Is a cure for the common cold on the way?

Summary: In the northern hemisphere, cold and flu season is upon us. But the coughing, wheezing and spluttering masses that hit the streets each winter could, some scientists hope, soon be a thing of the past.

By Stephanie HegartyBBC World Service The reason for this optimistic thought is the progress being made towards the creation of a drug known as an antiviral. Just as antibiotics kill many different types of bacteria, antivirals could kill multiple viruses, from the ubiquitous cold and flu to the life-threatening hepatitis virus and HIV. They could even prove crucial in the case of viral epidemics like Sars and bird flu. Existing antiviral drugs are tailored to specific diseases - HIV, hepatitis and certain types of flu for example. Vaccinations are also very virus-specific and have to be redeveloped at great cost as a virus evolves. But Todd Rider, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is developing an antiviral drug called Draco, which has proven successful against all 15 viruses to which it has been applied in lab trials with human tissue and mice. These include the common cold, H1N1 or swine flu, a polio virus, dengue fever and the notorious and fatal Ebola virus. To produce it, Mr Rider took an unusual approach, "wiring together" two natural proteins - one that detects virus entry, and another that acts as a suicide switch that kills the infected cell. "I studied both biology and engineering back in the dark ages and really wanted to combine those studies," he says. "Everyone in both departments thought I was crazy." The dream of a broad-based antiviral drug has for years been a holy grail for microbiologists. Recent developments in biotechnology - especially the ability of computers to analyse reams of information on DNA and the genetic make-up of viruses - has allowed for great leaps in scientific understanding of how these micro-organisms work. This has brought a few researchers closer to the goal of a broad-based antiviral, targeting the problem in several different ways. Last year, a breakthrough study at Cambridge University showed that cells have an internal system which fights and kills viruses. It was previously thought that once a virus succeeded in entering a cell, infection was inevitable. Dr Leo James, the author of this study, is now working on creating antiviral drugs that can latch on to a virus and destroy it inside the cell. At Mount Sinai Medical School in New York, Professor Peter Palese has developed an antiviral drug that has so far proven very successful against influenza, though less so against other viruses. And in a laboratory at the other side of the US, Dr Benhur Lee stumbled across a drug that seemed to be effective against several viruses including various pox viruses and Ebola. He soon realised it only worked against viruses that shared a distinct characteristic, a greasy outer membrane or lipid envelope. Dr James maintains some scepticism about Mr Rider's study. "It is potentially very exciting but because the results are so unusual and because it was published in an unusual journal it needs to be proven by others," he says. PLoS One, the online journal which published the paper encourages ideas that challenge established thinking. Draco appears to have a greater range than its rivals, but it will be several years before Draco can be tested on humans. First the drug will have to go through several rounds of testing on larger mammals. "Translating from the lab to people is really quite hard," says immunologist Hugh Pennington, Professor Emeritus at Aberdeen University. Viruses and human cells become closely linked on infection, as a result there are many possible side-effects of a drug like this. In the 1950s, scientists thought they had come up with a similar broad-spectrum antiviral wonder drug, interferon. The drug causes an infected cell to secrete a warning signal to other cells, allowing them to build up their natural defences. However, it also triggers the immune system to send white blood cells to the infection, which can cause inflammation of the area, fever, aches and pains. "Interferons are fantastic drugs," says Wendy Barclay, chair of influenza virology at Imperial College London. "They are still used today, to treat hepatitis C virus. But if you had a mild virus infection like a common cold you would not want to take interferon to deal with it because it would make you feel horrible, even worse than the cold was making you feel. "The problem with using that same approach today to develop a broad-spectrum antiviral is always the worry that something in your strategy is going to trigger that same response." Like interferon, Draco is a protein and has the potential to provoke an immune response. This could be especially problematic when the drug is administered a second time. But no immune response has been observed in mice so far. For the average human, who suffers through a cold up to four times a year, antivirals could be the answer to days of misery - and businesses could save weeks of lost work hours. But for those on the front line of healthcare, it could mean much more. A broad-based antiviral could obliterate the threat of a global pandemic and mitigate health scares such as that caused by the Sars virus in 2002 or bird flu in 2009. "No-one can say when the next pandemic will occur, it may be next year or it may be in 100 years' time," says Hugh Pennington. "We're still in the niggling worry scenario even when we are very optimistic… If we had a wonder drug like Draco might be, we could sleep much easier at night." Find out more about Todd Rider's work and the search for a broad-based antiviral on Discovery from the BBC World Service. Listen to the programme here.

उत्तरी गोलार्ध में सर्दी और फ्लू का मौसम आ गया है। लेकिन कुछ वैज्ञानिकों को उम्मीद है कि हर सर्दियों में सड़कों पर खांसने, घरघराने और छितरा-छितरा करने वाली भीड़ जल्द ही अतीत की बात हो सकती है।


Sussex Health Care: Arrested woman released in neglect probe

Summary: A woman arrested on suspicion of neglect and fraud by police investigating the deaths of 12 care home residents has been released.

Allegations of a lack of care and safeguarding for 43 residents at nine homes run by Sussex Health Care are being investigated by Sussex Police. The woman, from West Sussex, was detained on Thursday morning under the Criminal Justice and Courts Act. A force spokesman said she was released under investigation that evening.

देखभाल गृह के 12 निवासियों की मौत की जांच कर रही पुलिस द्वारा लापरवाही और धोखाधड़ी के संदेह में गिरफ्तार एक महिला को रिहा कर दिया गया है।


The riddle of the Voynich Manuscript

Summary: The puzzling - and thus far indecipherable - nature of an old manuscript has confounded some of the world's greatest cryptologists. Is there truly a code to break, or is it all an elaborate hoax?

By Simon WorrallNew Haven, Connecticut I have come to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, at Yale University, to solve a mystery that makes The Da Vinci Code seem tame - a book no-one can read, in a language that doesn't exist, illustrated with plants and creatures that have never been seen on Earth. It is known as The Voynich Manuscript, after the second-hand book dealer, Wilfrid Voynich, who claimed to have discovered it in Italy, in 1912. Since then, it has obsessed countless experts and generated numerous theories, both scientific and crackpot. "My favourite is that it is the illustrated diary of a teenage space alien who left it behind on earth," jokes the Beinecke's curator, Ray Clemens. What surprises me is how small it is. I had expected an album-sized manuscript. But the book resting on a reading stand in front of me is about the size of a Penguin Classics edition. Bound in a limp vellum cover the colour of old ivory, it contains 240 richly illustrated pages. The illustrations look like something Timothy Leary might have seen on LSD. Strange plants, astrological symbols, jellyfish-like creatures and what looks like a lobster. In one image, a group of naked ladies with alabaster skin shoot down what looks like a water slide. The text, written in brown, iron gall ink, reminds me of Tolkien's Elvish. Some facts. Voynich was an ethnic Pole from Lithuania, in what was then the Russian Empire. Born in 1865, he was briefly imprisoned in Siberia for revolutionary activities before fleeing via Manchuria to London. In London, he set up a second-hand bookstore, which became a centre for political exiles. Among them were Karl Marx and a Russian emigre, who adopted the moniker Sidney Reilly and became known to posterity as "The Ace of Spies". Voynich claimed to have stumbled on the manuscript at a Jesuit seminary outside Rome, The Villa Madragone. Appended to the manuscript was what purported to be a letter written in 1665 by Johannes Marcus Marci, a former physician of the Holy Roman Emperor. It stated that the manuscript had once belonged to Rudolf - and was probably the work of Elizabethan alchemist Roger Bacon. Two other possible authors are regularly in the frame: John Dee, magus extraordinaire and astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, and Dee's fellow alchemist, Edward Kelley. Voynich himself referred to it as "The Roger Bacon Cipher Manuscript". Since then, it has been a Venus flytrap for brilliant minds. American William Friedman, one of the greatest cryptographers of the 20th Century, who created an institution recently made famous by Edward Snowden, the NSA, spent 30 years trying to crack the manuscript's code. New theories breed like mayflies. A retired American botanist recently claimed that some of the plants are of Meso-American origin. A British applied linguist claims to have translated 10 words. So what is it? A cipher for buried treasure? A poisoner's handbook? The coded recipe for eternal youth? Spoiler alert: I believe the manuscript is a forgery by Wilfrid Voynich himself. One of the most common tropes in the history of forgery is that of a rare book dealer "discovering" previously unknown manuscripts. Voynich is known to have had just this "magic" touch. He is also said to have acquired a large supply of vellum and to have used his knowledge of chemistry gained at the University of Moscow to replicate medieval inks and pigments. Readers' tickets for his shadowy friend, Sidney Reilly, show that among the books that the "Ace of Spies" studied at the British Museum library was Some Observations On Ancient Inks. I believe that having forged the manuscript, Voynich then did what numerous other forgers have done - create a second document to validate the first and give it a plausible provenance. But until forensic tests are done on the ink and pigments - so far, only the vellum has been carbon dated to the 15th Century - the riddle of this mysterious book will continue to exert a powerful magnetic pull on present and future Voynichologists. "To its deciphering he devoted unflagging toil," Marci wrote of the previous owner, in the letter Voynich claimed to have found in the manuscript. "As is apparent from attempts of his which I send you herewith, and he relinquished hope only with his life." From Our Own Correspondent: Listen online or download the podcast. BBC Radio 4: Saturdays at 11:30 and some Thursdays at 11:00 BBC World Service: Short editions Monday-Friday - see World Service programme schedule. Follow @BBCNewsMagazine on Twitter and on Facebook

एक पुरानी पांडुलिपि की उलझन भरी-और अब तक की अवर्णनीय-प्रकृति ने दुनिया के कुछ महान क्रिप्टोलॉजिस्टों को भ्रमित कर दिया है। क्या वास्तव में तोड़ने के लिए कोई कोड है, या यह सब एक विस्तृत धोखा है?


Return to Vietnam

Summary: I have to confess to something of an obsession with the Vietnam War, which most likely stems from the fact that pictures of the conflict began my lifelong love of photography. McCullin, Faas, Page, Huet, Burrows and so on: all those great photographers' work then spurred further interest in the war itself.

Phil CoomesPicture editor So whenever I stumble upon a website showing some pictures from the conflict, I usually can't resist and click to see what's on offer. This week I did just that and found the work of Charlie Haughey, who it turns out was a rifleman with the 25th Infantry Division who served in Vietnam from March 1968 to May the following year. Haughey was commissioned by his colonel to take photographs of the battalion for Army and civilian newspapers. The officer said: "You are not a combat photographer; this is a morale operation. If I see photos of my men in the papers, doing their job with honour, then you can do what you like in Vietnam." The rifleman was stationed near Cu Chi and was part of Alpha Company, for whom he walked point or flank for 63 days. "On point, you work with the guy behind you. I didn't get to know people very well; we weren't like the band of brothers. It didn't pay to get to know people - we knew each other based on where we were from, or we had nicknames. Collins was from Chicago. He and I worked really well together. When we were on point together, I was up front, responsible for everything from the waist down - trip wires, booby traps, spider holes. He walked behind me, responsible for everything from the waist up. He flat out saved my life at least once, just from a little whistle or click or something." His pictures of the unit have not been seen until now, having spent four decades in boxes in his home. Last year a chance meeting brought the negatives out into the open and eventually to a digital scanner with the work being catalogued by a team of volunteers. The work is now on show at the ADX Gallery in Portland, Oregon, in the north-west US. The 28 prints are displayed in handmade frames, made by Charlie, who is now a retired carpenter. You can follow the progress of the project and learn about Charlie Haughey's time in Vietnam on the Chieu Hoi Collection website. All photographs copyright Charlie Haughey, A Weather Walked In/The Chieu Hoi Collection

मुझे वियतनाम युद्ध के प्रति कुछ जुनून को स्वीकार करना होगा, जो संभवतः इस तथ्य से उत्पन्न होता है कि संघर्ष की तस्वीरों ने फोटोग्राफी के लिए मेरे जीवन भर के प्यार की शुरुआत की। मैकुलिन, फास, पेज, ह्यूट, बरोज और इसी तरहः उन सभी महान फोटोग्राफरों के काम ने तब युद्ध में ही और रुचि पैदा की।


Vivendi boss leaving after dispute with board

Summary: The boss of French media and telecoms group Vivendi is quitting his job following a dispute with his board over the company's future strategy.

Vivendi said Jean-Bernard Levy was stepping down "following a divergence of views on the strategic development of the group". He is being replaced by Jean-Francois Dubos, who is currently the company's chief lawyer. Vivendi's shares have been at a nine-year low this year. Mr Levy's departure follows after a meeting of the company's senior managers to discuss the firm's strategy moving forward. Vivendi's main telecoms business, SFR, has recently faced increased competition, which has seen it lose market share.

फ्रांसीसी मीडिया और दूरसंचार समूह विवेन्डी के प्रमुख कंपनी की भविष्य की रणनीति को लेकर अपने निदेशक मंडल के साथ विवाद के बाद अपनी नौकरी छोड़ रहे हैं।


Sri Lanka army major 'helped rebels'

Summary: The Sri Lankan military says an army major is to be face a court martial on charges of passing information to the Tamil Tiger rebels.

If convicted of treason the major faces the death penalty. Two other officers are being investigated by police on similar charges. A military spokesman, Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe, said all three were accused of handing classified information to the rebels for money. He told the BBC that this case was the first time an army major has faced charges of giving information to the enemy. Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe said that if the police gather enough evidence against the other two officers, they too will face courts martial proceedings.

श्रीलंकाई सेना का कहना है कि सेना के एक मेजर को तमिल टाइगर विद्रोहियों को जानकारी देने के आरोप में कोर्ट मार्शल का सामना करना पड़ेगा।


'Trade-offs to come' as Brexit talks begin

Summary: The meeting lasted little more than an hour, around half as long as had been expected. Perhaps some members of the Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations), to give it its full title, had been up all night watching events on the other side of the Atlantic.

David CornockParliamentary correspondent, Wales Or possibly they found they had more in common than their public stances would suggest. "We want the same things" insisted one committee member. Not everyone sees it that way. The Scottish government's Brexit Minister, Mike Russell said afterwards: "I made it absolutely clear that membership of the Single Market and the benefits that flow from it, including free movement of labour, is essential for the economic prosperity of Scotland." Welsh Finance Secretary Mark Drakeford told me: "Today we focused particularly on market access. and I was able to be completely clear that from the Welsh Government's point of view we know what we think we need. We need full and unfettered access to the single market without tariffs, without other barriers to trade." 'Immigration' But can he get that without sacrificing control over immigration that is one of the UK government's "red lines"? "There are trade-offs to come, quite certainly," he admitted. We weren't talking about justice, immigration and security issues today. That will form part of a future discussion, I'm sure, and we recognised that there will be 'read-acrosses' from all different agendas we discuss." I put that point to Welsh Secretary, Alun Cairns, who was also at the meeting. He told me: "I don't accept that the issues are as binary as they are. We don't want to leave our sectors short of labour, that's not in the UK's national interest so we will want to come to an arrangement that works right for the UK, for all parts of the UK, but also allows us the best possible access to the single market. These are pretty fundamental and true for every part - they are as important for Scotland as they are to Wales, Northern Ireland and to England." The meeting was chaired by [UK government] Brexit Secretary David Davis, who said that although there were "different standpoints around the table", the meeting was "constructive and amicable". Plaid Cymru MP Jonathan Edwards welcomed the "warm words" but added: "The UK government must accept that before it can trigger Article 50, it must seek the approval of, not just the UK Parliament, but all of the national parliaments, including the National Assembly for Wales." 'Supreme Court' There's little chance of the UK government agreeing to that demand, but the JMC politicians will meet again soon, although possibly not as soon as their lawyers, with the Welsh and Scottish governments seeking to intervene in the UK government's appeal to the Supreme Court over whether MPs should have a say before Britain begins formal Brexit talks. Former Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb has said the decision to join the legal proceedings is "entirely unnecessary and opportunistic". The Preseli Pembs Conservative MP told the House of Commons on Monday: "Rather than seek to impede or complicate what should be an orderly exit from the European Union the Welsh Labour Government should spend more time talking to their own voters about why they turned out so overwhelmingly to vote for Brexit".

यह बैठक एक घंटे से कुछ अधिक समय तक चली, जो उम्मीद से लगभग आधी लंबी थी। शायद संयुक्त मंत्रिस्तरीय समिति (ई. यू. वार्ता) के कुछ सदस्य, इसे अपना पूरा नाम देने के लिए, पूरी रात अटलांटिक के दूसरी तरफ की घटनाओं को देख रहे थे।


2019 in news: The alternative end-of-the-year awards

Summary: Congratulations, you've made it through another year of news.

We know it wasn't always easy, so here's a reward: our round-up of the moments that put a little smile on our faces in 2019. Many of them, inevitably, involve animals. Animal rescue of the year Winner Spare a thought for the poor fat rat of Bensheim, which became stuck in a German manhole in February. She was eventually freed, but not before passers-by took embarrassing photos of her plight. "She had a lot of winter flab," one rescuer said, compounding the humiliation. Runner-up (1) Oil rig workers 220km (135 miles) off Thailand's coast got a shock in April when they spotted a brown dog paddling in the sea, possibly after falling from a trawler. They plucked him to safety and named him Boonrod, a Thai word that roughly translates as "the saved one" or "survivor". Runner-up (2) In this case, the animals were the rescuers rather than the rescued (sort of). Anticipating the threat of wildfires later in the year, staff at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California hired a hungry herd of 500 goats to eat flammable scrub around the building in May. And so, when fires did strike in October, the library was saved because of the fire break the goats had created by eating the flammable scrub. Nice one, goats. The 'picture says it all' prize Winner Back in August, millions of you read about the adventures of five-year-old Lucie, whose before-and-after photos from her first day back in school were picked up by a newspaper in her native Scotland, then shared around the world. When her mum saw her return home, she asked what Lucie had been up to. "Nothing much," came the reply. Runner-up Edi Okoro, who took secret photographs of his girlfriend with an engagement ring for a month without her noticing. She eventually said "yes". Sporting feat of the year Winner Just a year after being treated for breast cancer, Sarah Thomas became the first person to swim the English Channel four times non-stop. She did so over 54 hours, after which she said: "I'm pretty tired right now." Runner-up It was a close-run thing, pun intended. But all credit goes to Jasmin Paris, who broke the record for a 268-mile race by more than 12 hours. While stopping regularly to express breast milk. And hallucinating. On only three hours' sleep. In the middle of writing her PhD thesis. The weirdest headlines from Wales The most creative response Winner Copywriter Josh Thompson could see the writing on the wall at work when he was called in for a meeting: he was facing redundancy. His managers encouraged him to bring a "support person" to help cushion the blow, an option that is legally required in New Zealand. But rather than bring a family member, a friend or even a pet, he splashed out NZ$200 (£100) on a clown called "Joe", who sat making animal balloons during the meeting. The screeching sound proved to be somewhat of a distraction. "Boy, oh, boy, are they noisy," Josh said. Runner-up Top marks to Eimi Haga, a Japanese student of ninja history who handed in a blank paper. Her professor realised the essay was written in invisible ink, following the ninja technique of "aburidashi", which involves spending hours soaking and crushing soybeans to make ink. The uplifting stories of the year (tie) 1)= Jordan Kinyera, the Ugandan man who was only six when his father lost his land in a legal dispute. After Jordan trained as a lawyer and took on the case, the family won back the land this year - 23 years later. 1)= The South Korean women who deliver yoghurt from motorised fridges, and keep an eye out for the country's most isolated people. 1)= South African Uber driver Menzi Mngoma loves singing arias to his passengers - and after he featured in a video that went viral this year, he auditioned for the Cape Town Opera and was invited to perform around the country. The 'hiding in plain sight' prize Winner When archaeologists began an investigation into a stone circle found in rural Aberdeenshire, they thought they had stumbled across a site that was thousands of years old. So it came as a disappointment when they learned it was, in fact, only about 20 years old, and put there by a farmer. Runner-up When South African comedian Trevor Noah presented the Best Picture nomination for Black Panther at the Oscars in February, he quoted a saying in the Xhosa language. "Abelungu abazi ubu ndiyaxoka," he said, "which means: 'In times like these, we are stronger when we fight together than when we try to fight apart.'" But that's not what that phrase actually means. Its true translation is: "White people don't know that I'm lying," and no-one in the audience picked up on the joke. The most adventurous animals of 2019 Winners Raise a very small glass for the rats that feel less stressed when they drive tiny cars. Runner-up (1) The Russian eagles fitted with SMS transmitters who migrated a bit further than expected and ran up huge data roaming charges. Runner-up (2) What greater adventure than a trip to the Moon? It emerged this year that thousands of Earth's most indestructible animals - tardigrades, or "water bears" - were on board an Israeli spacecraft which crash-landed on the Moon. Tardigrades are tiny creatures with eight legs and are presumably furious at having been dumped so far from home. The Biggles Prize for amazing aviation action Winner Shortly after take-off from Moscow's Zhukovsky airport in August, an Airbus jet with 233 people on board struck a flock of gulls, causing both engines to fail. With the jet full of fuel, the pilots managed to crash-land in a corn field in a belly-flop without lowering the wheels, to avoid debris flying off and rupturing fuel tanks. This is how they pulled it off, and why it was called a miracle landing. Runner-up This gutsy helicopter pilot who rescued an injured skier from a steep slope in the Alps in January. Scientific advancement of the year Winner There could be only one: the first ever photo of a black hole. Behold, the blazing space doughnut: What's even more impressive is that the black hole is 500 million trillion kilometres away, and about three million times the size of our planet. Here's how the photo was taken. Runner-up This was a seriously close contest, but the discovery that men's left testicles are slightly warmer than their right is just edged out of first place by the black hole photo. This research involved getting French postmen to stand naked for 90 minutes, because sure, why not?

बधाई हो, आपने इसे समाचार के एक और वर्ष के माध्यम से बनाया है।


Peterborough driver has 'lucky escape' as pole pierces car

Summary: A driver had a lucky escape when a metal pole crashed through the front window of her car, up through the steering wheel, past a baby seat and out the back window, police said.

The woman, who hit bollards and the pole in Gunthorpe Ridings, Peterborough, was unhurt. No-one else was in the car at the time of the crash at about 10:20 BST on Monday, and no other vehicles were involved, police said. No arrest was made, they confirmed. Officers, who came across the crash involving a red Renault Megane, tweeted to say the driver had a "lucky escape".

पुलिस ने कहा कि एक चालक भाग्यशाली बच गया जब एक धातु का खंभा उसकी कार की सामने की खिड़की से टकरा गया, स्टीयरिंग व्हील के माध्यम से, एक बेबी सीट को पार कर गया और पीछे की खिड़की से बाहर निकल गया।


Sam Fender debut album: I'm proud and utterly terrified

Summary: We meet Sam Fender at Polydor Records in central London. He's about to do a suit-fitting for the 2019 Brit Awards, which will take place the following night and where he'll be crowned Critics' Choice winner .

By Jimmy BlakeNewsbeat reporter It doesn't feel like his natural habitat. "No it's not, but this is what I want," he says. "I'd be complaining if I was at my mum's gaff in [North] Shields going, 'When's all this music stuff going to start working?'" And with the release date for his debut album Hypersonic Missiles just announced - it's out on 9 August - Sam's "music stuff" has more than started working. The 25-year-old's Brit win was followed by a North American tour, which included appearances on Jimmy Kimmel and a meeting with one of his Tyneside heroes, Sting. "It's not sinking in but I don't think this sort of stuff should, there'd be something wrong with you if it did," he smirks. "I'm quite happy being the rabbit in headlights... It's quite nice being the kid with the weird accent - like the Ant and Dec of the indie world." With a new tour about to begin, his hectic 12 months might be a far-cry from his native North Shields - but Sam's gone the extra mile to ensure his music is a homage to his hometown. "I don't live in London. I live in the place that I sing about. "I didn't even notice stuff was taking off until I went to Newcastle for a mate's leaving-do and I had a load of kids asking for photos. "That was surreal because in North Shields they knew me anyway so everybody's just like, 'Oh it's Sam, who cares?'" It's there, in the same town as the pub where he was discovered by his manager, where Sam built a studio with his best mates to record the album. "It was all made in North Shields and I'm really proud of that. "It sounds big, cheesy and like the 80s. I've got saxophone on three tracks - it's pounding. "I'm really proud of it. And utterly terrified." This is the first hint that Sam's success is playing on his mind, but he's insistent he won't let it get to him. "I put enough pressure on myself already - I can sit here and work myself into an anxiety-filled breakdown without worrying what everyone else is going to think. "If people like it, great, if they don't - well it's fine because I'm not going anywhere. "My manager in the pub always called us 'stupid boy' because I was the worst barman to ever grace their doors. "I'll always just be stupid boy and I'm happy with that." Some of Sam's recent singles, like Play God and Dead Boys, have pretty heavy messages in them but he says the album is "purely about what I'm seeing at the time". "I try my best not to be preachy... So yeah I've got tunes about male suicide and serious things like that but then there are tunes about one-night stands, bad weekends and just being an idiot. "I've got a song called Saturday on there which is genuinely about living for the weekend, which a lot of the country does. "Music's primarily there to entertain people... I'm not on any sort of crusade with mine but I do think there's a lot to talk about at the moment. "I'll dip into certain things because I find them interesting, not because I feel a necessity to change the world. I'm not clever enough to do that." Follow Newsbeat on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Listen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 every weekday on BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra - if you miss us you can listen back here.

हम मध्य लंदन में पॉलीडोर रिकॉर्ड्स में सैम फेंडर से मिलते हैं। वह 2019 के ब्रिट अवार्ड्स के लिए एक सूट-फिटिंग करने वाले हैं, जो अगली रात होगा और जहां उन्हें क्रिटिक्स चॉइस विजेता का ताज पहनाया जाएगा।


Coronavirus: What could the West learn from Asia?

Summary: The number of coronavirus cases in the West is skyrocketing, and countries have announced drastic measures, including school closures and lockdowns.

By Helier CheungBBC News The outbreak hit many countries in Asia several weeks earlier - and some places have been praised for containing the number of infections. For example, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan all kept case numbers relatively low - despite their proximity to mainland China. What did they do differently - and are there any lessons for other countries? Lesson one: Take it seriously - and act quickly Health experts agree on the same measures for containing the outbreak - test widely, isolate those infected, and encourage social distancing. Such measures are being adopted to varying degrees in the West now - but a key difference is that many countries didn't act as quickly. "The UK and US lost an opportunity," says Tikki Pangestu, a former director of research policy at the World Health Organization (WHO). "They had two months from what happened in China, yet there was this perception that 'China is very far away and nothing's going to happen'." China first reported cases of "mysterious Sars-like pneumonia" to the WHO on 31 December. At this point there was no confirmed human-to-human transmission, and little was known about the virus, but within three days Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong had all stepped up screening at border points - Taiwan even checked passengers on flights from Wuhan before they got off the plane. As scientists learned more about the virus, it became apparent that people without symptoms could still be contagious. So testing would be crucial. Lesson two: Make tests extensive, and affordable Cases in South Korea spiked initially. However, it swiftly developed a test for the virus - and has now tested more than 290,000 people. It conducts about 10,000 tests daily for free. "The way they stepped up and screened the population was really remarkable," says Ooi Eng Eong, a professor in emerging infectious diseases at the National University of Singapore. South Korea had a rapid approvals system in place for infectious disease tests, following an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory syndrome in 2015 that left 35 dead. By contrast, testing in the US was delayed - initial test kits were faulty, and private laboratories found it hard to get their tests approved. Many people struggled to get a test, and they were expensive. Eventually, free testing for everyone was passed in law. Meanwhile, the UK has said that only those in hospital will be routinely tested. That makes it harder to identify cases with milder symptoms. Prof Pangestu recognises that in some countries there aren't enough test kits. However, he describes extensive testing as "the most important priority", adding that "testing those who are symptomatic but not necessarily hospitalised and still spreading the virus is perhaps even more important". Lesson three: Trace and isolate It's not enough to just test those with symptoms - tracing those with whom they were in contact has been key. In Singapore, detectives have contact-traced more than 6,000 people - locating individuals with CCTV footage, testing them, and ordering them to self-isolate until their results are clear. In Hong Kong, contact tracing goes back to two days before someone develops symptoms. They have also adopted intrusive ways of ensuring that those ordered to self-isolate actually stay at home. In Hong Kong, new arrivals from abroad are required to wear electronic bracelets to track their movements, while in Singapore those self-isolating are contacted several times a day, and required to send photographic proof of their whereabouts. Singapore has hefty penalties - including jail terms - for anyone who breaks a "stay at home" order. It stripped one offender of his residency rights. Many countries in the West will find it hard to adopt such measures due to their larger populations, and greater civil liberties. "We can do what we did because we're small," says Prof Ooi. "To replicate what we're doing in its entirety would not make sense, it has to be adapted to suit each country." Lesson four: Early social distancing Social distancing is considered one of the best ways of containing an outbreak. But the later the measures are introduced, the more extreme they need to be to work. In Wuhan, China, where the virus is thought to have started, five million people had left the city before the shutdown began. This led to the government imposing the biggest quarantine in human history. Both Italy and Spain were forced to introduce national lockdowns after their case numbers rose to the thousands. New York and California have ordered residents to stay at home, except for essential trips like buying groceries. By contrast, schools are still running in Singapore, although large public gatherings have been cancelled. In Hong Kong, schools have been closed and workers encouraged to work from home - but restaurants and bars remain open. Prof Ooi believes the difference is down to how quick governments were to implement social distancing. "By the time a lot of countries had stepped up control measures, the number of cases was so large" that drastic steps were needed, he says. Social distancing is affected by government decisions to ban gatherings or close schools, but it also depends on people being willing to take part. That's why public messaging - and individual attitudes - matter. Lesson five: Keep the public well informed and on side "Unless you get the co-operation of the public, your policies may not be adhered to, and enforcement only goes so far," says Prof Pangestu. "The important thing is to show that policies are based on scientific evidence." China came under fire for being slow to acknowledge the outbreak. It allowed a large political gathering to take place in Wuhan even as concerns grew. The authorities also punished doctors who tried to warn others - sparking fury after one died from the virus. It has since been praised for effectively slowing the spread of the virus, after imposing a massive lockdown and upscaling its hospital capacity. But critics say such extreme measures were only required because its initial response was slow. In the US, President Donald Trump has often contradicted health officials about the severity of the outbreak and the number of test kits available. The government has also been unable to provide information on the number of people who have been tested, as many private laboratories have not been feeding data to the CDC. "Outbreak response involves being transparent - that stops people panicking and hoarding things," says Prof Ooi. Some governments have used technology to update residents in great detail. Hong Kong provides an online dashboard of all cases - which includes a map that shows the individual buildings where cases were found. South Korea issues mobile alerts letting people know if they were in the vicinity of a patient. In Singapore, the government has been praised for its clear communications on coronavirus, including a speech by the prime minister which encouraged people to stop panic buying. Its measures have had widespread public support - helped by the fact Singapore has a long history of emphasising collective responsibility for national security. And Singaporean media does not tend to challenge the official line. Lesson six: It's also down to individual attitudes It's far too simplistic to say, as some have, that Asians are more likely to comply with government orders. In Hong Kong, public trust in the government is low - and there have been months of anti-government protests. But, in one of the densest cities in the world, many have voluntarily socially distanced themselves - with some even avoiding Lunar New Year gatherings, the equivalent of skipping Christmas events. Prof Pangestu believes that while Hong Kongers do not trust the government, "they are very proud of Hong Kong, and see the outbreak as a threat to [the territory's] identity". Meanwhile, Karin Huster, a Seattle-based nurse and emergency field co-ordinator for Doctors Without Borders, spent a month in Hong Kong working on coronavirus training. She noticed many there had a strong "individual sense of responsibility" because they remembered the 2003 Sars outbreak that hit the territory particularly hard. That's also seen in the prevalent use of masks in part of Asia, which Ms Huster says is seen as a sign of "respect towards others". She noticed that occasionally people would avoid getting into a lift with her because she was not wearing a mask. By contrast, in much of the West, people have specifically been told not to wear masks unless they are ill, and many Asians have experienced harassment while wearing one. Experts in Asia agree that masks are far less effective than measures like hand washing, and that where supplies are limited, they should be left for healthcare workers. But there are different opinions over whether wearing a mask is worthwhile. Benjamin Cowling, an epidemiology professor at the University of Hong Kong, argues: "Masks are not a magic bullet against coronavirus… but if everybody wears face masks, it probably can help, along with all the other measures [like hand washing and social distancing], to reduce transmission. "The evidence base is quite thin, but we presume they have some effect, because that's the protection we give to healthcare workers." When it comes to social distancing, Ms Huster says: "I think in America, people are so individualistic - it's going to be a little harder for us to sacrifice our 'freedom'." She previously worked on the Ebola outbreak, where people were also required to wash hands more frequently and socially distance, and says the biggest challenge "was making people understand the need to change the way they were doing things". Is all this enough to stop the virus? Experts believe the more aggressive measures being put in place in Western countries will successfully slow the rate of transmissions over time. But, to get a sense of their next challenge after that, they could also look ahead to Asia. Despite having contained the virus, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong are now facing a second coronavirus wave, fuelled by people entering their borders. And it's not clear how long this outbreak could go on for. Prof Ooi is optimistic, as new infection numbers started falling within two to three weeks of lockdown in Hubei province. While China's shutdown was "drastic", he believes countries with softer measures should also be able to contain the outbreak within weeks. "It should serve as inspiration for other countries right now - it's painful but it can be done." By contrast, Prof Cowling worries that if a lockdown ends too early, local transmissions could start again. "I don't know if social distancing can be sustained for the kind of time they need to be sustained. We can't really relax until there's a vaccine - which could take about 18 months," but "people in Hong Kong are already a bit tired after two months." "Prolonged lockdowns are damaging for the economy, while an epidemic is damaging to public health… there's not a lot of good choices."

पश्चिम में कोरोनावायरस मामलों की संख्या आसमान छू रही है, और देशों ने स्कूल बंद करने और लॉकडाउन सहित कठोर उपायों की घोषणा की है।


How will the 5G network change the world?

Summary: The global race is on to develop 5G, the fifth generation of mobile network. While 5G will follow in the footsteps of 4G and 3G, this time scientists are more excited. They say 5G will be different - very different.

By Ed RamBBC News If you're thinking, "Great, that's the end of my apps stalling, video faltering, and that everlasting load sign," then you are right - but that's only part of the story. "5G will be a dramatic overhaul and harmonisation of the radio spectrum," says Prof Rahim Tafazolli who is the lead at the UK's multimillion-pound government-funded 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey. That means the opportunity for properly connected smart cities, remote surgery, driverless cars and the "internet of things". So, how best to understand this joined-up, superfast, all-encompassing 5G network? It seems that the term "harmonisation of the radio spectrum" is key. A quick refresher: Data is transmitted via radio waves. Radio waves are split up into bands - or ranges - of different frequencies. Each band is reserved for a different type of communication - such as aeronautical and maritime navigation signals, television broadcasts and mobile data. The use of these frequency bands is regulated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Currently, the radio frequency spectrum is a bit of a mess. As new technologies have been developed, frequencies for them to use have been squeezed into its gaps. This has caused problems with connection speeds and reliability. So, to pave the way for 5G the ITU is comprehensively restructuring the parts of the radio network used to transmit data, while allowing pre-existing communications, including 4G and 3G, to continue functioning. 100 times faster 5G will also run faster, a lot faster. Prof Tafazolli now believes it is possible to run a wireless data connection at an astounding 800Gbps - that's 100 times faster than current 5G testing. When Samsung announced in 2013 it was testing 5G at 1Gbps, journalists excitedly reported that a high-definition movie could be downloaded in less than half a minute. A speed of 800Gbps would equate to downloading 33 HD films - in a single second. 5G's capacity will also have to be vast. "The network will need to cope with a vast increase in demand for communication," says Sara Mazur, head of Ericsson Research, one of the companies leading the development of 5G. By 2020 it is thought that 50 billion to 100 billion devices will be connected to the internet. So, connections that run on different frequency bands will be established to cope with demand. Raising the capacity of a network is a little like widening a road tunnel. If you add more lanes more cars can go through. And ordering makes it more efficient: some lanes for long-distance, others lanes for local traffic. The huge rise in connected devices will be due to a boom in inanimate objects using the 5G network - known as the internet of things. It won't be just products like remotely controlling your heating or that mythical fridge ordering you more milk, trains could tell you which seats are free while they are in the station. Devices will be able to choose dynamically between which of three still-to-be-determined bandwidths they use to avoid any of frequencies from becoming overloaded, explains Prof Tafazolli. "Only once these frequencies are set and established can product development begin," Ms Mazur adds. The aim is for the first of the frequency bands to come into use around the year 2020, with the other two to follow soon after. Another defining feature will be that, crucially, 5G shouldn't break. "It will have the reliability that you currently get over fibre connections," says Sara Mazur. Advances in antenna technology promise an end to sudden data connection drop-outs. This will be essential for safety. Companies including China's Huawei are already talking about using 5G to let driverless cars communicate with each other and the infrastructure they pass. Tech such as smart transport and remote surgery, where a human remotely operates a robot to carry out complicated operations, will rely on lower latencies too. Latency refers to the time lag between an action and a response. Ericsson predict that 5G's latency will be around one millisecond - unperceivable to a human and about 50 times faster than 4G. This will be critical, for example, if doctors are to command equipment to carry out surgery on patients located in different buildings. 5G trial network So how much will it all cost? Ericsson and Huawei say they simply don't know yet. Until the product development phase starts it is too early to tell. But that doesn't stop them from wanting to flaunt their research to the market. In South Korea, which spearheaded work on 4G, Samsung hopes to launch a temporary trial 5G network in time for 2018's Winter Olympic Games. Not to be outdone, Huawei is racing to implement a version for the 2018 World Cup in Moscow. Despite such apparent rivalries and the huge sums each is investing in R&D, the bigger story is that they are co-operating to deliver 5G. And that in turn paves the way for potentially unmatched new technologies. "That's until 6G comes along in around 2040," Prof Tafazolli remarks. Watch more clips on the Click website. If you are in the UK you can watch the whole programme on BBC iPlayer.

मोबाइल नेटवर्क की पांचवीं पीढ़ी 5जी को विकसित करने के लिए वैश्विक दौड़ जारी है। जहां 5जी 4जी और 3जी के नक्शेकदम पर चलेगा, वहीं इस बार वैज्ञानिक अधिक उत्साहित हैं। उनका कहना है कि 5जी अलग होगा-बहुत अलग।


Aberdeen City Council bid to save £125m in five years

Summary: Aberdeen City Council is to attempt to save up to £125m over five years by reviewing the way services are managed and delivered.

About 150 staff have already accepted voluntary severance or early retirement, as the authority looks to reduce its workforce. A report set to come before councillors next week says change is needed. The new model would see director roles changed, and a restructure of senior managers is also to be looked. In addition to the 150 staff who have already accepted voluntary severance or early retirement, 20 more have asked to take up the offer. The report says this number is expected to rise over the coming months.

एबरडीन सिटी काउंसिल सेवाओं के प्रबंधन और वितरण के तरीके की समीक्षा करके पांच वर्षों में 125 मिलियन पाउंड तक की बचत करने का प्रयास करेगी।


Rare Ferrari found at French farm sells for 14m euros

Summary: A rare Ferrari sports car found rusting in a French farmhouse under a pile of old magazines has sold for 14.2m euros (£10.5m; $16.2m) at auction in Paris.

The blue California Spider was hidden away for more than 50 years. One of only 37 ever made, it was once owned by the French actor Alain Delon and was discovered alongside dozens of other classic models. An auction house official said the find was the motoring equivalent of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb. The name of the buyer was not revealed.

पुरानी पत्रिकाओं के ढेर के नीचे एक फ्रांसीसी फार्महाउस में जंग लगी एक दुर्लभ फेरारी स्पोर्ट्स कार पेरिस में नीलामी में 14.2m यूरो (£ 10.5m; $16.2m) में बिकी है।


Don't hurt feelings- President

Summary: President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka has issued a statement urging the country's people to be magnanimous in celebrating the government's victory over the Tamil Tiger rebels, a victory which he formally announced on Tuesday.

President Rajapaksa has issued this special statement about the manner in which victory should be celebrated - an indication, perhaps, of the sensitivity of the end of this war with its ethnic origins.With the national flag being raised all over the country, the president said people should ensure that what he called the outpouring of joy at the defeat of terrorism "leaves no room for anyone's feelings to be hurt in any manner". The celebration, he said, should be expressed "with magnanimity and friendship towards all". Some members of the Tamil minority, and a group of leftist parties, say Tamils and Muslims have in some cases been harassed or insulted or forced to dance by people celebrating in the streets. India The government has been in talks with senior visiting Indian leaders about the situation of more than a quarter of a million ethnic Tamil refugees housed in camps in the north. The Sri Lankan and Indian governments issued a joint statement saying Sri Lanka plans to allow the bulk of the displaced Tamil civilians in the north to return to their villages within six months. The undertaking came in meetings between senior officials here and India's visiting foreign secretary and national security adviser. The statement said there were also plans to dismantle as soon as possible the camps in which the refugees are staying in overcrowded conditions with limited food, water and sanitation.Preparing for people to return to villages in the ravaged north will not be easy. But India is promising help with demining and rebuilding.

श्रीलंका के राष्ट्रपति महिंदा राजपक्षे ने एक बयान जारी कर देश के लोगों से तमिल टाइगर विद्रोहियों पर सरकार की जीत का जश्न मनाने के लिए उदार होने का आग्रह किया है, जिसकी उन्होंने मंगलवार को औपचारिक रूप से घोषणा की।


Why South Korea is rewriting its history books

Summary: School books aren't often the subject of street protest, but in South Korea a row over a government plan to write a single history textbook brought protesters to the streets of Seoul last month, with police using water cannons to disperse them.

By Stephen EvansBBC News, Seoul History here is not a dry subject confined to academia but a topic that exercises the passions of South Koreans. Currently, a range of books by different academics are on offer in the country's schools, but the centre-right government thinks they are biased to the left and wants to replace them with a version it approves. "The current textbooks have some mistakes so we want to revise them and correct the mistakes," the official in charge of the project, Park Sung-Min, told the BBC. "The authors don't want to change their point of view, so the government will make an accurate textbook". One minister said that school books should teach "the proud history of South Korea, which has achieved both democratisation and industrialisation in the shortest time in world history". Another conservative minister alleged the current versions of history were too uncritical of North Korea: "One textbook, for example, used the term 'dictatorial' only twice when writing about North Korea, but as many as 28 times about South Korea." The government's plan has caused outrage both inside the country and around the world. Prof Chung-in Moon of Yonsei University in Seoul told the BBC: "Why should we have one version of a text-book? We need multiple views so students can choose. History can be subject to multiple interpretations." There are wider questions about what the study of history is for, according to Owen Miller, a Korean studies scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London University. "Is history simply a tool for establishing loyalty to the nation or is it about producing critical citizens who can draw lessons?" he said. Presidential controversy The government's plan is so contentious because the current president, Park Geun-hye, is the daughter of a previous president, Park Chung-hee. The elder President Park, who was assassinated in 1979, is a controversial figure. As a military officer, he led a coup which took power in 1961. Extreme brutality was used by the security agencies under his presidency. But he is also widely credited with driving through South Korea's super-fast industrialisation. He ordered the country's rich to invest their money in industries which he dictated they should build from scratch. President Park is, accordingly, celebrated as the founder of South Korean prosperity. At his birthplace, for example, there is a shrine with a huge statue (reminiscent, incidentally, of the style of statue used to idolise leaders in North Korea). But the plaques alongside it make no mention of President Park's dark side. His record in the war when he served the Japanese is absent - and collaboration with the Japanese colonialists remains a hot issue in Korea. No pictures of him in a military uniform are apparent. Critics of the government today fear that the new history textbook will have a similar, sanitised view of the past. And they assert that the plan is dear to the current president who wants to whitewash her father's legacy, scrubbing away the dark spots. Opposing views There are other areas of contention where the left and right are divided over how to read history. The causes of the Korean War, for example, are disputed. For the right, it was started unambiguously by North Korea in an unprovoked aggression. For some on the left, it was more complicated, with an incipient civil war over issues like land ownership already underway before the North invaded in 1950. On this leftist view, there is some sympathy for North Korea, which is seen in parts of the left as a victim of the same civil war rather than as the outright aggressor. South Korea is not alone in having a battle over history in the classroom. Japan is having a very similar row, with conservatives wanting the wartime brutalities of Japanese soldiers downplayed and the status of disputed territories asserted in the classroom as being of undisputed Japanese sovereignty. History in this part of the world is alive and contentious. As it is in Texas where the state's board of education approves books for use in classrooms. There are hearings which are often emotive, with right and left disagreeing profoundly on the interpretation of events like slavery. This year, a 15-year-old student noticed that slaves were referred to in one textbook as workers. He took a picture of the page, put it on the internet and the image went viral. There is now a debate in the state about whether professional historians should get more say in the selection of approved textbooks. In his novel 1984, George Orwell cited a fictitious totalitarian government slogan: "Who controls the past controls the future." South Korea, Japan and Texas where the current rows over textbooks are taking place are not totalitarian states. In truly despotic places governments control history teaching completely. But in all three places, opponents of government fear an erosion of democracy. History matters. It's about politics and it provokes all the passions of politics. They know that in Seoul, Tokyo and Austin.

स्कूली किताबें अक्सर सड़क पर विरोध का विषय नहीं होती हैं, लेकिन दक्षिण कोरिया में एक एकल इतिहास की पाठ्यपुस्तक लिखने की सरकारी योजना को लेकर पिछले महीने सियोल की सड़कों पर प्रदर्शनकारियों को लाया गया, पुलिस ने उन्हें तितर-बितर करने के लिए पानी की तोपों का उपयोग किया।


Gang break into Airdrie house and beat man with hammers

Summary: A man has been left with a head injury after a gang broke into his home in North Lanarkshire and beat him with hammers.

The four unidentified men entered the property on Moffathill in Airdrie at about 17:00 on Tuesday. They carried out what police say was a targeted attack, leaving the man with head injuries that needed hospital treatment. Officers have launched an investigation and inquiries are continuing. Det Con Paul James has urged anyone with information or who saw any suspicious activity in the area to contact police via the non-emergency line.

उत्तरी लनार्कशायर में एक गिरोह द्वारा उसके घर में घुसने और उसे हथौड़ों से पीटने के बाद एक व्यक्ति के सिर में चोट लगी है।


What the Huawei battle tells us about US-China relations

Summary: The US insists that its opposition to Huawei technology being used in key information systems stems entirely from security concerns: the fear of "back-doors" in the software or the relationship between the Chinese State and its major high-tech companies.

Jonathan MarcusDiplomatic correspondent@Diplo1on Twitter Of course, there may be a good dose of old-fashioned commercial rivalry as well. These are the technologies after all that will shape the world's economic future. But is there something more? Are we witnessing the first significant engagement in something that is much more than simply a conventional trade war? For years commentators have been talking about China's rise: a shift of economic power to the East and the relative decline of the US. None of this was likely to happen without friction - but now though, the US is fighting back. Spokesmen talk about preparing for a new era of global competition. In the first instance the discussion is military - re-orientating the US armed forces away from fighting insurgencies and regional wars to prepare for state-on-state conflict, with Russia and China as the peer competitors. But in the struggle with China, the economic dimension is fundamental. At one level the Trump administration appears determined to use its economic muscle not just to constrain a company like Huawei, but also to force Beijing to open up its markets and change aspects of its economic behaviour that have long-concerned western companies seeking to do business there. Beijing, of course, sees something different going on - a developing campaign to contain China's rise. And it may be right. This battle is about much more than just business practices and commercial markets, it is a struggle over the most basic underpinnings of national power with huge strategic implications. To put it another way, the West is slowly re-learning the simple fact - one that Beijing has assimilated all too well - that economic muscle is the foundation of global power and that economic strength is the precursor of military might. It is a truism that the West has taken for granted for more than two centuries, but the development of market capitalism and the military revolutions of the 17th Century were inter-linked. It was commercial and economic power that enabled the technology for military innovation, and this, in turn, facilitated the sea-borne empires of the 17th and 18th centuries and the steam-driven empires of the 19th. When the US fully supplanted Great Britain as the dominant power in the West at the end of World War Two, for a brief moment the world had a single nuclear-armed global superpower. Of course the Soviet Union sought to rival the US in terms of its political and economic model, but it could not sustain the trappings of a military superpower over time. And with the collapse of Soviet communism, the US once again emerged as the sole global player with real military reach. This was the "unipolar" moment which now, in retrospect, seems all so brief. The rivalry between Washington and Moscow during the Cold War years is instructive. Not because it is a parallel for today's growing tensions between the US and China, but rather because of how different it was. There was simply no equivalent to the current economic rivalry. The Soviet Union's economy was largely cut off from the West - its technical development circumscribed and comparatively backward except in a few key areas. Western trade restrictions prevented the export of all kinds of technologies to the communist bloc. China is an entirely different matter. Its huge economy and manufacturing base are hard-wired into the international economic system. It is probably a bit late to try to shut Beijing out of key sectors of economic activity. The pace of China's rise is almost unique. Some ten years ago the US economy was still three times the size of that of China. No longer. In modern times the US has never faced an economic competitor of equal size let alone one that will out-pace it. This is entirely new. And it is, belatedly perhaps, prompting a fundamental rethink of the terms of economic competition: a rethink that puts economic power explicitly back where it always should have been, as the central foundation of national strategy and national power. This of course is something the Chinese have understood all along. Nineteenth century China was the victim of western expansionism and buccaneering trade practices. It is a history that is well-remembered there, whereas in the West, the Opium Wars or France's Tonkin campaigns - its early forays into Indo-China - are largely forgotten. China's "Belt and Road" initiative - its expansive plans for close economic ties with a chain of countries - was not solely about markets and access to raw materials, but reflected a fundamental strategic effort. This has been bolstered by a long-standing programme of buying up and developing essential port facilities around the globe. It was a conscious policy to secure China's economic future as the key determinant of national power. The "Belt and Road" initiative was undertaken with the understanding that the US and Japan would not necessarily be China's main trading partners in the long-term. China has tapped into huge markets throughout the developing world - literally billions of people. The Chinese economy may be faltering right now (at least in relative terms) but as one well-informed US China-watcher told me, "they have engineering talent, a focused leadership, a market orientation and long-term horizons". President Trump has seemingly decided to draw a line against Chinese competition. A variety of regulatory changes in the US seek to curtail China's access to US knowhow and critical sectors of the US economy. But will it work? Will Mr Trump himself stay the course or enact one of his customary U-turns? His recent comments on concessions regarding Huawei seem to underscore his transactional rather than strategic approach to foreign policy. But this is an issue way bigger than Mr Trump and will challenge multiple US administrations to come. That though is a short-term concern. The fundamentals of the strategic competition between the US and China are clear and are not going to go away. Efforts to decouple their two economies will cause pain in the short-term for both (and probably in the long term too). But the concern is that the worsening economic tensions are carrying over into the security realm, raising real fears of conflict, either by accident or design. Many of Mr Trump's domestic political opponents, while accepting that there is "a China problem", nonetheless disagree with the way he is setting about resolving it. International economic institutions need to be refreshed, they argue. Trade and security legislation need to encompass the challenges posed by new technologies like artificial intelligence. And they fear that Mr Trump is pursuing an altogether too-narrow and nationalist approach. Above all, they say, allies need to be kept on side. If this resolves down to separate economic battles between China and Japan, between China and the EU, or between China and the US, Beijing will have the upper hand. There was a time when the essential approach of the US to China's rise was to seek to make it a "responsible stakeholder" in the international system. It was essentially saying that China would be accepted if it played by the prevailing economic rules. But now China has risen and it is a process that will not stop. Not surprisingly it has some ideas of its own. Now much of the talk is about containing China. But this simply raises the question, is China simply too big to be contained?

अमेरिका जोर देकर कहता है कि प्रमुख सूचना प्रणालियों में हुआवेई प्रौद्योगिकी के उपयोग का उसका विरोध पूरी तरह से सुरक्षा चिंताओं से उपजा हैः सॉफ्टवेयर में "पिछले दरवाजे" का डर या चीनी राज्य और उसकी प्रमुख उच्च तकनीक कंपनियों के बीच संबंध।


Prince George: First official photographs released

Summary: The first official photographs of Prince George have been released.

The baby - who is third in line to the British throne - is pictured with his parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The pictures were taken by the duchess's father, Michael Middleton, in the garden of their family home in Bucklebury, Berkshire. Taken earlier this month, they show the royal couple, Prince George and their black cocker spaniel, Lupo. Tilly, a golden retriever belonging to the Middleton family, can be seen lying down behind them. The photographs of Prince George, who was born on 22 July, were released by Kensington Palace. On Monday Prince William, giving his first interview since becoming a father, told CNN: "He's a little bit of a rascal, I'll put it that way. "He either reminds me of my brother or me when I was younger, I'm not sure - but he's doing very well at the moment." BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the new family look "unselfconscious, relaxed and happy - much like most couples might look with their first-born baby". He added: "Of course they're aware of what's expected of them. There will be staff - a nanny - to help in due course, but for the moment it's all rather informal and many might think, refreshing." Renowned photographer Terry O'Neill said he thought the pictures were "absolutely charming". "It reminded me when I first started photography for myself - I just went for the light, and it was really interesting lighting. As a matter of fact when I heard about these pictures, I thought 'Who have they got to do these pictures' - and the thought crossed my mind they might have asked the Queen because she's quite a good photographer - I thought that would be one up to the paparazzi." The cultural and education manager of Magnum Photos, Fiona Rogers, told Radio 4's Today programme the photograph of the couple and Prince George with the family's dogs was "technically not the most accomplished photograph". "It's a photograph that any one of us could have in our family albums," she said.

प्रिंस जॉर्ज की पहली आधिकारिक तस्वीरें जारी की गई हैं।


Morgan flattened by Whale

Summary: It is hard to know where to begin in describing the savage indictment by regulators in the US and UK of how JP Morgan Chase came to lose a breathtaking $6.2bn from the notorious "London Whale" trades.

Robert PestonEconomics editor However there seem to me to be two big issues: 1) How and why the reputation and good name that JP Morgan boasted for generations was no guarantee of either competence or honesty 2) The lamentable transatlantic arrangements for regulating and supervising a bank of critical importance to the functioning of global markets and the economy. The aggregate fines and penalties of $920m imposed on JP Morgan by three US regulators and one British regulator may be wholly fitting - but it would surely have been preferable for these regulators, or at least one of them, to have had better oversight of what was going on in Morgan's Chief Investment Office and the so-called Synthetic Credit Portfolio (SCP) that generated the humungous loss. Regulatory gap Here's the gaping supervisory flaw. The poisonous SCP was built and traded in London. But it was part of a subsidiary of Morgan which was American and was under the oversight of the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC); and the subsidiary was in turn owned by a holding company, whose lead regulator was the US Federal Reserve. This means that the formal responsibility of the British regulator - at the time the Financial Services Authority, which has since been superseded by the Financial Conduct Authority - to keep the London-based part of the CIO on the straight and narrow was a bit fuzzy. If the CIO had been a UK subsidiary of JP Morgan, the duties of oversight of the FSA would have been less ambiguous. Or to put it another way, the FSA was supervising the CIO with - perhaps - one arm tethered behind its back. Even so, the FSA registered concerns with JP Morgan about the size of the CIO and the risks it was taking. How did Morgan respond? Well one verdict from the Financial Conduct Authority today is that Morgan was not "open and co-operative" with the FSA, and the FSA was "deliberately misled" by Morgan on one occasion in the first half of 2012 about the extent of the losses and other serious lapses. It was this breach of all banks' duty to supply appropriate, accurate and timely information to regulators that led to the biggest chunk of the British $220m (£138m) fine imposed on Morgan by the FCA. Reckless management The beaching of this Whale may well therefore re-open the debate about how the overseas operations of international banks should be supervised and regulated. To put it in the jargon, it once again raises the question whether economically important activities of banks away from the mother country should be forced to become "subsidiaries" registered in the places where they operate rather than "branches" of the foreign based bank. To perhaps labour the point, if the CIO in London had been a UK registered subsidiary of JP Morgan, as opposed to being a branch of the US bank, it would have been much more clearly the duty of the FSA to deter it from being reckless and dishonest. All that said, effective regulation and supervision can reduce the scale and frequency of banking disasters, but cannot eliminate them. Most would say that bank management, directors and owners should be most held to account when things go wrong. So, for someone of my generation, what is shocking about the saga of the Whale is that for all my professional life JP Morgan has been seen as among the world's best managed and best behaved banks. But what regulators have uncovered too late is that a huge part of this bank - the notional size of the SCP was $51bn at the end of 2011 - was being managed incompetently and recklessly. Huge punts Before elaborating on JP Morgan's fall from grace, it may be worth reminding you what the SCP was. Created seven years ago, it was largely a vast collection of "credit instruments", with big positions in indexes of Credit Default Swaps. Presumably a good number of you now fear I am speaking Martian. So what you need to know is that a credit default swap is insurance against a company going bust. And an index of credit default swaps groups together loads of different credit default swaps, although usually swaps that share certain characteristics. In theory, JP Morgan was trading this stuff in the SCP to offset its exposure to the fortunes of big companies via its loans to them. In practice it was taking huge punts on whether at any one time the market thought there was a bigger or lower probability of companies going bankrupt. When things went right - which was quite often when things went very wrong for real businesses - the SCP generated big profits. Good news for the SCP, for example, was the collapse into bankruptcy of American Airlines, which generated $400m for it. Woeful The fateful credit default swap index for JP Morgan was the "IG9 10-year" index - which grouped together swaps for good quality, low risk companies - to which we will return. Anyway, the damning findings against JP Morgan are these: Worse still, these traders subsequently hid losses. Frantic There is something else, of particular interest to me, given how often I bang on that the global Basel Rules for assessing the riskiness of banks' activities have been at best useless and at worst highly damaging to the health of the financial system. This is to do with they way that those who ran the SCP tried to comply with an instruction from their bosses to reduce the size of their trading book, or rather the "risk-weighted" value of the book based on the Basel rules. Rather than selling assets, which would have been the sensible thing to do, they tried to come up with a new valuation model that would exploit the elasticity of the Basel rules to shrink the perceived size of the book by accounting (and not in any real economic sense). In the event, the SCP grew and grew in size, as imprudent new trades were done in a frantic attempt to reduce escalating losses. And, as the FCA says, at least one set of these trades was an attempt to manipulate a market price - that of the IG9 10-year index (I told you it would return) - and that this was a breach of the requirement to "observe proper standards of market conduct". So is today's humiliation as bad as it gets for JP Morgan? That is difficult to say, because the FBI is taking a look at what went on, and the FCA is liaising with the Serious Fraud Office about it, and the US derivatives regulator, the CFTC, is yet to pronounce. Today may be a black day for JP Morgan, but it may not yet be the blackest.

यह जानना मुश्किल है कि अमेरिका और ब्रिटेन में नियामकों द्वारा क्रूर अभियोग का वर्णन करने में कहाँ से शुरू किया जाए कि कैसे जेपी मॉर्गन चेस ने कुख्यात "लंदन व्हेल" व्यापार से एक लुभावनी $6.2bn खो दिया।


Royal Welsh Show posts profit after record breaking visitor numbers

Summary: The Royal Welsh Show posted a profit of nearly £210,000 last year after record-breaking visitor numbers, says the society behind the event.

The four-day show in Llanelwedd, Powys, attracted its highest ever attendance of 241,099 in July 2012. The Royal Welsh Agricultural Society said the event made a surplus of income over expenditure of £209,247 which is slightly up on the figures for 2011. The society's Winter Fair and Spring Festival also made a profit.

रॉयल वेल्श शो ने पिछले साल रिकॉर्ड तोड़ने वाले आगंतुकों की संख्या के बाद लगभग 210,000 पाउंड का लाभ कमाया, इस आयोजन के पीछे के समाज का कहना है।


Windows 8 and the Surface tablets: The experts weigh in

Summary: Windows 8 marks what is arguably the most radical tech launch of the year.

Microsoft aims to leapfrog the competition by offering a touch-based, dynamic, futuristic-looking interface which can run on processors designed for both high-spec computers, and chips more commonly associated with smartphones. Its market-leading status is at stake. More than 1.5 billion devices currently use a version of Windows, making it by far the most installed operating system, according to tech research firm Gartner. But investors are more concerned about the firm's growth prospects amidst growing competition for customers' cash. "We think the industry changed with the iPad launch because the tablet is effectively a PC - it doesn't need to be connected to a network to work and runs third-party applications," Steve Brazier, chief executive of research firm Canalys, says. "Once you segment the market that way, Windows share of the global PC market has fallen to 72%. Three years ago that would have been over 95%. "If you add the PC market together to the smartphone market - which we call the intelligent device sector - Windows share falls to 32%." Windows 8 and its close relation Windows Phone 8 are designed to reverse that trend. One thing is certain: Microsoft's efforts will have industry-wide ramifications. A study by Gartner indicates worldwide PC shipments were 8.3% lower than the previous year in the July-to-September quarter. That spells trouble for companies including HP, Dell and Acer which have seen sales decline as a consequence. A successful launch might recharge demand, but first they must face the prospect of a challenge from Microsoft's own tablet, Surface. The BBC asked a selection of industry experts for their views of Microsoft's new products: SINK OR SWIM Raimo Lenschow is Barclays bank's software analyst. He says Microsoft's share price and wider fortunes hang in the balance. In our view, Microsoft needs a successful tablet to prevent an erosion of market share and loss of earnings from its core Windows and Office businesses. The key question on our and most investors' minds right now is how much traction the Windows 8 system and Surface tablet can gain. A success could spark a comeback story for the company, while failure would reinforce concerns about the firm's core products. Microsoft's management has remained fairly reticent about providing forecasts for sales and the expected adoption rate of the products, which is likely due to the fact there could be a wide range of possible outcomes. What's more, for the Windows 8 launch the situation is somewhat different from previous launches, as the strong momentum in the new tablet category from the iPad and Android-powered devices is negatively impacting the PC business, and hence raises questions as to whether previous cycles are still a good indication for the current launch. Given the lack of certainty, we prefer to wait on the sidelines before making any detailed predictions about the product's success. Although the new tablet will likely have meaningful sales right from the start, the addition of a significant hardware product to Microsoft's business model is likely to put pressure on its profit margin. FULL-FAT OR SLIMLINE? Sarah Rotman Epps is a senior analyst at the market research firm Forrester. She warns that Microsoft risks confusing consumers by offering two flavours of its new operating system. Most consumers don't pay attention to the chipset in their device, but Microsoft's latest update to its Windows operating system forces buyers to confront the trade-offs of chipset choices. It gets confusing quickly: There are two versions of Windows to choose from, Windows 8 and Windows RT. Windows 8 has two choices of chipsets: x86 (such as Intel Core i5, what your PC is probably running today) and new x86 system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs from Intel and AMD, which function more like the chip in your mobile phone. Windows RT works only with ARM-based chip designs by Nvidia or Qualcomm. Here are the trade-offs that will matter to most consumers: • Battery life and boot time versus "performance": Windows devices with SoC and ARM chips have the longest battery life and the shortest boot time, but they won't perform as well for intensive computing activities. The Microsoft Surface running Windows RT that I've been testing stutters while playing 1080p video, for example, but Windows 8 tablets running Core i3 or i5 don't have this problem. • Task flexibility: Windows RT does not allow users to do activities like install an alternative browser, install plug-ins (which are required to make many websites work), or access Flash websites unless they are pre-approved by Microsoft. Windows 8 devices let you do anything you would normally do on a PC. While RT devices have longer battery life, many consumers may find the trade-offs in terms of task flexibility too restrictive. HITTING HACKERS Rik Ferguson is director of security research at the anti-virus firm Trend Micro. He thinks Microsoft has made several advances in its new operating system. Microsoft has taken advantage of computer hardware to increase and speed up security in Windows 8. Dedicated computer components can now be used to ensure that malicious code is not loaded as Windows boots up and self-encrypting hard drives take the load off when making your data illegible to snoopers and thieves. The new capabilities are designed to effectively limit the possibility that malicious software is loaded before the operating system. This kind of malware, known as a rootkit, can often bypass or even disable key security functionality and hide its own presence entirely. Windows 8 also provides a means for security software to ensure that it is the first thing that gets loaded when the PC is powered on, in a further effort to stop malware from overriding your protection. When it comes to authenticating users, Microsoft has added some functionality obviously designed for those touchscreen devices it is anticipating. Picture or pin logins can be used once a user's password has been set, as a shortcut to logging in. While this feature may be convenient, research during beta testing has demonstrated some serious weaknesses that could allow an attacker to uncover the actual password of accounts using this feature, so discretion is advised! There are several other features that I don't have the space to detail here, but it's great to see Microsoft continuing to take security seriously and allow specialist security providers to integrate more deeply with its system. OPEN VERSUS CLOSED Jason Kingsley is chairman of Tiga - the trade association representing the UK's video games industry. He reflects on the controversy caused by Microsoft's decision to launch its own curated app store from which it will take a cut of the sale price. The power of touchscreen computers of all sorts is very impressive and means our creativity as games developers can be unleashed. Is it right therefore that some hardware manufacturers offer shop windows that place limitations on the sort of game that they take? Should Microsoft, for example, only offer products in its Windows that it considers are suitable? In a situation without a monopoly I would say that this is for the market to decide. You can put your carefully crafted game through Microsoft's certification system and have it featured in its shop window, or choose not to take that route and release the game on the same platform in the wild. If Microsoft owns the shop window there is an argument to be made for it deciding what to put in it after all. There are many players who want a curated service, where certain technical and editorial standards are enforced, other users will be just as happy with making their own minds up and taking a risk elsewhere. But while the full Windows 8 system allows choice, the Windows RT version only lets new apps be installed from the store, meaning some games will fall foul of a ban on 18-rated titles. That decision worries some who see Microsoft turning away from its "open platform" roots. What we do know as an industry is that things change very rapidly and that the market is a brutal and unforgiving place. Which approach is the right one for both creators and distributors will be defined simply by the market and people power. EVOLVING THE INTERFACE Dan Kraemer is co-founder of the Chicago-based design consultancy IA Collaborative. He says the look of the new Windows system marks a significant step forward in computer interfaces. User interface (UI) is one of the most impactful manifestations of human centred design in our modern society. And while it's one of the most progressive spaces for design, I believe it will follow a historic aesthetic sequence. We can think of Windows 8's approach not as a right versus wrong, but as evidence of the progression of a category. Take a look at architectural styles over the ages. One hundred years ago, decorative styles like Victorian and Art Deco prevailed as architecture emerged as "art," much like early web design. In the mid-century Modernists demonstrated "less is more" with nearly no ornamental elements and stark simplicity - think the Google search page prior to all those whimsical banners. At the same time, understanding of architecture elements and new materials emerged. Now we have neo-modernism which embraces a less rigid, more emotive expression of modernist. We might think of Windows 8 as today's neo-modernist interface. Microsoft's rejection of skeuomorphism - the idea that applications need to look like their real-world equivalents - distinguishes it from Apple's OS X whose calendar app features a leather-skinned interface with ripped paper to hint at earlier entries. Apple's design has been attacked by some as being "kitsch", but praised by others for humanising the interface. Windows 8 clearly moves away from this, at least in part - it still uses icons, shapes and colours to identify states which relate to our "real" world. As a designer, I am energised by the fact users are becoming sophisticated enough to handle both kinds of design. Each interface is a unique opportunity to engage and inspire users while progressing the discipline forward. INTERESTING AGAIN Kirk Schell is the vice president of Dell's consumer products division. To take advantage of Windows 8's touch interface his firm is releasing a laptop whose screen can swivel in its bezel to lie flat against its keyboard, among other innovative designs. This is an exciting time as it makes people want to look at the different type of computers out there. I see more innovation as companies act to take advantage of the Windows 8 environment, when in a purely price-driven market you would have seen less. Windows 8 is a catalyst to invest more in differentiation. That's a good thing as it will get people out to see what is happening. There is new news. A big box retailer in North America described it to me this way: When big tube-based TVs were the norm and we introduced flatscreen displays, the biggest driver wasn't that consumers had high definition material they wanted to play. It was that they saw all these slim TVs hanging on the wall, looked at their big box in the corner, and said: 'I am so behind the times I need to upgrade.' We think that with the launch of computers that they want to touch and which offer other new technologies, that people will look at their old PC and think they at least need to go and look at what's new. This is not just a tablet story. I believe that all consumer-targeted computers will feature touchscreens in less than a decade. At the moment there are manufacturing capacity and cost issues, but the price difference to include the feature will come down to tens of dollars. People like more ways to interact with their device and there will be more cool things to come.

विंडोज 8 वह है जो यकीनन वर्ष का सबसे कट्टरपंथी तकनीकी लॉन्च है।


Woman left with 'life-threatening' injuries after collision

Summary: A woman has been left with "life-threatening" injuries after a collision in Oake, Somerset early on Thursday.

Avon & Somerset Police said the collision between the woman and a car happened at about 06:55 GMT in the Oake Green area of the village. A police spokesman said: "The woman was treated at the scene and has been taken to hospital, her condition is believed to be life-threatening. "We'd advise motorists seek an alternative route at this time." The road was initially closed while emergency services carried out work at the scene, but reopened at noon. Follow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk

सोमरसेट के ओके में गुरुवार तड़के हुई टक्कर में एक महिला को "जानलेवा" चोटें आई हैं।


Hollie Gazzard's funeral takes place in Gloucester

Summary: The funeral of Hollie Gazzard, the hairdresser fatally stabbed in a city centre hair salon, has taken place.

Twenty-year-old Ms Gazzard was attacked at Fringe Benefits and La Bella Beauty in Southgate Street, Gloucester, in February. About 700 people attended a memorial service at Gloucester Cathedral before the private cremation. Asher Maslin, 22, of Benhall Gardens, Cheltenham, has been charged with Miss Gazzard's murder. A trial is likely to take place in October at Gloucester Crown Court. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is also investigating contact between Gloucestershire Police and Miss Gazzard before her death.

सिटी सेंटर हेयर सैलून में चाकू मारकर हत्या करने वाली हेयरड्रेसर होली गैजार्ड का अंतिम संस्कार किया गया है।


The May hegemony: How long can it last?

Summary: Mrs May did not sprawl on the Royal throne to glare at their lordships. She merely glowered from its steps. The heralds might call it "the perch presumptive". But she might as well have done so: she is queen of all she surveys. The Copeland by-election has established the May hegemony. How long it lasts is another matter.

Mark MardellPresenter, The World This Weekend@BBCMarkMardellon Twitter Her power is unchallenged. There is little serious opposition within her once fractious party and little outside it at the moment, at least not in England. The Stoke result is far from good for Labour: it won only because the Conservative vote held up, and UKIP failed to increase its share significantly. Copeland though, was the killer. When by-elections go wrong for governments the journalistic cliche is that it's "the final nail in their coffin". This time the nail is in the other foot. Mrs May delights in facing what some critics have described as a "zombie" opposition. Jeremy Corbyn's many internal opponents believe they are lurching towards an apocalypse in 2020, their leader undead and unkillable. They may be wrong about the chance of renaissance but their doubts make it even less likely. Meanwhile, like some doomsday machine which has completed its mission, UKIP seems to be counting down to its own destruction - it may not actually blow up but Paul Nuttall's by-election failure is now being eclipsed by new stories of internal squabbles. While they were busy trying to pinch Labour's voters, they didn't notice Mrs May had nicked their clothes. The Liberal Democrats are the natural repository for the unreconciled Remain voters. But they are not exactly radiating raw heat. Tony Blair's big speech turned out to be less of a clarion call and more a virtuoso jazz solo, brilliant but gaining no new fans. The same could be said for John Major's big gig. For now the May hegemony looks unassailable. And remember, she's didn't get here by accident. It just looks that way. Mrs May positioned herself perfectly to be the heir apparent in the case of either Brexit result. Cameron's unexpectedly abrupt departure had huge, unexpected consequences. We in the UK often overstate our own importance. But our prime minister is unique in the world at the moment. She did not summon or support the wave of populism which propelled her to power. But she has ridden it with skill. She has firmly and loudly proclaimed three big things, so obvious now, that it seems like any Conservative prime minister would have said them after a Brexit vote. They wouldn't have, though. Whatever their policy, PM Johnson or Gove would have wanted to sound conciliatory in victory towards their defeated opponents, inside and outside the party. There could have been mollification on migration while the hand of friendship would have been thrust towards Remainers. That in itself would have opened up a space for debate, which Mrs May has closed down. She, indeed, exhibits such a convert's zeal for the verdict of the people that neither those who are delighted nor those who are nauseated, peer beyond her enthusiasm to perceive the tactics. Those three big things? First that Brexit will happen: no ifs, no buts. Second, that it was largely about immigration. Thirdly, critically, that it was also about something else. She proclaims it was a howl of pain from those who are economically adrift in a society where there is growing inequality. In the Spectator, James Forsyth notes correctly that she is attempting to plot a middle course, a third way, between the two clashing ideologies which have, in part, replaced left and right as the burning divisions of our time: nationalism and globalisation. To square this circle will need her to display even more ingenuity than is so far on display. Indeed, if she can't reconcile contradictory facts she will have to make choices which will disappoint someone or other. That could break the hegemony. Take Brexit itself. The government White Paper on leaving the EU has been mocked for its vacuity. In fact, it is very revealing. It strikes a pose of very hard Brexit while hinting at the desirability of the opposite. It declares controlling EU immigration is "complex", adding there may be "a phased process of implementation" after businesses have said what they want. I await the reply of farmers, caterers and minicab firms with interest. Indeed David Davis and Amber Rudd agree migration will continue for a good while yet. That could be a focus for new opposition. Then there are tariffs. Portions of the White Paper could have been ripped from Remain propaganda. They give the example of Airbus, where the wings are built in Wales with parts crossing back and forth promiscuously between borders. The government argues it needs "tariff-free trade in goods that is as frictionless as possible between the UK and the EU". The British Chambers of Commerce says that if the UK can't get such a deal, Brexit should be put on hold. Others will argue for World Trade Organization rules or retaliatory trade barriers of hard Brexit. If the sharp edges of this square can't be smoothed into soothing curves, then the hegemony could crack. Then there's Mrs May's promise of a government which "works for everyone, not just the privileged few". Does she just mean a growing economy or is she really talking about a radical redistribution of wealth and power? And if those despairing coastal towns, and abandoned swathes of our post-industrial kingdom still feel left behind in 2020, what then will they think of the establishment in power? Hegemony never lasts. But it can last long enough. While I love the old saying, "fine words butter no parsnips", plenty of political parsnips are positively slippery with rhetorical promises which render reality more palatable. As Abraham Lincoln didn't say: "You may not be able to butter all of the parsnips all of the time, but you can probably make enough of them glisten appetisingly long enough to be swallowed at the next election."

श्रीमती मे शाही सिंहासन पर उनके प्रभुत्व को देखने के लिए नहीं फैली थीं। वह केवल उसके कदमों से चमकती थीं। हो सकता है कि हेराल्ड इसे "पर्च अनुमानित" कहें। लेकिन उन्होंने ऐसा भी किया हो सकता हैः वह अपने सभी सर्वेक्षणों की रानी हैं। कोपलैंड उपचुनाव ने मई के आधिपत्य को स्थापित किया है। यह कब तक चलता है, यह अलग बात है।


World War II devices discovered in New Forest 'were not bombs'

Summary: Two 500lb (226kg) devices thought to be World War II bombs have been destroyed in the New Forest.

It was revealed that the objects, discovered at Latchmore Bottom near Frogham, were actually training devices used during the war. A 500m (1640ft) exclusion zone was set up as the controlled explosion was carried out by EOD Explosive Ordnance Disposal at about 14:15 BST. Hampshire Constabulary said air support was flying over the area.

न्यू फॉरेस्ट में द्वितीय विश्व युद्ध के बम माने जाने वाले दो 500 पौंड (226 किलोग्राम) के उपकरणों को नष्ट कर दिया गया है।


First residents arrive at Glasgow's Athletes' Village

Summary: The first residents are moving in to homes in the east end of Glasgow built to accommodate athletes at last year's Commonwealth Games.

The Athletes' Village in Dalmarnock was home to about 7,000 competitors and officials during the Games last summer. The 38.5 hectare site was reconfigured afterwards and now features 300 private homes, 400 homes for social rent and a new 120-bed care home for the elderly. By the end of Friday, about 100 homes on the site will be occupied. The remainder of the homes are expected to be filled by the end of the summer. Of the socially rented homes, 200 will be for Thenue Housing Association, 102 for West of Scotland Housing Association and 98 for Glasgow Housing Association. More than 250 of the 300 private homes have so far been sold.

पहले निवासी ग्लासगो के पूर्वी छोर पर पिछले साल के राष्ट्रमंडल खेलों में एथलीटों को समायोजित करने के लिए बनाए गए घरों में जा रहे हैं।