The UK's biggest bank has been accused of failing to protect customers from the fallout of the Brexit vote.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been investigating the bank's handling of the Brexit vote, which saw the UK leave the EU.
The FCA said it had received a complaint from a customer who

Shares in Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls, jumped 8% on Thursday following a report it had discussed a merger with rival Hasbro.

Article: It was alleged they had attacked a woman, 20, after an end of term party at the Royal Agricultural University in Gloucestershire, in 2014.
The men, three of whom were students, denied the charges made against them.
A trial was due to start two weeks ago but prosecutors have now decided not to proceed with the case against the men.
All four made no comment as they left Gloucester Crown Court after not guilty verdicts were recorded.
Earlier, prosecutor Fiona Elder told the court a decision had been made not to offer any evidence against the four.
"The decision was made that there was no longer a reasonable prospect of conviction and therefore in the circumstances it was not for the Crown to pursue this case to trial," she said.
"The police were informed and discussed the decision with the head of the South West Rape and Serious Sexual Offences unit.
"The head of the South West Rape and Serious Sexual Offences unit consulted with the complainant and her family to ensure they knew and understood the decision, whatever their view of it."

Summary: Four men accused of rape after a university's summer ball have been cleared after the case against them was dropped.
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Article: Steve Hilton, who was one of the PM's closest aides, attacked Brussels' "statism, corporatism and bureaucracy".
In an article for the Daily Mail, he said the PM's "relatively modest" reform demands had received "arrogant and dismissive treatment".
Mr Cameron said evidence was more important than people's opinions.
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The PM was asked about Mr Hilton's comments as he unveiled a new Treasury report warning a vote to leave the EU could trigger a recession.
He said "everyone is entitled to their opinion" but added that the "evidence" he was presenting was "far more important than the view of one person or another person".
The Treasury report marks the latest in a series of warnings about the economic consequences of leaving, including from the Bank of England and the IMF.
In his article, Mr Hilton said "establishment stooges" were being "wheeled out to attempt to persuade us to stay".
He said "no-one really knows" what the economic impact would be, adding: "It's clearly ridiculous to claim that it's settled in either direction; there are risks whatever we do."
How far the UK has the ability to make its own laws and decide how it is governed.
Mr Hilton, who left Downing Street in 2012 for a post at Stanford University in the US, was one of the driving forces behind Mr Cameron's flagship "Big Society" project.
He said the EU had "become so complicated, so secretive, so impenetrable that it's way beyond the ability of any British government to make it work to our advantage".
After a "pragmatic, non-ideological assessment", he said he had decided: "Membership of the EU makes Britain literally ungovernable, in the sense that no administration elected by the people can govern the country."
Leaving the EU would allow the UK to "regain control over our country's destiny" he said, claiming the EU was not interested in anything other than "superficial change".
In other EU referendum news, a prominent Conservative MP and EU exit backer accused her fellow Leave campaigners of...

Summary: David Cameron's former director of strategy has called for a vote to leave the EU, saying membership "makes Britain literally ungovernable".
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Article: Hasbro, the maker of My Little Pony, approached Mattel about a deal late last year, according to Bloomberg news.
The combination of the two toy-makers would produce a company with a $20bn market capitalization as of Wednesday.
In 1996, Mattel made a $5.2bn (Â£3.5bn) offer to buy Hasbro, but the two sides failed to reach a final agreement.
Over the last few years, Mattel has lost market share to Hasbro and Denmark's Lego. Lego overtook Mattel as the world's largest toy-marker in 2014.
In its most recent quarter, Mattel reported a 4% drop in worldwide sales and expects sales to decline this year.
That is partly because Hasbro has taken over the contract to produce toys based on the Disney movie Frozen, and toys sold under the Princess brand.
Mattel estimated in 2014 that the Princess brand brought in $300m.
In an effort to boost sales of its Barbie line, Mattel introduced three new body types and seven new skin tones in January. Sales of Barbie dolls fell 10% globally in 2015.
Neither company has commented on the rumoured deal.
Hasbro's share price rose 1.5%. In afternoon trading, Mattel shares fell back and were trading up 1.6% on the day.
Hasbro reports its full-year earnings report on 8 February.

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The USGA is set to stage the US Open at Erin Hills in the UK on 15 June.

Alfreton Town have signed goalkeeper Jason Mooney on loan from League Two side York for the rest of the season.

Article: He needs to reduce the prison population in England and Wales in order to save money, while persuading his supporters that he is not soft on crime.
One proposal is to release foreign prisoners early on condition that they leave the UK. Another is to increase the use of day release.
But his hands are tied because politicians cannot tell judges what sentences to pass in individual cases.
What the justice secretary can do is to seek changes in the law if he thinks it is operating unfairly.
A law that has come in for a great deal of criticism is the former sentence of imprisonment for public protection, known as IPP.
Offenders were given a notional minimum term, known as the tariff, but they could be detained indefinitely after that term had expired.
The IPP sentence was designed to ensure that dangerous violent and sexual offenders stayed in custody while they continued to present a risk to society.
The sentence was introduced under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 when Lord Blunkett was Labour's home secretary, and abolished at the end of 2012, when Kenneth Clarke was the Conservative minister responsible for sentencing policy.
But abolition was not retrospective. In June this year, more than 4,600 prisoners were still serving IPPs.
By September, more than three-quarters had completed their minimum term and 392 IPP prisoners had served more than five times their tariff.
The government's policy is that IPP prisoners should continue to be detained until they can persuade the Parole Board, at a hearing, that the risks they pose to the public are safely manageable in the community.
But the Parole Board has a backlog of cases waiting to be heard - although that was reduced by 18% during the first 10 months of 2015 as a result of increased funding.
Even so, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Haywood, a former justice of the Supreme Court, described IPPs as a "form of preventive detention - internment - entirely alien to our traditional criminal justice approach".
He called on the justice secretary to "bring this terrible scourge...

Summary: One of the most difficult problems Justice Secretary Michael Gove faces in 2016 is the sentencing of offenders.
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Article: There is a growing feeling that players are losing patience with the ways of the USGA.
And after damaging controversies at the last two US Opens, former world number one Adam Scott described them as "panicky" and followed Phil Mickelson in piling pressure on the beleaguered organisation.
Two years ago at Chambers Bay, the USGA seemed the only observers unwilling to criticise greens so bumpy they were not fit to stage a monthly medal, never mind one of the big four majors.
"They were simply the worst most disgraceful surfaces I have ever seen on any tour," Ian Poulter said at the time.
Then came last year's ham-fisted handling of the Dustin Johnson rules fiasco that left no one knowing the leader's score throughout most of the final round at Oakmont. It was a farce that, again, portrayed the sport in a poor light.
Thankfully Johnson's contentious one stroke penalty, after he was deemed to have caused his ball to move on the fifth green, did not affect the eventual outcome as the current world number one brilliantly closed out his first major title.
Asked by American magazine Golfweek if he thought the USGA were feeling the heat, Scott replied: "Absolutely."
"They've taken criticism for the last two years, I'm sure they're not liking it. They're going to have to try to run a really good event."
This week the USGA have the opportunity to make their final tweaks to the par-72 Wisconsin course, which is just eleven years old and stages its first US Open, starting on 15 June.
It is another gamble to hold the championship on such a young course especially so soon after Chambers Bay, a course that opened for business in only 2007.
Famed for being the toughest of the majors, ahead of the Masters, Open and PGA Championship, the US Open is usually set up to make level-par a winning score.
Narrow fairways, uncompromising rough, rock hard lightning fast greens and relentless length are the stocks in trade of America's national championship.
It can make for attritional, one-dimensional golf where the last man standing...

Summary: The United States Golf Association (USGA) is a governing body under intense scrutiny as it prepares to stage next week's US Open at Erin Hills.
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Article: The 25-year-old, who is 6ft 9ins tall, joined the Minstermen from Tranmere Rovers on a two-year deal in May, but has only made five appearances.
Mooney's first stint in professional football in England was at Wycombe and he spent time at Conference North side Oxford City before joining Tranmere.
He is available for Alfreton's game against Welling United on Saturday.

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The government has announced that it will be introducing a new £1.5bn package to help the economy recover from the global financial crisis.
The package will be paid for by a new £1.5bn fund to help the economy recover from the global financial crisis, the Treasury said.
The fund will be

(Close): Shares of the two newly split Hewlett Packard companies diverged after its last report as a consolidated company.

Article: Peter Hay first joined the local authority 14 years ago and became strategic director for people in 2013.
He initially took over children's services "in the interim" after years of criticism and poor ratings from Ofsted.
Mr Hay said it had been "the greatest privilege" to work with "so many very special people".
"I want to continue to pursue my lifelong commitment to social justice in all its forms through the new opportunities that will come in my next stage of life," he said.
"I have had the privilege to lead many talented staff who carry out amazing work."
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Previously a social worker, Mr Hay joined the council in 2003 and was credited by the authority in helping its children's services gain a star rating in the 2005 national assessment.
He was placed in charge of the adult and communities directorate when adults and children's services were separated before taking charge of both departments when they were re-merged in 2013.
In 2012 he was awarded a CBE for services to social care and health, and he has also served as president of the Association of Directors of Adult Social Care.
Brigid Jones, the council's cabinet member for children, families and schools, said Mr Hay could not have taken on the job "at a harder time" following a string of high-profile incidents.
"He has been personally instrumental in securing a stable and motivated workforce and I shall miss his leadership, professionalism and unreserved support," she said.

Summary: The director of Birmingham City Council's adults and children's services will retire in July.
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Article: Regulated fares such as season tickets are pegged to Retail Prices Index (RPI) inflation in July, which was 1%.
Rail fares have risen nearly three times faster than wages in the UK over the past five years, analysis has suggested.
But rail minister Claire Perry said the government's plans would put an end to "inflation-busting fare increases".
A study by the TUC suggested regulated fare prices jumped 25% between 2010 and 2015, while average pay rose 9% over the same period.
Rail unions are campaigning for train lines to be run by the public sector, which they say will cut prices.
Regulated fares cover about half of all tickets sold, including season tickets and day returns.
The government had already announced that regulated rail fares in England would rise by no more than RPI inflation for this parliament.
A restriction limiting increases in these fares to RPI inflation has been in place for the past two years, during the latter years of the coalition government.
"Next year's fares will see some of the lowest increases for decades," said rail minister Claire Perry.
Speaking to Radio 5 live, she said that the 1% rise in fares from January "is actually a real-terms freeze".
She added: "With the economy recovering, and wages recovering, for the first time in over a decade you'll actually see wage growth outstripping any change in rail fares."
But TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said many commuters were "seriously out of pocket" because of the sharp rise in fares.
"If ministers really want to help hard-pressed commuters, they need to return services to the public sector.
"It would allow much bigger savings to be passed on to passengers," she added.
Action for Rail - the TUC and rail union-led campaign pushing to bring the railways back into public ownership - maintains that Â£1.5bn could be saved over the next five years if routes, including the Northern, Transpennine and West Coast Main Line, were returned to the public sector.
A third of this would come from recouping the money that private train firms...

Summary: Regulated rail fares are to rise by 1% in January, the Department of Transport has said.
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Article: HP split into two separate companies in November - one focused on the printer and PC businesses and the other on corporate services.
Shares of Hewlett Packard Inc fell 4% while services focussed Hewlett Packard Enterprises rose 2.3%.
The Dow Jones gained 19 points to close at 17,812, after a bumpy start.
The S&P 500 rose 2 points to 2,079.22, while the Nasdaq gained 20 points to 5,102.
Hewlett-Packard's revenue fell 9.5% to $25.71bn in the fourth-quarter.
On a broader theme, concerns about global political tensions weighed on early trading after it was reported that Turkey had shot down a Russian warplane.
Stocks regained their footing, though on the back of news that the US economy grew faster than previously estimated in the third quarter of the year.
The Commerce Department said gross domestic product rose at an annual pace of 2.1% in the quarter, up from the 1.5% rate it reported last month.
Oil prices rose sharply on concerns that there could be more uncertainty in the Middle East.
Brent crude jumped by 2.5% or $1.14, to $45.97 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate crude climbed $0.94 to $42.96 a barrel.
As a result, shares in oil firms rose, with Exxon Mobil up 2% and Chevron 1.5% higher.

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The government has announced it will be scrapping the £1.5bn-a-year police and fire service in Scotland.

An outdoor privy is being hailed as "one of the poshest in the country" after being restored at a Victorian country house.

Article: One of Russia's most wanted rebels, his death has been wrongly claimed on several occasions by Russian security services. The latest report, however, comes from a website considered sympathetic to Caucasus militants fighting Russian rule.
In July 2013, the self-styled emir of the Caucasus Emirate called on Islamists to target the Sochi Winter Olympics.
Although no attacks took place during the Games themselves, two bomb blasts in December 2013 close to the volatile Caucasus region where he operated killed more than 30 people in the southern Russian city of Volgograd.
He said he was behind the Moscow airport bombing on 24 January 2011, which left 36 people dead and 180 injured, and the March 2010 suicide bombings on the city's Metro, in which 39 people died.
Mr Umarov is also said to have ordered the November 2009 bombing of a train from Moscow to St Petersburg that claimed 26 lives.
For years Mr Umarov has been seen as the leader of the Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus.
He spearheaded several high-profile rebel raids, and fought in both wars against Russia since 1994.
He also served as Chechnya's security minister during its short-lived independence between 1996 and 1999.
He became the commander of the "south-western front" of the rebel armed forces in 2002, and is believed to have about 1,000 fighters under his command.
Mr Umarov is said to have played a key role in organising an attack in the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia in June 2004, in which several dozen people, including the acting Ingush interior minister, were killed.
He has also been accused by Russian security forces of leading the 2004 school siege in Beslan, which resulted in more than 300 deaths. The allegation has never been substantiated, although hostages have said he was the only attacker not to wear a mask.
In Chechnya, he is suspected of being behind a string of kidnappings for ransom, and is said by officials to have been involved in killing Chechens who were co-operating with the pro-Kremlin government.
In a video...

Summary: Doku Umarov is the Chechen separatist warlord most closely linked to a string of deadly attacks on Russia.
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Article: Kenny MacAskill is pushing ahead with plans for single police and fire services instead of regional bodies.
The UK government argued the single services would not be eligible for VAT refunds, worth more than £30m a year.
Mr MacAskill said the policy was in contrast to Westminster's treatment of Academy schools in England.
He said the rules for the government-funded schools were changed to allow VAT to be reclaimed.
Under Section 33 of the VAT Act 1994, local authorities can recover the VAT they pay for supplies, which relate to their non-business activities.
A letter from Mr MacAskill said he had not received any formal reasons for the UK Treasury decision not to allow the new Scottish Police Authority to reclaim VAT but he understood it was because it would be "funded by central government".
Mr MacAskill said the decision would mean the police and fire services in Scotland would be the only ones in the UK unable to recover VAT.
He said: "This decision by the Treasury is unacceptable, unjustifiable and manifestly unfair. This charge on Scottish public sector reform is not levied on similar reforms in the rest of the UK."
Mr MacAskill said the UK government had changed the rules on VAT for Academy schools - which are entirely funded by central government.
He added: "It also ignores the fact that the new Police Authority will continue to be able to receive funding from Scottish local authorities to pay the costs of agreed local priorities.
"This provides a direct link with local taxation, which we consider meets the Treasury's policy on VAT recovery."
The Police and Fire Reform Bill reaches Stage 3 in the Scottish Parliament this week and the new single services are scheduled to begin in April 2013.
The Treasury insists that the Scottish government knew all along that their model for service reform would lead to the loss of VAT exemption.
Public sector union Unison claimed the ending of the exemption would cost the police £26m a year and the new national fire service between £4m and £10m.
A union spokesman...

Summary: The justice secretary has said a UK Treasury decision not to allow reformed Scottish police and fire services to recover VAT was "manifestly unfair".
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Article: The privy at Brodsworth Hall, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire, was originally built in the 1860s.
In its heyday, its contents, dubbed "night soil", were emptied daily and spread on the gardens by staff.
English Heritage, which now runs the site, said the privy had been restored to its former glory.
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English Heritage's Kendra Grahame-Clarke said the privy was restored using archival information found at the hall, and is now "one of the poshest outdoor privies in the country".
She said although the facility does not have running water, it features a hole under the seat which can be accessed by a trapdoor allowing "a servant/gardener to collect and spread the night soil at dusk".
The toilet is in its own "secret garden" and also features a pagoda-style roof and pergola trellis.
The original toilet, built by George Ball for three pounds and five shillings, was surrounded by heavily scented blooms, and provided a respite for members of the Thellusson family, who lived at the house.

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A giant cake has been made in the shape of a Land Rover by an award-winning amateur baker from the West Midlands.

Article: The Magazine is a Grade I-listed stone gatehouse, built in about 1410 and used to store ammunition in the Civil War.
While not normally open to the public, it was due to be part of a Heritage Sunday open day.
Scaffolding will be set up to assess the extent of the problem but city council officials said it was unclear how long repairs would take.
Cracks were discovered in the parapet, along with damaged stonework on the main staircase.
The building, more properly known as the Newarke gateway, gained additional significance in recent years as Richard III's body may well have been carried through it after the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
Describing the decision as "a shame", Leicester City Council's heritage manager, Sally Coleman, said: "During our recent routine repairs, some additional damage was discovered, and in order to ensure people's safety, we've taken the decision to close it to visitors while we investigate further.
"Once we know exactly the extent of the work needed, we'll have a clearer idea of how long the repairs will take, and when it can reopen."

Summary: An historic Leicester landmark has been closed "to ensure people's safety" after cracks were found.
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Article: Scientists in Cambridge, Australia and the USA comparing the weight and footpads of climbing creatures including spiders, found a size limit when it comes to the sticky pads.
A gecko is about the largest animal that can climb using this method.
They hope the study could help in the development of new adhesive substances.
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In order to successfully scale a building the way Marvel comic book hero Spider-Man does, a human would need "impractically large sticky feet - our shoes would need to be a European size 145 or a US size 114", said Walter Federle, from Cambridge University's Department of Zoology.
"We'd need about 40% of our total body surface, or roughly 80% of our front, to be covered in sticky footpads if we wanted to do a convincing Spider-Man impression," Dr David Labonte, from the same department, said.
So, Spider-Man probably could not do what a spider can, but tree frogs, arachnids and geckos, can.
This is because of the percentage of their body surface covered by adhesive footpads, the researchers concluded.
The sticky pad percentage increases with body size setting an "evolutionary limit" to the size of animal able to use this climbing method.
Anything larger than a gecko would need "impossibly big feet", they said.
The scientists compared the weight and footpad size of 225 climbing animal species.
"We were looking at vastly different animals. A spider and a gecko are about as different as a human is to an ant, but if you look at their feet, they have remarkably similar footpads," Dr Labonte said.
"Adhesive pads of climbing animals are a prime example of convergent evolution, where multiple species have independently, through very different evolutionary histories, arrived at the same solution to a problem.
"When this happens, it's a clear sign that it must be a very good solution."
Co-author Alex Dittrich, a PhD student at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, said: "Different animals have come up with remarkably similar adaptations to dealing...

Summary: A human could not do what Spider-Man can unless 40% of the body was covered in sticky pads and they had impossibly large feet, according to new research.
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Article: Lara Clarke, from Brownhills, has previously made near-life-sized cakes of Hollywood stars Johnny Depp and Jennifer Lawrence.
Her latest creation, baked to celebrate the Defender model, fed 2,000 people at an event at the factory in Solihull on Monday.
The half-scale replica weighed 600kg and featured working headlights.
Comprising 32 sponge cakes, 50kg (110 lbs) of butter cream, 20kg (44 lbs) of ganache and 50kg icing, it took her 150 hours to produce.
Ms Clarke said the bake was so heavy it had to be delivered by fork lift truck.
"We arrived by van and everyone was coming round to have a look," she said.
"They couldn't believe it was a cake. There was plenty to go round and everyone on the factory floor got a piece."
It was baked to celebrate the two millionth Defender rolling off the production line - the figure includes its predecessors the Series I, II and III models.
Ms Clarke said it started after she tagged JLR in a tweet about a small Land Rover birthday cake.
"They got in touch and asked if I could make a cake in the shape of an engine to mark the opening of their new engine plant.
"A woman then asked me if I could make a Land Rover cake.
"It was originally meant to be quite small, but I asked them if they wanted something that would really impress people."
Ms Clarke said she was getting married in October, a week before the Cake International competition at Birmingham's NEC.
Rather than enter this year, she said she planned to bake "the best wedding cake that's ever been seen".

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A man who was shot dead in Bedfordshire has been identified as a former member of the Royal Marines.
The man, who was shot dead in the town of Bedford, was a former member of the Royal Marines.
The man, who was shot dead in the town of Bedford, was a former member of the

A "number of knives" were found at the scene where a man was shot by police, investigators have said.

Article: The death of Jia Jia, whose age in human terms was more than 100 years, was announced by the Hong Kong theme park where she lived.
Her condition had worsened rapidly in recent weeks and she had lost her appetite, the park said.
She was put down by vets at Ocean Park, her home since 1999.
"She was a member of our family and she will be deeply missed... she has served as an important animal ambassador for her species," the park said in a statement.
The park said that in the last two weeks, Jia Jia's daily food intake had dropped from over 10kg to less than 3kg per day, and she had lost weight.
"Over the past few days, she has been spending less time awake and showing no interest in food or fluids.
"Her condition became worse this morning. Jia Jia was not able to walk about without difficulties and spent the day laying down."
Vets took the decision to put the giant panda down to prevent suffering, the park said.
In a statement obtained by BBC Chinese, a Hong Kong government spokesman thanked the park for providing Jia Jia with care and support and added that it was "saddened" by the news.
The park in Hong Kong held a high-profile celebration for Jia Jia's 37th birthday at her enclosure in July 2015.
Born in 1978 in the wild in Sichuan, China, Jia Jia was given to Hong Kong in 1999 to mark the semi-autonomous city's handover by Britain two years earlier.
Pandas normally live to around 20 years of age in the wild, and 25 in captivity.

Summary: A giant panda believed to have been the oldest ever kept in captivity has died at the age of 38, officials say.
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Article: Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned such action by Syria merited a "heavy response".
But Syria accused Turkey of "blatant aggression", saying the plane had been over Syrian territory at the time.
The incident reportedly occurred in an area where Syrian rebels and government forces have been fighting for control of a border crossing.
Turkey and Syria - once allies - share more than 500 miles (800km) of border.
Turkey has broadly sided with the rebels in Syria's war since October 2011.
Turkish forces launched artillery strikes on Syrian targets in late 2012 after the Syrians shot down a Turkish jet.
By James ReynoldsBBC News, Istanbul
Turkey and Syria share a border and a mutual hatred - but also a desire not to engage each other in all-out war. Instead, the two sides have been involved in occasional skirmishes and confrontations.
On the border itself, these encounters are often cheered. From a Turkish border village in October 2012, I watched Syrian helicopters fly right up to the border and open fire on a Syrian village held by rebels.
A few minutes later, a crowd on the Turkish side heard the sound of aircraft above and believed that the Turkish air force was on its way. "Our boys are coming," one man shouted. We never saw the Turkish planes. Eventually the Syrian helicopters flew away.
The passing thrill of a Turkish response masks a deeper unease in this country with the progression of its neighbour's war. Since Syria's conflict began, more than 70 people in Turkey have been killed in Syria-related violence.
In response, Turkey has taken a number of steps. In October 2012, Turkey's parliament authorised military action inside Syria. Nato then agreed to deploy batteries of Patriot missiles on Turkey's southern border.
However, the BBC's James Reynolds in Istanbul says neither side is interested in a direct, sustained conflict.
Speaking at a rally of supporters, Mr Erdogan congratulated the air force on its actions on Sunday.
"A Syrian plane violated our airspace. Our F-16s took off and hit...

Summary: Turkish forces have shot down a Syrian military jet they say was violating their airspace despite warnings.
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Article: The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said the man, named as Josh Pitt from Leighton Buzzard, died from a single gunshot wound.
He was fatally injured after police attended a property in Hibbert Street, Luton, at 14:00 GMT on 9 November.
The IPCC said body-worn video footage from some of the officers will be analysed as investigations continue.
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It said a forensic examination of the scene took place and a "a number of knives" were recovered.
A post-mortem examination on Friday gave the provisional cause of death as a gunshot wound to the chest, the IPCC said.
Mr Pitt was described by Bedfordshire Police as white and British.
He was initially treated at the scene by officers and paramedics but died at hospital at 14:50 GMT.
IPCC Commissioner Mary Cunneen said: "My thoughts and sympathies are with the family and friends of Josh and all of those affected by this fatal shooting.
"Our investigation will look at the circumstances surrounding the incident and the actions of the officers involved.
"We have spoken to Josh's next of kin to inform them of our role and will be keeping them updated.
"I ask anybody who may have seen or heard anything in the Hibbert Street area on Wednesday afternoon, which may be useful to our investigation, to contact us."

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The NHS has been hit by a shortage of hospital beds, with more than a third of patients being seen in A&E.

The NHS in England has met its four-hour A&E waiting-time target for the first time since September.

Article: Reading Borough Council said it had written to Network Rail and Great Western Railway (GWR) demanding action following complaints from residents.
People in Cardiff Road had complained of trains parked in sidings with engines idling.
GWR has previously said the introduction of electric trains in 2019 will reduce the problem.
An online petition set up by residents living close to the GWR depot complained about "low-frequency noise" from trains idling in the early hours of the morning.
The council said it has warned GWR and Network Rail it could face an abatement notice.
Deputy council leader Tony Page said the responses form the companies had so far been "inadequate".
"The council is fully supportive of the huge benefits the realignment of rail lines in and around Reading has brought.
"By the same token, the concerns local residents have [about] noise and air pollution are very real and the council is lobbied on these issues regularly.
"We hope that escalating local concerns to senior management will prove more effective."
Earlier this year, GWR said the noise was within safe levels and it had changed the way it operated trains on the sidings.
Jonathan Dart, chairman of the Bell Tower Community Association, said he warmly welcomed the council's announcement to "put an end to the nuisance being caused to the residents of Cardiff Road".
However, he criticised the time it took the authority to investigate the issue.
"It took nine months and a press campaign for the council to release an officer's report stating that being in part of Cardiff Road at 03:29 was akin to being backstage at the Reading Festival," he said.

Summary: Noise and air pollution from a new rail depot in Reading could prompt legal action, it has been warned.
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Article: Gianmarco Peschiera, 14, and Carlos Gonzales, 15, died when the car they were in crashed into a parked lorry on the A9 at Inverness in July 2006.
The church was involved in arranging the trip and the car's driver, Donald MacLeod, 82, was a church member.
Gianmarco's parents wanted to sue the church on the grounds of negligence.
Mr MacLeod had been driving the boys to North Kessock where they were to meet up with the rest of their group for a day trip to Stornoway.
The former rector at Fortrose Academy, in the Black Isle, suffered a fatal heart attack while behind the wheel of his Honda CRV 4x4, which then crashed into a Tesco lorry.
Gianmarco's parents took legal action against the church, the Colegio San Andres school in Lima and the school's former headmaster in 2010.
In a statement, the Free Church of Scotland said: "We can confirm that the legal case in Peru was resolved several months ago.
"This was a tragic accident for all concerned and in particular for the families in both Peru and Scotland who lost loved ones.
"We are pleased that this long running legal process is now at an end."

Summary: Legal action taken against the Free Church of Scotland by the parents of a Peruvian boy who died on a trip to Scotland has been settled.
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Article: The 95% target had not been hit for 33 consecutive weeks, since late last September.
Figures for the week ending 24 May show 95.1% of A&E patients spent four hours or less from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge.
NHS England praised its front-line staff for dealing with high workload demands during a tough winter.
A spokesman said: "These latest figures are testament to the excellent services our front-line staff continue to deliver while coming under sustained pressure."
The improvement comes as the NHS enters the summer period when these pressures tend to ease.
Dr Clifford Mann, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said there was no room for complacency.
"There is still pressure on the system, which in our view is operating at full capacity."
He said some A&E units were still not meeting the four-hour target and were stymied by a shortage of hospital beds.
"This exit block must be addressed otherwise the winter of 2015-16 will be hugely challenging," he warned.
Latest figures show targets for waits in A&E are being missed in other parts of the UK.
In Wales, 83% of patients are being seen within four hours. In Scotland, the figure is 92% and in Northern Ireland it is just under 74%.

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The North Sea oil and gas industry is facing a major crisis as the price of oil has dropped to a record low.
The industry is struggling to keep up with demand and is facing a shortage of skilled workers.
The industry is also facing a shortage of skilled workers as the price of oil has dropped to a record

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

Article: The book, which is used in hundreds of private schools, features a science experiment in which two cats are placed in separate boxes - only one of which has airholes.
Activists argued that it endangered the lives of children and animals.
Many schools have now scrapped the offending page.
The passage in Our Green World: Environment Studies is meant to demonstrate that air is essential for life. It reads: "Put a small kitten in each box. Close the boxes. After some time open the boxes. What do you see? The kitten inside the box without holes has died."
The book's publisher has promised it will not appear in the next edition, according to the Indian Express.
Parvesh Gupta of PP Publications said: "A parent had called us a couple of months ago and asked us to remove the text from the book because it was harmful for children. We recalled books from our distribution channel and will come out with a revised book next year."
Shocked Indians shared their disgust online, saying the book was wholly unsuitable for children.
"Person who wrote such experiment must be put in instead of animal. Fools," wrote a tweeter with the handle Thinking Indian.
"It might be stupid, but they were endangering the lives of the children and animals by citing such an experiment," Vidhi Matta, spokeswoman for the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organisations, told the AFP news agency.
She admitted she did not know of anyone who had attempted the experiment.
Controversies over Indian textbooks are not uncommon.
A book in the western state of Gujarat made headlines in 2014 for claiming that Japan had dropped nuclear bombs on the US during the Second World War.
Just last week, a row erupted in Maharashtra state over a textbook that said "ugly" and "handicapped" brides had led to a rise in dowries being claimed by the groom's family.
Carnivores have also been a target for bile.
In 2012, a national text for 11-year-old students was discovered that said people who eat meat, "easily cheat, tell lies, forget promises, are dishonest and tell...

Summary: An animal rights row has erupted in India over a school textbook which tells children how to suffocate kittens.
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Article: A US team is already attempting to study the animals' characteristics by inserting mammoth genes into elephant stem cells.
They want to find out what made the mammoths different from their modern relatives and how their adaptations helped them survive the ice ages.
The new genome study has been published in the journal Current Biology.
Dr Love Dalén, at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, told BBC News that the first ever publication of the full DNA sequence of the mammoth could help those trying to bring the creature back to life.
"It would be a lot of fun (in principle) to see a living mammoth, to see how it behaves and how it moves," he said.
But he would rather his research was not used to this end.
"It seems to me that trying this out might lead to suffering for female elephants and that would not be ethically justifiable."
Dr Dalén and the international group of researchers he is collaborating with are not attempting to resurrect the mammoth. But the Long Now Foundation, an organisation based in San Francisco, claims that it is.
Now, with the publication of the complete mammoth genome, it could be a step closer to achieving its aim.
On its website, the foundation says its ultimate goal is "to produce new mammoths that are capable of repopulating the vast tracts of tundra and boreal forest in Eurasia and North America.
"The goal is not to make perfect copies of extinct woolly mammoths, but to focus on the mammoth adaptations needed for Asian elephants to live in the cold climate of the tundra.
The foundation is supporting a team based at Harvard University, which is using genetic engineering techniques to insert mammoth genes into living elephant cells.
So far, the foundation says it has placed mammoth genes involved in blood, fat and hair into elephant stem cells in order to study the effects of these genes.
The researchers hope to produce mammoth red blood cells to see how much oxygen they might have carried and so learn more about the physiology of the animals. Similar tests, they...

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

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The Labour Party has been accused of being too pro-business, but a new poll suggests that the party is still the most pro-business in the country.

The Conservatives have increased their control of Northamptonshire County Council.

Article: Comments ranged from anguish and shock to an outpouring of support and concern for the injured Liu.
The athlete, who won gold in Athens in 2004, crashed at the first hurdle but got up and hopped to the finish line.
For many, it was a tragic repeat of the 2008 Beijing Games when he pulled out with an Achilles injury.
"Ah Liu Xiang, my heart is broken," said one user of the Twitter-like Sina Weibo website.
News of Liu's fall dominated the front pages of many newspapers.
Many lauded him as a hero despite his failure to progress to the final - unlike the general reaction to his withdrawal in Beijing four years ago, which spawned a slew of criticism.
"Liu Xiang fell down, but he will be our hero for ever," said one netizen, echoing the feelings of many who watched his dramatic exit.
As Liu struggled down the track, he stopped at the last hurdle and kissed it, prompting the China Daily newspaper to dub that his ''last kiss''. He was then embraced by fellow competitors and helped off the track.
''He may not have cleared any of the hurdles, but he crossed the most difficult hurdle of his life,'' the official People's Daily newspaper wrote, paying tribute to Liu's persistence.
Liu Xiang left the track in a wheelchair, after an Olympic build-up that had also been overshadowed by injury.
He left London for Leverkusen after pulling out of the Diamond League London Grand Prix 110m hurdles final on 13 July - his 29th birthday - due to muscle pain.
Reports said that Liu's right heel was protected with tape when he entered the stadium on Tuesday. After the race, Feng Shuyong, the head of China's track team told a press conference that Liu had ruptured his Achilles tendon.
"What Liu Xiang did today reflected the true Olympics spirit," state media quoted him as saying. "Winning is not so important, participation is what matters."
Liu Yandong, a top Communist Party official, had called Liu to ''express sympathy and concern'', state media reported.
The official told Liu that ''his spirit, will and attitude have deeply moved and...

Summary: China is mourning the Olympic exit of Liu Xiang after he fell in the men's 110m hurdles heats, with media and netizens rallying behind the athlete.
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Article: "They don't feel that anyone listens to them, never mind speaks for them," opposition whip Conor McGinn said.
He said the challenge facing leader, and Islington MP, Jeremy Corbyn was to relate to the rest of the UK.
Mr McGinn also warned that Labour could lose votes if it adopted an anti-nuclear weapons stance.
A review of the party's defence policy is under way. The Labour leader opposes Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system, but many of his MPs support its renewal.
Mr McGinn, who falls in to the latter category, warned: "Defence might not win you a lot of votes, but it can definitely lose you a lot of votes if you're not in the right place on it."
In an interview with Parliament's House magazine, Mr McGinn, MP for St Helens North, said: "I think there is a political crisis that has engulfed what would be seen as the traditional Labour working class. They don't feel that anyone listens to them, never mind speaks for them.
"And I think that's a real problem for the Labour Party particularly. Sometimes it can seem that we're preoccupied with things that are insignificant to the population."
Labour, he said, needed to appeal to ordinary voters if it wanted to win elections.
"I think when you lose an election you should look at the reasons why and try, within the parameters of your own values, to move closer to the public, not further away from the public."
He also set out what he saw as the "challenge" for Mr Corbyn, who after 30 years as a backbench MP representing the London constituency of Islington North was elected party leader in September 2015.
"I love London, and it's a fantastic city, and Islington is a great place," he said, "but it's not like the rest of the country".
"I think the challenge for Jeremy having been an MP for 30-odd years for a seat like Islington, is how he relates to the rest of the country," he added.
The MP also said many people wanted a secure job with a decent wage that enabled him to afford his own home, and an annual holiday or a new car.
"The problem with sections of the...

Summary: Working class voters feel that the Labour Party no longer understands them or their concerns, a Labour frontbencher has warned.
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Article: All 57 seats were contested, of which the Tories took 43, compared to the 36 they won in 2013.
Labour gained a councillor, taking their tally to 12, while the Liberal Democrats saw their number of seats fall from six to two.
There will be no UKIP representatives on the council - all three of their seats were Tory gains.
Turnout was up on 2013, at 33.7%.
Heather Smith, Conservative leader on the council, said: "I'm very pleased. We've exceeded our number from four years ago and our target of 40 seats.
"We expected turnout to be low because of the general election.
"I can't foresee a bigger majority will make a difference [to how we govern]. We have to work within a certain budget."
In Northamptonshire, the Conservative party gained 8,832 votes in the local election - 45.54% of the vote.
It is higher than the national projected vote share for the Tories, which stands at 38%.
The Liberal Democrats suffered a major blow when their local leader, Brendan Glynane, lost his Delapre and Rushmere seat to Labour.
Asked about the increased Conservative majority, Mr Glynane said: "I think they will be emboldened by this.
"The finances are not sorted, there is nothing left in the bank and I think you will see some severe cuts."
As the declaration of results drew to a close, John McGhee announced he was to stand down as Labour group leader on the council.
Mr McGhee won his Kingswood ward, but said: "It's been extremely difficult watching the destruction of public services in Northamptonshire.
"I decided [to stand down] well before this election. I've been doing it so long. It has nothing to do with today's results."

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The Scottish Government has announced it will spend £1.5 million on a new £1.5 million visitor centre at the Scottish Parliament.
The new visitor centre will be located in the Scottish Parliament's library.
The Scottish Government said it would spend £1.5 million on the new visitor centre, which will

The Church of England's second female bishop has been consecrated during a ceremony at York Minster.

Article: British Transport Police were called to the scene at Dalmeny at about 07:00 on Tuesday.
The man is believed to have been in his 70s and police said there were no suspicious circumstances.
A ScotRail spokeswoman said passengers "should expect some knock-on delays until around 11:30".
A spokeswoman for ScotRail said trains through Dalmeny station had been "subject to disruption".
She said: "Services are now returning to normal, but customers should expect some knock-on delays until around 11:30.
"Lothian Transport ticket acceptance is in place, and passengers can use bus services to travel on the route shown on their train ticket."

Summary: Train commuters have had delays to their journeys after a man's body was found on a railway line on the outskirts of Edinburgh.
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Article: More than 7,000 visitors attended events such as battle re-enactments.
Tourists from 18 different countries exploring their heritage brought in a net total of £390,000 last year.
Clan chief Alexander Leslie, vice-convener of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, said there had been a renewed level of interest over the last 18 months.
About 50 million people globally claim to have Scottish ancestry.
Mr Leslie, vice-convener of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, said many "overseas Scots" were visiting each year.
He said: "The clan network and clan societies bring a lot of overseas Scots to Scotland every year and within the last year or 18 months there's also been a renewed level of interest in Scotland itself in which clan people belong to, which is very encouraging to see.
"We work hard with the Scottish Government on this issue and see it a win-win situation that Scotland as a whole, Scotland as a brand and Scotland as a destination will benefit."
The Scottish Clan Event Fund, administered by EventScotland, gives clans and clan societies up to £5,000 for gatherings, battle re-enactments and other associated heritage events.
The Scottish Government allocated £23,000 to the fund in 2015/16 and has announced up to £70,000 will be available in 2016/17.
There will be six supported events taking place across Scotland in 2016.
Tourism minister Fergus Ewing said: "The market for ancestral tourism in Scotland is considerable and creates opportunities for communities to benefit.
"I am pleased to see the fund has already had such a strong positive impact, capturing visitors' imagination and helping to inspire and promote fun, colourful and inspiring events across the country."

Summary: 'Clan' tourism generated nearly £400,000 for Scotland's economy in 2015.
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Article: The Rev Canon Alison White was made the Bishop of Hull in a service led by Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu.
She and her husband, Bishop Frank White, are the UK's first husband and wife bishop partnership.
The Church formally adopted legislation last November to allow women bishops, following decades of argument over women's ordination.
Dr Sentamu paused the service at midday to observe the minute's silence remembering those killed in the Tunisia beach attack last week.
Earlier in the ceremony, a man wearing a dog collar interrupted the proceedings by holding up a banner and shouting in protest against the consecration of the bishop.
The 58-year-old bishop became a priest in 1996 and has served in Durham, Sheffield, Peterborough and Newcastle.
The Rt Rev Libby Lane was the Church of England's first woman bishop, who was consecrated as the eighth Bishop of Stockport at York Minster in January.

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The BBC's Paul Mason reports from the scene of the murder of a man in a London park.

A Banksy artwork which had been withdrawn from an auction in the US has been put up for sale again.

Article: Momcilo Perisic, who commanded the Yugoslav army during the wars in Bosnia and Croatia, was found guilty after a trial in 2011.
Judges in the Hague said Mr Perisic had not directed ethnic Serb forces in Bosnia to use military aid sent from Belgrade for the commission of crimes.
They ordered him to be released with immediate effect.
Judges in his appeal also ruled that he had not been in a position to discipline soldiers for shelling the Croatian capital, Zagreb.
In the 2011 trial he was convicted of aiding and abetting crimes, but acquitted of a direct role in the Srebrenica massacre.
"While Mr Perisic may have known of VRS [Serb Army of Republika Srpska, VRS] crimes, the Yugoslav Army aid he facilitated was directed towards the VRS's general war effort rather than VRS crimes," Theodor Meron, president of the appeals chamber at the tribunal in The Hague, said.
Mr Perisic had always insisted that he was not aware of or responsible for atrocities.
The BBC's Guy De Launey, in Belgrade, said that a twitch of an eye was all the response that Mr Perisic gave to the verdict.
Our correspondent adds that Mr Perisic's release might restore some faith in the tribunal's neutrality among people in Serbia.

Summary: A Serbian general sentenced to 27 years for crimes against humanity has been released on appeal.
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Article: If you recognise that lyric, you're not alone... because The Killers' Mr Brightside, has become one of the UK's most popular songs.
The 2004 single was streamed 26 million times last year, beating any other song released before 2010, according to music industry body the BPI.
That's worth $150,000 (Â£115,000) in royalties. So it's fair to say The Killers are making a killing on streaming.
However, the most-streamed song overall last year was Drake's One Dance, which his fans played 141 million times.
It was the only song to break the 100 million barrier, but 35 other tracks, including Sia's Cheap Thrills and Justin Bieber's Love Yourself, were streamed more than 50 million times.
According to the BPI, classic songs accounted for more than half of all the streams served by Spotify, Apple Music and their competitors last year.
Christmas songs, in particular, attracted a huge number of plays.
The figures were revealed in the BPI's annual All About The Music report.
Other discoveries included in its analysis of the UK music market included:
Britain is now the third-biggest music market in the world; but the BPI warned that Brexit could pose challenges for the industry in the coming years.
"Brexit risks new EU barriers for UK acts, who also face stiff competition from overseas artists on global streaming platforms," said chief executive Geoff Taylor.
"Our business will only reach its full potential if the government makes the creative sector a high priority in trade negotiations and offers the same kind of support to investment into music, such as through tax credits, as it has to the film and games industries."
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Summary: It started out with a kiss, how did it end up like this?
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Article: The mural, called Slave Labour, disappeared from a wall in Wood Green, north London, in February and appeared in a Miami sale.
But it was removed from the lot after protests by Haringey Council.
It is now up for auction in June in Covent Garden by the Sincura Group. A local councillor and the local Trades Union Congress have attacked the sale.
The mural, which depicts a boy hunched over a sewing machine making Union Jack bunting, appeared on the side of a Poundland store last May, just before the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.
A spokesman for the auctioneers Sincura said the mural "has been sensitively restored under a cloak of secrecy", and will go on show alongside pieces by Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Mario Testino and Russell Young.
But Wood Green councillor Alan Strickland said: "This is a piece of art given to the community for public enjoyment, and people will find it galling that you can only view this work at an expensive champagne reception, when it belongs with the people of north London, not a private owner.
"We saw the level of public anger last time, as the story went around the world, and I expect the same this time."
And Keith Flett, secretary of the Haringey Trades Union Congress, said: "The Slave Labour Banksy belongs to the people of Haringey not to a wealthy private client."
When the mural was up for auction in Miami, it was expected to fetch up to Â£450,000.
There was suspicion it had been stolen when it disappeared but the Metropolitan Police said there were "no reports of any theft".
Slave Labour will go on sale at the London Film Museum on 2 June.

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The UK's weather service has warned that the UK will be hit by a "major storm" on Thursday, with strong winds and heavy rain.

Much of the UK will be hit by Storm Abigail on Thursday, bringing lots of rain and strong winds.

Article: Mohammed Alloush is the political leader of the powerful, Saudi-backed group Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam).
Both the Syrian government and its staunch ally, Russia, consider Jaysh al-Islam a terrorist organisation.
The opposition committee also warned that it would pull out of the talks if a third party was invited to attend.
Russia wants opposition groups tolerated by President Bashar al-Assad to participate in the negotiations on a political solution to the conflict in Syria, which has left more than 250,000 people dead since 2011.
Kurdish groups, which control large parts of the north, also want to attend.
An unprecedented meeting of Syrian opposition politicians and rebels in Riyadh last month led to the creation of a committee to oversee the talks with the government.
On Wednesday, the head of the Supreme Commission for Negotiations, Riad Hijab, announced Mr Alloush's appointment as its chief negotiator.
Jaysh al-Islam controls much of the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus. Its leader, Zahran Alloush, was killed in an air strike last month.
Russia says Jaysh al-Islam differs little from the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), but the two are violently opposed to each other and Zahran Alloush said before his death that he favoured allowing Syrians to decide whether they wanted Islamic rule.
Asaad al-Zoubi, a former Syrian army general, will serve under Mr Alloush as head of the opposition negotiating team, while his deputy will be George Sabra of the Syrian National Council.
Mr Hijab warned that the committee would not accept any attempts by foreign parties to "inject individuals in the form of a so-called third delegation, justifying their presence under unfounded pretexts merely to disrupt the political process and prolong the fighting in the name of combating terrorism".
The former prime minister also said that the opposition could not negotiate while Syrians "suffer from shelling, starvation and siege" by government forces.
"Dates are not sacred," he added. "Debased political bartering at the...

Summary: A Syrian opposition committee has named an Islamist rebel as its chief negotiator at peace talks that the UN hopes to convene in Geneva on Monday.
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Article: Bankia's parent company, BFA, which is being bailed out, was deemed to be worth -10.4bn euros.
The assessments suggest losses on bad loans are even worse than expected.
Bankia shares will be suspended from Spain's benchmark Ibex index from 2 January until at least after it is recapitalised, the stock exchange said.
The Spanish government-owned bailout fund, which is called the FROB, said that a further 13.5bn euros of rescue money would have to be injected into BFA, on top of the 4.5bn provided by Madrid in September.
The money, which is ultimately provided by the eurozone's bailout fund, is being injected into the bank via the sale of new shares in BFA to the FROB.
By doing this, the FROB increases the bank's capital - its ability to absorb potential future losses on the loans it has made - by putting Spanish taxpayers' money at risk.
The FROB told the BFA it must provide 10.7bn of the rescue money as new capital to Bankia, which will have the effect of diluting the value of the bank's existing shares.
The statement by the rescue fund has made clear that this dilution will be even worse than feared, causing Bankia's shares to drop further on the stock exchange.
Its shares have lost over 80% of their value since the bank was first listed on the Madrid Stock Exchange in July 2011.
Bankia is the largest of a string of Spanish banks to suffer massive losses on the loans it made to property developers and home buyers during the country's property bubble in the past decade.
As well as Bankia, three other banks are currently being patched up by the FROB - Catalunya Banc and NGC of Galicia, as well as Banco de Valencia, which was in such bad shape that it is being sold off to another, privately-owned bank.
Some 10bn euros of the cost associated with the four banks' rescue must be borne by other investors in the banks.
This decision has proved controversial in Spain, as these investors include many ordinary Spaniards, particularly older investors, to whom their banks sold preferred shares - a high-risk form of bank...

Summary: Shares in Bankia have slid almost 20% after Spain's bank rescue fund said the troubled lender had a negative value of -4.2bn euros (Â£3.4bn; $5.6bn).
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Article: Abigail is the first storm to be given a name by the Met Office who keep track of our weather.
The storm will hit Northern Ireland with strong winds on Thursday afternoon, and move towards the west coast of Scotland and northern England on Friday.
As if one storm wasn't enough, the UK will also be battered by ex-hurricane Kate, which is the end of a hurricane from the Atlantic Ocean. Kate will bring lots more rain for Scotland, Wales and northern parts of England.
Weather forecasters have told people to make sure they are prepared for strong winds, especially in Scotland. Several schools have already shut in the Western Isles in Scotland because of the bad weather.

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The Scottish Government has announced it will be closing its lifeboat station in St Abbs, bringing to an end a 104-year association with the Scottish Borders village.

Thousands of elderly people are missing out on free personal care because of delays to assessments and care arrangements, a charity has claimed.

Article: The charity said there was "not a clear need" to have a separate facility so close to its Eyemouth station.
It said it was confident the area could be safely covered by an extra boat provided at Eyemouth.
Campaigners opposing the closure are now looking at setting up an independently-run station.
The RNLI said the St Abbs lifeboat only launched about nine times a year, with a third of those being joint services with Eyemouth.
It said the new boat could reach St Abbs in "five to 10 minutes, depending on conditions".
Operations director George Rawlinson said: "Closing a lifeboat station is never an easy thing to do and this decision was made only after extensive research that considered the location of existing search and rescue assets and changing patterns of sea use.
"The review concluded that the area should be covered from one lifeboat station, rather than two stations so close together.
"St Abbs and Eyemouth are only two miles apart - and the coastline can be covered by placing an inshore lifeboat alongside the all-weather lifeboat already stationed at Eyemouth."
Mr Rawlinson said the charity was "very aware" of the impact of such change on local communities and did not take such decisions lightly.
However, he said it had to be mindful of its responsibility to make best possible use of donations.
"I know that this is a sad day for the community of St Abbs and the lifeboat station - the lifeboat station has served the RNLI proudly for over 100 years," he said.
"I'd like to take the opportunity to thank them for their support, service and commitment to saving lives at sea."
Opponents said the decision to close was "an error of judgement, based on flawed data".
They have argued lives will be put at risk due to the extra time needed to get from Eyemouth to St Abbs.
They also delivered a 13,000-signature petition against the move to the RNLI.
Earlier this week, campaigners announced plans to look at delivering an "entirely independent" lifeboat station in the village.
The RNLI said it would be happy to work...

Summary: The RNLI has closed its lifeboat station in St Abbs, bringing to an end a 104-year association with the Scottish Borders village.
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Article: The industry saw 29,000 tonnes of fresh salmon worth £190m sold in the second period of this year alone.
That was a near 10-tonne increase on the 19,150 tonnes (£109m) exported in the corresponding period of 2016.
The United States remains the largest market, while China (£44m) is the most significant Asian buyer.
The HMRC figures are a welcome boost to the industry following revelations that it is facing major problems from sea lice.
It is believed Scottish producers are having to spend at least £30m a year on measures to respond to the issue.
However, consumer demand for the fish has continued to rise - pushing prices to record levels.
Scott Landsburgh, chief executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation (SSPO), hailed the latest export figures.
And he pointed to the development of the Far East marketplace as being a major factor.
Mr Landsburgh said: "The fact that annual Chinese exports are now worth around £90m from a standing start six or seven years ago indicates that this has been worth the effort.
"East Asian markets are becoming increasingly significant, with Taiwan and Vietnam in the top 10 importers.
"We continue to see the huge global opportunity for high-quality Scottish food and for salmon, in particular.
"Quality and provenance are highly prized in all markets and Scottish salmon fits the bill. Its traceability from source to plate is another respected attribute in the Far East."
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing said the figures were good news for Scotland's aquaculture industry, "clearly demonstrating that demand is growing around the world for quality salmon".
He added: "It is proof that our industry is thriving and testament to the hard work going on between government, stakeholders and industry to support sustainable growth and access to new markets.
"Particularly pleasing is the success of our work to unlock more markets in the Far East, which have been key industry target areas.
"However, this success simply underlines the importance of ensuring Scotland's food and drink...

Summary: Scottish salmon exports reached a record value of £346m in the first half of 2017 - up 70% on the same period last year, government figures reveal.
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Article: Age Scotland says official figures suggest that each year about 8,640 people in Scotland wait longer than six weeks for a council care assessment.
The average "worst case" is between two weeks and five months, with the longest delay of 18 months recorded in 2014/15.
Cosla, the umbrella body for local councils, declined to comment.
Age Scotland's research, compiled using freedom of information requests, found significant variations across councils in the time taken to carry out assessments.
Under national guidelines, people should wait no longer than six weeks for care services to be provided after an assessment has taken place.
Age Scotland found that about 10% of people were not provided with services within the six-week limit over the past three years.
The charity said its research suggested that about 3,000 elderly people each year wait longer than six weeks for services to be put in place.
Most councils do not record the reasons why delays occur, but many cited instances where delays were caused by the person being admitted to hospital or waiting for a place in their chosen care home.
Staff shortages, financial constraints and delays in adapting homes were also cited.
Age Scotland received freedom of information responses from 25 out of 32 councils.
Chief executive Keith Robson said: "These are deeply concerning figures showing thousands of older people facing delays in the care provision they need being put in place.
"It also means payments for free personal care they are entitled to are not being received.
"This confirms the experiences of a number of older people and their families who have been in touch with Age Scotland's helpline to tell us their experiences of delays in the system.
"As we look to local authority elections next month, Age Scotland has contacted council candidates across Scotland to ask them to ensure providing high-quality health and social care services is made an urgent priority by new administrations."

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The Conservative Party has been accused of being too soft on the issue of gay marriage, but the party's leader, David Cameron, has said he is "not a fan" of the idea.

Fees for Church of England weddings are to increase by 40% and the cost of a funeral service by more than 50%.

Article: Police and crime commissioner Tony Hogg's decision came after the launch of consultation on Monday.
A spokesman said reaction on social media showed "probably two thirds" of people were against a rise.
"We got a very good idea of what people were thinking, so in a way social media has done the job for us."
Mr Hogg had been planning to hold a referendum next May on adding about Â£25 a year to the bill of the average band D property in Devon and Cornwall.
He said the rise in the police share of council tax could save 350 officers.
It came amid a projected budget cut of Â£39m next year, with the loss of up to 760 police officers and all 360 community support officers.
Reaction to a council tax rise on Facebook pages, including that of BBC Spotlight, included comments such as: "Why should we be asked to pay more for our policing? We are paying a fortune in council tax as it is this will just end up in the pockets of those at the top."
Other reactions included: "Council Tax is already too high" and "I'm against this proposal because it will let the Government off the hook".
In May, Bedfordshire council tax payers rejected a planned rise in council tax for the police.
Mr Hogg's decision came after the government admitted it had made a "statistical error" in a new formula which assesses population size and other data to calculate funding.
He is now waiting for an announcement from Chancellor George Osborne, expected later this month, on what funding the force will get.

Summary: Plans for a referendum on raising council tax for Devon and Cornwall Police have been dropped after a backlash on social media.
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Article: But the #hairgate scandal that unravelled at the weekend in fact centres around a famous novelist, the Canadian prime minister and his well-groomed Liberal opponent.
It's one of several episodes in an eventful election campaign - with voting still two months away.
Writer Margaret Atwood thrust the upcoming Canadian parliamentary elections into the international media spotlight after a satirical article she wrote about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's hair (yes, hair) appeared on the National Post website, then disappeared after several hours.
It reappeared again with several lines missing, prompting the novelist to ask, "Um, did I just get censored?"
The novelist tweeted about the mysterious disappearance of her article hours after it was first published on Friday, and soon #hairgate started to trend on Twitter.
People mocked the amount of coverage it was getting, likening it to the media attention Donald Trump has been awarded in recent weeks.
...even Margaret Atwood found time to joke about it...
A senior National Post vice-president later told The Star the article was taken down because fact-checking had not been completed and questions remained over whether it was "aligned with the values of the National Post and its readers".
How did the flowing locks of politicians become an election issue anyway?
It began in May - three months before the polls were even announced - when the Conservatives released a new video ad dubbed "The Interview" mocking the coiffure of Justin Trudeau, leader of Canada's Liberal Party.
Four people sit in a conference room mulling over CVs of candidates for a job interview (presumably the post of prime minister), "lets talk about Justin," one man says. "I see he's enclosed his picture," a woman on the panel responds.
They go on to question Mr Trudeau's credentials and attack his policies for being too lightweight, finally concluding he's "just not ready". The video ends with one panellist quipping, "nice hair though".
Mr Trudeau's hairstyles have long been a subject of interest in...

Summary: Mention the words hair, election and scandal to anyone and they might (wrongly) assume you were talking about business mogul Donald Trump and his US presidential bid.
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Article: Church members have voted to raise the cost of a wedding from £296 to £415 and for a funeral service from £102 to £160 from January next year.
The fees include the costs of lighting and administration for the first time.
The moves come despite a warning from some members of the Church's governing body, the General Synod, that the rises could have an impact on poorer couples.
The Rev Canon Simon Killwick, a vicar in Moss Side, Manchester, said: "Such a fee increase seems to me hard to justify in times of financial austerity and even harder to justify in poor inner-city parishes.
"The Church of England ought not to be seen to be making a big increase at this time and ought not to be making it difficult for the poor to access these services at a time when a simple ceremony can be had at a register office for around £100."
Canon Killwick said the right to waive fees in cases of hardship put clergy in the "invidious position" of means testing parishioners.
"Waiving can cause real ill feeling," he said. "The poor don't want to be patronised by fees being waived, they want their church to be affordable to them.
"It would be a crying shame if poor people end up being married in register offices because the Church of England has priced them out of their parish church."
But the Rt Rev John Packer, the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, said the changes reflected the "reality" of the costs, and  reduced confusion over different fees being charged by different parishes.
He told the General Synod that the fees raised about £35m a year for the Church, including £15m towards the pay of clergy.
"The reality of what it costs matters, and it seems to me that those who are being married within our churches do understand that," he said.
The increases were approved after a 4% rise in the number of Church of England weddings in 2010.
Last year the General Synod rejected plans to increase the price of both weddings and funerals by 50%.

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The British government has announced it will be introducing a new tax on the sale of alcohol to help fund the country's fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The new tax will be levied on the sale of alcohol to adults aged over 21, and will be paid by the government.
The tax will be levied

Chloe Grace Moretz is not a fan of body shaming.

Article: The claim: Leaving the EU would make the UK economy grow more than staying in.
Reality Check verdict: This is not a mainstream view - but they are reputable economists. It is an optimistic vision of how the UK economy might fare outside the EU, although some of its assumptions are questionable.
They predict that, in 2020, the UK economy would grow 3.4% if the UK left the EU, while it would grow only 2.5% if the UK remained.
Their conclusions are outside the current economic mainstream on Europe, with most models assuming that free trade, free movement and open economies are automatically a good thing.
While we have previously warned about the uncertainties involved in economic modelling, that is why it is no surprise organisations such as the IMF, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Treasury and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) have all predicted considerable losses to the economy following a Brexit.
This means the Economists for Brexit have had to demonstrate in their paper that the EU is restricting UK trade.
The basis of their assumptions is that after leaving the EU, the UK would trade under World Trade Organisation rules and immediately drop all tariffs on imports from everywhere in the world to reduce the prices of products for people in Britain.
One problem with this is that they also predict a fall in the value of the pound, which would be good news for exporters, but bad news for UK consumers buying imported goods.
The weaker pound might go some way to making up for the likelihood that EU countries would impose tariffs on UK exports, which is included in the model.
How does this compare with other models?
The analysis from the CEP, an influential group based at the London School of Economics, considered what would happen if the UK unilaterally removed all tariffs.
It still predicted a negative effect on the economy from leaving the EU, but said going tariff-free improved the outcome by 0.3 percentage points.
Another problem with the Economists for Brexit...

Summary: A group of eight well known economists have released a report under the banner of Economists for Brexit, explaining how they think leaving the EU would be good for the UK economy.
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Article: The 42-year-old Grand Prix at Angouleme has long faced criticism for its failure to recognise women cartoonists.
This year, a pressure group is calling for a boycott, saying "it is no longer tolerable" that "renowned female creators" are left off the list of 30.
At least three male nominees have publicly backed the protest.
They have asked for their names to be removed from the list.
The Grand Prix is a highly prestigious prize, recognising the lifetime achievement of a cartoonist. It is handed out each year at the Angouleme International Comics Festival.
In its long history, only one woman, Florence Cestac, has ever won the prize.
A group called BD Egalite, or Women in Comics Collective Against Sexism, said the prize was significant, because as well as being honorary it could also boost an artist's career and book sales.
"What is the message sent to women cartoonists and those in the process of becoming such?" it asked on its website. "We are discouraged from having ambition, from continuing our efforts. How could we take it otherwise?
"It all comes back to the disastrous glass ceiling. We're tolerated, but never allowed top billing. Will we require women in comics to perpetually play second fiddle?"
A number of cartoonists on the long list have since asked for their names to be removed.
American Daniel Clowes called it a now "totally meaningless 'honor'."
"What a ridiculous, embarrassing debacle," he added.
Riad Sattouf on Facebook listed a number of female cartoonists he would "prefer to cede my place to", including Rumiko Takahashi, Julie Doucet, Anouk Ricard, Marjane Satrapi and Catherine Meurisse.
The Festival's Franck Bondoux was quoted in French media as saying that Franco-Belgian graphic novels, known as "bande desinee", had traditionally been dominated by men.
"The festival cannot distort this reality, although I concede that the list might contain one or two female names," he said.
But he rejected accusations that the festival ignored the contribution of women artists, giving examples of steps it...

Summary: A prestigious award for graphic novelists in France is facing calls for a boycott after its long list of nominees failed to include any women.
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Article: Earlier this summer, the actress said she was "appalled and angry" about a billboard advert for her movie Red Shoes & the 7 Dwarfs, which suggested being overweight made you less beautiful.
And now, she's spoken for the first time about a time she was fat-shamed on set by one of her male co-stars.
She told Variety: "This guy that was my love interest was like, 'I'd never date you in real life,' and I was like, 'what?'. And he was like, 'yeah, you're too big for me' - as in my size.
"It was one of the only actors that ever made me cry on set."
Chloe didn't reveal who it was, but said the actor was in his mid 20s - while she was 15 at the time.
"I went bawling to my brother and he was like, 'what happened?'. And I was like, 'he told me I was too big'. My brother was so angry.
"I had to pick it up and go back on set and pretend he was a love interest, and it was really hard. It just makes you realise that there are some really bad people out there and for some reason, he felt the need to say that to me.
"You have to kind of forgive and not forget really, but it was just like wow. It was jarring. I look back on it and I was 15, which is really, really dark."
Chloe Grace Moretz isn't the first star to highlight the issue of body shaming.
From Kate Winslet and Jennifer Lawrence (pictured) to Meghan Trainor and Amy Schumer - more and more stars are refusing to feel guilty about their appearance.
"I heard my body is a topic of conversation so I wanted to say, I'm proud of my body and you should be proud of yours too," Lady Gaga said earlier this year.
Lena Dunham, meanwhile, has said: "I've accepted that my body is an ever changing organism, not a fixed entity - what goes up must come down and vice versa."
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Edinburgh Zoo has said it believes its panda Tian Tian is pregnant and may give birth at the end of the month.

Article: Republicans made historic gains in the mid-term elections and now control both legislative chambers.
Incoming Senate leader Mitch McConnell said he would make the ineffective Senate function and pass bills.
Mr Obama said he was "eager to work with the new Congress to make the next two years as productive as possible".
The election campaign was characterised by widespread frustration expressed by voters about the inability of Congress to work together.
To the Americans who voted for change, the president said: "I hear you."
He told a White House news conference that both parties must address those concerns, but he admitted that as president he had a "unique responsibility to try to make this town work".
On Friday, he will host a meeting at the White House with Democratic and Republican leaders.
"We can surely find ways to work together," Mr Obama said. "It's time for us to take care of business."
But he warned he would act on his own to reduce deportations and improve border security - action he had delayed until after the election, to the fury of some Latino voters.
Earlier on Wednesday, Mr McConnell pledged to make the Senate more productive.
"The Senate in the last few years basically doesn't do anything," he said. "We're going to go back to work and actually pass legislation."
He also vowed to "work together" with Mr Obama on issues where they can agree, such as trade agreements and tax reform.
Working within a two-party political system did not mean "we have to live in perpetual conflict", he added.
Also on Wednesday, the chairman of the Republican National Committee called resounding Republican mid-term victories a "direct rejection of the Obama agenda".
"[Americans] want nothing to do with the policies of Barack Obama," Reince Priebus told reporters.
Barack Obama's unpopularity in the run-up to these mid-term elections is hard to exaggerate. One of the things that is lost in the big picture of the night is some of the sidebar poll findings - the American people are fed up with all their politicians....

Summary: The US Senate's new Republican leader and President Barack Obama have both promised to end the political gridlock that has so frustrated American voters.
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Article: The Home Office Minister, Lynne Featherstone, said that special protection for dogs cats and primates would be maintained.
Ms Featherstone also said that a centralised system for approving research licenses would continue.
The statement was welcomed by the research community and animal welfare organisations.
But the RSPCA's senior scientific officer, Barney Reed said that he was concerned the government was initially prepared to accept EU regulations which would have allowed smaller cage sizes, the use of less humane killing methods and the watering down of the powers of ethics committees which oversee animal research.
"It's been unfortunate that we've had to battle for 18 months to pretty much stand still and maintain the standards that we currently have," he told BBC News.
Professor Roger Lemon, a prominent medical researcher at University College London and spokesman for the campaign organisation Understanding Animal Research, said the UK had the highest welfare standards in the world for animal experimentation.
"We applaud the Home Office decision to hold on to those high standards," he said.
The EU has set minimum standards for the care and welfare of animals used in research in a directive which has to be implemented by the beginning of next year. The regulations are largely in line with UK directives which are policed and administered by the Home Office. But in a small number of areas, the standards are slightly lower.
The chief executive of one of the organisations that funds animal experiments, Prof Douglas Kell, said he welcomed legislation that he believes aims to improve welfare standards across Europe.
"Harmonising standards ensures that researchers collaborating across European borders are working together to achieve animal welfare with a common understanding," he said.
"This is increasingly important in areas like livestock diseases where researchers are working together to combat emerging threats".
Kailah Eglington, the chief executive of the Dr Hadwen Trust, which funds research into...

Summary: The UK says it will retain stricter animal testing standards than required by a new European Union Directive.
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Article: She was artificially inseminated earlier this year after attempts to bring her together with male partner, Yang Guang, failed.
The zoo said new scientific tests had given a "strong indication" of pregnancy, but were "too new to be definitive".
Tian Tian also conceived last year, but the pregnancy failed.
Iain Valentine, director of Giant Pandas for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said: "The latest scientific data suggests Tian Tian the giant panda is now pregnant and that implantation has taken place, therefore she may give birth at the end of the month.
"This is all very new and complex science and we still have a bit of time to go yet.
"As like last year, the late loss of a cub remains entirely possible."
The zoo said it had been able to confirm that Tian Tian did become pregnant last year.
However, it said it was most likely that she had reabsorbed the foetus late term.
The two pandas arrived in Scotland from China in 2011.
Tian Tian has had cubs in the past in China, before she came on loan to Edinburgh.
If she does have a successful delivery, it will be the first time a giant panda has been born in Britain.
The panda enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo is due to close to visitors from Saturday ahead of a possible birth.

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Lock Rory Thornton says he is "champing at the bit" ahead of winning his first Wales cap against Samoa in Apia on Friday, 23 June.

Article: Net income rose to a record 7.04tn won ($6.6bn; Â£4.2bn), up from 4.01tn won in the same period a year earlier, beating analysts' expectations.
The Korean firm said its mobile profits more than doubled over the same period.
Last year, Samsung became the world's biggest smartphone maker, overtaking Apple, its main rival in the sector.
"Overall its earnings momentum remains intact," said Lee Se-chul, from Meritz Securities in Seoul.
"Smartphone shipments will continue to grow, even in the traditionally weak first quarter, as Samsung's got a broader product line-up and Apple appears to be struggling in pushing iPhone volumes aggressively."
Samsung did not provide data on the number of smartphones it had shipped, but analysts estimate it sold 63 million smartphones in the quarter.
The strong sales numbers come after Apple shares tumbled 12% in the US on Thursday, over fears the company was losing its edge in key smartphone markets.
Apple had reported record quarterly revenues of $55bn, but there was disappointment over sales of the company's new iPhone 5.
Galactic sales
Samsung said its Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets has been its top seller, driving profits.
The handsets division, which sells about a quarter of all mobile phones in the world according to analysts, saw an operating profit of 5.44tn won, up from 2.56tn won a year earlier.
Earnings were also helped by Samsung's displays unit, which made a profit, after losses a year earlier.
The unit enjoyed a sales boost from its organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) screen, used in the Galaxy smartphones.
The firm said its capital spending this year will be similar to 2012 levels, despite analyst expectations that it would be cut.
However, it did caution that increased competition in the smartphone sector could lead to a softening of demand in some regions.
"The furious growth spurt seen in the global smartphone market last year is expected to be pacified by intensifying price competition, compounded by a slew of new products," the company said in its...

Summary: Samsung Electronics said its profits surged 76% in the last three months of 2012, helped by sales of its Galaxy smartphones.
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Article: The party says the new ministers would be accountable to the assembly and not to Westminster.
TUV leader Jim Allister set out his "Plan B" as he launched the party's manifesto on Wednesday for the assembly election next month.
The party is standing 15 candidates in 14 constituencies.
Mr Allister described the current structures at Stormont as "a shambles" and insisted voluntary coalition with an opposition was the only way to make government work.
"There must, there has to be surgical change, root and branch change, to the abysmal failure of the present arrangements," he said.
"We can't go on as we are, we need to abandon mandatory coalition and move to voluntary coalition with a real opposition."
But Mr Allister said if the parties could not agree on voluntary coalition, then his plan B would prevent the collapse of the Assembly.
"Executive functions would be exercised by British ministers under the scrutiny of the Assembly," he said.
"Then when our politicians grow up and agree to voluntary coalition, they could then replace the British ministers and in that way we build durable and workable devolution."
The TUV leader said his party had "shone the bright light" into the corners of Stormont and exposed squander and failure.
He also hit back at those who claim he is a one man party.
The TUV's 43 page manifesto called "Straight Talking, Principled Politics" set out how it would tackle problems in the health, education and housing sectors.
It also outlined how it would turn the economy around.

Summary: The TUV has proposed bringing back "British ministers" to replace the Stormont executive as part of its new plan for government.
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Article: The 22-year-old was an unused squad member during the 2017 Six Nations, as well as the 2016 autumn internationals.
"It's been building as I've been in a few camps now, but to finally get my name called out on that team sheet was an awesome feeling," he said.
"I've been champing at the bit these last few camps, training hard."
The Ospreys player comes in to replace Cory Hill, who was called up by the British and Irish Lions following Wales' 24-6 win over Tonga.
Coach Robin McBryde has made seven changes in all to the side that started that game at Eden Park last Friday
Another two uncapped players - scrum-half Tomos Williams and lock Adam Beard - are also on the bench.
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Thornton made 25 appearances for Ospreys in the 2016-17 campaign, but expects a big transition to international rugby.
"I've been playing a lot for the Ospreys this year and being involved in the Pro12 and the [European] Challenge Cup has given me quite a bit of experience," the former Wales Under-20s captain told BBC Wales Sport.
"But Test rugby is a completely different animal, so I'm really looking forward to the challenge on Friday against a strong Samoan team.
"Like every young Welsh boy I want to play for Wales, but when it actually comes round you get that sensation of pride."
Thornton is part of an inexperienced Wales side, with the forwards having won just 31 caps between them.
"Samoa have a big experienced pack and we have a couple of young guys here looking to blood themselves on the international stage, so I think it'll be a good challenge overall," Thornton added.
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Canada Post will phase out home delivery in urban areas over the next five years as the postal service struggles to rein in persistent losses.

Article: The Corporation's committee of 125 elected members, who represent the Square Mile, do not normally adopt a political stance.
But its policy chairman said the City "cannot afford to remain quiet".
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is campaigning for Britain to leave the EU.
Mark Boleat, the policy chairman, said: "When City firms of all sizes and in different sectors, who we represent, are voicing their concerns about the risks of leaving the EU, we need to make sure the City of London Corporation remains relevant to our stakeholders.
"While we might be criticised for taking such a stance, we need to speak up and encourage others to follow suit.
"We have taken positions on controversial matters like a new Heathrow runway and immigration policy in the past and can no longer be a silent partner in the run up to the 23rd of June."
A number of City grandees, including the former chancellor Lord Lamont have criticised the Corporation's decision to hold the vote.
Alex Deane, one of the committee members, wrote in City A.M it was "strongly akin to adopting a party political stance".
"We steer clear of that; for we will need to be able to operate with people on both sides of this debate long after it is done.... Opinion in the City is divided, not united," he wrote.
The head of the British Chambers of Commerce has told a conference in London that referendum voters faced a "tough choice" between "the devil and the deep blue sea."

Summary: The City of London Corporation has voted "overwhelmingly" to support the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU.
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Article: Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) said the force had "fragile" staffing levels and needed to "implement improvement plans rapidly".
Inspectors visited the force after criticising its response to government spending cuts last year.
Police and Crime Commissioner Olly Martins said the report was "out of date".
In the HMIC's Policing in Austerity: Meeting the Challenge report last year, Bedfordshire Police was judged to be "requiring improvement".
Inspectors, who said the force would be "monitored closely", returned in October and found it was not performing well compared to similar forces.
It highlighted problems in the force control room, although said these should be improved by a recent increase in staff.
The report described staffing levels as "fragile but improving" and said although there had been recruitment, it was not clear what investment the force had made in preventive work to reduce demand.
"There is a concern that it may not be tackling longer-term issues," the report said.
Inspectors said it needed to implement its plans for improving policing in "an affordable way more quickly" while ensuring its service "remains effective".
However, they said the force was "moving in the right direction and the pace of change is increasing".
Mr Martins said: "All that publishing out-of-date snapshots of a force, such as today's report does, is potentially undermine police force morale and mislead the public.
"When HMIC have already made their subsequent inspection it frankly seems incompetent, to say the least, to still publish a report that's seven months out of date."
HMIC said it had made a further assessment in March and would be returning in May and July.

Summary: Concerns over the service provided by Bedfordshire Police have been raised by the constabulary watchdog.
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Article: Under a five-year plan released on Wednesday, the cost of stamps will also rise and as many as 8,000 jobs will be eliminated.
But the agency says it will also open more retail locations across Canada.
The service faces a projected 1bn Canadian dollar ($943m; Â£576m) loss by 2020 without "fundamental changes".
Canada Post lost C$73m in the third quarter of the current fiscal year, CBC News reported.
"Canadians expect Canada Post to continue to remain financially self-sufficient and not look to their hard-earned tax dollars for funding," the postal service said.
At the same time, "the rise in digital communications has dramatically changed the postal needs of Canadians".
Direct to the home delivery will be replaced by community post boxes installed throughout residential areas, Canada Post said in its plan.
The agency said two-thirds of Canadians, mostly in newer suburban neighbourhoods and rural areas, already receive their mail through this method.
The cost of postage stamps purchased in bulk will rise to $0.85 per stamp, up from $0.63 today, among other price rises.
In all, the plan will return the agency to financial sustainability by 2019, Canada Post said in a report, citing annual savings of up to C$900m.
Between 6,000 and 8,000 jobs will be eliminated as part of the plan - 12% of Canada Post's employees, although it says its workforce is ageing and it expects almost 15,000 workers will retire or leave the company in the next five years.
Canada Post delivers close to 10 billion letters and parcels each year but has seen a 24% drop in letters delivered since 2008.

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