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The midfielder agreed personal terms with the Canaries this week and, having passed his medical, he has penned a three-and-a-half-year deal.
"He can add goals to our midfield, which I think we need," said Norwich manager Paul Lambert.
"He'll get better as a player the higher the level he goes up. If he does that he'll be a great player for us."
Former England Under-21 international Howson, a product of the Leeds academy, has made almost 200 appearances since his debut in 2006, but his contract was due to expire in the summer.
He has featured 22 times for his home town club this season, although he has not played since picking up a knee injury in the 2-0 win over Millwall at the beginning of December.
Meanwhile, Lambert has outlined a back injury as the reason for terminating the season-long loan of Manchester United defender Ritchie de Laet five months early.
The 23-year-old Belgian has played seven times for the Canaries, but has not featured since the 2-0 Premier League loss to Tottenham on 27 December.
"Ritchie's done great for us," said Lambert. "But he has a back injury which was keeping him out for periods of time."
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Norwich City have completed the signing of 23-year-old Leeds captain Jonny Howson for an undisclosed fee.
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Sidibe, who died on Thursday, is known for his black and white studio portraits that captured the lives of young Malians in the 1960s and 1970s.
Critics say his photos of Mali's post-colonial period helped people see the West African nation in a new light.
In 2007, he became the first African winner of the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Biennale.
People on Twitter describe him as a talent whose images of popular and youth culture still resonate among young photographers across Africa.
Sidibe's work captures the lives of young men and women, often showing off a prized possession like a watch or a motorbike.
He also captures street scenes and young men seducing girls at parties with a sense of newfound freedom and identity.
Sidibe has work in several private and public museums around the world.
He became famous around the world after holding his first exhibition in France in 1996
Andres Magnin, Malick Sidibe's close friend and owner of the Parisian gallery which represented him, called the photographer an author "of thousands of images of tenderness and beauty".
"A photographer of the young generation of an independent Mali, untroubled, free, modern, full of joy and hope... He was generous, welcoming, loved by all the young people in Bamako."
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Tributes are being paid to the award-winning Malian photographer, Malick Sidibe, who has died at the age of 80.
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England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) rules need to be altered to remove the right of all 18 counties to play in the new tournament.
Essex follow Middlesex in their refusal to support the change.
But Durham chairman Sir Ian Botham said his county were fully committed in their support for the new tournament.
He said: "It's financially very sensible to do it and if we prepare properly and come up with the right formula throughout the summer - just look at the success of the Big Bash in Australia and the IPL - then it's proven that the format has great benefit."
Meanwhile, Essex chairman John Faragher said the County Championship, one-day and T20 competitions "must be protected".
The changes require the support of 31 out of 41 of the ECB's voting members.
Faragher continued: "We are focused on expanding cricket in Essex, East Anglia and Metropolitan London, ensuring there are opportunities for all age and ability groups, male and female, to be actively involved in the game.
"We believe that as a result of the proposed changes, these opportunities will be reduced, that our income overall will suffer and the first-class game will be diminished, in contradiction to the ECB's objective which is to grow the game in this country - an objective that is unlikely to be advanced by a competition which would exclude large areas of the country from any involvement in it."
The 41 voting members comprise the 18 first-class counties, 21 recreational boards, the Minor Counties Cricket Association, and MCC - owners of Lord's and therefore Middlesex's landlord.
A number of counties have come out in support of the proposals for the new tournament, with Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Somerset, Sussex and Yorkshire all announcing that they will back the ECB rule change, while others including Glamorgan, Hampshire and Warwickshire have been vocal in their support for a city-based competition.
Kent have asked their members and supporters to give them further feedback before making a decision, while Surrey director of cricket Alec Stewart has expressed concern over the details of the new event.
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Essex have become the second county to announce their intention to stand against a new city-based Twenty20 competition, planned for 2020.
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The prosecutors, from Spain's top criminal court, allege Neymar and his father hid the true value of the player's multi-million-euro transfer from Santos to Barcelona.
A Brazilian investment fund that owned 40% of Neymar's sports rights argues it was deprived of its full share.
In previous interviews, Neymar, 24, has denied any wrongdoing.
Barcelona said it paid €57m (£43m) for Neymar in 2013, with the player's parents, Neymar da Silva Santos and Nadine Goncalves da Silva Santos, receiving €40m and his former club, Santos, €17m.
But investigators say the fee was closer to €83m and Barcelona concealed part of the deal. The club also denies any wrongdoing.
The Brazilian third-party investment fund, DIS, alleges it was financially harmed by the transfer when it received €6.8m of Santos's €17m fee and argues it was deprived of its full share.
Neymar and his parents, along with Barcelona's ex-President Sandro Rosell and President Josep Maria Bartomeu, had all given statements at an earlier court hearing in February.
Speaking to O Globo TV in Brazil in February, Neymar said: "Before saying nonsense - that we hid this, or hid that - they should prove it.
"My father is doing everything to ensure that I can just focus on playing football. He handles the books. But in the moment when you see someone you love suffering, it starts to hurt."
Neymar and his father also face accusations in a separate case of defrauding the Spanish tax office, while the player faces a tax evasion investigation in Brazil. He denies wrongdoing.
Neymar's move to Barcelona FC has been a big success on the pitch. The striker became part of a goal-scoring trio with Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.
In 2015, Neymar helped the club win five trophies and came third in the Fifa Ballon d'Or competition. He also scored in the Uefa Champions League final against Juventus.
He won the Spanish league and cup double with Barcelona in 2016.
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Spanish prosecutors have called for Brazil and Barcelona football star Neymar to be tried for fraud.
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Under the plans announced by Chancellor George Osborne in July, the minimum wage for over-25s will rise from £6.50 an hour to £7.20 in April next year.
It will rise to at least £9 by 2020.
The Scottish government said the proposals were "simply an enhancement of the national minimum wage" rather than a true living wage.
Its Fair Work Secretary, Roseanna Cunningham, also argued that the plan discriminated against under-25s and will bring further complications and inequalities to the national minimum wage structure.
But a UK government spokesman said its proposals were an "essential part of moving to a higher wage, lower tax, lower welfare society where work always pays and the majority of households are better off."
Ms Cunningham has outlined the Scottish government's criticisms in a submission to the Low Pay Commission's consultation on the proposals.
And she called on the UK government to set out a clear plan for moving towards a living wage that "truly reflects the cost of living" rather than merely setting an "arbitrary rate".
Ms Cunningham added: "The so-called national living wage announced in the UK government budget is not a living wage and should not be referred to as such.
"It is simply an enhancement of the national minimum wage which disgracefully discriminates against the under 25s.
"Employers also do not need further complications in the national minimum wage structure and I would encourage all bodies looking at this to ensure that younger workers are treated fairly."
The Scottish government promotes a living wage of £7.85 an hour, with businesses north of the border encouraged to sign up to a voluntary accreditation scheme.
Ms Cunningham said: "We are working hard to increase the number of employers paying the living wage. By this I mean the real living wage, which is calculated according to the cost of living.
"There are now over 300 organisations across Scotland that recognise the tangible benefits to their business of being accredited, huge progress in the last 12 months."
In response, the UK government spokesman said its proposals were expected to directly boost the wages of nearly three million people and would mean a full-time worker would earn £2,000 more per year by 2020.
He added: "For younger workers, the priority is to secure work and gain experience.
"In order to maximise the opportunities for younger workers to gain that experience the national living wage will only apply to workers aged 25 and over.
"The wages of younger workers will continue to be underpinned by the core national minimum wage."
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The UK government's National Living Wage plans have been criticised as a "misappropriation of the term" by the Scottish government.
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Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead spent £160,000 trying to move 10 caravans from Shurlock Row, Berkshire.
Those occupying the land lost appeals and finally a judicial review bid to remain at the site in 2016.
The authority said the group had now left voluntarily and an order imposed to restore the site to its original condition within 28 days.
Councillor Derek Wilson said residents in the area had been "waiting for this day".
He added: "The occupiers were in breach of planning control and we followed every procedure correctly to get to this point as swiftly as was legally possible."
Grass had been paved over and machinery installed without planning permission following the group's arrival in December 2009, the council said.
An enforcement notice was issued ordering them to stop using the land.
The travellers lodged an appeal in 2010 which was unsuccessful and they were given until February 2013 to leave but failed to do so.
After another unsuccessful appeal, they applied for a judicial review.
This was refused by the High Court, the Court of Appeal and finally the Supreme Court in August 2016.
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Travellers who sparked a Supreme Court legal battle by pitching at a site for more than seven years have left.
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Tory PCC Adam Simmonds' plans include employing a chief of staff, four assistant commissioners, and a value for money officer.
Under the old police authority, there were seven staff members. The new organisation will have 10 extra posts.
Mr Simmonds said a team was vital in overseeing the county force.
He said: "This is not an empire. This is about building something which is brand new. No-one has been PCC for Northamptonshire before.
"The public voted for me to do a job to support frontline policing. I can't do it physically on my own."
He said his plans had been put forward to the public for consultation.
Mr Simmonds said he would be judged on whether he had achieved his objectives of more police and a reduction in drug crime.
In a report Mr Simmonds said he hoped to create three new departments, for drugs eradication, faith-based and neighbourhood initiatives, and the protection and security of the county, would also be created.
The commission will carry out the work that the previous police authority did of overseeing targets and setting budgets.
But the office also has new responsibilities of prevention and taking care of victims of crime.
For 2012-13, the budget for Northamptonshire Police is £120.55m - £2m less than 2011-12.
Savings of £20m have to be made over four years.
A spokesman for the commissioner said staff would be consulted about the plans in the first four months of next year.
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The new police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Northamptonshire has denied he is "empire building" with his plans for a 17-strong team.
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The winner of the award, previously known as the Samuel Johnson Prize, will receive £30,000.
It aims to recognise high quality non-fiction works published in English.
It is open to books in the areas of current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography and the arts.
Flanders, now a chief market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management, said: "The Samuel Johnson Prize has helped changed the way we think about non-fiction writing in this country, with a yearly reminder that great books truly can come out of anywhere - and anything.
"Personally I'm delighted to be chairing the award in its new incarnation."
Prize director Toby Mundy said: "This is the beginning of a very significant new chapter in the story of Britain's most prestigious non-fiction prize."
Submissions will be accepted from 23 May, with the winner announced on 15 November.
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Former BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders is to chair the judges of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
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The ruling ends an eight-year legal battle over the documents.
The manuscripts were in the possession of the family of Esther Hoffe, the secretary of Kafka's friend Max Brod.
The family had argued that it rightfully owned the manuscripts after her death.
David Blumberg, chairman the National Library of Israel, said the ruling was "a celebratory day for any person of culture, in Israel and abroad".
He said: "The Supreme Court asked the National Library to do its utmost to reveal Brod's estate to the public. The National Library will follow the court's ruling and will preserve the cultural assets by keeping them in the country as well as making them accessible to the general public."
Before Kafka died of tuberculosis at the age of 41 in 1924, he left instructions that his works should be burned. But Brod ignored his request and published some of them.
Those works included The Trial, Metamorphosis and The Castle, which helped turn Kafka into one of the 20th Century's most famous novelists.
Brod smuggled Kafka's writings out of his home city of Prague in 1939, saving them from the Nazis. Brod died in 1968 and bequeathed his collection to his secretary Esther Hoffe.
She had kept the collection in her Tel Aviv apartment as well as in safety deposit boxes in Israel and Switzerland.
The legal battle over who rightfully owned them started after she died in 2007.
Some of the deposit boxes were opened at in Zurich in 2010, but their contents were only revealed to an Israeli judge.
In 2012, a Tel Aviv family court ruled that Brod had explicitly ordered Hoffe to catalogue and transfer his collection "to the library of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem or the Tel Aviv municipal library, or any other public institution in Israel or abroad". The Supreme Court has now agreed with this ruling.
A statement on The National Library website said the materials that the National Library will receive include "correspondences in Kafka's handwriting to Max Brod, Kafka's Paris journals, drawings, and many of Max Brod's works and the letters to Kafka".
"It is fair to assume that many other treasures are hidden among Max Brod's personal material which will be exposed and catalogued by the National Library.
"As time goes by they will be made accessible in the broadest way for generations to come."
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Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that a collection of unpublished Franz Kafka manuscripts must be transferred from an Israeli family to the country's national library.
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Subsea UK chief executive Neil Gordon said capital expenditure cuts and low crude price were starting to bite.
But he added that the fundamentals of the sector, which supports 60,000 jobs, remained relatively strong.
He was speaking at the start of Subsea Expo in Aberdeen.
Subsea firms play a key role in North Sea activities, which have been coming under pressure following a sustained fall in the price of oil.
This week accountants PwC said many oil and gas firms would need to transform the way they operate in order to grasp future opportunities in the sector.
Its report argued companies should be looking to deploy fresh strategies, including looking to reduce costs "in a sustainable manner".
Mr Gordon told delegates at Subsea Expo: "The UK's subsea sector came out of a strong 2013 to a relatively flat second half of 2014.
"The existing order book kept the industry going but, as this dries up and projects are abandoned or postponed until the oil price recovers, we are in for major challenges."
Mr Gordon said research suggested that overall capital expenditure growth forecasts should start to become more positive after 2016.
He continued: "It is therefore imperative that during this period Subsea UK demonstrates strong leadership by pushing the industry to more quickly adopt innovation and technology.
"We need to better explore how projects are currently delivered and then make the step-change to deliver major efficiencies.
"While subsea companies must speed up the development of new technologies, the industry must be prepared to embrace new technology.
"It has to become less risk-averse and more receptive to supporting field trials and implementation of new technology."
Subsea UK is urging companies to turn to the National Subsea Research Initiative, which brings academia and industry together to collaborate on getting new technology to market much more quickly.
NSRI will be focusing new research and development on a number of themes, including decommissioning methods and techniques, well intervention and small field cluster development.
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The UK's subsea sector is in for two years of tough times and will only weather the storm if it embraces innovation and new technology, an industry body has warned.
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Enda Kenny was making a speech on the implications of Brexit on Wednesday.
He said the move posed a serious threat to the Republic's economic prosperity.
He also said the negotiations would be the most significant that Ireland had faced as an independent state.
Mr Kenny also warned that if no executive was formed after the election on 2 March, Northern Ireland would struggle to have its concerns heard.
While the UK as a whole voted to leave the EU, Northern Ireland voted to remain by a majority of 56% to 44%.
The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland has been the subject of much discussion following the referendum, as it is set to become the UK's only land border with the EU.
"With the dissolution of the assembly, there is a very real danger that the absence of political leadership in Northern Ireland will lead to a retreat to partisan debate and an even greater marginalization of Northern Ireland's concerns," Mr Kenny said.
"The Brexit process will not wait for another round of lengthy talks in Stormont.
"When Article 50 is triggered, the world will move on, and it will move on quickly.
"Of course I will do my best to put forward the interests of the north in the Brexit negotiations."
Mr Kenny said he would defend the Good Friday Agreement, oppose a hard border, argue for free movement on this island of Ireland, seek EU funding for cross-border projects and protect the rights of EU citizens in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland during negotiations.
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It is a matter of vital national interest that there is no return to a hard border on the island of Ireland when the UK leaves the European Union, the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) has said.
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McIlroy has opted out of the European Tour's flagship event because he does not want to play four weeks in a row.
The world number three is returning from a three-week break to defend the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte.
"I am still working on it but I feel better than I did when I put the clubs away for a couple of weeks," he said.
The 27-year-old is the only member of the world's top five not to win a tournament in 2016.
Speaking to the Golf Channel, he added: "I'd got into a couple of bad habits leading up to the Masters and it's never really a good time to work on them - you are just trying to play golf and shoot a score.
"I took basically a full two weeks off from golf. I went home to Ireland for a week and then had a bit of a break; I was island-hopping for about 10 days, which was nice."
After the Wells Fargo at Quail Hollow, McIlroy will go on to compete in the Players' Championship and the Irish Open, where he will be tournament host at the K Club.
The four-time major winner will play in the Memorial Tournament in the United States a week after the Wentworth event in preparation for the US Open.
"The reason I took three weeks off after Augusta was that I'm not going to have more than a week off [at a time] until after the Ryder Cup in October," said the Northern Irishman.
"I'm playing here, next week at the Players, the Irish Open and then it's basically week on, week off from there.
"Memorial, week off, US Open, week off, French Open, week off, Open, week off, PGA, week off, Olympics, week off, Fed Ex Cup, Ryder Cup.
"There's a little bit of travel in there as well so it's a busy stretch coming up and you can't play every week."
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Rory McIlroy has pulled out of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth later in May, but says he is close to removing the "bad habits" from his game.
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Transport links and water and power supplies in the city of 10 million are severely affected, and some residents are trapped in their homes.
Flooding has killed more than 180 people and caused chaos across China.
Police in neighbouring Anhui province even warned that alligators from a farm there had escaped due to the flooding.
Source: The Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, figures accurate as of 3 July
Wuhan's meteorological office released the red alert on Wednesday. It said to expect wind and rain, and flooding in both urban and rural areas.
Chinese media is reporting that more than 560mm (1.8ft) of rain has fallen over the past week, the heaviest ever in the history of the city, which is on the Yangtze River.
Roads and metro stations were inundated with water, and trains cancelled.
The last leg of the journey home for some people leaving Wuhan train station tonight is on foot, wading through the water.
A handful of couples passed me as I stood, almost up to my knees in it, at the traffic lights under the highway overpass by the railway station. A few coaches made it through the temporary pond, as did a few lorries. But there was no rush hour traffic in the worst hit suburbs tonight.
There is some respite; the rain has stopped for now. But as I write this there are still cars driving the wrong way down a highway slip road because the rain has blocked their route.
Water supplies have been cut off in some areas, and one residential district experienced a complete power black-out, according to local media.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, to oversee relief and rescue operations.
Meanwhile, China's President Xi Jinping, has ordered the army to step up its relief efforts across the country.
Amid the crisis, official figures for the number of dead have fluctuated. On Wednesday state television put the overall toll at about 170.
Social media is awash with pictures of torrents of water thundering through metro stations, submerged cars and buildings, and firemen rescuing stranded people from across fast-flowing rivers that had previously been residential streets.
Police in Anhui shared a notice from Wuhu County's tourism bureau, which said that alligators had escaped from a farm due to the flooding. The notice said people were still trying to verify how many alligators had escaped.
It is not the only animal story to have grabbed the public's attention. On Tuesday a rescue team saved 6,000 pigs which had been stranded at their farm.
Photos of farmers emotionally bidding the animals farewell had been widely shared on social media.
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The Chinese city of Wuhan is on red alert for more heavy rainfall, after torrential downpours overnight left parts of the city submerged.
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Trustees of the Cwmaman Institute said they had six-figure debts and were struggling to keep the building open.
Opened in 1892 for the local mining community, the building had a £3.8m lottery-funded facelift in 2001 unveiled by the Prince of Wales.
Trust chairman John Oliver said they were warning groups using the venue it faced closure by the end of the year.
"It's been a struggle for a number of years, and we've been running it on a voluntary basis for the main part," he said.
"We hope something will crop up - we've written to Stereophonics but haven't heard back from them yet," Mr Oliver added.
"We'd be pleased if they said they could help us."
Stereophonics - formed in Cwmaman in the 1990s by Kelly Jones, Richard Jones and the late Stuart Cable - played some of their first gigs at the institute before winning international fame.
In July trustees sold a neighbouring pub - the Shepherd's Arms - to raise funds as part of the effort to save the venue.
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Rock stars Stereophonics have been asked to help save a venue where they played some of their first gigs.
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The 34-year-old's deal is the third short-term contract he has signed since joining the Championship club last summer after four injury-plagued years.
Barker only made five substitute appearances, but helped the Brewers avoid relegation and boss Nigel Clough sees him as a valuable squad member.
"I am not signing as a player expected to play 90 minutes or a couple of games a week," Barker told BBC Radio Derby.
"Six months is perfect. Physically I feel no different than I did in my mid-20s. I am fit enough and can still do sessions like everyone else. But I have a reaction with my knee so have to be careful."
The former Derby County centre-back said his aerial ability means both he and Clough are sure he can continue to contribute.
"There is definitely use for me in certain games," Barker added. "To play 90 minutes is a little bit too much, but you never know.
"If pre-season goes well and I am fit and able that would be lovely, but it is not something the gaffer and me are expecting."
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Defender Shaun Barker has signed a new six-month contract with Burton Albion.
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Speaking in advance of their trips, they proposed very different solutions.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said he would be asking US officials to help convince the UK government to take a new approach to welfare funding.
But Secretary of State Theresa Villiers will say those blocking welfare reform are putting more strain on the budget.
Mr McGuinness travelled to Washington on Monday while Ms Villiers will begin a three-day visit to the US on Tuesday.
She will update members of the US administration, members of Congress and senior figures in the Irish American community on the current political situation in Northern Ireland.
She said her message during the trip to Washington and New York is that the Stormont House Agreement remains the best hope for building a brighter more secure future.
The agreement, signed by Northern Ireland's five main political parties last December, was a wide-ranging deal that addressed some of Stormont's current financial difficulties, after a reduction in its block grant from Westminster.
However, Mr McGuinness' Sinn Féin party withdrew its support for the bill in March because of a row over the implementation of welfare reforms.
The Sinn Féin MLA is due to meet influential Irish Americans, representatives of the US State Department representatives and other senior US officials.
Speaking on Sunday evening, he said Northern Ireland's political institutions were in an "extremely grave situation".
"The institutions of the Good Friday Agreement, which have underpinned the Irish peace process for almost two decades, are facing crisis," Mr McGuinness said.
He repeated his call for the UK government to change its approach and ensure the institutions are "politically and economically viable and able to meet the needs of a society emerging from a long and bitter conflict".
"It is my hope that the US administration - which has been a key ally since the inception of the peace process - can help convince the British government of the gravity of the current situation and to end their current approach which threatens to undermine the incredible progress we have made," Mr McGuinness added.
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Northern Ireland's secretary of state and deputy first minister are taking separate visits to the US to brief the government about the Stormont crisis.
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The budding star, coached by Kaiser Chiefs front man Ricky Wilson, beat off stiff competition from Lucy O'Byrne to take the crown.
The 29-year-old, from Alva in Clackmannanshire, had been the bookies' favourite to win the final.
After his victory was announced, Stevie said: "I never thought this was possible."
His debut single - a cover of Lost Stars - has already been released.
He has also been asked to perform at this year's T in the Park.
The firefighter only ended up on the show after his workmates entered him.
Asked what colleagues at his fire station would think, he said: "I think they're over the moon for me because they all wanted me to go for it.
"A lot of people have saw something in me that I didn't see, and even standing up there I've still got that self-doubt and I think it's going to take a while to click in, to take in, that I've actually won The Voice 2015."
A spokesman for bookmakers Coral said: "Stevie has proved a popular winner in this year's series of The Voice as he was well backed to win the show ever since his blind audition.
"All three previous winners of The Voice have struggled in the charts but our odds suggest Stevie could have some success with his debut single and album."
Ricky Wilson said Stevie had won by simply singing the song and "connecting with people".
He added: "Stevie's a typical Scotsman. Although on paper he was the favourite all along, he still felt like the massive underdog."
You can watch Stevie's winning performance on The Voice here.
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Scottish firefighter Stevie McCrorie has won the grand final of the BBC show, The Voice.
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Efforts to find the family began in August after India accepted the woman, named Geeta, was one of its citizens.
Geeta, who has speech and hearing impairments, was about 11 when she is believed to have strayed into Pakistan.
Her plight emerged following a Bollywood film Bajrangi Bhaijaan, which told the story of a Pakistani girl who cannot speak and is trapped in India.
For most of her time in Pakistan, Geeta has lived at an Edhi shelter home in Karachi, reports the BBC's Shahzeb Jillani. Staff at the charity gave her her name - she is now thought to be about 22.
"The Indian high commissioner has lately sent a family photo to us and Geeta has recognised the family," Anwer Kazmi, a senior official at the foundation, told AFP news agency.
"We have showed the picture to Geeta and she says they are her family... We hope she will confirm the family identification during the Skype chat through sign language."
Geeta was unable to provide a name, address or any documentation to the Pakistani border guards who found her over a decade ago. Nor could she explain how she ended up across the border.
Once her travel documents are sorted, she could leave for India as early as 26 October, Faisal Edhi, the son of Pakistan's leading charity worker Abdul Sattar Edhi, said on Thursday.
The Edhi Foundation was trying to arrange a Skype call between Geeta and her family, who live in the Indian state of Bihar, he added.
It was not clear when the Skype chat would be held.
Although it was long thought that Geeta was Indian, it was only in August that the authorities in Delhi accepted her as a citizen - and said she would be brought back home soon.
Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said then that she would be handed over to her family after a DNA test.
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An Indian woman stranded in Pakistan for a decade has identified her family in photos sent from across the border.
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"Assessing and reporting major risks does not mean becoming involved in politics; rather it would be political to suppress important judgments," he told a House of Lords committee.
Mr Carney said the vote was the biggest domestic risk to the UK's financial stability.
He added that uncertainty was already hitting the growth outlook.
The referendum takes place on 23 June.
The governor said that while the Bank of England had not made "and will not make" any overall assessment of the economics of the UK's EU membership, assessing the implications were necessary for it to do its job - maintaining monetary and financial stability.
"As with the Scottish Referendum, we will communicate as much as is prudent about those plans in advance of any risk materialising and as comprehensively as possible once risks have dissipated," he added.
The governor also reiterated he saw "signs of growing uncertainty about the UK's macroeconomic outlook related to the referendum".
There is the possibility that a vote to leave the EU would "reinforce existing vulnerabilities" in the UK economy, including a risk around the UK's trade deficit, he added.
"I think it's safe to say that it [the UK current account deficit] is running at a rate around 5%... and that is remarkably high for a large advanced economy... The risk around the challenge... is that the financing terms change on that current account. Increased cost to the economy - [a] consequence of that is a sharp slowing of the economy."
Mr Carney also refused to comment in detail on Monday's Treasury report which warned that the UK economy could be 6% smaller by 2010 if it left the EU, but said the report's "broad approach, to me, makes sense".
He said a vote to Leave "might result in an extended period of uncertainty about the economic outlook" which would be likely to affect demand in the short term and could affect the supply side economy.
Mr Carney's appearance in front of the committee comes just days after the Bank of England warned the EU referendum could hurt growth in the first half of this year.
The Bank warned uncertainty over the EU referendum could cause "some softening" in growth in the first half of 2016.
It also said sterling had also been affected by the uncertainty ahead of the vote.
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It is the Bank's duty to talk about EU referendum risks, says Bank of England governor Mark Carney, dismissing accusations the Bank is too political.
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The Nottinghamshire born athlete, who is a double amputee, set off from John O'Groats in August and headed into Land's End on Monday.
The 37-year-old 200m sprinter, who began his career as a marathon runner, said the task had been five years in the planning.
He said the challenge had been "an epic journey".
"I'm really tired. It has been really tough the last couple of days," he said.
"Cornwall is really hilly and the energy levels are wacked at the moment. But I have had a great team around me who have supported me.
"It has been awesome to see people on the way and the support online as well."
Richard Runs Britain has raised £105,000 for charities Sarcoma UK and Scope, considerably less than his £1m target.
He asked people to run with him at certain points and was joined by several athletes and celebrities along the way.
Whitehead said he had been inspired by amputee and sarcoma cancer sufferer Terry Fox, who attempted to run across Canada in 1980.
He added: "Unfortunately he didn't reach his destination but he inspired me to start running myself and after last year's success at the Paralympics I got this once in a lifetime opportunity up and going, and here we are."
Before his challenge Whitehead said he had wanted to reach out to people of all ages and abilities and encourage people into sport as part of the legacy of the Olympics and Paralympics.
He was joined for the last two days of the journey by his wife and seven-month-old daughter.
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Paralympic gold medallist Richard Whitehead has completed 40 marathons in 40 days.
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They say the rapid test, which looks for a chemical in the blood, would reduce stress for patients, save money and ease pressure on hospital wards.
Trials on 6,304 people, published in the Lancet medical journal, suggested it was 99.6% accurate.
The British Heart Foundation said the test would produce faster answers without affecting patient safety.
About one million people attend A&E departments in the UK with chest pain, only for most of them to be sent home after a sometimes lengthy and anxious stay.
They have levels of troponin, a chemical released by damaged heart muscle, tested when they are admitted and again 12 hours later.
The new test also looks for troponin, but can detect much lower levels and needs to be done only once. So those given the all-clear can go straight home.
The study, led by the University of Edinburgh and taking place in Scottish and US hospitals, estimated that two-thirds of patients could be discharged much more quickly.
Dr Atul Anand, one of the researchers and a physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, told the BBC News website: "It's really exciting. When you look at patients who come to medical wards with chest pain, 80% are going home 12 hours later.
"This avoids the hassle, cost and patient stress."
He said the test cost less than £10 although not all hospitals currently had the facilities to perform the more sensitive test.
However, Dr Anand said it would be "pretty straightforward" to introduce and there was a "clamouring" to do.
Last year the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommended the NHS uses the more sensitive troponin testing kit however it is unclear when the NHS will move from a double to a single test.
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Three years ago I woke in the middle of the night with crushing chest pains and was rushed to my local hospital.
Once we reached A&E I was given a blood test, looking for the chemical troponin, but the existing test has to be repeated after at least six hours.
So there I lay, waiting anxiously for the result, taking up a valuable bed.
Like 80% of people with chest pain, it wasn't a heart attack, just a footballing injury gone haywire.
But this new test would have saved me some anxious moments, and freed up capacity in a busy A&E.
Prof Jeremy Pearson, from the British Heart Foundation, said: "A faster, more accurate diagnosis of whether chest pain is caused by a heart attack would be better for patients and save the NHS money.
"No-one wants to be in hospital unless they have to be.
"What's important about this study is that the evidence shows you can quickly and confidently rule out a heart attack without compromising patient safety."
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A blood test can more than halve the number of people admitted to hospital with a suspected heart attack, say doctors.
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Heidi Gannon was born in Wales and her sister Jo Baines was born in England about two hours afterwards.
Their mum didn't know she was having twins.
A set of twins were born in England and Scotland in 2012 and were thought to be the first to be born in different countries but Heidi and Jo were born much earlier, in 1976.
The family has been in touch with Guinness World Records which has confirmed they will update their records.
A spokesperson said: "We were made aware of Ms Baines and Ms Gannon's claim for this record last week and after some research involving our twins consultant we have been able to verify that they are indeed the first twins born in different countries."
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Twins claim world record title as the first pair to be born in different countries - nearly 40 years later.
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Calais officials said the man was "crushed" by pallets and was found by a Hungarian driver at about 07:00 BST.
The Iraqi man was travelling with two other family members, who were unhurt, a spokesman for the Prefecture du Pas de Calais said.
He is the 12th person to have died trying to cross the English Channel to reach Britain since late June.
Last week, a teenager, thought to be from east Africa, was killed by a freight train near the Channel Tunnel entrance in Calais.
Days earlier a man died when he was electrocuted at the tunnel entrance.
The situation in Calais is part of a wider migrant crisis across Europe, with huge numbers of people heading north from the Mediterranean.
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A 20-year-old Iraqi has been found dead in a UK-bound lorry in Calais port, French authorities have said.
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CRCC was at the head of a consortium that had won the project last year, which was abruptly revoked shortly after being awarded.
The deal was called off over controversy in the bidding process.
The Mexican government relaunched the bid earlier this year, but that was cancelled for a second time.
The second cancellation of the 130-mile rail link was blamed on budget cuts.
The Chinese rail firm gave Mexico's communications and transport ministry (SCT) a list of costs that it had incurred during the bidding process and had requested for compensation.
The ministry announced the amount to be paid to the firm on Thursday.
If the deal had gone ahead, it would have resulted in Mexico becoming the first Latin American nation to have a bullet train after Brazil and Argentina had postponed their own rail projects.
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Mexico will compensate China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) $1.31m (£835,953) for cancelling a $3.75bn high-speed rail contract.
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While visiting Towers Residential Outdoor Education Centre in Betws-y-Coed, Conwy, the royal couple ascended a climbing wall.
Earlier, they visited a photography project run by charity Mind in Caernarfon, Gwynedd.
They also saw the work of GISDA which provides training for young people.
Twm Griffiths, who works at the charity's training centre in Caernarfon, said the couple were rushed off their feet.
He said: "They didn't have time for a coffee. They have a very busy day."
Afterwards, the couple visited the Men's Shed in Denbigh, Denbighshire - a social group involved in community projects.
The pair chatted with a small crowd outside, including four-year-old Esme who presented Prince William with flowers and asked about Prince George.
William said his son was "loud" and thanked her for the flowers, which he said he would give to Catherine.
Men's Shed director Phil Williams said the couple were given a tour of facilities, including an allotment and a woodwork workshop, and were very interested in the project.
Member Alan Maddocks presented them with a gavel and bowl which he carved on a lathe, a skill he has learned since joining the group.
"They were very friendly. On the way out they both shook my hand," he said.
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Ricky Burlton, 20, from Enfield, London, died after he was hit by a car on the A10 exit slip road at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.
Officers want to question Alexi Shyti, who is thought to have been living under an assumed named at the time.
Mr Shyti, believed to have been driving a Rover involved in the crash, fled the country the next day.
Albania national Mr Shyti sustained serious facial injuries in the crash on 4 June 2010, and was at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield when police found him.
It is believed Mr Shyti - who told police he was Greek man Georgios Tsoulos - was living in the UK illegally with a fake EU passport.
Det Insp Pushpa Guild urged anyone with information on Mr Shyti's whereabouts to contact police.
"We know Aleksi Shyti had been in Albania and would also ask anyone with connections there and who knows where he may be to call us.
"We believe he may have now travelled to Greece and he also has connections to Italy.
"In the UK, he had connections in Hertfordshire, North London and Loughborough in Leicestershire."
Ricky's mother Dawn said: "Five years is an extremely long time not knowing what truly happened to our precious son and brother.
"However, the one thing Ricky's mother, brothers and sister have is our unity as Ricky's family to continue with our search to find Aleksi Shyti."
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The new Velvet Edition dark chocolate bars go on sale in the UK this month.
Instead of the Fairtrade mark, it carries the Cocoa Life certification, set up by Mondelez International, the owner of Green & Black's.
Mondelez calls Cocoa Life "a holistic, cocoa sustainability programme in partnership with Fairtrade".
And unlike all other Green & Black's bars, there is no organic label.
Glenn Caton, Northern Europe president of Mondelez, said: "These beans are not available in organic at the scale required for Green and Black's, but I am proud that they are sustainably sourced, independently verified beans from the Cocoa Life programme, of which Fairtrade will ensure we remain an accountable partner for farmers."
Green & Black's was founded on the Portobello Road in London by Craig Sams and Jo Fairley in 1991. Three years later, its Maya Gold bar was the first chocolate in the UK to be awarded the Fairtrade mark.
It sources its organic cocoa from the Dominican Republic.
All its ranges, apart from the Velvet Edition, will continue to be organic and carry the Fairtrade logo, which is considered to be one of the most widely recognised and trusted ethical brands in the world.
Mondelez, formerly Kraft Foods, owns Green & Black's through Cadbury's, which bought Green & Black's in 2005, before being bought itself by Kraft in 2010.
Its Cocoa Life branding is now rapidly replacing the Fairtrade logo across all its chocolate products. By 2019, Cadbury's entire chocolate range in the UK and Ireland - including Flake, Twirl and Wispa - will display the Cocoa Life logo.
Green & Blacks said in a statement: "Cocoa Life, which is independently verified, means Green and Black's will build more and stronger relationships with farming communities and become an accountable partner, not just a buyer. "
The UK Fairtrade label is administered by the Fairtrade Foundation, an independent non-profit organisation, and appears on some 5,000 products.
It claims there are more than 1.65 million farmers and workers in 1,226 producer organisations across the Fairtrade system, which guarantees decent working conditions and a minimum price for produce.
Last year, it went into partnership with Cocoa Life to create "greater scale and impact for cocoa farmers and their communities".
It says the partnership means that five times as much Cadbury chocolate will now be made with sustainably sourced cocoa.
Fairtrade admitted: "The cocoa for Cadbury products in the UK and Ireland under Cocoa Life will not be traded according to the Fairtrade Standards of certification."
But it insists farmers will not lose out: "They will instead receive a competitive price for the cocoa, additional loyalty cash payments plus further investments in projects and support to improve their farming practices and implement community action plans.
"The value of all this will be at least equivalent to that previously delivered under Fairtrade."
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The furry explorer climbed inside the child's plaything and jammed its head through a small hole at the rear.
Despite its owners attempts to free it, the plastic proved too tough and the "unusual" emergency call-out was made.
Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said the kitten was unharmed but its experience served as a warning against "diving into your presents too early".
Crews were called to a house in Stanford-in-the-Vale at about midday on Wednesday.
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A three-month old kitten had to be rescued by firefighters after it got stuck in a toy car.
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Marco Pierre White Jr, 21, had pleaded guilty to dishonestly making a false representation on 23 November.
He was told he had to undertake 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £2,500 in compensation to his victim.
Chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said she believed goods he had bought with the money were "sold to buy drugs".
"There is no doubt this is serious enough for a community order," she said while also admonishing Pierre White Jr for "smirking" in the dock.
Westminster Magistrates' Court heard the former Big Brother contestant admitted making a "high volume" of payments on Carina Evans's card after borrowing it to buy food in February.
When the card was blocked, he tricked Ms Evans into unblocking it by pretending he had been arrested and needed to pay bail.
He then went on to spend about £2,500 during visits to shops including the Apple Store and Sunglasses Hut.
He previously pleaded guilty to dishonestly making a false representation at Hammersmith Magistrates' Court.
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The son of chef Marco Pierre White has been ordered to perform unpaid work after he admitted dishonestly using his ex-girlfriend's bank card.
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The city council has approved plans from the Co-operative Group and Moda Living for the 34-storey Angel Gardens building.
It will be built at Shudehill, on a site once home to an 18th Century cotton mill built by Richard Arkwright.
Angel Gardens will include more than 450 apartments, resident lounges, a cinema room and a rooftop garden.
Developers claim the project will "change the face" of the private rental sector and offer its customers "a lifestyle choice not currently available" in the city.
Angel Gardens is the major residential component of the regeneration of Manchester's urban land, owned by The Co-operative Group and Hermes Real Estate, NOMA.
David Pringle, a director at The Co-operative Group, said: "Angel Gardens will push the boundaries for purpose-built rental accommodation, in a location dubbed by property consultants JLL as the best residential site in the UK, outside of London."
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A block of "new style" flats is to be built near Manchester's Victoria station.
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He was injured in a tumble from Cernunnos, for his boss JP McManus, at the final fence in the Summer Plate Handicap Chase won by Long House Hall.
Geraghty, 36, will see a specialist to determine whether he needs surgery.
"He'll be out for two to three months with that," said Irish Turf Club senior medical officer Dr Adrian McGoldrick.
The first big meeting in Ireland that Geraghty will miss will be the seven-day Galway meeting, which starts on 25 July.
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Jockey Barry Geraghty will miss the Galway Festival and is out for at least two months after breaking his right arm in a fall at Market Rasen.
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The US sprayed 12 million gallons of the defoliant over jungles between 1961 and 1971 during the Vietnam war.
Vietnamese experts say more than three million people have suffered the effects of the herbicide, of which some 400,000 died.
The development is being hailed as one of the most significant in relations between Washington and Hanoi.
A ceremony to launch the programme was held at the Danang airport where the defoliant was stored before being sprayed over forests hiding fighters from the Viet Cong, guerrillas backed by the Communist government of North Vietnam.
US-Vietnam ties have blossomed since diplomatic relations were established 16 years ago and steps to resolve issues left over from the war have formed a cornerstone of progress, say correspondents.
"I think it's fair to say that dioxin contamination and Agent Orange was one of the single most neuralgic issues in the US-Vietnam relationship," said US charge d'affaires Virginia Palmer.
For years, Hanoi and Washington argued about questions of compensation for victims of the defoliant.
But now the US recognises that dioxin, found in Agent Orange, is a highly toxic substance.
"Studies suggest that this chemical may be related to a number of cancers and other health effects in humans", says the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Five years ago the embassy began to shift the focus to cleaning up dioxin hot spots, clearing the path for swift progress on what had become the biggest remaining war-era issue.
The US Congress appropriated an initial $3m (£1.8m) in 2007 for the effort and the figure has since risen to $32m.
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Vietnam and the United States have taken the first step towards cleaning up Agent Orange contamination.
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A BBC team and some tourists were on the mountain when the explosion happened.
BBC science reporter Rebecca Morelle described the experience of "Running down a mountain pelted by rocks, dodging burning boulders and boiling steam."
Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, it's been erupting for the last three weeks.
Mount Etna erupts a few times a year.
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The Mount Etna Volcano in Italy has erupted.
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The IAAF voted to suspend Russia's federation (Araf) on 13 November after the publication of an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report that alleged "state-sponsored doping".
The IAAF has outlined conditions Araf must meet for the ban to be lifted.
The Olympic athletics programme begins in Brazil on 12 August.
Russia, which said in November it is "fully committed" to reforms, will only be reinstated if it fulfils strict criteria, including compliance with all Wada and IAAF anti-doping rules.
The athletics federation must cut ties with all convicted dopers, resolve current disciplinary cases and investigate potential cases if it is to be readmitted to competition.
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Russia's participation in athletics at the Rio Olympics will be decided when the council of world governing body the IAAF meets on 17 June in Vienna.
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From Popdance to Street Dance, Ballroom to Fitsteps, there is a type of dance to suit everyone, whatever your age, taste, aspiration or fitness level. Before you know it, you'll be getting fit and your energy levels will be soaring! It's easy to get into, effective and a great way to meet new people.
Eight Count is by filmmaker Kelly Jayne Gill. You can find out more about Kelly and our other young film makers on the BBC Three Fresh profile page.
BBC Three Fresh is a digital space for short documentary films, finding the voices and directors of the future.
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Members of 8 Steps Dance Group explain why dancing is a fantastic way of expressing creativity and emotion as well as being a great way of keeping active.
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Nearly half the roughly four million children displaced in the region are not in school, according to a new report by the Malala Fund.
They risk becoming a "lost generation", Ms Yousafzai warned.
The BBC's Lyse Doucet was given exclusive access to the report ahead of its release on Friday.
Ms Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban after campaigning for education for girls in Pakistan, has been raising awareness of the lack of education for Syrian refugees.
A growing number of Syrian girls are already teenage brides, or working in farms and factories, our chief international correspondent reports from the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Major donors are under pressure from Syria's neighbouring countries to provide substantial long-term support if they wish to convince Syrian families to stay in the region instead of heading to Europe.
"It's time for the world to match their commitment to get every Syrian child back in school," Malala Yousafzai told me in an email.
The 18 year-old campaigner for children's rights will be attending the London Conference with 17-year-old Syrian education activist Muzoon Almellehan, whose family recently settled in the UK.
"My generation is not lost," she insists.
But the longer Syrian children stay out school, the greater the risk they will not return.
British officials say it is not a realistic goal to get them back in class by the end of the next academic year. But they are still pushing hard.
UK International Development Secretary Justine Greening told me: "We must ensure Syria's children do not become a lost generation."
According to the report by Ms Yousafzai's's charitable fund, donors have provided only 37% of the money needed to supply resources such as school places and teachers.
It says $1.4bn (£1bn) a year is urgently needed to plug the gap.
Ms Yousafzai has warned that children are being deprived of education at a time when they begin to form into future doctors, teachers, and engineers.
The report comes ahead of next week's Syria Conference in London, where donors will be asked to pledge that all Syrian refugee children in the region should be in school by the end of the next academic year.
But even Nordic countries, which have been taking the lead on funding, are indicating that they may need to divert money to educate Syrians arriving in their countries.
According to Ms Yousafzai, neighbouring countries are already bearing too much of the cost of educating Syrian refugees.
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Campaigner Malala Yousafzai has called for more to be done to educate millions of Syrian refugee children displaced within the country and its neighbours.
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Mousinho, 31, has captained the Brewers in all three Football League divisions, but had not played in the second tier before last season.
"The Championship was a bit of an unknown for me," he told Burton's official website.
"Now I feel in a better place with that season under my belt."
Mousinho made 32 appearances in the Championship in 2016-17, starting in Burton's victories over Sheffield Wednesday, Norwich, Huddersfield and Leeds, all sides who finished in the top eight.
And while he admits the Brewers will no longer carry the element of surprise, Mousinho says the team, who were playing non-league football less than a decade ago, will be stronger following their maiden campaign at Championship level.
"Maybe a few underestimated us last season and I don't think that will happen again," he added.
"It will be a completely different challenge but we have more experience, we know what it takes, what the level is all about and as last season went on we got better and better.
"Next season I think we will be set up well but there will be new challenges and we will relish that."
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Burton Albion skipper John Mousinho says he is relishing a second season in the Championship after signing a new one-year contract.
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Dutch customs officials discovered a parcel containing two handguns, ammunition, herbal cannabis and GHB, also known as liquid ecstasy, addressed to a location on Merseyside.
The seizure was referred to the National Crime Agency.
Officers raided two addresses in St Helens earlier, arresting a 22-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman.
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A couple have been arrested on suspicion of allegedly importing firearms and drugs into the UK.
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Julie-Anne Wood started her career in her hometown of Milford Haven in 1999.
She has now become the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's head of maritime operations and oversees the co-ordination of search and rescue around the UK coast.
Up until now the role has always been held by a man.
Ms Wood, who started out as a part-time coastguard watch assistant, said what once had been a male-dominated industry had changed.
"[It's] very different these days. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency has incorporated women in everything they do," she said.
"In my experience, there have been no restrictions."
Of her new position, she added: "'It's a huge responsibility and a position that I'm very honoured to hold."
Before she became a coastguard, Ms Wood ran her own business providing safety training to fishermen and merchant seamen in Wales.
When an opportunity to become a coastguard watch assistant came up, she took the job and said she "never looked back".
Over the next nine years she climbed the ranks and now has one of the most senior roles in HM Coastguard, heading up the National Maritime Operations Centre in Fareham, Hampshire, and the 10 Coastguard Operations Centres around the UK.
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A coastguard from Pembrokeshire has made history by becoming the highest-ranking woman in Her Majesty's Coastguard.
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Cardiff and Vale health board said admissions to the University Hospital of Wales will go to a different ward or a different hospital.
The board has not confirmed what the infections are.
Babies already being treated on the ward will remain there, so it has not closed completely.
Ruth Walker, the health board's executive nurse director, said: "In order to protect very vulnerable babies we will not be taking any planned or routine admissions over the coming days."
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The neonatal intensive care unit at a Cardiff hospital has stopped taking admissions due to a "cluster of infections".
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The world's largest maker of passenger jets earned $1.70bn (£1.1bn) for the July-to-September period, up from $1.36bn a year ago.
Revenue rose by about 9% to $25.85bn, with commercial aircraft deliveries up 7% to 199.
The Chicago-based company also raised its 2015 sales and profits guidance.
Revenue will be $95-97bn, up from the prior estimate of $94.5-96.5bn. Operating cashflow, Boeing's preferred performance measure, may be $9.5bn for the year, up from the $9bn the company estimated earlier in the year.
Boeing's shares rose 2.8% to $142.82 in pre-market trading.
Boeing said deliveries had surged on its backlog of orders. It delivered 126 of its narrow-body, short-haul 737 aircraft in the period, up from 120 a year ago. It made more 737 planes than all other commercial models combined.
Its commercial backlog stands at $426bn, while it has $46.2bn of defence, space and security orders to fulfil.
"By continuing to profitably deliver on our large and diverse backlog, we are driving strong growth in revenue, earnings and cash flow," said president and chief executive Dennis Muilenburg.
"Solid operating performance across our commercial and defence businesses during the quarter also supported our continued investment in innovation and our people, and our commitment to return cash to shareholders."
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Aircraft maker Boeing has reported a 25% rise in quarterly profit, helped by an increase in deliveries of commercial aircraft.
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There has been plenty of EFL activity in the transfer window so far this summer and expect plenty more moves before deadline day arrives on 31 August.
With the new season starting on Friday, how well do you know your EFL transfers? Try your luck with our quiz...
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An ex-England captain, a former Lance Bombardier in the Army and the most expensive signing in Championship history.
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Filming for Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur will begin on Monday and last for six days, Snowdonia National Park Authority has confirmed.
The Guy Ritchie film will star Charlie Hunnam as King Arthur and Jude Law as the villain Vortigern.
Velocity Productions will be filming in and around Capel Curig, Nant Gwynant and Pen y Gwryd.
Meanwhile, Bangor University has just extended its archive about Arthur after Flintshire council donated its Arthurian Collection.
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Snowdonia's renowned natural beauty is to play a starring role in a Hollywood film featuring Jude Law.
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Webber, who arrived from Huddersfield in April, is heading up the search for a permanent replacement for Alex Neil.
"We have a list of candidates, and once their seasons are finished, we can start to accelerate that process," Webber told BBC Radio Norfolk.
Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill has distanced himself from the role.
Neil was sacked by the Canaries on 10 March, with Alan Irvine taking the team on an interim basis for the rest of the season.
Webber said he still expected the new head coach to be in place by the end of May.
"We have a clear idea of the type of person it'll be," he added.
"Things are a little bit slow because people's seasons are still going on and we have to be respectful of that.
"There's certain rules that we have to adhere by."
Webber also reaffirmed Norwich's interest in signing Ajax left-back Mitchell Dijks, 24, on a permanent deal, following a successful loan spell, while playing down speculation over Steven Naismith's future at Carrow Road.
"With Mitchell, we have the option to buy him, so to a certain degree it's our call," he said.
"We need to agree personal terms and from a financial point of view we need to be creative with the squad, so if that means Mitchell or any other player we're trying to get falls out of that, we can't do it.
"I had a laugh with Steven the other day about what came out of the media in Scotland, saying he was going to be let go on a free.
"It's news to me, and it's news to Steven. He's a good player, we all know that, [with] unbelievable experience at the highest level, in terms of international football.
"He's our player, he's under contract."
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Norwich City's next head coach will come from a shortlist of managers currently in jobs, sporting director Stuart Webber has said.
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Prince Andrew said in a statement he wished to stop "speculation and innuendo" relating to his daughters.
He said it was "complete fabrication" to suggest he wanted titles for any future husbands of the princesses.
He added that continued speculation over a split between himself and Prince Charles was "pointless".
"As a father, my wish for my daughters is for them to be modern, working, young women, who happen to be members of the Royal Family, and I am delighted to see them building their careers," the duke said.
"When they do support the Royal Family in its work this is very much appreciated by my family and, most importantly, by those organisations and to those for whom their participation makes such a difference to their lives."
While acknowledging there is "considerable interest" in the granddaughters of the Queen, Prince Andrew said he "cannot continue to stand by and have the media speculate on their futures based on my purported interventions, which are completely made up".
The statement was issued via the duke's Twitter account.
It came shortly after the princesses' mother, the Duchess of York, urged the media to "stop bullying the York family".
She was speaking as Beatrice, 28, and Eugenie, 26, became patrons of the Teenage Cancer Trust charity.
The duchess and the two princesses visited a specialist teen cancer unit in central London to mark the occasion, meeting young people with the disease.
"Let's focus more on this and less on tittle-tattle gossip," said the duchess, who was divorced from Prince Andrew in 1996.
By Peter Hunt, BBC royal correspondent
Once, personal royal statements were vanishingly rare.
Not anymore.
After Prince Harry leapt to the aid of his girlfriend Meghan Markle, his uncle has used his personal Twitter account to defend his daughters.
And it's significant that the princely views were disseminated this way and not through an official Buckingham Palace statement.
There will be those at the palace who will have questioned the wisdom of this move.
Not least because there has been tension between Prince Andrew and Prince Charles over the future king's plans to slim down the monarchy when his time comes.
Read more from Peter Hunt
The Duke of York's statement was issued in response to reports claiming he intended to persuade the Queen or Prince Charles to make any husbands of Eugenie or Beatrice earls.
In October, there were claims of a row between Prince Andrew and his brother, said to have been sparked by a wish for his daughters to be given more significant roles within the royal family in future.
The statement also comes just over a month after Prince Harry took the decision to issue a statement attacking the media for subjecting his actress girlfriend Meghan Markle to a "wave of abuse and harassment".
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There is "no truth" in press claims of a split in the Royal Family over the future roles of Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice, the Duke of York has said.
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The 20-year-old has played three times for the Tractor Boys this term, all in the League Cup, scoring one goal.
Yorwerth, a Wales Under-21 international, joined Ipswich this summer after leaving Cardiff City.
He is eligible to make his debut for the Reds, who are currently one place off the bottom in League Two, in Tuesday's visit to Newport County.
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Recordings released on paid-subscription platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal will now qualify.
Nominees previously had to be available on a CD, or downloadable.
Grammy members will also vote in fewer categories, the Recording Academy announced.
The changes will come into force in time for next February's awards.
Bill Freimuth, the Academy's senior vice president of awards, said: "We noticed that there were a number of higher-profile artists who were choosing - for philosophical reasons as much as anything - to release their music through streaming-only, and we did not want to be exclusionary toward them."
Some musicians, including Prince and Beyonce, have released debuts exclusively on Tidal, before then releasing them on iTunes and other platforms.
Grammy members will also have the number of categories they can vote in reduced from 20 to 15. However all members will still be able to vote in the top four categories: album of the year, song of the year, record of the year and best new artist.
Other changes include an update for the best new artist category. Rules now allow a performer who releases at least five singles to qualify. Previously, acts had to release an album to be eligible. Acts can qualify for best new artist until they have released three albums or 30 singles.
The best rap/sung collaboration, which was given to rap and R&B acts who team up on a track, is being renamed to best rap/sung performance, and can now be given to solo acts.
Best blues album has also been split into two categories: best traditional blues album and best contemporary blues album.
Freimuth added: "The effort here is to protect the integrity of the Grammy Awards, and so sometimes that means typing up some rules, and sometimes that means loosening up some rules, sometimes that means contracting a category, sometimes that means adding a category."
This year's awards saw Taylor Swift's 1989 win the coveted album of the year award.
The singer - who is the first woman to win the award twice - also won best pop vocal album and best music video, for her track Bad Blood.
Rapper Kendrick Lamar won the most prizes on the night with five awards.
British singer Ed Sheeran also won his first two Grammys for song of the year and best pop solo performance, for his number one hit Thinking Out Loud.
Songs need to have been released between 1 October 2015 and 30 September 2016 to be eligible for next year's awards. The nominations will be announced on 6 December.
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Songs released only on streaming services are to be eligible for Grammy nominations for the first time, as part of changes to the music awards' rules.
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Network Rail said the railway station would be shut between 30 September and 22 October so passenger capacity can be increased.
It is part of the rail management company and Liverpool City Region's £340m project to upgrade 10 railways.
A spokesman for Network Rail said disruption would be "kept to a minimum" and most services would run to and from Liverpool South Parkway instead.
Annual passenger numbers at Lime Street station are forecast to double in peak periods by 2043, said Network Rail, and these improvements will enable it to cater for the increased capacity.
The work will see two new platforms created, existing platforms remodelled, overhead line equipment to power electric trains installed and tracks upgraded.
The six train companies which serve Liverpool have been working on a plan for more than a year to keep customers moving.
Network Rail said bus replacement services would be offered when necessary and passengers would be guided to alternative city centre stations.
The company's spokesman said the renovation was "the biggest upgrade of the station since the 19th Century".
"It will provide passengers with faster, more frequent and reliable train services by 2019," he added.
Liverpool Lime Street was closed for a week for emergency repair work after a wall collapsed on to the tracks on 28 February.
The work is not related to the damage caused by 200 tonnes of debris which fell on tracks in the approach to the station, said Network Rail.
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The first concerns rates - the locally collected property tax paid by businesses and households.
The political crisis means the NI Executive has not set its part of the bill, known as the regional rate.
James Brokenshire had promised to bring forward legislation to enable a regional rate to be set if there was no political deal by 18 April.
That legislation could be passed as early as this week.
The bigger issue is the Northern Ireland budget.
The executive failed to agree a budget for 2017-18 and so civil servants have been using emergency financial powers since the start of the financial year.
However, officials believe that state of affairs is only sustainable for a few months at most.
That has led to speculation that Mr Brokenshire could use the House of Commons to pass a Northern Ireland budget.
Welfare reform is being cited as a precedent where Westminster legislated for Northern Ireland despite welfare being a devolved power.
If Mr Brokenshire is to take that step he will have to move quickly.
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Northern Ireland has two pressing financial issues on which the Secretary of State could act before parliament is dissolved in early May.
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Brathwaite, 22, had only one Test wicket and three first-class scalps to his name before this game, but captured 6-29 with his part-time off-spin.
That helped bowl Sri Lanka out for 206, setting West Indies 244 to win.
Brathwaite was then lbw for three with the tourists 20-1 when rain ended play.
The Bajan right-hander had only bowled in six of his previous 23 Tests since his debut in 2011, taking a solitary wicket against India in Kolkata for an overall Test bowling average of 137.
His previous first-class bowling figures were equally forgettable, with three wickets at an average of 67 in 81 games.
But after he came on with Sri Lanka 146-4 to share the spin workload with Devendra Bishoo and debutant Jomel Warrican, Brathwaite took the last six wickets including home skipper Angelo Mathews, who was ninth out for 46.
With rain preventing any play after tea, Sri Lanka lead the two-Test series 1-0 after winning the first Test in Galle by an innings.
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The British actor plays Martin Luther King in the film about the 1965 campaign in Selma, Alabama, for equal voting rights for African-Americans.
The film, out in the UK next week, has been lauded by critics but received no Bafta nominations.
The film received two Oscar nominations - for best picture and best original song.
"When it's the best reviewed film of the year, and it's a film of this significance, and you have British company Pathe producing it, and you have four Brits as the main characters of the film, you expect to be nominated for Baftas," Oyelowo told the BBC.
"When that doesn't happen it sends an odd message."
The Oxford-born actor, who now lives in Los Angeles, said he was proud to be a British actor and it was meaningful to him to have his work well-received in the UK.
"For me, you keep it moving, you go on to the next thing, you have to, but I would not say that it is something you just brush off, and go 'OK, that's just happenstance'. It's disappointing."
Selma has been a long-term project for Oyelowo, who first came across the script when he relocated to LA in 2007. He is best known to British TV viewers for his role as MI5 officer Danny Hunter in Spooks.
His recent film appearances include Interstellar, A Most Violent Year, The Butler, Jack Reacher, The Paperboy and Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
Earlier this week Oyelowo attended Selma's European premiere in London. He was joined on the red carpet by co-stars Tom Wilkinson, who plays President Lyndon Johnson; Colman Domingo, who plays civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy; and director Ava DuVernay.
DuVernay, who Oyelowo brought on board to make the film, said at the premiere that it was a "shame" that Bafta voters had not acknowledged his performance.
"He's one of the brightest stars to come out of Britain of any colour. But particularly around this performance, that's so transformative, so important, so immersive. I'd have liked to have seen him get that."
When the Oscar nominations were announced, a week after the Baftas, there was widespread surprise that both Oyelowo and DuVernay missed out in the acting and directing categories.
Oyelowo told the BBC that he would be at the Oscars ceremony in Hollywood, on 22 February, to support the film in its best picture nomination. "We're not underplaying at all that achievement," he said.
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On a green surface and in damp, overcast conditions, Australia fell to 8-4 and 17-5 after losing the toss.
Vernon Philander took 5-21, Kyle Abbott 3-41 and though Steve Smith ended 48 not out, Australia slumped to their lowest home total against the Proteas.
South Africa reached 171-5 by the close for a lead of 86 - Hashim Amla hitting 47, while Mitchell Starc has 3-49.
The tourists, without injured skipper AB de Villiers and pace spearhead Dale Steyn, already lead the three-Test series 1-0.
This Test is the first time since both made their debuts against England in December 2004 that South Africa have played without either of them.
In the absence of Steyn, Philander tore through the Australia top order, starting with David Warner edging a drive to a delivery so wide he could barely reach it.
Joe Burns was lbw to Abbott and, after Usman Khawaja and Adam Voges edged behind the wicket, debutant Callum Ferguson was run out by a direct hit from substitute fielder Dane Vilas for three.
From five wickets down, Australia needed captain Smith to get past their lowest home total of 58, but they were still shot out for the worst score in a Hobart Test.
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Australia were bowled out for only 85 on the first day of the second Test against South Africa at Hobart.
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Mr Trudeau emphasised the benefits of Canada-US trade on jobs and the economy in an interview with NBC News.
It is a well-worn message for Mr Trudeau, but one he is keen to promote before North American Free Trade Agreement talks launch.
Mr Trudeau spoke to the network from New York as he attended Canadian show Come From Away on Broadway.
The musical production is based on the true story of how the small town of Gander, Newfoundland, welcomed some 7,000 air travellers stranded in the days after the 9/11 terror attacks when the US closed its airspace.
It recently opened in New York City after a successful run in Canada, and its heart-warming storyline was the perfect medium to help transmit Mr Trudeau's message of the importance of the longstanding ties between the two countries.
In remarks before the show, Mr Trudeau said: "We have a friendship between our two countries that are like no other".
His press secretary said on Thursday that "we embrace the opportunity to highlight how we are there for each other in times of need".
The audience on Wednesday was filled with political glitterati, included Ivanka Trump as a guest, who sat near to UN ambassador Nikki Haley and Mr Trudeau and his wife Sophie Gregoire Trudeau during the evening's entertainment.
Mr Trudeau and Ms Trump had met previously when she helped host a summit on women business leaders and entrepreneurs when the Canadian prime minister visited Washington earlier this year.
Mr Trudeau told NBC's Tom Brokaw that there is an opportunity to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in trade talks.
US President Donald Trump wants to renegotiate Nafta, a 1994 trade deal that includes Canada and Mexico.
In February, the president said the trade relationship between the two countries only needed "tweaking" - a word Mr Trudeau clearly remembers.
"(Nafta) has led to a lot of great jobs for a whole lot of people on both sides of the border and I very much take him at his word when he talks about just making a few tweaks," he told the network. "Because that's what we're always happy to do."
Trade relations with the US are crucial for Canada and Mr Trudeau and his ministers have repeatedly hammered home statistics over the past few months that underscore the importance of Canada to American commerce.
Nearly nine million US jobs depend on trade and investment from Canada, while Canada is the top customer for 35 US states.
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is expected to trigger notification to the US Congress to start the Nafta renegotiation by the end of March.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking his pro-trade message directly to Americans.
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Police were called to reports the Stagecoach bus had hit the bridge at Chapel Hill, near the train station, shortly before 14:00 BST.
Two people were on board the bus at the time, but were not injured.
Chapel Hill has been reopened. Network Rail said train services between Basingstoke and London, which use the bridge, had not been affected.
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Henry Duncan worked in a commercial bank before taking up the ministry in Ruthwell Parish at the turn of the 19th Century.
He started his "penny bank" to give parishioners access to savings and interest for the first time.
The model was soon adopted around the globe.
In 19th Century rural Scotland personal banking was beyond the means of most.
All of a sudden somebody in Scotland was giving away free money - the word spread very quickly as you could imagine
Commercial banks demanded £10 to open an account - unimaginable savings for farm workers and domestic servants paid a fraction of that per year.
In Ruthwell, a country parish 10 miles south east of Dumfries, the kirk minister Henry Duncan decided he could change that.
He had worked for three years for a bank in Liverpool before turning to the ministry.
The cottage where he opened his savings bank - initially for one hour a week on a Thursday evening - is maintained today as a museum by the TSB.
Curator Mhairi Hastings said: "The first account here at Ruthwell you could open with sixpence.
"That brought it into the affordability for ordinary folk like farm workers and servants.
"It gave them the security of somewhere to put their money so they didn't have to hide it somewhere around their house - under their bed or in their sock drawer."
Ms Hastings said there was another benefit of using the savings bank which proved popular.
"It also gave them access to interest because Henry took the money from Ruthwell and redeposited into a commercial bank," she said.
"He got between 5% and 6% interest from them and he paid out between 4% and 5%.
"So, all of a sudden somebody in Scotland was giving away free money - the word spread very quickly as you could imagine."
The model created by Duncan was copied quickly around the UK and, before long, around the world.
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Last year, Dave Dewar from Dunoon chanced upon the museum.
He runs an historical theatre group called Cultural Connections and was so inspired by Duncan and his many life achievements that he wrote a play.
"He's an incredible man and he's largely an unsung hero - people don't know much about him," he said.
"He didn't just start the savings bank movement worldwide. He was a geologist, an artist and a newspaper publisher - he owned one of the local newspapers here.
"He was, as they say in Scotland, a man of many parts."
Henry Duncan, The Banker Who Cared premiered on Thursday night in Ruthwell church where Duncan preached for more than four decades.
"This is where it all started, in this church, so it is an honour really to do it in Henry Duncan's church," Mr Dewar said.
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"I have the all clear as regards my prostate cancer," he said "That has been the case for quite a time now."
The 80-year-old former chat show host revealed he was receiving radiotherapy for the condition in 2013.
Two years on, he said he still needed to have regular tests and have the "occasional" blood transfusion.
The transfusions, he told the BBC, are "to deal with a problem with anaemia which I have always had and which was exacerbated by the radiotherapy.
"Hopefully the gap between transfusions will get longer and maybe finally disappear altogether," he went on.
"Otherwise I am feeling well and still have the odd gentle workout."
BBC News asked Sir Michael for an update on his condition after he was quoted in the Daily Mail as saying his doctors had "got rid of the cancer".
The broadcaster, known to many as Parky, was diagnosed after a routine health check in May 2013 but said at the time he would be "around for a while yet".
Sir Michael's television career spanned 50 years and saw him interview high-profile guests such as Muhammad Ali and Sir Elton John. He announced his retirement in 2007.
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Broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has confirmed he has been given an all-clear by doctors after two years of treatment for prostate cancer.
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Like all such launches, the test took place in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions. Pyongyang's press release, issued a day later, indicated that the missile - the Pukguksong-2 - was of the same type as one test-fired from a submarine off the east coast in August 2016.
Unlike North Korea's other long-range land-based missiles, the system tested on 12 February used solid fuel. Until now, the country's comparable land-based missile systems have been liquid-fuelled.
Pyongyang also announced that the launch vehicle carrying the new missile is indigenously made and uses a continuous or "caterpillar" track, rather than wheels with tyres.
Previously North Korea has imported and modified foreign-made trucks to transport and launch its missiles. A domestic manufacturing capability will negate the need to convince or fool foreign suppliers into selling these vehicles. Continuous track also suggests that North Korea's intention may be to take the missiles off-road, making it more difficult to detect imminent launches.
Missiles using liquid fuel require greater preparation time than those using solid fuel. They also require a larger constellation of support vehicles to accompany each launch vehicle. Both of these considerations make it more likely that an enemy might detect the missile in time to conduct a pre-emptive strike.
Solid fuel substantially reduces this vulnerability. North Korea will be able to roll these systems out of concealed storage and launch them with minimal preparation, drastically shrinking the time that an adversary would have to find and kill the missile. The capability thus represents a major step forward for North Korea.
There are two ways to launch missiles from their supporting vehicle's canister.
In "hot" launches, the missile's engines propel it upward out of the canister, while in "cold" launches, the missile is ejected from the canister using compressed gas before its engines ignite.
A cold eject approach spares the launch vehicle from damage from the missile's ignition, making it possible to reload it and reuse.
Kim Jong-un has hit the gas pedal on North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes.
In the past 13 months he has conducted two nuclear tests and launched over 20 ballistic missiles, including from a submarine. The demonstration of a long-range, solid-fuelled, land-based system is a continuation of this disturbing trend and one of the first significant foreign policy challenges that US President Donald Trump will be forced to grapple with.
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On the morning of 12 February, North Korea conducted a ballistic missile test launch from Banghyon air base near the west coast of the country.
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Parliament voted to oust conservative Prime Minister Janez Jansa, after smaller parties left his coalition.
He was accused by the anti-corruption watchdog in January of tax irregularities and has been struggling to implement austerity measures to combat the country's financial crisis.
MPs asked opposition leader Alenka Bratusek to form a new government.
She will become the first woman to lead Slovenia since its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991.
Mr Jansa was elected a year ago, but his government has struggled to contain the country's economic problems.
Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004 and the eurozone in 2007, but its banking sector was hit hard by the financial crisis and the eurozone crisis that followed.
It is currently in a deep recession, with unemployment at more than 12% and GDP expected to shrink by a further 2% this year.
There is speculation that Slovenia will be forced to request an international bailout, as it needs to repay 2bn euros (£1.7bn; $2.6bn) of debt in the coming months.
Mr Jansa has faced corruption allegations, but also growing public anger and protests over austerity measures.
Ms Bratusek, who has previously worked in the finance ministry, has voiced her opposition to austerity, saying her priority will be "growth and jobs".
She also plans to avoid requesting a Greece-style bailout. "I say it clear, there will be no Greek scenario in Slovenia," she told parliament.
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The government of Slovenia, beset by economic turmoil and allegations of corruption, has fallen.
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The centre-back's existing deal was due to expire at the end of the upcoming season.
Morrison, 26, joined the Bluebirds from Reading in 2014, having previously played for Swindon and Huddersfield.
He has made 120 appearances and scored 13 goals for Cardiff, who rejected a bid for him from fellow Championship side Sheffield Wednesday in June.
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Cardiff City captain Sean Morrison has signed a new contract which will keep him at the club until 2020.
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Wardrobes, beds, sofas, lamps and other pieces from the Athletes' Village in Dalmarnock will be handed over to Glasgow Housing Association (GHA).
It will then be passed on to people and charities helping to furnish homes.
About 36,000 items are to be distributed after the Games.
Some of the furniture will have been used by the likes of Sir Bradley Wiggins, Mo Farah, Eilidh Child and possibly Usain Bolt.
It includes items that were previously used at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and relocated for use in Glasgow alongside newly-manufactured furniture such as folding chairs and tables.
The plan to pass them on to GHA is part of the legacy programme from Glasgow 2014.
About 700 houses in the Athletes' Village will be sold or rented after the Games, and a new 120-bed care home for the elderly will also be established on the site.
Glasgow 2014 chief executive David Grevemberg said: "It's fantastic that the furniture used by the athletes and officials during the Games this summer is going to be distributed to families in need in Glasgow.
"Sustainability is very high on Glasgow 2014's agenda and this is a tangible benefit from the Games to the great people of this city, following the excitement of the sporting events themselves."
Twelve new training positions at GHA will be created to move and refurbish furniture items.
Olga Clayton, director at Wheatley Group, which runs GHA, said: "We're delighted to support the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow and to do our bit to provide a lasting legacy for the people of this city.
"We know many people are finding it difficult financially in these tough times.
"This project will make a big difference to thousands of adults, families and groups who need help to make their house a home."
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Furniture used by some of the world's top athletes during the Commonwealth Games is to be distributed to vulnerable families in Glasgow at the end of the event.
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Cory Schenkel said on Facebook that his grandfather died on Sunday morning in the city of Boise, Idaho.
Kennedy won an Oscar in 1968 for Best Supporting Actor in Cool Hand Luke.
As well as the Naked Gun comedies, he also made memorable appearances in Earthquake and Airport 1975.
Mr Schenkel said the veteran actor had been in poor health since the death of his wife, Joan, more than a year ago, and had been in a hospice for the past month.
Kennedy's daughter, Shannon Kennedy Sullivan, said on Facebook that she hoped people would "remember all the stories he told and the dumb jokes he loved to tell".
"He could always get a laugh and I will miss those but will cherish the little strips of paper he use to write them on when the family would go out to dinner."
Kennedy was born on 18 February 1925 in New York where his father worked as a musician and his mother was a dancer.
He served with the US infantry during World War Two, winning several decorations, and in the 1950s he worked for Armed Forces Radio and Television before moving to Hollywood.
The 6ft 4in actor quickly became well known for playing tough-guy characters.
Mark Wahlberg, the lead in Kennedy's final film, 2014's The Gambler, and Mia Farrow, who starred alongside him in the 1978 film Death On The Nile, were among those who paid tribute to him.
Talk show host Larry King, Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane and actor and comedian Albert Brooks also shared their thoughts.
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David Rees, who chairs the assembly's health committee, said it was "unable to reach a consensus view" on the idea.
The five Labour members supported curbs on e-cigarettes, claiming their use "normalises" smoking behaviour.
The idea was opposed by four opposition AMs, while Plaid Cymru's Elin Jones suggested imposing less stringent restrictions than those on tobacco.
As the Labour Welsh government does not have an outright majority in the Senedd, it will need some opposition support to get the measure passed as part of the Public Health (Wales) Bill.
The plan, intended to come into force in 2017 and the first in the UK, has divided opinion among health and medical groups.
Some anti-smoking campaigners have opposed restrictions, saying e-cigarettes help smokers kick the habit.
But Health Minister Mark Drakeford has said it is a "balance of risk", claiming restrictions on e-cigarettes will deter children from smoking.
In a report on Monday, the committee said it agreed with the bill's other proposals, including a licensing scheme for tattoo and piercing parlours, and a ban on intimate piercings for under 16s.
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Plans to ban the use of e-cigarettes in enclosed public places have divided a group of AMs looking at the proposal.
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The London-based musician beat eight-year-old magician Issy Simpson and comedian Daliso Chaponda to become the winner of the ITV talent show.
The 32-year-old won £250,000 in prize money and an appearance at the Royal Variety Performance.
ITV moved the final of the show forward by a day to avoid a clash with Ariana Grande's benefit concert for the Manchester bombing victims on Sunday.
Myers had previously supported artists such rapper Kanye West.
His performance in the final took in a variety of musical styles and included drumming.
He fell to the floor after presenters Ant and Dec broke the news he had received the most votes from the public.
Judge Simon Cowell said: "As a talent, as a person, Tokio right now, this was the most important thing for him, I'm thrilled for him."
Teenage singer Sarah Ikumu had been chosen as the judges' wildcard choice for the final.
The other acts taking part were: magician Matt Edwards, The Missing People Choir, singing pensioners the Pensionalities, dance act MerseyGirls, comedian Ned Woodman, singer Kyle Tomlinson, and magic double act DNA.
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Pianist Tokio Myers has been named winner of Britain's Got Talent.
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The tourist attraction on the city's waterfront went to the High Court in 2013 to recover costs to fix problems with the steps, terraces and ceilings.
It said it was necessary to shut the museum from 31 December until the end of February for the "safety and security of collections and visitors".
The £72m museum opened in 2011.
It features Ken Dodd's tickling sticks, the skeleton of the 1900 Grand National winner and rare Beatles artefacts.
The museum said it has attracted 4m visitors since it opened.
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The Museum of Liverpool is to close for two months for "essential works" to rectify construction and design issues with the building.
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The Cambridge University medical student, 29, left Blues for Racing 92 in 2013 and joined Quins this season.
He was preparing for the Varsity match when Quins posted a bonus-point win at Cardiff Arms Park in November.
"If you're playing against Jamie, you make your tackles," said Wilson.
Roberts was British and Irish Lions man of the series in their 2-1 Test defeat by South Africa in 2009.
The 6ft 4in, 17st 4lb centre also starred as the Lions beat Australia 2-1 in 2013 in a career that has seen him win 74 Wales caps.
"It'll be great for the players to shake hands and catch up with him before and after the game, but during the game it's business as usual."
Quins also recruited former Ospreys and Wales tight-head prop Adam Jones from Blues before the 2015-16 campaign.
Wilson added: "Our boys will be extremely motivated with a few links there, Adam Jones as well from last year."
Harlequins have four bonus-point wins and need only a point from the encounter at the Stoop to top the group.
They took the extra point in the last minute at the Arms Park, with a try from Danny Care thwarting Blues' hopes of a dramatic late win.
"It's obviously a huge challenge to go to Harlequins and get a win in front of their home crowd, but the boys want to put right the performance at home against a Harlequins side that deserved the win," said Wilson.
"Since then we've improved out performances with four wins out of five."
Blues had a weekend off before the match with the postponement of their fixture against Munster, while Harlequins inflicted a first Premiership defeat of the season on Saracens.
Wilson believes the the break will have benefited his side and they will travel "with confidence that we've played some good rugby to get the results we've had recently".
He added: "If we can perform to that level, we can cause Harlequins a headache."
Wales captain Sam Warburton, fellow flanker Ellis Jenkins and Wales full-back-fly-half Gareth Anscombe could all return from injury for Blues.
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Louis and Marie-Zelie Guerin Martin, who lived in France in the 19th Century, were the parents of the much venerated Saint Therese of Lisieux.
The couple had nine children, four of whom died in infancy. The remaining five, all girls, became nuns.
The youngest, Therese, died of tuberculosis aged 24 in 1897 and was canonised in 1925.
Known as "the little flower", Therese of Lisieux is widely venerated for the simplicity of her spiritual life.
Her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, has inspired generations of modern Catholics.
Her parents are being held up as a fine example of a Christian family while bishops from around the world are gathered here to discuss how best to minister to modern families - including divorced persons who remarry, who - under present Church rules - are barred from taking communion.
Pope Francis told the 50,000 people attending the ceremony that serving others - not seeking careers - should be the model for today's churchmen.
In his homily, Pope Francis said: "The holy spouses Louis Martin and Marie-Zelie Guerin practised Christian service in the family, creating day by day an environment of faith and love which nurtured the vocations of their daughters, among whom was Saint Therese of the Child Jesus."
The Pope also canonised an Italian priest and a Spanish nun, both of whom spent most of their lives helping the poor.
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Pope Francis has conducted the first canonisation of a married couple in a ceremony in St Peter's Square.
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The Swiss will turn 35 during the Rio Games, where he will play in the singles and mixed doubles, although he has not decided on the men's doubles.
"I've planned all of 2016, you know all the way through the Rio Olympics and beyond," he said.
"No plans to retire yet. I don't have a definite date even though that would help to make things easier to plan."
Federer, who has been competing in the International Premier Tennis League in India, added: "I'm looking forward to next year.
"The Australian Open is obviously a big goal for me. And after that it's going to be a long, tough year.
"So I'm happy I'm feeling fine physically and in good shape and of course, like I say so many times I hope I'm still on tour for a while."
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Roger Federer, the 17-time Grand Slam singles champion, does not intend to retire after next year's Olympics.
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A 20th-minute Ryan Curran header looked set to give Harps victory before Josh Daniels' 84th-minute goal was followed by a Rory Patterson strike on 88.
But Houston powered in a magnificent header in the first minute of injury-time to level.
Nathan Boyle missed a glorious Derry chance with the last kick of the game.
Leaders and champions Dundalk are now seven points above the Candystripes after edging a 1-0 home win over Bray on Tuesday evening.
Cork City's 1-0 win in Dublin over Bohemians keeps them four points behind Dundalk while Shamrock Rovers move above Derry on goal difference into third spot after beating Sligo Rovers 3-0.
With former Brandywell favourite Barry Molloy in fine form for Harps, the visitors were good value for their 20th-minute lead as Curran nodded into the net after a David Scully shot had come back off the woodwork.
Derry did improve before half-time with Patterson wasting two good chances and impressive Harps keeper Ciaran Gallagher also denying Ronan Curtis.
As Harps retreated into a defensive shell in the second half, Derry dominated possession but they needed the introduction of youngster Daniels to finally breach their visitors.
Daniels, who lost five members of his family including his mother and sister in the Buncrana pier tragedy in March, notched his first senior goal for Derry on 84 after good work by the impressive Niclas Vemmelund and Boyle.
Youngster Daniels then set up Patterson to strike Derry ahead four minutes later with the shot appearing to take a slight deflection.
To their immense credit, Harps refused to give up and a clever Kevin McHugh ball released Michael Funston whose cross was brilliantly headed to the net by Houston from the edge of the penalty area in the first minute of injury-time.
Inevitably, there was still time for more drama as Boyle somehow managed to side-foot wide from three yards with the goal gaping after a Vemmelund cross.
Derry lost 2-1 against Harps in their Premier Division opener in early March.
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The challenge has seen the 26-year-old sports therapist, from Oswestry in Shropshire, run marathons every day, starting in Chester on 6 August and ending in Manchester on Saturday.
"I feel like I can keep going. If anything I feel stronger," she said.
"If someone suggested running a 54th marathon I probably would to be honest."
That is not to say there have not been some difficult times along the way.
Last week a stomach bug left her vomiting and meant she had to battle through the 26 miles, walking some of the sections.
Overall, however, she said the challenge had been a "fun" experience.
"I was inspired by Larry Macon who ran across the states," Ms Hughes said.
"I didn't really start by wanting to break a record, I just looked at a map of the major cities in the UK and wanting to run in them.
"I've met loads of lovely people and run in some really nice places. Down south, Brighton and Bournemouth were really pretty and the weather was amazing."
In all, Ms Hughes has covered more than 1,300 miles, running in cities such as London, Liverpool, Wolverhampton, Newcastle, Glasgow and Cardiff.
Other runners have joined Amy Hughes along the way and she has had plenty of support, especially on marathon number 50, in her home town of Oswestry, in Shropshire.
"The support was amazing, very emotional. Loads of people came out."
It was also the first time some of her friends and family had seen her since she started the challenge and hundreds of pupils from the Marches School ran a mile with her.
There has also been plenty of backing on Facebook and Twitter, with Paula Radcliffe tweeting her support for Amy's "amazing and inspirational accomplishment".
"Someone sent me a picture the other day, saying that last week I'd already run to Italy, which is crazy," Amy Hughes said.
As well as encouraging children to lead more active lives, Ms Hughes took on the challenge to raise money for the Isabelle Lottie Foundation after a friend's daughter, three-year-old Izzy Wynne, was diagnosed with a form of brain tumour.
She is hoping to raise £53,000 for the charity.
Amy Hughes's record still needs to be validated by Guinness World Records before it is official.
In the meantime, she said the only plans she had were "to chill" and take plenty of rest.
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Swindon-based Gaming International Ltd, who run greyhound racing tracks in England and Japan and the National Bowl in Milton Keynes, are currently in the process of buying the club.
The Gulls were taken over last summer by a group of supporters after millionaire owner Thea Bristow left.
"We're getting very close to the takeover now," Phillips said.
"They want to get a football club on board," Phillips told BBC South West.
"I've met them and they're very, very good people. I think we need the investment, we've never hidden that - we've never had enough money to really push forward."
The club were forced to drastically cut the playing budget, got rid of former manager Chris Hargreaves,closed the youth academy and had to leave their training ground.
On the field, the team were 12 points adrift from safety at the bottom of the National League in February, but a run of nine wins in their last 15 league games saw them secure survival on Saturday.
"I was one of the fans that saved the club back in June, but now we need to go forward and we need to get back into the Football League," added Phillips.
"If we get back into the Football League it'd make a big difference to our club."
Phillips is unsure whether he or his fellow directors will remain at the club should the takeover be completed.
"We're not sure how the structure will be, but its conceivable that we'll still be here," he said.
"I don't know that for certain yet, but that's a possibility."
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A takeover of National League club Torquay United is close to completion, according to chairman David Phillips.
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Australian Robertson, 34, had won the first two frames of the best-of-17 final and extended his lead to 5-2 during the first session in Cardiff.
But O'Sullivan, 40, won the next seven frames, sealing victory with a break of 141 to move level with John Higgins on four Welsh Open titles.
"I feel shattered, I need a month of just relaxing," said the Englishman.
O'Sullivan caused controversy earlier in the week when he turned down the opportunity of a 147 break, making 146 instead.
He also spoke about his boredom at tournaments.
But he said he had enjoyed a "fantastic week" and would now be resting before the World Championships in April.
"That is the one that everyone wants," he told BBC Sport.
"I am not eligible for any other tournaments as I did not qualify, so my cue will be chilling out for a month or so."
The 2007 champion Robertson, who was described by O'Sullivan as "the best player in the world", pinpointed the ninth frame as the key moment.
"Once he got his tail up and the momentum it was hard to wrestle it back from him," said the world number three.
"Everyone knows he is a terrific front runner and he pulled away and finished the match off in style. I made mistakes and that is what happens when you are put under pressure."
36 - Stephen Hendry
28 - Ronnie O'Sullivan, John Higgins, Steve Davis
18 - Mark Williams
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Ronnie O'Sullivan won seven frames in a row to beat Neil Robertson 9-5 and win his fourth Welsh Open title.
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Most of those on board were travelling home from a religious festival in the Andean district of Santa Teresa, according to a local fire chief.
Investigators say there were no survivors from Friday night's accident.
People often travel by lorry in the Peruvian Andes because of a shortage of public transport.
The mayor of the Santa Teresa district, Ruben Pinto, said the search operation was continuing but that children were among the victims.
"The vehicle remains trapped in a gorge of the River Yanatile, there are no survivors," chief investigator Juan Carlos Valverde told Peruvian radio.
"At the moment we are carrying out the identification, registration and handing over of bodies to the families who are here."
"Regrettably, those who have lost their lives are peasant farmers like us," Mr Pinto said. "The town of Santa Teresa is not prepared for an accident of this scale."
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At least 52 people were killed when a lorry plunged 200m (650ft) off a road into a gorge in the Cusco region of south-eastern Peru, officials say.
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Grace Mugabe, 51, was addressing a rally of the governing Zanu-PF party.
Mr Mugabe has governed Zimbabwe since the end of white-majority rule in 1980 following a bitterly fought war.
His wife, who has often professed her undying loyalty to her husband, has assumed an increasingly high profile.
"One day when God decides that Mugabe dies, we will have his corpse appear as a candidate on the ballot paper," Mrs Mugabe told the rally in Buhera, south-east of the capital Harare.
"You will see people voting for Mugabe as a corpse. I am seriously telling you - just to show people how people love their president."
President Mugabe has been backed by his party to stand again in next year's election, but recently cut back on his public engagements.
Grace Mugabe has warned contemporaries of Mr Mugabe from the guerrilla war era that they are not in a position to replace him because they likewise would be too old.
"Anyone who was with Mugabe in 1980 has no right to tell him he is old. If you want Mugabe to go, then you leave together. You also have to leave. Then we take over because we were not there in 1980," she said, gesticulating towards herself.
Last September, the president was rumoured to have died after he reportedly cut short his attendance of an AU summit to fly to Dubai for a health check.
Mr Mugabe later joked about the rumours, saying he indeed died but was only resurrected.
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Contact with flight MH370, carrying 239 people, was lost en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite an extensive search no trace has ever been found.
The trial system enables planes to be tracked every 15 minutes, an increase on the current 30 to 40 minutes.
It uses technology already installed on most long-haul jets.
The system is expected to increase the tracking rate to five minutes or less if there is any deviation from a plane's expected route.
Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss said the new system was a "world first". But he stressed the new technology would not necessarily have solved the mystery of MH370.
"It would have been very difficult, one would imagine, without knowing what precisely occurred in the case of MH370, to have intervened from outside," he said.
"But at least it would have tracked the aircraft to within 15 minutes."
Airservices Australia Chairman Angus Houston, who helped lead the search for MH370, agreed it was "no silver bullet".
"But it is an important step in delivering immediate improvements to the way we currently track aircraft while more comprehensive solutions are developed," he added.
The trial will begin in the Australian city of Brisbane, before being extended to Indonesia and Malaysia.
Investigators searching for MH370 are focusing on an area of the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia.
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Wicketkeeper/batsman Billings is one of eight England players at IPL 2017, double the number who played last year.
"It gives you another platform to progress as a cricketer," the 25-year-old told BBC Radio Kent.
"My game's gone from strength to strength, playing international cricket around the world."
Billings played five games for the Delhi Daredevils in last year's IPL and has been retained for this year's tournament, which runs from 5 April to 21 May.
Every franchise this year includes an English player, with Eoin Morgan, Ben Stokes, Jason Roy, Jos Buttler, Chris Jordan, Chris Woakes and Tymal Mills also taking part.
Billings has also played in the Big Bash, for Sydney Sixers, and the Pakistan Super League, for Islamabad United, and feels the perception of English cricketers is changing as a result.
"Ten years ago, if you said an Englishman would go over and play in an Australian team, people would laugh at you," he said.
"I think we had 10 former or current English internationals playing in that, so we've definitely been put on the map.
"I'm really excited for the IPL. It's a fantastic competition, one of the best in the world.
"To have 60,000 people screaming at you and abusing you is a different concept, but it's an amazing experience.
"It's re-energised the game and given it a boost. It's just great fun."
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The sculpture of Themis - the goddess of justice - wearing a sari was less than six months old, but Islamist groups demanded its removal by Friday.
They claimed it hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims and it prompted mass protests in the capital, Dhaka.
PM Sheikh Hasina agreed to its removal, but secular groups opposed it.
Workers came with equipment and a crane at midnight to uproot the controversial statue, the BBC's Bangla service reported.
The statue is being removed to maintain peace, said its creator Mrinal Haque.
Analysts say this is a sign of the rising tension between Islamic conservatism and liberal values in Bangladesh.
Protesters have long asserted that the figure, which held the familiar sword and scales of justice in her hands, amounted to idolatry.
In February, conservative Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam led protests and threatened to spread the demonstrations across the country if the statue was not removed.
Many of those protesting will have been followers of Hefazat-e-Islam, but observers have also pointed to increasing conservatism among the general public.
The tension between such forces and secular voices has been one of the defining themes in Bangladesh over the last few years.
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Workers have begun to dismantle the statue of a Greek goddess from Bangladesh's Supreme Court complex, after an outcry from Islamists.
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The doodle references the artist's famous work of a tiger shark pickled in formaldehyde and was given to an unnamed chauffeur as a tip.
"A great drive," wrote the artist along the top of the page.
The sale came in the same week that critic Julian Spalding said Hirst's work was "not art" and the market for his productions would bottom out.
"The emperor has nothing on," he told The Independent. "When the penny drops that these are not art, it's all going to collapse."
However, the sale of the Hirst sketch appears to show that some collectors continue to value his output.
It was bought by an anonymous bidder during a sale at International Autograph Auctions in London on Saturday, 24 March.
Alongside Hirst's sketch, the autograph book also contained signatures from the likes of Alan Bennett, Julie Walters, Alastair Campbell and Ricky Gervais.
Comedian David Baddiel also signed the book, writing: "To Peter, It won't be worth as much as the Damien Hirst."
The collection was originally valued at £250-350.
An exhibition catalogue signed by Damien Hirst also sold for £900 at the same auction. A spokesman for the auction house said an unadorned page bearing the artist's inscription would normally raise about £100.
The highest-value lot at the auction was a signed photograph of Marylin Monroe.
It was originally given to Jack Cole, who was the star's choreographer on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Monroe scrawled across the picture in light blue ink: "Jack - You certainly can - and I'm not mad! Marilyn".
The photo was sold for £20,088, including VAT and buyer's premium.
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City had been due to face a winding-up petition on Monday, but Cox told BBC Radio Oxford it will not now be heard.
A judge could have passed a winding-up order that would have liquidated the 134-year-old club.
Oxford are next to bottom in National League South, having won only one of their eight games so far this season.
It has been a turbulent few months for the club, with former club president Thomas Guerriero jailed for fraud in May and managing director Colin Taylor found dead at the club's stadium in July.
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Oxford City chairman Brian Cox has confirmed that a pending High Court hearing has been called off after the club paid an outstanding tax bill.
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The Conservative-led authority made the announcement as part of plans to save £55m during 2011-12.
The council, which has nearly 15,000 employees, plans to save £7m by cutting senior management, freezing recruitment and renegotiating contracts.
Liberal Democrat councillor Keith House said the council was in "financial chaos" after it failed to plan ahead.
The Winchester-based council employs about 40,000 people.
Excluding teaching staff, who will not be affected, there are 14,990 people in 11,182 full-time posts.
The cuts represent about 8% of the workforce.
It has blamed the cuts on a reduction of £30.9m (14.3%) in its government grant, following the Spending Review.
Peter Terry, of public sector Unison, called the cuts "unnecessary" and said strike action could not be ruled out.
"It's quite devastating news for us, for the staff who work for the county council and for the communities that rely on the council's services," he said.
"This council has decided upon itself to roll out four years of cuts into two.
"It's a double whammy and has been made twice as bad for the people of Hampshire."
Mr House, leader of the council's opposition, said it was "unrealistic" for the council to blame the coalition government
"It should have been obvious to the council leadership way before the election that there would be some devastating times ahead," he added.
"They should have planned ahead.
"Residents are going to see that some services are going to stop and others will get worse, across the country, month by month, more and more will change."
Jane Frankum, the council's only Labour councillor, said the authority had chosen to "cut deeper and faster" than was really needed.
Council leader Ken Thornber told the BBC he expected "anxious months" of talks with unions.
He reassured residents budgets for child protection, highways maintenance and schools will be protected.
Council tax will also be frozen at last year's levels.
"One could point the finger at the last government who spent money that it was going out of style and we could point the finger at the bankers," he told the BBC.
"But quite frankly, what I have got to do is to take what the government say should be our reduction and work to it.
"I don't remember in 30 years of service anything remotely like the difficulty we are in at the moment."
The budget is expected to be approved by the full council on 24 February.
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Union bosses said 1,200 job losses at Hampshire County Council would lead to "inferior services" to communities.
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Sunday's blaze in Milton, Stoke-on-Trent, centred on a building containing recycled plastics.
The Environment Agency had previously said Hanbury Plastics ,the site operator, had never held an environmental permit.
The operation to tackle the fire has been scaled back but it is still burning in places.
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The blaze at the site, in Leek New Road, Milton, started around 08:00 GMT on 5 February.
The EA said the site's owners had been issued with legal notices to clear waste plastics.
Staffordshire Fire Service said it is helping police with its investigation.
Investigation Officer Ian Broadhead said: "We have worked closely with Staffordshire Police during the investigation and concluded that the fire was started deliberately."
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A fire at a recycling plant which was storing illegal waste was started deliberately, the fire service said.
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But however classy your look, if you want to take care of yourself, you too can find yourself shelling out big bucks like Dolly.
What you may not realise is that from low-cost Vietnam to high-rolling Venezuela, the bill can vary hugely.
They are the cheapest and dearest nations in e-commerce platform Linio.com's Beauty Price Index.
To compile its list, Linio surveyed the cost of cosmetic products and services in 50 countries to find the price of beauty around the world.
It looked at three different categories: beauty services, such as hairdos; cosmetic procedures, including Botox and breast jobs; and products, such as make-up and perfume.
It found that on the whole, developing nations offer the most affordable beauty services, but show mark-ups on popular cosmetic products.
However, Venezuela bucks the emerging market trend. Despite being renowned for its beauty queens, the South American nation is in the throes of economic collapse after years of fiscal mismanagement, and this has caused the cost of looking good to spiral out of control.
Apart from that anomaly, the price gap is much as you would expect. The countries where the cost of beauty is higher tend to be in regions that have a higher cost of living in general, such as northern Europe and North America.
After Venezuela, the most expensive countries for cosmetic products and services are Switzerland, Norway, Denmark and Finland, with Australia, Sweden and the US close behind.
The cheapest places after Vietnam are India, South Africa, Thailand and Egypt. The Czech Republic, Colombia and Panama also score well.
The UK comes in on the pricey side, ranking 36th cheapest out of the 50 nations surveyed.
"We hope that our index helps people more confidently interpret variations in costs associated with beauty around the world," said Linio's chief executive, Andreas Mjelde.
"Increasingly, the average citizen is a global one, and with a better understanding of global markets comes empowerment to travel, shop and live smarter."
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Country star Dolly Parton once said of her appearance that "it costs a lot of money to look this cheap".
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A revamp of the calendar is under consideration with the 2019 US PGA Championship potentially moving to May.
That would mean the US major being played in the same month as the European Tour's BMW PGA Championship, which starts at Wentworth on Thursday.
This could have long-term implications for the quality of the field.
US officials are considering the date shift to try to prevent the climax of the PGA Tour season being overshadowed by the beginning of the American Football season.
They want to free up the month of August for the FedEx Cup play-offs to be completed before the start of the NFL campaign which dominates American sports viewing from September onwards.
Pelley accepts there could be serious knock-on effects for his tour.
"Right now we are looking at our 2018 schedule but at the same time 2019 and 2020 are in our discussions daily as well," he told BBC Sport.
"If there are changes that happen in the US with the majors then we are going to have to adjust and adapt."
Pelley added that next year's European Tour schedule will follow similar lines to the current timetable, but he cannot guarantee this will remain the case in following years.
"It will depend on what they do in 2019," he said. "The PGA of America says they're going to determine whether the PGA Championship is moved to May by the end of August this year.
"If that's the case we are going to have to look at everything. We have plans right now but there is no doubt that if those changes happen, the 2019 and 2020 schedule will be considerably different to 2018."
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Britain's most decorated Olympian was at Drumchapel Sport Hub in Glasgow as agency sportscotland announced that it had surpassed Holyrood's target of 150 community sport hubs in 2016.
"It's fantastic to see that they've actually committed to this," said Hoy.
"The target is to try to have 200 community hubs open by 2020."
There are now 153 operational hubs across the country with at least one in each of Scotland's 32 local authorities.
Hubs aim to increase the number of people of all ages participating in sport and physical activity across Scotland.
The national agency for sport has also announced a new £6m investment of National Lottery money over the next four years to further develop existing community sport hubs and to help reach the target of new hubs.
Hoy told BBC Scotland: ''The community sports hubs are about the community, providing somewhere that people of all the community, of all ages and all levels of fitness, can come and get fit and have fun - improve their lives basically.
"It's about participation, enjoyment and health, but if we create an Olympic champion off the back of it then all the better."
Hoy, meanwhile, who won six gold and one silver Olympic medals in the velodrome, believes the current British cycling team is looking good ahead of the Rio Olympics.
"The British team are coming on to form at just the right moment," he said.
"They've had a lot of criticism, some of which has been unfounded or a little bit harsh. Teams go through transitions and new riders come in to peak at the right time.
"By definition you're going to be off your peak at others times and I think we should be judged by the performances in Rio."
A knee injury kept Scotland's Katie Archibald from competing for the British team at the World Championships in London this month but she is striving to be fit for Rio, and Hoy certainly hopes that the case.
"Katie is integral to the success of the British pursuit team for the women, and she'll be disappointed that she missed the World Champs," said Hoy.
"But it will fuel that passion and that hunger to work hard and make it to the Olympics.
"They (the women's pursuit team) performed well in the final ride by winning the bronze medal and setting the quickest time they'd ever done before but there's more to come and I think once Katie gets back she'll be firing on all cylinders and she help the team."
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Sir Chris Hoy says the commitment shown by the Scottish Government and the National Lottery will help ensure the Commonwealth Games legacy continues.
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Analysts said June's hot weather had helped to lift sales at the company, which also includes Argos.
The UK's second biggest supermarket said like-for-like sales - which strip out the impact of new stores - grew by 2.3%, excluding petrol.
Chief executive Mike Coupe said he was "pleased" with the results - its best growth in four years.
Laith Khalaf, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said: "The recent heatwave helped to boost sales at Sainsbury's group, as customers turned to the Argos website to buy electric fans and paddling pools to keep cool in the hot weather."
Demand for deals on British strawberries and its summer eating range added to Sainsbury's grocery sales, which were up 3%.
Food price inflation also contributed to a rise in sales at the supermarket's checkouts.
This is the best quarterly performance by Sainsbury's in years, with sales up across the board. Like the other main supermarkets, inflation is driving some of this sales growth.
The boss said the company had managed to "keep a control over prices" and that the rise in own label goods had been a big success.
Was this a sign of shoppers trading down, for instance eating in instead of eating out? Chief executive Mike Coupe said there wasn't any evidence of a massive change in consumer behaviour although there might be a trend starting to come through.
Most striking though is the rise in clothing sales - up by more than 7%, a very strong performance, in stark contrast to its competitors on the high street. A sign, perhaps, that consumers are watching their wallets.
Mr Coupe said "inflation was coming through", but that Sainsbury's was trying to keep prices down by striking deals with suppliers.
He pointed to chicken, milk and broccoli, which he said were cheaper than three years ago.
The company's latest sales figures marked an acceleration from the previous quarter when sales grew by just 0.3%.
The growth was also slightly stronger than expected, with analysts having forecast like-for-like sales to grow 2%.
David Alexander of GlobalData, said: "Even accounting for a later Easter and Mother's Day, and the inclusion of a buoyant Argos in the figures, the numbers still present a positive picture."
Widespread media reports have suggested Sainsbury's is lining up Nisa, a convenience store chain and wholesaler, for its next acquisition.
George MacDonald, editor of Retail Week, told the BBC that Sainsbury's was "possibly grabbing on the coat-tails of Tesco which wants to buy another wholesaler called Booker".
However, Mr Coupe declined to comment on any possible Nisa deal, saying it regularly looked at potential tie-ups.
"We are not holding onto anyone's coat-tails - that's just the nature of a large corporation. Most of these conversations come to nothing," the Sainsbury's boss told reporters.
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Wolecki Black, 50, was taken by ambulance to Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy.
The former Glasgow City head coach took over from Gary Bollan in December after the latter had joined Forfar Athletic.
Airdrie thanked their physio Kirsty Hughes and Cowdenbeath "for their prompt and professional response".
Former Montrose player and manager Wolecki Black had initially joined Airdrie in September as director of coaching.
That followed a spell working with Edusport Academy - a Scotland-based football academy for young French players - and a highly successful period in charge of Glasgow City.
City won four successive Scottish Women's Premier League titles during Wolecki Black's time in charge and also reached the Uefa Women's Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 2014.
Airdrie's 3-1 win at Cowdenbeath's Central Park moved them up to fourth in Scottish League One, just inside the promotion play-off zone.
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Airdrieonians manager Eddie Wolecki Black is in a stable condition after taking ill during half-time of Saturday's win at Cowdenbeath.
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The pair arrive at Ewood Park following centre-half Shane Duffy's departure to Brighton for an undisclosed fee.
Williams, 23, made 131 appearances for the Robins, helping the club to the League One title in 2014-15.
Hoban, 22, has played 58 games for Watford, scoring twice.
Both players, who have Republic of Ireland Under-21 honours, will be available for Saturday's Championship game against Fulham.
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Blackburn Rovers have signed defender Derrick Williams for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal from Bristol City, while Tommie Hoban has joined on a season-long loan from Watford.
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The men aged 38, 42, 45 and 46, were arrested after a car was stopped in the Ringfort Road area, in Hazelbank, on Thursday night.
They were questioned at Antrim police station.
Police said their enquiries were continuing.
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Four men arrested in Londonderry by police investigating dissident republican activity are released unconditionally.
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The screenwriter died surrounded by his family in California on Monday after several weeks of hospice care.
His widow Rita Hudis said in a statement: "He died peacefully at home with myself and Stephen and Kevin, his two sons.
"He did well to reach 93. We will miss him. Our 60th anniversary would have been on the 28 April."
Hudis was born in London and began his career as a journalist before writing for stage and screen.
He wrote the first Carry On film, 1958's Carry On Sergeant, when he was 34. The cast included future Doctor Who actor William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques.
Hudis went on to pen Carry On Nurse, Teacher, Constable, Regardless and Cruising - the first Carry On film in colour.
Carry On films - the Norman Hudis years
Carry On Sergeant - 1958
Carry On Nurse - 1959
Carry On Teacher - 1959
Carry On Constable - 1960
Carry On Regardless - 1961
Carry On Cruising - 1962
Carry On Nurse was inspired by stories from his wife, a former nurse. In a BBC interview in 2008, Hudis said: "I used to call downstairs to Rita and say 'put on the old nurse's cap and tell me something funny'."
In 2008, Hudis published an autobiography titled No Laughing Matter: How I Carried On.
In it, he revealed that he continued to write Carry Ons after he left the series in the early 1960s in the hope that he might be asked back one day, drafting Carry On Under the Pier If Wet and Carry On Shylock Holmes.
After moving to the US, his TV writing credits include The Wild Wild West, The Man From UNCLE and Hawaii Five-O.
Morris Bright, chairman of Elstree Studios and a close family friend, said: "Without him we wouldn't have had the Carry On films, because he wrote the first six - and look what that spawned over the years.
"We owe the man a lot. He leaves a great legacy of joy, entertainment and laughter - something we can look back on and say, 'We're very grateful for him'.
"He was a great guy, I shall miss him a great deal."
Hudis is survived by his widow, two sons, and two grandchildren, Veronica and Cameron.
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Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are both up for actress of the year, while Todd Haynes' film is also one of 10 titles up for the film of the year award.
Tom Hardy has three nominations that recognise his roles in The Revenant, Legend and his whole body of 2015 work.
Sir Kenneth Branagh will get a special award at the ceremony on 17 January.
Carol, which tells of a shopgirl who falls in love with a wealthy socialite in 1950s New York, gets additional nominations for its direction, screenplay, score and cinematography.
Marital drama 45 Years comes close behind with six nominations, two of them - actress of the year and British actress of the year - for its star Charlotte Rampling.
Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant and Steve Jobs have five nominations apiece, while Brooklyn, Ex Machina and Room have four.
Amy Winehouse documentary Amy, meanwhile, achieves a notable hat-trick by being nominated for best film, best British film and best documentary.
Other titles up for the film of the year award include Disney/Pixar animation Inside Out, Ridley Scott's The Martian and hard-hitting documentary The Look of Silence.
More than 200 titles were put forward for the film of the year award by the Critics' Circle Film Section, whose membership is made up of more than 145 broadcasters, critics and writers.
"There was love for everything from Tangerine and Tangerines to Love, Joy and The Hateful Eight," said Rich Cline, chair of the Critics' Circle Film Awards.
"Getting to that final list of nominees certainly wasn't easy this year."
Last year's awards saw Boyhood named film of the year, with additional prizes going to its director Richard Linklater and cast member Patricia Arquette.
Sightseers stars Alice Lowe and Steve Oram will return to co-host the 2016 ceremony at London's May Fair Hotel.
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Romantic drama Carol leads the field at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards, having received seven nominations from the UK's film reviewers.
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The announcement was made at the Geneva motor show in Switzerland.
The Japanese carmaker said that its £125m investment would create 2,000 jobs. The government is supporting the project with a £9.3m grant.
Nissan said that 400 of the new jobs would be in its Sunderland plant, and it estimates 1,600 jobs will be created in the supply chain.
"When we've looked at the numbers before, it's usually for every one person employed in the facility there is four in the local supply base," Trevor Mann, senior vice-president of manufacturing for Nissan Europe, told BBC News.
Production of the new compact car is scheduled to start from mid-2013.
Nissan plans to build 100,000 of its new Invitation model per year at its plant in Sunderland, where it currently makes about 480,000 of its Qashqai, Juke and Note models per year.
The plant is already the biggest car factory in Britain.
The company said that the Invitation was designed to compete with cars such as the Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Polo.
It stressed that the car unveiled in Geneva was a concept vehicle, but that the key characteristics and styling were already in place.
"The new car's key USP [unique selling point] will be its fuel economy," said Kevin Fitzpatrick, Nissan's vice-president for manufacturing in the UK.
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"It will be fitted with a new generation of engines, which will be built at the plant as well."
The name of the car will also probably have changed before it goes into production.
Business Secretary Vince Cable told the BBC that the news was "a really great announcement".
He added: "It is very positive, but you can't see this in isolation, because the other big car companies have also made major commitments to the UK.
"Jaguar Land Rover, Ford, BMW Mini, are all putting in more money and bringing back supply chain."
The additional investment in Nissan's Sunderland facility will increase its workforce to 6,000, which is a record high for the factory.
The employers' organisation, the CBI, also welcomed the announcement.
"The Nissan Sunderland journey is a remarkable story, demonstrating British manufacturing capabilities at their best - excellent training, a committed, skilled workforce and brilliant, determined leadership," said CBI director-general John Cridland.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said the investment in Sunderland was a result of work done by the last government.
"Government, unions and management worked together, and Peter Mandelson recognised the need for a change in attitude," he told the EEF National Manufacturing Conference.
"We see the response today; the new Nissan investment is a culmination of that approach."
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Nissan is to build a new compact model, called the Invitation, at its Sunderland factory.
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The MAC chief executive Anne McReynolds was speaking ahead of a debate at the theatre later that involves members of the main political parties.
She said the arts benefit the economy.
"Our politicians understand the arts contribute to wider society in terms of economic renewal, cultural tourism and social regeneration," she said.
"The arts are an economic driver in Northern Ireland and yet we're languishing at the bottom of the levels of subsidy and investment compared to other parts of the UK."
A number of Northern Ireland arts organisations face funding cuts amid pressures on the Stormont budget.
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A theatre manager in Belfast has questioned why the arts in Northern Ireland receives less funding than other parts of the UK.
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Matilda Winkleman has undergone several operations for severe burns since it happened last year and is now recovering.
But what should parents consider when they're buying a fancy dress outfit?
Firstly Halloween costumes are classed as toys which means that, by law, they don't have to be as fire retardant as normal children's clothing.
Some stores have voluntarily agreed to make theirs as resistant as children's nightwear.
BBC News NI tested four costumes bought randomly from a variety of stores.
The good news is all four performed well, all self-extinguished and didn't accelerate into a fireball.
One costume said on the label it had been subjected to additional fire safety testing and it performed the best.
Kevin O'Neill from the Fire and Rescue Service said: "These are toys. Toys have a lower fire safety requirement. They have a lower fire safety standard. Just be aware of that and take measures.
"One of those measures is to ensure children are wearing clothes under the costume.
"They should be wearing woollen tights for example or a woollen jumper or jeans. That way it gives some protection that if they were to catch fire you've still got a barrier between the garment and your skin".
If the worst does happen, Mr O'Neill said children should know the 'stop, drop and roll' drill.
"Stop what you're doing, get on the ground and roll. Allow the ground to be the means of suffocating a fire and not a person's hands".
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The case of TV presenter Claudia Winkleman's daughter, whose Halloween costume brushed by a candle and burst into flames, has put the issue of fire safety firmly in the headlines.
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England, who have never won the competition, were knocked out at the group stage this year.
"We were a long way off the pace. Unless we focus on it, we will sleep walk our way into the next one," Strauss told BBC Test Match Special.
"If we have a core of specialists we can prioritise both teams."
Test skipper Alastair Cook was removed as one-day captain and replaced by Eoin Morgan less than two months before the World Cup started in February.
England won only two of their six group games, against minnows Scotland and Afghanistan.
Former England captain Strauss said: "Our country is generally is quite red-ball focussed, but that doesn't mean it has to be at the expense of white-ball cricket.
"That's one of my focuses - to re-balance it and give more importance to it."
Only four England players involved in the current one-day series against Pakistan featured in the recent 2-0 Test series defeat.
Strauss said one-day specialists would have "opportunities" to compete in the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL), which clashes with the start of the English season in April and May.
Asked about the IPL and the Big Bash, Australia's Twenty20 tournament, Strauss said: "I'm a massive fan.
"If you are an overseas player, what those Twenty20 competitions do is put you under real pressure.
"You have to stand up and deliver and that's a really good experience."
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England director of cricket Andrew Strauss says "more separation" of the Test and one-day teams will improve their chances of winning the World Cup.
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No batsman from Bapchild Cricket Club was able to get off the mark against Christ Church University in Canterbury.
"We couldn't believe it, all they needed to do was hit a wall to get one run," Christ Church player Mike Rose told the Crawley Observer.
Somerset club Langport set the record for the lowest score when they were dismissed for zero in 1913.
Wirral CC were bowled out for three in a Cheshire League Division Three fixture in 2014 - though they had 11 players and were 0-8 at one stage.
And Kent village team Saltwood CC scored 216 before bowling Martin Walters out for zero in 8.2 overs during a match in 1964.
In first-class cricket, the lowest score ever made is six - by "The B's" against England at the old Lord's ground in 1810 - while New Zealand's 26 against England in 1955 remains the lowest total scored in a Test match.
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A cricket team was bowled out for 0 in just 20 balls in a county six-a-side indoor championships match.
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But most of the Somerset batsmen failed to exploit good batting conditions, Keith Barker and Chris Woakes both picking up three wickets, backed by two from Jonathan Trott,
After rallying from 117-4 in a stand of 110 with Peter Trego, Abell made 104.
Despite Trego's 94, Somerset missed a third batting point but did take two wickets as the Bears closed on 27-2.
Having proved generally below par with the bat on a lovely early summer's day at Edgbaston, the visitors then came out firing with the ball in a lively seven-over session.
First they had former Bears skipper Ian Westwood lbw to Lewis Gregory before nightwatchman Boyd Rankin was brilliantly caught off Craig Overton at leg gully by James Hildreth, who had earlier been the only other worthwhile Somerset contributor with 38.
After Barker knocked back Marcus Trescothick's off stump and Chris Rogers was caught behind fourth ball inside the first hour, eight batsmen failed to reach 15.
An attack which persevered to keep the pressure on all day, was boosted by Trott taking 2-26 in 10 overs.
Warwickshire captain Ian Bell, who left the field in mid-afternoon with a hamstring twinge, is expected to be fine to bat on day two.
Warwickshire batsman Jonathan Trott told BBC WM:
"They've not got a huge score but it's a decent score on this wicket. There's a bit in it for the bowlers. We've got to fight to get on top. We're going to have to bat well.
"It's been a while since my last Championship wicket, so I was as surprised as everyone else in the crowd. We just needed someone to do a job from that end - the wind was tricky because we've got a lot of bowlers who like to swing the ball away, so I said I'd bowl gun-barrel straight for a bit. A little bit of seam movement helped too. It's always nice to help.
"Tom Abell looks a very talented young player. He's a good all-round sportsman. I've heard he's a good hockey player as well. You can certainly see that in his game. He looks an organised player. He's certainly one for the future, for Somerset and beyond hopefully.
Somerset batsman Tom Abell:
"I probably haven't been pulling my weight so far this year if I'm brutally honest, so it was really pleasing to score a few runs. I don't want to be relying on the likes of Tres and Hildy and Chris Rogers at the top of the order.
"It was a real challenge against Barker and Woakes with the new ball. I was just looking to stick in and try and weather the storm.
"It was a big relief for me after the start I've had. I can't speak highly enough of the contributions of Hildy and Tregs, just taking the heat off me a little bit, both being natural strokeplayers."
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The move comes as part of a campaign by President Xi Jinping to show that the ruling Communist Party (CPC) is cracking down on corruption and waste.
Glitzy new government buildings, sometimes in impoverished areas, have been a source of public outrage.
The directive forbids luxury makeovers and expansions done under the guise of repair work, Xinhua news agency said.
The notice says some departments and local authorities have built huge government office compounds against regulations, tainting the image of the CPC.
Among the buildings that have attracted widespread disapproval in recent years is the western-style government office building in the city of Fuyang in Anhui province, in eastern China.
It reportedly cost 30 million yuan ($4.89m, £3.19m) to build and is referred to as the 'White House' by residents.
A state-owned drug company also caused outrage after photographs emerged apparently showing a building decorated to mimic France's Versailles palace, complete with gold-tinted walls and chandeliers.
Some government agencies have reportedly built luxury offices in seaside resorts where officials can stay for free or at deeply discounted prices.
The ban - described as an "across-the-board halt" - includes training centres, hotels or government motels, Xinhua said.
It also says government organisations should not receive sponsorship or donations towards construction projects, or collaborate with private companies.
"Banning the building of new government buildings is important for building a clean government and also a requirement for boosting CPC-people ties and maintaining the image of the CPC and the government," Xinhua quoted the directive as saying.
Tackling corruption has been President Xi Jinping's most high-profile policy since he became China's leader earlier this year.
He has warned that "corruption and bribe-taking by some party members and cadres" pose "severe challenges" to the Communist Party's rule.
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China has banned the construction of government buildings for five years, according to state media.
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The South African struck 24 boundaries, sharing century partnerships with Luke Wright (60) and Ben Brown (67), as Sussex moved their score on from 74-1.
Jofra Archer then smashed four sixes and three fours to score 42 off 14 balls as Sussex declared on 443-6.
Leicestershire openers Paul Horton and Arun Harinath reached stumps unbeaten, leaving 389 runs to score on day four.
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Sussex's Stiaan van Zyl scored an unbeaten 166 as Leicestershire ended day three 36-0 chasing 425 to win.
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"What the co-leader has done is treason, provocation," Mr Erdogan said, referring to Mr Demirtas, co-leader of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).
At the weekend the HDP and other pro-Kurdish groups called for self-rule in Turkey's mainly Kurdish south-east.
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into those comments.
The Turkish military has stepped up operations against the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is fighting for Kurdish self-rule. The army says it has killed more than 200 PKK militants in the latest fighting.
The PKK is regarded as a "terrorist" organisation by Turkey, the US and EU.
The HDP won 59 seats in Turkey's 550-seat parliament in the 1 November elections. It came third, behind Mr Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the Republican People's Party (CHP).
Speaking on Tuesday, Mr Erdogan said Mr Demirtas and other Kurdish leaders would be "taught a lesson" by the people and the law.
He accused Mr Demirtas of challenging Article 14 of the constitution, which bans activities deemed to "violate the indivisible integrity of the state".
On Sunday Mr Demirtas backed a declaration by a Kurdish umbrella group - the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) - which called for "autonomous regions" and "self-governance bodies".
After 30 years of fighting between Turkish security forces and PKK militants, there has been little progress on the Kurdish issue.
The AKP has taken some steps towards improving the cultural rights of the Kurds, including on the official use of the Kurdish language, during its 13-year rule. But many of the Kurds' demands, such as the right to an education in Kurdish, have not been met.
Self-rule has been discussed for decades. The idea is now being promoted by a legitimate political party, the HDP, and the umbrella organisation DTK.
But with the recent upsurge in fighting in Turkey's mainly Kurdish south-east - with government-imposed curfews and Kurdish militias fighting in the streets - there is little room to talk about rights.
The declaration, issued in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, said the "rightful resistance" of Kurds against Turkish state policies "is essentially a demand and struggle for local self-governance and local democracy".
It called for the "formation of autonomous regions, to involve several neighbouring provinces in consideration of cultural, economic and geographic affinities".
The PKK has been battling the Turkish military for three decades, in a separatist conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned as "treason" a call by prominent Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas for Kurdish autonomy.
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The firm, one of the world's biggest fashion retailers, reported net profits of 3.6bn Swedish kronor ($423m; £284m), up 36% from a year earlier.
The company said its collections had been "well-received" in the December-to-February period.
H&M plans to open about 400 new stores in the 2014-15 financial year.
"We have made a very good start to 2015 - in terms of both sales and profits," said H&M chief executive Karl-Johan Persson.
"Our attractive customer offering and strong expansion both through stores and online, as well as our work on continuous improvement, are among the reasons for increased market share gains and good profits," he added.
However, the company warned that it could be hit by currency movements, noting that "the strong US dollar will affect our sourcing costs going forward".
H&M makes most purchases in US dollars, and has a large share of sales in euros, so some analysts are concerned that margins will be affected by the dollar's appreciation against the euro.
In the first quarter, sales increased by 15% in local currencies, and by 25% in Swedish kronor, to 40.2bn kronor.
The company said it planned to open new stores in Taiwan, Peru and Macau in the first half of 2015, and in South Africa and India in the second half.
H&M also said it planned to open online markets in Portugal, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Belgium in the spring, and Switzerland in the autumn.
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Swedish fashion retailer Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) has said "strong" store and online expansion led to improved sales and profits in the first quarter.
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The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued dozens of warnings, most of them in Tayside.
People in the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway have been asked to pay close attention to the weather forecast over Christmas Day into Boxing Day.
Warnings were also in place on Christmas Eve covering Strathglass and Callander.
Storm Eva is expected to bring further bad weather to areas which have already been badly affected.
A weather warning of heavy rain is in place for much of southern Scotland from 15:00 on Christmas Day through to 23:45 on Boxing Day.
Many roads across Dumfries and Galloway were affected by surface water or flooding on Christmas Eve and drivers were asked "slow down and take care".
The A76 Dumfries to Kilmarnock road near to Drumlanrig Castle was reported as "flooded but passable".
The B724 Annan to Dumfries "low road" was flooded with a road closure in place west of Cummertrees.
In Dumfries itself, the Whitesands car parks were closed due to flooding in the area.
High winds also affected the north of Scotland on Christmas Eve with gusty of 60mph to 70mph forecast and up to 80mph over the Western Isles.
Eleven out of 26 Caledonian MacBrayne routes were disrupted but the situation was improving.
Passengers were asked to check on the website, on Twitter @calmac_updates and also on the freephone number 0800 066 5400 for regular updates.
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Many parts of Scotland are at risk of flooding over Christmas after more heavy rain affected the country.
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