Obituary: Tony Scott

Summary: Director Tony Scott, best known for action movies such as Top Gun and Man on Fire and the brother of fellow director Ridley Scott, has died aged 68 after jumping from a bridge in Los Angeles. British director Tony Scott was born in North Shields, Northumberland in 1944 and grew up in West Hartlepool and Stockton-On-Tees.

A relative latecomer to filmmaking, he became famous for his fast-paced blockbusters and distinctive style of editing and digital effects, calling directing "the best job in the world". He was the younger brother of Gladiator and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott, whose debut - a short film called Boy and Bicycle - he starred in at the age of 16. Tony Scott originally intended to become a painter, after studying at West Hartlepool College of Art, completing a fine arts degree at Sunderland Art School and graduating from the Royal College of Art. However the success of his older brother's television commercial production company, Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), changed his mind - especially when Ridley promised him he would earn enough to buy a Ferrari within a year. The first feature film he directed was vampire romance The Hunger in 1983. Starring David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve it was not a hit with critics, but did later go on to become a cult movie. However it did catch the attention of producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson who signed him up to direct Top Gun, after also seeing a commercial Scott made for Swedish car company Saab. It showed one their cars racing a Saab 37 Viggen fighter jet. Tony bounced back with Top Gun, becoming the first of the Scott brothers to enjoy blockbuster success. The film made a star of Tom Cruise and became the highest-grossing film of 1986, taking $176m (£112m) at the box office. Its success propelled Scott onto Hollywood's A-list of action directors and he worked again with producers Simpson and Bruckheimer on 1987 Eddie Murphy sequel Beverly Hills Cop II, before directing Cruise for a second time on their big budget racing drama Days of Thunder in 1990. Scott was an avid rock climber and liked driving fast cars and motorcycles, but he called filmmaking his real thrill. "The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life," Scott said in an interview for his 1995 submarine thriller Crimson Tide. "The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through." Often behind the camera in his signature faded red baseball cap, the early 1990s also saw him direct action thriller The Last Boy Scout and True Romance, written by Quentin Tarantino. Scott regularly collaborated with Oscar-winner Denzel Washington, directing the actor in Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Deja Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123 and his most recent film Unstoppable. The runaway train thriller featured the trademark hyper-kinetic action and editing that he had become known for. He also directed Robert De Niro in The Fan, Will Smith conspiracy drama Enemy of the State, Spy Game and in 2005 oversaw Keira Knightley's action debut in Domino. Brother Ridley Scott eventually went on to make bigger hits than his brother and earned a level of critical respect that resulted in three best-director Oscar nominations and a best-picture Oscar in 2000 for Gladiator. Critics were harsher on Tony's films, accusing him of emphasising style over substance and he was never nominated for an Oscar. He told the BBC in 2005: "I stopped looking at reviews after my first movie The Hunger, because I got slagged off so badly. They can be brutal. "You know with my movies I reach for difference and I reach for change and I think - especially the American press - they're not up for change. They're too comfortable with what they know." Together the brothers ran Scott Free Productions, responsible for countless commercials as well as CBS drama NUMB3RS and hit legal drama The Good Wife. Scott said he gained perspective by mixing things up between film, TV and commercials. "I like changing the pace of my life, changing my discipline. It gives me ideas for how to see the world differently," he said in a 2007 interview. He claimed he was always taking advice from his brother and revealed they were "so very close in terms of family and business so we couldn't be on the same set". He called Ridley's film Blade Runner one of his top three films of all time, and said: "I saw so much of our growing up in it, in terms of what he brought to the tone of the movie - which is rain!" The Scott brothers also produced the 2010 remake of The A-Team and were working on a film called Killing Lincoln, based on the best seller by Bill O'Reilly. Scott was married to actress Donna Scott, who appeared in several of her husband's films. She was his third wife with whom he had twin sons. At the time of his death, he was rumoured to be working with Tom Cruise on a sequel to Top Gun.

निर्देशक टोनी स्कॉट, जो टॉप गन और मैन ऑन फायर जैसी एक्शन फिल्मों के लिए जाने जाते हैं और साथी निर्देशक रिडले स्कॉट के भाई हैं, का लॉस एंजिल्स में एक पुल से कूदने के बाद 68 वर्ष की आयु में निधन हो गया है। ब्रिटिश निर्देशक टोनी स्कॉट का जन्म 1944 में नॉर्थ शील्ड्स, नॉर्थम्बरलैंड में हुआ था और वे वेस्ट हार्टलपूल और स्टॉकटन-ऑन-टीज़ में पले-बढ़े थे।


Andrew Carnegie: The man who gave it all away

Summary: The name Carnegie is ubiquitous; libraries, institutes, trusts, foundations in Britain, the United States and Europe established by the Scottish-American steel baron turned philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. The Carnegie UK Trust is marking its centenary this year. So what kind of man was Andrew Carnegie and what is his legacy?

By Gillian SharpeBBC Scotland "The story of a penniless Scot going over to America and becoming the richest man in the world would be an amazing story in and of itself," says Scots entrepreneur and philanthropist, Sir Tom Hunter, who describes Andrew Carnegie as one of his heroes. "But then for Carnegie to actually take his wealth and think about it and actually do so much good with his wealth, it takes it to a different level as far as I'm concerned." The Carnegie story began in mid-nineteenth century Dunfermline where his father was a handloom weaver of linen. The family lived in one room, box beds on one side, cooking on an open fire. But it was a precarious living and as the weaving industry changed the family decided to emigrate to the United States, borrowing money from family for the fare. "It was a pretty horrendous journey," explains Angus Hogg, chair of the Carnegie UK Trust. "But apparently Andrew Carnegie was one of the few who didn't suffer from sea-sickness on the journey, so starting to show his entrepreneurial skills, he started to picked up jobs on-board ship, which bought them little favours in terms of their accommodation and their food and so on." After they arrived in America, Andrew Carnegie, aged 13, started out as a bobbin boy in a textile mill, and became a telegraph operator. Later, he was involved in the railroads, organising transport and communications during the American civil war. He then amassed enormous wealth building up a steel business. When he sold his Carnegie Steel Company in the early 1900s he got $480m for it and used the money for his philanthropic career. "It came from social values rather than religious values," says Eric Homberger, emeritus professor at the University of East Anglia. He remembers the Carnegie library in his hometown in New Jersey, one of the few opportunities for cultural enrichment which existed there. "Many of his (Carnegie's) biographers trace it back to the experience of having been the son of a Scottish weaver, who absorbed from that family a set of values; a belief in democracy and a belief in a 'society that provides opportunities for everyone' and not just the super-rich. "So we can't say the moment it began but I think we can trace its source back to Scotland." Andrew Carnegie wrote prolifically about wealth and what to do with it, famously writing that the "man who dies...rich, dies disgraced". Sir Tom Hunter says: "When I was doing my thinking about what to do with wealth, I went to New York and I visited the Carnegie Corporation of New York and went in to see the president, a gentleman called Vartan Gregorian. "He's probably my philanthropic mentor and Vartan basically challenged me to say the money wasn't really mine." He laughs as he admits that was quite a challenge to do. "And to do some good while you're still here, don't be the richest man in the graveyard, which certainly resonated with me." And when Andrew Carnegie became extremely wealthy, Scotland and more specifically Dunfermline was one of the first to benefit. Urban park Through ornate gates which commemorate Carnegie's wife, Louise, a path leads into the Fife town's Pittencrieff Park and up towards a statue of the philanthropist himself. It may be a bitterly cold day but there are still children playing on the swings, while other people are walking their dogs. When Andrew Carnegie was a boy this was a privately-owned estate, just a short distance from the family cottage and he was regularly turfed out by the gamekeepers. The 80-acre urban park became his first benefaction to the people of Dunfermline. The town has benefitted in other ways too, including the library, the swimming pool and its own Carnegie hall. A trust he set up to benefit the town called on the trustees, in the parlance of the time, to "bring sweetness and light to the toiling masses". "He was a very generous man," says one man walking down the main shopping street, which, like many in Scotland has its fair share of empty shops. "He also helped to develop the Dunfermline area and had a focus on children and education." Public criticism Most people on the street, talk about the glen, which is what locals call Pittencrieff Park, although one woman comments wryly that Carnegie would "have a fit" if he saw the state of Dunfermline now. "But all the things he gave us are still here," interrupts another. Yet how was all this money amassed? Andrew Carnegie was operating in a ruthlessly competitive age and he was a tough employer. A bitter strike at Homestead Steel Works in 1892 brought public criticism, although Carnegie was not actually in the country at the time. "He's a man of intense paradoxes," says Eric Homberger. "He did so much good and yet he embodied in his own industrial activity so much that was, well, take your choice about how to describe it, but I regard it as highly deplorable. "He was a plutocrat, but also a philanthropist. He was very sceptical about the social desirability of speculation, but he was one who profited immensely from the speculation that he himself made. "So everywhere you turn looking at this man's career you find puzzles and paradoxes. It defies our desire to have a white hat guy, a hero, a virtuous man. "He was virtuous, but he was also some other things as well and it makes for an interesting story that he wasn't all good or all bad, but like most of us, pretty much a mixed bag." Many of the philanthropic trusts which Carnegie set up, already have, or are about to go through, their centenary. The Carnegie UK Trust for instance is marking its 100th year. In the past century it has been involved in a diverse range of programmes, including establishing something like 660 libraries, as well as projects involving the arts and sport. It now concentrates on issues of public policy. "If you consider that by his death in 1919 he had given away to the foundations $350m, that's just an incredible sum of money," says Angus Hogg. "We're still there working and looking towards the next 100 years. I don't think you'd find anything else in the world that equates to that."

कार्नेगी नाम सर्वव्यापी है; ब्रिटेन, संयुक्त राज्य अमेरिका और यूरोप में पुस्तकालय, संस्थान, ट्रस्ट, फाउंडेशन जो स्कॉटिश-अमेरिकी स्टील बैरन से परोपकारी बने एंड्रयू कार्नेगी द्वारा स्थापित किए गए थे। कार्नेगी यूके ट्रस्ट इस साल अपनी शताब्दी मना रहा है। तो एंड्रयू कार्नेगी किस तरह के व्यक्ति थे और उनकी विरासत क्या है?


'I got my first tattoo at the age of 68'

Summary: David Dimbleby has got his first tattoo at the age of 75 - a scorpion on his shoulder. Jean Cook, now in her 80s, got her first inking at 68 and says it's really no big deal.

Magazine MonitorA collection of cultural artefacts Cook, from Chesterfield, had never thought about getting a tattoo until the idea popped into her head when she got older. She started talking to people about it and finally got it on the spur of the moment. "I was at my son's house and one day he said 'come on then', shoved me in the car and took me to the tattoo place round the corner. I would never have done it myself. It was around Mother's day, he bought it as a gift," she says. Cook says she didn't even have the time to be scared that it would be painful or to wonder if it would turn out well. "I just picked a rose as I liked it in the shop." When the tattoo shop moved into the town centre a year later, Cook says she saw it one day and thought: "I will go in and get another one on my other arm." She marched in and picked a butterfly. She was 69. Cook says the reaction to an 80-something woman with tattoos on both arms is fairly muted, but that some people are quite impressed when they find out how old she was when she got them. "Some people think I am daft when they know how old I was when I had it," she says. Her family thought it was great - after all, it was her son who spurred her on. "Everyone else is a mixed bag. No one is that bothered these days. It's not as surprising as it once was." Cook can't help showing off her tattoos, thanks to their position on her arms but she says she forgets about them until someone brings them up. She's not currently tempted to get any more body art. "I think I am done," she says. Reporting by Olivia Sorrel-Dejerine Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook

डेविड डिंबलबी ने 75 साल की उम्र में अपना पहला टैटू बनवाया-अपने कंधे पर एक बिच्छू। जीन कुक, जो अब 80 के दशक में है, ने 68 साल की उम्र में अपनी पहली स्याही लगवाई और कहा कि यह वास्तव में कोई बड़ी बात नहीं है।


The girl who gets gifts from birds

Summary: Lots of people love the birds in their garden, but it's rare for that affection to be reciprocated. One young girl in Seattle is luckier than most. She feeds the crows in her garden - and they bring her gifts in return.

By Katy SewallSeattle Eight-year-old Gabi Mann sets a bead storage container on the dining room table, and clicks the lid open. This is her most precious collection. "You may take a few close looks," she says, "but don't touch." It's a warning she's most likely practised on her younger brother. She laughs after saying it though. She is happy for the audience. Inside the box are rows of small objects in clear plastic bags. One label reads: "Black table by feeder. 2:30 p.m. 09 Nov 2014." Inside is a broken light bulb. Another bag contains small pieces of brown glass worn smooth by the sea. "Beer coloured glass," as Gabi describes it. Each item is individually wrapped and categorised. Gabi pulls a black zip out of a labelled bag and holds it up. "We keep it in as good condition as we can," she says, before explaining this object is one of her favourites. There's a miniature silver ball, a black button, a blue paper clip, a yellow bead, a faded black piece of foam, a blue Lego piece, and the list goes on. Many of them are scuffed and dirty. It is an odd assortment of objects for a little girl to treasure, but to Gabi these things are more valuable than gold. She didn't gather this collection. Each item was a gift - given to her by crows. She holds up a pearl coloured heart. It is her most-prized present. "It's showing me how much they love me." Gabi's relationship with the neighbourhood crows began accidentally in 2011. She was four years old, and prone to dropping food. She'd get out of the car, and a chicken nugget would tumble off her lap. A crow would rush in to recover it. Soon, the crows were watching for her, hoping for another bite. As she got older, she rewarded their attention, by sharing her packed lunch on the way to the bus stop. Her brother joined in. Soon, crows were lining up in the afternoon to greet Gabi's bus, hoping for another feeding session. Gabi's mother Lisa didn't mind that crows consumed most of the school lunches she packed. "I like that they love the animals and are willing to share," she says, while admitting she never noticed crows until her daughter took an interest in them. "It was a kind of transformation. I never thought about birds." In 2013, Gabi and Lisa started offering food as a daily ritual, rather than dropping scraps from time to time. Each morning, they fill the backyard birdbath with fresh water and cover bird-feeder platforms with peanuts. Gabi throws handfuls of dog food into the grass. As they work, crows assemble on the telephone lines, calling loudly to them. It was after they adopted this routine that the gifts started appearing. The crows would clear the feeder of peanuts, and leave shiny trinkets on the empty tray; an earring, a hinge, a polished rock. There wasn't a pattern. Gifts showed up sporadically - anything shiny and small enough to fit in a crow's mouth. One time it was a tiny piece of metal with the word "best" printed on it. "I don't know if they still have the part that says 'friend'," Gabi laughs, amused by the thought of a crow wearing a matching necklace. When you see Gabi's collection, it's hard not to wish for gift-giving crows of your own. "If you want to form a bond with a crow, be consistent in rewarding them," advises John Marzluff, professor of wildlife science at the University of Washington. He specialises in birds, particularly crows and ravens. What food is best? "A few peanuts in the shell," he says. "It's a high-energy food… and it makes noise when you throw it on the ground, so they hear it and they quickly habituate to your routine." Marzluff, and his colleague Mark Miller, did a study of crows and the people who feed them. They found that crows and people form a very personal relationship. "There's definitely a two-way communication going on there," Marzluff says. "They understand each other's signals." The birds communicate by how they fly, how close they walk, and where they sit. The human learns their language and the crows learn their feeder's patterns and posture. They start to know and trust each other. Sometimes a crow leaves a gift. But crow gifts are not guaranteed. "I can't say they always will (give presents)," Marzluff admits, having never received any gifts personally, "but I have seen an awful lot of things crows have brought people." Not all crows deliver shiny objects either. Sometimes they give the kind of presents "they would give to their mate", says Marzluff. "Courtship feeding, for example. So some people, their presents are dead baby birds that the crow brings in." Gabi has been given some icky objects. Her mother threw out a rotting crab claw, for example. Gabi points out a heavily rusted screw she prefers not to touch. It's labelled "Third Favorite." Asking her why an untouchable object is in the favourites, she answers, "You don't' see a crow carrying around a screw that much. Unless it's trying to build its house." Lisa, Gabi's mom, regularly photographs the crows and charts their behaviour and interactions. Her most amazing gift came just a few weeks ago, when she lost a lens cap in a nearby alley while photographing a bald eagle as it circled over the neighbourhood. She didn't even have to look for it. It was sitting on the edge of the birdbath. Had the crows returned it? Lisa logged on to her computer and pulled up their bird-cam. There was the crow she suspected. "You can see it bringing it into the yard. Walks it to the birdbath and actually spends time rinsing this lens cap." "I'm sure that it was intentional," she smiles. "They watch us all the time. I'm sure they knew I dropped it. I'm sure they decided they wanted to return it." Writer and broadcaster Katy Sewall is co-host of The BitterSweet Life podcast." She's been a journalist and radio professional for 12 years. Subscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox. This story inspired readers to email us with details of their own remarkable relationships with birds.

बहुत से लोग अपने बगीचे में पक्षियों से प्यार करते हैं, लेकिन उस स्नेह का आदान-प्रदान दुर्लभ है। सिएटल में एक युवा लड़की सबसे भाग्यशाली है। वह अपने बगीचे में कौवों को खिलाती है-और वे बदले में उसे उपहार लाते हैं।


Sony investigating another hack

Summary: Sony is investigating another hacking attack on one of its websites.

A group called Lulz Security claims to have broken into Sonypictures.com and accessed details of a million users. Passwords, home addresses and other personal information relating to several thousand of the accounts was released online. It is the third major hack to hit Sony since April when the PlayStation Network was targeted and the details of 77 million users compromised. Details of the latest attack were made available on the recently created Lulz Security website A LulSec press release said: "SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL injection, one of the most primitive and common vulnerabilities, as we should all know by now. "From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING. Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?" Unprotected text SQL attacks are generally regarded as one of the more straightforward ways of gaining unauthorised access to a website. Typically, an attacker will attempt to bypass the username and password system by sending code or characters that confuse the site's programming. The release also claims that user information on Sonypictures.com was stored in unencrypted, plain text format. LulSec explained that it was unable to make the entire user database available, however it released a portion of it, totalling roughly 50,000 users. Sony has yet to respond to the claims, but said in a tweet: "We are looking into the claims about reports of attacks on Sony Pictures websites. Please follow us for latest updates." Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at security firm F-Secure, said that another Sony breach had been almost inevitable. "I'm not surprised by anything about Sony anymore," he told BBC News. "It will be hard for a company of that size to make sure they are secure if someone wants to go and find holes." Mr Hypponen said that Sony had become a preferred target of hackers because of the company's long history of vigorously defending its intellectual property. Most recently, it took legal action against a US hacker, George Hotz, who claimed to have cracked elements of the PlayStation's security. "That was the turning point. But it is easy to hate Sony, starting with the CD rootkit in 2005," said Mr Hypponen, referring to an earlier scandal that erupted when it was discovered that some Sony music CDs had secretly installed copy protection software on users' computers. Mystery hackers Little is known about the LulSec group, although they have claimed responsibility for recent attacks on several websites in the USA - Fox, PBS and XFactor. It is understood to be a separate organisation from Anonymous, the "hacker collective" which has been linked to a number of high profile web attacks including several on Sony sites. The latest attack has, once again, raised questions about the strength of security employed by Sony and other companies holding sensitive user data. Much of the information taken in the Sony hacks was unencrypted and easily readable. Mike Smart from cryptography specialists Safenet said that many companies were only applying their highest security protocols to data such as credit card numbers. He explained that other "social" information was often given minimal protection. "People can get through the front door. Now we have got to the stage that we need to lock the inside doors and put our documents in a safe.

सोनी अपनी एक वेबसाइट पर एक और हैकिंग हमले की जांच कर रहा है।


Aberdeenshire police find kayaks stolen from events 'across UK'

Summary: Police in Aberdeenshire have recovered a haul of stolen kayaks believed to have been taken from clubs and events across the UK.

The discovery was made at a rural property near Inverurie on 19 April. Officers said the kayaks and associated equipment may have been gathered over a number of years. Inquiries are ongoing into the thefts, with officers working to identify and contact the owners of the equipment. The collection is believed to be worth thousands of pounds. It is understood it was reported to police by a member of the public. No arrests or charges have been made. Police Scotland has appealed for anyone with information to assist them. PC Chris Williamson, from Inverurie police station, said: "We are asking for anyone who has had kayaks or kayaking equipment stolen over the last few years to please get in contact."

एबरडीनशायर में पुलिस ने चोरी किए गए कायकों की एक खेप बरामद की है, जिनके बारे में माना जाता है कि वे पूरे ब्रिटेन में क्लबों और कार्यक्रमों से लिए गए थे।


Delays leave transgender military recruits in limbo

Summary: When then-US Defence Secretary Ash Carter announced last June that transgender people would be permitted to serve openly in the armed forces it was a landmark moment for thousands of troops who had hidden their identities and put off medical treatment, as well as for potential recruits unable to join up.

By Joel GunterBBC News, Washington DC But a year on from that decision, progress opening the armed forces to transgender Americans has stalled amid delays and attacks from congressional Republicans. On the eve of the deadline for the Pentagon to begin allowing new transgender recruits, on the first of this month, Defence Secretary James Mattis announced a six-month delay so that the services could "evaluate more carefully" the impact of transgender troops on "readiness and lethality". Some congressional Republicans celebrated the delay and have since called for the policy to be reversed entirely. Vicky Hartzler, Republican for Missouri, introduced an amendment at the end of June to the National Defense Authorization Act calling for all transgender service members to be honourably discharged and for funds that would have been used for their medical care to be directed to buying new aircraft. Several of Ms Hartzler's Republican colleagues spoke in support of her amendment, which she withdrew at the end of the debate but has promised to reintroduce in the House if the Pentagon does not act unilaterally to ban transgender troops. On Friday, she introduced a new amendment which would bar any military funding from being used to provide medical care related to gender transition, other than for mental health treatment. Her Republican colleague Steve King, Congressman for Iowa, tabled a separate amendment which would ban any funding for gender reassignment surgery or for promotion of what he called the "transgender agenda". The amendments will go before the rules committee on Wednesday. Previous NDAA bills have faced similar, unsuccessful amendments, but efforts by Ms Hartzler and others to restrict medical care for transgender service members come amid uncertainty over the future of the open-service policy. Some conservative advocacy groups praised the decision to delay enlistment by six months. The Family Research Council praised the Pentagon for "hitting the brakes" and called the delay "a good first step" in rolling back inclusive service altogether. 'I was completely blindsided' The new administration's interpretation of the policy change has had an unexpected effect for cadets. When the change was ushered in under the Obama administration, it was assumed that military academy trainees would be regarded as active-duty service members and permitted to come out. But two cadets who graduated last month - one from West Point and the other from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs - were barred from taking up commissions alongside their colleagues and told that they could only join the military in a civil capacity. Riley Dosh trained for four years at West Point, building towards her graduation in May. She came out in December last year, after the policy change. Then just weeks before her graduation ceremony she was told by the Pentagon she would not be allowed to join the army alongside her colleagues, despite having the full support of her command. "I was completely blindsided by it," she says. "It was devastating that I'd gone through all of this work and all of these trials and I wasn't going to be allowed to commission. My entire life was planned out for five to 10 years, and suddenly I was going to be unemployed in three weeks." Ms Dosh is now living with her girlfriend in Fort Hood, looking for work, uncertain about her future. She has no healthcare coverage and is not sure whether the six-month delay applies to her. She has begun transitioning, possibly putting her army career further in doubt. Brad Carson, a former under secretary of defence under President Obama who led the review of transgender military policy, says cadets were supposed to be protected by the policy change. "When you sign up for the military academies you are in the military. You may not have been commissioned but you are in the military," he says. "The country has invested hundred of thousands of dollars in educating and training these cadets," he adds. "It doesn't make any sense for the nation, for the military, or for those people themselves if they are going to be excluded. It would be a very disappointing result." A waiting game One of those waiting is Logan Downs, who first enlisted in 2013 under his birth name, Christine, but was forced to drop out because of a knee injury. After waiting four years, he was planning to visit a recruiting office on July 5th - the first possible day he could re-enlist after the policy change. "There's nothing I can do now personally apart from keep waiting," he says. "They might say in six months that it's delayed again, or it'll never happen. It's a waiting game." In the meantime, he's working as an Uber driver in Vancouver, Washington. He says he trusted that the services wanted the delay "for a good reason". "They're trying to figure out lots of tiny little issues," he says. "The ball is rolling so I'm sure it'll happen." But the delay effectively returns any transgender person wanting to join up to the controversial "don't ask don't tell" policy applied to gay and lesbian service members under the Clinton administration, says Aaron Belkin, director of the Palm Centre, a think-tank which studies the effect of gender and sexuality on the military, "It forces applicants to lie, and even though there's no ban on being in the military, anyone who now comes out as transgender will be vulnerable to the question - why didn't you tell us at the time of enlistment?", he says. "That will have a chilling effect on the ability of transgender troops to be honest and to get healthcare." A 2016 study by the independent Rand Corporation estimated that 2,450 of the 1.2 million active-duty service members are transgender. Critics of inclusive service have focused on the cost of providing medical care, as well as a possible impact on force readiness and lethality. Ms Hartzler told the House Armed Services Committee that surgery for just 30% of transgender service members alone would cost the Pentagon $1.35 billion over the next 10 years - $135m per year. That figure is many times over the one provided by the Rand Corporation, which estimated that the total cost of transitions, including hormone treatment and surgery, would be somewhere between $2.4 million and $8.4 million annually - a 0.04% to 0.13% increase on the active duty healthcare budget. Ms Hartzler's office did not respond to a request for comment. Advocates of inclusive service point to the fact that 18 militaries around the world, including the UK, Canada and Australia, already allow transgender people to enlist and serve openly. Matt Thorn, executive director of LGBT advocacy group OutServe, says that any further delay in joining that group would be unacceptable. "We will be watching very very closely what decisions and actions the Pentagon takes over these next six months. We can understand giving them six more months to continue a review, but we are holding them accountable for implementing the policy in January 2018. We won't tolerate an extra delay."

जब तत्कालीन अमेरिकी रक्षा सचिव एश कार्टर ने पिछले जून में घोषणा की थी कि ट्रांसजेंडर लोगों को सशस्त्र बलों में खुले तौर पर सेवा करने की अनुमति दी जाएगी, तो यह उन हजारों सैनिकों के लिए एक ऐतिहासिक क्षण था जिन्होंने अपनी पहचान छिपाई थी और चिकित्सा उपचार को रोक दिया था, साथ ही साथ संभावित भर्तियों के लिए भी जो शामिल होने में असमर्थ थे।


Two boys arrested after 14-year-old stabbed in Glasgow park

Summary: Two teenagers have been arrested and charged after a 14-year-old boy was stabbed in a Glasgow park.

The boy remains in a "serious but stable" condition at the Royal Hospital for Children after the incident at King's Park on Friday afternoon. Police Scotland said two boys, aged 13 and 14, had been charged in connection with a serious assault. Officers are continuing their inquires to identify everyone involved in the incident. Emergency services were called to the park, in the south side of the city, at about 15:40 on Friday. Related Internet Links Police Scotland

ग्लासगो पार्क में एक 14 वर्षीय लड़के को चाकू मारने के बाद दो किशोरों को गिरफ्तार किया गया है और उन पर आरोप लगाया गया है।


It's the Oscars 2021 - but how many people have seen the main films?

Summary: It's Hollywood's biggest night on Sunday - the Oscars - when stars are anointed and future classics crowned. Except this year the pandemic, and a longer-term trend away from mass-market movies, mean the nominated films have struggled to cut through.

By Ian YoungsEntertainment & arts reporter In case it passed you by, the leading contender for the Academy Awards this year with 10 nominations - four more than any other film - is Mank, Netflix's black-and-white homage to old Hollywood, starring Gary Oldman as Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz. It's a movie about the making of one of the greatest movies ever made - the type of film the Oscars like, even if others are less keen. Mank doesn't appear in the top 500 most popular films on streaming platforms over the past 12 months, according to Flix Patrol, a site that tries to measure the popularity of streaming films. The site gives points based on how long films have spent in the main platforms' top 10 lists, and in how many countries - not a perfect method, but about the best we've got given that streaming services, unlike cinema box offices, don't release useful audience figures. Mank has 69 points - compared with 1,700 for the film currently in 500th place, Daniel Radcliffe's 2020 drama Escape From Pretoria. Just one of Mank's points has come from the US - meaning in America, according to Flix Patrol, the film has spent one day in the Netflix top 10 since its release in December, and that was in 10th place. Mank has succeeded in earning valuable prestige for Netflix, but it has been "almost invisible" to most viewers, according to Flix Patrol founder Tomáš Vyskočil. "I was surprised that I was not recommended Mank during the premiere [period]," he says. "Usually new releases from Netflix are pushed to people from left and right, even when your taste would be different, but not with Mank." 'More are watching Thunder Force' Netflix's other Academy Award contenders include Aaron Sorkin's courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, starring Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis as 1920s blues musicians; plus Hillbilly Elegy and Pieces of a Woman which have acting nominations for Glenn Close and Vanessa Kirby respectively. But none set the streaming rankings alight. Vyskočil says Netflix has managed to achieve the magic combination of critical acclaim and audience popularity with some TV shows - but less so with films. "With movies this year, they're only for a couple of nerds or film lovers, and more people are actually watching Thunder Force." Despite its nominations, Mank isn't actually predicted to go home with many Oscars on Sunday. Of the other best picture nominees, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is highest in Flix Patrol's top 500, in 262nd place. It has also been out for longest. In the US, where the Oscar films have been out longer, Promising Young Women - which stars Carey Mulligan as a woman avenging the rape of her best friend - has performed the best since the nominations were announced in March, according to the site. The frontrunner for the top award is Nomadland, a quietly compelling portrait of a woman, played by Frances McDormand, who lives in a van after losing her job, her husband and her entire home town. It is also the only best picture nominee to appear in a new US weekly top 10 that counts movies on subscription streaming services, which ratings body Nielsen has published for streams between late December and late March. In its first two weeks on Hulu, Nomadland was watched for 236 million minutes, Nielsen said - the equivalent of 2.2 million full viewings. That's pretty good - but it's dwarfed by releases like Soul, which is up for best animated film but not best picture and was watched the equivalent of 30 million times in its first two weeks; and I Care A Lot, which earned Rosamund Pike a Golden Globe but not an Oscar nomination and was watched 13.5 million times in its opening fortnight. Find out about the nominees: Most of the main Oscar contenders are low-key in both tone and in profile. "You had quite a number of fairly depressing movies this year," says Sharon Waxman, founder of Hollywood site The Wrap. "But it's not a new phenomenon that very small arthouse movies dominate at the Oscars. That dates back at least a decade. "The major studios are no longer in the business of making character-based dramas or character-driven films of the kind that speak to the art of film. The major studios are in the business of making huge blockbuster franchises." Of the past five best picture winners - Parasite, Green Book, The Shape of Water, Moonlight and Spotlight - most could be filed as "small arthouse movies". The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tried to address this by expanding the best picture category in 2010, and hits like Joker, Black Panther and Bohemian Rhapsody have been nominated in recent years. But the days when juggernauts like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Gladiator and Titanic (or, going further back, Forrest Gump, Schindler's List and The Silence of the Lambs) conquered the Oscars seem long ago. It's no coincidence that TV ratings for the ceremony are also on a steady decline. They could plummet this year if they go the way of the Golden Globes, for which the US audience dropped by 60% at the end of February. "It's a really tough year for cultural resonance for movies, and that includes the Oscar movies," says Waxman. "Very simply, the movies were not in movie theatres to be able to become the subject of cultural conversation." That was, of course, down to the pandemic. Studios have delayed many major releases until cinemas are fully open. Most of those would not have been Oscar-worthy, but some might have been in the mix. They include Steven Spielberg's new version of West Side Story; a big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's pre-Hamilton musical In the Heights, and a remake of Dune starring Timothée Chalamet. The films that did come out "never really got to blossom out there in the mass public consciousness" because much of the "machinery" of the movie industry was absent, Waxman explains. "You need the critics, the festivals, the theatrical openings, the marketing, the PR," she adds. "All of those things together are what drives that conversation, and about three quarters of that was missing this year." US radio and podcast host Chris Booker says he has "very little awareness of any of the nominations" this year. "In past years, most would say, 'Heard of it, but never seen it,'" he says. "This year, it's, 'I've never even heard of it.'" The Oscars are becoming "less and less" relevant, he believes - partly because there's so much choice on streaming, and the fact that "TV shows are king at the moment". 'It's just right there' Travis Bean, who writes about film for Forbes, has also come up with a points system to rank streaming films. He agrees that Oscar movies "haven't really been performing as well in the streaming market". But this crop would hardly have been expected to perform strongly at the box office either, he says. And given that so many people have streaming subscriptions, films like Nomadland have probably reached more people than if cinemas had been open, Bean adds. "So many people can just access it if they have the subscription," he says. "It's just right there. I know a lot of people who wouldn't normally watch these kinds of movies - and it's there, and they have seen it. "For the movie that's expected to win best picture to just to be there for anybody, it's really interesting, and it gives it a kind of popularity that's different." The Academy Awards take place on Sunday 25 April. Follow live updates on the BBC News website from 23:30 BST (15:30 PT) on the night. Follow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

यह रविवार की हॉलीवुड की सबसे बड़ी रात है-ऑस्कर-जब सितारों को अभिषिक्त किया जाता है और भविष्य के क्लासिक्स को ताज पहनाया जाता है। इस साल महामारी और बड़े पैमाने पर बाजार की फिल्मों से दूर एक दीर्घकालिक प्रवृत्ति को छोड़कर, इसका मतलब है कि नामांकित फिल्मों ने कटौती करने के लिए संघर्ष किया है।


Leicester park attack: Boy denies rape and attempted murder

Summary: A teenager accused of raping and attempting to murder a woman in a city park has appeared in court.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be named because of his age, was detained after the woman was found in Victoria Park, Leicester, early on 4 July. At Leicester Crown Court, he denied two counts of rape and one of attempted murder, and entered a not guilty plea to robbing the woman of her handbag. He is due to face trial, presided over by a High Court judge, on 4 December. Live updates and more news in the East Midlands Judge Nicholas Dean QC remanded the youth in custody until a pre-trial hearing in November.

शहर के एक पार्क में एक महिला के साथ बलात्कार और हत्या का प्रयास करने का आरोपी एक किशोर अदालत में पेश हुआ है।


Janet Muller death: Christopher Jeffrey-Shaw pleads not guilty to murder

Summary: A man accused of killing a woman whose body was found in the boot of a burning car has pleaded not guilty to her murder.

Janet Muller, 21, from Eastbourne, was found in a Volkswagen Jetta in Ifield, West Sussex, on 13 March. The University of Brighton student died from smoke inhalation. Christopher Jeffrey-Shaw, 26, from Lakeside, Beckenham in south London, will face a trial at Guildford Crown Court on 15 February.

एक महिला की हत्या के आरोपी एक व्यक्ति, जिसका शव एक जलती हुई कार के बूट में पाया गया था, ने उसकी हत्या के लिए दोषी नहीं होने का अनुरोध किया है।


Drivers facing parking charges in Holywell, Flintshire

Summary: Drivers in a Flintshire town now have to pay to park in council-owned car parks.

Holywell has joined Mold and Buckley in having pay and display meters and Connah's Quay, Queensferry and Shotton are set to get them in October. The council approved introducing the charges in April in a bid to raise funds and prevent congestion. Flintshire council has faced a budget cut of £18m.

फ्लिन्टशायर शहर में चालकों को अब परिषद के स्वामित्व वाले कार पार्कों में पार्क करने के लिए भुगतान करना पड़ता है।


Covid-19: 'There is a pandemic but we still need to be open'

Summary: On Monday, the prime minister announced the return of a national lockdown and tougher coronavirus restrictions. Many businesses have had to close again but, for those who can stay open, what differences are they seeing this time compared to the lockdown of spring 2020?

'A little bit of normality' Dr Teresa Day says her dental clinic in Milton Keynes remains fully open this time. During the first lockdown in March, dentists had to stop all but emergency treatment. Dr Day says she is "still seeing a backlog" of patients who were unable to get a routine appointment during the first lockdown. "If you don't have regular dental care you are storing up problems for the future," she says. "We've seen a number of patients who've been living with pain for some time." As well as using increased levels of personal protective equipment and checking for coronavirus symptoms, the surgery carries out an initial consultation with patients via a video call. Dr Day says this allows the practice to spread out day-to-day appointments when people visit the building "so we know we are being clean and we work much more efficiently". "It brings a little bit of normality into people's lives when they can get out to do these sort of things," she adds. 'Fully sanitised before we start' Car garages have been able to open throughout the pandemic, but some closed during March and April due to a lack of business and safety fears. Aaron Phillips, who runs a MOT and repair centre in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, says when he was closed during the spring 2020 lockdown as it was "all very scary, very new and we didn't have the processes in place as we do now". He says when he reopened "we changed the way we were doing things", including measures such as mechanics wearing masks and gloves, increased hand-washing and use of hand sanitiser. "We're fully sanitising the vehicles before we start work on them," he says. Mr Phillips says it is important for key workers and people who are unable to work from home to keep their cars roadworthy and those not driving as much should still get problems checked. "Something as simple as a noise from the brakes can develop into replacing the brake pads and the brake discs, or even causing an accident," he says. "The NHS have enough to deal with without problems caused by people not feeling safe to get their cars worked on and roadworthy." 'We need to be open' During lockdown home owners and tenants are still able to move house and estate agents can remain open. Arika McCulloch, an estate agent in Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, says one of her priorities is the rented sector. "We need to make sure we are here if our tenants if they have got heating or water issues," she says. "We can't leave anyone that's vulnerable in this pandemic without any heating or hot water. "There is a pandemic, but life still goes on and we still need to be open." Ms McCulloch says people are moving house because of a change in circumstance, such as a new job or a growing family, but the pandemic has "changed people's minds" about where they want to live. "People are coming out of London. They want extra space, they're using extra bedrooms as an office, they want to be in the open rural area," she says. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk

सोमवार को, प्रधान मंत्री ने एक राष्ट्रीय लॉकडाउन और सख्त कोरोनावायरस प्रतिबंधों की वापसी की घोषणा की। कई व्यवसायों को फिर से बंद करना पड़ा है, लेकिन जो खुले रह सकते हैं, उनके लिए वे 2020 के वसंत के लॉकडाउन की तुलना में इस बार क्या अंतर देख रहे हैं?


Sky-high thinking for African internet

Summary: How do you solve a problem like broadband in Africa?

By Dave LeeTechnology reporter, BBC News Some believe it's by looking up to the heavens. Not in hope of divine intervention, but as an opportunity: satellite-powered broadband could be the answer to Africa's connectivity conundrum. The internet is, as one US senator once put it, a series of tubes. His comments went down in internet folklore and were roundly mocked - but his remarks were loosely true. For the internet to get around the world it needs cables - lots of them. They cost millions, span entire oceans and meander across deserts. Many are laid through some of the world's most volatile areas, such as Syria. So when it comes to connecting Africa to the high-speed information super-highway, the enormity of the task cannot be over-exaggerated. Under the sea In the past few years, the continent has benefited from major investment into its internet economy. Since 2009, three high-speed internet cables have been laid across the ocean, reaching out from Europe and Asia, and bringing huge speed increases - not to mention lower costs - to east Africa. Kenya has arguably made the most of this connectivity. In just 12 months after the installation of the high-speed cables, the number of Kenyans on broadband rocketed from 1.8 million to more than 3 million. With a lot of businesses now able to set themselves up and serve customers online, savings were able to be made across the board. But cables are expensive - and they break. Earlier this year, cables linking east Africa to the Middle East and Europe were severed in an accident. Internet users' connectivity suffered for more than three weeks - with data transfer rates in nine countries taking a serious, crippling hit. Such long-term technical problems undermine Africa's credibility as a potential future global technology hub. Coupled with the logistical barrier associated with enabling internet connections in the most rural parts of Africa, and it's arguable that a rethink is desperately needed. Up into space Avanti's rethink launched into space on 2 August. The company says its satellite, Hylas 2, will bring high speed connectivity to southern and eastern Africa, the Middle East and the central Asia. The growth potential for businesses on the ground, Avanti chief executive David Williams says, is simply enormous. "We have always believed there is a huge opportunity for satellite communications services in emerging markets because growth for data and voice services is high whilst supply of telecoms network capacity is low," Mr Williams says. "This is very attractive to Government and enterprise customers, particularly those working in oil, mining, agriculture, banking and security sectors." The satellite is the company's second to reach orbit. The first, Hylas 1, went up in 2010, and the company plans another - Hylas 3 - for 2015. Hylas is shorthand for "Highly Adaptable Satellite", an apt name which describes one of its key attributes - the ability to direct its beams to different areas of the continent in order to satisfy demand. All of the satellites utilise the Ka-band frequency, which operates in the 30Ghz section of the radio spectrum. Avanti says this means it is able to offer 99.9% uptime, no matter what the weather conditions may be. It is hoped that the satellites build on the progress brought by the undersea cables and lower the cost of broadband further, be it residential users or those running a business. Although costs have become far cheaper since cable installations, broadband is still prohibitively expensive. For example, in Kenya, a small business broadband connection can cost around £60 a month for a relatively slow connection of 256kb per second. Better than the West With the new satellites, Avanti says it can offer 8MB connection speeds for around £20 - a dramatic rise in speed coupled with what some believe is a game-changing drop in price. "Whatever the investments that you see happening, they will [all] make the internet cheaper," says Paul Kukubo, chief executive of the Kenyan ICT board. "The internet is getting cheaper anyway," he tells the BBC. "It's getting cheaper on two accounts - investments and also the economies of scale. "As more people get connected, it's more effective financially to actually invest and therefore the internet gets cheaper." He argued that lessons can be learned from the mobile networks who, with enhanced technology, were able to offer individuals and businesses attractively-priced internet connectivity, even in rural areas. As a result, Africa has in fact left the developed world in its wake when it comes to adopting breakthrough mobile technologies - particularly mobile payments such as the hugely popular M-Pesa system. In Angola, this kind of mobile connectivity is being taken to the next level. In partnership with Chinese telecoms firm ZTE, the country is rolling out 4G mobile infrastructure. It means Angola, which just over 10 years ago was in the grip of a civil war, will offer its citizens better and faster mobile coverage than is currently on offer in London. Other countries, like Namibia, are attempting to follow suit. Africa's surge in mobile internet use can be repeated in the fixed broadband world, Mr Kukubo says. "We've got good examples of people who have made money by providing connectivity to the rural communities," he said. "The large telephone networks have priced their products in a way that allows people to access it through cellphones." He believes that by encouraging more businesses to adopt broadband services, the knock-on effect will see a significant change in costs as prices are lowered across the board. "As consumers [learn] what to do online, you get greater usage, and that usage also drives the prices down, and also drives greater business applications, greater consumer applications.

आप अफ्रीका में ब्रॉडबैंड जैसी समस्या को कैसे हल करते हैं?


Peace remains a distant dream in Afghanistan

Summary: This country has been at war for 40 years. As a result, Afghans form what's widely reported to be the second largest group of people trying to make their way to a new and more peaceful life in Europe. Only Syrians outnumber them.

John SimpsonWorld affairs editor In Kabul, a man of 75 stands looking at the heap of rubble where his house stood until it was destroyed by a Taliban bomb last month. Now he has nowhere to live, and exists on the charity of friends. Mohammed Nasim's two nephews were killed and 17 other family members were injured when a tonne of explosives, presumably intended for the army intelligence barracks opposite, went off in the middle of the night. Half a dozen houses were wiped out, and more than 200 people killed or injured. "There's no future for me or my family in this country," Mohammed Nasim says. "I don't feel safe here any more. They have to give us asylum somewhere else. This will happen somewhere else tomorrow, and we can't get away from it." Realistically, he's too old to leave. But thousands upon thousands of younger people feel there's no future for them here in Afghanistan. They try to get visas for Iran, and then make their way from there into Turkey, and on to Greece, Bulgaria or Romania. It's arduous and the dangers can be great, but they believe it's better than hanging on in a country that is ceaselessly at war. No winners The only effective way to stop them would be to make Afghanistan peaceful and prosperous again - something that the Russians, the Americans, the British and a dozen other countries have not succeeded in doing since the 1970s. So how close is Afghanistan to peace? The sad answer is that it doesn't seem any closer than it has for years past. The Taliban certainly aren't winning this war. The trouble is, neither is the government. Kabul today is a city in a state of heightened nerves. Crazy rumours do the rounds continually. One particularly strong one is that the bomb that destroyed Mohammed Nasim's house was dropped deliberately by a Pakistani or even an American plane. The level of threat is high. Ministers, officials and the relatively few Western soldiers who are still based here travel round Kabul by helicopter to avoid the possible dangers of the streets. They clatter backwards and forwards overhead, hundreds of feet above the gridlock and heat of the Kabul streets. The past few weeks have seen a big increase in Taliban attacks. Yet the Taliban seem no closer to achieving their aims here. They had assumed that over the past year, when the American, British and other forces withdrew and a new and untried President, Ashraf Ghani, had come to power, would be their big chance: the government would never be weaker, and they themselves would never be stronger. But it hasn't turned out that way. The Taliban have captured six district centres, it's true - but they've lost five to the government forces. According to European diplomats, the police intelligence force, the NDS, has managed to stop at least a fifth of all Taliban attacks. This has been one of the big success stories of the past year. Who are the Taliban? Now a bitter split has opened up within the Taliban leadership. The top leaders managed to hide the news for two years that their leader, Mullah Omar, had died of TB in 2013. As soon as it leaked out, last July, there was uproar within the Taliban. One faction now wants Mullah Omar's son and brother to take control of the movement, while another wants Omar's deputy, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, to succeed. In the meantime there's a steady flow of defections to so-called Islamic State, which is still only a bit-part player in Afghanistan. Manam Niazai, a leading Taliban figure who supports Mullah Omar's family, told me he thought the defections would be temporary. "Most of the people who have switched to Islamic State in the provinces of Nangahar, Helmand and Farah have done so because of Mullah Mansour, the man who has declared himself to be the new Taliban leader," he said. "If there's a new leadership there'll be no place for Islamic State. These are all our friends, and they'll come back to us again." He insisted that there were no real links between the Afghan version of Islamic State, and the movement in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. You might think that a major split in the ranks of the Taliban would help the government. In fact it makes things even harder. The government of President Ghani badly needs to open substantive peace talks with the Taliban - it's the only way forward. But for now there's no-one to talk to. People like Mohammed Nasim, the victim of the Taliban bomb, feel this proves that Afghanistan will never be at peace. And until that perception changes, the flood of Afghans to Europe will continue.

यह देश 40 वर्षों से युद्ध में है। इसके परिणामस्वरूप, अफगान लोगों का दूसरा सबसे बड़ा समूह है जो व्यापक रूप से यूरोप में एक नए और अधिक शांतिपूर्ण जीवन के लिए अपना रास्ता बनाने की कोशिश कर रहा है। केवल सीरियाई लोगों की संख्या उनसे अधिक है।


Trump ban: 'Everyone matters to God,' religious groups say

Summary: He may have secured the votes of four out of five white evangelical Christians and a majority of white Catholics, but President Donald Trump's decision to issue an executive order barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries and blocking all refugees from Syria is attracting criticism from across the spectrum of religious belief.

By Martin BashirReligious Affairs Correspondent The Reverend Samuel Rodriguez, who prayed at Mr Trump's inauguration and is president of the world's largest Hispanic Christian organisation, representing more than 100 million evangelicals, is signatory to a group letter asking Mr Trump to reconsider his suspension of refugee resettlement. The letter, signed by eight other Christian leaders, says: "The Bible teaches us that each person - including each refugee, regardless of their country of origin, religious background, or any other qualifier - is made in the Image of God, with inherent dignity and potential. "Their lives matter to God, and they matter to us." Another clergyman who took part in the presidential inauguration, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, told reporters on Sunday that the executive order "at first blush causes us some apprehension". Cardinal Dolan, who has been described as a friend of the president, said he needed time to hear the views of legal experts before consolidating a final opinion. The United States' largest Muslim civil rights organisation, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), denounced Mr Trump's order and has filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of more than 20 individuals whom it believes have been unconstitutionally prevented from entering the United States. The lawsuit, which was filed in a US District Court in Virginia, says the executive order is unconstitutional because "its apparent purpose and underlying motive is to ban people of the Islamic faith in Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States". These criticisms are being echoed in Britain. At the annual dinner of charity World Jewish Relief, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis condemned Mr Trump's action. "President Trump has signed an executive order that seeks to discriminate based totally on religion or nationality," he said. "We as Jews, perhaps more than any others, know what it's like to be the victims of discrimination." He added: "There are so many millions of refugees who are receiving no hope from the United States of America, of all countries." The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, issued a statement expressing shock at the new immigration restrictions. "It is extraordinary that any civilised country should stigmatise and ban citizens of other nations in the matter of providing humanitarian protection. "In Christ, we are called to welcome the stranger especially when in desperate need." On the same day as Mr Trump issued his order, he gave an interview to the Christian Broadcasting Network in which he claimed that his actions were not designed to discriminate against Muslims but instead to offer support to Christians, whom he said had been "horribly treated". "If you were a Christian in Syria," he went on, "it was impossible, at least very, very tough, to get in the United States". "If you were a Muslim, you could come in. But if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible." Figures from the Refugee Processing Center do show that as far as Syria is concerned, just a few dozen Christians entered the US in 2016 compared with 15,000 Muslims. But Christians make up fewer than 10% of the Syrian population and the UNHCR notes that they are less likely to seek refuge via its programme. However, when other countries are taken into account, the US admitted almost as many Christian refugees (37,521) as Muslim refugees (38,901) in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center. In addition to referencing facts, several Church leaders are appealing to theology to defend their opposition to Mr Trump's order. Dr Tim Keller, the minister of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York and the author of Generous Justice, argues that the parable of the Good Samaritan in the New Testament explains why offering assistance to those in need must be a bedrock of Christian faith and practice. "By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew," he writes, "Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. "Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour." Correction 9 March 2017: This article has been updated to include specific figures for Syrian refugees going to the US.

हो सकता है कि उन्होंने पांच में से चार श्वेत इंजील ईसाइयों और अधिकांश श्वेत कैथोलिकों के वोट हासिल किए हों, लेकिन राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प का सात मुस्लिम बहुल देशों के आप्रवासियों को प्रतिबंधित करने और सीरिया से सभी शरणार्थियों को अवरुद्ध करने का कार्यकारी आदेश जारी करने का निर्णय धार्मिक विश्वास के स्पेक्ट्रम से आलोचना को आकर्षित कर रहा है।


Why did the PM's wife need an aide?

Summary: Among the names on a leaked list claiming to be former PM David Cameron's resignation honours is his wife's special adviser Isabel Spearman - widely described in newspaper reports as her stylist. Why would the prime minister's spouse need her own staff?

When Isabel Spearman was appointed special advisor to the prime minister's wife in 2010, on a reported salary of £60,000 - covered largely by taxpayers' money - it raised some eyebrows. Known to friends and acquaintances as "Bells", the former PR executive was a trusted and well-connected choice, having previously worked for both Mrs Cameron's mother and a close friend. Her role, reports claimed, was to curate Mrs Cameron's wardrobe and image - but a more accurate job title may have been executive assistant or even "chief of staff". Profiles paint her as a shrewd, organised and influential member of Downing Street staff; a personal confidante to Mrs Cameron, responsible for everything from running her busy diary to handling correspondence, to organising official events - her "Girl Friday", as the Evening Standard put it. It is a role that "absolutely matters", says brand psychologist Jonathan Gabay. "If we look over the pond at US presidential elections, we see that the spouse is clearly a very powerful figure. People are fascinated by what makes political leaders tick, and the partner is key to that. "Managing and branding them well is essential for today's political market. "It didn't come across at any point that she was trying to steal the limelight. She had to be appropriate to the message her husband was trying to get across." Mrs Cameron is not alone in having her own staff paid for by the public purse. Sarah Brown had three employees. According to the Guardian, Michelle Obama has a team of no less than 24 - although the office of First Lady is viewed as a much more significant role than that of the UK prime minister's wife. Author and commentator Sonia Purnell, who looked closely at British PM's spouses when writing First Lady, a biography of Churchill's wife Clementine, says many have found navigating the role a difficult task. Harold Wilson's wife Mary, for example, was initially so overawed at being the prime minister's wife that she would be physically sick every morning. 'Meek and retiring' During her time at No 10, Mrs Cameron hosted regular receptions for volunteers, patronised several charities, and was also an ambassador for the British Fashion Council. But Ms Purnell feels Samantha Cameron's interpretation of the role has still been far too hands off. "There is no job description. Cherie Blair said as much. But I would say it's a disappointment when spouses don't do anything with it. You do have a platform, and it's beholden on you to do something with that." She argues that Mrs Cameron's public persona came across as "meek and retiring" compared with someone like Michelle Obama, who has carved out her own issues to campaign on. Style commentator Professor Sarah Niblock, from the University of Westminster, agrees that while Mrs Cameron's public image has been carefully managed - "dignified, prudent, and often in Tory blue" - she has failed to convey authenticity or personality. "A stylist should help someone project who they are. Their values and qualities. The problem is that we haven't really heard anything of Samantha Cameron. We don't know what she's like..." It is fair to say that Samantha Cameron has not generally given interviews or made speeches. It is also true, however, that she has largely avoided public faux pas, despite having been in the public eye for more than six years. She received criticism from some quarters in 2011 for not wearing a hat to the Royal Wedding, and again in June for wearing a sleeveless dress to the Queen's 90th birthday service at St Paul's Cathedral, but has otherwise survived the intense scrutiny of the media relatively unscathed. And Prof Niblock acknowledges that Mrs Cameron was seen to promote British designers and often wore high street brands. But she argues it was not enough to warrant awarding her assistant with a gong. "I cannot see how she has added anything to the British zeitgeist or furthering women and British life. "But we don't know what the brief was. If the brief was for Samantha Cameron to just sit there on her husband's arm and not rock the boat, particularly after Cherie Blair perhaps, maybe she has earned her award." All Mr Cameron's nominations for honours will be reviewed by an independent board, but his supporters say all of those on his list deserve recognition. "These people will have worked under intense pressure in No 10, where everything is required yesterday, immediately," Conservative MP Sir Desmond Swayne told the BBC. "You don't take holidays, you don't leave at the end of the day. It's an extraordinary environment and atmosphere." 'Difficult line' And the ex-prime minister is not alone in having rewarded Downing Street staffers in a resignation honours list, journalist Andrew Gimson, a contributing editor for Conservative Home, points out. In 1997, Sir John Major rewarded a number of former staff, while in 1990 Margaret Thatcher recognised staff including her personal physician and her cleaner. As for Mrs Cameron, Mr Gimson argues she and her staff managed to maintain a professional and self-possessed appearance at all times, and credits her with being a shrewd business woman - with a healthy desire to keep out of politics. "She looked elegant, she never embarrassed and we never knew what she thought about anything. Most of us by a special effort could carry that off for a day or two. But it can become very tiresome. And one lapse and you can be all over the Daily Mail. "She managed to tread an incredibly difficult line. I admire that."

पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री डेविड कैमरन के इस्तीफे का सम्मान होने का दावा करने वाली एक लीक सूची में उनकी पत्नी की विशेष सलाहकार इसाबेल स्पीयरमैन के नाम शामिल हैं-जिन्हें अखबारों की रिपोर्टों में व्यापक रूप से उनके स्टाइलिस्ट के रूप में वर्णित किया गया है। प्रधानमंत्री की पत्नी को अपने स्वयं के कर्मचारियों की आवश्यकता क्यों होगी?


Woodbridge renovation death: Dale Baker named as man who died

Summary: A man who died when part of a building fell on to him in a back garden has been named as 30-year-old Dale Baker.

The wall collapsed during renovation work at the home in Haughgate Close, in Woodbridge, Suffolk, at about 16:30 GMT on Tuesday. Emergency services attended but Mr Baker, from Felixstowe, was pronounced dead at the scene. A joint investigation is being carried out by Suffolk Police and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). After the incident, a neighbour, who did not want to be named, told the BBC there had been building works happening for the past couple of weeks. Find BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk

पिछवाड़े के बगीचे में एक इमारत का हिस्सा गिरने से मरने वाले व्यक्ति का नाम 30 वर्षीय डेल बेकर है।


Pedestrian killed in M8 accident near Bathgate is identified

Summary: A 33-year-old pedestrian who died after being struck by a van on the M8 has been identified.

Alan McDonald, from Glasgow, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident near Bathgate in West Lothian at about 18:20 on Tuesday. The road was closed for about seven hours and a police appeal for witnesses is still ongoing. Sgt Andrew Trotter said they would continue to support Mr McDonald's family at a "difficult time". "The investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash continues and I would ask anyone who has any information that they get in contact with officers," he said. "I would appeal to those who have possible dashcam footage of the area to come forward and speak to police."

एम8 पर एक वैन की चपेट में आने से मरने वाले एक 33 वर्षीय पैदल यात्री की पहचान कर ली गई है।


Charles Dickens celebrated in Isle of Man stamp collection

Summary: Arguably the most famous novelist of the Victorian era has been celebrated in a new set of Isle of Man stamps featuring Charles Dickens.

The collection marks the 150th anniversary of the Oliver Twist and Great Expectations author's death. One stamp includes a portrait of the author and others depict scenes from his classic, A Christmas Carol. Cindy Sughrue, of the Charles Dickens Museum, said the set celebrated "the timeless qualities" of the story. The collectible stamps have been released by Isle of Man Post Office in conjunction with the London museum. They feature characters including Ebenezer Scrooge, Fezziwig and the ghost of Jacob Marley, who were first introduced to readers some 175 years ago. Why not follow BBC Isle of Man on Facebook and Twitter? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk

यकीनन विक्टोरियन युग के सबसे प्रसिद्ध उपन्यासकार को चार्ल्स डिकेंस की विशेषता वाले आइल ऑफ मैन टिकटों के एक नए सेट में मनाया गया है।


Prestatyn's Nova Centre revamp to start in January

Summary: Work on a new gym, cafe and pool-side changing rooms is due to start at a Denbighshire leisure centre in January.

The former Nova Centre in Prestatyn shut in February after the trust running it had its funding pulled by Denbighshire council. It has confirmed the revamp will take place from 5 January after agreeing £4.2m in funding in October. Three promenade-side retail units will also be built as part of the plans. "The redevelopment of the Nova Centre is an important piece of the jigsaw in our vision to develop the leisure offer on the coast," said councillor Huw Jones, cabinet lead member for leisure. The work is expected to be complete by July.

जनवरी में डेनबिघशायर अवकाश केंद्र में एक नए जिम, कैफे और पूल-साइड चेंजिंग रूम पर काम शुरू होने वाला है।


The best space images of 2019

Summary: With some blockbuster space missions under way, 2019 saw some amazing images beamed back to Earth from around the Solar System. Meanwhile, some of our most powerful telescopes were trained on the Universe's most fascinating targets. Here are a few of the best.

By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website Up in the clouds Nasa's Juno spacecraft has been sending back stunning images of Jupiter's clouds since it arrived in orbit around the giant planet in 2016. This amazing, colour-enhanced view shows patterns that look like they were created by paper marbling. The picture was compiled from four separate images taken by the spacecraft on 29 May. At the time, Juno was making a close pass of the fifth world from the Sun, approaching to between 18,600km (11,600 miles) and 8,600km (5,400 miles) of the swirling cloud tops. The image above shows swirling clouds that surround a circular feature within a jet stream region on Jupiter. The snowman After its swing-by exploration of Pluto in 2015, Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft was sent after a different target in the distant Kuiper Belt, which lies beyond the orbit of Neptune. This belt is populated by thousands of primitive, icy objects that provide insights into the very beginnings of our Solar System. Scientists settled on an object called MU 69, which had only been discovered in 2014. MU 69 (later called Ultima Thule, and now Arrokoth) turned out to be a 39km-long "contact binary", composed of two different icy balls that collided at low speed. The reddish colouration is caused by organic compounds called tholins on the surface. Stellar fireworks Eta Carinae is a star system located around 7,500 light-years away. It consists of at least two stars that, combined, emit about five million times more energy than our Sun. One of the stars has been releasing hot gas that has expanded into a pair of ballooning lobes. For decades, astronomers have wondered whether it is on the brink of destruction, and will erupt in a violent supernova. This latest image of the stellar fireworks display was released this year, and was taken by the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. Martian selfie Nasa's Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale Crater on Mars since 2012. The robot took this "selfie" as it explored the slopes of Mount Sharp - a mountain that forms the central peak of the impact depression. Two samples of rock drilled from this site showed exceptionally high amounts of clay minerals. Clay often forms in the presence of water, which is a key ingredient for life. Previous evidence had shown that water once pooled in Gale Crater. Far side of the Moon On 3 January this year, China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft became the first mission to perform a soft landing on the far side of the Moon. A few days after the touchdown, cameras on the robotic rover and its lander were commanded to take photos of one another. The spacecraft were carrying cameras, a radar to probe beneath the lunar surface, a spectrometer for identifying minerals and a live experiment to grow plants in a mini-biosphere. In May, Chinese scientists reported that Chang'e-4 had confirmed a longstanding idea about the origin of a vast crater on the Moon's far side where the mission landed. A galactic rival This image taken by the Hubble telescope shows a spiral galaxy called NGC 772, which lies 130 million light-years away. NGC 772 has much in common with our own Milky Way galaxy. For instance, both the Milky Way and NGC 772 have small satellite galaxies, which closely orbit their parent galaxies. However, the two are also different in a few key ways. For example, NGC 772 lacks a central feature called a bar, which is built of gas and stars and is thought to help funnel material through the core of a galaxy - perhaps fuelling star formation. We are sailing LightSail is a project developed by the non-profit organisation The Planetary Society. Its purpose is to demonstrate solar sailing in low-Earth orbit. Solar sails are a long-discussed way of propelling spacecraft. The sails exploit the fact that sunlight exerts pressure on a mirrored surface. This can, in theory, be used for propulsion in a way that's akin to a sail being blown by the wind. LightSail 2 was launched on 25 June 2019. This image shows the sail after its deployment on 23 July. Follow Paul on Twitter. .

कुछ ब्लॉकबस्टर अंतरिक्ष मिशनों के साथ, 2019 में सौर मंडल के आसपास से पृथ्वी पर वापस आने वाली कुछ अद्भुत छवियां देखी गईं। इस बीच, हमारे कुछ सबसे शक्तिशाली दूरबीनों को ब्रह्मांड के सबसे आकर्षक लक्ष्यों पर प्रशिक्षित किया गया था। यहाँ कुछ सर्वश्रेष्ठ हैं।


Clive Sullivan: The man who broke rugby's racial barrier

Summary: It is 45 years since Clive Sullivan led the nation to Rugby League World Cup victory. On the day the 2017 tournament kicks off, BBC News looks at how as captain of Great Britain he helped break down barriers.

By Trevor GibbonsBBC News When the 18-year-old Welsh winger joined Hull FC in 1961, there were very few black men in prominent sporting positions. But scoring a hat-trick in a trial game with the team certainly put Sullivan on the map and he signed a contract the following day. So began a career that 11 years later, in 1972, would see him raise the Rugby League World Cup trophy as Great Britain captain - the last occasion the trophy was won by any nation other than Australia or New Zealand. "Sullivan's appointment [as captain] was extraordinary for the time," said Martin Polley, director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University. "A few professional football teams had black players by this time, like Clyde Best at West Ham. "But the England football team were six years away from even picking a black player for the senior team. "There were some exceptions in boxing and cricket, but not many had made it through." James Oddy, author of a new biography on Sullivan, described him as a "pioneer in the social history of British sport". "Clive did a lot for how society judged black athletes, he blazed a trail. "One of his heroes was Muhammad Ali and perhaps that meant he was more aware than you might have thought about his role. "Above all, he was a true professional." Yet Sullivan's success did not bring national attention. After the team won the World Cup in France, it was a low-key return. With £50 in his pocket for winning the tournament - about £600 in today's money - he went back to work at an aircraft factory in Brough, though he did take the trophy in for workmates to see. "When Clive came home with the team there were no reporters waiting at the airport to greet them," remembered his wife, Rosalyn Sullivan. "They slipped back into normal lives." The team's return was something of a "damp squib", according to Mr Oddy. But the absence of the red-carpet treatment might be down to the fact most rugby league players at the time were "just ordinary working men". They played professionally on a part-time basis and worked alongside training and playing. Sullivan himself worked in several factories, a building society and managed a sports trophy shop. His impact on the sport, however, would be lasting - breaking down barriers in rugby league and in his adopted city of Hull where he had an impact on the "colour thing", Mrs Sullivan said. She said when racism was directed at the young couple, they dismissed it as ignorance and "the way of the world". "Comments were made behind our backs but Clive dealt with it in his own way. "He was very comfortable in his own skin and was very proud of being black and being Welsh. "He [made] people understand he was just a person like anyone else. He was very humble." Johnny Whitely, who made more than 400 appearances for Hull FC, credits Sullivan with unifying a city split by the river and its two rugby league sides. "He would have been a modern sporting superstar, I am sure of it," he said. "Being black he would also perhaps have had that much publicity as a role model too, as he had such a gentlemanly attitude in life." Sullivan, who played with distinction for both Hull FC and Hull KR, also had an influence on the next generation of black rugby league players. Henderson Gill, who played rugby league for Wigan and Great Britain during the 1980s, described Sullivan as the "son of Hull". "Clive was one of the guys that paved the way for players like me. He was one of my heroes." During Sullivan's 20-year career, a growing number of black role models also started to feature in other sports, including John Conteh and Neville Mead in boxing, Sonia Lannaman and Tessa Sanderson in athletics, and numerous football players at West Bromwich Albion, said Prof Polley. "On the down side, there was also more blatant racism - manifested most obviously in terrace chants and banana-throwing at some football grounds," he added. Of course discrimination has long been part of sporting life, said Dr Katy Sian, lecturer in sociology at the University of York. During Sullivan's career, perhaps the most high-profile stand against discrimination was staged by the US athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos with their "Black Power" salute at the medal ceremony for the men's 200m at the 1968 Mexico Olympics. "It is often said that politics and sport shouldn't be mixed," Dr Sian said, but examples such as this "show us the politicised nature of sport". "This form of resistance continues today, for example NFL players campaigning to "take a knee". "[But] outshining in a sport can be another key way to disrupt the wider politics of racism, by bringing into question ideas about nation, identity and belonging. "Think of Mo Farah, Usain Bolt and Muhammad Ali - that is incredibly inspiring for people of colour to see sports players rising to the top." Sullivan was not a household name in the way his successors have become. But he was not entirely ignored by the establishment. He was appointed MBE for services to rugby league and even featured on the high-rating TV series This is Your Life after the 1972 World Cup victory. In 1980, he won the Challenge Cup with Hull KR, then again with Hull FC in 1982, finally retiring in 1985 to take over a social club with his wife. But within months he was diagnosed with liver cancer and he died in October the same year, aged 42. At his funeral, crowds lined the streets outside Hull Minster and thousands of pounds were raised for cancer research in his name, Mr Oddy said. In his honour, the main road into Hull from the west was named Clive Sullivan Way and the sign bearing his name is still one of the first things visitors see on the approach to the city. "I don't think he appreciated how good he was. People liked him as a person not just a rugby player," his wife said. "I'm sad he did so much and yet never really made a really good living from the game - it was all done for love." Clive Sullivan's career

क्लाइव सुलिवन के नेतृत्व में देश को रग्बी लीग विश्व कप जीतते हुए 45 साल हो चुके हैं। जिस दिन 2017 का टूर्नामेंट शुरू हुआ, बीबीसी न्यूज देखता है कि कैसे ग्रेट ब्रिटेन के कप्तान के रूप में उन्होंने बाधाओं को दूर करने में मदद की।


What is the US electoral college?

Summary: An American president is not chosen directly by the people but by a group of officials known as the electoral college, in a manner prescribed by the US constitution and a complex set of state and federal laws. In theory, the electoral college chooses the candidate who won the most votes - but not always.

How does the electoral college work? Each state has a number of electors in the electoral college proportionate to its population: the sum of its number of senators (always two) and representatives in the House. Technically, Americans on election day cast votes for electors, not the candidates themselves, although in most cases the electors' names are not on the ballot. California, the most populous state, has 55 electoral votes. A few small states and the District of Columbia have only three. Today, the electoral college has 538 electors, and in all but two states, Maine and Nebraska, all of the state's electors are awarded to the winner of the popular vote within that state. A candidate needs to win 270 electoral votes - half of the total plus one - to win the White House. Part of a presidential candidate's grand strategy entails drawing a map of states the candidate can and must win to gather 270 electoral votes. What does all this US jargon mean? Why was the system chosen? When the United States was founded in the late 18th Century, a national campaign was virtually impossible given the size of the country and the difficulty of communication. Also, the US at the time had little in the way of national identity, states were jealous of their rights, political parties were suspect, and the popular vote somewhat feared. The framers of the constitution in 1787 rejected both the election of the president by Congress and election by direct popular vote, on the grounds that people would vote for their local candidate and the big states would dominate. The Southern states favoured the electoral college system because while slaves had no votes, under the constitution they were tallied as three-fifths of a person in the census. Contested elections Isn't it unfair that the winning candidate might get fewer popular votes? Indeed, this is seen as a major drawback of the system. Since 1804, four presidents have been elected who did not win the popular vote. Most recently, in 2000 Al Gore won 48.38% of votes nationwide compared to George Bush's 47.87%. Yet Mr Bush won because he got 271 electoral votes compared with 266 for Mr Gore. The winning votes came from Florida, whose 25 votes all went to Mr Bush even though he won only 537 more popular votes. Another drawback is that in many states the result is a foregone conclusion and there is thus little incentive for the individual to vote. It is also a disincentive for candidates to campaign there. For example, large states California, Illinois and New York are solidly Democratic and Texas is solidly Republican. So what are the advantages? The electoral college system is respected for its historical roots and because it does usually reflect the popular vote (48 out of 52 elections since 1804 produced a popular mandate). It also gives greater weight to smaller states - one of the checks and balances the US constitution values. For example, the largest state, California, has 12.03% of the US population but its 55 electoral college votes represent only 10.22% of the college total. Wyoming, a sparsely populated state, has 0.18% of the US population but its three seats in the electoral college give it 0.56% of the college votes. The college system also means that a candidate needs to get a spread of votes from across the country. What happens if no candidate gets a majority of electoral college votes? Under the 12th amendment to the US constitution, the House of Representatives elects the president. Each state delegation, however, has only one vote, which means that the majority party in each delegation controls the vote. An absolute majority of states is required for election. The vice-president is chosen by the Senate, with senators having an individual vote. This has happened only once since 1804, when the electoral college system took its current shape with the 12th amendment. In 1824, four candidates split the electoral vote, denying any one of them a majority. Democrat Andrew Jackson had the most electoral votes and the greatest share of popular votes and expected to be president. But the fourth-place finisher, House Speaker Henry Clay, thought little of Jackson and persuaded the House to back second-place finisher John Quincy Adams. Adams was voted in as president. Are the electors bound to vote for their candidates? In some states they have a free vote but in practice they vote for the candidates they are pledged to, while in other states they are required to do so. Only nine electoral votes have been cast against the state's instructions by so-called "faithless" electors, and no result has been changed by it, according to the Congressional Research Service. And in 2000 an elector from the District of Columbia abstained. If the result is extremely close, a "faithless" elector could cause real trouble. The issue would probably have to be decided by the courts. The electors are chosen by the parties before the election, often in a vote at a convention. The electors then meet in state capitals after the election to cast their votes. The results are formally declared to the Senate on 6 January. The new president is inaugurated on 20 January.

एक अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति को सीधे लोगों द्वारा नहीं चुना जाता है, बल्कि अमेरिकी संविधान और राज्य और संघीय कानूनों के एक जटिल समूह द्वारा निर्धारित तरीके से इलेक्टोरल कॉलेज के रूप में जाने जाने वाले अधिकारियों के एक समूह द्वारा चुना जाता है। सिद्धांत रूप में, इलेक्टोरल कॉलेज उस उम्मीदवार का चयन करता है जिसने सबसे अधिक वोट जीते हैं-लेकिन हमेशा नहीं।


Preston fire engine's windscreen smashed by youths

Summary: A fire engine was damaged when a "number of youths" pelted it with missiles, said police.

Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it was "left an engine down" following the "targeted attack" in Tag Lane in Ingol, Preston at about 00:15 BST. As the engine's crew returned to base from an incident, the windscreen was smashed. Repairs will cost about £600. Lancashire Police said one of its vehicles was also targeted in the same area. No arrests have been made. Why not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk

पुलिस ने कहा कि एक दमकल इंजन क्षतिग्रस्त हो गया जब "कई युवाओं" ने उस पर मिसाइलों से हमला किया।


Witchy windows: Scots decorate homes for Halloween

Summary: The coronavirus pandemic means Halloween in Scotland looks and feels a bit different this year.

With parties and guising off the cards for now, many Scots have been getting creative by decorating their homes. Take a look at some of the imaginative window displays celebrating the Halloween tradition. All images are subject to copyright.

कोरोनावायरस महामारी का मतलब है कि स्कॉटलैंड में हैलोवीन इस साल थोड़ा अलग दिखता है और महसूस होता है।