The final is due to start on Friday in Ghent, 35 miles from Belgian capital Brussels, which is under the country's highest security alert. The British team delayed their flight to Belgium from Sunday to Monday because of the security situation. "Everything is continuing because we believe it will go on," said the FTF. Gijs Kooken, chief executive of the FTF, which is staging the event, is in regular contact with the Belgian government and told BBC Sport that he has "not yet had a signal that it's not safe to organise the event". He added: "It is an event with international exposure, with 13,000 spectators a day, so it is a risk event, of course, in the current situation - but I'm very confident in our government. "Of course you never can predict what will happen next, but I would be surprised if it was cancelled. "I'm quite confident that we will play next weekend." The International Tennis Federation has said it is "greatly concerned" by developments but that preparations for the tie will continue. The alert level in Ghent is category three, the same as London, and sporting events including the Ghent Six, a large annual cycling competition, have been held in the city this weekend. Live updates from BBC News Brussels entered a second day of a security lockdown on Sunday, and Belgium prime minister Charles Michel said at 18:00 GMT that the threat level for the capital city would stay at level four for Monday. He also confirmed that Metro services would remain suspended on Monday, with all schools and universities closed and residents told to avoid crowds. The maximum security alert in the capital will remain in place as Belgian police and security services hunt for suspects linked to the Paris attacks and those said to be planning a similar attack in Belgium. Great Britain reached the Davis Cup final for the first time since 1978 with victory over Australia. They last won the event in 1936. Belgium reached their first final in 111 years by beating Argentina. The tie, which runs from Friday, 27 November to Sunday, 29 November, will be played on clay courts at the 13,000-seat Flanders Expo, which is sold out for all three days - more than 1,000 British fans are due to be at the final. Britain's squad of Andy Murray, Jamie Murray, Kyle Edmund, Dominic Inglot and James Ward practised on the indoor clay courts at Queen's Club in west London on Sunday. They are due to practice for the first time on the clay at the Flanders Expo on Monday afternoon, and will have very tight security as they travel between the court and their hotel. Some of the backroom staff are already in Belgium, but many British fans have expressed their unease about travelling to, and staying in Ghent, with the terror threat in Belgium at such a high level. Sniffer dogs and explosive experts will be patrolling the venue, and spectators - who can expect to be body searched - will have to leave all bags in

Summary: Great Britain's Davis Cup final against Belgium "will go on" despite the terror threats affecting Brussels, says the Flemish Tennis Federation (FTF).


Peter Gillespie, 64, from Hertfordshire, was part of a £4.7m plot to bring two million doses of counterfeit drugs from China to the UK. He was convicted of conspiring to defraud pharmaceutical wholesalers, pharmacists and members of the public. He was convicted by a jury at Croydon Crown Court. By mimicking authentic, properly manufactured and tested medicines, Gillespie illegally infiltrated the regulated system designed to protect the public and pharmaceutical industry, the court heard. The counterfeit medicines contained only a fraction of the correct dosage. They included Zyprexa, a medicine to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Andrew Marshall, prosecuting, said patients had been put at risk by his fraud. "This case is considered to represent the most serious breach of the medicine control regime - it's the most serious breach that has happened in the EU," he told jurors. "It has had far-reaching effects for the pharmaceutical industry, control mechanisms, patients and the confidence of the public." The case arose from a £750,000 three-and-a-half-year investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Mick Deats, head of enforcement, said after the trial that 72,000 packs of counterfeit medicine - with a retail value of £4.7m - penetrated the UK supply chain between December 2006 and May 2007. Some 25,000 of these packs reached pharmacies and were given to patients. The MHRA was able to seize 40,000 before they got to pharmacies, and 7,000 were recovered following recalls. Although the drugs contained just 50% to 80% of the correct ingredients, Mr Deats did not believe they caused any fatalities or adverse reactions. At Croydon Crown Court, Gillespie, of High Street, Bovingdon, was also found guilty of selling or supplying drugs without a marketing authorisation between January 2006 and June 2007. Jurors also found him guilty of a charge of acting as a company director while disqualified. Mr Deats added the MHRA now hoped to seize anything Gillespie obtained through his scam in a proceeds of crime hearing. Four other men - his brother Ian, 59, of The Green, Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire; Richard Kemp, 61, of School Lane, Y Waen, Flint, north Wales; Ian Harding, 58, of Lower Westwood, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire; and James Quinn, 70, of Virginia Park, Virginia Water, Surrey - were acquitted of all charges. Another person connected to the case had already been convicted in the US.

Summary: A man has been jailed for eight years for his part in what has been described as the most serious fake medicine fraud in the European Union.


Hamilton said he was drawing on Ali's famous "rope-a-dope" victory over George Foreman in 1974 as he seeks to close the 29-point gap to the German. "I think about Muhammad Ali," Hamilton told BBC Sport. "He sat on the rope and let [Foreman] have the upper hand until he decided it was the right time to turn it around." Ahead of Sunday's British Grand Prix, Hamilton, the 2008 world champion, added: "I'm hoping I can do a similar thing. He inspires me in that fight." Hamilton thinks it is important to beat Rosberg this weekend. The Englishman has finished second to his rival in two of the last three races and retired from the other. "I am going to do everything to be out front," said Hamilton, who has had two retirements this year. In contrast, Rosberg has finished every race, winning three grands prix and finishing second five times. "Winning your home grand prix is one of the greatest experiences you can have as a driver," added Hamilton. "I'm hopeful I don't have any more bad luck with the non-finishes and it's time to turn things around." Hamilton has not won at Silverstone since 2008, when he dominated in wet conditions to take one of the greatest victories of his career. Former McLaren team-mate Jenson Button hopes there will be another British victory this weekend but says the pressure is on Hamilton. "It would be amazing to have a British victory," said the 2009 world champion. "The crowd would go wild. "For myself, it's going to be tricky to get on the top step. Lewis has got a shot. Let's hope it happens." The flowing, fast Silverstone circuit and the huge crowds - 80,000 spectators are expected to attend practice on Friday, with about 95,000 due for Saturday's qualifying and 120,000 for the race on Sunday - make the British Grand Prix a favourite amongst drivers. Rosberg says he will do everything he could to prevent Hamilton recording a home victory on Sunday. "I definitely am going to try," the German said. "It's not going to be easy here, but I will do my best and I'm optimistic." Having won seven of the eight races so far this season, only missing out in Canada last month when they ran into a rare reliability problem, Mercedes are expected to win at Silverstone, with Hamilton and Rosberg fighting it out at the front. World champions Red Bull should be their closest challengers, despite a poor race in Austria two weeks ago. Daniel Ricciardo, who was eighth in Austria, is the highest Red Bull driver in the championship in third place, 82 points behind Rosberg. The Australian, who took his maiden career victory in Canada, said the team said the team think they know what went wrong in Austria and were expecting a better weekend at Silverstone. That's because the plethora of high-speed corners suits the aerodynamic excellence of the Red Bull, while the power disadvantage of the Renault compared to the Mercedes engine is less of a handicap. "If we can be the

Summary: Lewis Hamilton says he is inspired by boxer Muhammad Ali as he tries to overhaul Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in the Formula 1 title race.


Police have charged a 32-year-old Norwegian man over both attacks. The man dressed as a police officer was arrested on tiny Utoeya island after an hour-long shooting spree. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said many people were still looking for their children and had not so far been able to locate them. He was speaking after meeting victims and relatives with Norway's King Harald, Queen Sonja and Crown Prince Haakon in the town of Sundvollen near the island. Values attackedHome-grown plot?In pictures: Shock Mr Stoltenberg said he was "deeply touched" by the meetings. "We will do whatever we can to give them as much support as possible," he said. Earlier he said that he was due to have been on Utoeya - "a youth paradise turned into a hell" - a few hours after the attack took place. The suspect is reported by local media to have had links with right-wing extremists. He has been named as Anders Behring Breivik. Police searched his Oslo apartment overnight and are questioning him. The BBC's Richard Galpin, near the island which is currently cordoned off by police, says that Norway has had problems with neo-Nazi groups in the past but the assumption was that such groups had been largely eliminated and did not pose a significant threat. Police say they are investigating whether the attacks were the work of one man or whether others helped. "At Utoeya, the water is still being searched for more victims," deputy police chief Roger Andresen told reporters. "We have no more information than... what has been found on [his] own websites, which is that it goes towards the right and that it is, so to speak, Christian fundamentalist." By Richard GalpinBBC News, near Utoeya A search is going on not just on the island itself, but also in the waters around it because a lot of people tried to escape by jumping in the water and trying to swim away. Even as they did that, eyewitnesses say, the gunman opened fire on them. The chatter now is that it took the police an hour, if not an hour and a half, to actually get to the island. Of course that gave the gunman so much time to kill so many people. Also crucially, the police were throwing all their resources at the huge bomb attack which had just taken place in the centre of Oslo. But still, the question will be asked: Were there not police nearer to this area who could have moved in much more quickly? Local media report that police are investigating claims by witnesses that a second person was involved, apparently not disguised in a police uniform. A farm supply firm has confirmed selling six tonnes of fertiliser to Mr Breivik who is reported to have run a farming company. Speculation has been rife that fertiliser could have been used in the Oslo bomb. The number killed in the island shooting spree, which is among the world's most deadly, had been put at 10 on Friday - but soared overnight. Hundreds of young people had been

Summary: At least 85 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a bombing in the capital Oslo killed seven, police say.


Rhiannon Smith, 21, was involved in a collision between a black Range Rover and a grey Toyota Yaris on the A48 between Newport and Chepstow, Monmouthshire, on 16 March. The trainee teacher, from Llandevaud, has since died. Her family said she was "the life and soul of a party" and had ambitions to work as a teacher in London. The Cardiff University graduate was finishing her PGCE at the University of Gloucestershire and had been applying for jobs in England's capital when she died. In a tribute, her family said: "Her enthusiasm for teaching was difficult to match. She had recently said that she was having the happiest time of her life and thanked her family for enabling her to achieve these wonderful goals. "Rhiannon was the life and soul of a party and left a mark on everyone she met. She was such an integral part of the Smith household and will be sorely missed, never forgotten and impossible to replace."

Summary: A "wonderful young lady" has died after being involved in a two-car crash on a main road.


Just minutes after leaving harbour, the ferry capsized. 193 people were killed in the tragedy. Belfast man Bill McCrea was more than 1,500 miles away in Kent, when the ship began its final journey. A chaplain for the Sailors' Society, Bill was on duty at the Merchant Navy and National Sea Training College in Gravesend. Despite the distance, news of the tragedy travelled to the college fast. "Our centre had younger trainee sailors coming through, and also older seafarers who were there to update their training. "We had three men from the Herald at the centre that night who we had to try and comfort." When Bill speaks, it's with a soft, instantly recognisable Belfast accent - a voice apparently unchanged by decades spent posted across the globe. He grew up on the Donegall Road in the city and before entering the ministry, discovered an early love for the sea. "I used to go down to the Belfast docks with my brothers and sisters to see the ships," he said. "I would say to them, 'look, see that ship? Someday I'll be a captain too'". In the end, he took to the sea as a chaplain when he accepted the role with the Sailors' Society in 1969, a position he held until retirement in 2006. In that 37-year period, the Zeebrugge disaster would become "the most traumatising tragedy that ever happened in my life". The disaster marked the beginning of months of shared grief and years of recovery, as signified by the annual remembrance service that continues with this week's 30th anniversary memorial. After the incident, Bill travelled to Dover where he spent two weeks in the Sailors' Society's Seafarers' Centre, providing support to sailors and families alike. Bill often travelled to visit those grief stricken by what happened, and also conducted the funerals of four victims. "The disaster and the subsequent weeks was a shock to my system. I have dealt with loss of life with seafarers' families over the years, but it was the enormity of this situation - so many people lost their lives that night." One funeral the chaplain presided over was for a young man who he knew from the training centre - the Herald of Free Enterprise was his first posting as a sailor. "It was his first assignment and he didn't come back. I visited his family and they were devastated. "He had just finished his college course two weeks before. I knew him well." He continued: "The first month or so (after the disaster) was hard going. In their way, actually, the families were a big support to me. "It can be difficult because families always react differently to your presence. Some are happy to have you, some will swear, some will be annoyed, some will be anti-God. "In my case, most families needed help - not so much talking, just being there. "The tragedy left people on their knees. The area of Dover was devastated, but the community came together in huge support. "I think that's what helped my visits. I was able

Summary: On 6 March 1987, passenger ferry the Herald of Free Enterprise pulled out of its berth at the Belgium port of Zeebrugge carrying 459 passengers and 80 crew.


The 22-year-old told his 3.6 million subscribers, as well his followers on Twitter, in a six-minute video called Coming Out. I'm just going to be really honest," he said. "2014 is truly the year that I have accepted who I am and become happy with that person. "Today I want to talk to you guys about that and be open and honest, and tell you that I'm gay." Connor said he'd struggled with his sexuality since he was 12 and at first ignored his feelings. "Growing up I knew that I was a little bit different than everyone else," he said. "I always just had this feeling that I wasn't the same. "But it wasn't until I was 12 years old until I really had pinpointed what that was. "For some reason, my seventh-grade year, I had this thought in the back of my head, 'What if I'm gay?' I immediately was so terrified. "I'm from a small town in the Midwest. That's not a normal thing there. I didn't know what the word meant. I'd only met a couple of gay people in my entire life. "It was terrifying to me to have to think that I was something that I knew nothing about, so I immediately pushed it away and tried to not think about it." But Connor admitted he couldn't ignore what he felt and says he became depressed during his second year at university. "As anyone who's gone through this knows, you can't not think about it. "I was up all night for I can't tell you how many nights, just thinking about this. I was scared of it, I never told anyone. "I tried to avoid it at high school by dating girls. All I wanted to be was like everyone else... but I would feel nothing. "I felt so isolated... and it wasn't until my sophomore in college until I really thought about it." He says after telling a friend at university, he then told his friends, parents and siblings. "They didn't look at me differently, they didn't treat me differently" he said. "Everyone was so great. They just said, 'OK,' like it was no big deal. "This whole thing that I had built up inside me to be this huge deal for 22 years, wasn't. "In just one year I've honestly felt like I am so happy with who I am." Connor's fans also rallied round the star with hashtags like #weloveyouconnor and #proudofconnor trending in the US. However, some of his female followers said on Twitter that they were upset that they wouldn't be able to marry him. Connor Franta joined YouTube in 2010. His videos include Walking Around Naked, Dirty Habits, Getting Over Someone and 5 Ways To Get Your Crush To Like You Back. Follow @BBCNewsbeat on Twitter and Radio1Newsbeat on YouTube

Summary: YouTube star Connor Franta has revealed to his fans that he is gay.


The comedian used insulting language on the Channel 5 dating show, suggesting the Essex resort is filled with "single mothers", The Sun reported. Southend Council and Visit Southend responded on Twitter, suggesting O'Grady "hasn't visited for a while". "Who would help us give him a tour of the best of Southend?" they tweeted. In response, the Gleneagles Guesthouse tweeted an offer of a free night in its "premier suite with unrivalled views of the estuary". O'Grady was reported to have called Southend a "shit hole" on discovering a couple had won a date in the town. In March Channel 5 announced his selection as the host of the updated programme. He was a close friend of the late Cilla Black, who presented the show on ITV during its run from 1985 and 2003. The BBC contacted O'Grady's manager who said Channel 5 would release a statement later.

Summary: TV presenter Paul O'Grady has been invited on a tour of Southend-on-Sea after reportedly lambasting it during filming of the programme Blind Date.


The 26-year-old fly-half has agreed a new deal which could keep him in Wales until the 2019 World Cup. Williams, who played 100 times for Wales, believes it will help Ospreys keep and recruit players. "It's fabulous news for Welsh rugby and the Ospreys in particular," he said on BBC Wales' Scrum V TV programme. "Not only is Dan committing himself to Wales for the next four years, but it helps the Ospreys with recruitment for the next couple of seasons. "If players were looking to sign and come to the Ospreys if they can see Dan Biggar is going to be there for the next three or four seasons that helps them as well." Biggar's current deal was due to expire at the end of this season. He is the first of Wales' 17 dually contracted players to re-sign on the deals which are 60% funded by the WRU and 40% by the region. In addition to potentially attracting new players to the region, Biggar's decision to stay may help negotiations with his Ospreys and Wales colleagues scrum-half Rhys Webb and second row Alun Wyn Jones. Both players' contracts expire in the summer of 2016, with Ospreys skipper Jones saying in November that he was still weighing up his options. Scarlets are in talks with Wales centre Scott Williams over extending his dual contract, and have secured the return of British and Irish Lions centre Jonathan Davies from Clermont Auvergne next season.

Summary: Dan Biggar's decision to renew his national dual contract is "fabulous" news for Wales and Ospreys, according to Martyn Williams.


Pictures of men kissing the figure, holding her hand and touching her chest and crotch have gone viral on Facebook and other social media. Malaysia is a Muslim-majority country which has seen religious conservatism on the rise in recent years. Shell said the acts went against local culture and its own values. The energy giant, which has more than 950 outlets in Malaysia, said it would not condone the "distasteful and suggestive acts", which it said were "disrespectful". "We urge netizens and members of the public to refrain from sharing these images further", it added, criticising the "extreme behaviour" of the men, The adverts featuring a 25-year-old female employee, dressed in a red T-shirt, black trousers and a black headscarf. The woman told local paper The Star that she felt "humiliated" by the images. "They may just be joking, but I feel humiliated because that is still myself although it is just an image," she said. One man who posted a four-minute video on Facebook of himself kissing the cardboard cutout has reportedly apologised. "I let excitement get the better of me," he told a Malaysian news outlet.

Summary: Shell is removing life-sized cardboard cutouts of a female employee from all of its Malaysian petrol stations after "distasteful" images appeared online.


In a town north of Paris, the two brothers suspected of carrying out the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine had been holed up at a printing warehouse. They have now been killed and their hostage freed. In Paris itself, a gunman holding hostages in a Jewish supermarket has been killed, but a number of hostages also died. Here is what we know about the attackers so far. Two brothers accused of carrying out the massacre at the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday were killed two days later when police stormed the building where they had been holding a hostage. Two men, Said and Cherif Kouachi, had been barricaded in a printing factory in Dammartin-en-Goele, 35km (22 miles) from Paris. Cherif, 32, was jailed in 2008 and had long been known to police for militant Islamist activities, prior to the attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices, which killed 12 people. Cherif, who also went by the name Abu Issen, had been part of the "Buttes-Chaumont network" that helped send would-be jihadists to fight for al-Qaeda in Iraq after the US-UK invasion in 2003. He grew up in an orphanage in the western city of Rennes, where he trained as a fitness coach. In the early 2000s, he joined his elder brother at his home near Paris and worked as a pizza delivery man, media say. Police detained him in 2005 just as he was about to board a plane for Syria - at the time the gateway for jihadists hoping to fight US troops in Iraq. Le Monde reports that, following Cherif's imprisonment between January 2005 and October 2006, he first came into contact with the man who would become his mentor - Djamel Beghal. Beghal was sentenced to 10 years in prison in France in 2001 for his part in a plot to bomb the US embassy in Paris. In 2008, Cherif Kouachi was jailed for three years for his role in sending militants to Iraq, but 18 months of the sentence was suspended. Eric Bade, a neighbour living in Genneviliers, north-west of Paris, described Cherif as "well-behaved, friendly, polite, clean-looking and above all, which is very important, he was willing to help old and disabled people". Speaking to the BBC, Mr Bade said Cherif "wasn't aggressive - he wasn't a crazy zealot, he was a calm person". 'Iraq connections' The brothers had allegedly attended a mosque near the Buttes-Chaumont, an area of northern Paris, where they came under the influence of a radical imam called Farid Benyettou. He reportedly encouraged them to study Islam at his home and at a Muslim centre in their area. A key figure in the Buttes-Chaumont network was Boubaker al-Hakim, a militant linked to al-Qaeda resistance against US forces in Iraq, a French expert on Islamists says. A French court jailed Hakim for seven years in 2008, at the same time as Cherif, along with Farid Benyettou, who got six years. That action broke up the jihadist network they had created. In a blog article (in French) Middle East expert Jean-Pierre Filiu says

Summary: Police in France have brought to an end two hostage stand-offs, killing three attackers.


There may be clashes, but a series of deals between Labour and the government have defused most of the big problems in advance. I've lost count of the number of times Labour's point person, Keir Starmer uttered the words: "I am grateful for that indication," as the Security Minister John Hayes announced changes. Today's big compromise announcement will be the composition and remit of the panel which will assess the operational case for the powers, under the leadership of the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, David Anderson QC. This matters because the panel have to report by the time the bill reaches committee stage in the House of Lords, and if they called for significant changes that would be pretty hard for ministers to resist. That follows on from the government accepting special protections for Trade Unions and from a government "manuscript amendment" on the role of the "Judicial Commissioners" who would co-sign warrants for investigatory powers - which would allow them to scrutinise the facts of the case, not just the reasonableness of the process by which a warrant was issued. In both cases Labour got pretty much everything they asked for. Further compromise may well emerge on the issue of keeping internet connection records and the level of access to them, and on the protection of medical records. Protection of journalists and their sources seems a tougher issue - although some suspect that the government would like a few compromise-able issues in its back pocket, so that it can throw a few bones to their lordships, when the bill is considered in detail in the Upper House. I suspect Labour will probably vote for the bill at tonight's third reading - perhaps with a few reservations, while the SNP and probably the Lib Dems will oppose. And then the action switches to the Lords.

Summary: Day two of MPs' detailed consideration of the Investigatory Powers Bill - and the issues of the day should be the retention of internet connection records and protection of medical records and journalistic privilege.


It said it plans to replace them with less obtrusive surveillance. However Muslim leaders have called on worshippers to continue boycotting the sacred compound for now. There were deadly clashes after the metal detectors were set up, which Palestinians saw as an Israeli attempt to assert control over the site. Israel said they were necessary to prevent weapons being smuggled in. It followed the killing on 14 July of two Israeli policemen by Israeli-Arab gunmen, who police say had hidden their weapons on the hilltop site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and Muslims as Haram al-Sharif. The Israeli prime minister's office said the state security bodies had recommended replacing the metal detectors with "advanced technologies and other means". It said the new, unspecified, measures, costing 100m shekels ($28m; Â£21m), would be put in place over the next six months. Until then, extra police would be deployed around the site, it added. However, the Muslim body which oversees the holy compound, the Waqf, called on worshippers to stay away from the site until it advised otherwise. Many Palestinians had been refusing to visit the complex as long as the metal detectors were there, holding prayers in the street outside the Old City instead. Tom Bateman, BBC Jerusalem correspondent The crisis at this revered site was about much more than the existence of the airport-style gates and electronics of the metal detectors themselves. For Palestinians, their installation symbolised what they saw as an attempt by Israel to assert further control over the site of their holy shrine in occupied East Jerusalem - the mosque that also acts as a powerful symbol of their national aspiration. For Israel's government, the move represented the need to secure what one minister called "the most sensitive location on Earth" - Judaism's most holy place - after the murder of two Israeli police officers close by. Leaders will have felt pressure from within their own constituencies not to be seen to back down. International calls for a solution have added to the pressure on both sides - which were dealing with complex internal politics too - but it is still not clear this crisis has been entirely resolved. The installation of the metal detectors the day after the police were killed drew angry protests from Palestinians and days of clashes with Israeli security forces. The violence left four Palestinians dead in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, while three Israeli civilians were stabbed to death by a Palestinian who had said he was avenging Israeli measures at the holy site. On Monday the UN's Middle East envoy warned of "potential catastrophic costs" even beyond the region if the issue was not resolved by Friday, when Muslims traditionally flock to the site for prayers. There is speculation that Israel agreed to remove the metal detectors in return for Jordan letting Israeli embassy staff leave the country following a diplomatic stand-off. Jordanian authorities wanted to question an Israeli security guard who Israel said shot dead a Jordanian who had attacked him with a screwdriver in a residence next

Summary: Israel has removed metal detectors from outside a holy site in East Jerusalem after uproar from Palestinians over their recent introduction.


The General Court of the European Union said there were "internal inconsistencies" in the Commission's 2010 decision. Of the firms, Air France was fined the largest amount - €182.9m - while KLM was fined €127.2m. The two carriers merged to form Air France-KLM in 2004. Other carriers involved were Air Canada, Martinair, British Airways, Cargolux, Cathay Pacific Airways, Japan Airlines, LAN Chile, Qantas, SAS and Singapore Airlines. Lufthansa escaped a sanction after providing information to the Commission. The court said that the European Commission had not been clear enough in demonstrating an unambiguous "single and continuous infringement" by the carriers. Instead, the Commission had found four infringements which it had attributed directly to the carriers on particular routes, the court said. "Internal inconsistencies" in the decision could infringe the airline's rights of defence, the court added. Some of the carriers had said that the decision "did not allow them to determine the nature and scope of the infringement or infringements that they were alleged to have committed".

Summary: Europe's second-highest court has backed a challenge by 11 airlines against an €800m (£583m) European Commission freight cartel fine.


The public vote, which is called a referendum, will happen on Thursday 23 June 2016. Here is Newsround's guide to what has been going on between the UK and the European Union. Back in 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron promised that if his political party, the Conservatives, won the next general election, then he would let voters have their say on whether or not the UK should stay in or leave the European Union. Last year, they won the election so it's all systems go. A referendum is a vote in which all adults can take part, normally giving a "Yes" or "No" answer to a question. Whichever side gets more than half of the votes wins. The European Union, or EU, is a group of 28 countries in Europe whose governments work together. It began after World War Two with the idea that the best chance of stopping another war was by countries working more closely together. It's a bit like a club. To join you have to agree to follow the rules and in return you get certain benefits. Each country has to pay money to be a member, which they mostly do through taxes. The EU uses the money to change the way people live and do business in Europe. It has its own parliament, which is made up of politicians called Members of the European Parliament. They are elected by people who live in European Union countries. One of the main jobs of the parliament is to change, approve or reject laws that apply to all EU countries. 1957: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Luxembourg 1973: Denmark, Ireland and the UK 1981: Greece 1986: Portugal and Spain 1995: Austria, Finland and Sweden 2004: Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta and Cyprus 2007: Bulgaria and Romania 2013: Croatia One major reason the European Union was set up is trade: to make it easier for countries to buy and sell things to each other. Certain rules to do with immigration have been relaxed too - so people from EU countries can move around more freely inside the Union. EU laws affect many areas of our lives - like how many hours we're allowed to work in a week, health and safety rules, and even how many fish we're allowed to catch. For the 40 years that the UK's been a member of the EU, there's been a debate about our role within it. Some feel being part of this bigger club makes the UK richer and more important. Others argue that the EU takes power away from Britain. They feel that people who aren't British shouldn't be making laws for this country. They also feel it costs Britain too much money. The question is always important in any referendum. The question for voters will be "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?" There are many reasons, but a big one is that some people believe Britain is being held back by the EU, which

Summary: The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has said people should be able to vote on whether the UK should be a member of the European Union (EU).


Rother District Council said the temporary RNLI lifeguard service would "reassure the public and advise on safety" at the East Sussex beach. It follows the deaths on Wednesday of the five men in their teens and 20s from south-east London. Relatives have criticised the lack of lifeguards at Camber. The men who died have been named by police as: Last month, 19-year-old Brazilian Gustavo Silva Da Cruz also died while swimming in the sea at Camber. Rother councillor Sally-Ann Hart said safety was under constant review but Camber had been categorised as a safe beach. "Having said that, the RNLI are providing a temporary service this weekend. "They are redeploying services from other beaches around the country to provide reassurance to visitors and holidaymakers in view of the recent tragedies, because they are horrendous. "It might well be that lifeguards may be deployed in the future when all the evidence is looked at as to what caused these deaths." Rother council previously said that beach patrols were on duty to advise beachgoers of potential dangers. But Mr Ravi's sister Mayura, 17, said the family was angry the stretch of beach where the men died had not been blocked off following Mr Da Cruz's death. Mr Ravi's brother Ajirthan, 19, said: "There weren't any lifeguards cruising around. "Because they would have quickly noticed these boys drowning, and could have at least save their lives." An online petition calling for lifeguards at Camber Sands has been signed by more than 7,000 people. The RNLI said the council had accepted its offer to provide five or six lifeguards on Saturday, Sunday and Monday between 09:00 and 18:00 BST who would work alongside the Rother beach patrols. The charity has said the five men could have got into trouble after failing to realise how quickly the tide would come in. It said it believed all five men fell into deep channels of water between sand-bars - mounds of sand created by wave and tide activity - which had been made deeper with the weekend storms. A sand-bar is a submerged or partly exposed ridge of sand or other sediment built up by currents in coastal waters that occur where waves break. They are usually made up of sand but can also involve other granular materials, such as shingle or even boulders. They are most pronounced in the heavy surf caused by storms. Sand-bars are the most common cause of rip currents, which are generated by waves breaking over them. The RNLI said that the sand-bars at Camber Sands were three feet deep and had been made deeper by the weekend storms. Satellite images of the area give an idea of how the sandbars create an uneven sea floor.

Summary: Lifeguards are to be deployed over the bank holiday weekend at Camber Sands, where five friends died during a day trip to the coast.


It will add an extra 600 seats a day for commuters into the Welsh capital after being criticised for having too many overcrowded trains. Arriva Trains Wales, whose Wales and Borders franchise expires in 2018, is adding morning weekday services into Cardiff Central from Barry and Radyr. Economy minister Ken Skates had said Arriva's profits were "too high." The Wales and Borders franchise - which is one of the UK's most heavily subsidised, receiving between Â£110m-Â£160m a year - has seen passenger numbers rise from 18 million in 2003 to 30 million. About 265,000 people use Cardiff Central station weekly and a BBC investigation found overcrowding in Cardiff stations during the morning commute was rising at a faster rate than anywhere else outside London, according to figures from the Department for Transport. Arriva Trains Wales now plans to add extra capacity and extra trains from 22 May on the following routes Arriva Trains Wales said the additional trains were "subject to railway approval processes" but the announcement is "one of the most significant improvements to valleys commuters in a decade". It said to implement the changes, the operator "needed to remove one midday Penarth service and one midday Barry service". The firm has a zero growth contract - which means it has the same number of trains it had when it began operations in 2003. It said the additions "would not have been possible" without Network Rail's recent Â£300m signalling upgrade works and new platform eight at Cardiff Central. "This is one of the most significant improvements to valleys commuters in a decade, since the opening of the Ebbw Vale line," said Arriva Trains Wales customer services director, Lynne Milligan. "With only a limited number of trains in our fleet and the lack of availability in the UK we have had to work hard to get the most from what we've got." Network Rail Wales said "more trains are travelling through Cardiff than ever before".

Summary: Capacity on the "busiest trains" into Cardiff will double from May, Arriva Trains Wales has said.


Berahino, who apologised on Friday for threatening to go on strike, scored the third in a 3-2 win over Crystal Palace. It was the 22-year-old's first goal in the Premier League since October. "If you take Kane out of Tottenham's team or Vardy out of Leicester's, they leave massive holes. Saido is as good for us as they are," Pulis said. "When Saido and Salomon Rondon, play together they are handful and we haven't had that for half a season." Following his threat not to play for the Baggies again under chairman Jeremy Peace after a potential move to Spurs fell through, Berahino spent three-and-a-half months out of the starting line-up, returning to the first-team last weekend in the win at Everton. And, after early goals by Craig Gardner and Craig Dawson, his effort proved the difference as he superbly volleyed in Stephane Sessegnon's diagonal ball before Connor Wickham's double hauled Palace back into the match. Berahino, who has scored three times in the FA Cup since the new year, also hit the bar while the score was 3-1. After a seventh goal of the season, Berahino said his link-up play with fellow striker Rondon had played a key part in the victory. "We've been working hard at trying to link up, today we clicked and it's a good sign," he said. "I've been through a lot this season but I've put the past behind me. I was just out there enjoying myself. You just want to go out and show what you're about." The game against Palace also saw the club rally around Chris Brunt, who was struck by a coin thrown from a Baggies fan in the loss to Reading last weekend. Supporters collected money for a charity of the Northern Irish international's choosing and sang his name during the 11th minute of the match to correspond with his shirt number. Unfortunately for Brunt, he had to be taken off just before half-time with what looked like a serious knee injury, but Pulis said the whole episode had brought the club together. "If the supporters want to boo and moan, they have a right to, the players accept that," Pulis said. "But you can't accept throwing stuff at players. "It's a wonderful football club, and [the incident] most probably brought fans all together to support the team and the club. They think the world of it." On Brunt's injury, Pulis added: "It's a disappointment for us because he's a good player. He could be out for a while."

Summary: Striker Saido Berahino is as important to West Brom as Harry Kane is to Tottenham or Jamie Vardy to Leicester, says Baggies boss Tony Pulis.


Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) said Ahmad Mohammed al-Mousa was killed by a group of masked men in the rebel-held city of Idlib on Wednesday. The group have no further details, but at least two other members have been killed by IS militants since 2014. RBSS was honoured last month by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The New York-based organisation condemned Mr Mousa's murder. "Just a few weeks ago, nearly 900 journalists, press freedom advocates, and supporters attending CPJ's International Press Freedom Awards stood together in solidarity with Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently. Today we are all standing together again, this time in mourning," said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. Earlier this year, IS claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Mr Mousa's father and four other Syrians accused of being members of RBSS. In October, RBSS member Ibrahim Abdul Qader was killed by IS militants, along with fellow journalist Fares Hamadi, in south-eastern Turkey. IS subsequently published a video showing one of the men with his throat cut, and warned: "You will not be safe from the knife of the Islamic State. Our hand will reach you wherever you are." RBSS is one of the few independent sources of news left in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, which IS has controlled since August 2013 and serves as the de facto capital of the "caliphate" whose creation the group proclaimed in June 2014.

Summary: Another member of a Syrian activist group that reports on the activities of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in the city of Raqqa has been murdered.


Mudassir Hussain of Gladstone Street, Derby, pleaded guilty to preparing acts of terrorism. Sheffield Crown Court heard the 31-year-old made it to Turkey before his family alerted police, who then had him returned to England. Police said the actions of Hussain's family may well have saved lives, including his own. Hussain left the UK on 6 January and police were notified shortly after. Within days, the Turkish authorities deported Hussain back to the UK where he was arrested and charged. Det Ch Supt Clive Wain, head of the North East Counter Terrorism Unit which led the operation, said: "By pleading guilty Hussain has admitted his intention was to take part in the conflict in Syria and was aware that he may be killed. "We were not aware of Hussain's intentions prior to him travelling and therefore by the time we intervened he had already committed an offence. However by reporting their concerns Hussain's family may well have saved lives, including his own." Hussain was sentenced to five years and three months imprisonment and one year on licence.

Summary: A man who tried to join the fighting in Syria has been jailed for more than five years for a terrorism offence.


The 25-year-old scored 15 goals in 54 appearances for the U's last season, but has not played a game this term. The Stags say the deal contains an option to agree a permanent move. "This is a young man who I first tried to sign when he was scoring goals in the Scottish Premier League for Dundee," manager Steve Evans told the club website. Media playback is not supported on this device Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Summary: Mansfield Town have signed striker Kane Hemmings from League One club Oxford United on a season-long loan.


2 December 2016 Last updated at 18:32 GMT We look back at the 22-year rule of the controversial and outspoken leader.

Summary: Gambia's Yahya Jammeh, who once said he would rule the country for "one billion years", has lost the presidential election to property magnate Adama Barrow.


The work shows that DNA and its chemical cousin RNA are not unique in their ability to encode information and to pass it on through heredity. The work, reported in Science , is promising for future "synthetic biology" and biotechnology efforts. It also hints at the idea that if life exists elsewhere, it could be bound by evolution but not by similar chemistry. In fact, one reason to mimic the functions of DNA and RNA - which helps cells to manufacture proteins - is to determine how they came about at the dawn of life on Earth; many scientists believe that RNA arose first but was preceded by a simpler molecule that performed the same function. However, it has remained unclear if any other molecule can participate in the same unzipping and copying processes that give DNA and RNA their ability to pass on the information they carry in the sequences of their nucleobases - the five chemical group "letters" from which the the two molecules' genetic information is composed. The classic double-helix structure of DNA is like a twisted ladder, where the steps are made from paired nucleobases (RNA is typically a single helix). Philipp Holliger of the UK Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology and a team of colleagues created six different DNA- and RNA-like molecules - xeno-nucleic acids, or XNAs - by replacing not the nucleobases but the sugar groups that make up the sides of the ladder. "There's a lot of chemisty that seeks to build alternative nucleic acids, and people have been modifying the bases, the sugars and the backbone, but what we were focusing on was the type of nucleic acid or polymers that would retain the ability to communicate with the natural DNA," Dr Holliger explained in an interview for the Science podcast. Because the nucleobases themselves were the same as those of DNA and RNA, the resulting molecules were able to join with their natural counterparts. The effect is similar to work recently published in Nature Chemistry , showing that another sugar-substituted DNA analogue could be made to pair up with DNA itself. But the crucial point in creating a full "synthetic genetics" is a set of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA that can not only carry genetic information, but would also allow it to be changed and passed on - evolution and heredity. That requires a set of helper molecules called polymerases, which, once DNA or RNA "unzip" and expose their genetic information, help create new DNA molecules from those instructions. Dr Holliger and his colleagues have developed polymerases that efficiently transcribe the code of their synthetic DNA to natural DNA and then from that back to another synthetic DNA. The process of evolution was encouraged in the lab; one of their DNA analogues was designed to cling to a particular protein or RNA target, those that failed to do so were washed away. As successive copies of those that stuck were made, variations in the genetic code - and the resulting structure the molecules took on - led to ever

Summary: Researchers have succeeded in mimicking the chemistry of life in synthetic versions of DNA and RNA molecules.


The group, who set off from the Canary Islands on 20 December, took 47 days to complete the 3,000-mile row to Antigua. Lee Spencer, Nigel Rogoff, Paddy Gallagher and Cayle Royce finished fifth out of the 26 competing crews. The Talisker Challenge - described as "the world's toughest row" - got off to a difficult start, with severe sea sickness hitting the team. Cayle Royce - 29, from Dartmouth. Suffered serious injuries serving in Afghanistan Paddy Gallagher - 30, from Cambridgeshire. He was injured in Afghanistan while serving with the Irish Guards Nigel Rogoff - 56, from Hereford, who lost his leg while taking part in an RAF parachuting display Lee Spencer - 46, from Yelverton in Devon. He lost a leg when he was struck by debris when he stopped to rescue a seriously injured motorist on the M3 The team, who named their boat Legless, also had to contend with huge waves and sleep deprivation, rowing for two hours on and two hours off, twenty four hours a day. They crossed the finish line in 46 days, 16 hours and 49 minutes. A tweet from Kensington Palace is among the hundreds of messages of congratulations for the crew on social media. The exhausted, but jubilant, skipper Cayle Royce, who lost both his legs in a bomb explosion in Afghanistan, said: "We are so proud to be the first all-amputee team to row an ocean and extremely humbled by the support we have received." He said the message the team wanted to send out was that there was life beyond injury.

Summary: Four ex-serviceman have become the first amputees to row across the Atlantic.


They say it is to avoid people calling in sick, turning off their phones or simply failing to turn up for work. Kabali, the star's latest movie, will be released in some 12,000 screens. One of Asia's highest paid actors, Rajinikanth is considered one of the most bankable stars in India. Even before its release, Kabali, a gangster drama, has raked in some $30m (£20m) in film rights sales. It will also be dubbed in Telugu, Hindi and Malay. Excitement is mounting in southern India as the movie is set for release on Friday. In Chennai and Bangalore, some companies have declared a holiday on Friday and given their employees free tickets for the film. One firm said it had declared a holiday to "avoid piled up leave requests to the HR department". A Bangalore-based company said it did the same to "avoid sick leaves, mobile switch offs and mass bunks". Also: In a career spanning four decades, the 65-year-old actor has starred in more than 170 films, most of them in Tamil language.

Summary: Businesses in southern India have given their employees the day off on Friday so they can attend screenings of a new film starring Tamil cinema superstar Rajinikanth.


The 31-year-old Scot was development driver this year but her position will be expanded in 2015 to include two runs in Friday practice and two tests. The move comes after Wolff impressed in an outing in free practice at the German Grand Prix this year. Media playback is not supported on this device "I'm really happy to be able to carry on and get more time in the car," Wolff told BBC Sport. "That was the most important aspect. "This is another step in the right direction for me. I am delighted Williams are recognising my progression, hard work and that it is performance that counts. "I'm incredibly proud of what the team have achieved this year and I hope we can continue that development next year." Williams have finished third in the constructors' championship this season, a year after suffering the worst season in their history, following a major internal restructuring and a switch from Renault to Mercedes engines. This year, Wolff did a day's test in Barcelona in May, before two planned outings in free practice at the British and German races. Her outing at Silverstone ended after less than a lap when her car suffered engine failure. Media playback is not supported on this device But at Hockenheim she completed a full session and ended up with a time just 0.227 seconds slower than race driver Felipe Massa, an 11-time grand prix winner. Williams's reserve driver Felipe Nasrhas moved to race for Sauber in 2015. It is not clear whether Williams will replace him, but Wolff is in any case expected to be the prime driver for the team at tests other than the race drivers Massa and Valtteri Bottas. Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams added: "Susie continues to impress us with her strong technical knowledge, the feedback she delivers and the performance when she drives the car both on the track and in the simulator. "She has steadily increased her time behind the wheel since she joined us in April 2012 and her appointment as test driver was a natural progression."

Summary: Susie Wolff will stay at the Williams team next season in an enhanced role as test driver.


Media playback is not supported on this device On Friday, the Jordanian Al-Qadi family bought a 92% stake in the promotion-chasing League Two team. Rovers sit sixth in the table after coming from behind to beat Morecambe 2-1 on Saturday. "If they want to sack me, they want to sack me, but as it stands at the minute the owner's fully behind me," Clarke, 38, told BBC Points West. "I don't fear for my job - why fear for my job? As soon as you're a manager and you start fearing for your job, you're out the door. "What I will say is that I have it a certain way. I'm the manager, I pick the team, I pick the players that come into the club and the new owners are embracing that." The Pirates are five points outside the League Two automatic promotion places, having secured their return to the Football League last May. But Clarke, who replaced John Ward as Rovers manager in March 2014, said he did not find out about the takeover until the morning the deal was announced. "We never knew about a takeover," he said. "You hear rumours and all the bits and pieces, but we found out about this on Friday morning and I'm supposed to be preparing my team. "It's great what the owners have been saying and how the club's going to move forward, it's great for the supporters. But on the back of that, I've got to manage that. "I've got staff who are thinking: 'Well, what's going to happen with my job?' You've always got people that are concerned about their jobs."

Summary: Bristol Rovers boss Darrell Clarke says he is not worried about losing his job following the club's recent takeover.


David McGoldrick volleyed in his first goal since August to put Ipswich ahead. Revell, who recently saved a penalty as an emergency goalkeeper against Preston, levelled from the spot. Brett Pitman's glancing header restored Ipswich's lead, and Revell poked home Josh Murphy's free-kick to equalise before Varney's header sealed victory. Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy: "It was exciting for both sets of fans but frustrating for me. "We have already started thinking about next season - that is an ongoing process." MK Dons manager Karl Robinson: "It was disappointing for us but it summed up our whole season. We were good but also poor in certain key areas. "It has been a massive learning curve. Some of these players deserve to be in the Championship but some don't and that is why we are where we are."

Summary: Luke Varney's late winner secured Ipswich's first win in eight games, despite Alex Revell's brace for already-relegated MK Dons.


The list, topped by Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon identifies women who have had an "exceptionally large impact". Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star Jenner, formerly known as Bruce, is at number seven. She revealed her transition to Caitlyn on the cover of Vanity Fair last month. The former Olympian, whose famous children include step-daughter Kim Kardashian and daughter Kendall Jenner, is honoured for bringing the experience of being a trans woman to a global audience. Both the Vanity Fair photoshoot and the ensuing #CallMeCaitlyn hashtag adopted by many fans on Twitter generated huge publicity. Actress, director and humanitarian campaigner Jolie made number three on the list, which was revealed on BBC Radio 4, for "using her celebrity to impressive ends" and the "Angelina-effect". The term was coined after the actress revealed her genetic predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer, sparking other women to seek out testing. Jolie has spoken openly about her double mastectomy and having her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to prevent cancer. The Guardian's first female editor Katherine Viner was at number four on the list, just weeks after taking up the job, while Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue, was at number two. Whistles chief executive Jane Shepherdson, who was on the judging panel, said the editor "influences the world in what to wear, how to look, and who to celebrate. "Like the captain of almost any other industry, Wintour's word is almost law." The list was counted down during a special Woman's Hour show from the BBC Radio Theatre, hosted by presenters Jane Garvey and Jenni Murray. The panel of judges, headed up by journalist and broadcaster Emma Barnett and including human rights lawyer Helena Kennedy QC and Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney, looked at well-known women's personal ability to influence others. Sturgeon is at number one following the Scottish National Party's performance in this year's general election, winning 56 our of 59 possible seats in Scotland. Though she didn't stand as a candidate, the judges called Sturgeon "the woman of the moment in terms of influence and hard power". Singer, songwriter and music video director Sia made number six, having written for Beyonce, Rihanna, Jessie J and Katy Perry and achieving solo success with hits like Chandelier. "It is a secret to most how much of a part of the pop music eco-system Sia actually is," said Cairney, adding, "all the while remaining faceless in an industry so much based on, well, face." Woman's Hour Power List 2015 - Top 10 influencers 1. Nicola Sturgeon - leader of the SNP 2. Anna Wintour - editor-in-chief of American Vogue 3. Angelina Jolie - actor, director and humanitarian ambassador 4. Katharine Viner - editor of The Guardian 5. Camilla Cavendish - director of Downing Street Policy Unit 6. Sia - singer, songwriter and music video director 7. Caitlyn Jenner - high profile trans woman 8. Karen Blackett, CEO, MediaCom UK 9. Zanny Minton Beddoes - editor-in-chief of The Economist 10. Sara Khan - co-founder of Inspire Speaking about Jenner's inclusion in this year's top 10, Daily Mail columnist

Summary: Trans woman Caitlyn Jenner has made this year's Woman's Hour Power List of top 10 influencers, alongside Angelina Jolie, singer Sia and Anna Wintour.


The Briton finished more than two minutes ahead of Poland's Anna Harkowska in Nottwil, Switzerland. Storey can win a 17th title when she rides in Saturday's road race. "It's a massive relief to win," said the 37-year-old, who is targeting further Paralympic success at next year's Games in Rio de Janeiro. Storey is Britain's most decorated female Paralympian with 22 medals. She has won 11 gold, eight silver and three bronze medals in both cycling and swimming across six Paralympics. She won four golds at the 2012 Games in London and has now won 21 world titles across both sports. Storey began her sporting career in the pool, winning six medals at the 1992 Paralympics before switching to cycling in 2005.

Summary: Dame Sarah Storey claimed the 16th world title of her cycling career with gold in the time trial at the Para-cycling Road World Championships.


The secretary of state was, by all accounts, a member of the "Remain Campaign" lobbying against a US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. So President Trump's "Climate Brexit" was a blow to him - in an ironic twist the fossil fuel company he used to head supports the accord while the government he now represents does not. It was also a blow to the State Department, and to diplomacy. How much of a personal setback is not clear because on this, as on other issues, Tillerson kept a low profile. Twenty-four hours after the decision, the only comment he'd made was an aside at a photo-opportunity. He declared that the US would continue its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and appealed for partners to keep things "in perspective". Tillerson had previously said the US should "maintain its seat at the table" on international climate conversations, a sensible position for the nation's top diplomat and one that he reportedly maintained in White House debates on the Paris Agreement. But publicly he showed none of the passion demonstrated by his predecessor, John Kerry, who powered negotiations on the deal. It seems the president's daughter, Ivanka, took the lead in fighting the corner for the Remainers. And the role of super-engaged interlocutor apparently fell to the climate change sceptic in the administration, Environment Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, who spoke at the Rose Garden ceremony. Mr Tillerson did not attend, whether out of resignation or as an everyday-act-of-resistance, we don't know. A State Department official said only that he was in his office and "maintained his schedule, preparing for his trip today to Australia and New Zealand". No doubt Pruitt (and his ally, White House adviser Steve Bannon) had an easier task than Tillerson, given that he was preaching to a president sympathetic to his economic and nationalist arguments. But the results are another professional blow to the secretary of state. He's already facing a proposed budget cut that looks to gut his department. And the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who has even less diplomatic experience than he does, has forged a parallel foreign policy track from the White House. Clearly, the Paris withdrawal was also bad news for the State Department, which has yet to issue a statement. Where it once straddled the front lines of global climate negotiations, it's now been dropped off the map. The US does remain a member of the UN framework for climate change issues, the UNFCCC, but those meetings have become mostly about the Paris Agreement. Finally, it's a rejection of a monumental diplomatic effort by more than 190 countries over many years to strike all the balances that needed to be struck. "We have now slapped every country in the world in the face," says Todd Stern, the US Special Envoy for Climate Change in the Obama administration. "We've said we know this matters to you a lot, we know this is a huge potentially epic issue for the world, we know that some of you are particularly vulnerable, but we drop out. It's the worst

Summary: Last month when Rex Tillerson tried to translate "America First" into foreign policy terms for a bemused audience of State Department employees, he probably didn't expect it would come to mean "America Alone."


Gary Carter, who was in London to cover the England v New Zealand rugby league match, was found with head injuries in Bethnal Green early on Friday. His wife Gemma said: "He's heavily sedated because they're waiting for the swelling on his brain to go down." James Flanagan 35, of Marsden Street, Kentish Town, has been charged with causing grievous bodily harm. Scotland Yard said it was called to an altercation between two men outside Bethnal Green station at about 01:00 GMT and found 36-year-old Mr Carter, from Greater Manchester, with head injuries. Mrs Carter, who has been married to Gary for four years, said: "I'm trying to stay calm and keep positive and draw on all the support that I'm getting from social media and the family to stay strong for Gaz. "I've just replied to a tweet from Alan Shearer and I'm getting them from lots of rugby league players and managers. They're coming from all over the world. It's amazing and it really lifts us. It just goes to show how well-respected he is." Former Newcastle United and England footballer Shearer tweeted: "Best wishes to @garyCarter_1979 for a full recovery after suffering an awful attack last week." Mr Carter was admitted to the Royal London Hospital on Friday and immediately taken to surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. The freelance sports journalist had travelled from Manchester to London on Thursday to report on Saturday's England's v New Zealand game game at the Olympic Stadium. Mrs Carter said she had last spoken to him after he had arrived in the capital. She said: "He texted me a picture and apologised for having to work away all the time and that was the last I heard from him. "A police woman knocked on the door at about 02:20 and she said he had been involved in an incident. We drove straight down and I was saying prayers repeatedly. " Mr Carter, a journalist since leaving school, often works for The Sun. His wife said: "He absolutely loves his job and rugby league with a passion. I'm hoping next week I'll be able to play the radio and some commentary to him." Following England's defeat national coach Steve McNamara said: "The England team sends its best wishes to him and his family and hope he makes a full and speedy recovery." England and Wigan Warriors player Sam Tomkins also tweeted: "He's a good guy who Iv[e] always enjoyed working with. We're all supporting him." A 22-year-old man was also arrested in connection with the incident on suspicion of affray towards attending paramedics. He has been bailed.

Summary: The wife of a journalist attacked outside a Tube station has been told to take his recovery "an hour at a time".


South Wales Police officers were called to an address in Pencoed, Bridgend, at 17:30 BST on Saturday. The man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned at Queens Road police station, Bridgend. Police are appealing for anyone with information to call the incident room on 01656 306099 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

Summary: A 43-year-old man has been arrested over the death of a 67-year-old woman in south Wales.


Centre O'Driscoll had been a doubt because of a calf problem while fly-half Sexton limped out of the Australia defeat with a hamstring injury. Gordon D'Arcy is recalled at inside centre to resume his long-standing partnership with O'Driscoll. Conor Murray returns at scrum-half for Sunday's game while Dave Kearney gets his first start on the left wing Media playback is not supported on this device Kearney replaces Fergus McFadden who will be out for several weeks after fracturing a bone in his hand against the Wallabies. Sexton had been told by head coach Joe Schmidt that he had to train fully in Friday's session to warrant selection for the daunting test of hosting the world champions, who are unbeaten in 2013. The 28-year-old Racing Metro player came through that challenge, to retain his starting berth after limping out of the 32-15 Australia defeat at half-time. Former captain Brian O'Driscoll has beaten his continuing calf trouble to line up in midfield, where he will equal Ronan O'Gara's all-time Ireland caps record of 128. It will be the 34-year-old's last match against the All Blacks before retiring at the end of the season. Ireland have never beaten the All Blacks, with O'Driscoll on the losing side in 12 meetings. However, coach Schmidt insisted: "In any two horse race, there are no certainties. "It would take an exceptional performance because the All Blacks have proven very resilient as well as being a class side. "We have worked hard defensively and there are even more threats in the repertoire of the All Blacks than the Australians so we are going to have to be not just better, but a lot better." New Zealand have made several changes from the team which beat England last weekend. Aaron Cruden starts instead of fly-half Dan Carter, who went off injured at Twickenham, while Cory Jane returns on the wing. Prop Tony Woodcock misses out because of injury as Charlie Faumuina, Andrew Hore, Wyatt Crockett form a refreshed front row. Ireland: R Kearney, T Bowe, B O'Driscoll, G D'Arcy, D Kearney, J Sexton, C Murray; C Healy, R Best, M Ross, D Toner, P O'Connell (cpt), P O'Mahony, S O'Brien, J Heaslip. New Zealand: I Dagg, C Jane, B Smith, M Nonu, J Savea, A Cruden, A Smith; K Read, R McCaw (cpt), S Luatua, S Whitelock, L Romano, C Faumuina, A Hore, W Crockett.

Summary: Brian O'Driscoll and Jonathan Sexton have recovered from injuries and will play for Ireland against New Zealand.


The discovery was made during work to extend the castle's main shop and ticket office. Historic Scotland said the find would help establish exactly where the defences stood. European experts are believed to have been used to apply the latest Italian military engineering techniques at the castle in the 1540s. They were brought in by Mary of Guise, widow of James V, at a time when intermittent warfare with England made it essential to have fortifications that could protect against heavy artillery in a siege. The defences are shown in a 17th Century engraving by John Slezer. Gordon Ewart, of Kirkdale Archaeology - whose team discovered the walling - said: "We knew the defences would have been in this area, but not exactly where because the Slezer engraving, and remaining military plans, are not entirely accurate. "This is what makes the discovery of physical evidence so important - it helps us identify exactly what existed - and to understand more about what the castle was like in the past." Much was changed at the castle between 1711-14 when the old defences were demolished during a programme of modernisation. Further alterations took place when the esplanade was created in the early 19th Century. Peter Yeoman, from Historic Scotland, said the discovery gave a "tantalising glimpse" of the fortifications created for Mary of Guise and paid for by the French king Henri II. Mr Yeoman said they were probably designed by the Italian engineer Signor Ubaldini, who was working on a similar defensive spur at the time at Edinburgh Castle. He added: "They are of great interest because they were early examples of a changing approach to military engineering, and among the most advanced in the whole of the British isles."

Summary: Archaeologists have found fragments of Stirling Castle's 16th Century outer defences.


Shankaracharya Swaroopanand's comments came two days after the Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra state let women into the inner sanctum. For centuries, the temple had been open only to men. Last month, the Mumbai high court affirmed the right of women to enter and pray inside all temples. Women's activists had led protests demanding entry specifically to the Lord Shani shrine. "Women entered Shani temple's inner sanctum," news agency ANI quoted the 94-year-old as saying on Monday. "The women are worshipping Shani in the temple. By doing so, Shani's eyes would fall on women and this would result in increase of rape incidents." Women were kept out of the Shani Shingnapur temple for nearly 400 years and temple officials, in the past, had claimed that the ban was actually "to protect women since Shani emits radiation which can harm them and cause deformity in a foetus if a pregnant woman enters the temple". Last year, temple priests carried out an elaborate ritual cleansing after a woman managed to gain entry inside and offer prayers. The temple authorities relented after last month's Mumbai high court ruling that women had a fundamental right to enter temples, and said those trying to prevent them would be handed a six-month jail term. Several temples in India preserve the tradition of barring entry to women and in recent months, courts have been considering legal challenges to the policy. Shankaracharya Swaroopanand's statement has caused outrage in India with many taking to social media to criticise him: There were a few messages of support too:

Summary: A Hindu religious leader's comment that allowing women into a shrine devoted to Lord Shani (Saturn) will increase rapes has drawn criticism.


The 37-year-old American has been hired as a linebacker coach for pre-season by Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians. He said it didn't matter if a coach was "the Green Hornet" as long as players felt he or she could help them improve. Welter, who spent 14 seasons as a professional American football player, added: "I'm honoured to be a part of this amazing team." Arians said he had spoken to his squad about Welter and insisted "they were all very cool" with her appointment. He added: "I thought she was the type of person that could handle this in a very positive way for women and open that door. "It's not going to be a distraction in any way." Welter, who has a master's degree in sports psychology, became the first female to play in a non-kicking position in a men's professional league. She was a running back and special teams player for Indoor Football League team Texas Revolution in February 2014. Welter also played as a linebacker for 14 seasons with the Dallas Diamonds in the Women's Football Alliance. She was also the first woman to coach in a men's professional league after training the Revolution last season. Welter's appointment is another significant moment for women's sport and US professional sports. Becky Hammon, an assistant coach for the NBA's San Antonio Spurs last season, served as head coach for the team's developmental summer league team and led them to a championship earlier this month.

Summary: Jen Welter has become the first female coach in the NFL after being appointed by the Arizona Cardinals.


Both 48-hour and 24-hour strikes have already been held on seven Shell-operated platforms. Further action was planned but was put on hold for fresh talks. Wood Group and the Unite and RMT unions said in a statement they had held two full days of constructive discussions which would continue next week. The statement said: "These collaborative discussions have demonstrated a clear, shared understanding of the issues being raised by all parties, plus the challenges facing the North Sea. "We remain focused on reaching a mutually-acceptable outcome, which demonstrates collective leadership in shaping the future of the North Sea." The initial 24-hour strike on 26 July was the first industrial action of its kind in the North Sea in nearly 30 years and was followed by a 48-hour stoppage the following week. The platforms involved are the Curlew, Brent Alpha, Brent Bravo, Brent Charlie, Nelson, Gannet and Shearwater. Aberdeen-based Wood Group provides maintenance and construction to Shell and signed a three-year extension to its contract earlier this year.

Summary: "Constructive" talks have been held between unions and the Wood Group in an ongoing dispute involving offshore workers.


Media playback is unsupported on your device 27 October 2014 Last updated at 07:50 GMT It was held earlier this month in Hunan province, in a mountain range thought to have inspired the floating mountains of Pandora in the Hollywood blockbuster film Avatar. Check it out!

Summary: It might not seem like your idea of fun but dressing like a bat and jumping off the side of a cliff is exactly what a group of wingsuit base jumpers have been doing in China, as part of a downhill sky race.


The 27-year-old will not need surgery after breaking his leg in an innocuous clash with Reds winger Raheem Sterling. Latics boss Roberto Martinez said: "It is not as bad as it could have been." Watson, who spent two nights at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, has now returned home to begin his recovery and will wear a cast for a few weeks. The club are optimistic he will be able to resume training in the new year. Martinez added: "It's still a very serious injury and we need to ensure that Ben is given all the time that he needs to make a full recovery. "The good news is that he won't be out for as long as we initially thought and, with the character that Ben has, he will be able to deal with such an injury." Former England Under-21 international Watson collapsed to the Anfield turf clutching his right leg shortly after the half-hour mark of Saturday's Premier League match. But he waved away the help of a stretcher and limped off with the support of Wigan medical staff. Watson, who joined from Crystal Palace in a £2m deal almost four years ago, had been in and out of the side this season but had started the last three Premier League games. Martinez said: "Ben has just started to put his stamp on the team and he will be missed in the group because of the type of lad he is."

Summary: Wigan midfielder Ben Watson could be back in training within six weeks despite suffering a fractured shin in the 3-0 defeat at Liverpool.


Demba Ba leapt to put the Blues ahead with a deflected shot and Eden Hazard added a second before the break, following up when Ramires hit the bar. Saints created little until Rickie Lambert came off the bench to head home Nathaniel Clyne's cross. Jason Puncheon levelled when he smashed home Luke Shaw's cross and Southampton left with an unlikely draw. Media playback is not supported on this device Chelsea have now won only one out of six domestic games at Stamford Bridge under Benitez and, for the third successive home game, boos rang out at the final whistle. It was easy to understand the home fans' frustrations. This was a game that they seemingly had wrapped up at half-time despite missing several chances but they were rattled by Lambert's introduction and instant impact. Ba could have made sure of the points when he volleyed over in the second half but sloppy defending gave Puncheon room for his explosive finish, which leaves Chelsea 13 points behind leaders Manchester United, with 16 games left. Home: P6 W1 D3 L2 F10 A5 Away: P7 W6 D0 L1 F21 A7 Results in Premier League, FA Cup and Capital One Cup, not including World Club Championship or Champions League. It was only the third time in 90 home matches in the Premier League era that Chelsea had surrendered a 2-0 half-time lead, a slip particularly ill-timed from Benitez's point of view considering the news about Pep Guardiola earlier in the day. The announcement that the long-term Chelsea managerial target is to take charge of Bayern Munich next summer might have been bad news for Blues owner Roman Abramovich, but surely represents a window of opportunity for his interim boss. If Benitez is to stay for longer than the end of this campaign, then results will arguably matter more than the opinion of the fans who have opposed his appointment from the start. At the moment, both are going against him on home turf. Benitez has claimed this is down to the tactics of visiting teams rather than a reaction to the often abusive atmosphere but against Southampton it was poor finishing - and defending - that was to blame. Media playback is not supported on this device Chelsea were comfortable at the break, taking the lead through Ba's instinctive finish from Cesar Azpilicueta's cross and doubling it when Hazard impressively despatched a bouncing ball from the edge of the area after Ramires had struck the bar. But the home side were given a rude awakening when Saints' top scorer Lambert, left on the bench while his side looked to defend deep and counter-attack before half-time, was summoned for a rescue mission. It took Lambert, the leading English scorer in the top division, precisely two minutes and 47 seconds to announce his arrival in the game, powering home his header for his 10th goal of a productive campaign. Chelsea could still have made the points safe, with Ba missing the target completely after he ran on to Juan Mata's superbly clipped pass, but it was Saints who

Summary: Chelsea's poor home record under Rafael Benitez continued as Southampton fought back from 2-0 down to snatch a point.


The Board of Community Health Councils (CHCs) is refusing to say why chief executive Tony Rucinski was suspended. Emails show that before his suspension Dr Rucinski raised concerns the board's chair Mutale Merrill may have been influenced by a government minister to stop him doing media interviews. Ms Merill said she does not accept the emails' content is "factually correct". Dr Rucinski said he has been "instructed not to comment." The organisation describes itself as the "independent voice of patients" in Wales. It and the seven CHCs it oversees had an annual budget in 2015-16 of Â£3.8m. Dr Rucinski was appointed as chief executive of the Board of Community Health Councils in a newly-created role in July 2015. At the time, he told BBC Wales that he had been "put in place to make things happen". He said he wanted CHCs to become a "much more proactive and effective patient voice". Four months later the Welsh Government appointed Ms Merrill as the board's new chair. Dr Rucinski was then suspended in February 2016. Several sources have told BBC Wales that there was tension between Mr Rucinski and Ms Merrill prior to his suspension. In emails written to Ms Merrill before his suspension, obtained by BBC Wales, Mr Rucinski raises concerns about being stopped from doing interviews on a Welsh Government digital health initiative in December 2015 and on a report by the OECD think tank comparing UK health services in February 2016. In the emails Dr Rucinski stated that his job description involved doing media interviews and suggested he felt Ms Merill's instructions to him not to do interviews may have been influenced by a meeting with a Welsh Government minister. He wrote: "I am genuinely concerned about the comments you have relayed from your meeting with the minister." Following his suspension, a board meeting was held in which Ms Merrill appears to try to explain the disagreement over media coverage between her and the chief executive. The minutes state that Ms Merrill said a "media embargo" had "only been imposed on the chief executive regarding this one news item [the OECD story]", and "it was noted that there was some context behind this decision which could not be shared, however the board chair had required the chief executive to provide a briefing prior to the commenting on any issue in order to decide the best approach and deliver the message to the media". "A conversation regarding a need for a media protocol had been discussed with the chief executive," the minutes said. The document also said that the chief executive had shared a text message from Ms Merrill with staff "without her knowledge and without context of previous discussions". Following his suspension Dr Rucinski claimed in an email to the Wales Audit Office in April 2016 that Ms Merrill "informed me verbally that the minister had instructed her to not let me do any further media engagements or public appearances". In that email he also said he believed "the independent voice of patients and the public in Wales has been gagged

Summary: The head of the patients' watchdog has been suspended on full pay since February 2016, BBC Wales understands.


They began the third day 75 runs behind with five first-innings wickets in hand. For them to win on the same evening is not quite unprecedented, but certainly highly unusual, especially in the age of covered pitches. At lunchtime, South Africa were basically level with all 10 wickets intact. It was their opportunity to bat England out of the game. Instead, less than two sessions later, they were beaten. It was incredible. The catalyst for it all was Stuart Broad. As soon as he starts lifting those knees up and running in hard, batsmen are in trouble. Media playback is not supported on this device His 5-1 in 31 balls is the seventh time he has taken five wickets in a single spell of bowling. Those are match-winning performances. He was helped by conditions - the clouds hung around, the floodlights were on all day, the new ball was venomous and brutal. But the bowler still has to put the ball in the right place and, in those circumstances, Broad is a formidable man to face. It wasn't just the deliveries that took wickets that were dangerous - some were flying past the nose, others were crashing into flesh. South Africa will not only be suffering the pain of defeat, but also the bruises of leather on skin. These spells that Broad bowls - The Oval in 2009, Chester-le-Street in 2013, Trent Bridge in 2015 and now here - are symptomatic of his character. If your team is in a situation where someone needs to stand up and be counted, then Broad wants to be that man. He uses all of his 6ft 6in to get bounce, but also swings and seams the ball as well. He's accurate, so builds pressure. On top of that, he loves to get in your face and under your skin. Broad, though, is just one of the players capable of turning a Test for England. In fact, I'm willing to stick my neck out and say that it is unusual for England to be blessed with so many match-winners. Broad, Ben Stokes and Joe Root can all turn the momentum in a session. We know what a fully fit James Anderson is capable of and Steven Finn showed during the Ashes that he can bowl a magic spell. This ability to turn a Test from a position of peril began for England back in the summer. On the first morning against New Zealand at Lord's, England found themselves 30-4, only for Root and Stokes to counter-attack. For years, England had it done to them - think of the havoc that Australia's Adam Gilchrist used to cause. Now, England are doing it to other teams with a great deal of flair and courage. They are a team on the up and one I fancied to beat South Africa, who, in contrast, are a team in decline. The Proteas may have started the series ranked number one, but we knew they were no longer the world's outstanding team. Yes, they have been deprived of Dale Steyn and Vernon

Summary: England's victory in the third Test against South Africa in Johannesburg was quite remarkable.


The raids by 19 RAF Lancaster bombers destroyed two strategically significant German dams and damaged a third. Taken by the Nazi authorities before and after the raids - on 16 and 17 May 1943 - the aerial images are stamped "Secret Command Document". The photographs were sold in Nottingham for Â£2,100 - considerably more than the list price of Â£1,200. As well as the time and date of the images, they also carry a warning forbidding them to be copied. The revolutionary bombs skipped across the lakes behind the dams and showed how precision attacks were possible in an age when most missions were lucky to get within miles of their target. Eight aircraft were lost and 56 of 133 aircrew were killed or captured. An estimated 1,600 people died on the ground. International Autograph Auctions, of Nottingham, offered a set of reconnaissance images showing the Mohne and Edersee dams. Two pairs show the Mohne and Edersee dams before and after the attacks and a fifth image of a reserve dam on the Mohne reservoir shows how part of it had emptied out. Carl Buck, senior researcher at International Autograph Auctions, said: "The usual pictures we see of the dam raids are from photo-reconnaissance Spitfires despatched after the mission or close ups from Germany." Dambusters expert Charles Foster said: "The fascination with the Dambusters themselves is because it combined so many different things which contributed to the war effort - a revolutionary new weapon, supreme airmanship skills and raw courage in pressing home an attack under fire. "The fact that it was then immortalised in what is now regarded as one of the best ever British war films just adds to its mystique."

Summary: A set of rare photographs showing the impact of the Dambusters' "bouncing bomb" raids have been sold at auction.


The device was towed by a Navy bomb disposal team to a detonation site in the Solent, where a controlled explosion was carried out at 08:45 BST. Some trains were halted and early ferries were delayed, following the find on Friday afternoon. Wightlink Ferries said services were now back on schedule. The train line between Portsmouth and Southsea and Portsmouth Harbour has also re-opened. A spokesman for Portsmouth's Queen's Harbour Master said: "We worked very hard to make sure the harbour was not closed. "There were restrictions put in place for public safety and there was a certain amount of disruption to vessels earlier while the torpedo was towed out." Dredging work is being carried out in Portsmouth harbour to allow the the navy's new 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers to dock. Three million cubic metres of sea bed is being removed to deepen and widen a 4 mile (7km) channel. HMS Queen Elizabeth is due to be handed over to the MoD in 2016 ahead of being put into service in 2020.

Summary: A World War II torpedo has been blown up in the sea off the Isle of Wight after being dragged up from the seabed in Portsmouth Harbour.


The baby was found alone and abandoned at about 15:30 local time on Friday on Steelstown Road. Police said the child was tended to at the scene by their officers and medical staff. She was taken to Tallaght Hospital. Her condition is described as stable. Police said they were concerned for the welfare of the child's mother and were appealing for her to seek immediate medical treatment and contact them.

Summary: A newborn baby girl has been found close to business premises in Rathcoole, County Dublin.


Mr Chand died in a hospital in Chandigarh after suffering a heart attack on Friday, his son Anuj Saini told AFP news agency. He used rubble from the city's construction to create sculptures at the 20-acre Chandigarh Rock Garden. Mr Chand had no formal education and worked as a road inspector in the city. "I started building this garden as a hobby" in the 1950s, he said in an interview with AFP in December. "I had many ideas, I was thinking all the time... I saw beauty and art in what people said was junk." The rock garden was opened in 1976 and it now attracts hundreds of visitors a day. "He passed away a little after midnight. He had been in hospital for the past few days due to ill health," said Mr Saini. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the tributes, saying Mr Chand would "always be remembered for his artistic genius".

Summary: Indian artist Nek Chand who created a famous garden of sculptures in the northern city of Chandigarh has died, aged 90.


The 37-year-old, who had already quit one-day and Twenty20 cricket, will finish his international career on home soil, in the second of the three-match Test series against India in August. He announced his decision during the second Test match against Pakistan in Colombo and confirmed he has opted out of the third and final match. "This is my time to call it a day," he said on Saturday. Left-hander Sangakkara is Sri Lanka's highest run scorer and is the fifth-highest Test scorer of all time. Since his Test debut in 2000, he has amassed 12,305 runs from 132 matches, with 38 centuries, 52 fifties and an average of 58.31. Sangakkara played his final T20 international in Sri Lanka's World T20-winning campaign last year and his last ODI in this year's World Cup. He signed for Surrey on a two-year contract in January, having previously played county cricket in England for Warwickshire and Durham.

Summary: Sri Lanka batsman Kumar Sangakkara will retire from Test cricket this summer.


About Â£11m will be spent on the upgrade at the Hearts ground. The current main stand was built in 1919. The club hopes work will begin next month. Hearts owner Ann Budge said last month that she hoped the work would be completed in September 2017. The new stand will increase the capacity to more than 7,200 from 4,720. Ms Budge said the current stand was still useable but not up to the standards that fans expect. The plans involve demolishing large sections of the existing main stand, and the ticket offices and shops.

Summary: Plans to rebuild the main stand at Tynecastle football stadium have been approved by Edinburgh city council.


Colin Lochrie, 31, targeted the aircraft on 28 November 2013, causing the pilot to take evasive action. He was caught after officers were alerted and traced Lochrie to his home in the city's west end. Glasgow Sheriff Court heard that the aircraft was piloted by Captain David Traill the day before he died in the Clutha crash. Nine others also died. Jailing Lochrie, Sheriff Bill Totten told him: "I wish to emphasise that this is not a case in which Mr Lochrie made a deliberate attempt to impair the pilot's vision." He told him that he did deliberately shine the laser beam at the helicopter and has accepted his guilt and "there is a clear need to punish anyone who commits this serious crime". Lochrie was jailed for 14 months, reduced from 18 months for pleading guilty. The court heard that the helicopter was targeted at about 16:45 while returning from a task in the Dumbarton area. As it flew over the west end of Glasgow, the pilot and crew, Constables Niall McLaren and David Graham, became aware of the green laser light beam being directed towards the helicopter. The light beam repeatedly illuminated the cockpit and the court was told that Captain Traill took evasive action to avoid his vision being impaired. Footage from the police helicopter was played to the court showing a green laser light being repeatedly shone towards the cockpit. Information about the incident was passed to officers who were on foot patrol locally. They were able to identify a particular room within a tenement block at Cecil Street in the west end of Glasgow. Lochrie answered the door to the police and told them: "I was shining the laser at the helicopter because I wanted to see what it was doing. "It wasn't meant to put people in danger" He handed over the laser pen and was arrested. The court heard that Lochrie bought the pen from an online retailer and used it when he occasionally gave some lectures to friends in relation to Zen Buddhism."

Summary: A man who admitted shining a laser pen at a police helicopter flying over Glasgow has been jailed for 14 months.


The airline had suffered years of financial losses even before it was hit by two major disasters in 2014. Flight MH370 disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and is still missing, while MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine. Mr Mueller said he was leaving due to "changing personal circumstance." He took up his role in May 2015 to oversee a $1.56bn (Â£1.1bn) turnaround plan which included massive job cuts and dropping unprofitable destinations. "We are very disappointed to lose Christoph as CEO but we fully understand his reasons and respect his need to do this," Malaysian Airlines Chairman Md Nor Yusof said. Mr Mueller will continue to serve until September 2016 and will stay on the board as a non-executive director. The carrier has already begun to look for a new chief executive and says it is considering both internal and external candidates. It said that Mueller had set up a strong management team which would be the foundation for a successful turnaround.

Summary: Malaysian Airlines chief executive Christoph Mueller has resigned after less than one year of leading the carrier's reorganising efforts.


Rafael Esquivel admitted receiving bribes in connection with the sale of marketing rights to tournaments. He was among seven officials arrested at a luxury hotel in Switzerland last year. More than 40 individuals and entities have been charged under the probe. Fifa corruption crisis: Key questions answered Who are the indicted Fifa officials? Mr Esquivel - a former president of the Venezuelan Football Federation - was extradited to the US in March and had been due to stand trial with six other defendants next year. He pleaded guilty at the federal court in Brooklyn to racketeering conspiracy, three counts of wire fraud conspiracy and three counts of money laundering conspiracy. He also agreed to hand over more than $16m (Â£13m). The charges related to bribery schemes to market South American club tournament the Copa Libertadores as well as the Copa America, which features national teams. Mr Esquivel faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for each charge. So far 19 people and two companies have pleaded guilty in connection with the US investigation.

Summary: A Venezuelan football official has pleaded guilty to corruption charges in the US as part of the investigation into the sport's world governing body Fifa.