this morning and to all those that had their own walks with their beloved pets at 9.30am all around the world.
"I also want to thank the wonderful people of Newquay for their support which I will never forget as long as I live. God bless you all."
Mr Woods said the pair been through an "awful lot together", including two marriages, three engagements and a move from London to Cornwall.
He said Porth Beach, which is closed to dogs during the summer months, was Walnut's favourite beach.
A Kennel Club spokesman said whippets tended to live until they were thirteen to fourteen years old, so Walnut's age was "impressive" and "certainly unusual for the breed".
"The walk for Walnut is a lovely idea and will no doubt give him the send-off he deserves." | Hundreds of people joined a dog owner when he took his beloved but poorly whippet Walnut on a final walk. | 37955748 |
David Ord has been appointed Knight Bachelor for political service and service to the community.
Mary Prior MBE, the Lord-Lieutenant of the County and City of Bristol, is appointed to Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
And Prof Steve West, who is vice chancellor of the University of the West of England, has been appointed CBE for his services to higher education.
Prof West said he was most proud of how the university connected with businesses and the way it supports young people to realise their dreams.
"Connecting with schools and really making a difference to those who don't think they can go to uni," he added.
Also honoured from Bristol: | The boss of the Bristol Port Company is among those receiving New Year Honours. | 38459716 |
Media playback is not supported on this device | Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale confident Wales know England weakness ahead of Thursday's Euro 2016 Pool B fixture. | 36532901 |
The conflict, which ended in 1996, pitted leftist, mostly Mayan insurgents against the state, which - backed by the US - waged a vicious campaign to eliminate the guerrillas.
More than 200,000 people - most of them civilians - were killed or disappeared.
Despite an official finding that most atrocities were committed by the security forces, moves to bring those responsible to account have been slow.
Guatemala is a country of striking features and a strong indigenous culture. Mountainous, heavily forested and dotted with Mayan ruins, lakes, volcanoes, orchids and exotic birds, Guatemala is one of the most beautiful countries in Central America.
The indigenous Maya make up about half of the population but human rights campaigners say they face extreme inequality and exclusion.
The country is a major corridor for smuggling drugs.
Population 15 million
Major languages Spanish, more than 20 indigenous languages
Major religions Christianity, indigenous Mayan beliefs
Life expectancy 68 years (men), 75 years (women)
Currency quetzal
President: Jimmy Morales
Jimmy Morales, a political newcomer, was elected president of Guatemala with 72% of the vote in run-off polls held in October 2015.
A former TV comedian with no experience in government, Mr Morales defeated the former first lady, Sandra Torres, who is seen by many as part of the country's unpopular political elite.
The election took place a month after the resignation and arrest of President Otto Perez Molina, who was accused of leading a corrupt network of politicians and customs officials.
Harassment of journalists increased in a climate of almost total impunity, fuelling self-censorship, Reporters Without Borders said in 2014.
"The increase in lawsuits against journalists and news media, in some cases by the most senior government officials, is also very worrying. The concentration of media ownership in very few hands continues to have a negative impact on pluralism," said the advocacy for media freedom said.
Some key dates in Guatemala's history:
1821 - Guatemala, under Spanish rule since 1524, becomes independent.
1839-1944 - The country sees a series of dictatorships with brief interludes of constitutional legitimacy.
1944 - Start of 10 years of democracy. President Juan Jose Arevalo undertakes major social reforms and Colonel Jacobo Arbenz, who succeeds him, launches land reform and nationalizes the property of US companies.
1954 - Coup brings Col Carlos Castillo Armas to power, with the backing of the CIA. His regime is marked by repression and the emergence of the first death squads.
1960-1996 - Civil war begins after a far-left guerrilla movement, inspired by the Cuban revolution, emerges and is promptly followed by a far-right counter-guerrilla movement.
1963 - Elected president Gen Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes is overthrown. A series of coups follows, with regimes dominated by the armed forces and marked by atrocities by the far right.
From 1979 the country will witness assassinations, massacres and disappearances throughout its territory.
1982 - Gen Efrain Rios Montt takes power after a coup, installs military tribunals and launches "scorched earth" counter-insurgency campaign to wipe out guerrilla support in heavily-Indian provinces. An estimated 626 Indian villages are annihilated under the "scorched earth" offensive.
1986 - Return of civilian rule.
1996 - Government and guerrillas sign a peace accord focused mainly on the recognition as full citizens of indigenous Guatemalans and the bolstering of civilian power to the detriment of the army.
1999 - A truth commission blames military for 93% of all massacres, tortures, disappearances and assassinations during the war which left 200,000 dead and disappeared. | Guatemala is still trying to come to terms with a 36-year-long civil war. | 19635877 |
Mr Ban was due to visit an industrial complex in the Kaesong economic zone run jointly by the North and South.
Speaking at a forum in Seoul, he said the move was "deeply regrettable" and that no explanation was given.
He would have been the first UN chief to visit North Korea in more than 20 years. Mr Ban said he wanted to promote reconciliation.
When he first announced the meeting on Tuesday, he said he would "urge North Korea to co-operate with the international community for the Korean Peninsula and for peace and stability", reported Yonhap.
Mr Ban, who was previously South Korea's foreign minister, was due to meet South Korean business leaders and North Korean workers on his trip to Kaesong.
The two countries remain technically at war as the 1950s Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty. | North Korea has abruptly cancelled UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's visit one day before he was due to arrive. | 32806995 |
The areas have been identified as having "high wildness" and include islands, mountain ranges, moorlands and blanket bogs, said the agency.
Among the 42 sites are parts of Jura and also Hoy in Orkney, Breadalbane-Schiehallion in Perth and Kinross, Lochnagar and Skye's Cuillin Hills.
Public comments have been sought on draft guidance on protecting the areas.
Other sites include Talla-Hart Fells north of Moffat, Causeymire-Knockfin Fells in Caithness and Ronas Hill and North Roe in Shetland.
SNH said descriptions were based on extensive field study work and illustrated with photographs and maps.
Peter Hutchinson, SNH's planning and renewables manager, said: "Our Wild Land Areas have a distinct and special character.
"They are part of Scotland's identity and bring broad and significant benefits. For example, they attract many thousands of visitors each year and provide important havens for Scotland's wildlife."
The public consultation on the draft guidance, which is designed to protect the areas from new developments, runs until 7 April.
Landscape conservation charity, the John Muir Trust, has welcomed the publication of the descriptions and draft guidance.
Stuart Brooks, the trust's chief executive, said: "We would applaud the work that SNH has carried out to create vivid and detailed descriptions of each individual wild land area, which examine landscape, ecology, geology, archaeology and current human activity.
"They will help bring to life Scotland's most beautiful, wild and remote places - turning lines on maps into real places." | Descriptions of 42 Wild Land Areas of Scotland have been published by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). | 38756392 |
29 January 2016 Last updated at 20:45 GMT
Bumper the Bunny was in his enclosure when it was blown onto the roof of a care home during Thursday night's storm.
Julian Fowler reports. | There was a hare raising adventure for a pet rabbit in Omagh, County Tyrone, after Storm Gertrude. | 35446434 |
Officers were acting in cooperation with the Romanian police and Europol. The raids took place on Friday.
One man has been arrested in connection with brothel keeping and serious and organised crime. He is expected to appear at Glasgow Sheriff Court on Monday.
Another man is the subject of a report to the procurator fiscal.
A police spokesman said: "As part of an ongoing investigation into Human Trafficking and Serious and Organised Crime, Police Scotland, supported by a number of partner organisations, as well as Romanian police and Europol, visited four properties in the Glasgow area on Friday 8 April 2016.
"A 29 year old male has been arrested and detained in custody in connection with Brothel Keeping and Serious and Organised Crime.
"A 35 year old male will be the subject of a report to the Procurator Fiscal." | Police in the Glasgow area have raided four properties as part of an investigation into human trafficking. | 36005295 |
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