input: Article: Heavy rain on Thursday caused streams to overflow and drains to back up in Maryport, Flimby and Workington.
The fire service received 220 calls between 17:30 and 22:00 GMT with most reporting vehicles stuck in up to three feet (1m) of water. Many houses were flooded.
Landslips halted trains between Carlisle and Workington, Northern Rail said.
Wigton's Nelson Thomlinson School closed after part of the building was flooded.
The A595 was shut from the Castle Roundabout at Cockermouth to the Thursby roundabout near Carlisle.
Sean Pattinson, of Grasslot, Maryport, told the BBC his street was badly hit.
He said: "All the neighbours were rallying round grabbing sandbags, but the water was just too much. We just couldn't stop it."
Flimby councillor Peter Kendall said people had been surprised by the torrential rainfall.
"There was so much water coming down fast it overstretched everybody.
"In these weeks before Christmas people are going to have major clean-ups and will need all the help they can get."
Andy Brown, the Environment Agency's flood risk manager in Cumbria, said a number of flood warnings had been in place although several were likely to be lifted.
"There were some horrific conditions last night in north and west Cumbria and we saw some really intense rainfall - about 40mm in a few hours.
"Often, the roads and drainage cannot handle that intensity of rainfall and that's why you get flash flooding."
Mr Brown warned further heavy rain is expected in parts of the county over the weekend and urged people to be prepared.
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output: Flooding has brought chaos to parts of Cumbria.
Article: The men were among more than 300 officers convicted in 2012 of taking part in the "Sledgehammer" conspiracy.
They were freed last year when Turkey's highest court said the trial had been flawed.
The prosecutor told their retrial that key computer files in the trial were inadmissible as evidence.
Some of the evidence had been fabricated, according to expert reports.
The plot allegations arose from a war simulation seminar in 2003 involving top military men, including First Army commander Gen Cetin Dogan.
Gen Dogan and two other generals, Ozden Ornek and Ibrahim Firtina, were jailed for 20 years, accused of staging a dress rehearsal for a coup that involved bombing mosques and trying to trigger a war with Greece to justify a military takeover.
Gen Dogan insisted the seminar had been aimed at preventing a hypothetical crisis involving political unrest.
The army has a long history of intervening in politics, with three military coups between 1960 and 1980, and a campaign in 1997 that forced the resignation of Turkey's first Islamist-led government.
Mr Erdogan came to power in 2002 at the head of an Islamist-rooted government and became president last August.
The 2012 convictions were eventually overturned last June when Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled that the original trial had been flawed.
Prosecutor Ramazan Oksuz called for their acquittal at the high criminal court in Istanbul on Tuesday, arguing that the "digital data" was inadmissible as evidence and could not be linked to the suspects.
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Summarize: A Turkish court has cleared 236 military suspects accused in a retrial of plotting to remove former Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2003.
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Article:"We are abandoning the constraints of geography and national boundaries," said Jonathan Taylor, chair of the Booker Prize Foundation.
At present, the £50,000 ($79,850) prize only considers works by writers from the Commonwealth, Ireland or Zimbabwe.
Rumours the Booker panel would expand their criteria began over the weekend.
A report in the Sunday Times claimed authors from the US would be allowed to compete for the first time - but organisers said the information was "incomplete".
Announcing the changes in London on Wednesday, the Booker Foundation said: "The expanded prize will recognise, celebrate and embrace authors writing in English, whether from Chicago, Sheffield or Shanghai."
"The Trustees have not made this decision quickly or lightly," it added, saying consultation with authors, publishers and booksellers began in 2011.
They had initially investigated setting up a new prize specifically for US writers, but decided such a move could "jeopardise or dilute" the main event.
Reaction to the announcement has been mixed.
"I think it's an excellent idea," former winner John Banville told the BBC, discussing the move to permit American novelists in particular.
"It is silly that it is not open to everyone - but God help the rest of us, because American fiction is very strong indeed."
Banville, who took the prize in 2005 for The Sea, added the expanded field would make life "very difficult for the judges".
"They will have to limit how many books can enter, somehow."
Author AS Byatt said she was "very strongly against" opening up the prize "because it will make judging impossible".
"At the moment the Booker is the best literary prize because all of the judges read all of the books," she said.
Byatt was herself a judge in 1974, and later won in 1990 for Possession: A Romance.
The Booker committee have made a "commercial decision," according to Dr David Brauner, an expert in contemporary American fiction at the University of Reading.
"I think what has forced their hand is the announcement of the Folio Prize - because they've made a big thing of that prize being eligible to any Anglophone novel, no matter what the nationality of its author".
"The Man Booker felt they didn't want to be outflanked. They want to retain their place as the most prestigious prize for fiction in this country and they felt this would steal the thunder of the Folio - the distinctiveness of that prize was that it was going to be more international, but now that's been blurred somewhat."
Some feel American novelists like Jonathan Franzen and Toni Morrison will come to dominate the prize, robbing British authors of the sales and publicity that come with the honour.
Even established writers can benefit. Last year's winner, Hilary Mantel, sold 10,605 copies of her novel, Bring Up The Bodies, in the UK in the week after the prize was announced.
The previous week, she had sold 1,846.
The Folio Prize will hand out its first accolade next March. The £40,000 prize will be awarded to a work of fiction written in the English language published in the UK - including American authors.
The prize was first announced in 2011 amidst a row in literary circles about the decision by Booker judges that year to focus on "readability", but organisers have denied it is a rival to the Booker.
It is backed by a 100-strong academy of authors and critics which includes Margaret Atwood and Philip Pullman.
The new eligibility criteria for the Booker Prize will necessitate some changes to the way books are submitted for consideration.
Currently, publishers can each submit two books. From next year, that will be reduced to one.
However, a publisher who has had one or two longlisted books in the last five years will be allowed two submissions; a publisher with three or four positions on the longlist will get three; and a publisher with five or more will get four submissions.
"The number of books publishers are allowed to submit has also long been a concern," said Taylor.
"Our new model, in recognising literary achievement, should encourage the traditional literary publishing  houses while ensuring novels from new green-shoot publishers continue to be included."
It is thought the new submission guidelines could reduce the number of books under consideration from 151 this year to as little as 130.
Established 45 years ago, the Booker Prize for Fiction made its first award in 1969, to PH Newby's Something To Answer For.
The winner of the 2013 award will be announced on 15 October at an awards ceremony at London's Guildhall.

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Authors writing in English from all corners of the globe will be eligible for the Man Booker Prize from 2014, organisers have confirmed.