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The body of 13-year-old Quinlan Pringle, of Colchester, was found on 21 August after he was swept away by the sea at Boulogne 15 August.
He had been with his two younger brothers at the water's edge when all three ended up in the sea.
His brothers were rescued and treated for shock while an unsuccessful search for Quinlan got under way. His body was found between rocks by fishermen.
He was described as "a quiet, sensitive and considerate boy" by Philip Morant School in Colchester.
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College principal Catherine Hutley said: "Quinlan was an aspirational and hardworking young man with a cheeky, endearing side to him which we all loved.
"He will be sorely missed by the school community and our thoughts are with his family.'
"We are working closely with Essex County Council to ensure students, their families and our staff have all the support they need at this devastating time.
"Quinlan was a quiet, sensitive and considerate boy with a delightfully playful, yet unobvious, sense of humour."
It is understood Quinlan and his family arrived in Boulogne on the day of his death.
Pascal Marconville, le Procureur de la République à Boulogne, who confirmed the cause of death was accidental drowning, said: "Three children got into difficulties in Boulogne. Two were rescued.
"One couldn't be rescued and was swept away in the current."
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was providing support to Quinlan's family.
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A boy who drowned on a family holiday in France has been named.
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Johnstone opened the scoring with a close-range tap-in on eight minutes.
The 21-year-old slotted Bobby Barr's cross into the bottom corner for his 14th goal of the season to make it 2-0, before Paul McMullan added a third.
Dale Hilson and Gary Oliver hit back for the visitors but Morton held on for the win.
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Denny Johnstone netted a first-half brace as Morton returned to winning ways with victory over Queen of the South.
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The supermarket giant said its overseas division had sold 8.6% of its Lazada stake to Chinese internet giant Alibaba for $129m (£90.6m).
Tesco will retain an 8.3% holding in the South East Asia-focused business.
The move comes the day before Tesco's annual results, in which it is expected to announce further disposals.
The supermarket group is planning to sell off some of its side businesses, including Dobbies Garden Centres chain, coffee shop chain Harris & Hoole and restaurant chain Giraffe, so that it can focus on the main supermarket business, according to media reports.
Last September, Tesco sold its South Korean business, Homeplus, for £4.2bn to help shore up its balance sheet and revitalise its UK business.
There has been speculation about possible disposals since chief executive Dave Lewis took the helm in September 2014, charged with reviving the group's fortunes.
Mr Lewis was parachuted in after the supermarket reported it had overstated its profits by some £263m.
Alongside this, like its "big four" peers - Asda, Sainsbury's and Morrisons - Tesco has been hit by competition from discount rivals Lidl and Aldi.
The UK has also seen a broad change in shopping habits, with many customers preferring to shop little and often at small convenience stores, instead of doing a once-a-week "big shop".
In April last year, the company reported a record pre-tax loss of £6.4bn for the year to February, marking the biggest loss reported to date by a British retailer.
Mr Lewis has focused on price cuts and putting more staff in stores in an attempt to revive sales.
On Wednesday, he is expected to report a rise in underlying fourth-quarter sales, the group's first quarterly increase for more than three years.
Tesco declined to comment on the sale of its side businesses.
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Tesco has fired the starting gun on an expected sell-off of non-core assets, with the sale of some of its stake in Asian online business Lazada.
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The 39-year-old is Pakistan's leading run-scorer in Test cricket, having made 9,977 runs in 115 Tests since his international debut in 2000.
He has an average of 53.06, with 34 centuries and a highest score of 313.
"I will be retiring from international cricket after the West Indies series with my head held high," said Younus.
"I think this is the right time as every sportsman has to take this decision in his career."
He previously captained Pakistan in all three formats of the game and led them to their only World Twenty20 title in England in 2009. He also had a spell in county cricket with Yorkshire in 2007.
Younus' announcement comes two days after Test skipper Misbah-ul-Haq, 42, announced that he will also retire from internationals after the Windies Test series.
The veteran duo were also named among Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year last week.
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Pakistan batsman Younus Khan has announced he will retire after their three-match Test series against West Indies, which starts on 22 April.
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The 6-1 priced John Gosden-trained filly saw off favourite Rhododendron to win in the driving rain.
Rhododendron finished second while her trainer Aidan O'Brien also saddled Alluringly in third.
"In the back of my mind I thought we had a chance," said Dettori. "The rain spoiled it a bit as I was concentrating on my game plan so I didn't have much time to celebrate crossing the line."
Thunder and lightning closed in before the race, with Daddys Lil Darling withdrawn after hurtling towards the starting stalls rider Olivier Peslier deciding to jump out of the saddle.
BBC Sport horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght
A tremendous horse race in which the two main protagonists asserted inside the final half-mile before the winner came out on top in great style, and in a fast time.
And it was a performance of extra quality because of conditions. Dettori seemed to only semi-joke when saying that the thunder and lightning scared him let alone the horses.
Although both trainer and jockey said they wanted to concentrate on celebrating today's achievement now, this clearly puts them in a fabulous place for tomorrow when they have Cracksman in the Derby.
After this, Cracksman is practically sure to be favourite.
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Jockey Frankie Dettori rode Enable to victory in the Oaks at Epsom on Friday.
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The 27-year-old forward was a free agent, having recently left Hull City when his contract expired.
He spent four years with the Tigers, making 118 appearances for them and scoring 15 goals.
Aluko, who can play on the wing or through the middle, represented England at youth level and has since won seven caps for Nigeria.
He began his career at Birmingham City and played in Scotland for Aberdeen and then Rangers before joining Hull.
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Fulham have signed Sone Aluko on a two-year contract with the option of a further year.
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The hardware was exactly the same as that used last November, "demonstrating reuse", the Amazon.com founder wrote on his blog.
The flight took place on Friday from Mr Bezos' Texas test and launch facility.
As has become his practice, he gave no general public notice of the event and released only limited details afterwards, along with a glossy video.
November's outing marked the first time a rocket had launched a space mission vertically from the ground and then brought all elements - booster and capsule - softly and safely back to Earth.
Although all the flights so far undertaken by Mr Bezos have been unmanned, he does eventually plan to fly passengers.
"The very same New Shepard booster that flew above the Karman line and then landed vertically at its launch site last November has now flown and landed again, demonstrating reuse," the businessman said.
"This time, New Shepard reached an apogee of 333,582ft (101.7km) before both capsule and booster gently returned to Earth for recovery and reuse."
One hundred kilometres is regarded as the official boundary of space. New Shepard does not achieve the velocities that would allow the system to make orbit and stay up, but Mr Bezos says his Blue Origin space company is working on a family of rockets that would make this possible.
He promises to reveal further information on that programme later in the year.
Commentators had realised early in the week that another mission was imminent when the Federal Aviation Authority published a temporary flight restriction for a region of the sky north of Van Horn in Texas - the location of the Blue Origin test site.
From social media postings, it was evident that a launch had taken place early on Friday local time, but it was many hours before Mr Bezos and Blue Origin were prepared to comment.
Rocketry is now entering a new era, with designers trying to make reusable the systems that have traditionally been regarded only as disposable.
In December, another entrepreneur, Elon Musk, managed to land the booster stage of his Falcon rocket after launching a batch of satellites.
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The report indicates nearly a quarter of men and a sixth of women over the age of 55 who think they hear well actually have a hearing loss.
And less than a third of all adults with a hearing loss use a hearing aid.
The charity Action on Hearing Loss said it took most people a decade to seek help.
It is the first time the annual health survey, conducted by NatCen Social Research, has compared people's perceptions about their hearing with the results of actual tests.
Dr Jennifer Mindell, from UCL and one of the authors of the section on hearing, said the findings were worrying.
She told the BBC: "Whether people are in denial or just unaware of what they can't hear we don't know."
She said about half of the people who had said they had "great difficulty" hearing still did not use a hearing aid.
Dr Mindell said: "People think it's a normal part of ageing, and some don't want a hearing aid as they feel there's a stigma attached in a way that people don't with glasses."
Untreated hearing loss can lead to social exclusion due to the restrictive effect on conversation.
Dr Mindell said it was a "cause for concern" and there was a link between untreated hearing loss and poor mental health.
The report suggests:
Gemma Twitchen, an audiologist with the charity Action on Hearing Loss, said: "Reluctance to acknowledge hearing difficulties is far more common than we might think - on average it takes people 10 years to seek help for hearing loss.
"Early diagnosis is key, and hearing aids are vital in ensuring people can continue to communicate better with friends and family.
"We would urge anyone that is concerned about their hearing to take our free hearing check."
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Around two million people who need a hearing aid do not even realise they have problems, the annual health survey for England suggests.
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A museum in New Zealand has made an official approach to Hawick museum for the flag, taken from a Maori tribe by Crown forces during a battle in 1865.
The bid is supported by descendents of key figures involved in the Battle of Omaruhakeke.
Members of Scottish Borders Council will be asked to approve the move.
The request for the flag by Wairoa Museum in Hawke's Bay on New Zealand's North Island was accompanied by four letters from descendents of Maori leaders.
They said the return of the flag could be a powerful symbol for the resolution of 160 years of social, economic, political and spiritual turmoil for the Maori people in that area of New Zealand.
Councillor Vicky Davidson has already said there was "no good reason" for the flag to be part of the local museum collection.
Scottish Borders Council's executive committee will decide whether or not to return the flag to New Zealand.
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Councillors are to meet to decide whether a Maori war flag held in the collection of a Scottish Borders museum should be repatriated.
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World number five Kvitova, 25, beat five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova 6-3 7-6 (7-3) in Saturday's second semi-final.
Earlier, Radwanska, 26, overcame Spain's world number three Garbine Muguruza 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 7-5.
It will be Radwanska's first final at the event in her seventh appearance.
The world number six made the decisive break in the 12th game of the third set to finally break the Spaniard's resistance.
"It was a great match from the beginning to the end, lots of ups and downs, so many rallies and a lot of running," Radwanska said.
Radwanska had taken a 3-0 lead in the first-set tie-break before eventually losing it 7-5.
"I didn't know I could come back after that first set - I am just so glad I could win that match," she said.
In the second semi-final, Kvitova broke in the seventh and ninth games to take the first set against Sharapova, who had won all three of her round-robin ties despite arriving in Singapore after a long injury lay-off.
The world number four hit back to take a 5-1 lead in the second set, but 2011 champion Kvitova rediscovered her rhythm to claim the victory in straight sets.
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The French port owners want to build a new berth and slipway, and deepen a channel to upgrade facilities.
Businesses have welcomed the economic benefit but Sussex Wildlife Trust object to the loss of shingle habitat, and residents have said they will lose their only remaining sandy beach.
Newhaven Port and Properties have not commented to the BBC.
Helen Macaulay, from the town's chamber of commerce, said Newhaven needed more businesses and more jobs, and local concerns about infrastructure were being dealt with by the port.
The plans include a nature reserve but Ian Hepburn, from Sussex Wildlife Trust, said the development would damage coastal shingle and species there including reptiles, invertebrates, breeding birds and plants.
Former town councillor Rod Main said West Beach had already been closed by the port and this expansion would see the town lose its one other remaining area of sandy beach.
Calling for West Beach to reopen, he added: "This company are just taking away every sandy beach we've got."
A report submitted to Lewes council said the plans would help to regenerate Newhaven and create jobs, and the expansion would provide overspill space for the new Rampion wind farm.
Officers said it was an opportunity to create a modern port, and the benefits outweighed harm such as the loss of sandy beach, impact on surf conditions, and effects on ecology and archaeology.
The plans will be considered later.
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And former Kilmarnock boss Kenny Shiels has told BBC Scotland he would be "very interested" in the role.
Ian Baraclough parted company with the club on Wednesday, a day after the Steelmen had been knocked out of the Scottish League Cup by Greenock Morton.
Former Well captain and current Under-20s coach Stephen Craigan has been put in caretaker charge of the first team.
His first assignment will be at home to Partick Thistle on Saturday.
Shiels, most recently of Thai side BEC Tero Sasana, was considered by Motherwell last year but ultimately missed out as Baraclough was appointed in December.
And, when asked on Radio Scotland's Sportsound about the current vacancy, Shiels said: "I'm very interested because I see it as a good fit for me.
"It's a provincial club and I've had a period now where I've worked in a [Scottish FA] youth academy in Scotland and I can see so much good going on down there with [academy director] Scott Leitch at Motherwell's academy,
"There is a good conveyor belt coming through and I see massive potential at that club, I really do."
The Northern Irishman, who won the Scottish League Cup with Killie in 2012, also indicated he would be willing to work with Motherwell's current coaching staff.
After leaving Killie in 2013, Shiels had a short spell in charge of Morton before his role with the SFA and subsequent move to Thailand. He has also managed several clubs in his homeland.
"One of my greatest skills is the management of the staff and certainly that would be one that I would welcome," he added. "Stephen's a good lad."
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It was given to the city as a sign of his gratitude for funding his forces at the Battle of Agincourt.
Commentary from art historian Dr Michael Hall.
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King Henry V's rarely seen Crystal Sceptre is going on public display at the Guildhall in London.
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The Secretary of State for Communities, Sajid Javid, has told the region's council leaders that time to implement a devolution deal is running out.
Elections for directly-elected mayors are due to be held in a number of areas of England in May 2017.
However, critics say the plan will not deliver the promised benefits.
In a letter sent to the councils which make up the North East Combined Authority, and which has been seen by the BBC, Mr Javid said: "I reaffirm the government's commitment to implementing the North East devolution deal in full.
"[However] without an elected mayor the deal cannot progress.
"There is a significant risk now that we will run out of time to implement the deal unless you publish your governance review and scheme, and move forward with the consultation immediately."
The deal is part of the government's Northern Powerhouse programme to help Northern towns and cities compete with those in the South for investment.
Council leaders from Labour-led Durham County Council, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland met earlier to discuss the way forward, but it is understood divisions remain.
Gateshead previously voted against the deal. Teesside has its own plans for an elected mayor.
Implementation of the plan would see the region receive £30m government funding for the next 30 years as well as new powers on transport, skills and training.
Nick Forbes, Newcastle City Council leader, said: "Other parts of England like Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool will press ahead and if we don't get alongside my fear is the North East will be overlooked and left out.
"There's a very real chance our region's economy will suffer."
The union Unison is among opponents of the plan.
Regional secretary Clare Williams said: "To have one person representing Berwick down to Barnard Castle can't be good for democracy.
"We have local councils who are elected by their communities, so we're against being told by this government we have to have an elected mayor."
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The North East risks losing £900m of investment because of delays approving plans for a directly-elected mayor, the government has warned.
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Mr Hammond's arrival makes him the first UK foreign secretary to visit since the years before the Caribbean country's communist revolution of 1959.
He said the UK was set to reach new "co-operation agreements" on energy, education and culture with Cuba.
Mr Hammond's visit follows one by US President Barack Obama last month.
The foreign secretary is due to take part in a series of meetings to discuss social and economic changes, human rights and the fight against global health threats such as the Zika virus.
He will also sign a bilateral agreement restructuring Cuba's debt to the UK.
"Britain and Cuba have outlooks on the world and systems of government that are very different," Mr Hammond said as he arrived in the capital Havana.
"But as Cuba enters a period of significant social and economic change, I am looking forward to demonstrating to the Cuban government and people that the UK is keen to forge new links across the Atlantic.
"That is why Cuba and the UK are set to reach new cooperation agreements on energy, financial services, education and culture, to the benefit of both our nations.
"As the first British foreign secretary to visit Cuba since before the Cuban Revolution in 1959, this is an opportunity to hear for myself what Cuba thinks about its present challenges and where it sees its future."
Last year, British exports to Cuba soared by 25%. According to the Department of Trade and Industry, the top items exported to the country are:
In March Barack Obama became the first US president since 1928 to visit Cuba.
For years, the US and Cuba were engaged in a bitter stand-off, triggered by the overthrow of US-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista by Communist leader Fidel Castro in 1959.
The US broke off diplomatic relations and imposed a trade embargo.
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The flame was also taken on a cliff top chair-lift at The Needles when it arrived on the island en-route from
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Sailing Olympian Shirley Robertson carried the flame in Newport.
The day began at Bournemouth Pier and the 59-mile route will include a stop at Southampton football club's ground.
The flame travelled through 12 communities on Saturday: Bournemouth, Boscombe, Christchurch, Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst, Lymington, Totland, Yarmouth, Carisbrooke, Newport, East Cowes and Southampton.
At midday the convoy boarded a ferry from Lymington to the Isle of Wight.
And fittingly, it was there that sailor Dame Ellen joined the relay in East Cowes which is famous for its week-long regatta.
Cowes has hosted the sailing event since 1826 and it is now the largest of its kind in the world.
Dame Ellen is best-known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman, who once held the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe.
She said after carrying the torch: "The other torchbearers are inspiring people who were wonderful to meet but the strongest impression I have from today are the faces - smiles, smiles and more smiles from young and old alike.
"The sense of pride, happiness and community was my lasting feeling - all brought alive, in an instant, by the Olympic torch."
Another of Britain's finest sailors, Ms Robertson, was among the day's 92 torchbearers. She was the first British woman to win two Olympic gold medals at consecutive games - in Sydney 2000 and then four years later in Athens.
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Other highlights of the relay's journey on the Isle of Wight included a visit to
Osborne House
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was due to have been held at Osborne House but was moved to Bournemouth when the site became waterlogged.
Later in Southampton, the flame was exchanged by the side of the pitch at St Mary's Stadium between Alice Constance, 29, from Chepstow and Nicholas Nuttall, 53, from Southwater.
The evening celebration at Mayflower Park included performances from Wretch 32 - a dance troupe who will provide a unique fusion of street performance, theatre and sport - and dance act Twist and Pulse.
A total of 8,000 people will carry the flame during its 8,000 mile, 70-day journey to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London on 27 July.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut its key rate to 2.75% from 3%.
The bank said it expected investment in the resources sector, one of its biggest drivers of growth in recent times, to peak this year.
It added that a rate cut would provide a boost to other areas of the economy and help sustain long-term growth.
"There has been a strengthening in consumption and a modest firming in dwelling investment, and prospects are for some increase in business investment outside the resources sector over the next year," the central bank said in a statement.
"These developments, some of which have been assisted by the reductions in interest rates that began 18 months ago, will all be helpful in sustaining growth."
Australia's economic growth in recent years has been fuelled by the growing demand for its commodities, such as iron ore.
That resulted in a resources boom in Australia and helped it sustain growth through the global financial crisis.
However, as demand from key markets such as China has eased, there have been concerns that Australia's mining sector may see its growth slow.
At the same time, many analysts have pointed out that other areas of the country's economy have not done so well, resulting in what many have termed a two-speed economy.
To make matters worse, the Australian currency has strengthened - making its exports more expensive, as well as affecting sectors such as manufacturing and tourism.
It rose nearly 9% against the US dollar between June 2012 and April 2013.
Amid all these concerns, there have been calls for policymakers to take steps to help boost growth, especially in the non-mining sectors, to ensure that the economy continues to grow.
Analysts said the cut in interest rates, which will help bring down borrowing costs for businesses and consumers, will help to provide some relief to those sectors and allay fears of an economic slowdown.
"Commodity prices have fallen and inflation has come in less than expected, and of course the Australian dollar through all of that has remained surprisingly strong," said Shane Oliver, chief economist with AMP Capital Investors.
"I think it was appropriate for the Reserve to provide a bit more confidence [so that] when the mining investment boom starts to wane the rest of the economy will fill the gap."
The Australian dollar weakened slightly, dipping 0.7% against the US dollar, after the rate cut was announced.
It was trading close to A$0.9808 against the US dollar in Asian trade.
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Australia's central bank has cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low, in an attempt to counter slowing growth in the country's mining sector.
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The head of Berkshire Hathaway is among a group that includes Dan Gilbert, the billionaire founder of Quicken Loans.
US news reports and the Financial Times said Mr Buffett co-signed a letter from the group and pledged money for a bid.
Verizon, private equity firms, and the owner of the Daily Mail have expressed an interest in Yahoo's assets.
Last month the search company, hit by falling advertising and weakening investor confidence, shortlisted about 10 potential buyers.
News of Mr Buffett's interest could improve Yahoo's sale hopes. He admitted at Berkshire's annual meeting last month that his investment firm had been slow to get involved the new tech industry.
Mr Buffett, whose firm has a stake in IBM, said in an interview on 2 May that Yahoo's business had deteriorated significantly and that "something has to change there". But he did not mention any potential bid.
Reuters, which first reported Mr Buffett's involvement, pointed out that Susan Decker, who worked at Yahoo in several senior roles between 2000 and 2009, is now a director on Berkshire's board.
The news agency quoted an interview she gave to CNBC television on 29 April: "I hope the next owner can do something to revitalise the spirit of the core things that made Yahoo very, very unique and create a distinction in consumers' minds about why they love Yahoo still.
"It will be helpful if it is private or part of a much larger corporation to achieve that," she said.
However, Verizon is thought to remain the frontrunner in the bidding for Yahoo.
The US telecoms giant would merge Yahoo with AOL, which it bought for $4.4bn (£3bn) last year to create a digital group capable of taking on the likes of Google and Facebook.
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A report on 38 North, a website run by the US-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, studied images taken between April and November.
These appeared to show work in a new area of the Punggye-ri nuclear zone.
But, the report said, there is no sign that any nuclear test is imminent,
North Korea carried out three underground nuclear tests at Punggye-ri in 2006, 2009 and 2013. Its nuclear programme has been a source of great concern for the international community.
The tunnel identified in the latest imagery is in a new area of the site, separate from three other tunnels that the North has excavated or used for tests in the past, the report said.
"While there are no indications that a nuclear test is imminent, the new tunnel adds to North Korea's ability to conduct additional detonations over the coming years if it chooses to do so," it added.
The commercially-available satellite imagery on which the researchers based their conclusions appear to show a new tunnel entrance, the site's fourth, as well as signs of construction work taking place as recently as October and November.
The report says some analysts believe each entrance connects to a single tunnel but there is debate about the exact nature and structure of the underground testing facility.
It is not the first indication of construction activity at the site. In October, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a South Korean government source saying there were workers constructing a new tunnel at Punggye-ri.
In September North Korea said that its reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear facility, the source of plutonium for North Korea's nuclear weapons, had resumed normal operations.
Yongbyon's reactor was shut down in 2007 but Pyongyang vowed to restart it in 2013, following its third nuclear test and amid high regional tensions.
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Recent satellite images indicate that North Korea is building a new tunnel at its nuclear test site, a respected US think tank has said.
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Hundreds of volunteer builders gathered in the city centre to make the tower, using 1,000 cardboard bricks.
The People's Tower community art event was created to mark the opening weekend of the annual Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
The tower is 22 metres tall and is designed to look like the St Peter Mancroft Church tower.
It took more than eight hours to complete and was held together by more than eight miles of packing tape.
It was designed by French artist Olivier Grossetête.
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NWAS lost the contract, now worth £66.8m, to bus operator Arriva in 2013.
Arriva withdrew from the new tendering process after admitting providing false data about its current performance.
NWAS was also awarded similar five-year deals for Lancashire, Merseyside and Cumbria, but lost the Cheshire tender to West Midlands Ambulance Service.
A spokesman for NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG), the lead ambulance commissioners for the North West, said Arriva had "identified a level of management failure with the reporting of performance in Greater Manchester" in October.
"This means that they had previously provided incorrect information, which shows a higher level of performance than is the case," he said.
He added that following Arriva's admission, the company "withdrew from the procurement process immediately" and has "since developed a performance improvement plan to help rectify their performance".
NWAS chief executive Bob Williams said that while he was pleased to regain the Greater Manchester contract, it was "tinged with disappointment" because of the loss of the Cheshire, Warrington and Wirral service.
"Whilst we were successful in four of the North West's counties, our immediate focus now is on our staff in Cheshire and the impact on them," he said.
"We will work closely with our trade unions, staff and the new provider to support them through this period and deliver a safe and smooth transition."
The BCCG spokesman said the contracts had been awarded as "the result of a rigorous competitive tendering process and evaluation of potential providers".
He said the new NWAS contracts would see "a number of quality improvements", including a "text-ahead service" to inform patients when their transport will arrive and a "revised process" to ensure fair use of the service.
The new five-year contracts - worth £59.9m in Lancashire, £39m in Merseyside, £31.5m in Cumbria and £24.6m in Cheshire - will begin in July 2016.
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The winger, 22, was dismissed in the loss to St Johnstone after appearing to react to Stephen Mitchell's award of a foul throw.
Tynecastle head coach Ian Cathro said after the game he would review the incident, but backed his player.
But BBC Scotland has learned the club is not planning to lodge an appeal.
Nicholson will be suspended for Saturday's home match against Dundee.
"I want to see the footage [of Nicholson's red card]," Cathro said in his post-match interview following Wednesday's defeat in Perth.
"I don't think there was any aggression directed in that. I take that quite clearly from how Sam describes the situation and from other players around it. That's something that needs looked at."
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International recognition and protection of such areas is urgently needed to halt their continued loss, say scientists.
Roads may introduce many problems to nature, including deforestation, pollution and risks to wildlife.
Areas untouched by roads do not have adequate protection in most countries, researchers report in Science journal.
"We have produced a global map of road less areas," said lead researcher Pierre Ibisch, of Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, in Germany.
"And this map shows that Earth's landscapes are shattered into more than 600 thousand fragments.
"We used a huge dataset of 36 million km of roads for producing this map."
Roads are important for economic development, but they have a number of potential environmental impacts, including deforestation, chemical pollution, and noise disturbance.
To gain a better understanding of the impact of road systems, scientists analysed two global datasets, OpenStreetMap and gRoads. They also reviewed 282 publications.
The map found that about 80% of the Earth's land surface remains without roads.
However, more than half of the 600,000 fragments created by roads are less than 1 sq km.
Only 7% are larger than 100 sq km (400 sq miles) - that's about the size of the island of Montserrat.
As roads continue to expand there is an urgent need for a global strategy for the conservation, restoration and monitoring of areas without roads and the ecosystems they represent, say scientists from 12 institutions in six countries.
Few countries have legislation that protects areas that are not fragmented by roads.
And in much of Europe and North America these areas have already been lost.
However, in Australia, for example, untouched landscapes such as the Blue Mountains only hours from Sydney still exist.
Dr Ibisch told BBC News: ''We see these road less areas as areas with an inherent value; something that merits being seen as a conservation target in its own right.''
Co-researcher Monika Hoffmann added: "Road less areas are still overestimated and many of them are reduced in size."
The research is published in the journal Science.
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A photographer who was able to board the stricken wooden vessel said more than 1,000 migrants had been crammed aboard.
They were among at least 28 migrants who died in the area on Tuesday, while some 4,655 people were rescued.
The total number rescued over the past two days is more than 10,000, while the death toll is at least 50.
Smugglers have taken advantage of calm weather to push more boats out to sea.
Aris Messinis, a photographer for the French AFP news agency, said many of the dead aboard one particular boat had suffocated.
He said: "It was a wooden vessel and there were about 1,000 people on three levels. I counted 22 bodies and there are still others in the hold."
Mr Messinis's graphic images showed the bodies of dead young men and women, piled on top of one another on the deck of a dinghy and in the cramped hold of a wooden boat.
On Monday, 6,055 migrants were rescued - one of the highest numbers in a single day - and 22 found dead, Italian and Libyan officials said. One Italian ship rescued about 725 migrants from a single rubber boat, the coastguard said - just one of 20 rescue operations that day.
Relatively calm weather is contributing to a surge in the number of people attempting to make the crossing before the cold weather sets in.
The surge takes the number of migrants who have arrived in Italy this year to about 142,000 and the death toll to about 3,100, according to the International Organisation for Migration.
The majority come from African countries, including Nigeria, Eritrea, Guinea, Gambia, Sudan, Ivory Coast and Somalia.
European law says migrants must stay in the country where they first enter the EU. With fewer migrants able to travel into Europe via Greece and the Balkan route, and France, Switzerland and Austria effectively closing their borders, Italy is struggling to deal with the growing numbers landing on its shores.
Monday marked three years to the day since 366 migrants died when an overcrowded boat sank off the Italian coast, in a disaster that first drew widespread attention to the plight of those attempting to reach Europe by sea.
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The defensive midfielder joined from Caen last summer for £6m and went on to make 40 appearances in Leicester's Premier League-winning campaign.
Kante, 25, was part of the France squad that reached the final of Euro 2016.
"I am so happy to have signed for one of the biggest clubs in Europe. It's a dream come true for me," he said.
Kante is Chelsea's second signing of the summer after Belgian striker Michy Batshuayi joined from Marseille.
"The opportunity to work with Antonio Conte, a brilliant coach, and some of the best players in the world was simply too good to turn down," said Kante.
Leicester said they accepted a club record fee on Friday before Kante finalised terms and completed a medical.
"Despite the offer of a substantially improved, long-term contract, it became apparent that N'Golo's wish was to join Chelsea," said a Foxes statement.
Leicester striker Jamie Vardy turned down a move to Arsenal earlier in the summer, but there is continued speculation winger Riyad Mahrez could leave.
Chelsea technical director Michael Emenalo described Kante as a "fantastic" signing with "exceptional quality".
"He is a perfect fit in terms of Antonio Conte's philosophies and the style of football he wants to play," added Emenalo.
Meanwhile, Conte lost his first game in charge as they were beaten 2-0 by Rapid Vienna in a friendly. Chelsea fielded a strong side captained by John Terry and including Branislav Ivanovic, Nemanja Matic, Willian, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Diego Costa.
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Peter Slevin, her biographer, talks about her legacy.
He looks at the first lady to do a hula hoop on the White House lawn and dance in public to Uptown Funk.
Mrs Obama has also taken a proactive stance on education and obesity among young people.
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The White House's first black first lady Michelle Obama once told her aides not to "just put me on a plane, send me someplace and have me smile".
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South Africa-born McKerr joined Derbyshire on an initial 28-day loan deal on 31 May.
The 19-year-old took 14 wickets in two first-class games for Derbyshire.
He also became the youngest player in the county's history to take 10 wickets in a match when he took 10-141 in their defeat by Northamptonshire.
Meanwhile, Derbyshire opening batsman Luis Reece is still hopeful of being fit from a viral infection for the county's next game, the inaugural day-night Championship game against Glamorgan, in Cardiff, starting on 26 June.
Reece, 26, did not bat in either innings in Derbyshire's three-day defeat by Northamptonshire at Wantage Road on Sunday, after leaving the pitch on Friday with breathing problems.
"I was struggling to breathe," the winter signing from Lancashire told BBC Radio Derby. "Then, a couple of overs later, I felt tightening in my chest, the paramedics were on and I was off to Kettering Hospital.
"They think it's a viral infection and it was fluid that caused the tightening of the chest. I can't do any strenuous exercise and I'm being referred to a cardiologist.
"But hopefully I will be available for the next game. I'm hoping that it's not going to be a long lay-off. And I'll know more once I've seen the cardiologist."
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Guidolin is under pressure with the Swans only one point above the relegation zone.
Swansea's American owners, Steve Kaplan and Jason Levien, have yet to decide on Guidolin's future.
However, they are compiling a shortlist of potential successors to the Italian.
The owners will be in attendance at the Liberty on Saturday.
Chairman Huw Jenkins has met former United States coach Bob Bradley, while former Wales and Manchester United captain Ryan Giggs would be interested in the manager's role if it was to become vacant.
Bradley and Giggs are not the only options, with Swansea's hierarchy thought to be considering several other possible candidates in the event of Guidolin's departure.
Any decision on Guidolin's future will be taken jointly between Kaplan, Levien and Jenkins.
They have become concerned in recent weeks, with Swansea failing to win in the Premier League since their opening-day triumph at Burnley.
It is understood the nature of the Swans' performances in their next few games - a trip to Arsenal follows the Liverpool fixture - will have as much of a bearing on Guidolin's future as the results.
The 60-year-old succeeded Garry Monk as Swansea boss in January and, after guiding the Welsh club to Premier League safety last season, the former Udinese manager was rewarded with a two-year contract in May.
Guidolin insists he still has the support of the players and he has not sought assurances from Jenkins about his future.
"I spoke with the chairman last week," he said.
"But at the moment the most important thing is for me to work with my players and with my team to prepare for the next game, to be focussed and with concentration."
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Francesco Guidolin's future as Swansea City head coach will not necessarily rest on Saturday's Premier League match against Liverpool - even though the Italian admitted it could be his last.
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Clare Shillington and Laura Delany both made 37 as Ireland were bowled out for 144 after 47.1 overs of their innings.
Bangladesh replied with 145-3 off 39.1 overs to win with 65 balls to spare, Sharmin Akhter top-scoring with 52.
Ireland must win their remaining two matches against Pakistan and South Africa to maintain qualification hopes.
Ireland retained their one-day international status by making the Super Six, from which the top four qualify for the World Cup this summer.
After being put in to bat by Bangladesh at the Colombo Cricket Club, the Irish women were dealt an early blow as Cecilia Joyce (3) and Kim Garth (0) both went cheaply.
Meg Kendal returned from her hamstring injury to make 16, sharing in a third wicket stand of 45 with Shillington, who struck four boundaries and cleared the ropes twice in an entertaining 37 from 36 balls.
Both fell in quick succession and it was left to skipper Delany and Isobel Joyce (24) to rebuild the innings with a stand of 44.
Having reached 106-4 with 19 overs remaining, Ireland looked set for a total approaching 200, however the innings faltered in the final third, as they slumped to 144 all out.
Jahanara Alam (3-21), Panna Ghosh (2-16) and Khadija Tul Kubra (2-26) were best with the ball for Bangladesh.
Ireland needed quick wickets in the Bangladesh chase, but their attack was blunted by a steady opening stand of 40 between Sharmin Sultana (22) and Sharmin Akhter.
Gaby Lewis (1-31) dismissed Sultana, and when Isobel Joyce ran out Islam for 2, Ireland were back in the contest at 52-2.
However Akhter hit a fine half century from 86 balls, adding 53 with Morgana Hoque, to ensure Bangladesh quickly regained control.
Although Akhter was dismissed by Ciara Metcalfe (1-33), by that stage just 39 were needed, and Hoque (34 not out) in conjunction with Rumana Ahmed (24 not out) steered their side safely home.
Ireland are next in action when they face Pakistan on Friday, before taking on South Africa on Sunday.
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The 30-year-old, riding for Team Dimension Data, won stage one to Al Khor Corniche in a sprint finish from Sacha Modolo (Lampre) and Andrea Guardini (Astana).
Cavendish, who won the race in 2013, averaged close to 52km/h on this stage.
He plans to decide during the race whether he will compete at next month's track World Championships in London.
A winner of 26 Tour de France stages, Cavendish faces a packed schedule in 2016 with August's Olympic Games in Rio also a target.
The five-stage race finishes on Friday.
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Bloc Blinds of Magherafelt specialises in made-to-measure roller blinds, and its major customers include the John Lewis department store chain.
It currently employs 69 staff but aims to add 93 jobs over the next two years.
The expansion is being supported with a £465,000 grant from Invest NI.
The investment includes new manufacturing facilities and market development activities to help increase export sales.
Cormac Diamond , the firm's managing director, says the move "underpins our ambition to increase sales particularly in Europe and the US".
He said a new manufacturing facility brings all the firm's production under one roof which will "help increase production and operating efficiencies."
Mr Diamond, whose background is in mechanical engineering, founded the business in the depths of the recession.
He developed easy-to-install, customisable blinds and got his first John Lewis order when a buyer spotted the his products at a trade show.
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A County Londonderry-based blind manufacturer is more than doubling its workforce in a £4m investment.
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About 47,000 fines totalling £1.3m were issued during a trial to restrict traffic during the day.
The trial took place between August 2013 and April 2014.
Refunds can be obtained by calling City of York Council or by visiting the website.
Refunds were offered to drivers after a traffic adjudicator said the council had "no power" to issue fines because signage and CCTV were inadequate.
Last year, the council spent about £150,000 writing to 27,000 drivers who had not claimed a refund. The deadline has been extended twice.
The authority said it would publish the total cost of the Lendal Bridge "settlement" after 31 March when the application process ends.
It disputes the findings of the Traffic Penalty Tribunal "regarding the lawful ability to regulate traffic in this way" and said the trial was aimed at reducing congestion in the city centre, not making money.
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Drivers fined for crossing York's Lendal Bridge while traffic restrictions were in place have just days to apply for their money back, officials have said.
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The 46-year-old number one seed defeated his 26-year-old opponent 7-3 in Sunday's final at Lakeside.
Noppert, seeded third, led 2-1 before Teessider Durrant came back strongly.
"In 1989, I watched a match between Eric Bristow and Jocky Wilson that inspired me to pick up a set of darts," Durrant told Channel 4.
"Now, thanks to hard work, determination and Teesside steel, I am world champion."
On Saturday, England's Lisa Ashton won her third women's title, beating Australian Corrine Hammond 3-0 in the final.
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England's Glen Durrant secured his first BDO World Darts Championships title with victory over Dutchman Danny Noppert.
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Prof Dame Sally Davies said bacteria were becoming resistant to current drugs and there were few antibiotics to replace them.
She told a committee of MPs that going for a routine operation could become deadly due to the threat of infection.
Experts said it was a global problem and needed much more attention.
Antibiotics have been one of the greatest success stories in medicine. However, bacteria are a rapidly adapting foe which find new ways to evade drugs.
MRSA rapidly became one of the most feared words in hospitals wards and there are growing reports of resistance in strains of E. coli, tuberculosis and gonorrhoea.
Prof Davies said: "It is clear that we might not ever see global warming, the apocalyptic scenario is that when I need a new hip in 20 years I'll die from a routine infection because we've run out of antibiotics."
She said there was only one useful antibiotic left to treat gonorrhoea.
"It is very serious, and it's very serious because we are not using our antibiotics effectively in countries.
"There is a broken market model for making new antibiotics, so it's an empty pipeline, so as they become resistant, these bugs, which they would naturally but we're breeding them in because of the way antibiotics are used, there will not be new antibiotics to come."
Possible solutions will be included in her annual report to be published in March.
The World Health Organization has warned the world is heading for a "post-antibiotic era" unless action is taken.
It paints a future in which "many common infections will no longer have a cure and, once again, kill unabated".
Prof Hugh Pennington, a microbiologist from the University of Aberdeen, said drug resistance was "a very, very serious problem".
"We do need to pay much more attention to it. We need resources for surveillance, resources to cope with the problem and to get public information across.
But he said it was not a problem entirely of the UK's making.
"People are going abroad for operations, going abroad for, let's say, sex tourism and bringing home gonorrhoea which is a big problem in terms of antibiotic resistance - and then there's tuberculosis in many parts of the world.
Prof Pennington said the drugs companies had run out of options too as all the easy drugs had been made.
"We have to be aware that we aren't going to have new wonder drugs coming along because there just aren't any."
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The rise in drug resistant infections is comparable to the threat of global warming, according to the chief medical officer for England.
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Gerard Coyne accused Unite's current general secretary, Len McCluskey, of "dabbling in politics all the time".
Mr Coyne, the union's West Midlands secretary, launched his campaign for the top job in Birmingham.
Unite is Labour's biggest donor and Mr McCluskey has been one of leader Jeremy Corbyn's key backers in the face of opposition from some MPs.
Mr McCluskey has already announced plans to resign as general secretary but to stand again for the position, a move which brings forward the election by a year.
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Coyne's challenge would be seen by the Labour leader's allies as a political attack.
She added that Mr Coyne was understood to be concerned about Mr Corbyn's anti-Trident stance given that thousands of Unite members work in the defence industry.
Announcing his candidacy on his Facebook page, Mr Coyne, who has worked for the union for more than 20 years having joined as a shop worker at Sainsbury's, said: "I believe our union needs to be changed so we can get on with the only job that matters; protecting and defending our members at work."
"We have got to be strong, smart and organised but we can't be distracted party politics.
"As a candidate, my priority is making a real difference for you rather than playing Westminster power games. It's time we changed the union to reflect our members' priorities."
Speaking after launching his campaign at Birmingham's Fort Dunlop building, Mr Coyne said: "The reality here is there's been much criticism about the fact that the general secretary and the union more generally has just been dabbling in politics all the time.
"I'm not going to fall into the trap of trying to determine who the leader of the Labour Party is.
"I am saying that actually my focus is on the members.
"It's not a political organisation, it's a trade union."
The result of the contest, which will run into next spring, will dictate who has control over a huge network of political supporters, organisation, and financial infrastructure.
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A new challenger to lead the UK's largest trade union says he will stop it "playing Westminster power games".
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Jess Herbst, who became mayor of New Hope last May, made the announcement in an open letter to the town's residents.
"As your Mayor I must tell you about something that has been with me since my earliest memories. I am Transgender," she wrote.
Ms Herbst was appointed mayor following the death of her predecessor.
She had previously been elected to the Town Council as an alderman and road commissioner, according to her statement on the New Hope website.
"I know that transgender people are just coming to light in our society, and we have made great strides in the last few years," she said.
"My daughters have been adamant supporters of me and are proud to tell people their father is transgender," she added.
Ms Herbst has been documenting her experience on her blog, JessHerbst.com.
As the mayor of the small Collin County town, she is the first known openly transgender elected official in Texas history, the Texas Observer reports.
"I will continue as Mayor and hope to do the very best for the town," she said.
Transgender issues have made the headlines in Texas in recent months after Republicans unveiled the so-called "bathroom bill", a proposal that bans transgender people from using public bathrooms of their choice.
Such bills have become a flashpoint in the battle over transgender rights in the US.
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The mayor of a small town in Texas has become the first transgender elected official in the state's history, local media report.
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The woman suffered fatal injuries in the incident involving a lorry at Llangyfelach at around 04:00 BST.
The eastbound carriageway of the M4 was closed for several hours resulting in long delays for commuter traffic on Thursday morning.
The road was closed until 09:00 BST causing a five-mile tail back along the M4 eastbround.
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Stand-off Ian Keatley struck from just inside Edinburgh's half after prop John Andress had collapsed a scrum.
"If you look where that scrum is, and where the penalty was taken, there was definitely a metre taken there," the head coach told BBC Scotland.
"It looked to me that the ball, had it been taken from the right spot, would have gone under the bar."
As part of the Pro12's post-match review protocols, Solomons said he will "definitely" raise the issue.
The late penalty aside, the South African was frustrated with Edinburgh's inability to secure victory in a match they ought to have won.
Will Helu scored a brilliant, flowing try for the hosts - a rare moment of fluency and precision for Edinburgh, who lacked composure and committed too many errors.
And the hosts almost snatched victory on the last play after Damien Hoyland's interception saw them pound the Munster line well beyond 80 minutes, climaxing with a rather hurried drop-goal attempt from Sam Hidalgo-Clyne that was charged-down and spilled.
"There's no question about that - we should have won this game," added Solomons.
"I thought key decision-makers at times didn't have the composure. That happens. We made a rod for our own back with silly decisions that were taken.
"It was a superb try and I thought we could get in there at the end, but I think we just had to hold the ball down there and the points would have come.
"I thought we played poorly against Zebre [two weeks ago] and fully deserved to lose. I thought we should have come away with a draw at Connacht [last weekend], and this game is a game we should have won.
"We've got to look at ourselves. It's those little things, those fine margins we spoke about at the end of the game between winning and losing, and we've got to make sure those fine margins fall on our side."
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Alan Solomons felt the penalty that beat his Edinburgh team against Munster was taken beyond the mark.
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Liverpool-born Andrew Goodall has worked in the NHS for 23 years and is the ex-chief executive of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.
He succeeds David Sissling, who was appointed chief executive of Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust earlier this year.
Dr Goodall said he was privileged to have been offered the post.
The Welsh government said Dr Goodall had worked in Wales for most of his life, having moved to the country at a young age.
He has a law degree from Essex University and a Ph.D in health service management from Cardiff Business School.
He became Aneurin Bevan University Health Board's chief executive in June 2009, and has led a number of national programmes and initiatives. Most recently he has supported a ministerial review into the handling of complaints which is due to report shortly.
He said: "I, of course, understand the pressures and expectations that the NHS faces, but also know that we have the responsibility and opportunity to make the necessary changes, including how we balance delivering our services with focusing on improving the long-term health of the Welsh population."
Dr Goodall will head the Welsh government's Department for Health and Social Services in addition to being chief executive of NHS Wales.
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A former health board chief has been appointed the new head of the NHS in Wales.
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The figure for the six months to 31 December is an increase of £5.1m from 2014, helped in part by the £13m sale of Virgil van Dijk to Southampton.
Revenue is up 0.3% to £31.4m but the club expect a dip in the coming months with no further European matches this season and fewer home games.
"Our performance in Europe this season has been the cause of considerable frustration," said chair Ian Bankier.
The Scottish Premiership leaders have increased investment in their playing squad, spending £6.1m on Scott Allan, Logan Bailly, Carlton Cole, Ryan Christie, Nadir Ciftci, Saidy Janko and Jozo Simunovic last summer.
Subsequently, during the 2016 January transfer window, they added Danish defender Erik Sviatchenko and Turkish striker Colin Kazim-Richards while English forward Patrick Roberts joined on loan from Manchester City for 18 months.
After exiting the Champions League at the play-off stage at the hands of Malmo and going into the Europa League, Ronny Deila's side finished bottom of their group with no wins and three draws.
Their hopes of retaining the Scottish League Cup were ended by Ross County in last month's semi-final but they are still in the Scottish Cup.
In the league, they lead Aberdeen on goal difference but the Dons have played a game more.
"The strategy of the board is unchanged," added Bankier in his statement.
"Our overwhelming priority is to win the SPFL Premiership and to qualify for the group stages of the Uefa Champions League.
"The challenge has been to maintain a settled and winning squad throughout the summer months when the crucial Champions League qualifying matches are played, to manage the player changes during the summer transfer window and then to kick on when the new season begins.
"Each season we meet this challenge within the financial constraints of where we sit in Scottish football, for to do otherwise would be reckless."
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Celtic have announced a pre-tax profit of £11.7m in their interim results.
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But with little separating the party from conservative New Democracy, a coalition government is likely.
Syriza's leader, Alexis Tsipras, called the snap poll after securing a multi-billion euro international bailout.
Whoever is elected will have to oversee austerity measures demanded by Greece's creditors as part of the deal.
Syriza supporters' gathered in central Athens for the party's final rally on Friday, in what Mr Tsipas said sent "a message of determination and victory".
"On Sunday, we're facing a crucial referendum - to put an end to old political system, protecting oligarchs and corruption," he tweeted.
At the final New Democracy rally, its leader Vangelis Meimarakis attacked Syriza's "false promises" in the run-up to the last election, when it pledged to end austerity.
"It's high time we did away with incompetence. The Syriza experiment ends on Sunday," he said.
At a debate earlier in the week, Mr Meimarakis proposed forming a grand coalition with Syriza but Mr Tsipras rejected it as "unnatural".
Most of the parties support the bailout. But one of those that does not - the far-right Golden Dawn - is predicted to come third.
Analysts say the migrant crisis on Greece's doorstep may bolster support for Golden Dawn, which is vehemently opposed to immigration.
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Final campaign rallies have been held in Greece ahead of Sunday's elections, with several polls giving left-wing Syriza a small lead.
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Every day thousands of elderly patients are unable to leave hospitals despite being medically fit to do so, because care is not available in the community.
But Respublica said if care homes took them in it would be a "win, win".
The think tank said it would free up hospital beds, while bringing in vital investment into the care sector.
Currently there are about 4,300 patients stuck in hospital each day because of problems discharging them - taking up over 4% of all general beds in hospital.
The report, which received funding from care home providers, said if current trends continued the numbers could increase by about 1,000 in the next five years, costing the NHS £3.3bn in total over the period.
It said if this money was spent on care homes they could take on all the patients facing delays, while investing in staff and facilities.
The patients would be cared for temporarily in the care homes until permanent arrangements could be made.
Respublica director Phillip Blond said: "The bed blocking crisis in the NHS is only getting worse - clogging up wards and leaving newly arrived patients on trolleys in hospital corridors."
He added the extra money could also help care homes stay afloat. A report last year by the think tank warned 37,000 beds could be lost in the sector in the coming years because of the squeeze on fees paid by councils.
The idea - known as step-down care - is already being piloted in a number of areas.
And a Department of Health spokesman said attempts to get the health and care sectors to "work better together" would be aided by a new initiative called the Better Care Fund, which was launched last year.
The fund involves a £5.3bn annual pot which is being used to boost shared projects between the two sectors.
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The NHS in England should pay care homes to look after patients trapped in hospitals because of the delayed discharges problem, a report suggests.
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Welsh and UK ministers have been rowing since March over how to finance the commuter lines in and out of Cardiff.
Mr Crabb said the scheme - estimated at £309m to £463m - was "probably the most knotty" problem between the two governments but was soluble.
The valleys rail electrification is due to be completed between 2019 and 2024.
Planned rail improvements will see the upgrade of the main line from London Paddington to Cardiff, which is due to be completed by 2017, and extended to Swansea by 2018 at a cost of £850m.
The electrification of the Valleys lines was due to follow, but the plan was thrown into doubt in March by a row over the financing of the project.
Speaking on Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme, Mr Crabb said rail electrification was the "number one issue" for him.
He said: "It's something that I've been spending quite a bit of my summer working on.
"There's a bit more work to be done between the two governments on where we think the solution lies, but I think when I go around talking to businesses in south Wales they are desperate to see this problem answered, they want the two governments to be working effectively together."
Describing the issue as "a bit of a litmus test" for joint working between Wales and Westminster, he warned the issue "can't drag on indefinitely".
"There are engineering teams involved in Network Rail who need to get tasks assigned to them if this huge, enormous, financially-challenging project is to go ahead," he said.
"There are some quite hard deadlines in that. But we are talking a short number of months hopefully."
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Pearson, 33, began his career at Motherwell before leaving to join Celtic in 2004.
He returned for a second stint at Fir Park in 2015 after spells in England with Derby, Stoke and Bristol City.
"This was something I was really keen to do and I want to thank everyone at Motherwell for the way they've handled this," Pearson said.
"It's with a heavy heart that I go, but at the same time, I am confident the club is in decent shape, with a very good manager and some exciting young talent bubbling under the surface waiting to get their chance, alongside the excellent senior professionals already there.
"I've enjoyed my second spell at Fir Park. I want to thank the fans for all their support and who knows, one day I may be back for another go at it."
Pearson was under contract with Motherwell until October and the Lanarkshire club have received compensation from Atletico de Kolkata.
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee said: "We are desperately disappointed to lose Stephen, but we've known for some time now that this move was on the cards.
"There was absolutely no fall out, it was all extremely amicable, and we understand his personal circumstances. He leaves with the best wishes of everyone at Motherwell FC.
"However, it was then incumbent upon us to try and recoup something to help us find someone else, and that's what we've done. We have been and are engaged in trying to secure a replacement and the midfield area is our priority."
Meanwhile, defender Steven Hammell, Motherwell's post-war record league appearance holder with 530 games, has agreed a new two-year contract.
He said: "I've never made any secret of my feelings for this club, so there is no one happier that my future is sorted out and I can get on with my football."
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Motherwell midfielder Stephen Pearson has left the club to join Indian Super League side Atletico de Kolkata.
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The ancient creature has been preserved in exquisite detail, providing the oldest-known record of hedgehog-like spines and mammalian internal organs.
The discovery is published in the journal Nature.
The creature, called Spinolestes xenarthrosus, was unearthed in Las Hoyas Quarry in central Spain.
Study co-author Dr Zhe-Xi Luo, from the University of Chicago, US, said: "Spinolestes is a spectacular find.
"It is stunning to see almost perfectly preserved skin and hair structures fossilized in microscopic detail in such an old fossil.
"This Cretaceous furball displays the entire structural diversity of modern mammalian skin and hairs."
The specimen's liver, lung and diaphragm tissues were found intact, as well as fur, spines and scales.
"Normally you find bones and you find skeletons - and there are many, many fossil mammal skeletons found, but never these soft parts in such great detail," explained Prof Thomas Martin, from the University of Bonn, Germany.
The creature was small, somewhere between the size of a mouse and a rat, weighing about 50-70g.
It had big ears and a pointy face, with a short mane and a soft fuzzy belly. It was most likely ground dwelling and ate insects.
"It is cute, very cute," said Prof Martin. "It looked like a modern spiny mouse, which is also quite cute."
But in addition to its adorable attributes, Spinolestes also had a defensive side.
It had small spiky spines on its lower back, as well as scales similar to an armadillo's, helping it to fend of predators.
"If a predator comes and bites it on the back, then the spines are easily shed and the predator is left behind with a mouth full of spines, so it can escape" said Prof Martin.
Potential predators probably included small dinosaurs, which have also been unearthed from the same site in Spain.
Crocodiles, salamanders, frogs, birds and insects have also been found there.
And while central Spain is hot and dry today, 125 million years ago it would have been a lush tropical wetland.
"These animals lived in a swampy environment comparable to the modern Everglade system," added Prof Martin.
The creature was discovered by a team led by Angela Buscalioni from the Autonomous University of Madrid, in Spain.
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Axis Studios has secured Scottish Enterprise backing to take on 20 additional staff.
The company works for major studios on animations and special visual effects in TV and film drama.
It said it was on course to triple turnover between 2015 and 2018 to £15m, working from bases in Glasgow, Bristol and London.
Axis Studios was founded in 2000, and has recently worked for Netflix, Warner Bros, the BBC, Sega and Universal Studios.
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A digital film producer has announced plans to increase its Glasgow workforce to 180.
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The Welsh will be vying with England and Australia to top Pool A, which also includes Fiji and Uruguay.
Injuries to backs Leigh Halfpenny, Rhys Webb and Eli Walker have disrupted preparations but Marshall refuses to discount Warren Gatland's side.
"They've got an opportunity to be that silent assassin team because they've slightly been written off," he said.
Full-back Halfpenny and scrum-half Webb, both 26, are out of the tournament after suffering knee and foot injuries respectively in the warm-up win over Italy.
Winger Walker is also out with a hamstring problem.
"What a great opportunity for Warren Gatland and [captain] Sam Warburton to get together and go 'they've kind of written us off, let's sneak into Twickenham and ambush England and let's put the sword to Australia," former Ospreys scrum-half Marshall told Sport Wales.
"I'm very much watching with great interest as to Wales' performances in the pool stages as they could upset and they could qualify."
Watch the full Justin Marshall interview on Sport Wales' Rugby World Cup special on Thursday; BBC Two Wales, 19:00 BST. Available on iPlayer for seven days after transmission.
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Former New Zealand scrum-half Justin Marshall believes Wales will relish their underdog status at the World Cup.
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The agency says more than 700 divers have visited the site, 4,000m under water off the coast of Canada.
The ship will fall under the 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage once it passes the 100th anniversary of its sinking on 15 April.
The convention aims to prevent unscientific or unethical exploration.
Irina Bokova, director-general of Unesco, said the sinking of the Titanic was "anchored in the memory of humanity" and it was important to protect the site where 1,500 people lost their lives.
"There are thousands of other shipwrecks that need safeguarding as well... We do not tolerate the plundering of cultural sites on land, and the same should be true for our sunken heritage," she added.
The 2001 convention only protects vessels that sank more than a century ago.
The Titanic, built in Belfast, sank on its maiden voyage after setting off from the British port of Southampton.
It hit an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada en route to New York, sinking two-and-a-half hours later.
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Finkley Down Farm, in Hampshire, posted a video of the hungry rodents munching on the Christmas dinner accompaniment.
The clip, which garnered 6m views in four days, prompted criticism from some who were concerned the vegetables could cause "fatal" bloating.
However, the farm and the RSPCA and Blue Cross animal charities said they were safe "in moderation".
Facebook user Bob Hammer commented : "These animals are doomed from bloat as a result of being able to eat this many Brussels, Finkley Down Farm you need to be taken to task!!"
Another user, Katie Jacqueline Crossingham, said: "Please be aware: Sprouts can cause bloat in guinea pigs, which can often lead to a nasty, painful death."
The farm, which posted the video as a festive message to its followers, said the welfare of its animals was "paramount" and added it had "expert livestock staff" to deal with the needs of individual animals.
"Here at Finkley we have a large herd of guinea pigs nearly 50 in total - the sprouts in the video are equivalent to one per guinea pig," the farm added.
"We are aware that Brussels sprouts can be difficult for guinea pigs to digest, however, these are safe for them to eat in moderation - something we keep a close eye on to ensure they aren't getting carried away."
An RSPCA spokeswoman described the video as "adorable".
"Sprouts can make a nice Christmas treat for guinea pigs and offering them as occasional treats in moderation can add variety and interest to their diet," she added.
Katie Stiles, animal welfare assistant at Blue Cross, said: "As part of a balanced diet they are absolutely fine.
"Guinea pigs need a mix of vegetables, as sprouts and cabbages can cause bloating - though this is more of an issue with rabbits - but they also need vegetables rich in vitamin C, such as peppers, as they are unable to produce it themselves."
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Solva Care, which launched as a two-year pilot in October 2015, helps about 40 elderly people in the community.
The not-for-profit initiative matches people who need support to 30 volunteers who provide it.
A grant of £21,421 was awarded by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority's Sustainable Development Fund.
Solva Care's project leader Mollie Roach said the money, together with Welsh Government funding, will keep it going for another two years.
She said: "This is very good news. We know that Solva Care works and is making a real difference to people's lives."
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A project that cares for the elderly in a Pembrokeshire village has secured funding to keep it going for two years.
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The lender was the biggest faller on Germany's main stock market before paring back the losses.
Talks between chief executive John Cryan and the US Department of Justice ended without agreement at the weekend, according to reports.
The bank has been under intense pressure over the size of the fine.
Mr Cryan was in the US for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank's autumn meetings.
Some investors had hoped that while he was there, he might negotiate down a settlement for the bank's mis-selling of mortgage-backed securities.
Others, though, said it was always unlikely the bank could strike a deal with the US authorities so quickly.
Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said: "Deutsche Bank hasn't as yet been able to come to any agreement with the US Justice Department as it looks to overcome the hurdle of the prospect of a rather large fine.
"Talks are continuing while the bank looks at potentially spinning off a stake in its asset management division in order to free up some extra capital."
Terry Torrison, managing director at McLaren Securities, said the bank was "never going to sort out the US issues that quickly".
Deutsche Bank's shares touched 33-year lows at the end of September, before recovering slightly in recent days, over fears its finances are not strong enough to handle a large US fine.
The bank declined to comment on reports Mr Cryan had failed to reach a deal. The share price recovered to close slightly up by the end of trading.
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Deutsche Bank shares dropped in early trade on reports that its boss failed to reach a swift deal with the US over lowering a $14bn (£11.3bn) fine.
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Seven separate failures affected Southeastern passengers through London Bridge, which then created overcrowding at Victoria and Canada Water.
Network Rail and Transport for London apologised to customers saying cable damage and signalling problems had caused delays.
Most faults were repaired by 08:00 BST.
Points problems led to suspensions on the District, Circle and Hammersmith and City lines.
Overrunning engineering work and signalling problems resulted in delays of up to 90 minutes for passengers using London Bridge.
It is the latest in a series of problems at the station.
On the Tube, a signal failure, at Edgware Road in north west London, resulted a part-suspension of the District line as well as severe delays on others.
Sasha Simic, who was caught up in the disruption, tweeted: "Nightmare Monday for commuters after underground suffers severe delays."
Another passenger, Warren Geraghty, tweeted: "Delays in and out of Paddington. Tube has "severe delays". I think my commuting days are coming to an end!!"
Both Network Rail and Transport for London apologised to customers.
A Network Rail spokesman said: "The causes were a mixture of cable damage, component and asset failures.
"Many of those faults were repaired before 8am but by that point the damage was done and trains were severely delayed as a result."
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Rush hour travellers have had a "nightmare Monday" commute across London after a series of unrelated rail and Tube train delays.
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The centre said all 200 tickets to see Brumm, Maja and Brumma were booked within 15 minutes of being made available on Thursday.
The bears are 22-month-old siblings and arrived at the centre at the end of November from Kolmarden Zoo in Sweden.
Visitors will be able to see them from 4 January.
The new arrivals join Star, the centre's resident female bear.
Comet, the centre's other European brown bear, died in August aged 30 after a short illness.
A Leisure & Culture Dundee spokesman said: "We have been absolutely blown away by the response to the preview.
"We are really excited about introducing the bears to visitors in the New Year and early indications suggest they are going to be incredibly popular."
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Staff at Dundee's Camperdown Wildlife Centre said they have been "blown away" by demand for preview tickets to see its three new European brown bears.
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Europe's largest economy grew by 0.2% between July and September, half the 0.4% rate seen in the previous three months.
This was slower than economists had expected and well below the 0.7% rate recorded in the first quarter.
"The development of foreign trade had a downward effect on growth," said Germany's Federal Statistics Office.
"Exports were slightly down while imports were slightly up compared with the second quarter of 2016.
"Positive impulses on the quarter came mainly from domestic demand," the statistics body added. "Both household and state spending managed to increase further."
Some analysts said that the uncertainty caused by Britain's vote to leave the European Union may have counteracted solid domestic activity.
"Brexit meets solid domestic economy. This is probably the best description of the German economic performance during the third quarter," ING Bank economist Carsten Brzeski told Reuters.
He added that there was a threat to the economy from Donald Trump's US election victory if he followed through with campaign pledges to limit foreign imports.
"If Germany's single most important trading partner, the US, really moves towards more protectionism, this would definitely leave its mark on German growth."
Signs of slowing economies also emerged in other European countries, with GDP growth coming in below forecast for Norway, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
Italy bucked the trend, however, reporting slightly faster-than-expected growth of 0.3% in the third quarter, after having stagnated in the second quarter.
The slowdown in Germany's growth rate means the country grew more slowly than the eurozone as a whole in the third quarter, with the 19-nation bloc expanding at a rate of 0.3%, according to latest estimates.
Howard Archer, chief European and UK economist at IHS Global Insight, said he expected eurozone GDP growth to pick up to 0.4% in the fourth quarter, given recent upbeat survey data.
He predicted the eurozone would grow by 1.6% in 2016 as a while, but thought growth could slow to 1.3% next year "as it is likely to be increasingly hampered by political uncertainties".
"The political environment could be increasingly problematic for eurozone growth over the coming months, especially given that the UK's Brexit vote in June and November's election of Donald Trump as US President fuels concern over potential political shocks in the eurozone," Mr Archer said.
"General elections are due 2017 in the Netherlands (in March), France (in April/May) and Germany (around September), and the Renzi government is looking vulnerable in Italy, particularly over constitutional reform."
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Germany's economic growth slowed in the third quarter of the year, dented by weaker exports, figures have shown.
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Mary Boyle was six years old when she went missing on 18 March 1977 whilst visiting her grandparents at Cashelard.
The dig was prompted by Danish psychic Yan Sterns, hired by country singer Margo O'Donnell - Daniel's sister - a close friend of Mary's mother, Ann.
Gardai have confirmed they were assisting the family in the fresh search near Ballyshannon.
Material taken from the ground is to be examined.
Mary Boyle is officially the Republic of Ireland's longest missing person.
The psychic visited a remote hillside near Ballyshannon on Friday and pointed to where the dig should take place.
It was his third visit to the area.
Gardai supervised the dig. They said the would act on any information supplied.
Mary Boyle disappeared 34 years ago but this is a still "a live investigation", a spokesman for the Irish police said.
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Confederate forces acquired hundreds of Clyde-built boats because they were fast, making them ideal for evading Union ships blockading Southern ports.
Archaeologists believe the shipwreck off Oak Island, North Carolina, is a blockade runner called Agnes E Fry.
It was launched on the Clyde under a different name, Fox.
A sonar scan was made of the wreck earlier this year and the shape, size and location suggests that it is of the Agnes E Fry.
Deputy state archaeologist, Billy Ray Morris, told the BBC News Scotland website that a further investigation was imminent.
He said: "We will be conducting 3D sonar imaging operations on Fry next week and will have a detailed computer model of the site shortly thereafter."
The North Carolina archaeologist added: "Agnes E Fry was built by Caird & Co in Greenock. She was launched 26 March 1864.
"She was an iron-hulled paddle steamer with two oscillating engines. She was lost 27 December 1864 commanded by Joseph Fry.
"Originally named Fox, Fry renamed her after his wife when he took command."
Coincidently, work is also under way to try and give a wrecked blockade runner in Scottish waters better protection.
The Iona I operated on a Glasgow to the Highlands passenger route before it was purchased by Confederate agents for use in delivering supplies to blockaded American ports.
But it never reached the war as it sank in the Clyde near Gourock following a collision with another ship in 1862.
Earlier this year, the Scottish government proposed designating the site as a Historic Marine Protected Area (HMPA) to preserve it as a historic asset of national importance.
Historic Environment Scotland has begun a public consultation on the designation.
The wreck of Iona I has been described as being in a good condition. Glasgow Museums has a scale model of the paddle streamer in its collections.
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The 33-year-old batsman lost his England place ahead of last winter's tour to South Africa and is set to lead the Bears for the whole summer.
"Division One, this year, will be the toughest that it's ever been," he said.
"The two counties that have come up, with Test Match grounds, look strong."
Bell has set his sights on regaining his England place as soon as possible, but is looking forward to playing a big part for the county this summer.
"The squads in the first division get stronger every year. The standard is very high," he said.
"I am very excited about the season. There is a lot of cricket ahead and a lot of hard work ahead and no doubt there will be ups and downs but myself and the guys can't wait for the challenge in front of us."
Alongside Bell, Warwickshire will also have former England batsman Jonathan Trott and current England all-rounder Chris Woakes at their disposal in the early weeks of the season.
And he believes that could be key to the team making a good start.
"It's the first time for a long time that we will have everybody available for the start of a season - usually we've been without a couple of myself, Trotty and Woakesy," Bell added.
"We've got a strong squad which, injuries permitting, will allow us to rotate our seamers the way Yorkshire have done to such good effect in the last couple of years."
After returning from their pre-season tour of Dubai, Warwickshire continue their preparations for the new season with a two-day friendly against Gloucestershire at Edgbaston on 28 and 29 March.
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The Scot, 27, levelled after a poor first set before racing through the decider against the Argentine.
He will face Tommy Robredo in Sunday's final in China after the Spaniard earlier beat Santiago Giraldo 6-1 6-4.
"Tommy will be a very tough opponent. I will need to play a really good match if I want to win," said Murray.
It will be their first meeting since the Briton defeated him in the third round at SW19 last year.
Murray's semi-final victory boosts his hopes of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals at the 02 Arena in November.
The Briton, currently ranked 11th in the world, will rise above Grigor Dimitrov into 10th place in the race to qualify for the finals if he wins the tournament.
He served 10 aces and converted six of nine break points in a performance that improved significantly as the match wore on.
In hot and humid conditions, Murray fell a double-break behind at 4-1 as repeated errors, particularly off the forehand side, handed easy points to his 30-year-old opponent, who is ranked 97th in the world.
A backhand that clipped the outside of the line allowed Murray to retrieve one of those breaks, but he immediately gave up his serve again, a limp forehand slapped into the net all too typical of his play.
When another backhand sailed long, the Scot had lost the opening set in only half an hour.
A lucky net cord and Monaco double fault allowed Murray to break first in the second set but another errant forehand conceded the advantage straight away.
At 3-3 and break point down, Murray was in a precarious position but a swinging second serve allowed him to avert danger and he pounced on a poor Monaco drop shot to break for 5-3 before serving out the set.
The second seed was in inspired form in the decider, winning it to love with his forehand now drawing gasps from the crowd as it repeatedly found the target and proved too powerful for Monaco to handle.
"The turning point was when we were 3-3 in the second set," said Murray. "But before that he was dominating the match."
Japanese world number eight and US Open runner-up Kei Nishikori made it into his second consecutive final, beating Finland's Jarkko Nieminen 6-3 4-6 6-2 in the semi-final of the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. He'll play fourth seed Julien Benneteau, of France, who knocked out the second seeded Latvian Ernests Gulbis 6-4 6-4.
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The 20-year-old, who has three caps, spent five years at Fulham before leaving for the Cherries in the summer on a four-year contract.
He made his first Bournemouth start in Saturday's FA Cup defeat at Millwall.
Rangers are also in talks with Arsenal over the loan signing of attacking midfielder Jon Toral, who is currently on loan with Grenada in Spain.
"I think the two clubs have similar styles which makes it an easy transition and all the boys have helped me out on my first day," Hyndman told Rangers TV.
"The philosophy here is the same as Bournemouth in the way that they like to press but when they have the ball they like to keep it in attack.
"In that way it is very similar which will hopefully make my transition a lot easier.
"There were a lot of reasons I wanted to sign for Rangers, it is a massive club, they are fighting for Europe and there are good players here.
"I think it is a good opportunity for me to play in, not just a good environment, but in front of 50,000 fans at home which is absolutely unbelievable."
Meanwhile, talks are on-going with Arsenal over Spaniard Toral, 21, who has only featured six times for Granada this season and was an unused substitute in their 5-0 defeat away to Real Madrid on Saturday.
Toral played under Rangers boss Mark Warburton in 2014-15 when he was in charge at Brentford, and spent last season on loan at Birmingham.
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Rangers have signed USA midfielder Emerson Hyndman on a six-month loan deal from Bournemouth.
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Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital in Massachusetts found a doubling in the odds of obesity by the time the child was three years old.
The team said birth by C-section might affect bacteria in the gut, which in turn affects the way food is digested.
The study looked at 1,255 pairs of mothers and children from 1999 to 2002.
The mothers joined the study - published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood - before 22 weeks of pregnancy.
Their babies were measured and weighed at birth and this was repeated at the age of three.
About one in four of the deliveries were C-section births and the remainder were vaginal deliveries.
The team found a link between body mass, skin thickness and how a child was born.
They also found that mothers who delivered by C-section tended to weigh more than those delivering traditionally - something which is known to influence obesity.
But the researchers said another possible explanation was the difference in the composition of gut bacteria acquired at birth between the two delivery methods.
They suggested expectant mothers who choose a C-section should be made aware of the obesity risk to their babies.
In the UK just over 23% of births are Caesarean.
Patrick O'Brien, a spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: "This is an interesting study, but small. It needs to be replicated in a bigger sample."
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Liverpool will host FA Cup finalists Notts County in the other semi-final, with the dates for both ties in October still to be confirmed.
Three-time winners Arsenal's quarter-final with City was postponed after City were charged with fielding an ineligible player in the group stage.
The charge was found to be unproven and the tie is still to be re-arranged.
Two-time finalists Birmingham knocked out Women's Super League One leaders Chelsea in the last eight.
Liverpool thrashed Bristol Academy in the quarter-finals, while Notts saw off WSL 2 side Reading.
The final of the cup, now in its fifth year, will be held at Rotherham's New York Stadium on Sunday, 1 November.
The full semi-final draw is as follows:
Liverpool Ladies v Notts County Ladies
Arsenal Ladies or Manchester City Women v Birmingham City Ladies
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Holders Manchester City or Arsenal will host Birmingham City in the semi-finals of this year's Women's Continental Cup.
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Fox-Pitt, 46, was placed in an induced coma after falling at the World Young Horse Championships in Lion D'Angers on 17 October. He was treated in France before returning to England last week.
"It is fantastic to be home," said the former world number one.
Fox-Pitt is GB's most successful rider with 20 major championship medals.
His horse Reinstated was unharmed in the incident in western France.
Fox-Pitt added: "It feels like a long time away from my family. I would like to thank all the doctors in France, and the rehab team in Poole General Hospital have been incredibly thorough.
"The team at home have been doing an amazing job keeping everything going, but luckily everything is quiet as the horses are all on their end-of-season break. I am looking forward to making a full recovery over the winter."
A statement from British Eventing added: "William has made good progress with his recovery and has now been discharged from hospital to continue his rehab at home. The family continue to ask for privacy as William recovers."
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Rangers avoided relegation by finishing 10th but the club was later charged for failing to implement Haveron's touchline ban against Dungannnon.
It could have resulted in Carrick losing three points and being relegated but the Irish FA decided not to apply any sanction following a hearing.
Haveron replaced Michael Hughes as Rangers boss in September 2013.
"The Board of Carrick Rangers FC can announce that we have accepted the resignation of manager Gary Haveron and assistant manager Steven Mills," said the club on Monday.
"Following discussions between the Board and the management team, we were unable to establish a mutual agreement on the best way forward for the club."
He guided Carrick to Championship success in his first full season and with it a return to top-flight football.
Last month's dramatic 2-1 victory over Ballinamallard United on the final day of the season moved Carrick from the bottom to 10th and safety.
Their Premiership status was threatened by the touchline charge but the IFA Disciplinary opted to "exercise its discretion" in not imposing a sanction.
Warrenpoint Town, who finished bottom but just a point behind Carrick, have appealed the IFA ruling.
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Antrim cut an eight-point deficit to three at one stage but a late goal by Sean Quigley ensured Pete McGrath's Erne men would progress.
Home forward Tomas Corrigan landed nine points but boss Pete McGrath will be concerned about the second-half wobble.
Fermanagh had led 0-9 to 0-2 at half-time before Antrim hit back with five scores without reply.
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The Erne men now progress to play Donegal in the last eight of the provincial championship.
Antrim left their challenge much too late and ultimately paid for a shockingly slack start.
The Saffrons, who won promotion to Division Three earlier in the year, were six points down when they registered their first score through a Brian Neeson free.
The gap was eight late in the first half and it looked like Fermanagh were going to stroll into the quarter-finals.
But from 0-11 to 0-3 down, Antrim rallied with five unanswered points by Mark Sweeney, John Carron, Tomas McCann, Ryan Murray and Sean Burke.
During that spell, Neeson had a goal chance but shot into the side-netting from a tight angle.
The momentum was with Antrim but they conceded a cheap free to give Corrigan the chance to give the hosts a four-point lead before Quigley netted the only goal.
Top scorer Tomas Corrigan: "The first half was the most pleasing thing. We targeted a big first 10 minutes and wanted to keep going after that.
"That is what we did but we are disappointed with our second half performance. We have a lot to work on."
Fermanagh manager Pete McGrath: "For long periods in the second half we were sleepwalking.
"It was a nervous time for us. We let Antrim back into it and that is a concern.
"The result was satisfactory but the performance overall you have to say we did OK but can do better."
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Antrim joint manager Gearoid Adams: "We did not turn up in the first half. There were 14 scoring chances each which is hard to believe.
"In the second half we got it back to three but Fermanagh kicked on in the end and the goal put a gloss on it for them.
"We came down here to win and we are disappointed that we didn't."
Victorious Fermanagh now face Donegal in the last eight of the Ulster Championship while Antrim go into the All-Ireland qualifiers.
Fermanagh: C Snow; M Jones, C Cullen, M O'Brien; D McCusker (sub D Kelly 66), J McMahon, B Mulrone; E Donnelly, A Breen; P McCusker (sub P Cadden), R Jones, R Lyons; R Corrigan (sub D Teague 56), S Quigley, T Corrigan.
Antrim: C Kerr; K O'Boyle, R Johnston, N Delargy; P McBride, M Johnston, J Laverty (sub McAleese 47); M Sweeney, C Murray (sub S McVeigh HT); M Fitzpatrick (sub R Murray 56), K Niblock, J Carron; B Neeson (sub S Burke 59), T McCann, M McCann.
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The blast hit a facility owned by Mexico's state oil company, Pemex, in the port city of Coatzacoalcos.
Hundreds of people have been evacuated and schools closed. Footage showed a large fire and vast plumes of smoke.
The cause of the blast is unclear. Several explosions have been reported at Pemex facilities in recent years.
In pictures: Mexico explosion
The latest incident occurred at around 15:15 local time (20:15 GMT), Pemex said in a statement. Veracruz state Governor Javier Duarte told a radio station the blast was felt 10km (six miles) away.
The fire was under control by early evening, Pemex said. Residents were told to stay indoors because of the possible toxic nature of the smoke from the blast, but Pemex said the smoke dissipated quickly, lessening any possible toxic effects.
Of the 136 people injured, 88 remain in hospital, 13 of whom are in a serious condition, Pemex said.
Video posted on social media purporting to show a local hospital showed scenes of chaos and patients suffering heavy blood loss.
Pemex said the part of the factory hit by the explosion was managed by a sister company, Mexichem.
Associated Press reported that the plant produces vinyl chloride, a dangerous chemical used to make PVC pipes and packaging materials.
Exports of oil from the plant, one of the largest terminals for oil distribution in Mexico, would not be affected, the company added.
In September 2012, an explosion then a fire at a gas plant in the northern state of Tamaulipas killed 33 people.
Pemex's own headquarters in Mexico City was hit by a large gas blast in January 2013, killing 37 people.
A number of fires also struck the company's rigs in the Gulf of Mexico last year, and a worker was killed in another fire at the Veracruz plant in February this year.
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The 5.5in (14cm) component packs in 806 pixels per inch.
That outclasses Samsung's new flagship model by a wide margin. The Galaxy S6 offers 577ppi on a slightly smaller display.
Higher resolutions offer more detail, typically producing crisper images and text. But experts say there is a limit to what the human eye can appreciate.
"At a certain point, the improvements get less visually stunning," Tim Coulling from the Canalys tech consultancy told the BBC.
"Once you jump from 2K to 4K, you're going to struggle to tell the two images apart even if you have perfect vision."
4K - which is also known as ultra-high definition - offers four times the resolution of 1080p HD.
Several TV and projector manufacturers are promoting the new format as being ideal for 55in or bigger televisions that families can sit close to, and cinema screens.
One challenge with introducing it to a handset is that higher resolutions typically take a greater toll on battery life.
But Sharp promotes the Igzo (Indium gallium zinc oxide) tech used in the displays as being more energy efficient than the silicon-based LCD screens commonly used in smartphones and tablets, which should help offset their power demands.
With smartphones becoming capable of filming in 4K, Mr Coulling also suggested there would be an energy trade-off that could benefit users watching back such videos.
"You will be able to show 4K content natively on the screen, which means you won't need to process it to get it to display properly."
He added that he believed smartphone-makers would be keen to promote their handsets as being 4K-enhanced, whatever the true benefit, for marketing reasons.
Greek news site Techblog.gr - which was among the first to report the news - said that Sharp planned to put the displays into mass production next year, and expected Chinese manufacturers to be among its first customers.
While consumers have still to get to grips with 4K, parts of the tech industry are already racing ahead to a next-generation standard.
Camera-maker Red has just announced an 8K video camera, offering 16 times the resolution of 1080p HD.
However, its $59,500 (£40,575) cost is likely to limit its appeal to film-makers.
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Sakho, 23, who has 14 France caps, will cost around £18m from Paris St-Germain.
Sporting Lisbon's Ilori, 20, has represented Portugal at youth level but is still eligible to play for England because he is born in London.
Sakho told the club's website: "I came here because the project at Liverpool interests me. I'm really looking forward to playing my first game."
He is manager Brendan Rodgers's most expensive signing of the summer and can play in the centre of defence as well as at left-back.
Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre said: "He's an important marquee signing for us. It was a difficult one to do and it was a difficult one for us to get, but I'm very pleased that we've been able to attract him to the club."
Ilori, who cost £7m, said: "Liverpool have a great team and I think it's the place for me to be at the moment.
"There have been some great teams here in the past, the club has won a lot of trophies and I want to be a part of it."
Rodgers has now signed seven players this summer following the captures of defender Kolo Toure, striker Iago Aspas, winger Luis Alberto, goalkeeper Simon Mignolet and left-back Aly Cissokho.
Liverpool prioritised defensive recruitments because Sebastian Coates has been ruled out for most of the season while Toure and Cissokho are also injured.
Sakho and Ilori were both at Anfield on Sunday to watch Liverpool beat Manchester United to move top of the Premier League.
Meanwhile, forward Daniel Pacheco has left Liverpool to join Spanish second tier side AD Alcorcon.
The 22-year-old had struggled to break into the Reds first-team and failed to score in his 17 senior appearances during his six years with the Merseysiders.
He was sent out on loan to Rayo Vallecano, Norwich City and Huesca but has now moved to Alcorcon on a permanent basis.
I will always be a red," tweeted Pacheco. "It's been my house and I will never forget it. Thanks to all you fans for the support and hope we celebrate the Premier League [title] this season."
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Liverpool have signed central defenders Mamadou Sakho and Tiago Ilori for a combined fee of about £25m.
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Visitors to the charity's reserve in Bempton, East Yorkshire can upload their images to a special website.
The Atlantic puffin is a "Red List" threatened species and numbers across the UK are rapidly declining.
Researchers hope analysing the birds' diets could help explain why numbers have dropped in some areas.
More on this and other East Yorkshire stories
Images from Bempton, where colony numbers are holding steady, will be compared to other sites where the birds are struggling.
A recent report by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee said that the puffin's decline was due to a reduction in its food supply of small fish and its vulnerability to oil spills.
They have been listed as vulnerable to extinction, the lowest of three categories behind critically endangered and endangered.
The RSPB's Ali Barratt said the research is especially important at this time of year as puffin chicks are about to hatch.
"The society as a whole can look at what puffins are eating in different parts of the UK," she said.
"See if there are any differences and see if there any things that we wouldn't expect and to try and build a picture of ocean health around our island".
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The RSPB has appealed for photographs of puffins feeding to help scientists discover why the bird's numbers have fallen to dangerously low levels.
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It is unclear why the helicopter carrying Lionel Zinsou crash-landed in a stadium.
"My father is fine. There were no victims in the helicopter accident in Djougou," Marie-Cecile Zinsou tweeted.
Earlier this month, Mr Zinsou confirmed he would run as a candidate in Benin's 2016 presidential elections.
The helicopter crashed while landing at a stadium in the city of Djougou, a spokesman for Benin's interior ministry Leonce Houngbadji told the AFP news agency.
He said no-one in the helicopter was hurt.
Mr Zinsou, a former private-equity executive, was appointed prime minister of Benin in June.
He has said he will run for president in February's election as a candidate of the ruling Cowry Forces for an Emerging Benin (FCBE) party.
Reuters reported in early December that Mr Zinsou's announcement put an end to speculation Benin's president Thomas Boni Yayi was seeking a third term.
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Benin's Prime Minister walked away unscathed after the helicopter in which he was travelling crashed in the country's northwest, his daughter said.
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Using pictures from the Cassini probe, the researchers have detected and tracked a slight wobble in the moon.
After seven years of study, they have concluded this flutter would be much less if the icy crust was connected directly to Enceladus's rock core.
It is strong support for the idea of an intervening, global mass of liquid.
"If the surface and core were rigidly connected, the core would provide so much dead weight that the wobble would be far smaller than we observe it to be," said Matthew Tiscareno, a Cassini scientist based at the Seti Institute but previously affiliated to Cornell University, US.
"This proves that there must be a global layer of liquid separating the surface from the core."
Activity on Enceladus has been one of the great discoveries on the Cassini mission, which arrived at Saturn in 2004.
The first clue that something interesting was going on was some low-resolution images showing a plume coming off the south pole that had the space-interested internet all abuzz.
Shortly after, Cassini detected a disturbance in magnetic fields produced by the presence of what appeared to be an atmosphere.
Scientists then established that the moon was actually venting huge jets of water vapour through south polar surface cracks dubbed tiger stripes because of their resemblance to the big cat's fur coat.
Models were subsequently produced to explain how liquid water could be maintained on a 500km-wide body in the outer Solar System, and how that water might be feeding the jets.
But there has always been a debate about how large the hidden reservoir might be. Early thinking suggested it might only be a relatively small lens of water.
This new result, published in the journal Icarus, is the best evidence yet that the sub-surface sea is not regional in nature, but encircles the entire globe.
It is significant because it makes it more possible that Enceladus is a habitable world. In those jets, Cassini has also detected salts and organic molecules. The chemistry has scientists intrigued, and fired up to send a dedicated mission to the moon.
When that might happen is unclear. Both the US and European space agencies are only planning currently to send probes to Jupiter, and even they are not likely to get to their destination until the 2030s.
Cassini itself is winding up its observations in the Saturn system. It has another couple of close passes of Enceladus this year before it then starts to manoeuvre towards disposal in the ringed planet's atmosphere in 2017.
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Scientists have determined that the sub-surface body of water on the Saturnian moon Enceladus must be far more extensive than first thought.
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The Greek government is trying to balance austerity measures imposed by the EU and the IMF with a return to regaining economic policy-making power.
Greece has had two bailouts totalling €240bn (£188bn) since 2010 when private investors refused to lend to Athens.
Greece wants to return to market financing from next year.
"Taking into account the still fragile market sentiment and the many reform challenges ahead there is strong support for a precautionary credit line," said Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem at a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels.
Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis told the Reuters news agency he hopes for a grace period of up to a year after exiting the bailout, during which Greece will still get a financial safety net but would not be "micro-managed" by lenders.
The credit deal will use €11bn already granted to Greece by the eurozone to strengthen Greek banks. The money was not needed after the European Central Bank tested eurozone banks last month.
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Eurozone ministers have moved towards agreeing a new credit line for Greece as it prepares to exit its bailout at the end of the year.
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The Atlantic Airlines cargo flight left Aberdeen on Monday evening, and had been scheduled to fly to East Midlands Airport.
But it declared an emergency a short time later and returned to Aberdeen, where it landed safely at about 20:20.
It is not yet known what caused the plane to turn back.
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An aircraft has returned safely to Aberdeen International Airport after reporting a problem shortly after taking off.
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Gloucestershire reached 253-6 with four balls to spare after Cockbain shared a stand of 172 with Benny Howell (81).
Lukas Carey was Glamorgan's best bowler with four for 38.
Glamorgan made 252-9 thanks to openers Jacques Rudolph (60) and David Lloyd (49). But Glamorgan lost seamer Ruaidhri Smith to a leg injury suffered while bowling only his second over.
Both teams now play their opening first-class friendlies against student opposition, starting on Tuesday 28 March. Glamorgan host Cardiff MCCU while Gloucestershire face Durham MCCU in Bristol.
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Gloucestershire beat Glamorgan by four wickets in their pre-season friendly thanks to Ian Cockbain's 125 not out.
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Groups pushing for the impeachment of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff are using a large rubber duck as a mascot.
But the design is similar to one by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, who told the BBC the Brazilian replica constitutes copyright infringement.
The owner of the factory that produced both ducks denied any wrongdoing.
Versions of the same giant inflatable rubber duck designed by Mr Hofman have travelled the world since 2007, calling in Japan, New Zealand and Brazil, among many other countries.
The version that has appeared in protests in Brazil closely resembles Mr Hofman's, although it has crosses for eyes.
It also has the slogan "Chega de pagar o pato" across its chest, a Portuguese expression meaning "We won't pay for the duck any more" or "We won't pay for what is not our fault any more".
The giant duck was commissioned by a powerful Brazilian industrial group, FIESP, to use in protests against corruption and high taxes from last September.
But it has made a number of appearances in demonstrations against the president in recent months.
"It is exactly our design and our specific technical patterns," Mr Hofman told BBC Brasil. "Changing the eyes doesn't change our technical design of the shape and beak."
Before it appeared as part of an exhibition in Brazil, a version of Mr Hofman's duck was produced in a Sao Paulo factory.
The owner of the factory, Denilson Sousa, told the BBC they also produced the new duck, but said the design was not copied.
"I would not put our reputation at risk," he said. "We have experience in this kind of job and this is a very simple design. Why wouldn't we spend four hours redesigning it?"
But Mr Hofman said the factory "made a very unwise decision" and that he considered it "illegal use of the exact design and therefore copyright infringement".
A FIESP spokesman said they had been reassured the design was original.
On Tuesday, the group released 5,000 rubber ducks near the main national congress building in the capital, Brasilia, and took out full-page adverts in national newspapers using an image of a duck.
Opposition lawmakers want to remove Ms Rousseff over claims she manipulated government accounts to hide a growing deficit.
Her party's coalition partners quit government on Tuesday, a step which may ensure she lacks enough support to stave off impeachment.
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An artist famous for a giant rubber duck that pops up around the world says a version of his work used by Brazilian protesters amounts to plagiarism.
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Bertie, from Adventure Valley in County Durham, covered 18ft (5.48m) in 19.59 seconds - smashing the previous best of 43.7 seconds, which stood since 1977.
He clocked his time in July last year, but the achievement has now been ratified and appears in the new edition of the Guinness Book of Records.
Owner Janine Calzini said he could be tempted to make another attempt on TV.
She added: "He's just like the real-life Usain Bolt as he loves the attention his run has brought and meeting people.
"They're amazed when they see how fast he moves.
"He lives with his girlfriend, Shelly, but she's the opposite as she hides away."
Bertie, who raced to his record on a diet of strawberries, is thought to be about 10 years old.
Leopard tortoises typically live to between 80 and 100 years old and Mrs Calzini, who runs the adventure park with her husband Marco, believes Bertie could be spurred on to an even faster time by the media spotlight.
"There's nothing to say he couldn't beat his own record. We had a lot of inquiries after Bertie's run but had to turn them down while we waited for the record to be confirmed.
"If someone asked him to make another attempt on TV then maybe he could do it."
Bertie was given to Adventure Valley four years ago when his owners went abroad.
Befitting his status as a record-breaker, he and Shelly now live in a larger enclosure.
The record was on a running track specified by Guinness with an incline of 1 in 12.
The previous best was set at the National Tortoise Championship at Tickhill, South Yorkshire, on 2 July 1977.
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The Usain Bolt of the tortoise world has raced into the record books as the fastest ever.
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Arthur Howard, 74, and his 75-year-old wife Emma, from East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, had the winning ticket for the Mega Friday draw on 29 January.
Mr Howard said he "went into complete shock" after phoning the claims line and hearing the words "Congratulations, you're a millionaire.
He now plans to trade in his taxi for a new Audi car.
Mr Howard said: "It has taken a while to sink in, I even had to phone the claim line twice just to make sure it was the real thing.
"When I first phoned and heard the words 'congratulations you're a millionaire' I went in to complete shock and told the call handler I would have to hang up and give her a call back."
Mr Howard added: "My youngest son came over to me as he was worried something was wrong as all the colour had drained from my face.
"I told him and he wouldn't believe me so we called the claim line back, putting it on loud speaker this time, and she said it again 'you are a millionaire'. It really was quite something."
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A Scottish couple are celebrating after winning £1m and all-expenses paid break to Dubai in a EuroMillions draw.
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He is backed by 152 constituency parties, with Andy Burnham in second place with 111, then Yvette Cooper with 106 and Liz Kendall with 18.
The supporting nominations have no weight in the vote but give an insight into the views of active party members.
Mr Corbyn also has the backing of the UK's two largest trade unions.
All registered Labour Party supporters and affiliated supporters who join before midday on the 12 August can vote in the contest. Voting will begin on 14 August.
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Leadership candidate Andy Burnham has told the Guardian the Labour Party is at risk of splitting because of the provocative language used by supporters of left-wing candidate Mr Corbyn.
Union leader Dave Ward described Blairites in the party as a "virus" to which Mr Corbyn was the antidote.
But Mr Burnham said the comments should sound "alarm bells" to the party of the danger of a return to the early 1980s, when a bitter rift between left-wingers and centrists led to the creation of the Social Democratic Party.
Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman told the BBC that whoever won the contest there "must not and would not be a split in the Labour Party".
"In a hotly contested leadership race stakes run high and things get said which raise the temperature and they shouldn't," she said.
"What we need is a proper debate."
A poll by Research Now found Mr Burnham was the preferred Labour leader among members of the public.
Of the 1,001 people questioned, 30% of those who expressed an opinion picked Mr Burnham as the best leader.
Mr Corbyn and Ms Cooper both got 24%, and 21% chose Ms Kendall.
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Jeremy Corbyn is the most popular candidate for Labour leader among local constituency groups, according to the latest party nomination figures.
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In 14 previous Games, GB has never finished lower than fifth in the medal table, and has come second seven times.
But London 2012's third-place finish ended a run of three second places and Rio 2016 is set to be more challenging.
"It's getting harder and harder because other nations are picking up on this and investing more money," said GB Wheelchair Tennis' Geraint Richards.
"There will be a time when we can't keep increasing the medal tally but we can stay at the top end of the table."
Richards, head of disability player performance at the Tennis Foundation, said he is optimistic about star performer Jordanne Whiley's chance of gold in the singles and doubles events in Rio, but was reluctant to put too much expectation on the 23-year-old in a sport that gets "tougher and tougher".
It is a similar story for his counterpart at the British para-swimming team, Chris Furber.
The former head coach of the successful British para-cycling team, Furber has overhauled the swimming set-up: bringing in new coaches, centralising the team in Manchester and investing in infrastructure.
He is confident the team will "contribute a hefty number of medals" to the target of 121 - one more than was won in 2012 - that is the "aspirational goal" for the agency that funds Olympic and Paralympic sport, UK Sport.
However, he said medal tallies are "really hard to predict", pointing to the London Games as an example.
"It's not the same as Olympic sport where you get a level of performance over the four years," said Furber.
"China turned up with a very strong team off the back of their home Games, Russia and Ukraine had heavily invested and Brazil were looking to their home Games, so London was challenging and Rio will be no different."
"Our entire four-year cycle has been about producing a lifetime-best performances under the greatest pressure."
Tim Hollingsworth, the British Paralympic Association's chief executive, has welcomed rising standards, even if it does make it harder for the British team to deliver medals.
"The standard of competition globally in the Paralympic movement is changing rapidly," said Hollingsworth.
"It's going to make the winning of the medals even tougher but we're on the cusp of something great with the Paralympics - London was tremendous, we're very keen to see that go forward."
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British Paralympic leaders say Britain can continue to deliver medals despite increased global competition.
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The 25-year-old is set to have a medical at the Premier League club on Tuesday.
Gabbiadini, who has six caps for Italy, joined Napoli from Sampdoria in 2015 and has scored 15 goals in 55 league appearances.
However, he has struggled for a first-team place in recent weeks and has not started a Serie A match since November.
Southampton are looking for extra forward cover, with Charlie Austin expected to be out for another three months with a shoulder injury.
Keep up to date with all the Premier League transfers in January as we track and profile all the players leaving or joining a club this month.
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Southampton have agreed a fee of about £14m for Napoli striker Manolo Gabbiadini.
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MPs gave notice only this morning that they would visit the Derbyshire site.
The committee has investigated working practices at Shirebrook, and wanted to see if improvements had been made.
After a three hour tour, they gathered in a private room when they said a recording device was found.
The company had been expecting a visit from MPs, but was not told when the spot check would be.
One of the six, Anna Turley, MP for Redcar, said: "At the end of the meeting, we sat down to have a private conversation in a room by ourselves.
"A lady came in with some sandwiches, which was very kind. I saw her take too long to do it, she put it down and I saw her put a recording device on the floor.
"She left the room and I went over to pick up the device and there it was: a camera and a recording device for the conversation that we were having privately.
"I'm very disappointed."
A spokesman for Sports Direct declined to comment.
The committee chairman, Iain Wright said he spoke to Sports Direct's chief executive, Mike Ashley, on the phone after the MPs left the warehouse.
He said: "I don't think it was a particularly pleasant conversation for either of us.
"I want to work with Mike Ashley in a constructive manner. I don't think he wants to work with us at all any more."
The company, which has around 450 retail outlets, came under the spotlight after a BBC investigation uncovered a culture of unorthodox and illegal working practices at the warehouse.
Among issued raised were staff being kept on site at Shirebrook after their shifts for body searches, putting them below the legal minimum wage.
Concern about working conditions led to Sports Direct's founder Mike Ashley being called to appear in front of the Business and Skills Committee.
He admitted at the hearing that control of the company had slipped beyond him. Mr Ashley denied knowing about the day-to-day operation at Shirebrook.
Sports Direct has promised a number of changes since Mr Ashley's appearance at the committee.
Mr Ashley is thought to be on holiday and was not at Shirebrook during the visit.
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Six MPs from the Business and Skills Committee claim an attempt was made to record their private discussions after a surprise visit to Sports Direct's Shirebrook warehouse.
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The lorry then crashed into a house in Bolney Road, Ansty, West Sussex. The cottage's occupants were unhurt, but the building has structural damage.
A 72-year-old man who was driving a VW sustained serious injuries. The other drivers were also taken to hospital.
The A272 Bolney Road was closed at the junction with Bishops Lane and Pickwell Lane until the early hours, following the crash on Saturday afternoon.
Ricky, the owner of the property - who did not want to give his full name - told the BBC he had only just finished renovating the house.
"We started in September and finished it on Saturday morning, and now we've got to start all over again.
"The downstairs is wrecked and the front top room is also damaged."
He said his wife's grandparents, who are in their 90s, were in the property at the time and were very "shaken up".
"Luckily they managed to get out... a few cuts and bruises but otherwise OK," he said.
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A motorist was seriously injured in a crash involving a lorry and two cars.
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The former Forest Green Rovers striker, 26, has netted 28 times in all competitions for Rovers this season.
His goals have helped the club up to fourth ahead of the season's final day.
"We have an understanding that, if he comes to us and he's got an offer, we'll have a chance to match that offer," Hamer told BBC Radio Bristol.
"If that offer, unfortunately, is so incredibly good for Matty but not very good for Bristol Rovers Football Club, we'd probably have to decline matching it.
"Because, if you're so lopsided, it can de-stabalise the rest of the squad because somebody's on an amount of money.
"He's got an agent that's doing the best job he can for him. But that's not to say we're going to give that one up without fighting."
Hamer also revealed the club would discuss a new contract with manager Darrell Clarke at the end of the season, with Rovers guaranteed at least a play-off spot, lying one point off the top three ahead of Saturday's visit of relegated Dagenham & Redbridge.
"At the moment, we're not distracting him (Clarke) from the job in hand," Hamer said.
"As soon as that's over, we'll sit down and have a chat with him. There's no reason why we can't come up with something that's going to please him and please us.
"The job he has done is remarkable. Having got to know him, I think he could go a long way in this game. He's tactically very aware.
"It would be nice to think he can get to where Eddie Howe is at Bournemouth. There is no reasons why he can't.
"I'd like to think he'll join us on an exciting journey that we've got going forward, but who knows?"
Clarke says Rovers' rivals have "everything to lose" on Saturday and his side would be "very unfortunate" not to go up if they finish on 85 points.
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Bristol Rovers will have the chance to match offers made by other clubs for League Two's top scorer Matty Taylor this summer, says chairman Steve Hamer.
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Poo left behind by the creatures is turning the white marble walls green!
The problem's been caused by insects breeding in a nearby polluted river - and there's been a rise in the amount of them.
Cleaners scrub the Taj Mahal's walls every day, but there are worries their elbow grease could ruin the beautiful marble and mosaics.
Authorities are looking for a way to solve the problem as quickly as possible.
"Officials have been asked to investigate as why there is sudden increase in the number of these insects and how to control their population," local official Navneet Sehgal said.
The insects are a type of fly that look like a mosquito.
The incredible building is actually a huge tomb built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan for his wife in the 1600s.
It is visited by millions of people every year, including royalty.
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Swarms of insects are using India's top tourist attraction, the Taj Mahal, as a toilet.
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) wants to replace the lifeboat building on South Marine Drive in Bridlington with a new one 500m away on Spa Promenade.
The RNLI said the 1903 building was "cramped and outdated".
East Riding of Yorkshire Council will decide whether to pass the plans on 8 January.
The council had previously agreed the promenade south of Bridlington Spa could be widened by up to seven metres so the current lifeboat can be launched more safely and effectively.
Michael Oakes, of the RNLI, said the new site, which is between Bridlington Spa and the pumping station, would mean all the lifesaving equipment could be kept together in one place instead of the inshore lifeboat and equipment being kept a short walk away in a separate building on Princess Mary Promenade.
Mr Oakes said it would also mean quicker launch times because the lifeboat would not need to cross the road and the Shannon-class lifeboat, which is due to replace the current Mersey all-weather lifeboat by 2018, could be kept inside coupled with its launch vehicle.
Plans for the two-storey building include public viewing areas, a mechanic station and a shop, as well as improved changing and equipment facilities.
The RNLI has other lifeboat stations at Flamborough, Bridlington, Withernsea and Humber in East Yorkshire.
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An East Yorkshire seaside town could get a £3m lifeboat station if plans are passed by a council.
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The party called for an armed forces commissioner and better assessment to deliver the services veterans need.
Social justice spokesman Mark Isherwood said it was "time for us to reflect as a society" on treatment of veterans.
Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant said the Welsh Government was "fully committed" to providing support.
The debate on Wednesday comes amid continued concern that many military veterans suffer from mental health issues, loneliness, welfare or addiction problems, or have trouble finding work or housing.
"It's not enough just to rely on organisations like the Royal British Legion to raise money and campaign for the 385,000 members of the current and former service community currently living in Wales," Mr Isherwood said.
"As politicians we have to raise our game, and make sure that each and every level of government is playing its part.
"We are 100 years on from the Battle of the Somme," he added.
"The commemorations this year have been a poignant reminder of the need to protect these heroes, and to ensure that those who have served in the armed forces, and their families, are treated with fairness and respect."
Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: "All Welsh public bodies have signed up to the Armed Forces Covenant, but it's clear that we have a long way to go to redress the disadvantages faced by this section of the community.
"In Scotland, a Veterans Commissioner champions the needs of the armed forces community.
"We want to go one step further here in Wales, and create an armed forces commissioner for Wales, dedicated both to veterans and the wider armed forces community."
Communities Secretary Carl Sargeant outlined the Welsh Government's support for the armed forces to the Senedd on Tuesday.
It included support on health needs, housing and employment.
"This time of the year particularly reminds us of all those who have fought in conflicts to preserve the way of life we have today," he said.
"This year we have commemorated some of the biggest battles of the First World War. We remember those who lost their lives at Jutland and during the Battle of the Somme, especially in Mametz Wood; thousands of Welsh Servicemen made the ultimate sacrifice.
"Through our Programme for Government we remain fully committed to providing ongoing support and services for our present Armed Forces community."
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War veterans and members of the armed forces need to be treated better by society, the Welsh Conservatives have said ahead of a debate in the Senedd.
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The Oxford Temple and Community Centre Project wants a place of worship for the 10,000 Hindus in the county.
Volunteers are now appealing to Hindu families to provide regular donations in order to be accepted for a mortgage.
Chairman Gyan Gopal said: "Of all the major faiths of the world, Hinduism is the only one not to have a place for communal worship in Oxfordshire."
The project has raised £110,000 in six years and aims to raise £500,000, but volunteers are now exploring the option of using their raised funds towards a mortgage on a property.
Currently 15 families are contributing every month but the project needs more families to make regular payments rather than one-off donations.
Mr Gopal said: "To acquire a mortgage we need to show the financial institutions that we have a regular income coming in in standing orders to meet the interest payments."
Applications for funding from Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council have been unsuccessful.
The project organises the annual Oxford Mela which raised £4,500 last year.
Mr Gopal said the ideal location would be an industrial estate.
"Our events usually happen in the evenings and on weekends so we don't want to disturb anyone," he said.
Another option is to buy land and start with a "prefab hut".
Mr Gopal said: "The biggest cathedrals started off like that".
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Campaigners for a first Hindu temple in Oxfordshire have made a fresh appeal for funds.
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An average 10.2 million viewers watched Portugal beat France on BBC One, with a further 1.9 million tuning into ITV's coverage of the football match.
Andy Murray's second title-winning performance at the All England Tennis Club was seen by an average of 9.2 million viewers.
Both events drew about 55% of the audience available at transmission.
The build-up to the Wimbledon Men's Final on BBC One was watched by about 2.2 million viewers.
Sport featured heavily in the ratings, with BBC Two's Today at Wimbledon and Golf: Scottish Open Highlights being the third and fifth most popular shows on the channel, while Channel 4's highlights of the Formula 1: British Grand Prix being its fourth most popular programme.
BBC Two's largest audience was 1.2 million for a showing of Oscar-winning film The Help, while Channel 4's came for Paul O'Grady's 100 Years of Movie Musicals, which drew about 1.1 million viewers.
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The Euro 2016 final drew nearly three million more viewers than Andy Murray's win at Wimbledon on Sunday.
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The site, on Newington Causeway near Elephant and Castle, will contain 38 flats and three floors of shops.
Southwark Council's planners approved the scheme by four votes to three.
The club said it was "extremely disappointed" and thought the decision was "wrong".
It had fought the proposals, fearing people moving into the flats could submit complaints about noise levels which might lead to the venue closing.
The council said the new block was in "a prime location" in central London and part of the regeneration area around Elephant and Castle.
"Any improvement to this area would be of great benefit to local people," said Councillor Fiona Colley, the borough's cabinet member for regeneration.
"We appreciate that the Ministry of Sound is a valued club, business and local employer which we have no intention of seeing close.
"I believe the club can and will remain open alongside new residential developments," she added.
But Lohan Presencer, the venue's chief executive, said his firm was taking legal advice "and will be doing everything we can to prevent this catastrophic threat to the future of our business".
"We believe that the council has mishandled this application, failed to understand or acknowledge its implications at every turn and that they have now misdirected their councillors to the wrong decision," he said.
The club collected 25,000 signatures when opposing the previous development, which proposed 315 homes on the same street.
The musician Example was among those speaking out about the proposal, which the council rejected on the grounds of noise and as it did not meet requirements for affordable housing.
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A 22-storey tower block has been approved close to the site of the Ministry of Sound nightclub in south-east London, three weeks after another development nearby was rejected.
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Bates, 29, will feature for the county in the 50-over competition alongside former England captain Charlotte Edwards, who joined them in December.
The right-hander will also rejoin Southern Vipers in the Women's Super League after the World Cup.
She scored 232 runs at an average of 42 as the Vipers won the inaugural Super League title last season.
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New Zealand women's captain Suzie Bates will play for Hampshire women ahead of the Women's World Cup in June.
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McMahon, 27, can also be deployed in an attacking midfield role.
An employment tribunal recently ordered Portadown to pay £7,000 in unpaid wages to McMahon, an outcome the Shamrock Park club say they will appeal.
In June, an Irish FA disciplinary hearing ruled that McMahon had been paid while registered as an amateur.
The registration case led to a 12-point penalty being handed down to the Ports, a decision which they are also in the process of appealing.
Swifts head coach Rodney McAree described McMahon as "a wonderful talent".
"The fact the Swifts play good football really made me want to join the club. I watched last season and anytime I saw them play I thought 'they play the game the right way' and that has attracted me to the club without a doubt," McMahon told the Dungannon FC website.
Dungannon lie fifth in the Premiership table and travel to Seaview to face champions Crusaders on Saturday.
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Dungannon Swifts have completed the signing of former Portadown and Bohemians forward Peter McMahon on a one-year deal.
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Bedene, 27, forced eight break points in the match, converting three to beat the world number 77 in 65 minutes.
The event is Bedene's first grass-court outing after a good clay campaign took him from 94th to 52nd in the world.
He will play either fourth seed Gilles Muller or Italy's Andreas Seppi next.
British and world number one Andy Murray will start his grass-court campaign at the Aegon Championships at Queen's Club next week alongside national number two Kyle Edmund.
Davis Cup team-mate Dan Evans withdrew from the Nottingham Open on Monday with injury and is having treatment before the start of Wimbledon on 3 July.
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British number four Aljaz Bedene made the quarter-finals of the Ricoh Open tournament in the Netherlands with a comfortable 6-3 6-4 win over the United States' Ernesto Escobedo.
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Caley Thistle need to beat Well to stand a chance of Premiership survival.
Victory, coupled with Hamilton Academical dropping points to Dundee, would see Inverness avoid finishing bottom, and automatic relegation, at the expense of a two-legged play-off.
"The players need to look after themselves the next couple of days," Foran said.
"We must go into details: what are you eating, what are you drinking? Don't get off your sofa, find babysitters for your kids - it's worth it, it's worth it. We need you to give your all now.
"It's a massive game, but it's one you go and enjoy, one you take to Motherwell, whereas the Hamilton dressing room before their game will be very, very nervous."
Inverness remain one point behind Accies at the foot of the table, heading into the final round of league fixtures.
Their outlook seemed bleak when they were thumped by rivals Ross County in the first of the post-split matches, leaving Caley Thistle five points adrift.
But wins over Accies, then Dundee on Wednesday night, have kept alive the Highlanders' hopes of retaining their Premiership status.
"It was a wonderful, wonderful performance (against Dundee) and we need it again on Saturday against a top team," Foran added.
"Motherwell have got two really good strikers, a strong midfield, defensively we'll have to be right at it once again.
"All the pressure that was on our shoulders goes straight to Hamilton. We can't influence what happens at Hamilton but I do know, I've been in football a long time, they'll be feeling a hell of a lot of pressure right now.
"There's no sugar-coating it, no hiding it, that pressure's lifted off our shoulders and goes straight onto the Hamilton players. It's a huge game for them, and we need the same passion, hunger, desire, as we had last night, and what will be will be."
Foran insists he has no interest in keeping tabs on Accies' progress at New Douglas Park, as his side do battle with the Steelmen in Inverness.
The former Caley Thistle stalwart, who made over 150 appearances for the club, has painful memories of their last top-flight exit, when a 1-0 defeat by Falkirk in 2009 sealed their relegation.
"I missed a few great chances, so that haunts me to this day," Foran said. "We gave 100% effort and that's all you ask from the players now, 100% effort and commitment for the jersey.
"The supporters were magnificent last night, I'm sure they'll be down in their droves again. We're going well, we're full of confidence and we can't wait for it now."
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Inverness boss Richie Foran has urged his players to rest ahead of Saturday's seismic clash with Motherwell.
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All 18 centrally contracted England players will appear in the competition, running from 10 August to 1 September.
Hazell, 28, moves from Yorkshire Diamonds, with all-rounder Danielle Wyatt, 25, the only other England player to change clubs.
Wyatt, who played for Lancashire last season, has joined the Southern Vipers.
Meanwhile, four overseas players are set to make their Super League debuts, with two more to be announced at a later date.
South Africa's Sune Luus and New Zealand's Sophie Devine have joined Yorkshire, West Indies all-rounder Hayley Matthews has been allocated to Southern Vipers, while New Zealand bowler Lea Tahuhu has signed for Lancashire Thunder.
England wicketkeeper-batter Sarah Taylor, 27, has been named in Lancashire's squad after taking a break from cricket to deal with anxiety.
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Lancashire Thunder: Kate Cross, Danielle Hazell, Sarah Taylor, Jess Jonassen (Aus), Amy Satterthwaite (NZ), Lea Tahuhu (NZ).
Loughborough Lightning: Georgia Elwiss, Amy Jones, Beth Langston, Kristen Beams (Aus), Ellyse Perry (Aus), Elyse Villani (Aus).
Southern Vipers: Tash Farrant, Danielle Wyatt, Suzie Bates (NZ), Hayley Matthews (WI), Dane van Niekerk (SA).
Surrey Stars: Tammy Beaumont, Alex Hartley, Laura Marsh, Natalie Sciver, Rene Farrell (Aus), Marizanne Kapp (SA).
Western Storm: Heather Knight, Anya Shrubsole, Fran Wilson, Rachel Priest (NZ), Stafanie Taylor (WI).
Yorkshire Diamonds: Katherine Brunt, Jenny Gunn, Lauren Winfield, Sophie Devine (NZ), Sune Luus (SA), Beth Mooney (Aus).
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Gwynedd council is a considering charging a premium on holiday homes.
Councillor Jason Humphreys, however, fears the authority will lose out as people sidestep the charge by classing their second homes as self-catering businesses.
Gwynedd said it was powerless to stop owners making the change.
Some Welsh councils have voted through hikes in council tax charges for second homes, including Anglesey and Pembrokeshire, with other councils still consulting on a change.
Since 2006, the number of self-catering units in Gwynedd has risen from 78 to 968.
Changes to the Housing (Wales) Act 2014 mean councils have the ability to charge a premium on top of the existing council tax payments for second homes from the 2017-18 financial year.
But self-catering units are classed as businesses and so their owners pay business tax to the Treasury rather than council tax.
According to the law, self-catering units have to be made available for letting for 140 days a year, and owners have to prove they have been let for at least 70 days.
Mr Humphreys, chairman of the council's corporate scrutiny committee, told the Post Cyntaf programme there was no mechanism for monitoring the situation.
He called for AMs and MPs to demand a law change to make it compulsory for anyone seeking to reclassify their holiday home as a self-catering unit to apply for planning permission.
But Peredur Jenkins, cabinet member responsible for resources, said the council had no power to stop owners from designating their properties as self-catering units.
The council previously warned the potential "loophole" could leave authorities worse off.
Mr Jenkins said Gwynedd was pressing the Welsh Government to consider changing the planning regulations to give local authorities the power to determine whether owners could re-classify their properties.
The Welsh Conservatives have criticised the second home tax as an unfair "money-spinner", with shadow local government minister Janet Finch-Saunders calling it a "spiteful wealth tax".
She said it was a "a direct tax on people with second homes, many of whom already pay twice for services they rarely use".
An estimated 23,000 homes in Wales are empty or used as second homes.
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Dozens more bodies were retrieved from the ruined eight-storey Rana Plaza on Sunday.
Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster has sparked nationwide anger.
A preliminary government investigation said this week vibrations from four generators on the upper floors triggered the collapse.
Main Uddin Khandaker, head of a government inquiry team, said the generators started up after a power cut, sending powerful vibrations throughout the building, which - together with the vibration of thousands of sewing machines - triggered the collapse.
The building had been constructed with weak materials, such as sub-standard steel rods, Mr Khandaker added, which meant it could not withstand the vibrations.
The architect of the building has said it was designed to house shops and offices rather than factories or industrial equipment, and that three floors had been illegally added to the original building.
On Sunday evening, police working at the site of the collapse in Savar, outside the capital Dhaka, put the death toll at 610.
But they would not say how many more bodies were likely to be recovered from the area.
Profile: Rana Plaza owner
Nine people have been arrested in connection with the collapse: the building's owner Mohammed Sohel Rana, his father Abdul Khalek, four owners of garment factories that operated inside the building, and three engineers.
Factory workers have held daily protests demanding improved safety regulations and calling for tough punishments for those responsible for the disaster.
But Bangladeshi Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said on Friday he did not think the collapse would have a "really serious" impact on the country's garment industry.
Steps had been taken to prevent future accidents, he added.
Bangladesh has one of the largest garment industries in the world, with factories supplying Western retailers such as Primark in the UK and Italy's United Colours of Benetton.
The EU has said it is considering "appropriate action" to encourage an improvement in working conditions in Bangladesh's factories, including the use of its trade preference system, which gives Bangladesh duty- and quota-free access to markets in member states.
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More than 600 bodies have been pulled from the rubble of a Bangladeshi clothing factory complex that collapsed last week, police say.
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Being in space weakens your muscles so the pair needed to be helped from their capsule after it landed at around 4.30am this morning.
Their 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station was twice the length of a normal stay.
Now that they're back home they'll take part in studies to learn about the effects of spaceflight on the body.
American space agency Nasa says the research will help them prepare to one day send humans to Mars.
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The US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko have returned to Earth after spending almost a year in space on board the International Space Station.
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For years the Necurs botnet has distributed junk mail and malware for many different groups of cyber-thieves.
But the amount of malicious traffic emerging from Necurs has now dwindled to almost nothing.
It is not clear what has caused the slowdown and whether traffic will return to previously high levels.
One of the first signs of the disruption was seen earlier this month when email messages spreading the Dridex banking trojan and Locky ransomware caught by security firms dried up.
Typically, millions of messages bearing these malicious programs are sent out every week, Proofpoint said in a blogpost.
However, the flood of messages "essentially stopped" last week, it said. Investigations revealed that these messages typically travelled via the Necurs botnet which was found to have gone largely offline.
The Necurs botnet is believed to be made up of about six million compromised Windows machines, many of which were enrolled when their owners inadvertently fell victim to a form of malware known as a rootkit.
Analysis of some of the machines known to be part of Necurs shows that its core administration systems have disappeared, said Proofpoint.
"Data from a variety of sources show that Necurs bots are actively looking for a new command and control (C&C) system, but we have no evidence that the Necurs botmaster has been able to retake control of the botnet."
A botnet's C&C system helps the network keep running and co-ordinates the distribution of any spam or malware being sent out via the global collection of computers.
Security researchers who monitor botnets and the groups that operate them said the cause of the shutdown remained a mystery.
"We cannot confirm how the botnet was brought down yet," Joonho Sa, a researcher for FireEye, told tech news site Motherboard.
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One of the biggest networks of spam-sending computers in the world has gone quiet, puzzling experts, internet security firms have said.
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Set in a grand retirement home for ageing musicians, Quartet marks the 75-year-old's debut as a film director.
The film has its gala screening at the London Film Festival on Monday night.
Based on Ronald Harwood's play, Quartet is set in a home for retired musicians, where old rivalries are stirred up by the arrival of former opera singer Jean Horton (Dame Maggie Smith).
She is joined in the cast by British heavyweights Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins and Michael Gambon.
But Hoffman, who says the the story is about people in their "third act", hired a supporting cast of real-life elderly performers to give his film authenticity.
"For these people the phone hadn't rung for 20, 30 or 40 years, even through they can deliver," he said on Monday.
"These people in their 70s, 80s and 90s came with such verve every day - and that in itself made this an extraordinarily special occasion for all of us."
Released in the UK in the new year, the film follows the box office success of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, another ensemble piece about a group of British pensioners in a retirement hotel in India.
"I think a lot of grown-ups would like films for grown-ups and about grown-ups," said Dame Maggie, who also starred in Marigold Hotel.
"I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much, but they always seem to be fairly successful."
The youngest member of the principal cast is Sheridan Smith, who plays the retirement home's medic, Dr Lucy Cogan.
The actress said it had been "overwhelming" to be part of the film. "I tried to be like a sponge and take it all in."
Hoffman's movie breakthrough was as Benjamin Braddock in 1967's The Graduate, for which he was Oscar nominated. He has also had nominations for Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, Tootsie and Wag the Dog.
He won the Oscar in 1979 for his role in Kramer vs Kramer and again in 1988 for Rain Man.
Asked about Hoffman's skills as a debut director, Pauline Collins said: "Dustin is a dynamo and a darling. He's one of the most inspiring and kindest directors I've ever worked for because he understands how actors work because he is one."
Explaining why it hadn't taken him so long to step behind the camera, Hoffman said: "Sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something."
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It praises the "strong leadership" of the service's new chief executive, with a turnaround in emergency response times for two months in a row.
But a letter to the deputy health minister urges progress in eight areas.
The ambulance service said it was committed to building on "the considerable good work that is already under way".
The committee held an inquiry into the ambulance service, which has only hit the target figure for responding to emergency calls once in two and a half years.
The Welsh government target is for 65% of ambulances to respond to emergency calls within eight minutes.
In February crews hit the target 51.2% of the time but last December's figures - just 42.6% - were the worst on record.
New chief executive Tracy Myhill said the latest figures were encouraging and she hoped ongoing improvement initiatives would start to bear fruit in the coming months.
Health and social care committee chairman David Rees said he acknowledged her leadership and the practical actions taken "to bring about cultural change and drive up performance".
But he insisted there needed to be "rapid and sustained improvement".
"Despite this, the committee is not yet persuaded that performance is improving quickly enough."
The committee's 10-page letter to Vaughan Gething sets out areas where progress was needed:
After summoning health bosses to explain what has been going wrong, the assembly's health and social care committee, perhaps unsurprisingly, has called for several improvements.
The committee wants ambulance bosses to make sure that enough staff are available in the right places to deal with "spikes" in demand.
Assembly members also want changes made to prevent ambulances from being "pulled away" from remote areas resulting in "clustering" around emergency departments.
A pilot project is currently underway in the Cwm Taf health board area where no vehicles are dispatched to calls outside of the Cwm Taf boundary, except for highest-priority Red 1 calls and major incidents.
The chair of the committee David Rees has told BBC Wales that if the pilot is successful in improving response times similar programmes should be adopted across Wales.
The committee has acknowledged recent progress in improving staff morale and building relationships with the unions.
Mr Rees added: "Individually, frontline ambulance service staff fulfil challenging roles to high standards and provide help and support to people in times of need, but overall the ambulance service's response time performance is not where it should be."
Mick Giannasi, chairman of the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust, said they were pleased the hard work of ambulance staff had been acknowledged.
"What is important now is that we continue to drive our change agenda with pace and energy and retain our focus on doing the right thing for patients by providing high quality emergency unscheduled care in a timely way," he added.
The Welsh government said Mr Gething would respond to the letter "in due course".
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The ambulance service in Wales is not improving quickly enough, a cross-party committee of AMs has warned.
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Turkey midfielder Turan slotted in the first goal at the Nou Camp from Messi's through pass in the 10th minute.
Barcelona goalkeeper Claudio Bravo then saved Vicente Iborra's penalty after Samuel Umtiti handled.
Turan chipped in his second shortly after the break, with Messi guiding in a sublime header for the third.
It is the first time Barcelona have won the Spanish Super Cup since 2013.
The two-legged match usually pitches the league champions against the Copa del Rey winners. However, as Luis Enrique's team won both trophies last season, Sevilla took part as Copa del Rey runners-up.
Both sides begin their La Liga season on Saturday, with champions Barcelona at home to Real Betis, while Sevilla, who finished seventh last May, host Espanyol.
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Arda Turan scored twice and Lionel Messi once as Barcelona earned a 3-0 second-leg victory over Sevilla to win the Spanish Super Cup 5-0 on aggregate.
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