Why Australians are using sunblock to protect grape crops

Summary: Slip, slop, slap. It was a cartoon seagull wearing shorts, t-shirt and a hat that famously urged sun-loving Australians in the 1980s to protect themselves from damaging ultraviolet rays.

By Phil MercerBBC News, Sydney While sunblock has shielded generations from harm, it is also being used to safeguard the health and vitality of Australian grapes as the nation reflects on another scorching year when temperature records continued to tumble. At Tyrrell's vineyard in the Hunter Valley, 165km north of Sydney, the midday sun beats down on some of Australia's oldest vines. They date back to the late 1800s, and have thrived in tough conditions. The quality of the vintage depends not only on the sun and the soil, but the temperature. Very hot weather can inflict serious damage, and too much heat can cause the berries to shrivel or suffer sunburn. "You put sunscreen on your kids when they go out in the sun, so we put it on our grapevines. That just goes on like a normal spray," says Bruce Tyrrell, the chief executive of Tyrrell's Wines. "Your vineyard gets this funny white-blue colour, and you look on the berries and there is a little coating on them. It is just like putting sunscreen on and it gives it some protection." It's not only science that is helping to protect the crop, but also sound husbandry in a region where temperatures can exceed 45C (113F). "It is a matter of having your vineyard laid out to handle your conditions," Mr Tyrrell tells the BBC. "We plant north-south rows, so that you don't have the western sun directly on the fruit." Heatproofing businesses Scientists have predicted that climate change will make heatwaves in Australia more frequent and severe - and when the mercury rockets, so do the economic costs. When Melbourne sweltered through a four-day hot spell in January 2014, it is estimated that firms in the city lost about 10m Australian dollars ($8m; £5m) in revenue each day. A subsequent survey found around 60% of businesses expect that more regular heatwaves over the next 20 years would hit their profits. Prof Christopher Wright from the University of Sydney Business School explains that many industries would have to heatproof their operations, including agriculture, retail and insurance companies. "They are thinking about how can we insure for extreme events like bushfires that are precipitated by heatwaves, so they have to model for an increasingly unpredictable climate. "Large shopping centres are looking at dramatic increases in electricity costs as they try to increase air conditioning," he says. "Heatwaves are becoming longer, and they are becoming more severe, and that becomes hard to manage depending in which business sector you are in. "So my own take is that a lot of businesses are probably fairly unprepared for what is coming," he adds. Health warning Heatwaves cause more deaths each year in Australia than any other natural disaster, and they pose particular risks to the bedrock of the economy: the workforce. In November, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) issued a health warning to staff working outdoors across the state of New South Wales as extreme heat took hold. When temperatures exceed 38C (100F), work is automatically halted because of the risk of heat rashes, cramps and exhaustion. "Our union has produced a detailed policy for working in heat," says ETU secretary Steve Butler. "Extreme heat can cause a range of health problems, from the uncomfortable to the potentially deadly." Two years ago, Sydney experienced its hottest day on record when temperatures passed 45C. It was a punishing time for those not able to seek air-conditioned relief, as a crushing heat smothered the nation's biggest city. Many shoppers stayed at home, but it was workers who had to bear the brunt of the conditions. "It made people feel lethargic," says Russell Zimmerman, the head of the Australian Retailers Association. "There were trials getting people to and from work. Obviously you'll have people who go by public transport. Invariably on a really hot day you get some kind of problem with public transport, be it rails buckling or vehicles breaking down." Shaped by climate Yet, this is a land of extremes. And while there is disagreement about man's influence on the climate, there is a shared belief that Australia has thrived in the face of unrelenting environmental challenges, from drought to floods, to bushfires and a burning sun. A nation's prosperity could now depend on how it adapts to a warmer future. "The tyranny of extreme climate has shaped us," says Tim Harcourt from the University of New South Wales Business School. "If Australia had a beautiful, temperate climate all-round, we'd be a very different people. "We have faced great climate challenges through our history, and that is partly the way we shape our character and we shape our approach to the economy."

स्लिप, स्लोप, थप्पड़। यह एक कार्टून सीगल था जिसने शॉर्ट्स, टी-शर्ट और एक टोपी पहनी हुई थी जिसने 1980 के दशक में सूर्य-प्रेमी ऑस्ट्रेलियाई लोगों को पराबैंगनी किरणों को नुकसान पहुंचाने से बचाने के लिए प्रसिद्ध रूप से आग्रह किया था।


TalkTalk - better than it feared

Summary: Small print matters. Some of TalkTalk's millions of customers might have been angry enough to try to terminate their contracts when the telecommunications company first revealed details of a major data security breach last month.

Kamal AhmedBusiness editor@bbckamalon Twitter But, with contracts for mobile, fixed line, broadband and television services of up to two years (always worth looking at those few lines at the bottom of the paperwork) customers found they couldn't leave TalkTalk without incurring hefty costs. When Dido Harding, the chief executive, first announced two weeks ago that customers would only be able to leave if they could show a "direct impact" on their bank account - a pretty high bar - investors heaved a sigh of relief and TalkTalk's share price bounced up. It was up again this morning - by more than 12% - as the half-year results revealed that TalkTalk was still expected to make £300m profit before tax this year. And that revenues were up 6%. Yes, churn (that's the number of customers leaving compared with the number of customers joining) was up slightly, but when I interviewed Ms Harding she certainly suggested there was little evidence of a mass exodus. "It's too early to tell how many customers will leave," she told me. "What I can tell you is that the early signs are encouraging. "We of course saw an immediate step up, a spike, in churn or customers cancelling their direct debits but actually after a few days we saw many of those customers reinstating their direct debits again." Of course, as Ms Harding went on to say, time will tell. And let's not forget, TalkTalk's share price has fallen by more than 30% in a month. Furthermore, these half-year results do not include the three weeks since the cyber-attack. So, beyond the £35m up-front cost announced today, there is little visibility about the actual customer impact. We will not know that until the company announces its full-year results next spring. 'The crime of our era' Ms Harding said it was impossible to say whether TalkTalk would ever be the victim of a criminal cyber-attack in the future. "TalkTalk takes our customers security incredibly seriously," Ms Harding said. "Clearly we've been spending more and more on security over the last few years, and a lot more over the course of the last three weeks and I expect to do ever more. "The reality is that we have to keep building our security walls higher and higher, because these cyber criminals are building longer and longer ladders. "This is not just about TalkTalk. This is the crime of our era, and we're committed to doing everything in our power to protect our customers." TalkTalk is the "challenger brand" in the telecommunications market, up against the major players BT, Sky and Virgin. And, as such, losing a lot of customers was not an enticing prospect. Ms Harding took a calculated bet that by being very public about the cyber-attack, customers would at least see a chief executive who took this issue seriously. "Three weeks ago we had a live criminal attack and a very credible ransom demand and I think we did exactly the right thing to go out early and warn our customers so that we could help make them safer, and they could protect themselves," she said. "I think we did both the right and the responsible thing and I'm personally humbled by the number of customers who have personally taken the time to contact me directly, and tell me just that." Some believe she went public too soon, before really knowing the impact of the breach on all of TalkTalk's four million customers. When I asked her at the time if all TalkTalk's customer data were encrypted, she admitted that the "awful truth" was she didn't know. Today I asked Ms Harding the same question. Her answer was rather more delphic. "I can confirm that we're compliant with all encryption requirements for the industry, but actually it's not just about encryption," she said. "So one of the reasons why none of our customers' credit card details were stolen in a way that means they can be used is because they were more than encrypted. "They were what's called obfuscated - obscured. So that nowhere in the system did we actually hold all of their credit card number. "I absolutely understand why people want to know what is and isn't encrypted, but in some cases you want to do more than encrypt data." The TalkTalk cyber-attack has not been as calamitous as initially feared by the company. Ms Harding will be hoping that by the time customers come to renew their contracts, it will be something of a distant memory.

छोटे प्रिंट मायने रखते हैं। टॉकटॉक के लाखों ग्राहक अपने अनुबंधों को समाप्त करने की कोशिश करने के लिए इतने गुस्से में थे जब दूरसंचार कंपनी ने पहली बार पिछले महीने एक बड़े डेटा सुरक्षा उल्लंघन का विवरण प्रकट किया था।


Has Facebook slipped up with VR?

Summary: I first tried the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in the corner of a drab conference room in Las Vegas. I was convinced within seconds - despite feeling a little dizzy - that the device, held together by duct tape and hope, was destined for big things.

Dave LeeNorth America technology reporter A year or so later, I met the same company, Oculus VR, in a (slightly) fancier room at the E3 gaming event in Los Angeles. "Hold this," I said, abruptly thrusting an audio cable into the hands of a young man who I thought was helping out - but was in fact the company's chief executive, Palmer Luckey. Again, I was blown away by the technology. The next time I'd meet Luckey he'd be many, many millions of dollars richer, and Oculus would be a Facebook-owned company. But despite that very real marker of success, our topic of conversation each time we met remained the same: How are you going to convince people it's worth it? And isn't it going to be way too expensive? "It isn't," he said the last time I asked him - but he's wrong. At around $600 (plus a powerful PC) to get started, it is too expensive. But money isn't the problem. The price of the technology will come down, and I'm still convinced virtual reality can be a success - but will it be Facebook's success? The company's strategy in this blossoming market is under question. Best Buy retreat This week we learned that demo stations set up in Best Buy - the huge US technology retail chain - are being rolled back due to poor foot traffic. Facebook has described the move as a "seasonal" change, but suffice it to say, if they were shifting units they'd still be there. Instead, 200 of the 500 stations across the US are being shut down. It's a potentially troubling moment for the company. Those who back virtual reality - myself included - always subscribed to the view that the key to selling them would be to get people to try it out. Once you've been in VR, we all assumed, you'd be hooked, and your wallet would follow soon after. But that doesn't seem to have been the case. For whatever reason, too few people were bothering to even try the demo, let alone buy the product. There are a few theories for this, but the most likely, in my mind, was suggested by NPR's Molly Wood. The problem, she observed recently, might be the "pink-eye factor”. She said: "It could be as simple as - and I have said this a million times - not wanting to go into a store and put something on your face that has been on a bunch of other people's faces." But that wouldn't explain why the Oculus Rift is apparently performing poorly against its closest rival. At the high-end of the virtual reality market, Oculus is up against HTC's Vive, an extremely capable device which has the involvement of Valve, the revered games publisher. Good enough Unofficial data (which I'm using as the companies themselves haven't shared sales figures with us) suggest that the Vive, despite being more expensive, is trouncing Oculus. Games research firm SuperData estimated that 420,000 Vive headsets were sold in 2016, compared to 250,000 sales for the Oculus Rift. The lower end of the market is far more positive for Facebook. The Samsung Gear VR runs the Oculus VR experience, and that is by far and away the most popular device for VR on the market today, according to SuperData. But the hardware is all Samsung's and, for the most part, the headset itself (a simple plastic frame with lenses) has been given away with many smartphones. The hope that the Gear VR might act as a kind of gateway drug into pricier VR experiences has yet to come to fruition. Or maybe it has, just not for Oculus: the middle ground in VR is Sony's PlayStation VR, $399 and works with the PlayStation 4. It's more powerful than the Gear VR, but less powerful than the high-end headsets. But here's where Facebook should be worried - it seems to be good enough for most gamers. And it's "good enough" that makes Facebook's strategy all the more precarious. Who is the Oculus Rift for, exactly? Super serious gamers are gravitating to the HTC Vive. Moderately serious gamers are happy with PlayStation VR. And at the budget end, the Gear VR, while popular now, faces a clear and present threat from Daydream, Google's new VR ecosystem which is far more open. While Gear VR insists you have a Samsung smartphone, Daydream is designed to eventually work with any sufficiently powerful Android device (and it wouldn't be too tricky to make it work with Apple's iOS, either). This compatibility comes at a price, mind - the Daydream View headset is far less comfortable, in my experience, than the Gear VR. But it's comfortable enough, and the little handheld controller provides a far more intuitive way of navigating the VR world than tapping blindly at the side of your head, a la Gear VR. Here comes Hugo So what are the next steps if Facebook is to get on top of this? I'd ask Palmer Luckey, but he's hard to reach at the moment - hidden away from public view after controversy surrounding his support of Donald Trump which involved funding a hateful trolling group. He still works at the company, but Facebook and Oculus have repeatedly refused to tell me what his job actually is. (Palmer, if you're reading... my Twitter direct messages are open!) The only public appearance he has made since that debacle has been to turn up in court where Facebook (unsuccessfully) defended against claims Oculus illegally used intellectual property belonging to games publisher Zenimax in the early days. A $500m bill for damages awaits, unless Facebook can win on appeal. In a recent earnings call, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is still incredibly enthusiastic about VR and what it means for his network's future, called for patience from his investors. "It's not going to be really profitable for a while," he said. He's never claimed otherwise, it has to be said. VR appears on Facebook's 10-year strategy, a slow burner with potentially big rewards. But falling behind now would be a serious blow, which is why Zuckerberg has brought in Hugo Barra, a man most recently at Chinese firm Xiaomi, but before that, a major name at Google. He'll be in charge of Facebook's efforts in virtual reality from here on in. In Barra, Oculus gains both a visionary and a safe pair of hands. He having worked on Android, today's most popular smartphone platform. At Xiaomi, his role was to help the company expand globally - and while the company didn't, as some had expected, break into the US under Barra's watch, it did cement a reputation as making good quality devices. He hasn't started his new role at Facebook just yet - he'll be at the company in a month or so, apparently excited to be back in California after a few years away. When he starts his first day - I feel those two questions I've been asking Palmer Luckey still stand: Isn't it still too expensive? And more importantly - how are you going to convince people it's worth it? Follow Dave Lee on Twitter @DaveLeeBBC and on Facebook

मैंने पहली बार लास वेगास में एक सुस्त सम्मेलन कक्ष के कोने में ओकुलस रिफ्ट आभासी वास्तविकता हेडसेट का प्रयास किया। मुझे कुछ ही सेकंडों में विश्वास हो गया-थोड़ा चक्कर आने के बावजूद-कि नलिका टेप और आशा द्वारा एक साथ रखा गया उपकरण, बड़ी चीजों के लिए नियत था।


Reddit chief: I was late to spot GameStop stock mania

Summary: Reddit boss Steve Huffman has told BBC News he supported the aims of controversial sub-Reddit WallStreetBets.

By James ClaytonNorth America technology reporter A long-time fan of the group, he said he had been slow in spotting its effect on GameStop's huge share-price spike in January. "I was actually a little late to the party, because I didn't realise that Reddit had leaked into the real world again", he said. GameStop's share price ended up reaching nearly $500 (£350) before falling. WallStreetBets had been hyping up the computer-game retailer's shares. The idea was if enough Reddit users bought GameStop shares, they could drive up the price, hurting hedge funds who had bet against the company. Some claimed the group had collectively manipulated the market. But Reddit decided to leave it up. "We were... trying to keep WallStreetBets online," Mr Huffman said. When the media talks about the big social-media platforms - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram - Reddit is often ignored. But as hedge funds learned during the GameStop share-price spike - ignore it at your peril. Reddit likes to think of itself as different. At its heart, it certainly feels more alternative. Its system of upvoting content mean ideas either fly or die. It's not called the front page of the internet for nothing. Mr Huffman has also had to deal with another big story this year - conspiracy theories peddled by Donald Trump about electoral fraud. "What do you do when the president doesn't live up to the ideals, like the principles of our country?" Mr Huffman said. An influential sub-Reddit called TheDonald was instrumental in hyping up Mr Trump across the internet. Reddit banned it last year. Mr Huffman told BBC News it was the most difficult moderation decision he had had to make. Huffman is one of handful of men in Silicon Valley - along with Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg - that make huge decisions on what we can and can't see on the internet. The following interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. When did you first come across WallStreetBets? So I've known about WallStreetBets for years. WallStreetBets is, in fact, one of my guilty pleasures on Reddit. How much was the group about having a laugh? A lot of it, as I think it's the cornerstone to a lot of friendship and human experience. At the end of the day, this community is fun and it's funny. And obviously, there's some cohesion there, talking about the trades. When did you start realising WallStreetBets was having an impact on GameStop's share price? So I think I was actually a little late to this, because I've been on WallStreetBets for a while. And they've been talking about GameStop for a while. And so on WallStreetBets, there's often a couple of stocks or companies or positions that have their attention. And so over the years, it's been Tesla. It's been Virgin Galactic. It's been Blackberry. It's been different things. And so, in my mind, I'm just browsing Reddit and OK, yeah, GameStop's got their infatuation right now. So I was actually a little late to the party, because I didn't realise that Reddit had leaked into the real world again. And so it was, I think, really at the the take off of the mania when I was like: "OK, this is a bigger one." Then there was that crazy period where the GameStop share price went from $20 to $400. What was going through your mind at that point? You know, I love reading business stories. I love reading books about investors and their successes and failures. So it's just a topic I'm interested in. I just thought it was a fascinating story. And it's such a smart thing to do. And I, personally, have found it a fair thing to do. So you were always supportive, like ideologically, of what the group was doing? Yes, because I think if you've got one transaction where one group has taken an extreme position and then another group can see that opportunity that maybe they've overextended themselves. Obviously, there's a lot of risk there. But I think everybody goes in that situation aware of that risk. The shares at one point got almost up to $500 a share. At that point, was there any pressure on you to maybe lock down WallStreetBets? We faced that question, like that literal question: "Should you do something?" But our motivation, or what we were trying to do in that situation, was actually the opposite - to keep WallStreetBets online. So you decided: "This needs to stay up"? The question of should it go down or not was a very fast conversation. And we were, you know, confident that that community was well moderated and well within our content policy. Are you proud of what WallStreetBets managed to achieve? I am always, I think, proud when people do amazing things. And so I think maybe pride isn't even the right word. I think I'm happy or encouraged when humans come together to do something incredible. Do you think that it was a David-and-Goliath story? Oh, absolutely, because, you know, institutional investors have so much. There's so many more resources in terms of knowledge, relationships, the ability to execute large trades. No individual could have done this. Although hedge funds wage war on each other all the time, we never see it. And so to see a group of individuals kind of band together against some really well resourced institutions, I think that's an intriguing story from any angle. Some people lost a lot of money. Do you feel any responsibility? I think any trade, not just risky ones like WallStreetBets, has risk. But it also has opportunity. I think there are two things that are really important. One is that individuals have that opportunity. I don't think we as a society should be so paternal to say that, well: "This group is smart enough to make these decisions - but this group, you know, we should keep them out," because you're not just protecting them from risk, you're eliminating their participation in the gains. Did the Capitol Hill riots make you reappraise the inherent goodness of the free internet? I'd be lying if I say that thought hadn't crossed my mind. But we've seen, I think, on Reddit, the power of people to do, I think, the right thing generally. One of the ways we look at Reddit, one of our duties, is to make sure the volume of any particular viewpoint is in proportion to the number of people who actually have it. And so that is to say we don't want a small number of loud people to have control beyond their numbers. And I think on Reddit we've gotten pretty good at that. I suppose you're wrestling with two things here. You don't want to get involved in censoring or overly censoring people? We feel, I think, there's an enormous responsibility for getting that balance right. And, you know, we are learning, I think, along with everybody else, we do our very best because it's not just the right thing to do for our business - it's the right thing to do for our users. And I think it's the right thing to do generally. And, for example, the QAnon conspiracy theory, we saw that on Reddit and banned it three years ago, long before it metastasized online and in the real world. Do you think you should have done more on TheDonald? That's one of the criticisms of Reddit that comes up a few times. Look, TheDonald was a series of hard decisions. And there's never a hard decision that I don't, upon reflection, wish we had made faster. But I think there's a matter of reality here - the principle of free speech was designed specifically to protect political speech. And so we went through a crisis not just at Reddit but in the United States and, I think, around the world of what do you do when the president doesn't live up to the ideals, like the principles of our country. That's a real conflict. And so I think there's no way around that conflict. Is that the most difficult decision that you've had to make? I think it might be, yes, because the other ones were more matters of getting the words right. Other policy changes we've made over the years around, you know, violence or harassment or bullying or involuntary sexualisation, we always knew what our gut told us - what the right thing was. And so those were sometimes complicated because we had to figure out how to get there and how to kind of balance all of our values. But we always knew where we wanted to go. I think with political speech, and in this particular moment, it was particularly challenging given the context of, like, the United States and the president of the United States being almost in conflict with each other. Fake news, conspiracy theories, how do you stay on top of it? Misinformation is another word for propaganda. And propaganda is as old as politics. This is not a new problem. And so, we've faced this problem in different forms over pretty much our entire existence. And so the solution, that we've seen, ultimately lies within people. It lies within a free press. It lies within access to information. It lies within people being allowed to have good judgements and societal pressure to to be truthful, to behave well, all of these things. Finally, there are some pretty niche sub-Reddits. What are the oddest ones you've come across? Oh, my goodness. BreadStapledToTrees is probably the weirdest one that I'm comfortable saying in an interview. And it's as the name implies. It's literally pictures of bread stapled to trees. There's another, I think, favourite around the office, CatStandingUp, which is just pictures of cats standing up. But that one is very strictly moderated. So every comment within every post in that community has to be the single word "Cat". Watch The News Explained - GameStop: to the Moon and Back on iPlayer

रेडिट के मालिक स्टीव हफमैन ने बीबीसी न्यूज को बताया है कि उन्होंने विवादास्पद उप-रेडिट वॉलस्ट्रीटबेट्स के उद्देश्यों का समर्थन किया है।


Lorry crash closes part of M1 in Northamptonshire for two hours

Summary: A collision between two lorries, one carrying a digger, closed part of the M1 motorway for more than two hours.

The crash between junction 17 (Kilsby) and junction 16 (Daventry) closed three of the four lanes southbound. Fire crews from three Northamptonshire stations and one from Warwickshire attended the crash, which happened at about 13:30 BST. No injuries were reported, but pictures from a passing passenger showed one of the lorries was badly damaged.

दो ट्रकों के बीच टक्कर, जिसमें से एक में खुदाई करने वाला था, ने एम1 मोटरवे के हिस्से को दो घंटे से अधिक समय तक बंद कर दिया।


Adelie Ireland: 80 jobs at risk at Enniskillen food manufacturer

Summary: About 80 jobs are at risk at a food manufacturer and distributor in Enniskillen.

Adelie Ireland, which took over The Bite Group last year, has now gone into administration. The company based in the Lackaboy Industrial Estate makes sandwiches and snack foods for convenience stores and retail outlets. Staff were sent home after being informed of the news on Friday. Administrators are examining the options for the future of the business.

एन्निस्किलन में एक खाद्य निर्माता और वितरक में लगभग 80 नौकरियां खतरे में हैं।


Amazon Prime drama to be filmed in Wales

Summary: Amazon Prime's first UK original drama is to begin filming in Wales early next year in a joint commission with BBC Worldwide.

The Collection is set in the world of French haute couture after World War II and will be partly shot in Paris. The project has received investment from the Pinewood Wales Investment Budget. The series has been written and co-produced by Oliver Goldstick, creator of the TV series Ugly Betty. Amazon Prime has previously revived the former BBC series Ripper Street.

अमेज़न प्राइम का पहला यूके मूल नाटक बीबीसी वर्ल्डवाइड के साथ एक संयुक्त आयोग में अगले साल की शुरुआत में वेल्स में फिल्मांकन शुरू करना है।


Would you risk jail for a cup of tea?

Summary: A boat beaches in a lonely cove at night, the crew hurriedly unloading its cargo of tea to waiting men and pack horses while armed lookouts stand guard against a surprise swoop by the revenue men.

By Tim BowlerBusiness reporter, BBC News It may be a stereotypical image, but in the 18th Century, a cuppa was in such high demand that many Britons were willing to risk jail for the privilege. In fact, this kind of smuggling was a vital part of Britain's economy for some 200 years. It was a trade triggered by increasingly high tariffs or duties, taxes a merchant would have to pay to legally import tea. The duties on importing tea reached a staggering 119% in the 1750s - which meant that if you could avoid paying the tax, the cost of your brew dropped by more than half. Not surprisingly many customers turned to the smugglers, who were willing to risk imprisonment or have their ships destroyed and goods seized if they were caught. Free trade and smuggling are closely linked. When import taxes or tariffs are low, there's not much profit to be made from smuggling. Conversely, when a government makes it expensive to legally import items it encourages smugglers who can undercut the official price. Tea taxes Tea was one of the most important items illegally brought into Britain in the 18th Century - everybody wanted to drink it, but most could not afford it at the official price. In an age before income tax, tea duties accounted for 10% of government revenues, which was enough to pay for the Royal Navy, but as tariffs on it reached 119% it gave smugglers their chance. "If you had high tariffs and goods people wanted, it gave smugglers a business opportunity," says Exeter University historian Helen Doe. More than 3,000 tonnes of tea was smuggled into Britain a year by the late 1700s, with just 2,000 tonnes imported legally. In some areas whole communities were dependent on smuggling, from landowners who might finance the operation down to the fishermen who might be crewing the boats. Smuggling operations There were three main types of smuggling, says Robert Blyth, senior curator at the National Maritime Museum in London. "There's small-scale smuggling, where you might row your boat out to meet a ship and take off some of its cargo to sell illegally, the ship's captain declaring the missing cargo as 'spoiled at sea' when it gets to port to officially unload the rest," he says. "Then there are commercially organised groups bringing contraband into harbours across the UK in a sophisticated operation. "Finally, you have simple theft and pilfering in major ports like London from ships that have already moored, but have not yet been checked by the revenue." Swedish traders It wasn't just the British who were developing a taste for tea. The popularity of the drink in Sweden meant the country also played an important role in 18th Century smuggling into Britain. Swedish East India Company merchants were able to buy the best quality Chinese tea because unlike other European countries they were prepared to pay in silver - rather than seeking to barter or trade. Quite a few were actually Scottish, political refugees who had fled to Sweden after the failure of the 1745 Jacobite uprising, and who thus saw little wrong in avoiding paying tax to Britain's Hanoverian government. So popular was this trade that newspapers in Scotland and northern England openly carried adverts for this smuggled tea, called "Gottenburgh Teas". For many tea traders in Britain, buying smuggled tea made sense, says Derek Janes, a history researcher at Exeter University. "Britain's own East India Company had a monopoly on tea imports, so if an Edinburgh merchant wanted to buy it you had to go to London, you had to pay to bring it back to Scotland - and you had to pay upfront. "But if you bought it from the smugglers it would be half the price - with no tax to pay - they would deliver to your door and you would get up to four months credit. A much better service!" One of those involved in this trade was John Nisbet, who became rich enough to commission architect John Adams to design his harbourside mansion in Eyemouth in the Scottish borders, complete with hidden partitions for the smuggled tea. Often when the customs officials got a tip-off about his ship it was too late - the cargo had already been smuggled ashore. And if a smuggler did have his goods seized, he could sometimes negotiate a price to buy it back from the government. "John Nisbet had a ship and cargo seized, but you can see the lawyer for the board of customs in Edinburgh say that the witnesses had disappeared, so the customs did a deal. He paid £250 to get it all back, which still left him in profit," says Mr Janes. Increased policing By 1784, the government realised high tariffs were creating more problems than they were worth and cut tea duties to just 12.5%, making tea affordable for most people. The change meant smugglers switched to bringing in spirits and wine instead. The Napoleonic wars saw an upsurge in smuggling, but after 1815 with the Royal Navy in undisputed command of the sea, its days were numbered. Ultimately, many smugglers failed. In the long run, the business did not generate enough cash to compensate for the risks of losing stock or ships to the customs. John Nisbet may have been able to afford a fine house but even he went bust eventually, the result of one too many cargo seizures. In the end, it was economics that finally put an end to the smuggling era. Britain's adoption of a free trade policy in the 1840s reduced import duties significantly, making smuggling no longer viable. And thanks to that shift in policy, you can now sit back, relax and enjoy a nice cup of tea without any fears of going to prison. Follow Tim Bowler on Twitter @timbowlerbbc

रात में एक अकेले कोव में एक नाव समुद्र तट, चालक दल जल्दी से प्रतीक्षा करने वाले पुरुषों और पैक घोड़ों के लिए चाय के अपने माल को उतारता है, जबकि सशस्त्र खोजकर्ता राजस्व पुरुषों द्वारा एक आश्चर्यजनक झपकी के खिलाफ पहरा देते हैं।


Bafta TV Awards 2017: All the winners and nominees

Summary: Here is a full list of winners and nominees for the 2017 Bafta TV Awards, which have taken place in London.

Leading actress Leading actor Supporting actress Supporting actor Entertainment performance Male performance in a comedy programme Female performance in a comedy programme Drama series Single drama Mini-series Soap and continuing drama International Entertainment programme Comedy and comedy entertainment programme Scripted comedy Features Must See Moment Current affairs Single documentary Factual series Reality and constructed factual Specialist factual News coverage Sport Live event Fellowship Special Award

लंदन में आयोजित 2017 बाफ्टा टीवी अवार्ड्स के लिए विजेताओं और नामांकित व्यक्तियों की पूरी सूची यहां दी गई है।


Google: Alternatives to the search giant

Summary: Google's been busy. Over recent weeks it's added photo auto-enhancement to its Google+ social network, launched air balloons to provide internet access from near-space, unveiled a subscription music service, teased a new smartphone and revamped its Maps product.

By Leo KelionTechnology reporter But when the company reports its latest earnings, investors will be focused on one thing - how its search adverts business is performing. For all Google's innovation, search remains its cash cow. The company accounted for 90% of UK-based desktop searches and 92% of mobile searches in June, according to net analysis provider Statcounter - the kind of figures any company would envy. Its global figures were even higher - although its share of its home market, the US, is below average (78% share of desktop search), and the company remains an also-ran in China, Russia and South Korea. "At one time Google was clearly a better search engine - now we can debate that point," said Greg Sterling, a tech analyst who writes for the Search Engine Land news website. "However Google's brand strength, together with the company's aggressive push into mobile have cemented its leadership in most markets for the foreseeable future. "Nothing is certain but it's difficult to imagine any competitor - outside of parts of Asia and Russia - making significant gains in general web search." Even so, others are still trying, offering different features or even trying to rethink the principles of the underlying technology. These are some of the alternative search tools. Bing Microsoft's Bing service is the leading search rival to Google when looking at the world as a whole - although it has less than a 20th of the traffic, according to StatCounter. The most obvious difference between the two is Bing's use of colourful photographs as background images on its homepage with hotspots revealing related links. Microsoft has also been experimenting with social features. US-based Bing users see a sidebar in their results that suggests Facebook friends who might be able to provide more information about a particular search, and they can also see "boards" - images and links hand-picked by a group of bloggers and other experts. Russia's most popular search engine also offers English, Turkish, and Ukranian-language versions among its options. The firm is currently rolling out a revamped look to its results, introducing a new feature called "islands" - blocks of information that can be interacted with on the page, avoiding the need to click through to third-party sites. For example a search for "Aeroflot check-in Moscow" brings up a block allowing the user to send their details to the airline, while "optometrist city clinic 57" allows the person to book an appointment with an eye doctor from within the results page. DuckDuckGo highlights privacy as its key feature, promising not to collect or share personal information about its users - a topical concern after revelations that Google, Microsoft and others had handed over data to the US's National Security Agency. Its traffic spiked after details of the Prism surveillance programme were leaked - although some later questioned whether it could truly prevent "NSA snooping" if the agency was determined to gather information. DuckDuckGo also claims to be less cluttered than rivals - in part because it limits itself to one advert on each results page - and does not personalise results, saying this prevents users from becoming enclosed in "filter bubbles". Most search engines base their ranking of results on their analysis of the words and links on a page. Blippex instead orders sites according to their DwellRank - the amount of time people spend on a page once they have clicked onto it. The more seconds they linger, the more important the site is judged to be. The service gets this information by asking volunteers to install an extension that sends it information about their activity anonymously. Blippex launched earlier this month and early visitors might find some of its results unusual, but the developers promise that the more people use it, the better it should become. Wolfram Alpha describes itself as a "computational knowledge engine" and strictly speaking doesn't see itself as a "search" service, even if many people use it to hunt for third-party information. Rather than deliver links to other sites, it gathers facts and figures from primary sources and then allows the information to be structured and compared with other data sets, presenting the results in a range of tables, graphs and other illustrations. Wolfram also charges for a "pro" option, which also allows users to enter images and their own statistics for analysis, and promises a richer set of results. Blekko's unique selling point is its use of "slashtags" - a tool to filter the results the user wants to receive. If, for instance, a visitor wants to know where to buy a cake they might type "chocolate cake / shop / restaurant" but if they want to see a list of articles about the topic with the most recent ones at the top they would type "chocolate cake / blog / date". Results are then grouped into different categories - such as shopping, recipes and cake decoration - to help users focus on the kind of results they want. South Korea's leading search engine dates back to 1999, when it was created by a group of former Samsung employees. Queries deliver unusually long lists of links grouped according to where they were sourced from - blogs, social networks, advertisers, apps, books and news services. Links often direct users to material sourced from Naver's own services including its "cafes" - areas where people sharing similar interests post content about a particular theme. Earlier this month South Korea's Fair Trade Commission announced it was investigating the firm for anti-competitive practices. Pipl specialises at unearthing details about a specific person or material they have posted to the net. It allows queries to be based on a name, email address, username or telephone number. The developers say their product turns up results their rivals miss because Pipl "crawls the deep web" - including data on social network profiles, court records, member directories and other databases. Results include photos and sometimes the names of other people the subject knows. It might sound like a stalker's dream, but visitors can also use the service as a way of tracking down profiles and posts they had created and then forgotten about. Baidu is by far China's most popular search engine, squishing Google's market share into single figures. The firm says its strength is that it does not only provide links but, in many cases, the actual information the user wants. This can include songs and videos embedded into the results and even interactive web apps. For now the service requires its users to be proficient in Chinese. However it recently launched an English-language website for overseas developers wanting to use its services to sell apps to the mainland. Yacy bases its search engine on the principle of a peer-to-peer network. Instead of using its own servers to index the web, it relies on its users' computers to do the work via software it provides. The information gathered is then shared to a common database, fragments of which are distributed across the network. Because the answer to any query is obtained from other volunteers' computers rather than a central portal, Yacy says it is impossible for anyone to censor its results. However, the ranking algorithms it uses are not as advanced as many of its more traditional rivals, which may limit its appeal beyond an enthusiast audience. StartPage describes its service as being "enhanced by Google" - a cheeky reference to the fact it depends on the larger firm for all its results. Its selling point is that it strips all identifying information about users before submitting their queries, preventing Google from logging their internet addresses or installing cookies on their device. The company behind the product, Surfboard Holding, is based in the Netherlands. It says that places it beyond the reach of Prism and other US data collection programmes. While all this may appeal to privacy-conscious web users, the trade-off is that results can't be personalised to take account of their history or location - although StartPage suggests this makes them more "pure".

गूगल व्यस्त है। हाल के हफ्तों में इसने अपने गूगल + सोशल नेटवर्क में फोटो ऑटो-एन्हांसमेंट जोड़ा है, निकट-अंतरिक्ष से इंटरनेट एक्सेस प्रदान करने के लिए हवा के गुब्बारे लॉन्च किए हैं, एक सदस्यता संगीत सेवा का अनावरण किया है, एक नया स्मार्टफोन छेड़ा है और अपने मानचित्र उत्पाद को नया रूप दिया है।


'Not just for naughty boys': The rise in adult ADHD pills

Summary: More than 1.6 million prescriptions for ADHD medication were dispensed in the UK last year - double the figure of a decade ago. With adults now the fastest growing patient group, what is it like for those living with the condition?

By Jim ReedReporter, Victoria Derbyshire programme "I'd always put it down to just not having any willpower, and not being able to cope in stressful situations," Sam Sykes tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme. "I thought I was a bit of a lesser human, frankly." Sam was diagnosed with ADHD last year at the age of 44. Her seven-year-old son also has the condition, which often has a genetic link. Sam says she has lived life with "almost constant anxiety", and finds it hard to stay in a job for any length of time. "I get to the point where I can't cope anymore," she says. "Either I'm too bored, or too frustrated, or I genuinely believe that I'm doing such a terrible job that I need to put my employer out of their misery." When diagnosed, her doctor prescribed pills - slow-acting stimulants - which she now takes once a day. "I was a bit scared because it occurred to me quite quickly this could be something I was going to have to be on for the rest of my life," she says. "But from the perspective of everyday survival it's turned my life around." Most common behavioural disorder Even among doctors, ADHD is still often thought of as a childhood disorder. It was only officially recognised as an adult condition in the UK in 2008. There are no official figures for the numbers affected, but academic studies suggest up to 204,000 British adults could benefit from treatment - making it the most common behavioural disorder in the country. The NHS lists the symptoms as impulsiveness, hyperactivity and inattentiveness. It can often lead to connected mental health problems, like severe anxiety or depression. It is possible to develop ADHD as an adult, after a brain injury for example, but the majority of those diagnosed later in life will have been living with it since birth. "There is still a great deal of ignorance," says Tony Lloyd, chief executive of the charity ADHD Foundation. "Many adults who are coming to me now are saying, 'I just thought ADHD was about naughty children'." He adds: "We're really just beginning to understand that undiagnosed, untreated ADHD can have a very significant impact on somebody's health, wellbeing, employability and their life chances." The exact causes of the disorder are still not fully understood but there is a growing consensus that biology is to blame. A complex mix of mainly genetic but also environmental factors appears to lead to a shortage of the chemical messengers dopamine and noradrenaline in the brain. Find out more Watch Jim Reed's full film on the rise in ADHD pills on the Victoria Derbyshire programme's website. Medication has been around for decades in different forms. Most of the drugs are stimulants designed to artificially boost the levels of those chemicals. "It takes an hour to metabolise and - click - it just kicks in," says Sam. "There is no anxiety and you just get on with your day, that's it." But there can be side-effects. Sam says taking the pills can make it more difficult to eat and sleep during the day. "To be honest those side effects are small in comparison the difference the medication has made to my life," she says. The most commonly-prescribed drug, methylphenidate, is also said to be associated with an increased risk of heart defects in infants whose mothers take the medication during pregnancy, according to a 2017 study in the journal JAMA. 'Mind-altering substance' Figures compiled by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme show NHS prescriptions for ADHD medications have more than doubled over the last decade, rising from 761,763 items in 2007 to 1,654,694 in 2017 across England, Wales and Scotland. The data suggests that adults are now the fastest-growing patient group. In Scotland, the only nation that records age groups, one in every four on medication is now at least 20 years old. The huge rise in medication has proved controversial, especially in the US where more than six million children are now diagnosed. "I am really worried about it," says Dr Joanna Moncrieff, a senior clinical lecturer at University College London. "It's important for people to realise they're taking a mind-altering substance, basically a low dose of amphetamine or a drug that's similar to amphetamine." Many other psychiatrists reject that argument, saying that stimulant pills alone often allow people with ADHD to control the disorder. "The actual effect of giving somebody with ADHD medication is that they just feel normal," says Dr Helen Read, a NHS psychiatrist who specialises in adults with the condition. "That might sound like a small thing but for somebody who's struggled all their life to do the things that everybody else finds easy, that is absolutely incredible for them." Zoe Twin, 21, from Orpington in Kent, was first diagnosed in the middle of her GCSE exams six years ago. "It's mentally debilitating," she says. "You get overwhelmed and you just go into this paralysed state because you don't know what the most important thing is." She says she was unable to concentrate on her work, and was suffering from depression. Aged 16, she fell off the radar of the local Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provider and, after a bad experience, stopped taking her medication. But the symptoms did not go away. After a struggle she was eventually seen by doctors as an adult and put on a different slow-acting stimulant. "It's a bit like blinkers for my brain, it just allows me to focus and sort out my priorities." she says. "I'd like to say I wouldn't need it for all my life because we don't know the actual effects of that, but at the moment it's what I need." The Victoria Derbyshire programme is broadcast weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.

पिछले साल यू. के. में ए. डी. एच. डी. की दवा के लिए 16 लाख से अधिक प्रिस्क्रिप्शन दिए गए थे-एक दशक पहले के आंकड़े से दोगुना। अब वयस्कों के साथ सबसे तेजी से बढ़ते रोगी समूह के साथ, इस स्थिति के साथ रहने वालों के लिए यह कैसा है?


Bert Trautmann: From unlikely football hero to film star

Summary: Bert Trautmann was born in Germany but he went on to have one of the least likely careers in British football. The former prisoner of war from Bremen became one of the most acclaimed British goalkeepers of his generation, playing eventually for Manchester City. Now the film The Keeper tells his story.

By Vincent DowdArts reporter, BBC News David Kross is 28. As a teenager in Germany, his first big film was Knallhart (aka Tough Enough). Then in 2008 his role in The Reader, opposite Kate Winslet, brought international fame. But as a child, what he really wanted to be was a professional football player. "I always loved the game," he says. "From five years old until I was 15, I was totally sure I'd be a footballer. It was the same with most of my friends but for me, it didn't work out. So I became an actor." In The Keeper, he's been called upon to revive his skills on the pitch. It's the true story of Bernd Trautmann, born in 1923, who was in the German forces in World War Two. In 1944 Trautmann was captured by British troops and ultimately sent to a prisoner of war camp near Wigan. Somewhere along the way, the name Bernd became Bert. His talent as a goalkeeper registered and he ended up playing for local side St Helens Town in the old Lancashire Combination League. In 1949 he moved to Manchester City as a professional and stayed until 1964, turning out for the club more than 500 times. He died in 2013. The film is a German-British co-production and in Germany it's simply called Trautmann. But director Marcus Rosenmüller admits that few Germans under 65 would know who the central character is. "But that's not a big problem because the story really has to work as a love story and a family drama. It's not just a sports bio-pic, although of course the football scenes have to be convincing." A lot of the hard work of giving the story emotional depth rests with Freya Mavor, who made her name playing Mini McGuinness in the final seasons of Skins on E4. She plays Trautmann's first wife Margaret. Mavor can't claim to compete with her co-star's passion for football but says: "I've lived quite a lot in France, so when France won the World Cup last summer, I did go a bit mad." From the ages of nine to 13 Mavor lived in La Rochelle on France's Atlantic coast; at 19 she moved to Paris. Her fluency in the language means she's been in several French films. "I've always loved French cinema and I was obsessed with not sounding like a tourist. So it's brilliant to be accepted as an honorary French person in film." But was it hard to produce a convincing accent for post-war industrial Lancashire? "The big test was to sound authentic for people in St Helens and Manchester now," Mavor says. "But I also wanted to understand the society which Margaret came from historically. There's a fascinating book by Norman Longmate called How We Lived Then. It was a huge help in understanding what the war was like for most people." At this point Kross confesses that, though much of the film is set there, he never actually went to St Helens. "A lot of The Keeper was filmed in Northern Ireland and our football ground was in Belfast. But that's how films work. Later, when you see me at Wembley with Man City, that's mainly CGI: we were actually filming at Augsburg in Bavaria." It was in the 1956 FA Cup final at Wembley, when Manchester City were playing Birmingham, that Trautmann damaged vertebrae in his neck. Despite being in a fog of pain, Trautmann played on to the end of the match, securing his side's victory. It was only later he realised how severe his injuries were. The film starts with a short but powerful section in which we see Trautmann fighting in World War Two. Kross says those scenes were essential. "We have to understand the times he grew up in and the criminal regime which dominated Germany. Bert was part of the Hitler Youth and he went through a sort of brainwashing. "He absolutely wanted to be a soldier. But there are interviews Bert did near the end of his life in which he talks about seeing civilians shot in Ukraine and how that changed him." Kross says The Keeper is basically about a man seeking a new home. "I think that's the emotional centre and that's what I needed to get right as an actor." In the last part of his life, Trautmann lived in Spain and it was there that director Rosenmüller went to talk to him, several years before filming began. "We spent a week talking to him and as I sat there, I wondered why no one had filmed his story already. There is such drama in how Margaret accepts him and then how his teammates accept him and then England accepts this man they thought was a Nazi." Rosenmüller always knew there would be a German release for the film but he resisted the temptation to reshoot Kross's scenes in German. "Visually the German and English versions are 98% the same and David was in the odd position of dubbing himself into his own language. Almost all the German is spoken early on and in fact that helps the drama - the audience sees that Bert is lost in a world he doesn't understand." Kross comes from Schleswig-Holstein, near the Danish border, but he now lives in Berlin. For a year he was at drama school in London but he's worked in German- and English-language films. So where does he now see the centre of his acting career? "I would love to do more British-German co-productions. But that doesn't really happen much: it has to be a story which will interest both audiences and the film industry doesn't very often come up with these stories." The rate of change in that industry is clear when Kross and Mavor talk about what they're doing now. His next project is Betongold (Concrete Gold) - one of the first Netflix productions in Germany. Mavor, meanwhile, has been filming a four-part fantasy in French called Il était une seconde fois (Once Upon Another Time). It, too, is to be seen on Netflix. The Keeper opens in UK cinemas on 5 April. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

बर्ट ट्रॉटमैन का जन्म जर्मनी में हुआ था, लेकिन वह ब्रिटिश फुटबॉल में सबसे कम संभावित करियर में से एक थे। ब्रेमेन के पूर्व युद्ध बंदी अपनी पीढ़ी के सबसे प्रशंसित ब्रिटिश गोलकीपरों में से एक बन गए, जो अंततः मैनचेस्टर सिटी के लिए खेल रहे थे। अब फिल्म द कीपर उनकी कहानी बताती है।


Green Park railway station approved for Reading

Summary: Plans for a new train station in Reading have been approved.

Green Park station will be built on the Reading to Basingstoke line near the Madejski Stadium, as part of a multi-million pound scheme to improve transport networks across Berkshire. Plans for the station include a bus interchange, a park and ride and a multi-storey car park. The planning application was approved by Reading Borough Council at a committee meeting on Wednesday evening. West Berkshire Council raised no objections to the plans. But Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) said it was awaiting assurances that the habitats of protected species, such as bats and grass snakes, would be preserved. Construction work is set to begin in October 2016. It is part of a £21.4m batch of schemes agreed by the Berkshire Local Transport Body and funded by the government. Other schemes include road improvements in Newbury, Slough and Bracknell.

रीडिंग में एक नए रेलवे स्टेशन की योजना को मंजूरी दे दी गई है।


2019 Quiz of the Year part four: October to December

Summary: How well do you remember the stories and people in the news this year?

Test your memory of 2019 in the next instalment of our four-part Christmas quiz - 52 questions for 52 weeks of the year. This section covers October to December. If you cannot see the quiz, click here. Picture credits: Getty Images, Reuters, PA Media, AFP, Centre for Palaeogenetics

इस साल की खबरों और लोगों को आप कितनी अच्छी तरह याद करते हैं?


Troy Paul death: Teenage boy to face trial for murder

Summary: A 15-year-old boy is to face trial for murder after the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old man in Birmingham.

Troy Paul was attacked at about 13:00 BST on Saturday in the Kingstanding area of the city. The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Birmingham Crown Court on Wednesday and spoke only to confirm his identity. Two men, aged 20 and 24, arrested in connection with the investigation, have been released on bail. See more stories from Birmingham and the Black Country here The boy has been remanded in custody until a plea hearing on 25 September. The trial is expected to begin on 2 January 2018 and to last three weeks.

बर्मिंघम में एक 23 वर्षीय व्यक्ति की घातक छुरा घोंपने की घटना के बाद एक 15 वर्षीय लड़के पर हत्या का मुकदमा चलाया जाएगा।


James Comey: Six claims about Trump from ex-FBI director

Summary: The latest salvo by former FBI Director James Comey in his feud with President Donald Trump included the charge that the president was morally unfit and may have obstructed justice.

In a primetime television interview, which precedes his book publication on Tuesday, he also said the Russians may have compromising information on Mr Trump. The book likens Mr Trump to a mob boss and details his fixation on claims he consorted with prostitutes in Moscow. On Twitter, Mr Trump branded him "Slippery James Comey", and says he lied to Congress. Here is a selection of what Mr Comey said in the interview, with analysis from the BBC's Anthony Zurcher in Washington. 1. 'Morally unfit' ABC News has released a full 42,000-word transcript of the interview. Host presenter George Stephanopoulos on ABC's 20/20 programme interviewed Mr Comey on Sunday night. When asked if he considered Mr Trump fit to lead, the former FBI director said he did not believe claims about Mr Trump's mental health, but did see him as "morally unfit" to be president. "A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it, that person's not fit to be president of the United States," he told Mr Stephanopoulos. Mr Comey was referring to President Trump's argument that "both sides" were at fault for white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year. Anthony's take: Mr Comey's book, separated from its newsworthy, tell-all portions, is really an extended rumination on the nature of moral leadership. While it may come across as preachy to some, and others will highlight his own (admitted) shortcomings in this regard, Mr Comey has strong views on the standards those who seek high office should meet. In the most dramatic, final portion of his interview, he is definitive in saying Mr Trump has failed. 2. Obstruction of justice Another portion of the interview handled the sacking of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in February 2017 for lying about contacts with the Russian ambassador in Washington. The former FBI head said Mr Trump had tried to pressure him into dropping any investigation into Mr Flynn. "I took it as a direction," he told Mr Stephanopoulos. "He's - his words were, though, 'I hope you can let it go'." Mr Comey says he let the comment pass, but concedes he should perhaps have suggested to the president that it would amount to obstruction of justice. "It's certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice. It would depend and - and I'm just a witness in this case, not the investigator or prosecutor, it would depend upon other things that reflected on his intent." Mr Trump strongly denies Mr Comey's account. Anthony's take:When told that the president disputes his version of events, Mr Comey almost shrugs. "Yeah, well, what am I going to do?" he asks. Both Mr Comey and Mr Trump, in very different language and tactics, are accusing the other of lying. The former director says he has contemporary memos that back up his claims. Mr Trump's defenders want to see those documents, and accuse him of perjury and leaking classified information. For those investigating obstruction of justice - and, ultimately, the America people - it comes down to credibility. Who has it - and who doesn't? 3. Impeachment? But despite all this, Mr Comey does not think the president should be impeached. "I think impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office would let the American people off the hook," he told Mr Stephanopoulos. Instead, he believes the American people are "duty-bound" to remove Mr Trump "directly" at the ballot box. In the memoir itself, Mr Comey reportedly compares Mr Trump to a crime lord. He writes that interactions with the president gave him "flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the mob". The former FBI chief was a prosecutor earlier in his career, and helped break up the Gambino crime family. "The silent circle of assent," he continues. "The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. "The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organisation above morality and above the truth." Anthony's take:After laying out a stunning moral indictment of Mr Trump, Mr Comey essentially says this is a choice the American people made - and one they have to correct themselves. Barring some sort of damning evidence, he says ending the Trump presidency isn't a job for prosecutors or politicians. The toll of such a move on an already deeply divided American society would be too high. It's an interesting perspective for a former top-ranking law enforcement official to have - particularly one who earlier in the interview asserted that his 2016 investigations were done with no regard to the impact they would have on the "political fortunes" of those involved. 4. Clinton emails probe In the TV interview, Mr Comey said his belief that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 presidential elections was a factor in how he handled the investigation into the Democrat candidate's use of classified emails on a private server while she was the secretary of state. "I was operating in a world where Hillary Clinton was going to beat Donald Trump," Mr Comey said. "And so I'm sure that it - that it was a factor. "I don't remember spelling it out, but it had to have been. That - that she's going to be elected president, and if I hide this from the American people, she'll be illegitimate the moment she's elected, the moment this comes out." In July 2016, Mr Comey said Hillary Clinton had been "extremely careless" in her handling of the emails, but the FBI would not press charges. However, in October, days before the vote, he sent a letter to Congress telling them the FBI was reopening an investigation after finding more emails. The letter went public - and Mrs Clinton has said she would have won the election without it. On 6 November, the FBI said it had completed its review into the new trove of emails and there would, again, be no charges. Anthony's take: In an unaired portion of the Comey interview, the former director says that the emails discovered in October were from early in Mrs Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, before she started using her private server. If there were evidence of criminal misconduct, it would probably come from this time period. In the end, there was nothing revelatory - but Mr Comey cites this to explain why he made such a dramatic move. He decided to let a political bombshell go off just a week before the election, rather than try to defuse it in private and risk an even bigger explosion in the days after a presidential contest he believed Mrs Clinton would win. History will judge his choice. 5. 'Moscow prostitutes' The former FBI boss writes that on at least four occasions Mr Trump raised the matter of unverified claims that he watched prostitutes urinate in a hotel suite during a 2013 Moscow trip. The allegations surfaced in a raw intelligence dossier compiled by a former British spy who had been hired by Mr Trump's political enemies to dig up dirt on him. Mr Comey says Mr Trump angrily denied the claims and asked him to have the FBI disprove them because they were "terrible" for his wife, Melania Trump. He writes that he first broached the matter at a Trump Tower meeting in January 2017 shortly before the president's inauguration. Mr Comey said in the interview: "He interrupted very defensively and started talking about it, you know, 'Do I look like a guy who needs hookers?' "And I assumed he was asking that rhetorically, I didn't answer that, and I just moved on and explained, 'Sir, I'm not saying that we credit this, I'm not saying we believe it. We just thought it very important that you know.'" Mr Comey added: "I honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I don't know whether the current president of the United States was with prostitutes peeing on each other in Moscow in 2013. It's possible, but I don't know." Anthony's take: There is a moment as Mr Comey is recalling his Trump Tower conversation with the president-elect about Russian prostitutes that he expresses amazement over what is taking place, describing it like an out-of-body experience. "I was floating above myself, looking down." It's a sentiment with which many Americans - particularly those who have Mr Comey's establishment sensibilities - can probably identify. Even a year on, they can't quite believe the Trump presidency is really happening - or that the man is governing, tweets and all, the way he campaigned. That aside, the December 2016 meeting was the first between the two men. Afterwards, it should have been clear that they were almost certainly heading on a collision course. 6. Trump's hair and hands Mr Comey, who is 6ft 8in (2.03m), says that when he first met the 6ft 3in president-elect, he appeared shorter than he did on TV. "His face appeared slightly orange," writes Mr Comey, "with bright white half-moons under his eyes where I assumed he placed small tanning goggles, and impressively coifed, bright blond hair, which upon close inspection looked to be all his. "As he extended his hand, I made a mental note to check its size. It was smaller than mine, but did not seem unusually so." Elaborating on this in the TV interview, he said: "His tie was too long as it always is... he looked slightly orange up close." Anthony's take:This interview should put to bed any question about whether Mr Comey has a natural talent for public relations. He sprinkles his comments throughout with the kind of little details and colour that keep an audience engaged. There's the tidbits about the president's personal appearance, his description of drinking wine out of a paper cup on flight home after being fired and his joke in the early days of the Clinton investigation that "nobody gets out alive". Mr Comey would probably make a good politician - if he hadn't spent the past two years, at different points, making almost everybody hate him.

पूर्व एफ. बी. आई. निदेशक जेम्स कोमी द्वारा राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प के साथ अपने झगड़े में नवीनतम सल्वो में यह आरोप शामिल था कि राष्ट्रपति नैतिक रूप से अयोग्य थे और हो सकता है कि उन्होंने न्याय में बाधा डाली हो।


Scottish Sentencing Council comes into force

Summary: A new sentencing council for Scotland has come into force.

The council is an independent body responsible for preparing guidelines to help ensure a consistent approach to sentencing throughout Scotland. It will also work to raise public awareness and understanding of sentencing practice. It is made up of 12 members who reflect a balance of expertise and interests across the criminal justice system, including victims' issues. The 12 members are five judicial office holders, three legal members, a police officer, a victims' representative and another non-judicial member. Council members: The council will be chaired by the Lord Justice Clerk Lord Carloway, who said: "The council is something entirely new for Scotland. "Sentencing is much more complex than it sometimes appears - there can be many different factors involved. "The council will work to raise awareness and understanding of sentencing practice - not only for our justice partners but for the wider public - helping to build confidence in our justice system. "I expect the council to take Scotland into a new era, in which we pursue a more principled approach to sentencing with improved consistency. This will be at the heart of our programme." Justice Secretary Michael Matheson said: "The creation of the Scottish Sentencing Council is extremely important for the criminal justice system in Scotland and I welcome today's official launch. "We know that sentencing can be an extremely complicated and emotive issue which is why we want to provide greater clarity and openness around why and how sentences are decided." He added: "While the independence of Scotland's judiciary of course remains a fundamental part of the Scottish legal system, as does judicial discretion in individual sentencing decisions, the council will help to ensure transparency and consistency in all sentencing decisions made in Scotland, as well as helping the public better understand the sentencing process." Council member Sue Moody, who has knowledge of victims' issues, added: "The council is good news for the victims of crime in Scotland. "It will help to demystify sentencing for the public, and will ensure that the interests and needs of victims are taken into account when sentencing guidelines are prepared. This is an important opportunity for victims to contribute their views." The council will prepare guidelines, along with their likely effects, for approval by the High Court. In sentencing offenders, the Scottish courts must take these guidelines, if applicable, into account - or give reasons for not doing so. The council will also: The High Court, new Sheriff Appeal Court and Scottish ministers can request the council to prepare or review sentencing guidelines on any matter.

स्कॉटलैंड के लिए एक नई सजा परिषद लागू हो गई है।


Dark corners of the net

Summary: Hackers are secretive, but they are also social. Many spend their spare time in chat rooms and forums discussing their latest targets, techniques and conquests. Eavesdropping on those conversations offers a fascinating insight into their motives.

By Jane WakefieldTechnology reporter Say hacker to someone and they are likely to trot out the usual aged clichés - geek, loner, bedroom-bound teenager. Philosopher is unlikely to feature high on the list. But it seems the modern-day hacker spends a lot of time contemplating the meaning of life. "Each has a philosophy and they want to discuss it," says Noa Bar Yosef. She ought to know. Her job with security firm Imperva involves hanging around in hacker forums trying to work out what motivates them. It is a murky, idiosyncratic world where Ms Yosef admits she spends far too much time. In one group she visits, members discuss the best reading matter for would-be thinkers. "Start with Kierkegaard, then Nietzsche and after you've read Nietzsche, Sartre is the most logical choice". Another poses a question about the practicalities of hacker life: "what kit would you take with you if you were on the run?" A detailed reply soon appears: Often, online conversations get personal. "If they spend a lot of time discussing philosophy, that is nothing compared to the amount of time they devote to their love life, from tips on how to get a girlfriend to details about the next steps, through to chatting about being dumped," says Ms Bar Yosef. They are also fond of religion as a topic. One hacker forum conducted a poll to find out the faith of its members. Christians topped the poll with 29% of forum members claiming it was their religion of choice, 28% said they had no religion, 24% followed Islam, 4% were Hindus and 1.8% professed to be Buddhists. Literature comes up regularly too. Hackers spend time swapping tips about their favourite books, with choices ranging from Stephen King and a guidebook entitled 'Galactic Rebellion for Dummies' to the handbook of disenchanted youth, Catcher in the Rye. There is also mention of John Milton's 17th century epic poem Paradise Lost. And for those seeking movie recommendations, members are always keen to offer their top list of films about - you've guessed it - hacking. Darker side Beyond the frivolous, there is serious business being discussed in these forums. For many, they are akin to university seminars - a place to brainstorm new ideas and update older techniques. As hacking moves from an interest to a hobby to a vocation, sharing skills becomes increasingly important. "They are a collaborative community," says Ms Bar Yosef. "Think of the drug industry. A drug dealer couldn't possibly conduct all these activities alone and likewise an individual hacker finds cyber-accomplices a necessity." A typical 'cyber mafia', she explains, includes a 'researcher' who hunts for vulnerabilities in systems, a 'farmer' who maintains the botnets (networks of computers taken over by malicious code and controlled externally), a 'dealer' who rents botnets and extracts valuable data from them and a 'crime lord' who finds ways of making money from the stolen information. Often Ms Bar Yosef will see an upcoming security threat emerging as ideas are knocked around. She cites the example of Osama bin Laden's killing. Immediately afterwards there was an upsurge in discussions about how to take advantage by creating fake videos of his death loaded with malware. Dark places If the forums are any kind of measure, there is no shortage of recruits to the hacker cause. One popular group frequented by Ms Bar Yosef has 200,000 members. The chat rooms that she can access tend to be the hacker-lite hangouts. Many of those members will be enthusiastic geeks or sometimes hactivists, keen to score points on corporations with minor website vandalism. Those more heavily involved in the criminal underground tend to converse in locations that are not publicly accessible. Making the leap from enthusiastic amateur to becoming part of a gang is alarmingly easy, says Ms Yosef. Going to the dark side is a four step process, she explains. "Start lurking in different underground hacking forums. Become an active participant in topics. Bring some 'proof' of what you've said - for example 'I'm posting for free five credentials to Paypal. Want more? Call me up!'. Earn a reputation and you're in." Such is the level of insight that can be garnered from hacker forums that they regularly come under the watchful eye of law enforcement. Spanish police this week arrested three suspected members of the Anonymous hacker group. Authorities revealed that they had trawled through more than 2,000,000 lines of chat logs and web pages leading up to the arrests. With the International Monetary Fund, Sony, Google, Lockheed Martin, RSA Security and Citibank just some of the diverse and high profile victims of security breaches in the last month, scrutiny of these electronic hangouts will only increase.

हैकर्स गोपनीय होते हैं, लेकिन वे सामाजिक भी होते हैं। कई लोग अपना खाली समय चैट रूम और मंचों में अपने नवीनतम लक्ष्यों, तकनीकों और विजयों पर चर्चा करते हुए बिताते हैं। उन वार्तालापों को सुनना उनके उद्देश्यों के बारे में एक आकर्षक अंतर्दृष्टि प्रदान करता है।


George Daniels' watch collection sells for over £8m

Summary: A collection of watches and clocks belonging to the Isle of Man's Dr George Daniels has raised over £8m at Sotheby's auction in London.

The 134-lot included several of the master watchmaker's creations, alongside his own private collection. The Space Travellers' watch, invented to commemorate the first moon landing, was the highest selling item at £1.32m. All of the money raised will go towards George Daniels' Educational Trust. The trust helps students seeking higher education in horology, engineering, medicine, building or construction. Dr Daniels was the first person to make every component of a watch from scratch and by hand. He died at the age of 85 in 2011 at his Isle of Man home. In July, a vintage car belonging to Dr Daniels fetched more than £5m at auction.

आइल ऑफ मैन के डॉ. जॉर्ज डेनियल्स से संबंधित घड़ियों और घड़ियों के संग्रह ने लंदन में सोथबी की नीलामी में 8 मिलियन पाउंड से अधिक जुटाए हैं।


Blackburn: The town that fails to elect Asian women

Summary: Despite having one of the largest Asian populations in England and Wales, politicians say Blackburn has never elected an Asian woman to its council. Areas with a similar demographic have managed it, so why hasn't this town?

By Rahila Bano & Nafeesa ShanAsian Network & BBC News "I was told to look like a Muslim. I was a woman with a stigma, I'd left a forced marriage. "Comments were also made about my sexuality, there were other much worse things said." Saima Afzal stood as a Labour candidate in different Blackburn wards in 1999, 2000 and 2001 - coming second each time. The former Assistant Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire claims some Asian men in the community were unsupportive. And 15 years on, it seems little has changed - Blackburn with Darwen Council is yet to have an Asian woman represent one of its wards. The authority's leader Mohammed Khan believes it is because they have "other priorities". "Their jobs, their house and caring responsibility," explains the Labour councillor of 25 years. "We do so much to encourage them to come forward, we give them training and tell them how the system works. "But this is not paid, it's a voluntary job. It's their choice, we can't force them to come into the council." Blackburn saw an influx of Pakistani and Indian immigrants move to the area in the 1960s, many of whom went to work in the textile mills at a time the town was known for its booming cotton industry. Fast forward 50 years and the borough now has the 11th largest proportion of Asian residents out of 174 local authority areas in England and Wales. At the 2011 census, nearly a third of its 147,500 residents were recorded as Asian, of which half were women. Yet the demographics are not fully reflected by the area's political make-up. Of the 39 men elected to represent Blackburn, 19 are Asian men; there are no Asian women councillors. "When I stood, it was to raise issues that women face," says 46-year-old Ms Afzal, who is standing again in May's local elections. "We should be able to work and have a full education. I felt the [issues] weren't prevalent at the time and we needed to raise them." But the town's MP Kate Hollern believes it is "more difficult" for Asian women from traditional families to get involved in politics. "Asian women play a prominent role in many local organisations - all of which feed into the decision-making process of the area. "It may be however that the structures of elected politics, with frequent evening and weekend meetings, make it difficult for women who remain generally the main carers in families, to get more involved." But is it really as simple as a difference in culture which traditionally casts men as the dominant breadwinner and decision-maker, while the women focus on family and home? Some political parties would disagree. They say they have been trying for years to change the landscape in Blackburn by fielding Asian female candidates in local elections. But their attitude for change has so far not been matched at the polls. You might also be interested in: Homeless 'devastated' by doorway death India mourns Bollywood superstar Sridevi NZ reacts to 'creepy' PM Ardern interview Malcolm Doherty, who was on the council from 1980 to 2012, claims that during his tenure he detected an "anti-woman feeling" and "the men [in Asian wards] wouldn't vote for them". The former Labour councillor said: "It was quite strong at that time, they didn't want [Asian] women councillors. I could never understand it. "It was very difficult, we tried to get them [elected] in Asian wards and then to wards which weren't Asian, but weren't successful. "Saima stood and she was a very good candidate. It was a sad loss she wasn't elected." Blackburn, neighbouring Darwen and parts of Turton joined in 1998 to form a unitary authority, which is currently Labour-run with 48 male and 16 female councillors. While Darwen and Turton has a Middle Eastern female councillor of Jordanian descent, it has no representation from the Asian community, male or female. It is in stark contrast to similar towns not far from Blackburn, such as Oldham, Rochdale and Bury, where at least one Asian woman has been elected to the council. The nearby Chorley authority has two - Hasina Khan and her daughter, Zara, 23. The former became interested in politics in 2003 after she had "absolutely had enough" of the monotony of "cooking, cleaning and school runs". "Blackburn has this biradari [tribal/clan network] system more like the Pakistani politics back home, which is of course male-dominated and where the heads of families are men who make most decisions. "This is one of the main reasons why there are no Asian female councillors." Encouraged by her MP Lindsay Hoyle to go out canvassing, she joined Labour before standing as a candidate - going on in 2006 to become the first Asian female councillor in Lancashire outside the unitary authorities. She accepts women have a "caring responsibility" in their culture, but said when she stood the support from her family, in "particular the men, [was] excellent". "The electorate [in Chorley] was 99% non-Asian, there was no tribal system here to try block me." She describes hitting a brick wall when trying to recruit other Asian women to stand. "The biggest hindrance is family themselves, fathers, brothers, husbands. They say 'what's the community going to say?' and 'politics isn't for women, they should be looking after the home'." Political activist Farzana Afzal, who is based in Manchester, says some Asian women are "too occupied in their house work, children and household duties", while others face a language barrier. "The women who've come from abroad, they don't watch BBC News or mainstream channels because they can't follow it. They watch Pakistani channels about politics over there." The knock-on effect, according to teenagers in the town, is that there are no female role models in Blackburn. At the West End Girls group - set up to help youngsters develop leadership skills - Taybah, 15, thinks Asian women are "not being represented". "I think culture is potentially holding them back," adds Huma, 15. "It's a full time job, Asian women are attached to their families. "The idea isn't put into your mind when you're young [to be in politics]." Conservative group leader John Slater believes the "cultural issue... seems to be a trait in Blackburn". "I'm quite sad about it, the opportunities are there but they're not being taken up," he says. Parliament is currently at its most diverse with 52 of the 650 MPs elected from ethnic minorities. Of those, 26 were women - representing just 4% of all MPs. With those figures, "it is therefore no surprise that Asian women at the grassroots level of politics do not think [it] is an arena for them," says Rushanara Ali, Labour MP for Bethnal Green and Bow. She believes there should be more government help to encourage ethnic minorities to get into local politics. The mantle is being taken up in cities where there are large Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities such as Birmingham, Leicester, Manchester and Bradford, where there are up to eight Asian women on their councils. But unsociable hours and commitments to constituents could still prevent Asian women in towns like Blackburn from getting involved, says Dr Victoria Honeyman, British politics lecturer at the University of Leeds. "This all eats into family time and, again, as the caring responsibilities tend to fall unevenly on women, particularly in traditional family units as is common in Asian communities, it can create additional barriers to women engaging in politics. "The local elections will be the next opportunity for Asian women to challenge the status quo through the ballot box."

इंग्लैंड और वेल्स में सबसे बड़ी एशियाई आबादी होने के बावजूद, राजनेताओं का कहना है कि ब्लैकबर्न ने कभी भी किसी एशियाई महिला को अपनी परिषद के लिए नहीं चुना है। समान जनसांख्यिकीय वाले क्षेत्रों ने इसे प्रबंधित किया है, तो इस शहर ने क्यों नहीं किया है?


Search for 'injured' man after stabbings in Worcester

Summary: Officers investigating a double stabbing are trying to trace a third man who may also be injured.

Two men were taken to hospital after being found with stab wounds in Copenhagen Street, Worcester, at about 19:15 GMT on Saturday. Officers believe the stabbings happened near the fountains in the city centre street. West Mercia Police urged anyone who could help find the man to contact the force or Crimestoppers. Det Ch Insp Ian Wall said: "Our priority at the moment is to check on the welfare of another man we believe was injured in this incident."

दोहरा छुरा घोंपने की जांच कर रहे अधिकारी तीसरे व्यक्ति का पता लगाने की कोशिश कर रहे हैं जो घायल भी हो सकता है।


Might Dennis Rodman at the Trump-Kim summit just work?

Summary: Right now analysts will believe anything about the summit where Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un are set to meet, so when the New York Post reported that basketball star Dennis Rodman may also turn up, it didn't seem so far-fetched. But basketball diplomacy might just work with North Korea, explains Michael Madden.

Dennis Rodman has the strange distinction of being the first American to have met both Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. He has twice been a contestant on Mr Trump's reality television show Celebrity Apprentice and has travelled to North Korea five times. He even claims to have given Mr Kim a copy of The Art of the Deal, the Trump guide to hustle and deal-making in big business. Rodman's also offered his wisdom on the two men. Last August, he said the exchange of fiery rhetoric and brinkmanship filled with nuclear threats was "more like two big kids deciding who's the toughest". It's far from confirmed if he'll even be in Singapore on 12 June, but the possibility is a reminder that this is not just about a flamboyant, cross-dressing, basketball player nicknamed The Worm trying to make his mark in one of the most broken geo-political relationships in the world today. Basketball has a long and important history and meaning for North Korea's elites and when Rodman made his first trip to North Korea in 2013 - when Vice Media arranged for his team the Harlem Globetrotters to have an exhibition match there - he had little idea how significant the sport and its ambassadors are to the rulers of the state. NBA courts across North Korea Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un's meeting was not the first contact between basketball and North Korea. In 2000 then US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright presented Kim Jong-un's father, Kim Jong-il, with a basketball autographed by Michael Jordan. It's currently kept in North Korea's International Friendship Exhibition. It was a very smart gift and obviously an ironic one. It's one of the most potent symbols of American soft power, a sport America can actually justifiably claim to have "invented", a deeply American ball game, and it's also something we know that Kim Jong-il absolutely loved. In countless North Korean state media videos we see at various sites, including military ones, an NBA regulation basketball court in the background. The sport is also widespread at worksites and production units and part of the organised programming of activities on holidays. Even at Kim Jong-il's funeral many spotted an inordinately tall North Korean, who many believe is Ri Myung-hun, also known as Michael Ri, a North Korean retired basketball player. He's technically a member of the military. And North Korea's minister of people security Cho Bui-il, the head of the North Korean police, was also a basketball coach. It's safe to say that basketball is a "thing" in North Korea's leadership and it's even less of a surprise really that Kim Jong-il's' love of basketball was passed onto his son. It's been a personal preference of the leader and so it's a central signal of favour in the North Korean elite. 'Basketball diplomacy' So when Vice Media made the trip in 2013, a fruitful correspondence was almost inevitable. Dennis Rodman touched down in North Korea with the Harlem Globetrotters, who then played a North Korean selection while Rodman and Mr Kim sat in the gallery watching. Rodman has since been several times to North Korea in what has been referred to as "basketball diplomacy" and has said his aim was to "connect two countries". What's notable is how closely North Korean television covered Rodman's visits. he famously forged a "friendship" with the young North Korean leader. One trip had about 30 minutes of coverage on state TV (that's impressive) which brings us to the next thing about basketball and North Korea. The famous February 2013 trip, at the game the Harlem Globetrotters put on, was one of the only times where you saw large numbers of members of the North Korean elite in their 20s and 30s. It was a rare and sure sign that a new generation of North Korea's leadership was present and alert. They are involved all over the place but it's mostly unseen. They tend to show up in public at provincial events like the opening of a statue. A couple have floated to the top, such as Vice Premier Jon Kwang-ho and, most famous of all, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong-un. But their presence at the Globetrotters game was about associating the younger elites with this most modern of Korean preferences, now up there with Tae Kwon Do or even football. Kim Jong-un is the young leader after all. So Dennis Rodman's potential trip to Singapore will tap into the personal tastes of Kim Jong-un, the long-standing preferences of the North Korean leadership and it will play well with the millennials in the elite, waiting in the wings, part of the inevitable generational change. So what could Rodman do? As a man who made several trips, met Kim Jong-un on various occasions, professed his friendship and respect for the leader, it may be comedy or it may be canny to have him turn up. He might make an appearance at some kind of cultural event as a special guest. The leaders definitely have Rodman relations in common. And if you remember that the comedian who invented the Pen Pineapple Pen earworm was on show at the state dinner when Mr Trump visited Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan, it really does seem within the realms of plausibility. Rodman is easily a kind of goodwill ambassador. If the sides come to an agreement about a kind of cultural exchange, Rodman could be a key part of that somehow. A basketball exchange. More importantly, if he does turn up you shouldn't be surprised because both Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un operate by trusting personal relationships. Protocol plays a lesser role than personalities for both these men and in Rodman where some see a clown, they might just see a friend. Michael Madden is visiting scholar of the US Korea Institute at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University and Director of NK Leadership Watch, an affiliate of 38 North.

अभी विश्लेषक उस शिखर सम्मेलन के बारे में कुछ भी मानेंगे जहां डोनाल्ड ट्रम्प और किम जोंग-उन मिलने वाले हैं, इसलिए जब न्यूयॉर्क पोस्ट ने बताया कि बास्केटबॉल स्टार डेनिस रॉडमैन भी आ सकते हैं, तो यह इतना दूर की बात नहीं लग रही थी। लेकिन बास्केटबॉल कूटनीति केवल उत्तर कोरिया के साथ काम कर सकती है, माइकल मैडेन बताते हैं।


EastEnders: Lucy Beale's killer - the likely suspects

Summary: The EastEnders plot surrounding who killed character Lucy Beale has kept fans in the dark for the past 10 months. With the murderer set to be revealed on Thursday, we use the latest crime figures to take a not-too-serious look at the likely suspects.

By Danny ShawHome affairs correspondent, BBC News Lucy Beale was mightily unlucky. She died at a time when, according to the official crime survey of England and Wales, the risk of being a victim of crime was at its lowest for 33 years - when reports of violent offences were on the decline, and in a year the Metropolitan Police recorded London's lowest number of homicides since the 1960s. Poor Lucy. The figures do suggest Lucy's killer will be caught: 90% of murder and manslaughter cases result in someone being charged with an offence, though a small proportion will be acquitted at trial. But the key question, of course, is who murdered Lucy? Was it Max Branning, with whom she had a secret affair? Lucy's dad, Ian? They'd argued about her stash of cocaine. Could it be Ben Mitchell - only recently released from prison after serving a sentence for murdering Heather? Or one of the 11 other suspects? Family killing? Whatever the scriptwriters have in mind, the statistics clearly point in one direction - but we'll come to that in a minute. What is unlikely, though, is that Lucy was murdered by someone she didn't know. You may often see stranger killings in crime dramas, but in real life they're comparatively rare. The latest data, compiled by the Office for National Statistics, show only 8% of murders of females over the age of 16 in 2013-14 were committed by a stranger, though in a further 9% of cases the suspect hadn't been identified. Murders committed by women or girls are also highly unusual - about 10% - a figure which will trigger sighs of relief among half the EastEnders suspects, including Abi. And it's improbable, based on the figures, Lucy was murdered by one of her friends: Jay, for instance. The category of friend or acquaintance killings accounts for only 9% of killings of women. So, who is in the frame? The official statistics suggest there's a 20% chance Lucy's killer was related to her - a group of suspects that includes brother Peter, half-uncle Ben (though convicted killers rarely go on to commit another murder after release) and dad Ian. In fact, murders of children by their parents are statistically the most common family-type killing, so Ian's not in the clear just yet. However, if art was going to imitate real life, then Lucy's killer is someone she had a sexual relationship with. It's a sad fact in the majority of female murder cases the killer is a husband, partner, boyfriend or ex. There are only two suspects who can be classed as ex-partners of Lucy - Lee Carter, who she had a fling with, and of course, Max. If I was from Walford CID, those are the two I'd have in my sights.

लुसी बील के चरित्र की हत्या करने वाले के इर्द-गिर्द ईस्टएंडर्स की साजिश ने पिछले 10 महीनों से प्रशंसकों को अंधेरे में रखा है। गुरुवार को हत्यारे का खुलासा होने के साथ, हम संभावित संदिग्धों पर बहुत गंभीर नज़र डालने के लिए नवीनतम अपराध आंकड़ों का उपयोग करते हैं।


Radio Wales and Radio Cymru increase listener numbers

Summary: BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru both ended 2016 with a small rise in the number of listeners compared with the rest of the year, figures have shown.

Radio Wales attracted 375,000 listeners while Radio Cymru had 114,000 people tuning in during the last quarter. The weekly reach figures released by audience researcher Rajar were up on previous quarters in the year. Between April and June, listening numbers were at their lowest level since 1999.

आंकड़ों से पता चलता है कि बी. बी. सी. रेडियो वेल्स और रेडियो साइमरू दोनों ने 2016 का अंत शेष वर्ष की तुलना में श्रोताओं की संख्या में थोड़ी वृद्धि के साथ किया।


Grangetown man arrested and woman in hospital

Summary: A 34-year-old man has been arrested and a woman taken to hospital following an incident in Cardiff.

Police were called to Stafford Road in Grangetown at about 14:15 GMT. A 26-year-old woman has been taken to University Hospital of Wales in the city, although her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. It is believed those involved are known to each other, and police inquiries are continuing in the area.

कार्डिफ में एक घटना के बाद एक 34 वर्षीय व्यक्ति को गिरफ्तार किया गया है और एक महिला को अस्पताल ले जाया गया है।


Inquest opens over Muller death in Market Drayton

Summary: An inquest has been opened into the death of a maintenance engineer who died while working at dairy giant Muller's headquarters.

Lewis McFarlin, 24, died at the scene in Market Drayton, Shropshire, on 16 January. Muller said last week he had been carrying out maintenance work on a service lift at the Tern Valley Business Park premises. Shropshire's coroner adjourned the inquest in Shrewsbury until 24 April. The Health and Safety Executive is investigating the death. A spokesperson for Muller previously said the firm was assisting the investigation. Mr McFarlin was from Stoke-on-Trent. Follow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, on Twitter, and sign up for local news updates direct to your phone

डेयरी दिग्गज मुलर के मुख्यालय में काम करते हुए एक रखरखाव इंजीनियर की मौत की जांच शुरू की गई है।