The company has been criticised for its "unfair" results, saying it was "not a good idea" to have a "good" results.
The company said it was "not a good idea" to have a "good" results.
The company said it was "not a good idea" to have

The Co-operative Group has said increased investment means profits this year will be lower than in 2014.

Article: Primary debates, where political parties choose their presidential candidates, regularly feature seven or more participants. As the discussion heats up it becomes increasingly important for the moderator to give equal time to each, but does this end up being the case?
Research into the 2012 Republican presidential candidate debates by Dr. Eric Ostermeier from the University of Minnesota shows that it's not. He painstakingly monitored how much time each participant was allowed to speak for in each debate.
Answers in the debate are generally limited to one minute each, with rebuttals limited to 30 seconds.  However, one seven-way Republican debate in 2011 saw Mitt Romney speaking for a total of 17 minutes 22 seconds. Newt Gingrich on the other hand spoke for only 8 minutes 23 seconds. That's around twice the amount of time to promote policy and engage with viewers.
Some in the US believe that the media deliberately favours the frontrunners. Indeed, Romney spoke for the longest amount of time in six of the nine monitored debates and went on to win the nomination. While there's no proven link between the two, it certainly doesn't look like a level playing field.
What's the truth behind the politicians' claims on the campaign trail? Our experts investigate the facts, and wider stories, behind the soundbites.
Read latest updates or follow us on Twitter @BBCRealityCheck

Summary: A seven-way TV debate may be unprecedented in the UK, but Americans have got used to the idea.
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Article: I have to admit I'm responsible for some of the 36 million views of HUGE CYST EXTRACTION (capitals not mine).
It's a gruesome experience reminiscent of a never-ending tube of toothpaste or watching an ice-cream seller slowly fill a cone.
And it's not alone, there's the allure of Woman's 20-Year-Old Cyst Finally Gets Popped or the disgustingly named The Pus Cannon.
Dermatologist Dr Pimple Popper, whose real name is Sandra Lee, gleefully tells her million-plus subscribers: "I know you guys love them."
On the BBC World Service's Health Check programme, we subjected one innocent volunteer, Matt, to his first cyst-burst viewing.
"Oh gosh, she's using scissors to cut it off, it's gross, argh," he squealed, but he stuck with it. "Aw, look at that, it's amazing what's in there."
So why do they have such an, albeit nauseating, appeal?
The answer is all down to "disgust", says Daniel Kelly, an associate professor in the department of philosophy at Purdue University and author of the book Yuck!.
Disgust is an emotional response that protects us from things that are poisonous or likely to spread infectious disease, whether it's rats or spoilt food.
Prof Kelly tells the BBC: "One of the really salient things that disgust keeps an eye out for are abnormal bodily fluids - so that is the key to these videos I think.
"What disgust does is when it detects one of these things, it keeps our attention trained on it, so it sort of generates this fascination."
And he argues such videos are a safe way to experience the "thrill" of disgust.
He says: "I think of it as analogous to the thrill people get riding a rollercoaster, or bungee jumping, where you get the 'voltage' of an emotional experience, without actually being at risk.
"Watching these kinds of videos, you get the thrill of an interesting emotional experience of feeling disgust, but you're not at risk of catching anything."
Dr Nisith Sheth, a consultant dermatologist for the British Skin Foundation, says: "I'm fascinated by the way people are really drawn in and people have...

Summary: This image of a cyst growing on the back of the head is gross enough, but a video of one being burst?
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Article: At present, school league tables are published in January - after the application process has finished.
But from this year, the Department for Education will publish provisional GCSE results in mid-October.
Schools Minister Nick Gibb said it would provide a more "informed choice".
The plans, announced by the Department for Education, will mean that parents looking at local secondary school places for the following autumn will have the most up-to-date exam results, at least in provisional form.
At present, families may be shown individual school results from the most recent summer exams, but the official comparisons are based on results from the previous year.
The full performance tables will still be published in January, but a provisional version will be brought forward to the autumn term.
They will be on a searchable website, so parents can draw up comparative league tables for their local area.
The provisional figures will show headline information such as the percentage of pupils achieving five good GCSEs, including English and maths.
They will be based on the grades from exam boards in the summer - but will show the position before the outcome of any appeals.
It will also include information about the proposed new way of measuring school performance, based on average achievement across eight subjects including English and maths.
"Choosing the right school is one of the most important decisions parents will make for their child and so we want to make sure they have as much up-to-date information as possible to make an informed choice," said Mr Gibb.
"This is why we will now publish provisional GCSE results before the admissions window closes - further empowering parents and continuing our commitment to transparency."
But there will also be another rival set of school league tables this autumn, with head teachers planning to run their own alternative tables, which they say will include a broader picture of school achievement.
It remains uncertain which league tables - head teachers' or the DFE's - will be...

Summary: Secondary school league tables in England are going to be published earlier this year so parents can compare the most recent GCSE results when choosing schools.
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Article: This is despite the company reporting a pre-tax profit of Â£36m in the first half of 2015, compared with a loss of Â£9m a year earlier.
The group said the turnaround was due to "robust trading" in its food and funeral businesses.
These are the first results since radical changes to the business were brought in at the end of last year.
Following a review of the business by Lord Myners, the number of board members was cut drastically, while directors had to have qualifications suited to running the business. Members were also given one vote each.
The business recorded a deficit of Â£2.5bn in 2013 following massive losses at the Co-operative Bank. Following changes in the ownership structure of the bank, the Co-op Group now holds just a 20% stake in the bank.
"We've made a good start on the three year journey to rebuild the Co-operative Group," said chief executive Richard Pennycook of the half-year results.
"These early days are about fixing the basics - putting in place new leadership teams and providing the investment to deliver the strategies for our businesses. Our customers and members are beginning to see the difference.
The food business saw like-for-like sales at its main convenience stores increase by 3.3%, as well as 35 new store openings.
The funeral business saw volumes rise by almost 12%, "principally due to a high death rate".
Despite the improvement in the business seen in the first half of the year, the company warned that "we expect full-year profitability to reduce year on year, given the planned and increased levels of investment we are making in the second half of the year".
It also said that, again due to greater investment, it was unlikely to declare any dividends before 2018.

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A public spending watchdog has cleared Scotland's culture secretary of any wrongdoing over a government grant to the organiser of T in the Park.

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In addition to 200 hours of network TV coverage, brought to you by presenters Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine and Jonathan Edwards, there will also be more than 650 hours of live action via six HD streams.
BBC Sport will also bring all the analysis, insight, news and highlights from Sochi 2014 to audiences wherever they are, on whichever device they want, across all 17 days of the Games.
Building on the BBC's digital success at London 2012 and other major sporting events in 2013, an innovative new approach to delivering world-class live coverage across PC, tablet and mobile has been developed for Sochi 2014. This will power the BBC's digital offering of a live event for the first time ever throughout the Winter Olympic Games.
The action in Sochi starts on 6 February, with the opening ceremony on 7 February.
2010 gold medallist Amy Williams and former Olympians Graham Bell, Colin Bryce, Emma Carrick-Anderson, Robin Cousins, Jackie Lockhart and Wilf O'Reilly form BBC Sport's world-class team of winter sports experts. Each will draw on their Winter Olympic experience to bring the most unique and insightful analysis to viewers.
All of Team GB's medal moments will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 5 live throughout the event with Chris Mitchell, Eleanor Oldroyd and Will Perry presenting all the main events and races live across 5 live's daytime schedules.
BBC Two will bring you live coverage every day from early in the morning and will have an hour-long daily highlights programme in the evening.
The 11th Winter Paralympic Games, which are being held from 7-16 March, will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 live and online.
Guidance on BBC Red Button services for the Winter Olympics
The new Winter Olympic Games live page, available from www.bbc.co.uk/sport, provides the best of the BBC's live action in one place, allowing audiences to follow the event how and where they like. Whether it's getting the latest news via a smartphone, watching favourite events on the office PC, using...

Summary: The 22nd Winter Olympics get under way in Russia on 7 February and BBC Sport will deliver the most complete digital coverage of a Winter Games to date.
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Article: The next two years of negotiations will have far-reaching implications for British businesses and their staff.
The three main areas companies will be watching in the Brexit talks are: migration, customs, and tariffs.
But different firms - often within the same industry - will rank them in different orders of importance.
With so many competing interests, what message is business sending to the government about the Brexit talks?
In many cases, British trade groups said they wanted to hold on to the best possible access to the EU, the UK's biggest trading partner. How far this is possible, though, will be at the crux of the talks.
The prime minister made it clear in January that her plan was for the UK to leave the EU single market and potentially the customs union.
Unless a new trade deal is put in its place, UK companies face tariffs on imports and exports with the EU, tighter customs checks and more controls on EU workers.
Firms need to know as soon as possible about the new trading relationship, says Steven Altmann-Richer, head of EU policy at business lobby group CBI.
If a trade deal isn't possible in the next two years, interim arrangements are essential, he adds.
What are Brexit Britain's trade options?
Firms are not shy of making their views heard by ministers. More than 80% of big businesses are lobbying the government on the Brexit talks, according to a report by law firm Eversheds Sutherland.
But rather than putting some firms ahead of others, ministers must "prioritise what's best for UK business across the board", says Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce.
Worth £19bn to the UK economy; employs 800,000 workers
The car industry, though, says it has already been identified as a "priority sector" by the government ahead of the talks.
It points out that Theresa May gave two examples in January of industries she hoped could still enjoy some access to the EU single market after Brexit. They were the export of cars and lorries, and the financial services sector.
Ministers...

Summary: Prime Minister Theresa May has triggered Article 50, formally starting the process of the UK leaving the European Union.
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Article: While the UK, Greece, Spain and Portugal pay the least, on average, for the drugs they use, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland pay the most.
The authors said more transparency was needed because some countries risked overpaying for drugs.
The pharmaceutical industry said the UK was getting a fair deal on medicines.
Prices of cancer drugs have risen steeply in recent years, placing major stress on many healthcare systems, including the NHS.
The report said drugs had accounted for nearly a third of the EU's 51 billion euro (Â£37bn) cancer healthcare spending in 2009.
And the researchers then compared the 2013 price of 31 cancer drugs in 18 high-income countries, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand, France, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden and Portugal.
Prices in Greece were the lowest for 14 out of the 24 cancer drugs available there.
The price of drugs in the UK was also low.
Prices of drugs in Switzerland, Germany and Sweden were frequently the highest - and for some drugs, such as interferon alfa 2b to treat leukaemia and skin cancer, were twice as high.
The price figures come from the Pharma Price Information service in Austria, which details what manufacturers charge per unit - a single tablet or vial of a drug, for example.
But although the official list prices published in this report are freely available, any further discounts - which are often negotiated by organisations in different countries - remain confidential.
Sabine Vogler, report author and researcher at the Austrian Public Health Institute, said some countries risked overpaying for drugs as a result.
"The discounts should be open to everyone, but industry doesn't want to do it. However, it would allow some countries to see that they are overpaying."
David Watson, director of pricing and reimbursement at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said the report was evidence that newer medicines "are affordable in the UK".
He said the UK was "getting a fair deal with regards to medicines pricing" and the NHS was "getting good value for money".

Summary: The UK is paying less for new cancer drugs than a number of other high-income countries, according to a report in The Lancet Oncology.
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Article: Fiona Hyslop had been accused of "cronyism" after Â£150,000 of public funds were given to DF Concerts.
It emerged that former SNP aide had set up a meeting between Ms Hyslop and the festival organisers.
But Audit Scotland has now concluded there was a "clear rationale for the grant".
It said clear conditions had been attached to the money.
The grant was made to help DF Concerts with operational costs related to the change of venue for the annual music festival.
In a letter to an unnamed MSP, the watchdog said the Scottish government had the legal authority to make the grant.
And it said the decision to award the grant to DF Concerts had been a "legitimate policy decision" for Ms Hyslop, and was consistent with advice she received from Scottish government officials.
There was also budget provision for the grant within the Culture and European Affairs budget for major events and themed years, the letter stated.
It added: "There is evidence that the DF Concerts consultants' costs associated with gaining planning consent incurred in 2014 and 2015 for the 2015 event, together with the increase in venue costs, exceeded the grant Scottish government provided.
"There is also evidence that Scottish government has taken steps to confirm that the money was spent in line with the grant conditions through its review of the final report provided by DF Concerts and related invoices."
But Audit Scotland also said there was a need for "enhanced internal clarity and evidence to support decision-making" when similar decisions were made in the future.
It concluded: "We understand that Scottish government requires flexibility to react promptly to circumstances as they arise, but in our view this needs to be balanced with enhanced internal clarity and evidence to support decision-making.
"The Scottish government has work ongoing in this area."
Opposition politicians had questioned why money was given to the festival, which they said brought in huge profits for its organiser.
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Tributes have been paid to a "gentle giant" who died while swimming near a waterfall in a north Wales village.

Article: The National Cyber Security Centre - part of intelligence agency GCHQ - started work in October as part of a Â£1.9bn five-year strategy.
Staff in Victoria, central London, will be joined by experts from the private sector to help identify threats.
NCSC chief Ciaran Martin said: "We want to make the UK the hardest target".
The secondments to the centre by 100 private sector employees will be funded by their own companies.
Announcing the initiative, Chancellor Philip Hammond said the "best and the brightest in industry" will help "test and to challenge the government's thinking" in cyber security.
He added: "Government cannot protect business and the general public from the risks of cyber-attack on its own. It has to be a team effort. It is only in this way that we can stay one step ahead of the scale and pace of the threat that we face."
There were 188 cyber attacks classed by the NCSC as Category Two or Three during the last three months.
And even though the UK has not experienced a Category One attack - the highest level, an example of which would have been the theft of confidential details of millions of Americans from the Office of Personnel Management - there is no air of complacency at the NCSC's new headquarters.
Ciaran Martin, the centre's chief executive, told the BBC: "We have had significant losses of personal data, significant intrusions by hostile state actors, significant reconnaissance against critical national infrastructure - and our job is to make sure we deal with it in the most effective way possible."
As well as protecting against and responding to high-end attacks on government and business, the NCSC also aims to protect the economy and wider society.
The UK is one of the most digitally dependent economies, with the digital sector estimated to be worth over Â£118bn per year - which means the country has much to lose.
It is not just a crippling cyber-attack on infrastructure that could turn out the lights which worries officials, but also a loss of confidence in the digital economy from...

Summary: The Queen was shown how hackers could target the UK's electricity supply as she opened a centre to protect the nation from cyber attacks.
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Article: The birds, also known as sea eagles, were absent from the UK for nearly 60 years until a re-introduction programme began in 1975.
The first young white-tailed eagles from Norway were released on Rum.
A total of 82 young eagles were released over 10 years on the island, with the first wild chick fledging on Mull in 1985.
The re-introduction programme was run by RSPB Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), formerly the Natural Conservancy Council.
More young eagles were released under the programme in Wester Ross between 1993 and 1998 while further releases took place in Fife from 2007 to 2012, through a partnership with Forestry Commission Scotland, including in the National Forest Estate.
The 100th breeding pair nested on Hoy in Orkney, the first white-tailed eagles to nest in Orkney for 142 years, it was revealed on Thursday evening's edition of BBC Springwatch.
RSPB Scotland director Stuart Housden said: "The 100th breeding pair marks a huge milestone for the re-introduction of white-tailed eagles, and to reach it in this important anniversary year for the programme makes it even more special.
"The success of bringing white-tailed eagles back to Scotland over the last 40 years owes a great deal to the partners involved, as well as the support of Police Scotland, landowners, farmers, local community groups and organisations, and to Norway, who gifted the young eagles.
"It's fantastic to see how these magnificent birds have captured the public's imagination and that the sight of a white-tailed eagle soaring in the Scottish sky is no longer a thing of the past."
White-tailed eagles became extinct in the UK due to widespread persecution.
They bred in England and the Isle of Man, and across Scotland and Ireland, but by 1900 only a handful of eyries remained, all in Scotland.
The last known nesting attempt was on Skye in 1916 and in 1918 the last British white-tailed eagle was shot in Shetland.
The white-tailed eagles on Hoy have been seen in the area every spring and summer since 2013, and are both thought...

Summary: The number of white-tailed eagles in Scotland has reached 100 breeding pairs, according to conservationists.
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Article: In a survey, the motoring organisation found most people were unaware that the emergency number in Europe is 112.
Some people thought the number was 111, which is in fact the non-emergency number for the NHS in most of the UK.
Others thought they should dial 911, the emergency number in the United States and Canada.
The 112 number works in all 28 member states of the EU - including the UK - as well as in 11 other countries.
They are: Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Ukraine, Russia, and Georgia.
It is free, and connects the caller with the Police, the Fire Brigade or emergency medical assistance. In many cases, the call will be answered in English.
The RAC is advising motorists going abroad to make a note of the 112 number.
"It doesn't get a lot of promotion - certainly not in Britain, where we have 999 anyway, but not a great deal in continental Europe either," said RAC European breakdown manager David Huggon.
The introduction of the 101 number in the UK has caused further complications, according to the RAC.
That is the non-emergency assistance line for the Police.
The non-emergency number for the NHS - 111 - currently operates in England and Scotland, but not in Wales.
*For consumers who are deaf or have a speech impediment, a text phone is available on 18000
** For consumers who are deaf, a text phone is available on 18001 101
The UK regulator Ofcom had no comment to make on the RAC's claims, which it said were the responsibility of the European Commission.

Summary: Motorists crossing the Channel are confused about which three-digit number to dial in an emergency, the RAC has claimed.
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Article: Steffan Roberts Vernon, 33, from Caernarfon, died at the Llanberis beauty spot in Gwynedd, on Sunday alongside Alexander Hadley, 21, from nearby Dinorwig.
Two others, aged 27 and 25, were treated in hospital and later released.
Police believe the men got into difficulty while swimming in the "extremely cold" water.
Friends have been posting tributes on a Facebook page called 'Steffan Vernon and why we all love him'.
Debbie Ann Williams wrote: "So sad such a lovely smiley soul the gentle giant who always had a big hug 4 everyone rip steff xxxx"
Eve Maria posted: "Xxx always ready for an adventure full of smiles and a beautiful crazy laugh xxx"
Emma O'Neill said: "Some souls leave the world a far better place than when they arrived....just by being a part of it."
The coroner for north west Wales has launched an investigation into their deaths and an inquest will be opened at a later date.

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The German's decision to withhold information about 60 murders has been made public.

Bayer Leverkusen head coach Roger Schmidt has been banned and fined for calling an opposing manager "a nutcase" during a Bundesliga game.

Article: Michael Maguire is taking the PSNI to court in an attempt to force it to hand over sensitive intelligence material.
A judge has delayed the legal hearing for two weeks to allow both parties to come to an agreement.
The High Court heard that investigators for the ombudsman were turned away from PSNI buildings.
It was also claimed that requests for information on the cases had been turned down on more than 100 occasions.
The action centres on investigations into recent and historic cases involving allegations of police criminality and misconduct by failing to properly probe murders.
Claims of collusion between some police officers and the killers feature in many.
One of the cases in which the PSNI stands accused of obstructing Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire's staff is the loyalist murders of six people in Loughinisland, County Down.
The men were shot dead as they watched the 1994 World Cup in the Heights bar.
The High Court also heard that access to material is being sought in up to 19 ongoing investigations.
Barrister Stephen McQuitty, for the ombudsman, told Mr Justice Treacy proceedings had not been issued lightly.
Arguing that the PSNI was under an obligation to hand over information, he claimed: "The refusal to provide that material is irrational."
It was contended that the police reasoning was misconceived and mistaken.
"There's been an unjustified departure from a memorandum of understanding that exists between the police and the ombudsman," he said.
Although the document came into operation last September, the court heard that the breakdown in relationships was confirmed in April.
Referring to an affidavit from Adrian McAllister, chief executive in the police ombudsman's office, Mr McQuitty claimed the PSNI began to express concerns about sharing information.
"It was not raised formally but manifested itself in police ombudsman staff being turned away from PSNI buildings when they had arranged to view sensitive material," he said.
"It became apparent to the police ombudsman that a different approach...

Summary: The police ombudsman has been granted leave for a judicial review of the chief constable's decision to withhold information about 60 murders.
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Article: When browsing the internet, certificates are designed to ensure the communication between a computer and web server is secure.
Google said it would no longer accept certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) following a security lapse.
The CNNIC said Google's decision was "unacceptable and unintelligible".
The CNNIC is responsible for providing certificates for websites with .cn domain names, as well as Chinese-language domains - including banks and government sites.
It means users of Google's Chrome browser will see a warning notice when trying to access sites with CNNIC certificates.
It will state that the website the user is attempting to access may be unsecure.
Google discovered last month that unauthorised security certificates were issued to several of its own domains.
After an investigation, conducted with the help of the CNNIC, it became clear that there was a problem with MCS Holdings, a Cairo-based firm contracted by the CNNIC to provide certificates.
Google said domains with security certificates issued by MCS Holdings were vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks - a method of hacking that involves intercepting communications between, for example, a person's computer and a web server.
MCS Holdings has said the problem was an accident and was due to human error.
While Google welcomed the CNNIC's help with the investigation, it said the regulator had "delegated their substantial authority to an organisation that was not fit to hold it".
As a result, Google has decided to no longer trust domains with certificates issued by, or on behalf of, the CNNIC.
Users will be presented with a warning screen before being asked if they want to proceed to the "unsecure" site.
However, there will be some exceptions.
Google has offered a grace period to some major CNNIC-approved sites - such as banks - so they can obtain certificates from a different issuing authority.
The search giant said the CNNIC was welcome to reapply for trusted status "once suitable technical and procedural...

Summary: A Chinese internet regulator has hit out at Google for no longer accepting its security certificates.
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Article: Keepers at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington DC only discovered Mei Xiang was pregnant during an ultrasound scan last week.
Giant pandas are one of the most endangered species in the world and are notoriously hard to breed in captivity.
The National Zoo is one of only four zoos in the US to have pandas, which are on loan from China.
Mei Xiang, who has two other offspring, is one of the zoo's star attractions and a Panda Cam on her enclosure crashed within seconds of the birth being announced because of the volume of interest.
Female pandas are able to conceive for only two or three days a year, leading to a very low reproduction rate.
Mei Xiang was artificially inseminated with sperm from the zoo's resident male Tian Tian and a panda named Hui Hui from Wolong, China.
It will not be known for a while which is the father, or whether the cub is male or female.
It has previously taken months before Mei Xiang's cubs have been introduced to the public.
The panda population is threatened by habitat loss as land is increasingly inhabited by humans, with about 1,800 pandas left in the wild in China.
However, the number living in the wild in China has gone up over the last 10 years.

Summary: A giant panda at a zoo in the United States has given birth to a cub.
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Article: Schmidt was sent off by the referee for insulting Hoffenheim's Julian Nagelsmann in Saturday's 3-0 home loss.
"That was nothing, what sort of a nutcase are you? Just shut your mouth," Schmidt shouted after going 2-0 down.
The 49-year-old has been banned for two games and handed a 15,000 euros (£13,373) fine.
The German was sanctioned after triggering a suspended sentence from February this year.
He had been banned for three games, with a further two in the event of a repeat offence before June 2017, for refusing a referee's order to leave the sidelines during a 1-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund.
Schmidt will be unable to have any contact with the team for half an hour before, during and after Tuesday's German Cup second-round match against Lotte and Saturday's league match against Wolfsburg.
Leverkusen's director of sport Rudi Voller has sought a meeting with the head of the disciplinary committee.

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The court heard Chaves plead guilty to a charge of having an offensive weapon in a public place.

A footballer accused of threatening fans with a corkscrew has admitted possession of an offensive weapon.

Article: Despite a lot of news coming out of Disney's D23 last week, the studio still saved some the big guns for San Diego.
Fans were sent into meltdown as they were bombarded with announcements and sneak peeks during the 90-minute session, as stars across the Marvel universe attended to support their films.
Here's everything that was revealed.
More from Comic-Con
After fans at D23 were given the chance to see the first footage from the highly anticipated film which sees every Marvel superhero unite on screen, 6,000 Comic-Con fans were given the same luxury.
Unfortunately Marvel are still keeping it a closely guarded secret so it hasn't been put online anywhere yet - much to the annoyance of fans not in San Diego. But the reaction from the crowd suggests something close to Beatlemania.
It's likely we'll have to wait until November when Thor: Ragnarok is released before the rest of the world will see it.
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Summary: The Marvel panel at Comic-Con is traditionally one of the biggest events of the convention and this year was no exception.
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Article: Those are the words of County Armagh man Vance McElhinney, also known as Nguyen Van Tan, who was airlifted out of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War 40 years ago.
Mr McElhinney does not know his birthday, his birthplace or even whether his biological family is still alive.
His name - Nguyen Van Tan - was only established because it was written on the only known photograph of him as a child in Vietnam.
Now, for the first time since being one of 100 orphan children included in what is known as Operation Babylift, he is returning to the country.
A BBC One documentary followed his journey back to Vietnam, as he attempted to find his biological parents and met the newspaper editor who saved his life.
Mr McElhinney also visited the orphanage in Quy Nhon, a town where he believes he was born.
It was an emotional experience for the Lurgan man, who was adopted by local couple Cyril and Liz  McElhinney after being airlifted out of Vietnam.
Sinead Ingoldsby, producer of the True North documentary, said the mystery about his origins was what drove him to go back to the country.
"Getting to know Vance and realising that he didn't know the things we take for granted; when he was born, what age he is, what his birthday was. It made me realise how lucky I am to know all those things," Ms Ingoldsby said.
"It doesn't really matter how stable or how wonderful a life you have, if you don't know the answer to those questions you're always going to feel a bit rootless."
Operation Babylift was organised by the Daily Mail, but the newspaper's decision to charter children out of Vietnam in 1975 was widely criticised as a publicity stunt.
The Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Guardian wrote editorials criticising the decision, suggesting that the orphans would be better off in the country, and accused the Daily Mail of "baby snatching".
Brian Freemantle, the Daily Mail's foreign editor at the time, does not deny the the publicity stunt allegations.
"If a stunt is attracting attention to your newspaper, then yes it was a...

Summary: "I've got ghosts I need to lay to rest - I've got to at least figure out if I've got any relatives out there."
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Article: The latest figures show sales are now above what they were in 2007, before the financial crisis that triggered the recession.
Department for Communities and Local Government statistics revealed 12,304 sales under right to buy in 2014-15, compared with 5,944 in 2012-13.
Housing charity Shelter said the homes were not being replaced by councils.
Birmingham City Council sold 517 homes, the most in the last financial year.
Although back to pre-recession levels, the numbers of sales by councils to their tenants under the right to buy were still less than a fifth of those for 2003-4, the year with the largest number of transfers this century.
Council tenants have had the right to buy the homes they live in at a discount since the early 1980s.
The government plans to extend the right to buy homes at discounted rates to 1.3 million housing association tenants. Critics say it will make the housing crisis worse.
Shelter said one in three homes sold under right to buy have not been replaced by councils since 2012.
And Councillor Peter Box, housing spokesman for the Local Government Association, said:  "These figures make it more important than ever for councils to be given the funding and powers to replace any homes sold under Right to Buy quickly and on a one-for-one basis.
"The current scheme only allows councils to replace half or fewer of the homes they have sold. Councils need to be able to retain 100% of receipts from sales while Right to Buy discounts should be set locally so they reflect the cost of houses in the area."
As the largest local authority in Europe, Birmingham City Council topped the list for sales of council homes under right to buy with 517 homes sold. Neighbouring West Midlands council Sandwell was also in the top 10 with 256 homes sold.
The London borough of Southwark sold 304 homes. Property prices have been rising steadily and a site containing a pre-fabricated shed in Peckham recently sold for just under Â£1m at auction.
Communities Secretary Greg Clark said the sales came alongside a 25%...

Summary: The number of council homes in England sold under the right to buy scheme has more than doubled in two years.
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Article: A court heard Aidan Chaves, 26, reacted angrily to taunts from fans and was spat on during a home game for Sawbridgeworth Town FC on 25 March.
But he denied screaming threats at Clacton supporters on the touchline at the Hertfordshire club.
Stevenage Magistrates Court adjourned the case for a later hearing to decide if he had made threatening comments.
The three magistrates were told that Chaves faced derogatory remarks from the fans of the opposing team, including songs about his skill as a player, his tattoos and his mother.
One fan is said to have spat on him as he prepared for a throw in.
The court heard Chaves ran from to the changing room and emerged carrying a broken corkscrew.
Prosecutor Prosecutor Rufia Khatun said that, holding it aloft and running towards the Clapton fans, he allegedly screamed "Come here. I'm going to cut your throat."
Chaves - who gave his address as Mount Mellick Road, Portlaoise in the Irish Republic - pleaded guilty to a charge of having an offensive weapon in a public place.
The court was told he entered the plea on the basis that he had not uttered the threats that had been referred to by the prosecution.
In a statement he said he had grabbed the corkscrew to "ward the fans off".
Magistrates adjourned the case so that another hearing can take place on 10 August to decide if he had made the threats as claimed by the prosecution.
Chaves was granted unconditional bail.

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New figures from the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry show there has been a dramatic rise in the numbers of women being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Article: In 2014 prices rose by 9.8%, according to ONS figures.
Prices increased fastest in England, at 7.3%, and slowest in Scotland, where they fell 0.2% during 2015.
The value of houses and flats rose by just 1% in Wales, and by 1.5% in Northern Ireland.
The average price at the end of December was Â£288,000.
The ONS figure is in the middle of a range of estimates produced by other organisations.
Halifax, the UK's largest mortgage lender, said prices rose by as much as 9.5% in 2015, while the Nationwide Building Society put the increase at just 4.5%.
The Land Registry of England and Wales said the annual inflation rate was 6.4%.
Separate figures show that the number of new mortgages taken out in 2015 was roughly the same as in 2014.
But the Council of Mortgage Lenders said the amount being borrowed had risen from Â£112bn in 2014 to Â£118bn in 2015 - an increase of 5.3%.

Summary: House prices in the UK rose by 6.7% in 2015, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) - a considerable slowdown on the previous year.
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Article: Anthony O'Sullivan and two other Caerphilly council officers were suspended on full pay in 2013.
It was claimed they agreed to give themselves 20% pay rises when most council staff faced pay freezes.
A criminal case was dropped in 2015 which the council said led to the change in Mr O'Sullivan's status.
He is not back at work because the authority is still carrying out its own internal investigation into the pay rises.
But because the misconduct in public office criminal charges were thrown out of court, Mr O'Sullivan's solicitor highlighted to the council the suspension was both "unlawful" and "unconstitutional".
The change to special paid leave was made in March but it was not made public.
In a statement, the council said: "The council was grateful to Mr O'Sullivan for accepting this change of status but requested that he did not publicise this fact.
"Mr O'Sullivan behaved honourably, as ever, in observing this request."
The revelation came out because Mr O'Sullivan's solicitor David Lewis, of Richards and Lewis, wrote to the council in November requesting the change be made public because of continued media reports referring to him as suspended.
Mr O'Sullivan, along with deputy Nigel Barnett and head of legal services Daniel Perkins were suspended in 2013 after the Wales Audit Office declared their pay rises unlawful.
Caerphilly council has been asked about the status of the other two men.

Summary: A council chief executive at the centre of a probe into pay rises given to senior staff is no longer suspended but instead on "special paid leave".
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Article: The system is designed to see money transferred within a few hours into people's accounts.
The problem had a knock-on effect for customers of other banks.
However the bank said that as of 17:00 on Monday the problem had been resolved.
"We are aware of an issue that affected some faster payments earlier today, and apologise to customers that were affected," said a bank spokeswoman.
"All other payment services were unaffected, ensuring that customers could continue to process the significant majority of transactions."
A spokeswoman for the Payments Council, which oversees UK payments strategy, said the problem had been with Lloyds Banking Group, which had not been able to send or receive customers' faster payments.
"This is the system that is used to process telephone, internet and standing order payments," she said.
"This is not an issue for the central Faster Payments System, or any systems processing other types of payments, which continue to operate as normal."
Lloyds said that all of its other payment services had been unaffected by the problem, and that customers could still process the "significant majority" of their transactions.
Under the scheme, launched in May 2008, money moved between two participating banks should clear within 24 hours.
The Faster Payments System was set up because bank customers found it frustrating that transferring cash from one account to another at a different bank took several days.
The problem seems to have originated at the weekend.
Some bank customers had reported waiting for money, including wages, to be transferred into their accounts, and now not knowing when the payments would arrive.

Summary: Lloyds Banking Group has suffered problems from the start of Monday with the Faster Payments System that transfers funds into and out of accounts.
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Article: They show that there has been an overall increase of 53% in the number of women being treated for the disease in the last 20 years.
The rise was described as dramatic by Royal Victoria Hospital statisticians.
Dr Anna Gavin, who led the research, said the health system needs to prepare itself as the figures are set to climb.
"I think the services need to gear themselves up because we have done some work looking at past trends," Dr Gavin said.
"We see that, in total, the cancer number is expected to increase by two thirds again, about 65% in 20 years.
"The service needs to be aware of that. We need to be thinking of ways to cope because it is largely driven by the aging population."
Meanwhile, one woman who is living with the disease is calling for greater awareness of inflammatory breast cancer.
Lynette McHendry, from County Antrim, is due to have both breasts removed next week.
The 37-year-old patient said she believed some inflammatory breast cancer cases are being misdiagnosed.
The mother of two is appealing to clinicians to become more aware of the symptoms surrounding this aggressive disease, after her cancer went undetected for over a month.
"The symptoms I had were a pain in my left breast - it was hard, tender and heavy," Mrs McHendry said.
"It started to swell up and ended up twice the size. It also became red, inflamed and the skin became dimply. And there was no lump."
She is in the unusual position of having invasive or regular cancer in one breast and inflammatory cancer in the other.
The latter went undetected because, in cases of inflammatory breast cancer, a lump does not appear in the mammogram.
Mrs McHendry is one of the almost 2,800 women who were referred last year to the Belfast Cancer centre.
Ninety-three percent of those cases were not malignant - but hers was.
Mrs McHendry said that although women are better educated about breast cancer, there is little or no public information about inflammatory breast cancer.
"I had to join a support group online based in England," she said.
"By...

Summary:


The US is spending $20m (Â£12.3m; 14.8m euros) a week on Ukrainian opposition groups, supplying "rebels" with arms among other things.
The new additions include Aberfan Cemetery, Swansea University and The Kymin, in Penarth.
Environment Secretary Lesley

A senior adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the US of meddling in Ukraine, in breach of a 1994 agreement over non-intervention.

Article: The maximum this year was 14.5 million sq km, said the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
This is the lowest since 1979, when satellite records began.
A recent study found that Arctic sea ice had thinned by 65% between 1975 and 2012.
Bob Ward of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics said: "The gradual disappearance of ice at the poles is having profound consequences for people, animals and plants in the polar regions, as well as around the world, through sea level rise."
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said the maximum level of sea ice for winter was reached this year on 25 February and the ice was now beginning to melt as the Arctic moved into spring.
The amount measured at the end of February is 130,000 sq km below the previous record winter low, measured in 2011.
An unusually warm February in parts of Alaska and Russia may have contributed to the dwindling sea ice, scientists believe.
Researchers will provide the monthly average data for March in early April, which is viewed as a better indicator of climate effects.
Nasa scientist Walt Meier said:  "The amount of ice at the maximum is a function of not only the state of the climate but also ephemeral and often local weather conditions.
"The monthly value smoothes out these weather effects and so is a better reflection of climate effects."
Analysis by David Shukman, Science editor, BBC News
The Arctic Ocean freezes every winter and much of the sea-ice then thaws every summer, and that process will continue whatever happens with climate change. Even if the Arctic continues to be one of the fastest-warming regions of the world, it will always be plunged into bitterly cold polar dark every winter. And year-by-year, for all kinds of natural reasons, there's huge variety of the state of the ice.
So what does this new record for the lowest level of winter ice actually mean?
For a start, it does not automatically follow that a record amount of...

Summary: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has fallen to the lowest recorded level for the winter season, according to US scientists.
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Article: Those who fail to meet the deadline for online returns risk incurring a £100 fine.
A record 11 million people are required by their tax arrangements to submit a return.
Most now do so online and as that can be done from a computer at home, many leave it until the last moment.
Last year 700,000 missed the deadline, though Revenue and Customs accepted some excuses - such as a death in the family, serious illness or flooding.
On deadline day last year, 557,000 people rushed to file in time.
Recent analysis by HMRC suggested that women were more likely to submit their tax returns on time than men.
For every 10,000 tax returns received last year from men, 394 were after the relevant deadlines, compared with 358 late returns from every 10,000 submitted by women.
Interest is charged on any tax paid late and those who still have not submitted the form by May face additional penalties fines of £10 a day.
It is already too late to send in paper tax returns for the 2013-14 tax year as that deadline passed on 31 October.
Those who have failed to register for online submissions have also missed the boat.
Help on filing a tax return is available from the gov.uk website or from the self-assessment helpline on 0300 200 3310. Customers with general queries can also tweet the @HMRCcustomers Twitter feed.

Summary: A million taxpayers who need to submit a self-assessment tax return must do so by midnight on Saturday.
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Article: Keep Wales Tidy gave an extra 22 sites the award - the national benchmark for publicly accessible parks - up from last year's total of 161.
The new additions include Aberfan Cemetery, Swansea University and The Kymin, in Penarth.
Environment Secretary Lesley Griffiths said green spaces were "fundamental to the wellbeing and quality of life".
Winners of the Green Flag Community Award, for sites that rely on volunteers for their maintenance, include The Dye Garden, at the National Wool Museum in Carmarthen, Cae Bryn Coed in Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, and Llanfyllin Wetland in Powys.
The Green Flag scheme, which is run by environmental charity, Keep Wales Tidy, with support from the Welsh Government, is judged by green space experts.
They assess sites using eight criteria, including horticultural standards, cleanliness, environmental management and community involvement.
Ms Griffiths said: "I am delighted to see so many green spaces achieving the standards of the Green Flag Award.
"The award helps to ensure that communities have top quality green space to enjoy and experience the outdoors, which are fundamental to the wellbeing and quality of life of our communities in Wales."
Lucy Prisk, Green Flag coordinator, said it was about "connecting people with the very best parks and green spaces".

Summary: More than 180 parks and green spaces in Wales have now been given the Green Flag award.
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Article: Sergei Glazyev said the US was spending $20m (Â£12.3m; 14.8m euros) a week on Ukrainian opposition groups, supplying "rebels" with arms among other things.
Accusing the US of ignoring the Memorandum on Security Assurances, he suggested Moscow could also intervene.
The American embassy in Kiev declined to comment on his accusations.
21 November 2013: Ukraine announces it will not sign a deal aimed at strengthening ties with the EU, sparking protests
17 December: Russia agrees to buy $15bn of Ukrainian government bonds and slash the price of gas it sells to the country
16 January 2014: Parliament passes law restricting the right to protest
22 January: Two protesters die from bullet wounds during clashes with police in Kiev; protests spread across many cities
25 January: President Yanukovych offers senior jobs to the opposition, including that of prime minister, but these are rejected
28 January: Parliament votes to annul protest law and President Yanukovych accepts resignation of PM and cabinet
29 January: Parliament passes amnesty law for detained protesters, under the condition occupied buildings are vacated
Ukraine's protest leaders
Q&A: Stand-off in Ukraine
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is due to meet Mr Putin on Friday in Sochi, on the opening day of the Winter Olympic Games there.
He held talks in Kiev with US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland on Thursday, at which he said he favoured dialogue and compromise with the opposition.
Meanwhile, an audio recording has been posted online, which is purported to be a hacked phone conversation between Ms Nuland and US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, in which the female speaker dismisses EU efforts to resolve the crisis, using an expletive.
The two speakers also discuss frankly the merits of the three main Ukrainian opposition leaders in the conversation. The US embassy declined to comment on the tape.
Thousands of Ukrainian opposition activists, some carrying shields and baseball bats, marched from their camp on Independence Square in the capital Kiev...

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The UHW is planning to introduce a direct weekday park and ride service for patients, visitors and staff in a further bid to keep traffic off site.

The amount of traffic using Wales' biggest hospital as a "rat run" and causing gridlock has dropped by 7% after changes were made to the roads.

Article: President Emmanuel Macron is hoping to obtain a strong mandate in parliament to help him pursue his reform plans.
His La République en Marche (Republic on the Move or LREM) with its MoDem allies is expected to win most seats.
Traditional parties are urging voters to back Mr Macron's rivals to stop a monopolisation of power.
President Macron formed his party just over a year ago, and half of its candidates have little or no political experience.
They include a retired bullfighter, a Rwandan refugee and a mathematician.
A party needs 289 seats to control the 577-seat National Assembly. LREM is predicted to win more than 400.
In the first round Mr Macron's LREM and MoDem won 32.3% of the vote.
The centre-right Republicans had 21.5%, while the far-right National Front (FN) had 13.2%, followed by the far-left La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) on just over 11%.
The Socialists, previously France's ruling party, and their allies won just 9.5%.
However, the turnout was low, despite claims that President Macron had re-energised the voting public.
Analysts said it reflected a sense of resignation among his opponents.
Only four seats were settled in the first round.
The second round will see the two top-placed contenders for each seat facing each other, along with any other candidate who won the support of at least 12.5% of registered voters in the district.
Here are some of the key battles to look out for:
Is Macron the anti-Trump?
Can Macron's new party win majority he needs?
Mr Macron, 39, defeated Marine Le Pen in the presidential run-off in May.
He needs a majority to push through the changes that he promised in his campaign, which include:
Macron's economic plans

Summary: France votes in the second round of parliamentary elections on Sunday, in run-off votes for the top candidates from last Sunday's first round.
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Article: FRP Advisory were appointed as administrators after the European Development Company (EDC) ran into financial difficulties.
Two of the hotels for sale are in the Aberdeen area - a Holiday Inn Express on Chapel Street and a Holiday Inn in Westhill.
The third is a Holiday Inn Express in Picardy Place, Edinburgh.
FRP said they would trade as normal during the marketing process.
They added that there were no immediate plans for redundancies.
Nearly 120 of the 136 staff affected are based at the Aberdeen hotels.
In a statement, FRP Advisory said occupancy levels at the hotels had been high, but EDC had suffered "severe cash flow problems" as a result of the downturn in the oil and gas sector.
They also cited intense price competition from new build hotels in the Aberdeen market.
Joint administrator Iain Fraser said: "The administration presents a rare opportunity to acquire quality hotels with an established trade and reputation in their local markets.
"The hotels could appeal to an existing hotel operator looking to expand their business, or an entrepreneur keen to enter the hospitality market by acquiring quality properties in prime locations.
"I am pleased to say that we are in advanced discussions for the sale of the Edinburgh hotel, and would urge interested parties to contact us as soon as possible with respect to the Aberdeen properties."

Summary: Three Scottish Holiday Inn hotels have been put up for sale after the collapse of their Aberdeen-based owners.
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Article: Loraine Maurer of Evansville, Indiana, works two shifts per week, 44 years after joining the hamburger chain.
The nonagenarian great-grandmother first joined in 1973 after her husband retired due to disability.
"I told him we were too young to stay at home and so I went for a job," she recalled after enjoying a cake at a special party colleagues threw for her.
She never meant to stay as long as she did, Mrs Maurer told ABC News, adding that she never thought of becoming a manager because she prefers to interact with her customers.
"She is the only one here that knows how to make oats right," said one loyal customer who attended her party.
After her husband died in 1980, she began to travel more often with a friend, often visiting McDonald's wherever she went.
"I've been to Australia, Russia, Greece, Rome, and I'd always look when I could fly over the cities. I'd look for the arch."
One location even offered to serve her beer.
"That surprised me!" she said with a chuckle.
Even though she contemplates retirement every winter, she says she never plans to leave.
"I would miss it too much", says Mrs Maurer, who has four children, six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
"I really and truly enjoy it," Mrs Maurer adds. "Life is what you make it. And so I'm trying."

Summary: A 94-year-old American is celebrating more than four decades of working at McDonald's restaurants.
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Article: Hospital bosses made changes last August in a bid to help ambulances reach the emergency unit more quickly at the University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff.
Barriers were installed and traffic is not allowed to drive past the unit.
The gridlock also led to people being late for appointments.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is now planning to introduce a direct weekday park and ride service for patients, visitors and staff in a further bid to keep traffic off site.
It will start on 2 May and operate from Cardiff East park and ride at Pentwyn from 06:30 to 19:15, running every 20 minutes, which should also free up car parking by 12%.
There are also plans to introduce bus and cycle hubs at UHW.
Geoff Walsh, director of capital, estates and facilities at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, said: "The traffic management system was implemented to allow clear access for emergency vehicles onto the site which has been successful.
"It has also improved the bus access with Cardiff Bus reinstating two services following the improvement of site accessibility."
He added: "We are still looking at ways to stop people using the site as a thoroughfare."

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Scientists from Dundee University have recreated the face of a young man who lived more than 4,000 years ago.

Article: The Scottish government bill will require councils to plan how they will support adult and young carers, and the definition of "carer" will be changed to include more people.
Local authorities will also have to set up advice services.
Scotland is believed to have about 745,000 adult carers and 44,000 young carers.
Together, they are estimated to provide care worth about Â£10bn every year.
The Carers Bill aims to help carers balance their caring responsibilities with other things they want to achieve in their lives and helping them to be healthier and happier.
Opposition MSPs broadly backed the proposals, although concerns had been expressed about the cost of implementation.
The Scottish government introduced the legislation, saying it would provide an important opportunity "to extend and enhance the rights of both adult and young carers".
Health boards and local authorities will also be required to create local carer strategies.
And Scottish ministers will be required to prepare a Carers' Charter.
Speaking during the final debate on the proposals at Holyrood, Health Improvement Minister Jamie Hepburn thanked politicians from all parties for the respect they had shown for the country's carers.
And he said the bill had been improved by the input from MSPs on all sides.

Summary: Legislation that promises to improve the lives of Scotland's carers has been passed by MSPs.
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Article: The 50m (150ft) part of the wall was first discovered in 1998 but was kept undercover to protect it.
Now Segedunum Roman Fort in Wallsend is putting the section of wall on display, along with artefacts and a bath house recently excavated at the site.
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums manager, Geoff Woodward, said it was "really exciting" visitors could now see it.
Hadrian's Wall on Tyneside is a culmination of three-year project WallQuest - a community archaeology scheme which saw hundreds of volunteers taking part in urban digs over 30-miles of Hadrian's Wall between South Shields and Hexham.
Mr Woodward said: "We've uncovered another important part of our history at Segedunum and I can't wait for people to come and see it.
"Following conservation, visitors will now be able to see the new section of the wall, which is really exciting.
"Before the WallQuest project we knew very little about the civilian settlement outside the fort. Thanks to a team of dedicated volunteers, who have spent months working with the museum and conservation experts, we now know more about this unique landmark."
The original bath house, which was first discovered in 1814, was long forgotten until it was unearthed in 2014.
The 73-mile (117km) Hadrian's Wall stretches between Wallsend in North Tyneside and Bowness on Solway in Cumbria.
Hadrian's Wall on Tyneside is on display at Segedunum Roman Fort until 30 October.

Summary: An unearthed part of Hadrian's Wall is going on display for the first time in North Tyneside.
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Article: Bears feast and gain weight in the warm months, ready for the big winter doze.
In faecal samples from 16 wild bears, scientists found a bug population that was more suited to depositing fat in summer, and burning it in winter.
And when transplanted into lab mice, the "summer" bacteria caused greater fat gain than the "winter" ones.
The research is published in the journal Cell Reports.
Senior author Fredrik Bäckhed, from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, said it was not a huge surprise to see gut flora change with the seasons - but this is the first time anyone has revealed a role for these different bugs in the energy metabolism of a hibernating animal.
"We know that the microbiota is very responsive to what we eat," he told BBC News.
"So if a bear eats a lot in the summer and it doesn't eat in the winter, then there should be an altered microbiota. What we learn from our study is that it appears that the altered microbiome can contribute to the altered adiposity (fattiness)."
Despite this insight, Prof Bäckhed said his team's findings were not going to help tackle human obesity.
"I don't think that this study will have direct implications for obesity, as the summer microbiota will make you fat and the winter insulin resistant.
"But perhaps we can find clues for treating malnutrition from the summer bacteria, and help patients with anorexic disorders - including cancer patients."
To collect the samples, the researchers worked with the team from the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project, who specialise in monitoring the creatures in the wild.
And specialist expertise was required; it is no small undertaking to wake up a hibernating bear and take a sample of its faeces.
"They go out in the forest in the winter, they identify a bear den and then they shoot it with a tranquiliser to get some samples," Prof Bäckhed said. "Then they put on a radio collar, and release the bear so it goes back to sleep and wakes up in the spring."
The radio collars were critical, he added, because it allowed the team to...

Summary: Researchers have discovered seasonal changes in the gut microbes of brown bears, which apparently help the beasts cope with the demands of hibernation.
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Article: The skeleton of "Thankerton Man" was found in a stone cist - a type of burial chamber - at Boatbridge Quarry, Thankerton, South Lanarkshire, in 1970.
It was radiocarbon-dated to between 2460BC and 2140BC and thought to have been that of a man aged 18 to 25.
The reconstructed image will go on show at the Biggar and Upper Clydesdale Museum, which opens on Tuesday.
The reconstruction was produced by specialists from Dundee University's Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID) who worked from detailed analysis of the skull.
Caroline Erolin, lecturer in forensic and medical art at CAHID, said: "Given its age, the skeleton of Thankerton Man was in excellent condition, which allowed us to get a strong impression of how he may have looked.
"Once we built the basic shape of his face we then looked at historical data to get a better idea of how a man would have looked at that time. For instance, we know they had the ability to shave."
The estimated height of the man was around 1.8 metres (5ft 11ins), which is regarded as tall in Copper Age terms.
The cist contained a finely-decorated beaker which had held food or drink for the deceased's journey into the afterlife.
The pot and skeleton are curated by National Museums Scotland.
Dr Alison Sheridan, principal curator of early prehistory at National Museums Scotland, who provided archaeological advice, praised the reconstruction.
She said: "This is a magnificent piece of work that really brings the past to light. It has spurred us on to arrange the DNA analysis of this man's remains."

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The UK Government has been trying to get a deal with the EU to get a deal with the EU, but the UK has not agreed to a deal with the EU.
The UK Government has been trying to get a deal with the EU to get a deal with the EU, but the UK has not agreed to a

A man who admitted the "vile murder" of an 82-year-old woman in her Norwich home has been jailed for life, with an order to serve 25 years and six months.

Article: Mao, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century, but his legacy continues to divide opinions.
After he launched the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), millions of people were forced into manual labour and tens of thousands were executed as counter-revolutionaries.
The mainland Chinese media have mostly been playing down news of various activities that were staged in some cities over the weekend to commemorate the birth anniversary.
But over in Hong Kong, the Apple Daily says "Mao fans" staged rallies in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, as well as smaller cities further inland such as Nanchang and Taiyuan.
On Saturday, students and teachers from the Taiyuan University of Science and Technology carried portraits of Mao and shouted "Swear allegiance to Mao Zedong", "Mao Zedong is our only centre" and "the Cultural Revolution is back", the paper says.
Students also reportedly recited poetry in homage to Mao, while others danced and sang: "China has Mao Zedong, he is the people's great saviour!"
Mao impersonator Zhang Ruiqi even mimicked the late helmsman's voice to deliver a speech during the rally.
However, one local dissident suspects that the rally was staged deliberately by certain groups for political ends.
"Some of them are Mao leftists and some are the black hand of the authorities fanning the flames behind the scenes and exploiting the ignorance of young people to achieve their political goals," Deng Taiqing tells the Apple Daily.
The Apple Daily also voices dismay at the revival of Mao fever and accuses Ai Yuejin, a "leftist" professor at Tianjin's Nankai University, of "whitewashing" the Cultural Revolution.
"During the Cultural Revolution, there was a satellite space launch, a successful missile test and a nuclear submarine launch. During the Cultural Revolution, we defeated Soviet revisionism, entered the United Nations and established diplomatic relations with more than 60 countries," Prof Ai said in a lecture at the Taiyuan...

Summary: The controversial legacy of Mao Zedong is back in the public eye ahead of his 120th birth anniversary on Thursday.
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Article: But it has been more than 40 years since the UK last got around the negotiating table and it could be a little rusty. Here are four key requirements to getting a good deal.
When it comes to trade deals, the devil is in the detail. Trade deals have grown incredibly complex - the recently concluded deal between the EU and Canada runs to almost 1,600 pages and covers everything from fisheries to  financial services.
Successful negotiations require a skilled - and large - team, but the UK has not negotiated a trade deal since 1973. The EU has 596 trade negotiators and the UK urgently needs a similarly sized team to craft new deals with major trade partners.
A first step will be to bring back the handful of experienced and expert UK nationals in the European Commission. They will know what to expect when facing European negotiators across the table.
Successful negotiation involves clearly identifying your own trade interests and not simply reacting to the other side's. The UK Government must know what it wants from any deal, what it wishes to keep off the negotiating table and the concessions it is willing to make.
This is not easy. A well-prepared government will have consulted extensively with businesses, small and large, as well as consumer groups and trade unions. UK-based banks need to be able to operate across the EU single market.
Communities in the North need manufacturing industries which serve that market, potentially creating thousands of jobs. But access probably comes at the price of accepting freedom of movement for EU citizens and paying contributions to the EU budget.
Getting a good deal requires strong leadership which galvanizes the whole of the government's machinery, across ministries and non-governmental stakeholders.
Positions taken in the trade negotiations should be backed up by communication between national leaders where necessary. Any sign of disunity is likely to be exploited by opponents in a negotiation.
As a rule of thumb, 80% of a trade negotiation is preparation, 20% execution....

Summary: Having voted to leave the EU, the UK will now need to negotiate a new set of trade deals with the bloc, and other foreign nations as soon as possible.
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Article: Powers to levy a land transaction tax to replace stamp duty and a landfill disposals tax take effect in 2018.
The assembly's finance committee said it was "disappointed" by the situation and called for a "phased approach".
It means HMRC could continue collecting the devolved taxes until councils or another body was judged to be ready.
The Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) told the committee that councils were "best placed" to collect and manage devolved taxes.
However, it warned that the "degree of uncertainty" over the process of mergers and boundary changes would make it "extremely difficult ... to commit to new responsibilities from 2018".
Publishing a report on Thursday, committee chairwoman Jocelyn Davies said it could not take a "firm view" on who should collect Welsh taxes because of a lack of detailed costings.
She added: "We hope the expertise of local government will be utilised in the coming years to ensure an integrated tax system is developed in Wales."
The Welsh government said a Tax Collection and Management Bill would be published before the summer and more information on costings would be provided.

Summary: Local councils could collect new Welsh taxes, but warned they may struggle to meet the devolution deadline due to reorganisation.
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Article: Pauline King, described by police as a "reclusive hermit", was found at The Avenues on 22 February.
Alexander Kerry, 23, of Kinghorn Road, Norwich, was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court after he entered a guilty plea.
He denied a charge of sexual assault and the prosecution chose not to proceed on that count.
Ms King died as a result of a sustained assault with a knife and hammer during a burglary at her home, the court was told.
She lived alone in what police described as a "dilapidated" detached house and neighbours said she was a pleasant but reclusive woman.
Kerry was found later the same day wandering nearby streets covered in blood.
Det Sup Paul Durham described it as a "vile murder" which "sent a shudder of fear" through the community.
Prosecutor Andrew Jackson said Kerry, desperate for money after drinking in a Norwich city centre pub, had broken into the home and beat Ms King to death.
He then tried to set fire to the house to destroy the evidence, he said.
The court heard he was left deeply damaged after his father murdered his mother as he and his brother slept at their home in 2002.
Mr Justice Stuart-Smith said he acted with "animal brutality" to murder Miss King and sexually abuse her dying body in an "act of desecration".
He said: "Nothing begins to explain what you did to Pauline King. She must have suffered terribly."
Kerry had a criminal record including violence and disorderly behaviour dating back to his teens, he said.
Jonathan Goodman, mitigating, said his client had "self-medicated" through alcohol and drugs following the almost "unimaginable" events of his childhood.

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The Glasgow colleges have been awarded the 2021 World Athletics Championships, which will be held in Glasgow on Tuesday.
The Glasgow colleges have been awarded the 2021 World Athletics Championships, which will be held in Glasgow on Tuesday.
The Glasgow colleges have been awarded the 2021 World Athletics Championships, which will be held in Glasgow on Tuesday

Lecturers at colleges in Glasgow will not take part in two planned national strikes next week.

Article: Soldier Bradley Manning has been held for three weeks without formal charge.
The US is investigating claims that he passed confidential information to Wikileaks.
Site editor Julian Assange told BBC News that, so far, the US authorities have not yet been in touch with him.
He said that lawyers representing Wikileaks have been in touch with the US administration but that neither the Department of State nor the Department of Defense had made any attempt to approach the site.
In spite of the silence from the US, Mr Assange said he felt it was "important to have a channel open in these matters".
No conversations could take place which might reveal the identity of any source, he added.
Mr Manning was identified as an alleged Wikileaks source after former hacker Adrian Lamo, in whom he had confided, contacted the authorities.
During a series of conversations conducted online, Mr Lamo claims that Mr Manning revealed he had passed 260,000 US diplomatic cables and two confidential military videos to Wikileaks.
US state department spokesperson PJ Crowley has said that the Bureau of Diplomatic Security was examining one or more hard drives used by Mr Manning in Iraq.
Wikileaks said it did not know whether Mr Manning, who had served in Iraq as an army intelligence analyst, was the source of the leak as the website does not keep personal records of the people who approach it.
One of the videos he allegedly leaked was released by Wikileaks in April.
It contained footage from a 2007 attack by US forces in Baghdad in which 12 people died including two Reuters employees.
In the immediate aftermath of Mr Manning's exposure as the alleged source, reports appeared online claiming that the Pentagon was actively seeking Julian Assange.
On Monday he appeared as a panelist at a seminar on free speech held in the European Parliament and organised by the Alliance of Liberals And Democrats for Europe.
At a press conference ahead of the seminar Mr Assange spoke about the risk of action against Wikileaks by the US.
"The signals from the...

Summary: Whistleblower website Wikileaks has made contact with the US government over claims that an American serviceman is one of its sources.
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Article: Production from all Dunlin cluster fields will shut down in mid-June ahead of the decommissioning process.
Dunlin Alpha will remain "fully manned and operational", exporting third-party oil into the Brent system pipeline in the meantime.
Fairfield cited the depressed oil price and "challenging operational conditions" as reasons for the move.
The decommissioning process, which requires regulatory approvals, is expected to cost about Â£400m.
The Dunlin field started production in August 1978, with production peaking at about 120,000 barrels per day in 1979.
The oil field is situated 300 miles north-east of Aberdeen in the East Shetland basin, just a few miles from the Norway boundary line.
It was originally operated by Shell but Fairfield acquired the Dunlin, Dunlin SW, Merlin and Osprey fields in 2008.
Earlier this year, Royal Dutch Shell began consulting on its plan to remove the first of the iconic Brent platforms in what will be the biggest North Sea decommissioning project to date.
Like the Dunfield field, it was originally projected to last 25 years but produced oil for 37.
The decommissioning of oil and gas installations in the UK sector of the North Sea could cost Â£40bn over the next 35 years.
According to industry body Oil and Gas UK, there are 113 oil platforms and 189 gas platforms in the UK Continental Shelf.
Fairfield said its subsidiaries Fairfield Betula and Fairfield Fagus, along with joint venture partner MCX Dunlin, would launch the Dunlin decommissioning programme, subject to regulatory approvals.
The phased process is expected to take a number of years, with "high offshore activity levels maintained throughout".
Fairfield chief executive David Peattie said: "The Dunlin asset has now achieved maximum economic recovery.
"Taking into account the asset's lifecycle, the depressed oil price and challenging operational conditions in the North Sea, starting the decommissioning process is the most appropriate action.
"Our investment programme has prolonged the life of Dunlin leading to a notable...

Summary: Fairfield Energy has announced plans to decommission its Dunlin Alpha platform in the North Sea.
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Article: He will give evidence to the culture, media and sport select committee, which is investigating doping in the sport.
Before the hearing, committee member Damian Collins MP said: "There needs to be more humility from the IAAF."
Russia was banned from international events after an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report alleged "state-sponsored doping".
Collins said that Coe "needs to recognise that there have clearly been problems with the way doping issues have been dealt with in the past".
The Conservative MP said he wanted to hear whether Coe will "set up an independent body to manage doping as cycling has done".
Coe ended an ambassadorial paid role with US sportswear giant Nike last week after conflict of interest claims.
It follows the awarding of the 2021 World Athletics Championships to Eugene, Oregon - which has close connections to Nike - without a bidding process.
On Monday three Kenya Athletics officials, including president Isaiah Kiplagat, were provisionally suspended by the ethics commission of the IAAF, which is looking into allegations of "subversion" of the anti-doping process in Kenya and "improper diversion" of funds received from Nike.
Coe was elected International Association of Athletics Federations president in August, succeeding Lamine Diack who is being investigated by French police over allegations he took bribes to cover up positive drugs tests when in charge of the sport's governing body.
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The IAAF president will be questioned about the organisation's response to doping allegations, including Lord Coe's claim that a Sunday Times investigation into suspicious blood results amounted to "a declaration of war on my sport".
Coe's delay in ending a 38-year association with Nike is almost certain to be discussed, while Collins says "there are still questions to answer about the awarding of the Eugene 2021 World Championships".
A BBC investigation on 24 November revealed emails suggesting that when Coe was vice-president of the IAAF,...

Summary: IAAF president Lord Coe is to be questioned by MPs on Wednesday about blood doping in athletics.
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Article: It follows a decision by the city's three further education colleges to join a national pay bargaining system.
Members of the EIS union at other colleges across Scotland are due to strike on Tuesday and Wednesday in a separate dispute over pay.
The Glasgow lecturers may now be balloted to decide if they join future action in the wider pay dispute.
The Glasgow lecturers had joined a one-day strike on Thursday, prior to the local pay bargaining dispute being settled.
EIS general secretary Larry Flanagan said a "U-turn" by the Glasgow colleges marked a "significant early victory in the campaign for fair pay in all Scottish colleges".
He said: "The Glasgow colleges had refused to sign up to the national bargaining process, in the mistaken belief that this would remove them from their obligations on a fair pay offer.
"The strike action by our members has forced a quick change of mind on the part of the Glasgow colleges, and the EIS welcomes this development today."
Mr Flanagan added, "While these Glasgow disputes are now settled the national action in pursuit of a fair national pay offer and pay equality in all colleges will continue.
"Two days of strike action in this campaign are planned for next week, and these will take place in all colleges where lecturers have been balloted as part of the national dispute.
"Lecturers in the three Glasgow colleges, who are not currently part of the national action, will now be re-balloted as soon as possible to allow them to join their colleagues across Scotland in future strike days as part of the national campaign for fair pay."

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The carriage which carried Sir Winston Churchill's coffin to his final resting place has been restored.

Article: Carl Habrel loves his commute to work.
The 48-year-old paddle boards from his home in Banavie to his work in Fort William.
The operations manager for the School of Adventure Studies at West Highland College UHI takes less than an hour to make the journey on Loch Linnhe.
He says: "I have been a paddle boarder for about two years and try to board into work about twice or three times a week if conditions allow.
"Most days it takes about 30 to 40 minutes, depending on the wind and tide.
"I enjoy the peace and tranquillity of connecting with nature before heading to my desk for the day.
"And the wind down after work when heading back home again. It also adds a fitness dimension to the day."
But the outdoor pursuits professional says he is mindful of being safe on the water.
"I take spare clothes and sometimes wear a wetsuit when the water is cold in the winter and spring," he says.
"I also take a waterproof mobile and a VHF. The safety precautions are in the knowledge beforehand of the weather, tides and particularly the wind strength and direction."
He adds: "I tend to board in very calm conditions near to the shoreline where I am very unlikely to fall in."

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Article: The body was found at a property on Carlton Road, Bordesley Green, at about 23.30 BST on Friday.
The man is yet to be formally identified but police said he was believed to be a 34-year-old from the Yardley area, reported missing on Thursday.
They said they believed the 11 people arrested were known to the man.
They are: Five men aged 45, 33, 28, 24 and 23, four women aged 50, 41, 25 and 19 and two boys, both aged 15.
A post-mortem examination is yet to take place.
West Midlands Police called on anyone who saw the man's car - a white Toyota Yaris registration FM64 PHU - in and around Carlton Road in the last two days to come forward.
The car was found about a mile away in Adderley Road on Friday.
Det Insp Warren Hines said: "We are currently treating his death as suspicious and we took swift action to arrest 11 people at the scene - who we believe were known to the man - on suspicion of his murder."

Summary: Eleven people have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a man found dead in a Birmingham shed.
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Article: Lara, 29, originally from Northern Ireland, made a 3ft (91cm) sponge replica of Prince George that won gold in the Cake International competition.
"Prince George is one of the most famous children and I wanted to do my nod to the Royal Family," she told BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster.
If the royal parents would like him, she would be happy to oblige, she said.
"If they come on the blower and ask me for him, I'll ship him down there."
George, dressed in his red shorts and white shirt - the outfit he wore for his baby sister's christening - took about 30 hours to create.
He took gold at the competition at Birmingham's NEC arena at the weekend.
"I started to plan the cake a month ago, but I got married two weeks ago," said Lara, who now lives in Walsall, England.
"I spent about two hours a night after work on him."
He needed a strong structure, she explained.
"If we, as humans, did not have a skeleton,  we would be a big bowl of jelly on the floor. It is the same with my cakes. I start from the inside out. I make a structure, stack the cake up, it is quite a challenge.
"The internal structure is metal rods and wood and it is all covered in cling film. After that, it is cake, icing, butter cream, chocolate. Anything your heart desires - Willy Wonka on a plate."
In theory, you could eat George, but Lara is not so sure.
"If I cut into him, does that mean it is treason? I'm having a nightmare here. So I'm going to pop him in the window at my house and maybe put a Christmas hat on him and turn him into a decoration."
Cake baking is a part-time hobby for Lara, who works in customer relations.
But it is also a passion. She has previously won gold in the same competition with a 6ft high cake of actress Jennifer Lawrence, and her initial creation was actor Johnny Depp.
"He was my first big cake," she said, and that made parting a sweet sorrow.
"I put him in my mother in law's garage for a good three months. Eventually she just said; 'Right Lara I've had enough. I'm putting him in the bin.'
" You should have seen their...

Summary: Amateur baker Lara Mason has licked the competition with a life-size cake fit for a future king.
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Article: Southern Railway luggage van No 2464 has spent four months being stripped and repainted at Locomotion, the National Railway Museum in Shildon.
The carriage transported Churchill's coffin from London to Oxfordshire in 1965.
Manager Gary Campbell, said the restoration was something a lot of people in the town were "proud of".
The newly restored carriage, which cost about Â£30,000, will now move to the National Railway Museum in York.
It will be joined by the locomotive which pulled it as part of an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the former Prime Minister's state funeral.
After the funeral in London, his coffin was loaded into the carriage which was then drawn by Battle of Britain locomotive Winston Churchill to Oxfordshire.
Thousands gathered along the route to pay their respects.
Churchill was laid to rest in the parish churchyard of Bladon, close to Blenheim Palace, where he was born 89 years earlier.
The carriage was built in 1931 and was used during World War Two on evacuation trains before being put into Pullman colours in the 1960s.
It was moved to Los Angeles in 1966 but returned to the UK in 2007 where it entered the Swanage Railway Collection.

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Female Islamic clerics in Indonesia have issued an unprecedented fatwa against child marriage.

Article: In November last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stunned the country by announcing that 500 ($7.47; Â£5.96) and 1,000 rupee notes were as good as garbage.
Despite his insistence that the ban was meant to curb black money and put terrorists out of business, many analysts said it was motivated by politics rather than economics, and done with an eye on the Uttar Pradesh - or UP - elections.
Since the rise of the regional Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the late 1990s, India's national parties - the Congress and Mr Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - have been often relegated to third and fourth positions in the state.
This time around, the Congress has joined the governing SP as a junior partner in an alliance, and the BJP is making an all out effort to win back the state.
In the past few days, I've travelled through several districts in the state to ask people if the currency ban - called demonetisation by Indian authorities and economists, and simply "notebandi" (Hindi for stopping of notes) here - is an election issue.
The Indian election no-one can afford to lose
The "notebandi" has without doubt touched every life, in the big cities, smaller towns, and tiny villages, and everyone talks about the problems they've faced.
But will it impact the way people vote?
In the main market in Barabanki town, not far from the state capital, Lucknow, the trading community is seething at the "BJP's betrayal".
Traders have traditionally supported the BJP, and in the past they have also contributed generously to party funds. But this time, they tell me they will not vote for the party.
"Notebandi is the biggest issue here," says Santosh Kumar Gupta, who along with his brothers runs the family hardware store.
"The public has been really hassled. The government set limits on withdrawals and even those little amounts were unavailable because banks had no money."
Mr Gupta points out that in his address to the nation, the prime minister said the government had been planning for it for six months and...

Summary: As the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh holds a seven-phased election to choose a new government, the BBC's Geeta Pandey travels through the politically key state to see if the recent currency ban is an issue with the voters.
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Article: The technology allows a convoy of lorries to travel just a few feet from each other, with just the driver at the front in control.
The initiative would cut fuel consumption, backers said.
However, the plan has been criticised by motoring groups which said such a fleet would be "intimidating" to other road users.
The Sunday Times reported that UK ministers had visited Sweden to see the technology in action, and that tests would be carried out next year.
However in a statement, the Department for Transport said: "No decision has been reached on a trial using this new technology.
"However, road safety remains of paramount importance and will not be compromised."
The technology still requires a driver to be in each vehicle in the event of an emergency, but for the most part drivers will be able to relax - the proposal suggested reading a book or having lunch.
The convoy will be controlled by the driver in the front, with each lorry communicating via wi-fi. Infrared cameras and laser sensors are also used to monitor vehicle movements.
Paul Watters, head of road policy for breakdown rescue service the AA, said the idea may concern normal road users.
"For the car user in particular it does pose worries about platooning lorries taking up a lot of space and blocking others out," he told the BBC, but added that perhaps a dedicated lane may solve that issue.
He questioned whether the notion that drivers could take up another activity while in the autonomous convoy was misjudged.
"They're suggesting that an autonomous lorry driver can do other logistics work while they're driving," he said.
"The thought of a lorry driver doing administration is, dare I say it, pie in the sky."
The plans follow the announcement that driverless cars will be tested in the UK next year. The news was met with some trepidation - 65% of people polled by the AA said they would prefer to continue driving as normal rather than allow a computer to take the wheel.
But the organisation noted that younger drivers appeared to be more open to the...

Summary: Fleets of self-driving lorries could be tested on UK roads as soon as next year, according to reports.
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Article: There were only 124 "disengagement" incidents last year, where a driver had to take control of a test vehicle on public roads, down from 341 in 2015.
The cars drove nearly 636,000 miles last year, compared with just over 424,000 in 2015.
Other states in the US do not require such reporting.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles published the annual reports on Wednesday.
Under law, every company that has a state permit to test autonomous vehicles in California must report how many times a driver had to intervene.
"Disengagements are a natural part of the testing process that allow our engineers to expand the software' s capabilities and identify areas of improvement," Waymo said in its report.
The most common reasons for interventions in Waymo cars were "software discrepancies, unwanted manoeuvres of the vehicle and perception discrepancies", according to the company.
Of the 124 incidents, only 10 were caused by the "reckless" behaviour of another road user.
Beyond Waymo's impressive results, the news was generally good.
Cruise, the start-up leading General Motors' autonomous driving development, upped its testing in San Francisco markedly. It went from driving fewer than five miles in June 2015, to nearly 400 in June 2016.
It reported 414 disengagements in almost 10,000 miles of driving in 2016 overall.
For some companies the records show a very small amount of mileage covered by the autonomous cars.
In other US states with self-driving regulations - including Nevada, Michigan, and Florida - there is no requirement for public disclosure of this type of data, which is why, for example, not much is known about Uber's autonomous vehicle testing.
Ford only reported 590 miles driven in 2016, all in the month of March. It only has two autonomous cars in California, but has a much larger fleet in Michigan, where reporting is not required.
Meanwhile BMW recorded one disengagement in its 638 miles of autonomous driving in March and April 2016, because lane markings on Highway 101 were not clear enough. The...

Summary: The number of human interventions in journeys made by driverless cars from Google company Waymo in California more than halved in 2016.
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Article: The fatwa, which is not legally binding but will be influential, was issued after a three-day congress of female clerics in the country.
The clerics urged the government to raise the minimum legal age for women to marry to 18 from the current 16.
Indonesia is a majority Muslim country and has among the highest number of child brides in the world.
According to the UN's children office Unicef, one in four women in Indonesia marries before the age of 18.
Fatwas are issued regularly in Indonesia, but usually by the Indonesian Ulema Council - the highest Islamic authority in the country which is made up almost entirely of men.
Hundreds of women descended on Cirebon, on Java Island, for the Indonesian KUPI Women's Ulema Congress.
Most of the clerics - experts in Islamic sacred law and theology - were from Indonesia, but speakers travelled from as far away as Kenya, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to take part in the conference, said to be the first major gathering of female Muslim clerics.
Female clerics, or "ulema", have existed in Indonesia for hundreds of years, but their role has been played down previously. Nowadays, they help empower their communities and lead educational institutes, organisers say.
It is hoped the congress will highlight the vital role they play.
Steering committee chairman Badriyah Fayumi told the BBC: "Through this conference, we want to state that female clerics exist, and have been proven to contribute, and this is the time to acknowledge their existence, and to give an appreciation for the... contribution of the female clergy."
The committee will now present its recommendations to the relevant groups - including the government - which will then decide on whether or not to take them any further.
The fatwa called underage marriage "harmful" and said preventing it was mandatory.
"Female clerics know the issues and obstacles women face, we can take action and do not just wait for the government to protect these children," Ninik Rahayu, the conference organiser, told Reuters.
The female clerics...

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