Carmarthen workhouse gutted by fire

Summary: A well-known building in Carmarthenshire has been heavily damaged after a fire.

About 20 firefighters were called to the former workhouse on Brewery Road, Carmarthen, at 17:00 GMT on Friday. It was built in the 1830s and was stormed by protesters during the Rebecca Riots in 1843. Last year there were calls for the building to be saved from "rack and ruin". It continued to be used as a workhouse until the 1930s. Crews remained on the scene until after 20:30.

कार्मार्थेनशायर में एक प्रसिद्ध इमारत आग लगने के बाद बुरी तरह क्षतिग्रस्त हो गई है।


'Countless' Lake District campers sent home in lockdown

Summary: Police in the Lake District say they have had to send "countless hopeful campers" home for breaching coronavirus lockdown rules.

Activities such as camping are currently prohibited by the government rules. Police in the South Lakes said as well as breaching the rules, visitors had also damaged trees and left behind litter and human waste. "Please visit responsibly," a spokesman said, adding: "No overnight stays". The Lake District National Park Authority said the area was open to day-trippers but asked visitors to be responsible and avoid busy areas. Follow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.

लेक जिले की पुलिस का कहना है कि उन्हें कोरोनावायरस लॉकडाउन नियमों का उल्लंघन करने के लिए "अनगिनत आशावादी शिविरार्थियों" को घर भेजना पड़ा है।


When to pull the plug on old software

Summary: The evolution of digital technology can be ruthless in its speed.

By Iain MackenzieTechnology reporter, BBC News Not only does it give birth at a frightening rate; it has a nasty habit of killing its elderly relatives. Take the latest release of Apple's OS X operating system - Lion. This £21 Mac makeover adds more than 250 new features including an iPad-style app interface, wireless file sharing and a hugely expanded lexicon of finger-gnarling multi-touch gestures. But it removes Rosetta, the handy little code translation engine that enabled newer Intel-powered computers to run programs written for Apple's older machines, which were built around Motorola/IBM PowerPC chips. The result: Many owners who didn't scour the small print have found themselves unable to use some of their software. John Silk, a London-based PR consultant and blogger, considers himself to be fairly tech-savvy. Yet he fell victim to Lion. "When I tried to launch Word, Excel or Photoshop, I just got a dialog box saying the programs weren't supported," said Mr Silk. His versions of Microsoft Office and Adobe's image editing program were a few years old, but still more than adequate for producing basic documents and simple photo tinkering. "Lion might be £21, but it's going to cost me almost £300 more to get back to where I was," he said. Apple switched to Intel processors in 2006, meaning newer software had to be written for a completely different machine architecture. This massive technical change in direction could have been jarring but Rosetta cushioned the blow - granting users a few more precious years in which to say their goodbyes. Yet the end, when it came, still felt sudden and for some users, expensive. Deciding when to euthanise your own or other people's products in the name of progress is a challenge faced by all computer companies. It is a difficult balance - make the cut too early and you risk irritating customers who feel cheated that their investment is now digital junk, hang on too long and your shiny new system is hobbled by the need to accommodate ancient relics. One manufacturer that knows the perils of legacy support more than most is Microsoft. Its 10-year-old Windows XP remains the world's most popular operating system even though consumer support has now been discontinued. Lessons from history The company has gone to great lengths to ensure that applications designed for XP will still work in Windows 7, including the option to run a virtual XP environment within the new OS. However, such lessons have been hard learned. Microsoft's widely pilloried Vista operating system rendered many pieces of hardware effectively useless because manufacturers were not adequately primed to create new drivers, or were unwilling to participate in the costly driver certification programme. "It is fair to say that we learnt a great deal from the Windows Vista change," said Ian Moulster, a product manager at Microsoft UK. "It was a big jump to Vista from XP. We wanted to make sure [users] didn't have the same pain." Microsoft has no hard-and-fast rule for how long it will endeavour to ensure compatibility between its current systems and legacy software. But, Mr Moulster explained, products that work closely with the core functions of the operating system, such as anti virus and disc management applications, are more susceptible to being left behind earlier. Getting caught on the wrong side of enforced obsolescence can be annoying and costly for the home user. For businesses, the stakes are potentially much higher. Finding that a key piece of software, such as a payroll or accounting package suddenly no longer works after an upgrade could bring operations to a grinding halt. Even if an IT setup appears to be doing its job perfectly well in its current incarnation, external pressures such as changing security threats or expiring support systems make modernisation essential. No explicit warnings "In the business scenario, regulation means that you can't live with unsupported software, even though it might work. You've got all the regulatory control, risk management, etc," said Maurice Aroesti, chief executive of OCS Consulting. Software vendors say that most customers understand the need to make changes and are usually happy about it, as long as they are kept well informed and given plenty of advance warning. Surprises would be bad for business, according to Ian Tufts, head of R&D in the small business division at Sage, which provides a range of business management applications to six million customers globally. "We have a policy and formal procedure for dealing with the communication of [obsolescence] with our customers and it generally tends to be around about two years before we would withdraw support," he said. Sage also supports its packages for at least five generations prior to the current version, ensuring that users know what is coming well in advance. Where Apple incurred the wrath of some users was, perhaps, not the withdrawal of Rosetta, but the fact that it happened in such a low-key way. For those downloading the Lion update, there were no explicit warnings. Innovations could help "There's no physical reason why it couldn't have included Rosetta in Lion, except Apple decided it's time to draw a line and people need to move on," said James Holland, a technology writer for the website ElectricPig.co.uk. While he appreciates the company's drive to innovate, Mr Holland believes that it could have done a better job flagging up the Rosetta issue. "Windows PCs can literally be cobbled together by a man in a shed so Microsoft has a job on their hands catering for all the variants," he said. "Apple is lucky in that it makes the hardware and the software. It should therefore be able to see where the likely holes are." Ironically, it is possible that new innovations could help mitigate the problem of upgrade obsolescence in future. Cloud-based software should, theoretically, be less susceptible to changes to operating systems or other installed software components. Because applications such as Google Docs are platform neutral, their functionality is not affected by the base OS or other local factors, barring the odd web browser compatibility issue. And the sophistication of cloud computing is quickly progressing beyond word processors and spreadsheets. Adobe now offers a web-based version of its Photoshop Express image editor, containing many of the most commonly used application features. Faster internet connections and more powerful processors - both in data centres and home computers - will open the possibility of high-end applications, such as video editing, being run in the same way. For business too, the intermeshing of hardware, OS and software should become less of an issue. "When you take that kind of approach it really decouples the application from the operating system and mitigates a lot of those problems that customers often have when those sort of things are intertwined," said Patrick Irwin, a product manager at Citrix. However, cloud computing may not end all upgrade compatibility headaches. The ability to seamlessly push out new versions of an application, without the user even needing to update is fine for free software such as Google's app suite, or for open source platforms. But business is business, and planned obsolescence serves another purpose. It drives customer spending. Even if the technical hurdles are overcome, software makers will want to retain the ultimate sanction for reluctant upgraders who refuse to reach into their wallets. Apple was contacted and given the opportunity to take part in this article, but did not respond.

डिजिटल प्रौद्योगिकी का विकास इसकी गति में निर्दयी हो सकता है।


My SMS relationship with al-Shabab

Summary: Al-Shabab, the militant Islamist group operating in Somalia and Kenya, likes to communicate with journalists by SMS. But receiving their text messages and talking to them on the phone can be an unnerving, and at times surreal, experience.

By Mary HarperBBC News The other morning I woke up to a text message and missed call from al-Shabab. As always, the message was written in perfect English. It informed me about a film al-Shabab has made called Beyond the Shadows. It said the film gave an "accurate portrayal" of what happened when French commandoes last year tried - and failed - to rescue a suspected French intelligence agent held hostage by the group. A few days later I got another call from al-Shabab. The clear, relaxed voice on the other end of the phone told me I was about to receive a text message about the group's role in the killing of a senior police official in Somalia earlier that day. Sure enough, a few seconds later the text message arrived. Then came a second call to confirm I had indeed received the message. This is the usual pattern. A call, a text message, then another call to check the message - or the SMS press release, as al-Shabab calls it - has arrived. Scrolling through these messages on my phone, I can chart the history of al-Shabab attacks. Many of the recent ones are in Kenya. One five-part message, written in the style of a news agency report, claims responsibility for an attack on a restaurant in Djibouti popular with foreigners (or, as al-Shabab calls them, "Western crusaders"). I have seen al-Shabab's violence at close hand. Earlier this year, I was just a few buildings down from the Jazeera Palace Hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, when it was attacked, first by one suicide car bomber, then another, who waited for the emergency services to arrive before driving his vehicle into them and the hotel to ensure maximum casualties. The blasts from the exploding cars were huge. Bullets cracked down the street as the security forces tried to beat back al-Shabab fighters who had come - in a minibus, I was told - to try and storm the hotel. In the middle of all this, the main target of the attack - a senior security official - came with his entourage to the place where I was. We set up a circle of chairs for them, and they sat there like statues, in stunned, stony silence. I sometimes find it difficult to relate these acts of extreme and terrifying violence to the calm, measured voice of the al-Shabab official on the other end of the phone - to the precise, clinical wording of those text messages. What started as brief calls about particular attacks have over time developed into longer, wider discussions about the movement's practices and philosophies. Sometimes there is room for debate. But when I ask about certain subjects - the treatment of spies or adulterers for example - the tone of voice changes. It becomes cold and mechanical, as if the words are learned by rote. I had the conversation about spies one lazy Sunday morning when I was still in bed. I got a call from al-Shabab, and as I sat in my safe, comfortable bedroom, I heard the voice say: "If you are found guilty of spying, there is only one punishment. You will face the firing squad in a public place. Everybody must witness the killing of a spy. The spy must receive three, four or five bullets to the head." But perhaps the strangest conversation I had was one sunny day outside the Houses of Parliament in London. I was due to attend an event there but as I was early, I was sitting in a park outside, in the shade of those grand buildings. My phone rang. I saw the words al-Shabab flash on to my screen. What started as an update on the latest attack on the Kenyan coast ended up as a lecture about my faith. "Have you thought about the afterlife?" asked the official. "You know, Mary, you won't be around in 20, 30, 40 years' time. I seriously recommend you consider converting to Islam," he added. This man seemed genuinely concerned, as he urged me in a gentle voice to take up the Muslim faith. All the time, images of people I know or have known, who have been caught up in al-Shabab attacks, flashed before my eyes. Some of them are now dead. Others have suffered horrific physical injuries, like a politician I met whose body was ripped apart in an explosion. His black skin is now mottled with raw, angry, bright pink scars. He can't hear anything now because of the damage the blast did to his ears. Others don't bear any physical scars but jump every time they hear a bang, even if it's just a door. They shudder when they walk past a parked car in Mogadishu, afraid it might explode. Their hearts miss a beat whenever someone they don't know approaches them for fear they might be a suicide bomber. They, like me, have received texts from al-Shabab, only the nature of the messages is very different, as they often contain death threats. I never quite know when I am going to receive the next message from al-Shabab. I might be on holiday with family, having supper with friends, when all of a sudden, a text message will burst on to my screen, bringing two very different worlds into sharp collision. How to listen to From Our Own Correspondent: BBC Radio 4: Saturdays at 11:30 Listen online or download the podcast. BBC World Service: Short editions Monday-Friday - see World Service programme schedule. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

सोमालिया और केन्या में सक्रिय आतंकवादी इस्लामी समूह अल-शबाब, पत्रकारों के साथ एस. एम. एस. के माध्यम से संवाद करना पसंद करता है। लेकिन उनके लिखित संदेश प्राप्त करना और उनसे फोन पर बात करना एक परेशान करने वाला और कभी-कभी वास्तविक अनुभव हो सकता है।


How fake news and hoaxes have tried to derail Jakarta's election

Summary: In Indonesia, the rise of fake news, hoaxes, and misleading information online has cast a pall over an already bitterly divided election in the capital, Jakarta. BBC Indonesian's Christine Franciska looks at why activists are describing this as a dark era in Indonesia's digital life.

It is impossible to explain Jakarta's election without first introducing Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, or Ahok, who stepped up in 2014 when then-governor Joko Widodo became president. Mr Purnama is the first Christian and ethnic Chinese leader of the Muslim-majority city in more than 50 years, and now is running for another term. He was seen as the favourite to win - and for some, as a potential future president - until he was charged with blasphemy in late 2016, a criminal offence in Indonesia. Despite mass protests against him, Mr Purnama led the election's first round in February but without enough votes to secure the job outright, so a second round will be held on 19 April. His opponent is a former education minister and Islamic conservative Anies Rasyid Baswedan, who has gone from being the most unpopular candidate to the strongest contender, according to recent polls. The blasphemy case testing Indonesia's very identity It is an election divided not just by politics but by religion too and of all things, hoaxes have put a potent edge on these tensions. "We recorded that there are more than 1,900 alleged-hoax reports in recent three months," said Khairul Ashar, a co-founder of Turn Back Hoax - a crowd-sourced digital initiative where they collected and debunked hoaxes spreading in social media. "More than 1,000 reports have been confirmed as hoaxes. Most of these are about politics, mainly about Jakarta's gubernatorial election. And religious issues play a big role," said Mr Ashar, who lives in Singapore. Alternative facts The recent visit of Saudi Arabia's king is one of the examples of how the truth was reversed in the online imagination. This picture of Mr Purnama shaking hands with King Salman when he arrived in Jakarta early March was condemned as false on social media even though it was captured by the Indonesian president's official photographer. King Salman is widely praised in Indonesia as an Islamic role model, so this photo would be seen as a great boost for Mr Purnama. But groups opposed to him said, "This news is hoax, because it is haram for a king to shake hands with the blasphemer of Islam." One Facebook user even posted a long analysis explaining how it was a fake story. Some did retaliate: "You have (official) picture, and also an (official) video (of them shaking hands), but still people thought it was fake. Your life is a hoax." Recently, President Joko Widodo inaugurated the first city-owned grand mosque in Jakarta, but some people argued it looked like a cross, and then proceeded to accuse Mr Purnama of "Christianisation". Mr Purnama's opponent has also been smeared by hoaxes and launched an anti-hoax website to counter it called fitnahlagi.com (which translates as defamed again). There were also fake posters spread online saying: "If Mr Baswedan loses the election, there will be Muslim Revolution" with provocative pictures of men wearing white clothes and holding swords. 'The dark age' This is a big concern for IT activists. "We must change our campaign narrative now," said Matahari Timoer, one of the members of Jakarta-based Internet watchdog ICT Watch. "It used to be 'think before share', but now we urge people to 'do your part'." He was talking about their campaign battling the danger of hoaxes and he says there is an urgent need for the "silent majority to speak up and raise their voice on social media." "Our digital life has entered a dark age, that is why we need people to do their part as a lantern to light up, and fight this dark period," he said. As a former member of a Muslim radical group he understands what's at stake - a rising religious intolerance dividing a nation. Indonesian President Joko Widodo even declared a war against "fake news" late last year. There are more than 40,000 websites claiming to be news sites, but most of them are not registered, said the Press Council, who has launched an online media verification system to filter fake news. Recently, the communications and information ministry urged Twitter and Facebook to combat hoaxes on their own platform. But many believe those efforts are not enough. Mr Timoer underlined what people called dark social media: WhatsApp groups and Telegram's secret groups, more intimate and influential. So could fake news really influence the final round of Jakarta's election? "It will affect emotional voters. They persist with what they choose based on information related to religion and ethnicity," said Mr Timoer. But he thinks it will only have a small impact in the end. Mr Ashar thinks differently. He believes the threat behind these hoaxes goes way beyond Jakarta's political battle. "Some groups want to change philosophical foundation of the country, and in the name of freedom of speech they use hoaxes in social media to gain followers," said Mr Anshar. All the activists know that even after this election is over, the hoaxes will continue their battle for the hearts and minds of Indonesia's public.

इंडोनेशिया में, नकली समाचारों, धोखाधड़ी और ऑनलाइन भ्रामक जानकारी के उदय ने राजधानी जकार्ता में पहले से ही कड़वे रूप से विभाजित चुनाव पर असर डाला है। बीबीसी इंडोनेशियाई की क्रिस्टीन फ़्रांसिस्का इस बात पर गौर करती हैं कि कार्यकर्ता इसे इंडोनेशिया के डिजिटल जीवन में एक काले युग के रूप में क्यों वर्णित कर रहे हैं।


'Suffrajitsu': How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts

Summary: The film Suffragette, which is due for release, portrays the struggle by British women to win the vote. They were exposed to violence and intimidation as their campaign became more militant. So they taught themselves the martial art of jiu-jitsu.

By Camila Ruz & Justin ParkinsonBBC News Magazine Edith Garrud was a tiny woman. Measuring 4ft 11in (150cm) in height she appeared no match for the officers of the Metropolitan Police - required to be at least 5ft 10in (178cm) tall at the time. But she had a secret weapon. In the run-up to World War One, Garrud became a jiu-jitsu instructor to the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), better known as the suffragettes, taking part in an increasingly violent campaign for votes for women. Sick of the lack of progress, they resorted to civil disobedience, marches and illegal activities including assault and arson. The struggle in the years before the war became increasingly bitter. Women were arrested and, when they went on hunger strike, were force-fed using rubber tubes. While out on marches, many complained of being manhandled and knocked to the ground. Things took a darker turn after "Black Friday" on 18 November 1910. A group of around 300 suffragettes met a wall of policemen outside Parliament. Heavily outnumbered, the women were assaulted by both police and male vigilantes in the crowd. Many sustained serious injuries and two women died as a result. More than 100 suffragettes were arrested. "A lot said they had been groped by the police and male bystanders," says Elizabeth Crawford, author of The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide. "After that, women didn't go to these demonstrations unprepared." Some started putting cardboard over their ribs for protection. But Garrud was already teaching the WSPU to fight back. Her chosen method was the ancient Japanese martial art of jiu-jitsu. It emphasised using the attacker's force against them, channelling their momentum and targeting their pressure points. The first connection between the suffragettes and jiu-jitsu was made at a WSPU meeting. Garrud and her husband William, who ran a martial arts school in London's Golden Square together, had been booked to attend. But William was ill, so she went alone. "Edith normally did the demonstrating, while William did the speaking," says Tony Wolf, writer of Suffrajitsu, a trilogy of graphic novels about this aspect of the suffragette movement. "But the story goes that the WSPU's leader, Emmeline Pankhurst, encouraged Edith to do the talking for once, which she did." Garrud began teaching some of the suffragettes. "At that time it was more about defending themselves against angry hecklers in the audience who got on stage, rather than police," says Wolf. "There had been several attempted assaults." By about 1910 she was regularly running suffragette-only classes and had written for the WSPU's newspaper, Votes for Women. Her article stressed the suitability of jiu-jitsu for the situation in which the WSPU found itself - that is, having to deal with a larger, more powerful force in the shape of the police and government. The press noticed. Health and Strength magazine printed a satirical article called "Jiu-jitsuffragettes". Punch magazine showed a cartoon of Garrud standing alone against several policemen, entitled "The suffragette that knew jiu-jitsu". The term "suffrajitsu" soon came into common use. "They wouldn't have expected in those days that women could respond physically to that kind of action, let alone put up effective resistance," says Martin Dixon, chairman of the British Jiu-Jitsu Association. "It was an ideal way for them to handle being grabbed while in a crowd situation." The Pankhursts agreed and encouraged all suffragettes to learn the martial art. "The police know jiu-jitsu. I advise you to learn jiu-jitsu. Women should practice it as well as men," said Sylvia Pankhurst, daughter of Emmeline, in a 1913 speech. As the years went on, confrontations between police and suffragettes became more intense. The so-called Cat and Mouse Act in 1913 allowed hunger-striking prisoners to be released and then re-incarcerated as soon as they had recovered their health. "The WSPU felt that as Mrs Pankhurst had such a vital role to play as motivator and figurehead for the organisation that she was too important to be recaptured," says Emelyne Godfrey, author of Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society. She needed protectors so Garrud formed a group called The Bodyguard. It consisted of up to 30 women who undertook "dangerous duties," explains Godfrey. "Sometimes all they would get would be a phone call and instructions to follow a particular car." The Bodyguard, nicknamed "Amazons" by the press, armed themselves with clubs hidden in their dresses. They came in handy during a famous confrontation known as the "Battle of Glasgow" in early 1914. The Bodyguard travelled overnight from London by train, their concealed clubs making the journey uncomfortable. A crowd was waiting to see Emmeline Pankhurst speak at St Andrew's Hall. But police had surrounded it, hoping to catch her. Pankhurst evaded them on her way in by buying a ticket and pretending to be a spectator. The Bodyguard then got into position, sitting on a semi-circle of chairs behind the speaker's podium. Suddenly Pankhurst appeared and started speaking. She did so for half a minute before police tried to storm the stage. But they became caught on barbed wire hidden in bouquets. "So about 30 suffragettes and 50 police were involved in a brawl on stage in front of 4,000 people for several minutes," says Wolf. Eventually police overwhelmed The Bodyguard and Pankhurst was once again arrested. But the difficulty they had in dragging her away showed just how effective her guards had become. Garrud did not just teach them physical skills. They had also learnt to trick their opponents. In 1914, Emmeline Pankhurst gave a speech from a balcony in Camden Square. When she emerged from the house in a veil, escorted by members of The Bodyguard, the police swooped in. Despite a fierce fight she was knocked to the ground and dragged away unconscious. But when the police triumphantly unveiled her, they realised she was a decoy. The real Pankhurst had been smuggled out in the commotion. The emphasis on skill to defeat and outwit a larger opponent was what first impressed Garrud about jiu-jitsu. She came across it when her husband William attended a martial arts exhibition in 1899 and started taking lessons. Women's suffrage - a brief timeline BBC iWonder: Beyond suffrage - how did women battle their way into Parliament? Garrud was soon teaching it herself and became one of the first female martial art instructors in the West. In exhibitions, she would wear a red gown and invite a martial arts enthusiast dressed as a policeman to attack her. "As far as the suffragettes were concerned, she was very much in the right place at the right time," says Wolf. "Jiu-jitsu had become something of a society trend, with women hosting jiu-jitsu parties, where they and their friends underwent instruction." Garrud and her jiu-jitsu students continued their fight for the vote until a bigger battle engulfed them all. At the outbreak of WW1, the suffragettes concentrated on helping the war effort. At the end of the war, in 1918, the Representation of the People Act was finally passed. More than eight million women in the UK were given the vote. But women would not get the same voting rights as men until 1928. As time passed, The Bodyguard and their trainer began to be forgotten. "It was the leaders that wrote the books and set the history," explains Crawford. The stories of those who helped them were less likely to be recorded. Edith Garrud does not feature in the new film but one of its stars, Helena Bonham Carter, has paid her own tribute by changing her character's name from Caroline to Edith in her honour. She was "an amazing woman" whose fighting method was not about brute force, Bonham Carter has said. "It was about skill." It was this skill that helped the suffragettes take on powerful opponents. As Garrud recalled in an interview in 1965, a policeman once tried to prevent her from protesting outside Parliament. "Now then, move on, you can't start causing an obstruction here," he said. "Excuse me, it is you who are making an obstruction," she replied, and tossed him over her shoulder. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.

फिल्म सफ़राजेट, जो रिलीज़ होने वाली है, वोट जीतने के लिए ब्रिटिश महिलाओं के संघर्ष को चित्रित करती है। उनका अभियान अधिक उग्रवादी होने पर उन्हें हिंसा और धमकी का सामना करना पड़ा। इसलिए उन्होंने खुद को जिउ-जित्सु की युद्ध कला सिखाई।


Police: Body in York's River Foss 'not suspicious'

Summary: The death of a man in York is not being treated as suspicious, police have said.

A 20-year-old local man's body was pulled from the River Foss in the city on Wednesday night. Underwater searches were carried out after a member of the public reported seeing a man in the water near Merchant Hall in the Piccadilly area. Police said they were not in a position to identify the man until his family were informed of his death.

पुलिस ने कहा है कि यॉर्क में एक व्यक्ति की मौत को संदिग्ध नहीं माना जा रहा है।


Norway killings: 'I could smell the blood'

Summary: Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has said his country will "not be intimidated or threatened" by Friday's bomb and gun attacks. Tuva Elise Akersveen Bo survived the shootings on Utoeya island and shared her story with the BBC.

"I've been to the camp in Utoeya twice, so this was my third time. It was supposed to be fun - I was looking forward to it. Then this happened. When we first heard the shooting, we ran to the window. My friends and I looked outside and a man dressed in a police uniform yelled: "Get away from the windows, get in the hall." I panicked and lay on the ground. I then heard the shots in the hall. I got up and saw his face and that image of him was imprinted on my mind - I see it all the time. He shot the boy in front of him and started reloading. I was just staring at him until my friend grabbed my arm and dragged me down. For a moment we started laughing, out of shock. Then another friend ran in and shouted at us to run. I was frustrated and shouted: "I don't have shoes". I don't know why I said that. Then my friend shook me and I thought "screw it" and we ran outside. We then decided we needed to make a plan about where we were going to run. My friend and I took charge and shouted out a plan to about 50 people: we would go towards the woods. As we were running, we ran into the woods and saw a boy who was shot in his leg. We didn't stop and I feel so guilty about that now. We ran for 10 minutes and then hid in long grass. We took our colourful clothes off so he wouldn't see us and we turned our phones on silent. There was an eight-year-old boy with us - I felt so sorry for him. He should be playing, I thought, not running away. Every time we started running, we dispersed and lost members of the group. Some went in different directions, others at the back got shot. In the end, I was with two friends. We went to the back of the building, ran inside and locked ourselves in a room. We hid under bunk beds. It was then that I realised that my hip was dislocated and my feet were all cut from running on rocks. I hadn't even felt the pain before. For two hours we were texting people we loved, our families and friends, saying that if something happened we loved them and we'd remember them. We were almost saying goodbye. Mixed feelings In the end a friend rang us and told us the police had arrived. When we were sure it was her, we told her where we were and the police got us. When we walked past dead bodies, the police told us to look the other way. But I couldn't help it. I looked each time, and saw dead people, shot in their backs as they were crawling into their tents. Others were still holding their mobile phones. There was so much blood, I could smell it. Finally I met with some friends and we cried. We had mixed feelings: everyone was extraordinarily happy because they had survived but also devastated because many of us were dead. Sondre, my very very good friend, was missing. I loved that boy with all my heart. I met him in the camp last year - Utoeya is the reason why I found him and now I fear it's the reason why I lost him. I'm going to go back to Utoeya next year. I want to show that horrible person that he can't hurt us anymore."

नॉर्वे के प्रधान मंत्री जेन्स स्टोल्टेनबर्ग ने कहा है कि उनका देश शुक्रवार के बम और बंदूक हमलों से "भयभीत या भयभीत नहीं होगा"। तुवा एलिस अकर्सवीन बो उटोया द्वीप पर गोलीबारी से बच गई और बीबीसी के साथ अपनी कहानी साझा की।


April Jones's killer Mark Bridger a 'liar and fantasist'

Summary: Mark Bridger is an evil and manipulative individual who clearly likes to be in control. He has committed the most horrific of crimes - the abduction and murder of a young, vulnerable girl. He appears to be somebody who is a fantasist.

That is the summation of Bridger - convicted of murdering five-year-old April Jones - by Det Supt Andrew John, the detective charged with solving her abduction and death. Minutes after luring April from outside her family home in Machynlleth, Powys, on 1 October 2012, his actions sparked the biggest missing person hunt in British policing history. But the man at the centre of the storm remained largely a mystery until his true nature was laid bare during the five-week murder trial at Mold Crown Court. Bridger, 47, arrived at the mid-Wales town some 20 years before the events of that fateful autumn night. He was born on 6 November 1965 in Sutton, Surrey, the second of three children, and grew into a strong man, described as of "very big build" and over 6ft tall. Accounts from people with whom he worked in Machynlleth variously described him as "sociable", "hard-working" and "charismatic". Others remarked on his apparent obsession with the military, and his claims to be a former army bomb disposal expert who had changed his identity to protect himself from IRA retaliation, and a serving member of the SAS. Indeed, when interviewed by police over April's disappearance he told them how he had "excelled" during his military service. But that was complete fantasy. Bridger had never joined the army. In fact, far from having a distinguished military career, the court was told that as a teenager Bridger had been in trouble with the police. Later, senior detectives pointed out he did not have the criminal past they would have expected from a predatory paedophile. He had pleaded guilty to offences including possession of a firearm, having an imitation firearm with intent to commit an offence and theft when he was about 19. In the early 1990s, he was also convicted of criminal damage, affray and driving with no insurance. In 1984, when he was 20, he became a firefighter in London. Within six months, he had quit due to "personal problems". He told the jury how it was around the time he had split up with his partner, soon after the birth of their son. It was at this point that Bridger turned his attentions to Wales. He knew south Wales because his grandmother lived there. "I had bought some camping equipment and survival equipment. I lived on the beach for a couple of months," he told the court. He said he lived in places including Porthmadog, Blaenau Ffestiniog and Bala in Gwynedd, where he had a variety of jobs, including bar work, being a chef, a waiter, a car recovery mechanic and a forestry worker. After living in several locations, he finally settled in Machynlleth - a small town of some 2,100 people. Once there he worked in a variety of jobs - kitchen assistant in a local hotel, as a welder and helping to renovate a local guest house, lifeguard and more latterly a slaughterman in an abattoir. This knowledge of how to handle knives was brought up in evidence when the jury heard in the prosecution's opening speech that a number of knives were found near a wood burner in his home in Ceinws, with bloodstains containing April's DNA nearby. Prosecuting counsel Elwen Evans QC said: "The defendant was an experienced slaughterman who knew how to use knives professionally." Away from work, Bridger's personal life was complicated. He had six children with a number of women and just days before he murdered April, he had split with his latest girlfriend and was upset about it. He claimed he had turned to drink after relationship break-ups and had been on anti-depressants on and off for 12 years. The attention of women was clearly important to Bridger as his trial was told that hours before he took April, he contacted three other women via Facebook asking if they wanted to meet, "no strings attached". April's head teacher, Gwenfair Glyn, provided an insight into the relationships he formed when she gave evidence at his trial. She told how he had had a history of relationships with young mothers and there were "complex relationships between a number of these families". She had spoken to Bridger at a parents' evening just a couple of hours before he took April, where she had seen him talking to a former pupil now in secondary school, which she found "strange". Describing his character, Ms Glyn told the murder trial: "Mr Bridger was always confident, courteous and charming. He often appeared charismatic, even." It matched the view of others who had found him sociable and outgoing. 'Risk-taker' Even April's father, Paul Jones, had remembered him as a "pleasant bloke". The two knew one another in the early 1990s when they had dated sisters. He remembered Bridger as a "risk-taker" who "drove like a maniac". He told how he had loaned Bridger a book on SAS survival skills which he would not return, claiming to have lost it. Mr Jones later found it during a visit to Bridger's house and took it back. But it was only when police seized Bridger's computer that the sordid, hidden nature of the man was revealed. He had computer folders filled with images of child sex abuse, graphic depictions of rape, and pictures of previous young murder victims, including Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, both 10, from Soham, and 13-year-old Caroline Dickinson who was raped and murdered in a French hostel during a school trip. Among his collection were dozens of pictures taken from social media of local young girls, including April and her older half-sisters, one of whom he had asked to become his Facebook friend despite not knowing her personally. April's mother Coral had warned her not to accept. As Bridger's behaviour in the hours before April's abduction became more predatory, the court heard how he made an approach to a 10-year-old girl, playing near to where April was last seen. He invited her to a sleepover with his daughter but no arrangements were finalised. Not long afterwards, April's mother, Coral, made her frantic 999 call. Shock that Bridger, a seemingly courteous and charming man, was responsible has resonated throughout the community. From the close-knit community of just 2,100 people, the sense of betrayal from the wolf hiding in open view in their midst has been profound.

मार्क ब्रिजर एक दुष्ट और चालाक व्यक्ति है जो स्पष्ट रूप से नियंत्रण में रहना पसंद करता है। उसने सबसे भयानक अपराध किए हैं-एक युवा, कमजोर लड़की का अपहरण और हत्या। वह किसी ऐसे व्यक्ति के रूप में दिखाई देता है जो एक कल्पनावादी है।


Man denies attempted murder and rape in Ilkeston

Summary: A man has denied raping and attempting to murder a woman who was attacked after getting off a night bus.

The attack happened in Queens Avenue, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, in the early hours of 26 November. Anthony Dealey, of Erewash Square, Ilkeston, was arrested and charged in April. The 42-year-old has also denied robbery and sexual assault. He will stand trial at Derby Crown Court in the week commencing Monday 17 September. Follow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, or on Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.

एक आदमी ने एक महिला के साथ बलात्कार और हत्या का प्रयास करने से इनकार किया है, जिस पर रात की बस से उतरने के बाद हमला किया गया था।


Pope Francis faces twin battle in Church split over sexual abuse

Summary: The crowds are quieter than they used to be. At the Pope's weekly audience in St Peter's Square, tourists and pilgrims barely filled half the piazza. It was easy to get to the front of the crowd to watch Francis go by in his Popemobile.

By James ReynoldsBBC News, Rome In his address, he reflected on his recent trip to Ireland. "The meeting with eight survivors [of abuse by priests] left a deep impact," he said. The audience was a sombre reminder that the novelty of this papacy has given way to two main battles, which are now tangled into one. Who is challenging the Pope? The first of these battles puts the Pope up against those who accuse him of not doing enough to tackle child abuse in the Church. Francis's opponents are an ad hoc coalition of abuse survivors, angry Catholics, and secular leaders who believe that the Church has too much unchecked power. The second battle sees the Pope fighting conservative Catholic critics who accuse him of diluting their faith. These critics began their fight shortly after Francis was elected in 2013. In particular, they object to his moves to allow divorced and remarried Catholics to take Communion. They are now adopting the subject of the first battle - child abuse - as a new front in their own long offensive. The two battles come together in the 11-page statement released by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano on 26 August. In the statement, the archbishop accused the Pope of failing to act in 2013 on allegations that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick had abused minors. The Pope's supporters vehemently question the credibility of this accusation. The archbishop's letter also made broader, conservative attacks on the way the Church is run. "The homosexual networks present in the Church must be eradicated," Archbishop Vigano wrote. "These homosexual networks… act under the concealment of secrecy and lie with the power of octopus tentacles, and strangle innocent victims and priestly vocations, and are strangling the entire Church." 'A trap to catch Pope' To some Vatican-watchers, these accusations sound familiar. "At the heart of it all is this animus against the Pope," says Robert Mickens, English-language editor of La Croix International. "Vigano is kind of a strange character in this case because it's really a whole group of people. What is the motive behind this? To bring down Pope Francis in any way possible. They're trying to catch him in a trap. And Francis is not falling for it." But another group of conservative journalists in Rome gives voice to much of the dissatisfaction with Pope Francis. Edward Pentin, from the National Catholic Register, published the Vigano statement. He denies being part of an orchestrated campaign to bring down the Pope. "I don't think there's any such organised campaign, but there has long been a growing and deep sense of concern and even anger about this pontificate among many practising Catholics," he says. "They are particularly frustrated because they are trying to uphold the Church's teaching and morals but are not feeling well served by the Pope and much of the hierarchy. "They sense this especially now, with questionable innovative teachings coming from the Vatican and reports of abuse cover up at the highest levels. I believe these Catholics' voices should be heard, and, as a Catholic journalist, I see it as my job to try to make sure they are." Those voices include a number of cardinals. In 2016, four of them wrote to Francis calling on him to clarify his teaching. It was seen as a highly unusual act of protest or even disobedience. Their letter, openly questioning the Pope's judgement, foreshadowed the statement released by Archbishop Vigano. Will Pope succeed? Francis did not reply to the cardinals' letter. Nor has he replied to Carlo Maria Vigano's accusations. The Pope has clearly decided that there is nothing to be gained by engaging in open battle with conservative critics. "He is no pushover," says Robert Mickens. "He is standing his ground." Popes can expect to find themselves taking on dissident factions within the Church. In 1988, Pope John Paul II took the dramatic step of excommunicating some members of a renegade religious society led by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre which had rejected Vatican reforms. Benedict XVI took a strict line against priests who strayed from official teaching. The fight against doctrinal opponents may be the easier of Francis's two battles. The Pope's wider public fight to convince the other critics inside and outside the Church that he is capable of confronting the institution's legacy of clerical sexual abuse may be much more difficult.

भीड़ पहले की तुलना में शांत है। सेंट पीटर्स स्क्वायर में पोप के साप्ताहिक दर्शकों में, पर्यटकों और तीर्थयात्रियों ने मुश्किल से आधे हिस्से को भर दिया। फ्रांसिस को अपने पॉपमोबाइल में जाते देखने के लिए भीड़ के सामने पहुंचना आसान था।


Northampton murder inquiry: Three more arrests

Summary: Three more people have been arrested as part of a murder inquiry following the death of a 23-year-old man at a block of flats.

Officers were called to Cordwainer House sheltered housing in Byfield Road, Northampton, on Friday after reports of a "disturbance". Three men from the Northampton area, aged 19, 20 and 21, have now been arrested and are being questioned. Seven other people, arrested earlier, have been released. They have been told no further action will be taken against them. A cordon remains in place at Cordwainer House and police continue to conduct high visibility patrols in the area. Witnesses or anyone with information is asked to call Northamptonshire Police.

फ्लैटों के एक ब्लॉक में 23 वर्षीय व्यक्ति की मौत के बाद हत्या की जांच के तहत तीन और लोगों को गिरफ्तार किया गया है।


Former Royal Marine dies in Angus bicycle crash

Summary: A man has died in a bicycle crash in Angus.

Tansy Lee, 61, a former Royal Marine from Auchmithie near Arbroath, was pronounced dead at the scene on Friday. Police were called to the incident outside the Auchmithie School House at 07:30. Sgt William Strachan said inquiries into the circumstances were ongoing but officers were not looking for any additional vehicles or people in connection with the incident. The road will remain closed while the investigation continues. A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.

एंगस में साइकिल दुर्घटना में एक व्यक्ति की मौत हो गई है।


Belfast City Council proposes Irish language officer in consultation

Summary: Belfast City Council is asking the public to share their thoughts on how best to incorporate Irish, Ulster-Scots and other minority languages into its daily business.

A consultation starts on Tuesday and runs for eight weeks. It proposes the appointment of an Irish language officer, as well as policies centred on the promotion of Ulster-Scots and other minority languages. Dr Lorraine Dennis from the council said diversity needed to be recognised. "There's actually 70 different languages spoken in the city of Belfast," she said. At the weekend, thousands of Irish language activists attended a march and rally in Belfast. They called for the introduction of laws which would give Irish equal status with English. They walked along the Falls Road into the city centre, before holding a rally in front of Belfast City Hall, home to the council's debating chamber.

बेलफास्ट सिटी काउंसिल जनता से आयरिश, अल्स्टर-स्कॉट्स और अन्य अल्पसंख्यक भाषाओं को अपने दैनिक व्यवसाय में शामिल करने के बारे में अपने विचार साझा करने के लिए कह रही है।


Coronavirus: Is this textile city set to be 'India's Italy'?

Summary: Around 05:00 local time (23:30 GMT) of 8 March, the intensive care unit of a private hospital in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan received a 52-year-old man suffering from pneumonia. He was also having problems breathing.

Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent At the Brijesh Bangar Memorial Hospital in Bhilwara, the new patient was examined by 58-year-old Alok Mittal, a doctor of internal medicine, and his team. The patient wasn't asked about any travel history; nor did he disclose anything. There were six other patients in the ICU. The man's condition did not improve much, and two days later, he was sent to a private hospital in Jaipur, some 250km (155 miles) away, for specialised treatment. In Jaipur, he was treated in two hospitals. "We had no idea what was in store," Shantilal Acharya, an intensive care nurse who received the patient in the Bhilwara hospital, told me. For reasons that are still unclear, even the hospitals in Jaipur didn't test a patient with severe pneumonia for coronavirus. His condition deteriorated swiftly and he died a few days later, on 13 March. The news of his death was conveyed to Dr Mittal and his team. Strangely enough, the doctors didn't appear to comprehend the gravity of the situation even though it was clear that India was facing an imminent outbreak of Covid-19. The country has reported more than 460 confirmed cases and nine deaths so far, and testing remains low. On 9 March, according to reports, Dr Mittal and a few others travelled to the city of Udaipur, put up in a resort and played Holi, the Indian spring festival of colours. (Repeated attempts at getting through to Dr Mittal by phone and text yielded no results.) Days after the death of the pneumonia patient, Dr Mittal and a colleague checked themselves into an isolation ward of a government hospital. Over the next few days, a few more colleagues from the hospital joined them in isolation. Twelve of them, including Dr Mittal, tested positive for Covid-19. As news of the infections leaked, all hell broke loose. The private hospital was popular with its residents, and many regularly visited its thriving out-patient department for treatment. As people panicked and began blaming the doctors for spreading the infection, authorities moved swiftly. They imposed a "civil curfew", prohibiting people from coming out of their homes and banning public gatherings. They shut schools, colleges, offices, and stopped people from leaving or entering the district. The private hospital was sealed and its 88 patients moved to other healthcare facilities in the area. "Officials were telling us the threat was serious and there was a chance of an outbreak," local journalist Pramod Tiwari told me. So Bhilwara, fearing a serious outbreak, did everything that India did a few days later. So could this city of 400,000 people and a major textile making hub, turn out to be India's first coronavirus "hotspot"? Consider this. Of the 69 people tested in the city until Sunday evening, 13 people - including doctors and paramedics - aged between 24 and 58, have tested positive. They include three doctors and nine health workers. Thirty-one people - mostly hospital workers - are in isolation. "Most of them are doing fine," Dr Arun Gaur, the chief medical officer of the district, told me. But things could get really bad. Between 20 February and before going into isolation last week, Dr Mittal and his team of doctors at the hospital saw 6,192 patients who came from 13 districts of Rajasthan and 39 patients belonging to four other states. Drawing from the experience in China and Italy, doctors now know that hospitals might turn out to be the "main source" of Covid-19 transmission. Also, both MERS and SARS had high transmission rates within hospitals. The potential for community transmission of the infection across a large geographical area from the Bhilwara hospital is real, officials fear. So did the virus reach this city through the patient who was treated at three hospitals and went untested before he died? Or did one of the more than 80 patients admitted in the hospital transmit it? Or was it spread by another patient in the intensive care? Or had one of the doctors picked up the infection separately and spread it unknowingly? Nobody will know until all the contact tracing and testing is complete, and that's the scary part. The lack of early credible information on the transmission meant that rumours had a field day. Local media reported that one of the infected doctors had received guests from Saudi Arabia at home and had contracted the infection. He had then gone to the hospital and spread the infection to co-workers, the reports added. Dr Niyaz Khan had to record a mobile phone video from his intensive care bed to squelch the rumour. With monitors beeping around him, Dr Khan, masked and breathless, implored: "Just to set the record straight, I have no relative in Saudi Arabia. I have a son and a wife. None of them is positive. Please don't believe what is coming in the media." Another doctor said it was unfair to blame the hospital: "The patient fooled us and told us he didn't travel outside the country for the two days he was in the ICU with us." And Dr Mittal himself - his wife has also tested positive - recorded videos in isolation saying that he had tested positive, and he was doing well. "Please do not panic," the well-known doctor said. That is easier said than done. Realising the gravity of the situation, 300 teams of government workers and volunteers have fanned out in Bhilwara city. They are knocking on the doors of some 78,000 houses, and asking residents whether they've had a guest from outside the country, been treated in the hospital or know anyone who has tested positive. The survey began on 18 March and will finish on 25 March. "They are asking if we have cold, cough and fever and telling us if we have any of the symptoms we should report for tests at the government hospital," a resident told me. Another 1,900 similar teams have travelled out into neighbouring villages where more than 2.5 million people live. People in homes with suspect cases are being put into quarantine. Seven thousand people have been put into home quarantine so far. Fearing a surge in infections, 20 more beds are being added to the hospital's 30-bed isolation ward, which is already full. Six private hospitals have promised to provide an additional 35 beds for isolation. Thirteen places with 450 beds - extendable to 2,000 beds - where people can be quarantined have also been identified, Rajendra Bhatt, the senior-most official of the district told me. "It's like fighting a war, but we have been agile and alert," he said. Meanwhile the residents, like elsewhere in India, are enduring an extended lockdown and curfew. Rajkumar Jain, a professor of computer science, is locked down with 14 members of his joint family in a two-storey home. "We are in complete panic," he told me. "People are saying here that Bhilwara is going to become India's Italy."

8 मार्च के स्थानीय समय (05:00 GMT) के आसपास, उत्तरी भारतीय राज्य राजस्थान के एक निजी अस्पताल की गहन देखभाल इकाई में निमोनिया से पीड़ित एक 52 वर्षीय व्यक्ति को भर्ती किया गया। उन्हें सांस लेने में भी परेशानी हो रही थी।


Fuel discount scheme could be extended to UK mainland

Summary: The Treasury is to examine whether its fuel duty rebate scheme, which reduces the price of petrol for some islanders, should be extended to the mainland.

The discount scheme, which was introduced in March, gives motorists a maximum 5p per litre reduction in duty. At the moment it applies to the Hebrides, Northern Isles, islands in the Clyde and the Isles of Scilly. There is a proposal to extend it to parts of Cornwall and the north west Highlands. Following Wednesday's autumn statement, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander said the plan would be examined over the next six to nine months. The European Commission would have to approve any extension of the UK scheme.

कोषागार को इस बात की जांच करनी है कि क्या इसकी ईंधन शुल्क छूट योजना, जो कुछ द्वीपवासियों के लिए पेट्रोल की कीमत को कम करती है, को मुख्य भूमि तक बढ़ाया जाना चाहिए।


Coronavirus: Simple guide to staying safe

Summary: Tighter restrictions have been brought in across the UK to help stop the spread of coronavirus.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own powers over coronavirus rules and guidance, which may differ to government advice for England. But here's a reminder of the basic steps to keeping yourself and others safe. What should I do if I feel unwell? Follow this link for more detailed advice for households with possible coronavirus cases

कोरोनावायरस के प्रसार को रोकने में मदद करने के लिए पूरे ब्रिटेन में सख्त प्रतिबंध लगाए गए हैं।


US and China: The great game is on

Summary: Fireworks and a rolling red road, President Obama in a Mao suit, China pushing economic and security institutions that bypass the regional order underwritten by the United States. The overwhelming impression from this Apec summit is that President Xi is giving his "China Dream" symbols and substance, and that the great game is on between existing and would-be superpower.

Carrie GracieBBC China editor@BBCCarrieon Twitter The last big American game in town before President Obama was the Brooklyn Nets against the Sacramento Kings. American NBA basketball is huge in Beijing. For sheer entertainment and energy, it's hard to match. The cheerleaders in their spangly bikini tops, team mascots hugging the crowd and big-screen kiss cam. There's a generation here reared on American sport, Hollywood and hotdogs. So what does this rapt audience like about America? "The stars. Kobe Bryant. Kevin Durant. LeBron James." "Michael Jackson, Vanilla Ice, MC Hammer!" "The music, the movies, Hollywood, the sport, the food." Thirty-five years ago, China restored diplomatic relations with the United States, part of its journey from isolation to rejoin the global economy. Washington believed that after decades of exposure to the American dream, China would buy into its values - including the bit about freedom of speech and democracy. But so far China's taken the sport, and the entertainment, and it's left the rest. Gathering momentum On a Sunday afternoon above a tea emporium in west Beijing, seven-year-old girls in brightly-coloured silks are plucking ancient Chinese zithers. Many in the audience are also in traditional dress. The Han Dress Association meets weekly to preserve a heritage which its members believe is richer than anything Hollywood has to offer. Resplendent in his embroidered red robe, Liu Baokun says such groups are gathering momentum across the country. "The world is developing extremely quickly and the (Chinese Communist) Party is talking about building a harmonious society," he said. "Chinese culture is thousands of years old, passed down from the ancestors and still central to our lives. Promoting this culture is a goal for the party and it's a goal we Chinese people understand and share." An afternoon of Tang dynasty poetry and song reminding the audience of China's 8th Century golden age is very much in harmony with the message from the top. President Xi's slogan is the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and that includes culture and political traditions, poetry and paternalism. Professor Wang Yiwei of Renmin University's School of International Studies warns that President Xi's China challenges an entrenched American worldview. "We dream the Chinese dream now. Before, everybody dreamed the American dream. The US is a country built on American exceptionalism, the idea that Americans are God's chosen people, second to none. "But now, sorry, you Americans are second to China. Can the US accept this? Can it reshape its identity and sense of superiority?" Much in common At China's Apec summit, President Obama showed that he was prepared to try on the clothes. It's Apec tradition to wear the national costume of the host country, and President Obama wore his high collar silk Mao suit with good grace, and seemed to enjoy the fireworks and the predictably epic performance of dance and drumming. The fact is that China and the United States have a lot in common. They are both countries which believe in their own special destiny and which see their culture as an exceptional gift to humanity. Both are huge continental powers, one which leads the world now and the other which has done so in the past and expects to do so again. Of course there are as many differences as similarities. The US is a young quarrelsome democracy, China an ancient bureaucratic state. As the Apec summit ends and the US-China summit begins, the question haunting both events in Beijing: which giant is more resilient for the challenges of the 21st Century?

आतिशबाजी और एक लुढ़कती हुई लाल सड़क, राष्ट्रपति ओबामा एक माओ सूट में, चीन आर्थिक और सुरक्षा संस्थानों को आगे बढ़ा रहा है जो संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका द्वारा लिखित क्षेत्रीय व्यवस्था को दरकिनार करते हैं। इस एपेक शिखर सम्मेलन से भारी प्रभाव यह है कि राष्ट्रपति शी अपने "चीन ड्रीम" प्रतीकों और सार को दे रहे हैं, और यह कि मौजूदा और भावी महाशक्ति के बीच महान खेल चल रहा है।


Why the British may be falling back in love with bingo

Summary: The word itself brings to mind a draughty hall populated by coated ladies, eyes lowered in reverence, like devoted church-goers paying homage from their pews to a god of guilty pleasures.

By Brian MilliganPersonal Finance reporter But contrary to belief, bingo is no dying religion. UK clubs still have 45 million visits a year, and the game's followers are getting younger every year. Furthermore, for the first time in nearly seven years the UK will this month see the opening of a brand-new 1,000-seat venue, in Southampton. Customers will enjoy a "pub feel", with sofa seats, music, and the ambiance of a night club. It will certainly be no silent cathedral. The opening is one reason why experts anticipate that, after years of falling revenues, we will spend over £30m a year more on bingo by 2019. So, in an era of electronic and online pleasures, what on earth is it about bingo that still appeals? 'A good buzz' On a Wednesday night, two weeks before Christmas, 350 enthusiasts are packed into a bingo hall (actually the company prefers the word 'venue' - it sounds more modern) in the suburbs of Nottingham. With few empty seats, it is what players might justifiably call a full house. "On its own, number three," announces caller Winston Baugh, as he strides between tables. But traditional bingo like this now only takes up half the club. While an older generation of devotees listens in silence to the caller, there is also a lounge area with a much more irreverent feel. Here players can chat or text, while they keep one eye on the bingo. They can even play on an electronic tablet, which automatically keeps track of the numbers. "It's a shush-free environment, where music and talk is allowed," says Stuart Colthart, Mecca Bingo's area manager. "You get quite a good buzz in here." Age target Amongst the younger players enjoying the lounge are Chris Norman, who's 28, and his sister Lisa, who's 32. It was they who introduced their mother to the game, not vice-versa. "This is my second night this week," enthuses Chris. But he admits he gets teased by his friends, some of whom think bingo is distinctly un-cool. "I don't know if it's cool, but most of the people in here are not old," says Lisa. "We get up to 10 people round the table on someone's birthday. It's a whole family thing." The industry is working hard - and succeeding - in attracting players like Chris and Lisa. "We're not necessarily after 18-24 year-olds," says Stuart Colthart. "If we could get the average age down to 41 or 45, we'd be happy." But he has some way to go to reach that target. Currently the industry average is about 61 or 62. Marshmallows On Friday and Saturday nights at the Mecca club in Nottingham it is house party time. Often that will include rock and roll bingo, where players have to tick off particular tracks as they hear them. In fact there is everything from Elvis impersonator nights, involving karaoke, to family games like rock, paper, scissors. One favourite is "How many marshmallows can I stuff in my mouth?" "You put as many marshmallows in your mouth as you can; then it's the person who can say 'fluffy bunny' best who wins," says Winston Baugh. This may bring to mind some post-war holiday camp. But in an era when people sometimes only talk to telephones, it is also real interaction; and self-evidently it is fun. 'Rebel' bingo If you want something truly alternative - which packs in crowds of young people - there is also Rebel Bingo, which is proving a big hit in Camden, north London. The music is loud, the atmosphere is more like a party in Ibiza, and traditional bingo players would hate it. Party-goers are issued with bingo cards, but there the similarity ends. "There is music and DJs and lots of lights, and confetti," says one of the founders, Freddie Sorensen. "People call out numbers. People dab off numbers. Some people win prizes, some people don't." Students seem to catching the bug too. Possibly because the food and drink is cheap. "Twenty years ago we would never see a student in a club," says Simon Wykes, the chief executive of Gala Bingo, which is opening the new Southampton venue. "Now, in some clubs, students make up 20% of the customer base." UK Bingo: The numbers 354 total venues Gala: 132 Mecca: 93 Others: 129 'Alive and kicking' In March 2014, the Chancellor George Osborne declared that the number of bingo halls had plummeted by three-quarters over the last 30 years. After much lobbying by the industry, he then halved the tax on bingo hall profits from 20% to 10%. The action seems to have had the desired effect. While fifteen clubs shut their doors in 2014, ten closed in 2015. Now the industry believes the long-term decline may finally be over. "The reduction has stabilised," says Miles Barron, chief executive of the Bingo Association. "The decline of bingo has halted, and we have great confidence that volumes will go back up." "There is no chance of this industry dying. We are very much alive, kicking and ready to grow." Simon Wykes, CEO Gala Bingo That claim is reinforced by the research group Mintel. It forecasts that spending in UK bingo halls will rise from £690m in 2014, to £728m by 2019, largely as a result of the chancellor's duty reduction. The private investment group Caledonia certainly has confidence in the future, having just bought Gala's bingo operations for £241m. And while Gala itself admits that we may not have seen the last of club closures, it believes the British will never give up on bingo. "There is no chance of this industry dying. It's been stable for so long," says Simon Wykes. "We are very much alive, kicking, and ready to grow."

यह शब्द अपने आप में लेपित महिलाओं से भरे एक अभिमानी हॉल को याद दिलाता है, जिनकी आंखें सम्मान में नीची होती हैं, जैसे कि समर्पित चर्च जाने वाले लोग दोषी सुख के देवता को अपनी पीठ से श्रद्धांजलि देते हैं।


Turkey caught in overlapping security crises

Summary: Who'd be in Turkey's shoes right now?

By Paul AdamsBBC News Since July last year, hundreds of soldiers and civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks. Suicide bombs have torn into crowds of demonstrators and tourists. Military convoys have been targeted in the heart of the capital. A long-running Kurdish insurgency, once thought to be close to resolution after years of painstaking efforts to build bridges, has erupted once more. The country is awash with Syrian and other refugees. The government has been under pressure to stop them moving on into Europe and prevent would-be jihadis travelling the other way. How dangerous is Turkey's unrest? Tears and destruction amid PKK crackdown Turkey v Islamic State v the Kurds Washington has been pressing Ankara to play a greater role in defeating the so-called Islamic State (IS) group. And Russian warplanes have crossed into Turkish airspace, eliciting a hair-trigger response which brought down both a plane and the wrath of a Kremlin once again flexing its muscles in the Middle East. Overlapping crises Turkey finds itself in the midst of a hideous vortex of overlapping security crises, struggling to tackle one without exacerbating another. With each bombing, the precariousness of Turkey's situation seems even more acute. Of the half dozen or more bombings over the past nine months (which followed a relatively peaceful two years), most have been blamed on IS. Over the weekend, Turkish forces were firing artillery rounds at IS positions across the Syrian border. But the government in Ankara blames Kurdish militants, both for Sunday's bombing in Ankara and a mid-February attack on military personnel, which killed 28 people. A two-year-old ceasefire between the government and PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) guerrillas broke down last summer. According to the International Crisis Group, more than 340 members of Turkey's security forces have since been killed, along with at least 300 Kurdish fighters and more than 200 civilians. But the fragile peace had already started to unravel six months earlier, when Kurds accused the government of President Erdogan of doing nothing to stop the IS assault on the northern Syrian town of Kobane. The government eventually allowed Kurdish "peshmerga" fighters from neighbouring Iraq to join the fight for Kobane. Combined with American air strikes, it was enough to repel the assault. Reopened wounds But the spectacle of Turkish troops and police using force to prevent Turkish Kurds from expressing solidarity with their Syrian cousins served to reopen old wounds. Kurds were convinced that Turkey was secretly in league with IS, allowing foreign fighters easy passage across the border and, many believed, supplying weapons too. Over the past year, there have been at least four alleged IS attacks on Kurdish activists in Turkey which, Kurds believe, the Turkish authorities have done nothing to prevent. For its part, the government in Ankara looked on in dismay at the growing relationship between Washington, its Nato ally, and the Syrian Kurdish militia, the YPG, which Turkey regards as an offshoot of the banned PKK. The Obama administration has come to regard the YPG as a key ally in the fight against IS. When US envoy Brett McGurk went to Kobane last month for talks with the YPG, President Erdogan was furious. "Is it me who is your partner or the terrorists in Kobane?" he asked. Pressure cooker Russia's involvement in the Syrian civil war has added another dangerous level of complexity to this regional maelstrom. Turkey had long argued that the West's principal objective in Syria should be the removal of President Assad. Now, a newly assertive Kremlin was busy tipping the military balance in favour of Mr Assad. To make matters worse in Ankara's eyes, the West seemed to be allowing Russia to call the shots. Turkey's shooting down of a Russian jet in November, and the war of words that followed, showed how poisonous this regional dimension had become. The arrival of thousands of new Syrian refugees at the Turkish border merely served to add to the enormous humanitarian burden which Ankara already felt it was coping with alone. With Russia dictating events to the south, the EU making demands to the west, bombs exploding on its streets and its own Kurdish areas once again in turmoil, it's no wonder that Turkey feels beleaguered. It lashes out in ways that seem to make matters worse. Some Kurdish cities now look more like Syrian warzones than parts of a country that aspires to EU membership. This is a pressure cooker on Europe's doorstep. And the heat is still on.

अभी तुर्की के जूते में कौन होगा?


Cheltenham cremation revamp to include 150 space car park

Summary: A 150-space car park is "central" to Cheltenham crematorium's £7.4m revamp, a senior council official has said.

Large funerals held at the Victorian facility off Bouncer's Lane have seen people parking over graves because of a lack of parking on site. Roads near the site have been widened where possible to provide extra spaces as a stop-gap measure. Building work to overhaul the site is not expected to begin before 2017. "We're looking for a large car park somewhere in the region of 150 spaces," said Councillor Chris Coleman, Lib Dem deputy leader of Cheltenham Borough Council. "We're making the best of what we've got at the moment but it isn't good enough and we're doing something about it."

एक वरिष्ठ परिषद अधिकारी ने कहा है कि 150-स्पेस कार पार्क चेल्टेनहैम श्मशान के 74 लाख पाउंड के सुधार के लिए "केंद्रीय" है।


Ta-Nehisi Coates and his 'case for reparations'

Summary: The US was founded, grew and prospered on the back of the black race, writes Ta-Nehisi Coates. And the US will not fully be healed from the legacy of slavery until it confronts this truth and makes amends.

By Anthony ZurcherEditor, Echo Chambers In a much-talked-about 15,000-word cover story for the Atlantic magazine, Coates lays out the case for government reparations to black Americans - for the harms of slavery and for the exploitation of blacks that has continued to the modern day. In short, slavery, he writes, allowed the US to become a powerful, prosperous nation. "The vending of the black body and the sundering of the black family became an economy unto themselves, estimated to have brought in tens of millions of dollars to antebellum America," he writes. Slavery created an "indispensable working class", he says, that left "white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values". After emancipation following the US Civil War, the harm continued on in Jim Crow laws in the South that denied blacks their vote, their property and even their lives. When blacks moved to Northern cities as part of the Great Migration in the first half of the 20th Century, they faced a different kind of exploitation, he writes - discriminatory housing lenders and government policies designed to keep blacks confined to certain neighbourhoods with fewer services, substandard schools and less opportunity. "Businesses discriminated against them, awarding them the worst jobs and the worst wages," he writes. "Police brutalised them in the streets. And the notion that black lives, black bodies, and black wealth were rightful targets remained deeply rooted in the broader society." Even on a national level, policies discriminated against blacks. The Federal Housing Authority refused to offer preferred loans to unstable - ie black - neighbourhoods. Even President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, including Social Security, was crafted to minimise benefits to blacks, he writes. Although the overt discrimination has slowly been wiped away, by legislation or judicial action, the US is "still haunted," he says. "It is as though we have run up a credit-card bill and, having pledged to charge no more, remain befuddled that the balance does not disappear," he writes. "The effects of that balance, interest accruing daily, are all around us." To Americans who fail to own up to the history of white superiority, taking credit for their nation's achievements but ignoring its failings, Coates says: The last slaveholder has been dead for a very long time. The last soldier to endure Valley Forge has been dead much longer. To proudly claim the veteran and disown the slaveholder is patriotism a la carte. Dismissing the legacy of slavery as something in the past or a stain upon American ancestors and not relevant to those alive today is a cop-out, he says: "A nation outlives its generations." The problem is that the consequences of slavery and the discrimination that continued after the end of civil war has created an intractable wealth gap between whites and blacks. "The lives of black Americans are better than they were half a century ago," he writes. "The humiliation of Whites Only signs are gone. Rates of black poverty have decreased. Black teen-pregnancy rates are at record lows - and the gap between black and white teen-pregnancy rates has shrunk significantly. But such progress rests on a shaky foundation, and fault lines are everywhere." Blacks in America are "working without a safety net", he argues. "Financial calamity strikes - a medical emergency, divorce, job loss - the fall is precipitous." Coates lists some of the ways the US has attempted to address the problem and concludes they are not enough. Black culture, he says, is not to blame. The idea that if blacks could behave more "respectably" is a sham. "The kind of trenchant racism to which black people have persistently been subjected can never be defeated by making its victims more respectable," Coates writes. "The essence of American racism is disrespect. " And placing the blame on broken homes and the absence of black fathers? The destruction of the black family has been a prime means of white control for hundreds of years. "From the White House on down, the myth holds that fatherhood is the great antidote to all that ails black people," he writes. "Adhering to middle-class norms has never shielded black people from plunder." Liberal proponents of programmes of racial preferences like affirmative action are equally misguided. "America was built on the preferential treatment of white people - 395 years of it," he writes. "Vaguely endorsing a cuddly, feel-good diversity does very little to redress this." Couching preferences as a means of addressing overarching issues of class differences and wealth inequality is fruitless: To ignore the fact that one of the oldest republics in the world was erected on a foundation of white supremacy, to pretend that the problems of a dual society are the same as the problems of unregulated capitalism, is to cover the sin of national plunder with the sin of national lying. The lie ignores the fact that reducing American poverty and ending white supremacy are not the same. The lie ignores the fact that closing the "achievement gap" will do nothing to close the "injury gap," in which black college graduates still suffer higher unemployment rates than white college graduates, and black job applicants without criminal records enjoy roughly the same chance of getting hired as white applicants with criminal records. And so, he concludes, monetary reparations - closing the wealth gap between white and black - is the only workable solution. It is also the only way to truly put the legacy of slavery behind us as a nation. "What is needed is an airing of family secrets, a settling with old ghosts," he writes. "What is needed is a healing of the American psyche and the banishment of white guilt." He cites as an example the German reparations to Israel following the Holocaust, undertaken despite fierce opposition in both nations: Reparations could not make up for the murder perpetrated by the Nazis. But they did launch Germany's reckoning with itself, and perhaps provided a road map for how a great civilisation might make itself worthy of the name. After laying out his case over thousands of words, and spanning hundreds of years, Coates's call to action is, in fact, relatively modest. He wants the US Congress to pass a bill proposed by Democratic Representative John Conyers of Michigan to study slavery and recommend "appropriate remedies". Maybe the study won't be able to come up with a number, he writes. Perhaps the number will be so monumentally large that it is unworkable. But he says that the effort to quantify the damages has its own benefits: An America that asks what it owes its most vulnerable citizens is improved and humane. An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future. More important than any single check cut to any African American, the payment of reparations would represent America's maturation out of the childhood myth of its innocence into a wisdom worthy of its founders. Coates has written a blog post that accompanies his article in which he explains how his views on reparations changed over the last four years, prompted in part by what he sees as the injustice of affirmative action programmes (which he says discriminate against Asian-Americans). It's an interesting insight into the mind of a talented essayist. On Friday I'll dig into some of the responses to Coates's piece.

ता-नेहरूसी कोट्स लिखते हैं कि अमेरिका की स्थापना, विकास और समृद्धि अश्वेत जाति की पीठ पर हुई थी। और अमेरिका तब तक गुलामी की विरासत से पूरी तरह से ठीक नहीं होगा जब तक कि वह इस सच्चाई का सामना नहीं करता और सुधार नहीं करता।


Syria war: Why the battle for Aleppo matters

Summary: The long battle for Syria's second city of Aleppo has entered what could be a decisive phase. Divided between government-controlled west and rebel-held east for the past four years, fighting in the city has significantly escalated since rebel districts were encircled in July. Here are four, key reasons why winning Aleppo is so important.

By Shashank JoshiSenior research fellow, Royal United Services Institute 1. Supply lines Aleppo is a key hub in the north of the country, just 30 miles (50km) from the Turkish border. As a result, control of the city delivers more than just prestige. The most important prizes are supply lines. Armies wither without food, fuel, and weapons. In February, the Syrian government made a breakthrough when Russian air strikes helped it cut the so-called Azaz corridor, a vital rebel conduit that ran south from the Turkish town of Kilis down to Aleppo itself. Syrian forces followed this up by taking high ground over a key road into the rebel-held east of the city, further choking off this lifeline. When the government seemed to have boxed in its opponents, a rebel counter-attack in a key government-held district of the city, Ramouseh, suggests that the rebels might not only fight their way out, but even impose a counter-siege on the government-held west. This would be a spectacular turnaround. A city that for so long seemed likely to fall to the government is now very much in contention. 2. Civilians The strategic contest may be over supply lines, but the biggest stakes are humanitarian. An estimated 250,000-300,000 civilians have been trapped in rebel-held parts of Aleppo since early July. The Syrian government and Russia have proved willing to conduct indiscriminate aerial bombings in civilian areas, while rebels have also mounted attacks, largely by artillery, in populated areas. Hospitals have suffered especially badly, compounding the humanitarian crisis. If the rebels build on their gains at Ramouseh by seeking to blockade government-held areas, it could put another 1.2 million civilians in a precarious position. The skyrocketing price of food reflects this fear. The UN and others have responded coolly to four Russian-backed "humanitarian corridors" to allow civilians to leave, fearing that these might simply facilitate intensified attacks on those who remain. The rebels' gains now mean that they are even less likely to accept Russian proposals or respect them if implemented. And as Russian air strikes increase and western Aleppo comes under more pressure, civilians are likely to bear the brunt. This might eventually affect the Europe-bound refugee flow. 3. The opposition The armed opposition in Aleppo includes nearly two dozen factions, grouped into different coalitions. The largest and most powerful of these coalitions is Jaish al-Fatah (Army of Conquest), which includes within it Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, which was until mid-2016 known as Jabhat al-Nusra. It was al-Qaida's powerful front in Syria, and changed its name in order to distance itself from its notorious parent organisation, strengthen its alliances with other rebels, and avoid being targeted by Russia and the United States, which had agreed to work against it. Jaish al-Fatah and its extremist spearhead are emerging from Aleppo's battles with power and prestige, having once more proven highly effective on the battlefield. This is a headache for Western countries, which have backed more moderate but less proficient fighters, but good news for other rebel supporters like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey, who have embraced harder-line Islamists. Meanwhile, Aleppo as a whole is sandwiched between so-called Islamic State (IS) to the east and Syrian Kurdish groups to the north-west. IS and Kurds have clashed with each other, and both have fought anti-Assad rebels like Jaish al-Fatah. If rebels are defeated in Aleppo, IS and Kurds might take advantage by seizing new territory. This would alarm and provoke Turkey, which opposes President Bashar al-Assad, IS, and the Kurds. Rebel gains in and around Aleppo, on the other hand, are a boost for Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar against Russia and Iran. In other words, Aleppo is a factor in regional geopolitics. What is left of Syria? 4. Cementing the stalemate? The battle for Aleppo comes at a highly significant moment in the conflict. Russian intervention saved President Assad's forces from collapse, and then propelled them to success. In the West, politicians switched from demanding Mr Assad's immediate departure to virtually conceding his victory. Had the rebels been crushed, Mr Assad's opponents - above all, a US administration in its final months - might have agreed to a settlement on generous terms. Now, beleaguered rebels have demonstrated that the war is far from over. Syrian forces are exhausted, and depend on massive military support from Russian air power, militias led by Iran, and soldiers from the Lebanese group Hezbollah. Continued success might persuade Moscow and Tehran that they, too, will have to be willing to make greater compromises if they want a way out of the conflict. Shashank Joshi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) in London. He recently contributed to Rusi's Occasional Paper, Understanding Iran's Role in the Syrian Conflict. Follow him on Twitter.

सीरिया के दूसरे शहर अलेप्पो के लिए लंबी लड़ाई एक निर्णायक चरण में प्रवेश कर गई है। पिछले चार वर्षों से सरकार द्वारा नियंत्रित पश्चिम और विद्रोहियों के कब्जे वाले पूर्व के बीच विभाजित, शहर में लड़ाई काफी बढ़ गई है क्योंकि जुलाई में विद्रोही जिलों को घेर लिया गया था। यहाँ चार प्रमुख कारण हैं कि अलेप्पो जीतना इतना महत्वपूर्ण है।


Woodhouse stabbing: Man charged with murdering Ryan Jowle

Summary: A 22-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a teenager at a block of flats in Sheffield.

Ryan Jowle died after he was stabbed in the chest in Tannery Close, Woodhouse, at about 23:10 BST on Tuesday. Frank Mvila Kiongaze, of Morland Road, Gleadless, has been charged with murder and possession of a bladed article. He has been remanded into custody and is due to appear before Sheffield Magistrates' Court on Monday. South Yorkshire Police said Mr Jowle was attacked on Tuesday night and died in hospital in the early hours of Wednesday. Detectives have urged anyone with any information to contact them.

शेफील्ड में फ्लैटों के एक ब्लॉक में एक 22 वर्षीय व्यक्ति पर एक किशोर की हत्या का आरोप लगाया गया है।


Overturned lorry causes traffic congestion in Preston

Summary: A lorry has overturned in Preston, Lancashire, causing traffic congestion in the area.

Millennium Road has been closed by police after the HGV flipped onto its side at the junction of Bluebell Way and Longridge Road earlier. Parts of Bluebell Way have been closed while a clean-up operation gets under way by Lancashire Police. The force has advised people to avoid the area. The driver suffered minor injuries, said police.

लंकाशायर के प्रेस्टन में एक लॉरी पलट गई है, जिससे क्षेत्र में यातायात जाम हो गया है।


Hockney assistant death: 'No obvious natural cause'

Summary: Tests have shown "no obvious natural causes" for the death of David Hockney's assistant.

Dominic Elliott, 23, died on Sunday after he was taken to hospital from the world-renowned artist's home in Bridlington, East Yorkshire. Humberside Police said a post-mortem examination had shown no obvious natural causes for his death. A spokeswoman said further tests would be carried out and the results would not be known for some weeks.

परीक्षणों ने डेविड हॉकनी के सहायक की मृत्यु के लिए "कोई स्पष्ट प्राकृतिक कारण" नहीं दिखाए हैं।


'Save our pier' calls in Colwyn Bay

Summary: More than 150 campaigners gathered at Colwyn Bay pier on Friday as part of a campaign to revive it.

Members of the Colwyn Victoria Pier Trust met with Heritage Lottery Fund officials as part of the bid for a £9.6m grant from the organisation. People hope to breathe new life into the dilapidated pier. Meanwhile, a legal fight between former owner Steve Hunt and the council is continuing, with both sides claiming they own it.

150 से अधिक प्रचारक शुक्रवार को कोल्विन बे घाट पर इसे पुनर्जीवित करने के अभियान के हिस्से के रूप में एकत्र हुए।


Motorcyclist dies in collision with car in Plean

Summary: A 52-year-old motorcyclist has died following a collision with a car in Plean, near Stirling.

The incident, which involved the man's black Suzuki motorbike and a white Volkswagen, happened at about 13:05 on Sunday on Roman Road. Emergency services attended the incident, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no other injuries, and the road was closed for about six hours to allow an investigation to take place. Police have appealed for witnesses or drivers with dashcam footage to come forward.

स्टर्लिंग के पास प्लेन में एक कार से टक्कर के बाद एक 52 वर्षीय मोटरसाइकिल सवार की मौत हो गई है।


'Minty' the canal rescue sheep stays with firefighters

Summary: A sheep has stayed with firefighters overnight after being rescued from the Kennet and Avon Canal in Reading on Sunday.

Three crews, including a water rescue unit, worked to save the animal at about 15:00 BST. Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue put up the sheep in the Caversham Road fire station drill tower and gave him the nickname 'Minty'. 'Minty' was reunited with its owner the next day and will rejoin the flock.

रविवार को रीडिंग में केनेट और एवन नहर से बचाए जाने के बाद एक भेड़ रात भर अग्निशामकों के साथ रही है।


Can the gangs of Cape Town be talked out of violence?

Summary: It is an uncomfortable meeting. Ten rival gang leaders - including several convicted killers - are sitting on plastic chairs in a community centre in Lavender Hill, making strenuous attempts to avoid eye contact.

Andrew HardingAfrica correspondent@BBCAndrewHon Twitter For years these men have turned their neighbourhood - a collection of drab brick apartment blocks clustered round a patch of grass known locally as "the killing fields," in the shadow of Cape Town's Table Mountain - into something resembling a war zone. Prison gangs and their local affiliates, with names like the "Mongrels", "Americans", "Corner Boys" and "Funky Junkies" have been locked in a violent struggle for control of the lucrative drugs trade. It has been a particularly ferocious few months. As we arrive in Lavender Hill, we are told three gang members were shot dead overnight in a nearby district. "This is pathetic what is going on in our community. People are giving up hope. We got caught in the crossfire this morning. People are scared to walk," said Maureen Osvoel, a teacher from Hanover Park. "We don't search… but I imagine they are well protected," said Dr Ruben Richards when I asked if he thinks the gang leaders now attending his weekly reconciliation sessions are armed. Some of the younger men - slouching, with baseball hats pulled down over unexpressive eyes - fit the familiar cliches of the gangster. But others are plump, unremarkable, middle aged figures - one in a rugby shirt, another with a thick beard. The sessions are being organised by local community and religious leaders as part of a new scheme to try to nudge the gangs away from the drugs trade. "Without justifying the criminal economy, you have to understand that the dynamics are exactly the same as the legitimate economy," said Dr Richards, a facilitator who was involved in South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission. "These are to all intents and purposes the leaders of the community. This is where power and money is. We have to find a way to re-channel that energy." It is early days. We are told one of the men at the meeting recently ordered a hit on another. Later in the week, Dr Richards emails me to say that "a jammed gun" just saved another gangster from a point-blank range attack. But the meetings continue. At this stage, none of the gang leaders wants to be publically identified for fear that his involvement in the reconciliation process could make him a target for rivals. But one burly man, who admits to spending seven years in jail for murder, agrees to talk anonymously. Easy money "If you don't have a job, it is quick and easy to get money from drugs. People don't see any other way out," said the gang leader. "But I'm worried about future generations. A lot of blood has flowed. We have the community at heart. It may not look like it right now but we do. This process is changing the way I think." Last week Dr Richards asked the men to write about their lives. This week the discussion ranges from South Africa's history to the source of the men's anger. The sessions are due to culminate with all the gangs cooperating in a project to install solar-powered water heaters in Lavender Hill. But the chances of that happening remain slim. "All it takes is one hit to derail the process," says Dr Richards. Still, the local gangs already have one achievement under their belt - a truce that has now lasted for four months. "It's totally unprecedented," said Pastor Stanford Hill, showing me round the neighbourhood outside. He's a self-confessed "ex-druggie, ex-con, ex-gangster", who is behind the reconciliation talks in Lavender Hill. "By the grace of God, for the last four months the shooting has stopped. No gang-related killings." he tells me. "Also what is encouraging to us is that the members of the gangs are willing to participate every week and sit around the table," In the tiny bedroom they share in a ground floor flat, 13-year-old Lauren Fick is trying to finish her homework on her bed, as her two older brothers rub shoulders at the computer. They are all relieved that the shooting outside has, for now, subsided. But their mother, Susan, is not convinced it will last. She also has a nagging suspicion that the gangs are being treated too kindly - the bar set too low. "It doesn't matter where you stay, you can still bring your kids up properly. It all depends on the parents and what they're going to do about their kids," she said firmly. Beside her, the children nod in agreement. That sentiment is echoed by Helen Zille - the premier of the Western Cape province and head of South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance. "To suggest that people who are unemployed or poor become gangsters is a kind of insult to people who are unemployed or poor. There are billions of people all over the world who are unemployed or poor and who are not gangsters and who do not murder other people," said Ms Zille, who blames dysfunctional families, a long history of gang rivalries and above all the drugs trade for the enduring violence on the Cape Flats. Raids The next day I am sitting in the back of a van with heavily armed members of the police's "gang team", on the way to the first of three drug raids. "These houses - we hit 'em hard," said one of the officers, who asked to remain anonymous for security reasons. He said the unit had lost two men in the past month - one caught in crossfire in a similar operation, the other ambushed by a gang wanting to steal his gun. Over the course of the next two hours the officers, backed up by an eager and effective sniffer dog called Luke, made two arrests. They also confiscated several small caches of methamphetamines and marijuana, and brought in two heavily tattooed gang members for questioning. "You can read their bodies - he's a hit man," said one officer, lifting the shirt of a dazed-looking 25-year-old man to reveal two pistols tattooed on his chest. The police insist the constant raids are having a significant impact on the drugs business. But on the short journey between two operations, one of the officers put it more bluntly: "We're making a difference. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't think that." "But the kids here grow up with the idea that when they're older they're going to be a drug dealer. So we're basically trying to cut the head off a snake - but the body is so damned long, it's unbelievable."

यह एक असहज बैठक है। दस प्रतिद्वंद्वी गिरोह के नेता-जिनमें कई दोषी हत्यारे भी शामिल हैं-लैवेंडर हिल में एक सामुदायिक केंद्र में प्लास्टिक की कुर्सियों पर बैठे हैं और आंखों के संपर्क से बचने के लिए कड़ी मेहनत कर रहे हैं।


Guernsey hospital reports Legionella in water supply

Summary: Legionella bacteria has been detected in the water supply of Guernsey's Princess Elizabeth Hospital.

The island's Health and Social Services Department said the level of bacteria was higher than acceptable, and decontamination would take place. It added that no patients or staff had been taken ill, and the bacteria posed a minimal health risk. Dr Stephen Bridgman, director of public health, said the issue had not been detected elsewhere in the island.

ग्वेर्नसे के प्रिंसेस एलिजाबेथ अस्पताल की जल आपूर्ति में लीजियोनेला बैक्टीरिया का पता चला है।