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Provide a concise overview of the following information. | Timothy Down said he was so worried about noises coming from Natasha Bradbury's Haverfordwest flat that he hung his mobile phone out of the window.
But he told Swansea Crown Court he was advised not to get involved.
Miss Bradbury's ex-boyfriend Luke Jones, 33, denies her murder.
The 27-year-old died from blunt force injuries on 22 February, which Mr Jones said she caused to herself by falling down.
Mr Down, who lived in flat D, said he was woken by the sound of "serious, heavy banging" coming from flat A.
Paul Lewis, prosecuting, asked Mr Down why he did not call the police and he said he rang his father who advised him not to get involved.
The jury heard that on the night she died, Miss Bradbury had been exchanging texts with a man she had met at a friend's house, but the messages stopped suddenly at 22.10 BST.
The prosecution claim Mr Jones killed Miss Bradbury a short while later, because at 02:48 BST he called for an ambulance and told the operator she was already "freezing cold" and that "her lips are blue".
After his arrest Mr Jones, from Milford Haven, gave prepared statements to the police. They said Miss Bradbury had caused the injuries to herself by falling down.
The case continues. | A neighbour tried to record the sounds of a woman being beaten to death in Pembrokeshire, a jury heard. |
Summarize the information given below. | The club have yet to learn of the extent of the injury, but Martin is due to see a specialist for assessment.
The 30-year-old, who has made 38 league appearances for the Dons this season, is set to be replaced by reserve goalkeeper Cody Cropper.
Meanwhile, Karl Robinson says his relegation-threatened team are putting maximum effort into every match.
The Dons are 22nd in the Championship - the final relegation spot - one place below Fulham, who they host on Saturday.
"If people think we can raise our game for Fulham, then we've let people down," 35-year-old Robinson told BBC Three Counties Radio.
"When you put as much detail in as my players do it's physically impossible we could put any more into the games."
Robinson's side have scored the fewest goals in the Championship with 32 in 38 games and only won once in their last seven matches.
"I don't want the season to be over if I'm honest," added Robinson. "I'm really excited and enjoying it, but we're going to have to find something special on Saturday.
"I don't ever put less than 100% into any game. It is what drives me to anxiety and stress. I can't put 101% effort into football."
And, although the Dons face a Fulham side winless in their last six league games, Robinson refused to underestimate the scale of the challenge ahead.
"Their two strikers are probably double my whole squad financially," he added. "When you see the players they could choose on Saturday, it's frightening.
"It shouldn't really be a contest - we'll make it one though." | Milton Keynes Dons goalkeeper David Martin has fractured his hand in a training ground incident. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | It said average electricity prices would rise by 14.9% from 28 April for 2.8 million customers. However, it will keep its gas prices unchanged.
As a result, SSE said a typical dual fuel customer would see their annual bill rise by 6.9%, or £73.
It blamed the increase on government policies that mean customers subsidise energy from renewable sources and the cost of smart meter installation.
Other government-imposed costs include subsidising the feed-in tariff scheme for home owners that install solar panels on their roofs.
SSE said the electricity price rise was its first for three and half years.
Four of the other big six suppliers have already announced price rises this year, while British Gas has held prices until August.
Will Morris, SSE's managing director for retail, said he "deeply regretted" having to put prices up.
"This is the first increase since 2013 ... we have seen significant increases in electricity costs, which are outside our control," he said. "Without an increase we would have been supplying electricity to domestic customers at a loss."
SSE said that 85% of its customers were on its standard variable tariffs, so they will be affected by April's price rise.
Last December, industry regulator Ofgem published figures showing how much money customers could save by moving from a standard variable tariff to their supplier's cheapest fixed tariff. For SSE customers that was £98 a year.
Earlier this month the FTSE 100-listed company had to apologise to a number of customers whose smart meters had been reporting astonishingly high rogue readings for their electricity use.
There are around 20 million customers on standard tariffs - mostly with one of the big suppliers.
With SSE's price rise, those customers now know how their bills will be hit in the months ahead.
Most will see price rises - that is a political headache for a government worried about families that are just about managing.
There has been speculation that ministers could intervene in the energy market, perhaps by extending the price cap coming in for pre-payment meter customers.
Citizens Advice want households that receive the government's Warm Home Discount scheme to be protected from price rises too.
Whether intervention is on the table should become clearer later this year when the government publishes its official response to the energy market investigation being undertaken by the Competition and Markets Authority.
The 20-year-old started his career with Gillingham before spending last season with the Addicks.
Staunton, who never featured for the relegated Championship side, is Dagenham's 10th summer signing.
Daggers boss John Still told the club website: "At 20-years-old we're looking forward to working with him to achieve that potential."
Meanwhile, 23-year-old midfielder Frankie Raymond has signed a new one-year deal with the east London club. | SSE has become the latest "big six" energy supplier to raise its prices.
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National League side Dagenham & Redbridge have signed Charlton defender Josh Staunton on a one-year deal. |
Please summarize the given passage. | Gales gusted up to 100mph and heavy snowfalls affected higher routes. Many buildings were damaged.
There was disruption to air, rail, ferry and bus routes.
Wednesday is forecast to be a calmer day but the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued 11 flood alerts, most of them for Tayside.
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Late on Tuesday evening, the power companies said about 40,000 customers were still without electricity.
There have been blizzards on the A9 at Aviemore and many roads were affected by fallen trees. Commuters across Scotland have been urged to travel with caution.
Network Rail Scotland said chainsaw gangs were out on the network clearing multiple tree falls and that some debris was so large cranes were being brought in.
A total of 856 fallen trees have been removed from the rail network in Scotland.
Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 488 incidents between 00:00 and 13:00 on Tuesday, with officers mostly having to deal with structural damage from fallen trees and collapsed buildings.
The fire and rescue service warned conditions were still "dangerous" and, with heavy rain forecast, warned the public of water getting into damaged buildings.
Fifteen people were rescued from a boat which was blown away as it was being repaired in a shipyard.
Clyde Coastguard said the fishing vessel was at Ferguson's yard in Port Glasgow when it broke loose and drifted away with the crewmen and workers onboard at about 10:00.
A coastguard spokesman said it was later anchored securely and no one was injured.
The crew of Helensburgh lifeboat rescued five people who had been on board yachts at Rhu marina.
As weather conditions were beyond the operational limits of the RNLI boat, the crew had to reach the yachts by crawling along walkways at the marina. Winds at the marina at the time of the rescue were force 11, violent storm.
Five people were injured when mobile homes were upturned by the wind at Stratheck holiday park near Inverchapel, between Loch Eck and the Holy Loch.
Three remain in hospital in Paisley. One of them, a 35-year-old woman, has been reported to be in a serious but stable condition.
The Aston Hotel in Dumfries suffered major structural damage after the storm ripped off part of its roof.
Wednesday is forecast to be another wet day with some persistent heavy rain, especially in the west, which could lead to some flooding. | Severe storm-force winds and heavy snowfalls have hit Scotland, disrupting travel, damaging buildings and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | Chief executive Carlos Ghosn met prime minister Theresa May earlier amid fears over the future of its production plant in Sunderland.
He has hinted investment at Sunderland could cease unless compensation is paid for any adverse impact after Brexit.
The Sunderland plant, which opened in 1986, employs almost 7,000 people.
Mr Ghosn arrived at Downing Street in a black Qashqai, a model made in Sunderland.
After the meeting, which lasted about an hour, Mr Ghosn said: "We want to ensure that this high-performing, high-employment factory remains competitive globally and continues to deliver for our business and for Britain.
"Following our productive meeting, I am confident the government will continue to ensure the UK remains a competitive place to do business. I look forward to continued positive collaboration between Nissan and the UK Government."
Mrs May added: "This government is committed to creating and supporting the right conditions for the automotive industry to go from strength to strength in the UK, now and into the future."
The Sunderland factory, opened by then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, produces about 500,000 Juke, Qashqai and Leaf vehicles a year - a third of the UK's total car manufacturing.
Speaking at the Paris Motor Show in August, Mr Ghosn said that "important investment decisions will not be made in the dark".
He said: "If I need to make an investment in the next few months and I can't wait until the end of Brexit, then I have to make a deal with the UK Government.
"You can have commitments of compensation in case you have something negative. If there are tax barriers being established on cars, you have to have a commitment for car-makers who export to Europe that there is some kind of compensation."
Earlier, Nissan said Friday's meeting sought to provide "an aligned way forward" for the company and the UK Government.
Nissan, which is due to decide early next year on where to build its next Qashqai sport utility vehicle, is part-owned by French manufacturer Renault, raising concerns that production could be moved to France to avoid any tariffs which could be introduced on exports to the EU if the UK leaves the single market in a so-called "hard Brexit".
In the 23 June referendum, the people of Sunderland voted to leave the European Union, with 61% backing the Leave campaign. Across the whole of the UK, 52% voted to leave the EU.
The scheme includes a bus station, 1,000-space multi-storey car park and footbridge.
It also now includes plans to build a temporary bus station while the new one is constructed.
The council says the plans, going before the planning committee in May, will "revitalise the city centre".
The project has received £11m of funding from the Department for Transport and £2m of Greater Lincolnshire Local Economic Partnership funding. The council has said it will borrow the additional £16m needed.
Irna quoted Tehran prosecutor general Abbas Jafari-Dowlatabadi as saying the suspect had "been active in the economic field, related to Iran".
He did not name the individual.
However, the UK Foreign Office said it was seeking information following the "reported detention of a dual Iranian-British national in Iran".
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have detained at least six other dual nationals since last year and accused them of security-related offences.
They include the British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested at Tehran's airport in April as she tried to return to the UK after a holiday with her two-year-old daughter, Gabriella.
Her husband Richard Ratcliffe told the BBC on Monday that the allegation that she was involved in trying to overthrow the regime in Iran was "absurd".
Mr Jafari-Dowlatabadi announced last month that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe faced trial by a Revolutionary Court - a closed-door tribunal which handles security-related cases - along with US-Iranian businessman Siamak Namazi, Canadian-Iranian academic Homa Hoodfar and Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese permanent resident of the US.
Iran does not recognise dual nationality, which prevents relevant foreign diplomats gaining access to citizens being detained. | The boss of Japanese car giant Nissan says he is "confident" the government will keep the UK a competitive place to do business after it leaves the EU.
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Work on a £30m transport hub in Lincoln is expected to begin in August after councillors approved a revised planning application.
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An Iranian-British national has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the British intelligence services, Iran's state news agency reports. |
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A 14-man squad leaves on Saturday for a four-day clinic with new coach Trevor Bayliss before the Ashes on 8 July.
"We don't need to constantly train, we don't lose it in two or three days of not picking up a bat," said Cook.
"We're in a unique situation, that 11 days before an Ashes series none of us had met the new coach before, so going away seemed to be the best option."
The skipper, who has won three and lost two of his Ashes campaigns, claims winning this summer's five-match series would be the greatest achievement of his career.
Cook, 30, has won 114 caps and eclipsed Graham Gooch's record as England's leading Test run-scorer last month.
Australia begin their defence of the Ashes in Cardiff next month, having won back the urn in emphatic fashion with a 5-0 win last year.
"From where we've been if we did win the Ashes that would be remarkable, something I'd be very proud of. It would be my best achievement," Cook said.
Cook highlighted the first Test against New Zealand at Lord's last month as a key moment for his side's season. England won the match by 124 runs having recovered from 30-4 on the opening morning, with Joe Root and Ben Stokes putting on 161 in 32 overs.
"To me the summer started with that partnership," said Cook.
"The way they played was very un-English - a counter-attack scoring at six runs an over rather than trying to scrape through - and from that moment on there was a sea change in everyone's mentality."
Under captain Eoin Morgan and temporary coach Paul Farbrace, England won an entertaining one-day series against New Zealand 3-2 and also captured the one-off Twenty20 international against the Kiwis.
"English cricket feels good at the moment," Cook added. "Being away from the international game for a couple of weeks while the one-dayers have been on, the way Eoin and Paul have led that team, the cricket they have played has been fantastic to watch.
"I couldn't have been more proud. Five or six of those guys who were heavily involved in that team are going to be heavily involved in the Ashes and absolutely we can use some of that."
Morgan made 322 runs at an average of 64 in the one-day series and Cook said the left-hander could in contention for a Test return, having played the last of his 16 matches in February 2012.
"He is a world-class player and it has turned round beautifully for him in the past couple of months. You have to earn the right for selection but he is always slightly ahead of a few people because we know he can handle the big stage."
England bowler Stuart Broad says it will not be a major issue for the first Australian coach of the England team to be facing the country of his birth.
"It's an interesting dynamic but it's great for us as players - we can pick his brains of how Australia like to play, what their potential weaknesses can be," said Broad.
"He's going to be wearing three lions on his chest and he'll be desperate for England to make a stamp on that series." | England captain Alastair Cook has said there is no batting practice planned for the team bonding trip to Spain. |
What is the summary of the following document? | The 66-year-old man and his dog died in the accident, west of Penicuik on the A702 near the Flotterstone Inn, at about 18:00 on Tuesday.
The man was hit on the northbound carriageway by a red-coloured Mercedes Sprinter van.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. The roadway was closed for five hours for investigations to be carried out.
Police have appealed for anyone who was travelling in the area around the time of the incident to get in touch.
Sgt Andrew Gibb, of Police Scotland, said: "Our inquiries into the full circumstances of this incident are ongoing and I am keen to hear from anyone who witnessed this incident." | A man and his dog have been hit and killed by a van while walking across a road in Midlothian. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | Winger Louis Longridge should be back from a thigh knock which kept him out of last week's Scottish Premiership defeat by fellow strugglers Inverness.
Well boss Stephen Robinson hopes Steven Hammell will be fit to play.
The left-back had to limp off last week against Ross County after suffering a burst blood vein in his leg but returned to light training on Thursday.
Young goalkeeper Russell Griffiths is set to continue in goal after Craig Samson was dropped for the Staggies defeat, while Stephen Pearson (groin) is also likely to miss out again, as will Jacob Blyth (ankle), Ross MacLean (shoulder), Stephen McManus, Richard Tait (both groin) and Jack McMillan (wrist).
The Lanarkshire rivals are locked on 32 points apiece, with Motherwell's poorer goal difference consigning them to the relegation play-off spot as things stand.
Both sides have suffered damaging defeats to bottom six counterparts in their past two matches - Well lost to Dundee, then Ross County, while Hamilton were Kilmarnock, then Inverness.
Motherwell striker Louis Moult: "We need to win the game - simple as. Every game now is massive and it has been all season.
"If we can keep a clean sheet, we're fairly confident we're going to score in the game. If we can try and be solid at the back, and then get a few goals, I think that's where we're strong.
"People have been saying we're too good to go down all season - it's all well and good having a good squad but you need to perform on a Saturday, and that's what we haven't been doing. I believe we can do it, everyone at the club believes we can do it, it's just up to us now.
"The boys are really, really eager to get out there and put things right."
Hamilton Academical midfielder Danny Redmond: "It is going to be massive. It is one of the biggest derbies I have played in up here.
"We know it is still in our hands, we have got three massive games and obviously we need to pick up as many points as we can. But they are going to be very tough as they are all fighting for points as well.
"As a footballer you want to stay at the highest level you can, so obviously staying in the Premiership will mean a whole lot to us, individually and as a club.
"We talk about it most days and we are good enough and we are capable of staying up.
"There is a group of experienced players in our dressing room, we know what it means and none of us want to be in that position to be relegated." | Hamilton manager Martin Canning has a healthy squad available for Saturday's relegation battle with Motherwell. |
Write a summary for this information. | Porter made the most of substitute Zoumana Bakayogo's driven cross to poke home in the 75th minute and break the resistance of Bees keeper Jamie Stephens.
In the first half, Stephens was brought into action when he palmed away Porter's header and he also did well to keep out George Cooper's curling effort and Brad Walker's fierce drive from range.
Both sides deployed three at the back and cancelled each other out for long spells, but the match livened up after the break when David Tutonda forced a save from Alex goalkeeper Ben Garratt while Mauro Vilhete's free kick hit a post.
Chris Dagnall was denied on two occasions by Stephens as Crewe looked to extend their lead but the Barnet keeper was finally beaten from close range by Porter, who netted his fourth goal in four games for the hosts.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Crewe Alexandra 1, Barnet 0.
Second Half ends, Crewe Alexandra 1, Barnet 0.
Foul by George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra).
David Tutonda (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
George Cooper (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Harry Taylor (Barnet).
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Jack Taylor.
Tommy Lowery (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Simeon Akinola (Barnet).
David Tutonda (Barnet) is shown the yellow card.
David Tutonda (Barnet) has gone down, but that's a dive.
Delay in match Ricardo Santos (Barnet) because of an injury.
Foul by Tommy Lowery (Crewe Alexandra).
Simeon Akinola (Barnet) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Hand ball by Chris Porter (Crewe Alexandra).
Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Mauro Vilhete (Barnet).
Substitution, Barnet. Simeon Akinola replaces Shaquile Coulthirst.
Harry Taylor (Barnet) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Ryan Wintle (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Harry Taylor (Barnet).
Goal! Crewe Alexandra 1, Barnet 0. Chris Porter (Crewe Alexandra) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Zoumana Bakayogo.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by David Tutonda.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by David Tutonda.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Michael Nelson.
Attempt missed. Chris Dagnall (Crewe Alexandra) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Barnet. Wesley Fonguck replaces Jamal Campbell-Ryce.
Chris Porter (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Ricardo Santos (Barnet).
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Callum Ainley replaces Jordan Bowery.
Substitution, Crewe Alexandra. Zoumana Bakayogo replaces Harry Pickering.
Foul by Chris Porter (Crewe Alexandra).
Ricardo Santos (Barnet) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jordan Bowery (Crewe Alexandra).
(Barnet) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner, Crewe Alexandra. Conceded by Ricardo Santos.
Harry Pickering (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jamal Campbell-Ryce (Barnet).
Brad Walker (Crewe Alexandra) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Shaquile Coulthirst (Barnet). | Chris Porter's second-half strike earned Crewe their first win of the campaign as they overcame Barnet at the Alexandra Stadium. |
What is the brief summary of the provided content? | Troops are searching for the attacker who fled the scene in the Jewish settlement of Otniel near Hebron.
Since October, 27 Israelis have been killed in stabbing, shooting or car-ramming attacks by Palestinians or Israeli Arabs.
Some 155 Palestinians - mostly attackers, Israel says - have been killed in that period of unrest.
The woman killed in Otniel has been identified as Dafna Meir, a mother in her late 30s.
Security forces are hunting for the attacker using helicopters and military vehicles.
Roadblocks have been set up, residents were told to lock themselves inside their homes and flares lit the night sky as the manhunt went on.
Separately, Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man who tried to stab them near Nablus, the Israeli army said.
The assailant at a base near Nablus was Wissam Qasrawi, 21, from Mesilyeh village near the city of Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the Associated Press news agency quoted Palestinian officials as saying.
Radio is the main source of information. ZNBC is the only broadcaster with national reach.
US-based Freedom House rates Zambia as "Not Free" in its 2014 Freedom of the Press survey. It cites the harassment of privately-owned news outlets, the blocking of critical websites, and politicised decisions over granting national radio licences.
Relays of BBC World Service (98.1 FM in Lusaka and Kitwe) and Radio France Internationale are on the air. There are scores of local radio stations. Multichannel pay-TV is available.
There were more than 2.3 million internet users by 2014 (Internetlivestats.com). News websites Zambian Watchdog and Zambia Reports were blocked by ISPs in 2013, says Freedom House.
It will be built on the Blaenau Memorial Hospital site in Blaenau Ffestiniog.
It is one of three to be built in north Wales, along with Flint, Flintshire, and Llangollen, Denbighshire.
Health Minister Mark Drakeford said it showed "our commitment to creating community-based health facilities closer to patients moving from hospital locations, where appropriate".
The centre will include: | An Israeli woman has been stabbed to death by a Palestinian who broke into her house, Israel's army says.
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State-run radio and TV, operated by the ZNBC, are on the air alongside private broadcasters.
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A new £3.9m health centre will be built in Gwynedd, it has been announced. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | The 21-year-old, who was subjected to a gender test following her win at the 2009 Worlds, went through in two minutes 00.71 seconds.
Britain's Lynsey Sharp, American Alysia Johnson Montano and Kenyan defending champion Pamela Jelimo also all comfortably qualified.
Sarah Attar, Saudi Arabia's first woman track athlete, was last in her heat.
She was given a standing ovation at the Olympic Stadium as she went over the finishing line.
"Semenya ran quite well there, but [to] the winner Montano of the United States: this is how not to run an 800m race. Setting off quite quickly then slowing down is a silly tactic because it makes you more tired than you need to be. The women's 800m is more about judgement than setting a pace."
Sharp, 22, was chosen ahead of four other British athletes who had run faster qualifying times, but she said her controversial selection had not been weighing on her mind.
"I've said all along that I tried to block it out and not take it as added pressure," said Sharp, who ran 2:01.41 to advance. "I'm in great shape."
Semenya became global news when she was asked to take a gender test by athletics' governing body IAAF in the aftermath of winning her world title.
Doubts were raised over her gender because of her muscular physique, running style and sudden improvement in times.
Semenya was suspended for 11 months by the IAAF but was cleared to return to the track in July 2010.
She won silver at last year's World Championships in Daegu despite a back problem.
"It was a tactical race," said Semenya, who carried South Africa's flag at the opening ceremony in London, after her 800m heat. "I wanted the race to be a fast one.
"I have to run a sub-two (minutes) race to be a contender." | South Africa's former world champion Caster Semenya has qualified for the 800m semi-finals on her Olympic debut. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | Police suspect Simon Knights, 38, may be using the rail network to move around committing burglaries before getting the train home.
Five police forces - Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, Essex and the Metropolitan Police - have been looking for him.
Surrey Police has joined the hunt after linking him to a burglary in Guildford.
Thousands of pounds worth of jewellery has been stolen in more than a dozen break-ins that police suspect Mr Knights is responsible for in Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, London and Essex.
Reward
It is thought he is stealing cash and jewellery to fund a gambling addiction, police said.
A £2,500 reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of him for at least one of the offences.
Det Insp Dave Wardley-Wilkins, of Sussex Police, said: "People might see him on trains along the south coast, possibly smartly dressed. He has links to Essex so could have returned there.
"In the CCTV recorded in Surrey, he appears to have hurt his arm, possibly while he was breaking the window. We believe he then got a train to Wimbledon but do not know where he went from there."
Police said the he is white, about 5' 8" with ginger hair and blue eyes.
The Blue Square Bet Premier side have struck a three-year-deal to move to the home of Newport Gwent Dragons regional rugby side and Newport Rugby Club.
"This is huge for Newport County Football Club and for the town," said Newport County chairman Chris Blight.
Blight revealed that County had negotiated a break-clause which allowed them to move back to Spytty Park.
"The fact it has all come together after several months of trying to do so is really a feather in everybody's caps," said Blight.
"We have three institutions here - we have got Newport Rugby Club, with a regional side as tenants and now Newport County.
"There are plenty of examples around the country where two clubs are playing in a ground, but here we have three."
It doesn't really matter which game is being watched whether it is rugby or football
Blight had called County's Spytty Park pitch "not fit for purpose" and wanted to move to the home of Newport Gwent Dragons and Newport rugby teams.
He admitted the three sporting teams had struck a unique deal to play at the same 11,000-capacity venue for at least the next three years but hopes to make Rodney Parade a permanent home.
The football club has the safety net of an agreement with Newport City Council, which owns Spytty Park, to return to their former ground for the 2013-14 season if the groundshare does not work out.
"There is a rugby club with a stand which needs bums on seats," said Blight.
"You want to fill that stand as often as you can, it doesn't really matter which game is being watched whether it is rugby or football.
"They need a turnover to go through the club and it is a beautiful stand and I am sure it would be a great shame if it wasn't full on more occassions.
The Rodney Parade pitch has had its own problems and the Dragons have been punished by LV= Cup organisers for calling off their game with Saracens because of a frozen pitch, while flooding has also affected the playing surface this season.
But County have been forced to rearrange a number of home games as their pitch has struggled to cope with the inclement weather.
Spytty Park is owned and operated by Newport City Council and is also home to Welsh League side Llanwern and Newport Harriers Athletics Club. | A smartly-dressed "commuting criminal" is being hunted by police investigating a string of burglaries in the South East.
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Newport County have confirmed they will play football at Rodney Parade from next season. |
Summarize the following piece. | A housing start refers to the beginning of work on a residential property, such as the laying of foundations.
Last year, there were 6,713 starts, up 12% compared to the 5,990 in 2014/15.
That compares to more than 15,000 starts in 2005, which was the peak year.
The number of houses completed also increased slightly year-on-year from 5,501 to 5,622.
The Department for Communities, which produces the figures, said the increase in new starts was primarily due to social housing development.
Social housing starts increased by 58% from the previous year, while private owner/speculative development starts increased by just 6%.
However, private sector completions increased by 8% from the previous year, while social housing completions decreased by 27%.
There was a slight fall in residential planning applications from 7,339 to 7,192.
Of the 6,541 planning decisions made in 2015-16, 94% were granted.
The majority of residential planning decisions granted related to rural new single dwellings (26%) and urban extensions and alterations (25%). | The number of new housing 'starts' in Northern Ireland hit its highest level in five years in 2015/16, according to the latest official figures. |
Please summarize the passage below. | The city is a popular tourist destination for holidaymakers and a number of tourists caught up in the attacks have been speaking to BBC News about their ordeal.
Kevin Kwast from Texas in the US, is on holiday with his family in the city. He said: "I was eating with my family in La Boqueria market very near where the first crash occurred."
"Hundreds of people started stampeding through the market running south east. We started running with them going outside right where casualties were already on the ground near Maccabi restaurant.
"A smaller crowd was running away from that scene to the north west. We got trapped between the crowds and the heavily-armed police running around the area.
"Police pushed us into a money transfer shop and we were sheltering there for over an hour."
"My friends and I were in a shop near Las Ramblas when we were told of the attack," said Robert Yelito from Texas who was in a pop-up shop.
"At first we were locked in the store then we were allowed out.
"Everyone was outside trying to find out what happened then a stampede began.
"We ran into a random apartment."
Richard Gregg from Kent, UK describes the confusion moments after the attack: "We were just waking into Las Ramblas as the crash happened."
"Half the crowd didn't know what was going on but others were shouting about someone driving into the crowd. There was a woman shouting 'there's blood everywhere'.
"People understood it was serious given the number of police piling into the area.
"The police were arriving at the scene from surrounding roads. When we got there the place was swarming with officers.
"In less than five minutes it was clear it was something serious. That set up a chain reaction. There was a bit of a panic.
"We made our way to our apartment as police were clearing Las Ramblas.
"Within minutes there were police officers running and driving through the streets obviously looking for someone.
"We could see the emergency services on Las Ramblas. Shops were shutting down and people running to get away.
Stephanie Walton from Lincoln, UK was in a bar on Las Ramblas when she noticed a crowd running towards her.
"I heard a loud bang followed by screaming while I was having a drink with my boyfriend," she said.
"A crowed rushed towards me and it was mayhem. I wanted to run, but my boyfriend who is ex-military said to stay put.
"We went into the cafe and hid in the corner. I could see bodies in the road before we closed the shutters.
"Two local boys offered me some water. When I told them what had happened they burst into tears."
Katie K is on holiday with her friends in Barcelona. She says she felt overwhelmed by what had happened.
"We were heading to the shops and everything got very busy. We went into one and the security guard closed the doors.
"We were confused as to what was happening. The guard then let us out of the shop.
"There were lots of ambulances and people screaming, as well as helicopters. The roads started to clear, and we started to worry.
"We went to get a drink from a supermarket. When we came out people started to run towards us.
"Feeling very scared, we ran away from the crowd not knowing yet what had happened.
"We looked up and realised a van had driven into the crowd.
"We are still shaken. We were told tourists should stay inside."
Scott Strudwick and his family from Jersey were in a shop when it was evacuated. He said: "We were in the Placa De Catalina when people started fleeing the street as we heard a large number of police sirens."
"Police then ushered us into shops and we went in to El Corte Ingles shopping mall on the Placa.
"Then there was panic in the shop as there were rumours that there was gunfire in the shop. There was more panic when we were ushered to the back of the shop. We ran to hide in a store room.
"People were crying and on their phones trying to understand what was happening.
"It was very frightening for our young children.
"We were ultimately evacuated out of a side exit of the shop, and then there was more confusion as we didn't know where we were.
The police ushered us away from the area, but we did now know how to get back to our hotel."
As people were still coming to terms with what had happened at Las Ramblas, a second attack was foiled in the nearby town off Cambrils in the early hours of Friday morning.
Spanish police shot dead five suspected terrorists. The attackers' vehicle overturned and when the men got out they were quickly fired upon by police, media say. One was reportedly brandishing a knife.
The men were wearing explosive belts, police said, and a series of controlled explosions was carried out. The belts proved to be fake.
Fitzroy Davies from Wolverhampton in the UK is on holiday with a group of friends. One of whom was hit in the leg by shrapnel.
"We were sitting at a bar when three girls came running in with fear on their faces.
"Next thing one guy stood up and said 'look down the road - run!'.
"I thought it was a hoax so I started filming. But then I saw the guy halfway down the road with things strapped to his chest. Someone was shouting at him. Then the attacker ran at everybody.
"The police came and started shouting at the guy. They shot him several times and he fell over - he stood back up and the police shot him again.
"He was smiling at them when they shot him."
Miquel Murriadamas, from Cambrils, was having a drink with some friends outside a bar.
"People started running and shouting for us to get up and leave. At first I wasn't sure what was happening, I thought it might have been an accident.
"Then I saw a man walking towards us with his arms up and what looked like an explosive belt on.
"Suddenly a car pulled up and two agents got out and they shouted at him to stay still. He kept walking forwards and there was gunfire.
"He stayed still and then started to walk forwards again. There was another blast of gunfire.
"We were moved into the bar and those who could watched through the windows. I was actually pretty calm because I could see that the situation was under control and there were enough people in hysterics.
"We had to stay there for two and a half hours and then we left with the police."
By Rozina Sini, BBC's UGC and Social News team | Spanish police say they have shot dead five suspected terrorists in the town of Cambrils in a second vehicle attack, after an earlier incident in Barcelona killed 13 people and injured dozens. |
Summarize the following piece. | A life-sized sculpture of the singer and entertainer will be revealed in Town Hall Square at 13:00 BST.
It marks the end of a series of tributes to the star, including a heritage trail featuring blue plaques marking key locations in her life.
Fields was believed to be the most highly paid actress in the world in the 1930s.
Born in 1898, she made her first stage appearance in 1905 and went on to become a popular star of London's West End.
Her travelling performances for troops during World War Two led her to become known as "the forces' sweetheart".
She eventually retired to Capri in Italy, but never forgot her Rochdale roots and made frequent trips home to perform.
Fields was made a dame in 1979 a few months before her death aged 81. | A statue of the actress Dame Gracie Fields is to be unveiled later in her home town of Rochdale. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | The website Moneyfacts said the average interest rate on the top ten savings accounts has risen from 1.39% a year ago, to 1.48% now.
But increasingly providers are placing tighter restrictions on how many times you can take cash out of such accounts.
In some cases, savers are only allowed to withdraw money three times a year.
Moneyfacts is suggesting that the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - should investigate the matter.
"Perhaps it's time the FCA started to look more closely at these restrictive accounts - transparency will only go so far after all," said Charlotte Nelson, a finance expert at Moneyfacts.
After years of record low savings rates, Moneyfacts said the small rise in rates "restores hope" in the market.
The change comes ahead of an expected rise in the Bank of England base rate, which most analysts predict will come in 2016.
"However, while this is great news for any saver looking to maximise their returns, savers may be disappointed to find out that many accounts are now limiting access to their funds, with restrictions varying from a maximum of 150 withdrawals per year to just one," said Charlotte Nelson.
Most providers do make the restrictions clear.
Virgin Money - which allows three withdrawals a year - calls its account "Defined Access Saver".
Chelsea Building Society - which also restricts withdrawals to three - markets its account as "Triple Access Saver".
And the Nationwide has a "Limited Access Saver", which allows five withdrawals a year on the top savings rate.
An FCA study into the cash savings market, published in January, found there were barriers to switching accounts.
It found that 80% of easy access accounts had not been switched in the last three years.
The Airbus H135 aircraft, which are fitted with spotlights and carry night-vision goggles, can be deployed for 19 hours a day and until 02:00 GMT.
The £5m service will cover Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
It is run by a partnership between the Thames Valley and Hampshire and Isle of Wight air ambulance charities.
Updates on this story and more from Oxfordshire
A spokesperson said the decision to end the service at 02:00 was due to the lack of calls relating to major trauma beyond that time, but this could be reviewed in the future.
Previously the air ambulances only operated from 07:00 until 19:00.
Sir Tim Jenner, Thames Valley Air Ambulance chairman, said the partnership between the two charities was "unique".
He said: "Our teams work tirelessly each day and night; not only to deliver a unique life-saving service but to develop their knowledge and training.
"Our ambition of delivering a gold standard service is dependent on the generosity of the people, companies and organisations who support us, to whom we are very grateful."
The service is run in partnership with Bond Air Services Ltd, which provides the helicopters under a long-term contract, and South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. | Savings rates are at last beginning to edge upwards, but 'easy access' accounts are getting less easy to access, according to new research.
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Two new specially equipped air ambulances have been launched to attend night-time emergencies in the south. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJs Charlie Sloth, Adele Roberts, Trevor Nelson, Nick Bright and Chris Stark have all picked who they think will end up as champions, and also have their own mini-league in the BBC's Premier League Predictor game.
Disagree? You can take them on yourself here, and enter a mini-league with your mates too by playing the the new-look BBC Sport Predictor game.
BBC Radio 1Xtra, Monday-Friday from 16:00-19:00 BST.
His top 4: 1. Liverpool 2. Man City 3. Chelsea 4. Man Utd
A lot of people are going to think I am biased because I am a massive Liverpool fan, but there's actually method and thought that has gone into my top four.
I just feel like the squad is the strongest it has ever been and I think Jurgen Klopp has a real understanding of what's about to happen this season and how he wants his team to play - he has finally got his two men out wide who can rip teams to pieces when they sit back.
BBC Radio 1, Monday-Friday from 04:00-06:30 BST.
Her top 4: 1. Man City 2. Man Utd 3. Liverpool 4. Chelsea
As much as I would love the Premier League trophy to be adorned in the ribbons of Liverpool red and make its way to Merseyside at the end of this season, I think it might end up in the blue of Manchester City.
Pep Guardiola has built a strong side - devastating in attack and much stronger this year in defence which means they will be very hard to beat.
With a Champions League campaign to cope with too, I cannot see how Chelsea or Tottenham Hotspur can beat them over a season.
I think Spurs will also find it tough to play at Wembley for their home games this year. They'll miss the atmosphere, charm and history of White Hart Lane and it'll take them a while to adjust.
BBC Radio 1Xtra, Saturday and Sunday from 16:00-19:00 BST.
His top 4: 1. Man City 2. Man Utd 3. Chelsea 4. Arsenal
As a Chelsea fan I think we'll be singing 'champions of England' for only a few months more.
Antonio Conte has been a miracle worker up to now but not even he can salvage the mess our pre-season has been - Diego Costa's attitude has cost us and a ball hasn't even been kicked yet.
It is not all doom and gloom, though. I still think that we are so organised and strong, that a top-four finish beckons again
BBC Radio 1Xtra, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00-13:00 BST.
His top 4: 1. Man City 2. Chelsea 3. Arsenal 4. Tottenham
Chelsea will take the second spot, followed by Arsenal (I hope!), as long as Alexandre Lacazette hits the ground running and Alexis Sanchez stays.
Completing the top four for me are Tottenham. Although they haven't been massively active during the transfer window, Harry Kane is prolific in front of goal and they have a great defence too.
I think that Manchester City will be champions - they've strengthened well over the summer and it's Pep Guardiola's second season in charge now so he'll be looking to improve on last year.
Chris Stark, BBC Radio 1 with Scott Mills, Monday-Friday from 13:00-16:00 BST.
His top 4: 1. Man City 2. Man Utd 3. Watford 4. Chelsea
Most people expect Manchester City to win the title this season but for no other reason than a gut instinct, I think Jose and Manchester United could have it this year.
That said, there needs to be a rapid increase in quality.
But everyone needs to watch out for the mighty Hornets! Being a massive Watford fan I am massively excited for the season ahead - it could be a very good one for us with the right start.
It might take a while for the team to gel but energy, optimism and desire to show what they can do could make this team too much for Liverpool - I see a first win of the season for us at the weekend.
Follow Match of the Day on Instagram for the best photos from the world of football. | The BBC football pundits have had their say about what will happen this season - but what about the people who REALLY know what they are talking about? |
Summarize the information in the following section. | Moses Murandu, from Zimbabwe, grew up watching his father use granulated sugar to treat wounds.
Sugar is thought to draw water away from wounds and prevent bacteria from multiplying.
Early results from a trial on 35 hospital patients in Birmingham are encouraging, but more research is needed.
One of the patients who received sugar treatment on a wound was 62-year-old Alan Bayliss from Birmingham.
He had undergone an above-the knee amputation on his right leg at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and, as part of the surgery, a vein was removed from his left leg leaving a wound which would not heal properly.
Murandu, who is studying for a doctorate at Birmingham University, was contacted and asked to treat the wound with sugar.
Mr Bayliss said: "It has been revolutionary. The actual wound was very deep - it was almost as big as my finger.
"When Moses first did the dressing he almost used the whole pot of sugar, but two weeks later he only needed to use four or five teaspoons.
"I am very pleased indeed. I feel that it has speeded up my recovery a lot, and it has been a positive step forward. I was a little sceptical at first but once I saw the sugar in operation and how much it was drawing the wound out, I was impressed."
The randomised control trial at three West Midlands hospitals is only half way through. So far 35 patients have been treated with sugar treatment.
Murandu, a senior lecturer in adult nursing at the University of Wolverhampton, said he was very pleased by the results.
"I believe in the sugar and the nurses and doctors who see the effects are beginning to believe in it too."
The treatment is thought to work because applying sugar to a wound draws the water away, thereby starving the bacteria of what it needs to grow. This prevents the bacteria from multiplying and they die.
Staff nurse Jonathan Janneman said the treatment had boosted the patient's morale too.
"He could see the cavity in his leg as well as having been unwell and through operations. But the sugar has given him something to hold on to.
"It is amazing that something as simple as sugar has given him a morale boost." | A nurse is researching whether an old family remedy using sugar to heal wounds does actually work. |
Please summarize the given passage. | The money will be used to increase production of the Mini at its factories in Oxford, Birmingham and Swindon.
It comes on top of a £500m investment which was announced by BMW last June. More than 5000 British workers are involved in the production of the Mini.
BMW said the investment showed its commitment to Britain "as a vital manufacturing base".
"This investment is about securing jobs for the future," BMW's Graham Biggs told the BBC.
"We tend to build cars where we sell them, so the UK is a very important market for us - about the fourth largest in the world - so building Minis, Rolls-Royces and engines here makes a great deal of sense.
BMW said the investment would help its "international growth strategy" for the Mini as it introduced new models to the market.
In January it launched the Mini Roadster, a convertible version of the Mini Coupe, the first two-seater Mini model.
Both new cars are assembled at the main plant at Cowley, Oxford, which has produced more than two million Mini models since 2001.
As well as extra investment at the Oxford plant, the money will be earmarked for expanding production capabilities at the steel body pressings plant in Swindon and BMW's engine plant at Hams Hall, in the West Midlands.
However, BMW said that because of current capacity constraints at the Oxford plant, it was considering setting up "satellite production" of the Mini outside of the UK in the "medium term".
"We need to look for a flexible partner to help us build the cars and we're considering a contract with a Dutch contract manufacturer," Mr Biggs said.
The carmaker said it was in discussions with Nedcar, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, to use its plant in Born, in the Netherlands. It will have spare capacity from 2013 following Mitsubishi's decision not to continue production of its Colt model there because of difficult economic conditions.
BMW has said that the Oxford plant will remain "the home and heart" of the Mini and will provide specialist advice on establishing the new facility.
The Punch Bowl stone on the A5183 St Albans Road was stolen in August 2012.
A second stone was taken from opposite the Chequers pub, a mile further down the road near Redbourn, last month.
Officers responding to reports it was now in Hemel Hempstead realised it was actually the first stone. The second was found hours later in Kings Langley.
Hertfordshire Police said the first stone, which is 5ft 8ins (1.7m) tall and had stood close to the Punch Bowl Lane turning on Watling Street, was discovered by a member of the public in Dodds Lane on Friday morning.
The second, which was taken between 15 and 27 March, was found just over six miles away in Barnes Lane, Kings Langley, again by a member of the public.
A police spokesman said both would be "placed back in their rightful place at some point in the future".
Sgt Tom Fisher said the first stone had probably been discarded after a police appeal about the second theft.
"I suspect someone had it in their garden, saw the press [appeal] and probably thought 'I'm going to be in a bit of trouble' and dumped it to try and get rid of the evidence," he said.
The force has asked for anyone who may have been in the areas where the stones were recovered to come forward if they had seen anything suspicious.
Local historian Sandy Ross said the milestones between St Albans and Redbourn had been erected from 1722 onwards as a requirement of the Dunstable - St Albans - London Turnpike Act of Parliament.
This allowed a private business to repair the roads but to make a charge to users based on the distance travelled.
Mr Ross, who reported both thefts to police, called the finds a "happy outcome for our local heritage". | BMW is to invest £250m in its UK factories over the next three years, the company has announced.
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Two 18th Century milestones stolen three years apart in Hertfordshire have been found in two separate locations on the same day, police said. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | The masked man entered The Corner Shop, in Quarry Street, Coatbridge, and demanded money at about 10:05 on Saturday.
The robber made off empty handed but a female member of staff was left badly shaken by the incident.
The suspect is described as white and aged 24 to 35. He was wearing a blue hooded jacket and was carrying a bag.
Officers are collecting CCTV footage and carrying out door-to-door inquiries.
Det Con Scott McCracken said: "Our inquiries so far have revealed there were people around the shop at the time of the incident.
"Coatdyke train station is also very close to the shop and we believe there were several people waiting for trains.
"I am appealing to anyone who may have been at the station and who got on a train prior to police arrival to contact us, they may have vital information which could assist our investigation."
It happened at Thomas Russell Park where it is understood she has been living with her young child for a number of years.
Police said a 30-year-old man had been arrested by officers investigating the incident, which was reported on Friday.
SDLP MP Margaret Ritchie said she hoped the woman would "fully recover from her injuries".
She said people in the area "were in a state of shock" and "appalled" at what had happened.
Ms Ritchie added that those people she had spoken to wanted to pass on their "sympathy and support" to the woman.
The Constitutional Court has made the ruling, meaning Pistorius will now be sentenced in April.
Pistorius killed Ms Steenkamp in February 2013 after firing four times through a locked toilet door.
A manslaughter verdict was overturned in December and a murder verdict introduced in its place.
Oscar Pistorius, fallen hero
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South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said the Constitutional Court found "no prospect of success" in Pistorius' appeal.
The case will now go back to Judge Thokozile Masipa - who cleared the athlete of murder in the original case - for sentencing on 18 April.
Prosecutors are believed to be targeting a sentence of at least 15 years in jail for Pistorius.
This is the end of the road for Oscar Pistorius. The Constitutional Court was his last chance to overturn his murder conviction.
Many in the country felt that judge Thokozile Masipa had erred when she convicted him of a lesser charge, but some still believed Pistorius had not intended to kill anyone, let alone Reeva Steenkamp.
Now a full bench of the country's most powerful judges has ruled that Pistorius' latest bid has no chance of succeeding.
The next step now is for the two legal teams to present their arguments about the length of his sentence - and the state wants no less than 15 years.
He is currently under house arrest after spending one year of his original five-year sentence in jail.
In December, South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that the lower court under Judge Masipa had not applied correctly the rule of dolus eventualis - whether Pistorius knew that a death would be a likely result of his actions.
Justice Eric Leach said that having armed himself with a high-calibre weapon, Pistorius must have foreseen that whoever was behind the door might die, especially given his firearms training.
Pistorius has always maintained he believed he was shooting at an intruder. | Police are hunting a man who threatened a shop worker during an attempted robbery in North Lanarkshire.
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A woman is critically ill in hospital following an incident at a house in Downpatrick, County Down.
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South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been denied leave to appeal against his conviction for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | Moses Kamara was left in tears after making the 3,000 mile (4,800 km) trip, only for the game to be cancelled.
He had been invited by friends at the Manchester United Supporters Trust to watch the Premier League match.
Now the group has offered to fund an extended stay for Mr Kamara.
Members offered to pay for a later return flight home, so he can watch the Red Devils' rearranged clash with Bournemouth on Tuesday.
And they are arranging a ticket for Moses to watch the team's FA Cup final against Crystal Palace at Wembley next week.
The fan, who works in security, said "he cried a lot" when the match was cancelled.
"I was so disappointed and I cried right away and people come around me and hug me," he said.
"I come far away from Sierra Leone. I come to watch this match and it doesn't happen."
"This is my first time in real life to watch Manchester live and it doesn't happen."
An "urgent" inquiry has been demanded after a dummy bomb used in a security exercise resulted in the 15:00 BST kick-off match being postponed.
Fans were evacuated and a controlled explosion was carried out on the device, which police said was accidentally left at the 75,000 capacity stadium.
Ian Stirling, vice chairman of MUST, said: "When we heard the game was abandoned we had to tell Moses and the poor lad was distraught - being so close to the ground and not being able to go in, not knowing when he might get this chance again.
"He's still distraught at not getting in to Old Trafford. That was his dream. But we're trying to do the right thing for a friend."
Manchester United said it was refunding all tickets for Sunday's game and allowing ticket holders from both clubs to watch Tuesday's re-arranged game for free.
The king's coffin was lowered into a vault below the cathedral floor during a reinterment service on Thursday.
A large piece of stone engraved with a deep cross lies on top of the tomb and 200 guests who won a ballot will be allowed to view it from 13:00 GMT.
The cathedral will open its doors to the public after the unveiling service.
The last Plantagenet king's remains were found beneath a Leicester car park in 2012.
More than 20,000 people queued to see the coffin in the cathedral earlier this week and long queues are expected after the hour-long service.
Rev Pete Hobson, acting Canon Missioner of Leicester Cathedral, said: "We'll welcome as many people as we can - just keep moving people and you'll all get a look."
He added that the service would have a "lighter feel" than Thursday's ceremony, which was presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
"Thursday was a day for the nation, Friday is a day for Leicester and Leicestershire," he said.
Later in the evening 8,000 candles will be lit in the city's Jubilee Square and Cathedral Gardens before a firework display on the cathedral roof.
The two-tonne Swaledale fossil stone lies on a marble plinth, while the inlaid coat of arms is made of marble and semi-precious stones.
The reburial has not been without controversy. Campaigners who petitioned for Richard III to be reburied in York have described the events in Leicester over the last week as a "pantomime".
Richard, the last English king to die in battle, was killed at Bosworth Field in 1485, at the end of the Wars of the Roses. | A Manchester United fan from Sierra Leone whose dream trip to Old Trafford was ruined by Sunday's dummy bomb drama will attend the FA Cup final thanks to a campaign by supporters.
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The public will be able to view King Richard III's sealed tomb for the first time later when Leicester Cathedral is reopened. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | The transfer concludes a lengthy process in which Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has been given more of these tasks.
Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada have started lawsuits, saying the decision needs Congressional approval.
The handover is scheduled for today.
Icann keeps an eye on the core addressing system of the internet, known as DNS, via a subsidiary called the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
DNS translates the names that humans use to navigate the web into the numbers computers use.
Since the early days of the internet, a division of the US Commerce Department, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), has been involved in approving changes to the core DNS servers.
The NTIA's involvement in this process is due to come to an end on 30 September.
Attorneys general in the four states have challenged the transfer, claiming that it cannot go ahead because US politicians have not formally approved it.
In addition, says the lawsuit, the NTIA does not have the power to broker such a deal and it has not consulted the American public about the decision.
The lawsuit also alleges that the transfer does not put in place sufficient protections for the .gov and .mil domains that serve the US government and its military.
The NTIA said it would not comment on the legal challenge.
A judge is due to make a decision on the lawsuit today.
If the judge dismisses it, Icann will assume sole control of DNS.
The plan to stop US involvement in the administration of DNS has won attention from the US Senator Ted Cruz, and Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Both claimed the handover would dent the freedom of speech online and give Russia and China more control over the net.
Icann has dismissed these claims, saying: "The US government has no decreased role. Other governments have no increased role." | Four US states are challenging government plans to give control of core internet administration functions to the non-profit group Icann. |
Summarize the passage below. | The bodies of about 800 children aged under six were unearthed by archaeologists in January during the Freckleton Street link road works.
A total of 1,967 bodies were exhumed from 200 graves from the 1800s
The Bishop of Blackburn Rt Rev Julian Henderson led a service at 12:00 BST at the memorial gardens reburial site in Wainwright Way.
He acknowledged the support given to the project "particularly in the light of the sensitivities involved".
"I am grateful for the care taken by contractors and archaeologists in overseeing the work to ensure this will continue to be a site of remembrance for future generations," he said.
The land where the bodies were found was formerly the burial ground at the old St Peter's Church which opened in 1821 in Blackburn.
The large number of children discovered was put down to a lack of good sanitation and medicines leading to a high mortality rate.
Experts believe one of the men buried at the site was a soldier injured in the Crimean War.
St Peter's Church, which would have seated 1,500 parishioners, became dilapidated in the mid-20th Century and was demolished to ground level in 1976. | A memorial service has been held to mark the reburial of hundreds of bodies discovered in Blackburn. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | Greater Manchester Police received a call at about 10:45 GMT alerting officers to an explosive device in Cobden Street off Broughton Road.
Following a search by detectives, the bomb squad was deployed and a cordon put in place.
The grenade was examined and investigators found it did not contain any explosives, police said. | Bomb disposal officers have been called following reports of a grenade being found in a skip in Salford. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | The result means they are now three points off Group B leaders FUS Rabat and two points behind the other Moroccan side, second placed Kawkab Marrakech.
Only the group winners and runners-up will qualify for the semi-finals.
After a barren first half in Sousse, Etoile found their stride after the break.
Alaya Brigui scored twice - in the 57th and 68th minutes - before a goal from Ahmed Akaichi sealed maximum points.
The result keeps Etoile in the hunt for a place in the last four, following FUS Rabat's 3-1 win away to fellow Moroccans Kawkab Marrakech on Friday night which put FUS top of the table.
Until Friday, Kawkab Marrakech had won all five of their Caf home matches this year, and the defeat to their Moroccan rivals relegated them to second in Group B.
Youssef El Gnaoui put FUS Rabat ahead early on from the penalty spot, with Mohamed El Fakih also hitting a first-half penalty to level the score at 1-1.
Second half goals from captain Abdessalam Benjelloun and Mohamed Fouzair put FUS Rabat in firm control as they secured a well earned victory.
On Sunday, there was one Group A match with favourites TP Mazembe maintaining their unbeaten run with a goalless draw at Mouloudia Bejaia of Algeria.
That means DR Congo giants Mazembe have seven points from three games so far, and seem certain to take one of the places in the last four.
In the other Group A match, Tanzania's Young Africans were held to a 1-1 draw by Ghanaian side Medeama on Saturday - a result which did little for either side's hopes of progressing out of the group.
Scoring had been a problem for both teams, but it took just three minutes for the deadlock to be broken, when Donald Ngoma struck first for the hosts in Dar es Salaam.
Medeama got their equaliser sixteen minutes later through Bernard Ofiri.
The Colombian, who earns £265,000 a week, has scored three goals in 13 appearances since signing from Monaco in a £6m season-long loan in September.
United have until May to activate a £40m buy-out clause.
"He will play in one of the very best clubs in the world next season, whether that is Manchester United or not," said the 28-year-old's agent Jorge Mendes.
Falcao's career at Old Trafford has been hampered by a calf injury and he has started only eight matches.
He was dropped from manager Louis van Gaal's 18-man squad for the 1-0 home defeat by Southampton on Sunday after starting the previous five games.
Afterwards Van Gaal said there was no injury problem and the decision was tactical.
"It is very difficult for Manchester United fans," Mendes told Sky Italia.
"They have an absolutely brilliant player, one of the very best in the world, who would without any doubt play 90 minutes of the match, every time, with any other club.
"The truth is, right now, we don't know what will happen."
Falcao has already decided he will not be returning to Monaco, who he joined for a reported £50m in May 2013 after prolific spells at Atletico Madrid and Porto.
United's Netherlands midfielder Daley Blind returned to play 90 minutes on Sunday after injuring a knee in November.
"The places in the team are expensive, and the manager has said that as well," he said. "So you have to train, every day, very hard to show yourself and show that you really want to play." | The defending champions Etoile du Sahel secured their first victory of the African Confederation Cup group phase with an emphatic 3-0 win over Al Ahli Tripoli of Libya on Saturday night to remain title contenders.
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Manchester United striker Radamel Falcao may not be at Old Trafford next season, according to his agent. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | Ibrahimovic landed awkwardly when challenging for the ball during the Europa League quarter-final second-leg win over Anderlecht.
The ex-Sweden international is United's top scorer this season, with 28 goals.
Rojo was replaced on 23 minutes after colliding with a visiting player.
Ibrahimovic, 35, joined the club on a free transfer from Paris St-Germain last summer but is yet to agree an extension to his one-year United deal.
Rojo's injury leaves United manager Jose Mourinho short of options at centre-back with England internationals Phil Jones and Chris Smalling already on the sidelines.
Eric Bailly and Daley Blind are United's only fit senior centre-backs heading into Sunday's game at Burnley (kick-off 14:15 BST), with the Manchester derby at Etihad Stadium to follow on Thursday.
It is a big increase on the £4,327 paid in 2014, which prompted an outcry from campaigners who argued it had paid too little.
However, critics may also be riled by the fact that the company will receive a tax credit of £11m, which can be used to offset tax bills at a later date.
The firm said it was "proud" to have grown its business in the UK.
The social network posted taxable profit for the year to 31 December of about £20m, on which it paid tax at the standard corporation tax rate. Turnover more than doubled to £210m.
The tax credit is the result of offsetting payments linked to its bonus scheme for staff.
Facebook said in March it would no longer route advertising sales through Ireland for its largest advertisers.
That change, which took effect on 1 April, should mean the US company starts paying millions of pounds more in tax in the UK.
A spokesperson for Facebook said: "We are proud that in 2015 we have continued to grow our business in the UK and created over 300 new high skilled jobs. We pay all the taxes that we are required to under UK law."
The figures were revealed in Facebook UK's accounts, which were published on Companies House on Sunday.
Richard Murphy, a chartered accountant and professor of practice in international political economy at City, University of London, said it was difficult to determine whether Facebook was paying the right amount of tax in Britain.
"Facebook's UK accounts do not represent its real sales in this country, which are actually booked in Ireland with their true value never being disclosed," he said.
"The Facebook UK accounts just record the costs it incurs in the UK, with a bit of profit added on to keep HMRC happy. That's not good enough in the current climate.
"Facebook UK's accounts are an exercise in opacity when what we really need is transparency. If accountants continue to refuse to provide what users of accounts need then it will be time for the government to act."
Tax specialist Jo Maugham QC said: "Facebook's accounts are rather opaque. But we can be confident that the structure of its business continues to be driven by the desire to make the smallest possible financial contribution to the public infrastructure it uses."
Analysis
Theo Leggett, business reporter
When Facebook revealed it had paid just £4,327 in tax in 2014, there was a storm of protest from campaigners. Like other digital era multinationals, it has come under fire for doing a great deal of business here, but paying very little into the national coffers.
2015's bill looks decidedly steeper, but it still appears to bear little relation to the amount of business actually being done by the company. It is based entirely on revenues from engineering and marketing services supplied to other parts of the Facebook group.
It will be different in future. The company agreed earlier this year to book sales to major UK advertisers in Britain, rather than Ireland - so they will be subject to tax here.
Although this won't include sales made over the internet, it should still mean a much bigger payment is due for 2016.
That may go some way towards appeasing campaigners - and keeping the UK authorities at arms length.
Facebook employed 682 people in the UK last year, up from 362 in 2014, and the company now has more than 1,000 full-time equivalent staff.
Globally Facebook made profits of $3.7bn in 2015 on revenues of almost $18bn - 44% higher than the previous year. | Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and defender Marcos Rojo have both suffered cruciate knee-ligament injuries and face lengthy spells out of action.
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Facebook paid £4.16m in UK corporation tax last year, as it expanded its business in the UK. |
Can you summarize the given article? | Seven-year-old Mary Shipstone died of her wounds a day after she was gunned down by her father in Northiam, East Sussex, as she returned from school.
Lyndsey Shipstone told BBC South East Today that the family had moved there from Camber to escape her husband.
"You can't describe the horror that I've felt losing my precious daughter."
She said: "We were very close. We hadn't spent any time apart.... I was always there for her."
Mary was shot by her father, Yasser Alromisse, outside her home in Spring Hill at about 16:00 BST on 11 September.
His body was found in a car parked on a driveway next to Mary's home.
A gun was also recovered at the scene.
Speaking for the first time since the death of her daughter, Ms Shipstone recalled: "As soon as I put my front door key in there was a terrible bang behind me and I turned round and Mary was on the ground.
"I saw her father with the gun in his hand pointing at Mary's head and he fired it a second time, and then he retreated into the car.
"I just dropped down to Mary and dragged her round the front of the house away from the car.
"I was screaming for help and I was telling the neighbours that he had a gun and Mary had been shot."
Ms Shipstone said when she heard the bang she had at first thought someone had "burst an enormous balloon" behind them.
"I saw immediately that it was her father. I couldn't understand why he was there," she recalled.
Ms Shipstone told the BBC there had been no indication that Yasser Alromisse would harm his daughter.
"He just wanted a relationship with her and he wanted to see her," she said.
The family moved to Northiam from a women's refuge in Camber Sands after Ms Shipstone separated from her husband "due to domestic violence".
Mary, who lived with her mother and adult brother, died in King's College Hospital in south London where she was flown after the shooting, with her mother by her side.
"It was a great comfort that I was with her in her final moments," she said.
She said she would remember her as "a fun-loving little girl, who loved life, who had so much to live for".
"She's had her life snatched away from her so cruelly when there was so much promise.
"I'd like people to remember her little smiling face."
A police investigation into the shooting is continuing, and the BBC understands it will look at answering two key questions - how Yasser Alromisse came to acquire a gun and how he was able to discover where his family lived.
Both East Sussex County Council and Sussex Police will be sending information to the Safeguarding Children Board, which will then determine whether there should be a Serious Case Review. | The mother of a "caring and lively" girl shot in the head by her abusive husband has spoken of the horror that destroyed "just an ordinary day". |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | Farc commander Pastor Alape said the rebel known as Jairo Martinez had died in the attack in Cauca province.
According to the Farc, Jairo Martinez had been on an "educational mission" to tell rebels about the peace process.
The Farc and the Colombian government sides are engaged in peace negotiations but have not agreed a ceasefire.
Jairo Martinez was a relatively recent addition to the Farc negotiating team, which he joined on 28 February 2014.
Not much is known about him except that the Colombian military suspected him of being behind the kidnapping of Sgt Pablo Moncayo.
Sgt Moncayo was held for 12 years by the Farc before being released in 2010.
His father Gustavo had campaigned tirelessly for his release, walking the length and breadth of Colombia with chains tied around his wrists to symbolise Sgt Moncayo's captivity.
The rebels said Jairo Martinez was one of 27 rebels who died in Gaupi in south-western Cauca province.
The Farc also confirmed that the commander of the 14th division of the Farc, Roman Ruiz, was killed in a bombing raid in north-western Choco province on Monday.
There has been a recent escalation of violence on both sides even as the peace talks continue in the Cuban capital, Havana.
The escalation was triggered by a Farc ambush which left 11 soldiers dead on 15 April.
President Juan Manuel Santos responded by ordering the resumption of bombing raids on rebel positions which had been suspended since March to reward the rebels for declaring a unilateral ceasefire.
About 40 Farc rebels have been killed since the security forces resumed their raids.
Nevertheless, the two sides are continuing to meet in Havana in an attempt to put an end to more than five decades of armed conflict.
An estimated 220,000 people have keen killed since the Farc was founded in 1964.
The company said the proposals have the potential to create more than 400 jobs.
A Peterhead Travelodge opened on Wednesday, with further hotels expected in Inverness and Stirling by the end of this year.
Travelodge chiefs said Scotland remains a key growth area and it was looking for 21 new hotel sites across the country.
Target locations include Ardrossan in North Ayrshire; Aviemore in the Highlands; Galashiels in the Borders; Kirkwall on Orkney; Lerwick on Shetland; Loch Lomond; Montrose in Angus; Oban in Argyll and Bute; and Pitlochry in Perthshire.
The firm is also looking to double its portfolio of hotels in Glasgow with a further five locations.
Brian Wallace, Travelodge chairman, said: "The value hotel market continues to go from strength to strength in Scotland boosted by cost-conscious businesses looking to reduce travel costs and by the growth in independent leisure travel.
"To meet this growing demand in addition to opening in Peterhead today, Travelodge will be opening new hotels in Inverness and Stirling later this year.
"This is just the start, we are on a journey to become Britain's favourite hotel for value and we have identified 21 locations across Scotland where we can bring good quality accommodation at a great value price." | Colombia's left-wing Farc rebel group says that one of their negotiators at peace talks in Cuba was among 27 rebels killed in a bombing raid last week.
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Summarize the information in the following document. | The man - who has become known as "horse-boy" - can be seen in the Hardgate area of the city.
The sighting has become a popular attraction on Google's service, which offers a photographic map of streets.
The man is wearing dark trousers, a purple shirt - and a brown and white horse's head.
Dozens of BBC news website users have e-mailed from across Europe to say they know who horse boy is.
Your pictures of 'horse-boy'
Others have sent in images of the mystery horse-head wearer and some have claimed to be him.
Stefan Kleen from Germany said he and a friend met horse-boy at a German festival last weekend.
He added: "He only spoke English so we didn't really talk a lot to him."
Anders Hauge reckons he has been shopping in Haugesund in Norway; John Hammond was convinced he was playing the fairways and relaxing in the bars of Marbella and Julian Sykes said he had been sighted in Cardiff.
John Ainsworth insisted he saw horse-boy in Norwich earlier in the year walking through Wensum Park.
He said: "I thought I was hallucinating at first but then realised it was real."
Other readers have not been impressed with the story and some have told the website that it is not newsworthy and is a prank to generate further publicity.
And Gareth Remblance pointed out: "Horse boy isn't a person, it's a cheap mask - for example I saw at least three people wearing similar heads at this year's Download Festival in Donington."
A number of contributors have said that horse-boy features in other parts of Google's street view service.
Mark Coates said: "If you go down the road and turn back you can see him putting on the horse head and on the shot back up the road again he has white hair."
The BBC news website story had more than 874,000 hits on Thursday, and more on Friday took the total through the one million barrier.
Cliffe Castle Museum now houses the object that was displayed at London's Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851.
It was acquired by millionaire textile manufacturer Henry Isaac Butterfield when he created Cliffe Castle in Keighley in the late 19th Century.
The piece was made in St Petersburg from malachite a green, copper mineral.
The ornate fire surround was bought at auction by Mr Butterfield in 1880. In the 1950s it was removed to another house and Cliffe Castle was turned into a museum. When the chimneypiece's latest owner died, it was bequeathed back to the museum.
One similar piece survives at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, according to Cliffe Castle.
Christy George, 38, of Lime Tree Road, Hucknall, Nottingham, denies a charge of causing death by dangerous driving.
Leicester Crown Court heard she deleted a record of calls made and received during her journey in November 2014.
One motorist died in the crash and another suffered serious injuries.
The court was told Ms George's car spun out of control and hit a lorry which crashed into the central reservation between junctions 21a and 22 of the M1 in Leicestershire.
The lorry crashed through to the northbound carriageway where it spilled its load of beer barrels, closing the road for 18 hours.
Graham Huston, prosecuting, told the jury Ms George's "mind was somewhere else, her attention was on something else and that appears to be her phone".
Her mobile phone was examined after the crash and showed she had deleted "a record of the calls made and received during her journey from Nottingham to a work as an agency nurse at Coventry hospital", the court learned.
Mr Huston said it showed she had wanted to "disguise her phone usage because she knew the cause of her being distracted was due to her being on the phone".
Her actions were undertaken "calmly, cynically and callously", he added.
Ms George also denies causing serious injury by dangerous driving and perverting the course of justice.
The trial continues. | Mystery surrounds a man wearing a horse's head who has been captured on Google's Street View in Aberdeen.
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A nurse who lost control of her car on a motorway causing a fatal eight-car pile-up "deleted call records from her phone" immediately after the crash, a court has heard. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | Driver Jonathan Froudakis de Souza, 20, and conductor Walace Aparecido de Souza Silva, 21, were sentenced for robbery, extortion and rape.
They abducted the American woman after she boarded the bus in the Copacabana area of Rio in March.
She was raped in front of her boyfriend, a French citizen.
Another gang member was given 21 years and a 14-year-old boy is yet to be tried.
The incident raised security concerns ahead of next year's football World Cup in Brazil and the 2016 Olympics, which the city will host.
Judge Guilherme Schilling Pollo Duarte in Rio de Janeiro said the gang had been operating in the area for months, targeting mainly foreign tourists.
The woman was "humiliated, suffering brutally at the hands of her kidnappers, in an act that caused repulsion and indignation", said Judge Pollo Duarte.
The American woman and her boyfriend had boarded the minibus late on 30 March.
The vehicle was going to Lapa, a popular nightlife spot in the old city centre.
A few minutes later, the gang robbed six other passengers who were on the minibus and forced them to get off.
But they ordered the American woman, who had been living in Rio, and her boyfriend to stay.
He was handcuffed and beaten and had his nose broken.
The driver, the conductor and another gang member took turns to rape her while the minibus was driven around the city.
"It is difficult to believe that all such acts were perpetrated by human beings," said Judge Pollo Duarte.
The couple were dumped in the nearby city of Itaborai after being forced to use their credit cards to buy goods and withdraw money from cash machines.
The gang member sentenced to 21 years was Carlos Armando Costa dos Santos, 21.
The 14-year-old cannot be named for legal reasons. He has been accused of rape and robbery.
After the incident hit the headlines in late March, other women recognised the gang members and said they had been the victims of similar attacks.
Steve Bloom, who owns second-hand bookshop Bloomindales in Hawes, charges an entry fee of 50p, refundable on purchase of a book.
A customer who did not pay was a "pain in the arse", according to a complaint to the North Yorkshire authority.
Mr Bloom has not commented and the bookshop was not open to the public on Wednesday.
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John Blackie, chairman of Hawes & High Abbotside Parish Council, said it had received more than 20 complaints in the past four years and had discussed the bookseller five times since 2013.
Mr Blackie said the entry fee was often a flashpoint.
One complaint sent to the parish council said after not paying the 50p "we were told we were both 'a pain in the arse'".
"His behaviour was both rude and offensive, being a discredit to your lovely town," the letter added.
One comment on the Yell website said shoppers "recoiled in embarrassment" when asked to leave, having refused to pay the entry fee that is refundable on purchase of a book.
However, on the same website JeanN-8 wrote a five-star review and said: "To me browsing in a wonderful bookshop filled with fascinating books, maps, postcards and other ephemera is worth 50p any day."
The bookshop is based in Hawes Market House and complaints had been passed to the building's trustees, Mr Blackie said.
He said he would visit Mr Bloom again and urge him to be more polite. | Two men in Brazil have been sentenced to 49 years in jail each for kidnapping and repeatedly raping an American woman on a minibus in Rio de Janeiro.
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A shop owner branded "rude and offensive" was the subject of more than 20 complaints to a parish council. |
Summarize the provided information. | More than 17,000 animals, mostly ewes and lambs, were booked for the auction at Lairg.
George Milne, of the National Sheep Association, said he hoped that this year's bad weather will not have affected prices.
He said the annual sale was a "fantastic spectacle to see of lambs straight off the hill".
Employment charity - Shaw Trust Scotland - delivered the scheme at HMP Low Moss near Bishopbriggs.
Of the 11 participants taking part in the programme, six are now in employment with the other five securing jobs ahead of their release.
Shaw Trust said the scheme was designed to help tackle re-offending in Scotland.
Those taking part in the scheme were offered advice and training in CV writing and interview skills starting 12 weeks prior to their release.
The scheme took into consideration their own individual ambitions and skill sets, along with their employment history.
The charity also arranged for suitable employers to visit the prison to interview participants for roles upon their release.
Commenting on the success of the pilot, Ashley McCloy, Operations Manager for Shaw Trust in Scotland, said:
"Offenders are less likely to commit crime after release if they are given the tools to change their lives for the better and can see a clear route into employment.
"Given the success of the pilot, Shaw Trust Scotland is looking to offer the programme to more prisoners at HMP Low Moss, with a long-term view of integrating it into the core services offered at prisons across the country."
Shaw Trust Scotland is a national employment, disability, learning and skills charity which manages and delivers the Department for Work and Pensions' national disability employment programme, Work Choice.
The retired police general pleaded guilty to links with the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC).
The group is accused of mass killings in Colombia and is on the US list of terrorist organisations.
Gen Santoyo was also fined $125,000 (£74,400).
From 2002 to 2005, Gen Santoyo served as security chief for then-President Uribe.
Another close aide of the former president, Mario Uribe, was found guilty last year of having links with the AUC.
But Alvaro Uribe denies any link with the organisation, which led a campaign against left-wing rebels and people suspected of collaborating with them.
Gen Santoyo handed himself to the US authorities in July.
In his plea agreement, he said he took bribes from the AUC from 2001 to 2008 in exchange for tipping them off ahead of police operations against them.
Some of the operations also involved US drug enforcement agents.
Gen Santoyo initially rejected the charges of conspiring to smuggle drugs into the US, but eventually pleaded guilty.
The Eastern District Court of Virginia, in Alexandria, ruled that he must pay $125,000 for the drug smuggling charges.
As part of a 2003 peace deal brokered by Alvaro Uribe's government, most paramilitary leaders surrendered and demobilised tens of thousands of their men in exchange for reduced jail terms and protection from extradition. | What has been described as Europe's largest one day sale of hill sheep has been taking place in Sutherland.
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A new scheme aimed at getting prisoners into employment upon release has seen all of its participants find work.
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A federal court in the United States has sentenced Gen Mauricio Santoyo, who was President Alvaro Uribe's security chief, to 13 years in jail for links with paramilitaries. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | Those behind the bronze "life size and-a-half" statue, created by the sculptor Douglas Jennings want it to go up in Parliament Square.
But there have been a series of objections, including the possibility it could be vandalised and that it does not have the Thatcher family's backing.
The Parliamentary Estate has also objected to the proposal.
It has pointed out there is already a statue of Lady Thatcher in the Commons and that Westminster Council's own planning guidelines state Parliament Square - home to 11 statues - is within the "monument saturation zone, considered unsuitable for new memorials" and that statues should adhere to a rule that they do not go up within 10 years of the subject's death.
A local conservation group, the Thorney Island Society, has commented on the application, saying the 10-year-rule should be adhered to, despite the fact a statue to Nelson Mandela was put up before his death.
The group said: "While Lady Thatcher was also widely respected it cannot be said that she was uncontroversial in this country.
"There is a strong case for the ten-year rule to be respected - there should be a decent interval before permanent statues are erected, especially when they are controversial enough to risk vandalism."
The society adds: "We understand that Lady Thatcher's daughter dislikes the statue."
The Thatcher family has been contacted for a comment.
Asked about reports that the statue had effectively been blocked over concerns about vandalism, Mrs May told the BBC: "I understand there are a number of issues that have been raised around the statue. What I'm very clear about is there should be no suggestion that the threat of vandalism should stop a statue of Margaret Thatcher from being put up."
At a briefing later, her spokesman said it was a decision for Westminster Council but added that "statues are a key part of this country's heritage" and those in Parliament Square were an "important reminder of people who've played a key role in this country's history".
The statue proposal has yet to go before a planning committee and even if it was granted permission - it would then have to get the approval of the Royal Parks, which manages the Parliament Square site.
The Royal Parks has objected to the application.
A spokesman said: "Numerous times we have requested assurances from the applicant that they have approval from the family for the statue. To date we have not had those assurances."
Lady Thatcher, who was Conservative prime minister from 1979 until 1990, died on 8 April 2013, following a stroke, at the age of 87.
The Public Memorials Appeal Trust - a charity which has raised the money to erect the statue - said it was chosen to portray the former PM in her state robes, "her most dignified attire," with "a resolute posture looking towards the Houses of Parliament, with a stern gaze slightly rightwards, akin with her political leanings".
Its preferred site for the statue and stone plinth is on the west side of Parliament Square, on Canning Green, between the existing statues of former prime minister George Canning and Abraham Lincoln - two of 11 statues in the square.
In April it was announced that the suffragist Dame Millicent Fawcett would become the first woman to be honoured with a statue in the square.
Other statues of Lady Thatcher include one by sculptor Antony Dufort, in the members' lobby of the House of Commons, unveiled in 2007, and a bronze bust in a museum in her home town of Grantham.
In 2002 a protester decapitated a £150,000 Italian marble statue of Lady Thatcher at London's Guildhall Library and the statue of another former PM, Sir Winston Churchill, has occasionally been the target of vandalism in Parliament Square, the site of many protests over the years. | Concerns that a statue of Lady Thatcher may be vandalised should not stop it going ahead, Theresa May has said. |
Please provide a concise summary of the following section. | The 27-year-old ex-Republic of Ireland Under-19 international has signed a one-year contract at the County Ground.
A former Manchester City trainee, McDermott has also played for Bournemouth and Huddersfield Town.
"From the minute the gaffer phoned me it was all about getting promoted. We are going to be doing everything to get promoted," he told the club website.
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Josina Machel was beaten in October in Mozambique's capital, Maputo, on her mother's 70th birthday.
She has been telling her story to the BBC's Milton Nkosi in Johannesburg, as part of the BBC's 100 Women season.
Marie Collins was the only remaining panel member abused by a cleric.
She said the commission had suffered constant setbacks, "despite the Holy Father approving all its recommendations".
Pope Francis set up the panel in March 2014.
It was seen as an attempt to address the bitter and long-standing scourge of child abuse which has dogged the Catholic Church.
In her resignation letter, Ms Collins said she believed the pontiff had acted sincerely when he appointed the commission to advise on keeping children safe.
However, she condemned the lack of co-operation by those dealing with cases of abuse.
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The Pope himself has been criticised for reducing the punishments given to priests guilty of child abuse.
The Vatican said Pope Francis had accepted her resignation "with deep appreciation for her work on behalf of the victims/survivors of clergy abuse".
Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, the head of the commission, said Ms Collins' concerns would be examined at a meeting next month.
Ms Collins, who is Irish, is the second abuse survivor to leave the panel, known as the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
Briton Peter Saunders departed in 2016 after quarrelling with other members about how to handle serial abuse allegations against an Italian priest.
Mr Saunders said he felt betrayed by the Pope and felt he had been tricked into backing up a "smoke and mirrors" exercise. | Swindon Town have signed midfielder Donal McDermott on a free transfer following his departure from Rochdale.
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Give a concise summary of the passage below. | They're to be sorely disappointed again, and not only because an imminent criminal court case can be expected to bring back some painful memories.
The current directors' box regime, under Dave King, is still in emergency measures. Rangers International Football Club (RIFC) is cut off from normal financing and banking, and having to fund losses by reliance on wealthy shareholders.
But now, King's hold on Ibrox is in doubt. The method by which he got control of it has led to the close attention of the Takeover Panel - a usually obscure arm of company law, with the job of refereeing fairness for all shareholders amid bruising corporate jousts.
It has never used its enforcement powers before, which is just one of the aspects of the RIFC and the Dave King case, which is unprecedented, and leaves a lot of uncertainty hanging over the club.
To recap, there was a well publicised consortium of wealthy Rangers fans who worked with South Africa-based Dave King to wrest the club from its former directors.
They achieved this by buying more than a third of the shares in the club. And that's the way it has remained.
But if you're involved in a takeover of a company - any company - when you get past 30% of share ownership, you are required, by law to make an offer to buy all the other shares.
The price is set by the regulator at the highest level reached in the last 12 months during which the bidder was amassing shares.
If shareholders combine forces to take over a company, as this team did, in a so-called "concert party", that has to be declared as a single bid. In this case, no such declaration was officially made. The Takeover Panel has since said that it should have been.
There's a good reason for this. With 30% you can have effective control of a company. Now, think of company A which buys enough shares in its main commercial rival company B, to take control of its boardroom.
By taking decisions which undermine the health of that company, A's owner can shrink B's market share and profitability, and ultimately run it out of business altogether. That's clearly not in the interests of the other shareholders of company B. So fairness requires that they are offered a fair price for every shareholder to sell to the takeover bidder.
That rivalry scenario may not apply at Ibrox, but the law still does. And since the Takeover Panel last month told Dave King he had a month to make an offer to buy all the club's shares, he seems to have simply ignored it.
That's why the Panel is taking the unprecedented action of seeking to enforce its ruling, through the Court of Session.
The court can take whatever action it believes is necessary to ensure the law is observed. Mr King could, for instance, be barred from acting as a director, or forced to sell his stake in the club. And if Mr King continues to ignore legal authority, he can be ruled in contempt of court.
The Takeover Panel's code also includes measures for "cold shouldering" - for instance, requiring professional bodies to challenge the director's continued status within them. That may not much bother a businessman in South Africa, but if it pushes the financial regulator to ensure financial companies don't have anything to do with a delinquent director, then that could hurt a bit more.
Now, here are two puzzling complications. The Takeover Panel ruling says that Mr King must offer to buy all the other shares at 20 pence. But if you look at the platform on which Rangers International Football Club (RIFC) shares are traded, you'll find the most recent trades have been at 27.5 pence.
It might, at first, seem daft to sell your shares for 20 pence when the going rate appears to be 27.5 pence. But that going rate may not be as it seems.
The trading platform won't tell you is how recent these trades were. That market is not like the London stock exchange. You put up a share stake for sale, and wait for someone else to show interest. Trading is sticky. It may be possible, that way, to inflate the true value of shares.
And if you have shares in any company, they are only worth something if you can find someone to buy them. It matters a lot that such markets have liquidity - meaning enough willing buyers.
The other puzzlement is the 10.4% of the company that's owned by anonymous funds that have refused to respond to messages from Ibrox.
Blue Pitch Holdings has four million shares, ATP Investments has 2.6m, Norne Anstalt has 1.2m and Putney Holdings has 700,000.
Directors have written to them "requiring information about the nature of those interests". And having received no answer, they have barred these shareholders from exercising voting rights, receiving any dividends, or having a transfer of shares registered. That should make them impossible to sell.
These appear to be zombie shareholders, which many may wish to link to those with a previous interest in running the club. Whoever is behind them, it's a weird presence on the share register of a company which is now in a lot of hot water.
Of course, Dave King could solve his Takeover Panel problems by now making an offer for those shares, including the zombie element. That could cost him £11m, plus hefty advice, offer and transaction costs.
That would set back to square one the romantic notion of ownership by the wider fan base, eventually handing control to the fans.
It would also require Mr King to make good on his commitment to the club. He is supposed to be very rich, from his South African businesses. His clash with the country's tax authorities would suggest he must have done a lot of successful business to have failed to pay so much tax on it.
We don't know how he got into that very expensive mess in his tax affairs. But the evidence suggests he may be the kind of person who receives official-looking letters and stuffs them in a drawer in the hope that the problem goes away. As a general rule, it doesn't. | Back in the top flight of Scottish football, at least some pride restored, the fans at Ibrox might still hope that normal service has now resumed. |
Please provide a summary for the content below. | Carolyn Fairbairn spoke after meeting business representatives in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
She said: "Firms are making decisions now, they need to know now what sort of border solution is going to be found."
The operation of the Irish border is one of the most sensitive Brexit issues.
Political leaders in London, Dublin, Brussels and Belfast have all said there should be "no hard border" and "no return to the borders of the past".
However, so far there have been no firm proposals on how to achieve that when Northern Ireland is outside the customs union and single market and the Republic of Ireland remains inside.
The UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis said more time was spent on Irish issues on the first day of the Brexit talks compared to any other subject.
The Republic of Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has suggested that Northern Ireland will require a "unique status".
He told the Irish Independent: "If we're going to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, there needs to be some relationship with the customs union and common market that allows Northern Ireland to be able to operate the way that it does today."
Meanwhile, officials from HM Customs and Revenue are in Belfast for a series of meetings with business groups.
It is understood they are beginning a fact-finding process about border trade issues. | The director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said an urgent solution is needed to Irish border issues after Brexit. |
Give a brief summary of the content. | Australians vote on Saturdays and many booths are located at schools, churches and community halls.
These institutions take advantage of the country's high voter turnout by selling sausages, cakes and coffees to waiting voters.
Both the prime minister and opposition leader have been snagged in sausage-related controversies.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten committed a faux pas when he tried to eat his sausage-and-bun combination from the side, rather than from the end.
His unusual technique led to a round of condemnation on social media, with one wag calling it "the lowest moment we have ever seen in politics".
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, meanwhile, skipped the sausage altogether as he voted in Sydney, possibly wanting to avoid a potentially awkward photo opportunity.
The tradition is so popular that two websites have been created to tell voters where to find polling booths with sausage sizzles and cake stalls. The hashtag #democracysausage has been trending on Twitter.
Brisbane man Grant Castner, who runs the Election Sausage Sizzles website, said Google and Twitter were using his data to inform hungry voters of their nearest cookout.
"The Australian Electoral Commission has a download of all the polling booth data … and then I just get schools and anyone holding a polling booth to register on the site, put a description in," he says.
"Since the last election in 2013 we have had a lot of media attention, so I didn't do too much finding on my own this time."
According to the Election Sausage Sizzles site, sausage sizzles and cake stalls are being held at 1,992 polling booths across Australia - just under one-third of the total number. | Barbecues have been fired up at polling booths across Australia for traditional election-day "sausage sizzles". |
Summarize the provided information. | Six-day racing has been around fashion's revolving door a few times but - if the organisers of a new event starting in London on Sunday have timed it right - this Ben-Hur-with-bikes marathon, for a darts and dance music crowd, could become this season's sensation.
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But it is also probably fair to say that most British sports fans have never heard of six-day racing, let alone seen it, and even cycling's most dedicated followers could be forgiven for being a little vague on the details.
After all, this is a variety of racing not seen in these parts since 1980, and the intervening years have often seen it dismissed as, at best, a bit of fun while we wait for the weather to improve and, at worst, fixed racing on fixed-wheel bikes, featuring guys on speed, roared on by drunks.
So what is it exactly, who is riding, how do you win and when does the disco start?
For a period of history that is best known for empire, industry and straitlaced propriety, Victorian Britain also enjoyed betting on ridiculous physical challenges: swimming races against dogs, wrestling bears, playing cricket for five days and so on.
It was in that "go on, I dare you" spirit that a Mr Davis bet professional cyclist David Stanton £100 that he could not ride 1,000 miles in a week, excluding Sunday's day of rest, of course.
Stanton set off on a penny-farthing, on a temporary track at Islington's Agricultural Hall, early on Monday, 25 February, 1878. Five uncomfortable days later, he had his £100.
The venue, which is now the Business Design Centre, had already staged a six-day walking race - an event that drew 20,000 punters a day - so it was not too much of a leap to put on a six-day, no-napping bike race in November 1878, a spectacle that was repeated up and down the land at least 30 times over the next three years.
But it was in the US that it really took off, particularly at New York's Madison Square Garden, an arena best known for prize fights, circuses and other popular dramas - the sleep-deprived racers fitted right in.
Amid concerns that riders were popping amphetamines to fight the fatigue, local authorities brought in a 12-hour limit, a move the race organisers countered by making them two-man events, so one rider could race while the other slept, usually in basement dorms.
As bikes and tracks improved in the early decades of the 20th century, the speeds and distances travelled went up, as did the crowds. This was six-day racing's gilded age as Hollywood celebrities mixed with gangsters at track centre and the biggest jazz bands of the day provided the soundtrack.
And then, almost as quickly as they got hitched, America and six-day racing split up.
Whether it was baseball, the Great Depression, the rise of the automobile or too many foreign riders that did it, the game was up by the 1950s.
But the New World's loss was the Old World's gain as the American formula of bikes, booze and bravery had become a fixture in European cycling's heartlands.
Robert Dineen's recently published history of British cycling, "Kings of the Road", describes this chapter in six-day racing's story as "highly lucrative, unspeakably tough, possibly shady and certainly confusing" and its stars were "the most technically accomplished cyclists in the world".
From Antwerp to Zurich, an elite group of track specialists would team up with - or take on - star turns from the world of road cycling in an exhausting schedule of late nights and packed houses. These were hard men capable of riding 35mph for hours at a time, six nights a week.
Rob Hayles, a double gold medallist at the 2005 World Track Championships, rode 21 sixes between 1996 and 2005 and ticked off every major stop on the circuit. He remembers the "shadiness" but says it is more complicated than many would have it.
"It wasn't all fixed but the big teams would look after themselves - it would nearly always come down to a shoot-out between them on the final evening," said the Briton, who also won three Olympic track medals.
"But you needed to be very strong, very aware of what was going on and a bit lucky to win. Even then it was very, very hard to win, although it was quite easy to stop somebody else winning.
"And that's my main memory of them: the best teams would just beat you up."
Dineen's description of the scene comes in a chapter on Tony Doyle, who rode his first six-day race, the Skol 6, at Wembley Arena in 1980.
That would be the last such event in the UK for 35 years but it planted a seed as Doyle would spend the next decade becoming Britain's most successful exponent of the event.
He earned that initial invite by winning the world pursuit title earlier that year, so he was no mug, but it would take him three years to earn his spurs in this company and start winning races.
Doyle was regularly paired with Australian track great Danny Clark, although he was sometimes given the job of shepherding big names from the road through what was, to many of them, a terrifying ordeal.
Recalling those days now, when he rode up to 16 six-day races a year, half of them in Germany, Doyle reels off Tour de France champions Laurent Fignon, Greg LeMond and Stephen Roche as former partners.
But he also talks fondly about performing to nearly 150,000 fans in Bremen, the 100,000 who would regularly come to Munich's Six, the nightclub that would open there when the racing finished at two in the morning, Sunday's kids-for-free sessions and Monday's "women's nights" when the clientele would make most of today's promoters blush.
"The racing was serious, though, and dangerous if you got it wrong," said Doyle, who should know, he was given the last rites whilst in a coma in Munich after a terrible crash in 1989.
He would come back 12 months later and win it again with Clark.
The Londoner's riding career came to an end in 1994 when he broke his back in a crash at a six-day race in Zurich, but he stayed in cycling, helping to get the Tour of Britain restarted in 1994 and becoming president of the British Cycling Federation in 1996. He would later work for Nike and chair the London borough of Southwark's Olympic legacy board.
His passion for six-day racing never diminished, though, which is crucial to this story as the circuit needed cheerleaders as determined as Doyle.
What had once been a crowded calendar was getting sparse as the millennium turned, with venues realising they could make easier money from pop concerts, while the best riders preferred road cycling's steady salaries. Six-day racing looked like it might have had its day.
But several factors combined to get fashion's revolving door moving again.
First, British track cyclists started to win serious amounts of medals and these newly-minted champions would need more regular exposure.
Second, London won the right to stage the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics: this would mean building a velodrome and then filling it regularly.
And third, we all went a bit bonkers for biking, be it as a way to lose weight, get to work, see the countryside or display our wealth.
Having come close to bringing a six to London's ExCel in 2008 - only for the credit crunch to intervene - Doyle kept plugging away at his contacts in London's investment banks, the cycling world and those responsible for ensuring London's Olympic legacy.
Seven years later, six-day racing is back in the capital, less than five miles from where it started, 137 years ago.
Six Day London - which starts on Sunday, 18 October, and runs until Friday, 23 October - is not quite a classic six but it is close.
Because of the overlap with the European Track Championships in Switzerland, the opening day at the Lee Valley VeloPark is a standalone event called the 1878 Cup, which will run as an omnium-style, points-based competition. It is also a matinee performance, aimed at families.
Come Monday, with the riders all present, the real deal begins, with 18 men's pairings spending the next five nights (the sessions run from 1730 to 2230) doing battle; and nine women's pairings taking part in a three-day omnium from Wednesday.
For the men, the goal is simple: complete the most laps. How they do that, though, takes us back to Dineen's confusion, as the teams compete in six formats, sometimes as a pair, sometimes individually.
The madison, named after the venue that made it famous, provides the backbone and the teams do it twice a session.
A popular feature of the Olympic programme until its removal after the 2008 Games, this is the tag-race that sees one rider racing at the bottom of the track, while the other circles slowly at the top waiting for a hand-sling to propel them into the fray. The idea is to steal a lap on the rest, although there are also points on offer for intermediate sprints in the first of evening's madisons.
The other formats are all for the points that break any ties in the main contest.
The elimination race is an individual format, with the last rider to cross the line every second lap removed until two are left to fight out the points. The super sprint is similar except for the final being contested between six riders, not two.
Like keirin races at the Olympics, the derny and stayer formats involve individuals racing behind motorised bikes that provide big slipstreams, enabling the riders to reach high speeds for flying final laps.
And the team time trial is a two-lap effort the teams do one by one, one team-mate giving the other a madison-style sling to power to the line.
Simple, right?
But if you are struggling to keep score you could just order another beer, enjoy the lightshow and bounce along to the tunes from Ministry of Sound DJ Martin 2 Smoove.
So who, apart from Martin 2 Smoove, is performing?
Mark Cavendish, a partner in the business, will be there…but not on his bike. The injury he picked up at last month's Tour of Britain has not healed in time. Sir Chris Hoy, an event "ambassador", will also be there, but bikeless, and some observers have suggested this is a theme.
This perception is perhaps not helped by recently crowned European champions Sir Bradley Wiggins and Laura Trott, who are also not riding in London, agreeing to race the Revolution Series event in Manchester a day after Six Day London finishes.
But Madison Sports Group boss Mark Darbon denies his event lacks star quality.
He points to the 11 world champions, six European champions and two Olympic champions that are coming, not to mention Dame Sarah Storey.
In total, there are 65 riders on the programme, with Belgium's Iljo Keisse, Dutch star Niki Terpstra and British duo Adam Blythe and Dani King being the biggest draws.
"We are a new event finding our way in a crowded market but our field compares very well to any of the other six-day races in Europe," said Darbon.
"The timing is perhaps not perfect but we did not want to die wondering if this could work, so we have got on with it."
As ever, much will depend on ticket sales and Darbon is relatively happy with those. A quick look at the box office website suggests there are still plenty available but Thursday and Friday should be full.
"It's a show, an entertainment and the bike racing is just part of it," explained Hayles.
"Sure, the crowds in Ghent and Zurich were really into the racing, and get massively into it, but in Germany there was all kinds of stuff going on - jet-powered go karts, laser shows, circus acts - and the racing was a show before the nightclub opened."
It is hard to see London's organisers getting all that past health and safety but a clue as to where they want to position this event was provided when they recently bought the Berlin Six.
Because nobody is as serious about fun as the Germans. Or the Victorians, for that matter. | It started with a bet, burned bright in America's Jazz Age, became a European winter staple and is now back, almost where it started, after a 35-year absence. |
Write a summary of this document. | The defendants were detained after secret filming by BBC Panorama at Winterbourne View, near Bristol.
They face 38 charges of either neglect or ill-treatment of people with severe learning difficulties.
Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol, said the sentencing hearing could last up to five days.
Earlier the court dealt only with Wayne Rogers, 31, of Kingswood, the most senior support worker to be charged.
Rogers has already pleaded guilty to nine charges of ill treating five patients. He is currently in jail after asking for his bail to be cancelled.
In court, Rogers' barrister Giles Nelson said his client accepted there was no excuse for his conduct and that an "atmosphere of conflict had spread like a disease".
He said Rogers had pleaded guilty "at the earliest possible opportunity" and said his client "genuinely does not recognise himself" on the footage shown to the court.
"He knows he will be perceived as someone behaving in a grotesque way. He accepts there is no excuse for his conduct," he said.
During five weeks spent filming undercover, a Panorama reporter captured footage of some of the hospital's most vulnerable patients being repeatedly pinned down, slapped, dragged into showers while fully clothed, taunted and teased.
A serious case review published in August condemned the hospital's owner Castlebeck for putting profits before care.
Castlebeck said the criticisms in the report were being "actively addressed".
The other 10 defendants are:
Michael Ezenagu, 29, from Shepherds Bush, west London; Alison Dove, 24, of Kingswood; Graham Doyle, 25, of Patchway; Jason Gardiner, 44, of Hartcliffe; Daniel Brake, 27, of Downend; Holly Laura Draper, 23, of Mangotsfield; Charlotte Justine Cotterell, 21, from Yate and Neil Ferguson, 27, of Emerson Green have all admitted ill-treating patients in their care.
Sooaklingum Appoo, 58, of Downend, and Kelvin Fore, 33, from Middlesbrough, pleaded guilty to wilfully neglecting patients in their care.
Dove requested to remain in custody but the remaining nine defendants were released on bail by Judge Neil Ford QC, the Recorder of Bristol.
The sentencing hearing was adjourned until tomorrow. | The sentencing of 11 care workers who admitted maltreating patients at a private hospital has begun at Bristol Crown Court. |
What is a brief summary of the information below? | Some women who underwent fertility treatment to have a first child and stored their frozen embryos, however, are suddenly at an advantage now to have a second child.
The killing took place in north-western Badghis province. There are some reports that the woman's husband had authorised the separation from abroad.
But when he returned to Afghanistan, he petitioned a self-appointed Taliban court against her remarriage. The Taliban deny carrying out the killing.
Divorce is taboo in the country, especially for women.
Officials said the militants forced the woman, whose name has been given as Aziza, to go to her father's house, where they shot her.
Local politician Naser Nazari said the woman, thought to be 25, was killed on Saturday.
"Her former husband authorised one of his relatives here to divorce Aziza," he told Pajhwok news.
It reported that she then married another man but when her husband returned from working in Iran he denied divorcing her and went to the militants.
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi told the BBC the cause of the killing was a family feud.
He said the Taliban had already detained two men involved in the case and pledged to "punish them according to Sharia law".
There are regular reports of the Taliban putting women to death in areas they control after accusing them of adultery or other alleged transgressions.
They carried out the public killing of women - usually over alleged adultery - in the main stadium in the capital, Kabul, when they were in power in the country in the 1990s.
In her first statement to the Northern Ireland Assembly, Michelle O'Neill said that excessive waiting times were "unacceptable".
But she added that in order to tackle the problem, additional investment is required.
Mrs O'Neill, from Sinn Féin, was appointed as health minister on 25 May.
She told MLAs: "I will assure the assembly, patients and their families, that long waiting times are completely unacceptable to me.
"However, I will need time, new investment, radical change in how we deliver services to create the conditions for a sustainable health service and the better outcomes that we all want to see."
She added that 80,000 patients have benefitted from additional funding allocated last November but said she would be bidding for further additional resources.
It is significant that Ms O'Neill chose to address the problem of waiting times in her first statement to the assembly as health minister.
She said that it would require not only additional funding, which she would seek via Stormont's June monitoring round, but also additional investment would also be required.
The minister also mentioned the prospect of radical reform which could be recommended under the Bengoa health review.
Batting off several challenges from MLAs who were guarded about losing potential hospital services in their area, Ms O'Neill said unless there was meaningful change they would be back time and time again debating the same issue.
Alliance Party MLA Chris Lyttle asked the minister what "specific radical reform she plans to deliver that her predecessor did not".
Mrs O'Neill said she recognised that "the pace of change was not quick enough".
"I want to take the body of work that Professor Bengoa has been involved with and actually seriously transform our health service, otherwise we will be having this debate time and time again."
She added: "The only way we are going to get that is to have real pace of change and real meaningful change that actually reconfigures how we deliver services.
"That's my priority in the time ahead and that is the legacy I want to leave in this department." | Last year, China ended its one-child policy for urban couples, but the change has come too late for many mothers.
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Taliban militants in Afghanistan have shot dead a woman who divorced her husband and remarried, officials say.
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Northern Ireland's health minister has said her department needs significant additional funding to meet the growing demands within the health service. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | Humberside Police Roads Traffic Unit tweeted a picture of their speed camera reading on Saturday morning.
The driver was stopped on the M62 near Goole, East Yorkshire.
The roads policing unit tweeted: "M62 nr Goole. This speeder was twice over the drink drive limit with his little kids in the car! #inthecells".
The 22-year-old Colombian was caught behind his rivals in the closing stages in Tortona but surged up the barriers on the inside to take victory.
Bernard Hinault, a 10-time Grand Tour winner, won five stages on his debut at the 1978 Vuelta a Espana.
Tom Dumoulin still leads the Giro.
The Dutch Sunweb rider finished safely in the peloton to maintain his advantage of two minutes 23 seconds over Colombia's Nairo Quintana (Movistar).
Orica's Adam Yates is the highest-placed Briton in 15th, six minutes 52 seconds behind Dumoulin, after Team Sky's Geraint Thomas pulled out earlier on Friday because of injury.
Quick-Step Floors' Gaviria also won stages three, five and 12, but this was his most impressive win, having been forced to swerve around team-mate Maximiliano Richeze in the final 300m to overhaul Sam Bennett (Bora), who finished second, with Trek's Jasper Stuyven in third.
The focus returns to the general classification on Saturday, with a 131km stage starting in Castellania and ending in a summit finish in Santuario di Oropa.
1. Fernando Gaviria (Col/Quick-Step) 3hrs 47mins 45secs
2. Sam Bennett (Ire/Bora) Same time
3. Jasper Stuyven (Bel/Trek)
4. Roberto Ferrari (Ita/UAE Team Emirates)
5. Ryan Gibbons (SA/ Dimension Data)
6. Rudiger Selig (Ger/Bora)
7. Sacha Modolo (Ita/UAE Team Emirates)
8. Caleb Ewan (Aus/Orica)
9. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto Soudal)
10. Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Rus/Katusha)
1. Tom Dumoulin (Ned/Sunweb) 56hrs 28mins 53secs
2. Nairo Quintana (Col/Movistar) +2mins 23secs
3. Bauke Mollema (Ned/Trek) +2mins 38secs
4. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/FDJ) +2mins 40secs
5. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Bahrain) +2mins 47secs
6. Andrey Amador (Crc/Movistar) +3mins 05secs
7. Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step) +3mins 56secs
8. Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita/AG2R) +3mins 59secs
9. Tanel Kangert (Est/Astana) Same time
10. Ilnur Zakarin (Rus/Katusha) +4mins 17secs
Selected others:
15. Adam Yates (GB/Orica) +6mins 52secs | A motorist who was allegedly twice the drink-driving limit has been arrested after being clocked at 121mph on a motorway with children in the car.
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Fernando Gaviria became the first rider for 39 years to win four or more stages on his Grand Tour debut with a stunning sprint victory on stage 13 of the Giro d'Italia. |
Summarize the provided section. | All of them denied charges during hearings at Glasgow Sheriff Court.
The 12 were bailed by Sheriff Neil MacKinnon pending trials later this year.
Sheriff MacKinnon freed them on the condition they do not attend a football match in the UK meantime.
Scott Robertson, 23, Mark Richardson, 50, Shaun Harrold, 25, Graham Smith, 29, Christopher Jardine, 34, Jordan McArthur, 23, Christopher Forbes, 18, Mark Kerr, 21, Christopher Learie, 29, Grant Ross, 29, as well as twins Mark and Liam Cumming all appeared separately.
Mr Wright chaired the Scottish Constitutional Convention which laid the groundwork for Holy rood.
The retired Scottish Episcopal Church priest died on Wednesday, the Scottish government confirmed.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said he was "a great loss to Scotland's political, civil and religious communities".
Her predecessor, Alex Salmond, described him as "one of the great spirits of the movement of self-government."
Born in Paisley in 1932, Mr Wright worked as a Methodist missionary in India before serving at Coventry Cathedral in England.
He returned to Scotland in 1981 as General Secretary of the Scottish Council of Churches.
A long-time campaigner for Scottish devolution, he became chief executive of the cross-party Scottish Constitutional Convention which laid the groundwork for devolution.
He famously responded to Margaret Thatcher's refusal to accept the idea of Scottish devolution with the comment: "We say yes - and we are the people."
He later ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the parliament he helped create for the Liberal Democrats.
Ms Sturgeon said she was "deeply saddened" by the news.
She said: "His input to the creation of the Scottish Parliament cannot be overstated.
"His chairmanship of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, which led to the creation of the Scottish Parliament, was testament to his strength of character, tenacity and charisma. He was able to bring together the different strands of Scottish politics and society to achieve consensus about the way ahead for Scottish devolution.
"His legacy will live on through the work of the Scottish Parliament."
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale also paid tribute.
She said: "His work and tireless campaigning with the Scottish Constitutional Convention is a vital reason why we have a Scottish Parliament today.
"For generations to come there will be a parliament in Edinburgh that makes decisions affecting the everyday lives of Scots, and that is the wonderful legacy he leaves behind.
"The day before the Scottish Parliament opened in 1999, Canon Kenyon Wright handed the Claim of Right to Donald Dewar.
"That document now resides in the Donald Dewar Room in the Scottish Parliament, a fitting reminder of what was achieved by these giants of Scotland's devolution movement."
Scottish Greens co-convener, Patrick Harvie MSP said: "I was very sad to learn of Kenyon Wright's death, and will remember him not only as a long-standing supporter of the campaign to create and then strengthen the Scottish Parliament, but also as a thoroughly decent and respectful voice on the political landscape.
"Politics these days can often be hostile, impatient and divisive; it's a time when we need more people with Kenyon's non-tribal approach. He'll be sadly missed across the whole political landscape and I hope that we'll all remember him both as a friend and as a great example of civilised politics." | Twelve men have appeared in court in connection with trouble which followed the Scottish Cup final between Rangers and Hibs at Hampden Park in Glasgow last month.
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Canon Kenyon Wright, who played a central role in the creation of the Scottish Parliament, has died aged 84. |
Can you provide an overview of this section? | The women have voiced heroines spanning nearly three decades of films, from The Little Mermaid (1989) to 2016's Moana.
Snow White and Cinderella were absent, but Disney claimed it was the largest gathering of its "royals" in one place.
They are resuming their roles for a new film which Disney said would "break down" the princess stereotype.
Next year's release, Wreck-It Ralph 2, will feature all the Disney princesses in a scene where they wear T-shirts - not dresses - and discuss the "challenges of being perfect".
John Lasseter, Disney and Pixar's chief creative officer, said at Sunday's Disney expo in California: "These characters are really strong... We love to think of them way beyond just the movie that was made."
Source: Walt Disney Studios
Irene Bedard, who played Pocahontas in 1995, said the princesses would be moving with the times.
She told Variety magazine: "We can say this is the story that was told - but now we have a chance to take it into our hands again and have princesses with a twist.
"For me, being a princess means really being able to know to listen to your heart and have that voice - and speak out when we all should have that chance."
Disney, which has faced questions over the impact its princesses might have on young girls' ideas of perfection, has more recently attempted to rework its on-screen heroines.
Moana featured a princess with an "average" body type, while this year's Beauty and the Beast portrayed Belle as an inventor. | As proof that you can be a princess when you grow up, the voices behind 10 of Disney's cartoon princesses have gathered at a US event for fans. |
Can you summarize this content? | Mohammed Haji Sadiq taught for 30 years at the Madina mosque in Cardiff.
Sadiq, from Cyncoed, was found guilty of 14 child sex offences but cleared of one count of indecent assault at Cardiff Crown Court.
He had denied the charges involving four girls aged between five and 11 and blamed "politics" in the mosque for the accusations.
The offences took place between 1996 and 2006 at the Woodville Road mosque.
The court heard Sadiq "took advantage of his position" and touched the four girls inappropriately as a form of punishment, abusing the girls if they made a mistake while reciting the Koran.
Some of his victims said they were afraid to attend the mosque because of his abuse.
Jurors were also told Sadiq would use a stick as a form of punishment in class and hit people over the hand or hard on the back.
One victim said he would threaten young pupils.
His Honour Judge Stephen Hopkins QC said Sadiq was found guilty "on the most compelling evidence".
He said the case clearly passed the custody threshold and that Sadiq would be monitored electronically.
Sadiq, who has had no involvement in the mosque since 2006 when it burnt down, was released on bail and will be sentenced at a later date. | An 81-year-old former Koran teacher has been convicted of a string of child sex offences. |
Can you summarize the given article? | Two men aged 35 and a 27-year-old woman all died in hospital after taking the illegal drug in the Stockton area.
Cleveland Police said street dealers were passing the batch off as a higher grade version of the drug.
A spokesman said officers were working with drug support agencies to identify the suppliers.
The first man was admitted to the University Hospital of North Tees on 5 February and died on 11 February.
A second man was admitted to the same hospital on 13 February and a woman was admitted in the early hours of 16 February. Both died on Friday.
The force spokesman added: "Obviously we don't advocate anyone should buy any type of drugs, but we are aware there are batches of particularly harmful heroin on the streets which are being peddled by dealers as a higher standard than they are." | The deaths of three people in the space of a week are being blamed on a batch of low grade heroin which is circulating on Teesside. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | The pair, aged 20 and 21 who have not been named yet, are thought to have made that error and snorted the drug.
Sold as a "white powder", the drug has traditionally come from south-east Asia and sold in places like Australia.
"It's a really difficult job for someone who's new or naive to opiates to pick [between] heroin and cocaine.
"The main risk with white heroin is people who are naive users is that it's a light, white-coloured powder," says Prof John Fitzgerald, of the University of Melbourne.
He has studied the illegal drug trade in Australia for many years.
"It can be confused with other white and light-coloured powders."
He adds: "For people who don't usually use strong psychoactive drugs, the general advice would be that if you're in an unfamiliar place, don't do it."
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He says that even those selling the drug may not always be completely sure what substance they are dealing in.
"It's very possible that you get people who are dealing in quantities or purities that they haven't dealt with before and that accidents happen," Prof Fitzgerald.
Rob van de Veen, a police spokesman in Amsterdam, says white heroin is "much more expensive" than cocaine, but the dealer "sold it for the same price [as cocaine] several times".
"We think he doesn't know what he is selling," he says.
He says that in the past different types of heroin ended up in different markets.
While white heroin tends to be produced in south-east Asia and sold in the southern hemisphere, brown heroin originates in places like Afghanistan and typically makes its way to Europe.
"It's much easier with brown heroin [to tell the difference] because it certainly looks brown and cocaine doesn't come in a brown form," says Prof Fitzgerald.
In recent years however, brown heroin has become more prevalent in Australia and according to Prof Fitzgerald, it is difficult to know whether more white heroin will come to Europe.
"The drug market is inherently unpredictable," he says.
"Whilst there's been a sharp distinction between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere over decades... I wouldn't be surprised if you start seeing a different mix of the different forms of heroin that are available."
Because white heroin tends to be more soluble in water than brown heroin, users tend to inject the drug.
Prof Fitzgerald points out that this method of taking drugs, comes with increased risks of certain side effects and problems.
"When you inject a drug you increase the risk of hepatitis and HIV transmission," he says. "That is an additional risk to injecting heroin, especially white heroin."
According to the drug advice service Talk To Frank, taking heroin can lead to comas and death. Injecting drugs can cause damage to veins and arteries and cause infections.
The service also says that people have died of cocaine overdoses and that the drug can cause cardiac problems, including heart attacks. It is also linked to depression and mental health problems.
In the UK both cocaine and heroin are a class A drugs, which means possession can result in up to seven years in prison and an unlimited fine.
The police have yet to release the names of the two men who died on Tuesday.
The Foreign Office says it's providing assistance to family members.
Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube | Typically purer than brown heroin and easily mistaken for cocaine, white heroin caused the death of two young British men in Amsterdam this week. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | 28 January 2017 Last updated at 11:49 GMT
People celebrate with fireworks, giving gifts of money in red envelopes, eating special food and performing a lion dance.
Martin's been to meet some kids in Manchester getting involved.
Officers received a report of an unconscious and injured man found on Lion Street at about 01:00 BST on Sunday.
He was taken to hospital by ambulance but later died.
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the man was a soldier and Dyfed-Powys Police said the death was being treated as unexplained.
It is understood the soldier was not wearing army uniform and there was nothing to indicate his death was linked to extremism.
The area has been cordoned off and anyone who was around Lion Street, Bethel Square, Tredegar Street and High Street between 00.30 and 01:30 is asked to call 101.
An Army spokesperson said: "We are aware of an incident involving the death of a soldier in Brecon.
"Dyfed-Powys Police are investigating and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time."
With the country seemingly close to running out of cash, government spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis said a deal was "required immediately".
Greece has to make a payment of €1.5bn (£1.09bn) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 5 June.
Last week , the government raided its IMF reserves in order to pay €750m in debt interest on its existing loans.
"A deal is required immediately, this is why we are talking about the end of May, to resolve these critical liquidity issues," Gabriel Sakellaridis said.
The Greek government, EU and IMF have been locked in negotiations for four months over economic reforms the IMF and EU say must be implemented before the latest €7.2bn tranche of the country's bailout fund is released.
The deadlock has created fresh fears that Greece will run out of cash.
Issues still to be resolved are thought to include pension reform, deregulation of the labour market, and the re-hiring of 4,000 former civil servants.
There have been suggestions Greece could default on loan repayments as early as the next €1.5bn payment due to the IMF.
Greece faces a stringent repayment schedule in the coming months, and also needs to continue paying salaries and pensions.
EU Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas welcomed the commitment by the Greek government to bring the talks to a conclusion but said "more time and effort is needed to bridge the gaps on the remaining open issues in the negotiations".
"Constructive contacts are ongoing and progress is being made, even though still at a slow pace," he added.
He admitted Greece was likely to be one of the main topics of conversation at this week's EU Eastern Partnership Summit in the Latvian capital, Riga.
But he added that whatever happened there could be no "substitute for the need to bridge the gaps on the last remaining issues that are being discussed".
Separately, the Commission declined to confirm reports in Greek newspaper To Vima that Commission President Jean Claude Juncker was working on watered-down economic reforms that the Greek government could agree to and allow the next tranche of bailout money to be released.
The newspaper claimed the proposal put forward to the Greek government required fewer reforms and a smaller primary surplus target than the 3% of GDP currently demanded.
"I can't confirm media reports on @EU-Commission/Juncker proposal on GR. Not aware of such proposal. Working towards comprehensive deal," Commission spokeswoman Annika Breidhardt said on Twitter. | Chinese New Year is on 28 January and it's the year of the rooster.
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Police are investigating the death of a soldier in Brecon.
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Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | The party was the biggest loser as the Conservatives took 56 of 75 seats to retain overall control - an increase of 14 compared to the last election in 2013.
Labour lost three seats and the Liberal Democrats two, while Independent candidates gained two seats.
UKIP's Mark Ellis said his party was "not a spent force".
Mr Ellis, who lost his Laindon Park and Fryerns seat, added: "People are listening to Theresa May - and she is pretty UKIP in my opinion - and unfortunately people are thinking UKIP is a spent force, which we are not.
"UKIP is here to stay."
In 2013, the Tories won 42 seats, while UKIP, Labour and the Liberal Democrats took nine seats each.
The Conservatives now hold 56 seats, the Liberal Democrats seven and Labour six. The Canvey Island Independent Party holds two seats, Independents two, Green one and Independent Loughton Residents one.
The Conservatives took all four seats in Harlow, including two from Labour.
Labour's Mike Danvers, who lost Harlow North by nearly 1,000 votes to Tory Michael Garnett, was deputy leader of the Labour group on the county council.
He said he believed he lost because UKIP had not fielded a candidate in the division.
He said: "UKIP people voted Tory. The Tory vote has zoomed up and overtaken me."
Dick Madden, a Conservative cabinet member on the county council who held his Moulsham seat, said: "We did expect to make gains and we hoped we would be increasing our seats."
Mike Mackrory, leader of the Liberal Democrats on the county council, said: "Our number one priority was holding the seats we already had.
"We have managed to do that and increased our majorities on some seats."
The first result in Essex came in shortly after midnight when Kerry Smith, who quit UKIP in 2014, won Basildon Westley Heights with a majority of more than 2,000.
He said the result was a reflection of his "hard work".
John Jowers, the Conservative vice chairman of the county council who held his seat, said the council had "lost some good guys" with the UKIP seat losses.
He said: "You really do need to work together and cooperate in local government - it is not like the green benches in parliament.
"It is often the case that when things get politicized, they go wrong."
James Webb, from Macclesfield, Cheshire, was a civil engineering student at Plymouth University.
Officers pulled Mr Webb from the water at Sutton Harbour early on Sunday morning but he died shortly afterwards.
A police spokesman said officers were treating the death as "unexplained but not suspicious". The spokesman said Mr Webb's family had been informed.
Det Insp Ian Reid said: "This is a tragic incident and we would like to offer our condolences to the family.
"We are trying to establish the circumstances surrounding James' death."
Dr Maureen Powers, Dean of Students at Plymouth University, said: "We were deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of one of our students.
"Our thoughts first and foremost are with his family, friends, and those closest to him.
"James was a promising student who was close to graduating from his MEng Civil Engineering course just next year, and will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
"We are doing everything possible to support those affected at this difficult and incredibly sad time." | UKIP has been wiped off the county map in Essex with the loss of nine seats in Thursday's election.
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Police have named a man who died after being pulled from a harbour in Plymouth as a 21-year-old student. |
Please provide a short summary of this passage. | Flanagan, 23, has made 40 league appearances for Liverpool since his debut in 2010, including 23 in 2013-14 under Brendan Rodgers.
However, the Anfield youth product's progress stalled after after he had knee surgery in September 2014, and he has made just eight appearances since.
"It's a massive club with passionate fans, I can't wait," said Flanagan, who has played once for England.
Flanagan is Burnley's third summer signing, after Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Nick Pope both joined from Charlton Athletic.
Two people died when their car was crushed by a falling tree in Gelsenkirchen, in western Germany. Two children in the car were injured.
In Brittany, western France, a woman was swept out to sea. And in the Dutch city of Amsterdam a tree felled by the wind crushed a woman by a canal.
Record gusts of 191 km/h (119mph) were measured over the North Sea.
Many trains were cancelled in and around London and in north-western Germany.
At least 50 flights were cancelled at Schiphol airport in the Netherlands, and the German media reported severe delays at airports in Hamburg and Dusseldorf.
In Germany, a fisherman and a sailor were killed in separate accidents at sea.
Including the Gelsenkirchen incident, four people were killed in north-western Germany when trees fell onto cars, DPA reported.
Power cuts hit 42,000 homes in northern France, and at Belle-Ile in Brittany a woman was swept into the sea from a cliff.
The storm whipped across Brittany and Normandy early on Monday, felling trees and knocking out power lines in some places.
In the UK as many as 600,000 homes suffered power cuts, though many were later reconnected.
In Kent in southeast England, a 17-year-old girl was crushed when a tree fell on the caravans her family was living in while renovation work was taking place at their home.
A man and a woman died when they were trapped under rubble after an uprooted tree caused a gas explosion in Hounslow in west London.
Earlier, two P&O ferries that had been held in the English Channel because of the storm made it to port.
The storm system deepened as it crossed the North Sea, according to the BBC Weather Centre.
German meteorologists measured record wind speeds of 191 km/h (119mph) over the North Sea.
In Brussels, a big banner on the European Commission building - the Berlaymont - was shredded by the wind.
German authorities halted all local trains in Schleswig-Holstein, as well as the Hanover-Bremen service and north-bound trains from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Along Germany's North Sea coast many ferries were confined to port and shipping on the Elbe was also disrupted, ARD reported.
Emergency services in Denmark and Sweden have issued storm warnings, as Scandinavia faces winds gusting at about 162km/h (100mph). | Burnley have signed Liverpool full-back Jon Flanagan on a season-long loan.
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A storm battering north-western Europe has killed at least 13 people - six of them in Germany. |
Summarize the content of the document below. | Education had become "one of the first casualties of the crisis" in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, it added.
The "most marginalised" would bear the brunt of the crisis for generations to come if "safe schools" were not reopened, the group said.
Ebola was declared a health emergency after it was identified in March.
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma said the country still had only 406 beds, or less than one-third of the number required, to treat Ebola patients.
The UK has been heavily criticised by Sierra Leoneans for being slow in building a promised treatment centre.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says 6,055 people have died of the deadly virus in the three states.
Schools were shut to reduce the risk of children becoming infected.
The Global Business Coalition for Education said reopening schools would not only give children an education, but it would also provide a "first line of defence in tracing and monitoring potential cases of Ebola".
Indications were that 54% of children were unlikely to return to the classroom if they were out of school for a year, its report, published in collaboration with A World at School, said.
"Being out of school can have a crippling impact for vulnerable children, especially girls who are more subject to high-risk situations, including pregnancy and early marriage," it added.
"The risk of child labour increases rapidly as contributing to the household economy becomes critical for families."
Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama renewed calls on Tuesday for Congress to approve $6bn (£3.8bn) in emergency aid to fight the outbreak.
He made the plea as medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) again strongly criticised the international response.
It described it as patchy and slow, with the job of tackling the crisis largely left to doctors, nurses and charity organisations.
The MSF report said foreign governments - notably the UK in Sierra Leone and most recently China in Liberia - were continuing to build Ebola treatment centres.
But these were sometimes in the wrong places and using under-qualified local staff.
This week 250 Nigerian healthcare workers have been trained in Lagos ready for deployment to Ebola-hit countries as part of the African Union's efforts to help combat the epidemic.
The ex-RFU board member has called for "serious structural change" to improve the fortunes of the the national side.
The RFU, led by chief executive Ian Ritchie, is conducting a review into England's early World Cup exit.
But Halliday, who won 23 international caps and is European Professional Club Rugby chairman, wants a separate "elite" team to manage England.
"No-one wants to see England at 8th or 9th in the world," Halliday told BBC Radio 5 live. "We all want to get back up to the top of the tree, so let's make the changes."
Stuart Lancaster's side became the first ever sole hosts to fail to reach the knock-out stages of a World Cup.
The panel selected to review England's performance has been criticised, with Ritchie instrumental in appointing Lancaster.
Halliday believes the RFU should concentrate on administering the game for the "massive majority" who play for fun, leaving the "assets" in the "shop window" to be run by an independent structure "united by a common purpose".
"You have to have everyone in the room who has any say in how the players are used, making sure selection is right, and making sure we have the right coaches," he added.
"I believe there are successful structures like that all around the world, and they happen to have won World Cups and got into finals. So why not work from them."
Unlike in countries like Australia and New Zealand, where the governing bodies also have influence over the club game, in England the clubs exist completely independently of the governing body.
And while accepting that won't change, Halliday is adamant the two entities can work closer together for the good of the English game.
"The club structure will not be broken here, it is incredibly powerful," he said. "The key is to bring it together with the union, and make certain that we use all of our resource. We need to get closer together.
"We've got a four-year window now to consider all this, and there are some great people who want to help.
"The RFU are the guardians of our sport. They owe it to all of us, the paying public - whoever you happen to be - if you love your rugby you want to see things work out." | A campaign group has urged the rapid reopening of schools in three Ebola-hit West African states as some 5m children are being denied education.
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Control of the England team should be removed from the Rugby Football Union, says former centre Simon Halliday. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | The 24-year-old had left a putt to win on the 18th short as he shot a five-under-par 66 to finish 17 under.
American Simpson had earlier posted the same score after a 64.
Neither player could break the deadlock until the fourth extra hole where Matsuyama held his nerve for a 10-foot putt and a fourth PGA Tour win.
"It was a struggle but I was delighted to win," he said afterwards.
Twelve months ago, Matsuyama had beaten American Rickie Fowler, also at the fourth extra hole, at the same tournament.
Korea's Byeong-hun An, who led Scotland's Martin Laird by one shot going into the final round, was three shots clear at the halfway point of the final round.
But his challenge crumbled over the final nine holes with back-to-back bogeys at the 10th and 11th before he dropped more shots at the last two holes to finish in sixth place after a 73.
Laird also shot 73 and failed to pick up a birdie to finish on 13 under. | Japan's Hideki Matsuyama retained his Phoenix Open title with a dramatic play-off win over 2012 US Open champion Webb Simpson. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | It happened outside Foyleside Shopping Centre in the city centre on Sunday.
Police said the lorry "rolled away" as it was being unloaded in Ferryquay Street at about 04:45 BST.
It rolled down Linenhall Street and Newmarket Street, hitting bollards, signs and a car before crashing into the shopping centre on Orchard Street.
No-one was injured in the crash.
Police have appealed for witnesses and said they were "particularly keen to speak with three young males who were in the area of Ferryquay Street around the time of the incident".
SDLP councillor John Boyle said the lorry "flattened" a number of bollards outside the Millennium Forum before ending up under the bridge.
However, Mr Boyle said significant damage has been caused to parts of Linenhall Street.
The lorry remains at the scene.
A police spokesman said Newmarket street and Orchard Street remain closed and diversions are in place. | A runaway lorry has rolled down a hill in Londonderry, crashed into the wall of a shopping centre and become lodged under a footbridge. |
Summarize the passage below. | Stephen Port allegedly plied them with the drug at his home in east London so he could have sex with his victims while they were unconscious.
The Old Bailey was told the 41-year-old left their bodies in or near a churchyard and planted suicide notes and fake bottles of the drug on them.
He denies 29 charges, including four murders and seven rapes.
The offences are in connection with attacks on 12 men over three-and-a-half years.
The victims were: Anthony Walgate, 23, originally from Hull, Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, east London.
Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said the defendant was attracted to smaller, boyish men he referred to as "twinks" who he would invite to his one-bed flat on Cooke Street in Barking.
The jury heard the accused lied to police about his involvement with the dead men. The bodies of all four victims were found near on in a churchyard about 400m from Mr Port's home.
Mr Rees said: "The prosecution say it is a case about a man - the defendant - who in the pursuit of nothing more than his own sexual gratification, variously drugged, sexually assaulted, and in four cases killed, young gay men he had invited back to his flat.
"We say all of the offending behaviour was driven by one main factor, namely the defendant's appetite for having sexual intercourse with younger, gay males while they were unconscious through drugs."
The court heard the accused drugged 11 of his victims by spiking their drinks or injecting substances into their bodies and he also filmed himself having sex with men while they were unconscious.
Mr Port used drugs, including poppers, Viagra, mephedrone, crystal meth and GHB, jurors were told.
Post-mortem examinations showed the victims had died from an overdose of GHB and the circumstances surrounding their deaths were "strikingly similar", the jury was told.
The prosecutor said the victims died soon after being invited to the accused's flat and three of them had GHB bottles "planted" on their bodies, with evidence of them being dragged to the spot where their bodies were found and "propped up in a sitting position".
Mr Rees said the accused was convicted of perverting the course of justice after making a false statement in the investigation into the death of his first alleged murder victim, Mr Walgate, by telling police he found the Middlesex University fashion student collapsed outside the communal entrance to his flat.
The court also heard Mr Port had made "lots of money" working as a male escort.
He met his first alleged rape victim in February 2012. The jury heard the 19-year-old was given red wine who later woke up to find himself naked with the accused having sex with him.
The court heard the next rape victim, in June 2014, was a Muslim man who does not drink or take drugs. He was "knocked out" by a cup of liquid and woke up lying naked on the floor, the trial heard.
Mr Port helped him to Barking station, where he collapsed. The accused told police they had both taken drugs.
Three weeks later the chef allegedly killed Mr Walgate and called 999 anonymously.
The trial continues. | A chef murdered four men he met on gay networking sites by giving them a fatal dose of the drug GHB, a jury has heard. |
Can you provide a summary of this content? | The minke was spotted on a beach west of Elie by a passer-by just before 16:00 on Friday.
A team from British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) led the operation to refloat the mammal at high tide.
An initial attempt failed when the whale re-beached itself, but a second attempt appeared successful.
A BDMLR spokeswoman said: "The whale's body condition was fair and it was not injured so we decided to refloat it on the high tide.
"We had pontoons in place but when we refloated it, it swam in a circle and re-beached itself.
"They found it and got it onto the pontoon again. It was still fairly strong and in a state to swim off the pontoon.
"We think it might just have got disorientated with the tide, so this time the RNLI followed it out to sea.
"We've had volunteers walking up and down the beach, and so far there's no sign of it so hopefully it will be OK."
Ceredigion MP Mark Williams will claim the UK government has been taken over by "dogmatists who continue to stir up a climate of fear" over Brexit.
Labour was failing to stand up for "our nation and communities", he will add.
"There is a desperate need for liberals to stand up ... and fight for the values and beliefs that we hold dear."
Oyston senior attended a public meeting with members of the League Two club's Supporters Trust (BST) on Saturday.
He was heckled throughout as he attempted to answer questions from the floor at the Blackpool Hilton hotel.
Fans chanted "Oyston out" and "get out of our club" during the meeting, which lasted just over an hour.
Oyston was invited to make a rare appearance in front of supporters by trust chairman Steve Rowland.
At the end of the meeting, Oyston was escorted from the function room by security guards.
Blackpool, who were relegated for the third time in five seasons in May, have been owned by the Oyston family since 1988.
Relations between supporters and the owners have deteriorated since the club's relegation after one season in the Premier League in 2010-11.
This season, the club will play in the fourth tier for the first time since 2000-01.
BST launched a £16m bid to buy Blackpool in July 2015 but Oyston, whose son Karl is to continue as chairman, eventually ended those takeover talks.
Alex Cowdy will replace Karl as chief executive as Blackpool prepare for the coming season under new manager Gary Bowyer. | Wildlife experts have refloated a 20ft (6.1m) whale that was found stranded on a beach in Fife.
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The Liberal Democrats are the only party "fighting for openness, tolerance and unity", its Welsh leader will tell members in Wrexham later.
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Blackpool owner Owen Oyston has said the club is "not for sale" despite revealing his son Karl has stepped down as chief executive. |
Please give a summary of the document below. | Riise, his country's most capped player and a member of Liverpool's 2005 Champions League-winning side, cancelled his contract at Norwegian side Aalesund with immediate effect.
"My inner, secret goal was to play football at the Norwegian top level until I was 40," he said on his blog.
"It's not going to happen. It ends here. This body - this head - has been through so much over 20 years."
Riise said he has not ruled out a comeback if the right opportunity comes along but admitted his motivation "is not strong enough to compete at the highest level".
He added: "It is an admission that is both heavy and painful, and full of emotion."
Former Liverpool team-mate Steven Gerrard posted a tribute to Riise on instagram. He wrote: "Congratulations 'Ginge ' on a great career and best wishes for your future. Top left back and the second hardest shot at LFC for years."
After turning professional at Aalesund in 1996, Riise spent three years at Monaco before joining Liverpool in 2001.
The left-back made 339 appearances for the Anfield club - including their Champions League final win over AC Milan in Istanbul in 2005 and FA Cup final victory over West Ham a year later - before joining Roma in 2008.
A return to England with Fulham followed between 2011 and 2014 before spells at Apoel Nicosia and Delhi Dynamos.
He returned to boyhood club Aalesund in March.
Harry Maceachen from Shrewsbury was born with a rare liver disease and has just undergone his second transplant.
His father Simon was a living donor as no suitable match could be found from the organ donor register.
Mr Maceachen said: "It's a big operation for a four-year-old and he's getting very tired - he's not normally like this."
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Harry's usually boisterous character was illustrated in a show-stealing appearance on BBC Breakfast in December, when his infectious laughter and excited energy captured hearts and distracted presenters.
Harry was treated at Birmingham Children's Hospital while his father stayed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham - with mother Clare travelling between the two.
"We've had a lot of family support which has made a big difference," Mr Maceachen said.
It felt "amazing" to be going home after two weeks in hospital with Harry, said Mrs Maceachen.
"We are obviously going to be in and out a lot over the next few weeks because they will keep a very, very close eye on Harry and his progress," she said.
"But it will be really nice to go home and sleep in our own bed and sit on our own sofa and watch out own television."
Harry was born with biliary atresia which meant he had blocked bile ducts.
He had his first liver transplant aged one but experienced a rare mechanical failure, Mrs Maceachen said.
She said "hopefully" he would not need another transplant.
"Children don't need a full liver and Simon's will grow back," said Mrs Maceachen.
"We've explained to Harry what is going to happen and I think it's been easier for him to understand he is going to be having part of daddy's tummy rather than the alternative."
Mr Maceachan is a volunteer at Shrewsbury Parkrun and he and his family fundraise for the Children's Liver Disease Foundation. | Former Liverpool and Norway defender John Arne Riise has retired aged 35.
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A father who gave part of his liver to his four-year-old son has said they are both doing well after the transplant. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) ruled that everolimus, which can prolong life in some cases, was too expensive.
The charity Kidney Cancer UK, which appealed against earlier draft guidelines, said it was disappointed.
Each year, 4,000 patients are diagnosed with advanced renal cell carcinoma.
Two drugs, sunitinib and pazopanib, have been approved for use by the NHS.
Everolimus, also known as Afinitor, has been shown to increase overall survival in cases where the other two have failed.
It costs more than £200,000 per patient for a full course of treatment.
Sir Andrew Dillon, NICE chief executive, said: "We regret not to be able to recommend this drug, but we have to ensure that the money available to the NHS, for treating cancer and other conditions is used to best effect, particularly when the NHS, like the rest of the public sector, is under considerable financial pressure."
Dr Pat Hanlon, from Kidney Cancer UK, said his reaction was: "one of deep disappointment".
He added: "We know the NHS cannot afford all drugs, but they are effectively robbing people of a few months of life."
He recommended that doctors and patients apply for help from the government's cancer drug fund, which can be used for medication not approved by NICE.
Scottish Power engineers were called in after the incident involving a Vauxhall Corsa on the A698 near Denholm Bridge at about 12:30.
The road was closed while repair work was carried out.
Police said many homes and businesses around Denholm were affected by the power cut.
The male driver of the car and three passengers suffered minor injuries in the incident.
Police have appealed for members of the public who saw the vehicle before the collision to get in touch.
The A698 near Denholm was expected to reopen on Saturday evening.
Philip Hammond said £2.3bn would be spent on infrastructure - such as roads - related to housing developments.
The chancellor said the money would support the building of up to 100,000 new homes, and amounted to a "step-change" in help for the industry.
The government has also agreed to spend an extra £1.4bn on affordable housing in England.
Local authorities will be able to bid for the money under one of three existing schemes : Affordable Rent, Shared Ownership or Rent to Buy.
The Treasury estimates that could lead to 40,000 more affordable homes being built.
The money will top up the existing £4.7bn being spent on grants for affordable housing over the next five years.
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The National Housing Federation (NHF), which represents Housing Associations, said it was delighted with the announcement.
"Increased flexibility and extra investment will give housing associations the freedom and confidence to build even more affordable homes, more quickly, across the country," said David Orr, chief executive of the NHF.
Earlier this month, official figures indicated that the number of affordable homes being built in England had sunk to its lowest level in 24 years.
In the year to March 2016, just 32,110 affordable homes were completed, a 52% fall on the previous year.
However, recent figures suggest that the overall housing supply increased by 11% in the year to April 2016.
The chancellor also announced a "large-scale" pilot of the right to buy scheme for housing association tenants.
He said it would involve 3,000 tenants being allowed to buy the homes they currently rent.
A white paper on house-building will follow "in due course".
Where can I afford to live? | A drug to treat an advanced form of kidney cancer will not be made available on the NHS in England and Wales.
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A Scottish Borders community was left without power for several hours after a car left the road and hit an electricity pole.
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New spending on housing projects totalling £3.7bn in England has been announced by the chancellor. |
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Dropped on seven, Shafiq made 109, while Younis emerged from his poor run of form to end the second day unbeaten on 101, his 32nd Test century.
Pakistan, for whom Azhar Ali made 49, closed on 340-6, leading by 12.
Chris Woakes took two wickets in an over late on but England, 2-1 up in the series, were undermined by three dropped catches.
Alex Hales, James Anderson and Steven Finn were responsible for spilling the chances that enabled Pakistan to lay the platform for a sizeable first-innings total on a reliable surface.
To cap a tough day for England, Hales was fined 15% of his match fee for showing dissent at an umpire's decision on Thursday and making "inappropriate comments" when he visited the third umpire's room after being given out.
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Shafiq, who made a pair at Edgbaston batting at number six, responded to being promoted up the order with an innings which could prove pivotal to the outcome of this Test.
Coming in at 52-2 after nightwatchman Yasir Shah edged Finn to Joe Root at second slip, Shafiq capitalised on occasional slices of fortune to make his ninth Test century.
On 57, he edged a drive just over first slip, and had made 75 when an inside edge flew past a diving wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow's left hand.
However, Shafiq was proficient in the arc between point and the keeper, showed disdain for Moeen Ali's off-spin by finding the stand at long-on, and demonstrated sufficient composure to spend 16 balls on 99.
He eventually fell to a splendid leaping catch by Stuart Broad at mid-wicket when pulling Finn, having added 150 for the fourth wicket with Younis.
If Shafiq came into this game on the back of a miserable third Test, Younis had not passed 33 in six innings in the series.
Although not at his most fluent on Friday, the 38-year-old drove well through the off side when England's seamers overpitched, and combined power and deftness to score with freedom off Moeen and Root.
Noticeably less jumpy at the crease than he has been this summer, Younis brought up a 139-ball hundred, containing 15 fours, five overs before the close.
By that time he had seen Woakes remove Misbah-ul-Haq and Iftikhar Ahmed in the space of four balls, the captain edging to gully and the debutant well held by a scrambling Moeen at mid-on off a top-edged pull.
Although Woakes' late burst with the second new ball renewed England's hopes of limiting their first-innings deficit and repeating their victory at Edgbaston, the continued presence of Younis remains their most pressing concern.
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Pakistan's mistakes in the field on Thursday - three dropped catches and a catch off a no-ball - cost them 142 runs.
England's three errors allowed Pakistan to add 120, although they were arguably more crucial given the paucity of chances created by the bowlers thereafter.
Hales grassed a sitter at gully to reprieve nightwatchman Yasir on 21, while Finn failed to cling on to a pushed drive in his follow-through when Azhar had made 34.
Comfortably the most important drop was Shafiq's reprieve, Anderson spilling a sharp chance to his right at third slip off Woakes that would have left Pakistan 63-3.
Shafiq went on to score a further 102 runs and, by the time he was out, Pakistan's total was 277.
England assistant coach Paul Farbrace: "That's something that's frustrated us for quite a while, the catches that we've missed. We've openly talked about the fact that we've got work to do across all areas of the game.
"I know there's talk of number one [in the Test rankings], but we're thinking about getting our basics right and one of those is catching well. There's no personal blame, no one means to drop a catch, but it is frustrating when it happens."
Pakistan centurion Asad Shafiq on TMS: "I'm really thankful that I'm playing in this era with Younis. He is one of the best players Pakistan has ever produced.
"If we got a good partnership here and we get 150- or 125-run lead, that's very good for our bowling attack."
Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott on TMS: "Yasir Shah is going to have to step up for Pakistan. But if England bat like they did at Old Trafford and cut out the mistakes, they can play him out of the game.
"They can still win this. My money's still on England." | Asad Shafiq and Younis Khan centuries helped Pakistan open up a lead over England in the final Test at The Oval. |
Please summarize the passage below. | Enduring nightmares, changes in personality, and suicidal thoughts have been attributed to the drug.
As well as civilians, it has been prescribed to thousands of army personnel.
Here, two ex-servicemen describe what happened to them after they took Lariam.
In 2000, I was sent to Sierra Leone at hours' notice.
After 10 days there, I was given Lariam and told to take a tablet once a week.
I thought it was a bit late, as I was already eaten alive by the mosquitoes and that the damage would have already been done.
Pretty much the next day, I felt something wasn't right - I didn't sleep and I felt dizzy.
As time went on, the feelings got worse.
I didn't get much sleep - but, when I did, I had these weird dreams that felt real.
In one of them, I was speaking to my granddad at the foot of my sleeping bag, even though he was dead.
I felt anxious and nauseous, and was sweating.
I put it down to being frightened because of the situation I was in.
I went to a doctor and had tests for malaria[, which] came back negative.
But I still wasn't feeling OK, so I made another appointment and told the doctor about the strange thoughts I had.
He told me it wasn't PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] and to get on with it. I felt stupid.
When I got home, things got worse.
I felt depressed and threw myself into work.
Then, I felt suicidal and wondered when were these feelings going to stop.
In March 2004, a voice in my head told me: "Go on, do it, just kill yourself."
In a split-second, I tried to hang myself.
I was lucky to be found.
I felt guilt and shame.
It wasn't until last year [that] I talked to my wife about how I was feeling.
In April, I got help though the veterans' mental health charity Combat Stress.
I felt I could talk openly, it gave me a fresh way of thinking, and I did CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy).
I understood where the root cause of how I was feeling came from - I didn't have any mental health issues before I took Lariam.
I now know why I attempted suicide, and it wasn't me being weak.
It was good to finally put a label on what was wrong with me.
I am on anti-depressants and the effects of my illness are less.
But I fear there are more soldiers out there who have taken Lariam and won't come forward.
I served 30 years in the Army, and most of my active service was in Africa, so I understand the need to take anti-malaria drugs.
We were taking Paludrine for a while.
In 1995, I was in Angola working with the United Nations in Operation Chantress.
We were deployed at short notice and were given Lariam tablets to take.
After about four to six weeks, I saw myself change and my mental state was different.
I had very bad dreams.
I noticed my interpersonal skills deteriorating
I was confrontational and difficult to be around.
I was hard to communicate with, and I wasn't willing to do anything.
I became the complete opposite of what I am normally.
I spoke to others who took Lariam, and they were feeling the same - there was a lot us.
I decided to come off it as soon as I could.
I saw a medic who said there are side-effects from taking Lariam.
I went back to using Paludrine, and, within days, I was back to normal.
I don't think I have suffered any long-term effects from using Lariam, but I do have to declare that I have used it in the past.
Interviews by Andree Massiah | People who have taken the anti-malarial drug Lariam say it should not be available because of its serious side-effects. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | Police say that the gunmen overpowered eight security guards, and shot the labourers on Friday night.
A separatist group said it was responsible for the attack.
Taliban militants, Baloch separatists and other groups fight in the Balochistan region, which borders Iran.
The separatist Balochistan Liberation Front said it carried out the attack. A spokesperson told the BBC that the target was the Pakistani army and those working for its construction projects in the province.
Police told Pakistani media that the attack appears to have been an act of targeted killing - all the dead were from outside Balochistan. The attackers fled on motorcycles. At least three labourers were wounded.
The attack took place near the south-western town of Turbat, police say, which is considered to be one of the restive areas of Balochistan. It is also the home town of the chief minister.
Senior Balochistan official Akbar Hussain Durran told the AFP news agency that the labourers were lined up and shot at point blank range after identifying themselves.
He said that paramilitary troops guarding the labourers fled when confronted by such a large number of armed attackers.
The Pakistani security forces are often targeted by separatists who accuse them of persecuting Baloch nationalists. Rights groups have also accused government forces of arbitrary killings, torture and enforced disappearances.
The army argues that it is fighting to keep Pakistan together.
Both the military and the insurgents - who want a greater share of revenue from the province's substantial gas and mineral resources as well as more autonomy - deny human right abuses.
Balochistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti said that paramilitary Frontier Corps troops were searching in the nearby mountains for the attackers.
"We will chase them down and bring them to justice," Mr Bugti said. "We need help in this war against terrorists. Alone, we cannot fight." | At least 20 workers accused of working on an army-backed dam construction site in the south-western Pakistani province of Balochistan have been shot dead by a large group of gunmen, officials say. |
What is the summary of the given information? | The world number four parted ways with Fitzgerald having failed to win a major since 2014, his management said.
The move comes a week after McIlroy thanked his bagman for jolting him into gear after a poor start to The Open.
McIlroy, 28, is due to speak to the media on Wednesday, before the WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio.
"He has taken me from 200 in the world to major champion," McIlroy said of Fitzgerald in 2011.
The pair started working together shortly after McIlroy turned professional in 2008.
They enjoyed a brilliantly successful partnership as McIlroy took over from Tiger Woods as the game's dominant force and became world number one.
McIlroy heaped praise on Fitzgerald at this month's Open at Royal Birkdale, saying he had delivered some blunt words after the Holywood player started the tournament with a string of bogeys.
After fighting back to shoot a one-over 71 in the first round, McIlroy told reporters Fitzgerald had done a "great job".
The Open was Fitzgerald's swansong with McIlroy, who flirted with contention in the final round before finishing equal fourth.
Forbes estimated Fitzgerald earned $1.65 million from his cut of McIlroy's prize money over the 12 months to June this year.
Five-times major winner Phil Mickelson parted ways with his caddie Jim 'Bones' Mackay earlier this month after 25 years together. | Rory McIlroy has split with his caddie JP Fitzgerald after a nine-year partnership which included winning four majors. |
Summarize the passage below. | Those were the words of former Australian Prime Minister John Howard before he radically changed Australia's gun laws and - many believe - rid the country of gun violence on a large scale.
After another mass shooting in the US - the recent one in San Bernardino killed 14 and and by some counts, brought the number of mass shootings in that country to over 350 this year alone - America finds itself very far down that violent path.
But could it change course the way Australia did?
In April 1996, 35 people were killed by a gunman, Martin Bryant, wielding semi-automatic weapons at a former prison colony and tourist attraction in Tasmania.
This became known as the Port Arthur massacre, and it was a turning point for Australia.
The event appalled and galvanised the nation, helping to push Australia to enact some of the most comprehensive firearm laws in the world.
President Barack Obama has often pointed to Australia as an example for the US to follow.
"Couple of decades ago, Australia had a mass shooting, similar to Columbine or Newtown. And Australia just said: 'Well, that's it, we're not seeing that again,' and basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws, and they haven't had a mass shooting since," he said last year.
So what exactly did Australia do, how did it work, and could it work in the US?
Less than two weeks after the Port Arthur massacre, all six Australian states agreed to enact the same sweeping gun laws banning semi-automatic rifles and shotguns - weapons that can kill many people quickly.
They also put more hurdles between prospective gun owners and their weapons.
Australia has 28-day waiting periods, thorough background checks, and a requirement to present a "justifiable reason" to own a gun.
Unlike in the US, self-protection is not accepted as a justifiable reason to own a gun.
In the 19 years since the laws were passed, about one million semi-automatic weapons - roughly one third of the country's firearms - were sold back to the government and destroyed, nearly halving the number of gun-owning households in Australia.
The number of Australia's mass shootings dropped from 11 in the decade before 1996, to zero in the years since.
And although the laws were designed specifically to reduce mass shootings, the rates of homicide and suicide have also come down since 1996.
Philip Alpers, a professor at Sydney School of Public Health, has done studies showing that aside from the victims of the Port Arthur shooting, 69 gun homicides were recorded in 1996 compared with 30 in 2012.
Despite the reduction in incidence though, gun violence has not disappeared in Australia. And gun ownership is actually on the rise.
Since 1996, Australians have been steadily replacing the outlawed firearms they sold back with legal ones, and gun ownership here has now risen back to pre-1996 levels.
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Sources: AIC Australian institute of Criminology, Small Arms Survey, and US Dept of Justice Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Australian firearms rights groups say that the laws go too far and restrict personal freedom.
They argue that gun violence was on a downward trajectory before the 1996 laws were passed, and reject any link between lower incidence of gun deaths and the tighter legislation.
Diana Melham, executive director of the Sporting Shooters Australia Association in New South Wales, argues the 1996 laws fuelled a sense of alienation among gun owners, which, she says "rallied the shooters".
The organisation, which is the country's largest gun lobby group, has grown rapidly since 1996 and its numbers are still on the rise.
But Tim Fischer, who was Prime Minister Howard's deputy in 1996 and instrumental in getting the National Firearms Agreement passed, argues the US should follow Australia's lead.
"Plain and simple, what we've done works," he told the BBC.
So could it work in the US?
The simple answer is - probably not.
Although Australia does have a long history of hunting and sport, there is no equivalent to America's Second Amendment right to bear arms here.
Another significant difference is the speed of government action. In 1996 John Howard managed to get all six Australian states to agree to and pass uniform sweeping gun control legislation in just 12 days.
It is hard to fathom the US government ever being able to get all 50 states to agree to something, let alone act that quickly.
But according to Prof Alpers, the bigger difference is the cultural mindset.
"I don't for a moment think it would happen in the US," he says. "Australia already had a pre-disposition to doing something about it."
He explains that although by far the deadliest, the Port Arthur shooting was not the first Australia had experienced.
He says the country had lost nearly 150 people in the years running up to 1996 in mass shootings, and the national mood was changing.
"Port Arthur was the straw that broke the camel's back. You have to go back to those years to remember how visceral that backlash was."
Mr Fischer is more optimistic. He believes meaningful change could come to the US, but only when a "silent majority" are "sprung into action".
"Of course all mass shootings are a bridge too far," he says. "But there is going to be one that really tips the balance. Watch this space."
Exact numbers of the incidence of mass shootings in the US and abroad are hard to pin down because there is no uniform standard on the definition of a mass shooting.
In the US, there is no official database for this type of information, but tallies like the one from private research group ShootingTracker.com who put the number of mass shootings in the US in 2015 at 353, were widely cited in the US media in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting. | "We have an opportunity in this country not to go down the American path." |
Summarize the provided section. | Mr Rouhani and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi spoke at Rome's Capitoline Museum after Italian firms signed business deals with Iran.
But several nudes there were hidden to avoid offending the Iranian president.
Italy also chose not to serve wine at official meals, a gesture France, where Mr Rouhani travels next, has refused to copy.
An Islamic republic, Iran has strict laws governing the consumption of alcohol.
Mr Rouhani is in Europe on a five-day tour seeking to boost economic ties after the implementation of a deal on rolling back Iran's nuclear activity saw sanctions lifted.
"Iran is the safest and most stable country of the entire region," the Iranian president told Italian business leaders.
He also stressed growth would be key to combating extremism, saying "unemployment creates soldiers for terrorists".
Monday saw contracts worth around €17bn ($18.4bn; £12bn) signed between Iran and Italian companies.
On Tuesday, Mr Rouhani also met Pope Francis, who urged Iran to work with other Middle Eastern countries against terrorism and arms trafficking, the Vatican said.
Iran has been accused of funding militant groups, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Mr Rouhani asked the pontiff to pray for him, and gave him the gift of a hand-made carpet.
He travels to Paris on Wednesday where more deals are expected to be announced. An agreement with Airbus for the purchase of more than 100 aircraft is due to be finalised.
The Gunners are fourth in the table, having slipped nine points behind leaders Chelsea following successive 2-1 defeats at Everton and Manchester City.
Wenger, in his 20th season as Arsenal boss, compared football with society and politics, saying "everybody has a freedom to have an opinion".
The Frenchman, who is out of contract at the end of the season, said he continues to question himself "always".
"I'm not immune to critics," he added. "But immune to excessive reactions, yes.
"I've been long enough in the job to put that into perspective as people who love the club, who are really disappointed on Monday morning and get their frustration out. We have to live with that.
"It doesn't mean they are not ready to change their mind if we win the next game."
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Wenger - who defended Germany playmaker Mesut Ozil from criticism about his work-rate on Friday - said he had seen many players fail in the Premier League "because they did not have resistance to stress".
"It's not easy to walk out sometimes in a hostile atmosphere and perform at your best. We are usually educated to it slowly.
"Everybody responds individually to that [the mood of a crowd]. Some are more affected than others.
"I believe what is important is the strength you find inside and you respond inside the club to be united inside the dressing room.
"You do not go in the season and have no disappointment. We have just lost two games.
"It's the teams who respond well together who have the most successful season. It's part of it.
"In 20 years I had very few seasons where you start on the motorway and you finish on the motorway with no car in front of you." | Italian hospitality for the visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has stretched to covering up nude statues.
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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he is "immune to excessive reactions" as his side look to reignite their Premier League title bid when they host West Brom on Boxing Day (15:00 GMT). |
Please give a summary of the document below. | Police found the unconscious man in Miller Road in the Ribbleton area of Preston at about 03:00 BST.
After regaining consciousness, he then allegedly punched one of the paramedics who had come to his aid.
Lancashire Police said the man, from Ribbleton, has been bailed and is due to appear before magistrates in Preston on 7 July.
The Tories have held on to power in ten constituencies in the county with Labour also holding Exeter.
Luke Pollard won Plymouth Sutton and Devonport for Labour with 23,808 votes against Conservative Oliver Colvile with 17,806 votes.
Plymouth Tory MP Johnny Mercer said the national result "shatters the way politics has run for a long time".
Election 2017: Devon and Cornwall results
In his acceptance speech Mr Mercer said the "sands of time are shifting" in politics with a new generation of politicians arriving.
Mr Pollard said he was particularly grateful to young people he said had voted for him. | A man has been charged with assault after a paramedic treating him was attacked in Lancashire.
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The Conservatives have continued to dominate in Devon but Labour has gained a seat in Plymouth. |
Can you write a brief summary of this passage? | Passenger Luke Fletcher, 19, died when the car left the B2177 near Southwick, Hampshire in January 2016.
Zax Ross-Harris, 22, and Danny Ross-Barringer, 25, were jailed for eight and six years for causing death by dangerous driving and aiding and abetting respectively.
The court heard they had been driving at up to 100mph in bad weather.
Portsmouth Crown Court heard both drivers only had provisional licences. Ross-Harris, from Paulsgrove, had been driving the Nissan Almera in an "idiotic" manner on Portsdown Hill on 23 January.
Performing arts student Mr Fletcher, who was in the back seat, suffered an "unsurvivable" head injury when it left the road and hit a tree.
Another passenger, Sonny Wedge, suffered severe injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Andrew Houston, prosecuting, said Mr Wedge and Mr Fletcher had begged Ross-Harris to stop driving and pull over before the crash.
He said Ross-Harris "cowardly" ran away and denied being in the vehicle when questioned by police.
He later admitted causing death by dangerous driving and while driving unlicensed and uninsured and causing serious injury.
Mr Houston said Ross-Harris had drunk seven pints of lager earlier in the day but because he was not arrested until the day after, his alcohol level at the time of the crash was not known.
In a letter to Mr Fletcher's family, read to the court, Ross-Harris wrote: "My stupidity cost Luke's life, I know sorry will never be good enough."
He was also banned from driving for 14 years.
Ross-Barringer, also from Paulsgrove, admitted he had been "showing off" and said his cousin had been attempting to copy him.
Robert Grey, defending Ross-Barringer, said: "He is truly remorseful for what has happened."
Mr Fletcher's mother, Sarah Hiscutt said in a victim impact statement: "I wish it had been me; it has changed our lives for ever."
After sentencing she, described her son as "one of a kind".
"He was growing into a fine young man, full of life, dreams, ambition and a zest for life. He had everything to live for and wanted so much from life," she said.
Mr Fletcher had recorded a single, Heart of Stone, which was released after his death. | Two cousins have been jailed for causing a fatal car crash through "idiotic" driving. |
Can you summarize the given article? | The latest strike over the introduction of driver-only operated trains has again brought the network to a halt.
Labour's transport spokesman has called on the government to intervene ahead of a further conductors' strike next week.
Andy McDonald said: "What's needed is a pause. People to step back and let's have a thorough examination of this."
The shadow transport secretary told Radio 4's Today programme: "I'm absolutely furious at the intransigence and stupidity of Southern and the Department for Transport in perpetuating this.
"It's a hugely important issue around compromising safety and security... this issue has been trivialised and dismissed."
He added: "Let Chris Grayling intervene and agree a moratorium so that we can get people back on these trains immediately.
"It's what a Secretary of State should be doing right now."
Live updates on the Southern strike
Angry passengers staged a protest at London Victoria station on Thursday evening before handing a letter to the Department for Transport (DfT) to demand government action.
The Association of British Commuters, which organised the protest, said it had received support for its campaign to persuade ministers to do more to resolve the industrial disputes and other problems at Southern.
A spokesman said: "We have suffered a year-long nightmare because of the collapse of Southern rail.
"We have desperately called for government action and have been repeatedly ignored - even while many of us have lost our jobs, or had to move house."
The DfT has told the BBC the dispute is between Southern and the unions and "not something the government is involved in".
A spokeswoman for the department declined to comment further.
However, she provided background which said the government had no plans to split the franchise because it would not solve problems and would potentially create more disruption, and the important issue was to focus on resolving the strikes.
The Aslef and RMT unions are in dispute with Southern's parent company Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR).
Southern said there would be no service on any route on Friday, and has warned passengers there will be a revised service on Saturday.
The train company said Thameslink is operating a normal timetable and the Gatwick Express will run every 30 minutes from 05:00 until 22:00 GMT between London Victoria and Gatwick Airport.
Under the changes being brought in by Southern, drivers take responsibility for opening and closing the doors and guards become on-board supervisors.
However, the RMT fears job cuts and has raised safety concerns.
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Aslef has described the changes as "inherently unsafe", while GTR said both the Office of Rail and Road and the Rail Safety & Standards Board had stated that drivers closing doors was a safe mode of operation.
Talks at conciliation service Acas between GTR and Aslef failed to reach an agreement on Thursday. Negotiations ended with both sides claiming to be open for talks.
Writing to union members on Friday, Aslef leader Mick Whelan said no formal offer had been made on the issue at the heart of the dispute.
"Aslef remains committed to finding a negotiated settlement as we have already done with ScotRail," he said.
00:01 Friday 16 December to 23:59: Friday 16 December (Aslef and RMT drivers' strike)
00:01 Monday 19 December to 23:59 Tuesday 20 December (RMT conductors' strike)
00:01 Saturday 31 December to 23:59 Monday 2 January (RMT conductors' strike)
00:01 Monday 9 January to 23:59: Saturday 14 January (Aslef and RMT drivers' strike) | Southern rail commuters are facing more travel misery after drivers walked out for the third day this week following the failure of conciliation talks. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | Joe Gordon, a used car salesman from Colorado who was born in Thailand, admitted lese-majeste, or insulting the king, at an earlier hearing.
He was sentenced to five years in jail, but the judges halved the term because of his guilty plea.
The US consul general in Thailand said the sentence was "severe".
"He was given the sentence for his right of expression," Elizabeth Pratt told reporters.
"We continue to respect the Thai monarchy but we also support the right of expression which is internationally recognised as a human right."
Activists say the lese-majeste law has become increasingly politicised, and is used as a tool of repression rather than as a way of protecting the monarchy.
Gordon, 55, reportedly translated parts of the widely available biography, The King Never Smiles by Paul Handley, several years ago and posted them on a blog while he was living in the US.
He was arrested in May when he visited Thailand for medical treatment.
He initially denied the charges, but said he changed his plea to guilty after being repeatedly refused bail.
After being sentenced, he told the Bangkok court: "I'm not Thai, I'm American. I was just born in Thailand. I hold an American passport. In Thailand there are many laws that don't allow you to express opinions, but we don't have that in America."
His lawyer said he would not appeal against the sentence, but would ask for a royal pardon.
Foreigners convicted of lese majeste are routinely pardoned and deported shortly after being sentenced.
Prosecutions under the law have increased dramatically in recent years, amid chronic political instability.
And the authorities have passed a new law, the Computer Crimes Act, that increases their powers to tackle any perceived insults to the monarchy on the internet or through mobile phones.
Last month a 61-year-old man was jailed for 20 years for sending four text messages that were deemed offensive to the Thai queen.
The man said he did not even know how to send a text message, and rights groups expressed serious concern about his conviction.
King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 84, is the world's longest-reigning monarch and is revered as semi-divine by many Thais.
Anybody convicted of insulting the king, queen, heir or regent faces long prison sentences. | Thailand has jailed a US citizen for two and a half years after he admitted posting web links to a banned biography of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. |
Give a brief overview of this passage. | A review - led by former NHS anti-fraud boss Jim Gee - highlighted fraud by pharmacists, dentists, GPs and patients.
Among the areas it found to be affected were procurement, prescriptions, registration of patients and payroll.
The government said the report was "highly speculative" and "full of inconsistencies".
To work out how much fraud is being committed, the review had to rely on estimates as well as detected fraud.
It said the level of fraud was likely to be between £3.7bn and £5.7bn a year, out of a budget of more than £110bn.
Among the scams highlighted were dentists claiming money for NHS care they did not carry out and GPs falsifying records for extra payments.
To illustrate the scale of some of these cases, it highlighted the jailing of a Birmingham dentist in 2012 after she stole £1.4m from the NHS.
Patient fraud identified included wrongful claims for free prescriptions, dental and optician care.
But the biggest area of fraud was estimated to be payroll, at between £555m and £1.49bn - although the report said this mainly consisted of lots of small-scale cases.
The report warned fraud was not being given the attention it deserved and it was now one of the "great unreduced healthcare costs".
Mr Gee, who carried out his work for PFK Littlejohn accountants, said: "There is a vast, honest majority who find fraud against the NHS to be completely unacceptable. However, there is also a dishonest minority who can cause significant financial damage.
"The best way of stopping this is not to wait for fraud to happen and then act after losses have been incurred, but to proactively deter and prevent them. Fraud is a cost to be measured, managed and minimised like any other."
By Hugh Pym, health editor
There is nothing new about fraud in the NHS. The scams are all too familiar - whether it's health service managers purchasing hospital supplies and taking backhanders or corrupt GPs claiming they have patients who don't actually exist.
But the report's authors argue that, even though the NHS's fraud problem is no worse than in other healthcare systems, the need for a crackdown is as urgent as ever because of the intense financial pressure on the NHS and the need to make efficiency savings.
They accuse the government of failing to carry out a detailed audit of the extent of health service fraud. The Department of Health said it didn't recognise the figures, but there has been no official denial that there is a problem that needs fixing.
Fraud officers work in each local area while at a national level, fraud work is co-ordinated by NHS Protect.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: "We do not recognise the figures in this highly speculative report which is full of inconsistencies.
"We are determined to stamp out fraud in the NHS through better information sharing to prevent and deter fraud and we are working with NHS Protect on crime risks and trends to do even more in the future." | The NHS in England could be losing up to £5.7bn a year to fraud from its £100bn budget, a report suggests. |
What is the brief summary of the provided content? | Pearson, 29, who won gold at London 2012 and silver at Beijing 2008, suffered the injury in training.
"Unfortunately, it is the biggest sporting event in the world that I am going to be missing out on," Pearson told Australia's Nine Network.
"It's devastating that I can't be at Rio as the Olympic champ."
Australia's track and field captain only returned from injury in June but has struggled for fitness.
The 2011 world champion missed the end of the 2015 season after shattering her wrist competing in Rome.
The athlete has had trouble with track times since her return and finished last at Norway's Diamond League event earlier this month.
The Australian Olympic team's chef de mission, Kitty Chiller said earlier: "It is just such a shame for a fantastic champion, a fantastic fighter and if she doesn't run in Rio I'll be very, very sad for Sally and the team."
In a blog post on 18 June, Pearson described her "exhausting" training regime to get ready for Rio and reflected on the "broken bones, torn calf, degenerative Achilles and hammy problems" that she has suffered from in the past 12 months.
The announcement was made after several hours of negotiations on Saturday.
Senior aides to the two countries' leaders met at the Panmunjom truce village on the border.
North Korea had threatened "strong military action" if the South did not stop border loudspeaker broadcasts that had provoked a "semi-state of war".
The two sides have agreed to meet again on Sunday afternoon to "narrow down differences" as overnight talks were finally wound up after nearly 10 hours of negotiations.
No media organisations were present at the talks, which took place inside the Demilitarised Zone which divides the two Koreas.
South Korea said ahead of the talks that it would be represented by national security adviser Kim Kwan-jin and Unification Minister Hong Yong-pyo, and the North would send senior officials Hwang Pyong-so and Kim Yong-gon.
Mr Hwang is seen by many analysts as North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's second-in-command.
North Korea had earlier issued a deadline for the dismantling of banks of loudspeakers, which have been blasting news bulletins, weather forecasts and music from the South. It had moved artillery into positions to fire on them.
South Korea has evacuated almost 4,000 residents from border areas and warned that it would "retaliate harshly".
Each side is represented by two members of the inner circle of the leaderships in Pyongyang and Seoul.
The difficulty is that they cannot even agree on the facts of the events which led to the current state of heightened tension.
It started when two South Korean soldiers were seriously injured by landmines in the so-called Demilitarized Zone between the two countries.
South Korea said North Korea planted the mines; North Korea said that was absurd.
Both sides say the other then fired the first shot in the artillery barrages.
The talks will not diminish the fierceness of the rhetoric between the two halves of Korea, but they may find a way for both sides to walk away safely from a dangerous situation before it explodes.
US and South Korean fighter jets have been flying in formation near the border.
The US's top military officer has reaffirmed his country's "unwavering commitment" to South Korea's defence in a phone call to his South Korean counterpart.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Martin Dempsey and South Korea's Admiral Choi Yoon-hee agreed they would "ensure that the US and [South Korea] continue to work closely with one another to deter further North Korean provocations and defuse tensions," a Pentagon statement said.
The two Koreas remain technically at war, because the 1950-1953 conflict ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.
In 2004, South Korea and North Korea reached an agreement to dismantle their propaganda loudspeakers at the border.
The broadcasts were part of a programme of psychological warfare, according to South Korean newspaper Korea Times, to deliver outside news so that North Korean soldiers and border-area residents could hear it.
Mobilising the propagandists in North Korea | Australian Olympic 100m hurdles champion Sally Pearson will miss August's Rio Games after tearing a hamstring.
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North and South Korea are to hold a second round of top-level talks on Sunday to defuse growing tension, officials from the South say. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | The report detailing claims by 600 people will go before the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse.
At a preliminary hearing earlier, the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association was given "core participant status".
Its leader Raymond Stevenson said child abuse in the Lambeth Council-run homes had been a "reversal to the dark ages".
The abuse had resulted in the "shedding of thousands of tears", he said, and called it a "shame on the establishment" and "institutionalised evil".
The Shirley Oaks survivors accused the police of failing to deal with the allegations adequately, resulting in a cover up.
It is alleged two convicted children's homes abusers were volunteer police officers.
The group said it might request several barristers and solicitors to reflect the number of complainants it was representing, the High Court heard.
It plans to make a formal presentation to the wide-ranging inquiry chaired by Justice Lowell Goddard, along with providing video evidence from members.
The counsel to the inquiry, Ben Emmerson QC, told the hearing, at Royal Courts of Justice, the investigation would be "extremely complex... spanning many years and many institutions in Lambeth".
It is one of 13 initial inquiries announced, including investigations into abuse within the Church, allegations against the late peer Lord Janner, abuse at children's homes in Rochdale and claims of a Westminster paedophile ring.
Mr Emmerson said in the case of Lambeth, there had been claims that a former Labour minister, Lord Paul Boateng, had been named as an associate of one abuser, John Carroll, who was convicted in 1966 and 1999 of multiple charges.
The BBC's Newsnight programme recently presented information suggesting that Lord Boateng visited the Angell Road children's home, run by Mr Carroll, signing a visitors' book.
It also claimed someone identifying himself as Lord Boateng asked if he could help to resolve a row which followed Carroll's application to foster children.
Mr Emmerson said no evidence received by the inquiry so far suggested any impropriety on Lord Boateng's behalf. The peer denies knowing Mr Carroll.
A key aspect of the inquiry will be whether an organised paedophile ring infiltrated both the children's homes at Shirley Oaks, and Lambeth Council's social services.
Mr Emmerson said there was evidence a second paedophile lived at Mr Carroll's Angell Road home, when he was running it, and that a third paedophile, Leslie Paul, was employed in children's services at the same time.
Paul was convicted in December of what a jury heard was "vile group sexual abuse".
The Lambeth inquiry will examine the actions of police, prosecutors and the Department of Health, and assess a number of past inquiries into the allegations.
The inquiry is considering to what extent hearings should be televised. | "Physical and sexual abuse on an industrial scale" went "unchecked for decades" at children's homes in a south London borough, a victims' report says. |
Write a summary for the following excerpt. | Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest for several years, had not been seen since the funeral.
In the short video, she said she needed more time to mourn. Friends say they have not been able to reach her.
She has been under guard since 2010, but has never been charged with a crime.
Seen in the video holding a cigarette and sitting in a living-room style area, Liu Xia tells the camera that she is recovering from her husband's death and will "readjust" in time.
It is not clear who made the recording or where it was set, leading to speculation that it may have been made under duress.
Hu Jia, a fellow activist in Beijing, believes Liu Xia was forced to record the video.
He told BBC Chinese: "Liu Xia smokes endlessly when she's stressed and you can see in the video that she kept holding a cigarette.
"You can sense her helplessness, her frustration that the authorities have her life firmly gripped in their hands."
Chinese officials say that Liu Xia is a free Chinese citizen and is simply grieving in private.
But after the funeral, a lawyer who had worked for Mr Liu said Liu Xia was being held "incommunicado" and needed to be rescued.
A week before the video's release, Amnesty International renewed its call for her freedom.
Liu Xia is said to be suffering from depression after spending years under heavy surveillance.
Her late husband was one of China's foremost pro-democracy campaigners and a fierce critic of the state, seen by authorities as a dissident.
He was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 2010, while imprisoned, with the Nobel committee declaring him "the foremost symbol of [a] wide-ranging struggle for human rights in China."
He married Liu Xia, a poet from a privileged background, in 1996, but their marriage was frequently interrupted by his repeated incarceration. | The widow of Chinese activist and Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo has appeared in an online video - her first appearance since her husband's death. |
Please summarize the given passage. | David Robertson and David Goodwillie never faced a criminal trial but were ordered by a civil court ruling to pay £100,000 damages to Denise Clair.
She sued the pair after being "devastated" by the Crown's decision not to prosecute.
Cowdenbeath FC confirmed that 30-year-old Robertson had retired from professional football.
Ms Clair, who has waived her right to anonymity, claimed Robertson and Plymouth Argyle's Goodwillie raped her at a flat in Armadale, in West Lothian, after a night out in Bathgate in January 2011.
She said she could not remember what happened after being in a Bathgate bar and woke up in a strange flat the following morning.
The two former Dundee United players had claimed the sex was consensual.
The 30-year-old originally sought £500,000 in compensation, but damages were later agreed at £100,000 in the civil action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
It was the first civil case of its kind in Scotland.
Cowdenbeath confirmed Robertson's retirement in a statement on its website.
Donald Findlay, Cowdenbeath FC chairman, said: "I wish to thank David for all his hard work during his stay at Central Park."
Plymouth Argyle said it would issue a statement on Goodwillie's future in the next few days. | A footballer who was judged to have raped a woman alongside his then-teammate has retired from the game. |
What is the summary of the following document? | Conroy came through the academy system at Chelsea, but failed to make a senior appearance for the Premier League club.
The 21-year-old recently returned to Stamford Bridge from a loan spell at National League side Aldershot, where he played in 15 league games.
He could make his debut for the Robins when they play Bristol Rovers in League One on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page or visit our Premier League tracker here. | League One side Swindon Town have signed Chelsea defender Dion Conroy until June 2019 for an undisclosed fee. |
Summarize this article briefly. | Samia Shahid, 28, from Bradford, died while visiting relatives in the country in July.
Her first husband Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel is accused of her murder. The court in Jhelum indicated a higher court could yet hear his bail request.
Meanwhile, Ms Shahid's second husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazam, wants the case moved.
The High Court in Lahore is due to hear his application, which claims Ms Shahid's family has made threats to his life.
Lawyers for Mr Shakeel have not said if he now intends to make an application to the Punjab High Court.
Beautician Ms Shahid married Mr Kazam in Leeds in 2014 and the couple moved to Dubai.
Mr Kazam claimed his wife was killed because her family disapproved of their marriage.
Initially it was said she had died of a heart attack, but a post-mortem examination found she had been strangled.
Her father, Chaudhry Muhammad Shahid, has been held as a suspected accessory and released on bail.
The 80-year-old played for Yorkshire and Leicestershire from 1956 to 1964, scoring 3,314 runs in 94 matches.
He went on to umpire 66 Test matches before retiring in 1996.
Bird told the club website: "Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would become the president of the greatest cricket club in the world."
"It is a tremendous honour and I am very humble and proud. I am grateful to chairman Colin Graves and the Yorkshire Board for nominating me and I'm looking forward to my term in office."
Bird will replace former England and Yorkshire batsman Geoffrey Boycott as the county's president and will serve a one-year term. | The ex-husband of an alleged "honour killing" victim has been refused bail by a Pakistani court.
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Yorkshire have confirmed that former umpire Dickie Bird is to be voted in as the club's president at their Annual General Meeting on 29 March. |
Summarize the passage below. | The foreign affairs committee accused the then PM David Cameron of lacking a coherent strategy for the air campaign.
It said the intervention had not been "informed by accurate intelligence", and that it led to the rise of so-called Islamic State in North Africa.
The UK government said it had been an international decision to intervene.
The action had been called for by the Arab League and authorised by the UN Security Council, the Foreign Office added.
An international coalition led by Britain and France launched a campaign of air and missile strikes against Muammar Gaddafi's forces in March 2011 after the regime threatened to attack the rebel-held city of Benghazi.
But after Gaddafi was toppled, Libya descended into violence, with rival governments and the formation of hundreds of militias, while so-called Islamic State, also known as Isil and Daesh, has gained a foothold.
The committee's key conclusions include:
Mr Cameron has defended his handling of the situation, telling MPs in January action was needed because Gaddafi "was bearing down on people in Benghazi and threatening to shoot his own people like rats".
But the foreign affairs committee said the government "failed to identify that the threat to civilians was overstated", adding that it "selectively took elements of Gaddafi's rhetoric at face value".
The government also failed to identify the "militant Islamist extremist element in the rebellion", the MPs said.
"The possibility that militant extremist groups would attempt to benefit from the rebellion should not have been the preserve of hindsight," the committee said, adding: "UK strategy was founded on erroneous assumptions and an incomplete understanding of the evidence."
This report is effectively Parliament's attempt at a Chilcot inquiry into the Libyan intervention, only quicker and shorter.
And the criticism is weighty: the government's poor intelligence about the threat to civilians in Benghazi, its lack of awareness of Islamist elements among the rebels, the policy drift from saving lives to getting rid of Gaddafi, and David Cameron's lack of strategy for what should happen next.
The subtext is that the lessons of Iraq were ignored.
Yet in truth the report also reveals the uncertainty among policymakers about military intervention, torn between avoiding another Srebrenica-style massacre when the West turned a blind eye to the killings of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs in 1995 and the need to avoid another Iraq-style intervention when Western countries got bogged down in an internal conflict.
What happened in Libya was a half and half policy, of intervention without occupation. And it is a model that did not work.
Crispin Blunt, chairman of the committee, told the BBC: "We were dragged along by a French enthusiasm to intervene, and the mission then moved from protecting people in Benghazi, who arguably were not at the kind of threat that was then being presented...
"Indeed, on the basis of the evidence we took, the threat to the people of Benghazi was grossly overstated."
The committee said "political options" were available once Benghazi had been secured - including through ex-PM Tony Blair's contacts with Gaddafi - but the UK government "focused exclusively on military intervention".
February 2011 - Violent protests break out in Benghazi and spread to other cities. This leads to civil war, foreign intervention and eventually the ousting and killing of Gaddafi in August.
March 2011 - UK parliament approves British participation for military intervention alongside a coalition of nations, including France and the US.
2014 - Militants from so-called Islamic State claim responsibility for several attacks in Libya towards to the end of the year, as the US finds evidence that the group is setting up training camps.
2016 - Following years of conflict, a new UN-backed "unity" government is installed in a naval base in Tripoli. It faces opposition from two rival governments and a host of militias.
By the summer of 2011, the limited intervention to protect civilians had drifted into an opportunist policy of regime change, the committee said.
"That policy was not underpinned by a strategy to support and shape post-Gaddafi Libya.
"The result was political and economic collapse, inter-militia and inter-tribal warfare, humanitarian and migrant crises, widespread human rights violations, the spread of Gaddafi regime weapons across the region and the growth of Isil in North Africa.
"Through his decision-making in the National Security Council, former prime minister David Cameron was ultimately responsible for the failure to develop a coherent Libya strategy."
The MPs said Libya had been the "first test " for the NSC, which was set up in 2010 to coordinate responses to security threats and integrate the work of various relevant government departments.
The committee said there should now be an independent review of the operation of the NSC, which is chaired by the prime minister, to see if it had succeeded in addressing the weaknesses in government decision-making identified in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The Foreign Office defended the intervention.
"Muammar Gaddafi was unpredictable and he had the means and motivation to carry out his threats," a spokesman said.
"His actions could not be ignored and required decisive and collective international action. Throughout the campaign we stayed within the United Nations mandate to protect civilians.
"After four decades of Gaddafi misrule, Libya undoubtedly faces huge challenges. The UK will continue to play a leading role within the international community to support the internationally recognised Libyan Government of National Accord." | A UK parliamentary report has severely criticised the intervention by Britain and France that led to the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. |
Summarize the passage below. | Kay's book was chosen from 91 submissions to win the £30,000 prize.
It is the first time the public have voted for a winner but the novel was also unanimously selected by the award's judging panel.
Leila Aboulela, Stewart Conn and Sue Peebles came in as runners-up, winning £5,000 each.
Kay was born in Edinburgh to a Scottish nurse and a Nigerian student, then adopted at birth by a white couple from Glasgow.
Red Dust Road follows the author in her search to find her birth parents.
She said: "I happened to write the book, but it feels like my whole family is the winner. The book doesn't just belong to me.
"And now it seems like it has a whole life of its own in the heart-warming and unexpected way that readers have been finding connections to their own life in it."
The prize has been won by James Kelman and Edwin Morgan in previous years.
Andrew Dixon, chief executive of Creative Scotland, said: "With more than 40 literature and book festivals from the Borders to Ullapool, Scotland's writers continue to raise Scotland's cultural profile to an international audience.
"Jackie Kay is one of Scotland's national treasures." | Scottish author Jackie Kay has won the 2011 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year for her autobiographical novel Red Dust Road. |
Can you provide a brief summary of the following information? | Traditionally one or two countries have hosted the tournament, which is being held in Poland and Ukraine this summer.
The next competition in 2016 will be hosted by France.
"The Euros in 2020 could be held all over Europe," said Platini. "It could be either one country and 12 stadiums, or one stadium in 12 or 13 cities."
When Uefa president Michel Platini told his audience in Kiev that the possibility of having Euro 2020 in 24 to 32 host cities was a "great idea" it is fair to say not too many instantly shared his enthusiasm.
Platini was speaking at his pre-Euro 2012 final media conference in Kiev and if his hope was to capture attention and create debate then he certainly did.
Euro 2012 has been a success on the pitch but there have been logistical problems for supporters getting around Poland and Ukraine and there have been empty seats at high-profile matches. Spreading the tournament around so thinly around so many venues would hardly help.
Platini also says it would help infrastructure costs and circumnavigate the need to build new stadia or improve airports. Surely the best way to solve this problem is to have the tournament in a single country?
Turkey had been favourite to host the event in 2020, but their bid has hit difficulties due to a desire to host the Olympic Games in Istanbul in the same year.
Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland have also formally declared an interest in hosting Euro 2020.
Platini confirmed a final decision would be taken in January or February next year.
"This matter will be discussed very seriously," he added. "We will have a great debate about 2020 and discuss the pros and cons.
"It's an idea I feel really passionate about, it will be a lot easier from a financial perspective.
"We are not going to wait until we know whether Turkey are going to get the Olympics.
"It creates a problem for us. We do have other candidates. Everyone has the possibility to host it.
"It is easier to go from London to Paris or Berlin than Cardiff to Gdansk. It would be four games per venue. It is a great debate."
Platini added: "We are just thinking about it. I have said 12 or 13 host cities, it could be 24 or 32. In these days of cheap air travel anything is possible.
2012: Poland and Ukraine, 2008: Austria and Switzerland, 2004: Portugal, 2000: Belgium and Netherlands, 1996: England, 1992: Sweden, 1988: West Germany, 1984: France, 1980: Italy, 1976: Yugoslavia, 1972: Belgium, 1968: Italy, 1964: Spain, 1960: France.
"It is the political decision that needs to be made. We wouldn't have to build stadiums or airports. That could be important in an economic crisis."
In January 2011, Platini called for the 2022 World Cup to be played across the whole of the Gulf after Qatar won the right to host the tournament.
Meanwhile, Platini has repeated his opposition to goal-line technology. Platini has previously stated he believes its introduction would lead to "Playstation football".
"I am against technology," he said at Saturday's press conference in Kiev.
"Where do we stop? There was a mistake in the Ukraine-England game.
"But there was an offside before that." | Uefa president Michel Platini says the 2020 European Championship could be spread across various cities in Europe, rather than having a single host. |
Give a brief summary of the following article. | Trystan Rhun Roberts, 19, died on the A5 at Capel Curig on 17 May, 2016.
Mr Roberts, from Cynwyd, near Corwen, Denbighshire, was an apprentice fleet technician with the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service.
Assistant coroner Nicola Jones recorded a conclusion of death as a result of a road traffic collision.
Mountaineering guide Robert Spencer told the inquest in Ruthin how Mr Roberts' Seat Leon overtook him at around 60mph as he drove along the A5 near the Siabod Cafe.
It then crashed into a Mercedes that was turning right into a car park.
The off-duty firefighters were among the first on the scene and attempted to resuscitate Mr Roberts.
Police collision investigator Gordon Saynor said it appeared that he had either not noticed the Mercedes or thought he could overtake it.
Ms Jones said she hoped Mr Roberts' family could take some comfort from the fact that everything possible was done to help him by highly-trained officers. | Off-duty firefighters fought to save a fire service apprentice after a two-vehicle crash in Snowdonia, an inquest has heard. |
Please summarize the document below. | The 26-year-old, who has made 133 appearances for the Magpies, wants to leave following relegation from the Premier League last season.
Sissoko was involved in France's run to the Euro 2016 final this summer.
"I hope Real will come for me, I'm still waiting," Sissoko told World Football.
"If Real Madrid are interested in you then of course you will be happy, but right now I am still a Newcastle player."
Sissoko, who has claimed he has been training alone since returning to the club after Euro 2016, said supporters "need to understand" why he wants to leave.
"I spent three and a half years here. I gave everything for this club and I want to play some big games. For that I need to go somewhere else," he added.
"I want to play in the Premier League, I want to play for a big club who can get into the Champions League. That's why I said I want to leave this year.
"I've spent a lot of time here and now it's time to look forward. The fans need to understand my situation, I hope they will and that everything will be OK."
The five horses - the largest of which is about 0.8m (2ft 8in) in height - and three foals were taken on 13 July from a field near March, Cambridgeshire.
Two were found in Christchurch on Tuesday and five in a field near Beck Row travellers' site in Suffolk on Wednesday, police said.
However, a palomino mare, Barbie, is still missing.
No-one has been arrested in connection with the thefts and inquiries are continuing, Cambridgeshire Police said.
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Thieves cut through a 12,000-volt fence at the house in Stonea to take the animals, which owners Daniel and Jo Everett had bred for showing.
The couple were involved in rescuing some of the animals with police on Tuesday.
"We got a phone call from the police that they had eyes on our horses and to be on stand by," Mrs Everett said.
When they got to the field, she said the "mares were tied with seatbelts around their necks and two had no access to water".
The animals were rounded up and taken back to the stables.
Seven of the eight horses and foals are now home, but all are "thin, dehydrated and confused", she said.
One also has a leg wound which is being treated with antibiotics.
The couple have appealed for the return of mare Barbie, but praised officers involved in the investigation.
"There was a huge police presence. They were amazing and two had come in on their own holiday time," Mrs Everett said.
The blaze broke out at a property on Mill Croft, Wolverhampton, just after 10:30 GMT on Thursday.
The occupant, 37-year-old Lisa Skidmore, was found in a first-floor bedroom. A post-mortem test has since revealed she died from strangulation.
Police said they believed a man assaulted her before setting fire to the room and making his escape.
Ms Skidmore's 80-year-old mother was also found injured at the property.
She was treated for severe facial injuries and officers said they believed she disturbed the intruder, who then assaulted her.
West Midlands Police said they were looking for a black man in his 20s, about 5ft 6in tall, with a medium build. He was described as wearing a dark-coloured, long-sleeved jacket, dark trousers and leather gloves. | Newcastle midfielder Moussa Sissoko wants to join a "big club", with reportedly interested Real Madrid his preferred destination.
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Seven of the eight miniature horses and foals stolen when thieves cut through an electric fence have been found.
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A murder investigation has been opened after a woman discovered after a house fire was found to have been strangled. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | A Birthday Cake for George Washington tells the story of Washington's slave Hercules, a cook, and his daughter.
It had been criticised for its images of smiling slaves, and described as being "highly problematic".
Scholastic said in a statement that without more historical context, the book "may give a false impression of the reality of the lives of slaves".
The book, telling the story of Hercules and Delia making a cake together, had been released on 5 January.
It was met with a barrage of one-star reviews on Amazon, with readers describing it as "disgustingly inaccurate", and one writing: "I can't believe people are celebrating a children's story that depicts happy, joyful slaves."
Scholastic's description of the story had read: "Everyone is buzzing about the president's birthday! Especially George Washington's servants, who scurry around the kitchen preparing to make this the best celebration ever.
"Oh, how George Washington loves his cake! And, oh, how he depends on Hercules, his head chef, to make it for him. Hercules, a slave, takes great pride in baking the president's cake."
Author Ramin Ganeshram and illustrator Vanessa Brantley-Newton had written about the historical context in notes accompanying the story, but were criticised for not having included it in the main narrative.
Trade journal Kirkus said children could be left with a "sorely incomplete understanding of both the protagonists' lives and slavery itself" if adults did not read them the additional material.
Scholastic said in the statement: "While we have great respect for the integrity and scholarship of the author, illustrator, and editor, we believe that, without more historical background on the evils of slavery than this book for younger children can provide, the book may give a false impression of the reality of the lives of slaves and therefore should be withdrawn."
They added that they "do not believe this title meets the standards of appropriate presentation of information to younger children, despite the positive intentions and beliefs of the author, editor, and illustrator."
Ganeshram wrote in a blog post that she had undertaken four years of research and "thought long and hard about each word and depiction".
"How could they be proud to bake a cake for George Washington? The answers to those questions are complex because human nature is complex.
"Bizarrely and yes, disturbingly, there were some enslaved people who had a better quality of life than others and 'close' relationships with those who enslaved them. But they were smart enough to use those 'advantages' to improve their lives."
Editor Andrea Davis Pinkney said in her own blog post on the subject that while "the topic of slavery is one that must be handled with the utmost care", the book "presents an important slice of American history".
She wrote: "A Birthday Cake for George Washington does not take slavery's horror for granted.
"On several occasions, the book comments on slavery, acknowledges it, and offers children and adults who will be sharing the book 'a way in' as they speak to these issues."
He has also been secretary and a director at Nethermoor Park, and has overseen the club's rise to the National League from the ninth tier.
Rogerson initially resigned in 2012 but continued as chairman despite moving to Cornwall last year.
Meanwhile, centre-back Elliot Green has signed a new contract keeping him at Guiseley for next season.
The 23-year-old joined the Lions in December, making 10 appearances last term.
The move comes after a pilot programme in 500 stores this summer that tested a new accounting system.
A Walmart official said the employees affected by the changes would have the option of moving into jobs serving customers if they chose to stay.
Walmart, the largest US employer, has been trying to increase the number of staff who deal with customers.
"This is about simplifying how stores work, there are a number of initiatives that are designed to get more associates in front of our customers," said a representative for Walmart.
The changes will be rolled out over the rest of this year and into 2017.
Walmart said employees who stayed with the company would have a choice of jobs, depending on their availability in the stores.
This could mean a change in pay or hours for those staff members.
Walmart, which has been the target of trade union protests over low pay for the past few years, raised its minimum pay rate to $10 per hour earlier this year and changed its scheduling system to improve staffing at peak hours. | A children's picture book about George Washington and his slaves has been pulled by publishers Scholastic.
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Phil Rogerson has stepped down as Guiseley chairman after a 37-year association with the Yorkshire club.
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Walmart, the US supermarket chain, plans to cut 7,000 back office and accounting jobs in its US stores. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | Neil Aspin's side are now six games unbeaten, but squandered two points after goals from Sam Jones and Danny Johnson put them comfortably ahead.
But a strike from John Rooney, younger brother of Wayne, and a Hamza Bencherif header brought the Welsh side level.
Gateshead's Wes Yorke hit the post, but for new Wrexham boss, Dean Keates, it's two 2-2 draws in his first two games.
Wrexham manager Dean Keates told BBC Radio Wales: "This almost feels like a win. The lads showed everything we wanted of them to come back from 2-0 down, the passion and the drive.
"They showed character in abundance. This was an improvement again, showing the passion to get back in it, but the performance wasn't really good enough."
Match ends, Gateshead 2, Wrexham 2.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 2, Wrexham 2.
Hamza Bencherif (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Gateshead. Adam Wrightson replaces Wesley Atkinson.
Kai Edwards (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Gateshead. Gus Mafuta replaces Wes York.
Substitution, Gateshead. Reece Styche replaces Danny Johnson.
Goal! Gateshead 2, Wrexham 2. Hamza Bencherif (Wrexham).
Goal! Gateshead 2, Wrexham 1. John Rooney (Wrexham).
Substitution, Wrexham. Khaellem Bailey-Nichols replaces Shaun Harrad.
Leo Smith (Wrexham) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Goal! Gateshead 2, Wrexham 0. Danny Johnson (Gateshead).
Second Half begins Gateshead 1, Wrexham 0.
First Half ends, Gateshead 1, Wrexham 0.
Goal! Gateshead 1, Wrexham 0. Sam Jones (Gateshead).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.
Prof Neil Gow, from the University of Aberdeen, said more than one million people die from fungal infections around the world each year.
Yet there are no vaccines and there is a "pressing need" for new treatments, he said.
The warning comes as doctors in England say a new strain of fungi is causing outbreaks in hospitals.
There are more than five million types of fungi, but only three major groups cause the majority of deaths in people:
Prof Gow said: "Most people know about mild fungal infections, but nobody's ever died from athlete's foot.
"However, a million people die a year from fungal infections and we need to understand these different types of infection and how to deal with them."
The infections are more deadly in people with weakened immune systems - such as patients with HIV - so the fungal problem is particularly acute in Africa.
"It's an underappreciated problem and it's a very serious challenge in the parts of the world least equipped to deal with it," Prof Gow added.
Patients having cancer therapy or who are taking immunosuppressant drugs after an organ transplant are also more susceptible to infection.
Speaking to the BBC at the Royal Society's Summer Exhibition, he said: "Fungi are extremely tough and manipulate the immune system to prevent themselves being recognised, they are very slippery customers."
Meanwhile, health officials have warned of a new strain of Candida auris which has caused an outbreak affecting 40 patients in one hospital in south-east England.
The infection was first detected in 2009 in Japan, but has since been discovered across Asia and parts of south America.
Public Health England said "Candida auris appears to be unlike other pathogenic yeast species in its propensity for transmission between hospital patients" and warned it was resistant to the first choice anti-fungal drug.
Dr Berit Muller-Pebody, from Public Health England, said: "This species of Candida is emerging globally.
"We are monitoring it, but as it's an emerging pathogen it is very difficult to talk about trends.
"We needed to make the healthcare community aware of it as [doctors] now need to identify the species of Candida that require a more proactive approach."
Follow James on Twitter. | Wrexham fought back for what had looked an unlikely point at Gateshead in the National League.
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Fungal infections kill more people than malaria or breast cancer but are not considered a priority, say scientists. |
Can you write a short summary of this section? | And WildCat, the four-legged robot that can gallop untethered at up to 16mph (26km/h).
These are the latest creations of Boston Dynamics, a US robotics company part-funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa).
The robots are part of Darpa's Maximum Mobility and Manipulation programme.
Darpa says such robots "hold great promise for amplifying human effectiveness in defence operations".
Referring to Atlas's ability to remain balanced despite being hit by a lateral weight, Noel Sharkey, professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield, told the BBC: "This is an astonishing achievement... quite a remarkable feat."
This version of Atlas is one of seven humanoid robots Boston Dynamics is developing in response to the Darpa Robotics Challenge.
In December, competing robots will be set eight tasks to test their potential for use in emergency-response situations, including crossing uneven ground, using power tools and driving a rescue vehicle.
Darpa wants to improve the manoeuvrability and controllability of such robots while reducing manufacturing costs.
WildCat can bound, gallop and turn, mimicking the movements of quadruped animals. It is powered by an internal combustion engine.
"It is a shame that such technology is not being developed with other research funding," said Prof Sharkey, who is also chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.
"We do not know what military purpose it will serve but certainly it is a step towards a high-speed ground robot that could be weaponised to hunt and kill."
The video shows WildCat performing on a flat surface, but Prof Sharkey said: "It would be good to see how well it could perform in a muddy field."
Last year, Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot reached a sprint speed of 28.3mph tethered to a treadmill.
Geoff Pegman, managing director of RURobots, told the BBC: "Robotics has been making important strides in recent years, and these are a couple of demonstrations of the technology moving forward.
"However, their application may be limited to areas such as defence and, maybe specialised construction or demolition tasks.
"In other applications there are more efficient ways of achieving the mobility more cost effectively." | Meet Atlas, a humanoid robot capable of crossing rough terrain and maintaining its balance on one leg even when hit from the side. |
Can you summarize this passage? | The lawsuit accuses Oracle of behaving illegally in deciding that future versions of its database software will not support one line of HP servers.
The servers use an Itanium chip that Oracle insists is being phased out.
HP claim that Oracle's decision to stop the support will hurt its clients - Oracle has denied the claims, calling the lawsuit "malicious and meritless".
Relations between the two companies have deteriorated in the past year.
HP's former boss, Mark Hurd, joined Oracle almost a year ago.
HP had then threatened court action, claiming that Oracle would "exploit the knowledge of HP's strengths and weaknesses" as a result of hiring Mr Hurd.
The current dispute is the result of a combination of factors.
It centres around the future of the Itanium chip manufactured by Intel and the growing rivalry between the two companies in the field of server hardware market.
In March, Oracle announced that upcoming versions of its database software would no longer support HP servers that use the chip.
It said it had evidence that Intel was planning to phase out the product, hence it did not plan to provide software that supports the processor - something Intel has denied.
But Oracle said in a statement that: "Intel's plans to end-of-life Itanium will be revealed in court".
HP says Oracle's real concern is to try to force customers to buy the Sun Microsystems servers manufactured by it.
The company claimed Oracle was using "strong-arm tactics to coerce customers into replacing their HP servers with Sun servers they do not want".
HP said it had sent a legal notice to Oracle last week, but a lack of response from Oracle had left it with no choice but to take legal action against its former ally.
"The silence from Oracle is deafening. We are very disappointed it has come to this," said Bill Wohl of HP. | Hewlett-Packard (HP) is suing Oracle over a chip dispute in the latest clash between the two former allies. |
Give a brief summary of the provided passage. | There had been concern that their savings might be at risk, should one of the pension schemes collapse.
Master trust pensions will now need to meet higher standards of governance, while there will be new powers for the regulator.
The bill will also enable a cap to be put on exit fees from pension pots.
"We want to make sure that people saving into master trusts enjoy the same protection as everyone else, which is why we are levelling-up that protection, to give these savers more confidence in their pension schemes," said pensions minister Richard Harrington.
Master trust pensions are typically used by smaller employers, and include the government-backed NEST scheme, as well as Now: Pensions.
In February this year the BBC reported that up to a quarter of a million people who pay into master trust schemes might not have their savings protected.
It also aired concerns about the qualifications of people who are allowed to set up master trust pensions.
When the bill becomes law, operators of master trust schemes will have to show:
The chief executive of The Pensions Regulator (TPR), Lesley Titcomb, welcomed the publication of the bill.
"We are very pleased that the Pension Scheme Bill will drive up standards and give us tough new supervisory powers to authorise and de-authorise master trusts according to strict criteria, ensuring members are better protected and ultimately receive the benefits they expect."
However, the chief executive of one of the biggest master trust schemes, Now: Pensions, said he was disappointed that the master trust assurance framework - a kitemark for such schemes - would not be made compulsory.
"The voluntary assurance framework was introduced as a quality standard to enable trustees of master trusts to demonstrate high standards of scheme governance and administration," said Morten Nilsson.
"Making it compulsory and building on this existing framework seemed logical."
The bill will also enable regulators to introduce a cap on exit fees from pension pots, which in some cases had been as high as 10%.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wants there to be no exit charges on private pensions from March next year. The government wants occupational pensions to have a similar cap.
The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) welcomed the bill, but said it would require detailed scrutiny to ensure it works as intended.
The study of more than 120,000 people suggested red meat increased the risk of death from cancer and heart problems.
Substituting red meat with fish, chicken or nuts lowered the risks, the authors said.
The British Heart Foundation said red meat could still be eaten as part of a balanced diet.
The researchers analysed data from 37,698 men between 1986 and 2008 and 83,644 women between 1980 and 2008.
They said that during the study period, adding an extra portion of unprocessed red meat to someone's daily diet would increase the risk of death by 13%, of fatal cardiovascular disease by 18% and of cancer mortality by 10%. The figures for processed meat were higher, 20% for overall mortality, 21% for death from heart problems and 16% for cancer mortality.
The study,published in Archives of Internal Medicine, said: "We found that a higher intake of red meat was associated with a significantly elevated risk of total, cardiovascular disease, and cancer mortality.
"This association was observed for unprocessed and processed red meat with a relatively greater risk for processed red meat."
The researchers suggested that saturated fat from red meat may be behind the increased heart risk and the sodium used in processed meats may "increase cardiovascular disease risk through its effect on blood pressure".
Victoria Taylor, a dietitian at the British Heart Foundation, said: "Red meat can still be eaten as part of a balanced diet, but go for the leaner cuts and use healthier cooking methods such as grilling.
She suggested adding more variation to your diet with "other protein sources such as fish, poultry, beans or lentils." | More than six million workers who pay into master trust pensions will see their money better protected, under a bill that has been published.
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A diet high in red meat can shorten life expectancy, according to researchers at Harvard Medical School. |
Summarize the following piece. | The government had indicated it would publish proposals for consultation, but is now indicating that unless it, the DUP and Sinn Féin agree, there is no point.
Secretary of State James Brokenshire told the BBC he wants "broad political consensus" before any publication.
There is no sign that an agreement is close.
Two years ago the Stormont House Agreement set out a plan for dealing with what have become known as legacy cases.
New bodies were to be established to deal with the thousands of killings.
That still hasn't happened.
The Northern Ireland Secretary has said several times that he regards an agreement on new structures to deal with the legacy of the Troubles as a priority.
He has also said he wants to move to "a public phase", to ask victims of the Troubles, their families and members of the public to respond to proposals for dealing with the past.
The public consultation had been expected to be launched last month, but now appears to have been postponed indefinitely.
"I think it's important that there is that broad political consensus to ensure that when we move to a public phase, we don't suddenly see that hitting an immediate roadblock," Mr Brokenshire said.
"I want to get this right. I think we've got one chance, one shot to get this right, and that's where my focus lies.
"In my duty as secretary of state, I have that duty to come forward with proposals that I have confidence command broad political support in order to have effect.
"No-one will thank me for coming forward with something that simply then would be stopped in its tracks at that first phase."
One of the key obstacles to an agreement on legacy issues is the issue of national security and how sensitive information might be handled.
Sinn Féin has accused the government of using national security as an excuse to protect former soldiers, police officers and members of the security services from investigation.
Mr Brokenshire disputes that claim.
"I hold my duties very clearly in relation to national security, on protecting the public here in Northern Ireland here and now, and I feel that very keenly," he said.
"National security is used for that purpose. It is not about some sort of mechanism of hiding embarrassment. I'm very clear on that, in the way it is used."
The DUP and Sinn Féin insist that reaching an agreement on how to deal with the past is also a priority for them.
Mr Brokenshire and the DUP have said they believe progress is being made and that the outstanding issues can be resolved.
However, there is no indication that an agreement is on the horizon.
The BBC has established that Sinn Féin has met Northern Ireland Office (NIO) officials at least 10 times in recent months to discuss legacy issues.
The DUP has also held a number of meetings with the NIO.
But the two parties and the NIO have only met once collectively to discuss the issue. | Plans to deal with the legacy of the Troubles will not be made public unless there is political agreement. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | The 41-year-old, from Stourbridge in the West Midlands, was first arrested in May, with allegations dating from 2000 to 2014.
She faces five charges of grievous bodily harm, accused of having sex with the three men without disclosing she was HIV positive.
The woman is due to appear before magistrates in Wolverhampton on Saturday.
Police said anyone with concerns should contact their doctor in the first instance. | A woman accused of infecting three men with HIV has been charged by police. |
Summarize the content provided below. | Tahnie Martin, 29, was hit by a piece of timber in Wolverhampton city centre during Storm Doris in February.
Miss Martin suffered serious head injuries and died at the scene.
A pre-inquest review on Thursday heard the City of Wolverhampton Council is continuing detailed investigations which are due to be completed in July.
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Miss Martin, from Stafford, who worked at the University of Wolverhampton, was struck by part of a 2m-long piece of timber which was part of a wooden water tank cover as she walked near a Starbucks cafe in Dudley Street.
It is believed the cover was attached to a structure on the roof of the nearby Mander Centre shopping mall.
Mr Bernard Thorogood, representing the authority, told the hearing at the Black Country Coroner's Court in Oldbury: "There's still some fundamental factual issues being pursued."
This included maintenance records for work on the roofs, which would be analysed, he said.
Once primary fact-gathering has been completed, the authority would then be seeking an expert to assist the investigation, he added.
Miss Tanya Robinson, representing Miss Martin's family, said the family would be keen for the scope of the inquest to include issues relating to the weather conditions on the day.
The hearing was adjourned for a pre-inquest hearing on 25 July. A five-day inquest has been fixed for the week of 2 October.
Williams, 36, is to add coaching to playing at Mitsubishi Dynaboars, where he has already spent two seasons.
That was interrupted in July 2013 when Williams earned a surprise, but stop-gap, British and Irish Lions call-up from coach Warren Gatland.
"I've got the option to go back in April and it's probably something I'm going to take up," said Williams.
He intended to retire at the end of the 2011-12 Ospreys season after a try-scoring end to his 87-cap, 58-try Wales career in December 2011 against Australia.
But a lucrative offer from Dynaboars persuaded him to continue, albeit in Japan's second tier.
The former Neath, Ospreys, Wales and Lions star is looking forward to the dual role.
"I'm enjoying myself out there, learning new tricks of the rugby trade and obviously the culture's something to get used to as well," said Williams, who turns 37 on 26 February.
"It's something I never thought I'd be doing.
"So that's probably going to be the story for the next two years.
"But I'm enjoying myself and that's what it's all about really."
Williams also works as a rugby pundit on television and radio when home in Wales.
Two people were seriously hurt and 31 injured in a suspected gas blast at New Ferry, Wirral, on 25 March.
A 65-year-old man from Cheshire has been held on suspicion of conspiring to commit arson with intent or recklessness and a fraud charge.
Two men arrested on Wednesday have been released from custody but remain under police investigation. | Investigations are continuing into the death of a woman struck and killed by debris during high winds, an inquest heard.
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Wales's record try-scorer Shane Williams wants to continue his playing career in Japan until he is 39.
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A third man has been arrested following an explosion in which 100 people were evacuated from their homes. |
Provide a summary of the section below. | Changes will include an end to major government reforms being introduced during the academic year, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Education Secretary Nicky Morgan said.
The pledge follows the biggest survey of teachers undertaken in 10 years.
The National Union of Teachers said the measures were "simply insufficient".
Almost 44,000 people - the majority of them classroom teachers - responded to the Department of Education's Workload Challenge survey.
They cited excessive amounts of time spent recording data and dealing with bureaucracy as factors which contributed to "unnecessary" or "unproductive" workloads.
Other reasons included unrealistic deadlines and excessive marking - with some saying they marked up to 120 books a day.
Teachers had been left feeling "browbeaten and undervalued", said Mr Clegg as he announced the series of commitments alongside the education secretary.
They include:
Ms Morgan said the changes would tackle the root causes of excessive workloads.
"It is no secret that we have made some very important changes in schools - changes that we know have increased the pressure on many teachers," she said.
"We know there is no quick fix but we hope the commitments we have outlined today will support and empower the profession, and free up teachers to focus on what matters most in their jobs."
However, the National Union of Teachers said teachers would be "bitterly disappointed" by the measures.
"At a time when the number of teachers leaving this proud profession is at a 10-year high, this announcement on workload is simply insufficient," said general secretary Christine Blower.
She said the government should immediately tackle its "out-of-control accountability system", which had "Ofsted at its centre".
More than half of respondents said the perceived pressures of Ofsted inspections contributed to unnecessary workloads.
HM Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw said Ofsted was working to "dispel some of the myths that may have led to unnecessary workloads".
"It is very important that schools maintain a sense of proportion when preparing for an Ofsted inspection," he said.
"If they are devoting their energies to getting things right for pupils, then an Ofsted inspection will take care of itself." | "Unnecessary and unproductive" teacher workload will be reduced with a series of "decisive measures" to be introduced in England, ministers have announced. |
Can you summarize the following content in brief? | Sixteen people were injured, five seriously, when two carriages collided on the rollercoaster.
An investigation into the accident found that there were not mechanical faults with the ride, but said that the people running the ride had caused it to crash.
A judge said that the company could have to pay "a very large fine" because of how serious the accident was.
After the crash, the company said that they had added more safety procedures.
Rollercoaster crashes like this are incredibly rare.
The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions say that the chance of being injured on an amusement park ride is one in 24 million.
City will meet an 18m euros (£13.8m) release clause in Nolito's Celta Vigo contract, which expires in 2018.
The 29-year-old, who is on duty with his country at Euro 2016, has yet to decide his future, with his former club Barcelona also interested in him.
Nolito has started all three of Spain's matches at the Euros so far, scoring in the 3-0 win against Turkey on 17 June.
He started his career at Barcelona, where was given his debut in 2010 by Pep Guardiola, who is City's new manager.
Nolito moved to Benfica in 2011, before joining Celta two years later.
Should the winger join City, he would become Guardiola's second signing following the £20m arrival of midfielder Ilkay Gundogan from Borussia Dortmund.
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The Electoral Office said it intends to deliver the 2015 election results by the early hours of the following morning.
The office has been criticised in the past for slow counts by an independent watchdog.
It will recruit 1,500 counters and 3,500 polling staff for the count.
There will be speed counting tests, but a former counter said previous delays were due to poor management.
The 2010 general election was the first time votes were counted overnight in Northern Ireland.
Overnight counts did not take place for security reasons during the Troubles.
Northern Ireland's 2014 European election results required two days of counting.
This was attributed to the complexity of the single transferable vote system used in Northern Ireland.
The system is also used in the Republic of Ireland and Malta, who also declared their results after a similar period.
Following the 2014 elections the Electoral Commission, a watchdog that monitors elections in the UK, said: "There appeared to be a lack of overall management and oversight on the first day of the count resulting in some count staff not being used as effectively as they could have been."
A former vote counter spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity, because of a confidentiality clause all counters have to sign.
The counter worked at Kings Hall, Belfast in the May 2014 election, and said "management was very disorganised. There were too many chiefs and not enough Indians".
The election worker said: "Communication with counters was very poor. Four hundred people were at a standstill for an hour and no information was given.
"Everyone stops when the calculations are being carried out. The calculations took a really long time."
The election worker also claimed:
Graham Shields, the chief electoral officer at Electoral Office for Northern Ireland (EONI) said the idea that the calculations done during a count could be hurried was "naive and simplistic".
He defended the level of management, describing supervisor training as "in-depth". He said it was carried out over a half-day or evening session, and that they used EONI's full-time staff and retirees that have performed the role previously.
He said that "some counters were good while others were poor", and a new recruitment test would allow them to "weed out those that are not up to standard".
The 2015 General Election is a first past the post ballot, which is easier to count than single transferable vote ballots. Mr Shields said the Northern Ireland results should be declared by the early hours of the morning after the ballot closes.
He also added that his teams had used a "contingency of additional staff", including council employees.
The simplicity of first past the post ballots allow for counters to work through the night if needed. Single transferable vote ballots require counters to rest overnight.
Mr Shield noted that Scottish local elections, which also use the single transferable vote system, employ electronic ballots, and returned a result in just eight hours. | Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd, the company that runs Alton Towers, has said that it was responsible for health and safety failings over the Smiler Rollercoaster crash in June 2015.
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Spain winger Nolito is a summer transfer target for Manchester City.
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The body that runs government elections in Northern Ireland has said it has started recruiting staff for the 2015 General Election. |
Summarize the following content briefly. | Brett and Naghemeh King are being held in custody in Madrid after removing Ashya from hospital in Southampton and travelling to Spain.
There have been growing calls for their release after they spent another night away from the five-year-old.
An internal inquiry into the case has begun at Southampton General Hospital, the BBC understands.
The Home Office has been in contact with Hampshire Constabulary to discuss their handling of the case, the Prime Minister's spokesman confirmed.
Home Secretary Theresa May also told the House of Commons she hoped MPs "will be reassured to know that I understand that the [Crown Prosecution Service] are reviewing this issue as we speak".
Prime Minister David Cameron told LBC Radio there needed to be a "rapid outbreak of common sense."
He said the Government could not tell the police how to act or intervene in legal processes overseas but said he wanted to see the family back together.
Mr Clegg, the deputy prime minister, said his "heart goes out" to the parents.
"A little boy is on his own in a hospital, I would like to see him with his family as soon as possible," he said.
"As far as I can make out, this is a family in a state of real anguish who have taken this exceptional step of moving their sick child to another country because they think that's what is best for their child."
He believes it is "not appropriate" to "throw the full force of the law" at the parents.
Earlier, a CPS spokesman said: "Once this evidence has been thoroughly examined, a decision will then be made as to whether a prosecution is required."
Meanwhile, the couple's lawyer in Spain, told the BBC a hearing has been scheduled at Madrid's Central Court on Wednesday at 11:00 local time.
Lawyer Juan Isidro Fernandez Diaz, said they are also preparing to take legal action against Southampton General Hospital.
He said they "wanted the very best for their child."
"They never thought that they committed any crime in the UK," he said.
More than 100,000 people have signed an online petition demanding Ashya be reunited with his parents.
The petition was delivered to Downing Street by friends of the King family.
Ethan Dallas, 16, who set up the petition, said they felt the family had been "mistreated" while trying to get the best treatment for Ashya.
Hampshire Constabulary obtained a European arrest warrant on 29 August on the grounds the Kings neglected their son.
A High Court judge in Madrid ruled on Monday they will remain in custody for a maximum of 72 hours while he considers granting bail.
One of his brothers was allowed to visit Ashya on Monday night, the family lawyer said.
Mr King, 51, and Mrs King, 45, were arrested on Saturday night in Velez-Malaga.
The family took Ashya from Southampton General Hospital last Thursday and travelled to France with him and his six siblings before heading to the Costa del Sol in southern Spain.
They want him to receive a treatment which they say was not made available to him on the NHS.
The treatment, proton beam therapy, is only available in the UK on the NHS for eye conditions, but patients with other conditions can be sent abroad.
The Proton Therapy Centre (PTC) in Prague, Czech Republic, which received a request from Brett King on 20 August, said on Monday it can treat Ashya immediately if he is eligible.
A spokesperson for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust said they had discussed the option of this type of therapy with the King family and said: "We were willing to support the family's transfer to Prague for proton beam radiotherapy, although we did not recommend it.
"The Proton Therapy Centre has been in touch again yesterday afternoon to enquire about Ashya's potential future care and confirm that they would be keen to treat him if he is suitable according to the relevant criteria."
Dr Michael Marsh, medical director at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, said: "It's really important that the family and the medical and nursing teams have good communication and relationships.
"In Ashya's case we really regret that the communication and relationship broke down to the extent that the family lost trust in the team that were caring for him." | Nick Clegg has called for brain tumour patient Ashya King's parents to be freed and reunited with their son. |
Write a summary of this document. | A council work crew was startled to find the 120kg (265lb) seal, who they named Sammy, taking a nap in the women's toilets at Mersey Vale Lawn Cemetery on Tuesday.
Sammy was sedated and taken to a nearby beach to be released.
The cemetery is about 500m from the ocean and it is believed Sammy may have swum up a creek to reach it.
A spokeswoman for Devonport City Council told the BBC the arrival of Sammy was "highly unusual".
"They are quite common on the beaches. Local fishermen often complain about them stealing their fish," she said.
"He came and posed for a few photos for us, which was lovely." | An Australian fur seal that fell asleep in a public toilet block in Tasmania has been safely relocated. |
Write a brief summary of the document. | Neil Prakash was linked to militant plots in Australia and had appeared in propaganda videos.
He was killed during a targeted airstrike in Mosul on 29 April, according to media reports.
Prakash was considered to be the most-senior Australian militant fighting with the group.
"His death disrupts and degrades ISIL's ability to recruit vulnerable people in our community to conduct terrorist acts," an official said, according to The Australian newspaper.
According to the reports, an Australian woman was also killed in a separate US airstrike last month in Syria.
The woman, Shadi Jabar, was the cousin of Farhad Jabar - the teenager who killed police worker Curtis Cheng in Sydney last year.
She and her Sudanese husband Abu Sa'ad al-Sudani, who was killed in the strike as well, were also allegedly recruiters for the so-called Islamic State group.
Prakash left Australia in 2013 and travelled to Syria where he began appearing in propaganda videos and calling for attacks on Australia.
Jabar left Australia the day before her cousin, who had been radicalised, shot Mr Cheng outside a Sydney police station last year.
This comes after police in Australia recently charged a 16-year-old with preparing an act of terrorism, over an alleged plot to target Anzac Day services.
Australia's government estimates there are around 110 Australians fighting with militant groups in the Middle East.
The 32-year-old Oman international has only made one appearance for the Latics this season, in the League Cup defeat by Burton in August.
"With David Stockdale currently being injured, we felt it was important to bring in another experienced keeper," Brighton boss Sami Hyypia said.
"Ali certainly fits into this category as someone who has played at the top level for both Bolton and Wigan."
Brighton number one Stockdale missed his side's League Cup defeat by Tottenham on Wednesday with a finger injury.
Teenager Christian Walton deputised for the former Fulham man, making his senior debut for the Sussex club.
Al-Habsi made 28 appearances for Wigan last season but has been second in the pecking order behind Scott Carson this season.
"Last year he was fantastic but I made a decision this year to go with Scott," Wigan manager Uwe Rosler told BBC Radio Manchester.
"Ali has been absolutely professional.
"He is in my thoughts and in my plans but with such a class goalkeeper, at some point you have to give him games.
"I know his contract runs out at the end of the season and at some point we need to make a decision on that.
"We loan him initially for a month and after that we see where we are and how Ali feels.
"It is a gesture from us to support Ali because he has supported us and to give him competitive games."
Al-Habsi could make his debut for the Seagulls against Bournemouth on Saturday but he is ineligible to face his parent club at the Amex Stadium on Tuesday. | An Australian man said to be a senior recruiter for the so-called Islamic State group has been killed by a US airstrike in Iraq, reports say.
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Brighton have signed Wigan goalkeeper Ali Al-Habsi on a one-month loan deal. |
Summarize the following excerpt. | Utah Governor Gary Herbert signed the measure into law on Monday.
The move makes Utah the only US state to use firing squads as a method of execution.
Some US states are considering alternative execution methods as they struggle to obtain lethal injection drugs amid a nationwide shortage.
Drug inventories dwindled after European manufacturers opposed to capital punishment refused to sell the lethal concoctions.
Civil rights groups have said use of firing squads makes Utah "look backward and backwoods".
Governor Herbert finds the firing squad "a little bit gruesome,'' but said the state needs a back-up execution method.
"We prefer to use our primary method of lethal injection when such a sentence is issued," the governor's spokesman Marty Carpenter told the Associated Press.
"However, when a jury makes the decision and a judge signs a death warrant, enforcing that lawful decision is the obligation of the executive branch."
It will probably be years before Utah's next execution. The head of Utah's prison system has said the state does not have any reserves of lethal injection drugs.
The new Utah law reinstates the use of firing squads more than a decade after the state abandoned the practice.
Because of the intense media attention, Utah lawmakers stopped offering inmates the choice of a death by firing squad several years ago.
But a handful of inmates sentenced to death before 2004 still have the option of going before a firing squad.
Ronnie Lee Gardner, a convicted murderer who shot and killed a lawyer in attempt to escape from prison, was the last inmate executed by a firing squad in 2010.
Amiram Ben-Oliel, 21, has been charged with murder, and a second suspect, a youth, as an accessory to murder.
At least two others have been charged over attacks on Palestinians.
The killing of Saad and Riham Dawabsha and their 18-month-old son, Ali, in the village of Duma last July sparked international condemnation.
Another son, four-year-old Ahmed, is still being treated for his wounds.
The Dawabsha family were sleeping in their home when it was firebombed early on 31 July, and daubed with slogans in Hebrew, including the word "revenge".
Investigations have focused on young Jewish extremists, based largely in the occupied West Bank.
According to the indictment, Mr Ben-Oliel carried out the attack in retaliation for the killing of an Israeli settler in a drive-by shooting one month before the Duma attack.
Saad's brother Naser was unconvinced by Israel's commitment to the prosecution.
"We have no trust in the Israeli judiciary. They would not have launched an investigation were it not for the international pressure on them," he said.
The arson case has been cited as a factor in a spate of attacks by Palestinians on Israelis across Israel and the occupied West Bank.
It also prompted the Israeli government to approve the use of administrative detention - a procedure under which a military court can order suspects to be detained indefinitely without charge or trial - for suspected Jewish terrorists.
Lawyers for some of those detained over the arson attack allege their clients were tortured to extract confessions but this has been denied by the Israeli authorities.
His arrest followed that of a 30-year-old woman in connection with the attack at North Walkden Primary School on Friday afternoon.
Both were being questioned on suspicion of attempted murder, Greater Manchester Police said.
The victim was stabbed in the chest as parents waited to collect their children in Whittle Drive, Walkden. | Utah will resume the use of firing squads to carry out the death penalty when lethal injections drugs are not available.
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Israeli prosecutors have charged two suspects over an arson attack on a Palestinian family's home in the West Bank last year that killed three.
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A 37-year-old man has been arrested over the stabbing of a man outside a Greater Manchester primary school. |
Provide a concise overview of the following information. | The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) is examining the extent to which religious groups and local authorities failed children.
Earlier this week a latest victims group - Survivors of Organised and Institutional Abuse (SOIA) - withdrew from the process.
The IICSA said it had "taken on board" a number of issues raised by SOIA.
SOIA said the group had taken the decision to withdraw "with regret" but said the inquiry was "not fit for purpose".
Set up in 2014, the inquiry has been beset by controversy, with three chairwomen stepping down, lawyers quitting and victims losing faith in the process.
One of the victims, Dr Phil Frampton, who grew up in Cornwall, said instead of being at the heart of the inquiry, survivors have been "utterly marginalised".
"This inquiry is not fit for purpose and has never been fit for purpose - we engaged to try to help it be fit for purpose, but it's actually going backwards," Mr Frampton said.
He said the Home Office had a "conflict of interest" and had failed to deal with abuse that had taken place, including in children's homes and approved schools it was responsible for prior to 1970.
"This is one of the darkest episodes in the country's history and if you've got people with conflicts of interest, they're never going to shine a torch into those dark places, for fear they'll see themselves," he said.
Dr Frampton has waived his right to anonymity.
More than 200 victims and survivors are involved in the inquiry, which was launched in 2014 by the then Home Secretary, Theresa May.
SOIA is the second victims' group to withdraw from the inquiry. Last September the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association announced it would be pulling out, having lost faith in an inquiry it believed was not independent.
"The heart of the inquiry is the big institutions who are using taxpayers' money to defend their institutions," Dr Frampton said.
"It is a callous and cold process the inquiry is inflicting on survivors."
The inquiry, chaired by Professor Alexis Jay, involves 13 initial investigations into allegations against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces, public and private institutions and people in the public eye.
In a statement, IICSA said it regretted SOIA's decision to withdraw and would welcome the group or individual members back,
It said it had "taken on board" a number of issues raised by SOIA, adding that the "important work" of the inquiry would continue. | Sex abuse victims have been "utterly marginalised" by an inquiry set up to help them, one of the victims claimed. |
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The 32-year-old is part of England's World Cup squad but had a medical while on international duty and is believed to have signed a two-year deal.
The Liverpool-born forward spent five years at Anfield as a youth player.
Blackpool: 3 games, 0 goals (1998-2000)
Macclesfield: 49 games, 10 goals (2001-2002)
Stockport: 110 games, 19 goals (2002-2005)
Rochdale: 68 games, 28 goals (2005-2006)
Bristol Rovers: 155 games, 59 goals (2006-2009)
Southampton: 235 games, 117 goals (2009-present)
"I can't believe it. I've loved this club all my life. I left here 17 years ago and I haven't stopped loving it since," said Lambert.
"I have always dreamt of playing for Liverpool, but I did kind of think the chance of playing for them had gone. I didn't think the chance would come.
"I've been trying to keep it as low-key as possible. Only telling close family.
"My mum and dad shed a few tears when I told them, my mum in particular."
Lambert, who has two goals in four England appearances, scored 14 goals in 39 games for Southampton in the past season.
In all, he has netted 117 times in 235 appearances since joining the south coast club from Bristol Rovers in 2009.
Lambert had two years remaining on his contract with Southampton.
"I know how big Liverpool are - and it means everything to me - but I know what is important," he added in an interview with the Liverpool website.
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"I know it's what I do on the pitch and the minutes I play.
"I know that's what matters, and that's what I'll be focused on."
There had been interest in Lambert from other clubs, but it is understood he was only considering Liverpool.
Lambert issued an open letter on the Southampton website in which he thanked the club, the managers he has played under and ex-team-mates during his spell at the St Mary's side.
"The five-year plan when I arrived was to get this club from League One to the top half of the Premier League. Against all the odds we have achieved that," he said.
"Now, under Katharina Liebherr's leadership, the club has the chance for a new plan, a new chapter, and I wish them all the success in the world."
Liverpool are still interested in signing England midfielder Adam Lallana, 26, and Croatia defender Dejan Lovren, 24, from Southampton but they say they would prefer not to conduct "any transfers until the new manager is in place". | Southampton and England striker Rickie Lambert has moved to Liverpool for a fee of about £4m plus add-ons. |
Summarize the information in the following section. | The prince will spend 15 days touring seven island nations as the Queen's representative.
The governor general of Antigua welcomed him with a reception at the newly restored Clarence House.
The prince re-opened the building - designed for King William IV when governor general in the 18th Century.
He also read out a message from the Queen in which she recalled her "fond memories" of visiting Antigua on three occasions between 1966 and 1985,
The prince also congratulated the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh on their 69th wedding anniversary.
Earlier he made an unscheduled stop at Nelson's Dockyard, a Unesco World Heritage Site where Admiral Lord Nelson was based for four years in the 1780s.
Later, Harry is to join West Indian cricket legends Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Andy Roberts and Sir Curtly Ambrose at a sporting event near Antigua's capital St John's.
A Kensington Palace source said the tour would have a "formal feel" but there would be "plenty of fun".
Its build-up has been overshadowed after it emerged the prince was dating US actress Meghan Markle.
Earlier this month Prince Harry, 32, hit out at the media for subjecting Ms Markle to a "wave of abuse and harassment", issuing a rare but strongly worded statement.
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The palace source added that Prince Harry had been "looking forward to the tour for many months" and was "honoured" at being asked to represent the Queen.
"While this tour will necessarily have a more formal feel, he's pleased that he'll have plenty of opportunities to meet people from all walks of life. There should be plenty of fun along the way." | Blazing sunshine and a red carpet lined with potted palms greeted Prince Harry as he arrived in Antigua on a Caribbean tour billed as formal but fun. |
Write a concise summary of the provided excerpt. | Shashi Tharoor wanted to amend Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, saying it "violates the fundamental rights" of the homosexual population.
According to the 153-year-old colonial-era law, a same-sex relationship is an "unnatural offence" and punishable by a 10-year jail term.
Activists say police authorities often misuse the law to harass homosexuals.
The MP tweeted that he "will try again in the future" to amend the law.
India's treatment of homosexuals has been under the spotlight in recent years.
In a landmark ruling in 2009, the Delhi high court had decriminalised gay sex, describing Section 377 as discriminatory.
The Indian Supreme Court reversed the order in 2013, causing global outrage with many describing it as "disgraceful".
Gay rights activists have been demanding Indian MPs to amend the law in the parliament, but successive governments have failed to take up the issue.
Mr Tharoor wrote on the Quint website that "it is time to bring the Indian Penal Code into the 21st century".
"Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code was enacted in 1860, and criminalises 'carnal intercourse against the order of nature' - a term so archaic that it would invite derision in most modern societies," he wrote.
In deeply conservative India, homosexuality is a taboo and many people still regard same-sex relationships as illegitimate.
It now expects growth of 2.1% in 2017 and 2018, against earlier estimates of 2.3% in 2017 and 2.5% in 2018.
The forecast is also below the 3% rate targeted by the White House.
Proposals such as cuts to spending on programmes that benefit low and middle income households could lead to even slower growth, the IMF warned.
"The consultation revealed differences on a range of policies and left open questions as to whether the administration's proposed policy strategies are best suited to achieve their intended purpose," the IMF said.
The US is enjoying its third longest economic expansion since 1850.
But the country is having trouble adjusting to the challenges produced by technology and demographic changes, the IMF said.
Analysis: Andrew Walker, economics correspondent
There are some features of this report that must make uncomfortable reading at the White House, suggestions of a struggle to agree policies and concerns about the impact on poorer Americans.
The IMF's forecasts were initially raised on the Trump administration's desire to reform taxes and boost infrastructure. Now it's a case of as you were, due to "differences on a range of policies within the administration" and IMF doubts about whether the "proposed policy strategies are best suited to achieve their intended purpose".
And as for the current budget plan, the IMF's economists say it seems to place a "disproportionate share of the adjustment burden on low and middle-income households".
The US economy is also "effectively" at full employment, making further growth difficult, the IMF said. Meanwhile poverty and income divisions have inhibited demand.
The organisation said it supported ideas such as tax reform, family leave policies and investment in infrastructure as a way to boost growth.
But it cautioned against some of the other measures supported by the Trump administration.
It urged the US to preserve the current system of financial oversight, maintain a commitment to free trade and retain recent gains in health insurance coverage.
The IMF's earlier forecasts had assumed the economy would receive a boost from the Trump administration's policies, but it has now dropped those assumptions.
"During the Article IV consultation it became evident that many details about these plans are still undecided," the IMF said. "Given these policy uncertainties, the IMF's macroeconomic forecast uses a baseline assumption of unchanged policies." | An Indian MP's bid to introduce a private member's bill in the parliament to decriminalise gay sex has failed.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cuts its growth forecasts for the US economy due to uncertainty about White House policies. |
Write a brief summary of the provided content. | Rudd, who was arrested on Saturday, made no plea and will appear again at the New Zealand court in two weeks.
Earlier this month, Rudd, 61, was sentenced to eight months in house detention for drug possession and making threats to kill.
Rudd will not be taking part in AC/DC's current world tour.
After his latest arrest, Rudd must undergo drug and alcohol testing when required.
He stuck two fingers up at on looking media as he arrived in court, stuff.co.nz reported.
Rudd was sentenced to house detention just under two weeks ago for threatening to "take out" a former employee and possessing marijuana and methamphetamine.
Judge Thomas Ingram said home detention was the most appropriate punishment - but warned that he would be closely monitored and jail would be the next step if the drummer stepped out of line.
"I stone-cold guarantee that's where you'll end up," the judge said during sentencing.
"The temptations of the rock star lifestyle have caused your downfall here." | The former drummer with rock band AC/DC Phil Rudd has appeared in court accused of consuming alcohol in breach of a home detention sentence. |
Provide a brief summary for the information below. | Lords King, Blair, Carlile and West wanted measures on communications data, rejected by the Lib Dems in 2012, to be included in the bill, saying they were vital tools for combating terrorism.
But they withdrew their amendment and it did not go to a vote.
The counter-terrorism bill will give new powers to UK security services.
It will also allow the home secretary to impose temporary exclusion orders on British terror suspects.
The legislation had already cleared its first hurdle in the House of Lords, and undergone detailed scrutiny in committee.
During the first of two days of report-stage scrutiny, Lord King, a Conservative former defence secretary, said there was a "significant gap," exposed by the recent Paris shootings, which could be plugged by a temporary stop-gap measure.
But he said that without the required support the amendment to add communications data powers was doomed to fail.
He said: "We will lose an opportunity to put in place a temporary stop-gap measure that could have reduced the threat to our nation from terrorism at the present time.
"We just have to pray that we don't pay too high a price for that."
Along with former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Blair, former Lib Dem independent reviewer of anti-terror laws Lord Carlile and former Labour security minister Lord West, Lord King wanted to add whole sections of the defeated Communications Data Bill to the counter-terrorism legislation.
The proposed amendments sought to require internet service providers to log more of what people do online and to make that data more easily accessible to law enforcement and security services.
They scaled back the number of agencies that could demand access to the data from the hundreds included in the original bill to just three: the police and the two security services.
Opponents of the so-called snoopers' charter say it would amount to mass surveillance of internet communications by the state.
The Counter Terrorism Bill also includes a requirement on universities and councils to take steps to counter radicalisation.
It also includes:
Under the exclusion orders proposal, Home Secretary Theresa May would be able to sign an order to ban a suspected extremist from returning to the UK, for up to two years at a time.
The individual could return if they agreed to some kind of investigation or monitoring arrangements to ensure they were not a threat.
Labour has called for a judge to have a role when the orders are imposed, a view echoed by David Anderson QC, the government's independent reviewer of terror legislation. | A cross-party group of peers has dropped a second attempt to add the so-called "snoopers' charter" to the government's counter-terrorism bill. |
Summarize the passage below. | Twenty people were killed in the attack on the Erawan Shrine in August.
Authorities say Bilal Mohammed, also known as Adem Karadag, and Yusuf Mieraili have both confessed to their roles in the blast.
The two suspects have been indicted on 10 charges, including murder, but not terrorism.
A lawyer for one of the men told the Reuters news agency that the charges included premeditated murder, illegal possession of weapons, and murder.
"The court has accepted the 10 charges that prosecutors formally brought against the two men," said lawyer Schoochart Kanpai.
The two have been in custody for nearly three months.
Documents sent by prosecutors to the court said both men were Chinese nationals from the Muslim Uighur minority.
China has long faced criticism for the perceived harsh restrictions it places on religion and culture in Xinjiang, where the majority of Uighurs live.
Thailand recently found itself in the spotlight following its forced repatriation of more than 100 Uighurs to China.
Police have released warrants for a total of 17 people over charges stemming from the attack. They believe many have fled the country.
The motive for the bombing remains unclear.
The Erawan shrine - with its four-faced golden statue of the Hindu god Brahma - is considered sacred by Thai Buddhists, and attracts many foreign visitors. | Two men have been charged by a military court in Thailand in connection with the bombing of a shrine in the capital Bangkok. |
Write a short summary of the following excerpt. | The Exeter Chiefs tight-head prop made his debut in Wales' 16-10 World Cup warm-up win against Ireland in Dublin.
"I still have to pinch myself - it's a bit surreal," the York-born 23-year-old said.
"Two years ago I couldn't get a game at London Scottish, so to be here now is a dream come true."
Francis added: "To come out here and get a win, you can't ask for any more on your first cap."
The 20-stone tight-head began his professional career with Doncaster Knights in 2012 before joining London Scottish the following year.
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That brought Francis to the attention of Exeter, who signed him for the 2014-15 season, where a string of impressive performances and his Welsh ancestry - his grandmother Eirlys is from the Swansea valley - brought him onto Wales' radar.
A call-up to the Wales 2015 Six Nations squad followed before Francis was included on their World Cup training camps in Switzerland, Qatar and north Wales.
Francis impressed Warren Gatland with "the way he trained and his conditioning", persuading the Wales coach to hand him his first cap at the Aviva Stadium.
"I'm happy to get it out of the way, the first game was always going to be the most nervous and the most daunting," Francis said.
"I'm quite a nervous character before a game, any game, but once I got into it I enjoyed it.
"I was happy with my first scrum but there was one before half-time that got away from us, cost us a try, but on the whole we held it.
"I'm glad to get that [first cap] under my belt but obviously a long way from [the level] I want to play - I missed a few tackles and that scrum annoyed me a bit. But a good start.
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"I always knew the lungs were going to be tested, but I felt the fitness work got me through it and I'll hopefully get some more game time to gain fitness."
Now Francis, along with the rest of the Wales squad, faces a nervous wait to see if he will make the cut for the final 31-man World Cup squad, which will be announced at midday on Monday 31 August.
"I've just got to wait. I think we're doing it live so no one is getting told before, so it's a nervy day on Monday, wait and watch and hopefully get the call," Francis added.
"Obviously I'm hopeful, I'd love to play but there's a lot of competition in my position.
"Samson [Lee] is coming back so I'll have to wait and see."
The trawler Alberta had been converted to work as a mine sweeper when it was hit by one of the weapons it was dragging behind it, on 14 April 1916.
The boat went down in 22m (72.1ft) of water 35 miles north east of Grimsby.
The family of a man who died on the boat want to lay a wreath at the spot.
The Humber Vikings British Sub Aqua Divers who found the Alberta are part of the Shipwrecks of the River Humber project, which had been given £176,500 by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to map all the lost fishing boats during the 1914-18 conflict.
The Alberta crew included Percy Horn, from Grimsby, who was aged 26 when the boat went down.
Grandson Mark Richardson, 50, also of Grimsby said: "It's brought some closure for my own dad, Dennis Richardson, who is now 80.
"He always thought the Alberta was sunk much closer to the Humber and he was amazed to discover it was so far out in the North Sea.
"He would love to be able to go out with divers and perhaps lay a wreath on the sea above where the wreck of the Alberta lies.
"It would mean a lot to him.
"We know about the trenches and the zeppelins from World War One, but it seems the Grimsby trawlers and their lost crews have been forgotten." | Wales forward Tomas Francis admits his rapid rise to international rugby is like "a dream".
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The wreck of a trawler that sank during World War One has been found by divers searching for Humber fishing boats lost during the conflict. |
Can you summarize the given article? | The world number one amateur from Cavan carded birdies at the second and sixth to go along with 16 pars in a steady round at Kingsbarns.
It leaves Maguire as the leading amateur in the tournament on six under and in a tie for 22nd.
South Korea's Kim In-kyung holds a six-shot lead on 17 under.
Maguire is three strokes clear of nearest amateur challenger Sophie Lamb going into the final round. | Ireland's Leona Maguire maintained her good form at the Women's British Open by posting a two-under-par 70 in Saturday's third round. |