Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy called it a "jihadist attack". It is believed an Islamist cell of at least eight militants was involved. In June 2015, Spain raised its terror alert level to four - one short of the maximum, level five. And since June 2016, Spanish security sources say, police have detained 164 suspected jihadists. The use of a van zig-zagging at high speed through a pedestrian zone recalls the jihadist attacks in London, Berlin and Nice. In December, Spain's interior ministry recommended installing barriers to stop any vehicle being driven into Las Ramblas, but the city did not do so, the ABC daily reports. The Barcelona attack was claimed by so-called Islamic State (IS), though nothing confirms a direct IS link to it yet. Five suspected jihadists were shot dead by police on Thursday night in Cambrils, a town 120km (75 miles) south of Barcelona. Suspects killed in second Spain attack Spain attacks - latest updates Spain attacks: What we know so far In pictures: Barcelona van attack In recent years Spain has intensified its security co-operation with nearby Morocco. There is believed to be a Moroccan connection in the Barcelona case. The van driver is still on the run, but police have arrested four suspects - three Moroccans and a Spaniard from the North African enclave of Melilla. One of the Moroccans was named as 28-year-old Driss Oukabir. The hunt is on for his brother Moussa, thought to have rented the van using Driss's name. Barcelona has just seen Spain's worst attack since the Madrid train bombings of March 2004, in which 191 people died and more than 1,800 were injured. Islamist militants detonated 10 bombs on four commuter trains in the capital, in what remains Europe's bloodiest terror attack this century. Spain has long been a potential target because hundreds of its soldiers are in the international coalition against IS. They are training Iraqi security forces but do not have a combat role. In recent years Spain has seen a home-grown problem of Islamist radicalisation, said political violence expert Javier Argomaniz of St Andrews University. Since 2013 about half of the suspects arrested have been Spanish-born, mostly very young, from poor, marginalised immigrant families, he told the BBC. "There is radicalisation both online and through peer groups, but the online element is very strong," he said. The violent Basque independence campaign waged by Eta for decades led Spain to pour resources into anti-terrorism units. The lack of major terror attacks in Spain since 2004 may be evidence of their professionalism. What is Eta? The last terror attack in Barcelona was the murder of a policeman by Eta militants in 2000. Facing up to the Eta threat saw Spanish anti-terror expertise shared with the French police, who played a key role in sapping the group's capability. Eta is now disarming. The last Eta attack on Spanish soil was in Majorca in 2009, when a car bomb killed two Civil Guard officers. Islamist radicalisation has been concentrated in four areas of Spain in recent years, the Spanish daily El Pais

Summary: Spain was already on high alert for a possible attack when a van smashed into the crowd on Barcelona's famous Las Ramblas boulevard, killing 13 people.


It was the famous Fairfield yard which took the Upper Clyde to great heights and worldwide prominence. The yard was founded in 1864 by William Elder, a talented marine engineer who developed the compound engine which transformed shipbuilding by allowing vessels to use fuel more efficiently and travel further. Under William Pearce from 1888, the company flourished, building luxurious ocean liners, steamers and naval ships for the world. At its peak before World War 1, the Fairfield shipyard was part of a local industry which directly employed 70,000 workers in 19 yards. The largest crane in the world, with a maximum lift capacity of 250 tons, was built at the Govan yard in 1911 and in the following year Fairfield had 12 ships under construction at the same time. The inter-war years saw a gradual decline but Clydeside's largest shipyard still built many famous ships and during wartime it was a major builder for the Royal Navy. But after World War 2, the decline set in swiftly and despite a major modernisation programme in the 1950s the yards of the Clyde were unable to compete with new shipbuilding superpowers such as Japan. By 1967 the receivers were called in and it looked as if the end had come for Fairfield and for shipbuilding in Govan. Sean Connery, at the height of his James Bond fame, made a documentary about problems besetting the yard, entitled The Bowler and the Bunnet. Among the footage of a community on the edge of oblivion was Connery riding a bicycle around empty shipyard fabrication sheds. The UK government's response to the crisis was to create the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) in 1968, which had about 8,500 workers in five yards - Fairfield's and Stephens on the south bank, Connel's and Yarrow's on the north bank, and John Brown's at Clydebank. In 1971 UCS went into receivership and was refused a government loan. This led to one of the most famous episodes in industrial history - the work-in. The unions, led by Jimmy Reid and Jimmy Airlie, occupied the yard and made a demand of the then Conservative prime minister Edward Heath for the "right to work". In February 1972, the government agreed to retain two yards, Yarrow at Scotstoun and Fairfield's at Govan. Fairfield's was formed into Govan Shipbuilders in 1972, which was itself later nationalised and subsumed into British Shipbuilders in 1977. The government of Margaret Thatcher broke up British Shipbuilders and denationalised it in 1988, when the former Fairfield yard was sold to the Norwegian Kvaerner group. Kvaerner took the yard through another modernisation programme to enable it to specialise in the construction of liquefied natural gas and chemical tankers. But in the late 1990s, the market became depressed and the yard had to find alternative contracts. The yard passed to BAE Systems in 1999 and has found work over the past decade making destroyers and aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. BAE is a key partner in the construction of the two Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers being built at the Portsmouth yard and

Summary: Scotland was once the shipbuilder to the world and the heart of its industry was sited on the south bank of the River Clyde in the Glasgow district of Govan.


Brahamdagh Bugti told BBC Urdu his party could drop calls for independence if "the Baloch people agree". Mr Bugti, who lives in Switzerland, is accused of leading an armed struggle. Balochistan has seen a long-running conflict between security forces and separatists who want a greater share of the province's natural resources. Brahamdagh Bugti, 34, is regarded as one of the most hardline of the Baloch separatist leaders and has until now been opposed to any rapprochement with the Pakistani state which he has vowed to "fight to the death". His remarks are being viewed as an olive branch to the military and could signal the first softening of attitudes within the separatist movement. Talking to the BBC from his base in Geneva, Mr Bugti said the Pakistani military had already suffered a moral defeat. "What has been the cumulative effect of the last 10 or 15 years of violence, murder, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and body bags? Have the Baloch people changed their minds or has this strengthened their resolve?" He made his remarks in an exclusive interview with the BBC Urdu service on the ninth anniversary of the death of his grandfather Akbar Bugti, a former governor and later separatist leader who was killed in a Pakistani military operation in 2006. The killing ignited the latest wave of the Baloch insurgency which has claimed thousands of lives since. Asked if he might drop demands for a separate Balochistan, as a condition for peace talks to begin, Mr Bugti said: "If our friends, allies, comrades and the Baloch people want this then of course we will be prepared to talk to Pakistan." He denied any contact with Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan who is currently in London where other Baloch leaders are based. "If he wants to meet us we are prepared to meet him. It would be foolish for anyone to refuse a political dialogue if it is offered in the right spirit." Mr Bugti said previous attempts at dialogue had not been serious, and added: "If the fighting continues it will be impossible to hold peace talks and that is why we are calling for an end to the military operation and withdrawal of armed forces from the province. "Only if these demands are met can conditions be ripe for peace talks." Mr Bugti said it was up to the military to make concessions. "We are the persecuted minority in this conflict. It is up to them to tell us what they are prepared to give and what their agenda is. If talks begin we will take to them only what is acceptable to the majority in our ranks. "The army has to stop believing it can solve every problem with force. We don't have a huge army to fight them but nothing will be achieved by this kind of bloodshed." Pakistan blames India for a campaign of sabotage and disruption in Balochistan and has accused it of fuelling the insurgency in the province. Mr Bugti said the military made such allegations to hide its own failures. "If

Summary: A leading Baloch separatist has said he is ready to consider dialogue with Pakistan, as long as the army ends military operations in the province.


These dinoasurs, including the diplodocus, were the biggest to walk the Earth. T. rex would have nipped at the knees of the largest sauropod - Argentinosaurus huinculensis. University of Manchester researchers have now made a digital Argentinosaurus robot to work out how this 80-tonne monster would have moved its vast bulk. The study is published in an issue of PLoS One on "sauropod gigantism". The immense size of sauropods - the long-necked, tree-trunk-legged storybook giants of the Jurassic period - presents a quandary for biologists because they push animal bones and muscles to their limit. This is why researchers have set out to answer some of the big questions about these very big animals, including: How did their muscles and bones support and move their bodies? How did their digestive system process sufficient food? And how high could they have reached with their immensely long necks (much longer, proportionally, than a giraffe's)? "The biggest elephants weigh around six or seven tonnes," said Dr Bill Sellers, of the University of Manchester, who led the digital robot study. "So Argentinosaurus was at least 10 times bigger than the biggest elephant. "As you get bigger your weight goes up by the cube of your height, but the force your muscles can generate only goes up by the square, so your strength-to-weight ratio gets much worse." As with many dinosaurs, the reconstructions of this giant are based on a relatively limited fossilised jigsaw. For Argentinosaurus, only its legs and part of its spine have been unearthed. So controversy has raged over whether it was possible for an animal to be so huge and heavy and still able to walk on land. "Whenever anyone finds a dinosaur, they want it to be the biggest, meanest dinosaur ever, so there might be a temptation to make a reconstruction a bit bigger than it was," Dr Sellers told BBC News. "We wanted to test whether it was a reasonable reconstruction for an animal." To make the digital dinosaur, Dr Sellers and his colleagues scanned a reconstructed skeleton housed at the Carmen Funes municipal museum in Argentina. They were able to map muscles and tendons on to the skeleton using the anatomy of modern animals, including reptiles and birds, as a guide. Then came the difficult part - their digital dinosaur had to learn to walk. This, Dr Sellers said, required a technique called "machine learning". BBC Nature - Dinosaurs "The animal needs to learn how to move the best way it can using the muscles and skeleton we've given it," he said. This took a huge amount of computer processing power, as the simulated dinosaur robot took the information programmed into its virtual muscles and worked out how to use them to walk. The resulting steady march of this digital dinosaur revealed that, to keep its body steady, the movement at its joints had to be very restricted. "This animal is so big that it's right at the limit of what you could cope with as an animal that lives on land," said Dr Sellers. "So things like getting

Summary: In an era of giants, sauropods dwarfed everything.


Hebridean Sea Salt will have its product stocked in Sainbury's 360 UK stores. The Â£180,000 deal is the Lewis-based company's first with a major supermarket. Hebridean Sea Salt makes its product by slowly evaporating water from Loch Erisort and then harvesting salt by hand. Managing director Natalie Crayton said she hoped the deal would allow the business to grow and increase production.

Summary: A Scottish sea salt business on the Western Isles has signed a deal to supply a supermarket chain.


The Scot had already forged a successful karate career, spending six years on the international stage, and then came close to a 2006 Winter Olympic berth in bobsleigh, before winning rowing gold at the London 2012 Paralympics. But now Smith wants to represent Great Britain in a fourth different sport - and hit the road at Rio 2016 as a cyclist. Born with a club foot, he had to learn to walk in special plaster casts, before undergoing emergency spinal surgery in 2010, meaning he had to learn to walk all over again before going on to win gold at his home Paralympics. Life is all about hurdles - it is how we get over them which defines who we are Now he is preparing for his first serious bike race at the International Para-cycling Cup, a three-day event which starts in Newport, Wales, on Friday. "I hope that it's the start of my journey to Rio," Smith told BBC Radio Berkshire. "To be in Rio in a different sport would be special, so with that in mind my first race is at the velodrome in Wales as a guest rider in the 1km and 4km pursuit." The 35-year-old, who teamed up with Pamela Relph, Naomi Riches, James Roe and cox Lily van den Broecke to win mixed coxed four gold, retired from rowing after London 2012 because of deteriorating health. But Smith, born in Dunfermline and now living in Aviemore, is used to overcoming adversity in pursuit of sporting glory, having been born with both feet facing backwards, and had bones repeatedly broken and reset to correct the problem as a child. Still, he grew up to "fall in love" with karate. After deciding that six years of "beat ups" was enough, Smith gave athletics a try - and he even turned out to have pace to burn. But there are some side effects of having a foot that was nearly amputated at birth. "I set off in athletics and took to the 400m, but due to my feet I couldn't run around the bends and ended up shattering and having stress fractures all through my right foot and up my right leg and into my hips," he said. After being born with a club foot, Smith spent the first three years of his life having his bones broken and reset to correct his foot alignment. By the age of 15, he was competing internationally as a British karate junior. Then, by 2002, he was the brakeman in a British World Cup bobsleigh team. When injury ended his bobsleigh career, he turned to rowing and was soon competing internationally as part of an 'adaptive' mixed coxed four crew. Along with the sports that Smith competed for Great Britain, he also won a shinty junior Scottish title, competed in Austria, France and New Zealand in skiing and claimed a East of Scotland 400m athletics title. "I wasn't massively slow, I was running about 49 seconds in my first year in the sport so I just thought it was just another dream gone.

Summary: Life-threatening surgery, broken bones and a lifetime of obstacles have not stopped Paralympic champion David Smith scrapping, splashing and sliding his way to the top.


They had no phone signal so were only able to contact the emergency services by using Facebook. The coastguard received the alert just before 23:00 GMT on Saturday and said they found the women from the pictures they sent. A police helicopter took them to hospital for treatment. Dawn Petrie, from the coastguard, said weather conditions at the time were not favourable. "Whenever we got the photograph through, there had been heavy rain, it was misty, it was cold, it was damp," she said. "Fortunately that cloud actually cleared to allow the police helicopter to attempt to attend should the ambulance not have been able to reach them."

Summary: Two women, one with a suspected broken leg, have been rescued from Divis Mountain in Belfast.


Barry Joy, 56 and Daniel Timbers, 28, died in a "fierce fire" following an explosion at digger bucket maker Harford Attachments in Norwich in 2015. The coroner said Mr Timbers had been standing in for his father who was ill. Post-mortem examinations said the men died as a result of the effects of fire and inhalation of fumes of combustion. The inquest was told staff heard a "loud noise" at about 09:00 BST on 13 July 2015. "Staff evacuated the premises, with some of them bravely trying to rescue Mr Timbers and Mr Joy," coroner Yvonne Blake told the Norwich inquest. She added, "Their bodies were recovered from the booth afterwards." Paint sprayer Mr Joy, of Spencer Street, Norwich and production operative Daniel Timbers, of Dereham Road, Norwich, were working in one of two booths bought from RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire when the base was closed down. Kenneth Stedman, managing director of Ipswich-based Industrial Powder and Paint Services, advised Harford Attachments on the transaction. The inquest heard the two units were "well kept for their age" and he advised the company that they would be suitable to be set up as they were on the airbase. The coroner said the jury inquest, which is continuing, would hear evidence about training of staff, policies on site and extraction equipment on the paint-spraying booths.

Summary: Two men who died in a paint-spraying booth were so badly burned they could only be identified using their dental records, an inquest has heard.


The gang were responsible for more than 35 thefts across Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Nottingham and Yorkshire over 11 months in 2013. Lincoln Crown Court heard how the gang targeted three major rail improvement projects being delivered by Network Rail, and stole signalling cable. They then stripped the cabling and sold the copper inside. The men targeted sites where Network Rail were carrying out work to upgrade signalling. Gordon Aspden, prosecuting, said "It was organised, well-planned and professional thieving. "Over 11 months between February and December 2013 the defendants were responsible for the large-scale theft of power cables being used in these projects. Most of the thefts took place in isolated locations. "There is a strong suggestion that at least one person with inside information, an employee within the rail network, played some part in providing information to these defendants." He said: "Once cabling was stolen it was stripped of its sheathing. It was a very valuable commodity. It was sold as scrap to dealers. The total cost to Network Rail was in excess of £1m. That figure dwarfs the sums these defendants gained." Mr Aspden said that on one occasion the line between Lincoln and Spalding had to be closed for two days following a theft at Sleaford that cost Network Rail £23,000. Recorder Simon King, passing sentence, told them: "I have no alternative but to impose immediate custodial sentences. This was organised and professional thieving. It was plainly worth your while to engage in that."

Summary: Six men, including five from the same family, have been jailed for conspiracy to steal railway cable.


The Cherries went down 2-1 at Sunderland on Saturday, becoming the first team to lose to the Black Cats in the Premier League this season. Dan Gosling's goal, which gave them the lead, was their first for three games. "It shouldn't be down to a lack of confidence," Howe told BBC Radio Solent. "We scored six goals against Hull prior to these two games." He continued: "A couple of weeks later, if you were to put the chances we've created together into a clip sequence, the fact that we haven't even scored one goal is difficult to take." Bournemouth were stunned by goals for Sunderland from Victor Anichebe and a Jermain Defoe penalty and they were unable to find an equaliser, even against 10 men following Steven Pienaar's dismissal. "We've had enough chances to win three games today," Howe added. "Sometimes football pans out that way and you have to accept it. It's how you move on from that which is key."

Summary: Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe admits his side's sudden lack of confidence in front of goal is "baffling".


The suppliers, one making seats and the other parts used in gearboxes, have stopped delivering to VW in a contract row. Car and parts production has already been halted at four plants and will be stopped at two others later this week. The carmaker said the interruptions in production would affect 27,700 staff. "Although Braunschweig District Court has issued injunctions obliging the suppliers to resume deliveries, the suppliers have not as yet met their obligations. Volkswagen continues its efforts to reach agreement with the suppliers," said the company in a statement. The two suppliers are CarTrim, which makes seats, and ES Automobilguss, which makes cast iron parts used in gearboxes. They are demanding compensation from VW because they say they their incomes were hit when VW cancelled a contract. VW says it is continuing its efforts to reach agreement with the suppliers. The company said the production stoppage would not affect cars that have already been ordered. Any effect on future production will depend on how long the dispute lasts. Some production has already been halted at Wolfsburg, which makes Golfs, and at Zwickau where Golfs and Passats are made. Production is due to begin again later this week. Production has also stopped at Braunschweig, which makes chassis parts and plastic parts, but should start again next Monday. Later this week, production will cease at Salzgitter, which is involved in engine production, and Kassel where transmission and exhaust system production takes place. In what the company said was an unrelated issue, production was halted at Emden, which makes Passats, last week and will resume on Wednesday. In some cases employees have been sent home, in others they are engaged in short-time working on other jobs within the plants. The German Economy Ministry on Monday called on VW and the suppliers end the dispute. "We assume and also expect the companies to solve the sticking issues as soon as possible," Economy Ministry spokesman Andreas Audretsch told journalists during a regular news conference. He added: "It is about thousands of jobs, which could be affected by shorter work hours, and the responsibility to tackle these problems constructively is very high." VW in the UK issued a statement in which it said the company was "working intensively on minimising the acute supply risk, the priority being to maintain production in some areas and to ensure that deliveries can be made to customers. "Volkswagen currently expects to be able to adhere to all confirmed delivery dates," it added.

Summary: Volkswagen has halted production at several plants in Germany, hitting the output of Golf and Passat models amid a dispute with two external suppliers.


Gillian Triggs told a senate committee that she had been asked to resign and offered a new role. The shadow attorney general has written to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) seeking an immediate investigation. The HRC released a report condemning the treatment of children in detention. Their report said that detaining children of asylum seekers violated international human rights law, and called for their release. Speaking to journalists in Sydney on Wednesday, Mr Abbott repeated his earlier statements that the government had lost confidence in Ms Triggs as president of the HRC. "What she does is a matter for her," said Mr Abbott in response to a question about whether she should resign. "As the secretary of the Attorney General's Department has made clear, she was not asked to resign and no inducement has been offered." On Tuesday, Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott launched a scathing attack on the HRC report, saying that it was a "political stitch-up". Earlier in a senate hearing, Ms Triggs said that she had been asked to resign during a meeting on 3 February by the secretary of Attorney General George Brandis' department. "I rejected it out of hand," she said, as quoted by ABC News. Ms Triggs told the hearing that the department's secretary, Chris Moraitis, had said that she would be offered another job with the government. She added that she had been "very shaken and shocked" by the "disgraceful proposal" and had reminded Mr Moraitis that she had a five-year statutory position. In a letter to the AFP commissioner, Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus said: "The attorney general's offer to an independent statutory officer of an inducement to resign her position as president, with the object of affecting the leadership of the [HRC] to avoid political damage to the Abbott government may constitute corrupt and unlawful conduct." ABC News reported that Mr Dreyfus said that Ms Triggs preferred not to use the term "inducement" but that she had made it clear that the resignation request and the offer of a job had been connected. Local media reported that Mr Moraitis has denied asking Ms Triggs to resign but said they had discussed the possibility of her taking on another role. The attorney general admitted to the senate committee that he had lost confidence in Ms Triggs because of the timing of the inquiry into detained children, according to local media. He added that "as a matter of goodwill" he had told Mr Moraitis that he hoped that she could be encouraged to serve the government in other capacities. The HRC report, entitled The Forgotten Children, was published earlier in February. It said a third of detained children had developed mental illnesses of such severity that they required psychiatric treatment. The number of children in detention has fallen under Mr Abbott's government. He has questioned why the HRC did not launch an inquiry when the Labor government was in power and there were almost 2,000 children in detention centres. Successive Australian governments have been criticised over their harsh asylum policies, under which asylum seekers are

Summary: Australia's opposition Labor Party has asked police to investigate whether the government tried to induce the president of the Australian Human Rights Commission (HRC) to resign.


Ormsby had already agreed to join Giants for the 2017 season, having made two appearances during a one-month loan spell with the club in April. The 23-year-old scored 29 tries in 42 games for Warrington, but played in only five games this season. "I wanted to get game time, so it's good for my career to be here," he told Huddersfield's club website.

Summary: Warrington winger Gene Ormsby has joined Super League rivals Huddersfield Giants with immediate effect.


The portraits immortalised the founder of China's Communist Party as a pop art commodity in the vein of Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Campbell soup. Based on a photo in Mao's Little Red Book, the portrait series is among the most famous images of the 20th Century. The auction of this work is expected to fetch as much as $15m (£12.1m). This particular Mao portrait was sold in 2014 in London for £7.6m ($9.4m) and the current owner, who is not identified, has now put it up for sale with Sotheby's in Hong Kong, with the auction expected on 2 April. Warhol began his series of silk-screen portraits of Mao in 1972 when ties between then cold-war foes China and US began to thaw after the historic trip to Beijing by US President Richard Nixon. The photograph that Warhol used for the portrait was one that adorned the inside cover of the so-called Little Red Book, itself an symbol of Chinese communism and a work of propaganda. More than a billion copies are thought to have been published, making the book one of the most widely produced of all time. During Mao's reign it became virtually mandatory to own and carry a copy. Warhol's Mao series led to almost 200 portraits in similar versions and sizes and follows the artist's similar earlier works on Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley in the 1960s. Picking Mao was a departure from his trademark of elevating a banal commodity (as he did with Campbell soup) or illuminating glamour (as he did with Marilyn Monroe). Chairman Mao was a political leader both deeply revered and feared and certainly an unlikely subject for the bold colour contrasts of the Pop Art movement. But it remains a delicate issue in China to this day. In a 2013 exhibition, the first comprehensive survey of Warhol's art in China, the Mao portraits were nowhere to be seen. The debate in Chinese media at the time was around whether the images were showing respect or mockery. Yet Chinese investors are increasingly buying Western art. They are thought to make up one fifth of the world's buyers of art. Downward pressure on the yuan and caps on capital outflows are only adding to the appetite for investing on the global art scene. So Warhol's portrait of China's former Communist leader may yet find its way to China through the workings of global capital markets. Reporting by the BBC's Andreas Illmer.

Summary: An Andy Warhol painting of Chairman Mao is to be auctioned in Hong Kong - and it could go to a Chinese bidder for a "homecoming" of sorts.


Shyam Acharya is accused of stealing a doctor's name and qualifications in India before moving to Australia. He used the credentials to work in local hospitals between 2003 and 2014, New South Wales (NSW) Health said. He also became an Australian citizen. Mr Acharya was never the individual subject of a complaint. He is facing a fine of up to A$30,000 (Â£18,600; $18,700) but is likely to have left Australia, said NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard on Wednesday. "It is quite disturbing that a foreign national could get through our border protection with a false passport and ID based on an Indian citizen who had trained as a doctor," Mr Hazzard said in a statement. Local media reported the false identity was that of Sarang Chitale, a doctor who had previously worked in India. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) notified NSW Health it was investigating Mr Acharya in November last year. He worked at four New South Wales (NSW) public hospitals - two in Sydney, and two on the state's central coast - before his employment ended in 2014. NSW Health deputy secretary Karen Crawshaw said he was classified as a junior doctor, meaning he was supervised by other practitioners. Although never the sole target of a complaint, Mr Acharya was part of a clinical team investigated over the treatment of one patient. Mr Hazzard said he would offer to meet with the patient, who had been told of the alleged deception. Australian police and immigration officials are investigating how Mr Acharya was awarded citizenship. "The belief is that he actually trained in a medical course, possibly in India," Mr Hazzard told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. "Whether he actually completed that qualification is a moot point." NSW Health said the registration process for doctors had undergone significant changes since 2003. Mr Hazzard said he would examine "every aspect of registration" to prevent any future breaches.

Summary: A man who allegedly masqueraded as a doctor in Australian hospitals for over a decade is believed to have left the country, authorities have said.


Tommy Roome, of Rams Grove, Romford, has been accused of murdering Mr Hayden, 27, who was stabbed outside his home in Chadwell Heath on 13 September. Mr Roome was also charged with the attempted murder of Mr Hayden's father, Paul, 46, who was also injured. He is due to appear at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Friday. Mr Hayden died from a stab wound to the thigh a day after he was attacked in Gibbfield Close at about 01:25 BST. Both he and his father were assaulted when they confronted a group of men outside their home following the attempted theft of a moped. The bodyguard had worked in security at ITV and at high-profile events including the marriage between footballer Peter Crouch and model Abbey Clancy. He was also employed by Havering Council. Two other teenagers, aged 16 and 19, were previously arrested over the attack and bailed.

Summary: A 19-year-old man has been charged with the murder of celebrity minder Ricky Hayden, who was stabbed to death in east London.


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Summary: Match reports from Saturday's Scottish Premiership and Championship games.


Matthew Daley, 35, denies murder but has admitted attacking 79-year-old retired solicitor Donald Lock claiming diminished responsibility. Lynda Daley agreed at Lewes Crown Court the day Mr Lock was killed was "the day that all your nightmares came true". Mr Lock was attacked on the A24 at Findon, near Worthing last July. Earlier defence counsel David Howker QC said Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust apologised to Mr Daley's family for having "failed" him in his care and treatment. Mrs Daley told the court her son had many debts and the recent breakdown of his relationship with his girlfriend had left him "distraught". "We were never provided with a proper diagnosis. We were frequently in meetings but we were not listened to," she said. "It's been continual over the last 10 years. In the past 10 years we have pleaded to people, it has been on a regular basis." Mrs Daley told the court the apology from the NHS trust was "10 years too late". She said she feared her son was involved in the killing in Findon when she saw the news on television. When she failed to contact him she drove to the stables where he worked and saw his damaged car. The court heard the family decided to go to Worthing police station and as Mrs Daley was about enter, her son called her saying: "I need to know where you are and that I can trust you." Mr Daley also told her he had done "something really bad or something really wrong. "I killed someone." The court also heard Mr Daley police told a police officer "when I drive, people try and break into my thoughts". He also said: "It's sad that I had to kill someone who was so aggressive to me when I wasn't aggressive at all." Mr Lock was returning from a cycling meet when he was stabbed 39 times during a "ferocious" attack on the A24 at Findon in July. Witnesses have described Mr Daley as being "expressionless" during the attack, as though he was "having a passport photo" taken. Mr Lock was fatally stabbed after he hit the back of Mr Daley's Ford Fusion and then asked why he had braked so abruptly. Jurors have been told that Mr Daley's defence team will claim the defendant may have been acting in self defence because Mr Lock was angry and aggressive . Consultant forensic pathologist Dr Nathaniel Carey said Mr Lock died from a stab wound to the aorta. Stab wounds may have also also been inflicted when the 79-year-old lay dead or dying. The case continues.

Summary: The mother of a man who stabbed a motorist 39 times told a court she "pleaded" with mental health experts to have her son sectioned.


Thermal cameras detected higher temperatures in three adjacent stones at the bottom of the Great Pyramid. Officials said possible causes included the existence of empty areas inside the pyramid, internal air currents, or the use of different building materials. It comes as experts search for hidden chambers within the pyramids. The tombs of the pharaohs Khufu (Kheops), Khafre (Khephren) and Menkaure (Mycerinus) were built in the Fourth Dynasty, about 2613-2494BC. A team of architects and scientists from Egypt, France, Canada and Japan used infrared thermography to survey the pyramids during sunrise, as the sun heats the limestone structures from the outside, as well as at sunset when they cool down. In a statement, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said the experts had "concluded the existence of several thermal anomalies that were observed on all monuments during the heating-up or the cooling-down phases". "To explain such anomalies, a lot of hypotheses and possibilities could be drawn up: presence of voids behind the surface, internal air currents," it added. An "particularly impressive" anomaly was found at ground level on the eastern side of the Great Pyramid, also known as the Pyramid of Khufu, the statement said. "The first row of the pyramid's stones are all uniform, then we come here and find that there's a difference in the formation," Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damati said as he showed reporters the three stones showing higher temperatures. Other thermal anomalies were detected in the upper half of the Great Pyramid. The structure will be the subject of further investigation during the Operation Scan Pyramids project, which began on 25 October and is expected to last until the end of 2016.

Summary: An international team of architects and scientists have observed "thermal anomalies" in the pyramids of Giza, Egyptian antiquities officials say.


Pritchard, a former England Under-21 international, has agreed a four-year deal at Carrow Road. The 23-year-old has scored a total of 20 goals in 100 matches on loan away from White Hart Lane at Peterborough, Swindon, Brentford and West Brom. Jones, 30, has signed a two-year deal after leaving Portsmouth. He has made more than 400 career appearances for clubs including Exeter, Peterborough and Crawley and will fight for a first-team place alongside John Ruddy and Michael McGovern. Pritchard told the club website: "I feel I need to go out and prove myself again in football. I'm 23 now so it's about time I had my own path really." Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

Summary: Norwich City have signed midfielder Alex Pritchard from Tottenham Hotspur for an undisclosed fee and goalkeeper Paul Jones on a free transfer.


Media playback is not supported on this device Qatar's Femi Ogunode was also given the same time, but Gatlin got the nod with France's Jimmy Vicaut third in 9.99. Briton Chijindu Ujah finished eighth in Brussels, in a time of 10.19. American Gatlin, 33, has run personal bests for the 100m and 200m this season but finished runner-up to Usain Bolt in both events in the World Championships. The Jamaican opted to end his season rather than run in Belgium. Gatlin was also due to run in the 200m, but pulled out. That event was won by Ogunode in an impressive 19.97. In one of the races of the night, Dutch 2015 world champion Dafne Schippers beat Olympic champion Allyson Felix to win the 200m in 22.12. Briton Jodie Williams was seventh in 23.34. Williams's compatriot, Paralympic champion Jonnie Peacock, eased to victory in the T44 100m with a time of 10.99. Germany's Felix Streng was second in 11.08, while world record holder Richard Browne was disqualified for a false start. There was more British interest in the 100m hurdles, with Tiffany Porter taking fourth spot in 12.81 behind winner Dawn Harper-Nelson of the USA who clocked 12.63.

Summary: Justin Gatlin was crowned overall Diamond League champion in the 100m after winning the final race of this year's series in 9.98 seconds.


The Belgian, on loan from Manchester United, picked up the injury during Sunderland's 3-2 defeat by Crystal Palace on Saturday. A scan on Tuesday confirmed the 21-year-old has suffered ankle ligament damage. Januzaj has scored once for Sunderland in seven appearances and was sent off against Tottenham earlier this month.

Summary: Sunderland winger Adnan Januzaj has been ruled out for a minimum of six weeks with an ankle injury.


Carbon is the key ingredient for all life on our planet. But how Earth acquired its "volatile elements" - which have low boiling points - such as carbon and sulphur remains a subject of some debate. A team now argues that a collision between Earth and an embryonic planet like Mercury could provide the answer. Details of the work appear in the journal Nature Geoscience. "The challenge is to explain the origin of the volatile elements like carbon that remain outside the core in the mantle portion of our planet," said Rajdeep Dasgupta, a co-author of the study from Rice University in Houston, Texas. According to a widely accepted idea called the Late Veneer Hypothesis, Earth formed from material that was largely devoid of volatiles. These elements, such as carbon, sulphur, nitrogen and hydrogen, were added later on by space rocks after Earth's core had finished forming. "Any of those elements that fell to Earth in meteorites and comets more than about 100 million years after the Solar System formed could have avoided the intense heat of the magma ocean that covered Earth up to that point," said Yuan Li, from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "The problem with that idea is that while it can account for the abundance of many of these elements, there are no known meteorites that would produce the ratio of volatile elements in the silicate portion of our planet." The group had previously published papers showing that if even if carbon had not vaporised into space when the planet was largely molten, it would have ended up in the metallic core of our planet - because the iron-rich alloys there have a strong affinity for carbon. But if this is the case, where did the carbon in the mantle and biosphere come from? The team used laboratory experiments that can recreate the high-pressure and high-temperature conditions that exist deep inside Earth and other rocky planets. The found that one scenario that could reconcile the discrepancies in the carbon-to-sulphur ratio and carbon abundance was an embryonic planet like Mercury colliding with and being absorbed by Earth, early in its history. "Because it's a massive body, the dynamics could work in a way that the core of that planet would go directly to the core of our planet, and the carbon-rich mantle would mix with Earth's mantle," said Dr Dasgupta.

Summary: Much of Earth's life-giving carbon could have been delivered in a planetary collision about 4.4 billion years ago, a theory suggests.


After a dour first period, James Constable's driven effort gave the out-of-form away side a surprise lead. The advantage only lasted three minutes though as Parkin fired home from the centre of the area. With time running out, Parkin scrambled home the winner before the visitors' Ben Strevens was sent off in injury time for spitting. Forest Green assistant Jamie Day told BBC Radio Gloucestershire: Media playback is not supported on this device "It's exciting, it keeps everyone on their toes. I thought we played well, I'm disappointed that we went behind again, like we have done in recent weeks." "We showed character to come back into the game and to then get a winner was first class from the boys." "There's two teams I think fighting it out at the top, so credit to Cheltenham that they've done really well to go to Tranmere and get a result and we've just got to keep going and worry about ourselves."

Summary: Jon Parkin netted a late winner as National League promotion-chasers Forest Green beat 10-man Eastleigh.


One of the few women to receive a mention is Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist who basically discovered radiation and helped apply it in the field of X-rays. She won two Nobel Prizes, in physics and chemistry. Yet even so, she was turned down for membership of the prestigious French Academie des Sciences in 1911, the very year she went on to win her second Nobel Prize. The Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt was heavily criticised for his disparaging remarks about women in science last week, which for some raised the issue of where women stood in the scientific community. The larger truth is that women have made big and important discoveries in science - think of Dorothy Hodgkin, the brilliant crystallographer who mapped the structure of penicillin and went on to be awarded a Nobel Prize in 1964. Hodgkin was the first woman to win the prestigious Copley Medal, and she remains the only British woman to have won a Nobel in the sciences. Yet at the time, the newspapers carried headlines such as "Oxford housewife wins Nobel". But many female scientists in the past were not given the credit they deserved for their achievements. As a result, their names have all but disappeared from public consciousness. Here are just a few. Esther Lederberg, a microbiologist, conducted groundbreaking research in the field of genetics. She developed basic techniques that have gone a long way towards helping scientists understand how genes work. Her work helped her husband, Joshua, win a Nobel prize in 1958, but she was not cited in the award. The British biophysicist Rosalind Franklin was a pioneering X-ray crystallographer. Her image of the DNA molecule was critical to deciphering its structure - one of the biggest and most important scientific breakthroughs of the 20th Century - but it was James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins who received the 1962 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work. Ida Tacke made huge advances in both chemistry and atomic physics. It was she who managed to find two new elements, rhenium and masurium, that Dmitri Mendeleev had predicted would form part of the periodic table. She gets credit in the science books for the discovery of rhenium. But masurium is now known as technetium, the discovery of which is attributed to Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segre. Tacke's evidence was ignored until Perrier and Segre artificially created the element in a laboratory. Tacke is also credited with being the first person to open up the idea of nuclear fission. Lise Meitner's work in nuclear physics led to the discovery of nuclear fission - where atomic nuclei split in two. This laid the groundwork for the atomic bomb. After moving to Berlin in 1907, Meitner collaborated with chemist Otto Hahn over many decades. But Hahn published their findings without including Meitner as a co-author. And he went on to win the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contributions to splitting the atom. Chien-Shiung Wu was one of the most important physicists of the 20th Century. She participated in the

Summary: A quick web search for the world's most famous scientists lists, among others, Galileo, Einstein, Newton, Darwin, Stephen Hawking and Alexander Fleming.


Private rents "eat up" more than 50% of a family's monthly earnings in 23 out of the capital's 33 boroughs. Shelter said the "rent trap" in the private sector leaves families unable to save towards buying a home and urged London's mayor to intervene. Mayor Boris Johnson said: "I think it's very important that we expand the supply available." The report comes after the mayor put out a series of proposals in December to "empower tenants and landlords" in the private rental sector. Shelter's report, based on an online study by YouGov of 1,397 adults in London in February 2012, found up to half (49%) of the people surveyed said they received "poor or very poor value for money from renting, from letting agents or private landlords". A third of families also worried about their contract ending before they are able to move out. Campbell Robb, chief executive of Shelter, said: "The news that renting in the capital is unaffordable isn't a surprise to the families across London who are stuck in the rent trap, unable to save anything towards a home of their own because they are paying out so much each month in rent. "But the fact that rental costs in most areas of London are eating up more than half of family incomes should stop us in our tracks. "Rising rents, the constant threat of eviction, and hidden fees are all par for the course in London's frantic rental market." Mr Johnson said: "I think it's very important that we expand the supply available... we need more on the market altogether. "What I think is less persuasive is the case for some sort of legislation about renting and prices. The difficulty with that we think is it would tend to drive them (landlords) out of the market." The mayor's plans include getting funding from the government's Â£200m equity fund for the construction of new homes.

Summary: Up to 59% of a typical London family's income is spent on rents, a study by housing charity Shelter has revealed.


Mr Yarrington, who served as governor from 1999 to 2005, had been on the run for almost five years. The ex-governor is accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels in return for turning a blind eye to their smuggling activities. A reward of 15m Mexican pesos ($800,000; £650,000) had been offered for information leading to his arrest. Officials did not reveal how they located Mr Yarrington. The attorney-general's office in Mexico said Mr Yarrington would be extradited to his homeland within days. He is also wanted by the United States on charges of money laundering. According to the US indictment, Mr Yarrington allegedly received large bribes from major drug traffickers operating in Tamaulipas, including the Gulf and the Zetas cartels. In return, Mr Yarrington allegedly allowed the cartels "to operate their large-scale, multi-tonne enterprises freely, which included the smuggling of large quantities of drugs to the US for distribution". Prosecutors say the bribes started when Mr Yarrington was running for governor and continued during his time in office, when he allegedly started investing the money in properties across the US border in Texas. The indictment also accuses him of accepting cocaine in exchange for facilitating access to Mexican ports. Before he went on the run, Mr Yarrington, who was a member of the governing PRI party before being expelled, said the charges against him were politically motivated. He was not the only Mexican governor on the run. Former Veracruz governor Javier Duarte, who is wanted on corruption charges, has been missing since October. And in March, the ex-governor of Chihuahua, César Duarte, was declared a fugitive after he disappeared following allegations of corruption. Both were expelled from the PRI party when the charges against them became known.

Summary: Police in Italy have arrested the former governor of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, Tomás Yarrington, 59.


Scotland's animal welfare charity was alerted after the bird was discovered at Kingholm Quay on Monday. The gull was taken to a vets where it had to be put to sleep due to the extent of its injuries. Animal rescue officer Tricia Smith said: "An x-ray confirmed the bird had been shot. "This was a juvenile gull which had been caused a great deal of pain and distress," she said. "While the bird was found on an industrial estate, there are houses nearby and often children playing. "It is very concerning that someone has not only used an airgun to cause harm to an animal but done so near a busy residential area." They asked for anyone with information about the "mindless act of cruelty" to contact them. Get regular updates from the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway via our south of Scotland live page.

Summary: The Scottish SPCA is appealing for information after a young gull was shot near Dumfries.


The meeting, at Mr Putin's summer residence in Sochi, comes at a low point in bilateral relations over the war in Syria and Russia's annexation of Crimea. They are expected to discuss both issues during their meeting - but no breakthroughs are expected. Mr Putin will then meet Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday. Ties between Russia and Germany have worsened since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea in Ukraine, with Germany being a driving force behind the EU sanctions imposed in response. The pair, who are among the most powerful world leaders, have crossed paths at international summits recently. But this meeting - with the official purpose of discussing the G20 summit of world leaders to be held in Hamburg in July - is the first trip Mrs Merkel has made to Russia in two years. Mrs Merkel wants Russia to seek an end to the conflict in Ukraine by using its influence on pro-Russian separatists, and also needs Moscow's co-operation to bring peace to Syria, the BBC correspondent in Berlin, Damien McGuinness, says. But President Putin equally needs Mrs Merkel's support in to lift the EU's sanctions, our correspondent adds. Mr Putin is also keen to hear her opinion of US President Donald Trump, whom she recently met. The pair spoke frequently before the breakdown in communications since 2014, and were said to have a grudging respect for one another. She speaks Russian, having grown up in communist East Germany, and he speaks German, from his years working for the KGB in Dresden in the 1980s. Russian news outlet Tass said the pair would discuss terrorism, the Middle East, and the Minsk agreements on the Ukraine crisis, quoting a Kremlin press source. But both sides have downplayed the prospect of major breakthroughs during their meeting in Sochi. Germany remains critical of Russia's actions in Crimea in 2014, and the two leaders stand opposed on the war in Syria. The German domestic intelligence agency has also accused Russia of being behind a series of cyber attacks on state computer systems. In contrast, Mr Putin's scheduled meeting with the Turkish president the following day comes at a time of increased co-operation between the two nations. While they back opposing sides in Syria's civil war - with Moscow supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Ankara his opponents - the two countries began carrying out joint air strikes against the so-called Islamic State in January. The joint operation came a little over a year after Turkey shot down a Russian military jet, resulting in a crisis in bilateral relations. US President Donald Trump is also scheduled to speak to President Putin by phone on Tuesday, the White House announced Monday night. They are expected to discuss the war in Syria.

Summary: German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet Vladimir Putin in Russia for the first time since 2015.


The Dons boss insisted he would not speak about "speculation" linking him with the job with his side's Scottish Premiership rivals. "They are a strong club with a lot of tradition and there will always be people interested in that," he said. "My concern is for Aberdeen. I am fully focused on my job here." Rangers are seeking a new manager after parting company with Mark Warburton on Friday. Ibrox chairman Dave King has since confirmed that he is willing to consider appointing an interim manager if it allows him time to land his preferred candidate this summer. Under-20 coach Graeme Murty was in charge of the team for Sunday's 2-1 Scottish Cup fifth-round win over Greenock Morton at Ibrox. Asked if he could reassure Aberdeen supporters about his commitment to the Dons, McInnes said: "I think everybody sees how much I love this club and how much I enjoy my job. "The only guarantees and reassurance I can give is that I give everything, the players will give everything. We've got so much to try to achieve here." McInnes was speaking before his side host Motherwell on Wednesday, when they can move three points clear of Rangers in second place in the Premiership. "I've never been one to talk about speculation and rumour and gossip and I don't see why another club's situation affects what I'm doing," said McInnes, who spent five years at Ibrox as a player. "My concern is my team at the minute and I'm really pleased with what we are doing. "And while, up to now, the job has been more than decent and an improvement on what was happening before, I still think there is more to come from us and hopefully we can show that over the course of the rest of the season." Former Rangers manager Alex McLeish is the bookmakers' favourite to be Warburton's successor and said on Sunday that he would find the post difficult to turn down should there be an approach. Frank de Boer, the former Rangers defender who most recently managed Inter Milan, has said he would be interested in the job but would not want to take up a new role until the end of the season. Another former Rangers player, Billy Davies, who last managed Nottingham Forest and is currently without a club, could also be a contender. Rangers would have to pay compensation to Aberdeen should they wish to appoint McInnes, who signed a four-year contract in 2015. On the day defender Andrew Considine signed a contract extension, McInnes indicated that he was looking to the future at Pittodrie. "We have re-signed three players in the last few weeks - delighted we have managed to get Andy committed - and the focus is now back on the league before we play Partick in the cup," added. "We want to win the Scottish Cup and we want to finish second and we have a job on our hands to do both."

Summary: Derek McInnes has stressed that his focus remains on Aberdeen after fielding questions about the managerial vacancy at former club Rangers.


Richards has not played since the 2-0 defeat by Derby County on 27 September, but will return to training before the Boxing Day trip to Brentford. Warnock says Richards has taken longer than expected to return. "I've had lads with broken legs recover quicker than him," he told BBC Wales Sport. "It has been difficult." Warnock, who says he is looking to sign four players in the January transfer window, says Richards has endured a tough time. "Jazz Richards is actually training tomorrow and hopefully he finishes training as well," he said. "I know he will start it and then we will see what happens. "It has been a difficult period for everyone concerned with Jazz. "First of all, it would be nice to see him run. "He hasn't done any training yet, so I can't be happy." Warnock says he had hoped to use Richards as he looks to move Cardiff clear of the Championship relegation zone. "He had a knee problem, then a calf problem and then another calf problem, so I don't know what is around the corner," he added. "It is disappointing really, because I counted on him and it has left us very short in the defensive situation and I have to look elsewhere to make sure I have the numbers. "I like Jazz, I have always liked Jazz, but unfortunately he has not been much use to me. I am sure he is disappointed himself." Warnock also explained that he does not expect to make any attempt to sign 37-year-old Crystal Palace goalkeeper Julian Speroni. Warnock has previously worked with Speroni when he was Eagles boss and has hinted that he could look to bring a goalkeeper to the Cardiff City Stadium in the January transfer window. Cardiff sold captain David Marshall in the summer and replacement Ben Amos made a costly mistake in the 4-3 defeat by Barnsley. But Warnock does not expect Speroni to leave Selhurst Park before he retires. "Julian is a smashing lad, a really good goalkeeper, but he will be at Crystal Palace the rest of his career," he told BBC Wales Sport. "He won't leave there. But there will be other names in the next few weeks."

Summary: Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock says Wales defender Jazz Richards' rehabilitation from injury has been 'disappointing.'


Sarries beat Clermont Auvergne 28-17 at Murrayfield on Saturday to remain on course for an historic 'double-double' of continental and English crowns. Their quest continues with a trip to Exeter in the first of next Saturday's Premiership semi-finals. "If we're hungry enough and humble enough, then there's no reason why we can't get better," McCall said. "The age profile of the group is good and the manner in which we won was encouraging." If they overcome Exeter next Saturday, Saracens will face either Wasps or Leicester in the Premiership final at Twickenham on Saturday 27 May. Saracens winger Chris Ashton opened the scoring in the 13th minute with his 37th try in the competition, setting a new European cup try-scoring record in the process. He raced on to Alex Goode's precise grubber kick for his historic try, and was quick to praise his team-mates when asked about the record. "I won't lie, I'm pretty happy about it," he said. "But I think a lot of it is down to the group I've been playing with the last five years. "It's nice for my name to be up there but a lot of the credit belongs to this club." The former England winger ends his five years at Saracens in the summer to join French Top 14 side Toulon, and he confessed to feeling sad about his departure. "I am going to miss it. I've had five amazing years here," he said. "I've had unbelievable highs and definitely some lows along there. "The support I've had from the players and the coaching staff has been phenomenal, so it will be a sad day when I do leave." Goode scored the try which all but secured Saracens' second European crown and has shone again on the European stage this season. The 28-year-old - like Ashton - has been overlooked by England, with the last of his 21 caps coming in a rare start as full-back against Fiji in 2016. But last season's Premiership player of the season is enjoying club rugby. "We have a young squad and one that is very hungry to keep improving," he said. "It was a joy to be on the field with the rest of the team. "The strength of the group is that we are constantly looking to improve and get better and we never feel like we are the finished article."

Summary: Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall says his side can still improve despite securing back-to-back European titles.


Real politics will inevitably mean concession and compromise after a campaign in which both sides seemed at times to suggest it was a choice between Utopia and Armageddon. Politicians on the Leave side have already candidly admitted that some of their supporters will be 'disappointed' by the deal that emerges. What some heard as promises may prove to be "just a series of possibilities," as Iain Duncan Smith put it yesterday. Osborne: UK in a position of strength Corbyn vows to fight for leadership EU co-operation to 'intensify' - Johnson Follow the latest developments on our live page UK's EU referendum: All you need to know Equally, on the Remain side there is palpable dismay bordering on despair, but politicians must work hard to ensure that frustration and disillusionment can be quickly soothed. Britain has a tough job on and it will be far harder in a climate of bitterness and division. The campaign itself was unedifying to many. The standing of politicians was frighteningly low before the referendum and one suspects their stock will not have been raised by the events of the last few months. The institutions and public servants whose expertise and motives were called into question at times during the campaign are going to be key to guiding Britain through the turbulent times ahead. The British people must have confidence in their system of governance and their precious democracy at this uncertain time. We have proved to be remarkably resilient in the past. We will need the same grit, determination and courage now. Emotions are running high on both sides of the argument and there will be a need for a calm head at the steering wheel as Britain navigates the "bumps in the road". Offering comfort to foreign-born residents that they will be treated fairly and protected from abuse is essential. The same goes for British ethnic minorities. After all the accusations of lying during the campaign, the public must believe now they are being given honest counsel. The process just beginning will not yield speedy benefits. Some will suggest that the very people who are charged with guiding Britain out of the EU are trying to undermine it. There will be anger and bitterness. It will need to be managed carefully.

Summary: Just as the Chancellor spent the morning trying to calm the City, so there will be a need to manage the expectations of the country.


The £15,000 prize was presented to London-born Orr by Woman's Hour's Dame Jenni Murray at a ceremony in London. Author and judge Kei Miller described Disappearances as "a near perfect example of how the short story works". The story about guilt and identity was inspired by Orr watching a solitary man in a cafe while in Argentina. It tells the tale of a retired plastic surgeon who develops a relationship with a local waitress. The shortlist for the competition was made up of five women. Runner-up Claire-Louise Bennett, also a debut writer, received £3,000 in prize money for her story Morning, Noon & Night. The other three shortlisted authors, Mantel, Lavinia Greenlaw and Tahmima Anam, each received £500. Di Speirs, books editor at BBC Radio 4, which broadcasts the event, said: "In a year when the shortlist was supremely well balanced and the judges initially quite divided about a winner, our meeting was full of insight, debate, discussion and courtesy; by its conclusion we were all of a mind. "KJ Orr's precision and clarity, her ability to expose a life in a line and to induce sympathy and disdain, linger long after reading the final paragraph." Orr's debut collection of short stories, Light Box, was published in February. Her stories have appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine, The Irish Times and The Dublin Review amongst others and she was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award for the first time in 2011. Orr studied at St. Andrews, UEA and Chichester and has published essays and reviews in Poetry Review, the TLS and the Guardian. Previous winners of the BBC National Short Story prize include Jonathan Buckley, Julian Gough, James Lasdun, Lionel Shriver and Clare Wigfall. Follow us on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, on Instagram at bbcnewsents, or if you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.

Summary: Debut author KJ Orr has won the BBC national short story award for Disappearances, beating the likes of double Booker winner, Hilary Mantel.


Quinn, 30, is available for Sunday's Scottish League Cup semi-final against Celtic. He was on the bench in the Dons' third-round defeat by Hibernian but did not feature. Following spells at Motherwell, Cardiff City and Doncaster Rovers, Quinn spent a season with County before joining Aberdeen last summer. He has made more than 360 senior appearances and was capped by Scotland's Under-21 side earlier in his career. For all the latest transfers check out our transfer deals page.

Summary: Defender Paul Quinn has rejoined Ross County on an 18-month contract after agreeing his release from Aberdeen.


The Swedish giant asked customers who bought any model of the Mysingso chair to return it for a full refund. The global recall comes after Ikea received reports from Finland, Germany, the US, Denmark and Australia that users had received injuries to their fingers that needed medical treatment. Ikea's statement said the chair had a "risk of falling or finger entrapment". It said: "After washing the fabric seat it is possible to re-assemble the chair incorrectly leading to risks of falls or finger entrapments. "Ikea has received five incident reports in which a Mysingso beach chair collapsed during use due to incorrect re-assembly. All five reports included injuries to fingers and required medical attention. It added that a full investigation had led to an improved design "to further mitigate the risks of incorrect re-assembly and injuries" and the updated chair would be available from next month. Ikea has more than 300 stores in 27 countries.

Summary: Ikea is recalling a beach chair sold in the UK after reports that it can collapse and cause injury.


Researchers followed nearly 240,000 Swedish men for 35 years. The analysis, published in the journal Gut, showed overweight teenagers went on to have twice the risk of bowel cancer. The figures were even higher in obese teens. The World Cancer Research Fund said the link between obesity and cancer was "strong". Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the world, with nearly 1.4 million new cases each year. Processed red meat and abdominal fat have been linked to the disease. The participants in the study were aged between 16 and 20 at the start. The overwhelming majority were a normal weight, but 6.5% were overweight and 1% were obese. There were 855 cases of colorectal cancer in the study. However, the results showed not all weights were affected equally. Those who were obese were 2.38 times more likely to have developed a bowel tumour. The study, led by Orebro University Hospital in Sweden and Harvard University, said: "Late adolescence marks the transition from childhood to adulthood and is a period of accelerated growth, especially among men, thus this period may represent a critical window." "It is important that we understand the role of exposures in childhood and adolescence in the development of colorectal cancer. "In fact, the strong association observed between adolescent obesity and early-to-mid-life colorectal cancer, coupled with the increasing prevalence of adolescent obesity, may shed light on the increase in colorectal cancer incidence among young adults," he added. Rachel Thompson, from the World Cancer Research Fund, said the evidence suggested that obesity was a risk factor for bowel cancer. "This finding is interesting because it gives an indication that bowel cancer risk might be affected by our lifestyle habits throughout the life course," she said. "In some ways, research into the relationship between factors like obesity and cancer risk is still in its infancy. "It will be interesting to see if further research emerges in the future to back up the apparent relationship between body fatness in youth and later-life cancer risk."

Summary: Being overweight in adolescence is linked to a greater risk of bowel cancer later in life, a study suggests.


Several first-team regulars, including captain David Gray, are out of contract this summer. "In terms of all the players out of contract, they've all been offered deals," Lennon told BBC Scotland. "The majority of them seem pretty happy with them, there might be one or two want a bit of tweaking here and there." Hibs secured the Championship on Saturday after beating Queen of the South. Gray, fellow defenders Darren McGregor, Lewis Stevenson and Liam Fontaine, midfielders Marvin Bartley and Fraser Fyvie, winger Chris Humphrey, forwards Martin Boyle, Grant Holt and James Keatings and goalkeepers Ross Laidlaw and Scott Gallacher are among those coming to the end of their current deals. "The majority of the players are enjoying what they're doing here and the success that they've had over the last 18 months so I'd be surprised if there was a big exodus," former Celtic and Bolton boss Lennon said on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound. "Maybe one or two might move on for personal reasons but I think for footballing reasons, the majority of them will stay on." The Easter Road side will face Derek McInnes's Aberdeen in Saturday's Scottish Cup semi-final, with Lennon's predecessor Alan Stubbs having led Hibs to their first Scottish Cup trophy win in 114 years with victory over Rangers in last year's final. Hibs beat Edinburgh rivals Hearts in a replay earlier in the competition and Lennon added: "We've kept some of our best performances for the cup run so far and now we're back at Hampden. "It's going to be a big crowd, against a class side, really good manager in charge so we know how difficult it's going to be but the pressure's off as far as we're concerned. "The only thing the players want to do is defend the trophy as best they can now and if you're going to win it, you have to beat what's put in front of you and the next obstacle's a big one in Aberdeen. "I've got a good core of the squad who are more than capable of playing in the Premier League. They proved that with the cup runs last year, they made two finals and won one and now we're in a semi-final as well having beaten the biggest rivals very convincingly over two games."

Summary: Hibernian head coach Neil Lennon hopes to keep the bulk of his squad together after winning promotion to the Scottish Premiership.


On 14 April 1945, just a month before the end of World War Two, 10 US servicemen and one woman died after their Flying Fortress bomber crashed in the Isle of Man. Lt Robert Vielle, an experienced and decorated pilot, had been flying a B-17G from England to Northern Ireland when he hit bad weather over the Irish Sea. The aircraft veered off-course by several miles before coming down and bursting into flames in a field above Port St May. The exact cause of the crash has never been ascertained. Those on board had been sent on a peaceful mission to Northern Ireland to collect supplies of whiskey for a party at the US Army Air Force station at Thurleigh in Essex. Ivor Ramsden, a keen historian and aviation expert, said the flight was an example of the "sheer madness of war".

Summary: It started as a mission to collect whiskey for a party towards the end of World War Two and ended in a blazing inferno in which 11 US personnel died.


Science Central, built on the site of the former Scottish and Newcastle Brewery, has been hailed as one of the UK's biggest regeneration projects. Up to 2,000 jobs are expected to be based at the 24-acre site by 2020. The development - a partnership between Newcastle City Council and Newcastle University - was opened by Universities Minister Greg Clark. The complex will include a £58m "urban sciences" facility, which will house Newcastle University's School of Computing Science, along with 1,500 staff and students. Mr Clark said: "Science Central is a unique city centre development that will not only drive scientific advances and innovation in the region, it will create jobs and a thriving community to grow the North East economy." Nick Forbes, leader of Newcastle City Council said: "This is all part of our vision for putting Newcastle on the map for new and emerging science and technology-based industries." Vice-Chancellor of Newcastle University, Prof Chris Brink added: "Over the next four years, we hope to see Science Central grow to become an exemplar of urban sustainability research, bringing together academia, organisations, industry, democracy and communities to develop solutions that will make a difference to people's lives across the globe." Science Central has also received funding from the European Union Regional Development Fund and the Regional Growth Fund.

Summary: A pioneering £250m science and engineering hub has been officially opened in Newcastle.


The three-month tests of 137 island homes, 73 in Guernsey and 64 in Jersey, measured the level of gas in the walls. Radon occurs naturally in areas with a large amount of granite and 99 of the homes tested were below target levels. Fourteen island homes were above the target level and owners have been told to ensure there is good ventilation. The survey was carried by the islands' authorities with the UK Health Protection Agency. The 137 properties were selected to cover a range of geological conditions and population areas. The aim was to find out more about radon and its distribution. Val Cameron, the Channel Islands strategic lead for environmental health, said: "The recent survey updates and confirms the information from previous surveys; this is that radon is associated with the granite geology of the island, and not the construction material of an individual building." International research has found exposure to radon gas can increase the chances of contracting lung cancer for people who smoke. Dr Susan Turnbull, medical officer of health for Jersey, said: "To help put the main risk factors for the commonest form of lung cancer into perspective, for every 100 cases of lung cancer around 95 will have been caused by smoking alone, about four will be due to the combined effects of smoking and radon exposure. "Only one will be due to radon exposure alone. So it is a real risk, albeit a low one. The most sensible thing anyone can do to reduce their risk of getting lung cancer is to stop smoking." Mrs Cameron said: "Of the homes surveyed, some were identified as being above the action level. Advice has been given to those householders about measures to remedy the problem." Previously radon surveys were carried out in Jersey in 1987, 1992 and 1997, and in Guernsey in 1985. In 2012, tests were also carried out in Herm, Alderney and Sark. In 1984 the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution and the International Commission on Radiological Protection reported on the need for a reduction of radon exposures in homes.

Summary: The amount of radon gas found in the Channel Islands is associated with the geology of the island and not construction materials, a survey finds.


The first incident saw a 71-year-old woman from Sandyhills tricked by someone claiming to work for BT. Now a woman in Stranraer has lost money to a caller who said he was contacting her about problems with her internet. He claimed to be from BT technical support and gained remote access to her computer to take the cash. The Sandyhills incident happened on 15 September with the Stranraer con taking place seven days later. PC Siobhan Pellett said: "The ease with which these people seem to be able to gain access to their victim's computer is frightening and the sums of money being taken are substantial. "We are asking people to be very, very careful when answering a cold call from someone who tries to gain remote access to their computer in order to rectify an alleged fault. "Our message is worth repeating once again that people should never, never give out any banking details or account numbers over the telephone. "Banks, building societies and reputable businesses never ask for this information."

Summary: A 60-year-old woman in Dumfries and Galloway has been conned out of £30,000 just a week after a similar scam netted £10,000.


Several fire appliances were called to the scene at Carnsalloch House to tackle the blaze. One witness reported damage to the main part of the house at Kirkton, with floors and the roof burnt out. The category A listed building had fallen into a state of disrepair and had been described as a target for vandals, fireraisers and drug-users. The mansion house at Kirkton was built in the middle of the 18th Century, with a number of extensions added over the years. From the late 1960s until about 2000 it was owned by the Leonard Cheshire foundation. Plans for a housing development at the site were rejected and earlier this month the developers sought a council review of the decision.

Summary: A derelict historic house near Dumfries has been damaged in a fire which broke out overnight on Friday.


President Omar al-Bashir's government likes to keep a tight rein over Sudan's media and cultural institutions, with state-endorsed competitions and publications trying to replace a once-thriving poetry scene. A heavy police presence in the capital has discouraged the spontaneous poetic outbursts that were once commonplace on the streets of central Khartoum or the tree-lined pathways of its historic university campus. But in typical Sudanese fashion, coercion has only spurred resistance. Intimate gatherings and online forums have sprung like roses from the concrete. NWN is one group that has successfully carved out a space. Founded five years ago, the spoken-word poetry event has relied on mailing-list invites and donated venues to escape censorship and police intervention. A platform for free expression, where Arabic and English-speaking poets enjoy what my friend Sara Elhassan describes as an open mic that is actually "open". A luxury in the heavily guarded city, the event has survived raids, threats and scrutiny from National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), which reserves the right to disband public gatherings. It has even resonated around the world when a video of a poetic performance in Arabic and English by Ms Elhassan went viral in 2014. The poem, a response to a Sudanese professor's comment on television that he was unhappy about the unsatisfying levels of beauty exhibited by his country's women, put fresh air into the stale public arena of discussion and expression. "Apparently, we're nothing butâ€¦ pretty faces put on display, to be bought and sold, and later stored as after-thoughts. Pretty faces mounted and hung on the wall like deer heads. Prizes prized, till the novelty dies - then later casually thrown into conversations," reads an excerpt from the piece. Each time these words were shared on Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter, social commentary, usually monopolised by politicians and academics, was broadened. Yousra Elbagir: Sudan's youth now sing along to their own tune to fight censorship and control, with the world as their stage. The performance not only represented a new era of debate but inadvertently paid homage to Sudan's history of oral poetry as a battle cry and assertion of identity. In World War Two, famous poet and praise-singer Aisha Al-Falatiya took to the battlefield to support Sudanese soldiers fighting Axis powers under British rule, motivated by the prospect of independence. The troops were cheered on by her lyrics, which likened the power of fascist leaders Hitler and Mussolini to "a foreign coin with no value in our market". Once used to provoke national feeling, poetry is now used by contemporary Sudanese poets to wrestle with a conflicted national identity. The Arabisation campaign under President Bashir has shaped the social landscape, leading popular culture in the East African nation towards the Arab world. Grappling with African, Arabic and Islamic identities, many poets like Al-Saddig Al-Raddi turn to the nuances of their own heritage in resistance. His political voice saw him censored and thrown in prison in Sudan. He now lives in London and is considered one of Africa's best contemporary poets. Award-winning Sudanese-American poet Safia Elhillo tours the US, inviting

Summary: In our series of letters from African journalists, Yousra Elbagir looks at how Sudan's young poets are reviving the nation's tradition of lyrical resistance.


Mr Katter is an independent country politician from north Queensland. In the ad, he is seen blowing on a puff of smoke from a toy gun with the bodies of two "faceless men" from the major parties lying dead in the dirt. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called on Mr Katter to withdraw the ads, which were "in the worst of taste". But 71-year-old Mr Katter, who heads Katter's Australia Party and represents the electorate of Kennedy, said he thought the ads were "brilliant" and "screamingly funny". The ad, made with the help of satirical website Betoota Advocate, begins with members of the Labor Party and the Liberal-National coalition hammering a sign into the ground that reads "Australia for sale". Mr Katter tosses the sign on the ground, and when it is replaced, uses a large black marker to alter the sign to "Australia not for sale", before cutting to the scene with the gun. "I think most people will enjoy the humour. I thought it was very funny, I must admit," he told the ABC. "What's not funny is the selling off of this country. We hate it and we're tenaciously opposed to it." Queensland Senator Barry O'Sullivan called the ad "abhorrent" and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said it was "unfortunate". On the Sunrise breakfast television program, presenter David Koch pressed Mr Katter on why he released the video so soon after a gunman killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Mr Katter responded that there were similar advertisements that did not cause controversy and also claimed not to be aware of the shooting. If this is the best Australia has to offer in the way of political scandal, then we truly are witnessing the world's most boring election campaign. Mr Katter's ad is typical of Australia's larrikin sense of humour - politically incorrect, jarring and perhaps not quite as funny as it thinks it is. But is it "abhorrent" or in "the worst of taste"? Should it have been released in the aftermath of the shootings in Orlando? Australia is a long way from Florida and many people in regional centres will share Mr Katter's bawdy sense of humour. Sometimes humour is rough or tasteless. Sometimes it doesn't hit the bulls eye. But if Katter's constituents don't like his joke, they can toss him out at the election on 2 July. Betoota Advocate editor Clancy Overell, who played one of the shot men in the video, said he was aware the video might "wind people up" but was not sure Mr Katter had the same understanding. Mr Overell defended the video's timing, telling the BBC that shootings occurred in the US every day. "Australians can't be prevented from making jokes and about cowboys and western-style gunplay," he said. A video from the 2012 Queensland state election featured Mr Katter line dancing with a group of young people. The same video depicted him spinning on his head, although it is likely a body double was used for the stunt.

Summary: Australian politician Bob Katter has defended a video that depicts him killing his electoral rivals.


Mark Bellamy, president of the Intensive Care Society, told the BBC the problem of resistance would get worse unless new and effective antibiotics were developed. Sepsis is triggered by infections and causes around 37,000 deaths a year in the UK. NHS England says hospitals should work together to tackle the problem. Sepsis usually develops from blood poisoning and involves a dramatic reaction by the body's immune system. If not treated quickly it can lead to organ failure or death. Early symptoms can include a high temperature and a fast heartbeat. The Intensive Care Society recently launched a campaign to raise awareness of sepsis to avoid what it says are thousands of preventable deaths. There are 37,000 deaths a year in the UK because of sepsis, compared with just more than 35,000 from lung cancer and 16,000 from bowel cancer. The society, along with the UK Sepsis Trust, argues that there is inadequate recording of sepsis cases by hospitals and insufficient knowledge of the steps required to recognise and treat it early. Julie Bignone nearly died because of sepsis and spent seven weeks in hospital - some of them in a critical condition. Feeling feverish, she assumed she had a bad dose of flu. After a weekend in bed, she went to her GP and was told to come back if her condition worsened and antibiotics would be prescribed. But later that day, with her family growing more anxious she was taken to hospital by ambulance. Julie was found to have pneumonia in both lungs and sepsis and doctors feared she might not survive. She only pulled through after several weeks in intensive care and heavy doses of antibiotics. She feels now that she should have acted on her instinct early on that she was suffering from something a lot worse than flu. Julie says: "There's a lot of scope for getting it wrong with sepsis because the symptoms are not specific enough - we need to get a system where doctors listen to patients more and allow them to have more of an opinion". Prof Bellamy, who is based at the Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, said: "For the first time this year I have had a couple patients for whom we had no effective antibiotic treatment, it's rare - but two years ago it would still have been regarded as a theoretical problem." He says it is crucial to raise the profile of sepsis, and to ensure it is tackled early to give the patient the best chance of survival. The diminishing impact of antibiotics, in his view, underlines the urgency of the task. He said there was a "spectre emerging of moving into a post-antibiotic era". NHS England has acknowledged the scale of the problem. Bruce Warner, its deputy director of patient safety, said: "We know there are many preventable deaths due to sepsis each year and our top priority has to be saving those lives we can save and having as big an impact as we can." NHS England wants to encourage greater co-ordination within hospitals to

Summary: Patients are dying from sepsis because of a lack of effective antibiotics, an expert is warning.


9 February 2017 Last updated at 15:00 GMT Thousands of athletes from around the world will be going for glory on the ice and snow. So what events will there be, how many medals are up for grabs and what will the mascots look like? Here's Ayshah with all you need to know!

Summary: There's exactly one year to go until the Winter Olympics officially kick off in the Asian country of South Korea.


The Cambridge University Library has housed the Codex Zacynthius since 1984. It was offered first refusal to buy the New Testament manuscript and had until the end of August to find the funds. The fate of the historical text had been in doubt after the Bible Society in Swindon, which owned it for almost 200 years, decided to sell it off to raise money. The society, which was presented with the 176-page volume in 1821, wanted to shore up funds for a new £1m visitor centre inside a deconsecrated church in North Wales. Dr Rowan Williams, the former archbishop of Canterbury who supported the Cambridge University Library's fundraising campaign, said securing the text would allow further study. The bible features an early seventh century script which has been partially scraped away and written over to make way for a 13th century entry. It is regarded as an important text in studying the development of the New Testament. "The discovery and identification of the under-text represents a fascinating detective story," Dr Williams said. "By securing the manuscript, we hope that multispectral imaging techniques will enable scholars to recover fully the hidden text."

Summary: Scholars have hit their target of raising £1.1m to secure the future of an early Biblical manuscript.


The 36-year-old man, arrested over Penelope Davis's killing, can be held until about 19:30 BST. Mrs Davis, 47, known as Pennie, was tending to her horses when she was attacked. Her body was found in a field on Leygreen Farm, Beaulieu by her husband, Pete on 2 September. A total of five people have been arrested in the case. Hampshire Constabulary said Mrs Davis, a supermarket worker, may have been followed from Sainsbury's in Hampton Lane, Blackfield. Officers have appealed for witnesses who saw Mrs Davis's dark green Toyota Land Cruiser travelling between the supermarket and the field at Leygreen Farm between 13:30 and 15:00 on 2 September. A 28-year-old woman from Hythe, Hampshire, arrested on Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder, has been released on bail until 3 November. Leanne Doyle, 24, of Beech Crescent, Hythe, was charged on Monday with assisting an offender and perverting the course of justice. She has been bailed and is due to appear at Winchester Crown Court on 1 October. A 22-year-old man, previously arrested on suspicion of murder, has been released on bail, while a 37-year-old man held on suspicion of assisting an offender was also bailed. Crimestoppers has offered a Â£5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of Mrs Davis's killer.

Summary: Police investigating the murder of a woman found dead in the New Forest have been given more time to question a man.


However, it says it will still co-operate with its larger neighbour. Speaking earlier in Miami, Florida, Mr Trump said he was reimposing certain travel and trade restrictions eased by the Obama administration, condemning a "completely one-sided deal". But he is not reversing key diplomatic and commercial ties. "The government of Cuba denounces the new measures toughening the embargo," Cuban state TV said. But it also reiterated "its willingness to continue the respectful dialogue and cooperation". Barack Obama attempted to thaw relations by loosening trade and tourism bans. President Trump says his new policy will tighten rules on travel and on sending funds to Cuba. Announcing the changes on Friday, he cited human rights concerns, saying doing a deal with the "brutal" Castro government was "terrible" and "misguided". Later that night, Cuban state news was also talking tough. "Any strategy aimed at changing the political, economic and social system in Cuba - whether by pressure or imposition or through more subtle means - is destined to fail," it said. However, President Trump is not rowing back on all parts of Obama's deal. He will not close the US embassy in Havana, commercial flights from the US will continue, and Americans will still be able to return home with Cuban goods. "The embargo should continue. Why give credit to a country where the people donÂ´t see a penny? They are still starving and there is no freedom whatsoever. Why should we keep feeding the people who are on top when they repress their own people." Jose Nadal "I am 100% Republican. I agree 150% with everything Trump says and does. They should impose more sanctions against Cuba. When Obama made the agreement and restored relations with the Cuban government, he gave them everything they asked for. We received nothing from the Cuban government. This is why Trump wants to strengthen the sanctions." Cathy Henderson "I am against the embargo. The Cuban tyranny uses the embargo as a pretext to justify that it has failed. Everything bad that happens in Cuba, they blame the embargo." Santiago Portal Courtesy of BBC Mundo 1959: Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro leads a guerrilla army into Havana overthrowing the Batista regime. 1960: In response to Castro's communist reforms, US breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba and imposes a trade embargo. 1962: Castro agrees to allow the Soviet Union to deploy nuclear missiles on the island bringing the US and the USSR to the brink of nuclear war. April 2009: President Barack Obama lifts restrictions on family travel and the sending of remittances to Cuba. July 2015: The US and Cuba reopen embassies in each other's capitals and restore full diplomatic ties. March 2016: President Obama makes a three-day visit to Cuba and holds talks with President Raul Castro. He expresses hope the embargo will be ended, but it can only be lifted by the US Congress which is controlled by Republicans who oppose the move. Aug 2016: US commercial flight arrives in Cuba for the first time in more than half a century.

Summary: Cuba's government has denounced US President Donald Trump's decision to roll back on policy changes towards the island nation.


He held off a late charge by Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo in a nail-biting climax and leads his team-mate by eight points after Hamilton took third. Mercedes' decision to switch Hamilton to a three-stop strategy got him back ahead of Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen. When Ricciardo followed suit, he closed rapidly on Rosberg, who just held on. Australian Ricciardo rejoined just under 30 seconds adrift, with 16 laps remaining, and initially sliced into Rosberg's advantage at nearly three seconds a lap. But as the laps ticked by the advantage of Ricciardo's fresh tyres began to fade and the edge was taken off his charge. Rosberg had just enough pace, despite managing fading brakes, to keep the Red Bull at bay, crossing the line just 0.488 seconds ahead for a win that could prove crucial in the destiny of the world title. Listen as Rosberg holds off Ricciardo to win Singapore GP Hamilton had an out-of-sorts weekend, qualifying only third, 0.7 seconds slower than Rosberg, lacking grip after failing to set up his car properly because of track time lost to a hydraulic failure in Friday practice. He drove a steady race, unable to do anything about Rosberg and Ricciardo ahead of him, and intermittently pleading with his engineers to come up with a strategy that could gain him places. Both Mercedes drivers were struggling with overheating brakes and Hamilton struggled so much that he was caught by Raikkonen in the second stint, and actually lost third place following a mistake at Turn Seven just after half distance. Listen as Raikkonen passes Hamilton for third Raikkonen made his second stop at the end of the lap, Hamilton a lap later, and the world champion rejoined still in fourth place. At this point, Mercedes decided to switch Hamilton's strategy and unleashed him from managing his tyres and told him to close on Raikkonen. Hamilton's final pit stop on lap 45 triggered his rivals to follow suit, with Raikkonen pitting on the following lap and Ricciardo the lap after that. The move worked for Mercedes - it leapfrogged Hamilton back ahead of Raikkonen and despite being on super-soft tyres rather than the ultra-softs chosen by Ferrari, Hamilton was comfortably able to hold on to the final podium place. Behind the top four, McLaren's Fernando Alonso ran fifth from the start of the race after a quick getaway. It took him down the outside as Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz collided, and he passed Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat into the first corner. Alonso held on to the place through the subsequent safety car period and the first and second stops, fending off heavy pressure from Sainz's team-mate Daniil Kvyat and Verstappen. Around mid-distance, Alonso got some breathing space thanks to an intense battle between Kvyat and Verstappen. Listen to Hulkenberg's crash at the start The fight had added needle because of the Russian's demotion in Verstappen's favour after four races this season and after Kvyat had squeezed Verstappen close to the wall on a couple of occasions to keep him behind, the Dutchman

Summary: Nico Rosberg retook the World Championship lead from Lewis Hamilton following a grandstand finish to the Singapore Grand Prix.